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So we should probably decide on the direction of this phase. Basically, here's my main idea for it:

The Avengers film for this phase will be Avengers: The Masters of Evil. Basically, in Avengers, we see Cap searching for an unknown Hydra member after thwarting a deal between the mystery person and Eric Williams, who ends up becoming the villain Grim Reaper with a nanotech prosthetic arm that can morph into a scythe. In the middle of the film, Cap finds a file on Heinrich Zemo at the SHIELD Triskelion, and takes it for himself. At the end of the film, Williams, who was on the RAFT when it was thrown into the Triskelion and was one of the few who survived, arrives in Berlin, Germany, where he meets with Heinrich Zemo and offers to work for him. What I mainly want to set up is, I don't know in which film or at what point (probably early on in Avengers 2 if not in the Cap sequel or something), Cap confronts Heinrich Zemo and lets just say it goes bad. Heinrich Zemo dies. His son, Helmut Zemo, was trained since birth to be a killer, since the Zemo family was heavily involved with Hydra and several different international crime organizations. Helmut ended up being taken away by his father as a teenager, and after being trialed as an adult and serving a sentence in prison, Helmut was recruited by CIA (and this is where we can give William Burnside a cameo in Helmut's origin flashback) in some shady top secret operations. Helmut was given the codename The Baron and briefly operated on a secret team of government assassins called the Masters, as they were masters of their craft. On about the Masters' second or third mission (maybe retrieving Captain America's shield or something, because I don't recall it being explained in Lost Avenger how Burnside ended up with it), Zemo came into conflict with another member of the team (maybe Dum Dum Dugan?) and almost killed him. The other Masters turned on Zemo, and in the ensuing conflict, Zemo was seemingly killed, as the Masters got away with the shield. (And then perhaps for his excellent work with the Masters, Dugan was recruited by SHIELD?) Anyways, it turns out that Zemo survived and went back to work with his father, becoming an assassin for Hydra but eventually coming to conflict with Heinrich and quitting. When Zemo learns of his father's death, he forms a master plan to destroy not only Captain America, but the entire US government.

That's all going to be in Avengers, but (if you do end up doing the Cap sequel) maybe Andrew could incorporate Heinrich Zemo's death into Cap 2? All that's needed is for Heinrich to die and maybe have Grim Reaper make a cameo where he fights Cap but then gets away, and besides from that, you dont need to set up Helmut Zemo any further. My intention is for a majority of his origin to be shown in Avengers 2, but that one key moment should happen earlier on. I have a roster in mind for the Masters of Evil, but the main ones are (as usual) Zemo and Enchantress. The casting I had in mind was Daniel Craig as Helmut Zemo, Eva Green as the Enchantress, and Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson as Executioner.

Also a main part of Avengers 2 is the Cosmic Cube, which will be set up in Captain Marvel. I know that this sounds like a lot, but really its just for Avengers 2. And I've only started working on an actual plot for the movie (though I've had these ideas for a while), so anything could change, really.