GUIDEBOOK TO THE CINEMATIC UNIVERSE

Collecting information from Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 1 (2013-2014).

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Fitz-Simmons’ Lab/Cargo Bay: A state-of-the-art research facility within the Bus’s cargo bay, and ’ lab contains equipment needed for on-the-fly biological and mechanical engineer- ing and research. At the lab’s BUS (a.k.a. S.H.I.E.L.D.-616) center is a supercomputer-powered : holotable allowing the interactive Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Season 1, “Pilot” (2013) inspection, documentation, and analysis of a variety of objects. CXD-23 A-201 airborne Coulson’s Office: Atop the Bus Upon contamination by a highly mobile command stands Coulson’s crow’s nest office, volatile or contagious foreign body, station formerly in a multi-purpose space that doubles the lab can be quarantined from heavy rotation in the as personal sleeping quarters. The the rest of the aircraft. Thanks to a A1990s prior to the advent of the sequestered work area enables retrofit from Fitz, the cargo bay can , S.H.I.E.L.D.-616 has Coulson to take confidential com- project and display an IN PROGRESS been assigned to Agent Phil munications and meet privately chamber to holographically recreate Coulson for use by his handpicked with his team. Coulson’s office is a investigation scenes for life-scale unit. These aircraft have the ability tribute to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s history; the inspection. The cargo bay can house to take off vertically using turbojet collection of technology and arti- two terrestrial vehicles—including engine technology. facts surrounding his desk dates one of Coulson’s old S.H.I.E.L.D. back to the first World War. collectables, a 1962 Corvette he An expansive and versatile plane affectionately named “Lola” (Levi- piloted by Agent , The Command Center: A tactical tating Over Land Automobile). It the Bus has been heavily modified and operations suite flanked by has also been used to depart the to Coulson’s specifications and sleeping and eating quarters, as plane mid-flight via high-risk para- contains a crow’s nest office, spa- well as a recreation area/lounge, chute free falls. cious living quarters, a command center, a detention area, and a COMMAND CENTER TACTICAL OPERATIONS laboratory connected to a loading dock at the plane’s rear. The Bus’ lower decks are equipped with interchangeable modules to allow for mission-specific versatility, in- cluding quarantine pods and cargo containers. The Bus is capable of docking mid-flight with other air- craft, including S.H.I.E.L.D.’s highly COMMAND CENTER LOUNGE specialized Quinjets.

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S.H.I.E.L.D.-616 IS REFERRED TO AS “THE BUS” BECAUSE SHORTHAND IS PREFERRED IN FIELD OPERATIONS. WHILE COULSON WAS IN CENTIPEDE CAPTIVITY, AGENT COMMANDED THE BUS. UPDATE FIRST APPEARANCE: (2008)

gent Phil Coulson had spearheaded S.H.I.E.L.D.’s T.A.H.I.T.I. project, using ADNA to resurrect slain operatives, but it was shelved when the test subjects went insane. When murdered Coulson, Director decided saving him was worth the risk, but had false mem- ories implanted hoping to prevent mental deterioration; Coulson be- lieved he had been swift ly revived and had recuperated in Tahiti. Tasking Coulson’s old friend Melinda May to monitor him, Fury instructed Coulson to select agents to investigate strange phenomena, then manipulated parameters so Coulson recruited the operatives May needed—Grant Ward, Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons, and May herself—to operate aboard the Bus, an airborne command station. During the team’s fi rst mission, to track the Rising Tide hacktivist group and locate unregistered su- perhuman Mike Peterson, Coulson encountered Skye. The young hacker revealed the existence of the shadow organization Centi- pede, which was attempting to create Super-Soldiers using Ad- vanced Idea Mechanics’ unstable serum. Coulson devel- oped an admiration for Skye, re- cruiting her as a consultant in spite of Ward and May’s objections.

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Unsure of Skye’s loyalty, Coulson Victoria Hand launched a rescue S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent , later investigated her mysterious operation, and S.H.I.E.L.D. liberat- during this mission. When Coulson past. With May, he tracked down ed Coulson and arrested Raina. disobeyed a direct order, refusing former S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Richard to surrender the now-captive Lumley, who informed them that When the team investigated Quinn for incarceration at Skye had been found years before corrupt multinational businessman S.H.I.E.L.D. Fridge detention facil- as an infant in a Chinese village Ian Quinn’s ties to the Cybertek ity, Garrett ordered his protégé, after its destruction. corporation, Skye learned Peterson Agent Antoine Triplett, to inter- was alive—his damaged body aug- vene. Examining Coulson’s file, Fitz Coulson’s team quickly learned to mented with mechanical combat and Simmons deduced that work together despite clashing implants by Cybertek’s clandestine T.A.H.I.T.I. was based at the Guest personalities—locating an 0-8-4, program—but she was House. Breaching the facility, Coul- the S.H.I.E.L.D. designation for an shot by Quinn before she could tell son’s team discovered the GH-325 object of unknown origin, in Peru; the team. Coulson placed her into serum despite the Guest House’s retrieving the ancient Asgardian a cryo-chamber to preserve her life. guards initiating the base’s self-de- Berserker Staff, capable of granting He entrusted Fitz and Simmons struct failsafe. Coulson also discov- its user superhuman strength; in- with his personal Death and Re- ered the serum’s alien origins, but vestigating an illness caused by the covery Report in an effort to locate too late to prevent his team admin- remnants of warriors from T.A.H.I.T.I. and heal Skye. Coulson istering it to Skye. Despite his fear the Battle of New York; and recov- encountered his old friend, there might be negative side ering the sonic weapon known as the Overkill Device from a Russian separatist group in South Ossetia. T.A.H.I.T.I.

Continuing to track Centipede and its elusive leader, the Clairvoyant, Coulson was tasked with retrieving prison escapee Edison Po, who had ties to both Centipede and its ma- nipulative recruiter, Raina. Peterson assisted in Po’s recovery—but his son, Ace, was kidnapped and Pe- terson was blackmailed into handing Coulson over in exchange. After retrieving Ace, Peterson ap- T.A.H.I.T.I. OPERATION ROOM parently died trying to rescue Coulson. To uncover the secret of A top-secret S.H.I.E.L.D. initiative, Project T.A.H.I.T.I. was created to revive an Coulson’s resurrection, Raina placed Avenger in the event of being killed in battle. Upon Agent Phil Coulson’s death, him into a device that used theta Director Nick Fury had him taken to the Guest House, a former World War II waves to recover the memories bunker, where he was injected with a regenerative serum extracted from a erased from his brain. However, mysterious blue alien’s DNA. Known as GH-325, the serum healed Coulson’s high-ranking S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent wounds, but the process robbed him of his will to live. To relieve Coulson’s mental distress, an operation on his brain replaced his memories of the experience with those of a luxurious and restful vacation on the island paradise of Tahiti. turned to Providence to fi nd a hastily scrawled message from Skye, which revealed she deduced Ward was . Infi ltrating the Bus and using his beloved fl ying Corvette, Lola, Coulson personally rescued Skye from Ward, who had taken her prisoner to decrypt the team’s valuable 0-8-4 data. Coul- son’s team reunited and fl ed to a LOLA motel to plan its next move with former S.H.I.E.L.D. Deputy Direc- eff ects, Skye made a full recovery inadvertently revealed himself as tor . and told the team of Peterson’s the Clairvoyant, who ran Centi- cyborg status. pede as a cell of Hydra and used Looking for a way to track Garrett, S.H.I.E.L.D. intelligence in place May and Coulson infi ltrated Cy- Using S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Index, a data- of psychic abilities. Stunned by bertek, there learning Garrett was base of gift ed individuals, to help Fitz, he was sent to the Fridge. In an early Deathlok test subject. identify the Clairvoyant, Coulson transit, Ward killed Hand, reveal- Later, Fury returned, his death gathered S.H.I.E.L.D.’s top brass ing his loyalty to Garrett and having been faked, and helped and newly promoted Agent Skye Hydra. Garrett and Ward raided defeat Garrett and take Ward into for a calculated strike to apprehend the Fridge, releasing prisoners and custody. Fury explained the ex- Centipede’s leader. Garrett framed stealing technology. traordinary use of the T.A.H.I.T.I. quadriplegic Thomas Nash as the program on Coulson—to him, Clairvoyant, but Ward executed Following U.S. Government orders Coulson was the same as an Nash to prevent his interrogation to apprehend all S.H.I.E.L.D. and Avenger—and appointed Coulson and hide Garrett’s identity, claim- Hydra agents, Air Col. Glenn the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D. so ing he was protecting Skye. Talbot requested a meeting with Fury could remain underground. However, Coulson already suspect- Coulson at the Hub. Sensing a de- Aft er Coulson was granted Fury’s ed Nash was a patsy. ception, Coulson and his team re- “Toolbox” to help him rebuild the treated to Fury’s secret Providence organization, Coulson regrouped When World War II terrorist or- base. Aft er Coulson rescued former with his team at the secret Play- ganization Hydra apparently as- girlfriend Audrey Nathan from ground base. Unknown to the sassinated Fury and were public- Fridge escapee and superhuman others, he began compulsively ly revealed to have heavily stalker Marcus Daniels—without carving alien symbols into a wall infi ltrated S.H.I.E.L.D., Coulson revealing his presence—he re- with a knife. and Hand suspected each other as traitors. Hand nearly captured Coulson’s team at S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Hub command center. Garrett

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UPON MENTION OF “TAHITI” IN ANY DISCUSSION, COULSON WAS PRONE TO UTTER THE AUTO-RESPONSE, “IT’S A MAGICAL PLACE.” AT A TIME WHEN COULSON QUESTIONED HIS LOYALTY TO SELF AND DUTY, HE AGAIN ENCOUNTERED THE ASGARDIAN WARRIOR LADY SIF, WHOSE DEDICATION TO DUTY REFRESHED HIS OWN; COULSON REGAINED HIS RESOLVE TO TAKE DOWN THE CLAIRVOYANT. COULSON WAS INSISTENT THAT THE CHERRY RED LOLA NOT BE TOUCHED BY ANYONE OTHER COULSON’S S.H.I.E.L.D. BADGE COLLECTION THAN HIMSELF.