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Rhienholdt Schmidt, also known as Electro, is one of the two main antagonists (alongside the Red Skull) of the Six Forgotten Warriors arc within Season 5 of the 1994-1998 animated superhero television series Spider-Man.
He is the son of the Red Skull and stepbrother of the Chameleon, whose goal is to free his father from the vortex in which he was trapped when engaged in battle with Captain America. After the Chameleon uses Kingpin and his Insidious Six to free their father from the vortex, the Red Skull concentrates energy into him, which leads to him becoming Electro. However, angry at his father at experimenting on him in return for freeing him, Electro seeks to launch his own New World Order by forcing all of the United Nations to proclaim him the ruler of the world.
Rhienholdt was raised alongside his stepbrother The Chameleon by his father The Red Skull, who created the Chameleon's shapeshifting belt device and trained the latter how to use it. However, his father was trapped in a vortex alongside his archenemy, Captain America, after his last fight against the former, and his team, the American Six, during World War 2. Rhienholdt, as a boy, was brought to the complex of Project: Doomsday, that his father created, by a former German spy from the war named Lentz, but he could not free his father without the six keys to unlock Project: Doomsday which had been taken and divided by were the five remaining of the American Six. Becoming determined to free his father, Rhienholdt plotted with his stepbrother for 50 years to find the keys, while becoming the Chief of Police of the Moscow Police Department in the process, under the name Rhienholdt Kragov.
Present Day[]
Rhienholdt eventually began his plan, by first issuing the kidnapping of Dr. Wolfgang Groitzing, an ex-Nazi scientist who designed the complex of Project: Doomsday and was living in Moscow under an alias, with the help of Silver Sable and her Wild Pack, while also impersonating his father. He was helped with his plan by the Chameleon, who was working with the crime lord the Kingpin as part of the Kingpin's team, the Insidious Six, as the crime lord had also sought out Project: Doomsday. Sometime later Rhienholdt orders the Wild Pack to kidnap Lentz and bring him to his hideout under the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The next day at the Moscow Police Station, Rhienholdt catches Detective Boris Pushkin talking to Joseph "Robbie" Robertson, who is old friend of his, and Peter Parker, as they both looking were investigating Groitzing's disappearance. Rhienholdt then orders Pushkin to remove them, which he does, not knowing Pushkin secretly gave the two the information they needed.
After the Kingpin acquires the box that contains the information on the identities of the American Six and what the keys to the Project: Doomsday are, the Chameleon alerts their location to the Wild Pack, who captures the Insidious Six, the Kingpin, and Spider-Man brings them to Rhienholdt's hideout. However, the Kingpin manages to escape from his shackles, takes Rhienholdt hostage, while having the Insidious Six released and putting the Wild Pack in the shackles in their place. The Kingpin then unmasks him while he was his wearing Red Skull mask, but knowing the real Red Skull could have broken free the Kingpin removes it, Rhienholdt then reveals himself and his desire to make his father's goal of world domination a reality. After a struggle for the box, the Kingpin manages to get it and Rhienholdt then destroys his hideout while he escapes with Dr. Groitzing and Lentz.
After allowing the Kingpin and the Insidious Six gather the keys and capture Spider-Man and the remaining members of the American Six, the Chameleon betrays the Kingpin as Rhienholdt arrives at the complex with Lentz and Dr. Groitzing. The two then have Dr. Groitzing free his father, the Red Skull, who tries kill everyone with giant robots they mistake for the doomsday weapon, but Captain America, also freed thanks Dr. Groitzing, then fights them. The Wild Pack also arrives, as they were really to put an end to the doomsday weapon, while the Kingpin frees himself and his men and join the fight against the robots. As the robots are quickly defeated, Rhienholdt escapes with his father to a lower level of the complex with Spider-Man and Silver following them.
In the lower camber, the Red Skull uses a machine to give Rhienholdt the ability to control energy, given the name Electro by his father, he displays newfound power and quickly outmatches everyone, including the Kingpin, whom Electro electrifies when he tries attack him. But as the Electro's body still hasn't adjusted to his powers yet, he grows weak forcing his father and the Chameleon to take him to somewhere he can rest. After Electro recovers however, he becomes angry that his father was willing to risk his life in the machine and betrays him, deciding take over to the world himself.
At J3 Communications, Electro declares to the world make him their ruler, giving a demonstration of his powers by that taking control the power in New York City and draining the power from the ground vehicles of the city, before Spider-Man and the American Six show up to fight him, but he easily manages to overpower them. He then goes to the complex of Project: Doomsday, where he supercharges the robots then takes them the United Nations, where he continues to make proclamation of being made the ruler of the world. As the American Six, sans Captain America, who is helping Spider-Man at the time, fight the robots, S.H.I.E.L.D. arrives to fight Electro, but he effortlessly defeats them by draining the power from their headquarters. However, Electro then feels a disturbance in his powers, as his father built the vortex as a fail-safe to inhibit Electro's powers in case of betrayal, and quickly returns to the complex. After Captain America re-imprisons himself and the Red Skull in the vortex and Spider-Man captures the Chameleon in his web, Electro arrives at the complex and fights Spider-Man. But Spider-Man manages to trick into trapping himself in the vortex after he destroys the control panel. The complex is then destroyed by Spider-Man and the rest of the American Six, leaving Electro trapped in the vortex alongside Captain America and his father.
Trivia[]
Electro wasn't supposed to be in the show due to James Cameron making a Spider-Man movie with Electro and Sandman as the villains, but when the film got canceled, Electro was added.