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Formed during World War II, HYDRA originally had a State Shinto Imperialist as its Supreme Hydra. Baron Strucker slew and replaced this man, but Captain Savage and the Leatherneck Raiders thwarted Strucker's attempt to gain an A-Bomb. HYDRA then clashed with the Invaders. Earlier, Strucker had uncovered Gnobian advanced technology, while he also time travelled to the future from 1942.
HYDRA's history is a long, tumultuous and convoluted one, spanning the decades from the end of the Second World War up to the present day, tied directly to surviving fugitive members of governments of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.
Shortly upon joining the original HYDRA, Von Strucker seized control of the organization from its Japanese founders and slowly steered it towards the goal of conquering Earth. That campaign brought him into conflict with Charles Xavier and the future Magneto among others, and once HYDRA became more brazenly public in its operations, eventually led to the creation of the original agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D. specifically to counter HYDRA's threat to world security. After apparently assassinating S.H.I.E.L.D.'s first executive director, Nick Fury was appointed as executive director. This decision, after several HYDRA campaigns including the creation of the Overkill Horn (designed to detonate all nuclear explosives worldwide), and the bio-engineered "Death-Spore" Bomb, led directly to von Strucker's first death at the hands of Fury and several deceived HYDRA operatives.
In the wake of von Strucker's first death, the surviving elements of HYDRA broke into factions that each adopted its own reorganized modus operandi. Several of these factions developed "super-agents" that would occasionally break away in turn to become freelance operatives, or, in some rarer cases, superheroes such as the first Spider-Woman. Von Strucker was eventually revived and reunited several of the HYDRA factions under his leadership to renew his campaign against S.H.I.E.L.D. and humanity for several more years.
Despite his reorganization of the group, various independent HYDRA factions continue to operate around the Marvel Universe, and a HYDRA Civil War would later result. While Baron Helmut Zemo had Strucker placed in stasis for his own ends, Gorgon and Strucker's second wife Elsbeth von Strucker mystically created a clone of Strucker who they set up to fail, allowing for a public execution of him, after which - as part of an alliance with The Hand, they utilized an army of brainwashed superheroes and supervillains, including Northstar and Elektra to launch a massive assault on SHIELD. The assault was ultimately repelled and Wolverine would kill Gorgon.
Recently, Hydra planned an all out attack on the United States by smuggling missiles into New York for use in a planned bio-weapon assault on the Ogallala Aquifer. They formed a distraction using clones of the Avengers (Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and Hawkeye, who was dead at the time) but were foiled when Spider-Man joined the Avengers' new line-up.
In the closing days of the foiled Skrull invasion, Strucker destroys his undersea base Ichor, which was crawling with Skrull infiltrators. He then changed his plans from subverting the world to conquering it. Fury then finds out that HYDRA was controlling SHIELD since its foundation after discovering a database in a base in Chicago. He gathers allies around America to battle this renewed threat. Strucker learns about this and comments "We've been dancing to the melody for so long, and finally you hear it too." In turn, Strucker gathers his new ruling council of Hydra, including Viper, Commander Kraken, the Hive and a new Madame Hydra. They also have the Hand resurrect the Gorgon for this purpose.
Moments in HYDRA history:
- the Fixer working with HYDRA to kidnap the amnesiac Namor
- clashing with Interpol agents Cassidy and Lipton
- facing Logan with the Parkers
- clashing with Mystique
- a young Remy LeBeau destroying a Hydra ship
- Silver Fox targeting Logan
- Hydra also administered Project: New Genesis.
- Trefkov, the murderer of Silver Sable's father, formed an alliance with HYDRA at some point.
- Jake Fury became a mole for HYDRA, conferring with Strucker at least once.
- Arnim Zola also aided Strucker, meeting with him in Japan.
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Notes
Imperial Industries Inc.
For a time, the legal face of Hydra under Imperial Hydra Arnold Brown.
Trivia
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See Also
- Appearances of Hydra (Earth-616)
- Organization Gallery: Hydra (Earth-616)
- Fan-Art Gallery: Hydra (Earth-616)
- Images that include Hydra (Earth-616)
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