I agree. He’s killed his fellow agents. If he turns good and surrenders he should get taken to the new Fridge and dumped off. Though I’d rather they play the on the relationship between Good Girl/Bad Guy until it’s played out and then have her put 2 between his eyes. Though I’m not a big fan of his replacement. It’s nice that the show isn’t so white anymore but I keep hoping they will bring aboard someone with some kind of special abilities. I mean, it’s a comic book show. Sam Wilson/The Falcon would be great.
In one of the older Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. threads, someone posted a quote (with a cite) from either one of the Whedons or the Whedon-In-Law saying that every one of the main characters had a secret. We’re nearly at the end of the season with two secrets (by my count) yet to be revealed.
[ul]
[li]Couson: He was dead for way longer than x minutes and he was brought back to life with alien technology/biology. One might suggest that this wasn’t his secret but, rather, a secret kept from him. How about: He was the head of the alien technology/biology project- still in the “secret kept from him” category? I think all of this counts as Coulson’s Secret. If it turns out he also has a secret he’s keeping, it’ll be overkill.[/li][li]May: Reporting directly to Fury, manipulated the assembly of Coulson’s team, keeping an eye on Coulson.[/li][li]Skye: Joined the team to try to advance her search for her identity/parents, turns out she herself is a secret of some kind.[/li][li]Ward: OMG totally teh HYDRA![/li][/ul]
So, that leaves us with:[ul]
[li]Fitz[/li][li]Simmons[/li][/ul]
I’m not on board with the Simmons/HYDRA speculation, though I know it’s a popular theory here.
Fitz? He loves too haaaaaard? Does that count as a secret? I dunno. I don’t have a guess for him either.
I suppose you could argue that Fitz’s secret is that he’s in love with Simmons. It’s pretty obvious but he hasn’t told her so I guess it still counts as a secret.
I think I’m the first one who mentioned it. But I’ll admit I can’t see it as still viable after the most recent episode. There’s no way Simmons wouldn’t have revealed herself as a Hydra agent on the plane.
I bet Simmons’s big secret is that she’s actually a Skrull who was sent to Earth to study human physiology and map the human genome. That way, Skrulls could mutate and morph more effectively and infiltrate the human race by having DNA that doesn’t detect as alien.
Not that they would have any trouble getting into SHIELD. Any loon who spent 5+ years in the woods with a dog can get in.
That’s why she hasn’t been returning Fitz’s affections. He’s an icky human.
Which is a shame - having Simmons pull out a gun and blow Fitz’s brains all over the door, then calmly say “Hail Hydra” would have been the best TV moment of the millennium.
Yeah, his reputation isn’t entirely justified. My run-down of deaths by shows (as I remember it), kept as vague as possible for those who don’t mind spoilers but might watch one day. But to be clear, they are spoilers:
In Firefly:
No one died until the film when they knew the show was over anyway, so why not kill off a few? It didn’t serve any purpose plot-wise.
In Buffy:
A few key characters died but came back to life later. One member of the gang died permanently, and it wasn’t a “there from the beginning” type character. There was an episode where Buffy’s mother died and it was pretty damn harsh, but that was more about Buffy’s loss than the character’s death. One of my favourites died in the last episode, but the last episode doesn’t count.
In Angel:
The aforementioned Doyle, but it sounded like real-world reasoning was behind that. Two other characters died near the end, but they were particularly painless for the audience (one died after not being in the show for a while and the other’s body was taken over so the actor remained in the main cast, just playing a different character).
In Dollhouse:
No big deaths that I remember. One character turns out to have died before the show even started, but they’re still around, so…
He couldn’t even kill off Coulson properly in The Avengers.
And yet she’s swooning whenever Trip saunters by?
several in the last few episodes, at least. And depending on how you view the metaphysics behind the central conceit of the show, someone died every time an active got wiped back to “tabula rasa” state.
Thanks. I don’t really remember that. Obviously it wasn’t that tragic!
What about Wesley? Granted it was in the last episode, but he still died.
Ah yes, another I missed.
Interesting. They secretly like each other! They’re secretly brother & sister but only one knows!
I see these episodes after the rest of y’all, so I am coming in late, but this posting made me think–wouldn’t HYDRA have infiltrated a bunch of other secret organizations? Specifically SMERSH? Is James Bond canon in SHIELD backstory? How about Kim Philby?
Recruiting agents to join a secret organization is pretty hard. I understand in the bad old days of the spy wars in Berlin a lot of agents had doubled so often they themselves didn’t know who they worked for. There are some great stories to be told about the inner corridors of SHIELD. Maybe that will be touched on in Agent Carter.
Nick Fury is the James Bond of the Marvel universe. Bond himself doesn’t exist, except as the same fictional character he is in the real world.
SMERSH was disbanded in 1946, so I’d be surprised if Hydra was spending a lot of time in 2014 trying to infiltrate them. Okay, granted, 1946 was two years longer than the Nazis lasted, and they’re still around in the Marvel U. But the Nazis have a big advantage over SMERSH that keeps them circulating in pop culture: specifically, their name doesn’t sound like Ben Grimm sitting on someone.