Recovering items from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s research and development labs, Rumlow set up an arms sale in an attempt to draw HYDRA out of hiding. Several months later, after watching a news report about the death of Alexander Pierce, he assaulted his nurse and successfully escaped from the hospital where he was staying. īrock Rumlow recovered from the Triskelion He survived but gained severe facial scars and was subsequently hospitalized. "What we've got here is some hard intel on an ex- HYDRA operative working his way toward Lagos, Nigeria." ― Sam Wilson to Steve Rogers ĭuring the Battle at the Triskelion in 2014, HYDRA operative Brock Rumlow was pinned under rubble when a Helicarrier crashed into the building. With the Avengers being held responsible for this loss of life, the United Nations officially ratified the Sokovia Accords.
Wanda Maximoff, wanting to save Rogers and the civilians in the market, contained the explosion and redirected it upwards near a building, accidentally causing the deaths of twenty-six civilians. The mission, which escalated into an open confrontation on the streets, went catastrophic when Rumlow attempted to kill Captain America in a suicide bombing at a populated market. They were tasked to chase ex- HYDRA sleeper agent Brock Rumlow when he and his mercenaries attacked the Institute for Infectious Diseases for a biological weapon. The Attack on the IFID Headquarters, also known as the Lagos Catastrophe or the Attack in Lagos, was an undercover Avengers mission in Lagos, Nigeria. Victory at the expense of the innocent is no victory at all." ― T'Chaka Not only because of the actions of criminals, but by the indifference of those pledged to stop them. " Our people's blood is spilled on foreign soil.