Uskok said:
There's not a single evidence of Gonzales and his men planing to exterminate the Inhumans or any powered individual.
First. I never claimed that they were trying to exterminate the inhumans. I was considering a claim that Skye and Coulson might be Kree sleepers. The scenario I presented and the question about the Inhumans was a reply to the suggestion made by ctsketch that Skye and Coulson might be Kree sleepers (and that's
very improbable), and that that would justify the actions of Gonzales and his men.
Second, actually there is some evidenced that Gonzales and his men planned to kill one powered individual - namely, Skye. The evidence is pretty conclusive in the case of Calderon, but whether Gonzales was in on the plan to kill her or it was only Calderon and his men is not certain (see the discussion of the matter in the "Afterlife" thread, in particular my discussion of the matter with Whitewater, beginning
in this post).
Uskok said:
me said:
The original SHIELD would try to recruit a person with powers, not to kill her. In the case of Skye, that would not have been necessary, since she was already recruited.
Also, in the case of people with powers who decline recruitment, the original SHIELD would not have killed them or imprisoned them just because of that. That's a difference between SHIELD and HYDRA (that was Hydra's policy: recruit them if possible, else capture them, and if that's not possible, either, then kill them).
John Garrett was sent to kill Carl Creel.
Was he? I'm not sure. But let's say so. That's not the point, because sometimes they did try to kill people with powers. The point is that killing them was a last resort option, not a first option, or a second option.
The first option was recruitment, as we could see in the cases of:
a. Donnie Gill: Even after he had betrayed SHIELD, they trained him and helped him become more powerful, in order to have a powered soldier. It didn't work out because Hydra brainwashed him.
b. Eva (episode "Melinda"). She had already proven to be dangerous by beating up Russian agents, but they still tried to save her, and recruit her.
c. Steve Rogers.
d. Mike Peterson, who was being trained by the old SHIELD before its fall, and even after Peterson had been in combat against a SHIELD team.
e. More generally, the plan to recruit people with powers that Coulson was headed (see "Melinda").
The point is that the old SHIELD would go out of their way to recruit powered individuals, not kill them.
If that failed, the second option would still not be to kill them, but instead to allow them to leave, while being monitored by various means (see "Girl in the Flower Dress").
Another case: In "Repairs" they wanted to talk to a woman who they thought might have telekinetic powers. They even tried to protect her, not kill her - and that's before they realized she had no powers.
The third option would seem to be capturing them alive. For example, in "The Only Light in the Darkness", it was revealed that that old SHIELD also helped another powered individual become more powerful - the plan was, again, to recruit him, even in a case in which they had already captured him because he was a threat.
Gonzales's SHIELD actions against Skye were nothing like the actions of the old SHIELD towards powered people.
