Editing Red Skull (section)

===''Ultimate Marvel''===
[[File:Ultimate Red Skull.jpg|thumb|150px|The Ultimate Red Skull shown on the variant cover to ''[[Ultimate Comics: Avengers]]'' #1. Art by [[Leinil Yu]]]]
An alternate universe variant of the Red Skull from Earth-1610 appears in ''[[Ultimate Marvel]]''. This version is the unnamed illegitimate son of [[Captain America (Ultimate Marvel character)|Steve Rogers / Captain America]] and [[Gail Richards]].<ref name="Ultimate Avengers #2" /> After his father's presumed death during World War II, he is taken from his mother and raised in an army base where he appears to be a well-adjusted, physically superior, and tactically brilliant young man who greatly resembles his father. Around the age of 17, he kills over 200 men on the base and cuts off his own face in rejection of his father.<ref name="Ultimate Avengers #2">''Ultimate Avengers'' #2. Marvel Comics.</ref> As a final symbol of his rebellion against the system that created him, he assassinates President [[John F. Kennedy]].<ref name="Ultimate Avengers #5">''Ultimate Avengers'' #5. Marvel Comics.</ref><ref name="Ultimate Avengers #6">''Ultimate Avengers'' #6. Marvel Comics.</ref> Subsequently, he battles Captain America before being killed by him.