Maria Hill

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Maria Hill is a comic book character from Marvel Comics . She is a high-ranking agent of the fictional secret organization SHIELD who works for Stark Industries and subsequently for the Avengers after the HYDRA infiltration of SHIELD . The character had its first appearance in March 2005 in the 4th issue of the comic series The New Avengers Vol. 1 and was created by Brian Michael Bendis and David Finch .

characterization

Maria Hill was born in Chicago . Her mother passed away during Maria's birth - a fact that her father Ed Vernon blames Maria for and why they never had a good relationship. As a young adult, Maria joined the United States Marine Corps and later became a SHIELD agent. Hill is a martial artist who has a high level of accuracy when handling weapons. Her tough-minded and pragmatic personality makes her an objective agent who also has excellent interrogation techniques.

Publications

Actual films

Cobie Smulders , here at San Diego Comic-Con 2019, first slipped into the role of Maria Hill in 2012

In Marvel's The Avengers (2012), Cobie Smulders slips into the role of Maria Hill for the first time. In the film, she stands by SHIELD director Nick Fury as he and the Avengers try to prevent a global threat from Thor's half-brother Loki .

In the first episode of the Agents of SHIELD series , Maria Hill supports Phil Coulson in recruiting for his personal team for field assignments. Coulson was brought back to life before the series began after he was murdered by Loki.

In The Return of the First Avenger (2014), Maria Hill supports Nick Fury, Steve Rogers (Captain America) , Natascha Romanoff (Black Widow) and Sam Wilson (Falcon) in the fight against "Bucky" Barnes (Winter Soldier) and Alexander Pierce, who as one of the heads of HYDRA secretly infiltrated SHIELD for decades, which is why SHIELD disintegrated and was officially dissolved.

In the 20th episode of Agents of SHIELD , Hill works for Stark Industries after the official breakup of SHIELD and supports Phil Coulson in an operation against former and later enemy SHIELD agent Grant Ward. In the 41st episode, Hill learns from Coulson that Loki's scepter is in Sokovia, whereupon she sends the Avengers there to recapture the scepter. In addition, together with Coulson, she starts the theta protocol, with which a recovered helicarrier can be used again.

Maria Hill operates in the background in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) while the Avengers are in the fight against Ultron . In the final battle with Ultron, Hill and Fury use the helicarrier they and Coulson rescued to evacuate the residents of Sokovia.

After Thanos wiped out half the population of the universe, Maria Hill also crumbles to dust in the post-credit scene of Avengers: Infinity War (2018) while traveling with Nick Fury before he crumbles too. In Avengers: Endgame , both of the other missing people are brought back by the remaining Avengers.

Together with Nick Fury, Maria Hill supports Peter Parker (Spider-Man) in the fight against the Elementals and Quentin Beck (Mysterio) in the film Spider-Man: Far From Home . The post-credit scene features Talos and Soren, two shapeshifters of the alien race known as the Skrulls, who had been posing as Fury and Hill the entire time on the instructions of the real Nick Fury. Nick Fury was on a Skrull spaceship, which he also commands, during the incidents.

Animation adaptations

Games

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SHIELD Dossiers - "Pilot" . In: theouthousers.com . September 25, 2013. Accessed April 24, 2019.
  2. ^ Maria Hill - Biography . In: marvel.com . Retrieved April 24, 2019.
  3. ↑ Maria Hill - Profile . In: marvel.com . Retrieved April 24, 2019.