Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)/Quotes

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Quotes by Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

Allow me to introduce myself, Herr Kapitan. My name is der Rote Schadel...

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

And now a toast ... to unending conquest!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

You could never have pulled that trigger, we both know that, boy...and now it's over. Time for a new morning in America.

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

Bring me food, drink, and your daughter peasant--I have victories to plan.

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

Chopin's Funeral March! That's my symbol of death... the sign of doom that awaits Captain America and Bucky when I make my next move!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

Now, let the Sleeper awake!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

Freedom is only for the one who rules! All others must be slaves!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

Silence swine, and all will be made clear!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

HYDRA has always been but a decoy ... buying time for the birth of the Fourth Reich!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

Guten Tag! I knew you would come here American Swine!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

... The Falcon is a creation of the Red Skull!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

You call him Falcon -- But to me he looks more like a -- Chicken! Slave show them! Show them all what a chicken you are!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

How fleeting are the years! How immovable is the hatred!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

I damn you Captain America for what you are! We are deadly opposites you and I...

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

Eisel! I am the god of madness!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

We will pass the boundaries of life with our souls entwined--and grapple for all eternity!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

Your loved ones are all dead Captain--burned in the smoking rubble of Skull-House!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

I believe America to be a weak, morally bankrupt country whose underpinning is being eaten away. It is my goal to speed up that process.

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

Always one step ahead of you.

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

Off me you fool! The Cube is mine! -- MINE!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

I shine their shoes and dream of bullets.

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

I have internalized the power of the Cosmic Cube...

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

Curse you, Rogers!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

Rogers, care to join me in a glass of Sherry?

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

Everything is going according to plan.

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

Now. Where were we? Ah, yes. The killing blow.

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

I'm the man you've been waiting for your entire pathetic waste of a life, Max.

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

That will be all I need, Von Doom... to ensure this civil war is just the beginning of my enemy's suffering.

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

His name means nothing...not anymore.

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

You were an idiot to think the Red Skull dead!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

Wherever there was injustice, tyranny, ruthlessness, the Red Skull was there leading the attack on the weak and helpless!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

It is the fist that conquers, not worthless "inner peace"!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

Allow me to introduce myself, Herr Kapitän. My name is der Rote Schädel...

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

Of all my many plans, this is truly my most diabolically perfect!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

I , who am the prince of villainy, serve none! And now once the Cosmic Cube is mine, all that live shall pay me homage!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

Show me how you kill them.

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

Heil Hitler.

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

Let fops and dandies bridle at the smell of a true man!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

The hour of destiny approaches!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

No one could ever defeat me easily! And yet, I can remember another time -- a day long past -- when I had no skill -- no power -- nothing --!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

The Cube! I can't lose it now! It must be mine! It's my destiny! I'm the Red Skull -- the master of the world! I must rule -- rule!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

None are left to hinder my plans now, none remain to rescue you. You are mine to control, 'Douglock.' And through you -- through the unstoppable power of your extra-terrestrial techno-virus -- the world will finally bow to the RED SKULL!

--Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

Conversations with Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)

Gruning	But, was that not why we lost World War II – because we underestimated the skill – and the courage of free men?
Red Skull	No! It was because the Fuhrer did not listen to me!

— Captain America #104

Johann Schmidt	You've known me longer than anyone. So tell me. Someone cuts me, what am I gonna do to him?
Dieter Lehmann	You're not holding the knife now, Johann.
Johann Schmidt	Relax. We're in this together.
Dieter Lehmann	What are you talking about?
Johann Schmidt	What do you think? We're going to kill Hitler.

— Red Skull #4

Red Skull	And how is our newest recruit today? Show me your loyalty, Captain America!
Captain America	Heil, Red Skull!
Red Skull	Good! Good! You learn your lessons well!

— Tales of Suspense #67

Red Skull	Attention, helpless mankind! What I have done to your city is but a sample of what the Red Skull can accomplish--with the help of my new partner-in-evil--the once-heroic Captain America!! Speak, you star-spangled swine!! Speak-- so that all may see that Captain America has finally betrayed those who have trusted him! Who is the master now?? Speak!!
Captain America	I serve--only--the Red Skull!

— Tales of Suspense #90

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