Members who still followed the original beliefs of HYDRA took part in this as a means of smoothly and immediately transferring control of a groomed Earth to their Inhuman idol. HYDRA's endgame was the overthrow of world governments to establish a fascist, totalitarian global state thus preemptively eliminating potential threats to their new world order. In the following decades, HYDRA orchestrated crises and planted roots worldwide establishing a clandestine network of operatives engaged in political engineering and scientific research. Though Zola's body died in 1972, HYDRA was already well established, and Zola's mind continued to live in a computer. by Schmidt's top scientist Arnim Zola, who was recruited into the agency during Operation Paperclip and also formed an alliance with the Soviet Union. Converting from occultism to draconian anti-freedom principles, HYDRA became an organization with a hell-bent nature that is dedicated to this newfound political doctrine.Īfter its defeat at the hands of Captain America in 1945 and the subsequent disappearance of Johann Schmidt, HYDRA was secretly rebuilt inside S.H.I.E.L.D. During World War II, Schmidt separated HYDRA from Nazi Germany to start his own conquest of the world, and it was during or before this time when HYDRA seemingly abandoned the cult's original beliefs. During this time, the cult took on the name HYDRA, which soon became the organization's most colloquial label. Over the centuries, the cult evolved, taking many forms, with its most recent incarnation coming into existence shortly after the rise of Nazism in Germany under the leadership of Johann Schmidt as the scientific branch of the Nazi Schutzstaffel.

Ever since his banishment, the cult had been determined to bring him back to Earth to commence a planetary takeover. It was founded in ancient times, formerly as a cult centered around the fanatical worship of Hive, a powerful Inhuman that was exiled to the planet Maveth by ancient Inhumans. HYDRA was an authoritarian-subversive paramilitary terrorist organization bent on world domination. 'Cut off one head, two more shall take its place.

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