Agents Of SHIELD: 10 Things That Need To Happen In Season 3

2. Simmons The Superhero

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Along with some proper supervillains, Agents Of SHIELD could do with some proper superheroes. It'll get that a bit with the Secret Warriors, but that's mainly going to be Skye plus a bunch of new characters. What about the existing cast, whom the show has already had no problem with turning into metahuman types (Skye, immortal Coulson, etc).

The aforementioned cliffhanger ending of season two had Simmons, former tech-bod and now fully-fledged field agent, being absorbed by a Kree weapon. The Kree are a blue-skinned alien race (the body of one was a key MacGuffin in the show for a spell; they got mentioned in Guardians too) who have some impressive cosmic powers.

Surely this is the perfect moment to introduce Simmons as a superhero, too? Imbued with the power cosmic? That's actually not a million miles away from the origin of Captain Marvel, although Carol Danvers has her own Marvel movie coming up and it's unlikely she'll be played by Elizabeth Henstridge. Maybe make her Binary

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