BURBANK, CA–The MCU isn’t down and out just yet. Marvel has just announced a Red Skull miniseries, following the complex, fan-favorite villain from Captain America on an arc of redemption and growth. “Every villain deserves a chance in the spotlight to show that they’re really not that bad down at their core,” said Marvel Chief Creative Officer Kevin Feige. “Yes, even literal Nazis!”

“We were really inspired by the popularity of Loki,” Feige continues. “Take a mass murderer and the literal god of lies out of his own timeline, confront him with his own mortality, and boom–suddenly he has a sense of altruism! That formula has got to work again, right?”

The show will follow Johann Schmidt, a.k.a. Hydra leader the Red Skull, after his defeat at the end of Captain America: The First Avenger, when the Tesseract transports him to Vormir to guard the Soul Stone. Throughout his journey, Red Skull will experience superficial remorse for his genocidal actions and go through years’ worth of forced character development crammed into a montage on a single episode. By the middle of the first season, he’ll be a tragic, misunderstood antihero instead of the hateful Nazi we’ve known him as before. Hugo Weaving will reprise his role for the series and gradually transform into Ross Marquand.

“We’ve even got an arc planned for the second season where Red Skull makes a heroic sacrifice to save the whole multiverse,” Feige explains. “Fans will really love him then!”

“We’ll show flashbacks from Red Skull’s backstory–of how his daddy didn’t really love him, and it was really just society that made him turn evil,” Feige teased. “Oh, and of course, we’ll have him fight some other villains who are marginally worse than himself. Then everyone will understand that he really isn’t such a bad guy after all.”

Based on the anticipated popularity of shows starring villains-turned-antiheroes, a number of franchise media are being planned, including spin-off films featuring the reforming Red Skull. Marvel has already trademarked the titles Red Skull: Let There Be Carnage and Red Skull: Folie à Deux.

Red Skull All Along premieres in 2025, only on DIsneyPlus.