Origin Year: | Unknown |
First Appearance: | Captain America: The First Avenger |
Team Affiliation(s): | HYDRA Schutzstaffel |
Race(s): | Human Inhuman |
From: | Germany |
HYDRA is an authoritarian paramilitary-subversive organization bent on world domination. 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. Ever since his banishment, the cult was determined to bring him back to Earth to commence a planetary takeover. 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. During this time, the cult took on the name HYDRA.