

From within S.H.I.E.L.D., the new HYDRA grew like a parasite and slowly regained power. As a member of S.H.I.E.L.D., Zola sought out and provided access into the agency for several HYDRA operatives and loyalists that managed to escape justice after WWII. Through Operation Paperclip, former HYDRA scientist Arnim Zola was recruited into S.H.I.E.L.D., but his recruitment proved to have dire consequences in the future. Shortly after the end of the war, the peacekeeping agency S.H.I.E.L.D.

In the battle, Schmidt disappeared after physically handling the Tesseract, HYDRA was left without a leader and fell on the verge of collapse. The group came into constant conflict with Captain America, who successfully disabled several of their facilities before confronting Schmidt at his headquarters. The majority of Schmidt's plans revolved around the Tesseract, an Infinity Stone that had been left on Earth by Odin centuries ago. Originally founded by Johann Schmidt as an advanced weapons division of the Nazi Schutzstaffel, HYDRA became an independent terror group bent on global domination during World War II. The new HYDRA grew, a beautiful parasite, inside S.H.I.E.L.D." ― Arnim Zola In 2016, the United States Armed Forces seemingly destroyed HYDRA, although several high-ranking members survived the attack and went underground. After HYDRA's existence was revealed, the War on HYDRA began, as the Avengers and the reformed S.H.I.E.L.D.

facilities of non-HYDRA aligned individuals. In 2014, the infiltration was exposed during Project Insight, and HYDRA, in an effort to save itself, started purging all S.H.I.E.L.D. For the next several decades, HYDRA grew within S.H.I.E.L.D.'s ranks, manipulating the agency and using its unlimited resources to suit their plans.

The HYDRA Uprising, also known as the Fall of S.H.I.E.L.D., was a major conflict that arose when Steve Rogers revealed HYDRA's existence within S.H.I.E.L.D., which caused them to go aboveground.Īfter World War II, the Strategic Scientific Reserve evolved into S.H.I.E.L.D., but was soon infiltrated by HYDRA operatives, starting with Arnim Zola in Operation Paperclip. "Everywhere! Among us!" ― Anne Weaver and Jemma Simmons "We don't know how long HYDRA's been inside S.H.I.E.L.D.
