- "Hail HYDRA."
- ―Vasily Karpov's last words
Colonel Vasily Karpov was a HYDRA operative embedded inside the Russian Armed Forces who was given the responsibility for overseeing the Winter Soldier Program, successfully arranging the assassination of Howard Stark and the deployment of the newly created Winter Soldiers. Decades after leaving the organisation, Karpov was found and tortured by Helmut Zemo for information, but Karpov still refused to betray HYDRA for Zemo.
Biography
Handling the Winter Soldier
Assassination of Howard and Maria Stark
- "Желание. Ржавый. Семнадцать. Рассвет. Печь. Девять. Добросердечный. Возвращение на Родину. Один. Товарный вагон.[2]"
- ―Vasily Karpov to Winter Soldier
Karpov reactivates the Winter Soldier.
In 1991, while working for HYDRA, Colonel Karpov revived Sergeant James Barnes from a cryogenic sleep at the HYDRA Siberian Facility and activated Barnes using a set of conditioned trigger words. Barnes was then dispatched to intercept an automobile carrying a case of Super Soldier Serum, and assassinate its occupants.[3]
Creation of the Winter Soldiers
Karpov loses control over the Winter Soldiers.
Succeeding in acquiring the Super Soldier Serum, Karpov oversaw the creation of the Winter Soldiers, an elite group of five HYDRA assassins infused with the serum. However, the Winter Soldiers, except for Barnes, lost control and started a riot, resulting in all of them being put under deep sleep in Cryostasis Chambers.[3]
Discovered
Questioned by Zemo
Karpov is restrained above a sink
- "What do you want?"
"Mission report. December 16th, 1991."
"Go to hell!" - ―Vasily Karpov and Helmut Zemo
Twenty-five years later, the former Sokovian special forces Colonel Helmut Zemo arrived at Karpov's house in Cleveland, Ohio in the United States of America. There, Zemo partially submerged Karpov's head in a sink filling with tap water to extract the 1991 mission report from him. However, Karpov refused to talk, so Zemo took the book with the trigger words to operate Barnes and abandoned him. Heavily restrained and unable to lift his head from the water, Karpov spoke the HYDRA oath before drowning in the overflowing sink.[3]
Relationships
Allies
- HYDRA
- Arnim Zola †
- Winter Soldier - Former Ally and Subordinate
- Winter Soldiers - Allies turned Enemies
- Josef †
Enemies
- Helmut Zemo - Killer
Trivia
- In the comics, Vasily Karpov is a ruthless but efficient Soviet officer involved in a joint operation with Captain America and the Invaders during World War II, in which he helped foil a plot of Red Skull and Master Man. He was also partly reponsible for the creation of the Winter Soldier.
References
- ↑ As Rogers watches TV, the Attack on the IFID Headquarters is stated to be "last month". The Spider-Man: Homecoming Prelude also states that the Bombing of the Vienna International Centre is "one month later", after Lagos. WHiH gave the timeline date for the Lagos incident as May 3, 2016, putting the rest of the events of Captain America: Civil War in June. However, in Spider-Man: Homecoming, it jumps forward to "two months later," to the firm date of September 8, 2016. Assuming the 2 is rounded, this still works with June so long as it is very late June. It has to be as late as possible in June, but before schools broke up in New York on June 28th (1, 2), as Parker gets home from school and still has homework to do. In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Stark says that he took Parker for the "weekend," therefore making the date he picks up Parker Friday 24th June, and when he returns him the very early hours of Monday 27th June. These are the only dates which fit ras being a weekend, before schools break up, a rounded 2 months before September 8th, and still the month following the May 3, 2016 Lagos incident, as well as a loose (May to June) "one month" after the incident, thus placing Captain America: Civil War firmly around these dates. The Bombing of the Vienna International Centre is the day before Parker meets Stark, the 23rd, and Ross says on the same day Karpov dies that the signing in Vienna is in "3 days," putting it on the 20th.
- ↑ Translates from Russian to: "Longing. Rusted. Seventeen. Daybreak. Furnace. Nine. Benign. Homecoming. One. Freight car."
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Captain America: Civil War
External Links
Vasily Karpov on the Marvel Wiki
