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S.H.I.E.L.D. is a fictional , , and
agency in the
. Created by
#135 (Aug. 1965), it often deals with
originally stood for Supreme Headquarters, International Espionage, Law-Enforcement Division. It was changed in 1991 to Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate. Within the various films set in the , as well as multiple animated and live-action television series, the acronym stands for Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division.
S.H.I.E.L.D.'s introduction in the Strange Tales feature "" occurred during a , such as television's , which
stated in a 2014 interview, was the basis for him to create the organization. Colonel Fury (initially the lead character of '
series ) was reimagined as a slightly older character with an
(which he lacked in his wartime adventures) and appointed head of the organization. Some characters from the Sgt. Fury series reappeared as agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., most notably , Fury's –wearing .
Its most persistent enemy is , a criminal organization founded (after some ) by .
Strange Tales #135 (Aug. 1965), the debut of S.H.I.E.L.D. Cover art by
S.H.I.E.L.D. was presented as an extant, full-blown entity in its first appearance, with
in charge of the Special Weaponry section and Fury seeing "some of the most famous joes from every nation" (then "half the leaders of the free world" a page later) at a meeting of the Supreme International Council. Much was revealed over the years to fill in its labyrinthine organizational history. Stan Lee wrote each story, abetted by artist Kirby's co-plotting or full plotting, through Strange Tales #152 (Jan. 1967), except for two issues, one scripted by Kirby himself (#148) and one by
(#149). Following an issue scripted by
(#153), and one co-written by Thomas and new series artist , came the sole-writer debut of soon-to-become industry legend Steranko—who had begun on the feature as a - of Kirby layouts in #151 (Dec. 1966), taken over the every-other-issue "Nick Fury" cover art with #153 two months later, and full writing with #155 (April 1967).
Steranko quickly established the feature as one of comics history's most groundbreaking, innovative and acclaimed. The 12-page feature ran through Strange Tales #168 (sharing that "split book" with the occult feature "" each issue), after which it was spun off onto its own series of the same title, running 15 issues (June 1968–Nov. 1969), followed by three all-reprint issues beginning a year later (Nov. 1970–March 1971). Steranko wrote and drew issues #1–3 and #5, and drew the covers of #1–7.
New S.H.I.E.L.D. stories would not appear for nearly two decades after the first solo title. A six-issue , Nick Fury vs. S.H.I.E.L.D. (June–Nov. 1988) was followed by Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (vol. 2). This second series lasted 47 issues (Sept. 1989–May 1993); its pivotal story arc was "the Deltite Affair", in which many S.H.I.E.L.D. agents were replaced with
androids in a takeover attempt.
A year after that series ended, the
Fury (May 1994)
the events of those previous two series, recasting them as a series of staged events designed to distract Fury from the resurrection plans of Hydra head von Strucker. The following year, writer
and penciler Corky Lehmkuhl produced the four-issue miniseries Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. (April–July 1995). Various publications have additionally focused on Nick Fury's solo adventures, such as the
and one-shots —Nick Fury: The Scorpio Connection (1989), Wolverine/Nick Fury: Scorpio Rising (Oct. 1994), Fury/: Death Duty and /Nick Fury: Blood Truce (both Feb. 1995), and Captain America/Nick Fury: The Otherworld War (Oct. 2001).
A rare quiet moment for Nick Fury:
#168 (May 1968). Art by
Usually led by
(although he reports to a twelve-member council, whose identities even he does not know), this organization often operates as much as a covert agency as a quasi-military one, initially depicted as affiliated with the
government. Later, S.H.I.E.L.D. was depicted as under the jurisdiction of the , with vast technological resources at its disposal, with
and legislation passed in signatory nations aiding many of their operations. However, S.H.I.E.L.D. has been inconsistently portrayed as under U.S., rather than U.N., control - for instance, in
#3, Nick Fury explains S.H.I.E.L.D.'s inaction during an incident of genocide by stating that it did not occur on American soil.
S.H.I.E.L.D. started off as a top secret international organization (Fury was unaware of them when he was in the CIA) with a Supreme International Council made up of top officials and minds from across the world, including Tony Stark. Its first director was Rick Stoner, former head of the CIA, but he was quickly assassinated by Hydra, and the
recommended Nick Fury take the role. Later on, the ultimate authority of S.H.I.E.L.D. is revealed to be a cabal of 12 mysterious men and women who give Fury his orders and operational structure, leaving Fury to manage the actual implementation of these orders and stratagems.
One of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s unique technological innovations, the LMD () — an extremely lifelike
used to replace people in imminent danger of being killed — was the basis for two major upheavals. First, the supervillain
stole the technology and used it to create the second team of villains called the . Later, some LMDs known as the Deltites achieved sentience and infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra both, replacing key members until Fury defeated them. This led to the disbanding of the original organization and its replacement by a new task force with the same acronym under the control of the U.N. ("Strategic Hazard Intervention, Espionage and Logistics Directorate") The new S.H.I.E.L.D. was meant to be more streamlined so Fury could personally oversee it, but would soon become a large organization again.
In the wake of a disastrous unauthorized mission in , Fury effectively resigned as executive director, with international warrants out for his arrest. His first successor was not one of his closer associates but a relatively unknown newcomer to the S.H.I.E.L.D. hierarchy, . A transcript of a conversation between Hill and the
revealed she was chosen for the post by
consensus to keep Fury loyalists out of the job and to keep relations with the superhero community to a minimum.[] The President also expected Hill — an
— to be loyal first to the U.S., despite S.H.I.E.L.D. being a U.N.-chartered organization.[]
and , Strange Tales #168 (May 1968). Art by Steranko and Sinnott.
The passage of the United States'
and the subsequent superhero "Civil War" created an additional political and ethical irritant between S.H.I.E.L.D. and the superhuman community, with S.H.I.E.L.D. tasked to lead enforcement and to take on registered superheroes as operatives.
Toward the end of the conflict, Hill concluded she had been made director with the intent that she fail at the job, and she proposes to
that he assume the post himself, with her as deputy.[] Stark accepts the appointment as director upon the conclusion of the superhuman Civil War, and undertakes a series of initiatives, including the construction of a new gold-and-red Helicarrier in the motif of his
armor designs, the introduction of a daycare center in the , and an employee suggestion-box. While accused of treating S.H.I.E.L.D. as a Stark Industries subsidiary, he succeeded in streamlining the organization and raising morale. S.H.I.E.L.D. fought a wave of global superhuman terrorism and was manipulated into two international incidents that almost saw Director Stark arrested, until they revealed
to be behind it and stopped him from committing genocide with an Extremis pathogen.
At the start of the
by the extraterrestrial shape-shifting race the , the Helicarrier is disabled by a Skrull virus and left floating and disabled in the . The Skrulls by this point have already replaced a large number of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, including the high-ranking . After the invasion is repelled, the President of the United States decides to dissolve S.H.I.E.L.D., and has it, the , and the Avengers replaced by the Thunderbolts Initiative, which is placed under the supervision of .
Osborn uses the opportunity to transform S.H.I.E.L.D. into a new organization called "", formed by loyal agents of the
Initiative as well as former agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as well as Hydra. The
are officially disbanded in the process as well and turned into a black-ops force that answers only to Osborn. Meanwhile, H.A.M.M.E.R. also operates alongside the newest, and only government-sponsored Avengers team, the .
After the Invasion, Fury discovers that S.H.I.E.L.D. itself had been under the control of the terrorist organization Hydra ostensibly from its very beginning.
After the conclusion of the
ongoing series, S.H.I.E.L.D. was reformed with Fury leaving it under the control of its new director, . The new S.H.I.E.L.D. subsequently saved US Army Ranger
from mercenaries hired by the . When he discovered he was the son of Nick Fury, Marcus (whose birth name was Nick Fury, Jr.) and his army friend
joined S.H.I.E.L.D. Maria Hill and the rest of S.H.I.E.L.D. later formed their incarnation of the .
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Over the decades, various writers have depicted S.H.I.E.L.D.'s organizational structure in several different ways.
(first edition) describes an eight-level ranking structure (technician, administrator, field agent, regional officer, special officer, regional director, special director, executive director), although providing almost no detail on other aspects of the Directorate's internal makeup. Years later, the miniseries Agents of Atlas mentioned a position of "sub director," and seemed to indicate that the administrative department of S.H.I.E.L.D. it itself referred to simply as "Directorate."
Most of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s agents are normal humans. At one point the organization attempted to set up a team of superhuman agents, composed of Marvel Man (the future ), ,
but the latter two were secretly agents of the criminal organization , and the team broke apart before it had its first official mission. A second team organized years later also lasted only a short while.
S.H.I.E.L.D. does employ some superhumans, including in its Psi-Division, composed of
agents who deal with like menaces. S.H.I.E.L.D. also obtains help from independent heroes when their special abilities are needed. It has also accepted some superheroes and
as members, but not in a separate unit. (See "Membership")
Its headquarters is the , a massive flying
kept airborne at all times and, among other things, containing a squadron of
and housing an intercontinental ballistic missile (). In addition, S.H.I.E.L.D. maintains strong ties to the
community, especially , the , and the , and often calls upon that community for aid on particular missions.
In the 2000s, depictions of S.H.I.E.L.D. imply a hierarchy of security clearance levels used either in place of, or alongside, the previously described rank structure. The security-clearance hierarchy operates on a scale ranging from "Level One", the lowest, to "Level Ten", described by Maria Hill, executive director at the time, as the highest security clearance anyone of any government can have. Hill's own clearance, cited in the
ongoing series, was Level Nine.
2001 trade-paperback collection, with repurposed cover art from Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #4 (March 1968) by .
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Throughout its existence, S.H.I.E.L.D. has been most prominently led by Nick Fury, with
succeeding him in mid-2000s stories. She voluntarily stepped down in a 2007 story, becoming deputy director to . Other historically prominent members, who have appeared from the earliest stories to the modern day, include
and , both veterans of Fury's World War II Howling Commandos, though their youthful longevity has not, unlike Fury's, been explained in M ;
(Agent 9); Jacob Strzeszewski (Agent 10);
(Agent 12); and
(Agent 13), all introduced in the 1960s; and , introduced in the 1950s comic
and reintroduced in the ' 60s.
Prior to the events of the , Captain America estimated there to be 3,000 agents on active duty.
Although the various Helicarriers built over the years have long been considered S.H.I.E.L.D.'s primary mobile home base, the Directorate also maintains a number of land bases throughout the world, most notably "S.H.I.E.L.D. Central" in . While some of these bases are publicly accessible on a limited basis, most are not publicly disclosed for reasons of planetary security. There are several fully equipped S.H.I.E.L.D. fall-out shelters scattered around the world, with twenty-eight of these being known only to Nick Fury. During the events of Civil War, Nick Fury was hiding in an American-based shelter. He also divulged the location of one to Captain America, so the Resistance to the Superhuman Registration Act could use it as a safe house.
A.R.M.O.R. (Altered-Reality Monitoring and Operational Response) is a sister agency to S.H.I.E.L.D. that monitors alternate reality incursions into . It was introduced in the
limited series, written by . Van Lente stated that A.R.M.O.R. "has existed with them this whole time, but it's been so incredibly secret that no one at Marvel knew about it". In the comics it is stated that A.R.M.O.R. is so secret that it 'makes S.W.O.R.D. look like S.H.I.E.L.D., and S.H.I.E.L.D. look like the Post Office'. During , A.R.M.O.R. operates under the oversight of H.A.M.M.E.R. but Osborn wanted to fully absorb A.R.M.O.R. into H.A.M.M.E.R. They were able to keep out of Osborn's clutches when their newest agent,
downloaded incriminating evidence against him.
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H.A.M.M.E.R. replaces S.H.I.E.L.D. after it is dissolved when
is appointed the new head following the conclusion of the . It was not established what H.A.M.M.E.R. in Dark Avengers #1, Osborn told , the new Deputy Director, that it does stand for something, and when she asked what it stands for, he told her, "Get to work on it for me. That is one of the many things on your 'To Do' list". Former S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and members of Hydra are hired as agents. H.A.M.M.E.R. promotes Osborn's personal team of Avengers, a group composed mostly of former Thunderbolts members and former members of the Mighty Avengers. Osborn also eliminates all of Tony Stark's influence on S.H.I.E.L.D., including the Cape-Killer Armor and the Red and Gold Helicarrier. He also replaces all agents loyal to , , or
with agents loyal to himself. Also, in the
Prelude, when , who is captured by H.A.M.M.E.R, asks what it stands for, the agent present says that it's classified and she does not have security clearance.
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S.T.R.I.K.E. (Special Tactical Response for International Key Emergencies) was a British agency, unrelated to but run along similar lines to S.H.I.E.L.D. Disbanded after being infiltrated and taken over by a criminal organization, one of its members was the future
. It was introduced in 's
#17 (Feb. 2, 1977).
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EuroM.I.N.D. (European Monitoring Investigation and Enforcement Division) is a
subdivision of S.H.I.E.L.D. that later fell under the control of the S.H.A.P.E. (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) council. EuroM.I.N.D.'s director is Fran?ois Borillon. Its agents include the science reconnaissance group Eurolab and the combat specialist Task Force group, who both then merged into one group known as Euroforce.
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S.W.O.R.D. (Sentient World Observation and Response Department), works with S.H.I.E.L.D. but specializes in
threats. It is first introduced in Astonishing X-Men (vol. 3) #6 (Dec. 2004), written by . Dialogue in the stories depicting both organizations has been ambiguous on whether S.W.O.R.D. is a branch of S.H.I.E.L.D. or a sister agency.
, the S.W.O.R.D. agent the X-Men encountered, has green hair, a trait typical of agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s archenemy, . This unusual characteristic d
referred to her as "Hydra-Hair" in Astonishing X-Men (vol. 3) #6.
A similar group as S.W.O.R.D., likewise affiliated with the U.N., is , which has worked with S.H.I.E.L.D. on several projects of joint interest, including establishing and maintaining a crewed facility on Earth's .
W.A.N.D. stands for Wizardry, Alchemy and Necromancy Department, and is a division of S.H.I.E.L.D that specializes in matters relating to magic. It is directed by . First appearing in
Annual Vol.2 (2014), in which the Thunderbolts are recruited to assassinate , who is eventually revealed as a faerie impostor called King Oberoth M'gozz.
S.H.I.E.L.D. is a 2010
series that is currently on hiatus published by , premiering with a first issue
June 2010. It details the
of the occult organization S.H.I.E.L.D. The series is written by
and drawn by Dustin Weaver.
The series details the secret history of an occult organization called the Brotherhood of the Shield, with a history extending back to .
The main story of the first issue is set in 1953 shortly after the death of Soviet dictator , during the height of the . Shield agents
enlist a young man named Leonid with unspecified superpowers into the organization, taking him to Shield's High Council in the Immortal City under Rome. The High Council reveals that they know "the final fate of Man", and their mission is to ensure nothing threatens the world before this occurs. They have chosen Leonid because he has a destiny.
reveal that the Shield was founded by
following a battle (alongside
and the original ) against the , and that previous agents include
(who tricked a
into using the sun to give birth to its child instead of destroying the Earth or the Moon to do so),
(who fought against ) and
(who is shown with a mysterious device, flying off in an ).
Leonid spends three years working with the Shield before being visited by his father, a superhuman named the Night Machine who has encountered the Shield before, and apparently been killed by them.[] The Night Machine gives Leonid the key to a secret area of the headquarters, saying his destiny cannot be dictated by others.[] The issue ends with Leonid meeting Da Vinci, who has apparently traveled through time to use his device to save the world.[] Da Vinci's return was met with resistance from
who saw it as a threat to his reign as leader of the organization.[] This eventually leads to a great
that divides the Shie one led by Da Vinci and one led by Newton. Meanwhile, the child of a Celestial, the Star Child, is picked up by Da Vinci from the sun.
Also connected to the story are Renaissance man
who as The Forever Man has amazing superhuman powers of time and space manipulation and
who was doused with the Infinity formula and tortured for centuries by Newton to tell the future for centuries. It is later discovered that The Night Machine is really
who received his cybernetic implants from Michelangelo. Tesla is also discovered to be Leonid's adoptive father and that his biological father was Newton. The reader learns that Newton murdered Galileo Galilei and a host of others to meet his needs.
Night Machine, Stark, and Richards return to the City, and put a stop to the conflict by deciding to put the decision to Leonid on who is right, he chooses Da Vinci. Newton escapes to the future. Meanwhile the Star Child goes mad on seeing that the world will end.[] The second volume stalled at issue 4, with the 5th issue completed not to be published until the 6th issue is ready to be started. Jonathan Hickman (writer) and Dustin Weaver (artist) are meanwhile tied up with the Marvel summer crossover events for 2013.
Introduced in Marvel's line of novels in the mid-1990s, S.A.F.E. (Strategic Action For Emergencies) is the United States' answer to S.H.I.E.L.D. It first appeared in Spider-Man & the Incredible Hulk: Rampage (Doom's Day Book 1), and may not be part of comics canon, although the novels it appears in have been referred to several times in Marvel's Handbooks. Whereas S.H.I.E.L.D. is a U.N.-chartered organization dealing with international incidents, S.A.F.E. is tasked with similar duties inside America's borders. It is run by Colonel Sean Morgan. A prominently featured agent is Joshua Ballard, who, among other things, survived an encounter with Doctor Doom and later Baron Zemo.
In the novel Secret of the Sinister Six, S.A.F.E. agent Clyde Fury (no relation to Nick Fury) distinguishes between espionage agencies (such as S.H.I.E.L.D.) and strategic action specialists such as S.A.F.E.
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H.A.T.E. stands for the Highest Anti Terrorism Effort. It is a parody of S.H.I.E.L.D. created for ' 12-issue series
by comics author . The leader of H.A.T.E., General
is a parody of . This series depicts H.A.T.E. as being a secretive organization with suspect motives led by the madman, Anger, who has self-control and sexual issues.
S.H.I.E.L.D. was mentioned briefly in the
alternate universe series as a murderous anti-mutant group. S.H.I.E.L.D. stood for Saviours of Humanity by Intervention in the Evolution of Life-form Deviants. Their story is elaborated on later as one of their own gains powers.
In an alternate reality where mutants rule over humans, S.H.I.E.L.D. was staffed completely with mutants, all serving the House of Magnus on .
is the Executive Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Wolverine is in charge of the House of Magnus' Red Guard (Agents , , , , and ) and the Marauders are S.H.I.E.L.D.'s black ops unit.[]
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S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate) is the
equivalent of S.H.I.E.L.D. from . They first appeared in
#1, though in Amalgam continuity, they first appeared in the
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. strip.
S.H.I.E.L.D. was first created by
in order to tackle the danger posed by . Both founders later trained and recruited
into their ranks, who would become the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Members of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the Amalgam universe include:
, Bruce Wayne's girlfriend
, a superheroic agent
, disabled and bound to a wheelchair
Sgt. Rock, former leader
Nick Fury, former leader
Sue "Ace" Storm of the
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S.H.I.E.L.D. in the
was first led by General . During the Gulf War, the Weapon X Project, headed by , was sanctioned by S.H.I.E.L.D. and resulted in the creation of .
After Ross stepped down and retired,
was then selected as the organization's . His first actions were to shut down Weapon X and resurrect the
program, commissioning Richard Parker, Dr. Bruce Banner, Franklin Storm, and young intern Hank Pym to try to recreate the formula that made . This failed and resulted in the creation of the Hulk when Banner injected his serum into himself. It was later revealed that the chemical called Oz, which turned Norman Osborn into the , was also created in hopes of recreating the Super Soldier formula.
was also a product of the Oz formula. Also, the creation of the supervillains
are due to
attempting to recreate the Super Soldier formula for S.H.I.E.L.D. Then S.H.I.E.L.D. created its own superhero team, the . Later still, it brought the
under S.H.I.E.L.D. jurisdiction. In Ultimate X-Men #65 (Jan. 2006), S.H.I.E.L.D. severed ties with the X-Men. After the events of , S.H.I.E.L.D. is under the directorship of , as Nick Fury was temporarily stranded in the
Universe. After "Ultimatum", Nick Fury becomes head of the Black-Ops division in . It is also revealed he is plotting to take back his position as director. After a mysterious force frames Danvers for selling super-soldiers to rival nations, it was revealed to be a ploy by
to become Director, until Fury, the Avengers, and Ultimates stop him, resulting in Thor electrocuting Dr. Stark to death. After the ,
was promoted to Director by the . After an arc called "Divided We Stand", a crossover involving , , and ,
(one of Nick Fury's ex-wives and 2nd ) was promoted by Captain America to Director after Agent Flumm was dismissed. S.H.I.E.L.D. is later disassembled after the events of Cataclysm, for although the Ultimates were able to defeat , the destruction caused by Galactus's attack and the loss of Captain America and Thor make it the last straw for the United States Government, who immediately decide to shut S.H.I.E.L.D. down, resulting in villains such as
(Green Goblin) and
(Doctor Doom), who are revealed to be alive, being released into the custody of other federal agencies.[]
In the Ultimate Marvel universe, S.H.I.E.L.D. is controlled entirely by the United States, but maintains ties with the European Defense Initiative and the British-operated S.T.R.I.K.E.
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Combat-Unit
S.H.I.E.L.D.'s first television appearance was in the
episode "Mission: Save the Guardstar".
S.H.I.E.L.D. is featured in Season Two of the 1990s
S.H.I.E.L.D. made several appearances in the 1990s
animated series, beginning in the first-season episode "Day of the Chameleon". All subsequent S.H.I.E.L.D. appearances on the show included Nick Fury.
was the only other identified agent.
S.H.I.E.L.D. made several appearances in .
S.H.I.E.L.D. is featured in . Outside of Nick Fury being featured, Ms. Marvel is depicted as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
S.H.I.E.L.D. appears in .
S.H.I.E.L.D. appears in the
episode "Omega Red". In a flashback, a S.H.I.E.L.D. commander sends Wolverine on a black ops mission to infiltrate and steal the carbonadium from the Russians.
S.H.I.E.L.D. appears in .
S.H.I.E.L.D. appears in . Nick Fury and Phil Coulson are the identified members of S.H.I.E.L.D. that appears in the show. The series itself revolves around a S.H.I.E.L.D. training program held by Nick Fury and Phil Coulson for young superheroes consisting of Spider-Man, , , , and . At the end of the episode "Stan By Me", it is revealed that Stan the Janitor was one of the original members of S.H.I.E.L.D. and came up with the organization's acronym. In the episode "The Parent Trap", it is revealed that Power Man's parents worked for S.H.I.E.L.D. and used their version of the Super Soldier Serum to give their son superpowers. In episode "Ultimate Venom", Spider-Man discovers that he has inspired a new generation of young heroes by becoming an Avenger. He convinces Fury to recruit them to form a new team, the .
S.H.I.E.L.D. is featured in .
S.H.I.E.L.D. is featured in
A S.H.I.E.L.D. television series was greenlit by
in 2012, later named
The series takes place in the . The series stars Phil Coulson (who survived his apparent death in ) as he leads a team into investigating the strange cases in the world and the emergence of superhumans. The TV series introduced many S.H.I.E.L.D. agents that were exclusive to the show, including Phil Coulson's team members: ace pilot and weapons expert Melinda May (portrayed by ), black ops specialist Grant Ward (portrayed by ), and the research and development duo Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons (portrayed by
and ). Phil Coulson's team also includes
(portrayed by ), a hacker with connections to a hacktivist group called "the Rising Tide" who Coulson encountered in the first episode and persuaded to join the team. Later in the first season, Antoine Triplett (B.J. Britt) joins Coulson's team after discovering that his superior officer is a Hydra infiltrator. Between the first and second seasons, mechanic
() joins Coulson's reconstituted S.H.I.E.L.D. In the second season, former SAS member and mercenary
() as well as his ex-wife
() join Coulson's S.H.I.E.L.D. team. Besides the guest appearances of former Director Nick Fury (), former Deputy Director Maria Hill (), Felix Blake (),
(), there are other S.H.I.E.L.D. members that were exclusive to the show including Dr. Streiton (), Mack (Bodie Newcome), Tyler (Josh Cowdery), Akela Amador (Pascale Armand), Kwan Chen (), Shaw (), Dr. Goodman (Imelda Corcoran), Anne Weaver (), Richard Lumley (), Dr. Jazuat (), Barbour (), Jacobson (James MacDonald), Shade (Kylie Furneaux), Jones (Braden Moran), Baylin (Cameron Diskin), Chaimson (Alex Daniels), Kaminsky (Jeffrey Muller), Billy Koenig (Patton Oswalt), Isabelle "Izzy" Hartley (), Roger Browning (), Noelle Walters (Melanie Cruz), Sebastian Derik (), Rebecca Stevens/Janice Robbins (), Hauer (Lou Ferrigno, Jr.), Rivera (Al Coronel), Sam Koenig (Patton Oswalt), Robert Gonzales (), Tomas Calderon (), Oliver (Mark Allan Stewart), Timothy Macguire (), Case (), Susanna (Sai Rao), Hart (), O'Brien (), and Harris (Kyle Mattocks). In the episode "Turn, Turn, Turn", the events of
had the Hydra infiltrators within S.H.I.E.L.D. attacking various S.H.I.E.L.D. facilities across the globe, sending the remaining S.H.I.E.L.D. agents into hiding or on the offensive. At the end of the episode, it is revealed that John Garrett and Grant Ward are Hydra agents. In the episode "Providence", it is revealed that S.H.I.E.L.D. loyalists were able to drive the Hydra infiltrators out of the Cube, but S.H.I.E.L.D. itself had been declared a terrorist organization. Later on in the episode, the S.H.I.E.L.D. facility known as the Fridge is raided by Hydra where they release all the inmates and steal all the weapons that are stored there. Agent Triplett joins Coulson's team as they flee the Hub in order to avoid a pointless U.S. military investigation. The team arrives at Providence, one of Fury's secret bases run by Eric Koenig. In the episode "Nothing Personal", Maria Hill, who has joined Stark Industries in the wake of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s fall, tries to convince Coulson's team to surrender to the U.S. military but is instead convinced to aid Coulson's team briefly in the hunt for Ward and Garrett. In the first season finale, "Beginning of the End", Nick Fury comes out of hiding to aid Coulson's team. He helps Coulson's team defeat John Garrett and shut down Hydra's
program. Afterwards, Fury explains how much he trusts Coulson, gives a "toolbox" with important information, and names Coulson the new Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., charging Coulson with rebuilding S.H.I.E.L.D. in the wake of the Hydra infiltration. The toolbox leads Coulson's team to another secret S.H.I.E.L.D. base the Playground, which is run by Billy Koenig. In the episode "One of Us," it is revealed that Bobbi Morse and Alphonso MacKenzie are associated with another S.H.I.E.L.D. faction known as "the real S.H.I.E.L.D.", which seeks to rebuild without Fury's network of secrets at the 'cost' of regarding anything non-human as a potential threat, whereas Fury and his ilk were willing to work with heroes such as the Avengers if they at least wished to do the right thing.
In 1998, a
TV movie starred .
S.H.I.E.L.D. appears in several films set in the :
It is first referenced in
when Agent
attempts to talk with Tony Stark about his escape from captivity. In a , Tony Stark meets Nick Fury as he wants to talk to him about the "Avengers Initiative".
S.H.I.E.L.D. is briefly referenced in
when it is shown that S.H.I.E.L.D. was aware of the experiment on which Dr. Bruce Banner was working about making humans immune to gamma radiation. Later,
states that Bruce Banner's and his partner's aliases "have been added to the S.H.I.E.L.D. Operations Database". In the post-credits scene, General Ross is approached by Tony Stark, who reveals that they were gathering some kind of a special "team".
S.H.I.E.L.D. appears in . Black Widow is shown to be a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent when Nick Fury sends her to keep an eye on Tony Stark. Phil Coulson was also featured, overseeing Tony Stark's S.H.I.E.L.D. style house arrest until being called away. It is stated that Howard Stark is one of the founders of S.H.I.E.L.D. In the post-credits, Phil Coulson arrives in
where he calls Nick Fury and told him that he found the item he wanted him to look for as the final shot shows Thor's hammer, Mjolnir.
S.H.I.E.L.D. appears in . In a follow-up to the post-credits scene of Iron Man 2, Phil Coulson leads a S.H.I.E.L.D. team to safeguard the area that Mjolnir landed. Jasper Sitwell (portrayed by Maximiliano Hernández) is also featured in the film. In the post-credits scene, Erik Selvig is brought onto S.H.I.E.L.D. by Nick Fury to study the Tesseract.
S.H.I.E.L.D. appears at the end of . When Steve Rogers awakens in modern times and makes his way out of a building, he is greeted by Nick Fury and some S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
S.H.I.E.L.D. is featured in the 2012 film . Nick Fury, Phil Coulson, Natasha Romanoff, Jasper Sitwell, and Clint Barton appear as well as S.H.I.E.L.D. Deputy Director
(portrayed by ). A substantial part of the film takes place within the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier.
S.H.I.E.L.D. is mentioned only once in
by . Stark hacks into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Mandarin investigation database (and reveals that S.H.I.E.L.D. was, in fact, working on the Mandarin threat).
S.H.I.E.L.D features prominently in
with Captain America as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, along with Black Widow, Nick Fury, Maria Hill, Jasper Sitwell, Sharon Carter, , , and . The history of S.H.I.E.L.D. is further explored in the film. It is revealed that
was brought on board in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s inception for his scientific expertise, but he secretly regrew Hydra within the organization with the purpose of identifying and eliminating potential threats to Hydra's goals. Pierce, Rumlow, Rollins, and Sitwell are revealed to be sleeper agents of Hydra within the agency. When Rogers exposes Hydra within S.H.I.E.L.D., Fury, Romanoff, Carter, Hill, and others leave the agency as it falls apart.
In , S.H.I.E.L.D. is said to have collapsed. Fury appears to encourage the Avengers while Maria Hill now works for them. Fury later appears at the final battle in Sokovia with a Hellicarrier he pulled out of mothballs, some S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and James Rhodes to help. When asked, Steve Rogers comments that "this is what S.H.I.E.L.D. should be" as the Hellicarrier is used to rescue thousands of people from their now-floating landmass before it is destroyed by Thor and Iron Man to save the world.
S.H.I.E.L.D. was featured in the
films (which tie in to the Marvel Cinematic Universe):
The Marvel One-Shots film The Consultant featured Phil Coulson and Jasper Sitwell trying to keep the World Security Council from putting Abomination into their services.
The Marvel One-Shots film A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer feature Phil Coulson traveling to New Mexico between Iron Man 2 and Thor.
The Marvel One-Shots film Item 47 featured Agent Blake (portrayed by ) who helps Jasper Sitwell secure "Item 47" (a discarded Chitauri gun) which ended up in the possessions of a down-on-their-luck couple named Bennie and Claire (portrayed by
and ). In the aftermath, the couple joins up with S.H.I.E.L.D. where Bennie assigned to the R&D "think-tank" to reverse engineer the Chitauri technology and Claire becomes Blake's assistant.
The Marvel One-Shots film Agent Carter features
being made an offer to join S.H.I.E.L.D. by Howard Stark. Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan (portrayed by ) also appears.
S.H.I.E.L.D. appears in the anime film
(which is made by
franchise).
S.H.I.E.L.D. appears in ; the first mission involves an attack on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier by the , with S.H.I.E.L.D. subsequently overseeing the creation of a special strike force of heroes intended to oppose the Masters' scheme to steal Odin's power for Doctor Doom.
S.H.I.E.L.D. has a prominent role in
with the passing of the Superhuman Registration Act.
S.H.I.E.L.D. appears in . Outside of Nick Fury, Maria Hill, and Phil Coulson being members of S.H.I.E.L.D., the player controls a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent when fighting the villains.
S.H.I.E.L.D. appears in .
S.H.I.E.L.D. appears in . A S.H.I.E.L.D. agent appears as a playable character.
S.H.I.E.L.D. appears in . Director Nick Fury is a playable character, and S.H.I.E.L.D. directs the player on many missions throughout "The Avengers" and "Spider-Man" playsets.
S.H.I.E.L.D. will appear in the
stage show.
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S.H.I.E.L.D. stories have been translated into several other languages, including French, Finnish and Italian. Occasionally, these translations will show S.H.I.E.L.D. with an altered name.
In the case of selected French editions, the name of the agency was depicted as S.E.R.V.O., which sounds like "brain" (cerveau) in French.
In Finnish the name that applies to S.H.I.E.L.D. in mainstream Marvel continuity is Y.P.K.V.V. (Ylimm?isen P??majan Kansainv?lisen Vakoilun Vastustamisjaos), a direct translation of the original English. In translations of the
comics, the name is K.I.L.P.I., with "kilpi" being the translation for the word (as opposed to the acronym) "shield".
In Greek, the organization name is Α.Σ.Π.Ι.Δ.Α. (pronounced ASPIDA, meaning "shield" in Greek). The initials stand for Supreme Military and Political Foundation of International Counter-espionage (Αν?τατο Στρατιωτικ? Πολιτικ? ?δρυμα Διεθνο?? Αντικατασκοπε?α?)
In Portuguese, the name S.H.I.E.L.D. remains, but it is translated as "Superintendência Humana de Interven??o, Espionagem, Logística e Dissuas?o", i. e., Human Superintendence for Intervention, Espionage, Logistics and Dissuasion.
In Dutch the name S.C.H.I.L.D. (schild = shield) has been used by the publisher Williams, but was dropped by Junior Press in favor of S.H.I.E.L.D.
In Mexico, it was translated by La Prensa and later Novedades, as C.I.D.E.L., Centro Internacional De Espionaje Legal (International Center Of Legal Espionage), but later Novedades changed the acronym to C.S.E.I., Cuartel Supremo de Espionaje e Inteligencia (Supreme Headquarters of Espionage and Intelligence)
In Spain, initial publisher Vértice translated S.H.I.E.L.D. as "Escudo" (always without a determinant), but never showed the meaning. Later publisher Planeta DeAgostini used the name S.H.I.E.L.D., but translating the acronym as "Organización Internacional para la Ejecución y el Cumplimiento de la Ley" (international organisation for implementation and fulfillment of law). It has been suggested, as a joke, that the acronym does not correspond to the meaning because the acronym itself is undercover. Now, Panini translates the acronym as "Servicio Homologado de Inteligencia, Espionaje, Logística y Defensa" (Accredited Service of Intelligence, Espionage, Logistics, and Defense) to keep the original acronym.
In Danish, S.H.I.E.L.D. was originally known as S.K.J.O.L.D., "Skjold" being the Danish word for a shield, though the meaning of the abbreviation would differ.
In Russian, S.H.I.E.L.D. is named Щ.И.Т. (pronounced SCHIT; "shield" in Russian) or З.А.Щ.И.Т.А. (ZASCHITA, meaning "protection"). This name often describes as Sixth Intervention Logistics Agency (Шестая Интервенционная Тактико-оперативная логистическая служба).
In Poland, S.H.I.E.L.D. is known as T.A.R.C.Z.A. ("shield" in Polish). This name describes as Secret Agency of Anti-terrorist Cybernetics Applications Development (Tajna Agencja Rozwoju Cybernetycznych Zastosowań Antyterrorystycznych).
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of the period".
in his introduction to the
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of , Op Art and
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