Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD: 5 Cameos We Demand To See

howling commandos While I don€™t watch as much TV as I used to, I do find myself in front of the tube a least a couple nights a week. While I€™m really looking forward to the return of my favorite show, HBO€™s The Newsroom, there are a few others I€™m more than curious about. Chief among them in this falls lineup is Marvel€™s Agents of SHIELD which is a new spin on the big screen to small screen transition that was made famous by shows like MASH and Highlander years earlier. Unlike those other shows, Agents of SHIELD is more of a spin-off, sending the show hurtling into uncharted territory. At best it will allow Marvel to expand their cinematic universe (possibly bringing more of that universe to the small screen?) to support their films efforts, at worst it will be total super hero overkill. My money is on the former, especially if they paid close attention to the show Heroes€™ successes and failures, a show that might draw comparisons from wary critics. The big question is how is a show that is based in a super hero filled world supposed to tell stories that divert the focus away from the guys and gals in tights? The trailer makes it clear that, while that idea is in the mission statement, the immediate inclusion of what appears to be Luke Cage right out of the starting gate says otherwise. While DC Comics tends to specialize in beating readers over the head with a plethora of regular people who should have no business fighting super villains, Marvel has a less spotlighted cast of €˜under powered€™ yet heroic personnel. My best guess is that these characters will be on top of the pile of cameo worthy heroes. Featuring any marquee villains would be a colossal mistake, so I€™m going hope that the show sticks with AIM and other villainous organizations. So, now that our parameters are set, who would make the short list of characters we€™d like to see make an appearance on the show? How about these 5?

5. Dum Dum Dugan

dum dum dugan If Sam Jackson can€™t find the time to do a guest spot due to being in every frikkin movie being filmed in the next five years, then the show should focus on supporting characters from his world. Who better than Dum Dum Dugan, one the most inexplicable and therefore funny characters to still be breathing? I€™m a bit of a comic book historian but even I€™m not sure how Dum Dum Dugan is still alive in modern day comics, my best guess is the Infinity Formula but I can€™t exactly prove it. This is an opportunity in disguise as the show could actually come up with a plausible explanation that could alleviate a similar issue in future films. Because Dum Dum is more related to Captain America in the cinematic universe, there would be ample opportunity to go to places that the Cap films don€™t quite cover and further cement the connection between Cap, Fury and SHIELD. I can€™t be the only one who is dying to know who this new Nick Fury is really, maybe Dum Dum can tell us. Of course the great Neal McDonough played Dum Dum Dugan in Captain America: The First Avenger so the two generations passage of time would need to be worked out... but it may very well be worth it to get Dugan back on our screens.
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Dante R Maddox got started in writing about pop culture in 2007. He developed his conversational style majoring in English and minoring in speech communication, his desire to write as if he were speaking to the reader face to face was the bane of many professors. An odd blend of geek cred and regular fella chic', you're just as likely to end up talking about baseball or politics as you are about comic books and movies (just don't mention Tucker Carlson, you are addressing the man who will go to jail for assault in the future after all). He wrote a book called The Lineage of Durge that's available on Amazon for a small amount of money, he's writing a second while acting as Editor-in-Stuff over at Saga Online Press, there is a graphic novel expansion of his book series also in the works as well as continued development of his cheesecannon, one day Canada...one day (Seriously, a piece of ham, you slice it up and now it's bacon?!?!? I say thee nay!!!)