YMMV / Item 47

• Ensemble Dark Horse: Sitwell has built up a bit of fanbase thanks to Item 47, along with Agent Blake who is popular just because he's played by Titus Welliver.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Item 47's goofy, funny Those Two Guys vibe becomes neither so goofy nor so funny after later revelations in the Marvel Cinematic Universe about Those Two Guys:
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier's revelation that Sitwell was a HYDRA agent all along. The implications become that Sitwell hired the two for something much more nefarious than it first seemed, supported by a comment from John Garrett (after he is confirmed to be a HYDRA mole) in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. that implies that all agents recruited by Sitwell become HYDRA sleepers. In addition, Sitwell's legendary patsy act referenced in The Consultant. So good it fooled Coulson, S.H.I.E.L.D. and the entire audience into believing he was a loyal fellow agent rather than a HYDRA mole.
  • Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s reveal that after Agent Blake got his spine crushed by Deathlok, he started using scavenged SHIELD technology to form an ultranationalist militia dedicated to hunting down and killing Inhumans.
  • Also, the closing credits for Item 47 show a montage of S.H.I.E.L.D. with Benny and Claire's help building a reverse-engineered Chitauri gun. Then The Winter Soldier reveals the truth about S.H.I.E.L.D. and then Avengers: Age of Ultron opens with HYDRA using energy guns based on Chitauri tech.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: A common lament about Item 47 is that Agent Coulson isn't in it. He hasn't appeared in any subsequent shorts, but his starring role in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has since sated this complaint.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The Chitauri Gun effects in Item 47 are on par with The Avengers. The budget for that short was less than half a million dollars, which is less than an episode of Spongebob Squarepants.