Who doesn’t love a good old governmental agency? Neither the FBI nor the CIA has anything compared to the best of them all, SHIELD. SHIELD, or the Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement Logistics Division. As Agent Grant Ward from the hit TV-show, Agents of SHIELD, would say, it really seems like somebody wanted their initials to spell out SHIELD. Whatever they named the organization, SHIELD was meant to protect the world and civilians from extraterrestrial, paranormal, and other situations that the public was not ready todeal with. Whether it be 084s, Inhumans, or the Avenger Initiative, SHIELD was meant to be a protective administration, and it has one of the most interesting stories within Marvel.Following the events of World War II and the successful project of Captain America and the super solider serum, an organization was compiled to prepare and protect the world for extroadianry events, such as Captain America, Red Skull and the Tesseract. Howard Stark, a wealthy weapons manufacturer trying to make the country a better place, Peggy Carter, The British love interest of Captain America and intelligence behind some of America’s greater operations during World War II, and Chester Phillips, a general in charge of selecting the candidate for the Super soldier project, came together and founded SHIELD. at first shield was news to detain and capture former Hydra bases and artifacts, as well as arrest their scientists and soldiers. SHIELD quickly became a superpower amongst the entire world in trying to protect civilization from what they were not ready for. Peggy Carter served as the first president and established precedents and rules for the future of SHIELD to follow. Shield began to assimilate some of the German Nazi scientists from Hydra into their own operations to enhance their science division. One of the first was Arnim Zola, who following his death had his consciousness placed in a mainframe of SHIELD. From here Zola would begin to infiltrate SHIELD.
The next heads of S.H.I.E.L.D. ran and obviously different organization. The new head of shield was an agent known as Nick Fury. fury was a relentless and untrusting soldier, who constantly went behind peoples backs to do what he believed was right. we see specifically in The Avengers how fury had The Avengers go against each other and mistrust shield with his ulterior motives. Fury is known for not trusting anybody, and constantly had dark operations amongst his organization. his second in command Maria Hill was just as untrusting and as dangerous. Maria Hill oversaw directing the soldiers and agents of shield directly when Fury was handling the big picture stuff including United Nations and personal government discussions. together the team of Maria Hill and Nick fury ran a very successful operation at SHIELD. Nick fury and Maria Hill directly oversaw the Avenger initiative which saw Black Widow, the Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, and Hawkeye band together on multiple occasions to protect the world. Nick fury had another very close agent named Phil Coulson. Phil Coulson was said to have been dead due to a stab wound by Loki in Avengers. However, Nick fury went behind everybody’s back again and brought Phil Coulson back from the dead using one of the alien technologies that he had found in previous encounters. Phil Coulson only believed to have come out of a vacation from Tahiti and would be assigned a special task group to go across the world and act as administrators of SHIELD’s protection. this team is known in the Marvel cinematic universe as the agents of SHIELD.
Now I personally recommend Agents of SHIELD as my favorite TV show of all time. Due to this, I’m going to also recommend that you are to watch this show and learn about it instead of just reading this blog post about it. So, to not spoil some of the more recent seasons I am only going to talk about smaller sections of the first few seasons. one of the important parts of agents of shield is the continuity of the artifacts and weapons they come in counter with. in the first season alone, they encounter something called the centipede serum, which is a failed attempt to replicate the Supersoldier serum that created Captain America. they also deal with an artifact known as the obelisk, which could teleport anyone that rendered inside of it to a distant alien planet where death itself lived. The agents of shield are responsible for bringing Inhumans into the Marvel cinematic universe. he also introduced an alien race known as the Kree. many other cameos from the movies are present in agents of shield, including lady Sif from Thor, Maria Hill, and sometimes Nick fury himself. Phil Coulson has to find out what happened during his “vacation” while he mentors a newly formed agent in Daisy Johnson also known as Skye. one of the biggest issues that the Marvel cinematic universe faces is more prevalent in Agents of SHIELD than it is ever shown in the movies. this antagonist of course being the ultimate villain of SHIELD. It is revealed within Captain America: The Winter Soldier and more prevalently in agents of shield that SHIELD is compromised. Many Hydra agents had been sneaking around inside shield infiltrating their ranks to regain world control through SHIELD’s numbers and war power. Nick Fury was almost assassinated, member of Phil Coulson’s team even turned out to be loyal to Hydra. It is Phil Coulson and his team, which include Melinda may, grant Ward, Leopold Fitz, Emma Simmons, busy Johnson, and Phil Coulson himself, to locate every remaining Hydra threat and eliminate them and following this elimination rebuild shield from the ashes.
One of the biggest topics to talk about within SHIELD is the multiple uses of the Heli-carrier. Nick Fury use the Heli-carrier as a mobile base of operations for The Avengers and SHIELD itself. The Heli-carrier was used to house the Avengers and SHIELD in The Avengers, and a trio of them were built to preemptively strike criminals down before they can attack. Hydra infiltrates and takes over the project pretending to be SHIELD, as Alexander Pierce gains control of SHIELD. Nick Fury fakes his death following an assassination attempt by the Winter Soldier. Following the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, all the Heli-carriers were destroyed. However, Nick Fury showed his deceitful skills once again, secretly repairing one to save thousands of lives in the evacuation of Sokovia in Age of Ultron. The heli-carrier was destroyed again and did not make another appearance. Instead the Bus, Zephyr One, Zephyr Three, The Playground and the lighthouse would serve as SHIELDS headquarters under the administration of Director Phil Coulson, and Director Alphonso Mackenzie, a newer member of Coulson’s team.
With the last season of Agents of SHIELD coming to a close, Nick Fury drifting off into space with what we believe to be a newer organization called SWORD, and most importantly all members of Hydra have been exterminated, SHIELD has given us some very memorable and interesting storylines. between the mistrust, the secrets, heroism, and most importantly in a Marvel film or TV show, the witty banter, SHIELD has had a lot to offer in terms of entertainment and suspense. although I do not believe SHIELD is going to be disbanded, it seems to be a lot less prevalent or important in the next few phases of the Marvel cinematic universe. Nevertheless, SHIELD will always be the foundation behind the Marvel cinematic universe, and most of the heroes within it. Without them, we would have no Avengers, no Captain America nor Captain Marvel, no Spiderman, no Hydra, and a lot of missing plot holes. SHIELD uses its features to bring a whole new story into the lives of Marvel fans. there will never be an issue nor a problem that could ever uproot the Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement Logistics Division. SHIELD is both metaphorically and literally shield that protects the world that Tony Stark proposes to The Avengers, and they do a marvelous job at doing just that.
“Nick Fury gave me this badge. When he did, I swore an oath. We all did. To serve when everything else fails. To be humanity’s last line of defense. To be the shield.”
-SHIELD Agent and Director Phil Coulson
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