marvel - Why haven't we seen more of Arnim Zola?

In Captain America: The Winter Soldier™,

Arnim Zola's consciousness is revealed to be within a super-computer in a bunker

Wouldn't it be reasonable for him to have copied himself elsewhere? Wouldn't this have caused the same or similar issues as Ultron? In Avengers:Age of Ultron™,

Vision provides the power to force & lock Ultron out of the Internet

But wouldn't Zola have the same advantage of self-replication & infiltration, albeit with less potency perhaps? Do we have any indication that he wasn't destroyed along with that bunker, and isn't still nefariously scheming away on some AWS server somewhere?

Answer

We have seen no indication of the continued existence of Dr. Arnim Zola in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

However, an absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. You are correct in thinking that after Dr. Arnim Zola transferred him mind into a computer, he could have been able to replicate himself an almost infinite number of times all over the world.

For all we know, he is still out there somewhere and trying to rebuild the Hydra that was destroyed after Steve 'Captain America' Rogers exposed Hydra in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. However, the list of upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe films doesn't leave much room for Dr. Arnim Zola until some point after the two part Avengers: Infinity War is concluded in 2019.

But we might see him before that in some capacity. The final scene of season one of Agent Carter saw the return of Toby Jones as Dr. Arnim Zola in SSR custody in 1946. With a second season of Agent Carter confirmed, I wouldn't be surprised to see Dr. Arnim Zola make an appearance in that at some point, showing us how he managed to set up his own Hydra within SHIELD.

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