History Characters / MCUSHIELD

* HeroWithBadPublicity: People were understandably terrified to learn that S.H.I.E.L.D. was housing a major terrorist cell, which is why they don't officially exist anymore. In season four of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' then Director Jeffery Mace tried to legitimize the agency and get it back into the world's good graces, which worked... [[ShaggyDogStory Until an LMD of Daisy Johnson shot General Glean Talbot in the head]] which led to the remainder of S.H.I.E.L.D. being hunted down by the American government.

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan1'' | ''Film/IronMan2'' | ''Film/{{Thor}}'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' | ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' | ''Film/MarvelOneShots'' | ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' | ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' | ''Film/AntMan1'' | ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' | ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' | ''Series/WandaVision'' | ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'' [[note]] Archive footage[[/note]] | ''Film/{{Black Widow|2021}}''

[[center: [- [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse Main Character Index]] > Heroic Organizations > '''S.H.I.E.L.D.''' > [[Characters/MCUSHIELDLeadership Leadership]] | [[Characters/MCUSHIELDTeamCoulson Team Coulson]] ([[Characters/MCUPhilCoulson Phil Coulson]] | [[Characters/MCUDaisyJohnson Daisy Johnson]] | [[Characters/MCULeopoldFitz Leopold Fitz]] | Characters/MCUJemmaSimmons Jemma Simmons]]) | [[Characters/MCUSHIELDStrategicScientificReserve S.S.R.]] ([[Characters/MCUPeggyCarter Peggy Carter]] | [[Characters/MCUHowlingCommandos Howling Commandos]]) | [[Characters/MCUSHIELDRealSHIELD "Real" S.H.I.E.L.D.]] | [[Characters/MCUSHIELDOtherAgents Other Agents]] -]]]

[[center: [- [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse Main Character Index]] > Heroic Organizations > '''S.H.I.E.L.D.''' > [[Characters/MCUSHIELDLeadership Leadership]] | [[Characters/MCUSHIELDTeamCoulson Team Coulson]] ([[Characters/MCUPhilCoulson Phil Coulson]] | [[Characters/MCUDaisyJohnson Daisy Johnson]]) | [[Characters/MCUSHIELDStrategicScientificReserve S.S.R.]] ([[Characters/MCUPeggyCarter Peggy Carter]] | [[Characters/MCUHowlingCommandos Howling Commandos]]) | [[Characters/MCUSHIELDRealSHIELD "Real" S.H.I.E.L.D.]] | [[Characters/MCUSHIELDOtherAgents Other Agents]] -]]]

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan1'' | ''Film/IronMan2'' | ''Film/{{Thor}}'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' | ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' | ''Film/MarvelOneShots'' | ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' | ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' | ''Film/AntMan1'' | ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' | ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' | ''Series/WandaVision'' | ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'' [[note]] Archive footage[[/note]]

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan1'' | ''Film/IronMan2'' | ''Film/{{Thor}}'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' | ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' | ''Film/MarvelOneShots'' | ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' | ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' | ''Film/AntMan1'' | ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' | ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' | ''Series/WandaVision'' | ''Series/{{Loki}}'' [[note]] Archive footage[[/note]]

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan1'' | ''Film/IronMan2'' | ''Film/{{Thor}}'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' | ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' | ''Film/MarvelOneShots'' | ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' | ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' | ''Film/AntMan1'' | ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' | ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' | ''Series/WandaVision''

* {{Expy}}: For a variety of American government agencies. In Phase One they were meant to evoke the Department of Homeland Security (the War on Terror still being more relevant to contemporary audiences than WWII or the Cold War), even having "Homeland" in their name. In ''Series/{{Agent Carter}}'', the agents' attire and mode of operation more resembles the CIA (or OSS, rather) or Hoover's FBI.

* {{Expy}}: For a variety of American government agencies. In Phase One they were meant to evoke Homeland Security (the War on Terror still being more relevant to contemporary audiences than WWII or the Cold War), even having "Homeland" in their name. In ''Series/{{Agent Carter}}'', the agents' attire and mode of operation more resembles the CIA (or OSS, rather) or Hoover's FBI.

[[center: [- [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse Main Character Index]] > Heroic Organizations > '''S.H.I.E.L.D.''' > [[Characters/MCUSHIELDLeadership Leadership]] | [[Characters/MCUSHIELDTeamCoulson Team Coulson]] ([[Characters/MCUPhilCoulson Phil Coulson]]) | [[Characters/MCUSHIELDStrategicScientificReserve S.S.R.]] ([[Characters/MCUPeggyCarter Peggy Carter]] | [[Characters/MCUHowlingCommandos Howling Commandos]]) | [[Characters/MCUSHIELDRealSHIELD "Real" S.H.I.E.L.D.]] | [[Characters/MCUSHIELDOtherAgents Other Agents]] -]]]

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan1'' | ''Film/IronMan2'' | ''Film/{{Thor}}'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' | ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' | ''Film/MarvelOneShots'' | ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' | ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' | ''Film/AntMan1'' | ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' | ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome''

* DemotedToExtra: Was originally the linchpin that brought the Avengers and the entire SharedUniverse together. However, they fall to pieces in ''The Winter Soldier'' thanks to the HYDRA reveal, play a minor role in ''Age of Ultron'', and is mostly forgotten in the Phase 3 films, with the only references being the TV show (which has yet to crossover with the films) and some passing mentions in ''Ant-Man'', ''Civil War'', and ''Ant-Man And The Wasp'', and it's not until ''Captain Marvel'' that the Organization is prominently featured.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking. {{Invoked|Trope}} with the numerical clearance level, where an agent's level is based on accomplishment rather than age or seniority. In the premier of ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', Maria Hill stated that the Avengers are Level Six clearance, even though only three members--Captain America, Black Widow, and Hawkeye--are proper agents. By the time of ''Captain America: The Winter Soldier'', Natasha and Clint are at Level Seven, while Steve is at Level Eight. There was a six month difference between these two points.

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan1'' | ''Film/IronMan2'' | ''Film/{{Thor}}'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' | ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' | ''Film/MarvelOneShots'' | ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' | ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' | ''Film/AntMan1'' | ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' | ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame''

A '62 red Corvette that Coulson helped his father restore. Coulson has since made his own modification to the car.

* BrickJoke: Remember how Lola can fly? Comes in handy in "Seeds". The ability becomes a ChekhovsGun in "Nothing Personal," when her flying ability saves Coulson and Skye. Coulson is later able to restore her but only after getting S.H.I.E.L.D. back to ops. Whether she can still fly remains to be seen.

* PutOnABus: After being a regular fixture in Season 1, she's rarely seen in Season 2, but occasionally referenced; mostly by Mack, who's angling to do some work on her. Lola reappears in "One Door Closes", when Coulson finally offers Mack a peek under the hood. Completely absent in Season 3, though Lola starts to reappear in Season 4 when Coulson becomes a field agent again. She disappears for good after that; at best she was confiscated by the US government after S.H.I.E.L.D. lost the Playground base (and Coulson had bigger things to worry about than retrieving her).

* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: The deep HYDRA infiltration uncovered in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' has proven to be nigh impossible to get past, to the point where even though S.H.I.E.L.D. is technically back in the government's good graces, they still don't officially exist anymore. In Season 4 of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', however, S.H.I.E.L.D. relegitimizes as an agency under the United Nations to help enforce the Sokovia Accords, though people frequently bring up the HYRDA infiltration as a reason to continue distrusting it.

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan1'' | ''Film/IronMan2'' | ''Film/{{Thor}}'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' | ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' | ''Film/MarvelOneShots'' | ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' | ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' | ''Film/AntMan'' | ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' | ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame''

* DemotedToExtra: Was originally the linchpin that brought the Avengers and the entire SharedUniverse together. However, they fall to pieces in ''The Winter Soldier'' thanks to the HYDRA reveal, play a minor role in ''Age of Ultron'', and is mostly forgotten in the Phase 3 w films, with the only references being the TV show (which has yet to crossover with the films) and some passing mentions in ''Ant-Man'', ''Civil War'', and ''Ant-Man And The Wasp'', and it's not until ''Captain Marvel'' that the Organization is prominently featured.

* NeverLiveItDown: InUniverse, the deep HYDRA infiltration uncovered in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' has proven to be nigh impossible to get past, to the point where even though S.H.I.E.L.D. is technically back in the government's good graces, they still don't officially exist anymore. In Season 4 of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', however, S.H.I.E.L.D. relegitimizes as an agency under the United Nations to help enforce the Sokovia Accords, though people frequently bring up the HYRDA infiltration as a reason to continue distrusting it.

* PutOnABus: Rarely seen in Season 2, though occasionally referenced; mostly by Mack, who's angling to do some work on her. Lola reappears in "One Door Closes", when Coulson finally offers Mack a peek under the hood. Completely absent in Season 3, though Lola starts to reappear in Season 4 when Coulson becomes a field agent again.

* DemotedToExtra: Was originally the linchpin that brought the Avengers and the entire SharedUniverse together. However, they fall to pieces in ''The Winter Soldier'' thanks to the HYDRA reveal, play a minor role in ''Age of Ultron'', and is mostly forgotten in the Phase 3 w films, with the only references being the TV show (which has yet to crossover with the films) and some passing mentions in ''Ant-Man'', ''Civil War'', and ''Ant-Man And The Wasp''.

* DemotedToExtra: Was originally the linchpin that brought the Avengers and the entire SharedUniverse together. However, they fall to pieces in ''The Winter Soldier'' thanks to the HYDRA reveal, play a minor role in ''Age of Ultron'', and is mostly forgotten in the Phase 3 films, with the only references being the TV show (which has yet to crossover with the films) and some passing mentions in ''Ant-Man'', ''Civil War'', and ''Ant-Man And The Wasp''.

[[center: [- [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse Main Character Index]] > Heroic Organizations > '''S.H.I.E.L.D.''' > [[Characters/MCUSHIELDLeadership Leadership]] | [[Characters/MCUSHIELDTeamCoulson Team Coulson]] | [[Characters/MCUSHIELDStrategicScientificReserve S.S.R.]] | [[Characters/MCUSHIELDRealSHIELD "Real" S.H.I.E.L.D.]] | [[Characters/MCUSHIELDOtherAgents Other Agents]] -]]]

* HeroWithBadPublicity: People were understandably terrified to learn that S.H.I.E.L.D. was housing a major terrorist cell, which is why they don't officially exist anymore. In season four of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' then Director Jeffery Mace tried to legitimize the agency and get it back into the world's good graces which worked [[spoiler:[[ShaggyDogStory until an LMD of Daisy Johnson shot General Glean Talbot in the head]] which led to the remainder of S.H.I.E.L.D. being hunted down by the American government.]]

** In "The Patriot", May [[spoiler:(or rather, her LMD)]] tells Daisy that Coulson once let her drive Lola in an early mission of theirs.

* PutOnABus: Rarely seen in Season 2, though occasionally referenced; mostly by Mack, who's angling to do some work on her. Lola reappears in "One Door Closes", when Coulson finally offers Mack a peek under the hood. Completely absent in Season 3, though Lola starts to reappear in Season 4 [[spoiler:when Coulson becomes a field agent again]].

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan1'' | ''Film/IronMan2'' | ''Film/{{Thor}}'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' | ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' | ''Film/MarvelOneShots'' | ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' | ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' | ''Film/AntMan'' | ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' | ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}''

* AntiHero: As a whole, S.H.I.E.L.D. might be ultimately "on the side of the angels" (so to speak), but it's not that big of a surprise in retrospect that HYDRA was able to infiltrate them. In ''Endgame'', [[spoiler:when Tony and Steve travel to their base in New Jersey which was the place where the Captain America experiment and the Arnim Zola AI was housed, Iron Man calls them "quasi-fascistic" which Captain America doesn't challenge or respond to]].

* AntiHero: As a whole, S.H.I.E.L.D. might be ultimately "on the side of the angels" (so to speak), but it's not that big of a surprise in retrospect that HYDRA was able to infiltrate them.

* DemotedToExtra: Was originally the linchpin that brought the Avengers and the entire SharedUniverse together. It cracks apart in ''The Winter Soldier'' thanks to the HYDRA reveal and plays a minor role in ''Avengers 2'' and is mostly forgotten in the Phase 3 films, with the only references being the TV Show which has yet to crossover with the cinematic universe.
* {{Expy}}: For a variety of government agencies. In Phase One they were meant to evoke Homeland Security (the War on Terror still being more relevant to contemporary audiences than WWII or the Cold War), even having "Homeland" in their name. In ''Series/{{Agent Carter}}'', the agents' attire and mode of operation more resembles the CIA (or OSS, rather) or Hoover's FBI.

* HeroWithBadPublicity: People were understandably terrified to learn that S.H.I.E.L.D. was housing a major terrorist cell, which is why they don't officially exist anymore. In season four of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' then Director Jeffery Mace tried to legitimise the agency and get it back into the worlds good graces which worked [[spoiler:until and LMD of Daisy Johnson shot General Glean Talbot in the head which led to the remainder of S.H.I.E.L.D. being hunted down by the government.]]
* TheMenInBlack: Back in Phase One their agents would show up in black suits and try to keep a lid on things. However, it was obvious they didn't have a clear handle on exactly what was going on (they thought Tony had escaped the Ten Rings by turning collaborator, and that Thor was a foreign agent), and they stopped bothering with such secrecy when the cat got out of the bag.

* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Although S.H.I.E.L.D. itself survived the HYDRA infiltration, many operatives are dead, and the group is working on much more limited resources than before. They also have to cover their tracks because they're not officially supposed to exist.
* SpySchool: The S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy was split into three separate branchs: Communications, Operations, and Science and Technology. Of the three, the Operations Academy was closest to the traditional SpySchool trope.

-->'''Carol Danvers:''' Does announcing your identity on clothing help with the covert part of your job?

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: An entire team of patrol officers and SWAT officers riddle it with assault rifle fire. Given how heavily armored the thing is, anything less wouldn't have even been a bother. When they get tired of their bullets bouncing off the glass, they go to Plan B: the assassins deploys a pneumatic battering ram to break the window. Fury responds with a minigun that takes out most of the SWAT team and some of the patrols, and blows up the assassins' van and a squad car. This means they resort to Plan C: try to shoot at him during the resulting police chase. When Fury manages to trick the police cars into getting T-boned by a box rental truck, they resort to Plan D: have the Winter Soldier fire a sticky bomb that attaches itself to the underside of Fury's car and flips the car on its roof. Fury still escaped.