Facts 2011-2040: Marvel's Agents of Shield Themed Page

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Fact #2011 

This might be this close to turning into an urban legend (or it might not), but Jeph Loeb says the idea for a Marvel TV show came from none other than Clark Gregg himself. Loeb says he and Gregg were at a fan event for an "Ultimate Spider-Man" animated TV series and that Gregg kept saying "Coulson lives" in his ear as an idea for a television series. It appears this was a few months before his demise was made public when "The Avengers" was released. Gregg kept shaking his head saying he doesn't remember any of it, but Loeb stood by his story. In either case, credit Gregg and fan's passion for the character for resurrecting him and spearheading "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."

Fact #2012 

Intriguingly, Whedon and Tancharoen revealed that the inspiration for energetic and adorable scientists Fitz and Simmons (Iain De Caestecker and Elizabeth Henstridge ) came from the Malloy brothers played by Casey Affleck and Scott Caan in "Ocean's Eleven."  Neither Fitz nor Simmons were originally written as being from the U.K. (Henstridge is British, De Caestecker is Scottish), but once the duo auditioned they made the change to the characters. 

Fact #2013 

There has been some debate over whether the character rights that Marvel Studios, 20th Century Fox and Sony Pictures have on the big screen also translate to the small screen.  None of the companies have commented on it publicly and Fox and Sony haven't tried to create television shows based on the X-Men or Spider-Man respectively.  That being said, when a fan asked if we might ever see mutants on "MAoS," Jeph Loeb's answer was a carefully prepared line he's clearly had in his back pocket for sometime.  Loeb noted, "There is no proof that in the Marvel cinematic universe there are mutants."

Fact #2014 

This isn’t the first time S.H.I.E.L.D. got on television. S.H.I.E.L.D. made an apperance in a Hasselhoff TV movie.

Fact #2015 

Hayley Atwell Reprises Her ‘Captain America’ Role for ‘Agent Carter’. This was teased at the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. panel.

Fact #2015 

Unlike his comic book counterpart,whose first appearance was made in the 2010 comic titled Iron Man 2- Phil Coulson: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1, Clark first starred as Coulson in the 2008 film Iron Man.

Fact #2016 

He revised the role in Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2011) , Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant (2011), Marvel One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To Thor's Hammer (2011), The Avengers (2012), The children's TV series The Ultimate Spider-Man (2012- present day), The hit TV series, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013- present day), LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (2013) Video game voice over,  and Marvel Heroes (2013) Video Game voice over.

Fact #2017 

Clark has a brown belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

Fact #2018 

At the age of 15, Chloe Bennet was already making a name for herself as a Chinese pop singer, going by her given name, Chloe Wang.

Fact #2019 

One of the ongoing mysteries of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is the “real” identity of Skye, especially since being revealed as an 084 (object of unknown origin) in the twelfth episode – the first time the team have heard about an actual person being given that designation. 

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