Who's Ready for Secret Warriors?

Hafa Adai! Welcome to Chamorro Cinema, I'm Island Boy Manuel and in continuing with this series on Superhero TV, I'm gonna break down all you need to know about the Secret Warriors when they premiere on my second favorite superhero show, Marvel's Agents of Shield.

Even though it's one of my favorites now, in the beginning of Agents of SHIELD (AOS), I wasn't entirely sold on the spy drama. It seemed to be to mired down in a freak-of-the-week formula and it didn't have enough ties to the MCU.  It really wasn't until the Winter Soldier that this show really seemed to find its place and began to set itself up as somewhere Marvel could invest time on the conflicts that they couldn't spend in the films.

Most of the Hydra fallout was covered in AOS; they set up who the Inhumans are before they hit the big screen. We also saw the seeds of the Civil War being sown - when the show had two different versions of Shield with two different views on dealing with supers.

Now we are going to see how Coulson deals with super powered threats because the world of AOS is about to get weirder...since Season 2 ended with Terrigen crystals tainting a supply of fish oil, the official synopsis tells us that new threats will arise because of "... the spread of Terrigen, an alien substance that unlocks superhuman abilities in select individuals; the emergence of new Inhumans who cannot yet control nor understand their powers.."

We know that this season will debut the Secret Warriors. In the comics The Secret Warriors were created by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev, and are a team of super powered agents led by Daisy Johnson (Quake).

In Season 2, it was discovered that Skye was actually Daisy Johnson, the daughter of Cal Zabo (Johnson)... so it's a no-brainer that she will lead this new team in finding and either assisting or confronting these new Inhumans.

The roster of the Secret Warriors includes Daisy and Nick Fury (throughout her numerous comic appearances she has always been a close ally and confidant of Nick Fury...with Skye filling that role on TV, all of that trust and history has been transferred to Phil Coulson, so expect him to replace Fury in any comic storylines they might adapt). It also contains Alexander Aaron (Phobos), Sebastian Druid (Druid), Yo-Yo Rodriguez (Slingshot), J.T. Slade (Hellfire),  and Jerry Sledge (Stonewall).

Phobos

In the comics, Phobos is the son of Ares. He has the power to instill fear and can see the future to some extent. I doubt that we will see a true to the comics version of this character, but WHAT IF he was the bastard child of Dr. Elliot Randolph. We know doctor Randolph has a penchant for the ladies and Asgardians are the closest to gods that we've seen in the MCU. So WHAT IF he fathered a son and due to his past experience as wielding a Berserker Staff, he passes some of the mind altering effects of the staff to his son...it's a stretch but it could happen.

Druid

Sebastian is the son of Doctor Druid and he uses magic. In the comics,  Fury put Druid in the care of John Garrett to get him in shape and train him. For the show it's unlikely that a psycho like Garrett would have had contact with Druid and not made him a Hydra asset...but WHAT IF Garrett was his S.O. and he caught on to the fact that Garrett and Ward were dirty so after being left for dead by Ward in Asia (Marvel is not using Tibet to appease the Chinese market) he comes in contact with Stephen Strange, who trains him to unlock his potential.

Slingshot

Yo-Yo Rodriguez can run at superhuman speed and bounce back to the point where she began running... so I guess that comes in handy...unless the bad guys just wait for you to bounce back...but anyway. Television loves speedsters so it will be a nice counter balance to DC's the Flash...and T.V. could always use another strong female character. The nice part about adapting this character is that she can be retconned into being an Inhuman rather easily.

Hellfire

J.T. Slade is tied really close to Ghost Rider...he's the son of Sam Elliot, the horse back Ghost Rider from the first film. He can charge things with literal Hell Fire. He eventually dies after it is revealed he is a Hydra
Agent. With Marvel getting the rights back to Ghost Rider it's possible they could introduce J.T., but I don't think it will happen. They have Lincoln Campbell to fill the elemental spot on the roster, just replace fire with electricity and it keeps things from getting too complicated origin wise.

Stonewall

Jerry Sledge is the son of Crusher Creel, who is bailed out of jail by Daisy Johnson. He can grow and has superhuman strength and can change the properties of his skin to stone or metal or just about anything. I think we've already seen this character. I think that they will say that Crusher Creel from the premiere of Season 2 is actually Jerry and he inherited the name "Crusher" from his dad. I think that's why he was never presented as an all out evil character and that Daisy will get him out of whatever prison Talbott has him locked up in. This cleans up the fact that Crusher fought Daredevil's dad a long ass time ago and appears so young in AOS.

All-in-all I'm pretty excited about seeing these characters come to life on the screen. But let me know what you think in the comments below. You can also follow me on Twitter and subscribe to my YouTube channel. Keep it locked right here to Chamorro Cinema for more NERDTASTIC NEWS with an ISLAND VIEW!

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