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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Petty things no one can prove. You can't prove he told someone to walk away or to stand in place, it's so easy to assume that they did it themselves for whatever reason.
Sure, what Loki did could count as mind control that SHIELD and other authorities should be more wary of however the fact he needed a unique object to do it would also mean that it was an isolated incident isolated to one item so odds are mind control is not likely to be a power that's out there in the world.
There are so many reasons why Kilgrave would go unnoticed and why no one would be going out of there to suspect mind controllers.
Heck, the Loki info was probably information kept within SHIELD, after all, who in the ordinary public would need to know government operatives had their minds washed by an alien dictator?
The Blog The ArtAt its most basic level - and true to the metaphor - the hardest thing about having Kilgrave arrested is that he isn't even going to be investigated until his victims start talking to the police. Which they aren't inclined to do because nobody would take their accusations seriously. Except for those select few who do it anyway, whose effort will immediately be undermined because nobody will take their accusations seriously.
edited 19th May '16 12:24:33 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.The fact that Loki's scepter also has visual effects on its victims, briefly darkening their eyes before replacing them with weird irises, at least serves as some form of evidence that something is going on.
Not only does Kilgrave's mind control leave no calling card, it also causes its victims to behave normally outside of following Kilgrave's orders, making it much harder to point at and say "look, mind control!" Look at how long Luke Cage played the unwilling role of double agent before Kilgrave revealed what was going on.
edited 19th May '16 12:27:06 PM by Anomalocaris20
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Actually, Clint and Selvig appeared to be somewhat themselves while under his control, just like with Killgrave's victims.
But it is true that there are less visual signs of Killgrave's mind control.
Damn. It's a very good thing Loki never knew about the latter. Imagine what the two of them could have done together.
One Strip! One Strip!There's always the possibility that Coulson sent some agents to check on the situation and they either found nothing or found Kilgrave and reported that they found nothing. Maybe it would have been nice to have a couple SHIELD agents knock on Jessica's door asking questions, but most of the world still sees SHIELD and HYDRA as one and the same, so it makes investigations a little difficult.
edited 19th May '16 12:34:28 PM by Discar
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It wouldn't work so well for one of them.
"Give me your scepter."
"Okay."
"Now go jump off a skyscraper."
"Okay."
*wham*
"I did as you said."
"How did you survive that?!"
"I am a god."
"Oh. Bully. You're my personal bodyguard now."
"Okay."
edited 19th May '16 12:35:46 PM by Anomalocaris20
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!One does not just go to S.H.I.E.L.D. It's not like they have public offices for people to report crimes. They don't advertise on late-night television or have Customer Service respondents handling emails. If they did, they'd be constantly inundated by ridiculous claims like "My neighbor's psychic powers made my kitty attack him" or "I think my husband's been replaced by an alien." Kilgrave's report would fit right in.
They're a globe-trotting spy agency, not a public service. They come to you. But in order to do that, there needs to be news feeds or police reports or a government official with a bone to pick. Something to get the message to them.
If aliens attack Madagascar, S.H.I.E.L.D. gets involved. If a man with lightning powers shows up on the news shooting lightning at a high school, S.H.I.E.L.D. gets involved. You regret a bad decision you're not sure why you made? Talk to the cops, not S.H.I.E.L.D.'s jurisdiction.
edited 19th May '16 12:44:22 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Can't the same be said for the shows? The Netflix shows can make a reasonable assumption that people watch the other Netflix shows but there's no reason to assume that someone who watches Agents has been following or even has Netflix to follow the other shows, nor is there a reason to assume that someone who watches the Netflix shows cares overmuch about broadcast programming.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Civil War did have a news reel mentioning the ATCU and some other events from Agents. It's not much, but it's there.
The biggest oversight was in Age of Ultron. It would have been so easy to have someone from the show on the Hellicarrier. No need to draw any attention to them, just have them there so fans of the show see the connection. They should have just put Patton Oswalt next to Fury, and have everyone on the bridge wearing lanyards.
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You don't need to assume that everyone will get the reference to justify having a reference.
edited 19th May '16 1:23:20 PM by TobiasDrake
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I could maybe buy that if S.H.I.E.L.D didn't have a huge office and thousands of field agents, and apparently so many prisoners they had multiple facilities to contain them and that's not even counting the people they just monitor in the field on house arrest and such. I doubt all of those people went on mass murder sprees and attracted a bunch of attention. Hell, there was one woman that was just under S.H.I.E.L.D jurisdiction for sticking razor blades to her fingernails and killing her boyfriend. Even rumours about someone like Killgrave (and no way there wouldn't be any rumours ever, Killgrave is super blatant about using his powers) would have attracted a lot of attention. Especially since he started when he was a kid, kids don't have the restraint it would take to avoid attention.
edited 19th May '16 1:24:09 PM by PhiSat
Oissu!You're referring to Karla Faye Gideon, who proceeded to go on a killing spree with her ridiculously stupid "power" before she was apprehended. While her power is disappointingly stupid, the fact is that "a bunch of people murdered by a woman with knives for fingers" is remarkably provable and would have no trouble making it through the chain of command either before or after her arrest.
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They would have to be provable first. S.H.I.E.L.D. does not employ Charles Xavier to use Cerebro and scan the planet looking for any active superpower being used at any time. They're forced to rely on intel. If they don't hear about it, their agents don't show up.
They're cops, not psychics. Nine times out of ten, they aren't going to show up if nobody dials the phone.
edited 19th May '16 12:08:28 PM by TobiasDrake
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