Phil Coulson

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Phillip J. "Phil" Coulson is a fictional Marvel character originally created for the Marvel Cinematic Universe and later incorporated into the mainstream Marvel comics due to its popularity. The character portrayed in the MCU by Clark Gregg is a high-ranking agent of the fictional secret organization SHIELD . The character was created by Mark Fergus , Hawk Ostby , Art Marcum and Matt Holloway .

characterization

Phillip Coulson was on July 8, 1964 in Manitowoc ( Wisconsin born), the son and only child of Robert and Julie Coulson why he had always wanted a little brother. He grew up a huge fan of Peggy Carter and Captain America and played baseball in the Little League . His father brought him tinkering with cars and together they worked on a red Chevrolet Corvette , which Phil still owns and calls Lola. He lost his father at a young age and his mother has passed away today as well. After high school, while studying history in college and finding out how SHIELD changed history many times, he was recruited into the organization and met with Agent John Garrett (The Clairvoyant) from Nick Fury, who was their supervising officer.

Coulson is a SHIELD agent trained in a variety of martial arts and a skilled logistics specialist who assesses tactical situations and implements equipment and personnel as needed. As an expert in analysis, he is able to quickly identify possible scenarios and act accordingly wisely. He dedicates his life to his work at SHIELD, which he lost in 2012, after which he was brought back to life. Coulson is a gentle and sentimental person who, in a time of the most advanced technology, appreciates and collects the simple means of the past. Today, Coulson has a cybernetic prosthetic hand that has immense power and resources.

Publications

Actual films

The character Agent Coulson was introduced in the movie Iron Man (2008), in which he tried several times to question Tony Stark (Iron Man) about his amazing escape from captivity by terrorists with his self-made high-tech armor. Coulson is one of several agents who escort Tony's assistant, Virginia "Pepper" Potts , to arrest Obadiah Stane (Iron Monger) in a Stark Industries laboratory after his criminal activities were revealed. At the end of the film, Coulson instructs Tony to read a prepared statement from the events at a press conference in which he denies any involvement in Iron Man's activities, but instead Tony reveals that he is Iron Man himself.

In Iron Man 2 (2010), Coulson is assigned to monitor Tony Stark's brief house arrest by SHIELD until he is assigned to investigate an incident in New Mexico. In the post-credit scene , Coulson, who had previously been removed from Stark's house arrest, arrives at the site of a hammer in the New Mexico desert; this scene is a cliffhanger for the next film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series called Thor .

In the film Thor (2011) the god of thunder Thor Odinson is banished to earth by his father, who puts his power and his hammer Mjolnir under a spell. The hammer also lands on earth and can only be lifted by someone who proves to be "worthy" of it. Phil Coulson has the site secured. Thor secretly gains access to the cordoned off site, but is also unable to lift the hammer. He then lets SHIELD take him into custody and interrogate him by Coulson. In the further course of the film, Thor's half-brother Loki sends the so-called "Destroyer" to Earth and Coulson asks his colleague Agent Jasper Sitwell whether he is "one of Stark". At the end of the film, Thor informs him that he can count him as one of his allies from this day on if he has seized the research documents from the astrophysicist Jane Foster and her mentor Dr. Erik Selvig , handed it back.

Clark Gregg also slipped back into the role of Phil Coulson in Marvel's The Avengers (2012). In the film, he hires the agent Natascha Romanoff (Black Widow) Dr. Bruce Banner (Hulk) for the Avengers Initiative and later informs Steve Rogers (Captain America) that he was present when he was rescued from cold sleep after 70 years in 2011. In the course of the film Coulson is stabbed through the heart with a scepter and killed by Loki while trying to save Thor. With the news of Coulson's death, the once divided Avengers manage to work together and stop Loki and the Chitauri sent by Thanos .

In Captain Marvel (2019), Phil Coulson, freshly recruited by SHIELD, supports his superior agent Nick Fury on his mission in the mid-1990s . He supports the powerful Kree representative Carol Danvers alias Vers (Captain Marvel) in exploring her own past. At the same time, they try to end the war between the alien races of the Kree and the Skrulls.

One-shots

In addition to the MCU's feature films , five short films called Marvel One-Shots were produced, in which two short films revolve around the work of Agent Coulson. They were released with the respective Blu-rays of the movies.

Marvel Hiring: The Advisor (2011): Agent Coulson and Agent Sitwell discuss the Avengers Initiative as the Security Council demands that Emil Blondsky (Abomination) be part of the team. Nick Fury wants to avoid this and so the two agents hatch a plan. They send Tony Stark to see Lieutenant General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross (featured in the final scene of the film The Incredible Hulk ) in the hope that the deal will then go through. Their plan succeeds and General Ross refuses to send Abomination to the Avengers.

Marvel Attitude: Something Funny Happened on the Road to Thor's Hammer (2011): Agent Phil Coulson is on his way to Thor's Hammer in New Mexico. He wants to buy a snack at a gas station while the gas station is attacked by two gangsters. They want Phil's car keys, so he hands them over. He also gives them his pistol. Immediately afterwards he throws flour at one of the gangsters and then puts both of them out of action. Coulson pays at the cash register and drives on.

Television series

The main cast at the PaleyFest in March 2014

Since 2013, the US broadcaster ABC has been producing a television series about the organization SHIELD under the title Agents of SHIELD in the same fictional universe. The first season is based on Marvel's The Avengers , and the series is based on the events of Iron Man 3 (2013), The Return of the First Avenger (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), The First Avenger: Civil War (2016) and Avengers: Infinity War (2018).

  • The series reveals, among other things, that Agent Coulson was responsible for a project called TAHITI before his assassination, which was intended to bring a potential dead Avenger back to life by giving him a drug - developed from the blood of an old corpse Krees - injected; however, test patients developed psychosis, so Coulson shut down the project. After Coulson's murder by Loki, SHIELD director Nick Fury brought him back to life despite the risks with TAHITI and replaced Coulson's memories of the project so he could continue to live healthy.
  • In the course of the series, HYDRA is exposed and destroyed inside SHIELD. Fury names Coulson as the new director of SHIELD and asks him to rebuild the organization better.
  • Coulson fights in the course of the series against the Hydra supporters Cybertek Industries and against the terrorist group Watchdogs . During these events, Coulson falls in love with the head of the ATCU ( Advanced Threat Containment Unit ) named Rosalind Price, before she is killed by the former and later enemy SHIELD agent Grant Ward.
  • During a threat from a group of so-called inhumans , Coulson's left hand is cut off, and he receives a cybernetic prosthetic hand with immense power and technical aids from the technology specialist Agent Leopold "Leo" Fitz .
  • Due to guilt for his killing of revenge on Grant Ward and a resulting global threat from the most powerful of all inhumans named Hive , Coulson resigns as director of SHIELD and is replaced by the extremely strong supposed inhuman Jeffrey Mace . After the revelation that Mace is not actually an Inhuman, Coulson returns to the de facto position of director , while Mace remains de jure director.
  • Coulson is temporarily by the transhumanist scientist Holden Radcliffe and created by Him and with artificial intelligence equipped android named AIDA in a self-created fictional framework prisoner named world in which he lived as a history teacher. Through a deal with Roberto "Robbie" Reyes, Coulson briefly took over his part as Ghost Rider in order to be able to destroy AIDA .
  • Coulson and his team are sent by the chronicome called Enoch into a possible future in the year 2091, in which the earth was destroyed and the last surviving humans are ruled in a space base established by the Kree, then later in the present To be able to change the future; to do this, Coulson and his team defeat Glenn Talbot (Graviton), who came into contact with the dangerous element called gravitonium and has become superhumanly strong and insane .
  • Due to the former connection with the Ghost Rider, Coulson's body has started to disintegrate for a long time, which is why he settles in Tahiti in the presence of his lover, the SHIELD agent Melinda May , and finds a peaceful death. SHIELD agent Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie succeeds him as director of SHIELD
  • During a global threat from a demonic being named Izel and Shrikes capturing her host, a person with Coulson's appearance named Sarge shows up. During this threat, it becomes clear that Sarge's physical form emerged when Coulson entered the fear dimension called by SHIELD during an earlier mission and there, through the energy of three monoliths, also called Di'Allas, his genetic and optical counterpart with few memories of himself was created. This physical form was taken by Izel's conspecific and lover named Pachakutiq in order to call conspecifics to earth with her and to be able to take over human hosts. This threat, as well as Sarge's physical form, has been eliminated by SHIELD.
  • With the help of Chronicoms Enoch, SHIELD agents travel back in time to 1931 to prevent Chronicoms from taking over Earth after Izel wiped out their home planet. As a necessary support, Enoch created a copy of Coulson in the form of an Android using Chronicom hardware, which contains all of his memories and implanted knowledge of everything that happened after his death.

Web series

In December 2016 was Web - spin-off Marvel's Agents of SHIELD: Slingshot published. Set shortly after the events of season 3 of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, the series focuses on Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez (SHIELD agent and an inhuman), also known as "Slingshot" in Marvel comics. In the series' first episode, Elena meets Phil Coulson in a flashback while cleaning out his office after stepping down as director of SHIELD.

Animation adaptations

  • The Disney XD cartoon series called The Avengers - The Mightiest Heroes in the World (original title: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes ) from 2010-2012, is told from the perspective of Phil Coulson.
  • In the March 2012 published 16th episode of the 2nd season of Iron Man - The future begins (Original title: Iron Man: Armored Adventures ), Phil Coulson appears.
  • Phil Coulson is a heavily represented character in the first two seasons of the series The Ultimate Spider-Man (2012-2017). He is employed as the principal of Peter's school to better oversee Spider-Man , and throughout the story he and May Parker develop a relationship.
  • Phil Coulson appears in the series Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers (2014-2015).

Comic adaptations

  • Phil Coulson first appeared in a Marvel Comic book in the 6th issue of the Battle Scars comic book miniseries (April 2012) .
  • Phil Coulson has been featured in the Secret Avengers comic series since 2013 .
  • Phil Coulson first appeared in the comic series Thor: God of Thunder in 2014 .
  • Phil Coulson appeared in 2014 in the six-part Ultimate FF edition of the comic series The Ultimate Fantastic Four .

Games

  • Phil Coulson appears as a playable character in the massively multiplayer online game Marvel Super Hero Squad Online from 2011
  • Phil Coulson appears in the social network game Marvel: Avengers Alliance from 2012
  • Phil Coulson appears in the 2013 video game Marvel Heroes
  • Phil Coulson appears as a playable character in the video game Lego Marvel Super Heroes from 2013
  • Phil Coulson appears in the massively multiplayer online game Marvel: Avengers Alliance Tactics from 2014
  • Phil Coulson appears as a playable character in the video game Marvel: Future Fight from 2015
  • Phil Coulson appears in the social network game Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2 from 2016
  • Phil Coulson appears in the video game Lego Marvel's Avengers from 2016
  • Phil Coulson appears as a playable character in the mobile game Marvel Avengers Academy from 2016
  • Phil Coulson appears as a playable character in the video game Marvel Puzzle Quest from 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Leue: Clark Gregg on his return as Agent Coulson in "Marvel's Agents of SHIELD" April 21, 2013, accessed on January 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Jeff Jensen: 'Iron Man': The inside story. April 21, 2018. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  3. ^ Marvel Cinematic Universe Timeline (1951-1980). Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Meagan Damore: Phil Coulson: A Complete MCU Timeline. May 22, 2018, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  5. ^ Marvel Cinematic Universe Timeline (2011-2012). Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  6. ^ Adam Holmes: The Story With Coulson's New Hand, According To Clark Gregg. July 21, 2015, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  7. ^ Cooper Hood: SHIELD's Clark Gregg Talks 'Jaded' Coulson & Defenders Reaction. October 8, 2016, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Esther Stroh: The Avengers On TV Today - Is Agent Coulson Really Dead? August 3, 2018, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Andreas Bertits: Hydra and face- robbing aliens in the new trailer for Agents of SHIELD August 25, 2019, accessed on August 26, 2019 .