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If you’ve been
following my series of articles looking at potential recruits for Skye’s Secret
Warriors on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 3, you know that there are a
TON of options out there! My first article
looked at 10 different characters who have either appeared or been mentioned on
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The second article
did the same with the 7 members of the Secret Warriors team in the comics (8 if
you include Skye/Daisy/Quake). In the
third article
I went through 7 of the NuHumans from the comics (again, 8 if you include
Skye/Daisy/Quake)—people who discovered latent Inhuman ancestry after Black
Bolt detonated the Terrigen Bomb.
Of the 24 characters I
examined, not all of them are going to become Secret Warriors. In fact, there may only be one character from
that list who actually joins the Secret Warriors—Skye/Daisy/Quake. But that’s not nearly as much fun to write!
Here are the 8 characters
(out of the 24) that I think could become the Secret Warriors team on Agents
of S.H.I.E.L.D. I won’t include a
ton of background on each one; if you want to learn more I encourage you to
look at the previous articles where I go into more detail.
While putting this
team together, I’m going to operate off of the Team Compositions concept
that I wrote out back in May. If you
want more information, check out the original article. If you just need a reminder, here is the list
of roles that need to be filled:
- Leader (and Lieutenant)
- Tank
- Heavy Artillery
- Bruiser
- Sniper
- Aerial Support
- Pilot
- Spy
- Medic
- Technical Support
The Team:
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Skye
This one is pretty
much self-explanatory. At the end of the
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 2 finale, Coulson gave Skye a folder
labeled “Caterpillar” and instructed her to build a team of enhanced people to
work for S.H.I.E.L.D. as a covert strike team.
So she’s definitely the leader of the team.
Skye has been one of
the main characters for 2 seasons, and the entire second season revolved around
learning who and what she is, unlocking her powers, and “meeting the
parents.” Going forward she will only
become more important as one of Coulson’s top lieutenants and the leader of the
Secret Warriors.
Lincoln
Being an Inhuman with
electrical powers, Lincoln is extremely powerful, though he still retains human
appearance. However, he may be even more
important to the Secret Warriors as both a medic (he’s a med student) and an
Inhuman Transitioner—someone trained in techniques designed to aid the
newly-transformed Inhuman’s body in adjusting to its Terrigenesis
transformations. If the Secret Warriors
are called on to track down new, confused Inhumans, his abilities will be
doubly important: first to stun someone
who’s freaking out and using their powers uncontrollably, and second to
“transition” them so they can be brought into the new Inhuman community.
Mike
Peterson, aka Deathlok
As a Secret Warrior, I
doubt that Deathlok will be going on any covert missions. He just doesn’t blend in very well. However, his skills would make him a definite
asset on the right missions. He’s the
one Skye would want to bring in when they get in over their head and need an
exit strategy. He can fly the transport
in and keep the enemy occupied while the rest of the team evacuates.
Yo-Yo
Rodriguez, aka Slingshot
Yo-Yo is the daughter
of Johnny Horton, aka the Griffin.
However, her powers are radically different from her father’s. Rather than having prosthetics to look like a
mythical griffin, Yo-Yo has the ability to run at super speed and bounce back
to the point where she started running.
This seems like an unusual ability, but it would allow her to hit just
as hard as Quicksilver, and do it repeatedly from the same direction.
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Jerry
Sledge, aka Stonewall
The son of Carl
“Crusher” Creel, aka the Absorbing Man, “Stonewall” has powers similar to his
father’s, which were given to him when he touched his father. In addition to the ability to change his
molecular composition to that of any substance he touches, Stonewall also has
super strength and size increasing abilities.
He would probably be one of the powerhouses of the team alongside
Deathlok.
Sarah
Garza
Sarah Garza is a
S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who discovered her Inhuman heritage and gained the ability
to generate energy explosions. James
Rhodes (War Machine) designed a containment suit to help her control her
powers, and she even joined the Secret Avengers for a while. She would be one of the hardest hitters on
the team, but with the tradeoff of serious control issues.
Flint
Flint is an
African-American Inhuman with the ability to control rock. At first parts of his body are covered in
rock, but as he gains control of his powers he learns to make the rock on his
body disappear.
Naja
Naja is a teenager
whose transformation gave her a very reptilian appearance as well as a
tail. However, she also has wings which
enable her to fly. In addition to
flight, she has the ability to make herself invisible depending on her
emotional state. Both of these abilities
would be invaluable: of the characters
mentioned, she is the only one who can fly naturally, and her invisibility
would be a huge asset on covert missions.
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Team Composition
Leader
– Coulson; Field Commander – Skye; Lieutenant – Lincoln?
Tank
– Deathlok, Stonewall
Heavy
Artillery – Deathlok, Sarah Garza, Flint
Bruiser
– Deathlok, Lincoln, Slingshot, Stonewall
Sniper
– Skye
Aerial Support – Naja (while
another flyer would be an asset, I don’t think it would be absolutely
necessary. These aren’t the Avengers,
after all.)
Pilot
– Deathlok
Spy
– Skye, Naja, Stonewall (think Absorbing Man blending into the wall)
Medic
– Lincoln
Technical
Support – Skye, Deathlok, Sarah Garza
Possible Missions
I wasn’t originally
going to add this section, but while I was putting together the previous few
articles, I found several characters who could appear on Agents of
S.H.I.E.L.D. as targets for missions which the Secret Warriors need to
complete. So here are a few potential
missions that the Secret Warriors might undertake.
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Kamala
Khan
Kamala Khan, aka Ms.
Marvel, has been rumored to be joining the MCU in the near future. She is a Pakistani-American teenager who has
been given shapeshifting abilities. She
could debut on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and even appear alongside the
Secret Warriors in a limited story arc setting up her own series. This arc would involve Kamala undergoing
Terrigenesis, discovering her powers, meeting the Secret Warriors, and agreeing
to help them out if they need her.
Doris
Doris is a widow who
went to Matt Murdock for help when her house was foreclosed. When she went through Terrigenesis, she
turned into a squid-like creature with a ton of tentacles in place of her
arms. This mission would involve
rescuing her from regular humans who are terrified of her squid-like appearance
and bringing her to a (newly-formed) Inhuman refuge where Lincoln and other
Inhuman Transitioners and Mentors help those who can no longer live alongside
humans. This seems like a good mission
for the Secret Warriors to cut their teeth on.
Donnie
Gill, aka Blizzard
I really don’t think
that Gill was killed in “Making Friends and Influencing People” (2x03), so it
is absolutely possible for him to make a reappearance at some point down the
road. If he does, and his abilities have
advanced to the point that normal agents can’t handle him, Skye’s team may be
called in to defeat him and take him into custody.
Thane
(unlikely)
Thane is the son of
Thanos and an Inhuman woman. He has
absolutely mind-numbing abilities that give him the ability to warp reality
within a certain radius of himself.
Among other things, he can encase people in an amber construct that
places them in a state called “living death.”
However, his powers are extremely unstable and he does not know how to
control them. In story terms, Thane is
kind of important because in the comics Thanos’ search for him led to his
assault on Attilan and Black Bolt’s subsequent detonation of the Terrigen
Bomb. As a result he can create a major
tie-in between the looming villain for the Infinity War movies and Agents
of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the TV corner of the universe. As a season-long story arc sometime down the
line, the Secret Warriors may find themselves faced with subduing Thane while
he struggles to control his powers, and simultaneously protecting him from one
of Thanos’ lieutenants.
However, I would be
surprised if Thane appears on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Man-Thing
(unlikely)
Man-Thing was
mentioned in “Nothing Personal” (1x20), and in the comics he is actually a
hero—to the extent that he does heroic things, though the heroes do have some
trouble communicating with him. In the
MCU, Hill implies that he was an inmate at the Fridge until Hydra took it over
and freed all of the prisoners. This
would suggest that he is now loose. If
he appears on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., my guess is that regardless of his
intentions, normal people will be terrified of his appearance and S.H.I.E.L.D.
will have to investigate. Coulson sends
in Skye and her team, and they have to determine how much of a threat Man-Thing
poses and find a way to take him in. And
the Secret Warriors taking him in could set be the set-up for the creation of a
“Phil Coulson’s Howling Commandos” team (with a werewolf and a vampire, not a
bunch of soldiers).
However, I think that
Man-Thing would be a little too effects-heavy to appear regularly on a TV show,
so if he were to set up a “Phil Coulson’s Howling Commandos” team, it would
probably be a movie, or at the least a limited series.
Conclusion
I think the characters
I suggest here would be an interesting team and able to handle a lot of
different situations. A couple of the
characters are throwbacks to the original concept of recruiting children of
super villains. A couple follow the
current plan of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to introduce more super-powered
people by means of the Terrigen Fish Oil.
And then there are three who have already been introduces and whose
story can continue as part of this team.
Is this going to be
the Secret Warriors team that we see?
Probably not. But if it is, you
heard it here first!
What characters do you
want to see as part of Skye’s Secret Warriors?
Put your list in the comments, and be sure to follow the Team Composition
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