We already know that Nick Fury's absence will play a big part in the first round of post-launch content for Marvel's Avengers, and with one of the key features of the main story being to reassemble not just the Avengers, but S.H.I.E.L.D. as well, it makes sense for other agents to feature further down the line.
Marvel's Avengers already spotlights Maria Hill in a minor role, with the sub director assisting Bruce and Kamala in recovering JARVIS, but Fury also name-drops Dum Dum Dugan, the agency's famous bowler hat-wearing Howling Commando with the big sweater and even bigger moustache.
Further still, one collectible file also confirms the existence of Agent Jimmy Woo. Woo was portrayed by Randall Park in Ant-Man and the Wasp, where he was reimagined as an FBI agent. He's an Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. in Marvel's Avengers, just as he is in the comics.
Here's hoping Dugan and Woo both appear in Marvel's Avengers sometime in the future.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
