It eventually turns out that the real Zola has not, in fact, put his mind into this body (after all, he was still human at the end of the movie!) it's just remote control. A primitive 1940's version of Zola's robot body from the comics appears (complete with monochrome face-chest-screen!).Notably, he's a lot more vicious and sadistic in his notes than he appeared in the movie. Mad Scientist: Armin Zola is shown to be one of these.Are you certain you took out '''aaaaall' the long range guns?" Large Ham: Everyone, but Zola takes the cake.Kick Them While They Are Down: In the NDS version, mooks have no problem attacking Captain America while he is knocked down on the ground.Humongous Mecha: The fruit of all of Zola's plans and the last boss of the game.Gun Fu: Madam Hydra's martial art involves a lot of fancy shooting and gymnastics.Perhaps only justified in the Madam Hydra fight, as she tosses gas canisters around the arena. Gas Mask Mooks: Nearly every enemy in the game.Obviously this never happens in-game, but the fun part is in listening to them comment on Cap's performance. Gameplay and Story Segregation: The extra combat challenges are set up as the antagonists rounding up Cap and various combinations of enemies and making them fight for everyone's amusement and/or research benefit, gladiatorial-arena style, somewhere in the castle.Something that he does successfully 40 years later at Camp Leheigh. Also Zola in the games has started to experiment with technology that allows him to transfer his mind into machines. Using him as a weapon in the service of Hydra. Finally, Zola's plan to use Falsworth as a brainwashed weapon against the allies is exactly what he ends up doing to Barnes's character.
They can both hover in a stationary position and their primary armament is a minigun supplemented with rockets, which hints at how Hydra infiltrates S.H.I.E.L.D. Second, the helicopters that Hydra uses at the end of the game are reminiscent of the Quinjets S.H.I.E.L.D. This explains how he's able to treat Barnes with his own version of the Super Soldier Serum which allows Barnes to go toe to toe with Rogers in the second film.
First Zola is able to synthesize the Super Soldier Serum from Rogers' blood. Foreshadowing: The game sets up a number of plot points related to Captain America: The Winter Soldier without meaning to.Elite Mooks: The enemies Captain America faces have backstories as Zola created them in order to be this for the Third Reich.Elaborate Underground Base: Baron Zemo's Castle is built over one of these.Armin Zola lampshades how formidable she is, only for Steve Rogers to say, "You haven't met Peggy." Dark Action Girl: Viper is one of the harder villains in the game to fight.Cool House: Baron Zemo lived in a castle which was also refitted to be a massive Nazi military base.It is possible that the figures in the game are previous holders of the titles related by blood or that the modern versions have simply chosen to follow in the footsteps of their forebears. The events of the game cannot be canon with the MCU proper, which has since introduced drastically different versions of Baron von Strucker, Baron Zemo, and Madame Hydra.Hydra has yet to completely split from the Nazis, as they do later in the film. The game appears to be set in the midst of the events of The First Avenger, after the breakout of Bucky and the formation of the Invaders but prior to the events of the film's climax. Here, he's shown to be a member of the Nazis still. The Red Skull has broken with Hitler in the movies and formed a third faction in World War II.