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Sin (Marvel Comics)

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For the DC Comics character of the same name, see Sin (DC Comics).

Sinthea Shmidt is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by J. M. DeMatteis writer and artist Paul Neary, the character first appeared in Captain America #290 (February 1984).[1] Shmidt is the daughter of the Red Skull and an antagonist of the superhero Steve Rogers / Captain America.[2] She has occasionally used the codenames Sin and Mother Superior.[3] She is also the leader of the Sisters of Sin and an ally of Hydra.[4]

Sinthea Shmidt
Sin
Cover art for Captain America vol. 5 #17 (April 2006)
Art by Steve Epting.
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearanceAs Mother Superior:
Captain America #290
(February 1984)
As Red Skull:
Captain America #612
(January 2011)
Created byJ.M. DeMatteis (writer)
Paul Neary (artist)
In-story information
Alter egoSinthea Shmidt
SpeciesHuman mutate
Team affiliationsSerpent Squad
Sisters of Sin
The Worthy
Hydra
PartnershipsCrossbones
Notable aliasesMother Superiorn
Red Skull
Skadi
Sin
Abilities
  • Expert hand to hand combatant and martial artist
  • Highly skilled markswoman
  • High-level intellect
    As Mother Superior:
  • Teleportation
  • Intangibility
  • Telekinesis
  • Telepathy

Publication history

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Sinthea Shmid debuted in Captain America #290 (February 1984), created by J.M. DeMatteis and Paul Neary.[5] She appeared in the 2005 Captain America series,[6] the 2011 Fear Itself storyline,[7] the 2018 Captain America series,[8] the 2017 Secret Empire series,[9] and the 2021 United States of Captain America series.[10]

Fictional character biography

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Sin (left and middle) being aged into adulthood as Mother Superior (right). Art by Paul Neary.

Seeking an heir, the Red Skull (Johann Shmidt) fathered a daughter by raping a washerwoman. After the woman died in childbirth, the Red Skull angrily almost killed the child due to being a girl. But follower Susan Scarbo convinced him not to, with the latter wanting to raise the girl herself as a nanny. The Red Skull agreed and left the girl, now named "Sinthea Schmidt", with Scarbo to be raised and indoctrinated with Red Skull's views as she grew up. The Red Skull returned when Sinthea was a child and put her in a machine that had her aged into adulthood and gave her superhuman powers.[11]

As Mother Superior, she was the leader of a group called the Sisters of Sin, young orphan girls who were accelerated into adulthood and given psionic powers by the Red Skull after being indoctrinated by Sinthea. The Sisters of Sin would have many run-ins with Captain America (Steve Rogers) before being de-aged when they entered a chamber designed to reverse the Red Skull's aging process and they were restored to children (she would later claim she was deaged to the wrong age - but whether this is true or not is unclear).[volume & issue needed]

Later, Mother Night reformed the Sisters of Sin as their new leader, while the de-aged Sinthea herself has used the name Sister Sin.[volume & issue needed]

Sometime later, she was captured by S.H.I.E.L.D. and taken to their reeducation facility, where they reprogrammed her with false memories as the "normal" American girl Erica Holstein. After the Red Skull was seemingly assassinated by the Winter Soldier under Aleksander Lukin's orders, Crossbones broke into the facility, kidnapped her and tortured her to break the reprogramming. After he succeeded, she simply called herself "Sin" while she entered into a relationship with Crossbones and the two went on a killing spree. She later reunited with the Red Skull who was now inside Lukin's body.[12]

As the first part of the Red Skull's master plan, Sin disguised herself as a nurse after the Civil War while Crossbones sniped Captain America at the courthouse, even though it meant obeying her father and abandoning Crossbones to his fate. Sin then revealed to Sharon Carter that Carter was the one who had killed Captain America. Now the leader of a new incarnation of the Serpent Squad, Sin breaks Crossbones out of jail. He is later apprehended again and Sin wounded in an attempt to break into the Capitol Building. Sin is later sent to assassinate the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, but is stopped by Captain America (Bucky Barnes).[13] In Captain America: Reborn, Sin attempts to assist Norman Osborn to put her father in Steve Rogers's body; however, she is injured by her father's mechanical body's explosion and her face is hideously scarred.[14]

She is later visited in prison by Baron Helmut Zemo for information on Bucky Barnes.[15] Sometime later, Master Man springs her from prison, prompting her to take her place as the new "Red Skull".[16] She delivers a video to the media recorded three months before Barnes's trial, declaring that the reformed hero was not brainwashed, but was an accomplice and fully aware of these actions.[volume & issue needed] She, along with Master Man, is later seen on Ellis Island where she pretends to blow up the Statue of Liberty with Falcon and Black Widow bound and gagged inside, unless Barnes is delivered to her.[volume & issue needed]

During the Fear Itself storyline, Sin, with Baron Zemo's help, unearths the Hammer of Skadi and becomes Skadi in order to free the Serpent: God of Fear from his underwater prison. Sin vows to do what her father failed to do in taking over the world.[17] She succeeds in her mission in freeing the Serpent and then prepares an army of Nazis to take over the D.C. Capital.[18] During their battle in Washington, D.C., Skadi mortally wounds the current Captain America.[19] In the final battle, Skadi battles Rogers. Thor gives Rogers the hammer Mjolnir to make up for the loss of the shield. Thor manages to kill the Serpent and Odin strips the Worthy of their hammers, causing Sin to lose Skadi's powers. This leaves Sin incapacitated.[20]

Sin later returns as one of the villains working alongside Zemo as part of a plot to forcibly sterilize the human race. She battles Captain America (Sam Wilson) and apparently falls to her death after refusing to allow the hero to save her from an explosion.[21]

After meeting the mysterious Kobik who was created from a shard of the Cosmic Cube, Sin's face was restored to normal.[22] At the end of the Avengers: Standoff! storyline, Sin was with the Red Skull's clone when the latter re-establishes HYDRA with Crossbones.[23]

When Jane Foster is forced to step down from her role on the Congress of the Nine Realms by Cul Borrson, the twisted god attempts to nominate Sin as Midgard's new representative, but Foster has already appointed S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Roz Solomon as her replacement.

During the Secret Empire storyline, Sin and Crossbones are shown to be in charge of a super-prison that was established by HYDRA. Their super-prison was raided by the Underground in their mission to free their captive friends.[24]

Learning of an alternate future where her father took over the world, Sin allies with Miss Sinister and Mysterio, along with the forces of "Neo-Hydra", with the goal of repeating the feat that led to that victory, in the form of Mysterio manipulating someone- Old Man Logan in the original version of events- into attacking other heroes. However, when Mysterio learns that the other villains plan to kill him once their efforts have succeeded, he turns on the other villains and betrays their location to a group of Avengers which forces Neo-Hydra to flee.[25]

In Rügen, Sin attacks a group of archaeologists and steals from them the helmet of Erida, imbuing her with the power to manipulate hatred and rage. Captain America, Photon, Shang-Chi, and Wasp of the Avengers Emergency Response Squad arrive to confront Sin, who had been using her new powers to send the locals into a mindless rage while empowering herself with their generated hatred. Sin is eventually stopped when Photon strikes her helmet at lightspeed with Captain America's shield, causing her to disintegrate.[26]

Powers and abilities

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Sin appears to have no superhuman abilities but being trained by her father, the Red Skull, through which she is an expert hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist. She is also highly proficient in firearms and explosives, and has a high-level intellect.

As Mother Superior, Sin possessed a range of superhuman powers including telepathy, telekinesis, teleportation and intangibility. After she was de-aged, she apparently lost these powers completely - unlike the other "Sisters of Sin", whose powers were diminished but not eliminated upon de-aging. The reason for this discrepancy has never been revealed.

As wielder of the Hammer of Skadi, Sin as "Skadi" could fly or propel herself through water at great speeds. She could also release large amounts of electricity and energy from the hammer and teleport herself to other places. The hammer could also be used as a blunt-force melee weapon or as a throwing projectile. She eventually lost these powers after the Hammer was apprehended.

While wearing the mask of Erida, Sin gains the ability to manipulate rage and hatred within herself and others. In addition to manipulating others into mindless berserk rages, she can empower herself with their hatred as well as her own, giving her superhuman strength and durability. She can also generate flame like mystical energy blasts that strengthen in proportion to her rage and from those she absorbs from. Her hatred manipulation powers can be resisted by those who have a strong control over their emotions and can be nullified when her concentration is broken. Sin lost these powers when her mask was destroyed, which also resulted in her death.

Reception

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Bob Chipman of The Escapist expressed interest in seeing Sinthea Shmidt in the sequel of Captain America: The Winter Soldier.[27]

In other media

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Film

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A character loosely based on Sinthea Shmidt / Sin named Valentina de Santis appears in Captain America (1990), portrayed by Francesca Neri.[28] This version is the Italian daughter and underboss of Tadzio de Santis / Red Skull.

Video games

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Miscellaneous

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Sinthea Shmidt / Sin appears as a playable character in the Marvel: Crisis Protocol tabletop game.[33] This version is the leader of the Cabal.

References

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  1. ^ Saxena, Adhish (February 16, 2022). "Sinthea Schmidt: Why Red Skull's Daughter Is Scarier And Should Be In MCU Phase 5". Animated Times. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  2. ^ Swanson, Drew (January 28, 2023). "Marvel's Midnight Suns Deadpool DLC: Who is [SPOILER]'s Master". Game Rant. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  3. ^ Francisco, Eric (February 9, 2021). "Who is Sin? Meet the secret villain of 'Falcon and Winter Soldier'". Inverse. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
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  25. ^ Dead Man Logan #1-5. Marvel Comics.
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  27. ^ Chipman, Bob (April 4, 2014). "10 Characters I Want In Captain America 3". The Escapist. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  28. ^ Cohn, Lawrence (June 5, 1992). "Captain America". Variety. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  29. ^ Crecente, Brian (October 12, 2013). "Marvel: Avengers Alliance coming to Android Nov. 21, Thor content unveiled". Polygon. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  30. ^ Sheehan, Gavin (February 14, 2020). ""Marvel Future Fight" Gets A Secret Empire Update With New Costumes". Bleeding Cool. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  31. ^ Donohoo, Timothy Blake (January 27, 2023). "Who Is Sin, Marvel's Midnight Suns' Latest Villain?". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
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  33. ^ Levandoski, Quinn (October 8, 2021). "Marvel: Crisis Protocol — 10 Strongest Cabal Members, Ranked". Screen Rant. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
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