History
The origins of the Baroness are questionable but reports from Nazi soldiers and the Baroness herself indicate that Arnim Zola copied the brain waves of Heinrich Zemo into the body of a young woman. She later discounted this story, but the truth is still in question.[1]
Her first known activities involved her funding several European terrorist groups, After this she contracted the Yakuza and hired the White Ninja to steal the Cassidy Crystals from Osborn Industries. She planned to drop crystal infused bombs on a number of world capitals, in the hopes that the ensuing hysterical terror would allow herself and the Nazi Party to ascend to world dominance. Silver Sable enlisted the aid Spider-Man to stop her and the pair traveled to her castle. After a short confrontation, the heroes defeated both Baroness Zemo and the White Ninja, and prevented the missile launch. However, the Baroness was temporarily exposed to the crystals and driven insane, and started to smash her face into a mirror. Blinded, she began to flail about in an attempt to launch the missiles, but initiated the castle's self-destruct sequence instead. When Spider-Man tried to help her, she fought him off and he ultimately fled, leaving her behind.[2]
Surviving the explosion she married Helmut Zemo and claimed her story about her origins were false. She began to wear a costume based on Helmut's and joined her husband in Castle Zemo. Here, the pair obtained 25 children who they deemed to be ideal Aryan children from Damon Dran's white slavery ring and brainwashed them to form the Kinder. Baroness met with Superia in a plan to empower the Kinder, but the pair planned to betray Baron Zemo. However, the Baron found out and captured both. The Baroness was able to convince him to let her go by revealing that she was manipulating Superia. During this time Captain America and Diamondback tracked the missing children to Castle Zemo and confronted Baron Zemo and the Baroness, but were attacked by the Kinder, and were forced to flee. Concurrently Free Spirit had also tracked the missing children to Castle Zemo, and arrived to help Captain America and Diamondback and during their next confrontation Zemo fell into a vat of molten Adhesive X, and the Baroness dove in after him. The pair were protected by their suits and attempted to escape through a tunnel but were recaptured by Captain America.[3]
Her fate is unknown but Baron Zemo later reported that the Baroness died while they were in prison.[4]Attributes
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- Originally the funding of the terrorist groups was due to loss of funding after the fall of the Soviet Union, these events are subject to being a topical reference due to the Sliding Timescale.
See Also
- 6 appearance(s) of Heike Zemo (Earth-616)
- 3 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Heike Zemo (Earth-616)
- 2 mention(s) of Heike Zemo (Earth-616)
- 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Heike Zemo (Earth-616)
- 2 image(s) of Heike Zemo (Earth-616)