One of the key focuses
for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 3 will be on Skye Daisy
(apparently the writers’ room has a “Skye Jar” for them to put a dollar in
whenever they call her “Skye” instead of “Daisy”) forming a team of “Secret
Warriors.” If you remember from the
season 2 finale, Coulson gave Daisy a folder labeled “Caterpillar” in homage to
the “Caterpillar Program” in the comics.
This was a program by which Nick Fury recruited the super-powered
children of super-villains to form a super team because he believed the
“official” super teams (the Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four, S.H.I.E.L.D.) to
have been infiltrated by the Skrulls. Because
these children of powered people were relatively under-the-radar at the time of
recruitment (so-called “caterpillars”), Fury hoped that none of these budding
heroes would have been replaced with body doubles yet.
Obviously, that’s not
what is happening here. Rather than
forming a team to take on the Skrull Invasion, Coulson is instead forming an
enhanced team to take on major threats which regular S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are
not capable of fighting. As of now, the
primary “threat” they face is from the Inhumans, though that could easily
change. Ward is in the process of
rebuilding Hydra, which we already know to have employed brainwashed enhanceds
in the past (c.f. Donnie Gill, the Twins, and whoever it was that attacked the
S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy); could Ward manage to get his hands on a few enhanced
people to use against S.H.I.E.L.D.? That
seems entirely possible, especially with Inhumans starting to transform all over
the place thanks to the Terrigen Fish Oil.
And speaking of Terrigen Fish Oil, that will probably be the biggest
“threat” and opportunity for S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Secret Warriors in season
3: there will be new Inhumans all over
the place who will emerge from the chrysalis scared, with new powers that they
can’t understand or control. Some of
these will use their powers for evil, while others will just need a hug. It will be a race for S.H.I.E.L.D.—along with
the Advanced Threat Containment Unit, Hydra, other Inhuman groups, and who
knows how many others—to find these new Inhumans, contain their powers, keep
them out of the wrong hands, teach them control, and help them adjust to the
transformation. I expect the Secret
Warriors to be a major part of that work in season 3.
But before going further
into my thoughts on the Secret Warriors’ missions in season 3, I thought I
would give my thoughts on how the team will be put together and introduced to
the series.
