History Characters / MCUSHIELDOtherAgents

* WeaponOfChoice: The Koenigs carry Walther [=PPKs=] rather than S.H.I.E.L.D.-issue Smith & Wesson [=M&Ps=]

* WeaponOfChoice: The Koenigs carry Walther [=PPKs=] rather than S.H.I.E.L.D.-issue Smith & Wesson [=M&Ps=]

* WeaponOfChoice: The Koenigs carry Walther [=PPKs=] rather than S.H.I.E.L.D.-issue Smith & Wesson [=M&Ps=]

* [[Characters/MCUCaptainAmerica Agent Steve Rogers / Captain America]]
* [[Characters/MCUBlackWidow Agent Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow]]
* [[Characters/MCUHawkeye Agent Clint Barton / Hawkeye]]

* [[Characters/MCUUnitedStatesCitizens Agent Laura Barton / Agent 19]]

* KickTheDog: A ''cold blooded'' one when Bill says that Janet was the only who could tolerate Hank without being pushed way and that she paid the price for it. Hope and Scott has to physically restrain Hank. It was out of line and foreshadows the antagonism between them.

* [[{{Characters/MCUOthers Aida]]

* KnifeNut: She always has a knife on her and is very adept at using it.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In the comics, Dimitri Smerdyakov is Spider-Man's foe the Chameleon. Here, he's working for Nick Fury ([[spoiler:or maybe Talos, [[AmbiguousSituation it's not clear which or if he knows the difference]]]]).
* AlternateSelf: Will have a counterpart in Film/SonysSpiderManUniverse with the upcoming ''Kraven'' film and on another unknown Earth in ''Spider-Man: Freshman Year''.

* AlternateSelf: Will have a counterpart in Film/SonysSpiderManUniverse with the upcoming ''Kraven'' film.

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' O-T Fagbenle

* [[{{Characters/MCULMD}} Aida]]

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

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

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

[[folder:The Koenig Brothers]]
!!''The Koenig Brothers''
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/PattonOswalt

A BadassFamily of S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents who report straight to the Director. Fury trusted them enough to let them know he faked his death after the HYDRA Coup and put them in charge of the secret bases he set up in case of emergencies. They rarely go out into the field, although they are more than capable should they be called to action. Although three brothers have been seen it's unknown how many of them work in S.H.I.E.L.D. or how many look alike.

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[[folder:Idaho]]
!!''Idaho''
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!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/WilmerCalderon
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E1Shadows Episode 23: "Shadows"]]'')

Idaho is a mercenary Coulson recruits to combat HYDRA and is teammates with Hartley and Hunter.

* CanonForeigner: Made for the show [[SacrificialLamb probably to die and show the audience how deadly Creel is]].
* MauveShirt: Creel kills him and Hartley by flipping their car. Only Hunter makes it out alive.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: While his partners have a first and last name, Idaho is only referred to as Idaho.
* RealMenLoveJesus: Hunter says Idaho would frequently go to church after missions.
* SatelliteCharacter: His characterization begins and ends with him being TrueCompanions and partners with Hunter and Hartley.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies in his first episode and Hunter subsequently only talks about Hartley in nostalgic tones with [[ForgottenFallenFriend no mention of Idaho]].

[[folder:Agent Noelle Walters]]
!!''Agent Noelle Walters''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' Unknown
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/MelanieCruz
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E6FracturedHouse Episode 28: "A Fractured House"]]'')

An agent in charge of a S.H.I.E.L.D. team in the Netherlands.

* CanonForeigner: She has no comicbook counterpart.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Headbutts Scarlotti in the face before he can take his knife to her, then upon taking a splinter bomb to the gut, states that HYDRA will never defeat S.H.I.E.L.D. before disintegrating.
* KilledMidSentence: Her aforementioned DefiantToTheEnd moment, which Scarlotti wastes no time [[BondOneLiner lampshading]].
* NoBodyLeftBehind: She gets disintegrated by Marcus Scarlotti, who puts a splinter bomb into her stomach.

[[folder:Agent L.T. Koenig]]
!! ''Agent L.T. Koenig''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Agent L.T. Koenig. Sorry about kicking your candy ass."'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ArtemisPebdani
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS4E12HotPotatoSoup Episode 78: "Hot Potato Soup"]]'')

The older sister of the Koenig brothers, and the one who recruited them into S.H.I.E.L.D.

* ActionGirl: To be expected of the sister of the Koenigs, as she easily overpowered Agent Davis. In fact, she trained the brothers.
* AdaptationNameChange: In the comics, Eric Koenig's sister was named Ilsa Koenig. Then again, Ilsa Koenig was also a member of the German Resistance and Nick Fury's lover during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, so maybe it's not accurate to say that LT is based on Ilsa.
* BigSisterMentor: She was the one who recruited and trained Eric, Sam, and Billy. She's actually surprised that she wasn't able to recruit Thurston.
* BigSisterBully: When Daisy asks what it was likely growing up with quadruplets, LT says that there was a lot of crying...because she picked on them. She also casually shot Thurston with [=ICEr=] to shut him up when he refused to go into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s protection.
* IHaveBrothers: Inverted. ''They'' learned all of their masculine skills from ''her''.

[[folder:Agent Damon Keller]]
!!''Agent Damon Keller''
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!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/LucasBryant
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS6E01MissingPieces Episode 111: "Missing Pieces"]]'')

A STRIKE agent recruited by May into S.H.I.E.L.D. after it was reformed under the leadership of Director Alphonse Mackenzie.

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:The alien bat parasite begins turning Keller into HumanArchitectureHorror, with long jagged spikes coming out of everywhere on his body and growing as they made contact with the walls.]]
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: His and Fox's idea that the strange occurrences are happening on the Ley lines is initially blown off as a stupid idea, but they're proven right. Keller never lets the chance to mention this pass by.
* DeadpanSnarker: Snarks fairly frequently. [[spoiler:Even after getting infected by the parasite and is possibly dying, he keeps it up, joking to Yo-Yo that it's a little soon to bring a parasitic alien into their relationship and wanting to know if it's ok.]]
* LoveInterest: Begins a secret relationship with Yo-Yo after she and Mack broke up.
* MauveShirt: He is a very prominent character at the start of Season 6, [[spoiler:until his death in the fourth episode]].
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Yo-Yo is forced to stab him with Sarge's knife to halt the parasitic transformation his body was undergoing that could have destroyed the entire base.]]
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. He shares a surname with S.H.I.E.L.D.'s 1990s-era director from ''[[Film/CaptainMarvel2019 Captain Marvel]]''. It's not inconceivable that he could be a descendant or relation.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:He only outlives [[RedShirt Fox]] by two episodes (three if you count the one he didn't appear in.)]]
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Agent Fox, who was from near Keller's hometown and who he helped recruit into S.H.I.E.L.D.

[[folder:Agent Trevor Khan]]
!!''Agent Trevor Khan''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ShainuBala
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

A STRIKE agent recruited by tasked by Director Mackenzie with infiltrating Deke Shaw's Company.

* FalseFriend: He befriends Deke and hangs out with him in order to keep up his cover. Deke believes Trevor actually likes him, which is not the case.
* MauveShirt: After playing a supporting role throughout season six, [[spoiler:when the Chronicom Hunters take over the Lighthouse, he's among the agents lined up and executed by the invaders.]]
* ProfessionalButtkisser: To keep up his cover, he constantly praises Deke and his endeavors.
* TheMole: S.H.I.E.L.D.'s mole within Deke's company.

[[folder:Agent Dimitri Smerdyakov]]
!!''Agent Dimitri Smerdyakov''
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!!!'''Citizenship:''' Russian
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/NumanAcar
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome''

A member of Nick Fury's crew operating in Europe.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In the comics, Dimitri Smerdyakov is Spider-Man's foe the Chameleon. Here, he's working for Nick Fury ([[spoiler:or maybe Talos, [[AmbiguousSituation it's not clear which or if he knows the difference]]]]).
* AlternateSelf: Will have a counterpart in Film/SonysSpiderManUniverse with the upcoming ''Kraven'' film.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: After the reveal in the stinger, there has been some arguing in the fandom as to whether [[spoiler:he and the female agent who gives Peter the stealth suit are humans or Skrulls]].
* TheComicallySerious: Dimitri has one hell of an impressive poker-face, even in the face of all the weirdness that comes with babysitting Peter Parker. The only time he seems to lose his cool is when he rolls his eyes and shakes his head in pure annoyance and disapproval of Flash's social-media nonsense.
* InNameOnly: Outside of sharing the same real name, he has zero resemblence to the Chameleon of the comics lacking his distinctive appearance, MasterOfDisguise abilities, and villainous role.
* TheQuietOne: He only has one line in the entire film, telling Mr. Harrington that they're making a short rest stop. This technically doubles as a MythologyGag to some depictions of his comic book counterpart, which have him never speak while not under a disguise.
* RaceLift: in the comics Dimitri Smerdyakov is a white man of Russian origin, while in the movie, he is played by Turkish actor Numan Acar.
* TheSpook: Aside from his name, E.D.I.T.H. has absolutely no data on this guy, or at least none that Peter can actually access due to it being encrypted. Justified in that he's a spy.

[[folder:The Deke Squad]]
!!''The Deke Squad''
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[[caption-width-right:278:Left to right: Roxy, Mack (in foreground), the Chang brothers, Olga, Deke. Not pictured: [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Cricket]].]]
!!!'''Species:''' Humans

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TipperNewton (Roxy Glass), Creator/JohnYuan (Tommy Chang), Creator/MattYuan (Ronnie Chang), Creator/JoleneAnderson (Olga Pachinko), Creator/RyanDonowho (Cricket)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

A cover band formed by Deke Shaw while stranded in the early 1980s, as a disguise for his ad-hoc S.H.I.E.L.D. cell operating out of the Lighthouse.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Olga tells Roxy (in Russian), "My heart resides forever in your beautiful clutches."
* BrokenPedestal: The Chang twins are upset to find that Deke actually didn't write any of the songs they're playing, not even "[[Music/TheBangles Walk Like An Egyptian]]".
* TheBusCameBack: Three episodes after Mack and Deke leave them, Roxy reappears, having started training to become a legitimate S.H.I.E.L.D. agent (having found out that Deke actually didn't have the authority to recruit her into S.H.I.E.L.D.).
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Cricket doesn't seem to be on the same plane of reality as the rest of the squad. Notably, he's the only one to ''not'' double as a secret agent.
* DemolitionsExpert: Olga.
* DirtyCoward: The Chang twins, despite putting up a decent fight against Sybil's {{Killer Robot}}s at first, panic and abandon their team when the bots start shooting lasers. [[BenevolentBoss Deke still forgives them]].
* EgocentricTeamNaming: Named for lead vocalist Deke Shaw.
* HiddenInPlainSight: As Deke explains to Mack, the band is actually a good disguise for a S.H.I.E.L.D. faction, as they can move heavy equipment unchallenged and any odd behavior will be chalked up to drugs.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Roxy seems to think Alfie is Mack's son (when the former is the latter's younger self), implying that Deke either didn't mention TimeTravel to them, or just kept the situation with Mack's younger self a secret.
* MadeOfIron: Olga is seriously injured twice in a manner that might look like a RedShirt going down, only for her to recover soon enough.
* MasterOfDisguise: The Changs, according to Deke. [[InformedAbility We never actually see them do it]].
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: We never learn Cricket's real name.
* PlagiarismInFiction: Unbeknownst to the rest of the band, Deke is ripping off 80's pop songs that were ([[TimeTravelTenseTrouble will be?]]) written by completely different people.
* PsychoPartyMember: Olga uses ''live explosives'' during the team's training sessions.
* {{Pun}}: Deke's cover band is a ''cover'' for his operations.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: When Deke is telling Mack about the squad, he lists off their capabilities as agents... except Cricket, who's just a drummer and drug dealer.
* SacrificialLamb: Cricket doesn't get any noticeable development before one of Sybil's robots kills him.
* TheSmartGirl: Deke seems to regard Roxy as this.
* WhatTheHellHero: Roxy tears into Mack for cutting himself off from everyone and abandoning his "son" (read: younger self), even while Deke checks up on the boy.

!!S.H.I.E.L.D. Support Staff

[[folder:Benny Pollack]]
!!''Benjamin "Benny" Pollack''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JesseBradford
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/Item47''

-->''"I hope you are right..."''

One half of the OutlawCouple that formed following the Battle of New York. After getting pitched the crazy idea to rob banks with his girlfriend, he went along with it reluctantly, but deep down is grateful for the chance to finally live out their dreams.

* AntiVillain: Just an ordinary guy reluctantly robbing banks to fix his life's problems.
* BoxedCrook: At the end of ''Item 47'', he's given a job at S.H.I.E.L.D. in their Research and Development department's "Think Tank" due to his skill with Chitauri weaponry.
* GadgeteerGenius: He manages to make the Chitauri gun work, while S.H.I.E.L.D. hasn't made any progress with it.
* HeelFaceTurn: Bank robber to S.H.I.E.L.D. employee.
* HenpeckedHusband: Pre-husband, as Claire is his girlfriend, but she still definitely shows she's the boss.
* OutlawCouple: With Claire; they rob banks.
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: In ''Item 47'', he wears a black ski-mask, while Claire's is pink.
* ShoutOut: His name is a ShoutOut to Bonnie of Bonnie and Clyde.
* SuperWeaponAverageJoe: Ordinary human with no connection to anything super except for the Chitauri gun.
* VillainProtagonist: A bank robber starring in ''Item 47''
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Since S.H.I.E.L.D. is revealed to be infiltrated by HYDRA all along, his fate after S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Civil War has yet to be revealed.

[[folder:Claire Wise]]
!!''Claire Wise''
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!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/LizzyCaplan
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/Item47''

-->''"I'm always right. And I'm always right about you."''

Claire's had a hard life of bills, rejected dreams, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and alien invasions]]. But when a Chitauri gun literally falls out of the sky as if as a present, she sees the chance to finally take matters into their own hands and gain the means to live like they want to.

* AntiVillain: Just an average woman with bills to pay who thinks she could solve her problems with bank robbing.
* BoxedCrook: At the end of ''Item 47'', she's given a job at S.H.I.E.L.D. as Agent Blake's new assistant.
* DeusExMachina: She thinks of the Chitauri gun as this. After all, it literally fell out of the sky.
* HeelFaceTurn: Bank robber to S.H.I.E.L.D. employee.
* OutlawCouple: With Benny. Bank robbing was her idea.
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: In ''Item 47'', she wears a pink ski-mask, while Benny wears a black one.
* ShoutOut: Her name is a ShoutOut to Clyde of Bonnie and Clyde.
* SuperWeaponAverageJoe: Ordinary human with no connection to anything super except for the Chitauri gun.
* VillainProtagonist: A bank robber starring in ''Item 47''
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Since S.H.I.E.L.D. is revealed to be infiltrated by HYDRA all along, her fate after S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Civil War has yet to be revealed.
* WomenAreWiser: Thinks of herself because she's the one taking chances and opportunities to find a better life.

[[folder:Dr. Streiten]]
!!''Dr. Streiten''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"You'd lost your will to live. We tried to give it back."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/RonGlass
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E1Pilot Episode 1: "Pilot"]]'', ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E11TheMagicalPlace Episode 11: "The Magical Place"]]'')

A physician working for S.H.I.E.L.D. He knows how Coulson survived being stabbed by Loki during ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Is both obviously traumatized and horrified over what they had to do to bring Coulson BackFromTheDead.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: He goes off the grid after Coulson confronts him about his resurrection, with not even S.H.I.E.L.D. able to find him.
* SecretKeeper: Along with Maria Hill, he's one of two characters confirmed to know how Coulson was resurrected besides Nick Fury, who ordered it.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: No further mention of him is made after he disappears, with his fate after HYDRA's emergence being unknown; and with Ron Glass' death, it's unlikely we'll get any more about him.

[[folder:Cameron Klein]]
!!''Technician/Specialist Cameron Klein''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AaronHimelstein
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' | ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''

-->''"I'm not gonna launch those ships... Captain's orders."''

Cameron Klein was a S.H.I.E.L.D. Technician responsible for the launch of the Insight Helicarriers.

He's later recruited by Nick Fury and Maria Hill along with several other former S.H.I.E.L.D. agents in relaunching the 'mothballed' Helicarrier.

* AscendedExtra: In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', he's recruited by Nick Fury as a technician for the old Helicarrier in a bid to evacuate the citizens of Sokovia before Ultron could enact his EvilPlan. Upon arrival he launched the Helicarrier's lifeboats to the now levitating city so that the Avengers and local law enforcement could commence with the evacuation. This time, he's credited with the name "Cameron Klein".
* HeroicSacrifice: Averted, as he intended one by defying Rumlow's commands while having a gun put to his head, but Sharon managed to kick him away from the gun and thus save his life.
* MissionControl: His job in S.H.I.E.L.D. is to offer assistance with information and technology to those in the field.
* MythologyGag: In the comics, he is grandson of Stanley Klein, a United States Armed Forces private rescued by Captain America and the Howling Commandos during World War II. By knowing this, his loyalty to S.H.I.E.L.D. and Captain America becomes more heartwarming and meaningful.
* NonActionGuy: He's a technician, not personal combatant. It's made explicit by him hiding under his desk when the S.H.I.E.L.D. loyalists and HYDRA infiltrators start shooting at each other and in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' hysterically screaming when an Ultron drone breaches the Helicarrier bridge.
* NoNameGiven: He's unnamed until his appearance in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted and made into DecompositeCharacter. The other man with the name "Cameron Klein" is a retired S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and T.A.H.I.T.I. patient from ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' who now lives with new name, Hank Thompson.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Cap ends up stopping Project Insight with only a second left to go, which would not have been possible had Klein not delayed the launch of the helicarriers for as long as he could, even with Rumlow holding a gun to his head. His decision saved literally millions of lives.
* UndyingLoyalty: To S.H.I.E.L.D. and Captain America as seen in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''. Even with Brock Rumlow holding him at gunpoint, he doesn't sacrifice his loyalty even if it might cost his life.
* TheUnreveal: In TheStinger of ''Infinity War'', Nick Fury tells Maria Hill to contact Klein to do unspecified task before getting cut off by a car crash. Klein makes no appearance nor mention in Fury and Hill's next appearances in ''Endgame'' and ''Far Frome Home'', leaving it ambiguous what they were trying to contact him for.

[[folder:Dr. Marcus Benson]]
!!''Dr. Marcus Benson''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BarryShabakaHenley
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS6E01MissingPieces Episode 111: "Missing Pieces"]]'')
A natural sciences expert recruited to S.H.I.E.L.D. by Director Mackenzie and Agent May from his former position at Culver University.

* TheAlcoholic: Slipped into DrowningMySorrows after the death of his husband, to the point that his superiors at Culver University are slowly pushing him out the door to retirement. Sure enough, May and Mack meet him in a bar.
** "From the Ashes" implies that the problem goes back even further, as [[spoiler:a manifestation of Benson's late husband accuses him of having been drunk on the night of the car crash that claimed his life.]]
* BadassBookworm: A middle-aged, alcoholic university professor...who flatly refuses to help Izel, a [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu body-hopping alien destroyer goddess]], with the information she needs to pull off her EvilPlan.
-->'''Benson:''' I've already lost everything that matters. [[BadassBoast Death doesn't scare me.]]
* BluffTheImpostor: He quickly catches on when Yo-yo refers to [[WeHardlyKnewYe Agent Keller]] in the present tense in front of an Izel-possessed Mack, who doesn't catch the error until Benson has already deleted the schematics Izel needed.
* ClosestThingWeGot: Mackenzie and May seek him out as their organization lacks scientific "brains" with Fitz still lost out in space and Simmons still out of contact hunting for Fitz after a full year.
* TheEeyore: Fairly uniformly serious and grim, at least so far.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Pours Mack a drink as he prepares to report that Sarge's DNA exactly matches Coulson's -- then [[HypocriticalHumor downs it himself]] after delivering the WhamLine.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Being handed a folder full of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s current scientific challenges is enough to convince him to come aboard.
* TheLostLenore: His late husband is this to Benson, who has become TheAlcoholic by the time he is introduced in Season 6.
* TheMentor: Agent May explains that Dr. Benson had this relationship with her late ex-husband, Dr. Andrew Garner. Now, she and Mack intend for him to fulfill this role to a new generation of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and scientists.
* NotAfraidToDie: Flatly refuses to lead [[BigBad Izel]] to her "temple", saying that ever since the death of his husband, [[DeathSeeker he's no longer afraid of dying.]]
* SpearCounterpart: To Agent Weaver, who headed the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy before the agency's fall in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', and which Director Mackenzie intends for him to reestablish in the wake of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s relegitimization.
* StraightGay: It's mentioned that he was married to a late husband, but he has no overtly [[CampGay campy]] personality traits.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Dr. Streiten from Season 1. Dr. Benson focuses more on natural sciences rather than medicine, but still ends up dissecting a victim of the Shrike and attempting emergency surgery to try and save Agent Keller from the same creature.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Black and gay.

!!Former S.H.I.E.L.D. Operatives

[[folder:Felix Blake]]
!!''Felix Blake''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Hate's a good motivator."'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TitusWelliver
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/Item47'' | ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E6FZZT Episode 6: "FZZT"]]'', ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E16EndOfTheBeginning Episode 16: "End of the Beginning"]]'', ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E14Watchdogs Episode 58: "Watchdogs"]]'')

-->''"When I got out of the hospital it turned out there had never been a S.H.I.E.L.D., just HYDRA hiding behind one. I signed up to protect the world from these dangerous alien elements, [and now] you use them, unleash them, you've got those freaks working for you. Hell Phil, you are one. Makes me sick."''

An agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. in charge of surveillance. After OutlawCouple Benny and Claire get on the organization's radar due to their robberies, he tasks Sitwell with retrieving the alien ArmCannon known as Item 47. After receiving traumatic injuries during the hunt for the Clairvoyant, Blake emerges from a coma after HYDRA revealed itself and new powered people began appearing more frequently around the world. Disgusted by what S.H.I.E.L.D. had become, Blake joined the Watchdogs and dedicated himself to protecting the world from powered individuals by any means necessary.

* AllThereInTheManual: His first name is only shown for a split-second in "End of the Beginning".
* AmazonChaser: He tries (fruitlessly) to flirt with Melinda "The Cavalry" May while they're on a mission.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Psychics? Pfft, nonsense. Astrology? There's something to that. May calls him on this.
* BadassBureaucrat: Despite appearing a mere supervisor instead of a field agent, he fights Deathlok with admirable ability and even has the foresight to replace his weapon's ammunition with a tracker beacon so the other agents would be able to track him down.
* ByTheBookCop: He's a rather staunch rule-follower, which brings him into conflict with the likes of Coulson who sees the value of improvisation and unconventional tactics.
* DespairEventHorizon: Blake's by-the-book dedication to S.H.I.E.L.D. dies a painful death; he's crippled by Deathlok and wakes up to discover that the organization he dedicated his life to was little more than an illusion maintained by HYDRA.
* EvilCripple: When he reappears as the head of the Watchdogs, it's revealed that Deathlok's attack left him paralyzed from the waist down.
* EvilFormerFriend: Coulson and Blake don't get along very well in "FZZT", but Blake was noticeably upset when he accidentally called Agent Sitwell "Coulson" in ''Item 47'', and Coulson did consider Blake a friend. After he learned Coulson was resurrected with alien blood, however, Blake says that Coulson makes him "sick".
* FaceHeelTurn: Blake was always a rather abrasive agent, but he was still a trustworthy S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Then he gets crippled by Deathlok, and the HYDRA revelation pushes him into becoming the leader of [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic an anti-Inhuman hate group]] called The Watchdogs.
* FantasticRacism: He develops a downright genocidal hatred of anyone who isn't a pure human. He considers all aliens and Inhumans to be the enemy simply by virtue of their species.
* {{Irony}}: Unlike Agent Sitwell, Agent Blake was never a part of HYDRA when S.H.I.E.L.D. fell. Then, in season 3, he's becomes HYDRA's UnwittingPawn by collaborating with the Watchdogs.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite coming off as gruff and unpleasant he honestly tries to reason with Deathlok, addressing him as "Mr. Peterson" and promising to help free him if he'll call off his attack. In addition, while Sitwell is a [=HYDRA=] traitor, he is not. However, his heart of gold is ripped out by his injury and the rise of HYDRA.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: While he wasn't [[GoodIsNotNice all that pleasant to work with]] as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, and remained loyal unlike Agent Sitwell, who was part of HYDRA, he goes ''way'' off the deep end by actively supplying arms and intelligence to [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic The Watchdogs]].
* KarmaHoudini: He never gets any comeuppance for his role with the Watchdogs.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: His NotSoStoic entry shows he isn't [[ClassifiedInformation Level 7]], since he is unaware that Coulson survived his attempted murder by Loki. He got a promotion sometime between then and ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''.
* TheMenInBlack: He was in charge of the retrieval of Item 47, though Sitwell does the field work.
* MustHaveCaffeine:
** The first thing he does when granted an assistant is tell her to make him coffee.
** When given particularly difficult missions, his first reaction is to reach for more coffee.
* NotSoStoic: He noticeably quiets up a bit when he accidentally calls Agent Sitwell "Coulson". It turns out even Blake misses him.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: In "FZZT" he insists that S.H.I.E.L.D. protocol be followed to the letter: if "infected cargo" is present on the Bus it has to be jettisoned into the ocean. Coulson's counter-argument that said "cargo" is a human being and fellow agent who still might survive her illness apparently has little impact on him.
* SinisterSurveillance: He's technically on the side of good, but he comes across as rather sinister regardless. His [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first in-person appearance]] in ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' cements this. He insinuates that Coulson's days with the agency are numbered. [[MinorInjuryOverreaction Then he touches Lola]].
* SmugSnake: He's not a villain ''per se'', at least until [[FaceHeelTurn he becomes one]] by joining The Watchdogs, but he's very confident in his own abilities.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In the third season of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', he reappears heading an anti-Inhuman organization called The Watchdogs, having developed (or at least acted on) a large amount of FantasticRacism since his hospitalization in the first season.
* UnwittingPawn: To HYDRA in his new capacity with the Watchdogs.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite the Watchdogs taking a more central role in Season 4, Blake is nowhere to be seen and isn't mentioned by any character. The sole leader of the Watchdogs is Anton Ivanov aka 'The Superior'.
* YouGetMeCoffee: Tries this at the end of ''Item 47'', but is stymied by the fact that his new assistant can't make coffee.

[[folder:Richard Lumley]]
!!''Richard Lumley''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BoydKestner
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E12Seeds Episode 12: "Seeds"]]'')

A S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who went off the grid after investigating an 0-8-4 in Hunan, China.

* CombatPragmatist: Uses the environment of the alley while fighting May, including a wooden pallet.
* CyanidePill: Was willing to take one when he was confronted by Coulson and May.
* SecretKeeper: He's one of the only surviving people on the planet to know about the 0-8-4 from Hunan. It was Skye, and even he doesn't know the details, just that an entire village died to protect her when she was a baby.
* SoleSurvivor: Of the team that investigated the 0-8-4, with all the others being killed off one-by-one before Lumley went off the radar to avoid the same fate.

[[folder:Sebastian Derik]]
!!''Sebastian Derik''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I do some carving now and then."'']]

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/BrianVanHolt
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E6FracturedHouse Episode 28: "A Fractured House"]]'', ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E7TheWritingOnTheWall Episode 29: "The Writing on the Wall"]]'')

A S.H.I.E.L.D. assassin and test subject of Project T.A.H.I.T.I.

* AntiVillain: What really drives him into villainy and becoming SerialKiller is because the effect of G.H. Serum from T.A.H.I.T.I. Project. Anyone exposed to it gains some of the alien's GeneticMemory, which comes in the form of a blueprint to an unknown city. However, his mind cannot properly process the image and he desperately needs an answer from this.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Inverted. Rather than going mad, he calmed down and is saved from madness after knowing the answer to the symbols: blueprints to a city.
* ProfessionalKiller: He was a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent working as an assassin.
* SerialKiller: Becomes one for test subjects of Project T.A.H.I.T.I. due to his [=GH=].235-induced obsession to complete the Words of Creation - on their bodies - and understand their meanings.

[[folder:Janice Robbins]]
!!''Janice Robbins''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MoniqueGabrielaCurnen
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E7TheWritingOnTheWall Episode 29: "The Writing on the Wall"]]'')

->'''Phil Coulson:''' How do you feel today?\\
'''Rebecca Stevens:''' Terrific. I've never felt better.\\
'''Coulson:''' Do you remember how you got here?\\
'''Stevens:''' I volunteered. I was dying, and when I woke up, everything was okay.

An art teacher who was once Rebecca Stevens, a Level Six S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and test subject of Project T.A.H.I.T.I.

* AdaptationalBadass: Her comic book counterpart is a historian whereas the TV show Janice/Rebecca is a trained S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.
* BackFromTheDead: She was listed as having died from cancer, which she actually had.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Just like everyone else in the T.A.H.I.T.I. program. However, this is averted once their memories are wiped and they're given new identities.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: She was subjected to the Memory Overwriting Machine to cure her of the GH.235-induced psychosis.
* RaceLift: The comic book version of Rebecca Stevens is a caucasian, whereas the TV version is a Latin of mestizo descent.

[[folder:Hank Thompson]]
!!''Hank Thompson''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"So I was some kind of super spy?"'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JoelGretsch
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E7TheWritingOnTheWall Episode 29: "The Writing on the Wall"]]'')

-->''"I know who I am. I'm Hank Thompson. I've got a wife I love, a kid I adore, and every day, I wake up happy."''

A welder who was once Cameron Klein, an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and test subject of Project T.A.H.I.T.I.

* AchievementsInIgnorance: Despite having his mind wiped after Project T.A.H.I.T.I. he built a model train set that completed the 3D map of the hidden city. He did this completely subconsciously which is quite an achievement given that dozens of people were trying to figure out the puzzle for years.
* BackFromTheDead: He's a patient of Project T.A.H.I.T.I. formerly named Cameron Klein.
* BarehandedBladeBlock: Hank Thompson catches a thrown knife in between his bare hands, before throwing it back, [[ImprobableAimingSkills slicing clean through the rope holding Coulson]].
* DecompositeCharacter: In the comics, Cameron Klein is a S.H.I.E.L.D. technician. In the MCU, there's this former agent as well as a technician that appears in ''Winter Soldier'' and ''Age of Ultron'' both named Cameron Klein.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Just like everyone else in the T.A.H.I.T.I. program. However, this is averted once their memories are wiped and they're given new identities. He's the only one that doesn't begin obsessively painting or sketching or carving the alien symbols. Because his way of expressing them is to build an elaborate model train set, making him the only one to display them correctly, in three dimensions.
* HappilyMarried: He's perfectly content with living a quiet life with his family.
* IChooseToStay: When given the option of returning to his old life as Cameron Klein, decides that he'd much rather remain as Hank Thompson, family man.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: After catching the knife that Sebastian threw at him, Thompson manages to accurately throw it so that Coulson was cut from his bindings.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Subjected to the Memory Overwriting Machine to cure him of the GH.235-induced psychosis.
* NeverForgottenSkill: Hank stops a knife that Sebastian throws at him by catching the blade in both hands. He looks surprised for a moment before throwing it at the rope holding up Coulson, freeing him. Apparently, that was a skill he learned back as Agent Klein of S.H.I.E.L.D.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. There's an unrelated man with the name "Cameron Klein" in other Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse media. He's the S.H.I.E.L.D. technician who disobey Brock Rumlow's order once HYDRA is exposed by Captain America in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''. He reappears in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', now works under Nick Fury, and the film credits him as "Cameron Klein".
* PapaWolf: He's protective of his family, especially where crazed GH-325 patients like Sebastian Derek are involved.
* RetiredBadass: He's a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and according to his file, one of the elite. He was forced into retirement via memory wipe and now he prefers his new life.

[[folder:Tony Caine]]
!!''Tony Caine''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JakeBusey
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

A former student of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy and classmate of Alphonso Mackenzie. Eventually he was recruited by a government operation to provide new identities to HYDRA scientists which had been forcibly recruited.

* BrilliantButLazy: Bright enough to obtain exam answers and forge fake [=IDs=] but rarely attending classes.
* HighSchoolHustler: During his time in the Academy, he was a dealer of exam answers and fake [=IDs=]. This was the cause for his expulsion.
* TheSlacker: Unlike Mack, Caine was a lazy student that constantly missed classes.

[[folder:Rick Mason]]
!!''Rick Mason''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' O-T Fagbenle
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/TomokazuSeki (Japanese dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Black Widow|2021}}''

A former agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and ally of Natasha Romanoff.

* AdvertisedExtra: Despite getting his own character poster, Mason only shows up in a few short scenes.
* TheFixer: Is introduced having brought Natasha supplies and a set of fake [=ID=]s.
* RaceLift: In the comic books, Rick Mason is Caucasian, whereas the MCU version is African-American.
* RedHerring: Before ''Black Widow'''s release, some fans theorized that he was the true identity of Taskmaster, which was backed up by a number of the few scenes Rick appeared in. [[spoiler:Turns out, they were wrong, for Taskmaster turns out to actually be a woman.]]
* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: In the comics, Rick Mason is the son of Phineas Mason aka the Tinkerer. No evidence of that is present here, and indeed, given Rick's RaceLift and the fact that their actors are of similar ages, it's probably not the case.

!!Former S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists

[[folder:Dr. Franklin Hall]]
!!''Dr. Franklin Hall''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I've seen the future, Mr. Coulson, and it's a catastrophe."'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/IanHart
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E3TheAsset Episode 3: "The Asset"]]'')

-->''"S.H.I.E.L.D.? S.H.I.E.L.D. is just as guilty of the same thing, experimentation without thought of consequence! Your search for an unlimited power source brought an alien invasion."''

A brilliant S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist who theorized on the existence of gravity manipulating element called Gravitonium, and who further invented a means of controlling it. When said element is discovered, he is kidnapped by an old colleague of his named Ian Quinn, who wants him to finish his research.

* AndIMustScream: He's trapped inside the Gravitonium with Ian Quinn.
* TheAtoner: In his youth, he was quite enthusiastic about his research until he realized how if misused or worse, turned into a weapon, it could result in the deaths of millions. As an adult, he's ''very'' unwilling to continue work on it.
* BaldOfEvil: Or rather, Bald of Extremism.
* TheBusCameBack: He's absent for ''four seasons'' after his appearance, doubly impactful because he appeared in the ''third episode'', the ending of which established a cliffhanger.He ''finally'' comes back in Season 5, but doesn't become Graviton as many expected, instead, he becomes a GreaterScopeVillain for the person who does -- namely, Glenn Talbot.
* CompositeCharacter: InUniverse. He was absorbed by the gravitonium, then in an act of vengeance, he compelled the gravitonium to absorb Ian Quinn as well, as a result anyone who subsequently absorbs the gravitonium ends up absorbing their minds, including General Talbot, who became Graviton, Hall's identity in the comics.
* DecompositeCharacter: Unlike in the comics, he does not become Graviton; rather, it is General Talbot who takes the role. Although Hall is still a part of it (see CompositeCharacter above).
* FakeDefector: Pretends to go along with Quinn's scheme in order to sabotage the project and keep the device out of the wrong hands for good.
* KidnappedScientist: Exploited. He pulled the strings of his own kidnapping in order to ruin his kidnapper's plans, but said kidnapper isn't aware of this.
* MentorArchetype: He was [=FitzSimmons's=] favourite professor at the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Hall claims S.H.I.E.L.D. is this to people like Quinn - and that their desire to control things led to the events of ''The Avengers''. Coulson ultimately realizes that he and Hall are similar as well, and that they both make tough calls to protect people just before he seemingly kills Hall to save innocent lives.
* StartOfDarkness: In the comics, he becomes a gravity-manipulating supervillain named Graviton after a lab accident. And indeed, during the course of the episode, he falls into his device and is absorbed by a bubble of gravity manipulating matter... and is then seen at the end trying to claw his way out from the inside, complete with ScareChord.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Was willing to cause the deaths of quite a lot of people in order to destroy the device and prevent it from ever being used to hurt anyone. Coulson agrees that he has a point and that he made a tough call, but doesn't let him go through with it.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Ian Quinn escaped with the Gravitonium, presumably with Hall still trapped inside, in the first season finale, and neither have been seen since. It was probably the biggest open plot thread on the show, until the Gravitonium resurfaced in the fifth season to be used as AppliedPhlebotinum in an effort to seal the "fear dimension" rift opened by the destruction of the three Monoliths. Still, there has been no sign of [[ChekhovsGunman Dr. Hall]], at least so far. It turns out that his consciousness is trapped inside the Gravitonium, and he seems to be able to direct it somehow, at least against Ian Quinn.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Is well aware that his research could and is going to be used to harm people, and is forced to accept the fact that if he doesn't do something about it, the world may very well be worse off for his contribution. And so he decides to destroy the device by causing it to go haywire, obliterating a wide area, sacrificing himself and causing the deaths of many innocent people in order to make sure this doesn't happen.

[[folder:Elihas Starr]]
!!''Elihas Starr''
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!!!'''Citizenship:''' British
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MichaelCerveris
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp''

A S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist who worked under Hank Pym before being fired, and father of Ava Starr[=/=]Ghost.

* AdaptationalHeroism: While not quite a "hero" and still morally-questionable as a scientist, he still very much cared for his daughter and wasn't an outright villain.
* AdaptationalOriginConnection: Egghead had absolutely no connection to Ghost in the comics. Here, he's the MCU version's father and the accidental source of her powers and condition.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Hank says that he's a traitor that deserved to be fired. A deleted alternate opening shows that Starr had actually stolen some of Hank's research to try to build his own Quantum Tunnel in the 80s, only to be foiled by Ant-Man and the Wasp.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Never called "Egghead", though that has a justification: Elihas never went full-on villain in this continuity to begin with.
* CompositeCharacter: The Egghead of the comics was never married and never had a child, instead he had a sibling (unknown if brother or sister) who got married and had a child, Egghead's niece, Trixie Starr.
* DeathByAdaptation: Dead by the events of ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'', but alive in the comics.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Not quite a saint, but he was still very much a family man.
* {{Foil}}: Deleted scenes make him one to Bill Foster. Both worked with Hank Pym and make it clear how much they ''loath'' the man, to the point that they brush off his valid concerns just to prove him wrong, and both throw their lot in with criminal elements to achieve their own goals. The difference is in their motivations. Elihas is implied to have done it for the sake of proving his own scientific capabilities, dismisses Hank's warnings and winds up killing himself and his wife while doing some horrific damage to his daughter as a result. Bill is far more altruistic, wanting only to help Ava, and learns to look past his own baggage with Hank to heed the man's warnings, resulting in a much better ending for everyone involved.
* PosthumousCharacter: Died in a FreakLabAccident that also mutated his daughter when she was a child.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: The father of Ghost in the MCU, unlike the original.
* TogetherInDeath: His corpse is seen lying next to his wife's.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Appears only over the span of a flashback and then dies.

[[folder:Dr. Bill Foster / Goliath]]
!!''Dr. Bill Foster / Goliath''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/LaurenceFishburne, Creator/LangstonFishburne (young)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp''

A former friend of Hank Pym's during Pym's time at S.H.I.E.L.D. and fellow expert in growing/shrinking technologies.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: He supports Ava's criminal behavior as Ghost because he wants to save his adopted daughter, but he himself doesn't come across as particularly evil. When Ava goes too far in her suggestion to kidnap Cassie Lang, that's where he draws the line. Later, despite his longstanding hatred towards Pym, he eventually agrees to surrender and allow him to rescue Janet after Pym promises he can also cure Ava.
* AntiVillain: He isn't actually evil, but he is a willing accessory to most of Ava's crimes, and is willing to endanger Janet's life to save Ava's. He does however draw the line at extremes like child kidnapping or outright murder and he turns on Ava once he realises she is going too far, yet continues to be protective of her even after this.
* BlackAndNerdy: A brilliant scientist in his own right and a lecturer at a university by the time of ''Ant-Man and the Wasp''.
* CastFromCalories: Compares notes about how tiring sizeshifting to huge size can be.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Immediately becomes petty and abrasive once he's in a room with Hank, but is disturbed when Ava suggests going after Scott's daughter Cassie to force them into compliance, threatening that he'll sever ties with Ava if she goes that far.
* KickTheDog: A ''cold blooded'' one when Bill says that Janet was the only who could tolerate Hank without being pushed way and that she paid the price for it. Hope and Scott has to physically restrain Hank. It was out of line and foreshadows the antagonism between them.
* MeaningfulName: Bordering on PunnyName: His surname is Foster he is Ava's foster father.
* MoralityChain: Despite helping as best he can, there are lines he won't cross. He's determined to help Ava save herself, but he still threatens to stop helping her if she actually goes ahead with kidnapping Cassie Lang as a bargaining chip.
* MythologyGag:
** Was part of a S.H.I.E.L.D. program with Pym called "G.O.L.I.A.T.H.", which was an alias that both of them went by in the comics.
** He wears a blue sweater with the collar up, a visual nod to his [[https://static0.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Bill-Foster-aka-Goliath.jpg classic comic book costume]].
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: How he approaches his efforts to cure Ava. He tolerates Ava's collateral damage, illegal activities and any harm that befalls criminals but he draws the line at hurting innocents, most notably when he adamantly refuses to allow her to kidnap Cassie Lang. He even urges Ava to trust that Janet can help her to stop Ava from killing her by draining her quantum energy, something he turns out to be right about.
* NiceGuy: He's generally polite and cordial outside of his mutual bitterness with Hank. He's pleasant to Hope, Scott thinks he's cool before he's revealed to be working with Ghost, and presumably they get over that by the end of the movie, and he genuinely cares for Ava/Ghost, basically his foster daughter. Despite technically being an antagonist he's an AntiVillain at most, and even this is downplayed. He tolerates Ava's ruthlessness when it's directed toward criminals, but not innocents, and his own part in her operations is strictly selfless, presumably having had a hand in building the suit and isolation chamber which she uses to mitigate her condition.
* OldSuperhero: He is implied to be a retired hero, similar to Hank Pym. It is PlayedWith, as his actor Creator/LaurenceFishburne was around 55-56 during the filming of his first appearance, so it is not as extreme as other examples of this trope.
* ParentalSubstitute: Toward Ava. It becomes clear that his help isn't just about one-upping Pym but out of genuine concern for his adopted daughter.
* PassingTheTorch: It's an indirect version. He was partners with Hank on the technology that created Giant-Man and is implied to be the original Goliath superhero. Far from being upset that Scott is now using the technology he takes genuine interest and looks very impressed when Scott tells him how large he was able to grow. It's a subtle moment that suggests Foster has given Scott his approval.
* PetTheDog: When it seems like Hank is having a heart attack he's aggravated, but semi-quickly agrees to grab Hank's medicine. Which Hank was counting on; he was faking it, and the container was a trap.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: The adoptive father of Ava Starr, this version of Ghost. In the comics, Goliath and Ghost are not connected in any way.
* SitcomArchNemesis: He ''hates'' Hank. It's like a laboratory argument between colleagues that has lasted three decades. That being said, he doesn't turn Hank into the FBI when they come knocking, and he seems like a genuinely good guy who wants to do the right thing which includes helping Ghost, since no one else will. Hank Pym just seems to have that effect on people -- at least Bill didn't steal his company and try to kill him.
* {{Sizeshifter}}: As the original Giant-Man/Goliath, he reached a height of 21 feet.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the comics, Bill was killed during ''ComicBook/CivilWar''. In the films, he's introduced alive and well in a story set ''after'' [[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar the MCU's version of the event]].
* UnreliableExpositor: He's heavily biased against Hank, so Bill's accounts of how their partnership ended should be taken with a grain of salt. Neither of them were there for Elihas Starr's death, and this also affects their judgment when it comes to Ghost.
* WouldntHurtAChild: He immediately puts his foot down when Ava suggests kidnapping Cassie as a way of forcing Scott and the others into compliance, threatening to end their relationship if Ava hurts Scott's daughter.

[[folder:Dr. Holden Radcliffe]]
!!''Dr. Holden Radcliffe''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"It's not a hunch, it's science. It's a science hunch."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Scottish
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JohnHannah
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E18TheSingularity Episode 62: "The Singularity"]]'')

->''"I believe that art and science are entwined. The Devil, and God, is in the details. I don't want people to see my work and know it's work. If they gave a second glance, I want it to be out of awe, not disgust."''

A former GT Agrochemical researcher whose theories and experiments on transhumanism got him fired from the company. He was kidnapped and recruited by Hive in order to recreate the Kree experiment which had created the Inhumans, after which he was rescued by Team Coulson and began working with S.H.I.E.L.D.

* AdaptationalHeroism: While he frequently finds himself doing bad things, he's generally trying to do them for the right reasons, or because he hasn't been given any choice. His comics counterpart was an utterly ruthless CorruptCorporateExecutive who WouldHurtAChild.
* AdaptationalNationality: Radcliffe in ''Comicbook/MachineTeen'' was American, this version is Scottish.
* AffablyEvil: He is entirely friendly to pretty much everyone [[EveryoneHasStandards (unless he thinks that they're working for HYDRA)]] and gets on very well with fellow scientists Fitz and Simmons, especially Fitz -- as of season 4, the two are frequently sharing beers and discussing science. Really, he's mostly harmless. His only problem is his occasional lack of a moral compass, which doesn't really help matters when he takes one brief glimpse of the text of the evil Darkhold.
* AintTooProudToBeg: Routinely begs for his life whenever he upsets Hive.
* AlasPoorVillain: Considering he's killed while he's still under Darkhold's corruption, it's hard not to feel a little sorry for him. Doubles for his ultimate death in the Framework, where he is DyingAlone, lamenting how he is glad that he will die now, as he doesn't have his beloved Agnes with him anymore.
* AntiVillain: During Season 3, all he really wanted was to improve humanity, realizing too late what Hive was really up to. And in Season 4 he gets corrupted by the Darkhold, which warps his view on how to help humanity.
* ArcVillain: Of the ''LMD'' pod in Season 4, all in an attempt to gain the Darkhold, and with it, the secret of immortality. By the end of the arc, though, he is [[EvilerThanThou supplanted]] [[DragonAscendant by]] Aida as the true villain of the season.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Forms an alliance with the Watchdogs, giving them information and [=LMDs=] in exchange for protection.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Turns out he's under the Darkhold's morality-corrupting control and is using Aida to try to retrieve it.
* CatchPhrase: "This was never my intention."
* CharacterDeath: Murdered by Aida in "Self Control" when she thinks his regrets could possibly go too far but she plugs him into the Framework immediately afterward. The death only applies to his physical body. However, his mind dies too when the Framework is shut down in "World's End".
* CompositeCharacter: He's essentially the Mister Sinister to Hive's ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}}, being an EvilutionaryBiologist who serves an ancient super powered being. However, personality wise Radcliffe is very different from Sinister. His role as the creator of AIDA is from Tom Thumb.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Sometimes the worst thing about Radcliffe is his lack of proper morals. Other times, it's his lack of common sense, usually at Fitz's expense:
** In "Failed Experiments", Hive goes on a speech on how concentrating powers in the hands of [[ComicBook/TheAvengers a few]] will result in a war, while his plan to spread the Inhuman gene will avert this. Radcliffe asks if this means they can start the experiment. Hive takes a moment to compose himself before saying yes, implying that this has happened before.
** In "The Ghost", when a dumbstruck Fitz asks "What the hell?" regarding Aida's robot body, Radcliffe assumes that it's over Aida being caught in a loop trying to say hello. Fitz was actually asking where the hell Aida comes from.
** In "Let Me Stand Next To Your Fire", after Fitz mentions how his eyes would bulge when he was frightened, he sees Aida talking with May, and nearly panics. Radcliffe is more interested in seeing that Fitz's eyes actually are bulging.
** In "Broken Promises", Mack describes a missing Aida as a SexBot, which Radcliffe takes offense at--he's never had sex with Aida, they're just good friends. Fitz winces over how Radcliffe is making things actually worse.
* DeadpanSnarker: He likes to snark from time to time.
-->'''Radcliffe:''' ''[to Talbot]'' I can tell by your mustache that you're a man of much importance and not to be trifled with...
* DeathEqualsRedemption: Literally! After being bumped off by Aida/Madame Hydra, he comes to realize that the Framework has gone too far out of control and, albeit with some coaxing, tells Simmons and Coulson where their friends are being held.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Radcliffe is the main villain of the ''LMD'' arc, as he is the one who programmed Aida to become more ruthless and steal the Darkhold. However by the end of the arc Aida kills him once she believes that his various regrets could lead towards him deactivating the Framework, becoming the season's true BigBad in the process.
* EveryoneHasStandards: To Radcliffe, science is meant to improve humanity, not hinder or harm it. He was appalled to learn that HYDRA placed explosives in the Deathlok's ocular enhancements, believing it a horrible misuse of science. When he thinks that Fitz and Simmons are from HYDRA, he orders his security forces to take them away. While working for Hive, Radcliffe makes it pretty clear that he is uncomfortable working on non-volunteers and that his only interest is in advancing the human race. His accidental creation of the Alpha Primitives horrifies him. He also makes it absolutely clear to Aida that he does ''not'' approve of her killing Agent Nathanson and attempting to kill Agent May.
* EvilFormerFriend: To Fitz after his treachery is revealed. Interestingly, the Radcliffe LMD still indicates that Radcliffe still considers Fitz a friend, though it's fairly one-sided at that point.
* {{Foil}}: To Fitz and Simmons, who work selflessly to protect humanity and have lines they will not cross and people they won't work with; Radcliffe is fairly [[ForScience amoral]] and will work with almost anyone so long as he can advance his transhuman agenda -- [[EveryoneHasStandards though he draws the line at HYDRA, and Hive's plan to turn everyone who isn't Inhuman into a swayed Primitive horrifies him.]]
* ForScience: He willingly works for Hive after being kidnapped due to the opportunity to advance the human race by making everyone an Inhuman. However, he is less than pleased when he realizes Hive is happy with creating the Alpha Primitives instead so that he can have an easy-to-control slave race. Eventually, he's absolutely horrified at everything he's done, but is too afraid of dying to do anything about it.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: He briefly glimpses the Darkhold but refuses to read anymore as he felt his brain was being overloaded. Unfortunately, that brief glimpse corrupted his mind as he wants to uses it to make people immortal, and by "Hot Potato Soup" even he seems to be starting to regret even that brief glimpse. By "BOOM", it gets to the point where he's actively discouraging other people from trying to read it.
* GoneHorriblyRight: He is dismayed at the ghoul-like abominations he's created with his experiment, but otherwise it worked exactly as intended. Those exposed to the virus are instantly transformed and enslaved to Hive.
* HannibalLecture: After being captured by HYDRA, he's fond of giving personality-probing lines to his captors, particularly the Doctor and his father.
* HeelFaceTurn: He develops a friendship with Fitz and Simmons at the end of season 3 and begins working with them regularly. When Simmons has only 24 hours to save May's life in season 4, she makes a bee-line to his house.
** The episodes "No Regrets" and "The Return" cement his second one, where he provides everyone on Team Coulson the location to a backdoor out of the Framework.
* KarmaHoudini: Somewhat. He helps out S.H.I.E.L.D. in the end, but doesn't seem to face charges for his (at first) willing cooperation with Hive, despite numerous hearings. It's later clarified he was given a pardon, but he's forbidden to conduct experiments without supervision -- creating Aida is something that could get him jailed. It goes back and forth over season 4, ending with the corruption of his work, the death of his true love, and his own death, and all of it can be linked back to him.
* KilledMidSentence: As everything in the Framework is being deleted, Radcliffe decides to spend his last moments before he meets the same fate watching the sunset on a beach with a bottle of liquor. He pours himself a glass and raises it for a toast, quoting Creator/TSEliot, but is deleted before he can finish his sentence, and the glass he was holding just drops to the ground.
* LikeASonToMe: Radcliffe admits that Fitz had been like the son he never had, and it's implied that Fitz felt the same way. Which makes Radcliffe's betrayal hurt Fitz all the more.
* MadScientist: Advancing the transhuman agenda means replacing parts of his own body with what he considers to be superior components from birds or machines and doing the same for others. Personality-wise he's pretty mild.
* TheManBehindTheMan: At the end of "Broken Promises", he's revealed to be pulling Aida's strings after duping the others into thinking she rebelled against him.
* MayDecemberRomance: He's over twenty years older than Agnes, his lover, going by the ages for their actors.
* TheMedic: From time to time, and he tends to be quite good at healing humans, if only because he's willing to come up with solutions that are CrazyEnoughToWork.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His reaction upon seeing the Watchdogs transformed into mindless slave creatures. He all but utters the trope by name.
** His breakdown in the Framework!Triskelion's prison "No Regrets" also screams this, after he loses Agnes. This inspires a shred of sympathy from Skye.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: He's largely uninterested in Hive's aims to control the world, save where they intersect with his of improving humanity -- when this results in the Primitives, which are as close to an antithesis of his ideas as you can get (they're not evolved humans, really, they're devolved) and Hive is entirely happy with, he's horrified.
* OmniDisciplinaryScientist: Played With. He's a brilliant genetic biologist and cyberneticist, but the practical engineering of a nuclear warhead is beyond him.
* PetTheDog: He's rather fond of Fitz and Simmons, and in the stinger of Season 3 he expresses sadness at the number of friends they've lost. This inspires his latest project: improving [=LMDs=]... which ends up going rather wrong when he's exposed to the corrupting influence of the Darkhold in the next season.
* PluckyComicRelief: His nonchalance about mad science is played for laughs to various degrees and he makes a great wise guy when paired with Fitz as the straight man.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After witnessing Hive's horrors, he is all too happy when S.H.I.E.L.D. shows up.
* {{Transhuman}}: Not only is he a a member of the transhumanist movement, he is a transhuman, having a hybrid avian eye.
-->'''Radcliffe:''' Bird's visual acuity is superior to mammals, I got envious.
* VirtualGhost: After Aida kills him and uploads his consciousness into the Framework, Radcliffe can only exist in the Framework itself. He's naturally not pleased to be spending the rest of his life in a HYDRA world order, and after Agnes is killed he becomes near-suicidal.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: His intention with the Framework is to end suffering.

!!Others

[[folder:Others]]
* [[Characters/MCUInhumans Dr. Andrew Garner]]
* [[{{Characters/MCULMD}} Aida]]
* [[Characters/MCUCaptainAmerica Agent Steve Rogers / Captain America]]
* [[Characters/MCUBlackWidow Agent Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow]]
* [[Characters/MCUHawkeye Agent Clint Barton / Hawkeye]]
* [[Characters/MCUUnitedStatesGovernment Agent Sharon Carter / Agent 13]]
* [[Characters/MCUHYDRAOperatives Agent Brock Rumlow]]
* [[Characters/MCUOtherSupervillains Ava Starr / Ghost]]
* [[Characters/MCUUnitedStatesGovernment Agent James "Jimmy" Woo]]
* [[Characters/MCUPymFamily Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym / Ant-Man]]
* [[Characters/MCUPymFamily Janet van Dyne / The Wasp]]
* [[Characters/MCUUnitedStatesCitizens Agent Laura Barton / Agent 19]]

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Consider that Cap saved the world with ''less than one second'' remaining. Now, remember that this man refused to launch the INSIGHT carriers, even at gunpoint, and stalled Rumlow for as long as he could. The entire MCU owes this man huge thanks.

* [[Characters/MCUCompaniesPymTechnologies Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym / Ant-Man]]
* [[Characters/MCUCompaniesPymTechnologies Janet van Dyne / The Wasp]]

!!!Variants
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Some characters have Variants that exist in universes that have their own character pages.

-> See the Characters/SonysSpiderManUniverse page for the Variant of Dimitri Smerdyakov known as the Chameleon from an unknown Earth
[[/folder]]

* [[Characters/MCUAvengersAndAllies Agent Clint Barton / Hawkeye]]

!! Spoilers for all works set prior to ''Avengers: Infinity War'' and ''Avengers: Endgame'' are unmarked.

!!!'''Species:''' Human

%%!!!'''Voiced By:'''

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A former GT Agrochemical researcher whose theories and experiments on transhumanism got him fired from the company. He was kidnapped and recruited by Hive in order to recreate the Kree experiment which had created the Inhumans.

* OutnumberedSibling: The only female Koenig sibling... and also the only "manly" one given that her brothers are all giant nerds (except the one who is a giant hipster instead).

!!''Agent Michael "Mike" Peterson / Deathlok''

* AmbiguouslyHuman: While Eric was human, his identical brothers have the exact same mannerisms as he so there's been a lot of (In-universe!) speculation on what they actually ''are''. It's eventually clarified that the brothers are just identical quadruplets (or at least [[UnreliableExpositor that's what they told]] an inquisitive RedShirt).

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/LaurenceFishburne (old) Creator/LangstonFishburne (young)

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: When Deke is telling Mack about the squad, he lists off their capabilities as agents... except Cricket, who's just a drummer and drug dealer.