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By: Rick O’Donnell
This year it will hit the 5-year mark since Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. aired its season finale. Since then, the MCU hasn’t had a long-running series with quite the stay power. Most of their shows have been a limited series, while only a small handful have made it to season 2, and only What If…? has a season 3 so far. Is it time we bring back a fan favorite with a new twist to rebuild the MCU television series?
Regarding Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., there were no character deaths to end the series that would eliminate future storylines. One of our main protagonists, Daisy Johnson/Quake was in a very familiar predicament. The last we see Quake, she’s off on a deep space mission to be an emissary for Earth to alien races.
Does this sound familiar?
Where did we last see Nick Fury? No, not the imposter version from Secret Invasion, who we assume is the “real” Nick Fury. On the SABER Space Station after the Thanos snap. Fury found his way to get in close with the Skrull, so it’s not a far stretch to think of Quake in a similar role. Would it be too far of a stretch to think Daisy worked with Fury to eventually take over S.H.I.E.L.D.?
Sure, Mack is running S.H.I.E.L.D on Earth currently, and May the Coulson Academy, but who’s to say that can’t be written as the plan all along? Remember, AoS was written as a companion show to the early days of the MCU. It had Samuel L. Jackson guest spot as Nick Fury early on as well as Jaimie Alexander as Lady Sif, but it wasn’t until they broke free of the tie-ins that AoS began to stand on its own.
Yet, the new MCU seems to be setting up a Young Avengers story, and what better way to come full circle and build for a younger audience? Samuel L. Jackson and Nick Fury might command the star power that is left for the big screen, but Quake as the leader of the new Avengers team would be fantastic.
If Daisy is going to put together a team in the same way Nick Fury did, there’s no better way to kick off the Young Avengers than coming full circle with S.H.I.E.L.D. If the reboot would focus on Daisy, May, and Mack training the new recruits to be “called up to the big leagues”, you’d not only have a way to bring back a fan-favorite show but also build future stories that could turn into MCU movies that weren’t big enough stories for a blockbuster budget.
With the main continuity surrounding the adult version of the team, they’ll surely command most of the box office success. If Disney and the MCU want to bring a younger audience in and build their fan favorites, doing so on the small screen could be the better option until these characters are ready to move on to the big screen. An Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. reboot that ties into the Young Avengers is the smart play for Disney+.
