The Red Skull is still ALIVE

In the comics, the Red Skull is one of the best Marvel villains of all time, so when he met his apparent end in “Captain America: The First Avenger,” fans were understandably disappointed. Not every Marvel villain is a winner, so why kill off one of your heaviest hitters in his first film? Unless they didn’t. The last time we see Red Skull, he’s holding the Tesseract as it seemingly dissolves him, sending a bright blue beam into the sky, opening a portal and sucking him up with it.

We know it’s a portal and not just an energy beam, because there’s no hole in the top of the plane when the beam fades. Why spend money on a C.G.I. energy beam shooting up into the sky instead of just having Red Skull explode? In the first scene of “The Avengers,” the Tesseract is described as a doorway, and at the end, it even teleports Thor and Loki back to Asgard. Some theorists even go so far as to suggest Red Skull is lending out the resources of HYDRA to Thanos so they can take over Earth together.