Coulson Lives!... but how?

[JohnE]

On one hand, Coulson's apparent return from the dead is a major plot point, so it's no surprise that they talk about the circumstances around it a lot.

On the other hand, I hope you're right, because that would be pretty cool.

[nickiknack]

The thing is people really don't need to be reminded about what happened in The Avengers, most the viewership are probably knee deep into the fandom as it is, that's the main reasoning behind(not to mention my Hiddleston fangirling). Also I think it's about time that I'll admit to imagining Coulson and Loki in orange prison jumpsuits beating the crap out of each other thanks to the term "shanked" being used, and my mom being borderline obsessed with watching those prison docs in the next room.

[ironbite]

Honestly if Helmsworth shows up, I fully expect Hiddleston to follow if not be in the same episode.  I also wanna see how they link in Thor 2 to this show.

Ironbite-or Guardians of the Galaxy.

[nickiknack]

From what I understand they're linking Thor 2 with Guardians of the Galaxy, given that The Collector(Benicio del Toro) will appear in at some point during it.

[JohnE]

A clue!

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Coulson's lost his muscle memory. That bodes well for either the Chitauri or the robot theory, since either way, it wouldn't be his original body any more. But then May remarks that he's "rusty." Robot clue, perhaps?

[ironbite]

I'm going super advanced LMD here.

Ironbite-cause well...I want it to be Vision.

[Ghoti]

Tumblr delivers:

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While a fascinating theory, it doesn't explain what's the thing he can never know.

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If Coulson is super-serumed, he would know. You can't really expect him not to notice that he looks significantly younger than he should be.

Plus, I don't think it fits thematically with the series. From what I've heard, Whedon wants to make it about how the non-superpowered deal with a world with gods and aliens flying around. It seems like it would rather undercut that point to give Coulson superpowers

It wouldn't undercut Whedon's point, because

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Coulson doesn't have super powers. The super serum only worked once, and since then there were various unsuccessful attempts to replicate it. People have tried everything up to and including gamma radiation, so why is it so far-fetched that Coulson could have a less-successful serum? Besides, he knew that the Avengers needed a strong motivation to work together, and a martyred hero is fits the bill.

[Sigmaleph]

It wouldn't undercut Whedon's point, because

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Coulson doesn't have super powers. The super serum only worked once, and since then there were various unsuccessful attempts to replicate it. People have tried everything up to and including gamma radiation, so why is it so far-fetched that Coulson could have a less-successful serum? Besides, he knew that the Avengers needed a strong motivation to work together, and a martyred hero is fits the bill.

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crazy healing power that lets you survive being stabbed through the chest counts as a superpower. But, I will admit, that's debatable.

Regardless, the clues we've been given so far are:
A) that Coulson doesn't know that he actually died and came back somehow. Or at least SHIELD thinks Coulson doesn't know. It'd be hard for him to not notice he's ageing much slower than he should. Not unless they gave him regular memory wipes or something, which, why bother?

B) Whatever brought Coulson back, made him lose his muscle memory. There's no particular reason super-serum regen should do that.



As an aside: Right at the moment where Hall was falling into the Unobtainium my thought was "If this was a comic book, he'd survive and get superpowers from that. Wait, Marvel. He's definitely going to survive and get superpowers from that"

[ironbite]

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Like I've been saying, he's a super advanced LMD who'll become the Vision during Avengers 2.

Ironbite-the question is....

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Why did Fury have a Vision body just laying around?

[JohnE]

[ironbite]

Thank god they finally referenced that.

[Vypernight]

I'm actually enjoying there series, though Ward bores me a bit.  Skyye and Couson are my favorites on the show.

[JohnE]

I like Fitz. She's cute.

[Vypernight]

Agreed.  I'm kind of torn between whether I like Skyye, Fitz, or May the most since they're all good looking.

[Sigmaleph]

I'm pretty sure you mean Simmons.


Not that Fitz isn't good-looking, in his own way.