Agents of Shield Season 7

The agents are sent back in time and leap from decade to decade to thwart the Chronicoms from changing S.H.I.E.L.D history as they try to destroy significant S.H.I.E.L.D. locations and murder significant people important to its history. The team travels to the 1930s, 1950s, 1970s, and 1980s as they try and stay two steps ahead of the leader of the Chronicoms- Sibyl, who manipulates time and knows where to go by using the Time Stream.

In their venture, the team meet Freddy Malick, father of Nathaniel and Gideon Malick, who is killed by Deke. This causes Nathaniel Malick to develop a vengeance against S.H.I.E.L.D and ally himself with the Chronicoms to take them down. After Yo-Yo’s infection and recovery from the Shrike in the last season, she is unable to use her super-speed but Daisy takes her to Jiaying who helps her recover it. There at Afterlife, it is revealed that Daisy has an older sister named Kora who did not survive in the original timeline. She too is an Inhuman who is enthralled by Nathaniel, manipulating her naivety that Jiaying wishes to keep her imprisoned like an animal at Afterlife because everyone fears her inability to control her power.

As the Time Drive begins going haywire, the intervals of time become shorter and shorter for the team before they go non-existent and are flattened by space-time. The team goes to Jemma for the solution who has an implant in her brain forcing her to forget where Fitz is who actually knows the solution but for Fitz’ safety in protecting his whereabouts from the Chronicoms, the implant was placed in her and her only because she is the only one who knew his plan. The team manages to keep the Chronicoms at bay and bring Fitz to their timeline using the Quantum Realm. Fitz had ingeniously declared specific items as 0-8-4s from several S.H.I.E.L.D. locations to be brought to a New York City safehouse in the event of the locations being destroyed by the Chronicoms which they were. He was able to predict all this by using his own copy of the Time Stream and so when all the 0-8-4s came together and were assembled, they opened a channel into the Quantum Realm from whence Fitz came out of. Going through it, knowing the Chronicoms and Nathaniel would follow, the team ends up back in the ‘original’ timeline. Nathaniel and Sibyl are killed and a year passes.

Now two years since the end of season 5, Coulson explores the world with a new Lola, Mack continues as Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. while Yo-Yo still operates in the field, May teaches at Coulson Academy, Fitz and Jemma raise their daughter Alya, Deke was left behind to lead S.H.I.E.l.L.D in the other timeline, and Daisy, Sousa, and Kora travel space in the Zephyr One together.

Now it is time to clarify. If you go back up two paragraphs and read the second last line, you’ll notice how it says the team returned to the original timeline. How can this be when they don’t mention the snap? The point in time the team precisely returned to was just after the temple battle at the end of Season 6. When Fitz appears out of the Quantum Realm he tells the team when they traveled back in time they branched off meaning another timeline entirely. The timeline in which the Chronicoms pursued them and the timeline they returned to have no effect on each other whatsoever. Now again, you may ask, but what about after the end of Season 5? If Fitz’s logic proves true, then when the team went to 2091 and returned to the past, they branched off meaning they are no longer within the confines of Universe 199999. The agents are essentially in a new timeline, meaning a new reality, meaning a new UNIVERSE. Returning from 2091 and into the past branched them off into a new reality which became their new timeline thus, saying that them returning to THAT timeline after going through the Quantum Realm from the past is their original timeline, is appropriate as it is the new status quo. The Avengers and Coulson’s team of agents no longer co-exist together. All these explanations, I borrowed from Gate of Theories who explains them much more simply in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D3gEBk6h8w.

HOWEVER, this does not mean they do not exist in the same MULTIVERSE. Just as Marvel 616 has its own Multiverse, so now will Marvel 199999 it seems. Essentially, if Marvel wanted to, every movie that has come out can technically exist in this Multiverse as can Sony’s Spiderverse and Fox’s X-men Universe but for simplicity’s sake, no one is jumping that gun yet. How destiny-like that I write this page as Marvel Television has given up the ghost and is no more as Kevin Feige takes reins of the tv department of Marvel as well. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was the first series to acknowledge and tie in with events of the core MCU and was followed by Agent Carter, the Netflix series’, Inhumans, Runaways, Cloak and Dagger, and even Helstrom. Sadly Feige had nothing to do with the production of any of the tv series nor was there any collaboration between the two departments. Shows like Inhumans, Cloak and Dagger, and Runaways made very very subtle and miniscule connections to the films to show they existed in the same universe but by the time Helstrom had released, every Marvel tv show was cancelled or ending because of the handing of the reins over to Feige. Sadly, Feige’s MCU largely overshadowed the tv series’ and because they did not have Feige’s involvement or were not directly affected by the events of the films, not as many people took them seriously. Helstrom doesn’t even have the Marvel logo associated with it, so that Marvel could set a clear line of what is Feige-Marvel-based and proving that the pre-Feige age of Marvel television is over. A new age has begun- an age of streaming services where companies such as HBO, Amazon, and now Disney have stepped up to compete with the likes of Netflix. WandaVision is the first live-action series from Marvel done by Marvel Studios themselves- no ABC, or Hulu, or Freeform. It is highly likely Feige will not use or simply ignore all these shows and their characters which ultimately is not a big deal but if any of the aforementioned tv series deserve to be acknowledged it is Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. . Its budget may not be what WandaVision has now but its storytelling is just as good and if there are any characters we want to see brought back it’s Agent Coulson and if not him, then Daisy Johnson. Charlie Cox’s Daredevil wouldn’t hurt either. I want the former second back EXACTLY as her original character and the latter I can accept as a different incarnation but it MUST be Charlie Cox, all or nothing.