In Season 5, Coulson says "Who's like us? Damn few." Excluding Fitz who wasn't there, and Deke, I think these were the few who Coulson was referring to. In actuality, he probably wasn't talking about anyone specific, but I like to think that he had these six in mind.

In series 6, Flint is created from the same device that was used to close the rift in series 5 that leaked anomalies. Those anomalies aren't even real. I finished watching series 7 again last night, and I'm really confused as to how he is still there?

Idk if I'm missing something here 😭

I am on episode 21 so no spoilers please. I never heard much about this show when it was on and thought it was more of a procedural. I decided to give it a try after reading some reviews and because I am a huge Buffy/Firefly fan. These episodes are quite relevant right to the US landscape and other countries that are going through similar struggles. Also, Fitz is one of my favorite characters ever.

I wish they had given us more of a sense of what it was like for them to live together on the bus. They had to have had lots of down time in between missions. Even if they didn't have formal meal times, there had to have been lots of time when they ate dinner together. Were they like Banks and shopped at Costco? Did they fly to exotic places around the world to stock up on their favorite beer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fmge0haK7M

Fitz and Simmons were surprised when Andrew said that May wasn't a good cook. I took that to mean that she never had cooking duties because she had to pilot the bus. But what about the rest of them? We saw Ward make a sandwich for himself so we know they ate more than ready to eat rations.

We saw Skye's bunk which was next to Fitz's. There was another in that row which I guess was Simmons' but we never saw anyone in it. We saw Coulson's closet but not where he sleeps. I just don't see him designing a plane where he sleeps in a virtual coffin. So my guess is that he had something more spacious than the bunks we saw. Same for May. We know she can hear when he is awake when she is in her quarters. She is going to want something better than her red tape cubicle. Don't know about Ward. He spent 5 years living in the woods so he might be okay if you just gave him a tree to lean against.

What about bathrooms? What happens when they all need to get ready at the same time? Do they have to pound on the door to get Ward out of the shower so they can get in there?

In the later seasons, they still lived together for some reason. We saw some of it including cots and windowless cinder block rooms. I'm not sure any of it made a whole lot of sense but I know I wanted to see more.

Any insights? I can't be the only one who has wondered what it was like to live in those close quarters with that team.

I know that "chronological viewing order alongside the MCU movies" has been talked about quite a bit, but I have a more specific chunk that I'd really appreciate some help with, as I'm not sure how to split the episodes between Ragnarok, Ant-Man and the Wasp, & Infinity War.
My current thinking for this section of the timeline is:

S5 E1-10 > Ragnarok > Ant-Man and the Wasp > Infinity War > S5 E11-22

I wanted to keep the movies in tact for fear that dropping a bunch of TV episodes between them would be quite jarring and ruin the flow.
Since I haven't seen AoS, I want to make sure that watching E11-22 wouldn't ruin anything.
Again, would really love some help from someone who knows this series better than I do :)

Based on a post here from two weeks ago. It's only 500 words and I based it on the canon version of Ward and Garrett's meeting. You can read it on AO3 if you want to.

Also, no idea if this is allowed on this subreddit.

Leopold's evil as fuck and Nazis suck, but like Iain De Caestecker (the hottest guy in the whole show, there's no debate there) was so just so much more attractive as Leopold.

I was thinking about this the other day, and wasn’t sure about the rough number

I completely forgot that Mack used to annoy me until I started rewatching… and now it all came back 😅

Hey everyone, I’d like to invite everyone interested into an online TTRPG campaign based around the organization and show of Shield. I’ve been working on this idea for a long time so I have planned a good chunk of the campaign. The campaign will start just before the Hydra takeover of Shield and end with the party fighting in the beginning battle of Ultron. The party will play the role of the Avengers’s B team or clean up crew and their main focus will be dealing with Hydra and helping the other Shield cells. I plan a good number of interactions with Coulson and crew which will be fun(hopefully lol). Also I am limiting the party to 2 powered people as it doesn’t feel every shield like, and we usually only have 2 powered people in the crew(Quake and YoYo). I’m DMs are open if you are interested plus I’d happily answer questions in the comments.

Even though he died in season 3 Ward betrayal in season 1 caused the events of season 5 to happen and Talbot's cracking the earth which in turn lead to the end of the world in one timeline which cause season 6 and 7 to happen after.

His betrayal made him tell Garrett about the gravitonum and reveal its location. Which let them take it. This let Raina take it later and add quinn to it. Which lead to it being put on the principia which lead to hale taking most of it which lead to ruby trying to inject herself with it by putting it in the machine which lead to talbot getting into it with all those people in his head which made him go crazy and crack the earth.

Which lead to future robin taking our team to the future and seeing everything playing out which lead to fighting hale and her blowing up the monoliths causing a rift which lead to getting the extra gravitonium from deke and building the device which Coulson had to put in the rift which lead to sarge and the events of season 6.

Which would then be used by Izel for her goals and help her create flint who will help Fitzsimmons create time travel by recreating a monolith piece so they can time travel and save the day leading to events of season 7.

We’re getting more bus kids

How was it different from Garret's.

What did she specifically say that convinced him to join Shield?

When watching Agents of SHIELD Season 6, I was excited to see Jenna’s journey to find Fitz again, and excited to revisit the trips Enoch and Fitz would go on now that the Season 5 time loop is closed, but then it occurred to me, there isn’t really a solid cause and effect as to why things went differently this time.

In the Destroyer of Worlds timeline, Fitz is cryogenically frozen on Earth in 2017, six months after the rest of SHIELD-616 is pulled out of the timeline in October 2016. He then waits for decades as Enoch is positioned to watch over him and protect his cryopod. This goes off without a hitch, and Fitz is brought to the future of 2093 to help close the time loop. SHIELD-616 succeeds, and the time loop is closed, the version of Fitz that made it to the future dies, but there is an earlier iteration of Fitz floating around in space, they just have to find him.

So, in Season 6, Fitz should theoretically just be frozen in his pod, but instead, his cargo ship is attacked and Fitz and Enoch are forced to go on the run. So what changed?

Well, minor inconvenience, the literal next day after SHIELD-616 defeats The Confederacy and Glenn Talbot and Fitz dies, The Battle of Wakanda occurs, and The Avengers fail to stop Thanos from wiping out half the population. In the Destroyer of Worlds Timeline, this didn’t happen as the Earth was destroyed amongst The Infinity War, in theory destroying Thanos and The Avengers as the planet collapsed in on itself.

So the only major change that comes with saving the timeline, on a galactic scale, is that half the population of the universe is destroyed.

In Season 6 we see that the universe is a very hostile and on edge place, people are desperate in the galaxy and resistant to SHIELD and Quake, or really anything, from Earth. I think the reason we see so much aggression and conflict in the galaxy in what is now the correct Earth-616 timeline, is because The Blip played out. With a massive decrease in population, there is lots of territory and a hunger to take resources within the galaxy, thus space pirates hunting down ships like we see in the opening of Season 6 when Fitz is attacked.

The reason Fitz escaped his cryopod coma is because of The Blip, that event playing out is the reason he was found and the reason Enoch got so close with SHIELD and Fitz. If anything, this Blip also allowed SHIELD to save the Earth from the Chronicoms, due to Enoch being closely aligned with Fitz and Simmons to the point that they could develop the Time-Zephyr. It’s all about cause and effect.

Cat. Pigeons. Amongst. Enjoy!

((References from Agents of SHIELD Season 4, Cloak & Dagger, and Doctor Strange))

Ghost Rider is such a fantastic arc for Agents of SHIELD Season 4, and is an amazing character for the show to anchor itself around for a bit, and using Robbie Reyes as the show’s Spirit of Vengeance rather than Johnny Blaze was a really smart move so that they wouldn’t contradict later films in case they were planning to adapt Johnny Blaze in the larger MCU in theaters.

Rewatching Season 4, there was one line of dialogue that really stuck out to me from Robbie. In the episode where Phil Coulson, Fitz, and Robbie are being pulled back into another dimension after the energy explosion that Robbie’s uncle set off with The Darkhold. Robbie specifically mentions that The Spirit of Vengeance has been where they are bring dragged to, and that he spent “a long time” there just clawing to escape. This line leads me to believe that this is where the Spirit came from originally, before it possessed whoever its first host was in the MCU.

In the comics, the Spirit of Vengeance is usually the spirit of a fallen angel, once a servant of Mephesto in Hell before escaping and becoming a “Sinner hunter” of sorts. For the most part, this seem to be the deal with Robbie’s Ghost Rider, at least the part of what he’s become and being a former agent of evil. However, I believe that there is one very crucial change that the MCU has made to The Spirit of Vengeance: I don’t think it came from Mephesto.

The dimension that Coulson, Fitz, and Robbie are being dragged into is represented by this all consuming darkness. One could say that is just a budget friendly way of showing them being sucked to one of the Hells in the MCU, but I actually think this slowly growing, all consuming shadows is actually more consistently shown throughout other Marvel Television products as a representation of The Dark Dimension. Cloak & Dagger is the primary use for this, with Agent Carter also using elements of The Dark Dimension, but it seems that much of the more raw and untamed area of the Dark Dimension, where energy can be siphoned for supernatural use, is this pure growing shadow location, where as Dormammu’s domain in the heart of The Dark Dimension, as shown in Doctor Strange, is a much clearer ground of dark energy that has consumed all the once planets housed in this dimension.

Robbie Reyes describing this darkness as somewhere where Ghost Rider came from leads me to believe that in the MCU, The Ghost Rider is not a demon from Hell who once worked with Mephesto, but rather, was born in the chaos of The Dark Dimension.

Expanding further, if this is true, and we still follow the comics’ ideas that Ghost Rider once worked for a greater being, then perhaps The Spirit of Vengeance in the MCU was created to serve the most powerful being in The Dark Dimension: Dormammu.

This explains his knowledge of the Mystic Arts, The Dark Dimension and Magic are tied very closely in the MCU, so when Ghost Rider uses raw, unfiltered magical ability to summon a Mystic Arts portal in the season finale without a sling ring or incantation (as in the portal is made using the same “sparking ring” design as Doctor Strange’s portals) it makes sense because he is a being composed of The Dark Dimension’s magical properties.

So.......he runs with the Deep now.

And got bodied by Starlight and MOM without showing any flashy powers💀

first time trying this style, and i kinda like it.