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The 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.

Given 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.

* 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.

I wanna see the holes in your theory!

The "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.
* 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."

* [[spoiler: Although Radcliffe speculates they might be LMDs of each other, they claim that they are just normal human quadruplets.]]

Some 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.

If 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.

[[WMG: Bobbi and Hunter will "return" as LMDs]]

Simply 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.

Between 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.

Creel 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...

It 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 Usefulnotes/MP3 player for Peter (who ''could'' return to Earth if he wanted to, he just doesn't).

* 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.]]
* Ulysses Solomon Archer (aka US1)

* 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.]]

* 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.]]

* [[Comicbook/WerewolfByNight Jack Russell]]

You 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.

[[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 [[Franchise/SpiderMan Spider-bite]] or some [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk gamma]] [[Comicbook/SheHulk radiation]]...]]

[[WMG: ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D'' is not an adaptation of ''Comicbook/{{SHIELD}}'']]
It'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.

[[WMG: The monolith sent Simmons to [[Comicbook/SecretWars1984 Battleworld]].]]

For better or worse, Johnny Blaze's tale is [[Film/GhostRider better known]] [[Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance by the general public]], so they might go this route to avoid becoming too trapped within Ghost Rider's mythos.

** [[spoiler: He is [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy canon]] now, so it's possible]].

* Comicbook/{{Blade}}

* Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}

To see if they could animate wood well enough to have [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Groot]] show up in a future episode.

They will retrieve someone from Maveth, but It will not be it. Out will come one or several of the [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Guardians]]. An OffscreenMomentOfAwesome was pulled, which is to be seen in the Vol 2.

[[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 [[UpToEleven 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.

** 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.

Lots 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 ShockingSwerve was so out of nowhere, there might be something else to it.

* Phil Coulson, as a ShockingSwerve especially when the season has talked up his old mortal injury as the reason for his impending doom.

[[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 [[Franchise/SpiderMan Spider-bite]] or some [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk gamma]] [[Comicbook/SheHulk radiation]]...]]

* 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/TheIncredibleHulk.

[[WMG: "The Superior" is [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk Samuel Sterns]].]]

After 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/CaptainMarVell''). 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.

** 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/TheInvadersMarvel were set up after the war, seeing how Hank Pym and his wife were active during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar up to the 80s.

Mainly 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/TheInvadersMarvel Radiance]], and members of ComicBook/AlphaFlight or WesternAnimation/BigHero6.