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* [[Characters/MCUHYDRATheCentipedeGroup John Garrett]]
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!!''John Garrett / The Clairvoyant''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Oh, the power's all on this side of the room, fellas."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BillPaxton, Creator/JamesPaxton (young)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E14TAHITI Episode 14: "T.A.H.I.T.I."]]'')

->''"You hear the dying breath of an old world, general. And a new world is coming."''

A S.H.I.E.L.D. agent sent to retrieve Ian Quinn from Coulson's team. When he finds out that they need to save a member of their team (Skye), he and his co-agent Agent Triplett aid the group in breaking into the Guest House.

He is also a high-ranking HYDRA agent, having become disillusioned with S.H.I.E.L.D. after being left to die on a mission. Under the guise of the Clairvoyant, he sought to discover the secret behind Coulson's resurrection so he could heal his own dying body.

* AFatherToHisMen: He inspires loyalty in his men, with Triplett would follow him to the end, and Ward has fond memories of serving under him. Ultimately subverted when he's outed as the Clairvoyant, as Coulson realizes that this means he's killed three of his own men because they asked the wrong questions. He's suitably furious at the hypocrisy, and Triplett turns on him completely due to one of the dead men being his partner.
* AbusiveParents: He was considered a father figure to Ward, and kidnapped him from a government facility when he was a teenager. Garrett proceeded to emotionally and physically abuse him for fifteen years.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, John Garrett is a legitimate and loyal agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., one of Nick Fury's closest confidants, and was even on the Howling Commandos. Here, he's a [=HYDRA=] agent and the BigBad of Centipede and Season One.
* AntiHero: Posed as one, as he acted like wanted to put bad people like Ian Quinn behind bars and is implied to be AFatherToHisMen, but he's otherwise a brutal and unfettered guy. To convince Quinn to talk, he threatens to rip out the guy's tongue and later smacked Quinn for getting too lippy. As it turns out, he's not heroic at all.
* AppropriatedAppellation: "Clairvoyant" is the name given to him by his minions; he finds it overdramatic, and he also expresses annoyance at the name of the Deathlok program. "Centipede" appears to come from a similar source. In general, he seems to find code names largely unnecessary.
* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: He and Coulson studied under Fury himself, and then he goes and becomes a [=HYDRA=] agent.
* ArcVillain: For Season One. By Season Two, he's largely irrelevant outside of what effects the G.H. serum had on him.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Garrett is constantly joking around, but he's also a cruel and manipulative mastermind who is willing to go through countless lives for his own benefit.
* BigBad: As the leader of Project Centipede in Season 1, he is the man behind all of their wrong doings, as well as having Ward infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D.
* BloodKnight: Shown to eagerly be this in contrast to the more reserved Coulson. See the "tongue" example above.
* BodyHorror: He wears turtleneck sweaters to conceal some rather large neck scars. His left side is also cybernetically augmented in some fashion, similar to the comics where he became one to save his life. He's revealed to be Deathlok Mk. 1 in "Ragtag," after having to stuff his guts back in and duct tape the wound shut when S.H.I.E.L.D. was unable to extract him after his injury.
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:How his 1983 self dies in the altered timeline, [[IncrediblyLamePun at the hands]] of Victoria Hand, who's death he was ultimately responsible for in the original timeline.]]
* BoringYetPractical: A [[TheMole high-level S.H.I.E.L.D clearance]] isn't exactly psychic powers, but it's extremely effective.
* BrokenPedestal: To several of his colleagues, including Coulson and Triplett. Raina is also disappointed his persona as the Clairvoyant was just a cover for his true identity. Even Ward eventually loses faith in him.
* CastingGag: [[spoiler:Who better to play a younger incarnation of Garrett than Bill Paxton's own son?]]
* TheChessmaster: The Clairvoyant seems to be fifteen steps ahead of virtually everyone else on the show. Even after his ties with S.H.I.E.L.D. are severed, Garrett is still able to play every other faction like a fiddle. He becomes ''more'' dangerous in a lot of ways, since he doesn't have to hide and is able to just openly raid S.H.I.E.L.D. bases.
* ChewingTheScenery: Already somewhat hammy to begin with, once he gets the GH serum, he starts devouring the scenery, or rather, "tasting it on [his] tongue".
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], as "The Clairvoyant" most certainly sounds like the name of a comic book supervillain. When S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are able to talk with him (so to speak), he says his subordinates named him that and he himself finds it a little overdramatic.
* CoolOldGuy: He tends to make quips during missions in order to keep up his allies' morale, as seen during the infiltration of the Guest House. He keeps this up even after being revealed as a HYDRA operative.
* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: He is initially thought to be Thomas Nash, a man who can't even move unassisted and communicates through computer. This is later discovered to be a ruse, meant to throw them off the trail. The real Clairvoyant, however, really is on life support: Garrett is the prototype of Deathlok, as an EmergencyTransformation, and until the end of "Ragtag" was dying from organ failure.
* DiabolicalMastermind: The mysterious and malevolent intelligence behind the group.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:As of "Stolen", his AlternateTimeline self has become this to Nathaniel Malick.]]
* EmergencyTransformation: After getting maimed by an IED, he was made into the first Deathlok. It happens again after taking a rocket to the chest and getting stomped to death by the newest Deathlok, but he's unceremoniously vaporized by Coulson moments after that transformation is finished.
* EvilAllAlong: Garrett is one of Coulson's old friends but when his true identity is revealed as a HYDRA agent, it's clear that he's been evil for the entire series.
* EvilFeelsGood: He clearly enjoys the heck out of being bad, being incredibly jovial and happy about it and reveling in saying and doing stereotypical BigBad type things. See EvilIsFunny and FauxAffablyEvil.
* EvilMentor: To Grant Ward and Antoine Triplett, more so with the former than the latter because the latter didn't know about his true allegiance and turn into an evil hitman.
* FallenHero: He used to be a loyal S.H.I.E.L.D. agent until his superiors left him to die out in the field. It was then that Garrett decided to treat S.H.I.E.L.D. the same as S.H.I.E.L.D. treated him.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He maintains the chummy attitude he's previously been using in a civilian disguise, as seen during his interactions with Coulson and Fitz after his true identity is revealed. It's best exemplified when Ward is experiencing a VillainousBSOD after killing Victoria Hand; Garrett keeps laughing and joking as he tells Ward about an old mission he was on, not caring about what's happening to Ward. His humor and "friendliness" seem to be real, but it's outweighed by the selfishness and LackOfEmpathy.
* {{Fiction 500}}: Coulson and the team, unwilling to believe that the name "The Clairvoyant" ''could'' really mean a psychic, conclude that since Centipede would need a lot of money to function, the Clairvoyant must be code for their financial backer. However, Coulson seems slightly more willing to believe he's legit after Raina demonstrates very personal knowledge of him that would not be easy to come by.
* FreudianExcuse: The reason he initially (covertly) joined HYDRA in the first place was as a way to get {{revenge}} on S.H.I.E.L.D. after he was injured by an [[NoodleIncident IED in Sarajevo]] and S.H.I.E.L.D. refused to provide him a medical evacuation. [[spoiler: In the new timeline, seven years prior to this incident, even merely ''learning'' about the future from Nathaniel Malick is enough to make him just as much of a monster as in the original timeline]].
* TheGhost: As the Clairvoyant, he made no appearances until he was revealed in "Turn, Turn, Turn".
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: After he's revived with GH-325, Garrett comes back... kinda kooky. It's clear that he's not ''totally'' nuts, since he's still just as effective a [[TheChessmaster mastermind]] as before, but whatever came with that has clearly driven him over the edge.
* GoodCopBadCop: Acknowledged. Garrett intends to play the "bad cop" for Quinn, but he sees the injuries Quinn got from Melinda May and says, "I guess there was already a bad cop before I got here, huh?"
* HeKnowsTooMuch: He has a habit of killing off people who ask the wrong questions, such as his three subordinates.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:1983 Garrett in the alternate timeline suffers this fate. After being [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness left to die]] by Nathaniel Malick, he teams up with S.H.I.E.L.D. to get revenge on him, only to get killed the moment they leave the bunker. No one really mourns his death, as they still didn't trust him in the least.]]
* HiddenAgendaVillain: For much of Season 1 his end goals (and thus Centipede's) were entirely unknown. They're creating super-soldiers, but their purpose for doing so was not revealed. "Ragtag" reveals that the super soldier project is in fact a nice bonus to Garrett's true purpose of prolonging his own life. When it comes to either replicating the GH serum for use with his soldiers or saving himself, he chooses the latter.
* IFightForTheStrongestSide: In his words, he didn't join [=HYDRA=] because he shares their beliefs, unlike the fascistic Alexander Pierce. Garrett joined them because he thought the winds were blowing in their direction rather than S.H.I.E.L.D.'s.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: In "Turn, Turn, Turn", Garrett mentions Raina having been inside the same memory machine she used on Coulson, a fact that Coulson hadn't shared with anyone.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The true purpose of Project Centipede is to save his own life. Super-soldiers are just a handy bonus application of the research.
* KarmicDeath: First, he's blasted and stomped by Deathlok, but he's NotQuiteDead. He climbs into Ian Quinn's cybernetic enhancement table and gets [[HollywoodCyborg cyborg'd up]], while delivering (to himself) a [[EvilGloating villain speech]]... only to [[LudicrousGibs get atomized]] by Coulson using the 0-8-4 device, which is [=HYDRA=] technology. His younger self also suffers a strangely karmic death by being shot in the head by Agent Victoria Hand, someone that his older self would have later ordered Ward to murder.
* KickTheDog: Forces Ward to shoot his faithful dog and later orders him to kill two of his former friends just to prove that he isn't held back by weakness.
* KilledMidSentence: "There's a reason they say cut off the head. Now, I'll be unst-*zap*"
* KilledOffForReal: Blown up by Coulson just when you think the Tahiti serum and cybernetic enhancements will protect him for a SequelHook.
* LackOfEmpathy: The feelings and lives of others don't mean a thing to Garrett. Even Ward, who Garrett had known and mentored since he was a teenager and was absolutely loyal to him, was treated as completely disposable. Garrett was perfectly willing to let Ward die if it meant getting something he wanted.
* LaughablyEvil: For the evil head of a ruthless terrorist organization, he's pretty funny.
-->'''S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent:''' How did HYDRA know you were here?\\
'''Garrett:''' We told them!\\
''[Ward shoots both guards]''\\
'''Ward:''' You could have given me some warning.\\
'''Garrett:''' I know, but it was such a perfect line.
* LoveIsAWeakness: A firm believer in this, and he spent a big chunk of Ward's adolescence drilling that into his head.
* LudicrousGibs: He is disintegrated in a [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments truly hilarious]] manner by Coulson in "Beginning of End".
* TheManBehindTheMan: Usually, Project Centipede does just fine on their own without the Clairvoyant's assistance. However, its members hold him in very high regard and he gives them instruction when they begin to fail.
* ManipulativeBastard: Knows the right way to push peoples' buttons to get them to do what he wants. The reason for this is because he has access to S.H.I.E.L.D. agent files and uses them to predict their behavior.
* TheMole: Skye realizes that all his statements about the team members were taken verbatim from their S.H.I.E.L.D. files, and Coulson concludes that rather than having psychic powers, he's a member of S.H.I.E.L.D. itself.
* TheMunchausen: He sure loves to talk about his old battles, exaggerating about half of the stuff he has done over the years. It works on the younger agents, but when someone like Coulson was actually there, he lampshades that he likes to make the stories better.
* {{Narcissist}}: Garrett is ''completely'' self-absorbed, constantly plays up his achievements, destroys hundreds of lives to save himself, and only values other people if they can do something for him.
* TheNicknamer: Calls Raina "Flowers" and Mike "Mikey", among others.
* NoOneSeesTheBoss: The Clairvoyant is the intelligence behind Project Centipede, pulling certain strings within the organization, but only Edison Po (later Raina) is allowed to speak to him, and any knowledge of his appearance is basically a death sentence. This is because he can't allow anyone to find out that he's a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Once HYDRA comes out of hiding, he abandons this pretense.
* NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: Despite claims that he's able to know what the President's dreaming, he doesn't know how Coulson came back to life. He's very eager to learn this secret. It turns out he's a high-ranking S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who was using his access to the team's files to fake being clairvoyant. He didn't know about Coulson's resurrection because Fury refused to let a file be made about it.
* OldMaster: He's Ward's former SO, i.e. the one that taught him how to disarm nuclear bombs. He's clearly been in the business for a while.
* TheOmniscient: Exhibits some form of Mundane Omniscience, which is where the name comes from. According to Po and Raina, the Clairvoyant can somehow learn about anything or anyone they need to further their plans, as well as other important information, but he may or may not choose to reveal this information until the time is right. It's later revealed that the source of this so-called omniscience is not a psychic ability but simply S.H.I.E.L.D. security clearance, and--as shown to eerie effect in ''The Winter Soldier''--S.H.I.E.L.D. has been gathering a ''lot'' of data on a lot of people.
* PetTheDog: A fairly minor one and more or less still villainous example. After he freed Blackout, he let the enhanced human go and told him to "follow his dreams", rather than forcibly recruited him.
* PragmaticVillainy: Despite his tendency to pull out a YouHaveFailedMe at the drop of a hat, he's extremely friendly to minions who ''don't'' fail him. He gives Raina everything she needs for her work (and also a beautiful new flower dress after breaking her out of prison) and buys Ward an expensive steak dinner for finding one last secret in the Fridge. He even acts like this with his minions who are on an ExplosiveLeash--after Deathlok finishes a mission with admirable speed, the Clairvoyant cheerily has a streaming video of [[IHaveYourWife his son]] set up, without Deathlok even having to ask.
* SanitySlippage: The effects of the redone Guest House serum managed to unhinge Garrett, to the point of him seeing "everything" and blurting out supposedly visionary statements that [[WordSaladPhilosophy don't make any sort of sense]].
* SelfServingMemory: Known to repeatedly remember speeches and sayings incorrectly.
** In one instance, he thinks the [=HYDRA=] motto involves cutting off a ''leg'' instead of a head.
** He also misinterpreted Nick Fury's "One Man" speech, taking it to mean that one should inspire to be something bigger, instead of being a ''part'' of something bigger.
** Finally, he states "there's a reason they say 'cut off the head'..." Except the context of the quote normally implies that doing so results in more "heads" taking its place, which is not the case here. Garrett seemed to take it literally, suggesting the only way to kill him would be to cut off his head. Coulson complies.
* ShoutOut: [[spoiler:The manner in which James Paxton portrayed 1983 John Garrett is very reminiscent of the roles Bill Paxton often took in the '80s, calling to mind in particular ''Film/WeirdScience'' and ''[[Film/AlienS Aliens]]''.]]
* SinkOrSwimMentor: His first lesson to Ward was to drop him off in the woods with nothing but a bag of clothes and a hunting dog. He came back six months later.
* TheSociopath: Garrett has no empathy, values no one but himself, manipulates everyone around him, and the affability he displays is either completely shallow or undermined by how selfish he is. He also admits to having been "a pyro" as a kid, a telltale sign of sociopathy.
* SoftSpokenSadist: After he's finally revealed, all that light-hearted joking takes on a sinister hue.
* TheStarscream: He was never really loyal to HYDRA. He only cared about keeping himself alive and getting revenge on S.H.I.E.L.D. Creating super soldiers for HYDRA during the process is just a nice bonus.
* {{Teleportation}}: [[spoiler:In the altered timeline, Garrett acquires a copy of Gordon's teleportation powers thanks to Nathaniel Malick's procedure.]]
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Was [[LudicrousGibs literally vaporized]] from off-screen [[KilledMidSentence mid-sentence]] as he was attempting to pull a NotQuiteDead. [[spoiler:And then again in the alternate timeline, he is shot in the head literally the moment he teleported S.H.I.E.L.D. out of the Lighthouse.]]
* VillainsWantMercy: He has the gall to appeal to Coulson to stop Mike from killing him.
-->''"You don't wanna do this, Mike! Tell him, Phil!"''
* WalkingSpoiler: He's actually the Clairvoyant, leader of the "Centipede Group", and is also part of HYDRA.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In addition to the whole "kill switch implanted in his super soldiers" thing, he has a habit of using and discarding people as necessary.
** He kills off Mr. Po without a second thought when he doesn't produce results in a timely manner, with the role of his contact passing to Raina.
** Raina is left to rot once captured by Coulson's team, and the next contact is Ian Quinn. However, he winds up recruiting her again in "Providence".
** Ian Quinn suffers the same treatment after he aids in the creation of Deathlok and instigates a failed gambit to discover the means behind Coulson's revival. From this point he speaks to Deathlok directly. Quinn gets broken out of the Fridge by him in "Providence".
** Even Ward gets this treatment. Deathlok, and therefore Garrett, was fine with letting him die of a heart attack if Skye didn't cooperate.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: By the time of "Ragtag", he has only a month or two left to live due to organ failure. Fitz's EMP on his cybernetic components shortens it to ''minutes''. However, he gets cured at the end of the episode.
* YouSeeImDying: Revealed in "Ragtag" that his organs are failing, and that the entire purpose behind the Centipede project was to extend his own life. If he happened to get an army of super-soldiers out of it to serve HYDRA, that's just a nice bonus.
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[[folder:Grant Ward]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGrantWard Grant Ward]] page
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[[folder:Edison Po]]
!!''Edison Po''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"We all have to do things that make us uncomfortable if we are ever to get our toy soldiers off the shelf."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Cullen Douglas
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E5GirlInTheFlowerDress Episode 5: "Girl in the Flower Dress"]]'')

A sinister character the Centipede group breaks out of a federal prison. One of Raina's associates and part of the Centipede group, he is one of the few people permitted to contact "the Clairvoyant" and obtain information about the project's necessary later stages. Becomes Centipede's primary tactician after his escape from prison.
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!!Grant Ward's Cell

[[folder:Kebo]]
!!''Kebo''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' British
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Daz Crawford
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E22SOSPart2 Episode 44: "S.O.S., Part 2"]]'')

The second-in-command of Ward's new HYDRA cell.

* AssholeVictim: After the sadistic crimes he’s committed, his fate is well deserved.
* BaldOfEvil: Not a hair on this HYDRA operative's head.
* ButtMonkey: The deaths of Alexander Pierce and Daniel Whitehall have not been kind to Kebo. Since HYDRA's fall, he's made into Ward's errand boy, then beaten and humiliated by Ward into complete submission, then beaten up by a ''kid'' that ''he was torturing'', finally capped off with a nasty death by electrocution.
* TheDragon: He serves as Ward's second-in-command.
* ElectrifiedBathtub: He managed to match and nearly kill Bobbi in a straight fight, but Bobbi killed him by using her electrified escrima sticks while he's trying to get out of a swimming pool the two had previously been fighting in.
* EvilBrit: Speaks in a noticeable British accent.
* FauxAffablyEvil: When he meets new recruits, he puts a charade on but not long after, his jerkass tendencies show.
* {{Jerkass}}: Shows a delight in torturing Werner Von Strucker and is an outright jerk to his new recruits.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Shows up in a single scene right at the end of Season 2, when Ward decides to take over HYDRA.
* MouthOfSauron: He acts as Ward's voice when dealing with new recruits before they get to meet Ward.
* MuggingTheMonster: Is assigned to torture Werner von Strucker, who [[CurbStompBattle beats him easily]] once he starts fighting back.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Considering Ward and his HYDRA cell's status as BigBadWannabe, Kebo surprisingly manages to pose a serious threat to Bobbi.
* NumberTwo: He's constantly at Ward's side throughout his introductory episode in Season 3 and Ward entrusts him with tasks such as torturing/evaluating Werner for leadership, screening recruits and Ward's own protection.
* TortureTechnician: When Ward doesn't feel like doing it himself, it falls on Kebo. Though....he's not exactly ''great'' at it.

[[folder:Spud]]
!!''Spud''
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!!!'''Citizenship:''' British
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Daniel Feuerriegel
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E3AWantedInhuman Episode 47: "A Wanted (Inhu)man"]]'')

->''"[Spud is] a psychopath. He's a murderous thief who I once saw bite a man's nose clean off."''
-->-- '''Lance Hunter'''

An old acquaintance of Lance Hunter working for HYDRA. He later becomes a contact for Grant Ward's HYDRA faction.

* AxCrazy: Lance describes him as a murderous psychopath.
* BeardOfEvil: A psycho murderer with a full goatee.
* TheBrute: He's huge, and he's all muscle. If he didn't sneak in a knuckle duster in his pocket, Hunter would've been killed by him.
* DisproportionateRetribution: When Hunter passed as an arms dealer who wished to sell to HYDRA; Spud explained that their new leader (Ward) had trust issues and would only meet with Hunter if he proved himself in a fight to the death. When they arrived to the fight club and Hunter asked whom he was fighting, Spud revealed he was the one to challenge him, as he wanted revenge from Hunter for... Hunter having mocked him for years.
* EvilBrit: He's a British member of a neofascist terrorist organization.
* FauxAffablyEvil: When Hunter reunites with him at a pub, he's all drinks and laughs talking about the good old days. Then not long after reveals that he's a hateful nutjob with one ''hell'' of a disproportionate grudge.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He is described as a psychopath, but he seems to hold respect for Lance Hunter and shows a sensitive side when certain songs are played. Wrong, he tries to kill Hunter for making fun of his sensitive side.
* ManBitesMan: Hunter relates a story about Spud biting a man's nose off.
* PsychopathicManchild: He wanted to kill Hunter because he apparently made fun of him once for crying over a love song. He's held onto that resentment for ''years.''
* VillainBall: Believing himself to have won the fight with Hunter, Spud turned to the crowd and let out a loud roar as he prepared to kill Hunter. This gave Hunter enough time to get up and, now wearing knuckle dusters, punch him straight in the jaw three times with such force that Spud fell to the ground dead.

!!Brigadier General Hale's Cell

[[folder:Candice Lee]]
!!''Candice Lee''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Shontae Saldana
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS5E11AllTheComfortsOfHome Episode 99: "All the Comforts of Home"]]'')

General Hale's aide.

* CanonForeigner: There's no Candice Lee in the comic books.
* EnigmaticMinion: Her earlier appearances are in the episodes before Hale's origin with HYDRA was revealed, so the audience could only think that she's Hale's aide in the Air Force, even though she doesn't wear a military uniform. She's later revealed Hale's aide within HYDRA, instead.
* NumberTwo: She acts as Hale's aide, bringing her intel and delivering her orders.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: As of the Season 5 finale, she's the last character in Hale's HYDRA cell whom we haven't seen killed.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Last seen in "All Roads Lead..." and never mentioned since, though it's likely she was arrested after Hale surrendered to S.H.I.E.L.D. for real.

[[folder:Ruby Hale]]
!! ''Ruby Hale''
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!!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DoveCameron
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS5E11AllTheComfortsOfHome Episode 99: "All the Comforts of Home"]]'')

The daughter of General Hale, who's particularly obsessed with Quake.

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Her mother, of both the physical and the emotional kind, forcing her daughter to go through extensive training to become a killer and calling her a disappointment when she doesn't meet her demands.]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Despite [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes her mother's grief]], it's hard to feel too bad for Ruby considering she was a sadistic psychopath who disobeyed orders just so she could mutilate more S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.]]
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Seems to be looking forward to the thought of cutting more S.H.I.E.L.D. agents' arms off.]]
* BadassNormal: Has no powers, but is skilled enough to [[spoiler:cut off Elena's arms while she is moving at SuperSpeed and is even able to briefly go to-to-toe with Daisy]].
* BarbellBeating: During her fight against Carl Creel in the training room of the HYDRA facility, she grabs a dumbbell and repeatedly hits him in the head with it.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:When Ruby achieves her life's purpose and absorbs Gravitonium, she can neither control the power merely 8% of the element gives her, nor cope with having Hall and Quinn's duelling consciousnesses in her head.]]
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: How we're introduced to her. [[spoiler:We later learn she's much, ''much'' worse.]]
* CuteAndPsycho: [[spoiler:Definitely qualifies as both.]]
* DarkActionGirl: [[spoiler:She's a ''deadly'' trained fighter, and cuts Yo-Yo's arms off.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Ruby is built up as the Destroyer of Worlds who will crack the world apart. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, she proves unable to control her gravitonium powers once she receives them, and quickly gets killed]].
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:To her own mother, General Hale.]]
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Due to her mother's maltreatment, Ruby has plans of her own that do not match her mother's.
* DudeWheresMyReward: [[spoiler:She was designed and trained since birth to be the perfect candidate for Whitehall's "Destroyer of Worlds" project. Despite all of that, her mother thinks she isn't worthy and believes Daisy is the better option. For obvious reasons, Ruby is ''incensed'' and is secretly plotting to doublecross her mother for her betrayal.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She develops genuine affection for Werner, who becomes her boyfriend. [[spoiler:After being infused with Gravitonium, she's horrified when her new powers accidentally kill him.]]
* {{Expy}}: She shares some similarities with Sinthea Schmidt, a.k.a. Sin, the daughter of the Red Skull. Both are members of a younger generation of HYDRA. Both raised by a woman with ties to HYDRA (Hale for Ruby and Susan Scarbo a.k.a. Mother Night for Sin) and indoctrinated in its fascist ideology since childhood. Both psychotic and expert fighters. Both are the daughters of prominent members of HYDRA (though Ruby's says she was "engineered" and her actual parentage is never revealed). Ruby's combat outfit also looks similar to that of Sin's. While Sin was artifically aged with a machine, Ruby intends to use the Particle Infusion Chamber to empower herself.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Ruby looks like an ordinary, innocent teenage girl, [[spoiler:but she's actually a HYDRA assassin, aspiring Destroyer of Worlds, and a borderline stalker who wants to murder Daisy.]]
* {{Fangirl}}: She's obsessed with Quake, but we soon learn [[spoiler:she's more of the LoonyFan variety, hoping to be the one that kills and surpasses her]].
* FeetFirstIntroduction: In her first scene, the first thing we see of Ruby are her bare feet.
* {{Foil}}[=/=]EvilCounterpart: Ruby is set up as one for Quake. Both are the designated heirs to their respective organizations (Coulson intends for Quake to become the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. after his death while Ruby was specifically engineered with the hopes of becoming a leader for HYDRA). Neither was raised by her biological father. Both chafe under the expectations placed upon them by their respective parent figures (Quake believes she's not fit to be Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. whereas Ruby is resentful of her mother considering her a disappointment). Whereas Quake is loyal to Coulson, her ersatz adoptive father, Ruby [[spoiler:intends to doublecross Hale, her birth mother]]. While Quake dreads becoming the Destroyer of Worlds, Ruby [[spoiler:desperately hopes to become it.]] On a more superficial level, Quake is brown-haired while Ruby is platinum blonde. And Quake's existence is known to the public, whereas Ruby's is known to just a few.
* GravityMaster: [[spoiler:After becoming infused with the Gravitonium. However, it comes with a price.]]
* HeroKiller: Not quite, but in her first appearance, she [[spoiler:cuts off Yo-Yo's arms ''despite'' her SuperSpeed]].
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Yo-Yo kills her with her own chakram.]]
* [[DaddysLittleVillain Mommy's Little Villain]]: [[spoiler:Still in training as an assassin, and she's marginally less far gone than her unrepentant BadBoss of a mother.]]
* NeverMyFault: Much like her mother, she tends to blame others whenever things don't go her way, blaming the complications inherent in gravitonium on Fitz and Simmons for sabatoging her "destiny" and nearly killing both of them when she suffer from PowerIncontinence trying to use it.
* PetTheDog: Literally. She refused to kill her dog.
* PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler:After being infused with gravitonium, Ruby is unable to control it thanks to Hall and Quinn's voices inside her head.]]
* TheResenter: [[spoiler:Ruby hates Daisy because she knows her mother wants to turn Daisy into the "Destroyer of Worlds," a SuperSoldier Whitehall planned to be his magnum opus, when becoming that force is the very reason Ruby was conceived. She figures that if Daisy is killed, General Hale will have to stay on track and use Ruby.]]
* RingsOfDeath: [[spoiler:As an assassin, she uses chakrams as her preferred weapons.]]
* RunningGag: Everyone keeps meeting (and getting utterly ignored by) her at the HYDRA continental breakfast.
* SkippingSchool: She has a tendency to do this, but it [[spoiler:turns out her classes are assassin training]].
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler: How Yo-Yo kills her.]]
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Ruby is tired of her mother's abuse, and ultimately double-crosses her to pursue her own agenda.]]
* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:Raised by her abusive mother as a {{tykebomb}}, used as an assassin, told of her magnificent destiny as the Destroyer of Worlds only to be pushed aside in favor of Daisy... Ruby never really had a chance for a normal life, and Daisy expresses the hope that, given help, Ruby could be a powerful force for good. After finally getting a taste of the power she sought, Ruby is left out of control and half-insane, accidentally killing her boyfriend before dying herself. As vicious and sadistic as she may have been, Ruby was still a damaged girl that Daisy laments never getting the chance to help.]]
* {{Tykebomb}}: Trained from childhood [[spoiler:as her mother's right-hand assassin]].
* TheVamp: [[spoiler:General Hale tells her to seduce Werner if she has to, so the general can get all of Wolfgang von Strucker's secrets.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Ruby freaks out after accidentally killing Werner.]]
* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:How she sways Werner to her side.]]

[[folder:Werner von Strucker]]
!!''Werner von Strucker''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"My father so rarely let me see any of his world."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' German-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SpencerTreatClark
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E2PurposeInTheMachine Episode 46: "Purpose in the Machine"]]'')

The son of Wolfgang von Strucker.

* AdaptationalNationality: He is German in the comics. In the MCU, he is German-American since his actor is American. His American heritage is most likely from his ([[MissingMom unseen]]) mother. He also tells Ruby that he doesn't understand the German language.
* BastardBastard: Implied, since he's a son of a German Baron but is mostly American and can't even speak German to boot, suggesting that Baron Strucker got Werner from an affair or fling with an American woman during his stay in US, possibly around the time of or shortly after his HYDRA Academy days.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Ruby crushes his head by mistake due to her inability to control her powers.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: After he fails to kill Andrew, Ward puts a hit on him.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: {{Zigzagged|Trope}}. While Werner did know about his father's allegiance with HYRDA, Wolfgang appears to have adopted a "keep home and work separate" mentality, telling Werner very little about his work.
* MadeOfIron: An extended torture session only made him a little bloody in mouth.
* MissingMom: His mother is never seen or mentioned. Considering he's not even remotely close to his [[AbusiveParents abusive father]], this is quite jarring.
* NervesOfSteel: He endured an extended period of torture from Kebo without cracking. Afterward, Ward tells him that he was hoping the torture would bring out or develop this trope in him.
* NewMeat: After he blows his first assignment of killing Andrew, Malick chides Ward for giving him such an important assignment off the bat.
* NotQuiteDead: He's stabbed in the gut and left in a comatose state. Coulson brings him out of said state and used the Theta Brain-Wave Frequency Machine to access Werner's memories and make him remember certain things about Gideon Malick.
* OverlordJr: Played with a little. Werner's father Wolfgang was one of HYDRA's major heads, but he mostly kept his business separate from his son's life. It was only until after Wolfgang is killed by Ultron that Ward properly brought him into the HYDRA fold.
* PhotographicMemory: [[spoiler:A side effect of Lincoln zapping him while he was in the Centipede memory machine. He now has perfect memory of his entire life. However, this ends up being a case of BlessedWithSuck since he also remembers every bit of physical pain he has ever felt in his entire life as if it was fresh, which has made him quite suicidal. It also makes him highly valuable, simply due to his exposure to his father's leadership of HYDRA and its secrets as a child.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: When Ward had Kebo torture him. Rather than ''break'' Werner, this has the opposite effect of pissing him off to the point where he beats Kebo bloody - the exact outcome Ward hoped for, to mold him into an effective operative. Though as Gideon pointed out, he was ''still'' too green to be an outright threat to S.H.I.E.L.D.
* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Until Ward came along, he just loafed around spending his father's money, but finds his inner strength while getting tortured.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Ward orders a hit on Werner for failing to kill Andrew.
* YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler:Or [[InvertedTrope implode]], rather, courtesy of Ruby's PowerIncontinence.]]

[[folder:Carl "Crusher" Creel / Absorbing Man]]
!!''Carl "Crusher" Creel / Absorbing Man''
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!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Brian Patrick Wade
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' | ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' [[note]] Mentioned only [[/note]]

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

* AdaptationalHeroism: Though introduced as a villain, it's revealed that he was a brainwashed pawn. By Season 3, he's free of his HYDRA brainwashing and is working for the US government as Talbot's bodyguard. In the comics, though he's sometimes depicted as an AntiVillain, he's usually a thug who's murdered, raped, and brutalized people in the past with no remorse.
* AlliterativeName: '''C'''arl '''C'''reel.
* AmbiguousSituation: After his own out-of-control powers cause him to turn to stone, Coulson isn't quite sure he's actually dead or just in a coma of sorts. Season 3 removes the ambiguity by outright showing that he's alive.
* AndIMustScream: Between his encounter with Team Coulson in "Heavy is the Head" and his recruitment as Talbot's bodyguard, this happened to him. He couldn't move or talk because he was trapped in his own stone body. He eventually recovered and spent time in jail once he'd regained consciousness.
* BaldOfEvil: Just like in the comics, Creel doesn't have a single hair on his head. He no longer fits this trope in season 3.
* BookDumb: While he is hardly an EvilGenius, he nonetheless shows a decent amount of strategy in his appearances and uses his powers creatively, such as for stealth, and not just for brute force. Prior to being a supervillain, he also secretly used his powers [[CutLexLuthorACheck to cheat his way to a successful boxing career.]]
* BloodKnight: He enjoys killing just slightly more than he enjoys the sensation of using his powers, and he seems to enjoy the latter quite a bit.
* TheBrute: He serves as Whitehall's muscle while under HYDRA's control. He later acts as one to Talbot as a bodyguard. And later for General Hale.
* TheBusCameBack: Freed by Talbot after he is deprogrammed of his HYDRA brainwashing.
* ChameleonCamouflage: Can pull this off against uniform surfaces, such as a concrete wall.
* ChromeChampion: When he turns to steel. May and Lincoln exploit this with May grazing him with a steel pipe, turning him into steel, then Lincoln blasting him with his electric powers.
* DeathByIrony: The Absorbing Man... Gets absorbed. Specifically, by Graviton.
* DeathFakedForYou: He was supposed to have been killed, but it turns out HYDRA faked his death while they were still a part of S.H.I.E.L.D. so they could use his talents for themselves.
* DragonTheirFeet: Was brought into HYDRA's employ by Garrett, but doesn't show up until after Garrett has been dispatched.
* ElementalShapeshifter: He can take on the properties of any material he touches -- wood, steel, glass, concrete; you name it. Assuming his powers are as flexible as they are in the comics, this can extend even further.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** While he has no problem killing targets who are trained professionals, he does seem concerned about the waitress he infects by accident (though that may have been more about losing control of the Artifact than any actual concern) and was reluctant to hurt Raina.
** It eventually turns out despite being a lifelong criminal, he had to be brainwashed into serving HYDRA, and he promptly turns once he's freed from it.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Despite being able to turn into any substance he touches, he has a habit of fighting in his normal human form.
* GoodAllAlong: In "The Inside Man", he's presented as being Talbot's morally-ambiguous bodyguard, and he's seemingly confirmed to still be evil when he knocks Lance out. However, it's later revealed that he only knocked Lance out to protect his cover, and he helps save him, Talbot, Coulson, and the other S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives.
* GRatedDrug: He enjoys the feeling of absorbing materials, keeping a cabinet full of various things to use at his leisure. HYDRA even pays him with exotic materials.
* HeelFaceTurn: The US military has apparently broken him free of his HYDRA brainwashing and he's now working as Talbot's bodyguard. [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Inverted]] when he's recruited by General Hale.
* HeroKiller: As Hartley and Idaho found out the hard way.
* TheImmune: Possibly due to what happened with him and the Obelisk, Creel's blood can 'vaccinate' an unawakened Inhuman from undergoing Terrigenesis.
* ImmuneToBullets: As long as he's absorbed something tough enough. Played with a bit; though the bullets don't stop him, they do knock off several chunks that end up reverting to flesh.
* MadeOfIron: Even when not [[ChromeChampion literally being so]], he doesn't even get bruised after getting punched in the face with a barbell.
* MaterialMimicry: Like his comic counterpart, he can take on the properties of what he touches. HYDRA rewards him by giving him samples of new materials to copy.
* MindControl: Implied to have been brainwashed by Whitehall into obeying HYDRA (as Bakshi uses the codephrase "Are you ready to comply?" to calm him down at one point). Later confirmed in his return in Season 3.
* MundaneUtility: Before being discovered, he used his powers to cheat at boxing by turning his fists to steel beneath his gloves for easy knockouts.
* MythologyGag:
** In his debut appearance, he rips off a ball and chain to fight May with, an iconic weapon of his in the comics.
** Subsequent appearances has Raina offer him a material to absorb with the special property of being capable of absorbing energy itself. This is something he could do on his own in the comics.
** His name is also mentioned in flashbacks in ''Series/{{Daredevil 2015}}'' as a boxing rival of 'Battlin' Jack' Murdock, Daredevil's father.
* NotQuiteDead: Coulson is smmart enough to know that even if Creel's turned to stone, he could always do that. It's better to keep him secure in case it doesn't stick. It doesn't.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Whatever he did to make Talbot literally trust him with his life must have been spectacular, but we never see it.
* PowerIncontinence: Touching the Obelisk, even while made of rubber didn't completely insulate him from its effects and patches of it start spreading across his body. It's mentioned this isn't the first time he's had such problems.
* SculptedPhysique: When he turns into stone or concrete.
* ShapeShifterSwanSong: After being hit with a molecular disruptor by Coulson, he cycles through several of his past materials before turning into inanimate stone.
* ShirtlessScene: He gives one in his trailer, and another while fighting Team Coulson in the warehouse. The latter is justified, since he was using his absorbing powers to camouflage himself (which wouldn't have worked with a powder blue shirt on). It doesn't explain why he's still shirtless walking down the street at the end of the episode.
* SleevesAreForWimps: If he's not shirtless, then he's not wearing sleeves either.
* SuperStrength: Naturally strong due to his past as a boxer, but his strength increases depending on the material he absorbs. He was able to stop the speeding vehicle carrying Hartley and the Obelisk by absorbing the properties of the asphalt road he was standing on.
* SuperToughness: By absorbing tougher materials, his durability is enhanced, allowing him to shrug off bullets and survive being hit by a car, totaling the car in the process. He's not completely invulnerable, however, as the bullets managed to knock off several chunks which eventually reverted into normal flesh, allowing the team to ID him.
* TakenForGranite: After being defeated he gets stuck in his stone form, but unable to move. With help from Talbot and the government, he recovers.
* ThisWasHisTrueForm: Not the man himself, but part of him. He's bulletproof during his first encounter with Team Coulson, but they do recover a piece of shrapnel from his then-metallic body after the fight. It reverts back to flesh and blood while Fitz is analyzing it, which makes the team realize that they're dealing with a gifted.
* UnexplainedRecovery: He's back for season 3, though it's not explained how he returned to normal.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: It was refusing to throw a fight with him that got [[Series/{{Daredevil2015}} Jack Murdock killed.]] His blood looks like it's going to cause this as well. In the right hands, the vaccine that could be created from it can prevent another [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E17Melinda Bahrain]]. In the wrong hands, it can prevent any Inhumans from appearing ever again.
* VisibleInvisibility: When he becomes glass, he still has to stand perfectly still to avoid his movements reflecting the light around him.
* WhatTheHellHero: Expressed to would-be Gilligan Hunter by knocking him out before he can inadvertently blow his cover.

[[folder:Sleeper Mechs]]
!!''Sleeper Mechs''
!!!'''Species:''' Robots
!!!'''Citizenship:''' None
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS5E11AllTheComfortsOfHome Episode 99: "All the Comforts of Home"]]'')

Robots built by Anton Ivanov and used as shock troops by Hale.

* AdaptationalWimp: In the comics, the Sleepers are enormous and powerful robots created by Red Skull to conquer the world. While they are still quite dangerous, the Sleepers from ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' are human-sized and are standard MechaMooks, who can be defeated with relative ease by the heroes.
* CannonFodder: Hale employs them as such.
* FacelessGoons: Their faces (if they even have actual faces) are completely covered in gear and goggles.
** The trope is {{Lampshaded}} by Coulson and Ivanonv:
-->'''Coulson:''' Speaking of faces, how come your robot-warriors don't have any?
-->'''Ivanov:''' They are merely soldiers. Tools for battle.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: At one point, at least half a dozen Sleeper Mechs armed with assault rifles surround Fitz and Simmons and try to shoot them, but none of them comes even close to hitting them.
* KeystoneArmy: Ivanov's Sleepers are controlled by him remotely through a system in his body. When Yo-Yo kills him and disables his body, all of them deactivate.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Just like Ruby, the Sleepers all wear imposing black face masks, though in their case the masks ''are'' their faces.
* MechaMooks: A typical example. They are shoddy knockoff [=LMDs=] created by Ivanov that are used as soldiers by General Hale to fight the heroes.
* PoorMansSubstitute: In-universe, they are the result of Anton Ivanov's failed attempt at creating new Life-Model Decoys after Aida's death and the loss of the Darkhold.
* RoboticReveal: In their first appearance, they initially seem to be normal human soldiers wearing masks. However, when Mack shoots one of them in the eye, they are revealed to be robots.

[[folder:Others]]
* [[Characters/MCUCriminalsTerroristsOrganizations Anton Ivanov]]
* [[Characters/MCUUnitedStatesMilitary Brigadier General Glenn Talbot]]
[[/folder]]

!!Eastern Europe Cell

[[folder:Project Ultimo]]
!!''Project Ultimo''
!!!'''Species:''' Robot
!!!'''Citizenship:''' None
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Captain America: Road to [[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar War]]'' one-shot

A giant robot built by HYDRA.

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the mainstream comics, Ultimo is a sentient robot of alien origin. In the MCU he's a gigantic remote controlled mecha built from the remains of the Ultron sentries.
* HumongousMecha: A robot of humongous proportions.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Destroyed by the New Avengers in its first appereance.

!Hive's Inhuman Followers

[[folder:Giyera]]
!!''R. Giyera''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"You wanna see a trick?"'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Inhuman

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MarkDacascos
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E8ManyHeadsOneTale Episode 52: "Many Heads, One Tale"]]'')

->''"I don't usually like getting my hands dirty, but for you, I'll make an exception."''

A HYDRA operative whose Inhuman abilities of telekinesis were unlocked through HYDRA's experiments with the Terrigen Mist. He became the head of security for Endotex Labs, working directly under Gideon Malick to ensure no one learned of their true intentions for the Inhumans they were rounding up.

* AssholeVictim: As Fitz notes during the Season 3 finale unlike most of the other Inhumans who were forced to work for Hive against their will Giyera was already an evil bastard responsible for Simmons' torture. Therefore Fitz kills him without a second thought.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Wears a suit and is capable of holding his own in a fight against badass Bobbi Morse.
* TheBrute: He's the most physically imposing of Malick's operatives. He leads the ATCU mooks in Endotex Labs as head of security.
* TheDragon: Serves this position to Hive upon being [[BrainwashedAndCrazy infected]] as the first inhuman Hive turned and one of the longest lasting.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: He was formerly in special ops before becoming Inhuman, and is good enough to fight ''May'' equally after being tricked into a situation where his powers are useless.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Is visibly horrified at hearing the dying screams of five innocent people that Hive kills to restore its host body.
* FreezeFrameBonus: His ATCU profile shows he used to be in the Marine Corps.
* KarmicDeath: Ward ordered Giyera to torture Simmons in order to make Fitz crack, therefore he dies by Fitz's hand in the Season 3 finale.
* MindOverMatter: His power is telekinesis, but he can only affect non-organic matter.
* MundaneUtility: He mostly uses his power to levitate his gun and fire it. While this could be extremely overpowered if abused properly, 95% of the time he just keeps it floating next to himself, about a foot away from where it would normally be if he was holding it.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: You probably don't want to mess with someone whose surname is the Filipino term for "war."
* NotSoStoic: He always maintains a cool and collected presence, but when he starts interacting with the Inhuman Hive, who was at that point possessing the deceased body of Grant Ward, he was notably perplexed to how to interact an Inhuman like Hive.
* OneManArmy: In "Paradise Lost", he's able to seize the ''Zephyr'' all by himself. Note that most of the main cast is aboard at the time.
* TortureTechnician: Ward has him torture Simmons. Giyera starts with [[NoodleImplements a wrench and a hammer]].
* TranshumanTreachery: Even before being swayed by Hive, he's the only known Inhuman who willingly works for a neofascist terrorist organization.

[[folder:Lucio]]
!!''Lucio''
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!!!'''Species:''' Inhuman
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Colombian
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Gabriel Salvador
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E11BouncingBack Episode 55: "Bouncing Back"]])''

An Inhuman working for the corrupt National Police of Colombia, who can induce a temporary paralysis in others with his gaze. Is kidnapped by HYDRA and becomes one of the two Inhumans tasked with guarding Hive.

* AllThereInTheManual: He is not named in his debut episode, but the character's name can be found in the episode's credits.
* BaldOfEvil: A corrupt cop with not a shred of hair on his head.
* BeardOfEvil: He has a thick, bushy beard.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Falls under Hive's sway.
* ChekhovsGunman: He's just a standard Dragon once Hive takes control of him. [[spoiler: After he is killed by Joey, Simmons is able to learn quite a bit about Hive and how he infects people after studying his infected brain. This becomes quite crucial after Daisy is infected in learning how to free her.]]
* DeadlyGaze: He can induce paralysis in others with his gaze.
* DirtyCop: He works for the highly corrupt National Police of Colombia.
* TheDragon: To Victor Ramon. Later on he becomes CoDragons with Giyera towards Hive.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He objects to Hive slaughtering five innocent people to repair Ward's body.
* {{Expy}}: His power to paralyse people with his eyes, and needing to cover them up to not do so constantly, may remind fans of the ''Secret Warriors'' of Gorgon, the HYDRA leader resurrected near the beginning of the series with the same power (albeit, Lucio's power is temporary, while Gorgon's turned them into permanent statues).
* FacialHorror: Has some pretty horrific scarring around his eyes after Joey melted his sunglasses to his face.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Joey killed him by stabbing him in the chest with a partially-melted pipe to save Lincoln.]]
* NoNameGiven: He's not named in his debut episode, but Bobbi refers to him as "Medusa-Eyes".
* SinisterShades: Since Lucio was unable to control his powers, he constantly wore thick flip-up sunglasses to conceal his DeadlyGaze.

[[folder:Others]]
* [[Characters/MCUDaisyJohnson Daisy Johnson / Quake]]
* [[Characters/MCUInhumans J. T. James / Hellfire]]
* [[Characters/MCUInhumans Alisha Whitley]]
* [[Characters/MCUInhumans Primitives]]

* [[Characters/MCUAvengersAndAllies Pietro Maximoff]]

[[folder:Captain Carter's Heinz Kruger]]
!!''Heinz Kruger''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' German
!!!'''Voiced By:''' N/A
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]''

The Heinz Kruger of Earth-82111, who assassinates Dr. Erskine.
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* AlternateSelf: To the Heinz Kruger of the Sacred Timeline.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', he commits suicide via cyanide tablet. Here, he's shot by Peggy Carter after he sets off the charges early and shoots Steve before he can receive the serum.
* HeroKiller: Aside from killing Dr. Erskine, he also ends up shooting Col. Chester Philips to death during his attempt to steal the Super Soldier Serum.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Him setting off the bomb early and shooting both Steve and Colonel Phillips results Peggy being forced to become a super soldier in the former's place, and allows [[StrawMisogynist John Flynn]] to be promoted to Colonel in his stead, thus altering the timeline greatly.
* TheVoiceless: He never speaks in his short appearance.
* WeaponOfChoice: Rather than wield a Walther [=P38=] like his Sacred Timeline counterpart, Kruger here wields the older Luger [=P08=] when he kills Col. Philips, shoots Steve, and tries to kill Agent Carter.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:King Loki's Brock Rumlow]]
!!''Agent Brock Rumlow''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/FrankGrillo
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]''

The Brock Rumlow of Earth-51825.
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* AlternateSelf: To the Brock Rumlow of the Sacred Timeline, who detains Natasha for her role in Tony Stark's death.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:King Loki's Jack Rollins]]
!!''Agent Jack Rollins''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Voiced By:''' N/A
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]''

The Jack Rollins of Earth-51825.
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* AlternateSelf: To the Jack Rollins of the Sacred Timeline. He takes part in the detention of Natasha Romanoff for her role in Tony Stark's death and gets beaten while transporting her to Alexander Pierce.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Party Thor's Brock Rumlow]]
!!''Agent Brock Rumlow''
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%%[[caption-width-right:243:some caption text]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/FrankGrillo
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]''

The Brock Rumlow of Earth-72124.
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* AlternateSelf: To the Brock Rumlow of the Sacred Timeline, coming from a universe where he and S.H.I.E.L.D have to deal with an out-of-control global party hosted by Party Thor.
* NotSoStoic: Once Maria Hill calls off S.H.I.E.L.D's assault on Thor, Rumlow can be seen pouting about how they never get to use nukes.
* NukeEm: He grumbles about not getting to use the nukes when Frigga's intervention ends Thor's party.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Captain Carter's Brock Rumlow]]
!!''Agent Brock Rumlow''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/FrankGrillo
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]''

The Brock Rumlow of Earth-82111.
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* AlternateSelf: To the Brock Rumlow of the Sacred Timeline, who accompanies Captain Carter and Natasha Romanoff on their mission to detain Georges Batroc.
[[/folder]]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Maximiliano Hernández, Adam Faison (young)

A Variant of Heinz Kruger who assassinates Dr. Erskine.

A Variant of Brock Rumlow.

A Variant of Jack Rollins.

A Variant of Brock Rumlow.

A Variant of Brock Rumlow.

!!!'''Citizenship:''' American

A HYDRA assassin. Following the experiemnt that empowers Steve Rogers, he kills Dr. Erskine and steals a vial of the SuperSoldier serum. He is caught by Rogers, and commits suicide.

* DudeWhereIsMyRespect[=/=]TheResenter: Mark is resentful of being put into R&D instead of the field after a psychological evaluation by Maria Hill. This resentment is what makes HYDRA approach him.

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/WandaVision'' (appears in ''[[Recap/WandaVisionEpisode8PreviouslyOn Episode 8: "Previously On"]]'')

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/WandaVision'' (appears in ''[[Recap/WandaVisionEpisode8PreviouslyOn Episode 8: "Previously On"]]'')

* TheVoiceless: Aside from a few screams, we never hear him speak. Even when he tells Gant Ward the location of Werner von Strucker, it only happens off-screen.

!!!'''Species:''' [[spoiler:Enhanced]] human

* AdaptationalNationality: He is German in the comics. In the MCU, he is German-American since his actor is American. His American heritage is most likely from his ([[MissingMom unseen]]) mother. He also tells Ruby that he doesn't understand German language.

!!''Heinz Kruger / "Fred Clemson"''

** The gauntlets he used to fight Captain America in Lagos were salvaged by Adrian Toomes' clean-up company/criminal group in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' and subsequently retrofitted with air-blast tech, becoming the primary weapons of Jackson Brice and Herman Schultz, aka The Shocker.

A HYDRA assassin. Following Rogers' experiment, he kills Dr. Erskine and steals a vial of the SuperSoldier serum. He is caught by Rogers, and commits suicide.

* BaldOfAwesome: Only known case in S.H.I.E.L.D. besides ComicBook/NickFury, the resident BaldBlackLeaderGuy.

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He is described as a psychopath, but he seems to hold respect for Lance Hunter and shows a sensitive side when certain songs are played. Wrong, He tries to kill Hunter for making fun of his sensitive side.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: [[spoiler:He was foolish enough to believe that someone like [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Captain]] [[IdealHero America]] would pledge allegiance to [[ANaziByAnyOtherName HYDRA]] and immediately hands him the Mind Stone without second thought.]]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Patrick Monckeberg

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Jackson Spidell (Josef)

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He considered the Abomination a liability to his own cause, and so teamed up with Agent Coulson and Tony Stark to thwart his induction into the Avengers.

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E1Shadows Episode 23: "Shadows"]]'') | ''Series/{{Daredevil 2015}}'' (mentioned)

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Thor}}'' | ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' | ''Film/MarvelOneShots'' | ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'' [[note]] Archive footage from ''Avengers: Endgame''[[/note]]

-> ''"I could do it. I make a great patsy."''

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the comics, Steve threw him into lab machineries, which electrocuted him to death. Here he's DrivenToSuicide after he's captured by Steve.

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Dylan Minette

[[folder:Others]]
* [[Characters/MCUEnhanced Carl Creel / Absorbing Man]]
* [[Characters/MCUEnhanced Donnie Gill]]
[[/folder]]

!!Octavian Bloom's Cell

[[folder:Accountant]]
!!''The Accountant''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Kyle David Pierce
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E11Aftershocks Episode 33: "Aftershocks"]]'')

A HYDRA agent loyal to Octavian Bloom sent to kill the Banker.

* AffablyEvil: He treats others with respect and even a smile, even to his own targets.
* BeardOfEvil: An assassin with a beard.
* CareerKillers: He's an assassin sent to kill the Banker during the purge of the HYDRA leaders.
* NoNameGiven: He's only described as "the accountant".
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: He looks like an ordinary bank worker... until he draws an splinter bomb and uses it to kill the banker.

!!Grant Ward's Cell

[[folder:Kebo]]
!!''Kebo''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Daz Crawford
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E22SOSPart2 Episode 44: "S.O.S., Part 2"]]'')

The second-in-command of Ward's new HYDRA cell.

* [[Characters/MCUEnhanced Carl Creel / Absorbing Man]]

[[folder:Sleeper Mechs]]
!!''Sleeper Mechs''
!!!'''Species:''' Robots
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS5E11AllTheComfortsOfHome Episode 99: "All the Comforts of Home"]]'')

Robots built by Anton Ivanov and used as shock troops by Hale.

* BlondesAreEvil: [[spoiler:She's blonde, and she's definitely bad.]]

!Pre-World War II Members

[[folder:Viola]]
!!''Viola''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/NoraZehetner
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS7E01TheNewDeal Episode: "The New Deal"]]'')

An operative of the HYDRA cult.

!World War II Members

[[folder:Heinz Kruger]]
!!''Heinz Kruger / "Fred Clemson"''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/RichardArmitage
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Enrique Cervantes (Latin-American Spanish dub)

->''"The first of many."''

A HYDRA assassin. Following Rogers' experiment, he kills Dr. Erskine and steals a vial of the SuperSoldier serum. He is caught by Rogers, and commits suicide.

* BadassInANiceSuit: He infiltrates and wipes out the super soldier program single-handed, but it doesn't help against the [[SuperSoldier newly augmented]] [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]].
* ClarkKenting: His physical disguise is just a business suit and glasses, aided by using an American accent, false name, and his general anonymity.
* CyanidePill: Swallows one hidden in his teeth after he gets caught by Rogers.
* {{Determinator}}: Despite the resistance against him, he was determined to escape. Almost succeeded, too.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the comics, Steve threw him into lab machineries, which electrocuted him to death. Here he's DrivenToSuicide after he's captured by Steve.
* EvilSoundsDeep: With Creator/RichardArmitage, he can only sport a deep, imposing voice.
* FakeAmerican: [[invoked]] He poses as an American named Fred Clemson working for the State Department and then reveals that he's TheMole from HYDRA.
* TheMole: Infiltrated the US government to shut down the Super Soldier program and acquire a sample of the serum.
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: Since he is "the first" of HYDRA to be coming after Rogers.
* ProfessionalKiller: Implied to be his profession because of all the killing he does.
* StarterVillain: The first antagonist Steve faces post-serum.
* WeaponOfChoice: A Walther [=P38=] semi-automatic pistol.
* WhoAreYou: Steve Rogers asks him this after capturing him. His answer is:
-->'''Heinz Kruger:''' The first of many. Cut off one head, ''[pops the fake tooth containing his cyanide capsule]'' two more shall take its place. ''[foam begins to form at his mouth]'' Hail HYDRA! ''[dies]''
* WouldHurtAChild: By pointing a gun at his head and then throwing him into a river. He can swim, mercifully.

[[folder:Velt]]
!!''Velt''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Patrick Monckeberg
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''

The manager of a HYDRA weapons facility.

* MiddleManagementMook: His position within the hierarchy of HYDRA.
* SoleSurvivor: He appears to be the sole HYDRA survivor of the weapons facilty.
* YouHaveFailedMe: The Red Skull executes him for not dying defending the weapons facility from the Howling Commandos.

[[folder:Vincent Beckers]]
!!''Vincent Beckers''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

A Belgian scientist and member of HYDRA. The grandfather of Julien Beckers.
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* TheEvilGenius: A scientist that designed weapons for a fascist organization.
* GenerationXerox: His grandson Julien also works for HYDRA in the modern days.
* LesCollaborateurs: Possibly, since he's a Belgian working for HYDRA whose members are mostly Nazi German, and Belgium was occupied by Nazi Germany at the time.
[[/folder]]

* {{Asexuality}}/VillainousAromanticAsexual: Confirmed [[WordOfSaintPaul by her actress]] [[https://twitter.com/dovecameron/status/1313698400726999040 here.]]

The daughter of General Hale, who's particularly obsessed with ComicBook/{{Quake}}.

* AlternateSelf: To the Brock Rumlow of the Sacred Timeline.