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** Jarvis is well and truly capable of assisting Mr.Stark when it comes to mixing drinks as well as underworld dealings and investigation. Howard loans him to Peggy in the pilot. The second season reveals that he's studied boxing, judo and fencing, apparently in hopes of being useful in another adventure.

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** Jarvis is well and truly capable of assisting Mr.Stark when it comes to mixing drinks as well as underworld dealings and investigation. Howard loans him to Peggy in the pilot. The second season reveals that he's studied boxing, judo and fencing, apparently in hopes of being useful in another adventure. He's certainly not as hardened or skilled in a fight as most examples of this trope, but he does come through when it counts.
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--> '''Jarvis''': (shouting up to the roof) ''For God’s sake will you please stop shooting things?!''

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--> ---> '''Jarvis''': (shouting up to the roof) ''For God’s sake will you please stop shooting things?!''



** Carter wears a bright red Stetson Aviatrix at the start of the first episode. It's prominently featured on the posters, and is pretty much a required component of any Peggy Carter cosplay.
-->'''Rose:''' Love the hat.

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** Carter wears a bright red Stetson Aviatrix at the start of the first episode. It's prominently featured on the posters, and is pretty much a required component of any Peggy Carter cosplay.
-->'''Rose:'''
cosplay. During the first seaosn finale she sports a blue version during Howard's hallucination of her holding Steve's shield.
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Love the hat.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** "Now Is Not The End": When Peggy claims their job has pressing after-hours demands, Jarvis responds: "So does my wife."
** During "A View in the Dark," Ana Jarvis comments on her husband's strengths and weaknesses: "He's never more lethal than when he's flat on his back." Then she smacks him on the ass.
** In "A Sin to Err", Peggy muses that Stark has a tendency to "prematurely evacuate".
** If you know what "SNAFU" stands for, then episode seven's title becomes this.
** Also in "SNAFU", Dooley wonders if the contents of the vial he's holding will "spice up an old-fashioned." Which is, yes, a cocktail...but it's also period slang for a handjob.
** The thing with the carrot under Good Cop, Bad Cop below probably qualifies.
** Peggy calls Howard Stark a wanker[[note]]It literally means 'someone who masturbates,' but its colloquial usage is slightly different. In essence, Peggy is calling Howard an asshole or an egotist. This fits the trope more because of its crudeness than anything else.[[/note]] several times.

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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** "Now Is Not The End": When Peggy claims their job has pressing after-hours demands, Jarvis responds: "So does my wife."
** During "A View
GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the Dark," Ana Jarvis comments on her husband's strengths and weaknesses: "He's never more lethal than when he's flat on his back." Then she smacks him on the ass.
** In "A Sin to Err", Peggy muses that Stark has a tendency to "prematurely evacuate".
** If you know what "SNAFU" stands for, then episode seven's title becomes this.
** Also in "SNAFU", Dooley wonders if the contents of the vial he's holding will "spice up an old-fashioned." Which is, yes, a cocktail...but it's also period slang for a handjob.
** The thing with the carrot under Good Cop, Bad Cop below probably qualifies.
** Peggy calls Howard Stark a wanker[[note]]It literally means 'someone who masturbates,' but its colloquial usage is slightly different. In essence, Peggy is calling Howard an asshole or an egotist. This fits
future, please check the trope more because of its crudeness than anything else.[[/note]] several times. page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* PresentDayPast: The periodic table in the Los Angeles SSR office lab is very up-to-date, including atomic elements that had not even been discovered (much less named, as Copernicium, symbol Cn, wasn't named until 2009) in the 1940s setting of the series.
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In Season 2, the setting shifts to 1947's southern California, with Peggy uncovering a new conspiracy while working for the new Los Angeles SSR branch. D'Arcy as Jarvis and Cooper as Stark return, along with new castmembers Wynn Everett as Whitney Frost, Lotte Verbeek as Ana Jarvis, and Reggie Austin as Jason Wilkes.

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In Season 2, the setting shifts to 1947's southern California, with Peggy uncovering a new conspiracy while working for the new Los Angeles SSR branch. D'Arcy as Jarvis and Cooper as Stark return, along with new castmembers Wynn Everett as Whitney Frost, Lotte Verbeek Creator/LotteVerbeek as Ana Jarvis, and Reggie Austin as Jason Wilkes.
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* SunshineNoir: Season 2 has Peggy Carter go to Los Angeles, where it's way sunnier than in New York City but where dark threats loom all the same.
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The SSR has ''two''. There's Thompson, the misogynistic NumberTwo to the Chief, and Krzeminski, an even ''more'' misogynistic FatBastard [[YourCheatingHeart adulterer]] that even Thompson doesn't like.

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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The SSR has ''two''. There's Thompson, the misogynistic NumberTwo to the Chief, and Krzeminski, an even ''more'' misogynistic FatBastard [[YourCheatingHeart adulterer]] adulterer that even Thompson doesn't like.
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** Sousa strikes upon a method of dealing with Dr. Ivchenko's CompellingVoice, by plugging his ears and pretending to be under his control, would be copied [[Series/JessicaJones 70 years]] later by Trish Walker.
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** At one point, Dooley tells Jarvis that the truth is [[Series/BabylonFive a three edged sword, your side, their side, and the facts]].

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* BigBad: Season 1 [[spoiler:Dr. Ivchenko]] Season 2: Whitney Frost

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Season 1 1: [[spoiler:Dr. Ivchenko]] Ivchenko, real name Johann Fennhoff]], a Leviathan agent who orchestrated the theft of Howard Stark’s inventions.
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Season 2: Whitney FrostFrost, the genius wife of one of the members of the secret society known as the Council of Nine. [[spoiler: She gains powers after becoming corrupted by Zero Matter and overthrows them, planning to create a rift that would allow more Zero Matter to invade our reality]].
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** Whitney Frost in the comics started off as a beautiful woman, but was disfigured in a planer crash. Here, no such thing happened.

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** Whitney Frost in the comics started off as a beautiful woman, but was disfigured in a planer plane crash. Here, no such thing happened.



* AffablyEvil: Joseph Manfredi is very chipper and personable in spite of being a murderous mobster who might beat you to death if you cross him.

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* AffablyEvil: Joseph Manfredi [[spoiler:(Hydra's Blackwing, in the comics)]] is very chipper and personable in spite of being a murderous mobster who might beat you to death if you cross him.
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** Also in "The Iron Ceiling", the "Black Widow" trainees are shown learning to speak English from watching ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' in 1937. That movie first premiered to a limited audience on December 21, 1937 (It was not released for general distribution until February 1938). It seems unlikely that the Russians would be able to acquire the movie, approve it for use as a training tool, and get it ready for said use in a matter of ten days.

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** Also in "The Iron Ceiling", the "Black Widow" trainees are shown learning to speak English from watching ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' in 1937. That movie first premiered to a limited audience on December 21, 1937 (It was not released for general distribution until February 1938). It seems unlikely that the Russians would be able to acquire the movie, approve it for use as a training tool, and get it ready for said use in a matter of ten days.



* SubliminalSeduction: The "Black Widow" trainees are shown learning to speak English from watching ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''. When Peggy Carter finds the training room, she runs a few frames through the projector and finds the words INSTALL FEAR.

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* SubliminalSeduction: The "Black Widow" trainees are shown learning to speak English from watching ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''.''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''. When Peggy Carter finds the training room, she runs a few frames through the projector and finds the words INSTALL FEAR.

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** The ‘long-distance’ typewriter Green Suit uses to report to and receive orders from his superior is similar to the typewriter Fauxlivia used in ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' to report to and receive orders from her superior in the other dimension.


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** Howard Stark and Whitney Frost [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed are nods to Howard Hughes and Hedy Lamarr]], respectively.
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** Whitney Frost, a major Hollywood star. And also a positively ''brilliant'' scientist in her own right. The parallels to Creator/HedyLamarr, who was active during the same time period, are quite clear (though obviously Lamarr was not the murderous villain Frost became).
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There's still a LOT of loose ends that have not been addressed.


The first season, consisting of eight episodes, aired from January 6 to February 24, 2015, while the second season, consisting of 10 episodes, aired from January 19 to March 1, 2016. The series was cancelled on May 12, 2016 after its second season. However, the show did get a FullyAbsorbedFinale in the form of ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' and ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' where we find out what happened to Peggy and Howard after the events of the show.

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The first season, consisting of eight episodes, aired from January 6 to February 24, 2015, while the second season, consisting of 10 episodes, aired from January 19 to March 1, 2016. The series was cancelled on May 12, 2016 after its second season. However, Although numerous plot points[[note]]such as who shot Thompson and why they wanted the show did get a FullyAbsorbedFinale in redacted dossier on Peggy, and the form fate of ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' and ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' where Dottie Underwood after her escape[[/note]] have as such never been resolved, we find out do learn some of what happened to Peggy and Howard after the events of the show.show in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' and ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.
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* ReplacedWithReplica: Peggy Carter is told by Stark to steal a superweapon called "The Blitzkrieg Button" from a lab and replace it with a fake, before the scientists examining it activate it by accident. [[spoiler:However, it turns out the real one was not a weapon either, but a container for something more valuable that Stark wants back without anyone knowing.]]
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* EqualOpportunityEvil: Isodyne Energy is a villainous organization that was nonetheless the only company to agree to hire a black physicist. It's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:the company only employed him because he'd be too reliant on his job to complain about all of the dastardly work going on there]].

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* EqualOpportunityEvil: Isodyne Energy is a villainous organization that was nonetheless the only company to agree to hire a black physicist. physicist and a woman. It's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:the company only employed him them and other minorities because he'd they'd be too reliant on his job their jobs to complain about all of the dastardly work going on there]].
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The first season, consisting of eight episodes, aired from January 6 to February 24, 2015, while the second season, consisting of 10 episodes, aired from January 19 to March 1, 2016. The series was cancelled on May 12, 2016 after its second season.

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The first season, consisting of eight episodes, aired from January 6 to February 24, 2015, while the second season, consisting of 10 episodes, aired from January 19 to March 1, 2016. The series was cancelled on May 12, 2016 after its second season. However, the show did get a FullyAbsorbedFinale in the form of ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' and ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' where we find out what happened to Peggy and Howard after the events of the show.
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* UnexpectedCharacter:
** Leet Brannis was a crook who appeared in stories involving the Whizzer (a character that has rarely appeared after UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks), so his appearance here is surprising to say the least.
** The appearance of Jerome Zandow, whose Earth-616 counterpart was known as Zandow The Strongman, a member of the WWII-era of the circus of crime.
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* CastingGag:
** In the Japanese dub, it's not the first time Creator/MieSonozaki (Peggy Carter) has played a [[VideoGame/StreetFighterIV secret agent]] before.
** Both Dominic Cooper and James D'Arcy have played ''Franchise/JamesBond'' author Ian Fleming.
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** Due to the aforementioned MadonnaWhoreComplex, Peggy is looked down upon and often pushed aside by her superiors and coworkers, who at best dismiss her as a young lady who simply hasn't learned that as a woman her proper place is either at home raising kids and making dinner or doing something not dangerous (like fetching coffee and reports) since anything dangerous is "man's work" or at worst think she's trying to use her relationship with Franchise/CaptainAmerica to get ahead in an environment that is no place for a woman. Ultimately Peggy ends up using this to her advantage, since everyone either sees her as "a stray kitten" or "a secretary turned damsel" actually makes it easier for her to sneak around and do her own investigating.

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** Due to the aforementioned MadonnaWhoreComplex, Peggy is looked down upon and often pushed aside by her superiors and coworkers, who at best dismiss her as a young lady who simply hasn't learned that as a woman her proper place is either at home raising kids and making dinner or doing something not dangerous (like fetching coffee and reports) since anything dangerous is "man's work" or at worst think she's trying to use her relationship with Franchise/CaptainAmerica ComicBook/CaptainAmerica to get ahead in an environment that is no place for a woman. Ultimately Peggy ends up using this to her advantage, since everyone either sees her as "a stray kitten" or "a secretary turned damsel" actually makes it easier for her to sneak around and do her own investigating.

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** [[spoiler: Season Two ended with Thompson being shot by some mysterious person who promptly takes the file on "M. Carter" he had in his possession.]]

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** [[spoiler: Season Two ended with Thompson being shot by some mysterious person who promptly takes the file on "M. Carter" he had in his possession. It's unknown whether he survives, let alone whodunnit.]]
** [[spoiler: we don't even get to find out whether the file was about Margaret (Peggy) or Michael Carter.
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[[spoiler: Season Two ended with Thompson being shot by some mysterious person who promptly takes the file on "M. Carter" he had in his possession.]

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** [[spoiler: Season Two ended with Thompson being shot by some mysterious person who promptly takes the file on "M. Carter" he had in his possession.]]]

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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: James [=D'Arcy=]'s portrayal of Jarvis is a good sight better looking than the portly, balding man from the comics. This version is several decades younger.

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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: AdaptationalAttractiveness:
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James [=D'Arcy=]'s portrayal of Jarvis is a good sight better looking than the portly, balding man from the comics. This version is several decades younger.younger.
** Whitney Frost in the comics started off as a beautiful woman, but was disfigured in a planer crash. Here, no such thing happened.
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* CardboardBoxOfUnemployment: Invoked and then downplayed. Peggy is told to pack her things after the SSR catches wind of her vigilante investigation and fires her. However, she was given so few responsibilities from her sexist coworkers that there isn't much to pack.
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** It should also be noted that season 2 is said to take place in 1947 and shows that Peggy is still working for the SSR. However, the one-shot is said to take place a year after the events of ''The First Avenger'' (1946) and shows Peggy leaving the SSR to start up S.H.I.E.L.D. along with Howard Stark.

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* FakeGuestStar: Both Creator/LyndsyFonseca (Angie) and Creator/BridgetRegan (Dottie) only missed two episodes in the first season, yet they'weren't included in the main cast list.

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Both Creator/LyndsyFonseca (Angie) and Creator/BridgetRegan (Dottie) only missed two episodes in the first season, yet they'weren't included in the main cast list.list.
** The second season goes even farther, with the official main cast being limited to returning people. The new ones are all considered "Recurring" at best, even though a few of them ([[spoiler:Wynn Everett as Whitney Frost and Reggie Austin as Jason Wilkes]]) appear in every single episode, making them more prominent than "Main" Creator/ChadMichaelMurray (Jack Thompson).
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''Agent Carter'' is a television series set in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. It stars Creator/HayleyAtwell as ComicBook/PeggyCarter, a British officer of the Strategic Scientific Reserve and co-founder of ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} who was professionally and romantically involved with [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''. Supporting cast includes Creator/DominicCooper as Howard Stark, [[Creator/{{James D'Arcy}} James D'Arcy]] as Edwin Jarvis, Creator/ChadMichaelMurray, Creator/EnverGjokaj, Creator/SheaWhigham, Creator/LyndsyFonseca and Creator/BridgetRegan.

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''Agent Carter'' is a television series set in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. It stars Creator/HayleyAtwell as ComicBook/PeggyCarter, a British officer of the Strategic Scientific Reserve and co-founder of ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} who was professionally and romantically involved with [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''. Supporting cast includes Creator/DominicCooper as Howard Stark, [[Creator/{{James D'Arcy}} DArcy}} James D'Arcy]] as Edwin Jarvis, Creator/ChadMichaelMurray, Creator/EnverGjokaj, Creator/SheaWhigham, Creator/LyndsyFonseca and Creator/BridgetRegan.
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''Agent Carter'' is a television series set in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. It stars Creator/HayleyAtwell as ComicBook/PeggyCarter, a British officer of the Strategic Scientific Reserve and co-founder of ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} who was professionally and romantically involved with [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''. Supporting cast includes Creator/DominicCooper as Howard Stark, James D'Arcy as Edwin Jarvis, Creator/ChadMichaelMurray, Creator/EnverGjokaj, Creator/SheaWhigham, Creator/LyndsyFonseca and Creator/BridgetRegan.

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''Agent Carter'' is a television series set in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. It stars Creator/HayleyAtwell as ComicBook/PeggyCarter, a British officer of the Strategic Scientific Reserve and co-founder of ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} who was professionally and romantically involved with [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''. Supporting cast includes Creator/DominicCooper as Howard Stark, [[Creator/{{James D'Arcy}} James D'Arcy D'Arcy]] as Edwin Jarvis, Creator/ChadMichaelMurray, Creator/EnverGjokaj, Creator/SheaWhigham, Creator/LyndsyFonseca and Creator/BridgetRegan.
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''Agent Carter'' is a television series set in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. It stars Creator/HayleyAtwell as ComicBook/PeggyCarter, a British officer of the Strategic Scientific Reserve and co-founder of ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} who was romantically involved with [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] during ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''. Supporting cast includes Creator/DominicCooper as Howard Stark, James D'Arcy as Edwin Jarvis, Creator/ChadMichaelMurray, Creator/EnverGjokaj, Creator/SheaWhigham, Creator/LyndsyFonseca and Creator/BridgetRegan.

It is 1946, a year after the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and the disappearance of Captain America. Thousands of trained men and women have come home from fighting, looking for a new place to use their skills. One of those is Peggy, still despondent after the loss of Steve and hampered from getting a better job by the misogyny of the times. But in between tedious office work for the SSR, Peggy is contacted by her old friend Howard Stark, eventual father of [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]], who needs her help in clearing his name and finding whoever is stealing his restricted weapons. Accompanied by his butler Edwin Jarvis, Peggy puts her skills to the test, beating up bad guys and laying the foundation of S.H.I.E.L.D. itself.

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''Agent Carter'' is a television series set in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. It stars Creator/HayleyAtwell as ComicBook/PeggyCarter, a British officer of the Strategic Scientific Reserve and co-founder of ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} who was professionally and romantically involved with [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''. Supporting cast includes Creator/DominicCooper as Howard Stark, James D'Arcy as Edwin Jarvis, Creator/ChadMichaelMurray, Creator/EnverGjokaj, Creator/SheaWhigham, Creator/LyndsyFonseca and Creator/BridgetRegan.

It is 1946, a year after the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the war and the disappearance of Captain America. Thousands of trained men and women have come home from fighting, looking for a new place to use their skills. One of those is Peggy, still despondent after the loss of Steve and hampered from getting a better job by the misogyny of the times. But in between tedious office work for the SSR, Peggy is contacted by her old friend Howard Stark, eventual father of [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]], who needs her help in clearing his name and finding whoever is stealing his restricted weapons. Accompanied by his butler Edwin Jarvis, Peggy puts her skills to the test, beating up bad guys and laying the foundation of S.H.I.E.L.D. itself.

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