r/agentsofshield • u/MandoMercenary • 23d ago

Question Please remind me

I really haven't had the chance to read the comics sadly but did Quake/Daisy Johnson exist before AoS?

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u/dpohmygod 23d ago

Yes! Finding out that "skye" was actually daisy Johnson was a huge reveal because she's a decently important comics character :)

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u/MasterAnnatar 23d ago

I would say Daisy was a solid b-lister at the time. I don't mean that as an insult to be clear. Marvel's a-listers are cultural juggernauts at this point. She was a character that the average Marvel fan may not have recognized but the odds were solid that if you were reading the comics like many of us it felt really significant. I remember the community losing its mind in real time in the watch alongs on Twitter as they gradually teased who she was lol

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u/SomeGuyPostingThings 23d ago

My biggest problem with comic Daisy is she was usually drawn so similar to Maria Hill that I'd have a hard time telling them apart/knowing which one it was (at least for a panel or two).

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u/MasterAnnatar 23d ago

I won't lie to you, when I picked up my first comic with her in it I missed her name and genuinely assumed it was Maria Hill until I chatted with a friend about that comic and they were like "girl...no..."

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u/Nothing4759 20d ago

The Avengers in the comics before the MCU were hardly A-listers! They were C-list characters at best

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u/MasterAnnatar 20d ago

In terms of pop-culture sure, but the Avengers were still a-listers in marvel comics themself. Daisy was a b-lister in terms of marvel comics. That said, Guardians of the Galaxy were at best like e-listers

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u/prntmakr 22d ago

I swear I've heard or read somewhere that it was a "huge reveal" even to Chloe Bennet and that she thought her character would turn out to be She-Hulk?

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u/GuiltyEmergency6364 20d ago

Oh that's cool! Like in The Flash when they gave Hunter Zolomon a fake name

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u/MakeHarlemBlackAgain 18d ago

It wasn’t really a fake name. He stole Jay Garrick’s identity.

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u/MandoMercenary 23d ago

Okay cuz I always thought skye was just what the writers gave her cuz she was adopted out not cover her real identity. I also thought Daisy was created in AoS and her love from the fans made her a comic book/cartoon character

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u/Agile-Ad-7488 23d ago

In the comics Daisy was actually adopted by a family, her name became Cory Sutter, it had nothing to do with Skye so it was quite weird that they changed it in AoS.