The Marvel Cinematic Universe has come a long way with its TV shows since the Disney+ era began.
Prior to the current version of Marvel Television, the original division had numerous shows across ABC, Hulu, Netflix, and Freeform that were building out the MCU timeline. While The Defenders Saga has been formally acknowledged as canon to the continuity, there are still a handful of series that Marvel Studios has been less clear about.
In a new interview with Elle, Chloe Bennet, who played Daisy Johnson, a.k.a. Quake, on ABC’s Agents of SHIELD, was asked if she would still be willing to reprise her role if Marvel Studios came calling in the future. She stated, “Totally. I’m obsessed with Daisy. I feel like I am Daisy. I would be so protective of her. I’m still low-key angry that they don’t fully acknowledge this as canon—the real followers will understand that. We were the first MCU TV show, and we did 130-something hour-long episodes. We spent a lot of time in people’s homes, and I spent a lot of my life playing this character and this young woman growing into her power. There’s a lot of symbolism in that, especially looking back now. I would love to play her with the growth that I’ve had since I’ve had a break from the role.”
When the spy series first began its run on ABC, Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige was open about the Agents of SHIELD TV show being fully canon to the MCU, as a direct spinoff from 2012’s The Avengers. The earlier seasons had various tie-ins from the films, including Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The second season even had involvement with the opening plot point with Loki’s scepter in Avengers: Age of Ultron.
When ScreenRant chatted with Marvel’s Brad Winderbaum in December 2024, he made it clear that he has been trying to find ways to sort out Agents of SHIELD and Agent Carter’s place in the overall franchise. The Head of Streaming, Television and Animation for Marvel Studios stated at the time, “Well, I’ll tell you this, and put it to you like this. It’s exciting for me to think about how to square those ABC shows with the canon. That, to me, if you know me and the way my brain works, that is fun territory to imagine.”
It’s also clear that Marvel Studios was keeping the door open for Agents of SHIELD characters to appear in the films. Adrianne Palicki, who played Mockingbird, revealed to The Direct in 2025 that when she first signed on as Bobbi Morse, there were discussions about having her character jump over to the big screen.
She shared at the time the following: “The conversation I had when I signed on actually to ‘Agents of SHIELD’ was either I was going to be participating in the films or have a spin-off. And we did a spin-off that we shot, which is actually great, but I think it was at the time where ABC was literally getting rid of all of their Marvel shows. Like, ‘Agent Carter’ got taken off the air, our show didn’t get picked up, ‘Agents of SHIELD’ was on the verge of syndication, so it stayed on.”
Given that the MCU is set to go through a reset with Avengers: Secret Wars, that would be the opportunity to finally make the Agents of SHIELD series in line with the rest of the franchise. Even if not everything from the seven seasons gets carried over for Phase 7 and beyond, it would give Marvel Studios the option to utilize favorites such as Bennet’s Quake.
Agents of SHIELD is available to stream on Disney+ as well as through home media release.
- Release Date
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2013 – 2020-00-00
- Showrunner
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Jed Whedon
- Directors
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Kevin Tancharoen, Jesse Bochco, Billy Gierhart, Vincent Misiano, Bobby Roth, Nina Lopez-Corrado, Brad Turner, David Solomon, Eric Laneuville, Kate Woods, Kevin Hooks, Milan Cheylov, Ron Underwood, Roxann Dawson, Wendey Stanzler, Clark Gregg, David Straiton, Holly Dale, John Terlesky, Joss Whedon, Stanley M. Brooks, Keith Potter, Dwight H. Little, Elodie Keene
- Writers
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Monica Owusu-Breen, Sharla Oliver, Lauren LeFranc, James C. Oliver, Rafe Judkins, Matt Owens, Mark Leitner, Iden Baghdadchi, Shalisha Francis, Chris Dingess