Red Skull: Difference between revisions

* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: The Skull's own version of his life story includes the claim that he remembers every detail of his birth, knows in-depth what his parents were like despite never really meeting them (he claimed to "feel the hatred" of his father for him- yes, when he was just born) and some other stuff like being thirty years old when he committed his first murder and met Hitler, despite subsequent versions portraying him as a teenager, not to mention his claim of having completed his Red Skull training in weeks, whilst simultaneously being an uneducated failure at everything in life up to that point. Obviously a lot of these changes are [[Retcon]], but it actually makes sense that they are different because if you read between the lines, the Skull could be taken as just a [[Blatant Lies|blatant liar,]] trying to make himself sound more remarkable than he was.

* [[Villain Exit Stage Left]]: The Red Skull is really slippery when he is making his getaway, with escape routes carefully designed to discourage pursuit.

* [[Who Is This Guy Again?]]: Nobody from the common folk knew his original name had been Johann Schmidt (specifically chosen by the writers for being among the most common names and surnames in German-speaking people) and his early life is perpetually hidden in a maze of lies, treachery and deceit. Just as his face was perpetually hidden behind a mask, before the moment he ''became'' the mask.

* [[Wicked Cultured]]: His theme tune is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyFyAqLtHq8 Chopin's Funeral March.] He used to play it whenever he dosed someone with his Dust of Death poisoned gas.