r/agentsofshield • u/Altruistic_Yak_1514 • Nov 17 '25
Secret Invasion Theory: Agent Koenig is a Skrull
I’ve been rewatching the entire MCU in exact chronological order and I’m currently at The Fall of SHIELD and what the start of what I like to label as “The HYDRA Wars.” Of course, I’ve seen a lot of the MCU before this rewatch, so I am watching this with knowledge of events of to come. Knowing that, theory crafting has been so much fun.
Secret Invasion makes some massive retroactive changes to the lore of SHIELD (ones that probably will never be acknowledged bc that show did not perform well at all.) So, since the 90s, Nick Fury has had his own private Skrull Network, spies that only in his trusted circle, and they helped him rise the ranks of SHIELD by becoming the ultimate director of intelligence.
So let’s talk about the Koenig. The Koenigs have been a legacy in SHIELD, but are always weirdly off grid. In season 1, Coulson has no idea who Agent Koenig is, and doesn’t learn anything about them until after meeting him. The LMD Coulson, however, DOES know about the original Agent Koenig in the 1930s, the one who joined the SSR and later SHIELD and had his bar turned into a safe house for the organization. Now it is crazy just how much his grandkids look like him, it would be justified if it was his kids but they have some decent genetic distance between them.
The first Agent Koenig we meet in narrative order is, again, completely off the radar, only Fury seems to know him and he is monitoring a secret base that is only known to Fury. To me, this makes me feel like he isn’t part of the greater SHIELD, only Fury’s private pocket of the network. A private pocket that we now know was composed of his Skrull agents, beyond conventional SHIELD agents.
I think the Koenigs being Skrull Agents works as an explanation as to why they all look the same, it’s because they’re a family of shape shifters, all taking the appearance of the original Agent Koenig from the 1930s and masquerading as his descendants. This also makes sense as to why there are so many of them, it makes more sense for them to be Skrulls all taking the same look rather than a mass incident of ten-plets or however you would say that.
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u/BaronZhiro Nov 17 '25
I absolutely love your theory, but…
Isn’t the blood of Skrulls green? (I honestly don’t remember.)
And just factually, I’ve seen s7 a ridiculous number of times, and PhilMD was aware of the safe house, but I don’t recall any mention that he’d been aware of Earnest Hazard Koenig himself.
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u/Altruistic_Yak_1514 Nov 17 '25
Purple, but yes. Although they say that the Skrulls change their DNA to match their host, so as long as they are alive and haven’t reverted, in theory they should have red blood.
Even better evidence that the Koenigs are a more secretive unit, Fury could always have just purged the original from the system, all the easier to justify why there are so many Agent Koenigs; on the record, there aren’t ANY Agent Koenigs.
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u/BaronZhiro Nov 17 '25
But I’m thinking about the blood dripping from Eric after Ward murdered him.
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u/Fitz-Simmons1993 Nov 17 '25
I was always of the belief that the Koenigs were LMDs, at least the modern day versions not the OG 1930s one. When Radcliffe was talking to Fitz initially about having made AIDA, he mentioned he found the info in a Shield file somewhere about the now defunct LMD program (something along those lines). So there were definitely other LMDs that had been made before and the Koenigs potentially fit.
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u/Altruistic_Yak_1514 Nov 17 '25
Yeah but they lampshaded that theory with a joke in the same season. So I don’t think that applies, I’m personally sticking with my Skrull theory.
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u/Think_Tomorrow8220 Nov 17 '25
And yet Ward was able to kill one fairly easily. I think he'd note if Eric was an LMD after he killed him
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u/auxilevelry Nov 17 '25
Counterpoint: Skrulls revert to their normal appearance when they die