Major Stories and Events Origin The Hate-Monger is Adolf Hitler , who ruled Nazi Germany as its Fueher from 1933 to 1945. In early 1945 the brilliant Nazi biologist Arnim Zola told Hitler that he had constructed a brain pattern-imprinting device by which the memories, personality and the actual consciousness of one brain could be transferred totally to another. Moreover, Zola told Hitler that he had discovered the process that is now known as cloning. Through these means, Zola believed he could keep the Fuehrer alive indefinitely. Intrigued, Hitler allowed Zola to "energize" his brain and to take a sample of his body's cells. Zola then cloned an entire brain from those cells. On April 30, 1945, as the invading Russian army closed in on Berlin , Hitler, hidden in his capital buildings fortress-like bunker planned to kill his body and thanks to Zola's "energizing" process psionically transfer his consciousness into that cloned brain, which Zola was keeping safely far away. Hitler was interrupted by the arrival of the Torch and Toro , who were determined to capture him and bring him to trial. When Hitler reached for a flame-proofed switch to detonate explosives that would kill the two, the Torch set him aflame. As he died, Hitler willed his consciousness to transfer itself into that first cloned brain with the help of Zola's automatic brain pattern-imprinting device at the latter's laboratory. It is not definitely known whether the consciousness in the cloned brain was the actual consciousness of Adolf Hitler, that thus survived Hitler's phsyical demise, or whether it was, instead, a duplicate of Hitler's consciousness. In either event, the first Hate Monger believed himself to be the original Adolf Hitler. Emergence as the Hate Monger Over the following decades, Zola cloned and grew entire bodies from his samples of Hitler's cells. Zola also treated the original cloned brain and each of those in the cloned bodies so that a life force and mental essence could be projected from one to another. The first cloned brain psionically transferred its consciousness into one of the clones' bodies. The being that was thereby created took the alias 'Hate Monger' because he believed that the means to world conquest lay in fomenting hatred among the various races. Warfare would then erupt from which, he believed, only his own Aryan 'master race' would survive. Concealing his true identity beneath a hood, the Hate Monger began preaching class, racial, and religious hatred in the United States. At the same time, the Hate Monger was testing the effectiveness of his hate-ray on a major scale by using it to bring about civil war in the small Latin American nation of San Gusto. Hate Monger was opposed in San Gusto by the Fantastic Four and Nick Fury . When the Hate Monger tried to fire a hate-ray at the Human Torch , the Invisible Woman seized the Hate Monger's arm, ruining his aim. As a result, the Hate Monger accidentally hit two of his own men with the hate-ray, who then shot him dead. But in dying, the Hate-Monger psionically transferred his consciousness to yet another of the bodies that Zola had cloned for him. The first Hate Monger thus transferred his consciousness into new bodies at least six times, including once into a humanoid body without a humanoid head, whose brain Zola intended to transplant physically into the body of Captain America . Thus, although there have seemed to be a long succession of individuals matching the description of the first Hate Monger, each of whom died horribly, there has been, in fact, only one such Hate Monger, who, whenever he found himself on the point of death, psionically transferred his consciousness into another of the cloned bodies. Civil War and the Initiative The Punisher battles the Hate Monger Garbed in a costume that combined Nazi icongraphy with the then-thought-dead Captain America 's costume, the Hate Monger set out to restore America's past glories by purging it of non-whites and non-Christ…
| Creators | Jack Kirby, Stan Lee |
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| Teams | Homines Verendi, National Force, Nazis, Secret Empire, Sons of The Serpent |