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In General

Tropes fitting the other members of SHIELD, as well as the organization itself, include:

Voiced By: Nolan North - Jimmy Woo; Troy Baker - Clay Quartermain; Tom Kane - Jasper Sitwell

• Fun with Acronyms
• Government Agency of Fiction
• Knight Templar
• Powered Armor: The Mandroids
• Red Shirt: So far, we've seen two SHIELD agents meet horrific ends: One getting the life drained out of him by Baron Strucker, and another being turned into crumbling stone by the Grey Gargoyle.
• Shout-Out: Other named members of SHIELD include Jimmy Woo, Clay Quartermain, and Jasper Sitwell, who are secret agents in the comics themselves.

Nick Fury

Nicholas "Nick" Fury (Episodes 1-19)

Captain America: "So, what Iron Man said... Can I trust you?" Nick Fury: "When it counts... absolutely."

The director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury oversaw the containment of the super-villains contained inside the Big House, Raft, Cube, and Vault. Though his primary focus is on the security of America and the world, he's more than a bit pragmatic and ruthless in his efforts - not to mention willing to get his hands dirty when it comes to developing ways to create "super soldiers" of his own.

Voiced By: Alex Desert

• Badass Normal
  • Badass Grandpa: After Baron Strucker uses his life draining hand on him.
• Bald of Awesome: In Season Two.
• Bodyguard Babes: In Season Two he has one with Black Widow, Mockingbird and Quake.
• The Chessmaster/Manipulative Bastard: Most evident in Season Two.
• Composite Character: This version is black like his Ultimate and movie counterparts, but he bears the gray hair and wears the blue outfit of the Nick Fury from the mainstream comics.
  • Nick Fury leaves for undisclosed reasons during the last episodes of season 1, and the first episodes of season 2. By the time he returns, he becomes bald and grows facial hair, like his Ultimate and movie counterparts.
• Da Chief: Tries to assert himself and recruit the fledgling Avengers team in the pilot, only for them to turn him down and act on their own. But he basically fills this role in the shorts, and for the rest of SHIELD.
• Eyepatch of Power
• Good Is Not Nice: Both he and SHIELD can be counted among the good guys, but Nick and his organization can be plenty ruthless, and are willing to experiment in creating super soldiers of their own, even when such thing is clearly dangerous - as shown with Graviton, and the gamma mutants imprisoned in the cube.
• Knight Templar
• Legacy Character: See "Strong Family Resemblance" below.
• Out-Gambitted: by Veranke in season 2. She even lampshades it by mocking how he was beaten at his own game.
• Pet the Dog: When he returns Captain America's old bike to him, and tells him how much of an inspiration Steve was to him and how important he was to his father.
• Race Lift: As with all new media adaptations of Nick Fury.
• Shadow Archetype: To Iron Man. Both are leaders of super-level organization among other things. However Fury is really something if Stark looks moral in comparison.
• Strong Family Resemblance: His father, Jack Fury, takes his mainstream comics' counterpart place as the leader of the WWII heroes, the Howling Commandos. Not only does he look a lot like his father, they share the same voice actor.
• Wolverine Publicity: Despite going missing for 13 consecutive episodes, and not actually being an Avenger, the popularity of Fury's previous incarnations allows him to narrate the second opening aired on Disney XD.

Maria Hill

Maria Hill (Episodes 21- )

"More and more superheroes are popping up...There has to be accountability. There are laws, and it's my job to enforce them."

The deputy director of SHIELD. Maria Hill serves as Fury's representative on SHIELD matters, assists him in his duties, and serves as acting director when Fury himself is unavailable.

Voiced By: Kari Wuhrer

• Actually a Doombot: Reveals she's been using a robot double when the Skrulls attacked her.
• Ambiguously Brown: Her ethnicity is hard to discern.
• Badass Normal: She's pretty much the only normal human that can stand face-to-face with Ultron without fear. Until the Mind Probe....
  • Took a Level in Badass: she proves to have learn from Fury during the Secret Invasion story arc, as she was Genre Savvy enough to prepare herself using the informations he gave her. She even ends up saving him and Iron Man.
• Hero Antagonist: She repatedly hinders the team during the AIM/HYDRA battle and sees them as a threat although her actions are within the bounds of the law and well meaning.
• Idiot Ball: You gotta wonder why, when Red Hulk shows up to attack SHIELD, she doesn't suspect it might be a conspirator attempting to frame Hulk. While her explanation for the Hulk's change of color kinda makes sense (the fact he used to be gray causes her to assume he might have changed color again), and Red Hulk sounds exactly like the Green one, 1) Ross came to ask her for a Hulk's blood sample a few minutes ago which makes it a strange coincidence; 2) The Avengers confirm Banner is with them and not even in his Hulk form; 3) Fury provided her with information about a shapeshifting alien invasion; With so many elements together, you'd expect her to at least consider the possibility Hulk might have been framed, but she immediately assumes it was the real Hulk and allows the Thunderbolts to arrest Banner.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In "Alone Against AIM," she went from scolding Tony's refusal to register, to saving him from Technovore, though she later insists she only did so because her job requires her to save people from danger.
  • It's Maria Hill, after all...
• Jerkass Has a Point: While Hill is a real jerk to the team she does have a point. No one, not even people with super powers, should be above the law. Police and military personal have authorities that they are accountable to if they cross the line or screw up. Super humans are accountable to no one. That said, SHIELD has been shown to not exactly be the most responsible of groups and might not be trustworthy as far as such power goes.
• Knight Templar: While not quite evil, she still fits this to a degree with her insistence that the Avengers register and her occasional stonewalling of their efforts.
• Pet the Dog: she refused to give away the Hulk's sample to the Hulkbusters and even took defense of Hulk and the Avengers against Ross. Doesn't last sadly.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: When first met, Hill didn't seem all that against the Avengers and came off more as just another SHIELD agent, though it could possibly be that that was because she was not yet in a position to breath down their necks like she is later.
• Ungrateful Bitch: For now, it seems like no matter how many times the Avengers save the world, SHIELD, and/or her, she'll insist that "nothing's changed," and the heroes still need to register.
• The Watson: Despite being Fury's second-in-command, she only found out about The Raft - which houses the most dangerous villains, including Graviton and Baron Zemo - a week before the events of "Breakout."
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: That's one way of looking at her characterization. In spite of her antagonistic relationship with the Avengers, one could still argue that she's doing it for the right reasons.
• The Worf Effect: It seems that Hill's job is to get taken out or told to stand down before Fury proceeds to do something bad-ass. Fortunately corrected in the Secret Invasion Story arc, where she proves competent enough to actually save him.

Black Widow

Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff

Hawkeye's former partner and an elite operative for SHIELD. Also, a double agent for HYDRA. Make that a triple agent for Nick Fury.

Voiced By: Vanessa Marshall

• Advertised Extra: The cover for an Australian Blu-Ray release for the first season depicts her standing alongside the Avengers and Fury, despite the fact only six of the included episodes have her.
• Anti-Hero: Type IV. Although her betrayal was simply a ploy to infiltrate HYDRA the morality of her action was muddied by framing Hawkeye for treason.
• Action Girl
• Actor Allusion: Most likely unintentional, but this isn't the first time Vanessa Marshall has voiced a redheaded Marvel woman.
• Badass Normal
• Composite Character: This uses the Ultimate and movie backstory of being a SHIELD operative, rather than her comic origin of being a reformed Russian supervillainess.
• Dark Chick
• Face Heel Turn
  • Subverted.
• Heroes Want Redheads: Clint certainly does.
• Male Gaze: The majority of the time Widow is onscreen focuses on the motions of her painstakingly animated behind.
• Mother Russia Makes You Strong
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Averted. She sounds perfectly natural when interacting with other SHIELD agents, speaking with an American-accent. She only reveals her Russian accent when interacting with agents of HYDRA.
• Reverse Mole: For Nick Fury, not so much SHIELD
• Spy Catsuit

Dr. Samson

Dr. Leonard Samson

A colleague of Bruce Banner, who sought to study and find a cure for Hulk and others affected by Gamma Radiation. Unfortunately, during the break out, he was exposed to and transformed into one of the same beings he was trying to help. Now blessed with great strength as well as a sharp intellect, he seeks to atone for his past mistakes and help stabilize the Cube, ultimately assisting the Avengers in defeating the Leader.

Voiced By: Cam Clarke

• The Atoner: Not so much because he did anything wrong, but he feels his blind trust in S.H.I.E.L.D. allowed the breakout to happen in the first place
• Badass Long Hair
• Face Heel Turn: He's working with Dell Rusk and helped create the Red Hulk
• Genius Bruiser
• Gotta Have Green Hair
• Meaningful Name: He has long hair and superhuman strength, just like another Samson.
• Nice Guy
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: He's still a psychiatrist like in the comics but now he's also an expert in Gamma Radiation and Genetic mutation.
• Power Makes Your Hair Grow
• Sour Supporter: He still works for S.H.I.E.L.D. but is far less trusting of them and may make the leap to the Avengers once he recovers.
• Superpower Lottery: He's pretty much the only character exposed to Gamma radiation in the series who seems to suffer no negative repercussions as a result. While every single other character undergoes some kind of disturbing transformation that comes with their powers, he gets super strength, and the only physical changes he undergoes are bodybuilder-level muscles to match and green hair, neither of which are particularly monstrous.
• Took a Level in Badass
• The Big Guy: Considered third in line after Hulk and Thor in terms of raw physical strength.
• Warrior Therapist

Mockingbird

Mockingbird/Barbara "Bobbi" Morse

A SHIELD agent who once served under Hawkeye (during Clint's days with SHIELD) who stepped up to full agent after Hawkeye quit. She will join the Avengers in the second season.

Voiced by: E.G. Daily

• Action Girl
• Badass Normal
• Early Bird Cameo: She's piloting the dropship for Hawkeye and Black Widow when they go after the Hulk early on.
• Hair of Gold
• Meaningful Name: She does have one superpower... talking the ears off of people.
• Not Quite Flight: Given height and momentum, she can glide on her wide, wing-like sleeves.
• Spin to Deflect Stuff: She does this with her bo staff.
• Simple Staff: Albeit one that can extend pretty far, and somehow reattach after being sliced in half.
• Stripperiffic: Not ridiculously so or anything, but her bare legs stand out when the only other costumed ladies (Wasp, Black Widow, and Madame Hydra) have almost nothing showing. Unlike them, however, she wears a mask. Hawkeye does say he asked her to accompany him because of the costume...

Abigail Brand

Abigail Brand

The top agent of S.W.O.R.D., a branch off of SHIELD that specializes in extraterrestrial threats. She may or may not actually be human.

Voiced by: Mary Elizabeth McGlynn

• Badass Abnormal: Although she at first appears to be Badass Normal, it turns out that she can create heat-blasts from her hands.
• Cool Shades
• You Gotta Have Green Hair

Quake

Quake/Daisy Johnson

A young agent of SHIELD with seismic powers. Works specifically for Nick Fury.

Voiced by: Lacey Chabert

• Deadpan Snarker

Tony: (after Fury shows him a Skrull) Where did this thing come from? Daisy: Uh, space. Tony: Cute.

• Dishing Out Dirt: She has the power to produce seismic waves and create earthquake from her hands.

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