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[[Characters/AgentsOfSHIELD Back to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Character Index]].

'''Warning: Major unmarked spoilers for ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', and Seasons One and Two of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. below.'''

'''Only spoilers for the current season (three) will be marked.'''

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!Other Allies

[[folder:Ace Peterson]]
!!''Ace Peterson''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Ajani Wrighster
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E1Pilot Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 1: "Pilot")]]'')

Mike Peterson’s son who is a big fan of the Avengers.
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* CheerfulChild: Despite losing his father he seems to have suffered little or no trauma from the experience
* ChildrenAreInnocent: He is a sweet kid.
* DisappearedDad: When Mike went to train as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Now it's because his dad was kidnapped by the Centipede group.
* GiveHimANormalLife: The main reason why Mike hasn't been to see him.
* MissingMom: Mike briefly mentioned that Ace's mother left him and his father after Mike got laid off after getting injured on the job.
* SatelliteCharacter: For his dad, Mike.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hannah Hutchins]]
!!''Hannah Hutchins''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Lara Seay
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E9Repairs Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 9: "Repairs")]]'')

A young woman that seems to have telekinetic powers. In reality she was being haunted by her friend Tobias, who had a crush on her.
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* AllLovingHeroine: Skye points out that she didn't chose the job she has because she wanted to be a RulesLawyer. She did it because she couldn't stand the thought of anyone being hurt.
* TheAtoner: She's trying to make up for her mistakes.
* BreakTheCutie: She thought that God was punishing her by sending demons after her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Audrey Nathan]]
!!''Audrey Nathan''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' [[Creator/AmyAcker Amy Acker]]
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E19TheOnlyLightInTheDarkness (Episode 19: The Only Light In the Darkness)]]'')

The former girlfriend of Coulson, otherwise known as the Cellist.
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* AscendedExtra: She was originally intended to be a completely throwaway tidbit about Coulson in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', but fans were so fascinated by Coulson having a girlfriend that the ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' writers gave her two more mentions and then finally her on-screen debut.
* DamselInDistress: Audrey is being stalked by Daniels and is briefly caught up in the battle between him and Coulson's team.
* HerHeartWillGoOn: The reason Coulson doesn't want to reveal his resurrection to her is because she's already started to move past her grief and he doesn't want to reopen old wounds.
* NiceGirl: Appears to be a very sweet, gentle person.
* TheOneThatGotAway: For Coulson.
* PutOnABus: Given that Amy Acker's role on ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' got promoted to major character during the same season that ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' debuted, it was obvious once Audrey's actress was announced that she wouldn't have the time to be a regular on this show. Curiously, the mechanism that invokes the trope is the opposite of the usual: ''She'' stays put, while the show's focus centers around Coulson's life on the Bus (Quite literally, given the nickname of Coulson's favorite plane).
* RescueRomance: She and Coulson first fell in love after he came with SHIELD to protect her from Daniels the first time.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lian May]]
!!''Lian May''
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-> '''Portrayed By:''' Tsai Chin
-> '''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E19TheOnlyLightInTheDarkness (Episode 19: The Only Light In the Darkness)]]'')

Melinda May's mother, a retired secret agent who is still well-connected even after the fall of SHIELD.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Her first name hasn't been mentioned in the show but has been revealed elsewhere
* CoolOldLady: She's a retired secret agent with a penchant for snarkiness.
* DeadpanSnarker: We can see where May got it from.
* GoodParents: She drove five hundred miles to pick up her daughter. Then there's tapping her contacts to aid her search of Maria Hill. According to Coulson, May was better adjusted before the event where she earned her hated nickname.
* RetiredBadass: She's a retired agent from an unspecified agency.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:William May]]
!!''William May''

->'''Portrayed By:''' James Hong
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E2PurposeInTheMachine "Purpose in the Machine"]]'')

The father of Melinda May.
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* CoolOldGuy: He is kind and loving parent to May.
* ForeignCussWord: It's implied he said a curse word in (unsubtitled) Mandarin when Lance Hunter suddenly appeared out of nowhere in his house.
* GoodParents: He advised his daughter to follow what she thinks it's best for her, prompting her to rejoin SHIELD.
* HappilyMarried: Sadly not. He said he's with May's mom for 20 years, meaning that they've already been divorced by now, which also explain Lian's absence when Melinda visited him. Whether they are AmicableExes or not, however, is not very clear.
* RevengeByProxy: He was injured in a hit and run, and May believes that Ward might've been behind it, hence why May is looking after him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Thomas Ward]]
!!''Thomas Ward''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Just because you grow up in a family of abusive monsters doesn’t mean you have to become one."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Tyler Ritter
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' {first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E9Closure Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Episode 53: "Closure")]]'')

-->''"Thomas was the only one Mother didn't torture, and Dad always let her do it. She loved him so much."''
->- '''Christian Ward'''

The younger brother of Grant and Christian Ward. The only member of the family who's not a horrible monster.
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* AbusiveParents: His dad had "anger issues" and his mom had "dad issues". And they took those issues out on their children. He was claimed to be their favorite and got the least of it, but he's the only family member left who knows how much of that was true.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He '''hates''' Grant not only because of his NeverMyFault philosophy but because his "protection" of him usually involves brutal killing. He even tells Grant that he's the '''worst''' member of the family, even when compared to Christian and their parents.
* FreudianExcuse: Averted. Despite his horrible childhood he's relatively well-adjusted as an adult compared to Grant, and has seems to have forgiven Christian and his parents for how horrible they were, or he moved on with his life so their abuse didn't define him as a person. Either way he didn't believe Grant had the right to kill them all.
* MinorMajorCharacter: Thomas was TheGhost for the first two seasons of the series. He serves as a major figure in Grant's backstory and his revelation that [[spoiler: Grant did indeed try to kill him when they were younger served as the final HeelFaceDoorSlam for Grant.]]
* NiceGuy: Unlike his brothers he's a genuinely nice guy.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Despite how horrible Christian and his parents were, he believes they didn't deserved to be murdered by Grant.
* ThatManIsDead: He changed his name so Grant would never find him.
* TheUnfavorite: Zig-zagged. While he was his parents' favorite it didn't stop them from abusing him anyway.
* WhiteSheep: Despite his abusive history he turned out to be a nice guy.
[[/folder]]
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[[folder:Will Daniels]]
!!''Will Daniels''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I have never been able to resist doing something when I'm told the odds are impossible."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Dillon Casey
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E54722Hours Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 49: 4,722 Hours)]]'')

A NASA astronaut who was sent through the Kree portal in 2001, who Simmons runs into after she's also sucked in.

* ActionSurvivor: The only member of his team able to keep it together in their hellish situation trapped on the alien planet. Surviving on an alien world by himself for fourteen years is certainly an impressive feat.
* BusCrash: [[spoiler:Died covering Simmons as Fitz brought her back, as revealed in "Maveth".]]
* TheEeyore: He makes a pact with Simmons; she'll be "[[HopeBringer the voice of hope]], and he'll be the "voice of doom" to keep both balanced.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: With no updates from Earth since 2001, he's naturally amazed at Simmons' Smartphone.
* {{Foil}}: He's the opposite polarity of his romantic rival, Fitz. He's an astronaut ActionHero who can be "science-y" when he needs to be, in contrast to Fitz, who is an engineer ScienceHero who can bring on the action when he needs to. Both of them are also willing to sacrifice their relationship with Simmons so she can be happy with the other guy.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: After ''fourteen years'' alone, he's naturally gone a little off. He keeps Simmons imprisoned at first just to make sure she's real.
* HeroicSacrifice: He distracts the thing hunting him and Simmons so she can get back to Earth, including using the bullet he was planning to save for when he truly couldn't go on anymore.
* MyGreatestFailure: He had ''one'' job on the mission; keep the other three guys alive. Not only did he fail with all three, he had to kill the last one himself in self-defense.
* MyGreatestSecondChance: When another LabRat (Simmons) comes through the portal, he makes sure she stays alive and gets home.
* ImpossibleTask: He's drawn to these, which is why he volunteered for the Monolith mission.
* NeverTellMeTheOdds: Someone telling him "this is impossible" only makes him want to do it more.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Was either this or EvilAllAlong due to the revelation Hydra was responsible for his expedition. Whether he was a genuine astronaut who choose the wrong mission or a loyal Hydra agent is not addressed, though evidence exists for both options. With his death, it is unlikely to be answered.]]

[[folder:Thomas Ward]]
!!''Thomas Ward''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Just because you grow up in a family of abusive monsters doesn’t mean you have to become one."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Tyler Ritter
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' {first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E9Closure Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Episode 53: "Closure")]]'')

-->''"Thomas was the only one Mother didn't torture, and Dad always let her do it. She loved him so much."''
->- '''Christian Ward'''

The younger brother of Grant and Christian Ward. The only member of the family who's not a horrible monster.
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* AbusiveParents: His dad had "anger issues" and his mom had "dad issues". And they took those issues out on their children. He was claimed to be their favorite and got the least of it, but he's the only family member left who knows how much of that was true.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He '''hates''' Grant not only because of his NeverMyFault philosophy but because his "protection" of him usually involves brutal killing. He even tells Grant that he's the '''worst''' member of the family, even when compared to Christian and their parents.
* FreudianExcuse: Averted. Despite his horrible childhood he's relatively well-adjusted as an adult compared to Grant, and has seems to have forgiven Christian and his parents for how horrible they were, or he moved on with his life so their abuse didn't define him as a person. Either way he didn't believe Grant had the right to kill them all.
* MinorMajorCharacter: Thomas was TheGhost for the first two seasons of the series. He serves as a major figure in Grant's backstory and his revelation that [[spoiler: Grant did indeed try to kill him when they were younger served as the final HeelFaceDoorSlam for Grant.]]
* NiceGuy: Unlike his brothers he's a genuinely nice guy.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Despite how horrible Christian and his parents were, he believes they didn't deserved to be murdered by Grant.
* ThatManIsDead: He changed his name so Grant would never find him.
* TheUnfavorite: Zig-zagged. While he was his parents' favorite it didn't stop them from abusing him anyway.
* WhiteSheep: Despite his abusive history he turned out to be a nice guy.
[[/folder]]

!Gifted/Enhanced Humans

-->See the [[Characters/MCUGifted Gifted page]]

[[folder:Hank Thompson]]
-->See the [[Characters/{{MCUSHIELD}} S.H.I.E.L.D. former members page]]

[[folder:Dr. Andrew Garner]]
-->See [[Characters/{{MCUSHIELD}} S.H.I.E.L.D. support staff]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:William May]]
!!''William May''

->'''Portrayed By:''' James Hong
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E2PurposeInTheMachine "Purpose in the Machine"]]'')

The father of Melinda May.
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* CoolOldGuy: He is kind and loving parent to May.
* ForeignCussWord: It's implied he said a curse word in (unsubtitled) Mandarin when Lance Hunter suddenly appeared out of nowhere in his house.
* GoodParents: He advised his daughter to follow what she thinks it's best for her, prompting her to rejoin SHIELD.
* HappilyMarried: Sadly not. He said he's with May's mom for 20 years, meaning that they've already been divorced by now, which also explain Lian's absence when Melinda visited him. Whether they are AmicableExes or not, however, is not very clear.
* RevengeByProxy: He was injured in a hit and run, and May believes that Ward might've been behind it, hence why May is looking after him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Glenn Talbot]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary MCU Government and Military page]]
[[/folder]]

!Other Antagonists

[[folder:Comandante Camilla Reyes]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary MCU Government and Military page]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Miles Lydon]]
!!''Miles Lydon''
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->'''Portrayed By''': Austin Nichols
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E5GirlInTheFlowerDress Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 5: "Girl in the Flower Dress")]]'')

A famous hacker whom even Fitz-Simmons have heard of, and a high-level member of the Rising Tide.
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* BrokenPedestal: Skye saw him as a WideEyedIdealist freedom fighter until he released top secret information for a million dollars, information that ultimately resulted in several people getting killed.
* TheCracker: Same as Skye. We see him trigger a pre-prepared macro to hack the traffic system and cause gridlock in order to lose Coulson.
* CruelMercy: What Coulson ends up doing him: stuck in a city he doesn't know, where everyone speaks a language he may not know, with no money to his name, and last but not least, a RestrainingBolt that doesn't allow him to hack anything (which is his only known marketable job skill).
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Implied to have this, as he tells Skye that at least she knows what she's looking for in her life.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Espouses freedom of information, yet sells out a person for a million dollars to an organization he didn't research thoroughly enough.
* InformationWantsToBeFree: His excuse for his behavior, [[{{Hypocrite}} despite the fact that he's selling said information, making it anything but free]].
* {{Jerkass}}: An uppity hacker who blathers on in relentless platitudes and is a {{hypocrite}} to boot.
* MoralEventHorizon: In-universe, Skye decides that hacking S.H.I.E.L.D. and–even worse–selling someone out for a million dollars is his MEH. At the end of the episode, as S.H.I.E.L.D. strands him in Hong Kong with a RestrainingBolt that makes it difficult, if not impossible, for him to use electronic equipment for a while, it's clear that Skye doesn't want him around anymore, even if she's pretending to be nice to him about it.
* NewOldFlame: To Skye. Said flame burns out by the end of the episode.
* PetTheDog: Cared a great deal for Skye, checking up on her and allegedly doing what he did in part to improve her life. Whether or not he still cares for her is unknown.
* RestrainingBolt: After the crisis is past, he's given a bracelet that Coulson vaguely describes as being able to do "anything we want". At the very least, it generates some kind of interference that makes using electronics difficult.
* SpannerInTheWorks: By taking money to hack S.H.I.E.L.D. for Chan's location, he not only ruined his own life, but blew his chances with Skye and cost her the trust of the other members of the team when she stuck her neck out for him.
* TechnoWizard: He taught Skye a good portion of her hacking ability.
* {{Unperson}}: Not as thorough as Skye, but he has no family records and has been known to use aliases.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Christian Ward]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary MCU Government and Military page]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sebastian Derik]]
-->See the [[Characters/{{MCUSHIELD}} S.H.I.E.L.D. former members page]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rosalind Price]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary MCU Government and Military page]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Luther Banks]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary MCU Government and Military page]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Watchdogs]]
!!''The Watchdogs''

An anti-alien and anti-government hate group that has came into formation months after Terrigen went widespread.
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* FacelessMooks: They cover their faces in masked helmets that resemble a mixture of skull and attack dog.
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: Their anti-government rethoric, their anti-gifted people speech (just replace "gifted" or "alien" with "immigrant") and their all-white male membership, as well as their military arsenal, are quite evocative of white nationalist and far right militia groups.
* UnwittingPawn: Unbeknowst to them, they are being fed intel and weaponry by HYDRA itself and used to promote their goals.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: They see themselves as fighting to protect the people of the United States from oppressive governments and dangerous aliens. They're called domestic terrorists because they implode buildings and kill civilians.
[[/folder]]

An anti-alien and anti-government hate group that has recently gone into action. They are now led by [[spoiler: former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Felix Blake.]]

[[folder:Dr. Franklin Hall]]
!!''Dr. Franklin Hall''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I've seen the future, Mr. Coulson, and it's a catastrophe."'']]

->'''Portrayed By''': Ian Hart
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E3TheAsset Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 3: "The Asset")]]'')

A brilliant S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist who theorized on the existence of gravity manipulating element called Gravitonium, and who further invented a means of controlling it. When said element is discovered, he is kidnapped by an old colleague of his named Ian Quinn, who wants him to finish his research.

* TheAtoner: In his youth, he was quite enthusiastic about his research until he realized how if misused or worse, turned into a weapon, it could result in the deaths of millions. As an adult, he's ''very'' unwilling to continue work on it.
* BaldOfEvil: Or rather, Bald of Extremism.
* FakeDefector: Pretends to go along with Quinn's scheme in order to sabotage the project and keep the device out of the wrong hands for good.
* KidnappedScientist: Exploited. He pulled the strings of his own kidnapping in order to ruin his kidnapper's plans, but said kidnapper isn't aware of this.
* MentorArchetype: He was [=FitzSimmons's=] favourite professor at the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy.
* NotSoDifferent: Hall claims S.H.I.E.L.D. is this to people like Quinn - and that their desire to control things led to the events of ''The Avengers''. Coulson ultimately realizes that he and Hall are similar as well, and that they both make tough calls to protect people just before he seemingly kills Hall to save innocent lives.
* StartOfDarkness: In the comics, he becomes a gravity-manipulating supervillain named Graviton after a lab accident. And indeed, during the course of the episode, he falls into his device and is absorbed by a bubble of gravity manipulating matter... and is then seen at the end trying to claw his way out from the inside, complete with ScareChord.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Was willing to cause the deaths of quite a lot of people in order to destroy the device and prevent it from ever being used to hurt anyone. Coulson agrees that he has a point and that he made a tough call, but doesn't let him go through with it.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Is well aware that his research could and is going to be used to harm people, and is forced to accept the fact that if he doesn't do something about it, the world may very well be worse off for his contribution. And so he decides to destroy the device by causing it to go haywire, obliterating a wide area, sacrificing himself and causing the deaths of many innocent people in order to make sure this doesn't happen.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Miles Lydon]]
!!''Miles Lydon''
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->'''Portrayed By''': Austin Nichols
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E5GirlInTheFlowerDress Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 5: "Girl in the Flower Dress")]]'')

A famous hacker whom even Fitz-Simmons have heard of, and a high-level member of the Rising Tide.
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[[folder:Carl "Crusher" Creel/Absorbing Man]]
!!''Carl "Crusher" Creel''
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->'''Portrayed By:'''Brian Patrick Wade
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E1Shadows Episode 23, "Shadows"]]''), ''Series/{{Daredevil 2015}}'' (mentioned)

A man who worked for HYDRA after having his death faked by Garrett, Carl Creel is a former boxer nicknamed "The Crusher" with the ability to absorb the properties of anything he touches.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Though introduced as a villain, it's revealed that he was a brainwashed pawn. By Season 3, he's free of his HYDRA brainwashing and is working for the US government as Talbot's bodyguard. In the comics, though he's sometimes depicted as an AntiVillain, he's usually a thug who's murdered, raped, and brutalized people in the past with no remorse.
* AlliterativeName: '''C'''arl '''C'''reel.
* AmbiguousSituation: After his own out-of-control powers cause him to turn to stone, Coulson isn't quite sure he's actually dead or just in a coma of sorts. Season 3 removes the ambiguity by outright showing that he's alive.
* AndIMustScream: Between his encounter with Team Coulson in "Heavy is the Head" and his recruitment as Talbot's bodyguard, this happened to him. He couldn't move or talk because he was trapped in his own stone body. He eventually recovered and spent time in jail once he'd regained consciousness.
* BaldOfEvil: Just like in the comics, Creel doesn't have a single hair on his head.
* BookDumb: While he is hardly an EvilGenius, he nonetheless shows a decent amount of strategy in his appearances and uses his powers creatively, such as for stealth, and not just for brute force. Prior to being a supervillain, he also secretly used his powers [[CutLexLuthorACheck to cheat his way to a successful boxing career.]]
* BloodKnight: He enjoys killing just slightly more than he enjoys the sensation of using his powers, and he seems to enjoy the latter quite a bit.
* TheBrute: He serves as Whitehall's muscle. [[spoiler: Later becomes this to Talbot.]]
* TheBusCameBack: Freed by Talbot after he is deprogrammed of his HYDRA brainwashing.
* ChromeChampion: When he turns to steel. [[spoiler: May and Lincoln exploit this with May grazing him with a steel pipe, turning him into steel, then Lincoln blasting him with his electric powers.]]
* DeathFakedForYou: He was supposed to have been killed, but it turns out HYDRA faked his death while they were still a part of S.H.I.E.L.D. so they could use his talents for themselves.
* DragonTheirFeet: Was brought into HYDRA's employ by Garrett, but doesn't show up until after Garrett has been dispatched.
* ElementalShapeshifter: He can take on the properties of any material he touches - wood, steel, glass, concrete; you name it. Assuming his powers are as flexible as they are in the comics, this can extend even further.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** While he has no problem killing targets who are trained professionals, he does seem concerned about the waitress he infects by accident (though that may have been more about losing control of the Artifact than any actual concern) and was reluctant to hurt Raina.
** It eventually turns out [[spoiler:despite being a lifelong criminal, he had to be brainwashed into serving HYDRA, and he promptly turns once he's freed from it.]]
* FakeShemp: He doesn't appear onscreen in ''[[Series/{{Daredevil2015}} Daredevil]]'', despite his sizable role in Matt's backstory, likely because of his role in this show.
* GoodAllAlong: In "The Inside Man", he's presented as being Talbot's AmbiguouslyEvil bodyguard, and he's seemingly confirmed to still be evil when he knocks Lance out. However, it's later revealed that he only knocked Lance out to protect his cover, and he helps save him, Talbot, Coulson, and the other S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives.
* GRatedDrug: He enjoys the feeling of absorbing materials, keeping a cabinet full of various things to use at his leisure. HYDRA even pays him with exotic materials.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: The US military has apparently broken him free of his HYDRA brainwashing and he's now working as Talbot's bodyguard]]
* HeroKiller: As Hartley and Idaho found out the hard way.
* TheImmune: [[spoiler: Possibly due to what happened with him and the Obelisk, Creel's blood can 'vaccinate' an unawakened Inhuman from undergoing Terrigenesis.]]
* ImmuneToBullets: As long as he's absorbed something tough enough. Played with a bit; though the bullets don't stop him, they do knock off several chunks that end up reverting to flesh.
* MindControl: Implied to have been brainwashed by Whitehall into obeying HYDRA (as Bakshi uses the codephrase "Are you ready to comply?" to calm him down at one point). [[spoiler: Confirmed in his return in Season 3]]
* MundaneUtility: Before being discovered, he used his powers to cheat at boxing by turning his fists to steel beneath his gloves for easy knockouts.
* MythologyGag:
** In his debut appearance, he rips off a ball and chain to fight May with, an iconic weapon of his in the comics.
** Subsequent appearances has Raina offer him a material to absorb with the special property of being capable of absorbing energy itself. This is something he could do on his own in the comics.
** His name is also mentioned in flashbacks in ''[[Series/{{Daredevil2015}} Daredevil]]'' as a boxing rival of 'Battlin' Jack' Murdock, Daredevil's father.
* NotQuiteDead: Coulson is smart enough to know that even if Creel's turned to stone, he could always do that. It's better to keep him secure in case it doesn't stick. [[spoiler: It doesn't.]]
* PowerIncontinence: Touching the Obelisk, even while made of rubber didn't completely insulate him from it's affects and patches of it start spreading across his body. It's mentioned this isn't the first time he's had such problems.
* SculptedPhysique: When he turns into stone or concrete.
* ShapeShifterSwanSong: After being hit with a molecular disruptor by Coulson, he cycles through several of his past materials before turning into inanimate stone.
* ShirtlessScene: He gives one in his trailer, and another while fighting Team Coulson in the warehouse. The latter is justified, since he was using his absorbing powers to camouflage himself (which wouldn't have worked with a powder blue shirt on). It doesn't explain why he's still shirtless walking down the street at the end of the episode.
* SuperStrength: Naturally strong due to his past as a boxer, but his strength increases depending on the material he absorbs. He was able to stop the speeding vehicle carrying Hartley and the Obelisk by absorbing the properties of the asphalt road he was standing on.
* SuperToughness: By absorbing tougher materials, his durability is enhanced, allowing him to shrug off bullets and survive being hit by a car, totaling the car in the process. He's not completely invulnerable, however, as the bullets managed to knock off several chunks which eventually reverted into normal flesh, allowing the team to ID him.
* TakenForGranite: After being defeated he gets stuck in his stone form, but unable to move. With help from Talbot and the government, he recovers.
* ThisWasHisTrueForm: Not the man himself, but part of him. He's bulletproof during his first encounter with Team Coulson, but they do recover a piece of shrapnel from his then-metallic body after the fight. It reverts back to flesh and blood while Fitz is analyzing it, which makes the team realize that they're dealing with a gifted.
* UnexplainedRecovery: He's back for season 3, though it's not explained how he returned to normal.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: It was refusing to throw a fight with him that got [[Series/{{Daredevil2015}} Jack Murdock killed.]] [[spoiler: His blood looks like it's going to cause this as well, in the right hands, the vaccine that could be created from it can prevent another [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E17Melinda Bahrain.]] In the wrong hands, it can prevent any Inhumans from appearing ever again.]]
* VisibleInvisibility: When he becomes glass, he still has to stand perfectly still to avoid his movements reflecting the light around him.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Expressed to would-be Gilligan Hunter by knocking him out before he can inadvertently blow his cover.]]

[[folder: Chan Ho Yin]]
!!''Chan Ho Yin'' / ''Scorch''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Poor little Chan Ho Yen may have believed your lies... but not Scorch!"'']]

->'''Portrayed By''': Louis Ozawa Changchien
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E5GirlInTheFlowerDress Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 5: "Girl in the Flower Dress")]]'')

A pyrokinetic street magician on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s watchlist. He is recruited by the organization behind Centipede in the hopes that they can use him to stabilize their serum.

* CanonForeigner: Chan Ho Yin isn't a character from the comics, though his codename is borrowed from [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Scorch a couple other D-list pyrokinetics.]] His ethnicity, as well as being "kind of a tool," also recalls Sunfire from the ''ComicBook/XMen'' comics.
* CodeName: Scorch, given to him by the people of Project Centipede to play to his ego.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: A major plot point is the aversion of this. The assignment of a codename to Chan helps him embrace the idea that he must have gotten his powers for a reason and that he's someone special and powerful for them. When he refers to himself as Scorch, Coulson treats the information that "they gave him a name" as an OhCrap and realizes how seriously he's taking things.
* {{Foil}}: Of a sort to Mike. Both began gaining superpowers, both were approached by the Centipede project, and both were frustrated by their inability to make their lives work despite their powers. However, the big difference is that Mike thought more about helping his son survive than doing great things with his powers, and eventually realized that he could be a hero with some direction. Chan just wanted to be seen, and it led to his SanitySlippage.
* ILoveNuclearPower: It's theorized his powers come from living near a nuclear plant that caught fire. However, it's noted that no one else in the vicinity received powers of any sort, so in the end the source is unknown.
* {{Jerkass}}: He first demonstrates his powers by scaring a couple who weren't impressed with his magic tricks. His S.H.I.E.L.D. file describes him as "kind of a tool."
* NotUsingTheZWord: If Disney/MCU had the rights to ''Franchise/XMen'', he'd likely be referred to as a mutant. The Agents even theorise that exposure to nuclear radiation may have caused his powers, which was one of the reasons often given for Mutants developing mutations.
* PlayingWithFire: His power is generating fire from his hands.
* {{Pyromaniac}}: After his SanitySlippage.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: His blood platelets make him immune to being burned by his own powers. Once they're extracted, he ends up scorching himself each time he lights up.
* RiddleForTheAges: It is never ultimately explained how he first acquired his fire powers.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After being given a taste of the Centipede serum then being betrayed by Raina. As soon as he gets free, he starts attacking everyone.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Happens to him during Debbie's experiments: "This isn't testing, this is torture!"
* StreetPerformer: What he did for a living is magic tricks on street corners.
* SuperPowerMeltdown: He's given an overdose of Extremis when it's clear they can't talk him down.
* ThatManIsDead: Once he embraces his codename.

[[folder: Donnie Gill]]
!!''Donnie Gill''
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->'''Portrayed By''': Dylan Minette
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E12Seeds Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 12: "Seeds")]]'')

An introverted genius at the S.H.I.E.L.D. Sci-Tech academy who gets involved in a series of attacks involving devices that are able to freeze people solid.

* AbusiveParents: His parents didn't even realize how smart he was because they ignored him so much. When S.H.I.E.L.D. told his father that Donnie was gifted, his father replied "In what?"
* AdaptationalHeroism: It's Adaptational Anti-Villainy in his case. He still ends up as a bad guy, but is given a sympathetic backstory. It's also made abundantly clear that he never intended for his actions to hurt anyone, at least at first, and he also never served HYDRA willingly; when he, as Blizzard, is acting of his own free will, it's actually ''against'' HYDRA. The only reason why SHIELD put him down at the end of "Making Friends and Influencing People" is so HYDRA won't be able to use him again.
* AgeLift: His comics counterpart is an adult criminal-for-hire.
* AntiVillain: He wasn't interested in Ian Quinn's money. He was just having fun building something with Seth.
** In his second appearance, he isn't even antagonistic toward S.H.I.E.L.D. at all until Bakshi triggers the mental conditioning HYDRA put him through.
* BerserkButton: Don't even ''pretend'' to be HYDRA.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: He was brainwashed by HYDRA sometime during season 1. His programing is re-activated during "Making Friends and Influencing People".
* TheBusCameBack: He resurfaces in the Season 2 episode "Making Friends & Influencing People".
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Played with. He is never called as Blizzard, his comics counterpart's alias. But the project to analyze his gifted power is indeed called as "Project: Blizzard" at HYDRA.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: While never badass in the "combat-capable" sense, his debut episode makes it clear he has borderline superhuman engineering abilities, rivaling those of Fitz (who is nearly a decade his senior and with more experience). After the accident at the end of his debut episode he gains a TouchOfDeath power via cryokinesis.
* FriendlessBackground: Bonds with Fitz over this and their love of engineering. He had no friends in his hometown, and even at S.H.I.E.L.D Academy, he's a loner.
* GadgeteerGenius: Built devices capable of freezing pools and people solid and causing massive superstorms.
* AnIcePerson: As a result of his ice machine backfiring on him, he gets cryokinetic powers. He also has the technical skill to make weapons which can copy those abilities as well.
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Has trouble interacting with people below a 170 IQ.
* NeverFoundTheBody: According to Skye, his body hasn't been found since she shot him and he fell into the ocean.
* StartOfDarkness: In the comics, he's the supervillain Blizzard and indeed, over the course of the episode, he gets his only friend killed and obtains cryokinetic powers. During his first appearance in season 2, he only uses them in self-defense or to spite HYDRA. His only villainous actions are due to brainwashing.
* TeenGenius: Has an IQ of 190.

[[folder:Tobias Ford]]
!!''Tobias Ford''

->'''Portrayed by''': Robert Baker
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' ("[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E9Repairs Repairs]]")

A technician who was seemingly killed in a laboratory accident; in reality, he's somehow caught between two worlds, and is stalking Hannah Hutchins.

* AntiVillain: Tobias is not trying to hurt Hannah, he's trying to protect her. [[PsychopathicManchild It's not]] [[StalkerWithACrush very comforting]], but it's a far cry from the killer or demon everyone originally thought him to be.
* TheAtoner: He's trying to make up for his mistakes.
* {{Expy}}: While teleporting is a fairly common power, doing so by traveling through a Hell-dimension in a puff of smoke is unique to the ''Franchise/XMen'''s ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}}. There's also the fact that both characters are very religious.
* ExtradimensionalShortcut: When he teleports, he travels between Earth and another realm he thinks is {{Hell}}.
* ManChild: He causes problems so Hannah will pay him attention; [[LovingBully like the boy in the sandbox that tugs on a girl's pigtails]].
* PsychopathicManchild: What he did when someone upsets his crush is to blow up their gas station or try to run them over.
* StalkerWithACrush: To Hannah, both less disturbing than normal (he's just a normal guy who didn't know how to talk to the girl he likes) and more (he sabotaged a ''particle accelerator''). Skye notes that he's acting like a kid with a crush.
* StealthHiBye: He pulls it a lot with the teleporting power and everything. Then May pulls it on him, disappearing in the space of a half-second black out right as he's about to whack her with a wrench.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: May confronts Tobias, and convinces him to stop "protecting" Hannah for her own sake, since his current actions are only dragging her to hell with him. He realizes this, and lets himself slip through.
* TeleporterAccident: The rough theory goes that the scientists running the particle accelerator were trying to recreate the rifts from ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. Then Tobias came in and sabotaged a minor part, which snowballed into a detonation that trapped him between two worlds. He's able to move between them, but is slowly losing himself to the other one.
* TeleportSpam: He makes good use of being stuck between worlds, such as disappearing to dodge attacks, enter locked rooms, and so forth.
* TooDumbToLive: He repeatedly sabotaged a ''particle accelerator'' in order to get Hanna's attention.
* WrenchWhack: He is lugging around a pipe wrench, which he was carrying during the accident. This serves as the first hint that there's more to the accident than first appears; a pipe wrench is not the proper tool to be tightening bolts with.

[[folder:Marcus Daniels]]
!!''Marcus Daniels[=/=]Blackout''
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->'''Portrayed by''': Patrick Brennan
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E18Providence (Episode 18: Providence)]]'')

A former prisoner of the Fridge, Daniels was let out by the Clairvoyant and told to "follow his dreams".
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* BadassLongcoat: Sports a black trenchcoat.
* CastingAShadow: He's able to project beams of dark energy.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: DoubleSubverted. Though he's never referred to as Blackout, his S.H.I.E.L.D. file does list his codename, even though Coulson's arm is positioned to block most of it.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Appears in "Providence" before his focus episode.
* EnergyAbsorption: He's able to drain energy from nearby electrical devices, and can drain the electrical energy of living beings through physical contact.
* EvilWearsBlack: As befitting his codename, Blackout wears an entirely black outfit.
* MenacingStroll: He always moves at a calm, steady pace.
* PhlebotinumOverload[=/=]WeakenedByTheLight: How he was taken out in the past and present. The first time it just disabled him so S.H.I.E.L.D. could imprison him. Since he's been amped up in the present, Fitz devises gamma-powered lights that make him explode.
* StalkerWithACrush: Towards Audrey, who he calls his "only light in the darkness".
* TouchOfDeath: He can drain the energy from whatever he touches, including living beings.

[[folder:Calvin Johnson]]
!!''Dr. Calvin L. Johnson''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Let's not lose our heads."'']]

->'''Portrayed by''': [[Creator/KyleMaclachlan Kyle MacLachlan]] (Season 2)
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E22BeginningOfTheEnd (Episode 22: The Beginning of the End)]]'')

Skye's father, who worked with Raina at one point in the past.

* AdaptationalHeroism: He has quite a few more redeeming qualities than the comics' Mr. Hyde, most of all his being horribly ashamed of what his darker half does.
* AdaptationNameChange: His comicbook counterpart's name is Calvin ''Zabo'', but the show changes it to Calvin ''L. Johnson''. However, ''The Frenemy of my Enemy'' implies that he may have gone by Zabo at one point. This is presumably due to Skye's mother being completely different from Daisy Johnson's mother in the comics, meaning her last name had to come from her father instead.
** Some episodes of the second season do have his name given as "Zabo" at certain points in the subtitles.
* {{Adorkable}}:
** When he finally reunites with his daughter, he fumbles his words and mentions that he wanted to have flowers and "those little almond-chocolate cookies" to greet her.
** When he meets her again after her powers are activated, he acts like an excited fanboy.
--->'''Cal:''' So what's your thing? 'Cause I was kinda hoping for wings.
** And in the back half of the second season, his every interaction with Skye is just bumbling awkward joy.
* AffablyEvil: He's kinda... quirky when he's not being murderously psychotic. He refers to HYDRA's attempts to understand the Diviner as "monkeys scratching at it," mocks Whitehall's translation of an ancient legend concerning it, and scoffs at referring to it as a weapon as "small-minded...[[VerbalBackspace for such a large-minded person]]." However, he gets less affable as his obsession to get Skye to love him grows.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: It's unclear at first, given several characters referring to him as a "monster" and his deep knowledge of the Diviner despite never touching it himself. It's clarified in "One of Us" that while he knows a great deal about the Inhumans through his wife being one, he himself was an ordinary human who gained his strength and emotional instability through his own scientific manipulation.
* AntiVillain: Most of his villainy seems to be fueled by extreme aggression that's he's unable to control, as well as the fact that he lost his daughter to S.H.I.E.L.D. and his wife to HYDRA. However, the thought of a race of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens coming down to Earth to end humanity except for a few "worthy" to be saved isn't something that terribly alarms him; in fact he's looking forward to it. And he has no trouble causing chaos for S.H.I.E.L.D. by getting the "gifted" to make a fuss if it'll help him reunite with Skye.
* AxCrazy: The guy can go into casual murder mode rather quickly.
-->'''Triplet''': That guy was out of his damn mind.
* BackAlleyDoctor: Patches up bullet and knife wounds for gang members... for a while, anyway.
* BadassBookworm: A doctor who easily defeats two HYDRA {{mooks}} with just a scalpel and a metal box he's carrying.
* BadBoss: Treats Raina like dirt, even though she helped him reunite him with Skye. He then throws her to the curb after he's done with her.
* BerserkButton:
** Loses it when Raina compares him to Whitehall, seeing Whitehall killed his wife to take her agelessness.
** Bringing up his evil side seems to have a similar effect.
** Referring to his daughter as "Skye" too much isn't a good idea either. It produces more violent results when Lincoln does it.
--->'''Cal:''' '''THAT'S NOT HER NAME!'''
** Anyone but himself taking a fatherly role for Skye also sets him off.
** Getting between him and his vendetta against Whitehall is a very bad idea. Out of everything, that happens to be what finally causes him to try to kill Coulson.
** Don't insult his daughter. A transformed Raina found that out the hard way.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Though he starts off in a BigBadEnsemble with Whitehall, the two team up at the end of "A Hen in the Wolf House" to kill Coulson and his team. He then offers to do the same with Coulson to kill Whitehall.
* BigBadWannabe: His petty feud with Coulson means he's only an inconvenience to him in the grand scheme of things.
* BittersweetEnding: The close of his story arc; he gets his memories erased and is allowed to make a new life for himself as a veterinarian completely under his original personality, that of a laughing, friendly, good-humored goofball. Of course, this means completely forgetting about not only the bad things he experienced, like his wife's torture and eventual death -- at his own hands -- but also all about his beloved daughter.
* BuffySpeak: At times, especially since he's offered his services to Whitehall. This is an instance where Skye's apple doesn't fall far from the tree. As soon as he tries to step up, he's rather unceremoniously plucked off the field by Gordon.
* {{Catchphrase}}:
** He regularly uses the phrase "Let's not lose our heads" as a self-calming method.
** Tends to describe good things as the "best day ever."
** Whenever someone refers to his daughter as Skye, he snaps at them with '''"THAT'S NOT HER NAME!"'''
* CloudCuckoolander: He's completely, utterly insane and knows it. He just can't stop himself.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: He's never once referred to as "Mister Hyde", although his appearance in the season 2 finale is highly reminiscent of the titular character from the original ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde''.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Revealed over the course of the second season. A S.H.I.E.L.D. team full of HYDRA agents went after an Inhuman village that included his wife and daughter. He managed to track down his wife and put her back together (though not the same as she was), but all he managed to do was slaughter a lot of people when he tried and failed to find his daughter. He has spent a quarter-century wanting revenge.
* DeadlyDoctor: He has a room with surgical equipment and his hands are always seem to be covered in blood when he meets with Raina.
* DeathOfPersonality: At the end of season 2, His entire memory is erased and replaced with that of a cheerful veterinarian by way of the TAHITI project. It's implied that the 'new' him is the person he used to be, before he became a monster. Thus, this is a DownplayedTrope.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: While he certainly put a lot of thought into the tortures he would inflict on Whitehall, his actual plan to get there is rather lacking. He clearly never counted on Whitehall figuring out his identity, and seems to have no concrete plan on how he'll get to Whitehall in the first place. Ultimately, Cal ends up trying to take on Whitehall while the latter has a gun, and Coulson shoots Whitehall in the back while Whitehall's distracted, saving the vengeance-driven doctor.
* DisappearedDad: Has not been a part of Skye's life for twenty-five years. To be fair, their separation wasn't his fault, he spent a great deal of those twenty-five years trying to find her, and once he did he starts trying to be part of her life again. Unfortunately for him, those twenty-five years have also turned him into someone his daughter doesn't want to know.
* TheDreaded: Raina is terrified of him, probably due in no small part that he's one of a few people she can't manipulate.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Is shown to dislike Whitehall, referring to him as "a butcher." Understandable, considering what the man did to his wife.
** He has nothing but contempt for Raina, mainly because she's concerned about herself and nobody else.
* EvilCounterpart: To Bruce Banner, a very skilled doctor with a HairTriggerTemper he himself is horrified by. Though he's also quite violent in his normal state when he needs to be. This makes sense, given that Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde was one of the original inspirations for Bruce Banner/The Incredible Hulk. In the comics, Cal's supervillain moniker is "Mister Hyde".
* FakeShemp: Kyle [=MacLachlan=]'s casting wasn't announced until a couple of months after Season 1 ended, so that's probably not him in TheStinger for the finale. That person's hair is also gray.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Despite being Jiaying's husband, the Inhumans look down on him because of the artificial nature of his powers and his violent behavior, and they're not happy that his petty feud with SHIELD endangers them.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Conspicuously does ''not'' touch the obelisk. It's made clear in "One of Us" that his powers come through experimentation and he isn't an Inhuman.
* {{Foil}}: Shaping up to be one for Ward. Both love Skye, but while Ward acknowledges how horrible he has been in the past and tries to win her over by being helpful, Cal tries to hide his dark side and intends to force Skye to come to him by killing Coulson. Also to Coulson, the father figure versus the father she never knew.
* GoodParents: Really wants to be this for Skye, and when given the chance, he's doting and loving towards her. Unfortunately, Jiaying's manipulations made him into a monster.
* HairTriggerTemper: He can flip out at the drop of a hat. Just look at the list of things classified as BerserkButton.
* HeelFaceTurn: Sides with Coulson's S.H.I.E.L.D when he convinces him that what Jiaying is doing is wrong and will only hurt their daughter.
* HumanShield: Uses this tactic against HYDRA in "The Frenemy of My Enemy" by putting one of their own between him and their bullets.
* ILied: He was very vague to Raina on the what the Terrigenesis actually ''was''.
* ItsAllAboutMe: His love for Skye is very unhealthy and obsessive; he wants her to love him and ''only'' him.
* ItsPersonal: Whitehall killed his wife, literally cutting her into pieces. He repeatedly states that he wants revenge on the people who took his family from him. Whitehall, who doesn't know him or his connection to the woman he killed, doesn't realize the implied threat.
* {{Jerkass}}: He emotionally manipulated Raina by preying on her desire to be something special, then point-blank refuses to help her cope with the transformation.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: In the second half of the scene...he moves from being against Whitehall, to against SHIELD...which does not go well for people caught in the middle.
* LackOfEmpathy:
** Is completely unsympathetic to Raina when Whitehall threatens to have her killed and says that she was nothing before he found her.
** When Raina undergoes Terrigenesis, he's dissmive of her and refuses to help her cope with the trauma of it, in stark contrast to his beloved wife, who dedicated her life to helping the Inhumans cope with the change.
* LargeHam: He,s mostly composed if not triggered but when he hams it up, he does so with gusto.
* LegionOfDoom: He wants to gather up a couple of "indexed" individuals in order to combat S.H.I.E.L.D. and recover his daughter. Given he's snatched up by Gordon in the same episode and his entire team is captured, it's unlikely this effort will go anywhere.
* LoveRedeems: What ultimately spared him from being executed because of his crimes is his love for his daughter.
* KnifeNut: When your Weapon of Choice is a surgeon's scalpel and you always have at least on or two hidden on your person you qualify as this.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: With Jiayang. She's led the Inhumans for generations, he's just an ordinary human.
* MoralityPet: Starting in "The Frenemy of My Enemy", he has one in his daughter Daisy, who helps him rediscover the NiceGuy that he used to be.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: He's a certified M.D. who will casually slaughter a room full of people with a scalpel in order to further his ends.
* MoralityChain: Spending time with his wife and daughter does wonders for his mental stability. He doesn't want them to think he's a monster.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: He eventually plans to do this to Coulson, since he resents him being a [[ParentalSubstitute father figure to Skye]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Skye comes across the scene of one of his outbursts, he realizes she will never accept him as her father after [[MoralEventHorizon that]].
-->'''Skye:''' He's a...!\\
'''Cal:''' ''[[TheseHandsHaveKilled (Staring at his hands)]]'' ...'''monster'''! ''(smashes his tablet)''
* NeverMyFault: It's clear he blames Coulson for driving Skye away, even though it's his violent behavior that actually does it. After reuniting with his wife in Lai Xi, he admits that, yes, it is his fault.
* NiceGuy: He used to be one of these and you can still see glimpses of it in his calmer periods. For example, what was he doing in China with a family? He was volunteering for Doctors Without Borders, fell in love, and relocated.
* NoNameGiven: His first significant role in the plot (with significant screentime) is in the episode "[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E5AHenInTheWolfHouse A Hen In The Wolf House]]", but he is still just referred to as "Skye's father" or "The Doctor". In "What They Become", his name is given as Cal. His full name is revealed to be Calvin L. Johnson in "The Frenemy Of My Enemy", though he mentions changing it to something more appropriate (presumably Zabo) after Skye went missing.
* NotHelpingYourCase: He doesn't want Skye to see him as a monster, but his violent behavior and all the killing he does despite her protests don't do him any favors.
* OmnicidalManiac: He casually expresses an interest in killing "everyone". He actually takes a thrill in the violence that can unfold.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Until "What They Become", he's simply referred to as "Skye's father" or "The Doctor".
* OneManArmy: Several sources have stated that he wiped out a village single-handedly, and if you believe Ward's version of the events, all those villagers were HYDRA agents.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Took Coulson's slaying of Whitehall very badly, as it meant that he couldn't avenge his wife's death personally. It's a JustifiedTrope as his plans for killing Whitehall were much, much crueler than Coulson's InstantDeathBullet, and he's been planning it for ''decades''.
* PapaWolf:
** In a rather negative way, considering he's both possessive and insane.
** If Ward's to be believed, the village in Hunan that was slaughtered contained HYDRA agents that kidnapped Skye and her mother. The mother was killed by Whitehall before or during Cal's massacre, possibly explaining his unstable behavior in the present.
* PetTheDog:
** All of his direct interactions with Skye when he gets to show off his BumblingDad side.
** When he's asked if Coulson is trustworthy (after they tried to kill each other), he says he hates him... but grudgingly admits that he's a good man who cares for Skye.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: According to Raina, he and Skye's mother destroyed an entire village to find their daughter.
* PsychoSerum: He attributes his strength and personality issues to a formula he developed. He's been trying to perfect it, but that doesn't happen until the end of the second season.
* PunnyName: His name is '''Cal'''vin '''L.''' Johnson. Not unlike [[{{Franchise/Superman}} Kal-El]].
* SadisticChoice: When your wife is trying to kill your daughter, either choice is going to be painful. Cal sides with his daughter, breaking his wife's neck and then crushing her ribcage to splinters with a super-strong bearhug.
* SanitySlippage: Finding the corpse of his wife after Whitehall vivisected her and losing his daughter clearly sent him off the deep end.
* SanityStrengthening: Reuniting with his wife and daughter, and taking a break from his serum, makes him more stable. He even catches himself when he starts losing his temper.
* SplitPersonality: Implied and hinted at. There seems to be at least two sides to Cal. A affable side and an AxCrazy side that kills without warning. Raina believes so, even going as far to tell him that other side is controlling him. When some of Team Coulson, and more specifically Skye, find his handiwork, Cal is mortified, calling himself a monster. Apparently, he doesn't want to be perceived as one. This is fitting, as he's [[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Mister Hyde]].
* SuperStrength: He carves up anyone who pisses him off with a ''scalpel'', with complete ease, and kills with his bare hands. He also easily defeats Raina, who herself demonstrates superhuman strength post-transformation.
* ThrowTheDogABone:
** He will never see his family again afterwards, but Skye agrees to have one family dinner with him at her mother's request.
** His ending. He gets a new peaceful life, and to be happy...and Skye visits him, even though he no longer recognizes her.
* TragicMonster: He might be a jerk, but Cal's life is one big sad story. He was nothing but a loving family man until Whitehall kidnapped Jiaying, vivisected her, and tossed her corpse in the woods. He stitched her back up and her HealingFactor did the rest, but she left him because she [[HeelRealization became horrified by their desperate actions while looking for Skye]]. He then spent decades looking for Skye, as he'd promised Jiaying that he'd find her. But the serum he developed to give him SuperStrength made him psychotic with uncontrollable aggression, turning him into "a monster" and causing him to be shunned by the Inhumans, who used to be his friends. And when he does find Skye, she wants nothing to do with him, and his own wife has him locked up. And then he's ultimately forced to admit his wife has become a monster even worse than he is, who will destroy the world, and he has to kill her to save their daughter's life.
* UndyingLoyalty: In his own words, he would "blindly follow Jiayang into a war". It turns out, however, that his ultimate loyalty lies with his daughter as he turns on his wife when Coulson manages to convince him that her war will ultimately destroy Daisy.
* UngratefulBastard: He's furious at Coulson for killing Whitehall before he could get his revenge, even though Whitehall would have killed him if Coulson hadn't intervened.
* UnnamedParent: Until the mid-season finale, he simply goes by "The Doctor". He reveals his name to be Cal in "What They Become". Though his last name isn't revealed, it can be inferred from his personality issues, strength, and Skye's real name that his full name is Calvin Zabo, a.k.a. Mister Hyde.
** Averted in season 2, where he eventually reveals his name is Calvin L. Johnson.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He brought back Jiaying to life and in doing so unleashed a bloodbath upon the world.
* UsedToBeMoreSocial: He was a doctor, successful/wealthy enough to own an office building in a financially successful part of town, and volunteered in China with Doctors Without Borders, where he fell in love with and married a native, started a family... Now he's a walking BerserkButton.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The death of his wife at the hands of HYDRA is strongly implied to have been what set off his StartOfDarkness. He gives the impression of having been a pretty nice guy, before then.
* {{Yandere}}: Father-Daughter love in this case, but it's still a creepy obsession that involves killing the competition (in this case, Coulson, the ParentalSubstitute).
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: He coldly washes his hands of Raina after her and Skye's transformation, telling her to kill herself if she really can't live with what she's become.

[[folder:Karla Faye Gideon]]
!!Karla Faye Gideon
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->'''Portrayed By''': Drea de Matteo
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E13OneOfUs Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 35: "One of Us")]]'')

A worker in a chemical company that got razor blades fused to her fingernails to defend against her abusive boyfriend, though she also went on a killing spree. She was put on the Gifted Index by S.H.I.E.L.D. and forced to wear gauntlets to keep her from harming anyone else. She joins Cal's short-lasting team of gifted humans.

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: She has several, in the form of her razors.
* AdaptationalBadass: In the comics, Karla Faye Gideon is a regular human, while here, she's a lethal fighter.
* AdaptationalVillainy: She never joins a LegionOfDoom in the comics and never kills anyone.
* AssholeVictim: Her abusive boyfriend was her first victim.
* BrokenBird: She seems to have suffered under S.H.I.E.L.D's treatment as she's scared when she thinks Cal is with them, and that was ''before'' the issue with her abusive boyfriend.
* CorruptTheCutie: She quickly gets into Cal's methods.
* DarkActionGirl: She can hold her own against Bobbi.
* DarkChick: Stands out from the rest of Cal's group as [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the only female member]].
* TheDogBitesBack: She killed her abusive boyfriend after grafting razor blades to her fingers.
* DomesticAbuse: Suffered it from her boyfriend, which is why she killed him.
* FemmeFatalons: She has metal blades fused into her fingernails which can easily slash through flesh.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: She initially refuses Cal's offer because she wanted a normal life, though she accepts after thinking it over.
* SlashedThroat: How she kills; a quick flick of her nails and they're dead.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Based on her treatment of Angar, and her hesitation to accept Cal's offer she is the one with the greatest morals in the group.

[[folder:David Angar]]
!!David Angar
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->'''Portrayed By''': Jeff Daniel Phillips
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E13OneOfUs Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 35: "One of Us")]]'')

A man suffering from throat cancer that got his vocal chords irradiated. While the tumors disappeared, he got a voice capable of inducing catatonia with a whisper.

* AdaptationalWimp: While he's still lethal here, his comic book counterpart is much more powerful, to the point he exists as "solid sound".
* BeardOfEvil: Sports one due to his mouth being kept shut by a muzzle, leaving him unable to shave.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: He's kept silent to keep his powers from affecting anyone in the vicinity. Once he opens his mouth, however, expect people to start dropping.
* BodyHorror: A mild case, but his mouth and throat widen and elongate unnaturally when he bellows.
* BrownNote: His bellows render anyone that hears them comatose. It seems to have an effective radius of a couple hundred meters, and is implied to remain effective even when transmitted through secondary sources like radio.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: His comic book counterpart's "Angar the Screamer" moniker is never used.
* TheDragon: He's the deadliest of Cal's team of supervillains.
* GlassCannon: He's not physically imposing, but his power is definitely lethal.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Sports nasty scars around his mouth and on his neck due to the muzzle he was forced to wear.
* MakeMeWannaShout: His screams can render any living thing unconscious in a wide radius.
* MouthStitchedShut: With a muzzle to keep him from using his powers.
* SealedEvilInACan: He was locked in the underground ward of a psychiatric hospital where S.H.I.E.L.D. kept psychotic superhumans.
* TheSociopath: The reason why S.H.I.E.L.D. locked him in a facility for the criminally insane.

[[folder:Wendell Levi]]
!!Wendell Levi
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->'''Portrayed By''': Ric Sarabia
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E13OneOfUs Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 35: "One of Us")]]'')

A talented and sociopathic hacker (making him more of a "cracker", to use the correct internet term) and technological whiz.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: After it's clear that his side has lost, Wendell begs Coulson not to kill him.
* BeardOfEvil: Of the goatee variety.
* CanonForeigner: So far, he has no counterpart in the comics.
* TheEvilGenius: Serves as the tech expert and hacker for Cal's team.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: A glasses-wearing sociopath.
* NonActionGuy: He just runs when Cal is suddenly taken out of the picture, and doesn't even try to fight when Coulson corners him.
* TheSociopath: Coulson describes him as having no regard for the human life.
* TechnoWizard: A superb hacker who seems to have an intuitive understanding of technology akin to Forge in the comics.

[[folder:Francis Noche]]
!!Francis Noche
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->'''Portrayed By''': Geo Corvera
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E13OneOfUs Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 35: "One of Us")]]'')

A mob enforcer that got enhanced after getting his hands on experimental steroids. These increased his strength but severely reduced his intelligence.
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: His surname "Noche" means "night" in English.
* BeardOfEvil: A nasty, cropped goatee.
* TheBrute: Acts as the muscle for Cal's short-lived team.
* CanonForeigner: So far, he has no counterpart in the comics.
* DarkIsEvil: His surname means "night".
* DumbMuscle: He's a powerful superhuman who manages to give May a good fight. Due to the steroids he used, his mental faculties suffered as a result.
* PsychoForHire: Used to work for the mob as hired muscle.
* TheQuietOne: Due to his reduced intelligence, he never speaks.
* SuperStrength: Via experimental steroids that hampered his intelligence.
* TearsOfFear: Visibly breaks down while getting submitted by May.

!Other Allies

[[folder:Ace Peterson]]
!!''Ace Peterson''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Ajani Wrighster
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E1Pilot Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 1: "Pilot")]]'')

Mike Peterson’s son who is a big fan of the Avengers.

* CheerfulChild: Despite losing his father he seems to have suffered little or no trauma from the experience
* ChildrenAreInnocent: He is a sweet kid.
* DisappearedDad: When Mike went to train as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Now it's because his dad was kidnapped by the Centipede group.
* GiveHimANormalLife: The main reason why Mike hasn't been to see him.
* MissingMom: Mike briefly mentioned that Ace's mother left him and his father after Mike got laid off after getting injured on the job.
* SatelliteCharacter: For his dad, Mike.

[[folder:Hannah Hutchins]]
!!''Hannah Hutchins''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Lara Seay
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E9Repairs Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 9: "Repairs")]]'')

A young woman that seems to have telekinetic powers. In reality she was being haunted by her friend Tobias, who had a crush on her.

* AllLovingHeroine: Skye points out that she didn't chose the job she has because she wanted to be a RulesLawyer. She did it because she couldn't stand the thought of anyone being hurt.
* TheAtoner: She's trying to make up for her mistakes.
* BreakTheCutie: She thought that God was punishing her by sending demons after her.

[[folder:Audrey Nathan]]
!!''Audrey Nathan''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' [[Creator/AmyAcker Amy Acker]]
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E19TheOnlyLightInTheDarkness (Episode 19: The Only Light In the Darkness)]]'')

The former girlfriend of Coulson, otherwise known as the Cellist.
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* AscendedExtra: She was originally intended to be a completely throwaway tidbit about Coulson in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', but fans were so fascinated by Coulson having a girlfriend that the ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' writers gave her two more mentions and then finally her on-screen debut.
* DamselInDistress: Audrey is being stalked by Daniels and is briefly caught up in the battle between him and Coulson's team.
* HerHeartWillGoOn: The reason Coulson doesn't want to reveal his resurrection to her is because she's already started to move past her grief and he doesn't want to reopen old wounds.
* NiceGirl: Appears to be a very sweet, gentle person.
* TheOneThatGotAway: For Coulson.
* PutOnABus: Given that Amy Acker's role on ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' got promoted to major character during the same season that ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' debuted, it was obvious once Audrey's actress was announced that she wouldn't have the time to be a regular on this show. Curiously, the mechanism that invokes the trope is the opposite of the usual: ''She'' stays put, while the show's focus centers around Coulson's life on the Bus (Quite literally, given the nickname of Coulson's favorite plane).
* RescueRomance: She and Coulson first fell in love after he came with SHIELD to protect her from Daniels the first time.

[[folder:Lian May]]
!!''Lian May''
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-> '''Portrayed By:''' Tsai Chin
-> '''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E19TheOnlyLightInTheDarkness (Episode 19: The Only Light In the Darkness)]]'')

Melinda May's mother, a retired secret agent who is still well-connected even after the fall of SHIELD.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Her first name hasn't been mentioned in the show but has been revealed elsewhere
* CoolOldLady: She's a retired secret agent with a penchant for snarkiness.
* DeadpanSnarker: We can see where May got it from.
* GoodParents: She drove five hundred miles to pick up her daughter. Then there's tapping her contacts to aid her search of Maria Hill. According to Coulson, May was better adjusted before the event where she earned her hated nickname.
* RetiredBadass: She's a retired agent from an unspecified agency.

[[folder:Hank Thompson]]
-->See the [[Characters/{{MCUSHIELD}} S.H.I.E.L.D. former members page]]

[[folder:Dr. Andrew Garner]]
-->See [[Characters/{{MCUSHIELD}} S.H.I.E.L.D. support staff]]

[[folder:Will Daniels]]
!!''Will Daniels''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I have never been able to resist doing something when I'm told the odds are impossible."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Dillon Casey
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E54722Hours Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 49: 4,722 Hours)]]'')

A NASA astronaut who was sent through the Kree portal in 2001, who Simmons runs into after she's also sucked in.

* ActionSurvivor: The only member of his team able to keep it together in their hellish situation trapped on the alien planet. Surviving on an alien world by himself for fourteen years is certainly an impressive feat.
* BusCrash: [[spoiler:Died covering Simmons as Fitz brought her back, as revealed in "Maveth".]]
* TheEeyore: He makes a pact with Simmons; she'll be "[[HopeBringer the voice of hope]], and he'll be the "voice of doom" to keep both balanced.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: With no updates from Earth since 2001, he's naturally amazed at Simmons' Smartphone.
* {{Foil}}: He's the opposite polarity of his romantic rival, Fitz. He's an astronaut ActionHero who can be "science-y" when he needs to be, in contrast to Fitz, who is an engineer ScienceHero who can bring on the action when he needs to. Both of them are also willing to sacrifice their relationship with Simmons so she can be happy with the other guy.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: After ''fourteen years'' alone, he's naturally gone a little off. He keeps Simmons imprisoned at first just to make sure she's real.
* HeroicSacrifice: He distracts the thing hunting him and Simmons so she can get back to Earth, including using the bullet he was planning to save for when he truly couldn't go on anymore.
* MyGreatestFailure: He had ''one'' job on the mission; keep the other three guys alive. Not only did he fail with all three, he had to kill the last one himself in self-defense.
* MyGreatestSecondChance: When another LabRat (Simmons) comes through the portal, he makes sure she stays alive and gets home.
* ImpossibleTask: He's drawn to these, which is why he volunteered for the Monolith mission.
* NeverTellMeTheOdds: Someone telling him "this is impossible" only makes him want to do it more.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Was either this or EvilAllAlong due to the revelation Hydra was responsible for his expedition. Whether he was a genuine astronaut who choose the wrong mission or a loyal Hydra agent is not addressed, though evidence exists for both options. With his death, it is unlikely to be answered.]]

[[folder:William May]]
!!''William May''

->'''Portrayed By:''' James Hong
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E2PurposeInTheMachine "Purpose in the Machine"]]'')

The father of Melinda May.
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* CoolOldGuy: He is kind and loving parent to May.
* ForeignCussWord: It's implied he said a curse word in (unsubtitled) Mandarin when Lance Hunter suddenly appeared out of nowhere in his house.
* GoodParents: He advised his daughter to follow what she thinks it's best for her, prompting her to rejoin SHIELD.
* HappilyMarried: Sadly not. He said he's with May's mom for 20 years, meaning that they've already been divorced by now, which also explain Lian's absence when Melinda visited him. Whether they are AmicableExes or not, however, is not very clear.
* RevengeByProxy: He was injured in a hit and run, and May believes that Ward might've been behind it, hence why May is looking after him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Thomas Ward]]
!!''Thomas Ward''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Just because you grow up in a family of abusive monsters doesn’t mean you have to become one."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Tyler Ritter
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' {first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E9Closure Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Episode 53: "Closure")]]'')

-->''"Thomas was the only one Mother didn't torture, and Dad always let her do it. She loved him so much."''
->- '''Christian Ward'''

The younger brother of Grant and Christian Ward. The only member of the family who's not a horrible monster.
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* AbusiveParents: His dad had "anger issues" and his mom had "dad issues". And they took those issues out on their children. He was claimed to be their favorite and got the least of it, but he's the only family member left who knows how much of that was true.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He '''hates''' Grant not only because of his NeverMyFault philosophy but because his "protection" of him usually involves brutal killing. He even tells Grant that he's the '''worst''' member of the family, even when compared to Christian and their parents.
* FreudianExcuse: Averted. Despite his horrible childhood he's relatively well-adjusted as an adult compared to Grant, and has seems to have forgiven Christian and his parents for how horrible they were, or he moved on with his life so their abuse didn't define him as a person. Either way he didn't believe Grant had the right to kill them all.
* MinorMajorCharacter: Thomas was TheGhost for the first two seasons of the series. He serves as a major figure in Grant's backstory and his revelation that [[spoiler: Grant did indeed try to kill him when they were younger served as the final HeelFaceDoorSlam for Grant.]]
* NiceGuy: Unlike his brothers he's a genuinely nice guy.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Despite how horrible Christian and his parents were, he believes they didn't deserved to be murdered by Grant.
* ThatManIsDead: He changed his name so Grant would never find him.
* TheUnfavorite: Zig-zagged. While he was his parents' favorite it didn't stop them from abusing him anyway.
* WhiteSheep: Despite his abusive history he turned out to be a nice guy.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Glenn Talbot]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary MCU Government and Military page]]
[[/folder]]

!Other Antagonists

[[folder:Comandante Camilla Reyes]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary MCU Government and Military page]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dr. Franklin Hall]]
!!''Dr. Franklin Hall''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I've seen the future, Mr. Coulson, and it's a catastrophe."'']]

->'''Portrayed By''': Ian Hart
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E3TheAsset Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 3: "The Asset")]]'')

A brilliant S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist who theorized on the existence of gravity manipulating element called Gravitonium, and who further invented a means of controlling it. When said element is discovered, he is kidnapped by an old colleague of his named Ian Quinn, who wants him to finish his research.
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* TheAtoner: In his youth, he was quite enthusiastic about his research until he realized how if misused or worse, turned into a weapon, it could result in the deaths of millions. As an adult, he's ''very'' unwilling to continue work on it.
* BaldOfEvil: Or rather, Bald of Extremism.
* FakeDefector: Pretends to go along with Quinn's scheme in order to sabotage the project and keep the device out of the wrong hands for good.
* KidnappedScientist: Exploited. He pulled the strings of his own kidnapping in order to ruin his kidnapper's plans, but said kidnapper isn't aware of this.
* MentorArchetype: He was [=FitzSimmons's=] favourite professor at the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy.
* NotSoDifferent: Hall claims S.H.I.E.L.D. is this to people like Quinn - and that their desire to control things led to the events of ''The Avengers''. Coulson ultimately realizes that he and Hall are similar as well, and that they both make tough calls to protect people just before he seemingly kills Hall to save innocent lives.
* StartOfDarkness: In the comics, he becomes a gravity-manipulating supervillain named Graviton after a lab accident. And indeed, during the course of the episode, he falls into his device and is absorbed by a bubble of gravity manipulating matter... and is then seen at the end trying to claw his way out from the inside, complete with ScareChord.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Was willing to cause the deaths of quite a lot of people in order to destroy the device and prevent it from ever being used to hurt anyone. Coulson agrees that he has a point and that he made a tough call, but doesn't let him go through with it.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Is well aware that his research could and is going to be used to harm people, and is forced to accept the fact that if he doesn't do something about it, the world may very well be worse off for his contribution. And so he decides to destroy the device by causing it to go haywire, obliterating a wide area, sacrificing himself and causing the deaths of many innocent people in order to make sure this doesn't happen.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Miles Lydon]]
!!''Miles Lydon''
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->'''Portrayed By''': Austin Nichols
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E5GirlInTheFlowerDress Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 5: "Girl in the Flower Dress")]]'')

A famous hacker whom even Fitz-Simmons have heard of, and a high-level member of the Rising Tide.
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* BrokenPedestal: Skye saw him as a WideEyedIdealist freedom fighter until he released top secret information for a million dollars, information that ultimately resulted in several people getting killed.
* TheCracker: Same as Skye. We see him trigger a pre-prepared macro to hack the traffic system and cause gridlock in order to lose Coulson.
* CruelMercy: What Coulson ends up doing him: stuck in a city he doesn't know, where everyone speaks a language he may not know, with no money to his name, and last but not least, a RestrainingBolt that doesn't allow him to hack anything (which is his only known marketable job skill).
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Implied to have this, as he tells Skye that at least she knows what she's looking for in her life.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Espouses freedom of information, yet sells out a person for a million dollars to an organization he didn't research thoroughly enough.
* InformationWantsToBeFree: His excuse for his behavior, [[{{Hypocrite}} despite the fact that he's selling said information, making it anything but free]].
* {{Jerkass}}: An uppity hacker who blathers on in relentless platitudes and is a {{hypocrite}} to boot.
* MoralEventHorizon: In-universe, Skye decides that hacking S.H.I.E.L.D. and–even worse–selling someone out for a million dollars is his MEH. At the end of the episode, as S.H.I.E.L.D. strands him in Hong Kong with a RestrainingBolt that makes it difficult, if not impossible, for him to use electronic equipment for a while, it's clear that Skye doesn't want him around anymore, even if she's pretending to be nice to him about it.
* NewOldFlame: To Skye. Said flame burns out by the end of the episode.
* PetTheDog: Cared a great deal for Skye, checking up on her and allegedly doing what he did in part to improve her life. Whether or not he still cares for her is unknown.
* RestrainingBolt: After the crisis is past, he's given a bracelet that Coulson vaguely describes as being able to do "anything we want". At the very least, it generates some kind of interference that makes using electronics difficult.
* SpannerInTheWorks: By taking money to hack S.H.I.E.L.D. for Chan's location, he not only ruined his own life, but blew his chances with Skye and cost her the trust of the other members of the team when she stuck her neck out for him.
* TechnoWizard: He taught Skye a good portion of her hacking ability.
* {{Unperson}}: Not as thorough as Skye, but he has no family records and has been known to use aliases.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Christian Ward]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary MCU Government and Military page]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sebastian Derik]]
-->See the [[Characters/{{MCUSHIELD}} S.H.I.E.L.D. former members page]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rosalind Price]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary MCU Government and Military page]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Luther Banks]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary MCU Government and Military page]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Watchdogs]]
!!''The Watchdogs''

An anti-alien and anti-government hate group that has recently gone into action. They are now led by [[spoiler: former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Felix Blake.]]
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* FacelessMooks: They cover their faces in masked helmets that resemble a mixture of skull and attack dog.
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: Their anti-government rethoric, their anti-gifted people speech (just replace "gifted" or "alien" with "immigrant") and their all-white male membership, as well as their military arsenal, are quite evocative of white nationalist and far right militia groups.
* UnwittingPawn: Unbeknowst to them, they are being fed intel and weaponry by HYDRA itself and used to promote their goals.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: They see themselves as fighting to protect the people of the United States from oppressive governments and dangerous aliens. They're called domestic terrorists because they implode buildings and kill civilians.
[[/folder]]

!!''Hank Thompson''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Joel Gretsch

A welder who was once Cameron Klein, an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and test subject of Project T.A.H.I.T.I.
----
* BackFromTheDead: He's a patient of Project T.A.H.I.T.I. formerly named Cameron Klein.
* BarehandedBladeBlock: Hank Thompson catches a thrown knife in between his bare hands, before throwing it back, [[ImprobableAimingSkills slicing clean through the rope holding Coulson]].
* IChooseToStay: When given the option of returning to his old life as Cameron Klein, decides that he'd much rather remain as Hank Thompson, family man.
* DecompositeCharacter: In the comics, Cameron Klein is a S.H.I.E.L.D. technician. In the MCU, there's this former agent as well as a technician that appears in ''Winter Soldier'' and ''Age of Ultron'' both named Caremon Klein.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Just like everyone else in the T.A.H.I.T.I. program. However, this is averted once their memories are wiped and they're given new identities. He's the only one that doesn't begin obsessively painting or sketching or carving the alien symbols. Because his way of expressing them is to build an elaborate model train set, making him the only one to display them correctly, in three dimensions.
* HappilyMarried: He's perfectly content with living a quiet life with his family.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: After catching the knife that Sebastian threw at him, Thompson manages to accurately throw it so that Coulson was cut from his bindings.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: To cure him of the GH.235-induced psychosis.
* NeverForgottenSkill: Hank stops a knife that Sebastian throws at him by catching the blade in both hands. He looks surprised for a moment before throwing it at the rope holding up Coulson, freeing him. Apparently, that was a skill he learned back as Agent Klein of SHIELD.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. There's an unrelated man with the name "Cameron Klein" in other Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse media. He's the SHIELD technician who disobey Brock Rumlow's order once HYDRA is exposed by Captain America in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''. He reappears in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', now works under Nick Fury, and the film credits him as "Cameron Klein".
* PapaWolf: He's protective of his family, especially where crazed GH-325 patients like Sebastian Derek are involved.
* RetiredBadass: He's a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and according to his file, one of the elite. He was forced into retirement via memory wipe and now he prefers his new life.

!!''Dr. Andrew Garner''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm not here to discuss my ex."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Blair Underwood

-->''"You know why most people take psyche, right? They're trying to figure out families."''

Agent May's ex-husband who works as a Neurologist and Forensic Psychologist. He used to work for S.H.I.E.L.D. acting as a shrink for gifted individuals.

* AmbiguousSituation:
** [[spoiler:He's apparently killed by Werner in Ward's failed attempt to get May and Hunter to let him go, but the scene is shot oddly enough that we can't actually be sure he was killed.]] This is clarified in "Among Us Hide... [[spoiler:He's not dead, in large part because he's Lash.]]
** [[spoiler: Another one rises in his being Lash. It's unclear if he has a genuine SplitPersonality or is just pretending that he does in order to avoid taking responsibility for his murders.]]
** [[spoiler: At the end of Episode 8 he is apparently gassed to death by Ward. "Maveth" reveals that he is once again not dead.]]
* AmicableExes: With May. Not only he agreed to help May in regards with treating Skye, but he also attempted to contact her when the first S.H.I.E.L.D. has fallen due to HYDRA's infiltration because he's worried about her. He also still gets on fabulously with May's mother, who wishes they were still married.
* ConsummateLiar: considering that [[spoiler: no one even suspected that he was Lash, not even his crack SHIELD Agent ex-wife Melinda May]] he is most definitely this trope.
* CoolTeacher: He's friendly and seems to be well liked by his students.
* DarkSecret: [[spoiler: He's the Inhuman-hunting Inhuman known as Lash.]]
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:Evil's probably stretching it, but Andrew's this to Cal. Both men undergo a JekyllAndHyde transformation into a hulking beast, and like Cal, he's a doctor.]]
* HorrorHunger: [[spoiler:The guy hunts Inhumans, i.e. people with superpowers. He describes feeling hungry on his skin and it doesn't go away until he kills them.]]
* JekyllAndHyde: [[spoiler: He's a kind doctor who turns into a murderous monster.]]
* MaskOfSanity: [[spoiler: Gained a GodComplex when he became Lash, but did a very good job of hiding it, until May discovered his secret.]]
* NiceGuy: He sympathizes with gifted individuals and doesn't approve on how S.H.I.E.L.D. treats them like time bombs instead of people.
* PetTheDog:
** [[spoiler:He likes Daisy and with the exception of Frye, she's the only Inhuman he doesn't try to kill, despite the fact that with her SHIELD training, hacking abilities and considerable powers, she's probably the biggest threat to him.]]
** [[spoiler: He also swears he wouldn't hurt Joey, though it's clear that he's tempted.]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: at the end of 'Among Us Hide'.]]
* {{Shapeshifter}}: [[spoiler:Into Lash.]]
* TheShrink:
** He is a Neurologist and Forensic Psychologist who specialized in working with gifted individuals.
** In Season 3, he's in charge of evaluating new Inhumans for the Secret Warriors, leaving Daisy frustrated when he finds reasons to reject every one she brings in. [[spoiler: As of 'Among Us Hide' and the reveal that he's Lash, it's likely that he's doing this to forestall the development of a team that could effectively oppose him on his own level.]]
* SuperToughness: [[spoiler: As Lash, he tanks Lincoln and Daisy's best shots, the former of which easily takes people out (as Mack notes, the agents Lincoln zapped barely recovered), the latter of which can level buildings.]]
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:Lash completely takes over his body in "Spacetime".]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Will Daniels]]
!!''Will Daniels''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I have never been able to resist doing something when I'm told the odds are impossible."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Dillon Casey
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E54722Hours Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 49: 4,722 Hours)]]'')

A NASA astronaut who was sent through the Kree portal in 2001, who Simmons runs into after she's also sucked in.
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!!''Sebastian Derik''
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->'''Portrayed by''': Brian Van Holt

A S.H.I.E.L.D. assassin and test subject of Project T.A.H.I.T.I.
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* AntiVillain: What really drives him into villainy and becoming SerialKiller is because the effect of G.H. Serum from T.A.H.I.T.I. Project. Anyone exposed to it gains some of the alien's GeneticMemory, which comes in the form of a blueprint to an unknown city. However, his mind cannot properly process the image and he desperately needs an answer from this.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: A blond ex-black ops turned serial killer.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Inverted. Rather than going mad, he calmed down and is saved from madness after knowing the answer to the symbols: blueprints to a city.
* ProfessionalKiller: He was a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent working as an assassin.
* SerialKiller: Becomes one for test subjects of Project T.A.H.I.T.I. due to his [=GH=].235-induced obsession to complete the Words of Creation - on their bodies - and understand their meanings.

-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMillitary MCU Government and Military page]]

-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMillitary MCU Government and Military page]]

-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMillitary MCU Government and Military page]]

-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMillitary MCU Government and Military page]]

-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMillitary MCU Government and Military page]]

!!''Brigadier General Glenn Talbot''
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->'''Portrayed by''': [[Creator/AdrianPasdar Adrian Pasdar]]
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E18Providence (Episode 18: Providence)]]'')

Talbot is an officer of the U.S. Air Force assigned to investigate the depth of HYDRA's infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D.

* ButtMonkey: Every time he meets Team Coulson, it doesn't go over well for him. It's not like we [[AssholeVictim feel sorry]] when he's knocked out and/or [[WakingUpElsewhere wakes up somewhere else]]. [[spoiler:But when Malick uses his son to blackmail him into helping him...]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Originally quite hostile to Coulson and his team, he grows to respect and slowly realizes that they are not the bad guys.
* CompositeCharacter: He's ''Major'' Talbot only in name. Motive-wise he's closer to General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross. This is probably why he gets promoted.
* {{Determinator}}: He simply won't give up his hunt for Coulson, especially after being humiliated in Canada.
* FriendOnTheForce: Though "friend" is stretching it, Coulson presses him into this role as S.H.I.E.L.D. no longer has the resources to contain gifted prisoners like Carl Creel. He becomes more willingly as season 2 progresses.
* GeneralRipper: He has this reputation in universe. When he mentions "peacekeeping" troops, Coulson remarks that since Talbot's in charge, they'll be anything but.
** Coulson speculates that the worse case scenarios for his team and the surviving agents at the Hub are that he'll either lock them all up without trial or have them executed.
** When he finally catches up to them, he comes after them (a small group of four or five agents) with an '''army''' guns blazing and all, and threatens to make their lives a living hell unless they cooperate, and even if they do, they don't get to walk off.
** He literally becomes this in Season Two when he's promoted from Colonel to Brigadier General, though he soon knows his enemy well enough to recognize that the UN attack may not have been S.H.I.E.L.D.'s doing.
* HeroAntagonist: A fair number of people InUniverse would agree that going after rogue S.H.I.E.L.D. agents is a heroic act, considering how many of them are actually bad guys. However, he seems keen to focus on agents for whom he has a personal dislike, or even those he knows are innocent but believes can be threatened for information, meaning that this trope has a limit on it.
* IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler:The only reason why he's Malick's inside man at the symposium in the first place.]]
* InspectorJavert: He admits in "Nothing Personal" that he never liked S.H.I.E.L.D. to begin with, hence why he's so keen to prosecute them, even if it means going across borders (Canada, specifically).
* ItsPersonal: He never liked S.H.I.E.L.D, and there appears to be some history between him and Coulson.
* {{Jerkass}}: From the small conference call Team Coulson had with him, [[EstablishingCharacterMoment he patronized Coulson, questioned his capabilities as a leader and is ordering his men to practically invade the Hub]]. Coulson's annoyed expression when the call starts says it all.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he may not trust Coulson, he has a son and a wife he cares about very much proving he's not entirely heartless.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Nobody has an idea just how far HYDRA has infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D., and letting them continue onward as if nothing happened should be out of the question for governments who nearly became victims of S.H.I.E.L.D. without some severe investigation and interrogation of those who remain, with their suspicions justified in Ward being a HYDRA agent who is allowed to roam free because nobody is questioning his loyalty.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Coulson says the best case scenario resulting from Talbot's investigation will be TheTeam being tied up in court hearings for the next six months.
* PapaWolf: He doesn't like it when Coulson mentions his son, thinking that Coulson was threatening him.
* PetTheDog: He expresses regret when May tells him that six S.H.I.E.L.D. agents died in "A Fractured House", saying he knows how it feels to lose good soldiers. Then they shake hands.
* RankUp: By Season Two, he's been promoted from a Colonel to a Brigadier General.
* ReflexiveResponse: He reacted immediately to May's call of "Watch your six!", despite the fact that he didn't see her, didn't know who she was, and didn't truly believe that he was in danger. His proper response gave him just enough time to evade Carl Creel's attack.
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: In Season 2, he starts to grow shades of this; for example, in "A Fractured House", he has doubts about S.H.I.E.L.D.'s involvement in the attack on the UN and even tells Senator Ward that he doesn't think S.H.I.E.L.D. was responsible. By "Aftershocks", he seems to be much closer to this role.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After Coulson and Hill give him and his men an epic beatdown at Providence Base, he isn't seen or mentioned for the rest of the first season. However, he returned in the Season Two premiere, explaining that finding such a secret base earned him a promotion.
** And is once again absent in the first half of Season Three, thanks to the ACTU taking precedence. [[spoiler:In the second half, he gets put in command of the ACTU, which is under orders to cooperate with S.H.I.E.L.D.]]
* WorthyOpponent: He and Coulson see this as each other. For his side, Coulson impressed him by successfully hiding from him for a winter season, and later admits that he has "big brass ones".
** Functionally allies with Shield by mid-Season two.
* WrongGenreSavvy: He has a pretty bad day when Agent 33 infiltrates his base. His attempt to BluffTheImposter goes nowhere as he fails to consider that she might be disguised as a ''male'' soldier, and then he puts himself in the marital doghouse when he mistakes his ''wife'' for her.
* YouRebelScum: His attitude towards Coulson's team can be summed up as this. He takes offence when they use the term "agent" to describe one of their own, because that makes it sound like they're still part of a legitimate agency.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: [[spoiler:His reaction to Malick reneging on their deal for his own self-serving reasons.]]

!Other Antagonists

[[folder:Comandante Camilla Reyes]]
!!''Comandante Camilla Reyes''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm not even going to mention the red Corvette."'']]

->'''Portrayed By''': Leonor Varela
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E2084 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 2: "0-8-4")]]'')

A recently-promoted comandante in the Peruvian military, who used to work with Coulson.

* ActionGirl: As seen when she gets into a shootout with some rebels.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: At first, she appeared to be an ally to the agents, but it turns out that she only joined then in order to hijack the Bus and the 0-8-4.
* DarkActionGirl: After she shows her true colors.
* FirstNameBasis: She often refers to Coulson by his first name, Phillip.
* HoneyTrap: Attempted one to Coulson, and not very successful.
* ICanRuleAlone: Implied by Coulson to be her ultimate plan. She never replies.
* KnightTemplar: She wants the 0-8-4 to seize power and install herself as dictator in order to stabilize her country.
* TheMole: She and her team joined Coulson and co. on the Bus in order to take the 0-8-4 for themselves.
* NewOldFlame: For Coulson. She's rather unsubtle when reminiscing about their past together and attempts to coerce Coulson into a romp in his office for old times' sake. In actuality, she's doing this to distract Coulson while her men take over the Bus. It doesn't work.
* PutOnABus: Last we hear of her, she's in a S.H.I.E.L.D. detention facility. Coulson mentions that the Peruvian government may eventually negotiate for her release.
* SpicyLatina: Given that she's from Peru. Crosses over with GoodLookingPrivates, given her military status.

[[folder:Dr. Franklin Hall]]
!!''Dr. Franklin Hall''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I've seen the future, Mr. Coulson, and it's a catastrophe."'']]

->'''Portrayed By''': Ian Hart
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E3TheAsset Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 3: "The Asset")]]'')

A brilliant S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist who theorized on the existence of gravity manipulating element called Gravitonium, and who further invented a means of controlling it. When said element is discovered, he is kidnapped by an old colleague of his named Ian Quinn, who wants him to finish his research.

* TheAtoner: In his youth, he was quite enthusiastic about his research until he realized how if misused or worse, turned into a weapon, it could result in the deaths of millions. As an adult, he's ''very'' unwilling to continue work on it.
* BaldOfEvil: Or rather, Bald of Extremism.
* FakeDefector: Pretends to go along with Quinn's scheme in order to sabotage the project and keep the device out of the wrong hands for good.
* KidnappedScientist: Exploited. He pulled the strings of his own kidnapping in order to ruin his kidnapper's plans, but said kidnapper isn't aware of this.
* MentorArchetype: He was [=FitzSimmons's=] favourite professor at the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy.
* NotSoDifferent: Hall claims S.H.I.E.L.D. is this to people like Quinn - and that their desire to control things led to the events of ''The Avengers''. Coulson ultimately realizes that he and Hall are similar as well, and that they both make tough calls to protect people just before he seemingly kills Hall to save innocent lives.
* StartOfDarkness: In the comics, he becomes a gravity-manipulating supervillain named Graviton after a lab accident. And indeed, during the course of the episode, he falls into his device and is absorbed by a bubble of gravity manipulating matter... and is then seen at the end trying to claw his way out from the inside, complete with ScareChord.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Was willing to cause the deaths of quite a lot of people in order to destroy the device and prevent it from ever being used to hurt anyone. Coulson agrees that he has a point and that he made a tough call, but doesn't let him go through with it.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Is well aware that his research could and is going to be used to harm people, and is forced to accept the fact that if he doesn't do something about it, the world may very well be worse off for his contribution. And so he decides to destroy the device by causing it to go haywire, obliterating a wide area, sacrificing himself and causing the deaths of many innocent people in order to make sure this doesn't happen.

[[folder:Miles Lydon]]
!!''Miles Lydon''
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->'''Portrayed By''': Austin Nichols
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E5GirlInTheFlowerDress Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 5: "Girl in the Flower Dress")]]'')

A famous hacker whom even Fitz-Simmons have heard of, and a high-level member of the Rising Tide.

* BrokenPedestal: Skye saw him as a WideEyedIdealist freedom fighter until he released top secret information for a million dollars, information that ultimately resulted in several people getting killed.
* TheCracker: Same as Skye. We see him trigger a pre-prepared macro to hack the traffic system and cause gridlock in order to lose Coulson.
* CruelMercy: What Coulson ends up doing him: stuck in a city he doesn't know, where everyone speaks a language he may not know, with no money to his name, and last but not least, a RestrainingBolt that doesn't allow him to hack anything (which is his only known marketable job skill).
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Implied to have this, as he tells Skye that at least she knows what she's looking for in her life.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Espouses freedom of information, yet sells out a person for a million dollars to an organization he didn't research thoroughly enough.
* InformationWantsToBeFree: His excuse for his behavior, [[{{Hypocrite}} despite the fact that he's selling said information, making it anything but free]].
* {{Jerkass}}: An uppity hacker who blathers on in relentless platitudes and is a {{hypocrite}} to boot.
* MoralEventHorizon: In-universe, Skye decides that hacking S.H.I.E.L.D. and–even worse–selling someone out for a million dollars is his MEH. At the end of the episode, as S.H.I.E.L.D. strands him in Hong Kong with a RestrainingBolt that makes it difficult, if not impossible, for him to use electronic equipment for a while, it's clear that Skye doesn't want him around anymore, even if she's pretending to be nice to him about it.
* NewOldFlame: To Skye. Said flame burns out by the end of the episode.
* PetTheDog: Cared a great deal for Skye, checking up on her and allegedly doing what he did in part to improve her life. Whether or not he still cares for her is unknown.
* RestrainingBolt: After the crisis is past, he's given a bracelet that Coulson vaguely describes as being able to do "anything we want". At the very least, it generates some kind of interference that makes using electronics difficult.
* SpannerInTheWorks: By taking money to hack S.H.I.E.L.D. for Chan's location, he not only ruined his own life, but blew his chances with Skye and cost her the trust of the other members of the team when she stuck her neck out for him.
* TechnoWizard: He taught Skye a good portion of her hacking ability.
* {{Unperson}}: Not as thorough as Skye, but he has no family records and has been known to use aliases.

[[folder:Christian Ward]]
!!''Senator Christian Ward''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"When evil sits to one's own heart, that is when the surest hand must cut it out."'']]

->'''Portrayed by''': Tim [=DeKay=] (Season 2), Alex Neustaedter (Young)
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E8TheWell (Episode 8: The Well)]]'' (Young), ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E6FracturedHouse (Episode 28: A Fractured House)]]'' (Adult))

Grant Ward's abusive older brother, who has become a U.S. Senator.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Seems to be heading this way. According to Christian, Grant's stories about him being abusive are all lies, and that Grant himself is the insane one who abused their youngest brother under the delusion that Christian was forcing him to do so. Flashbacks have been shown to Christian's abuse but only from Ward's perspective, possibly indicating a dose of UnreliableNarrator, however, it was mentioned that Christian campaigned to have Ward tried as an adult when Ward nearly killed him as a teenager. Despite Christian seemingly expressing concern for Grant when he heard Coulson held him prisoner, his plan is to execute him so that he can win public support for his political campaign and it's ambiguous how much his crusade against [=SHIELD=] was done out of a sincere belief that they're terrorists or whether their downfall would be good PR for him. Overall, the simultaneous discussions shown between Grant and Skye and Christian and Coulson are shot in such way that's meant to cast doubt on which brother is telling the truth, and which is the truly evil one (assuming they're not ''both'' evil). Turns out they were ''both'' telling the truth. Both of them are right about the other one.
** In Season 3, [[spoiler: Thomas confirms that while Christian was horrible, it was indeed Grant who pushed him into that well when they were kids.]]
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: The key difference between him and Grant. He admits he did horrible things, unlike Grant who blames everyone else for his problems.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He wanted Grant and he got him, all right. Except it's not how Christian imagined it would turn out.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Turns out, Thomas was the only child their mother didn't torture, and both Christian ''and'' Grant were so much TheUnfavorite that Christian plotted Thomas's murder just to get back at their mother.
* BigBrotherBully: To Grant and their younger brother, Thomas. He's first seen forbidding Grant from throwing a rope down to Thomas at the bottom of a well. He also forced Grant to beat up Thomas, or at least Grant claims so, but chances are he was more willing to follow Christian's lead than he remembers. [[spoiler: Turns out Grant was the one who pushed Thomas into that well. Christian however still took advantage of the situation and was a horrible human being in his own right, but Thomas still believes that he and their parents didn't deserve to be killed by Grant.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: According to Ward, he'll smile and "bare his soul" when he's suckering you into believing his lies.
* CharacterDeath: Killed along with his mother and father in an act of arson in "The Things We Bury".
* ConsummateLiar: Ward, a liar himself, calls him this and says Christian is better at it.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: His tormenting Grant has been hinted to be a factor in his murder-by-arson attempt, which led directly to his recruitment by Garrett. In fact, learning that Grant was more willing to follow him despite the abuse than Grant had let on would make Christian essentially a proto-Garrett.
* DirtyCoward: He turns into a simpering coward when Grant abducts him. He also admits he didn't have the personal courage to hurt and kill Thomas himself and needed to bully Grant into doing it. [[spoiler: Turns out that Grant ''did'' hurt Thomas of his own free will - he just didn't want to admit.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: When he makes a promise, he'll do his utmost to follow through with it, as demonstrated when he concedes to the world that there's a difference between S.H.I.E.L.D. and HYDRA in exchange for Grant. He also considers HYDRA to be a genuine enemy. He's also appalled at Grant's NeverMyFault mentality.
* EvilCounterpart: He's set up to be this to fellow InspectorJavert Talbot, who at least seems to have been a bit more reasonable and amicable towards Coulson by the present point in the series; plus, whereas Talbot genuinely cares about his family, so far we've only seen Senator Ward's nasty side towards his siblings. However, judging from what we see in the present day (even if he does [[YourCheatingHeart cheat on his wife]]), he's clearly mellowed with age, with no memories of his past sins until Grant takes him back to the well.
* InspectorJavert: Like Talbot, he believes S.H.I.E.L.D. to be a terrorist organization.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Christian's pursuit of SHIELD appears to be less about mistakenly thinking they're as evil as HYDRA, and more because he could suffer political embarrassment if it came out that his brother was an agent of HYDRA.
* KillItWithFire: Grant tried this. It didn't work. At least, not the first time around.
* NoPartyGiven: Averted. He's shown to be a Republican by an (R) after his name during a TV appearance in "A Fractured House".
* NotSoDifferent: Coulson tells his brother at the tail end of a harsh talkdown in "A Fractured House" that the two may have too much in common.
-->'''Coulson''': Your brother saw the same angles. Maybe you are more alike than you think.
* SuddenNameChange: He was originally credited as Maynard Ward in ''The Well''.
* TheUnfavorite: In "The Things We Bury", he admits that the reason he made Grant torment their brother was because Thomas was the only Ward sibling their mother ''didn't'' abuse, and this was his way of making her suffer.
* UnreliableNarrator: He claims all of Grant's stories about making him torture their brother are false, and that Grant did it of his own free will. It's not clear which brother is lying, but the only evidence that clearly supports either one of them favors Grant's version of events. Grant eventually manages to get him to admit the truth. [[spoiler: Except in Season 3 we learn from Thomas that Grant was the one who pushed him down that well. Christian just told Grant what he wanted to hear in hopes he would let him live. Him threatening to push Grant into the well as well still stands however.]]
* UpToEleven: Ward describes him as "like me but worse". [[spoiler: But Thomas believes that Grant is more horrible than Christian.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: He has a wife, but blows her off to make arrangements with his mistress at the Ward family cabin, just so we don't feel ''too'' sorry for him when Grant gives him what he deserves.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sebastian Derik]]
!!''Sebastian Derik''
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->'''Portrayed by''': Brian Van Holt

A S.H.I.E.L.D. assassin and test subject of Project T.A.H.I.T.I.
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* AntiVillain: What really drives him into villainy and becoming SerialKiller is because the effect of G.H. Serum from T.A.H.I.T.I. Project. Anyone exposed to it gains some of the alien's GeneticMemory, which comes in the form of a blueprint to an unknown city. However, his mind cannot properly process the image and he desperately needs an answer from this.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: A blond ex-black ops turned serial killer.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Inverted. Rather than going mad, he calmed down and is saved from madness after knowing the answer to the symbols: blueprints to a city.
* ProfessionalKiller: He was a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent working as an assassin.
* SerialKiller: Becomes one for test subjects of Project T.A.H.I.T.I. due to his [=GH=].235-induced obsession to complete the Words of Creation - on their bodies - and understand their meanings.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rosalind Price]]
!!''Rosalind Price''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"The laws of nature have changed. And until the laws of man change to reflect that, we can only do what we feel is right."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Constance Zimmer

Head of the Advanced Threat Containment Unit (ATCU).
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* AlmightyJanitor: She's a shady intelligence officer who happens to have considerable influence over the President.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: It ''seems'' she just wants to protect humanity... but her "relationship" with the President makes her motives suspect to say the least. [[spoiler: Turns out she's in league with Gideon Malick. However she's completely unaware that he's HYDRA until she and Coulson put the pieces together.]]
* BadassBoast: When Coulson asks who she answers to, she simply replies "People answer to ''me''." As in, the freaking President.
* CynicismCatalyst: Her husband died of cancer, which is why she puts the captured Inhumans in stasis. As far as she's concerned, they're victims of a disease that makes them a danger to themselves and others, so it's no different than putting someone in a medically induced coma until a cure is found.
-->'''Rosalind:''' I would have given anything to be able to do this for him. Just... put him to sleep for a while.
* DeadpanSnarker: She gives as good as she gets from Coulson.
* DistaffCounterpart: To Coulson. Both heads of intelligence agencies, similar taste in cars, and similar banter.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Though she's willing to authorize lethal force, she clearly wants to capture most of the Inhumans alive. She's quite aghast at the trail of bodies left by Lash, though she spends most of her first episode believing Coulson is responsible.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: "I get my weekly reports... from [[spoiler:Malick]]..."
* FantasticRacism: Towards superpowered individuals, though not overly so. She is annoyed that they're being murdered before she can capture them, and lethal force is only considered an option, not a first resort.
* IHaveManyNames: She has used a number of aliases within various agencies.
* KnowledgeBroker: She's able to dig into '''S.H.I.E.L.D.'s''' secrets....including TAHITI, which wasn't part of the public data dump in ''Winter Soldier''.
* ManipulativeBitch: Is hinted to have ''the President of the United States'' wrapped around her finger.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Upon realizing that Gideon Malick is with HYDRA.]]
* MysteriousPast: Coulson's background check on her revealed she worked for multiple government agencies under an alias.
* NotSoAboveItAll: She can't resist making a HurricaneOfPuns about Coulson's hand. She also hints that, like Coulson, she treats her own classic car as a CompanionCube.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The show strongly implies that "Rosalind Price" is simply another alias.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Believed that Coulson was behind a rash of dead Inhumans, not suspecting a third party was involved.
* SkilledButNaive: "A Wanted Inhuman" proves that she is able to match Coulson in the world of espionage but she makes the critical error of publicizing her organization and its goals, something that SHIELD and HYDRA knew to avoid because of the problems that doing so would cause.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler:Ward snipes her in the neck as she dines with Coulson, specifically because he wants to hurt him.]]
* UnresolvedSexualTension: She quickly starts picking it up with Coulson after he agrees to work with her. Daisy is quick to voice her concerns about how this could be clouding his judgement.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:She had been unknowingly collaborating with HYDRA through her correspondence with Gideon Malick.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Wants to eliminate the threat posed by the newly-emergent Inhumans by any means necessary.
* WorldHalfEmpty: She points out for every Daisy there's a Lash, which is why they have to contain them until they can be sorted out.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Luther Banks]]
!!''Luther Banks''
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->'''Portrayed by''': Andrew Howard

An an agent of the Advanced Threat Containment Unit and the right-hand man of Rosalind Price. He leads the unit's operations.
----
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: His own gun is turned on him not long after Rosalind is killed.]]
* GutturalGrowler: His voice has a rather notable rasp to it.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Actually for real a good person, but positively '''looks''' like a Hydra {{Mook}}. Which may or may not have been deliberate casting. It doesn't help that his backstory makes him seem way more suspicious.
* NoodleIncident: Was discharged from the USMC "with cause", but we never learn what exactly.
* NumberTwo: To Rosalind. He leads the ATCU's operations to capture (or eliminate) Inhumans. Daisy even says this trope's name word for word in "Among Us Hide".
* RedHerring:
** [[spoiler:Despite what Hunter thinks, Banks isn't actually Lash - or even Inhuman - after all.]]
** [[spoiler: During the ambush at the Distant Star facility, it initially looks like he's TheMole. Instead, Giyera took control of his gun.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Watchdogs]]
!!''The Watchdogs''

An anti-alien and anti-government hate group that has recently gone into action. They are now led by [[spoiler: former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Felix Blake.]]
----
* FacelessMooks: They cover their faces in masked helmets that resemble a mixture of skull and attack dog.
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: Their anti-government rethoric, their anti-gifted people speech (just replace "gifted" or "alien" with "immigrant") and their all-white male membership, as well as their military arsenal, are quite evocative of white nationalist and far right militia groups.
* UnwittingPawn: Unbeknowst to them, they are being fed intel and weaponry by HYDRA itself and used to promote their goals.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: They see themselves as fighting to protect the people of the United States from oppressive governments and dangerous aliens. They're called domestic terrorists because they implode buildings and kill civilians.
[[/folder]]

* AmbiguousSituation: After his own out-of-control powers cause him to turn to stone, Coulson isn't quite sure he's actually dead or just in a coma of sorts. He return in season 3, so it's the latter.
* AndIMustScream: Assuming he wasn't killed at the end of the encounter with Team Coulson in "Heavy is the Head", this happened to him. He can't move or talk because he's trapped in his own stone body, though he's recovered and working for the ATCU (as Talbot's bodyguard) by Season 3.

* {{Badass}}: He's a powerful superhuman who manages to give May a good fight.

* DumbMuscle: Due to the steroids he used, his mental faculties suffered as a result.

* {{Badass}}: [[spoiler: As Lash, he tanks Lincoln and Daisy's best shots, the former of which easily takes people out (as Mack notes, the agents Lincoln zapped barely recovered), the latter of which can level buildings. Also, the guy hunts Inhumans, i.e. people with superpowers.]]

* HorrorHunger: [[spoiler:Describes feeling hungry on his skin and it doesn't go away until he kills other Inhumans.]]

* ActionSurvivor: The only member of his team able to keep it together in their hellish situation trapped on the alien planet.
* {{Badass}}: Surviving on an alien world by himself for fourteen years is certainly an impressive feat.

* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: They see themselves as fighting to portect the people of the United States.

* StopHelpingMe: InUniverse, he doesn't want Grant's "protection" given how it involves brutal killing.

* TheBusComesBack: Freed by Talbot after he is deprogrammed of his HYDRA brainwashing.

* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFiighters: Tyhey see themselves as fighting to portect the people of the United States.

* TheBrute: He serves as Whitehall's muscle.
* ChromeChampion: When he turns to steel.

!Other Antagonists

[[folder:Comandante Camilla Reyes]]
!!''Comandante Camilla Reyes''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm not even going to mention the red Corvette."'']]

->'''Portrayed By''': Leonor Varela
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E2084 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 2: "0-8-4")]]'')

A recently-promoted comandante in the Peruvian military, who used to work with Coulson.

* ActionGirl: As seen when she gets into a shootout with some rebels.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: At first, she appeared to be an ally to the agents, but it turns out that she only joined then in order to hijack the Bus and the 0-8-4.
* DarkActionGirl: After she shows her true colors.
* FirstNameBasis: She often refers to Coulson by his first name, Phillip.
* HoneyTrap: Attempted one to Coulson, and not very successful.
* ICanRuleAlone: Implied by Coulson to be her ultimate plan. She never replies.
* KnightTemplar: She wants the 0-8-4 to seize power and install herself as dictator in order to stabilize her country.
* TheMole: She and her team joined Coulson and co. on the Bus in order to take the 0-8-4 for themselves.
* NewOldFlame: For Coulson. She's rather unsubtle when reminiscing about their past together and attempts to coerce Coulson into a romp in his office for old times' sake. In actuality, she's doing this to distract Coulson while her men take over the Bus. It doesn't work.
* PutOnABus: Last we hear of her, she's in a S.H.I.E.L.D. detention facility. Coulson mentions that the Peruvian government may eventually negotiate for her release.
* SpicyLatina: Given that she's from Peru. Crosses over with GoodLookingPrivates, given her military status.

[[folder:Dr. Franklin Hall]]
!!''Dr. Franklin Hall''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I've seen the future, Mr. Coulson, and it's a catastrophe."'']]

->'''Portrayed By''': Ian Hart
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E3TheAsset Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 3: "The Asset")]]'')

A brilliant S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist who theorized on the existence of gravity manipulating element called Gravitonium, and who further invented a means of controlling it. When said element is discovered, he is kidnapped by an old colleague of his named Ian Quinn, who wants him to finish his research.

* TheAtoner: In his youth, he was quite enthusiastic about his research until he realized how if misused or worse, turned into a weapon, it could result in the deaths of millions. As an adult, he's ''very'' unwilling to continue work on it.
* BaldOfEvil: Or rather, Bald of Extremism.
* FakeDefector: Pretends to go along with Quinn's scheme in order to sabotage the project and keep the device out of the wrong hands for good.
* KidnappedScientist: Exploited. He pulled the strings of his own kidnapping in order to ruin his kidnapper's plans, but said kidnapper isn't aware of this.
* MentorArchetype: He was [=FitzSimmons's=] favourite professor at the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy.
* NotSoDifferent: Hall claims S.H.I.E.L.D. is this to people like Quinn - and that their desire to control things led to the events of ''The Avengers''. Coulson ultimately realizes that he and Hall are similar as well, and that they both make tough calls to protect people just before he seemingly kills Hall to save innocent lives.
* StartOfDarkness: In the comics, he becomes a gravity-manipulating supervillain named Graviton after a lab accident. And indeed, during the course of the episode, he falls into his device and is absorbed by a bubble of gravity manipulating matter... and is then seen at the end trying to claw his way out from the inside, complete with ScareChord.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Was willing to cause the deaths of quite a lot of people in order to destroy the device and prevent it from ever being used to hurt anyone. Coulson agrees that he has a point and that he made a tough call, but doesn't let him go through with it.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Is well aware that his research could and is going to be used to harm people, and is forced to accept the fact that if he doesn't do something about it, the world may very well be worse off for his contribution. And so he decides to destroy the device by causing it to go haywire, obliterating a wide area, sacrificing himself and causing the deaths of many innocent people in order to make sure this doesn't happen.

[[folder:Miles Lydon]]
!!''Miles Lydon''
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->'''Portrayed By''': Austin Nichols
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E5GirlInTheFlowerDress Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 5: "Girl in the Flower Dress")]]'')

A famous hacker whom even Fitz-Simmons have heard of, and a high-level member of the Rising Tide.

[[folder: Glenn Talbot]]
!!''Brigadier General Glenn Talbot''
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->'''Portrayed by''': [[Creator/AdrianPasdar Adrian Pasdar]]
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E18Providence (Episode 18: Providence)]]'')

Talbot is an officer of the U.S. Air Force assigned to investigate the depth of HYDRA's infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D.

* ButtMonkey: Every time he meets Team Coulson, it doesn't go over well for him. It's not like we [[AssholeVictim feel sorry]] when he's knocked out and/or [[WakingUpElsewhere wakes up somewhere else]]. [[spoiler:But when Malick uses his son to blackmail him into helping him...]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Originally quite hostile to Coulson and his team, he grows to respect and slowly realizes that they are not the bad guys.
* CompositeCharacter: He's ''Major'' Talbot only in name. Motive-wise he's closer to General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross. This is probably why he gets promoted.
* {{Determinator}}: He simply won't give up his hunt for Coulson, especially after being humiliated in Canada.
* FriendOnTheForce: Though "friend" is stretching it, Coulson presses him into this role as S.H.I.E.L.D. no longer has the resources to contain gifted prisoners like Carl Creel. He becomes more willingly as season 2 progresses.
* GeneralRipper: He has this reputation in universe. When he mentions "peacekeeping" troops, Coulson remarks that since Talbot's in charge, they'll be anything but.
** Coulson speculates that the worse case scenarios for his team and the surviving agents at the Hub are that he'll either lock them all up without trial or have them executed.
** When he finally catches up to them, he comes after them (a small group of four or five agents) with an '''army''' guns blazing and all, and threatens to make their lives a living hell unless they cooperate, and even if they do, they don't get to walk off.
** He literally becomes this in Season Two when he's promoted from Colonel to Brigadier General, though he soon knows his enemy well enough to recognize that the UN attack may not have been S.H.I.E.L.D.'s doing.
* HeroAntagonist: A fair number of people InUniverse would agree that going after rogue S.H.I.E.L.D. agents is a heroic act, considering how many of them are actually bad guys. However, he seems keen to focus on agents for whom he has a personal dislike, or even those he knows are innocent but believes can be threatened for information, meaning that this trope has a limit on it.
* IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler:The only reason why he's Malick's inside man at the symposium in the first place.]]
* InspectorJavert: He admits in "Nothing Personal" that he never liked S.H.I.E.L.D. to begin with, hence why he's so keen to prosecute them, even if it means going across borders (Canada, specifically).
* ItsPersonal: He never liked S.H.I.E.L.D, and there appears to be some history between him and Coulson.
* {{Jerkass}}: From the small conference call Team Coulson had with him, [[EstablishingCharacterMoment he patronized Coulson, questioned his capabilities as a leader and is ordering his men to practically invade the Hub]]. Coulson's annoyed expression when the call starts says it all.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he may not trust Coulson, he has a son and a wife he cares about very much proving he's not entirely heartless.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Nobody has an idea just how far HYDRA has infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D., and letting them continue onward as if nothing happened should be out of the question for governments who nearly became victims of S.H.I.E.L.D. without some severe investigation and interrogation of those who remain, with their suspicions justified in Ward being a HYDRA agent who is allowed to roam free because nobody is questioning his loyalty.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Coulson says the best case scenario resulting from Talbot's investigation will be TheTeam being tied up in court hearings for the next six months.
* PapaWolf: He doesn't like it when Coulson mentions his son, thinking that Coulson was threatening him.
* PetTheDog: He expresses regret when May tells him that six S.H.I.E.L.D. agents died in "A Fractured House", saying he knows how it feels to lose good soldiers. Then they shake hands.
* RankUp: By Season Two, he's been promoted from a Colonel to a Brigadier General.
* ReflexiveResponse: He reacted immediately to May's call of "Watch your six!", despite the fact that he didn't see her, didn't know who she was, and didn't truly believe that he was in danger. His proper response gave him just enough time to evade Carl Creel's attack.
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: In Season 2, he starts to grow shades of this; for example, in "A Fractured House", he has doubts about S.H.I.E.L.D.'s involvement in the attack on the UN and even tells Senator Ward that he doesn't think S.H.I.E.L.D. was responsible. By "Aftershocks", he seems to be much closer to this role.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After Coulson and Hill give him and his men an epic beatdown at Providence Base, he isn't seen or mentioned for the rest of the first season. However, he returned in the Season Two premiere, explaining that finding such a secret base earned him a promotion.
** And is once again absent in the first half of Season Three, thanks to the ACTU taking precedence. [[spoiler:In the second half, he gets put in command of the ACTU, which is under orders to cooperate with S.H.I.E.L.D.]]
* WorthyOpponent: He and Coulson see this as each other. For his side, Coulson impressed him by successfully hiding from him for a winter season, and later admits that he has "big brass ones".
** Functionally allies with Shield by mid-Season two.
* WrongGenreSavvy: He has a pretty bad day when Agent 33 infiltrates his base. His attempt to BluffTheImposter goes nowhere as he fails to consider that she might be disguised as a ''male'' soldier, and then he puts himself in the marital doghouse when he mistakes his ''wife'' for her.
* YouRebelScum: His attitude towards Coulson's team can be summed up as this. He takes offence when they use the term "agent" to describe one of their own, because that makes it sound like they're still part of a legitimate agency.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: [[spoiler:His reaction to Malick reneging on their deal for his own self-serving reasons.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Christian Ward]]
!!''Senator Christian Ward''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"When evil sits to one's own heart, that is when the surest hand must cut it out."'']]

->'''Portrayed by''': Tim [=DeKay=] (Season 2), Alex Neustaedter (Young)
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E8TheWell (Episode 8: The Well)]]'' (Young), ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E6FracturedHouse (Episode 28: A Fractured House)]]'' (Adult))

Grant Ward's abusive older brother, who has become a U.S. Senator.
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[[folder: Chan Ho Yin]]
!!''Chan Ho Yin'' / ''Scorch''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Poor little Chan Ho Yen may have believed your lies... but not Scorch!"'']]

->'''Portrayed By''': Louis Ozawa Changchien
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E5GirlInTheFlowerDress Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 5: "Girl in the Flower Dress")]]'')

A pyrokinetic street magician on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s watchlist. He is recruited by the organization behind Centipede in the hopes that they can use him to stabilize their serum.

!The ATCU

[[folder:Rosalind Price]]
!!''Rosalind Price''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"The laws of nature have changed. And until the laws of man change to reflect that, we can only do what we feel is right."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Constance Zimmer

Head of the Advanced Threat Containment Unit (ATCU).

* AlmightyJanitor: She's a shady intelligence officer who happens to have considerable influence over the President.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: It ''seems'' she just wants to protect humanity... but her "relationship" with the President makes her motives suspect to say the least. [[spoiler: Turns out she's in league with Gideon Malick. However she's completely unaware that he's HYDRA until she and Coulson put the pieces together.]]
* BadassBoast: When Coulson asks who she answers to, she simply replies "People answer to ''me''." As in, the freaking President.
* CynicismCatalyst: Her husband died of cancer, which is why she puts the captured Inhumans in stasis. As far as she's concerned, they're victims of a disease that makes them a danger to themselves and others, so it's no different than putting someone in a medically induced coma until a cure is found.
-->'''Rosalind:''' I would have given anything to be able to do this for him. Just... put him to sleep for a while.
* DeadpanSnarker: She gives as good as she gets from Coulson.
* DistaffCounterpart: To Coulson. Both heads of intelligence agencies, similar taste in cars, and similar banter.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Though she's willing to authorize lethal force, she clearly wants to capture most of the Inhumans alive. She's quite aghast at the trail of bodies left by Lash, though she spends most of her first episode believing Coulson is responsible.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: "I get my weekly reports... from [[spoiler:Malick]]..."
* FantasticRacism: Towards superpowered individuals, though not overly so. She is annoyed that they're being murdered before she can capture them, and lethal force is only considered an option, not a first resort.
* IHaveManyNames: She has used a number of aliases within various agencies.
* KnowledgeBroker: She's able to dig into '''S.H.I.E.L.D.'s''' secrets....including TAHITI, which wasn't part of the public data dump in ''Winter Soldier''.
* ManipulativeBitch: Is hinted to have ''the President of the United States'' wrapped around her finger.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Upon realizing that Gideon Malick is with HYDRA.]]
* MysteriousPast: Coulson's background check on her revealed she worked for multiple government agencies under an alias.
* NotSoAboveItAll: She can't resist making a HurricaneOfPuns about Coulson's hand. She also hints that, like Coulson, she treats her own classic car as a CompanionCube.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The show strongly implies that "Rosalind Price" is simply another alias.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Believed that Coulson was behind a rash of dead Inhumans, not suspecting a third party was involved.
* SkilledButNaive: "A Wanted Inhuman" proves that she is able to match Coulson in the world of espionage but she makes the critical error of publicizing her organization and its goals, something that SHIELD and HYDRA knew to avoid because of the problems that doing so would cause.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler:Ward snipes her in the neck as she dines with Coulson, specifically because he wants to hurt him.]]
* UnresolvedSexualTension: She quickly starts picking it up with Coulson after he agrees to work with her. Daisy is quick to voice her concerns about how this could be clouding his judgement.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:She had been unknowingly collaborating with HYDRA through her correspondence with Gideon Malick.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Wants to eliminate the threat posed by the newly-emergent Inhumans by any means necessary.
* WorldHalfEmpty: She points out for every Daisy there's a Lash, which is why they have to contain them until they can be sorted out.

[[folder:Luther Banks]]
!!''Luther Banks''
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->'''Portrayed by''': Andrew Howard

An an agent of the Advanced Threat Containment Unit and the right-hand man of Rosalind Price. He leads the unit's operations.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: His own gun is turned on him not long after Rosalind is killed.]]
* GutturalGrowler: His voice has a rather notable rasp to it.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Actually for real a good person, but positively '''looks''' like a Hydra {{Mook}}. Which may or may not have been deliberate casting. It doesn't help that his backstory makes him seem way more suspicious.
* NoodleIncident: Was discharged from the USMC "with cause", but we never learn what exactly.
* NumberTwo: To Rosalind. He leads the ATCU's operations to capture (or eliminate) Inhumans. Daisy even says this trope's name word for word in "Among Us Hide".
* RedHerring:
** [[spoiler:Despite what Hunter thinks, Banks isn't actually Lash - or even Inhuman - after all.]]
** [[spoiler: During the ambush at the Distant Star facility, it initially looks like he's TheMole. Instead, Giyera took control of his gun.]]

!Gifted/Enhanced Humans

[[folder: Chan Ho Yin]]
!!''Chan Ho Yin'' / ''Scorch''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Poor little Chan Ho Yen may have believed your lies... but not Scorch!"'']]

->'''Portrayed By''': Louis Ozawa Changchien
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E5GirlInTheFlowerDress Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 5: "Girl in the Flower Dress")]]'')

A pyrokinetic street magician on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s watchlist. He is recruited by the organization behind Centipede in the hopes that they can use him to stabilize their serum.

* CanonForeigner: Chan Ho Yin isn't a character from the comics, though his codename is borrowed from [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Scorch a couple other D-list pyrokinetics.]] His ethnicity, as well as being "kind of a tool," also recalls Sunfire from the ''ComicBook/XMen'' comics.
* CodeName: Scorch, given to him by the people of Project Centipede to play to his ego.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: A major plot point is the aversion of this. The assignment of a codename to Chan helps him embrace the idea that he must have gotten his powers for a reason and that he's someone special and powerful for them. When he refers to himself as Scorch, Coulson treats the information that "they gave him a name" as an OhCrap and realizes how seriously he's taking things.
* {{Foil}}: Of a sort to Mike. Both began gaining superpowers, both were approached by the Centipede project, and both were frustrated by their inability to make their lives work despite their powers. However, the big difference is that Mike thought more about helping his son survive than doing great things with his powers, and eventually realized that he could be a hero with some direction. Chan just wanted to be seen, and it led to his SanitySlippage.
* ILoveNuclearPower: It's theorized his powers come from living near a nuclear plant that caught fire. However, it's noted that no one else in the vicinity received powers of any sort, so in the end the source is unknown.
* {{Jerkass}}: He first demonstrates his powers by scaring a couple who weren't impressed with his magic tricks. His S.H.I.E.L.D. file describes him as "kind of a tool."
* NotUsingTheZWord: If Disney/MCU had the rights to ''Franchise/XMen'', he'd likely be referred to as a mutant. The Agents even theorise that exposure to nuclear radiation may have caused his powers, which was one of the reasons often given for Mutants developing mutations.
* PlayingWithFire: His power is generating fire from his hands.
* {{Pyromaniac}}: After his SanitySlippage.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: His blood platelets make him immune to being burned by his own powers. Once they're extracted, he ends up scorching himself each time he lights up.
* RiddleForTheAges: It is never ultimately explained how he first acquired his fire powers.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After being given a taste of the Centipede serum then being betrayed by Raina. As soon as he gets free, he starts attacking everyone.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Happens to him during Debbie's experiments: "This isn't testing, this is torture!"
* StreetPerformer: What he did for a living is magic tricks on street corners.
* SuperPowerMeltdown: He's given an overdose of Extremis when it's clear they can't talk him down.
* ThatManIsDead: Once he embraces his codename.

[[folder: Donnie Gill]]
!!''Donnie Gill''
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->'''Portrayed By''': Dylan Minette
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E12Seeds Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 12: "Seeds")]]'')

An introverted genius at the S.H.I.E.L.D. Sci-Tech academy who gets involved in a series of attacks involving devices that are able to freeze people solid.

* AbusiveParents: His parents didn't even realize how smart he was because they ignored him so much. When S.H.I.E.L.D. told his father that Donnie was gifted, his father replied "In what?"
* AdaptationalHeroism: It's Adaptational Anti-Villainy in his case. He still ends up as a bad guy, but is given a sympathetic backstory. It's also made abundantly clear that he never intended for his actions to hurt anyone, at least at first, and he also never served HYDRA willingly; when he, as Blizzard, is acting of his own free will, it's actually ''against'' HYDRA. The only reason why SHIELD put him down at the end of "Making Friends and Influencing People" is so HYDRA won't be able to use him again.
* AgeLift: His comics counterpart is an adult criminal-for-hire.
* AntiVillain: He wasn't interested in Ian Quinn's money. He was just having fun building something with Seth.
** In his second appearance, he isn't even antagonistic toward S.H.I.E.L.D. at all until Bakshi triggers the mental conditioning HYDRA put him through.
* BerserkButton: Don't even ''pretend'' to be HYDRA.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: He was brainwashed by HYDRA sometime during season 1. His programing is re-activated during "Making Friends and Influencing People".
* TheBusCameBack: He resurfaces in the Season 2 episode "Making Friends & Influencing People".
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Played with. He is never called as Blizzard, his comics counterpart's alias. But the project to analyze his gifted power is indeed called as "Project: Blizzard" at HYDRA.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: While never badass in the "combat-capable" sense, his debut episode makes it clear he has borderline superhuman engineering abilities, rivaling those of Fitz (who is nearly a decade his senior and with more experience). After the accident at the end of his debut episode he gains a TouchOfDeath power via cryokinesis.
* FriendlessBackground: Bonds with Fitz over this and their love of engineering. He had no friends in his hometown, and even at S.H.I.E.L.D Academy, he's a loner.
* GadgeteerGenius: Built devices capable of freezing pools and people solid and causing massive superstorms.
* AnIcePerson: As a result of his ice machine backfiring on him, he gets cryokinetic powers. He also has the technical skill to make weapons which can copy those abilities as well.
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Has trouble interacting with people below a 170 IQ.
* NeverFoundTheBody: According to Skye, his body hasn't been found since she shot him and he fell into the ocean.
* StartOfDarkness: In the comics, he's the supervillain Blizzard and indeed, over the course of the episode, he gets his only friend killed and obtains cryokinetic powers. During his first appearance in season 2, he only uses them in self-defense or to spite HYDRA. His only villainous actions are due to brainwashing.
* TeenGenius: Has an IQ of 190.

[[folder:Tobias Ford]]
!!''Tobias Ford''

->'''Portrayed by''': Robert Baker
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' ("[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E9Repairs Repairs]]")

A technician who was seemingly killed in a laboratory accident; in reality, he's somehow caught between two worlds, and is stalking Hannah Hutchins.

* AntiVillain: Tobias is not trying to hurt Hannah, he's trying to protect her. [[PsychopathicManchild It's not]] [[StalkerWithACrush very comforting]], but it's a far cry from the killer or demon everyone originally thought him to be.
* TheAtoner: He's trying to make up for his mistakes.
* {{Expy}}: While teleporting is a fairly common power, doing so by traveling through a Hell-dimension in a puff of smoke is unique to the ''Franchise/XMen'''s ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}}. There's also the fact that both characters are very religious.
* ExtradimensionalShortcut: When he teleports, he travels between Earth and another realm he thinks is {{Hell}}.
* ManChild: He causes problems so Hannah will pay him attention; [[LovingBully like the boy in the sandbox that tugs on a girl's pigtails]].
* PsychopathicManchild: What he did when someone upsets his crush is to blow up their gas station or try to run them over.
* StalkerWithACrush: To Hannah, both less disturbing than normal (he's just a normal guy who didn't know how to talk to the girl he likes) and more (he sabotaged a ''particle accelerator''). Skye notes that he's acting like a kid with a crush.
* StealthHiBye: He pulls it a lot with the teleporting power and everything. Then May pulls it on him, disappearing in the space of a half-second black out right as he's about to whack her with a wrench.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: May confronts Tobias, and convinces him to stop "protecting" Hannah for her own sake, since his current actions are only dragging her to hell with him. He realizes this, and lets himself slip through.
* TeleporterAccident: The rough theory goes that the scientists running the particle accelerator were trying to recreate the rifts from ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. Then Tobias came in and sabotaged a minor part, which snowballed into a detonation that trapped him between two worlds. He's able to move between them, but is slowly losing himself to the other one.
* TeleportSpam: He makes good use of being stuck between worlds, such as disappearing to dodge attacks, enter locked rooms, and so forth.
* TooDumbToLive: He repeatedly sabotaged a ''particle accelerator'' in order to get Hanna's attention.
* WrenchWhack: He is lugging around a pipe wrench, which he was carrying during the accident. This serves as the first hint that there's more to the accident than first appears; a pipe wrench is not the proper tool to be tightening bolts with.
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[[folder:Marcus Daniels]]
!!''Marcus Daniels[=/=]Blackout''
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->'''Portrayed by''': Patrick Brennan
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E18Providence (Episode 18: Providence)]]'')

A former prisoner of the Fridge, Daniels was let out by the Clairvoyant and told to "follow his dreams".
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* BadassLongcoat: Sports a black trenchcoat.
* CastingAShadow: He's able to project beams of dark energy.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: DoubleSubverted. Though he's never referred to as Blackout, his S.H.I.E.L.D. file does list his codename, even though Coulson's arm is positioned to block most of it.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Appears in "Providence" before his focus episode.
* EnergyAbsorption: He's able to drain energy from nearby electrical devices, and can drain the electrical energy of living beings through physical contact.
* EvilWearsBlack: As befitting his codename, Blackout wears an entirely black outfit.
* MenacingStroll: He always moves at a calm, steady pace.
* PhlebotinumOverload[=/=]WeakenedByTheLight: How he was taken out in the past and present. The first time it just disabled him so S.H.I.E.L.D. could imprison him. Since he's been amped up in the present, Fitz devises gamma-powered lights that make him explode.
* StalkerWithACrush: Towards Audrey, who he calls his "only light in the darkness".
* TouchOfDeath: He can drain the energy from whatever he touches, including living beings.
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[[folder:Calvin Johnson]]
!!''Dr. Calvin L. Johnson''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Let's not lose our heads."'']]

->'''Portrayed by''': [[Creator/KyleMaclachlan Kyle MacLachlan]] (Season 2)
->'''Appearances''': ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E22BeginningOfTheEnd (Episode 22: The Beginning of the End)]]'')

Skye's father, who worked with Raina at one point in the past.
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* ButtMonkey: Every time he meets Team Coulson, it doesn't go over well for him. It's not like we [[AssholeVictim feel sorry]] when he's knocked out and/or [[WakingUpElsewhere wakes up somewhere else]].

** And is once again absent in Season Three, thanks to the ACTU taking precedence.

* StopHelpingMe: InUniverse, he's doesn't want Grant's "protection" given how it involves brutal killing.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: It ''seems'' she just wants to protect humanity... but her "relationship" with the President makes her motives suspect to say the least. [[spoiler: Turns out she's in league with Gideon Malick. However she completely unaware that he's HYDRA until she and Coulson put the pieces together.]]

* NumberTwo: To Rosalind. He leads the ATCU's operations to capture (or eliminate) Inhumans. Daisy even says this trope's name word to word in "Among Us Hide".

* UnreliableNarrator: He claims all of Grant's stories about making him torture their brother are false, and that Grant did it of his own free will. It's not clear which brother is lying, but the only evidence that clearly supports either one of them favors Grant's version of events. Grant eventually manages to get him to admit the truth. [[spoiler: Except in Season 3 we learn from Thomas that Grant was the one who pushed him down that well. Christian just told Grant what he wanted to hear in hopes he would let him live.]]