Marvel's Renewed 91% RT Superhero Series Is The Perfect Way To Bring Back A Missing Team

Image via MovieStillsDB Published Jul 30, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT Casey Duby is an avid TV writer, watcher, and reviewer. She graduated from Emerson College in 2021 with a focus in Writing for Film and Television, where she wrote several pilots and watched countless more. She's been working in television ever since. Casey loves thoughtful content that makes her ponder our world and the people in it, and she's learned that any genre can surprise her. With favorites in every genre from horror to politics, family to action, nothing is off limits. Casey has experience working in TV development and writing scripted shows. Currently working as a Writer/Critic in Los Angeles, with an AMC A-List membership to boot, she is always hunting for the next good story and great theme song. Sign in to your ScreenRant account At the time of its release, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. had a complicated relationship with the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its fans. Premiering in 2013, just a year after the first Avengers movie, the ABC series aired throughout the height of the MCU's pop culture craze. Yet despite the popularity of Marvel's movies and the superstardom of their casts, the brand's TV endeavors weren't as beloved. When Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. premiered, television was such a new frontier for Marvel that many fans questioned the show's legitimacy in relation to the films, leading to a years-long debate about whether Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. could be considered MCU canon. Despite the skepticism, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. actually engaged heavily with the MCU's movies in an effort to contextualize stories that didn't get enough attention in their movies. The show starred fan-favorite movie side character Phil Coulson and featured notable guest appearances by Nick Fury and Thor's Lady Sif, and iteven introduced the MCU's first Ghost Rider. The show functioned well as a waystation for various Marvel characters to pass through, as that was exactly what the agents were designed to do. The show peeled back the curtain on hush-hush, top-secret S.H.I.E.L.D. activity that proved to be going on in the most unexpected of places. Given S.H.I.E.L.D.'s history of interacting with other MCU installments, almost any Marvel project could offer an avenue for the agents to return, but one new, impressive series would be a surprisingly perfect fit for the S.H.I.E.L.D. team. Wonder Man Is A Perfect Fit For The Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Team To Return Wonder Man season 1 saw the unexpected return of a minor yet memorable MCU character, Ben Kingsley's Trevor Slattery, who first appeared in Iron Man 3. In Iron Man 3, Slattery embodied the public persona of the terrorist, the Mandarin. Ultimately, though, he proved to be nothing more than an aspiring actor being used as a pawn by the movie's true antagonist. In Wonder Man, Slattery has returned to Los Angeles to pursue his acting dream while simultaneously paying for his Iron Man 3 crimes by working as an informant for the Department of Damage Control (DODC), an organization investigating the superpowered Simon Williams for violating the ban on powered people acting in Hollywood. By the end of season 1, the DODC has thoroughly failed to eliminate the public relations threat of Simon's career. The current state of things would more than justify S.H.I.E.L.D. involvement in Wonder Man season 2, as keeping alien and superhuman activity quiet is their main priority. Notably, Iron Man 3 and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. premiered in the same year, a parallel that could reasonably allow for the possibility that the S.H.I.E.L.D. team and Slattery have crossed paths in the past. All in all, Wonder Man offers no shortage of opportunities for world-building and interpersonal drama should the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. team find themselves involved. Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Paved The Way For Marvel's TV Presence Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was the MCU's very first TV show, and, after seven seasons, it remains Marvel's longest-running series to date. Despite the completely new territory it found itself in, and the struggle for legitimacy that came with it, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s success proved that Marvel had a fanbase and an avenue for prosperity on television. Today, the canon status of the MCU's abundant TV programming is no longer a question. Marvel TV shows have offered opportunities for beloved movie characters to explore their stories in more depth, and in a more experimental, auteur-esque fashion than they could in the movies. WandaVision, the stylistically ambitious and emotionally poignant limited series, gave both characters undisputed closure. Simultaneously, beloved Marvel characters who have originated on TV, like Moon Knight's Marc Spector, have generated a response from fans clamoring to see them featured in upcoming feature films. In short, the days when Marvel characters were relegated exclusively to the small screen are over, a development that has created no shortage of diverse stories. Though Marvel has yet to secure a tentpole story as strong as the Avengers arc, the possibilities in front of the brand are nearly limitless, a circumstance that would not have come to be without Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. leading the charge. Release Date 2013 - 2020-00-00 Network ABC Showrunner Jed Whedon Cast Daisy 'Skye' Johnson / Quake Directors 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 Monica Owusu-Breen, Sharla Oliver, Lauren LeFranc, James C. Oliver, Rafe Judkins, Matt Owens, Mark Leitner, Iden Baghdadchi, Shalisha Francis, Chris Dingess Franchise(s) Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe