Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. What would your personal Agents of SHIELD have been?

[Spider-Kurt!]

Map out a season one given the expected limitations (budget, legal rights to the usage of characters,ect).

 

[Xeno]

Let's start with this:

Agent Phil Coulson pulls together an elite team of SHIELD field agents including Melinda May, GW Bridge, Clay Quartermain, Akela Amador and raw recruit Daisy Johnson, ably backed by scientists Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons. They are tasked with tracking down people newly gifted with superhuman powers, rogue terrorist groups and alien artifacts, just as in the current show. However, instead of fighting "Centipede," they would encounter the remnants of A.I.M., who were regrouping under a new Scientist Supreme (George Tarleton) after the death of Aldrich Killian.


(Rule #1: No agent sets foot on the Bus who isn't an expert in weapons and hand-to-hand combat. That means that FitzSimmons would be secretly badass, like Coulson.)


That's mix of agent-types I was sure that we would see when the show was announced, very well-defined characters from the comic book universe along with some original ones (and of course Coulson). They could have all been original, as far as I'm concerned, but they should have had strongly delineated personalities from the start, along with their own personal agendas that would have created organic sources of conflict on the team. Bridge and Quartermain are hardened vets who would have problems with Coulson's unorthodox style. Amador chafes against authority and hates the team concept. Johnson is young and gifted but she makes rookie mistakes, so Coulson would mentor her. Definitely someone would be reporting back to the WSC and Alexander Pierce, setting up a tie-in to the Captain America movie.


Those are the basic changes I would make to the show's initial structure. Coulson leading a team of badasses into the field with brilliant scientists providing support is what I expected to see on screen. No untrained assets, no floundering on missions. Just serious, expert SHIELD agents.

 

[Tymminator]

Since it's all fantasy at this point, I'll share.

From a total fanboy/fantasy perspective, characters I would love to see appear, I would have liked to see Daisy Johnson(Hayden Panettiere), Bobbie Moorse(Yvonne Strahovski) and possibly even US Agent(Adam Baldwin) pop up a lot as SHILED operatives. For guest-star supers, I really think "The Rock" Dwayne Johnson would be a awesome Simon Williams/WonderMan.

 

[giveyourself12%]

Coulson leading a team of badasses into the field with brilliant scientists providing support is what I expected to see on screen. No untrained assets, no floundering on missions. Just serious, expert SHIELD agents.

Yes. This is exactly what I was expecting.

But then I was all...

 

[hopeless]

I'd have recruited Mike and then Amador when she appeared before recruiting the Professor as an expert on Asgard.

At the start have Fitz and Simmons who remain in the lab rather than go out into the field once Coulson recruited Mike.
Ward to serve as their lead agent with May as a co-leader with Coulson eventually once Amador was recruited have May serve as an alternating leader on the bus so she and Coulson can swap positions for missions when Ward didn't take the lead role off the bus.

The Professor would back up Skye who'll eventually be trained as a SHIELD Agent albeit because of her low profile when Ward whose too recognisable can't fill that role.

The eventual assumption is that SHIELD has been infiltrated and Coulson needs a shadow team to back up his official one, I'd have Mike's kid and sister safely in hiding as in keeping up appearances in what appears like a normal apartment block somewhere out of the way which is actually a safehouse with Amador acting as their bodyguard.

I'd have looked into recruiting that former SHIELD Agent on the grounds that he'd have a safe place to crash if he needed it but the most important part is going to great lengths to hide their new base away from the bus so if and when they're forced into hiding they have a number of hideouts to choose from.

By the way I'd also have a ready access to the contact numbers for all of the Avengers on the grounds if something like Extremis soldiers are heading towards any of Coulson's teams he can subtly call Tony Stark and tell him Killian's team are downtown and were wondering if he'd like to come out to play...

Better yet recruit Banner... but thats just me being cruel to the opposition!

 

[cherokeesam]

Maria Hill leading Skye, May, Simmons, Jessica Drew (assuming she's not Skye *koff*), The Contessa, Sharon Carter, Bobbi Morse and Yelena Belova.

 

[Alex_Kidd]

This is not the 1 season plot, for now the 1° one is good as it is. The good 2° season main plot could be: The Traskmaster manages to steal the SHIELD's wet list with all the agents in undercover and begin the manhunt through the world. the situation twist when the 10 rings steal to Traskmaster the list, forcing the team and the Trask to join forces against the true Mandarin.