9. How Is Agent Coulson Still Alive?
A question that has agonised fans ever since it was announced that Clark Gregg's Agent Coulson would be returning for the show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (which is 100% set
after The Avengers) is
how? We all saw him get stabbed to death by Loki in The Avengers, and this instantly caused rumours to swirl that perhaps Coulson was being resurrected by way of the character Vision, or that it might be some form of AI. Those who saw the Pilot episode of Agents at this year's Comic-Con claim that it doesn't explain Couslon's return, and that the explanation is apparently something that plays out over the course of the season. A belief of many is that, along with Nick Fury's deception that Coulson had his vintage Captain America cards on him (they were actually in his locker, and Fury blood-stained them himself), he actually managed to save Coulson, but kept the death covered up in order to motivate The Avengers to save New York. Furthermore, there's been suggestions that the other agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. keep the real reason for Coulson's resurrection hidden from him, and he spends much of the season unaware of how he came back to life. Gregg himself, who initially couldn't believe that he was coming back, claims that the explanation is "horrendously cool and dark."