Agents of SHIELD Star Addresses the Show’s Frustrating Status in Marvel Canon

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For many of those who stuck with the narrative rollercoaster that was Agents of SHIELD over seven seasons on ABC, it’s been a frustrating wait to hear Marvel confirm that the long-running show is fully MCU canon, but we still seem to be no closer to getting that confirmation.Even as the Marvel universe brings back beloved TV characters from the past, like the Netflix era gang and James D’Arcy’s Jarvis from Agent Carter, SHIELD’s faves seem lost in time and forgotten by those with the grand multiverse at their fingertips. cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530",}).render("0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796");});Agents of SHIELD star Clark Gregg, who played Phil Coulson on the show, has previously made some rather profane comments directed at those who talk about its canon status, and actress Chloe Bennet seems annoyed by Marvel’s lack of full acknowledgement, too, describing herself as “low-key angry” about it.Bennet was filming the fourth season of HBO’s The White Lotus when she told Elle that she would still “totally” bring back her character, Daisy Johnson, if Marvel asked. “I’m obsessed with Daisy,” Bennet admitted. “I feel like I am Daisy. I would be so protective of her. I’m still low-key angry that they don’t fully acknowledge this as canon—the real followers will understand that. We were the first MCU TV show, and we did 130-something hour-long episodes. We spent a lot of time in people’s homes, and I spent a lot of my life playing this character and this young woman growing into her power. There’s a lot of symbolism in that, especially looking back now. I would love to play her with the growth that I’ve had since I’ve had a break from the role.”With Marvel maestro Kevin Feige promising that next year’s multiversal blockbuster Avengers: Secret Wars will have “characters we know and love in pinch-me moments,” could there be room for appearances for the likes of Bennet’s Quake or Natalia Cordova-Buckley’s Slingshot? Perhaps, but the current lack of interest in revisiting characters from SHIELD is certainly starting to make the show seem like an outlier, especially when its first few seasons were so purposefully linked to movies like Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Thor: The Dark World.Since Agents of SHIELD ended with a time-traveling adventure that saw the team preserving events in the past to save the future, it may be that fans of the show may have to view the conclusion as their own mini-Endgame, with no encore to follow.The post Agents of SHIELD Star Addresses the Show’s Frustrating Status in Marvel Canon appeared first on Den of Geek.