Zola 2.0 is bantering with the dynamic duo after he launches the ballistic missile.
Was he now so dedicated to the cause that he didn't care that his mechanical body would be destroyed or is it somehow implied that he could move to a new location?
Dr. Zola in the first movie did not seem like the sort of guy who would be willing to sacrifice himself under any circumstances, he always came across as being obsessed with self-preservation.
IMO, he's dead. Marvel doesn't seem to have any need for him and aren't pulling out old, minor villains for anything other than to finish them off.
With that being said, he could still be alive but dormant due to the fall of Hydra. It will just depend upon if they need him for the story. But, I think they have enough other characters/villains that they can just let him go.
I found it interesting they had that line in Endgame though where Stark Sr was like "have you seen Dr. Zola?"
shareHis desire for Hydra's self-preservation overwhelmed his own.
Though I thought it interesting that he's been kept in this outdated form of technology when he could have been kept updated to modern times. I wondered why.
My guess was that he knew that technology and if anyone stumbled upon it, they'd think it was all old, broken down stuff. That is, unless they saw the flash-drive port like Cap and BW did.
I also wonder if having everything updated would have made it easier to trace.
Maybe Hydra, themselves' were afraid of him getting too 'connected' to the world. In a way, he was advanced but contained. Can you imagine a Zola on the internet? Could you ever truly destroy him?
shareI think it was partly ego too. He believed that he had already won. That his algorithm would allow Hydra to rule the world and even that he had lured Cap to his death.
I do think he was "contained" in that space as others have suggested but that doesn't eliminate the possibility that he has some sort of backup. The door is open for someone to find a flash drive or something with Zola's "brain" on it and resurrect him.
Reading my signature constitutes admission that I am correct. (Too late)
It would make for a great movie if it's done right with good writing, good acting, directing, and music.
shareIt would be quite fitting for Dr. Zola to be the Power Broker in this supposedly Post-HYDRA world. It could even be said that during the Blip HYDRA could have been re-constituted as within the GRC.
shareIs this a plot hole?
shareThey always come back. We’ll see.
Great name btw