10 Plot Points Wonder Woman Stole From Marvel

By Jack Pooley / June 16, 2017

8. The Evil German Villain...Who Has A Smarter Sidekick

Wonder Woman's apparent main villain is German Army General Ludendorff, who is later revealed to have a semi-supernatural aid, a special elixir created by his much smarter and more interesting underling, Doctor Poison. Ludendorff dies, but Poison manages to escape to fight another day.

Captain America similarly features an evil German as its baddie, one Johann Schmidt, who has a supernatural affectation by way of his Red Skull persona, and works with a sidekick, the Nazi biochemist Arnim Zola.

Like Poison, Zola is also much smarter than his boss, and survives the end of the movie to kinda-reappear in The Winter Soldier.