(Captain America Comics 007, 1941)
The Fiddler, being a man who can play his violin at special pitches in order to hypnotize or kill, has the dubious honour of being our first super-powered Nazi villain.
The Fiddler is an overplanner, no bones about it. His mission in the US is to kill anti-Nazi politicians (specifically senators, or maybe he's working up to governors etc). Here's his process for doing so:
-become an acclaimed musician with regular radio gigs
-establish an employment agency for butlers
-have butlers placed in his victims' homes
-have the butlers install music-activated bombs in the victims' radios while simultaneously fixing it so that the radio can only be tuned to the station that the Fiddler is going to be appearing on
-hope that the victim will be listening to the radio at the right time
-hypnotize the crowd at the performance for some reason, play the Melody of Death to trigger the bomb, et voila
And it works three times! He bumps off two senators, and would have gotten a third if Captain America hadn't figured out his plan via one of the one million suspicious things about it.
It's frankly a mercy that the Fiddler ultimately melts his own brain while trying to kill an earplug-equipped Bucky via sonic attack, because this is the kind of thing that embarrasses you for life.
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