| AGENT ALTHEA RICE-- Also known as "The Calvary"
Why would they nickname her after the hill Christ was crucified on?
@frankie.23 Also, first comment with the new comment system. Not so happy that 'Kaoy' is taken.
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• AGENT GRANT WARD -- Quite the physical specimen and "cool under fire," he sometimes botches interpersonal relations. He's a quiet one with a bit of a temper, but he's the kind of guy that grows on you.
• AGENT ALTHEA RICE-- Also known as "The Calvary," this hard-core soldier has crazy skills when it comes to weapons and being a pilot. But her experiences have left her very quiet and a little damaged.
• AGENT LEO FITZ and AGENT JEMMA SIMMONS -- These two came through training together and still choose to spend most of their time in each other's company. Their sibling-like relationship is reinforced by their shared nerd tendencies - she deals with biology and chemistry, he's a whiz at the technical side of weaponry.
Although this sounds like the most standard TV show assortment of characters ever, if there's one thing I completely trust Joss Whedon to do it's to create rich, deeply realized characters with wit and charm that we call come to love. And then kill them. (Via Newsarama)
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I'm going to invite OneMinuteGalactica's righteous fury here by saying "I dig it". Yes, none of them are the SHIELD agents we've ever known from the comic books, but then again, neither was Phil Coulson, and look how well The Son of Coul turned out to be. Point is, I won't be calling bullshit until the first episode airs and we get to actually SEE the bullshit first. Because, who knows, the show might actually be *gasp* good! I KNOW! SHOCKING, isn't it?!
@NeoRickicker No righteous fury over here. I know nothing about SHIELD, and I'll be watching the show along with you.
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• SKYE -- This late-20s woman sounds like a dream: fun, smart, caring and confident - with an ability to get the upper hand by using her wit and charm.
JOSS WHEDON TEMPLATE: Buffy.
• AGENT GRANT WARD -- Quite the physical specimen and "cool under fire," he sometimes botches interpersonal relations. He's a quiet one with a bit of a temper, but he's the kind of guy that grows on you.
JOSS WHEDON TEMPLATE: Anything played by Fillion.
• AGENT ALTHEA RICE-- Also known as "The Calvary," this hard-core soldier has crazy skills when it comes to weapons and being a pilot. But her experiences have left her very quiet and a little damaged. •
JOSS WHEDON TEMPLATE: Summer Glau's standard role. Expect spin-kicks.
AGENT LEO FITZ and AGENT JEMMA SIMMONS -- These two came through training together and still choose to spend most of their time in each other's company. Their sibling-like relationship is reinforced by their shared nerd tendencies - she deals with biology and chemistry, he's a whiz at the technical side of weaponry.
JOSS WHEDON TEMPLATE: Audience proxies, meant to be stereotypes of his fan base.
This sounds like a "best of" Joss Whedon shows compilation. He might as well just make a clip show.
Oh, gods... It's not going to be a SHIELD TV show. It's going to be a Joss Whedon ensemble show like Firefly, Dollhouse, or Buffy, but with SHIELD agents shooting witty banter back and forth for 90% of each episode.
Whedon impressed me with Avengers and Cabin in the Woods, but damned if I want to see SHIELD relegated to a show in which each character speaks in Joss Whedon's voice and has a snarky sense of humor. That's just not SHIELD to me, and I'm a Marvel zombie.
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Contessa Allegra de Fontaine, Daisy Johnson, Sharon Carter, Bobbi Morse, Clay Quartermain, G.W. Bridge, Eric O'Grady, Wendell Vaughn, & Jimmy Woo need to fire their agents.
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Jimmy Woo is currently head of (one of) the Marvel Universe version(s) of Ra's Al Ghul's League of Shadows, having married the daughter of (one of) the MU's version(s) of Fu Manchu. Thus having out-Batmanned Batman.
But dang, wouldn't that have made a great plot for the series. {g}
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I never drank the Joss Whedon Kool-Aid, I only really liked one of his past TV projects (Angel). and the Character descriptions give me a bad feeling about this series. I really hope they keep the hip speaking young people crap to a minimum, and I really don't want to see any of his legendary faux-feminist fetishes.
ROB BRICKEN -- Quite the physical specimen and "cool under fire," he sometimes botches his spelling and is prone to leaving out entire words. He's a geeky one with a bit of a drinking problem, but he's the kind of web site editor that grows on you. I guess.
TOPLESS ROBOT POSTERS -- Also known as fanatical a-holes, these idiots choose to spend much of their time in each other's company. Their sibling-like relationships are reinforced by their shared nerd tendencies, and they enjoy complaining about Rob's editing skills.
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DR. ABRAXAS -- An actual d... (the writer burst into flames while compiling the character sketch)
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@DrAbraxas I would have figured Supervillain in custody. Like Hannibal Lecter, but with more depraved fan fiction.
@EliasAlgorithm Well, of course! What do you expect with someone titled "Dark Lord"? Kittens? Hah! Foolish humans!
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@DrAbraxas And of course we find out in the mid-season finale you let yourself be caught as part of your master plan to force upload Pikachu raping Ash into every computer on earth.
I’m telling you, that’s probably the number one reason why there is a S.H.I.E.L.D. series and not a Heroes for Hire or Jessica Drew show.
Agent Coulson was the only character in the Marvel movie universe he had a license to kill.
Now he’ll have five he can waste at his leisure.
@fishercl64 Or that damn Jessica Jones series we were promised like ten years ago. That could have easily covered Heroes For Hire.
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@EliasAlgorithm @fishercl64 I keep reading "Heroes" and having a mild panic...
Because ughh Heroes amirite!?
Let's not forget that everyone's favorite agent, Phil Coulson, didn't have a comic counterpart when he first appeared in 'Iron Man' (2008)
He's not everyone's favorite agent.
Mine's Jessica Drew, because-- Well, have you SEEN her? And she's British. And that costume..! And she's complex.
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Yes indeed, those do, in fact, sound like characters. TV show characters. Possibly even characters in an action-adventure show. I will give it that.
::crickets::
Also, wikipedia lists about...60 different characters as being Agents (current or former) of S.H.I.E.L.D. Leaving out the ones that Disney/ABC/Marvel doesn't have the rights to, well, that winnows it down to about...forty. None of them even share a surname with any of the TV characters listed.
Yep.
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ABC didn't feel that a show about some elite defense force aligned with their current "vision", so decided to rebrand it as Shield High, a teen slice of life romantic comedy.
Grant is the captain of the football team. Quiet, calculating, but somewhat of a loner. His demeanor tends to scare people off as much as attract. Underneath it all, he is a bit of a mystery, as he is sometimes seen painting on the rooftop or caring for stray kittens on the way to school...
Skye is the most popular girl in school, cheerleader, and surefire pick at prom queen. She has mooned over Grant for years, but she just may be swept off her feet by another...
Altheas is always on edge. Everyone is afraid of her, even the guys, which has made her emotionally detached and more than a little unstable. Rumor has it she is in a biker gang and was kicked out of her last three schools...
Jemma has been around Leo her whole life, and while thoughts of romance have flitted through their heads, they were always more like a brother and sister. She tutors Grant in biology and chemistry, but she knows her place in the social hierarchy and can only admire him from afar...
Leo has always been a geek, picked on most of his life. He always just turned the other cheek and ignored it all. However, when he inadvertently saves Skye from some thugs with his robot buddy, his social life just may turn around...
Also be on the lookout for special appearances by Principal Fury! He may seem like a killjoy, breaking up the kid's fun, but behind his gruff demeanor, he has a heart of gold and wants what's best for his beloved students.
Okay let's start the death pool! I'm going with Grant Ward because I'm reasonably sure that the description initially read "type that grows on you...then dies horribly"
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@SpiffytheSplendiforous Jemma. Nobody will see it coming! Also, she will invent a cure for aids or mutant aids or something right before she dies. Also, Jemma sounds black (sorry!) and nobody will expect Whedon to go for the 'black people die first' stereotype.
....bonus points if every season ends with that team getting killed, and a all new team next season....
For some reason I read these descriptions and my brain keeps saying government spy version of Leverage.
@TheRealDE12 Now that you said that I can't not look at it that way. Which means if they put it on USA or TNT instead of standard network, it would be the best copy ever.
Point of order...that's the wrong SHIELD acronym. The MCU version stands for "Strategic Homeland Intervention: Enforcement & Logistics Division".Goddammit, Rob...
@kenny.hitt They change it every second Tuesday of the month. In one week it will stand for "Seriously, How In the Eff do we Legally Do this"
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@kenny.hitt Back in the ol' days, SHIELD meant one thing..supreme headquarters international espionage law-enforcement division. That's the way it was and we liked it. But that was in the pass. Back when we wore an onion in our belts which was the style in that day.
@kegs @kenny.hitt It was a Yellow Onion, since you couldn't get White Onions due to the War.
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AGENT ALTHEA RICE- her experiences have left her very quiet and a little damaged.
Played by Summer Glau.
And I would seriously watch that if true.
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In line with my "Robin Sherbatsky: Agent of SHIELD" theory, does anyone else notice how the characters from "How I Met Your Mother" fit these descriptions?
and later on joss will reveal a character who turns out to be a spy for a vampire version of dr. doom. plus will have agent carson be an android who will go nuts and kill a few other characters.
@demoncat_4 You said Carson and my brain skipped to casting Paul McGillion in there somewhere. ANYWHERE.
@EliasAlgorithm knowing the way joss likes to cast people he has worked with before odds are if he maybe brings back if he can not have nick fury or even hill he will proably cast carson if he uses him with like maybe worse nathon filmore
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oh, rob, i'm sure you'll find something to masturbate about while washing josh's veggies.
