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9* [[WMG/AgentsOfShieldJossed Jossed Theories]]
10* [[WMG/AgentsofShieldConfirmed Confirmed Theories]]
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12[[foldercontrol]]
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16[[folder:Asgard]]
17
18[[WMG:Pathways]]
19It's interesting that Lorelei took one of Loki's pathways from Asgard to Midgard. Since it happened during the attack of the dark elves, Loki would have had no time to spare during the whole thing to be planning alternate plans. This means that someone else knows about his pathways. Unless, it was Loki-as-Odin who told her about it but this leads to another question: why did he let such a secret go, ''as Odin''?
20* Alternative theory: She just accidentally discovered a pathway. The pathways are called "Loki's" by Sif, but it is hinted that these connections between the Nine Realms simply naturally exist and that he just happens to know about them; he might even once accidentally discovered one himself. So while Lorelei didn't initially plan to take over earth, she just took her chance when she realised where she ended up while she was just fleeing from prison while everyone was distracted.
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22[[WMG: Wild Mass Guessing over Lorelei and Sif.]]
23Lorelei and Sif will appear in episode 15, so here are some theories:
24* Lorelei is a enemy of [[spoiler: [[EvilVersusEvil Loki Laufeyson.]]]]
25* Lady Sif is [[spoiler: victim of a UriahGambit.]]
26* Lorelei is TheDragon of Amora.
27
28[[WMG: If Loki appears, then his schemes will be less dangerous and menacing.]]
29Loki will be a HarmlessVillain, whose "evil" plans will basically amount to PokeThePoodle. Since he's already got [[spoiler: the throne of Asgard]], he doesn't need to go after petty humans unless it's for the lulz.
30* There is simply ''no way'' the show can afford Tom Hiddleston, even as a cameo. Plus [[spoiler: Loki is dead as of ''Infinity War''.]]
31
32[[WMG: [[CompositeCharacter Lorelei is Amora.]]]]
33It isn't that impossible to believe that Lorelei is The Enchantress but under a different name. We'll have to wait until much later to find out if this is true, but its doubtful since Amora is by far the more popular of the two, and Lorelei is acting closer to her comic-book self.
34
35[[WMG: Professor Randolph is Balder]]
36Randolph says that he didn't know Thor and that he was just a mason, but maybe movie Odin was simply more committed to hiding Balder's identity than comic Odin. It would explain why we haven't seen Balder in Thor movies so far.
37
38[[WMG: Loki will more friendly with Lorelei in this version, that in the comic.]]
39In the comics Loki was abusive with Lorelei. But as this version of Loki is more AffablyEvil, then his relationship with Lorelei will be friendlier.
40
41[[WMG: Tobias Ford was trapped on Muspelheim]]
42Of all the Asgardian realms, Muspelheim is easily the most likely one would mistake for the traditional FireAndBrimstoneHell. It ''is'' the primordial realm of fire, after all, and is basically Jotunheim's mirror in climate. Lava, soot, fire giants, probably other devil-like races or critters about, who could blame the guy who making such an interpretation?
43
44[[/folder]]
45
46[[folder:Future Characters]]
47
48[[WMG: This series will be used to show different heroes and villains in the extended Marvel Universe]]
49'''Heroes'''
50* ComicBook/BlackPanther
51** Getting his own movie in Phase 3, as it turns out, but still not impossible.
52* ComicBook/LukeCage
53** He's getting his own series as it turns out, but it's possible.
54* The ComicBook/ScarletWitch and ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}; to set up their appearance in ''Avengers 2''.
55** They were seen in the stinger for Winter Soldier, so they've already been set up.
56** [[spoiler: Wanda survived the Battle of Sokovia and joined the Avengers, but her brother is dead. Aaron Taylor Johnson signed a deal for more appearances as the character but Kevin Feige insists that "[he] is DEAD. 100%, he's not coming back any time soon, there are no plans. No life-model decoy, no escaping bullets, no retcon".]]
57* ComicBook/IronMan; His appearances will make up for the lack of SequelHook in ''Film/IronMan3''.
58** [[spoiler: Died in ''Endgame'', so not gonna happen unless it's a flashback]].
59* Doc Samson and Red She Hulk; they will help Shield in order to keep contact with Banner.
60* ComicBook/SheHulk; maybe as an origin episode.
61* ComicBook/IronFist; also getting his own series.
62* Eric O'Grady, but not as Ant-Man
63* Quake; [[spoiler:turns out she's been in the show the whole time.]]
64* ComicBook/CloakAndDagger
65** These two are probably the most likely of any. Whoever are running project Centipede were clearly targeting down-on-their-luck, desperate people as test subjects. Testing synthetic drugs on runaway teens, along the lines of Cloak and Dagger's origin story, wouldn't be too far a stretch from them.
66** They have a series officially in development on Freeform. A spin-off from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. would be a good launching pad.
67* ComicBook/HowardTheDuck
68** Even in comics, it's an official policy of S.H.I.E.L.D. that "the Duck man from Cleveland" is an UnPerson. However, it could be fun as a RunningGag.
69** Going off this, maybe the team will be called in to investigate a dimensional lapse, and find a talking duck having trouble ordering lunch at a restaurant.
70** [[spoiler: He is [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014 canon]] now, so it's possible]].
71* Jason Strongbow, aka American Eagle; Complete with his CoolHelmet and BadassBiker outfit from ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}''.
72* ComicBook/{{Blade}}
73** Getting his own movie.
74* ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}
75** Another hero getting his own series. But a cameo or crossover, again, isn't out of the question.
76* ComicBook/ThePunisher
77** He appears in the ''Daredevil'' series and will receive his own spinoff.
78* ComicBook/ManThing
79** Man-Thing is mentioned by Maria Hill in the episode "Nothing Personal".
80* Fans are still holding out for Carol Danvers to get her own movie as [[ComicBook/MsMarvel Captain Marvel,]] but an EarlyBirdCameo would be nice. Particularly since there's now ''two'' other characters running around with Kree material of some kind in their blood.
81** DC's ComicBook/{{Shazam}} movie is in the works, so this might get held up a bit.
82** Captain Marvel (Carol) will be getting her own movie in Phase 3!
83** And [[Film/CaptainMarvel2019 now it's released]].
84* Coulson found a [[spoiler: dead Kree in the Guest House, which implies a UFO crash.]] And "Providence" name-dropped the Cube prison. What Kree character was the only survivor of a crash on Earth, and did time in the Cube? [[ComicBook/YoungAvengers Noh-Varr]].
85* Ulysses Solomon Archer (aka ComicBook/US1)
86* Stingray
87* Captain Britain, possibly descended from Falsworth.
88* ComicBook/DoctorStrange
89** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' has revealed that he does exist in the MCU, though he hasn't appeared yet, and is still a very brilliant (and incredibly arrogant) neurosurgeon.
90*** He's getting his own movie in Phase 3.
91* Doctor Druid
92* ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules
93* Elektra
94** She appears on the ''Daredevil'' series
95* Maybe sometime we'll hear about Agent James Woo and his team from the 50s - [[ComicBook/AgentsOfAtlas Ken Hale, Bob Grayson, Venus, Namora and M-11.]]
96** Jimmy Woo appeared in ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'', but he looks too young to have been active in the fifties.
97* Jim Hammond/The Android Human Torch
98** He made a cameo in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', on display in the Stark Expo. Maybe he's one of those "Gifted" that the [=SSR=] approached before they called themselves "S.H.I.E.L.D". Or perhaps ComicBook/{{The Invaders|MarvelComics}} were set up after the war, seeing how Hank Pym and his wife were active during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar up to the 80s.
99* Agent Crimson or someone else to serve as the team's magic expert.
100* Hit-Monkey: Fitz will finally get that trained monkey he wanted.
101* Isaiah Bradley
102* Night Thrasher
103* Merlin
104* Black Knight (Dane Whitman)
105* Shang-Chi
106** Getting his own movie.
107* Whazzaaaaap, troopers! It's me, ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}! Just here to say that since I'm not a mutant and have really evolved beyond the X-Men mythos and become a great franchise in my own right, I would '''ROCK''' in this show! How about Wade Wilson, [[{{Wildcard}} Rogue Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.]]? They did it in that cartoon show!
108** '''Little White Thought Box''': Deadpool, it's impossible. You were in that Wolverine movie. Even if it wasn't ''really'' you and just some in-name bastard, the lawyers say no.
109** '''Deadpool''': What, so Magneto's kids can be in an Avengers movie just by slapping the von Strucker twins' origin on them, and I can't? Just swap out Wolverine's [=DNA=] for some of that alien-from-Tahiti blood (it's shown to be [[GoMadFromTheRevelation mind-expanding]], so it would explain how I [[MediumAwareness got my hands on the script]]), and we're good!
110** '''Little White Thought Box''': You already got your own kick ass movie which placed you firmly in Fox's hands, you most likely have a sequel in the works, so we may not be able to get your awesome self on the show...sorry.
111** '''Deadpool''': Well, Disney bought Fox, so now it's no longer an issue!
112* Blazing Skull
113* Quasar, since "Professor Vaughn" mentioned in "0-8-4" and "Seeds" could be Gilbert Vaughn, Wendell Vaughn's father.
114* Speedball
115* {{WesternAnimation/Stripperella}}, who became a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent after FUGG went bankrupt [[RealLifeWritesThePlot from a lawsuit]] and S.H.I.E.L.D. had to buy them to save their jobs.
116* Triathalon
117* Wonder Man, although he could also be a villain.
118** A deleted scene in ''Guardians Vol 2'' shows that Simon Williams does exist, but the canonicity of said scene (as well as if he has any powers) is up in the air.
119* Captain Universe
120* Darcy (Thor movies). Can you imagine just how well Skye and her would hit it off??? If not, [[http://sensoryinputpatterns.tumblr.com/post/83352528067/skye-and-darcy-meet-and-everyone-slowly-regrets try this]].
121* ComicBook/DamageControl
122* Ka-Zar
123* ComicBook/ShannaTheSheDevil
124* ComicBook/MoonKnight
125* Misty Knight
126* ComicBook/SquirrelGirl
127** Her entry on S.H.I.E.L.D's Gifted index can use her MemeticBadass joke by listing her as ''the'' most powerful person on the index.
128** She'll be a main character on Freeform's New Warriors show.
129* [[ComicBook/WerewolfByNight Jack Russell]]
130* [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]], although he could be a villain too...
131* Toro/Thomas Raymond, the sidekick to the Android Human Torch. He was recently revealed to have Inhuman Genes as well, so he could be ''very'' important.
132
133'''Villains'''
134* Ultron; although they might use him for ''Avengers 2''
135** Annnnd Ultron's in ''Avengers 2''. [[spoiler: He's dead, but again, he's very, very smart...]]
136* Baron Von Strucker; he is Nick Fury's ArchEnemy.
137** We saw him in the Stinger of ''The Winter Soldier''. He is mentioned as one of the important HYDRA leaders during season 2, but he turns out to be just a VillainOfAnotherStory, as he appears in ''Age of Ultron'', and may not be appearing again. We got to see his unworthy son in the series, still.
138** He's also going to be in ''Avengers 2''. [[spoiler: Then he died. But his actor also signed a multi-film contract.]] His son showed up in Season 3. Then Wolfgang himself showed up in a flashback in Season 5.
139* The Leader; according to the one shot ''Avengers'' prequel comic, he was placed in Shield Custody. Maybe he's in HYDRA's hands now.
140* General Ross/[[spoiler: Red Hulk]], who is also going to be in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar.''
141* Kang The Conqueror as a season's BigBad.
142* Oblivion, who will be the show's version of [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer The First]].
143* Joss will be dropping hints that [[spoiler: Aldrich Killian isn't the Mandarin and the true one is still out there]] or that someone has inherited the title of [[spoiler:the Mandarin]].
144** An {{Expy}} of the comic book Mandarin. This one will be closer to the original Mandarin (an East Asian guy with ten [[RingOfPower Rings of Power]]) rather than the [[Film/IronMan3 film]] version. However, he won't be called "the Mandarin" and will instead go by [[IHaveManyNames one of the other names]] that the Mandarin has used, such as Tem Borjigin.
145** This has been semi-confirmed. The 'real' Mandarin does exist and is a lot closer to the original from the comics, but is also still calling himself the Mandarin.
146*** He's been set aside for the Shang-Chi movie.
147* Fin Fang Foom.
148* Grim Reaper
149* Purple Man. He would be easy on the special effects budget.
150** Appeared in the ''Series/JessicaJones2015'' Netflix series. [[spoiler:Also died.]]
151* Moonstone
152* Marvel's version of Dracula. The Buffy reference would be too good for Joss to resist.
153* Red Skull, back from [[spoiler:wherever he got Bifrosted by the Tesseract to.]] Probably played by a different actor.
154** [[spoiler: Unless the show somehow goes to Vormir, jossed]].
155* The Hate Monger. Who knows, maybe Captain America will appear in an episode and punch out Hitler for real.
156* Ghost, possibly as an affiliate of the Rising Tide
157** Appeared in ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'', although [[spoiler: the film's ending does still leave this door open]].
158* M.O.D.O.C., the new leader of AIM. (Or, rather, George Tarleton, but he mutates himself into M.O.D.O.C.)
159-->'''Tarleton:''' I am a ''far'' more superior leader than [[spoiler: Aldritch Killian]] ever was, because I am not using AIM's resources for revenge on a harmless practical joke!
160-->'''Coulson:''' I don't disagree...
161* Loki. The guy (sort of) killed Coulson, he's already been referred to many times if not by name... Plus, he's one of the most popular characters in the Cinematic universe.
162** Creator/TomHiddleston himself [[http://screencrush.com/marvel-agents-of-shield-loki-tom-hiddleston/ has expressed interest in such an idea]].
163** Lady Loki: A Clone of Loki or Lady Sif. [[spoiler: As of the end of ''Dark World'' he's posing as Odin, and ruling Asgard unbeknownst to anyone. In all likelihood, it was him who sent Lady Sif to capture Lorelei, which means there's a high chance that he knows Coulson's alive.]]
164* Zzzax. We were expecting him/it for F.Z.Z.T.
165* [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger Arnim Zola]] in his famous face-on-a-robot's-chest form.
166* The Super-Adaptoid. Because its main ability is PowerCopying, a team full of ordinary humans would likely be the best choice to defeat it. The Super-Adaptoid will defeat whatever super tries to beat it only to be brought down by ordinary humans. This would fit nicely with the show's theme that "Not all heroes are super."
167* Klaw
168** Appeared in Age of Ultron, where he had his arm cut off by Ultron. It's possible that he could appear in the show getting his signature artificial replacement before showing up in the Black Panther movie.
169*** [[spoiler: Got killed off in Panther[='=]s solo movie. So very unlikely]]
170* Batroc
171** He's going to be in The Winter Soldier.
172* Crossbones
173** Also in The Winter Soldier.
174** [[spoiler:Died in ''Civil War'', so unlikely.]]
175* Black Knight (Nathan Garrett)
176* The High Evolutionary, who is responsible for the powers of Scorch and several other "gifted" individuals.
177* Juggernaut. Unlike the [[Film/XMenTheLastStand the other live-action version]], this one will be closer to the comic book version to avoid violating Fox's right to mutants. It would be great for someone to finally remember that Juggernaut is ''not'' a mutant. The only problem is, would the plane survive Juggie making some 'unwanted advances' to it?
178** He was in ''Film/Deadpool2'', and already closer to the comics, so unless ''Agents'' decided to touch upon his relationship with Professor X (which the film implied, but didn't outright state), it would be redundant.
179* It's been confirmed that the Iron Man villain Blizzard will make an appearance. "Seeds" is his origin story back when he was just Donny Gills.
180* Bullseye
181* Madame Masque
182** Appeared in Agent Carter.
183* Titanium Man
184* Controller
185* Bi-Beast
186* U-Foes
187* Ultimo
188* Ymir
189* Mangog
190* Ulik
191* Surtur
192** He was in ''Film/ThorRagnarok''.
193* Baron Zemo
194** Confirmed to be appearing in Captain America: Civil War.
195* Iron Cross
196* Taskmaster
197* Killer Shrike
198* Unicorn
199* Doctor Demonicus, a geneticist and would be responsible for other super empowered beings.
200* Machete (either of the Lopez brothers: Ferdinand, Alfonzo or Mariano)
201* Nitro
202* The Winter Soldier himself. [[spoiler: Last seen going on a quest to regain his missing memories and quit being a villain. It wouldn't be too surprising if the team runs into him at some point. Plus it would be another fanboy moment for Coulson to see that ''the'' Bucky Barnes is still alive.]] It would also parallel quite well with Triplett's grandfather in the Howling Commandos, who [[spoiler: Bucky]] would have been close with. Third, how awesome would it be to see [[spoiler: The Winter Soldier go up against Agent May?]]
203** [[spoiler: In the comics, Bucky is good friends with both Quake and Mockingbird; given their presence in the show, it wouldn't be surprising to see him drop by and establish said friendship.]]
204* The Pride. One of the few cops they haven't paid off or killed off yet calls in TheTeam to help with a criminal organization with considerable power but unusually small reach. [[spoiler: They may or may not be working for the Gibborim, who would still be aiming to destroy the world.]] [[ComicBook/{{Runaways}} Their children]] will also do what they do, causing trouble both for The Pride and Coulson's team.
205** They're set to appear in Hulu's ''Runaways'' series.
206* Hyperion
207* Korvac
208* The Sentry, due to his SuperPoweredEvilSide.
209* Namor will probably start off as one, perhaps attacking Team Coulson or the entire Helicarrier out of another oxygen imbalance and curb-stomping everyone else before someone manages to stop him.
210* Maximus the Mad
211** Set to appear in ''The Inhumans''.
212
213[[WMG: Raina and Skye are either sisters or clones]]
214[[spoiler: It explains her shock when she analyzes Skye's DNA and why she alludes to Skye being 'someone similar' to her. They have the same parent, or are genetically engineered metahumans from another metahuman's DNA. Raina also knew about the massacre of the village to get to Skye...because she was still living with her parents or someone in their inner circle, and heard about it. It partially explains her quest to find unique people: because she's also looking for her family, same as Skye.]] [[spoiler: Also, their names. Skye. Raina. ''Sky and Rain.'']]
215* Close. They are both Inhumans.
216
217[[WMG: Either Fitz or Simmons will become a Ghost Rider]]
218* It's clearly being built up that Fitz will have severe brain damage by the time season 2 begins. Either him or Simmons will be unable to handle his condition, and they'll be offered a deal by Mephisto: heal Fitz in return for their soul. Of course the person who makes the deal won't realize the side effects of it. Furthermore, Ghost Rider is a character similar to Deathlok in which the [[LegacyCharacter legacy]] of the character can easily be passed on to CanonImmigrants.
219* They could cut out the supernatural elements and make it more of a Johnny-Ketch style Ultimate Ghost Rider, who becomes a Ghost Rider-ish Machine Man. This would work a bit better for a computer genius.
220
221[[WMG: Grant Ward will become the MCU version of Paladin]]
222Paladin in the comics is a highly skilled mercenary who is shown to work with heroes just as often as he works with villains. He's an exceptional liar/actor/espionage specialist and has a history of having his judgement heavily influenced by women he's in love with. Additionally, not only is Ward the only main cast member [[note]] aside from Skye, what with her being Daisy Johnson and all[[/note]] of the show not to appear in the new 616-universe Agents of SHIELD comic (either because he's HYDRA and they didn't feel like rehashing that plot element in the book or because [[spoiler: like Skye]] he's not a CanonForeigner), but also... nobody in the comics actually knows what Paladin's real name is. He's given it as "Paul Denning" before, but this is suggested to be a fake name. In-show, it would make sense for him to choose the name "Paladin" as a reflection of the "[[ThePaladin true hero]]" he really wants to be, but in practice, he's still an aimless merc whose loyalty is up for grabs. Bonus points for possibly using an old ICER as the MCU version of Paladin's "Stun-Gun".
223
224[[WMG: Agent 33 will become Madame Masque]]
225If she can't shake off the HYDRA brainwashing, she'll eventually get a mask for her face to keep people from thinking she's May.
226* In "Love in the Time of Hydra", when Talbot found out she infiltrated his base he called her a "damn mask".
227* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames, but it appears as though she is the MCU's counterpart for this character.
228
229[[WMG: [[ComicBook/TheInhumans Xiaoyi/Iso]] will appear in Lai Xi]]
230As one of the only known Chinese Inhuman in the comics, it'd be fitting for her to appear there (assuming it is in China). She could even be related to Skye and Jiaying.
231
232[[WMG: In season 3 or 4, the team will get a C-List Magic Expert on their Team]]
233Scarlet Witch has made her debut, and Doctor Strange will be making his around the time the fourth season would be premiering (if they get that far). With the growing need to deal with magical threats, Coulson's team will need to find an expert to help them out. One possiblity is [[ComicBook/AlphaFlight Shaman]], since Alpha Flight likely won't be making an appearance in anyone else's movies.
234
235[[/folder]]
236
237[[folder:Project Centipede]]
238
239[[WMG: The friend Edison Po blinded was Gustav Brant.]]
240Going back to Zodiac, the blind Brant became Libra.
241
242[[WMG: Project Centipede did not originate from Earth.]]
243Not the formula, the project itself. The Clairvoyant is an alien who came to Earth after the Chitauri attack, the reason being that the Clairvoyant needed an expendable race that couldn't fight back if Project Centipede was revealed/deployed to the public, namely humanity. Edison Po and Raina are both members of the Clairvoyant's race, but disguised as humans, explaining the duress under pressure. Scientists like Debbie are human, and are therefore [[WeHaveReserves expendable]]. As for the formula, it's derived from 4 known sources of superpower: Super Soldier Serum, gamma radiation, Chitauri technology, and Extremis. The makeup of the SSS was lost when Erksine was killed, and people are still trying to work it out. It's unlikely that the members of Project Centipede could have deciphered it. The Clairvoyant could have unlocked the formula by brain-probing Erksine while he was alive, without his knowledge.
244
245[[WMG: Related to the above: Project Centipede was started by the Kree.]]
246[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhumans It would not be the first time they tried to give powers to humans in order to turn them into weapons.]]
247
248[[WMG: Centipede created Deathlok to be the next superpowered assassin because [[spoiler: The Winter Soldier]] was deemed impure.]]
249Dethlok has some similarities to The Winter Soldier. They have both lost limbs and were brainwashed by the organizations to become an assassin. If Centipede is a HYDRA operation, they need a back up man now that the Winter Soldier has gone off the grid, having saved Steve and all that...
250
251[[/folder]]
252
253[[folder:Coulson's Death and Resurrection]]
254
255[[WMG: Akela saw something mechanical inside of Coulson.]]
256As implied by her final lines to May ("no, what did they ''do'' to him?"), she saw something inside his body with her mechanical eye's alternate vision. Either an artificial heart as mentioned above, or some kind of device attached to his brain that is responsible for altering his memories.
257
258[[WMG: Coulson has a mechanical heart.]]
259Just like [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Picard]] when he got stabbed by a Nausicaan as an Ensign, when Coulson got stabbed through the heart by Loki they quickly replaced it with an artificial one.
260
261[[WMG: Coulson made a contract with [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica one of the Incubators]] ]]
262He survived being stabbed because his Soul Gem was unharmed. They just repaired his body and then he was fine. The higher-ups don't want him to know since everyone else who's been informed of the true nature of the Soul Gem has had a freakout.
263Combining this a bit with the "Coulson is psychic" guess in the "Other" section, the reason that he is so aware of everything on seemingly so little clues is because something about his wish gave him psychic powers or he has just figured out how to use magic to see these things.
264* For extra fun, his wish was to bring Captain America home to New York (meaning the body but accidentally saving his life since he turned out to be alive, or else he just wished to save him outright and his wish was powerful enough to reach back in time).
265Camilla notes that Coulson has a 'renewed idealism' and Amadar wonders if someone 'did something' to him because he's nicer and more forgiving than she remembers. It's possible that Coulson was emotionally conditioned while in Tahitil to believe that HopeSpringsEternal as a safeguard against despair. A second safeguard is all the old things on The Bus; he's surrounded by physical reminders of the GoodOldWays and thus how GoodIsOldFashioned.
266
267[[WMG: The reason why Coulson has no muscle Memory is because his muscles were rebuilt]]
268After around three months, your body is completely decomposed and there is just a skeleton. Or at least your far enough along that a good chunk of your muscles are gone. The series works as about real time. It's been a bit over a year since ''The Avengers''. And Coulson did not comeback immediately, he came back only a few weeks ago. SHIELD contacted someone (Doctor Strange, Mephisto, Enchantress, possibly Brother Voodoo, etc) to bring him back. While they brought him back completely, the various muscles and tendons had to be rebuilt, which would have erased the "muscle memory" as it wore,or the brain was far enough decomposed it rebuilt itself as a bit of a blank slate (see "The Enemy Within" in ''ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}}''). The Tahiti memories are not only fake, they were built to cover up the trauma of him coming back and as an excuse for the physical therapist thing. Or the Therapist could be whomever brought him back. Either way, decomposition is what caused him to lose the muscle memory.
269
270[[WMG: Coulson is a WMG/TimeLord]]
271Lola is his Tardis. When Loki stabbed him, he just regenerated back into himself. Somehow.
272
273[[WMG: Coulson really did die, but was brought back [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 Project Lazarus style.]]]]
274 His implants were seen by Akela with her x-ray vision, which is what she mentioned to Melinda. Besides, he seems to have enhanced reflexes, as seen in the pilot when he dodged a flying van door. It remains to be seen if or when he'll show any other enhanced abilities.
275* Close. Project Lazarus =/= Project T.A.H.I.T.I.
276
277[[WMG: Coulson is the current vessel for the entity Eternity]]
278While Eternity's been grooming him as a vessel for a while (which is why he was tangentially involved in each Avenger's life) when he died, Eternity got Coulson's soul and healed the body. "Tahiti" is where the two managed to equalize themselves. The bright light was Eternity itself (and why it felt longer. It was, literally, eternity) and why Coulson isn't exactly the same. It's not just him in the body anymore.
279
280[[WMG: "Coulson" is a Skrull sleeper agent]]
281He has all of Coulson's memories, but doesn't remember that he's a Skrull. When he finds out, it will lead to him BecomingTheMask. The Skrull letters on the chalkboard in "Eye Spy" could have been foreshadowing.
282
283[[WMG: Coulson was brought back using Hydra Tech]]
284The ultimate Captain America fanboy would be horrified by being kept alive by something made by such an evil organisation, especially if its creation involved unwilling human experimentation. SHIELD repressed his memories of what was done to try and save him the guilt of knowing how he was brought back. If it's some sort of device, it could also be what his protege saw in him in "Eye Spy".
285* [[spoiler: Considering the events of The Winter Soldier, this might be true. It could be tech based on Hydra experiments at least.]]
286
287[[WMG: Coulson is a SuperSoldier and he was in the Captain America movie.]]
288It isn't enough that Coulson came back. If they had that technology to bring everyone back then there would be no death at all in Shield. You croak, ok, you'll be fine in a week. Not just anyone can be brought back, but Coulson isn't just anyone.
289Sometime after Captain America got frozen, another scientist wanting to recreate the supersoldier serum and succeeded in the prototype phase with human testing. It didn't work after that because of a specific set of required traits that the original serum also needed. But it worked for a young Private Coulson who had those traits.
290Private Coulson signed on to join the program to follow in the footsteps of his childhood hero. Listen to him talk to Steve and the reverence he has in his eyes. There's only two ways someone would regard someone else like that: Either they fall in love with the person which isn't likely here, or if their life was saved. Phil Coulson was saved by Steve when Steve got his powers because he was the little boy the Hydra Agent took hostage. He was personally there to witness the man, be saved, and ultimately hero worship in a way no one else could possibly understand because they were never there.
291Coulson can be brought back to life for the same reason Steve was able to wake up from being turned into a capsicle. Because the serum allows it.
292
293[[WMG: The 7 Surgeries]]
294 Dr. Streiten tells Coulson that there were ''six'' failed attempts to revive him; right before the brain surgery scene (which merely altered his memories to erase the trauma of the surgeries), there are 6 brief flashes of scientific and medical equipment that are implied to be the previous attempts and appear to be:
295 * 1) [[http://i.imgur.com/pPZ7SuC.gif The extraterrestrial GH-325 serum]][[note]]As revealed in episode 1x13, T.A.H.I.T.I.[[/note]]
296 * 2) [[http://i.imgur.com/FmWCpHy.gif ???]]
297 * 3) [[http://i.imgur.com/LUz8e3Z.gif An artificial heart]]
298 * 4) [[http://i.imgur.com/IOZDXx8.gif More surgery (Dr. Stephen Strange, perhaps?)]]
299 * 5) [[http://i.imgur.com/aoaboQ5.gif Strange black liquid in an IV bag]]
300 * 6) [[http://i.imgur.com/TkLmn1z.gif Some sort of case?]] [[note]]It looks very familiar; can anyone identify this?[[/note]]
301** The character in (#6) is similar to the [[http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3799/13140265373_a767c5d44c_o.jpg diagram with the Skrull characters]] from Eye Spy. Which Akela Amador was sent likely by the Clairvoyant to scan and record.
302And the successful one (#7) is as of this writing, unknown.
303
304[[WMG: Captain America knows Coulson is alive even before the events in ''Winter Soldier'']]
305Information on Coulson being alive is restricted to Level 7 clearance and as shown in Winter Soldier Cap is Level 8. He knows, he's just forced not to make contact due to protocols.
306
307[[/folder]]
308
309[[folder:Skye[=/=][[spoiler:Daisy Johnson]]]]
310[[WMG: Skye is part of the extremely complicated TangledFamilyTree that binds the X-Men and the Avengers]]
311You know, the one with [[ComicBook/AntMan Hank Pym]] being married to [[ComicBook/TheWasp Jan van Dyne]] and creating Ultron, who created Vision, who married ComicBook/ScarletWitch, sister of Quicksilver and daughter of Magneto.
312
313[[WMG: Skye ''thinks'' Coulson is her father.]]
314Regardless of whether or not he actually is, she considers it a fairly strong possibility. This would explain why she specifically sent her messages to him, when she theoretically could have made the same threat to any SHIELD official, including some with much more clout than Coulson. (Let's face it, Nick Fury himself probably would have stood up and paid attention if he thought there was even a slight chance Skye had confidential SHIELD info to leak. He even explicitly calls her "a risk" [[spoiler: during his appearance at the end of Episode 2.]]) The fact that a bona fide badass who regularly deals with aliens, gods, and other super-beings thinks of a run-of-the-mill human armed with an old laptop as a risk says something about her. She could have easily gotten to the SHIELD higher ups if she wanted to dig up info on the redacted file. Instead, she inserted herself into Coulson's team. There has to be a reason behind her specifically choosing him and "I think he's my father" is as good a reason as any.
315
316[[WMG: Part of Skye's metahuman DNA involves the ability to charm people]]
317As mentioned, Skye is sometimes considered a Mary Sue. Perhaps this is deliberate because her origins give her an innate ability to charm people into liking her.
318
319[[WMG: Skye has healing powers]]
320In "The Magical Place", she pulls Coulson out of the vision he's seeing, telling him to "come back" over and over again. When she did this, she subconsciously triggered her own powers (which were the reason [[spoiler: someone killed an entire village to get to her when she was an infant]] and reversed the effect that the machine had on Coulson.
321
322[[WMG: Skye is subconsciously influencing people to protect her. ]]
323Whatever her powers are, one of them might be way to force people to protect her. As a kind of CharmPerson. In T.A.H.I.T.I the whole team goes above and beyond desperate measures to save her (raid a medical compound and kill the guards? They even break out the heavy rifles instead of their usual stun weaponry) and while this makes sense for some of them, it's suspicious of May to suddenly go apeshit on the guy who shot her when she earlier didn't seem to like her much. It was even more suspect that Garrett and his assistant who don't even know her almost immediately decide to help Coulson upon hearing about Skye's condition, almost magically. And twice later Simmons is stumped, thinks of what Skye would do, and then immediately has the answer. This would also explain why a whole village and a squad of shield agents were willing to die for her as a baby. Skye herself probably doesn't know this but its so strong she can do it even on the brink of death.
324* This theory is more solid after the events of 1.16, where [[spoiler: Ward kills the fake Clairvoyant after he threatens Skye. Even the other characters point out that it's uncharacteristic of the usually stoic Ward to lose his cool like that.]]
325* [[spoiler: The reactions of both Garet and his assistant, and especially ''May'' seem far too abrupt to be reasonable even under the circumstances. Though the justification given for Garet seems to be that he's lost enough people to the Clairvoyant already, May has no such explanation, and is even aware that her choice to attack Quin - for no reason other than the fact he shot Skye - made no sense. The contrast to her usual [[TheStoic manner]] is ''far'' too jarring for {{Defrosting Ice Queen}} or {{Character Development}} to cover it.]]
326** [[spoiler:Garrett's reasoning turned out to be [[CerebusRetcon more sinister than previously thought]]--being [[BigBad the Clairvoyant]] the entire time, he was there under the pretense of picking up Quinn but was actually there so Coulson would lead him to the source of his revival.]]
327
328[[WMG: The reason why Skye unpersoned herself for the first time was to destroy all evidence of the name given to her by the orphanage]]
329With a name like Mary Sue Poots, can you blame her?
330
331[[WMG: Skye’s 0-8-4 power is that she is a Black Hole Sue. ]]
332No. seriously, it might happen. So far EVERYONE has eventually come around to liking her and anyone who ever didn’t was portrayed as in the wrong until they changed their minds. However, instead of this just being bad writing on their part, this is her 0-8-4 power messing with people's minds. Fuelled by feelings of abandonment and loneliness when she was a child, her power manipulated reality without her knowing it. Feelings of abandonment as an orphan? No! It's okay! She has a tragic unknown backstory which causes the rest of the main cast to become the family she wishes she had. Even Ward and May, who never had any plans on getting too attached to her (especially Ward), become her big brother and mother figures. Add to that that she’s Conveniently an Orphan, Raised by S.H.I.E.L.D who were also killed off, off-screen, before the plot started and you can see that while her 0-8-4 is trying to ‘fix’ her life, it’s not good at it. For instance, it makes her beautiful while homeless and capable of hacking SHIELD with a garden-variety laptop. She starts as mildly unrealistic and escalating from there into god-like because its feeding her escalating desire to be useful to and needed by her new "family". Her 0-8-4 contrives situations where she is the only one that can save the day. What’s scary, and probably going to be the main plot point is that while Skye might not be aware of it, her power might be aware of her. In fact, it might be mildly self-aware to the point that it acknowledges what it’s doing by giving her the ‘real’ name of ‘Mary Sue Poots’ before then allowing her the 'cool' name of Skye. Her 0-8-4 power is the ability to subconsciously manipulate reality to make her the main character with the true companions that she always wanted when she was little and alone. On a lighter note, it could also be TV tropes has been given god like form. Either one is fine.
333* It wouldn't be the first time this has happened in a Creator/JossWhedon show. Remember [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Jonathan's]] RealityWarper spell? Picture that as a constantly active superpower.
334* Her supposed "birth" father might have the same ability, but either on a smaller scale, as shown with Reina, and/or on the exact opposite polarity. Worse yet, unlike Skye, ''he can actively control this power''.
335
336[[WMG: When Skye alters the records so that a person with her birth name exists, Skye will become her middle name]]
337It gives her a reason why she answers to it - lots of people in history have answered to their middle names - and it also means that her dad has no grounds to flip out if someone calls her Skye in his hearing, as that will be part of her name.
338
339[[WMG: Skye will become the Director of SHIELD]]
340Being an agent has already taken quite a toll on Coulson, the day may come when he wants to step down or is otherwise incapacitated. Skye has been told repeatedly that she's shaping up to be a great leader. It would also nicely mirror her counterpart in the comics.
341
342[[WMG: By the very end of the series, Skye will be left as the SoleSurvivor of Team Coulson.]]
343That would be a rare non-slasher movie example of the FinalGirl trope; she would also be the one to defeat the show's final BigBad, and, in the final scene, wind up back in the main timeline, seeing S.H.I.E.L.D. rebuilding in outer space.
344
345[[/folder]]
346
347[[folder:Season 1-2 Hiatus Theories]]
348
349[[WMG: The Koenigs aren't siblings.]]
350They're truly a series of [=LMDs=] (highly humanesque robots would dovetail nicely with [=AoU=]) and there will be a new one at every single top secret SHIELD facility they visit. They even have ''blood''. The reasons they are both Coulson {{fanboy}}s is because Coulson is Fury's "One Good Eye" and he wants them to be personally loyal to Coulson, after himself. Their welcoming speech was exactly the same. As in, word by word the same. It's ''programming''.
351* The SDCC promo [[spoiler:showed ''yet another'' Clone-ig]]. More evidence for this theory?
352* ''Triplett'' is freaked out by how all these brothers look and act the same. Apparently, he has shared his own [=WMG=]s with Skye and it's beginning to annoy her.
353
354[[WMG: Ward [[DragonAscendant will become]] the new BigBad.]]
355The [[DeathGlare expression on his face]] when Coulson confronts him could suggest he's plotting his revenge on the heroes. This will also be a great way to subvert the expectation that he will go through a long redemption arc similar to [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Faith or Spike.]]
356* The ending on Season 2 makes it very likely.
357
358[[WMG: Fitz could be brought back as an LMD.]]
359The Koenigs seem very suspiciously LMD-like, especially with the SDCC promo. So, why not Fitz? Fitz-as-LMD could end up being a thing; we only have Fury's word for it that he's alive, and I'd be counting my fingers after shaking hands with that one-eyed lying sumbitch. Fitz could have turned out to be brain dead, and Fury quickly swaps him out for an identical LMD, whose dearths in knowledge and memory could be chalked up to aforementioned brain damage. But why would Fury do this? Because his one good eye still needs May's team to watch him for any GH-325 side effects, and fix him if need be. Going by the finale stinger, that might be sooner rather than later.
360
361[[WMG: Stark ''already'' knows that Coulson's alive]]
362Really, S.H.I.E.L.D. didn't go to all that great lengths to cover up his resurrection from other people. Stark likely saw a news clip or picture of Coulson, figured it out, and then didn't say anything because it's Coulson's business to tell him.
363
364[[WMG: We'll learn more about May's mother]]
365Including who she works for.
366* Not in Season 2, but it did happen early in Season 3.
367
368[[WMG: Tripplett's grandfather isn't Gabe Jones, but Jaques Dernier.]]
369Given his ''very'' french name and the large black population in France, it's not too much of a stretch. (Plus, making the black guy the grandson of the only black Commando is a little obvious, and we know how much this show loves its twists.)
370
371[[/folder]]
372
373[[folder:The "Real" S.H.I.E.L.D.]]
374
375[[WMG: Real SHIELD and Coulson's SHIELD will eventually resolve their differences with civilty]]
376Instead of coming to blows any further, the two factions will talk it out and eventually reach some level of understanding; Gonzales will prove that he's legitimate in his claims about loyalty and fair treatment of the agents while Coulson will prove he's perfectly capable and trustworthy of running SHIELD. The two will reach some kind of peace and either merge or co-exist as separate entities, after taking some pointers from each other on their respective failings. Because there's no reason they can't resolve this like adults and find some way to do it without any further conflict.
377* Confimed!
378
379[[WMG: Bobbi and Mack will defect to Coulson's SHIELD]]
380Pretty self-explanatory, despite claiming that his 'Real' SHIELD is diplomatic, Gonzales seems to dislike or outright ''ignore'' the input from others and is displaying a lot of fantastic racism towards Skye and Coulson - Bobbi and Mack, who know them better, are eventually gonna see just how broken this 'Real' SHIELD is, and how built on hypocrisy it is, eventually.
381* More like they resolve their differences peacefully.
382
383[[WMG: Alternatively, Bobbi will defect, but Mack won't.]]
384Having one of them stick with Gonzales permanently will add weight to the situation. Of the two of them Mack seems more likely, since we're already getting signs that Bobbi isn't completely on board with some of 'real' SHIELD's actions, but none for Mack. Also, losing Mack would hurt Fitz, and Fitz must suffer. [[TheWoobie Always]].
385* Close. Mack is very distrustful of Coulson and therefore resigns... right before Retirony nearly gets him, after which he chooses to stay.
386
387[[WMG: May will join the "real" S.H.I.E.L.D. council]]
388Then she'll demand the impeachment of Gonzales for a laundry list of charges. The sheer number of hypocrisies will gain her a number of allies and this could either lead to a successful impeachment or a civil war within "real" S.H.I.E.L.D.
389
390[[/folder]]
391
392[[folder:Inhumans]]
393
394[[WMG: Scorch is an Inhuman.]]
395The nuclear power plant that melted down near his birthplace was actually a secret lab researching the Terrigen Mists. This is why he was the only one affected.
396
397[[WMG: The city revealed in the alien writing isn't Attilan]]
398...It's Orollan: the Inhuman city that not even the Attilan residents knew about. It's quite a bit different from the culture of Attilan, since it only has a limited supply of Terrigen and therefore the residents only allow those they deem worthy to undergo Terrigenesis - seems pretty close to how Skye's dad described the Diviner.
399
400[[WMG: The Alien was trying to destroy the mystery city]]
401That was why it was so frantic to get there. Something time-sensitive was about to occur that the alien was trying to stop. There are many possiblities: the inhabitants posed a threat to Earth or the alien's own race, or maybe they found something they weren't supposed to, or both. If the theory that the city is Attilan is true, then perhaps it was racing to stop them from discovering Terrigenesis.
402
403[[WMG: Trip isn't dead, and is in fact another Inhuman.]]
404B.J. Britt has been on the set of Age of Ultron, so there's already that going for him. Plus, when he went down the hole into the city, possessed Mack didn't start hunting him down or trying to stop him from reaching the temple, as he did Coulson. There's several things supporting this theory:
405* In the comics, there's an African-American Inhuman codenamed Hollow whose powers make him intangible. That could be why we see nothing after Trip's cocoon cracks open. It's writer slight-of-hand.
406* As noted above, nothing hinders Trip from being in the inner sanctum with Skye and Raina, even though it's been indicated that no one who's not "chosen" could get that far. They gave Trip and [=FitzSimmons=] a reason for being able to get down there with the hazmat suits, but then take away that reason when Trip goes back down there alone. Either that's very poor storytelling, or he was allowed to get in there for a very specific reason, and it'd have to be for a more specific reason than just to show that AnyoneCanDie.
407* At the end when the Eyeless Man (Gordon) is on the phone, he says there's "'''someone'''" new. Not the singular, even though it was two people, Skye and Raina, who transformed simultaneously. If Eyeless Man(Gordon) has any contact with Skye's father, than Skye and Raina could've been highly anticipated to come down there and become Inhuman. The "someone new" could refer to Trip, the one person no one had anticipated would be down there.
408* Finally, the official "Farewell to BJ" video ends with Clark Gregg declaring his refusal to move on and holding up the #TripLives hashtag. The fact that he was allowed to do that in an official video, the very fact that it's him doing it, indicates this is just like #CoulsonLives all over again: a popular supporting character, supposedly KilledOffForReal to generate demands that he come back, so fans will be all the more overjoyed when he does come back, just like it had been planned all along.
409
410[[WMG: Mac will turn out to be an Inhuman, and has a TomatoInTheMirror discovery in his future]]
411Since he was the member of the team most thoroughly repelled by the idea of Coulson being treated with alien blood, naturally, he will turn out to be the one with some alien DNA of his own.
412
413[[WMG: The Eyeless Man isn't gonna be a villain]]
414While yes, he may be initially hostile towards Team Coulson, he'll ultimately be on the level. The others referred to by him are likely other Inhumans he's been in contact with for quite sometime, and they'll for sure seek out [[spoiler:Daisy]]. However, that won't make any of them villains. It could just be for a simple gathering of all Inhumans.
415* More like Well-Intentioned Extremist.
416
417[[WMG:Lai Xi isn't in China]]
418Skye (and possibly other new Inhumans as well) is merely told that Lai Xi is there, and that only Gordon can reach it, because the Elders don't want her to try to escape the place.
419
420[[WMG: The 'Elders' Gordon mentioned answer to the Inhuman royal family, if they're not the family itself]]
421Comic readers will recognize that Black Bolt (arguably the most famous Inhuman) is the king of the Inhuman society in Attilan. Given that it would be impossible to get ''everyone'' of Inhuman descent onto said land, it's likely these 'Elders' look after the ones that are still on Earth for the royal family; keeping them in line, mentioning key activities etc.
422* The 'Elders' could be the Genetic Council from the comics.
423
424[[WMG: Skye will be the new leader of the Inhumans]]
425Raina predicted this and if you check backwards, '''all''' of her predictions came to pass.
426
427[[WMG: Lash is sent by either the Elders or Maximus the Mad.]]
428
429[[WMG: Lincoln Campbell will be [[CanonImmigrant incorporated into the comics]] as a [=NuHuman=].]]
430
431[[/folder]]
432
433[[folder: Season 2-3 Hiatus Theories]]
434[[WMG: The pills in the season 2 finale won't be enough]]
435[[spoiler: the Terrigen-infused vitamins won't be enough to turn a person totally Inhuman - in fact, they may not be specific to descendants any more. They've been processed and tossed around so much that they only contain a fraction of the original power and potential, and will only activate if the person is exposed to a second factor - say, an irradiated [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Spider-bite]] or some [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk gamma]] [[ComicBook/SheHulk radiation]]...]]
436
437[[WMG: Coulson's injury will spark a RunningGag]]
438That you have to [[spoiler:lose a body part in the line of duty]] to be a proper Director. Fury [[spoiler:lost an eye]], and now Coulson [[spoiler:has lost a hand]]. It's going to make all potential successors to Coulson worry.
439
440[[WMG: Simmons is empowered and becomes the MCU Ms. Marvel]]
441Kree Artifact + Average Human seems a pretty solid recipe for an origin.
442
443[[WMG: At some point in a future episode, Mack and Coulson will have an exchange of dialogue somewhere along these lines.]]
444->'''Mack''': ''(in a scuffle)'' Hey, could you give me a hand here?\
445'''Coulson''': Wasn't one enough?!
446Because really, the opportunity is too good to pass up.
447* Hilariously, Coulson said that instead in "Inside Man": Coulson asked Talbot to give him his then-detached prosthetic hand, much to the latter's disgust.
448
449[[WMG: Simmons is in stasis.]]
450She's one of the main characters; there's no way they would just drop a bridge on her like that.
451* She's [[spoiler: On the run]].
452
453[[WMG: SHIELD will need an extra set of medical hands at some point, and so they'll call on [[spoiler:Cal.]]]]
454[[spoiler: While his memories have been erased, he's still kept his medical skills, as he is now operating as a veterinarian. At some point SHIELD will need this unparalleled medical ability and will call on him, particularly now that Simmons is gone.]]
455
456[[WMG: Coulson's arm will be restored by [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron Dr. Cho's genetic technology]].]]
457If it was capable of repairing Hawkeye's serious wounds and constructing The Vision from scratch, there's nothing stopping it from building Coulson a new hand. Of course, he might once again [[CallBack have some issues with "muscle memory"]].
458* Currently, he's gone for the Luke Skywalker route, of cybernetics.
459
460[[WMG: It will be revealed that A.I.M. works for HYDRA.]]
461A major subplot will be that A.I.M. is getting fed up with HYDRA's failures and joins Ward/strikes out on their own leading to a four way battle between SHIELD, HYDRA, Ward's group, and AIM with the Ten Rings, Maggia, the Hand, and maybe the Kree thrown in for good measure.
462
463[[WMG: If vampires are introduced, they will be a subspecies of Inhuman]]
464Since science is magic and AllMythsAreTrue. Plus, it would be a perfect springboard into a Blade movie/series. Also, the episode Blade is introduced could feature Koenig and Deadpool (if Marvel gets the rights.) It would be the ''Blade Trinity'' reunion no one wanted.
465
466[[WMG: Joss Whedon will take a more hands-on approach than he has thus far.]]
467While Joss is one of the show's creators and is still listed as an executive producer, he's had to take a very hands-off approach to the series since its inception due to being preoccupied with Avengers: Age of Ultron. With that out of the way, and with no other apparent projects for him on the horizon, he may return to the staff of the show (he has also in interviews stated his desire to return to television in general).
468
469[[WMG: Joss Whedon will distance himself from the show]]
470* Joss seems to want nothing to do with ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' anymore, going so far as [[ExiledFromContinuity deliberately treating it as non-canon]] within ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' (which is rumoured to have pissed off Marvel).
471
472[[WMG: Ward will not be the BigBad of Season 3.]]
473Because Ward being the BigBad is a ripe target of Jossing. Either Ward will merely use his new subordinates for a personal vendetta against Bobbi and dispose of them all once his task is finished only to be replaced by the real BigBad, or he'll already be dead for some reason by the time Season 3 begins.
474** Season 3's Big Bad is [[spoiler:Hive, an ancient Inhuman who possesses corpses. His current host is--you guessed it--Ward.]]
475
476[[WMG: Ward is [[InternalReformist reforming HYDRA to get it destroyed]].]]
477Right now, HYDRA's remnants are scattered and leaderless, all the harder to root out and finish off. If Ward reunifies HYDRA and then leads it to its true and final destruction (probably by S.H.I.E.L.D.), perhaps Ward thinks that this will finally earn him the redemption to which he clearly feels entitled.
478
479[[WMG: Lockjaw will be introduced]]
480However as just a dog, not whatever he is in the comics. Also he'll be played by a bully breed and have superpowers. Skye will adopt him from her father. After all he did say that something about a home needing a pet, and he has adoption days.
481
482[[WMG: How Season 3 will open.]]
483It will basically replay the entirety of the Season 2 Finale stinger with Simmons getting sucked up by the artifact. Then there's going to be an awkward pause that last a full five minutes, after which the thing liquifies again, spits out Simmons, and reforms, after which Simmons quickly shuts its containment unit and locks it down. The whole thing is basically a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} waiting to happen.
484
485[[WMG: The term "Gifted" is related to the X-Men]]
486The X-Men school is called "The Xavier Insitute for ''Gifted'' Youngsters". If Marvel ever works out a deal for the TV rights to X-Men like they did with Spiderman then this will be used as a lead in for it. S.H.E.I.L.D was inspired to use the term because Professor X used it first.
487
488[[WMG: Ward wants to destroy ''both'' HYDRA and S.H.I.E.L.D.]]
489Even when he was in HYDRA in the past, he was never truly loyal to them. And between what they've done to both him and Kara, he has little reason to love them now. But he can't fight S.H.I.E.L.D. all by himself, and HYDRA is in need of a new head. [[AFistfulOfRehashes What better way to take out both factions than to pit them against each other?]]
490
491[[WMG: Simmons will try to kill Ward again in Season 3.]]
492When Simmons tells Fitz that she attempted her plan to kill Ward back in the Arctic, she says that she will blame herself for the next bad thing he will do. That "next thing" was shortly revealed to be kidnapping Bobbi to torture and attempt to murder her as a part of Kara's "closure". If Simmons comes out of the Kree stone with superpowers, there's probably a good chance she'll use them the moment SHIELD happens to have intelligence on Ward's last location, in order to get vengeance for Bobbi, Fitz, and herself.
493
494[[WMG: Related to the above theory: Ward's new personality will be Taskmaster.]]
495In the comics, Tony Masters was a SHIELD agent who gained his powers when taking an experimental memory-affecting serum. It's possible that an accident during the TAHITI process will give Ward new memories as well as Taskmaster's powers.
496
497[[WMG: At the start of Season 3, Fitz and Simmons will be in a relationship.]]
498And Fitz will start suspecting something because it goes too perfectly.
499
500[[WMG: Season 3 will introduce magic into the MCU]]
501With Phase 2 of the MCU winding down and ''Dr. Strange'' slated to be a part of Phase 3, Season 3 of ''Agents of SHIELD'' will begin introducing components of actual magic and all the things that accompany it into the universe.
502* Not Season 3, but Season 4 does.
503
504[[WMG: Simmons is an Inhuman, but doesn't know it since she never got activated.]]
505At the end of the Season 2 finale, [[spoiler: Simmons was swallowed up by the Kree weapon]], which was meant specifically to attack Inhumans. Why should it attack Simmons if she's just a normal human? Next Season, she'll [[spoiler: take some fish oil supplements]] and things will get interesting.
506
507[[WMG: [[spoiler: Donnie Gill is still alive]]]]
508As established earlier in the episode, [[spoiler: Skye has never taken anyone out, so she was probably using [=ICERs=], not real bullets. Even if she was using real bullets, she probably wouldn't go for a kill shot, and even if she did, he wouldn't die as fast as he started to freeze. The fall wasn't large enough to kill him, and hypothermia--if it affects him--wouldn't kick in that fast. Plus, Skye says that they NeverFoundTheBody. He froze himself to survive and will return in season 3.]]
509
510[[WMG: [[Series/{{Daredevil 2015}} Matt Murdock]] will appear for an episode in Season 3.]]
511While assisting the team with a mission, he'll casually mention his time at St. Agnes orphanage. Hearing this, Skye will remember him.
512* Hasn't appeared in Season 3, but there's room in Season 4 for a cameo.
513
514[[WMG: Ward will try to form an alliance between HYDRA and The Hand]]
515He hasn't got very many members with him right now, so he needs another organization to fill the ranks until HYDRA is back on its feet. He'll offer The Hand protection, resources, and whatever it takes to get them on board, and in return he'll ask them to help HYDRA - and resurrect Kara.
516
517[[WMG: The Monolith is a Symbiote]]
518While the solid form and Kree origin are new, the Monolith's liquid form looks a lot like a Klyntar symbiote, the same species as ComicBook/{{Venom}} and ComicBook/{{Carnage}}. In the season finale it bonded to Simmons, and while she won't become one of the aforementioned characters, she will be something similar, possibly [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Donna_Diego_(Earth-616) Scream]].
519
520[[WMG: Hunter and Skye will become an Official Couple]]
521As part of his CharacterDevelopment, Hunter decided he was done with his mutually destructive relationship with Mockingbird and him and Skye had quite a bit of ShipTease in early Season 2.
522* It's still Hunterbird.
523
524[[WMG: Darren Cross' shrink-ray pistol from ''Film/AntMan1'' will appear.]]
525The pistol kills a person ''and'' shrinks a body's mass so that it's easy to remove the evidence. Such a weapon would be useful to both SHIELD and HYDRA.
526
527[[WMG: The Secret Warriors will be a MultinationalTeam]]
528Mainly due to ''Civil War''. The movie is expanding the Superhero Registration Act to a global level, but only seem to be representing that via Black Panther. But Skye's team could easily contain heroes from around the world including [[ComicBook/CaptainBritainAndMI13 Faiza Hussain]], Eden Fesi, [[ComicBook/TheInvadersMarvelComics Radiance]], and members of ComicBook/AlphaFlight or WesternAnimation/BigHero6.
529
530[[WMG: The Kree Stone and Simmons won't have an immediate payoff]]
531The opening scene of season 3 will be Simmons being regurgitated, standing up, and resuming her duties as if nothing is wrong, and nobody will realize that the rock even took her. But over the course of the next few episodes she'll start behaving oddly, and somebody will see the footage of her capture and realize something is wrong with her.
532[[/folder]]
533
534[[folder: Spin-Offs]]
535
536[[WMG: The show will occasionally be used for [[PoorlyDisguisedPilot Poorly Disguised Pilots]] of whatever obscure character Marvel wants to make a movie for next]]
537Doc Strange, Heroes for Hire, Daredevil reboot, hell even a much-better-made Howard the Duck reboot. The potential is limitless.
538
539[[WMG: The spinoff will be Avengers Academy]]
540The Theta Protocol plot provides an easy way to build up to that, along with the set pictures from ''Age of Ultron'' revealing a pseudo-Avengers Academy already built. Plus ABC[=/=]Marvel probably won't be able to resist slapping on the Avengers name onto the spinoff for brand recognition and marketing.
541* Given the way ''Age of Ultron'' ends with [[spoiler:the New Avengers Facility being established,]] this one is entirely plausible.
542
543[[WMG: The proposed spinoff will be ''{{ComicBook/Thunderbolts}}''.]]
544A crew of former villains and supervillains who team up to seek redemption by means of PayEvilUntoEvil. Characters could include Grant Ward, Agent 33, a brainwashed Bakshi, Mike Peterson, and Skye's father. May involve heavy doses of [[HeroicComedicSociopath Heroic Comedic Sociopathy]].
545* Bakshi's death in "The Dirty Half Dozen" rules him out, but Wendell Levi, Karla Faye Gideon, Francis Noche, and Angar the Screamer would all be possibilities.
546
547[[WMG: There will be a crossover and/or PoorlyDisguisedPilot for the Netflix series.]]
548It's been announced that Netflix will be airing a number of MCU-based shows, starring Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, Luke Cage and the Defenders. (The latter of which is a team-up miniseries of those characters). Agents of SHIELD could have a few episodes focusing on those characters.
549
550[[WMG: The shelved spin-off with Bobbi and Lance was Marvel's backup plan.]]
551Just in case the show didn't end up being renewed for a third season, the spin-off would have served as something of a retool so that a TV series based around SHIELD would continue to air.
552
553[[WMG: A Ghost Rider spin-off is being considered.]]
554Reception to the show's interpretation of Ghost Rider has already been enormously positive based just on the season premiere, and he is a character who could easily sustain a series on his own.
555
556[[/folder]]
557
558[[folder:Other]]
559
560[[WMG: Melinda was pregnant during the events of Bahrain]]
561She was unknowingly in the early stages of pregnancy during the mission and the ensuring stress and trauma it caused made her miscarry.
562
563[[WMG: SHIELD is working with the NSA]]
564They have extensive surveillance. Maybe the Patriot Act was really about finding super powered people and terrorism was just a cover.
565
566[[WMG: The Rising Tide is the supernatural branch of WikiLeaks]]
567Both are trying to expose government secrets. Alternatively, The Rising Tide is a metaphor for WikiLeaks.
568
569[[WMG: [[Wrestling/TheShield Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns]] will guest star at some point.]]
570Let this happen.
571
572[[WMG: The other agents will eventually find out about Coulson's love of Captain America]]
573
574[[WMG: Coulson and May were in a relationship while in the academy]]
575
576[[WMG: The series will end with Coulson making a HeroicSacrifice and being KilledOffForReall]]
577
578[[WMG: Either Fitz or Simmons will be killed off eventually.]]
579Fitz and Simmons are the cutest two characters, and a pair of people so close that even in-show they are called by one name. Wise-cracking duos usually become popular in fandoms. This is a Joss Whedon show. One of them is almost certainly going to die. Joss is probably salivating at the potential fan tears already.
580* [[spoiler:Simmons almost died in FZZT.]]
581* [[spoiler:As of "Yes Men" and Simmons being blocked by Coulson on developing the GH serum, Fitz will probably die, and it will be in a way that could have been prevented had Simmons been allowed to work properly, driving a rift between her and Coulson who she'll blame for his death.]]
582* [[spoiler:Fitz is in critical condition as of the Season 1 finale, and likely has brain damage.]]
583* [[spoiler:Fitz's brain damage is confirmed and he's hallucinating Simmons, because she left. Watching him struggle with basic living is indeed worthy of fan tears.]]
584
585[[WMG: Coulson got Audrey pregnant shortly before his "death"]]
586Audrey didn't find out until after the events of "A Light in the Darkness" and keeps the child as SomeoneToRememberHimBy. Coulson doesn't find out until much later, due to him trying to avoid finding out about her life or because S.H.I.E.L.D. deliberately hiding this knowledge from him.
587
588[[WMG: Ron Glass's character will pull a FaceHeelTurn, if he isn't already TheMole.]]
589Because every time Creator/JossWhedon brings back a ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' vet, they're a bad guy. [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Caleb]]. [[Series/{{Angel}} Jasmine]]. [[Series/{{Dollhouse}} Alpha. Allison]]. [[Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing Don John]].
590
591[[WMG: S.H.I.E.L.D. has access to Dollhouse tech.]]
592While Coulson is still Coulson physically, he probably received Active architecture and got imprinted with his own personality, minus whatever mental modifications S.H.I.E.L.D. made to the imprint. "Tahiti" functions as code for his handler. (Probably Maria Hill.)
593-->"Did I fall asleep?"\
594"Only for a little while."
595
596[[WMG: The series will end with all of the members of the Bus needing to get their brains wiped to remove all memories of S.H.I.E.L.D.]]
597The series will end with all of the members of the bus needing to get their brains wiped to remove all memories of SHIELD.
598
599[[WMG: Grant Ward is the son of a SuperVillain.]]
600He's a badass agent with a DarkAndTroubledPast whose antisocial tendencies are said to be "not surprising considering his family history."
601* Given how he responds to the mention of his Grandmother in the Pilot ("D: Gramsy?"), he could come from a legacy of Supervillains or Criminals.
602* As it turns out (per [=S1E8=] "The Well"), [[spoiler:Ward's dark and troubled past comes not from a lineage of supervillains, but rather ongoing trauma as a child, when his bullying older brother refused to let Grant save another kid drowning in a well.]]
603* "Turn, Turn, Turn". [[spoiler: He's not the ''son'' of a super villain but the ''student'' of one.]]
604
605[[WMG: The bored-looking blonde woman in the Paris safehouse is Yelena Belova]]
606She'll come back as a major player.
607
608[[WMG: If the series is a huge success it will end just prior to, or just after ''The Avengers 3'']]
609Since all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe seems centered around The Avengers (currently), as The Avengers 3 comes out, Agents of [=SHIELD=] will come to a close to "wrap up" the first successful cross media franchise. All stories in the final season will therefore be directly related to any and all events in The Avengers 3, and major guest appearances from some if not all of the major players in the third (and possibly last, as part of an epic "extended" trilogy) The Avengers film will be rampant.
610* The paycheck for the movie actors for the TV scenes would come from the movie budget.
611
612[[WMG: Iron Man will appear...but not Tony Stark.]]
613 The mask will not go off. It's a way to use the character without having to pay a fortune to the actor for a mere TV episode.
614* Probably War Machine[=/=]Iron Patriot could also appear since he is military and probably more likely to work directly with [=SHIELD=]. If anyone is to appear to interact with Coulson from the Iron Man franchise directly, it could be Pepper (Creator/GwynethPaltrow - unlikely as she is big Hollywood A list and not a TV person) via a phone call or maybe even Happy (Creator/JonFavreau - more likely as he has been on TV before and would probably not mind a little appearance in the show). If there is a main episode appearance and not just a cameo it would probably be either Clint or Natasha since they actually are part of [=SHIELD=]
615** Gwyneth Paltrow did two episodes of ''Series/{{Glee}}''. There are always shows that manage to get lots of A list cameos. (''Series/{{Batman|1966}}''!)
616** Pepper is spoken to via phone call, but her end of the conversation is never heard.
617
618[[WMG: The show will have multiple episodes introducing other Marvel heroes, who may later appear in film]]
619An episode with the team dealing with a vigilante in New York (Daredevil), a duo of heroes using their powers to earn money while helping the helpless (Luke Cage and Iron Fist/Heroes for Hire), a mysterious swamp monster with a connection to the super soldier formula (Man-Thing), a young teenaged gay couple using their powers for good (Hulkling and Wiccan, prior to forming Young Avengers), among others. They'll also see the team working alongside other SHIELD-connected heroes, including Widow and/or Hawkeye, and Mockingbird, Carol Danvers, etc.
620* Confirmed. Mockingbird appears as a regular character in season 2, and the Inhumans are a major faction from late season 2 onward. [[spoiler: Daisy Johnson, aka Quake, [[CanonCharacterAllAlong has also been a major character since the beginning, and Ghost Rider appears as a secondary character in season 4.]]
621
622[[WMG: Mandroid suits will appear]]
623Probably reverse-engineered from some of the parts lying around after [[Film/IronMan3 Stark pointlessly blew up all his suits.]]
624
625[[WMG: Skye got S.H.I.E.L.D access codes from Ward when he was under the influence of the serum.]]
626There's no way that one hacker in a van can crack a top-secret government agency in a few minutes when Tony Stark needed a custom-designed bug (and maybe an AI) to crack their files, and even then he was still detected and stopped.
627
628[[WMG: At some point, Coulson will mention an old mission where he posed as a high school principal.]]
629A ShoutOut to ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]''. It will most likely include a lawyer-friendly nod to the Web-Head himself. Maybe it'll even be mentioned how he used to have a ponytail. [[spoiler: As it turns out, an alternate version of Coulson is a high school ''teacher'' in the Framework, and as Spider-Man is part of the MCU now, any shout-outs don't even have to be lawyer friendly.]]
630
631[[WMG: [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberium GDI]] and SHIELD are alternate-universe versions of each other]]
632One is an international organization using a bird-of-prey as a symbol, with origins in black-ops and with a history involving fighting a [[NGOSuperpower terrorist organization with state-level resources]]. The other is an international organization using a bird-of-prey as a symbol, with origins in black-ops and with a history involving fighting a terrorist organization with state-level resources.
633
634[[WMG: Lola is an AI]]
635This explains Coulson's InsistentTerminology, constantly reminding people that his car has a name. Because she's sentient, and she gets offended when people treat her like an ordinary car.
636* If you buy the theory that Coulson is an LMD or android, that would explain why he and he alone has an affinity for her.
637
638[[WMG: Simmons is an alcoholic]]
639She has been shown drinking beer in both of the first two episodes, and in the second episode, when Skye asked her how many drinks she had so far, she deflected the question and told Skye to loosen up.
640* There's further support in Season 2: when Coulson inspects the contents of her fridge [[spoiler:while she's living alone undercover]], he comments that she has nothing but beer and hot sauce. She counters that there's also some tea in a cupboard. Coupled with the fact that she admits to being stressed and lonely since [[spoiler:leaving the team]], it's not too out-there to read this interpretation between the lines.
641
642[[WMG: At least one of the earlier model Deathloks will appear eventually]]
643[[spoiler:Garrett]] is Deathlok Mk. 1. [[spoiler:Peterson]] is Deathlok Mk. 5. No mention has been given as to the identities and whereabouts of Deathlok Mks. 2-4, so it's possible that at least one of them is still out there.
644
645[[WMG: Ward always lies]]
646Related to the above, but with broader strokes. Ward is "Level 6" at the start of the show, implying a high degree of training as well as obvious mastery of field ops. It is said he has "mad skillz yo", but other than a dossier that was made about his activities (probably only the things that are allowed to potentially be leaked around [=SHIELD=] or even to other organizations without compromising anything) we know almost nothing about his past. This is seemingly true from a fiction standpoint of all the characters, but specifically, no one in universe seems to know anything about him.
647
648Being a trained operative at such a high level, he has also been trained in methods of suppressing the truth, lying convincingly, bending truth into falsehood, and other forms of mental tactics including biological fortitude. That is to say, he has been dosed by truth serums of varying potency multiple times and even if Coulson injected him with a real serum in the pilot, he could resist it or at the work "around it".
649
650In essence, you can't trust anything he says because he is so good at lying, it can all sound convincing and even be worked in so close to the truth that it blends in. He lies for a living.
651* Confirmed in "Turn, Turn, Turn", seeing as [[spoiler: Ward is a [=HYDRA=] agent]].
652
653[[WMG: Everyone is a robot.]]
654The entire team is an experiment, with each agent being a prototype LMD based on a deceased SHIELD agent. The perfect spy agent, the hivemind scientists...and Coulson himself, who died and was "revived" in the form of an LMD. It's a big test run to see how AI agents can function in the field.
655
656[[WMG: Apollo candy bars will make an appearance.]]
657Because they're a handy BlandNameProduct owned by the ABC Network.
658
659[[WMG: Graviton will return as a dangerous vigilante looking to eliminate anything he thinks is "bad tech" at any cost necessary]]
660Seems like a good way to reconcile Hall's obvious good guy personality with him still being an antagonist.
661* He'll go after Team Coulson for trying to stop him from destroying the gravitonium.
662
663[[WMG: Skye has a killswitch, like [[spoiler: Akela and the [=MI6=] agent]]]]
664Maybe a more basic version that means she has to take orders through a phone and hasn't got "backskatter" - it could even just be a killswitch of some sort built into her. This would explain her hacking skills (although they could still be her own, but her having a team of other hackers backing her up could explain a lot), why she's still spying (or whatever it is they want her to do) for the Rising Tide when she seems reluctant to betray TheTeam (and why she considers them family, but didn't feel that way about TRT) and why she empathised with Akela so quickly. It would also explain why she hesitated when Quinn was trying to talk her over to his side; she was waiting for orders on who to roll with.
665
666[[WMG: Mack, the truck driver from episode 3, is the MCU counterpart of [=US1=], or a relative/supporting character thereof]]
667"Mach" is just his code name (if he's actually a trucker he wouldn't use his usual handle) and he suffered a head injury in his appearance. Even if he isn't Archer himself, he could easily be Papa Wheelie (explaining where he got the technology to build [=US1=] from - it's S.H.I.E.L.D tech he was given as part of a settlement of sorts for being injured on the job).
668
669[[WMG: The Heroes for Hire will appear]]
670When the fact they were making a TV show leaked, the Heroes for Hire were one of the first things fans thought of. The format would work for TV, it would introduce some more female and [=PoC=] characters (a major complaint of the MCU) and with ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' using two of the main three as main characters they have a modern base.
671* As the end of Season 1, this is looking more likely. [[spoiler: Mike Peterson refuses to rejoin Team Coulson but still wants to make up for his evil deeds as Deathlok. He could do that and pay the bills at the same time.]]
672** The Heroes for Hire are getting their own show, in the form of 2017's ''The Defenders''.
673
674[[WMG: Carol Danvers will appear]]
675She's the lead in a new comic, female, has a military background... she won't appear all the time but she would fit the general idea. Of course, if she does it will only be as a military woman, not as Ms. Marvel.
676* She gets her own movie instead.
677
678[[WMG: Hawkeye and Black Widow will appear.]]
679Perhaps only in one or two episodes, but they are technically agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. so this would make sense.
680* As an addendum, ComicBook/NickFury will show up in the pilot. [[Creator/SamuelLJackson Samuel L. Muthafuckin' Jackson]] shows up in "0-8-4". Whoever called that now has permission to gloat. He has also announced that he will appear in the season finale.
681** A recurring appearance by Maria Hill. In the full-length trailer, we hear a woman who sounds very much like Creator/CobieSmulders interviewing Agent Ward about what S.H.I.E.L.D. means to him. Not sure if it's actually her, but, an interesting thought nonetheless. Hill was in the pilot.
682** Not an appearance, but they were explicitly referenced in "The Hub" as agents so good they didn't need extraction plans.
683
684[[WMG: The Fantastic Four and the X-Men can't appear in the series]]
685So they'll just get referenced instead. There will be loads of banter about how those five teenagers keep disappearing on them or something.
686* Possibly some specific-ish references to them in order to keep the potential alive once license deals run out and Disney[=/=]Marvel get their property back for films. Also Spider-Man will be referenced somehow. If they do, it'll be roundabout references. They couldn't even get Sony to let them use Empire State University, Spider-Man swinging by in the far background, or even Tobey Maguire standing in a crowd shot for ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008''.
687* The Baxter Building was shown as a FreezeFrameBonus in Captain America 2, so it's not entirely impossible for them to get referenced.
688
689[[WMG: Any Marvel characters who cannot get a legal mention will have a lawyer-friendly ShoutOut]]
690Such as "[[ComicBook/SpiderMan the kid from Queens]]" or "[[ComicBook/XMen that weird boarding school up in Westchester]]" or "[[ComicBook/FantasticFour those four astronauts that came back with super powers]]". Maybe, through this, when Disney gets the movie rights, they can toss them in there because of the aforementioned shout-outs...
691
692[[WMG: The team will go up against a runaway experiment from the Weapon X program]]
693They won't be mentioned by name, of course, but Coulson will brief the others on a top-secret program run by the Canadian government that experiments on meta-humans to create their own Super-Soldiers. He'll also mention that the closest thing they got to a success was [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} a mercenary who went completely insane and now]] [[MediumAwareness thinks he's a comic book character]]. (The files have pictures of Creator/RyanReynolds)
694-->'''Ward:''' ...[[ComicallyMissingThePoint CANADA pulled this off?!]]
695* This is mentioned in episode 16, End of the Beginning. [[spoiler:The man suspected of being "The Clairvoyant", Thomas Nash was part of a Canadian weapons program dealing with [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual gifted]] individuals.]]
696
697[[WMG: [=MI13=], Pete Wisdom, and/or Union Jack will make an appearance at some point.]]
698[[https://twitter.com/clarkgregg/status/386215881082011648 Clark Gregg hinted on his Twitter that we'd see British superheroes at some point.]] [=MI13=] almost seems like a gimme, since it's basically the British version of SHIELD. Meanwhile, Pete and Jack are the two main British heroes who either have no powers or have powers that can be easily ignored or explained by current MCU sources.
699* Captain Britain might be hard to justify, considering his origins are pretty firmly magical and so far the only magic we've seen is Asgardian. Same goes for a number of other British heroes, sadly. And, [=MI13=] seems to what STRIKE evolved into, being that they seem to be the current organization dealing with weird superpowered y still age to adulthood at the same rate as humans (i.e. roughly 20 years), but then remain at that state for thousands more years--in other words, Skye IS only 24, but she will still look that way thousands of years from now. This also would bring up an extra layer of drama, as Skye [[WeAreAsMayflies will have to grasp the notion that she will end up outliving her friends and adoptive family by millennia]].
700Sif's upcoming appearance on the show may be related to Skye's origins. Perhaps she is the offspring of Thor and Sif? This would also technically mean that it was her uncle who killed Coulson, which the show will of course poke fun at.
701* Alternatively; maybe she's [[HalfHumanHybrid half-Asgardian]], which would explain the ageing. There's a possible culprit in Professor Randolph. He's been "spreading his genes" for as much as a thousand years so it's not out of the question that a chunk of Earth's population are his descendents. Skye could be 1/100 Asgardian or something like that.
702* Skye being Asgardian is possibly {{Jossed}} as of [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E13TRACKS T.R.A.C.K.S.]], since [[spoiler: she is shot twice, and is mortally wounded, like any normal human would be. [[SuperToughness An Asgardian would easily shrug off something like that.]]]] However, Tess Black is a demigoddess, but doesn't have any powers.
703* [[http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2014/03/agents-of-shield-at-paleyfest-end-of-the-beginning-spoilers-and-captain-america-2-crossover-details.html At a panel at the Paley Festival]], Ming-na Wen (May's actress) proposed her own theory that Skye is the child of May and Thor. After all, "[[InsistentTerminology he's dreamy]]". It should be noted that this is her own WMG, with no confirmation from the studio as a whole (Which may at least partially be inspired by fantasies over her character's love life). So one member of the cast is on record as favoring this theory, but it's not confirmed at the moment.
704
705[[WMG: The series is meant to have a "false freedom"/"manipulation" theme.]]
706So far we've had Project Centipede (both of the subjects we've seen so far were lured in with a "we'll make you powerful so you can be free to take what you deserve" offer and ended up being used), Reyes betraying Coulson by using their previous relationship in 0-8-4 and the villain of the third episode (who ranted on about freedom while being perfectly happy to keep people prisoner for his own benefit[[note]]Even claiming he freed Hall from SHIELD[[/note]] and avoid any accountability himself). Akela was even more explicit (given she outright said she felt more free locked in a cage than she did with the ExplosiveLeash).
707
708[[WMG: Sooner or later May is going to be incapacitated while the bus is airborne.]]
709She's the best person on the team who knows how to fly (And more importantly land) an airplane. That kind of problem is just begging to happen.
710* It is shown in both "The Only Light In The Darkness" and "Nothing Personal" that [[spoiler:Ward]] can fly the Bus.
711
712[[WMG: At some point, [[WatchThePaintjob Lola will be destroyed]]]]
713Most likely while someone other than Coulson (probably Skye) is driving her without permission. She will likely do this out of necessity. Some agents take the black SUV out on a mission, an enemy attacks the Bus, and Skye pursues in Lola.
714* Alternatively, it will be blown up by a super villain. This almost happens in "[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E20NothingPersonal Nothing Personal]]" while Coulson and Skye are escaping the [[spoiler:hijacked Bus]] in midair. [[spoiler:Ward]] shoots it several times, and it has a rather rocky trip to the ground, but it ultimately survives the ordeal.
715
716[[WMG: There is more than there seems to the plan during The Hub]]
717It is either SecretTestOfCharacter or part of some deeper plot. Possibly tying into the whole SHIELD going bad in the new Captain America movie,if that is what happens. It would explain why Victoria Hand was used in the episode, considering her ties with HAMMER.
718* ThePlan may have been a SecretTestOfCharacter for [[SixthRanger Skye]] in particular, especially if the promos for episode 11 are any indication; that is, [[spoiler: Victoria Hand once again becomes involved, Skye is seen wearing field agent gear and even borrows Coulson's CatchPhrase at one point!]]
719
720[[WMG: Ward's flashback]]
721Was Ward ''really'' the brother who was threatened to not help the brother struggling to stay above water in the well, or was he the one doing the threatening? The oldest brother looked ''a lot'' more like Brett Dalton than the brother who was threatened did, which seems like something the producers would catch, unless it was intentional. Does adult Grant subconsciously style himself after his older brother? Was there some kind of body-switching or identity theft shenanigans? Did something happen to Grant, after which the older brother took his identity and devoted himself to helping others as penance? This ''is'' the MCU, after all. Stranger things have happened.
722* Ward implied [[spoiler: he's {{Unperson}}ed himself before]].
723* In "Nothing Personal", Ward tells Skye that no, his older brother didn't beat up the younger brother himself; he made Ward do it for him.
724
725[[WMG: The dimension Tobias Ford have been to really was Hel.]]
726Not the Christian Hell, but the Hel of Norse myth.
727
728[[WMG: Coulson's going to end up losing the rest of his antique collection in the line of duty.]]
729He's already sacrificed his trading cards and his radio watch, the rest is sure to follow.
730
731[[WMG: Tobias Ford was trapped in Mephisto's realm]]
732With all the religious parallels in that episode, it's likely. He ''did'' say it looked like hell, after all.
733
734[[WMG: Tobias Ford was trapped on the same planet that Simmons ends up on in season 3]]
735Possibly the most likely option now; the brief picture we see in Simmons' 3D model in episode 9 has a passing resemblance to the planet from season 3, and Tobias' violent and erratic behavior could be attributed to the pyschic influence of the inhuman who resides on that planet.
736
737[[WMG: Skye will eventually be issued a [[RevolversAreForAmateurs revolver]].]]
738Since she has trouble remembering the difference between the magazine release and the safety catch, the best choice is to give her a gun that takes out all the guesswork. And since she's a hacker rather than a field agent, she doesn't need the most advanced firearms available.
739
740[[WMG: Coulson's cellist girlfriend was [[FemmeFataleSpy a spy getting close to him for information]].]]
741He's high level and on friendly terms with Director Fury, so he makes a tempting target.
742
743[[WMG: Coulson's first assignment as a SHIELD agent was at a rodeo.]]
744Making his "This isn't my first rodeo, Mr. Stark" line in ''Film/IronMan'' more literal.
745
746[[WMG: Fury knows something about Skye's powers]]
747In his brief cameo in episode two, he warns Coulson that Skye is "a risk". If he's been the Director of SHIELD long enough to have been involved in making her an {{Unperson}}, then he might know something about her powers. He could be talking about a lot more than her simply breaking into the SHIELD system.
748
749[[WMG: Quinn's role in Centipede is to create new superpowered individuals]]
750Every time he's shown up, he's been backing someone trying to make some kind of superweapon, and each time, as a result of SHIELD's trying to stop said superweapon, the creator has ended up with powers derived from his creation. That's what he's really after. Now he just needs to fund a raid on a SHIELD holding facility to break his new supersoldiers out.
751
752[[WMG: We will see the formation of something like the Masters of Evil]]
753Centipede, HYDRA, AIM, ZODIAC, or just [[spoiler:Mike Peterson]] will bust open the Sandbox. In the ensuing confusion, Franklin Hall, Donnie Gill, [[spoiler:maybe Lorelei]] and a few others will break out and form a supervillain team. This will be the focus of an episode, as Team Coulson interacts with some vigilantes while having a manhunt. The twist, we discover at the end of the episode, is that the Hall and Gill were incidental. The breakout was cover for thieves boosting the Chitauri virus helmet. [[OminousForeshadowing Dun dun dun]].
754
755[[WMG: Why May let her anger get to her during beating Quinn]]
756Normally she's quite calm and composed, but the beating she was giving Quinn brought out some of the repressed fury she had from taking the Berserker Staff.
757
758[[WMG: The Guest House facility was an outpost of SWORD.]]
759Makes perfect sense, given the confirmed status of it belonging not to SHIELD, rather an as-of-yet-unnamed associate organization ''and'' the housing of an apparent (albeit very dead) alien lifeform. [[note]]For those unaware, SWORD is (appropriately enough) SHIELD's counterpart; both are intelligence agencies, but SWORD deals almost exclusively with extraterrestrial matters. [[/note]]
760
761[[WMG: Simmons and Morse become an item]]
762There might have been chemistry between them in 2.5 "A Wolf in the Henhouse." ("Call me Bobbi." "If it hadn’t had been for Bobbi, I would never have made it out... she's ''amazing!"'') Proposed 'ship name: [=MockingJem=]?
763
764[[WMG: General Talbot has been replaced by an imposter]]
765Since the start of the season he's been determined to end SHIELD once and for all. Then comes the attack on the UN and he suddenly goes to bat for SHIELD with the senator who's out to bury SHIELD? Suspicious.
766* He actually ''was'' replaced during "Face My Enemy".
767
768[[WMG: Talbot isn't working for the Air Force right now]]
769He's been seconded to NATO to be a part of ''their'' anti-HYDRA unit, not the US government's. By acting on behalf of a multi-national group (Even if most of his people are American), he can operate freely in other countries without triggering an international incident over US troops operating in other countries without seeking the host nation's permission, especially since every country he's been seen operating in so far is a NATO member. This way, America is not launching raids on the soil of allied countries; NATO is just performing an internal security op.
770
771[[WMG: Christian Ward and Grant Ward are both secretly conspiring together.]]
772Christian ''knew'' that Grant would be able to break free if transferred to him, and it was in fact JustAsPlanned. As for who really tortured their younger brother...it's still unknown. Maybe Thomas Ward never even existed? This may end up being confirmed when S.H.I.E.L.D. looks into the records of someone named Thomas Ward, but cannot find anything.
773
774[[WMG: Coulson's cellist girlfriend [[spoiler: will be killed (or at least threatened) by HYDRA]]]]
775They need to get Coulson out in the open, what better way than to [[spoiler: endanger his loved one.]]
776
777[[WMG: Skye isn't the person Ward is really interested in.]]
778Lorelei only said there was another; she didn't say who. It might not be a woman at all, but Fitz, and that Ward is in an [[ArmouredClosetGay armoured closet]].) It could also be Coulson. Someone has to acknowledge Clark Gregg is [[HollywoodHomely only plain by Hollywood standards]] in universe.
779
780[[WMG: The correct response to the SpySpeak at the Guest House.]]
781-->'''Guard''': "How was the drive from Istanbul?"\
782'''Visitor''': "[[IstanbulNotConstantinople Don't you mean Constantinople?]]"
783
784[[WMG: Ward is brainwashed (ala the Manchurian Candidate and/or the Winter Soldier).]]
785Lots of people have noted that everything about his actions and facial expressions throughout the episode were not only out-of-character, but just seemed...''off.'' Granted, part of every good sleeper agent's job is to blend in well in enemy territory, but the twist was so out of nowhere, there might be something else to it.
786* Given every HYDRA member's proclivity to smugly shout HAIL HYDRA at the slightest victory, Ward was oddly silent and blank-eyed whenever the opportunity arose.
787* Additionally, his "family history" alluded to by Coulson might go beyond Ward's older brother being a psychopath; it could be generational involvement in HYDRA. He could have been programmed from a young age (or by Garrett during his training) to ally with them, and is either resisting it or feeling extreme regret and internal conflict now that he's been on the good guys' side.
788* One thing from The Winter Soldier that might be relevant to this avenue of speculation is that [[spoiler:HYDRA has Loki's staff]].
789* He ''claims'' he wasn't brainwashed, but he also the Lying Liar who Lies a Lot.
790* Unlikely, because if he had been Malik wouldn't have had to convince Ward to join him only "tell" him too.
791
792[[WMG: Ward was telling the truth about the 'truth serum']]
793If SHIELD really did have a fast acting and highly reliable truth serum available to it, why hasn't the team used it more often? There are three times using it would have made perfect sense: On Vanchat during "The Magical Place", on Quinn during "TAHITI" and on [[spoiler:May]] during "Turn, Turn, Turn". In none of those cases is using the serum even suggested, and all three take place long enough after the pilot that they could restock. Why would the team not use their best interrogation tool on an important prisoner during a crisis? Because it doesn't actually exist.
794
795[[WMG: Blake was specifically targeted by Deathlok]]
796In ''Turn, Turn, Turn'', Hand mentions that Blake had come to her with suspicions that high level SHIELD agents were in fact double agents involved in some sort of conspiracy. Deathlok was sent to take him out because he was getting too close to the truth.
797
798[[WMG: Skye will kill [[spoiler: Ward]]]]
799If it turns out that he really ''is'' EvilAllAlong, then it will be poetic given who trained her. The trailers REALLY seem to be building to an epic confrontation when the "truth" is finally revealed.
800* "The Only Light..." ''really'' seems to be building up to this given Skye's discovery of his true loyalty.
801* [[spoiler: Coulson is the one who kills him in season 3.]]
802
803[[WMG: After Skye learns of Ward's involvement with HYDRA, she'll be held at gunpoint only for her to use that [[ChekhovsSkill disarming technique]].]]
804Someone ([[spoiler:either former S.O. Ward or his own former S.O., Garrett]]) will lampshade it.
805
806[[WMG: Victoria Hand is still alive.]]
807Let's consider how Hand died. She gave a loaded gun to Ward and invited him to use it on Garrett, only for Ward to turn it on her and her guards instead. This seems not only TooDumbToLive, but OutOfCharacter for someone as ProperlyParanoid as Hand. So what really happened? Hand (and presumably the guards) was a Life Model Decoy or something similar. The whole thing was a SecretTestOfCharacter for Ward--and since he failed, Hand knows he's a traitor and he's in even more danger than he thinks.
808
809[[WMG: The idea that Ward is Hydra has occurred to Coulson.]]
810Someone on the team tries to shut down Tripplet's addition to the team because he was Garret's student and worked with him for years. Why couldn't the same apply to Ward, after all?
811
812[[WMG: Ward tried to kill May in "Yes Men".]]
813Watch the timing there. If we count the amount of time Lady Sif puts on the collar, even under the most liberal interpretation of assuming the collar only disables her power when it's finished extending, there are another five and a half seconds of that scene where they stare at each other and Sif makes a joke. Then, offscreen, Sif has to pull Lorelei to her feet, put on handcuffs, and march her down a hall. (The hall is the length of the interrogation room.) Then we count the seconds between Ward pulling the trigger on the gun, and Lady Sif walking into sight. It's...six and a half seconds. Unless Lady Sif can wrangle Lorelei upright and down a hall, plus put on cuffs, in one second, (She didn't seem to be moving particularly fast when she strolled in.) Ward had stopped being under Lorelei's control ''several seconds'' before he pulled that trigger. Granted, it's possible this is just an editing screwup, but it seems equally possible that this was actually Ward trying to eliminate May when he was handed a completely valid excuse.
814* Considering that offscreen stuff should have taken five or ten seconds anyway, it seems possible that the editing was designed to trick us by making us think it was the standard 'just slightly back in time to show two simultaneous events'. But in reality, we didn't back up ''at all'', and the collar was on Lorelei before we jumped back to watch Ward and May.
815* [[spoiler: As Ward is a HYDRA agent, this is actually probably confirmed.]]
816[[WMG: Pissing off Coulson]]
817So far, there has only ever been one way to make Coulson truly angry; betraying his trust. Even getting stabbed through the heart by Loki or trying to survive getting killed by Scorch did little more than make him very snarky. Skye selling out the team? First time he's ever raised his voice. So far, Coulson has been betrayed 3 times. Once by Skye, which at this point he's forgiven. Once by May, which hit even harder than Skye's betrayal since he's known her longer than anyone on the team. Once by Garrett, a trusted friend. How will he take Ward's betrayal when that comes out? Prediction: They'll be scraping what's left of Ward off the wall.
818* Confirmed as the show progresses.
819
820[[WMG: Arcade is part of the Rising Tide]]
821Some versions of him have been a hacker, or even a technopath.
822
823[[WMG: If[=/=]when they get rights to talk about X-Men and related franchises, they will hand wave their lack of appearances before then with "it was level (_) information"]]
824So far its been established that level 7 is stuff that the public in-universe has vague knowledge of, but no solid info, and seems to pertain to everything we've seen in the cinematic releases thus far. Level 8 is even more secret than that, but what about levels even more secret then level 8? Maybe the Marvel Cinematic Universe takes place just before mutants are publically ousted, just before the 4 go up in space, and just before [=OzTech=] begins its research on spiders. These could be monitored by the highest clearance level in S.H.I.E.L.D (mutants, [=OzTech=]), or so low risk at this point that it's minimum concern (Reed Richards, [=OzTech=]), until such time as the behind the scenes stuff is haggled out and they can be introduced.
825
826[[WMG: A MythologyGag for when the team is trying to identify a mystery assassin (who turns out to be ComicBook/{{Taskmaster}}) who infiltrated a S.H.I.E.L.D. security team and snapped the neck of some random important guy, they go over names on a list of known mercenaries, including...]]
827* Abner Jenkins, a hired gun from central Europe with tech that could give Tony Stark a run for his money and [[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 a personal grudge against Coulson]]. (rejected because the assassin went in incognito, while Jenkins takes more of a WhyDontYouJustShootHim approach)
828* A hitman known only as "Lester" who has worked for some of the world's greatest crime lords (rejected because the assassin killed the target barehanded, and Lester only kills with projectiles)
829* A Canadian mercenary named [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Wade Wilson]] who underwent genetic experiments and is dangerously unstable (rejected because the assassin never spoke, and the file makes it very clear that Wilson doesn't shut up)
830* A mercenary from Symkaria named Silver Sablinova who leads her own pack of assassins (rejected because it was clearly a one-man job; and, well, it was clearly a man)
831* Sergei Kravinoff, a Russian big game hunter who decided HuntingTheMostDangerousGame was more of a challenge (rejected because he specializes in hunting his prey down, while the assassin was told where his target would be by the Clairvoyant)
832* Ex-S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Anthony Masters, one of the deadliest hand-to-hand fighters on Earth (deduced to be him, because the assassin clearly knew S.H.I.E.L.D. protocols like only an ex-agent would)
833
834[[WMG: Fitz is the MCU's version of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Ghost Red Ghost]].]]
835Explains his fascination with monkeys.
836
837[[WMG: Agent Ward is the MCU version of Deadpool.]]
838Based on nothing but him turning to the viewer at the end of "Turn turn turn". He will be critically injured and experimented on by HYDRA, making him insane while giving him advanced regeneration. He will befriend an agent named Bob before escaping HYDRA.
839
840[[WMG: Agent Kaminsky, the overeager HYDRA agent, is Bob: Agent of HYDRA]]
841His first name was never revealed in the show, and Bob's last name was never revealed in the comics. Coulson's team will need to take him lout very quickly to get to the rest of the event in the finale, so he could easily get reduced to ButtMonkey status in the first few minutes of the episode. We ''need'' Bob.
842
843[[WMG: ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D'' is not an adaptation of ''ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}'']]
844It's an adaptation of ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}} Agents Of H.A.T.E.'', where the Beyond Corporation (a shell corporation fronting their arch nemesis S.I.L.E.N.T.) has taken over H.A.T.E. and the 'wavers are on the run.
845
846[[WMG: Roxxon Energy Corporation is everywhere]]
847Random bits:
848* The Leader, under SHIELD custody, is said to have the "ability to predict probable outcomes of tactical and strategic scenarios is so advanced that it borders on clairvoyance" from the Other Wiki.
849* Deathlok Program is produced by Cybertek, a division of Roxxon Energy Corporation, which has a Brain Trust including the Leader in Ultimate Universe.
850* The head of Roxxon Energy Corporation is Aleksander Lukin, who is speculated to be merged with the character Alexander Pierce in Captain American: Winter Soldier.
851* Finally, Brand Coorporation is another subsidiary of Roxxon, which is said to have connection(?) to Abigail Brand, an orphan who becomes an agent of SHIELD and director of SWORD. Skye is an orphan and she wants to fly a spaceship.
852
853[[WMG: Grant Ward only ever had one brother.]]
854The other one is an InventedIndividual Ward made up to help him manipulate others. The only person who says that Ward has (or had) two brothers is Ward himself. Ward, as described above, is a lying liar who lies. When other characters access Ward's records, they refer to Ward's brother in the singular and never specify which one they're talking about. Both times Ward mentions having two brothers, he's explicitly trying to get Skye to trust him. Since Ward's claims about the nature of his older brother's actions vary between the two discussions, it would make more sense for the older brother to be the fictional one, but the other way would work, too.
855* There are two brothers in the flashback scenes in "The Well" but Ward [[SelfServingMemory is a lying liar who lies]]. It would be easy for UnreliableNarrator to account for this.
856* When the eldest Ward brother appears, the truth becomes more complicated. Senator Christian Ward confirms that he and Grant have a younger brother named Thomas, though his version of what happened between the three of them differs wildly from Grant's. He says that Grant is always lying: "Beneath every lie is another lie." On the other hand, Grant insists that Christian is ''worse'' then he himself, and also a better liar. "Thomas" could still be invention for the two brothers to make each other look like a monster.
857* Grant did indeed have two brothers. Thomas considers Grant to be the worst of his two siblings, because Christian at least was willing to accept responsibility for his actions, while Grant never did.
858
859[[WMG: Thomas Ward was a powered individual.]]
860He took pleasure in turning his brothers against each by using his powers to make them think the other one was torturing him (or in Grant's case convincing him that Christian was forcing him to). This would also be a shout out to Billy Blim on Angel, who also a) came from a family compared to the Kennedys and b) like to watch as other people affected by his powers hurt people (in his case only women) rather than doing it himself.
861
862[[WMG: Lynda Carter will appear as Contessa Valentina de Fontaine]]
863With Maria Hill and Bobbi Morse being played by two former Wonder Women, the pattern is there.
864
865[[WMG: One of the test subjects for Project: T.A.H.I.T.I. was a cancer patient named [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Wade Wilson]]]]
866Because if Quicksilver can exist in [[Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast two]] [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron unintersectible]] Marvel film continuities, why can't the Merc with a mouth? Considering the [[CosmicAwareness mind-expanding]] form of insanity that [[spoiler: Garret]] got when being injected with that drug, it ''totally'' makes sense that with the wrong set of variables it could imbue someone with MediumAwareness.
867
868[[WMG: Creel turning into wood was a test by the SFX team]]
869To see if they could animate wood well enough to have [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014 Groot]] show up in a future episode.
870
871[[WMG: Lance Hunter will become ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}]]
872He's a mercenary who, at one point, was married to a "demonic hellbeast". He loves talking and snarking. Eventually he will reveal that "Lancer Hunter" is a name he choose for himself (like how Mary Sue Poots became Skye) and that his real name is "Wade Wilson". After that he'll get injected with GH-235, go nuts, and develop MediumAwareness.
873
874[[WMG: HYDRA will try to brainwash Talbot]]
875However, the brainwashing will not hold because the one thing they wish for him to do, take down SHIELD, would constantly erase it. This is because [[ThePowerOfHate Talbot hates Coulson THAT FREAKIN' MUCH]] due to SHIELD now being a vigilante group and he's stooped to accepting what are essentially bribes from them to keep his position. It's also because he [[HonorBeforeReason wishes to finally arrest Coulson through legitimate means]] to prove to Coulson that all these secret agent shenanigans do not work in protecting the world, rather than having just some stereotypical evil organization mind controlling him into doing so.
876
877[[WMG: Skye's nickname for Coulson will not get updated because of his promotion]]
878Because Coulson, as a Marvel character, would not appreciate being called "DC".
879* Confirmed.
880
881[[WMG: Lance and Morse were freelance mercs for hire working together]]
882Lance said that "I met a girl" in response to Talbot's question about why he chose the merc work. He could be referring to Bobbi. Then Bobbi opted to join S.H.I.E.L.D., a decision that clearly didn't sit too well with Lance. This would explain part of why Hunter's a bit miffed about his "she-devil ex" joining the team.
883
884[[WMG: Coulson purposely gave Grant away as a diversionary tactic.]]
885Think about it: By handing Grant to Christian, Coulson appeases him on the public end and subsequently gets Talbot off S.H.I.E.L.D.'s back. Coulson would also know that Grant would attempt escape, and by doing so, Christian will have his hands full trying to contain Grant. They cannot blame Coulson or S.H.I.E.L.D. for Grant's escape, after all Grant was in their hands when he escaped (and he did warn them). All in all, less headaches for Coulson and for S.H.I.E.L.D.
886
887[[WMG: Skye will join HYDRA]]
888The Doctor [[spoiler: her father]] and Whitehall are now allied together. Whitehall is shown to be very efficient at brainwashing even the most loyal SHIELD agents. As a reward for his allegiance and to keep him on HYDRA's side, Whitehall will brainwash a captured Skye into joining HYDRA and being loyal to The Doctor.
889
890[[WMG: If the show makes it to Season 3, the characters from ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' will make appearances to draw in more viewers]]
891Just like the characters from ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' are in a season of ''Series/OnceUponATime''.
892
893* {{Jossed}}.
894
895[[WMG: Bobbi was part of some special devision of SHIELD, alongside Hawkeye and ComicBook/BlackWidow]]
896She's specifically called 'one of their best', appears to be a OneManArmy, has a unique looking tactical outfit that resembles what Hawkeye and Widow (and Cap) wore, has mentioned Clint in a way to suggest she knows him personally (and as she knows May, and May knows Widow, means she probably knew Widow as well), worked with Coulson in the past (and had high enough security clearance to know Coulson was alive), and generally seems to be treated like she's on their level. Likely, she was from the same branch of SHIELD that those two were in (along with Captain America during his time with SHIELD), possibly as part of some highly-decorated unit that Coulson oversaw. Alternatively, all three could have been SHIELD's own candidates for the Avengers Initiative (hey, she's an Avenger in the comics), which was why they worked with Coulson and had their own uniforms; as for why she wasn't present at the battle for New York, she was probably busy with something else that kept her away.
897
898[[WMG: The second time around, Christian allowed Grant to [[spoiler:do him in.]]]]
899Overcome with guilt over what he had done to Thomas, and hating his parents for abusing him, Christian goes inside the cabin and stays inside as [[spoiler:Grant burns it down and even prevents his parents from escaping the inferno. So in a way, yes, it ''was'' a murder-suicide.]]
900
901[[WMG: One of the main cast members will die in the season finale, occurring in the fallout of Age of Ultron.]]
902[=AoU=] premieres May 1, and the fall TV season ends in mid-May.
903* Something '''bad''' happens to Simmons at the very end.
904
905[[WMG: Trip will be brought back as an LMD]]
906The "Project Theta" that Coulson mentioned to the Koenigs was a contingency plan that activated [=LMDs=] of whatever members they lost during the mission. They could have gotten brainwaves or whatever they needed when each agent went through the lie-detector. They'll activate Trip's unit and he'll be a part of the team again. Furthermore it could explain his appearance in Age of Ultron, since a robot would fit right in with everything else that's going on in there.
907* This would fit well with the theory that the Koenigs are [=LMDs=], especially when they teased such to Trip. The first thing he says when Tripp 2.0 is activated will be "IKnewIt."
908
909[[WMG: The Koenigs are aliens]]
910They're able to tell each other apart, can spot seemingly unnoticeably differences between each other, and don't recognize that they look identical. It's because they're aliens that are willingly aiding SHIELD, and have simply taken AFormYouAreComfortableWith.
911* [[spoiler: Although Radcliffe speculates they might be [=LMDs=] of each other, they claim that they are just normal human quadruplets.]]
912
913[[WMG: There will be a story arc where SWORD is formed as a replacement for SHIELD]]
914Coulson is going to reiterate his offer to Talbot and this time he will point out that despite a relative lack of resources they took out one of the highest ranking HYDRA officers. He will also convince Talbot that there needs to be an organization like SHIELD because the ordinary governments of the world are grossly unprepared to deal with emerging resources that HYDRA is looking to take advantage of. He will do this by either showing Talbot footage of what the Diviner does or more likely have Skye demonstrate her powers to him first hand. Talbot will be convinced and plead to the United Nations the necessity of an organization like SHIELD and will eventually convince them to create such an organization from the current SHIELD agents. Only this time it won't be a peace keeping agency but a response unit to what would be game changers such as Stark level technology, extraterrestrial species, and super human abilities. Humorously Coulson will hate the name SWORD.
915
916[[WMG: Ward will TakeAThirdOption and form his own faction]]
917That will do the dark things that SHIELD can't or won't be seen doing. This group will consist of Ward, Agent 33 and Cal, who will help them recruit other Inhumans to their cause. When the two groups meet face to face both Ward and Cal will appeal to Skye who will not be impressed. During a discussion with Coulson Ward will say something like "You are a shield. You defend when others attack. You are a reaction. We're a little more ambitious than that. We're like a hammer that breaks those threats before they can hurt others."
918* Confirmed, sort of. [[spoiler: Season 2 ends with him declaring that he resemble HYDRA around himself.]]
919
920[[WMG: Mike Peterson will team up with ComicBook/LukeCage]]
921Mike will notice some evil deeds going on and step in to stop it like TheAtoner. Luke will do likewise and there will be a brief LetsYouAndHimFight before they turn against the thugs and kick their asses. Afterward, Luke will explain his Hero For Hire business angle and Mike will want in on it. Their first mission will highlight the RedOniBlueOni nature of this team up in a GoodCopBadCop fashion.
922-->'''Luke Cage''': ''Where's my money, honey?!''\
923'''Mike Peterson''': ''I'd pay the man his money. I can't hold him back forever.''
924
925[[WMG: Ward will go after Quinn]]
926Given his feelings for Sky it isn't too much of a stretch to think he would go after someone who fatally injured her. The BrokenPedestal feelings he has regarding Garrett, who ordered the action, will be another factor. He will offer Quinn a choice: either turn himself and his Gravitonium into custody or Ward will send Cal after him. Quinn will try to TakeAThirdOption and fortify wherever he's keeping the Gravitonium, only for Ward to lead a group of Inhumans on a siege, with their powers making it a CurbStompBattle. SHIELD will launch their own attack only to find Quinn gift wrapped like Bakshi was and a rose for Skye from Ward as well as the Gravitonium.
927
928[[WMG: Talbot will have a meeting with Quinn]]
929Where he will request, or more likely, demand that he hands over the Gravitonium. There will be an ActorAllusion where Talbot will tell Quinn that he likes Stark more.
930
931[[WMG: Everyone thinks psychic powers don't exist because someone has a vested interest in everyone thinking that]]
932Is it just a coincidence that a show where psychic powers not existing despite every other power under the sun being accepted is a RunningGag, is now incorporating the Inhumans where the main antagonist is a frequently secretive, ManipulativeBastard with psychic mind control powers?
933
934[[WMG: Bobbi was unknowingly brainwashed as part of the compliance programme.]]
935She's a sleeper agent within S.H.I.E.L.D., with Simmons as her handler. It would explain why Simmons rejoined S.H.I.E.L.D. after her HYDRA cover was blown, even though she repeatedly declared in Season 1 she had no purpose within the organisation any more after the uprising (though it's initially implied she came back for Fitz, that's belied by her actions towards him almost immediately).
936
937[[WMG: Fitz doesn't actually have brain damage]]
938He's been treated with [=GH325=] or Extremis as part of the deal Simmons made with HYDRA and has actually made a full physical recovery. It would explain why he's able to make a miraculous recovery from being catatonic and nearly brain-dead when he first wakes up from his coma to nearly functioning normally again: he's actually got severe PTSD, which would explain psychosomatic symptoms like his hand losing some motor functions (note that, as an engineer, losing the use of his hands was the worst physical injury possible in the long-term, and it makes sense for him to fixate on that possibility above others), in addition to things like his aphasia, paranoia and hallucinations, and why all of them get worse again only when he's stressed or upset. Plus, ''everything'' Fitz is afraid of eventually happens because he's TheChewToy, and one of his biggest fears in Season 1 was Simmons turning out to be HYDRA.
939
940[[WMG: Why is Skye there?]]
941This one is almost mentioned in-universe by May at the end of "Who You Really Are": It sure is odd that, after Coulson got brought back from the dead by GH-325, which put in some sort of compulsion to find the hidden city, he immediately locates Skye (someone who 'belongs' at the city) and she joins the team. May seemed to think this was all fate or something, but it actually makes a lot of sense if we assume that Coulson running across Skye was just random chance, but then he experienced some sort of compulsion to ''bring her along'' on his subconscious mission to find the city, because something in him recognized her as being 'worthy' of the city. This explains why Coulson would bring along someone who literally stated she was working to bring down SHIELD, and then keep her around after that was confirmed, which otherwise seems the rather strange security risk of deliberately hiring a [[TokenEvilTeammate Token Chaotic Teammate]].
942
943[[WMG: Cal's team of supervillains were set up to be hostile to S.H.I.E.L.D.]]
944Since they were all persecuted and incarcerated while HYDRA agents were active within S.H.I.E.L.D., it's possible that one or more HYDRA agents had them deliberately mistreated so that, if the opportunity arose, they would aim their revenge back at S.H.I.E.L.D.
945
946[[WMG: Daniel Whitehall [[spoiler: isn't dead.]] ]]
947His youthfulness was obtained by [[spoiler: vivisecting the seemingly ageless Jiyaing and giving himself her organs and tissue. In "Afterlife" Jiyaing is revealed to be "alive" due to her powers. If she survived, then presumably so did Whitehall, who absorbed them. This means Cal might get the bloody vengeance he was dreaming of after all.]]
948
949[[WMG: Cal was taken to Afterlife to detox]]
950Gordon dropped Cal into a room that has no doors and no windows and then left him there except for meals and brief conversations. What purpose could this serve? Cal mentioned earlier that he created a serum that gives him a boost to his physical abilities but also makes him unhinged. Gordon, with his "you're a science experiment" line, shows that he is aware of this. After a while it will wear off and he will calm down. In the meantime, he can't hurt anyone.
951
952[[WMG: Coulson is building Avengers Academy]]
953Why else would Coulson need 100 bunk beds and a very good psychologist with a history of working with Gifted? As Mack points out, a good chunk of Coulson's career has been about people with powers: The Avengers Initiative, TAHITI, and now he's involved with the Inhuman. The blueprints and student list for it are inside the Toolbox. The vibranium coating is thus both for practical and symbolic use since such a material was originally used by the first avenger. He keeps it a secret from his own subordinates because it's need-to-know information.
954
955[[WMG: Coulson doesn't really know everything about the Bahrain incident]]
956He thinks May was brokenhearted because she failed to save Katya, not because she had to put her down personally.
957* Confirmed in "Scars".
958
959[[WMG: If Coulson is making Avengers Academy, it won't include the original comic book class]]
960Instead it will have the early marvel teen heroes such as Cloak and Dagger and the New Warriors, and possibly Blizzard (if they fish him out of the ocean). This way they can avoid an AgeLift if and when they choose to bring the Young Avengers and the comic book class into the MCU.
961
962[[WMG: Scorch isn't dead]]
963He [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascended to a higher plan of existence]] and now exists as essentially living fire, his pyrokinetic abilities enabling him to control the massive amounts of Extremis energy that he was dosed with.
964
965[[WMG: Major characters from this show will never have roles in non-summer films aside from cameos]]
966Even though the entire MCU is connected, Marvel knows that not everybody is interested in every facet of the universe. Some people only see the movies, while some only watch the TV shows. It's easy to have events happen concurrently in both the movies and the shows, but having one character have something major happen to them in a film while not showing it on the show would just be confusing and frustrating.
967
968The relationship the shows have to the movies have been relatively minor, aside from the big hulabaloo after Captain America 2. Avengers 2 was only affected in 2, minor ways: one plotline in ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D'' answered a question that the movie never asked (the movie starts in media res with the Avengers attacking a HYDRA fortress, which the S.H.I.E.L.D. team found after a lot of spywork), and answered a minor question with another show plotline (where did Fury get a Helicarrier from? Coulson has been making it in secret, which is the mysterious Theta Protocol). So far, no one has been doing all that much interaction with the big guys, who are mostly out of their league. This may change when the Inhumans movie is released, because Skye is one and her mother is the leader of La Xing.
969
970[[WMG: Fury's Hellicarrier from The Age of Ultron is The Iliad]]
971Which serves as an ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' tie-in for the Avengers 2. Fury gets Hill back to his team from Stark, Hill and Fury both have access to Coulson through the toolbox, and Coulson is currently being willingly taken to Gonzales, who has ''The Iliad'' as his base of operations. So far we only ever saw it on sea in the show, but nothing indicates it isn't airborne. This could not only be an opportunity for Coulson and Gonzales to combine their efforts against HYDRA, but to directly help the Avengers as well.
972* Even better: it turned out to be Coulson's ship, not Gonzales'.
973
974[[WMG: Daredevil and Skye will have their TheOner together]]
975Should Daredevil ever show up in an episode and have him and Skye team up to take down a group of mooks, this should happen.
976
977[[WMG: The Bus was stripped before flying to the Artic]]
978SHIELD is under a resource crunch. If Coulson was going to fly it into a mission knowing that [[spoiler:it would be destroyed]], he'd take everything he didn't need for that mission off of it first. The contents of [=FitzSimmon=]'s lab, the bar, and anything else of use on it except the briefing room computer and the systems needed to fly the Bus [[spoiler:to its death]] are currently at the Playground.
979
980[[WMG: ComicBook/NickFury will scold Coulson for destroying The Bus ''again'']]
981He will say something like, "Really!? Really, Coulson!? Several months after you become Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. you had to destroy The Bus ''again''?! Don't you realize how limited our resources are now!?"
982Then Coulson will say something like this in self-defense, "But, Sir, [[BrickJoke at least]] [[SkewedPriorities I saved the bar]]!"
983The scene then immediately [[HardCut cuts]] to both of them drinking together in the bar. Fury then, while half-drunk, will say something like, "I'm glad you at least removed the bar from The Bus before you destroyed it." Coulson will reply with something like, "Yeah, Sir, because it's a really nice one."
984
985[[WMG:Whitehall's subconsciousness is in Jiaying's mind]]
986With Jiaying repeating Whitehall's line of "Discovery requires experimentation", it's possible that Whitehall has somehow entered into Jiaying's subconsciousness.
987* [[spoiler:Cal claims she wasn't the ManipulativeBitch she is now [[CameBackWrong before he brought her back]]--a fact that may support this guess.]]
988
989[[WMG: Skye will figure out Jiaying's deception]]
990* If she briefed S.H.I.E.L.D. on Jiaying before the meeting (which them knowing her name suggests she did), then her HealingFactor probably came up. Skye will realize that Gonzales wouldn't waste his time shooting someone that he knew couldn't be killed and figure out what Jiaying did.
991* Confirmed.
992
993[[WMG: Grant Ward will be the primary antagonist of season 3.]]
994The season 2 finale will end on a CliffHanger or SequelHook that sets it up, such as him stealing the device on Gonzales' ship or being transformed into a supervillain like Taskmaster or Grim Reaper. Given how "Scars" implied that Bobbi is the one who dragged Kara from her safehouse so Baskhi could brainwash her, Grant's EvilPlan will be to punish the one who ordered her to infiltrate HYDRA in the first place; either "Real" S.H.I.E.L.D.'s council or Coulson.
995
996[[WMG: Besides Maria, none of SHIELD's higher ups liked Coulson]]
997He's been called Fury's favorite once too many and none of them liked him for it.
998
999[[WMG:Bobbi will be BrainwashedAndCrazy with Faustus Method]]
1000Ward and Kara did this to Bakshi before, so why won't they do it to Bobbi as well?
1001
1002[[WMG: Grant Ward will become the new Red Skull.]]
1003He'll resemble the Ultimate Marvel version.
1004
1005[[WMG: The S.H.I.E.L.D agents who left Garrett to die in his backstory were actually HYDRA agents.]]
1006* This may never get confirmed due to Garrett's arc being over, but it makes perfect sense. Ask yourself something: HYDRA was so well-hidden that even Fury, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D and a level ten operative, didn't know about them until the events of Winter Soldier (he sensed that something was fishy, but he didn't know the specifics until Cap told him), so how did an agent much lower in rank than Fury discover HYDRA and join up with them? Answer: He didn't. A HYDRA agent attempted to recruit him sometime before the events of the show. Being a loyal agent, he probably refused, at which point HYDRA decided that he needed to be dealt with, so Pierce (or someone else high up in the chain of command) had him assigned to a suicide mission and made sure that there was no extraction team, hoping that he would die. We know the rest: Garrett lived, but his loyalty to SHIELD was broken, leading to him joining HYDRA.
1007* This could also explain why there was no extraction team for Fitz and Ward in "The Hub": someone in HYDRA (possibly even Ward himself) was using the same strategy in the hopes that they could convince Fitz to flip.
1008
1009[[WMG: Grant Ward spent about 10-15 years in suspended animation as a kid.]]
1010We know that the first "Ragtag" flashback took place fifteen years ago, making Ward roughly 30 in the present day (he was old enough to be sent to boarding school, but young enough that there was some question about whether he was going to be tried as an adult). Also, it's clear both from his and Christian's description of his childhood that they grew up fairly close in age (assuming either of them is telling something remotely like the truth). But if Christian is only a few years over 30, it doesn't make sense for him to be an influential senator (he would have been constitutionally barred from being a senator at all until pretty recently!); also, he looks significantly older than that, being played by the 51-year-old Tim [=DeKay=].
1011
1012If Grant spent a while not aging between the flashback in "The Well" and the flashback in "Ragtag", that would explain this time discrepancy; possibly Christian convinced his parents to do this as part of his "Grant needs to be kept away from Thomas" narrative.
1013[[/folder]]
1014
1015[[folder: Season 3]]
1016
1017[[WMG: Rosalind will be a DiscOneFinalBoss]]
1018Just like Whitehall was this to the first half of season 2, she'll be a big threat for the first half of Season 3 until she gets killed off, either in a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness moment by Ward or by an Inhuman she's kept in some prison.
1019** She is killed off alright, much earlier than halfway through the season and after finding out to her horror that she was in fact working for HYDRA (something she did not know).
1020
1021[[WMG: Lash will be a DiscOneFinalBoss]]
1022
1023[[WMG: A member of The Inhuman Royal Family will make a guest appearance]]
1024Most likely Karnak, given his design and abilities could be portrayed on the show's low budget.
1025
1026[[WMG: Lash is Raina]]
1027Similar spines, tracking abilities consistent with clairvoyance, and we know what dying and coming back does to a person's mind in the series.
1028
1029[[WMG: Simmons carries the Inhuman gene.]]
1030Would be a good dollop of karma for her, given her wariness of Inhumans last season, and an interesting arc to explore. Don't even need her to undergo terrigenesis straightaway - just the idea that she carries the gene would provoke some deep thinking.
1031
1032Other points for (Note: 'Laws of Nature' spoilers follow.):
1033* As gleaned from its time aboard the ''Iliad'', the Monolith seems to turn liquid in the presence of Inhumans, or when they are nearby. There is a scene where the Monolith goes liquid in the sole presence of S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel - this could be because one or more of them carry the dormant Inhuman gene.
1034* In [[Recap/AgentsofSHIELDS2E22SOSPart2 S.O.S., Part 2]], a significant amount of time passed between Fitz accidentally opening the Monolith's box and him leaving the room; in fact, he was standing directly in front of the door at one point! Why didn't the Monolith absorb him?
1035* In [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E1LawsOfNature Laws of Nature]], Fitz climbs ''into'' the Monolith's container and begins punching it in desperation. ''Still'' no response from the Monolith. All Simmons had to do to get absorbed was stand in front of the box after Fitz accidentally broke the lock.
1036
1037Point against:
1038* Simmons carries alien antibodies as a result of her encounter with the Chitauri virus in [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E6FZZT FZZT]]. It could be this alien trace that the Monolith is responding to.
1039* While the Monolith reacted to Daisy's presence (who's Inhuman), it also reacted to Prof. Randolph (who's Asgardian).
1040* It was pointed out the liquification appeared to occur on some kind of natural, irregular, cycle, but not an Earth-based one, which then caused the suggestion it was some kind of cycle from another planet. The planet Simmons was trapped on had multiple moons, and their interactions along with that of the planet's sun would lead to irregular natural cycles.
1041* In "4,722", Jemma confirms that the portal opens (aside from artificially on the Earth side) in response to the tidal force of the planet's moons.
1042
1043[[WMG: The ACTU will eventually become SWORD.]]
1044This one seems fairly obvious to anyone familiar with SWORD's principles from the comics. Another covert organization, similar to SHIELD but dealing almost exclusively with extraterrestrial threats? The ACTU, when faced with the full threat of global Terragenesis, could easily grow to become a global organization to complement SHIELD. Expect lots of GrayAndGrayMorality in the coming conflict, as they don't seem completely evil (although perhaps more ruthless than Coulson's SHIELD).
1045
1046[[WMG: Lincoln is Rosalind Price's son.]]
1047One of Rosalind's aliases surname was Campbell and she did look at his picture as if she knew him.
1048
1049[[WMG: Joey is being introduced as a love interest for Mack.]]
1050Mack was pretty AmbiguouslyGay in season 2 (gender neutral discussion of his 'exes', the whole thing with Tim in the ''One Door Closes'' flashbacks), and the first new character introduced in season 3 is a new Inhuman who's openly gay and who will be stuck indefinitely in SHIELD's base. Marvel has caught some heat for the total lack of LGBT characters in the MCU, and this is a low-risk way to head off that criticism far away from the main movies. Plus, bonus irony points given Mack's FantasticRacism towards Inhumans and anything alien-related for most of season 2.
1051
1052[[WMG: The monolith sent Simmons to [[ComicBook/SecretWars1984 Battleworld]].]]
1053She was running from ''something'' and there doesn't look to be much farming going on in that landscape.
1054
1055[[WMG: Werner Von Strucker will eventually turn on Ward.]]
1056A lot of people are making the comparison of the Ward/Werner relationship to that of Garrett/Ward. The twist is that if Werner becomes the new leader of HYDRA, his first order of business is to turn on Ward (and possibly have him killed).
1057
1058[[WMG: Professor Randolph met an Inhuman once.]]
1059She was the distracting firedancer he met in the 19th century when he was investigating the Monolith.
1060
1061[[WMG: Ward is going to put Lance through Hydra programming.]]
1062So he can force him to kill Bobbi.
1063
1064[[WMG: Andrew's body wasn't in the pharmacy when it exploded in "Devils You Know"]]
1065* We didn't see the other [=HYDRA=] thug leave the store with Werner, nor did we see anything of the dead body save dark pants and shoes... with the general chaos surrounding Ward, there was ample time for Werner or Andrew to kill that guy with no repercussions, then burn the evidence.
1066* [=HYDRA=] kidnapped Garner and made it look like he died. What better way to keep something hanging over May's head to keep The Cavalry at bay? The body will be very hard to identify, if there's anything left, and they can pull the same trick they did with Mike in Season 1: fake the death, trot him out later on their side.
1067* He was in it, but since he was Lash at the time, he wasn't seriously hurt.
1068
1069[[WMG: Lash is Rosalind Price.]]
1070* When Daisy is by Mack's bed in the hospital and discusses seeing Lash's shadow becoming human, the question "Who is he?" is immediately followed by Rosalind Price opening the curtains--in other words, an implied AnswerCut. In addition, Rosalind and Lash have never been seen together at once, and there is the implicit assumption that Lash is male, leaving the door open for SamusIsAGirl
1071** Point against though is that during Lash's first appearance Rosalind is clearly seen on the Subway in DC surrounded by her men and with Coulson and Hunter as witnesses.
1072
1073[[WMG: Lash is Dr. Andrew Garner]]
1074A whole heap of clues piled into [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E4DevilsYouKnow "Devils You Know"]].
1075* May accuses Andrew of disappearing during their vacation, which frees him up for the time frame when Lash became active.
1076* Andrew seems particularly interested in seeing Alisha in containment, which would be understandable if he thought he had just killed her, and is also upset with Coulson for not telling him about her. Frye may have been tracking down the Inhumans for him, but Lash was supplying him with the names - which Andrew would have been getting from S.H.I.E.L.D. and would explain why he was upset Coulson didn't tell him about Alisha. Lash is seen to hunt Inhumans indiscriminately, even killing his only Inhuman ally when he [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness was compromised]], and yet didn't kill Daisy when he had the perfect opportunity to do so.
1077* We never see the face of the body in the convenience store, Werner is the only HYDRA goon seen escaping from it, and he looks ''terrified''. Nevermind the title of the episode, which implies a FalseFriend.
1078* The reason he thinks it is "necessary" to kill Inhumans is because of what happened to May in Bahrain. He wants to prevent any similar situations in the future.
1079* His and May's vacation/attempted reconciliation between seasons was cut short by him leaving, without explaining why. Going through Terrigenesis and needed to control his powers without wanting May to find out after eating the wrong fish?
1080** [[spoiler:Confirmed at the end of "Among Us Hide...".]]
1081
1082[[WMG:Lash didn't kill Daisy in "Devils You Know" because he's running out of time.]]
1083His transformation from human form to "hulked out" form may be temporary. At the time, he's about to transform back to his human form, so he didn't take any risk to kill Daisy because it could've exposed his identity if he failed to kill her.
1084
1085[[WMG:Lash is Triplett]]
1086His first experience with Inhumans is when Raina activates the diviner and petrifies herself and Skye. Then the stuff does the same to him. Also, his mission was to destroy the place. He genuinely thinks the Inhuman are a threat because he's been out of the loop with the rest of SHIELD for a while.
1087
1088[[WMG:Ward is planning to run Andrew through Hydra brainwashing and send him against May]]
1089Because putting May in a position where she had no choice but to kill Andrew would (to Ward's warped mind) be justice for causing him to shoot Kara.
1090
1091[[WMG:The return expedition to the Monolith Planet will retrieve "It" instead of/along with Will]]
1092There's no way they're done with "It" yet. Introducing it for just one episode would be a waste. It will be a MageKiller in the form of an anti-Inhuman.
1093* Confirmed. Will was dead before the expedition was launched, and It returned with Ward.
1094
1095[[WMG:Rosalind was part of the NASA team that sent Will to the Monolith planet]]
1096One of her previous jobs was with NASA, and she must've had some experience with aliens and alien artifacts to be chosen to lead the ATCU.
1097* Confirmed, though she wasn't in charge of that project and didn't know its true purpose.
1098
1099[[WMG:Rosalind is really [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_Brand Abigail Brand]]]]
1100I know it is a bit out there, but think about it. What would make the higher ups want to choose Price to lead a alien-hybrid hunting team. She doesn't seem to have much experience in it. Despite the militaristic method, she seems to be more willing to capture the NuHumans instead of flat-out killing them. This, along with the multiple names, and similarity to Coulson, may suggest two possibilities. Either she is secretly the half alien agent, trying to secretly "protect" others, or she is yet to awaken her alien DNA.
1101* Related to the theory above where ATCU will become S.W.O.R.D., and Abigail is a member of S.W.O.R.D. in the comics.
1102
1103[[WMG:Gideon Malick will become the Red Skull as a LegacyCharacter]]
1104His full being Albert Gideon Malick.
1105
1106[[WMG:The entity whom Will calls "it" is [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep really named It]].]]
1107We're under false impression that it was just a pronoun for the entity. "It" is actually the entity's real name.
1108* Its name is really Alveus, and is the MCU Hive.
1109
1110[[WMG:Will is It]]
1111How is it that he and he alone survived all this time on the planet? Not to mention that he seduces the one person who might be technologically advanced enough to return to Earth and then return for him, opening the portal permanently. Besides, have you ever seen It and Will in the same scene together? Will took a long time to reveal himself to Simmons, perhaps he was just gauging her abilities to see what she was capable of before deciding whether or not to destroy her or use her for his own purposes.
1112* Semi-confirmed. He wasn't It when he met Jemma, but was taken over by It after she escaped.
1113
1114[[WMG:Rosalind doesn't know that Gideon Malick is HYDRA]]
1115The whole "ally is secretly an enemy" trope is pretty overdone in this show and they literally just resolved the same thing with Andrew/Lash. Her calling Gideon is a RedHerring - she actually thinks he's "just" a member of the World Security Council, as Powers Boothe played one in ''[[Film/TheAvengers2012 The Avengers]]''.
1116* If she didn't know, she knows by the end of ''Many Heads, One Tale.''
1117
1118[[WMG: The mysterious alien entity--"Death"--will be the BigBad of season 3.]]
1119Season 2 started off with ArcVillain Daniel Whitehall, who was killed in the midseason finale. So far, season 3 has consisted of a BigBadEnsemble of Grant Ward and Lash. As of the most recent episode (as of writing this), "Chaos Theory", Lash has been captured, leaving [[BigBadDuumvirate Ward and Gideon Malick]] as the remaining villains. Furthermore, promotional materials for the upcoming episode "Many Heads, One Tale" suggest that Ward may finally be in over his head, and the following episode is titled his famous [[ArcWords arc word]], "Closure", which may imply that Ward is finally KilledOffForReal. The midseason finale is titled "Maveth", which is the Hebrew word for "death" as written on the scroll to describe the Kree Monolith. Will later refers to the entity as "Death". Thus, with no more human or Inhuman villains left, the mysterious entity comes back in full force, setting the stage for the latter half of the season.
1120* As of the Mid Season Premiere ''Bouncing Back'' it appears that the Inhuman (Hive) will be the BigBad.
1121** And now Malick is [[ICanRuleAlone dead thanks to Hive]].
1122
1123[[WMG: Gideon Malick will be Season 3's BigBad.]]
1124The seasoned villain has the means and intelligence to match Coulson, his first couple of appearances show that he's quite TheSpymaster, not to mention that [[spoiler:Rosalind Price currently works for him, making him TheManBehindTheMan.]] He seems overall more competent at rebuilding Hydra than Ward's thuggish attempts so far. Finally, he's played by known star Powers Boothe, and he's credited with 17 episodes on IMDB. He's also a villain who's been around since the first Avengers movie.
1125* He's the Big Bad of the first half of the season, but once Hive comes back from the other world, Malick is DemotedToDragon.
1126
1127[[WMG: The ancient Inhuman worshipped by HYDRA will be an {{Expy}} of {{ComicBook/Apocalypse}}.]]
1128Similar to how Jiaying was an {{Expy}} of {{ComicBook/Magneto}}. What is known about the character (immortal, infinitely powerful super-powered being with a large cult of followers) does fit with with Apocalypse's character.
1129* Confirmed.
1130
1131[[WMG: The Inhuman on the other side of the Monolith portal is Thane.]]
1132 As an incredibly powerful Inhuman from the comics, he would certainly qualify to be banished through the portal (maybe by an older member of the Inhuman royal family?). Not to mention, as the son of Thanos, he would effectively tie the show into the larger [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]] in a huge way. It would only require a few minor changes to his backstory, and he would make for a great FinalBoss for Season 3. This would also provide an opportunity to introduce the Black Order into the MCU canon.
1133* It's Hive.
1134
1135[[WMG: HYDRA will not quite succeeded in its season 3 goal]]
1136They will retrieve someone from Maveth, but It will not be it. Out will come one or several of the [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014 Guardians]]. An OffscreenMomentOfAwesome was pulled, which is to be seen in the Vol 2.
1137
1138[[WMG: [[Film/AntMan1 Mitchell Carson]] will return with the Pym Particles and become a recurring villain]]
1139While one might think that his next obvious appearance in the series would be ''Ant-Man And The Wasp'' given that he is typically an Ant-Man villain in the comics, we may actually see him here, due to his connection to HYDRA.
1140
1141[[WMG: Ward will be stranded on the planet.]]
1142Coulson will make sure Ward is stuck there as a means of CruelMercy.
1143* His body makes it back.
1144
1145[[WMG: The entity on the other side will possess either Ward or Coulson to come back through the portal.]]
1146IE. why HYDRA keeps sending people through - to get possessed and come back, they just couldn't figure out the come back part before they died. Malick is banking on it possessing Ward, as Ward is his best asset and an ideal candidate, and safe money is on this as the Grant Ward character seems to have run its course... but Coulson going through the portal is a huge curveball, and him getting possessed instead would play right into previous WMG of Coulson somehow becoming season 3's BigBad. It would also save Ward for another day, and possibly lead to his long rumored (though not really deserved) redemption arc as he opposes Evil Coulson.
1147* Confirmed. It possesses Ward after Coulson kills him.
1148
1149[[WMG: Lash and It will kill each other]]
1150Lash exists to kill dangerous Inhumans, and It is an Inhuman so dangerous that it was exiled to another planet to stop it, and the other Inhumans still feared its memory centuries later. He's going to attack It if he finds It, but It won't die easy.
1151* As an alternative, they will have a massive final battle... and while grappling, will be flung through a portal to Maveth.
1152** Lash smacks Hive around for a while, but is killed by one of Hive's swayed followers while he rescues Daisy.
1153
1154[[WMG: Thomas Ward might take his brother's place in Team Coulson]]
1155Assuming he lives long enough, he's certainly established himself as a Good Counterpart who could be the hero his brother wasn't. The team wouldn't have such a hard time trusting him. [[spoiler: He's also the only Ward brother left now.]]
1156
1157[[WMG: "It" will learn everything about the modern world through the bodies it possesses]]
1158Considering all the skills Ward has as a spy, as well as all the knowledge of SHIELD and Hydra, Hydra's plans for getting It off world are gonna be a case of GoneHorriblyRight.
1159** Confirmed, since it knew about Fitz and Simmons etc.
1160.
1161%%%[[WMG: That a common in-universe name for "It" is "Death" is a hint that "It" is the MCU version of Death that Thanos will attempt to court.]]
1162%%%If you're going to make a guess, make it a real guess and not just a title. Conversely, please refrain from adding "this guess is wrong/unlikely" additions so this page does not look like a forum.
1163
1164[[WMG: "It" is [[http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Hive_(Earth-616) Hive]]]]
1165Fits the Secret Warriors connection, as well as the HYDRA thing. Doesn't tie in to the Inhumans, but that is probably just an adaptation thing.
1166* Confirmed.
1167
1168[[WMG: After "It" is killed Ward will be reborn without memories]]
1169Considering Brett Dalton's popularity, it is unlikely get rid of him for good. That could make for the perfect TomatoInTheMirror redemption story.
1170* Hive said it can only take over dead bodies. Ward is dead and still dead, what we saw was Hive repairing his vessel. Ward is still gone and what is walking around is an ancient Inhuman wearing a Ward suit. Like Will the only thing alive of Ward is his memories. Hive's true form has been revealed as totally alien and composed of tentacle and the ''Ward'' everyone sees is the form it takes to appear human. Like Malik's brother, like Will and like Ward it consumes its hosts but retains the memories . If Hive was destroyed or driven out the only thing left would be a corpse.
1171
1172[[WMG: "It" will be searching for Lash in order to possess him]]
1173It probably requires a better than human body as a proper shell.
1174* "It" says that it cannot "feed" on Inhumans. [[spoiler: When Hive encounters Lash he's not even able to use his sway on him because Lash's powers directly neutralize Hive's parasites.]]
1175
1176[[WMG: "It" isn't the Inhuman]]
1177The Inhuman was sent to the planet while "It" already inhabited it. They have been fighting there all that time. The real Inhuman took over Coulson, and isn't quite as evil as Hydra remembers.
1178
1179[[WMG: "It" will be supernatural in origin.]]
1180With the Doctor Strange movie coming up Marvel will be introducing magic to the Marvel Cinematic universe. Since the show has had loose connections to the movies and even future movies (hydra, inhumans, the new helicarrier) its not far out there that the creature that hydra thinks is an inhuman could be something extra-dimensional, maybe even from the dark dimension or whatever world Dormammu will be from. That would better explain why it jumps from body to body as being a mostly spiritual being it wouldn't have any solid form and needs a host body. "It" in ward's body will be the biggest threat for the rest of the season and maybe the next season, leading up to the release of Doctor Strange.
1181
1182[[WMG: "It" will try to acquire Jiaying's corpse]]
1183Her vampiric abilities could prove very useful after the creature had been weakened by millennia of starvation. Whitehall's research might also be of interest.
1184* As it turns out, It has regenerative abilities of its own, and they're downright horrifying.
1185
1186[[WMG: Giyera's powers are generally telekinetic, not just metal-oriented]]
1187Giyera can control living tissue. This is why Banks didn't drop his gun when it was turned on his own head.
1188
1189[[WMG:Simmons was psychologically tortured by Giyera and Ward]]
1190
1191[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E9Closure The "Closure" recap]] notes that for all the screaming Simmons did while under torture, she appeared rather physically unharmed. The truth is simple but sinister: while Malick toyed with idea of physical torture, it was decided that leaving too many marks might discourage Fitz's cooperation or increase the likelihood of resisting. So he ordered Giyera and Ward to bait Simmons into thinking they were going to hurt her, and then pulled out the rug by revealing their real plan: playing a copy of ''[[Film/FantasticFour2015 Fant4stic]]'' while using the hammer and wrench to hit her if she stopped watching it. She held out fairly well, but when Ward came back after receiving Coulson's call, he took the torture to next level by playing Josh Trank's initial cut of Fant4stic. The EvenEvilHasStandards trope makes guess ''sound'' this extremely unlikely, but there will be a time when villains with standards cross the MoralEventHorizon. There ''will'' be, and if they did use ''Fant4stic'' for psychological torture, that's when they cross it.
1192
1193[[WMG:It-possessed Ward carries and keeps Coulson's detached prosthetic arm for a joke]]
1194When It/Ward confront Coulson again, he will say something like "Need a hand, Coulson?"
1195* Confirmed that he still has it. He places it on a dinner table during "Spacetime". However, in their confrontation, it's Coulson who makes the lame hand joke.
1196
1197[[WMG: Audrey is going to be more important in the near future]]
1198There was no way she could have been a major character in seasons 1-2, as Amy Acker was committed to being a major character on ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' at the time. But that show is now over, so she's now available to play Audrey Nathan more frequently.
1199
1200[[WMG: President Ellis' comments to Coulson in "Bouncing Back" about the ATCU's role are for both in-universe and [[ExecutiveMeddling out-of-universe]] reasons]]
1201Since the President maintains that the ATCU will remain the public face of the operations while S.H.I.E.L.D. will call the shots in secret, it seems all too likely that this development will be invoked later on when ''[[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar Civil War]]'' comes out to once again justify continuing to keep Coulson & Co. out of the movie series like ''[[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron Age of Ultron]]'' did (instead of secretly rebuilding a Helicarrier for Nick Fury over several episodes and then being [[CreatorBacklash deliberately ignored]]).
1202
1203[[WMG: Giyera and Lucio will make a HeelFaceTurn]]
1204After "Inside Man", it seems like a valid possibility that they will eventually break free from Hive and get disillusioned by HYDRA and their cruel deeds.
1205* Lucio is dead as of [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E17TheTeam Season 03 Episode 17 - The Team]]
1206
1207[[WMG: Malick's death will cause more problems for SHIELD than fixing them]]
1208Whether Malick dies by SHIELD, Hive or someone else, his death will cause problems for the world at large since he's so ingrained in a lot of world politics and finances.
1209
1210[[WMG: Malick's daughter will become Madam Hydra]]
1211Like the saying goes, cut one head off another will appear.
1212* [[spoiler:Hive kills her to teach Malick a lesson in sacrifice.]]
1213
1214[[WMG: HYDRA is attempting to make a Terrigen Bomb.]]
1215At TheStinger for "Watchdogs", [[spoiler: the item Blake delivered to HYRDA appears to be a nuclear bomb. Since just having a nuke seems to be too vanilla even for HYDRA, it is possible they will try to turn it into a Terrigen bomb to create more Inhumans for Hive.]]
1216* [[spoiler:By the events of 'The Singularity' Hive has gathered all the items that can stop him, and has all the people he needs to recreate the Kree experiments that created the first inhumans. Hydra is dead in the water courtesy of Talbot, so Hive alone controls the nuke. At this point it is fair to say the finale will be dealing with launching the Terrigen Bomb into space and detonating it.]]
1217
1218[[WMG: Hive is literally a HiveMind]]
1219It appears that Hive not only stores the memory of all people he ever possessed, but traits of their personalities too. At one point in private with Lucio and Giyera when asked "What are you?" he replies "What are ''we''." Finally, Simmons theorizes that flesh-eating spores are not generated by Hive, but are part of him. It could be that Hive absorbs each of its hosts, with them sharing a symbotic relationship together with the original Inhuman conciousness. Hive seems to want to hide it from other humans, even HYDRA heads, referring to itself in a singular tense. However, when alone with Inhumans, with whom he shares a special, unrevealed plan, he has no need to hide and casually shows ''their'' true self.
1220* Confirmed. It's shown to have Ward's memories, and also those of Malick's younger brother, who served as a host for a time.
1221
1222[[WMG: The traitor in the Secret Warriors is Joey.]]
1223It won't be Daisy, since she's a (arguably ''the'') main character; it won't be Elena, since having the newest member of the team be the traitor may be too predictable; it won't be Lincoln, since he's Daisy's love interest. That leaves Joey.
1224* The "traitor" is Daisy by means of mind control.
1225
1226[[WMG: The traitor in the Secret Warriors is Lincoln]]
1227
1228Him just coming clean to Daisy about his past would make it all the more tragic, plus he's the only member who has been physically near Hive long enough that they may have been infected by his Inhuman-controlling parasites (at least,the implication is that he can control other Inhumans) while they were raiding the building in "Spacetime".
1229* The "traitor" is Daisy by means of mind control.
1230
1231[[WMG: There is no traitor in Secret Warriors]]
1232* Coulson is being overly paranoid. The whole "Mole in the Team" plot point is getting really overused in this show (even if it would likely be caused by mind control in this instance), so it would be a nice change of pace if they were actually wrong about this for once. Not to mention that it would tie in to the plot of Captain America: Civil War rather nicely. If there is a traitor, they'll probably be freed from Hive's mind control (none of the Secret Warriors are likely serving HYDRA willingly) before the Season ends.
1233* The "traitor" is Daisy by means of mind control.
1234
1235[[WMG: The person who dies in Daisy's vision is May]]
1236The reason for this is fairly simple: May's the only one in the main cast who knows how to fly a Quinjet, and it's unlikely she'd trust the job of flying to anyone but herself. This is shown when she flew Zephyr One back to the Playground while wounded, which could be possible Foreshadowing. Plus, in Daisy's first vision of the future, the only person who wasn't present was May (and Mack, so he's a possibility as well), which could be another piece of Foreshadowing. Whether or not they'll know it'll be a suicide mission or why Elena's necklace was onboard as well remains to be seen.
1237
1238[[WMG: The person who dies in Daisy's vision is Lincoln]]
1239He's probably the most expendable (being the newest main character, the least-beloved character of the main cast (everyone else has legions of fan who'd yell for blood if they were killed off, but Lincoln's fan are pretty quiet), and while one of the few supers, he's got the most generic powerset), he's strongly tied to main character Daisy so even in spite of the above it'd still be a TearJerker, and with Daisy currently mind-controlled by Hive, who has remnants of Grant Ward in him (and based on the preview released, is creepily affectionate towards her), its not difficult to see him as seeing Lincoln as a potential [[MurderTheHypotenuse hypotenuse]].
1240Hell, its likely that he'll go do something crazy-stupid as a last-ditch effort to free Daisy, only for Hive to make ''Daisy'' kill him for it, so when she does get free, she's stuck dealing with the fact she killed someone she was intimate with, especially if he dies saying the L-word. Season 4 can then have her deal with this and trying to cope with having killed him.
1241
1242* Confirmed, although in a HeroicSacrifice, rather than his death being an intentional choice by Ward.
1243
1244[[WMG: Others will join the Secret Warriors]]
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1248At this point, only four members, one of whom is currently BrainwashedAndCrazy, so that over the next four episodes, they will have a recruitment drive of sorts to get more members to stop Hive and save Daisy, likely after they've made a 'vaccine' for Hive's control parasites. Most likely candidates:
1249* James, Lincoln's 'friend', who may-or-may-not-be the MCU version of J.T. James of the Secret Warriors.
1250* Manifold (Eden Fesi), since he was name-dropped previously as an Inhuman they've rescued, and he joined the team in the comics after a member was benched temporarily.
1251* Alicia, to add more gender-balance to the team and just because she's an available ally.
1252** Hive got to her first.
1253* Creel, since he got AdaptationalHeroism in the show and his son was on the team in the comics.
1254* Deathlok, because they could use a member of the team who can act as a token non-Inhuman.
1255
1256[[WMG: Nobody will die in the vision]]
1257At the last minute, Manifold will be able to pull them to safety, and they'll realize that the future is mutable after all.
1258
1259[[WMG: Whatever happens in the next few episodes, HYDRA will no longer be the threat it used to be.]]
1260With the leaders being killed or arrested by SHIELD, and with HIVE and his Inhumans taking over, with their defeat HYDRA would be on their last legs by the next movies.
1261
1262* Unless there's some underground branch that makes a resurgence, confirmed.
1263
1264[[WMG: Lash & Creel will be key to killing Hive.]]
1265We've seen Lash NoSell a lot of attacks, including other Inhumans' powers; it's possible he could resist Hive's control. Plus Lash's urge to kill other Inhumans may be meant so he'll kill Hive. Meanwhile, Creel's ability to overcome the Diviner may put him into a "[[Film/{{Blade}} daywalker]]" sort of state; he's not Inhuman, so Hive can't control him, but he can mimic Inhumanity enough that Hive can't just eat him either. Furthermore, Creel might be able to copy Hive's spores & give him a taste of his own medicine. ''Also'', the Inhuman "vaccine" Simmons developed from Creel's blood might be adapted into a cure for Hive's control. Two [[ChekhovsGunman Gunmen]] & a [[ChekhovsGun Gun]].
1266
1267* Partially Confirmedish. Lash did play a key role, and clearly was Hive's greatest weakness, but ultimately does not stop him. Creel does not play any role whatsoever.
1268
1269[[WMG: Lincoln will be practicing more precise control of his powers.]]
1270Because they will turn out to be the only reliable way to remove the Hive infestation. Hive's spores infect Inhuman brains, and Lincoln's already been shown to use his powers to stimulate Werner's comatose mind. With enough control, he could probably fry the spores from the heads of any Inhumans who are infected with them. As another thought, maybe all the myths of the devil and such being cast down by heavenly powers and the supreme god wielding thunderbolts are a reflection of another Inhuman with similar power playing a critical part in casting Hive down the first time.
1271* The only known way to remove the infection, as of Hive's death, was Lash, and Lincoln certainly won't be curing the remnants of his army even if they aren't cured already.
1272
1273[[WMG: The person who dies in Daisy's vision is either Fitz or Simmons]]
1274No real evidence within the vision itself, per se, but they are coming worryingly close to resolving their various relationship issues. They were on the verge of getting together at the end of Season 2, before they were drawn apart, but now they are once again on the verge of properly repairing all their issues and initiating a full-fledged romantic relationship. Anyone who has watched a lot of Mutant Enemy productions knows that this is just when every single projectile in the universe will hone in on the two characters until one is dead.
1275
1276[[WMG: Alveus isn't Hive's name]]
1277Judging from all the hints, Hive is far older than the Latin language. It was probably referred to as mn̥gh (Proto-Indo-European for "many") or maybe something even older. Or perhaps he was named Hive... and that's why [[TheScottishTrope the word is absent]] from both the modern reconstructions of PIE and the Egyptian language.
1278
1279[[WMG: After the events of this season, Daisy will go back to being Skye]]
1280After what she's done under the control of Hive, after being freed it's possible she won't want to be associated with 'Daisy Johnson' anymore (especially as her family tree already consists of violent murderers), and will go back to the name she chose for herself to try and escape it.
1281
1282[[WMG: The person who dies in the vision is Coulson.]]
1283It would be arguably the most unexpected of any of the characters (since he's the protagonist AND has died before), and it would create tremendous storytelling potential for season 4, with there now being a power vacuum at SHIELD. Effectively, Coulson will die to atone for the sin of bringing Hive back to Earth, and this act will [[TogetherInDeath reunite him with Rosalind]]. The episodes immediately leading up to the season finale subtly imply that he will play a role in the plot, since only he and Daisy have Kree blood running through their veins, and thus could be a target by Hive for his EvilPlan.
1284
1285[[WMG: Lash was weakened by the Inhuman vaccine.]]
1286[[spoiler: Lash is killed by James piercing his chest with a heated chain. Considering all the other attacks he has no sold in the season (bullets, Daisy's concussive blast, Lincoln's electricity), it seems a little anticlimactic. It makes more sense, when you remember that Andrew was given an IV of an Inhuman vaccine derived from Carl Creel. It failed to prevent his complete transformation into Lash, but it likely nerfed his healing factor, or whatever defensive ability he had that made him unstoppable.]]
1287
1288[[WMG: The thing Dr. Radcliffe built [[spoiler:at the end of the finale is Jocasta.]]]]
1289[[spoiler: It looks feminine, and he was telling his female-voiced computer that she's about to be born (if he was referring to her). So the computer is J.O.C.A.S.T.A., mentioned in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''.]]
1290
1291[[/folder]]
1292
1293[[folder:Season 4]]
1294
1295[[WMG: Elements of Marvel's Most Wanted will be incorporated into Season 4.]]
1296[[TheBusCameBack Namely Bobbi and Hunter returning]] and Oded Fehr's character appearing as a villain. Looks like Daisy is on the "[[MythologyGag most wanted]]" list instead!
1297
1298[[WMG: Season 4 will feature magic.]]
1299''[[Film/DoctorStrange2016 Doctor Strange]]'' will be released early in the season, after all.
1300* Seems to be confirmed, with Gabriel Luna showing up as Ghost Rider. With the introduction of ghosts and the Darkhold so far, we can easily confirm this as accurate.
1301
1302[[WMG: Season 4 won't start where Season 3 left off. It'll be all a big HowWeGotHere]]
1303We'll see the consequences that lead to Daisy going rogue and why Coulson is hunting her down.
1304
1305[[WMG: The new Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. is Maria Hill]]
1306Post Civil War, Tony is a broken mess, Cap is on the run and Nick Fury is still Technically Dead. Both Fury and Hill were quite obviously absent in Civil War and various PTB stated we'd see what they were up to"'soon", maybe prepping for the return of SHIELD as a UN group?
1307
1308[[WMG: The DreamSequence at the beginning of "Absolution" will actually come to fruition in season 4]]
1309It might not happen until the season finale, or at least the mid-season finale. Also, it would oddly reveal that Daisy can now predict the future much like Raina or Charles.
1310
1311[[WMG: Coulson is still the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.]]
1312The piece of TheStinger dealing with Radcliffe was making a big deal about Life Model Decoys, right? What if this is merely Coulson's own LMD taking part in field operations, referring to his real self as "the Director" safely back at base? He just used a holographic copy of himself in the season finale and has been getting more comfortable with lifelike cybernetics via his artificial hand, so maybe he volunteered his likeness as a test subject for the program. The significance of Radcliffe's scene with AIDA is that it could be the first time an AI is being downloaded into an LMD, as opposed to a living subject's brain patterns.
1313* The new Director is Jeffrey Mace, who Coulson had a hand in recruiting due to the reborn S.H.I.E.L.D. needing a powered person they could trust running the organization.
1314
1315[[WMG: Daisy is still working for S.H.I.E.L.D]]
1316The boss that Daisy is working for now is Cap. The hacker has come full-circle and is now once again working against S.H.I.E.L.D., i.e. the post-Civil War Pro-Accords S.H.I.E.L.D.. The renewed push to register Inhumans drove her into the camp of the original shield bearer. When Mack finally catches up to her and demands an explanation, she will insist that she is the one working for "[[IronicEcho The Real S.H.I.E.L.D."]]
1317* This idea is used by [[spoiler: Jeffrey Mace to neutralize a PR problem by telling the press that Daisy never left S.H.I.E.L.D and was actually on a deep cover assignment to undermine the Watchdogs.]]
1318
1319[[WMG: Daisy will join (or at some point, joined) the Secret Avengers.]]
1320At the end of ''Civil War'', Steve Rogers busts his allies out of the Raft and goes underground. Who better to help him out then a S.H.I.E.L.D hacker who can {{Unperson}} people? She might even have helped with the Raft break out.
1321
1322[[WMG: Ghost Rider will take over Lola, at least temporarily]]
1323Muscle Car, property of Coulson, would cause the two to cross paths sooner, and would bring Lola back into the action. Imagine the possibilities of him hellifiying a flying car.
1324* Previews for Episode 4 show Coulson (in Lola) and Ghost Rider in a car chase....
1325
1326[[WMG: Squadron Supreme ideas]]
1327* The Squadron will be brought to Earth because of the events of Film/DoctorStrange2016, which involves alternate realities.
1328** Nope. No links to Doctor Strange.
1329* They will collectively act as TheCape to SHIELD which acts more like TheCowl
1330* The members will ''not'' be straight up villains but actual heroes that go into WellIntentionedExtremist territory when they find out about the state of the world such as [[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar the Avengers splitting up]], [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier the fall of SHIELD]], and the stigma that Inhumans suffer.
1331* The Squadron will declare themselves protectors of Inhumans and bring them together for safety, with the nations of the world believing it to be for conquest.
1332* The actions of the Squadron will bring SHIELD out of the shadows because of public action.
1333** SHIELD comes out of the shadows due to the Watchdogs.
1334* Members will include Hyperion, Nighthawk, Power Princess, Doctor Spectrum, Speed Demon, Amphibian, Nuke, Arcanna, Inertia, and Haywire.
1335* The team will decide to TakeOverTheWorld, leading Nighthawk to turn against them.
1336* Ghost Rider will be pivotal to stopping the Squadron.
1337* They will be scouting for new members, Spider-Man will be mentioned as a candidate and Ghost Rider is also a candidate.
1338* There will be mention of Vision going against the Squadron or possibly even appearing on the show where he will be defeated or otherwise thwarted by the team.
1339** It was all Ghost Rider, the people gunning after the Inhumans, and the ghosts' tome for half a season. The mid-season finale hints at [[spoiler: robotic imposter infiltrators created by Aida]] and more Inhuman issues. If the Squadron ever does become the big focus, it would at least be alluded to.
1340
1341[[WMG: The Darkhold Tome will be introduced this season]]
1342Some audition footage supposedly for an enemy of Ghost Rider's found its way online and the character makes reference to "him" stealing a book. Given that the Darkhold is Marvel's most well-known book with mystical connections, that makes it the most likely candidate. Plus, it would allow [=AoS=] to introduce many other supernatural characters (such as Jack Russell and Cthon) who have connections to the book.
1343
1344Additionally (because this "wild" mass guess is lacking a little wildness), based on the fact that the supposed audition refers to "him" stealing the book ten years ago, I don't think the "him" is Robbie Reyes, but Eli Morrow. And Eli used the book's power to transform himself into a spirit with the ability to possess people and turn them into a ghost rider.
1345
1346* And as a reference to Superhero Squad, the book will be hidden as something to balance a wobbly chair.
1347* It could be what's inside the box in "The Ghost".
1348* [[spoiler:Confirmed: According to the ghosts introduced in "Meet The New Boss", they ended up as they are now because of the first one introduced messing with that book. And now they want to find it again to reverse it. Apparently, both Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D. have searching for it without success for awhile]]
1349
1350[[WMG: The new director of SHIELD will be Irish, with Jason O'Mara using his natural accent]]
1351Because why not? SHIELD is still, on some level, an international organization, so having an Irish man as a member isn't improbable. Plus, it would help the new character stand out from the other white male characters already in the cast.
1352* O'Mara uses an American accent.
1353
1354[[WMG: Ghost Rider will use the Penance Stare on Coulson]]
1355Not only would he be forced to relive every bad decision and sin he ever made, but it wouldn't kill him since he's already died once.
1356
1357[[WMG: Season 4 will be partially based on the Ghost Rider story arc from ''Ultimate Comics: Avengers'']]
1358
1359[[WMG: Ghost Rider will have a battle with Hellfire early in the season.]]
1360Both characters have similar powers and aesthetics, so a fight would make sense story-wise; the scene will end with Robbie defeating James via a Penance Stare that causes James to flashback to everything he did under Hive's control. Furthermore, this battle will be what gives Robbie the inspiration for Ghost Rider's use of a hellfire infused-chain as a weapon.
1361* Confirmed. Ghost Rider even seems to adopt the chain as his weapon.
1362
1363[[WMG: Ghost Rider, the new Director, and anyone we currently see guest-starring ''will not'' be the [[BigBad true villain(s)]] of the fourth season.]]
1364The writers have been pulling a bait-and-switch plot with each successive season so far. Season 1 started with the Centipede Group as the BigBadEnsemble, only to reveal Garrett and HYDRA as the primary antagonists. Season 2 started off with Daniel Whitehall and Calvin Zabo as main antagonists, but midway through the season shifted to Jiaying as the BigBad. Season 3 looked like Grant Ward and Rosalind Price were set to be the main antagonists before Malick and then Hive took over. Similarly, Ghost Rider, the new Director, Daisy and whoever else is prominent early on will be subsumed in mid-season by some greater threat that comes out of left field.
1365* Furthermore, Jason O'Mara is only listed as a ''guest star'' so far as the new Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. -- a parallel can be drawn back to Season 2, where one of the elements that tipped fans off that Agent Triplett [[DeadStarWalking wasn't long for the series]] was the fact that he was [[SpoiledByTheFormat always listed as a guest star and not part of the regular cast]].
1366
1367[[WMG: Daisy hasn't actually gone rogue.]]
1368Nick Fury needed an agent outside of SHIELD control as a failsafe in case the rest of Team Coulson gets crossed off or subverted. Various members of Team Coulson have expressed distrust of the new director, distrust which may be justified given his breaking up the band and putting a kill order on Daisy's head after one too many escapes from Coulson.
1369* This idea is used by [[spoiler: Jeffrey Mace to neutralize a PR problem by telling the press that Daisy never left S.H.I.E.L.D and was actually on a deep cover assignment to undermine the Watchdogs.]]
1370
1371[[WMG: How Robbie became the Ghost Rider is more in line with Johnny Blaze's origins rather than what is told in the comic.]]
1372For better or worse, Johnny Blaze's tale is [[Film/GhostRider2007 better known]] [[Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance by the general public]], so they might go this route to avoid becoming too trapped within Ghost Rider's mythos.
1373* Seems to be confirmed so far; Robbie mentions his powers came from a DealWithTheDevil, which is Johnny's comic origin and Robbie's uncle [[spoiler: is still alive,, in stark contrast to the comics, where Robbie's uncle's soul bonds with Robbie]].
1374
1375[[WMG: Mephisto will be the BigBad this season.]]
1376This season's big bad will turn out to be Mephisto.
1377
1378[[WMG: The new Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. is Mephisto.]]
1379He took the form of a man or possessed a man in order to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D. for resource in his plan to bring Hell on Earth and to find Ghost Rider. He's deliberately alienated the agents to keep them from suspecting anything. Mephisto's human name could be [[Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance Roark]].
1380
1381[[WMG: Fitz and Jemma will be ShipSinking.]]
1382They finally became an OfficialCouple last season but now that it's gonna be difficult now that Jemma is the assistant of the new Director. It won't help that Fitz is keeping ADA a secret from her, which she'll have to report if she finds out.
1383* [[spoiler: This might still happen as he's seen trying to secretly revive AIDA in "The Patriot".]]
1384* [[spoiler: Apparently he wasn't reviving AIDA but investigating Radcliffe in "Wake Up" and seems they are back on track as a couple as of "Hot Potato Soup"]]
1385* [[spoiler: They get married in Season 5]].
1386
1387[[WMG: The New Director is The Patriot.]]
1388Coulson calls him "Jeffery" as in Jeffery Mace.
1389* According to [[http://tvline.com/2016/09/27/agents-of-shield-recap-season-4-episode-2/ this recap]], the closed captioning identifies him as "Mace".
1390** Episode 4 ("Uprising") officially confirms his identity as "Jeffrey Mace". Word is still out on whether he acted as Patriot in the past, though he could take up the name in the future. [[spoiler: It turns out that he is empowered by a serum created in the "Patriot Program" and he is explicitly referred to by Talbot as "the next Captain America".]]
1391
1392[[WMG: The New Director is actually Nighthawk]]
1393Much like in WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble he will be from another world, where the Kree experiments went somewhat differently and ultimately led to the creation of the Squadron Supreme with all of the members being the result to some degree of Kree experiments.
1394
1395[[WMG: "Lucy" is [[http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Lucy_Crumm_(Earth-616) Lucy Crumm]]]]
1396In the comics, Lucy is a telepath who can project an image of herself anywhere and cause people to feel hope just by being near them. As this version is a villain, her powers are a twisted variation on that: She projects a ghastly, monstorous image of herself into people's minds and makes them feel fear instead of hope.
1397* Her real name was Lucy Bauer. The rest could be true.
1398
1399[[WMG: The [[GhostlyGoals ghosts' goals]] will coincide with ''Film/DoctorStrange2016''.]]
1400The "him" they were talking about was Baron Mordo.
1401* [[spoiler: They were talking about Eli Morrow, who was responsible for ghosting them in the first place, and their only goals were to regain their human forms.]]
1402
1403[[WMG: Gideon Mace will be a Villain of the Week]]
1404Having a villain with the same last name as the new Director of SHIELD is something that can easily make politics difficult, and a man with a mace for a prosthetic hand is something that's easily within the show's special effects budget.
1405* Director Mace is gone and Gideon hasn't even been mentioned.
1406
1407[[WMG: Nadeer killed her brother when she saw him transform]]
1408The death wasn't the cause of her hatred toward Inhumans; it was the other way around. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stryker Marvel Universe has precedents.]]
1409* He was just stuck in his cocoon until Jemma managed to free him.[[spoiler:But she did kill him shortly after he came out of the cocoon, once she saw irrefutable evidence that he was now Inhuman. And when he hit the ocean floor, he was covered in a ''second'' Terrigenesis cocoon, implying that Ellen didn't quite kill him.]]
1410
1411[[WMG: Alternatively, Nadeer doesn't kill her brother, and he turns out to be a CanonCharacterAllAlong.]]
1412Nadeer doesn't kill her brother, and he turns out to be a CanonCharacterAllAlong.
1413
1414[[WMG: Final villain for Season 4 candidates]]
1415Due to the format the show has used since season 2:
1416* Nadeer's Inhuman brother after he emerged from the cocoon.
1417* The leader of the Watchdogs.
1418** Possibly Felix Blake, as he was supplying them last season.
1419* One of the ghosts
1420** [[spoiler: They were all killed by Ghost Rider]].
1421* Robbie's uncle. Consider: Was the the real mastermind behind the Darkhold research, put in a coma the one person who might have figured out or got close to the truth, ordered a shooting on his family to force Robbie into a DealWithTheDevil and make him a weapon against any ghost which might become a problem... a twist quite in line with what we had in the earlier seasons.
1422** [[spoiler:Eli's plan was thwarted in episode eight]].
1423* Aida - we're already starting to see signs of a FaceHeelTurn.
1424** [[spoiler:Aida's set up to be the villain of the next arc, at least. Jury's still out on whether she's the final threat of the season. It looks like it might actually be Radcliffe, with various Aidas as his minions.]]
1425** [[spoiler:And it looks like Aida might actually be the BigBad of the third arc, now that Radcliffe is possibly dead and Ivanov has been turned into an
1426[=LMD=].]]
1427* Confirmed.
1428[[WMG: Ghost Rider got his powers from Dormmamu.]]
1429Instead of Mephisto creating Ghost Rider, it will be Dormmamu in order to tie into ''Film/DoctorStrange2016''.
1430* So far it's been implied that he got his powers from another Rider. Whether or not ''he'' got it from Dormmamu remains to be seen.
1431
1432[[WMG: Robbie will acquire the Penance Stare]]
1433And this will actually help Daisy heal - it gets used on her, and the sins she is forced to relive do ''not'' include the actions she took while swayed by Hive or Lincoln's death.
1434
1435[[WMG: Wong will make a cameo]]
1436During the first half of season 4 the characters are dealing with the problems being caused by the Darkhold. Who better to help hem deal with an secure a magical TomeOfEldritchLore than a master sorcerer librarian from a whole order of badass sorcerers sworn to protect the Earth from mystical threats and who just so happened to have been introduced into the the MCU [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 around the same time?]]
1437
1438[[WMG: Eli will eventually open a door to an even worse villain]]
1439Rather than being the season's BigBad, he will be a [[DiscOneFinalBoss Disc Two Final Boss]]. His actions will draw the attention of an otherworldly foe such as Shuma-Gorath or Mephisto.
1440** If Aida does become a villain, than his actions were what led to her reading the Darkhold.
1441
1442[[WMG: To combat Eli Morrow, SHIELD will assemble a modern iteration of the Howling Commandoes]]
1443As in, the modern concept that features a team of monsters. Likely candidates include ComicBook/WerewolfByNight, ComicBook/{{Morbius}}, and maybe even ComicBook/{{Blade}}.
1444
1445[[WMG: Druid will join the team]]
1446An alternative to the above (or perhaps in combination with it), Coulson will seek out the young magic user to combat Eli's new powers. It would also enable them to bring in another member of the Secret Warriors.
1447
1448[[WMG: Jeffery works for Maximus the Mad.]]
1449Jeffery works for Maximus the Mad.
1450* [[spoiler: He isn't Inhuman.]]
1451
1452[[WMG: Robbie will kill Eli and absorb his soul into himself to prevent him from doing anymore damage as a ghost.]]
1453Bringing him more in line with the comic version, whom is known for sharing headspace with the ghost of his Satanic uncle.
1454
1455[[WMG: Senator Nadeer is Inhuman]]
1456We know her brother is one - who had a horrifyingly long Terrigenesis that he was apparently conscious through - which means that there's a good choice that she has the gene, too. And since one of the common ways for people to be exposed to Terrigen post-Season Two is through food, one family meal could be all that was needed to hit both of them.
1457* [[spoiler:Probably, since smashing a Terrigen crystal in front of her does nothing. But the person who smashed it underwent Terrigenesis and then exploded, killing her.]]
1458
1459[[WMG: Aida is the [=MCU=] version of Alkhema]]
1460She's growing beyond her programming, and has [[spoiler: shown a willingness to kill and disable in order to protect her secrets, [=AND=] has created a working [=LMD=] of May in order to infiltrate [=SHIELD=].]]
1461* [[spoiler: She isn't the big bad or gone beyond her programming, [[BigBad Radcliffe]] is behind her 'going rogue' and he was the one who created the May [=LMD=] ]]
1462* Back to [[spoiler:unconfirmed, as she acquired desire to gain emotion, killed Radcliff, and sent the LMD Coulson Team.]]
1463* [[spoiler: It seems she's actually Madam Hydra, albeit with a radically different background and origin.]]
1464[[WMG: Aida is undertaking a ZerothLawRebellion]]
1465She was created to act as a "shield" and to take the bullets for human agents. She has determined that the best means of accomplishing this directive is replacing all agents with decoys.
1466
1467[[WMG: At some point, Daisy will become the New Director of SHIELD]]
1468Since Jason O'Mara is only a Guest star and thus Mace is probably not long for this world, and Coulson confirmed he wanted Daisy originally to take the reigns, with her now back in SHIELD and its second-most publicly known operative, in the event of his death she'll be encouraged to take the role leading into Season 5.
1469Ideally, if/when the films bring SHIELD back into their business, they'll be introduced to the new SHIELD formed during the show with Daisy as its director, and the resulting hilarity of her trying to maintain a professional state while trying to not geek out. Just imagine her randomly saying, "You're ''dreamy''...." to Thor.
1470
1471[[WMG: Nadeer's brother will be an ally to the team]]
1472Here's why it might go that way:
1473* Jemma helped free him from his cocoon, so he'll be grateful to her.
1474* Daisy is back in the team loop now and is in a good position to mentor a new Inhuman in how to deal with their powers.
1475* Mace doesn't want the senator to be able to be a threat again, so he'd probably want to keep her brother from becoming her pawn.
1476* Due to his sister's actions against people he realizes are like him, Nadeer's brother will feel like his sister sees him as a monster and will hate that he was her motivation to do terrible things and fund the Watchdogs (it's highly unlikely Indian-Americans would have been chummy with them from the start).
1477* CainAndAbel. Classic story device and element.
1478** [[spoiler: It's revealed in "Broken Promises" that they have different viewpoints and get into frequent arguments before he was infected. SHIELD try to rescue him, but she lied to him that SHIELD wants him as a weapon. She's forced to kill him when the Watchdogs question her loyalty.]]
1479*** [[spoiler: The ending shows Vijay gaining another cocoon, which implies he isn't actually dead, or is reviving. If he was really gone forever they probably wouldn't have done that.]]
1480
1481[[WMG: Robbie will be back]]
1482Ignoring the fact that Coulson is on record saying that he's probably going to escape from where he's trapped and the Rider won't let them be dragged down given the deal they made, but with so much spin-off potential and his chemistry with the cast, especially Daisy, its unlikely this is the last we'll see of him.
1483Most likely, either the team will get notified a few times he needs help escaping (maybe him communicating through his car or something) leading to a rescue mission, or they'll have the portal left in one-piece so he can get out of where he's trapped (since he was shown able to open it from the other side already), in any case he'll probably return...and be a Threat of the Week, as Eli has taken over his body after being trapped together. We'll see him tear through SHIELD agents and anyone in his way, until Daisy and Gabe get through to Robbie and help him get control. But, with the Rider and Eli inside him, he'll pull a ButNowIMustGo and leave to go settle the Rider's scores and what not, leading to a Robbie-focused spin-off.
1484
1485Bonus points if, for help understanding this, the team seeks out an expert, leading to the introduction of either Johnny Blaze (who Coulson apparently has history with) or better yet, Daimon Hellstrom, either of whom can then stick with Robbie to serve as his mentor figure going into his own show.
1486
1487** According to an interview with Lorenzo Henrie (Gabe Reyes), yes, he will return:
1488*** ''"I know some things," actor Lorenzo Henrie, who plays Robbie’s brother, Gabe, on Agents of SHIELD told Fan Fest (via Screen Rant). "They are on a winter break right now, but all I know is, I’m pretty sure it’s not the end for Ghost Rider. I know they have some things up their sleeves. It’s gonna be sick."''
1489
1490[[WMG: Mace's mandatory lie detection tests will get exploited by Aida]]
1491
1492While it may take time before any details are shown about how an LMD is created, it seems likely that a good amount of physiological data is needed to create a convincing decoy. It is possible that May was the first LMD that Aida created because her recovery at Radcliffe's lab involved many opportunities to scan her brain, take blood samples, take other physiological data from her, and examine her behavior. As seen back in Season 2, Kara and Bakshi could create a nanomask of May using a blood sample and voice recordings. Aida likely used a lot of the medical data she collected to make LMD May, and used the Darkhold to learn about creating an artificial brain that could take any head scan data.
1493
1494If the 2nd half of Season 4 involves Aida replacing agents with [=LMDs=], her first target might be any agents or leaders that undergo Mace's mandatory screenings. Those screenings are performed with Fury's lie detector, a machine that uses 96 different bio-metrics to determine if someone is lying. This would be a ripe opportunity for Aida to collect enough data to create convincing copies, and in a short enough period of time to be considered a threat.
1495
1496[[WMG: Bobbi and Hunter will "return" as [=LMDs=]]]
1497
1498Simply because this would be the easiest way to bring them back to the show. They would start off as an attempt by Radcliffe or Aida to introduce SHIELD-approved [=LMDs=], but circumstances will lead to Coulson's team fighting them if Aida turns evil. Instead of destroying them, LMD Bobbi and LMD Hunter will get disabled, then get re-used in a future mission to fake Bobbi and Hunter's deaths. This will remove them from political scrutiny and surveillance, and allow them to return to a life with SHIELD.
1499
1500[[WMG: The mysterious benefactor to the Watchdogs]]
1501
1502This is the following synopsis for season 4B of ''Agents of SHIELD'':
1503
1504''“On the heels of their encounter with Ghost Rider, their strangest phenomenon yet, the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. suddenly find themselves up against a myriad of new and ongoing threats: The anti-Inhuman Watchdogs are gaining political influence with Senator Nadeer, and uniting behind a mysterious benefactor. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the team, Aida has kidnapped Agent May and replaced her with a Life Model Decoy. Aida’s evil plans for May and the team remain a mystery.”''
1505
1506So who is this mysterious benefactor? It's not likely Felix Blake--he founded the Watchdogs, and will hopefully return in some fashion, but it's unlikely that it's him, since it's not really a twist (we already know he's part of the Watchdogs). It's gonna be Ian Quinn.
1507
1508[[WMG: "The Superior" is [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008 Samuel Sterns]].]]
1509Although it's generally referenced only in BroadStrokes, technically "The Incredible Hulk" is still part of MCU canon. We haven't seen Sterns since the end of that film, so this would be an interesting way of bringing him back. And "The Superior" could be another way to say "The Leader." It would make a hell of a PlotTwist.
1510* The Superior is a Russian industrialist.
1511
1512[[WMG: Senator Nadeer and her Watchdog cohorts will be dragged to Hell]]
1513Hell exists in this universe and the MCU likes to do CatharsisFactor with its villains, nothing would be more satisfying than having a group of hate filled murderers be stripped of their delusions of being heroes and be punished for their hate crimes.
1514
1515[[WMG: LMD May will make a HeroicSacrifice]]
1516Think of it. She will be probably shocked to learn that she is not the real May and then perform a HeelFaceTurn, sacrificing herself to ensure Team Coulson's safety. It would be the perfect way to create drama without actually losing a member of the main cast.
1517* Confirmed. She blows herself up to allow Jemma and Daisy to escape from [[spoiler:LMD Coulson]].
1518
1519[[WMG: What Talbot mean when he said they removed the dangerous stuff from the Hyde serum to make the Patriot serum...]]
1520He means that they took out the peppermint. Apparently, ''that'' caused the SanitySlippage.
1521
1522[[WMG: Aida will perform a HeelFaceTurn against Radcliffe]]
1523Fitz has been shown to be one of the few to treat Aida as a person or entity in her own right, and Aida even thanks Fitz when he downloads her program into his phone as he's trying to figure out what happened, there is a chance the Back Up Aida is aware of this and his kindness. Compare to Radcliffe who treats her as lackey at best and has been rather insulting to her performance lately. She may find being treated kindly and respected is preferable to Radcliffe's treatment of her and will rebel against him.
1524
1525[[WMG: Aida will perform an EvilerThanThou against Radcliffe]]
1526She will eventually overthrow Radcliffe and become a villain in her own right. Radcliffe is the one who is still reluctant, Aida is pretty triggerhappy and ruthless.
1527** Confirmed. In order to satisfy her directives to protect both Radcliffe and the Framework, she [[spoiler:slits his wrists and plugs him in. While his body will eventually bleed out, his mind will remain alive in the Framework. This also eliminates the risk of Radcliffe having second thoughts and shutting down the Framework. Aida remains in the real world to carry out her own plans of gaining emotion and turning Ivanov into an android]].
1528
1529[[WMG: May's simulation will feature the return of Grant Ward]]
1530At the end of "The Patriot", Radcliffe recognised that May needs the "ideal opponent" in order to prevent her from breaking free from his LotusEaterMachine. Sounds like a good way to bring back the show's BreakoutVillain, if only for [[OneSceneWonder an episode]].
1531** As of 'Wake Up' the original simulation was simply her trying to escape the lab playing into her knowledge that she is being held prisoner but she keeps getting better and better, so they switch it up to put her into [[MyGreatestFailure Bahrain]] instead.
1532** Confirmed. The world-spanning Framework does have Ward in it, and he's [[spoiler:Framework Daisy's boyfriend. He's even a good guy here!]]
1533
1534[[WMG: How Season 4 Will End:]]
1535To begin, Aida will be the Big Bad. She'll become independent, gain a soul from the Darkhold, and possibly kill Nadeer and Radcliffe (leaving The Superior for season 5, perhaps).
1536
1537Whatever her ultimate plan would be, the team will stop her. As a result, Aida will go berserk and utterly curb stomp all of them. She'll crush Coulson's robot hand and have upgraded her endoskeleton to be immune to Daisy's powers, and durable enough that Mace and Yo-yo would be ineffective. Everyone else would basically be cannon fodder against her. The entire team would be injured and defeated, laying on the ground at the mercy of a robot who has probably gotten the Terminator skin treatment. It looks hopeless.
1538Then there's the roar of an engine.
1539
1540From just off screen, a flaming black muscle car appears out of nowhere and smashes Aida into a wall, pinning her. SHIELD all give each other various looks that amount to, "You've got to be kidding me. No Way!"
1541
1542The door opens, and a figure dressed in black gets out. He slowly and menacingly begins to walk towards Aida, his head already flaming. He begins to flip the keys in his hand. He calmly pushes the car out of the way. Aida begs for her new life, stating that she only wants vengeance against SHIELD. She expects him to understand. But then he says to her (He talks! For the first time as a skull!) "Not vengeance. ''Justice''."
1543
1544Ghost Rider then forces Aida to look at him. "Look into my eyes. Your soul is stained with the blood of the innocent. Feel their pain!"
1545The Penance Stare then burns Aida from the inside out until there's nothing left but a husk. Once it's done, the Rider turns towards SHIELD. Everyone backs away and grabs for weapons they dropped- except for Daisy.
1546
1547She holds her hands up and moves forward. "Robbie?" she says, in a 'remember me' tone.
1548
1549The Rider's skull heals over, revealing not Robbie- but ''Gabriel'', his little brother. "I made a deal," he says simply, then gets back in his car and drives away.
1550
1551[[WMG: Nadeer's latest alliance will inadvertently grant SHIELD legal cover]]
1552The man making illegal Artificial Intelligences is now working for Nadeer and has planted his creations inside an intelligence agency. If this gets out (especially if it comes out at the same time as Nadeer's connections to the watchdogs), Director Mace could easily spin things so it looks like the LMD project was something the Watchdogs were behind, rather than a semi-authorized SHIELD project that they later appropriated.
1553
1554[[WMG:ThePowerOfLove will break May out of her LotusEaterMachine.]]
1555The basis of the latest mirage is a world where the Bahrain incident had a happier ending, so May was never traumatized by Katya Belyakov's death. However, this means that May would still be married to Andrew, and she currently has developed feelings for Coulson through their time spent together. Unable to ignore these feelings, May recovers her real world memories, and they give her the strength to fight her way back to reality.
1556
1557[[WMG: The fan fiction that Billy mentions to Daisy was written by Kamala Khan]]
1558Some of the fan fiction that Billy mentions to Daisy was written by Kamala Khan.
1559
1560[[WMG: When Ghost Rider returns, he's going to end up finding and borrowing the [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger Hydra Coupe]] ]]
1561Because it would be awesome.
1562
1563[[WMG: Agnes will eventually return in Aida's body.]]
1564Why else would Aida take her necklace? Also, you can see Aida questioning herself after she sees Agnes.
1565
1566[[WMG: Agnes went willingly with Radcliffe for May's Sake as well as her own]]
1567She had already heard from Coulson that May had been kidnapped and replaced, and is being held against her will, the idea that she would join May inside this 'Framework' she could not only have a chance to live...but she might be able to meet May inside and help her escape by telling her that Coulson hasn't given up on her.
1568
1569[[WMG: Shockley will pull a HeelFaceTurn.]]
1570While it seems unlikely now, maybe in later episodes he will accept the fact that the Inhumans are his people now and that the Watchdogs are wrong.
1571
1572[[WMG:The Superior will end up becoming the MCU Red Guardian]]
1573He could acquire the Patriot formula from Mace and use it to get super strength.
1574
1575[[WMG: The Superior will end up becoming the MCU version of MODOK]]
1576He's a BrainInAJar (a "Mental Organism") and in The Return he said that his body was "Designed Only for Killing". A huge head with (comparatively) tiny arms and legs might be a bit too bizarre for the MCU, but really, have they always stuck to comic accuracy? No. Plus, imagine if the TV show out-Ultronned [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron Avengers: Age Of Ultron]] with the whole MesACrowd thing? That would be cool.
1577
1578[[WMG: Radcliffe is Fitz's real father.]]
1579* Although we see Alistair Fitz in the Framework, he has almost nothing in common with his son and his mere presence drives alternate-Fitz to villainy. Holden is much more similar to Leopold than Alistair ever could be, and he seems to have had a father-son type relationship with Fitz. It's possible that Fitz's mother was cheating on Alistair due to his abuse, and Holden ''does'' mention knowing Fitz's father, which might mean he knew his mother as well... Plus, it would be perfectly in-character for a past Radcliffe to have sex with a married woman, due to his mousy tendencies and his heartbreak over Agnes.
1580[[/folder]]
1581
1582[[folder:The Framework (note:a virtual reality, seen at the last episodes of season 4)]]
1583
1584[[WMG: Cal and Jiaying will appear in the Framework as simulations.]]
1585The Framework is designed to fix what it assumes to be the regrets of those inside. In a broader sense, Daisy's biggest regret might be her loss of a proper family, so the Framework will give one to her by creating her mother and father.
1586
1587[[WMG: Radcliffe's consciousness will perform a HeelFaceTurn.]]
1588Aida's predictions will prove correct. After discovering what really happened, Radcliffe's consciousness in the Framework will have a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment and will help Team Coulson get out of it.
1589* Confirmed to a point, Jemma confronts him about the Framework and while he's unable to help them escape he does let them know where the physical bodies of the missing agents are at.
1590* All the way confirmed in "Farewell Cruel World" where he saves Jemma and stuns Fitz to get him through the portal. He later saves Yo-Yo in "Worlds End" and helps her and Mack escape the Framework.
1591
1592[[WMG: The radically different world of the Framework is the result of the changes made to the lives of the people plugged in]]
1593The world created there is a logical extrapolation of multiple ForWantOfANail situations. May wasn't traumatized by the results of the Bahrain mission, so she stayed in Ops, where Hydra was most heavily concentrated within SHIELD, and was eventually recruited by them. Coulson never joined SHIELD, so he never met the Avengers and became the uniting sacrifice that brought them together, so the Avengers ultimately failed to stop Insight from taking over. In addition, without years of experience dealing with weird people in SHIELD, Coulson never learned that weird people are people too, and so developed FantasticRacism. As for Ward, in a world where Hydra won, none of the people who played a role in his fall from grace and death had any reason to seek it, so he survived.
1594
1595[[WMG: Grant Ward is the "Coulson" for the Framework HYDRA]]
1596Given the ForWantOfANail nature of the Framework, and the fact he's apparently dating Daisy, Grand Ward of the Framework will be a wildly different character than what we have seen before. He's the one who goes out and approaches the new Empowered Humans/Inhumans and recruits them similar to what Coulson did for the Avengers, he most likely recruited Daisy much like what we see in Season 1, but the romance stayed since there was no Fall of SHIELD.
1597
1598[[WMG: Framework Simmons died of the Chitauri virus from Season 1.]]
1599Coulson presumably not having joined SHIELD resulted on no one finding out about her infection until it was too late; she found out on her own and this time, circumstances prevented Ward from saving her (maybe he had no reason to gain the team's trust by saving her if he was already in a position of power?).
1600* She was killed at the SHIELD S&T Academy during Hydra's takeover.
1601
1602[[WMG: Where Simmons actually ended up in the Framework]]
1603She's dead in the Framework so she had to go into someone when she logged in. Possible guesses?
1604** The mystery woman with Fitz.
1605** Grant Ward (to ''really'' put the "wild" in WMG).
1606** She really DID log into her dead body and we will be treated to a scene of her digging herself out of the grave.
1607*** Confirmed- Abet the mass grave at the Academy rather than the one we are shown in "Self Control".
1608** The Framework simply [[RespawnPoint created a new body]] for her somewhere, because:
1609*** Possible suffocation in the grave could lead to actual death in the real world, and the safeguards might not allow that.
1610*** The Framework never rendered her body in the virtual reality until now (because she was dead since the simulation started).
1611*** [[FridgeHorror Her body in the grave could]] no longer be [[BodyHorror in a biological state that is compatible with life]].
1612** She never entered the Framework, because it knew she was dead in the simulation and kicked her back out.
1613* Seems like she just inhabits her dead body, which gets fully restored somehow.
1614[[WMG: Aida is planning to kill all the captive SHIELD agents]]
1615She's already been told that there is no difference between a dead person uploaded to the Framework and a living person logged into the Framework, and used that as grounds to kill her creator and upload his dying mind into the Framework. Given that, sooner or later she's going to decide that there's no reason for her to keep living prisoners around. Daisy and Simmons are in a race against time before Aida decides that it will be easier to upload everyone to the Framework if she just kills people after uploading and reuses the upload terminals instead of making new ones.
1616* She might want to, but she ''can't'', because her programming doesn't allow her to kill except to protect SHIELD agents or the Framework. If she succeeds in becoming human, however, all bets are off.
1617
1618[[WMG:Framework Simmons faked her own death]]
1619Presumably this is some part of Fitz's "better world" -- he's a playboy billionaire, and Simmons is an international spy of some description.
1620
1621[[WMG:Framework May is fighting Hydra from within]]
1622Aida needed to give her a world in which she was happy. For someone like May, what could be a better Valhalla than an unending secret war against an unambiguously evil foe?
1623* May is fanatically loyal to HYDRA to make amends for what happened in Bahrain, which is STILL MyGreatestFailure due to Katya killing hundreds in Cambridge. She does betray them once she sees Jeffrey sacrifice his life, though.
1624
1625[[WMG:Grant Ward will actually be a NiceGuy in the Framework]]
1626All of the protagonists seem to have ended up with nastier personalities than in their real lives. By contrast, Grant Ward without his greatest regrets might have actually turned out to be a positive, kind or even heroic character, and maybe that's why Daisy's alternate self is in an apparently happy relationship with him instead of rejecting him due to his allegiance to HYDRA. Since Daisy just entered the Framework and has no memory of the events that led up to this alternate reality, it will likely lead to problems with their (virtual) relationship since Daisy will still remember him as a despicable HYDRA loyalist while his virtual self may well be anything but that. It could even lead into a bit of [[RedemptionEqualsDeath posthumous redemption]] for Ward if his virtual self helps ultimately save Coulson, May, Fitz, Simmons, Mack and Mace from the Framework.
1627* Confirmed. He defected to SHIELD when he learned that "Skye" was a latent Inhuman.
1628[[WMG: Stephanie Malick is still alive in the Framework, and isn't happy about HYDRA's treatment of Inhumans.]]
1629* So she forms a faction of HYDRA dedicated to upholding the Inhuman-worshipping cult her father once ran. She intends to return Hive to Earth but doesn't have the resources to obtain the monolith, and Gideon was possibly killed by HYDRA due to his pro-Inhuman beliefs, leading Stephanie to avenge his murder. A newspaper mentions that Whitehall and Malick are working together in this world, but Whitehall could have easily betrayed Gideon and had the propaganda machine cover it up.
1630
1631[[WMG:Framework Mace will be ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s'' answer to Hydra Captain America]]
1632This new storyline comes on the heels of Marvel Comics' big [[ComicBook/CaptainAmericaSteveRogers Secret Empire]] story, which features a Hydra-controlled Cap launching his plans to dominate the world. Since there's really no chance for Chris Evans to ever show up on the show, the next best thing for the producers to replicate this is to have their ersatz Cap in Jeffrey Mace fulfill this role, serving as the now-superpowered face of Hydra.
1633* Framework Mace is a vigilante fighting ''against'' Hydra. The exact opposite.
1634
1635[[WMG:Grant Ward is actually with SHIELD not HYDRA]]
1636Think about it, May is with HYDRA and she HATES Ward with an unholy passion for his betrayals, and in the words of Coulson savors her grudges its possible that the removal of her greatest regret of Bahrain that the framework is working on her next regret...vengeance on Ward to protect those she loves. If she's now HYDRA logic would dictate that Ward would need to be SHIELD to fit in the betrayal angle
1637* Confirmed, but not for those reasons.
1638
1639[[WMG: Framework Jeffrey is the Cap fanboy in this universe.]]
1640* His origin is that the resistance recruited him to be the Modern Cap and to be the poster boy for the resistance against HYDRA.
1641
1642[[WMG: Lives of MCU characters in the Framework:]]
1643
1644* Cap is still frozen or was found by HYDRA and experimented on.
1645* Tony Stark is funding the Resistance or died when taken captive by the Ten Rings or killed in Project Insight. Alternatively, he became a ''villain'' in this universe because he never had his life-altering experience in the desert, and now works with HYDRA.
1646* Peter Parker is a student who tries to keep quiet about his hatred of HYDRA or is a vigilante against HYDRA, being a composite of ComicBook/SpiderMan2099 in how he fought against Alchemax.
1647** Also, Uncle Ben never died.
1648* Thor's coronation in his movie went off without a hitch.
1649* Black Widow and Hawkeye died in Budapest or on the run from HYDRA.
1650* Bruce Banner is married with kids, just an average citizen.
1651* Wanda and Pietro are still in Sokovia, never having lost their parents.
1652* Scott Lang is in jail.
1653* Hank Pym and possibly Hope are killed or imprisoned due to Hank's old connections to SHIELD.
1654* Rhodey died in a military conflict.
1655** Alternatively, both Rhodey and Stark died when the Ten Rings attacked Stark's convoy in Afganistan.
1656* Sam Wilson suffers from PTSD and lives in a mental institution run by Hydra.
1657* Bucky is still brainwashed by HYDRA.
1658* Stephen Strange committed suicide after his accident left him disabled or was killed due to his talent in neuroscience being seen as a threat to HYDRA's brainwashing.
1659* The Koenig siblings are part of the Resistance.
1660** Confirmed as Billy died getting the Playground's location to the Resistance.
1661* Peter Quill was never abducted and is a police sergeant in a small town, a hardass stickler for the rules.
1662** Alternatively, he works for the [[Series/ParksAndRecreation Department of Parks and Recreation in Pawnee, Indiana.]]
1663** Alternatively, he ''was'' abducted... and that's the end of the story for the Peter Quill NonPlayerCharacter. The simulation simulates the whole world, which is something huge, but only the world; outer space is [[VideogameGeography beyond the limits]]. Nobody on Earth knows about the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Ravagers, Thanos, Ronan, Nowhere, Ego or any of that stuff (and so Aida can't posibly know about either), so they can't be written about. Any attempt by a human avatar to leave the world and go to outer space would cause the framework to fall into a BlueScreenOfDeath.
1664* T'Challa never lost his father, Wakanda becomes even more isolationist due to Hydra being seen as a threat.
1665* Matt Murdock became a priest.
1666** Foggy Nelson runs a successful avocado cart.
1667** Karen Page went to jail for murder.
1668* Frank Castle died in combat.
1669* Jessica Jones was committed to a psychiatric ward.
1670** Killgrave was captured by Hydra and experimented on, in attempts to reverse-engineer his power.
1671* Luke Cage is still in jail.
1672* Danny Rand died in the Himalayas.
1673
1674[[WMG: Bahrain will be the key to wake May up and join the rest of Team Coulson]]
1675* May saving Kayta led to hundreds dead in Cambridge and HYDRA's rise to power, Coulson will confront May and tell her how in another world she DID kill Kayta and saved not only those on the op with her, but thusly the hundreds in Cambridge. He'll also tell her that in that world her greatest regret was not finding a way to save the girl, and now that she knows what would have come about if she did she can go back to the other world and be at peace that she in the end made the right choice for the world. Throw in declaration of love and cue the waterworks.
1676
1677[[WMG: Mace is running the Resistance because of his regret]]
1678* Director Mace's big regret was the fact that he was an accidental fake hero rather than a real one. So the Framework put him in a place where he could genuinely be a hero.
1679
1680[[WMG: May will heal as a result of being in the Framework]]
1681* Her biggest regret was killing Katya in Bahrain. Now that's "fixed", and her new biggest regret is *not* killing Katya in Bahrain... once she's removed from the Framework, she'll know that she made the right call in the end and her personality will gradually shift more towards what we saw from her pre-Bahrain years.
1682* "The Last Days" show that May took a chance at motherhood to be a mother to Robin, suggesting she has healed.
1683
1684[[WMG: The Avengers are dead inside the Framework]]
1685* Stark likely died on the other side of the Tesseract Portal, being the only one capable of deflecting the nuke away. Barton was likely killed by Loki once his job was done. Romanoff and Falcon were assassinated by the Winter Soldier so they couldn't stop Insight from launching, but Rogers was able to stop the project at the cost of his own life, probably coinciding with the Cambridge Incident with Katya. Thor probably left Earth alone after the Aether events, while Banner lives in solitude on a remote island, or on another planet entirely.
1686** It's unlikely Avengers even formed up or had powers to begin with in most cases. Bahrain op was in 2008 - same year as ''Film/IronMan1''. With the fascist organization rising up, Inhumans becoming a common knowledge much earlier and Coulson never being part of S.H.I.E.L.D. even before Hydra took over, it's safer to assume most of contemporary MCU events - especially ones that empowered people - didn't happen.
1687** The seeds for The Battle of New York were started in Film/{{Thor}} with a Loki encouraging the research into the Cube into opening portals. HYDRA was only interested in creating weapons with it and seemed to have no idea about it's transportation abilities, also if Thor was sent to Earth his best case is just wandering around homeless, if he was found by HYDRA he would have been killed outright at best, imprisoned and used as a lab rat at worst.
1688
1689[[WMG: Agents of HYDRA: The Resistance]]
1690Ward has been a mole inside HYDRA for months after discovering his girlfriend was a latent inhuman. Within the Resistance he works for are the remnants of SHIELD, including their leader, Patriot (AKA Mace). Who else is working for SHIELD?
1691* The survivors of Afterlife (given Lincoln's death it is likely that it was taken by force by HYDRA).
1692* Calvin Johnson, who would be Patriot's creator in the Framework, and likely made the serum work correctly and permanently.
1693** Mace is an actual Inhuman in the Framework
1694* Nick Fury, if he managed to somehow survive the assassination attempt by HYDRA.
1695
1696[[WMG: Coulson will be the one to drop the bombshell to the public that HYDRA was founded to ''worship'' Hive, an Inhuman Conquerer]]
1697* What irony it would be if it led to a mass uprising that HYDRA couldn't quell, leading to a violent revolution and saving the Framework's future.
1698
1699[[WMG: Simmons' efforts to restore Fitz's memories will involve [[Creator/TomBaker a very long scarf]]]]
1700* Simmons has long been established as being a [[Series/DoctorWho Whovian]], and Fitz is known as The Doctor inside the Framework. A reference is practically mandatory. Maybe a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature fob watch]] or a bowtie will do instead.
1701
1702[[WMG: Some people in the Resistance might not want the Framework to end]]
1703Mace is a superpowered hero in the Framework, but in the real world he's just a figurehead leader whose job is to schmooze with politicians and the press while a man he sees as a schoolteacher in the Framework wields all the actual authority. In the Framework, Ward is an unsung hero working behind the scenes to free the world, but in the real world he's long dead, and the few people who remember him, including the woman he loves, all despise him as a traitor. There could easily be other people whose personal lives are better in the Framework even if the world as a whole is worse. Some of them might not want to give that up, even if that's the only way to defeat Madame Hydra.
1704
1705Of course, that also gives some people the opportunity for great acts of heroism. The moment Madame Hydra loses, Ward dies, because his RL counterpart has been dead for over a year. But the Ward of the Framework could be willing to make a HeroicSacrifice for Skye's sake, and possibly redeem his legacy a little in the memories of those who both knew him best and hated him most in the real world.
1706
1707[[WMG: Hope is an Inhuman.]]
1708Maybe she knows somehow, but Mack doesn't. She sure was asking a lot about whether he considers Inhumans to be bad or not.
1709
1710[[WMG: The Russian will be a SpannerInTheWorks]]
1711He'll still be very upset that Aida cut his head off and stuck him in a LMD to maintain the Framework.
1712
1713[[WMG:Aida will receive a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech centred around her hypocrisy.]]
1714As [[spoiler:Madame Hydra]] inside the Framework, Aida became a real woman with independence and rights, but remade the world [[spoiler:so it is under her supreme rule]]. Someone, most likely Daisy or Jemma, will call her out for having no qualms about taking away the freedom she wanted away from others, including [[spoiler:brainwashing Fitz into her obedient slave]]. It's extremely unlikely that she will take this tirade to heart, but what's more is that she could prove the words true by snapping to "just do as she says" at her subordinates, possibly even [[spoiler:Fitz]], when they try to question her authority.
1715* But she might suffer a more subtle VillainousBreakdown ("[[TragicVillain I just want... to be... huuuuuuuuuuuma--]]"), causing her to revert to her pre-Darkhold program.
1716** Nope.
1717
1718[[WMG:Thanos does not exist]]
1719Why would they include him in the simulation? Nobody on earth know about him. As for why the Chitauri attacked, it is simply because they are AlwaysChaoticEvil (which is the thing the people in the main universe must think, anyway).
1720** That's a good point. While we as an audience are certainly privy to the existence of Thanos, the Avengers only know about the stones, not who is looking for them. As far as they are concerned Loki only attacked Earth of his own volition. The only ones who know of Thanos and his quest for the Infinity Gems are the Guardians of the Galaxy, and possibly Loki.
1721
1722[[WMG: The Framework plus [=LMD=]s equals resurrections]]
1723The [=NPCs=], so to speak, in the Framework are advanced enough to pass for humans. Plug them into an LMD, which can also pass for human, and suddenly the person is alive again. The writers will use this to bring Grant Ward back into the main cast. Also, Trip lives!
1724
1725[[WMG: In the Framework, religion is abolished.]]
1726At least in America. Another way for public obedience is to prevent people from morally good people from lashing out on HYDRA by calling them "devils" or that they "work for the devil". And even mentioning God to a HYDRA agent would give them a bullet to the head.
1727
1728[[WMG: Hope will be brought out of the simulation]]
1729There is NO WAY Mack is leaving her behind, and the simulation will probably be shut off at the end. To get Mack to come back, they may bring Hope along too.
1730** Alternatively, They realize the possibility to bring people back, and they only have a finite amount of power/materials. (Aida for just herself needs the BLACK SEA) if Aida used some in a failed attempt at being human, that means all that is left is about enough to return a child. Like Hope.
1731
1732[[WMG:Star Wars faded into oblivion]]
1733The original trilogy was made in the 1970s, well before the point of divergence. But, once being in charge, HYDRA would surely not like that film at all: the bad guys are the authoritarian government, and the heroes are a band of rebels. So, to the blacklist! The first 3 films are not aired in TV ever again (or available elsewhere), and of course no new Star Wars films or related media are made at all. In time, people simply forgot about those films, their characters and concepts. That's why Coulson compared the resistance with the Rebel Alliance, and Mace clearly did not got the reference.
1734
1735[[WMG: Aida THINKS she's going to create herself a body but actually she'll be pulling back [[spoiler: Eli Morrow]] ]]
1736It's been spoiled in a few articles that the Season Finale will feature the return of [[spoiler: Robbie/Ghost Rider]] and a 'Deadlier Enemy' what better way to bookend the season by ending it the way it began with [[spoiler: Eli]] as the big bad? It's telling that the Project Looking Glass machine in the real world has parts that look like the portal Aida built as well as the Matter Creator that Eli helped build. [[spoiler: Eli]] returns to wreak havoc ergo [[spoiler:ComicBook/GhostRider]] will need to arrive to help the heroes.
1737* It's hers, apparently.
1738
1739[[WMG: Alternatively, AIDA was being manipulated by the Darkhold to make a body for Chthon.]]
1740The Darkhold seems to kind of focus on things like portals to other worlds and enhancing humans or creating bodies, all of which lead back to the base goal of Chthon getting a physical body on Earth. Sure, the book shows the reader what they want, but it also shows the reader what it wants. Eli was Chthon's first intended vessell, but he experienced a setback when Eli got pulled into hell (or whatever they're calling it). [[spoiler:Robbie is returning]] to stop Chthon's second attempt; AIDA. There will be some tell-tale symptom of Chthon's influence, such as odd looking eyes or tainted veins or something, but AIDA will be defeated before Chthon can gain full control over her.
1741
1742The season finale stinger will serve as a cliffhanger as the camera pans down into the water, resting on a cocoon. The cocoon will crack and fall apart, revealing Veejay. The camera will move closer and closer to his face as his eyes open, revealing the tell-tale visual cue for Chthon's influence.
1743
1744[[WMG: Ophelia Sarkissian exists in the real world, but AIDA took her place in the Framework because it predicted she could become Director of HYDRA in the altered timeline. ]]
1745* In the real world, she could be a HYDRA assassin that disbanded along with the rest of the organization, and possibly be known by her other code name "Viper". She may also have died in the real world a long time ago, explaining why she hasn't shown up yet (and Simmons could reveal this to Fitz to help him out of his HeroicBSOD).
1746[[/folder]]
1747
1748[[folder:Season 5]]
1749[[WMG: This season will focus on the Marvel Cosmic Universe and build up to Infinity War]]
1750And if the fans are REALLY lucky we'll get lots of cool cosmic cameos such has the Nova Corps, Asgard, The Inhuman Royals and the Guardians of the Galaxy.
1751* They are in the future, in a time the Infinity War presumably already took place, so this theory is probably jossed. Unless it's revealed later that the infinity war is what truly destroyed the Earth, and the team has to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, resulting in a new version of the infinity war; the version we will see in the next 2 Avengers movies.
1752* Confirmed. The second half of the season was all about fighting General Talbot as he powered himself up to become a superhero capable of defeating Thanos, while driving himself slowly crazy to the point that, if he wasn't stopped, he'd have been the one who physically tore the Earth apart looking for more power.
1753
1754[[WMG: Team Coulson was picked up by SWORD]]
1755After all, Marvel does have the rights to SWORD.
1756* Coulson explicitly claims that SHIELD doesn't have any kind of space-related division in the first episode of Season 5. But then, SWORD *isn't* a part of SHIELD, so it may very well still exist.
1757
1758[[WMG: Team Coulson was picked up by ARMOR]]
1759The rights to SWORD are up for debate, considering the debuted in Astonishing X-Men, but the Alternate Reality Monitoring and Operational Response agency made its first appearance in a Marvel Zombies book, the film/television rights of which should still be owned by Marvel Studios. What we assume is space could just be another dimension, the blue glow in the distance representing the Nexus of All Realities. The base itself could be the MCU version of The Hollow.
1760
1761Beyond just the speculation of whether or not Marvel Studios owns the rights to SWORD, there are a couple other things that suggest the agents might have been taken in by ARMOR. Firstly, when Robbie describes where he was after falling through the "hellmouth", he discussed alternate dimensions and other worlds. He could have simply given a vague description of where he ended up, so perhaps the writers had him mention these alternate dimensions as a seed for a future plot thread. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, when the mysterious figure shows up in the diner and stops time, he says "the window closes in two minutes." He could just be referring to their "window of opportunity", but it could also refer to the gateway they opened.
1762
1763[[WMG: The group that abducted the team are aliens]]
1764But which alien race are they? Possible candidates:
1765* The Kree: They aren't serving the Kree government, but are a rogue faction who are interested in exploiting Daisy and Yoyo.
1766** The Kree ''are'' confirmed to appear in the season, but no confirmation yet.
1767* The Autocrons: They are interested in the threat humanity may pose if they were to try and invade Earth, so they abducted the team due to their accomplishments over great odds too test out how to defeat the kinds of humans who would rebel if they took over. This will allow for the introduction of the MCU Machine Man, who fought the Autocrons in the comics.
1768* Contraxians: They want to keep the Contraxian women staying on Earth in the guise of humans to be kept safe, and are abducting those who they believe could expose them, such as spies. This will allow for the introduction of the concepts of the hero Jack of Hearts, if not a version of the character himself.
1769* The Epsiloni: They have seen how SHIELD has fought against HYDRA and view them as an example of a threat to their fascist military dictatorship system. They want to test their mettle against SHIELD's top talent, as well as consume Inhuman life forces. This is considered the ultimate hunt for them and they'll be depicted as similar to the aliens of Film/Predators of the Predator franchise. The ship is the hunting ground.
1770* The Skrulls: They'll be appearing in ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'', so it's a good idea to have the Skrulls appear in the show to link the series to the movie. Even better is that the Skrulls are shapeshifters; They can look human most of the time, even to manipulate the SHIELD team by posing as new human allies and enemies.
1771* The Brood: Unless they're tied up with X-Men/Fox, there's a Xenomorph-esque creature in the promo that resembles a Brood.
1772** The human Coulson encounters calls the creature a Vrellnexian, a more obscure species of monstrous aliens that first appeared in some Thor comics in the 70s.
1773
1774[[WMG: The team was abducted by the Ravagers]]
1775It is a neat way to tie the show with the Guardians of the Galaxy, without bringing the GOTG cast to it. And, as shown in the second film, there are ''several'' ravager groups out there, Yondu was just one among many. It was also made clear that Earth is a known planet and within their reach, as they could get a Platform/MP3 player for Peter (who ''could'' return to Earth if he wanted to, he just doesn't).
1776
1777[[WMG: The team was abducted to prepare things for a FirstContact]]
1778* The team are, alongside Jane Foster, the only humans who have been to an alien world and back. And, unlike Jane, they are way more used to deal with bizarre stuff, and have stronger ties to formal institutions. If there's someone ready to manage diplomatic relations with an alien race, it would be them. The aliens, on the other hand, should be aware that no matter how much sousveillance of earth they used, they should have some actual human on board, who is aware of the way humans do things and how would people react to things, in order to make sure that [[RoswellThatEndsWell things end well]].
1779
1780[[WMG: Aida is not dead]]
1781* She knew that Shield would do anything to stop her, so she planned ahead and replaced herself with a LMD body double, while she hides behind the scenes, planning on what to do next. She's too smart to let herself be defeated that easily. she'll return in this season, either plotting revenge, or she'll finally accept Fitz's and Simmons's relationship, and finally [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy let Fitz go,]] pulling off a HeelFaceTurn for real!
1782** Unlikely. That would mean that the Ghost Rider was fooled by a robot. No-No.
1783** It's not really a matter of being fooled. Ghost Riders mission isn't about discerning between real or fake, it's about innocent vs guilty. as long as they have a soul. Which [=LMDs=] obviously have. just look at LMD May's actions! you think anyone would do those things with mere programing? You don't feel happiness without a soul. you don't cry without a soul. and you certainly don't love without a soul! My point is, as long as you have one, you can be judged by the Spirit of Vengeance!
1784** Pretty much stated in the show that Ghost Rider was lured out/attracted to Aida specifically since her new body was made from Zero Matter/Darkforce, and given that she healed perfectly from Simmon's SMG burst no more than a minute before Coulson (hosting the Rider) grabbed her, and instantly teleported after the Rider emerged...two things an LMD cannot do and NO time for a swap. Once the Rider grabbed her he would have known INSTANTLY he was grabbing a robot not the Darkforce Construct he needs to destroy, yeah, nice thought, but highly unlikely.
1785
1786[[WMG:We'll finally have an Avenger show up on the show in Season 5]]
1787* It just so happens that Season 5 will be still on the air by the time ''Avengers: Infinity War'' hits theatres, so what better way to celebrate the culmination of the MCU as a whole by having an Avenger appear on the first television series based on it? This is, of course, depending on whether or not the whole divide between Marvel Studios & Marvel Television has been resolved.
1788
1789[[WMG: Coulson and his team were grabbed by an agency that was created as a replacement for SHIELD]]
1790Whether or nor it is SWORD that Coulson is working at, he and his team were recruited for a successor organization because the SHIELD name simply has too much baggage regardless of efforts at damage control. Said organization splits its focus between earthborn concerns and extraterrestrial threats, with Coulson's team being tasked with that aspect of missions.
1791
1792[[WMG: Coulson and his team will be cleared of all accusations by whoever abducted them]]
1793Between the Anton LMD being left in pieces on site at Talbot's attempted assassination and awareness of the Daisy [=LMDs=] it won't be hard for the governments to figure out what's going on and the figure that got Coulson's team will be a big part of pushing for that. They will do this in order to convince Coulson to sign up with them and for bonus points will help in the manhunt for the Russian.
1794
1795[[WMG: Whatever happens in ''Series/{{Inhumans}}'' will change how Inhumans are dealt with for the better]]
1796If Coulson and his team are stuck dealing with legal proceeding for a while than by the time they're done they will find out that what's for all intents and purposes is a new nation bringing pressure to bear to protect their own and get the Russian hunted down for what he's done against Inhumans.
1797* Public reactions to Inhumans hasn't beeen a focus in Season 5.
1798
1799[[WMG: Possible references to the greater universe that could be made]]
1800* [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 An unknown mass appearing and rapidly expanding before going dormant in the state of Missouri]].
1801* [[Film/SpiderManHomecoming Mention is made of Stark's new apprentice "swinging around New York" or some guy wearing jet wings]].
1802* [[Series/TheDefenders2017 A news report about how Midland Circle was attacked by]] [[Series/Daredevil2015 the Devil of Hell's Kitchen]], [[Series/JessicaJones2015 a local investigator showing superhuman strength]], [[Series/LukeCage2016 a man with bulletproof skin]], [[Series/IronFist2017 and a martial artist with a glowing fist]].
1803* [[Film/ThorRagnarok Reports about Thor being seen in New York, a localized ground level lightning storm, and a guy in a cape making portals with a gesture.]]
1804* [[Series/{{Inhumans}} A report about a newly discovered city on the moon]]
1805* [[Series/ThePunisher2017 A report about a series of attacks believed to have been perpetrated by a disturbed ex-soldier that began his activities in New York or Daisy mentions an old associate of hers that prefers going by Micro]]
1806* [[Film/BlackPanther2018 A report about an attempted attack on the nation of Wakanda]]
1807* A conversation will be had about young heroes that have been appearing with confusion about whether the discussion is about [[Series/CloakAndDagger2018 the yin-yang duo,]] [[Series/Runaways2017 the runaways with superpowers]], [[Series/NewWarriors or the goofballs trying to be Avengers.]].
1808** Noah mentions Asgardians being spotted in New York in the 11th episode of Season 5.
1809
1810[[WMG: The team's abduction has something to do with the Inhumans on the moon.]]
1811* The team has begun to have a deep association with the Earth Inhumans by now, and the moon Inhumans might have noticed. Plus, Season 5 comes out just after the 2017 Inhumans show does.
1812
1813[[WMG: A team member, possibly Daisy, will encounter the "ghosts" of deceased show characters.]]
1814* Although it's unlikely they'd be ressurected, the supernatural happenings of Season 4 make it possible for Daisy or another team member to visit some sort of ''astral world'' where the specters of the past haunt them. This would allow Daisy to say a proper goodbye to Trip, Lincoln and even Ward, considering the Framework version of him proves there was ''some'' good in him all along. Robert Gonzales and Victoria Hand could also appear, maybe with Eric Koenig thrown in for good measure, and Daisy could even get a chance to meet her mother as she was before Whitehall's torture.
1815
1816[[WMG: Season 5 will only have 11 episodes.]]
1817To make room for the Inhumans show, Season 05 will only have 11 episodes.
1818* Season 5 was a full season.
1819
1820[[WMG: Season 5 will be the show's last season and will end with Daisy Johnson as Director of SHIELD.]]
1821SHIELD will be re-legitimized again, like what Jeffrey Mace tried to do but failed because of the LMD/Framework fiasco. Lincoln will be TheLostLenore to a more hardened Daisy, and she might even sport her hairstyle from the comics.
1822* Season 5 is not the last season of the show.
1823
1824[[WMG: Graviton will appear at last.]]
1825* Because we've been sitting on that Gravitonium since Season 1. And Ian Quinn can finally get his comeuppance, because we haven't even seen the guy since before the Inhumans arc and he had the Gravitonium last.
1826** Confirmed- Ian's fate has been revealed [[spoiler:as being consumed by Hall from within the Gravitonium for revenge]] and that [[spoiler:both Hall and Quinn are still 'alive' within the Gravitonium]].
1827* Confirmed, but it's not Hall who becomes Graviton, but Talbot.
1828
1829[[WMG: Phil and Melinda will finally hook up.]]
1830Phil and Melinda will finally hook up. Because we've been dying for that for-freaking-ever. (And now they have.)
1831
1832
1833[[WMG: Anton will build a Ward LMD drone]]
1834Anton will build a Ward LMD drone. The guy gotta return every season.
1835
1836[[WMG: The team weren't "picked up" by a different government agency '''or''' abducted by aliens]]
1837The people at the end of the last season were time travelers, who are placing them in an alternate timeline where SHIELD is a space-based organization, with FakeMemories of having ''always'' worked for this Space SHIELD. After getting back to the proper timeline, Coulson will be inspired to help create SWORD in the MCU, since it might be kind of an AssPull to say SWORD that already exists in the MCU without any of the characters, in this show or any other MCU property, even noticing an organization based in spaceships flying around the Earth and never mention it (yes, there's a big disconnect between the show and the movies, and even the other shows, but...unless SWORD was invisible all this time, including to the US government officials we've seen, somebody would feel the need to mention the thing).
1838
1839[[WMG: Alternatively, they were sent to the future]]
1840The recently released first seventeen minutes of the first episode has a character mentioning he has been studying them (as in the SHIELD team) for years. This includes Elena, who has only been on the team for about a year and a half. The character also says "your history", however, the Closed Caption on Website/YouTube has it as "you're history". Combining that to the previews implying that the other people that are wherever the team is have been waiting for Coulson for a while, they could be in the future.
1841* Confirmed.
1842
1843[[WMG: Fitz will recruit Hunter to help him in his search for the team]]
1844The absence of Bobbi will be HandWaved by having Hunter say that they split up for their own good and that she's living somewhere remote to avoid detection and capture.
1845** Confirmed. Fitz is able to get a message through to Hunter, who busts him out of imprisonment. And while Hunter and Bobbi are still on good terms with each other, they are at the moment not working together.
1846
1847[[WMG: It was not Daisy who destroyed Earth it was Thanos]]
1848The Avengers lost the Infinity War or even won it though at the cost to Earth forcing S.H.I.E.L.D. to figure out a way to make sure that the Avengers succeed in defeating Thanos AND saving Earth.
1849* Alternatively it was Daisy who destroyed the Earth but did so while taking down Thanos.
1850
1851[[WMG: The Guardians of the Galaxy will appear]]
1852However considering this season takes place in the future it won't be the team from the films but their successors.
1853
1854[[WMG: Coulson will get his hands on Cap's shield]]
1855With the characters in the future and the Avengers long dead (likely including Thor given that he has not freed humanity from the Kree) this is a great opportunity to bring in things that they never could have done before like Captain America's Vibrainium shield.
1856
1857[[WMG: Dove Cameron's character is related to Coulson]]
1858Either as his illegitimate daughter he never knew about in the present or a direct descendant of his in the future.
1859* It's been revealed that she's [[spoiler:the daughter of General Hale]].
1860
1861[[WMG: It wasn't Daisy that destroyed Earth, it was the Kree]]
1862Think about it, of the races that know of Earth and if the destruction of the planet was post Infinity War, we should have Xandar, and Asgard (what's left of them that is) with connections to the planet. But it's the KREE who are not the nicest species around who come in and 'save the day' for Humanity? And showing up soon enough to make a difference? The fact they are systematically destroying all historical records adds to this, they aren't trying to give Humanity a fresh start...they are destroying the evidence.
1863
1864[[WMG: Flint will undergo Terrigenesis and become inhuman ]]
1865It might be a forgone conclusion considering his comic counterpart. But with the revelation that on the 18th birthday that humans are exposed to Terrigan. It makes sense that Flint will become inhuman, also he could end up under mentorship with Daisy as the Kree will keep trying to find out his abilities but run into a brick wall, because Flint’s ability is Earth Manipulation and there is distinct lack of Earth on a space station.
1866** Confirmed in "Fun and Games" - the part about Flint being Inhuman, at least. He discovers his power fairly quickly.
1867
1868[[WMG: The station, and its overlords, exist in a timeline where the Avengers lost Operation: Galactic Storm.]]
1869Or one where the Infinity War against Thanos went very, ''very'' badly. Because the shot of what's left of the Earth, from the trawler, looks a whole lot like that shot of the Earth shattering in the [[https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/6754745.html famous What If issue 2-parter]]. That explains why the Kree have swept in and enslaved what was left of humanity, as well, with their expansionist Empire.
1870* We are given a who did it, we just need the why.
1871
1872[[WMG: The team are stuck in another simulation.]]
1873Everything about this two-parter seems suspect, between the Man in Black to Fitz's absence. Firstly, the Man in Black seen at the end of "World's End" kidnapping the team is given far too much screentime to be mere coincidence; including shots of him swimming, with barely any expression on his face; shots of him showering, including him removing his ''skin'' to reveal a bipedal alien of unknown species; and a shot of his fridge, stocked to the brim with Coconut Water. Secondly, Mr Coconut kidnaps everyone except Fitz, claiming he ''isn't on the list''. Third, as we discover in the second half of the episode, is the fact that a monolith exists that can throw people into the future.
1874
1875So why does this seem suspect? Firstly there is Virgil, the self-proclaimed ''Greeting Party'' who meets up with the team, sans Daisy. He gives Coulson info on the ship, including the hint that they are there to save humanity and he knows everything about them. However, he gets offed by a Roach, a creature he referred to as a 'glitch in the plan'. Roach, Glitch, '''Bug'''? As in ''bug in the system, or glitch in the software''? Second is the exclusion of Fitz, who was one of the architects of the Framework. He would have known instantly that something was up, and could break the team out of their confinement. Instead, he is left on his own, and in the final scenes to the first part, a message from Fitz, ''Working on it...'' is seen on a postcard. He could have hacked the software to deliver a message the programmers wouldn't see.
1876
1877Next is the issue with time travel in the show. Why would a being like Mr Coconut send them to the future? For that matter, how could he have known that they would end up there, and that they would be the 'saviors of humanity'? There is also the fact that the supposed 'cause' of the destruction of Earth being Quake stops applying once you remove her from the present time. Since she isn't there to cause the quake, the Earth should be fine, '''unless''' they make it back to the present to cause said future in the first place. Also, the only way Coconut would know what is on the other side of the monolith is if someone had come back through, but because it didn't have a fixed exit point there is no known way for that information to return to the present via the monolith. In other words, there is a situation where a being with no motive throws people into a time slip into the future, where they just so happen to be the exact people needed to help, all without giving them any information on what they actually need to do.
1878
1879Lastly is the timing of the abduction. Coconut uses a device to freeze the team in place, presumably to prevent them from resisting, when in actuality it is to get them to their destination without them seeing where it is. However, the time he gives for his team until the effect wear off (two minutes) seems far too short for the travel from the diner to the monolith base. The loading/ unloading process alone would eat up most of that time. Also, the team gasps for breath after being unfrozen, as if all vital functions had been suspended, '''including brain activity and breathing'''. They went from the diner to the monolith in a split second from their perspective, since none of them remember it. Or maybe none of them remember because they were plugged in to a server, all came online at the same time, and then thrown into the scenario given to them - something just plausible enough not to arouse suspicion unlike the last version of the Framework.
1880
1881Oh, and the title of the Episode, Orientation? Another way of saying 'showing the ropes', 'guided tour', 'welcoming ceremony', ''Tutorial''.
1882* It's an interesting simulation inside a simulation for Daisy.
1883* Added evidence: Coulson switched to a basic prosthetic before going to the diner. After the Monolith, Coulson has ''two working hands.''
1884** How is that necessarily "evidence"? Even Coulson's early prosthetics could operate physically, even if he had trouble doing up his ties. It could just as easily be a PlotDevice for two purposes: firstly to ensure that Coulson is [[{{Depower}} deprived]] of all his cool technological abilities, and secondly to justify why his prosthetic hand doesn't run out of battery power over the course of [[StoryArc however many episodes]] the team is stuck in space.
1885
1886[[WMG:Mack will die in this season, or at least be teased to die]]
1887He has declared that he will retire once they returned, [[{{Retirony}} which is probably not the wisest idea to say in a tight situation like this]]. The trope BlackDudeDiesFirst may or may not be played straight.
1888* This is hinted at since in the BadFuture, Mack's death is part of what convinces Future Yo-Yo that YouCantFightFate
1889
1890[[WMG:Daisy is going to become a mom]]
1891Its been shown that the Kree make humans artificially, so to increase the chances of more Inhumans. They also took Daisy's blood, since she has value to them. Why not use it to make more "Quakes"? And Coulson asks if she being used for breeding, making possible foreshadowing.
1892
1893This might end up with a future baby. I don’t know.
1894
1895[[WMG:Daisy's nightmare in "Absolution" will come true.]]
1896We were led to believe she was dreaming up what Hive might do to the Earth if he won. They're actually trapped on the surface of the destroyed future Earth in the containment module, which they got out of ''Zephyr One'' thanks to Fitz and Hunter leaving it hidden in a floor in the Lighthouse. Coulson has to take a moment to remind Daisy that it is, in fact, Earth that they're trapped on since Daisy is having trouble accepting the idea that it's their Earth--especially with everyone claiming she somehow did it. And for reasons the show [[OnceMoreWithClarity will provide context for]], they think at that moment [[DarkestHour they're the only ones left]].[[note]]Of course, [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt they'll be happily proven wrong afterwards]], but still...[[/note]]
1897
1898[[WMG:Flint's Inhuman power will be used to "reassemble" the Earth.]]
1899Since it is a matter of historical record that the Earth was split, whether by Quake or some other agent, Flint's power, the ability to (re)assemble rock into a set form will be used to fix the Earth.
1900* Confirmed, but the team doesn't stay in in the future long enough to witness it.
1901
1902[[WMG: General Hale is working with the Watchdogs]]
1903General Hale is working with the Watchdogs.
1904
1905[[WMG: Deeks is a descendant of Bobbi/Hunter]]
1906He's already mentioned he was one of the last humans made "The Old Fashioned Way" and noted that both his parents were True Believers in the SHIELD Prophesy with his mother being killed and his dad exiled yet still alive on the surface...in what we now know is the Zephyr One with Robin. Last check she was in the care of Bobbi/Hunter, also given his access and rebuilding of the Framework. He's most likely descended from a SHIELD agent.
1907* He's [=FitzSimmons=]' grandson.
1908** Bobbi and Hunter could still be his [[spoiler:paternal grandparents.]]
1909
1910[[WMG: The Extinction Level Event was caused by Daisy trying to stop an invading entity with her powers.]]
1911In the BadFuture, Daisy quakes the world apart, but it is unclear as to why she would do something like that. The only reason she would be that unstoppable is if she had no other choice but to use her powers at maximum to defeat a foe that was close to either killing the entire world, or was going to destroy it anyway.
1912Given this, it is then possible that the Earth is saved by Daisy intentionally not using her powers, but instead doing something else to incapacitate the enemy. Which paves the way for Thanos in Infinity War...
1913
1914[[WMG: Coulson is dying because of the deal he made with the Ghost Rider last season.]]
1915Robbie said the deal would have consequences and TheReveal of what that deal entitled is going to be revealed this season.
1916** Confirmed. Episode 12 (aka [[MilestoneCelebration Episode 100]]) is titled "The Real Deal", and [[spoiler:explicitly mentions that Coulson's deal with the Rider will be addressed.]]
1917
1918[[WMG: Coulson will avert his death by becoming Graviton]]
1919Previews beyond the 100th episode indicate that the team goes in search of Gravitonium -- presumably with Dr. Franklin Hall still alive inside -- in order to avert the destruction of the world. But if Hall is still alive, and has suffered SanitySlippage, gaining control would understandably be difficult. So since Coulson knows that he is slowly dying, he might instigate a battle between himself (the GoodCounterpart mentor figure) versus Hall (the EvilCounterpart mentor figure) and win, taking control over the Gravitonium, and since Coulson would no longer be biologically human, his seemingly mortal wound would no longer be an issue. Plus, the Gravitonium would now be under the control of someone far more benevolent and mentally stable, and Coulson could finally gain superpowers after so many years of looking up to the people who already do.
1920* That could be why Elena told her past self that they need to let Coulson die. They take down Hale and take possession of the infusion chamber, all loaded with Gravitonium and ready to go. They're planning to destroy/dismantle it, but Coulson collapses, his time has come, he's minutes from death when someone gets the idea to use the chamber to save him. It works, but he soon starts to lose control, either from the minds inside the Gravitonium fighting for control or he just can't handle the godlike power over all gravity. The last video of Daisy right before the Earth shattered was her refusing to leave for the Lighthouse with everyone else. She goes to make one last attempt to talk down Coulson, but fails, and she is unable to otherwise stop him from setting off the chain reaction that shatters the earth.
1921* [[spoiler:Talbot becomes Graviton]].
1922** Coulson might battle [[spoiler:Talbot]] for control instead.
1923
1924[[WMG: Daisy will be the cause of the destruction of the Earth]]
1925...or rather, her fear of being the cause will act as a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy. The new rift to a fear diminution existing below the surface of the planet, that can manifest a person's worst fears into physical form, could easily grow and expand enough that it could quake the planet apart. Other people also believing that Daisy cold be responsible wold only feed the fear more.
1926
1927[[WMG:It wasn't Daisy that destroyed the Earth. It was Graviton.]]
1928
1929So far Season 5 has been doing a lot of teasing for the return of Dr. Franklin Hall and his transformation into Graviton.
1930
1931* The gravity storms that are plaguing the post-apocalyptic Earth remnant. If Daisy's powers were used to crack the Earth apart then what caused these gravity storms given that her Quake powers are based in sonic vibrations rather than gravity?
1932* The return of Gravitonium. The season has reintroduced Gravitonium as AppliedPhlebotinum that's needed to further the plot. Also...
1933* Ian Quinn's Gravitonium, in which Franklin Hall is trapped in, is now in the hands of General Hale, someone who is currently building a team of powerful individuals (Ruby, Creel, Strucker Jr., etc), and she's had it for some time now meaning that its possible she's found out about Hall being trapped in it and has found a way to free him.
1934* Hale has been indirectly responsible for the creation of the spacetime rift which according to Fitz is the probable cause for Earth's destruction and that gravity can influence it to repair it (and by that logic make it worse).
1935* If Hall has his Graviton powers as a result of long-term exposure to Gravitonium and has also undergone a SanitySlippage as a result of spending years trapped in an AndIMustScream scenario, isn't it possible that he might just use his powers to end the world? With Daisy being MisBlamed because she was there when he did it and tried to stop him and her powers can in theory destroy the Earth as well.
1936* Graviton has been confirmed for the show, only it's not [[DecompositeCharacter Hall]], but [[CompositeCharacter Talbot]].
1937
1938[[WMG: Creel is only playing along with Hale and hasn't done a FaceHeelTurn against SHIELD]]
1939Creel claims that he saw the video and believes that Daisy did shoot Talbot. However Creel is an experienced boxer/fighter and one thing a boxer has to be good at is reading people and figuring out how they move and what they are going to pull next given his following role as Talbot's bodyguard chances are good that he'd spot things before others. The LMD Daisy just stalked into the room and shot Talbot, she didn't move or act like the real Daisy would, most people would take it at face value but it's possible Creel DID notice something 'off' about Daisy. Once he met the LMD Superior...and realized that it WAS possible to have a perfect physical replica robot...and Talbot may have TOLD him about the [=LMDs=] found in the Playground. Well he's not stupid, but rather than confront Hale he played along...might even be encouraging the whole "Revenge for Talbot" angle to get close to SHIELD and help them out later...
1940* Confirmed. Creel does turn on Hale and Hydra. It just isn't for the above-mentioned reasons. [[spoiler:It takes Coulson convincing him of Hale having Talbot tortured while in captivity for Creel to help against Hydra. It's also established that he still sorta believes that Daisy shot Talbot, despite evidence to the contrary.]]
1941
1942[[WMG: Ways SHIELD can save the future]]
1943With Episode 15 revealing that Whitehall's project was known as [[spoiler:Destroyer Of Worlds]], it is probable that Coulson will attempt to destroy the project to prevent the BadFuture. On the other hand, Daisy may just walk right into Hale's hands and doom the world. Elena hopes that if she dies the future breaks down because of a paradox, hence why she believes herself to be invincible, as she later convinces Simmons. Herego:
1944* Coulson destroys the machine, preventing the HYDRA program from being completed.
1945* Either Elena or Simmons perform a HeroicSacrifice by letting themselves be killed so as to cause a paradox.[[note]]Elena saw her future self so knows she survives the apocalypse. Gemma knows that Deke is her grandson, thus her death before her daughter's birth will make him cease to exist.[[/note]]
1946
1947[[WMG: Coulson gets sucked into the Gravitonium.]]
1948We know that the Gravitonium's been sucking people into it (per S5E16), with people who have a grudge against Coulson [[spoiler:Dr. Hall and Quinn being those currently trapped inside the substance]] being sucked into it. It's not out of the realm that Phil himself ends up with this fate. This would explain why Future Yo-Yo is insistent that Coulson has to die in order to save the world.
1949
1950[[WMG: Yo-Yo was wrong at the end of All Roads Lead...]]
1951She didn't save the world, she just started the countdown to destruction.
1952
1953[[WMG: Everyone will continue to make poor choices to prevent catastrophe]]
1954First Fitz[[spoiler:tortured Daisy in order to get her powers back]] as he believed it was needed to control the Gravitonium needed to close the rift, a decision that is ''highly'' flawed (ignoring that he could have found other ways to get her powers back or even just replicate them, but in doing so he has potentially set Daisy on the course that will turn her into the Destroyer of Worlds). Then, Yo-Yo [[spoiler:kills Ruby to stop her becoming the Destroyer]], something that drives Hale to the DespairEventHorizon and makes her [[spoiler:side with the Confederacy]], likely bringing about the Kree's occupation of what's left of humanity, if not destroy the earth first.
1955Also, future Yo-Yo told her past self that its [[spoiler:their attempts to save Coulson]] that will doom them, not to mention several points in the future where IDidWhatIHadToDo rationale was used to excuse horrible actions (Deke selling Daisy to the Kree, Yo-Yo framing Grill's enforcer to save everyone else). Essentially, the theme of the season seems to be that this line of thinking, that its OK to commit horrible acts so long as you're 'saving the day', even when it could potentially doom the future, is short-sighted and cruel, never mind selfish. So, its likely that we'll see more characters (probably May and Jemma, as they're the ones shown agreeing with Fitz's actions) do similar things to prevent the terrible future, only to end up being the things that enable it (in fact its likely May who'll do something to save Coulson to stop it).
1956
1957[[WMG: Ruby will return]]
1958Because [[spoiler:killing a perfectly good EvilCounterpart to Daisy is really a major TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter, and her powers are linked to Graviton, who's ability to ''always'' comes back from the dead in the comics is actually a plot point of his character, its unlikely that she'll stay dead.]]
1959[[spoiler: Most likely, due to the time-travel plot of the season, and the fact this event is apparently one of the catalysts for causing the BadFuture, they'll have to undo it in the end to stop the bad future unfolding. Alternatively, linking it with the attempts to save Coulson, the team might acquire Kree blood from the Confederacy's attack and attempt to use it for Coulson, only for Hale to instead hyjack it to revive her daughter, too]].
1960* [[spoiler:Hale is killed by Graviton in "The One Who Will Save Us All"]].
1961
1962[[WMG: Coulson will get booted into the Quantum Realm instead of dying]]
1963Instead of killing him off [[Film/TheAvengers2012 yet again]], Coulson might get booted into the Quantum Realm through some sort of space-time manipulations -- certainly a possibility when dealing with gravity-warping Enhanced individuals -- and end up in TheNineties, which could be the mechanism by which he appears in ''[[Film/CaptainMarvel2019 Captain Marvel]]'' (and he wouldn't need makeup or digital de-aging as a result). As a bonus, seeing as said film involves a conflict between the Kree and the Skrulls, he would once again have access to the sort of substances that enabled his return from death in the first place.
1964* Alternatively, it will send him back to the 40s and the sixth season will also be a FullyAbsorbedFinale of ''Series/AgentCarter''.
1965
1966[[WMG:Who's going to die from the ending of ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''?]]
1967Anyone who has watched ''[[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Infinity War]]'' by now knows that [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins and Thanos executes his famed BadassFingersnap, culling half of the sentient beings in the universe into ash]]. So if the Earth is indeed saved from destruction, who is going to fall victim when it occurs? Being a random process, it could quite literally be anyone:
1968* Phil Coulson, as an AssPull especially when the season has talked up his old mortal injury as the reason for his impending doom.
1969* Melinda May, quite possibly [[TogetherInDeath in tandem]] with Coulson's supposedly inevitable passing.
1970* Either Fitz or Simmons, because the universe seems to like [[TraumaCongaLine making them suffer]].
1971* Either Mack or Yo-Yo, just for the RuleOfDrama, VasquezAlwaysDies, or BigGuyFatalitySyndrome.
1972* Daisy, to throw the future of S.H.I.E.L.D. into doubt (and maybe as offscreen irony for claiming that the film side of the MCU doesn't care about the television series).
1973* Deke, because people who get involved with Daisy (e.g. Lincoln) tend to die, and he's already a FishOutOfTemporalWater.
1974* [[MauveShirt Agent Davis, Agent Piper, or both.]]
1975* Several of the members of The Confederacy, ending the alien threat to Earth before it can come to fruition.
1976* [[spoiler:General Talbot, A.K.A. Graviton]], because it might be the only way to successfully take him down.
1977* Alternatively, since the film is taking place [[SimultaneousArcs at the same time as the last four episodes]], Season 5 will conclude right before [[spoiler:the BadassFingersnap]]. That way, if Season 5 ends up being the last, fans can have a BittersweetEnding and create their own head-canons for [[spoiler:who survives the finger snap]], and if the show gets renewed for another season, then it can deal with the aftermath of [[spoiler:Thanos' culling]].
1978
1979[[WMG:Alternatively, all the ''Infinity War'' references are {{red herring}}s, and none of Coulson's team will die from [[spoiler:Thanos' BadassFingersnap.]]]]
1980The Season 5 finale was described by the showrunner as "satisfying". We're not sure that "[[spoiler:members of Team Coulson disintegrating after a possible victory]]" can fit that description. Therefore, the episode will instead end on a more self-contained note.
1981* Confirmed.
1982
1983[[WMG:Any Infinity War-related cliffhangers will be resolved in ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.]]
1984With news of Season 6 coming in the summer after ''Avengers: Endgame'', one ambitious way to end the season is to have it end with [[spoiler:half of the SHIELD crew disintegrating]], then have the resolution be done in the form of a couple of characters appearing in ''Endgame''. The film itself would then show [[spoiler:the disappeared SHIELD agents among the many brought back into existence, with Season 6 then subsequently dealing with the fallout.]]
1985
1986[[WMG:Someone will TakeAThirdOption with regards to the Centipede Serum]]
1987The various members of the team talk up how they could save Coulson by adding Jiaying's DNA to the Serum, or they could take down [=Talbot/Graviton=] by infusing it with the Odium, but cannot do both as there is [[SadisticChoice only one dose left]] of the Serum itself. [[ArmorPiercingQuestion What's stopping them from doing both?]]
1988
1989The Odium can grant someone superhuman abilities at the same time as the Centipede Serum and Jiaying's HealingFactor could keep them in one piece by holding off the fatal mind-decaying and heart-exploding effects of the Odium. Knowing that he has [[YourDaysAreNumbered little time left]] by any other method, Coulson might take the ''combined'' serum to both keep him alive ''and'' receive the strength to stop Graviton from destroying the world.
1990
1991[[WMG:The Epilogue To The Season 5 Finale Takes Place '''After''' ''Film/AvengersEndgame'']]
1992Which is to say that [[spoiler:nobody gets dusted because the Snappening will never have happened in this timeline. In the fourth ''Avengers'' movie, the Avengers will use time-travel to stop Thanos from killing everyone, meaning that the reason none of the team died before Coulson's retirement is because history was already corrected]]. Seems like an easy enough way to HandWave things with the start of Season 6 and use that as an opportunity to explore the vastly different post-''Avengers:Endgame'' MCU instead of having to spend time on a problem that the movies will already have solved. Plus, with the show returning in Summer 2019, they can skip having to deal with the massive CliffHanger that ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' set up and just pick up where they left off.
1993
1994[[WMG:The timeline changed because of [[spoiler:Doctor Strange's temporal pick'n'choose]]]]
1995In using the [[spoiler:Time Stone, Doctor Strange was examining potential futures for any that lacked the myriad failure states that would have ended everything. One of the biggest of those would have been the decimation of Earth by Graviton (preventing the entire restoration scenario), so by manipulating the length of the encounter on Titan, he was able to allow Thanos's arrival to shift the probabilities of events on earth in just the right way - changing Coulson's thinking in the moments ahead of Daisy's move against Graviton. Strange needn't even be aware of why that particular scenario works when millions others don't, just that it creates the opening.]]
1996
1997[[WMG:The Earth Destroyed timeline is destined to become MCU's equivalent of ComicBook/Marvel2099 after its Earth is repaired.]]
1998Honestly, even after they manage to put the world back together and start rebuilding societies on the surface, Earth's probably still going to be pretty screwed up for a while after it spent so long broken and enslaved by the Kree. Enough that it could still present a BadFuture not all that different from the one depicted in the comic run, which also came about due to a big world-wrecking cataclysm.
1999[[/folder]]
2000
2001[[folder:Season 6]]
2002
2003[[WMG: The season will be set in a location that can allow the show to ignore [[spoiler: the ending of ''Infinity War'']] and do their own thing]]
2004Be it being sent to an alternate reality, another dimension, or even the distant future after [[spoiler: the remaining movie characters reverse Thanos's wiping out of half of the universe's life]], the season will instead find a way to put Team Coulson in a new environment that will allow ''them'' to ultimately save the day in a way and give them all shining moments before the show likely ends. Then, some of the characters may be allowed to be [[{{Transplant}} transplanted]] into the movie fold of the MCU, thus throwing fans of the a bone in more ways than one, even if said roles are minor.
2005
2006[[WMG: The season will fully introduce TheMultiverse to the MCU.]]
2007Because that's just about the only major concept from the Franchise/MarvelUniverse that hasn't appeared as of Season 5 (here meaning a legit AlternateUniverse, not like the Framework).
2008
2009[[WMG: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has been set in the timeline where [[spoiler:Thanos travels into the ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' timeline and vanishes forever from 2014.]]]]
2010Given the events of Episode 1, it seems obvious that this is what the producers have done, to separate the MCU movies from the TV shows.
2011* How about the fact that the events of Infinity War were taking place during the last part of last season.
2012** They never actually showed Thanos or the fight in Wakanda, they only mentioned that Thanos was invading off-screen. It could be that in the timeline Thanos abandoned, the Confederacy took advantage of his absence to use his name as part of a protection racket. They make it look like Thanos is invading a planet and offer protection in exchange for everything of value that world has to offer.
2013** Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. could be set in the timeline where Thor goes for the head in Wakanda and prevents the snap in the first place.
2014
2015[[WMG: While they aren't being very nice about it, Sarge's team is trying to save worlds, not destroy them.]]
2016Although they really shouldn't have left the body around for somebody to tamper with, the bat parasite didn't become a threat until they pulled out the dagger that seemed to be subduing it, which Elena clued into to subdue it again. Sarge's team isn't creating the bats, but containing them. The parasites are said to be highly explosive, and Keller mentioned that the zombified host seemed to be heading to a ley-line nexus, where a large explosion caused by several such hosts could potentially be world-ending. This reframes Tinker's last words not as a threat of whats to come, but a warning.
2017* '''Confirmed''', but Sarge begins to slip in his "mission" as his memories as Pachakutiq begin to resurface.
2018
2019[[WMG: There are multiple timelines that all diverge at the point that the Agents of Shield return to the past. Every time the main characters use the monolith to travel in time, they switch to a different one.]]
2020In one timeline, the agents are brought to the future and killed. Had they survived, they would have returned to the timeline the MCU is in, but since they didn't, no one rescued Talbot and he probably died, or even if he did become Graviton, he couldn't absorb Daisy's power and destroy the earth. The Fitz in the mcu is woken by Enoch in the future, but the earth is safe and no one has brought a version of the team to the future for them to meet up with.
2021
2022In one timeline, earth is destroyed, which means Talbot unintentionally achieves his goal, and Thanos is killed, as are everyone we know on earth except the agents of shield that we know survive. This was one of the 14,000,605 futures that Strange saw, but he didn't consider it one where they win because earth is destroyed. However, he's able to tell the others on Titan what happened and he, Tony and Peter join the guardians. In the future, the Agents of SHIELD from the mcu are brought into the timeline, where the first half of season 5 happens.
2023
2024They then return to a third timeline, where the second half of season 5 happens, and some indeterminate period of time after the finale, the snap happens. However, something that one of the Agents of SHIELD does in the post snap universe causes a butterfly effect that leads to Pepper dying before Morgan or any other child can be born. The Avengers decide that instead of simply undoing the snap, they will use the gauntlet to undo the past 5 years, up until the point just before Thanos Snaps, and kills 2018 Thanos. Everyone but the characters who are with Bruce return to the position they were in 5 years ago with no memory of the 5 years, including the Agents of SHIELD. However, Strange is easily able to figure out what happened because he saw this as one of the 14,000,605 futures. (He lied about there only being one future where they win because he knew that they would only win if he did.) 2014 Nebula brings 2014 Thanos to the compound in 2018, Strange brings the army through the portal, and the battle of earth goes pretty much the same way it did in the mcu. But since the Agents of SHIELD don't remember the snap or 5 year time skip, this doesn't have a big enough impact on them that they're still talking about it 5 years later.
2025
2026Yeah, I know there are holes in this theory, the biggest being Deke, but it's the best explanation I could think of.
2027
2028* I wanna see the holes in your theory!
2029
2030[[/folder]]
2031
2032[[folder:Season 7]]
2033
2034[[WMG: The sample of the White Monolith that Jemma's team took before evacuating the temple is how Zephyr One jumped through time.]]
2035One agent is seen drilling a piece off of the White Monolith, but it doesn't get explained. This was done to load the sample into a compartment of the upgraded jump drive offscreen while Simmons was leading the main agents on board. Showing us this as they were doing it, of course, would've easily given away the ending twist before they could properly reveal it.
2036* [[spoiler: Confirmed. The agents assisting Jemma in Season 6's last episode turned out to be Jemma, Fitz, Sousa and Yo-Yo.]]
2037
2038[[WMG: The Black Monolith is the same one we had been seeing throughout the second and third seasons and will be sent back to the time of the Kree experiments as a result of time travel shenanigans.]]
2039Given the above theory that a piece of the White Monolith was used to send Zephyr One back in time, it's entirely possible the other two monoliths could've survived the destruction of the temple. Deke is living proof that if one piece of the White Monolith is activated, the rest of it is. And Z-1 made the jump just ''before'' the missiles reached the temple to blow it up, while a majority of the White Monolith was placed directly between the other two.
2040
2041Since the Gray Monolith was never seen anywhere except the fifth and sixth season, it would likely get destroyed for good in upcoming events. But the Black Monolith could end up going back even further in time by the end of the season, where it'll be found the the Kree who will figure out its purpose and ultimately banish Hive with it.
2042
2043[[WMG: Season 7 won't just hop to Depression-era New York City]]
2044The season has already been announced as the final season of the series, and the writers have shown a fondness for tying up loose plot ends. With the time-travelling capabilities added into Zephyr One, there's no way that capability is only going to get used ''once''. We could easily see a time-era-hopping plotline for the final season, which would serve as a neat parallel to ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' (especially now that ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' wouldn't be spoiling the movie's plot points).
2045* [[spoiler:Confirmed. So far, we've visited 20's-era New York, 50's-era Roswell, two different points of the 70's, and we just got dropped off in the early 80's.]]
2046
2047[[WMG: Flint is meant to set up a family dynamic and possible retirement for Mack and Yo-Yo]]
2048With season 7 meant to be the final season, the copy of Flint that was created by the Monoliths at the end of season 6 will most likely be sticking around, as he didn’t simply dissolve at any point like the typical Fear Dimension illusions and was last known to be flying away on a Quinjet with Piper. Given that season 7 seems to hinge on time-travel, it’s entirely possible that Mack and Yo-yo will return to the present at the end of the season and more-or-less adopt Flint as their son, leading them to continue on with S.H.I.E.L.D. or retire and live as a family with Flint, either way getting their happy ending. Helped by season 6 and season 7 deliberately being written as a two-part story similarly to Film/AvengersInfinityWar and Film/AvengersEndgame, allowing both seasons to respectively set up and pay off multi-season arcs for one another.
2049
2050[[WMG: Where Season 7 will be set within the MCU timeline...]]
2051* Back in the main timeline somewhere during the ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' TimeSkip, explaining the post-''Infinity War'' fates of certain characters that were previously undisclosed.
2052* Sometime after ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', maybe dealing with Spidey's identity being exposed to the world
2053
2054[[WMG: The Loa will be the final villain of this series]]
2055
2056[[WMG: Season 6 and 7 takes place in the timeline when Thanos and Nebula dissapeared]]
2057When they came back to the present during Season 5, they ended up in a timeline where the events of ''Infinity War'' never happened. They will probably go back to the main timeline when the snap happened, addressing the events of ''Endgame'', also handwaving the events of the other MCU shows that do not acknowledge the Snap as an alternate timeline.
2058
2059[[WMG: Part of Season 7 will serve as a FullyAbsorbedFinale for ''Series/AgentCarter''.]]
2060The trailer for the third episode shows that [[spoiler:Daniel Sousa]] will be appearing prominently in this episode. That makes it entirely possible that other characters from the ''Agent Carter'' series could show up while S.H.I.E.L.D. is in that time period, which could likely result in loose ends left by the show's cancellation being tied up.
2061
2062[[WMG: The GrandFinale will finally reveal TheMultiverse.]]
2063There would be an appearance by Uatu the Watcher, who would reveal that all the other Creator/MarvelTelevision shows took place in {{Alternate Timeline}}s created as a result of damage to the main MCU timeline caused by the team's constant time-traveling.
2064
2065[[WMG: [[spoiler: Sousa's Fate]]]]
2066It is hinted in a trailer to "Out Of The Past" that [[spoiler: Sousa]] will be murdered by HYDRA as he is one of the few that come close to revealing HYDRA's inflitration of SHIELD. Since it's been the team's mission to preserve the timeline so that SHIELD does not get erased, Coulson will likely decide to save him by faking his death and bringing him along with them.
2067* [[spoiler:Confirmed.]]
2068
2069[[WMG: Rick Stoner is [[spoiler:replaced by a Chronicom.]]]]
2070[[spoiler:In the promo for "A Trout in the Milk", when the team are discussing matters with Stoner, May touches him and then punches him. The episode prior makes the point of establishing May has become TheEmpath, able to feel others emotions through touch, but she cannot feel the emotions of Chronicoms or [=LMDs=] like Coulson. As soon as she touched "Stoner", she realized he was an imposter and acted accordingly.]]
2071* [[spoiler:Jossed, he was saved from becoming one by Coulson and May]]
2072
2073[[WMG: At some point the team will have to stop in during the Invasion of New York]]
2074Either to preserve the timeline or just because he got roped into it, Sousa will end up pretending to be a cop helping with evacuations and encounter Captain America, thus revealing that Enver Gjokaj's appearance in ''Avengers'' was Sousa all along.
2075
2076[[WMG: The team will return just in time for Thanos' Snap]]
2077[[spoiler: In his death scene Enoch warns that the team will not survive past this mission, this could suggest that they'll disband at the end of the season, but equally likely, they'll return to the present on the same day Thanos assembles the infinity stones and Snaps away half of all life. If half the team dissolve into dust it is very possible the remainders may finally drift apart.]]
2078
2079[[WMG: Nate Malick is the MCU's version of Mister Sinister]]
2080Given he wants to steal powers and has empowered himself with Quake abilities, it isn't a big leap to go to the X-Men villain, whose MO is to experiment on people to obtain more powers. In 7x10 it looks like he is going to be extracting the powers of Inhumans in Afterlife, including Jiaying and Gordon. If he is set to be the Chronicom's weapon to defeat SHIELD, it may even be a lead in for a new ABC series featuring the X-Men, fully integrating them into the MCU instead of feature films.
2081
2082[[WMG: The reason the series has diverged from the main MCU timeline]]
2083This series exists in the same timeline where Thanos traveled to Endgame, thus leaving him absent for his supposed invasion of Earth prophesized by the Confederacy at the end of Season 5. As a result, this divergent line has caused major changes to the timeline compared to the MCU line, and the time travel of Season 7 means the timeline is changed again to the point it is no longer the same as the original timeline. The point is that the Chronicoms could succeed in defeating the team, only for the jump to 2018 and the Battle of Wakanda where there Thanos becomes victorious and recovers all the stones. The Chronicoms' mission becomes moot as he wrecks the universe, and the Chronicoms become one of the Endangered Species.
2084
2085[[WMG: The series will end with the ''creation'' of the main MCU timeline]]
2086It was pretty much stated during the last four episodes of Season 5 that ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' was taking place at the same time, yet it apparently didn't end with the Snap. Perhaps this means that, in the timeline that [=AoS=] [[note]] and the [[Series/TheDefenders2017 other]] [[Series/Runaways2017 TV]] [[Series/CloakAndDagger2018 shows]] as well -- there's been enough indications that they're all in continuity with each other[[/note]] takes place, the Avengers ''won'' (perhaps Thor ''did'' go for the head, or maybe [[WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded the arm]]). However, the damage the Chronicoms did to history will cause this to change, resulting in the timeline shown in the movies -- and, since it was already established that Team Coulson have no way of going back again, there's nothing they can do about it, and they can only console themselves with the fact that things did kinda-sorta work out in the end, albeit at a heavy cost. It would, at the very least, enable the creators to draw a line under the TV-show continuity now that it's coming to an end.
2087
2088[[WMG: The Bus will come back.]]
2089[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No, not]] [[TheBusCameBack THAT bus.]] The model of S.H.I.E.L.D. Globemaster recommissioned and used by Team Coulson throughout most of Seasons 1 and 2 was active during the 1980s, the decade the team is currently in. Their current plane is hijacked by the main antagonists at the moment, so the team is going to need a way to reach them. Additionally, this being the final season of the show would make it the perfect time to bring back the original team plane for an encore performance. How the team would be allowed to commission one for use is up in the air, as it would be a matter of having to convince the 80s S.H.I.E.L.D. of their legitimacy.
2090* [[spoiler:Ultimately Jossed. While a bunch of [[TheBusCameBack buses did come back]], ''The'' Bus wasn't one of them.]]
2091
2092[[WMG: Daisy Johnson and her team will meet Nick Fury in space.]]
2093[[spoiler:As of the end of the series, Daisy, Kora, Sousa, and whoever else is with them are somewhere deep in space. As of the end of ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', Nick Fury (and maybe Maria Hill, given she left behind a Skrull in her place as well) is also in space. As of ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'''s conclusion, we still don't know what either space mission is for. Whether both missions are tied together or the two teams will meet by chance is up in the air.]]
2094
2095[[WMG: Piggybacking on the previous WMG, Daisy's team could meet with Fury's team and form S.W.O.R.D.]]
2096And we could get a new series, Agents of S.W.O.R.D.
2097
2098[[WMG: The reason the Hulk knows how alternate timelines work in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'']]
2099Is because he read the reports about SHIELD's time travelling adventures. Hence, the events of Season 7 are how the rules of time travel became known in the MCU.
2100
2101[[WMG: Grant Ward of Earth-[=TRN810=] will be recruited by Victoria Hand, like the Framework timeline.]]
2102Thus, thanks to Team Coulson's refusal to kill him for his [=MCU=] self's crimes, he'll have the chance to grow into the genuine hero he could've been.
2103* While possible the only problem is Ward was recruited was because Garrett needed someone willing to commit cold blooded murder to shape into an agent. Also Ward was marked by HYDRA which is why Garrett knew of his situation making him ripe for recruitment. Another factor is that Framework!Ward was an NPC created to full-fill (as a mole ) a function which is why Framework!Hand was given as backstory despite her being in management and not recruitment. Also if alternatetimeline!Ward follows originaltimeline!Ward path he would be on trail for attempting to kill his parents and brother. Without Garrett to rescue him he would end up doing hard time thanks to his parents connections. Also because alternate timeline SHIELD is looking at decades of rebuilding, by the time they are actively recruiting alternate!Ward is already doing hard time. However , this timeline has [[AlienInvasion suffered a major attack from space.]] It is entirely possible this major ripple would have definite effects on multiple lives and possible histories. This version of Ward joins the military and this time ''never'' attempts to kill his parents and older brother. Driven to protect his younger brother from threats from space. To be the protector he failed to be as a young boy. He is a driven and exemplary cadet, with his original version drive, skills and potential. [[ForWantOfANail But without the mistakes or choices he made . Later he applies to a fully up and running S.H.I.E.L.D and has an entry interview with a very impressed Victoria Hand.]] Who happily recruits him to level one.
2104
2105[[WMG: If not for Iain De Caestecker's conflicting schedule, the Chronicoms would've brought The Doctor back as a Chronicom-enhanced LMD, like Enoch and [=FitzSimmons=] did with Coulson.]]
2106The whole plot point of Fitz being absent [[spoiler:to establish an anchor back to the MCU timeline at the end]] could've worked either way, but the absence of De Caestecker himself meant that ''no'' character he plays could've been used for episodes filmed during that time frame. Given the Chronicoms had access to entire recordings of Fitz's brain, with the Doctor inside them, they could've very easily done it and used him as additional consulting for how to deal with S.H.I.E.L.D. in exchange for a chance for revenge.
2107
2108[[WMG: The real reason that [=FitzSimmons=] named their daughter Alya...]]
2109...Was not just because she was born in the Alya star system while [=FitzSimmons=] were building their time-machine/having a life of their own. In both Turkish and Arabic, the word ''alya'' translates as ''sky''. So in a way, they named their daughter after one of their closest friends, Daisy (formerly Skye) Johnson.
2110[[/folder]]

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