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Character who doesn't get to die & character who doesn't get to live. Is that anything.

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tfw your daughter barges into your office -- no knocking, no warning -- with a bit of a 'tude™️, so you decide to be a lil bit sassy back. 💀

and bonus!

tfw you tried to be calm about an insane thought/theory about your daughter, but it rattles her anyways, and then your wife walks in with another crisis you need to take care of. 💀

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - 2.05 - A Hen in the Wolf House

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When you're debating on whether or not you tell your daughter you ran into her crazy bio dad, but then you were saved by the bell (literally) - Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - 2.08 - The Things We Bury

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Shout out to Characters who are shells of their former selves! You died and you’re not coming back! You don’t recognize yourself and neither does anyone else, and it’s anyone’s guess what the fuck you’re supposed to be now!

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Carry on this last mission and cherish it, for it will be your last mission together.

That’s not possible. Enoch, this is my family.

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So, you guys remember in 2.05, Skye finds her baby picture, and Coulson hugs her and all that, right? And then after the hug, Hunter comes in, gives Coulson the sit-rep and explains to Skye why he was drinking (for his cover 💀), and then Coulson calls May on the comms, and she reports she didn't find Skye's father but Coulson needed to see something? Well, right before they exit the room to go check it out.....

She's having one hell of a day, and he can't help giving his kid Skye a little bit more physical comfort before they get back to work and I'm gonna bash my head into the wall. 🙂

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Welcome to my current hyperfixation, creating as accurate a timeline as possible for the life (until 1st death) of one Phillip J Coulson, under the cut for your convenience

July 8, 1964

Born in Manitowoc WI to history teacher and football coach Robert, and homemaker Julie Coulson.

Summers 1970-73

Played Little League (batted .400), fixed up a cherry red 62 Chevy with his dad

1973

Death of his father, circumstances unknown, but was considered a Defining Moment in his life. He's "forgotten more about [his dad] than he remembers." He and his mother then moved away from Manitowoc.

1982

First contact with SHIELD, right out of high school. Canon differs on whether he was recruited straight out of senior year or simply tapped and recruited after some college (reported history degree which got him on SHIELD's radar, but Coulson personally said "younger than [Skye, early 20s] when I was recruited, straight out of high school." My personal thought is that he was approached during/just after high school, but was encouraged to get a degree to help him get into SHIELD Academy

1986 (likely)

Formal recruitment into SHIELD Academy of Communications, to study data analysis and become "The analysis expert" -Agent Tripp.

1990

Coulson + Melinda May's first mission, in Sausalito, CA, with no proper exit plan that ended with May stuck in the bay for 5 hours.

(this year, presuming he entered SHIELD Academy after a 4 year college degree, is exact and lines up better with him being a Junior Agent in Captain Marvel, 1995. According to Jemma Simmons' stated biography, the Academy is a 4 year program. When undercover in HYDRA she stated she started at SHIELD at 17. She was born in 1987 and graduated the Academy "in 2004, 3 years early" meaning she only spent 1 year there max. She could not have entered the academy any younger for multiple reasons (had at least 1 PhD, and to gain a visa to study/work younger than 17 would have been nigh impossible))

1990s

Ran multiple missions with Katherine Shane and presumably had a casual relationship

1995

Junior Agent Coulson, along with Nick Fury, is tasked with investigating an unusual circumstance at a Blockbuster in LA. Plot of Captain Marvel happens here, along with the first mention of the (currently unnamed) Avengers Initiative. At this time Coulson does not know the true story of how Fury lost his eye

1996 (likely)

First meeting with Audrey Nathan (the cellist and proclaimed Coulson's true love). Proceeded to start a relationship, including trips to Hawaii (to get a tie as a gift and eat some poi) and dinners at The Richmond

Marcus Daniels' wiki says he was in a lab accident at college sometime between 1992-96. Watsonian logic, Coulson was likely picked for the case because of his previous experience with light-based powered persons

2001 (likely)

Recruitment of Clint Barton

Wiki says he was hand-picked by Fury in the early 2000s. He met Laura working with her at SHIELD and his oldest daughter was born around 2004.

2002

Coulson stationed in Cusco, Peru alongside Camilla Reyes, a member of Policia Militar del Perú, with whom he formed some form of romantic/casual relationship.

Best guess, Coulson considered all his relationships casual/incidental, saying goodbye to Audrey each time and hoping to be able to come back but making no promises of fidelity. Either that or he's a prolific cheater because Marvel can't get their stories straight. I prefer option A.

2003-5

Promoted to training teams of agents

Between being an attache to a foreign governmental body and gaining Akela (next bullet), a notoriously difficult recruit, he had to have cut his teeth training other teams/agents. Akela's training absolutely falls under this timeline as well, given how well she knew him

2006

sent his recruit Akela with a small team to raid a gulag owned by criminal Vanchat, where Akela was either captured or killed somewhere in the Shanxi Province, according to record.

2008, likely early spring

Coulson and May were sent as the Welcome Wagon to talk to a possible gifted in Bahrain, resulting in the birth of The Cavalry and May's cold personality change

2008, June

Word of The Hulk reaches SHIELD. Coulson questions whether Fury wants to fold him in, to which he's told the Hulk is "Thunderbolt Ross's problem"

2008, October

Sent as the Welcome Wagon to recruit Tony Stark to SHIELD after his return from captivity under the guise of a debrief

2008, early winter

Sends Agent Barton on a mission in Russia in which Barton runs across the Black Widow. Barton is then sent back to kill her, resulting in a standoff in Budapest, days off grid, the death of a young girl, and the recruitment of Natasha Romanoff

2009

Takes up overseeing the TAHITI project (in 2014 one of the agents who had taken part and was wiped was officially declared dead 5 years previous). Also shuts down the project due to the insurmountable issues presenting in the subjects.

2010, May

Sent to babysit Tony Stark on his house arrest, threatening to "tase him and watch Supernanny while he drools into the carpet"

2010, May/June

Sent to investigate an 084 alongside a science team and Agent Barton, resulting in the plot of Thor

2011

Captain America found in the ice. Defrosted and set up in a 1940s dummy hospital setup, presumably planned by Coulson, the resident expert on Captain America, history, and gifted recruits. Plus he "watched Steve while he was sleeping"

2012, pre-May

Hawkeye is assigned to infiltrate the helicarrier under Fury's orders and learns of the Avengers Initiative, as well as Coulson's involvement.

2012, May

Coulson dies. Had a date planned with Audrey in Portland, missed it due to gaining a new piece of Asgardian hardware in his chest

2012, June/July

Coulson undergoes multiple invasive surgeries in an attempt to revive him using Kree blood as part of the TAHITI project.

2013

Starts up a new team composed of Melinda May, Grant Ward, Jemma Simmons, and Leopold Fitz to take on interesting problems, functioning as a quick-response unit (and to allow May to keep a very close eye on Coulson)

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i'm starting to think tahiti might be a magical place

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never shutting up about ming-na wen’s performance as may because everyone says she’s a robot and she def is very stoic but if you actually pay attention she smiles a lot and shows a lot of emotion it’s just very subtle and it’s such good acting and

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You say she "came back wrong," but she told me she came back the best she could.

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Still can't believe sometimes that the death of a secondary character spawned the creation of one of my favorite shows of all time.

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so the first time i watched aos, i thought through the first like three episodes that it was gonna be like an idiviale mission or case an episode and it one of those things you look back on like

wow, if only you knew.

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what's very important for me to point out is after Daisy and Coulson have that tear-jerking goodbye in The End, Daisy pulls away, her face blotched from crying, and with her best serious face, says, "thanks for the spaceship."

Coulson standing there completely unfazed responding with "Don't mention it." tells me this isn't the first time Daisy has said something so ridiculous to distract from the *feels*

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ahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahaahahah

i’m mourning

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I'm gonna bite off my arm...

I'm gifing 3.04 from Alias and I'm....

"When you compelled the NSC to release me from prison, you told me that you had done so because you needed your father, that you needed my strength. 12 months in solitary would have an effect on anyone. Something that allowed me to stay focused was your strength... Don't lose it now."

This is so unbelievably Coulson coded to the core. Like... If Daisy went missing, and Coulson crossed the line trying to find her, you know he would keep going from inside a prison cell. The inspiration of Daisy's strength would keep him going, and knowing she was out there would make him never give up, no matter the cost.

And if Daisy was losing her head trying to figure out how her brain was (essentially) reprogrammed, Coulson would tell her that her strength kept him going... And he needs her to keep fighting with that strength. 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

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Boy howdy, it's so over for everyone here. I'm about to get even more annoying.... I just got an external DVD player. You know what that means???

I can gif Alias, my very first rot...

And as my first gif... Here you go. 🙂🫶🏻

(tldr, Jack is putting his whole career on the line to help save one of Sydney's best friends. 🫶🏻)

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something about loving a character and wishing the narrative did too