Recently in the Disney+ MCU show The Falcon and The Winter Solider the villain from Captain America: Civil War, Helmut Zemo, returned as a reoccurring character.

Civil War presented Zemo as secret police/security officer from the fictional nation of Sokovia that had been devastated by the event of Avengers: Age of Ultron and seeking revenge upon the Avengers for the death of his wife and family.

TFaTWS returned Zemo closer to his comic book version letting the audience know that he was wealthy, an aristocrat and held the title of Baron.

Many people have felt that this directly contradicts the earlier presentation of Zemo breaking the MCU’s continuity.

This is an easy fix to make both Zemo’s seamlessly into one coherent character.

Zemo as a young man met and fell hopelessly in love with a woman a low social standing. His tradition  bound aristocratic family refused to accept a person of ‘low birth’ into their arms and Zemo walked away from his wealth, his privileges, and his family to be with his love. Starting a family of his own and building his own life and losing all that in the Avengers’ war on Ultron. Grief and revenge drove him to the event of Civil War and after cooling his heels in prison and basking the publicly fractured Avengers he reunited with his family and the Bucky brought him into the current crisis.

You may now use this as your ‘head canon.’