Karl Morgenthau was the son of a wealthy Swiss banker turned diplomat and a former employee of the Roxxon Energy Corporation. After his father passed away, he came to believe that humanity needed to do away with the concept of countries and nationalism that made people feel superior to those of different nationalities. As such, Karl would then fashioned himself the costumed identity of the "Flag-Smasher" and returned to New York to begin a campaign of assaults on symbols of world separatism such as national flags and embassies. He planned to use terrorism to spread anti-nationalist sentiment by forming the U.L.T.I.M.A.T.U.M. and conducted a campaign in New York City against nationalist symbols, holding hundreds as hostages until the Avengers led by Captain America.
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