| Eric Koenig | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #27 (February 1966) |
| Created by | Stan Lee (writer) Dick Ayers (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Eric Koenig |
| Species | Human |
| Team affiliations | S.H.I.E.L.D. Howling Commandos |
| Abilities | Skilled pilot |
Eric Koenig is a fictional character appearing inAmerican comic books published byMarvel Comics. He first appeared inSgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #27 (February 1966) and he was created by writerStan Lee and artistDick Ayers. He is most commonly in association with theHowling Commandos andS.H.I.E.L.D.
Patton Oswalt portrayed the character in thefirst season of the TV seriesAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. After Koenig is killed, Oswalt continued to portray his identical brothers Billy, Sam, and Thurston and grandfather Ernest throughout the remaining seasons.
Eric Koenig's first appearance was inSgt. Fury and the Howling Commandos vol. 1 #27 (February 1966), and he was created by writerStan Lee and artistDick Ayers.
Eric Koenig received an entry in theAll-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Update #3 (2007).
Eric Koenig was a member of the originalHowling Commandos and fought alongside the team duringWorld War II. He was a pilot as well as a trainer and was a very anti-Nazi German, as the Nazis killed his sister. He was the replacement ofDino Manelli, who was away on a special mission,[volume & issue needed] and then replacedIzzy Cohen when he was a prisoner of war.[volume & issue needed] Upon Cohen's return, Koenig stayed as a member of the team.[volume & issue needed] In issue #65, "Eric Koenig, Traitor!", Koenig seemed to have been exposed as aGestapo plant, and his apparent treachery was part of the storyline from then on. This later turned out to have been a complicated double agent operation by the High Command, and in issue #79, Koenig was finally confirmed to be a loyal fighter for the Allies.[1][2]
After the war, Koenig is among the members of the Howling Commandos who join Nick Fury in formingS.H.I.E.L.D.[volume & issue needed] ALife Model Decoy of Koenig participates in the Deltite affair, but destroys itself after being captured and scanned byTony Stark.[3]
When S.H.I.E.L.D. is decommissioned and its agents transferred to the newly foundedH.A.M.M.E.R. during the "Dark Reign" storyline, Koenig remains with H.A.M.M.E.R. It is later revealed that Koenig had been working for H.A.M.M.E.R. from within and assisted in a raid on several H.A.M.M.E.R. Helicarriers.[4] Koenig is later killed in a battle againstHydra.[5]
Eric Koenig appears inAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D., portrayed byPatton Oswalt.[6][7] Introduced in the episode "Providence", Koenig is assigned toNick Fury's secretS.H.I.E.L.D. base,Providence, and assistsPhil Coulson and his team following S.H.I.E.L.D.'s downfall[a] until he is murdered off-screen byHydra double agentGrant Ward.[8] Oswalt returned in theseason one finale "Beginning of the End"[9] as Eric's twin brotherBilly Koenig, who oversees a S.H.I.E.L.D. base called the "Playground".[10] In addition to appearing as Billy in thesecond season, Oswalt also portrays Eric and Billy's other brotherSam Koenig in the episode "...Ye Who Enter Here".[11] In theseason four episode "Hot Potato Soup", two more Koenig siblings are introduced:[12]Thurston Koenig, a slam poet activist who mocks S.H.I.E.L.D. for allowing Eric to die, and an older sister namedL.T. Koenig (portrayed byArtemis Pebdani), who got her younger siblings to join S.H.I.E.L.D. and constantly picks on them. At the end of the episode, it is revealed that the Koenig siblings were part of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s originalLMD program.[13] In theseason seven premiere "The New Deal", Coulson's team travel back in time to 1931 New York City and meet the Koenig siblings' grandfather,Ernest "Hazard" Koenig, who runs a speakeasy that goes on to become an asset to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s predecessor, theStrategic Scientific Reserve, and a S.H.I.E.L.D. safehouse under the pseudonymGemini. Following an encounter with the agents, Ernest discovers his employee,Wilfred "Freddy" Malick, is the father of future Hydra leaderGideon Malick.[14] In the episode "Know Your Onions", Ernest is given a glimpse of the future when he meets the agents'Chronicom allyEnoch and is brought aboard the agents' airship,Zephyr One, to help save Freddy from rebel Chronicoms. After the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents leave 1931 to pursue the Chronicoms, Ernest hires a stranded Enoch to become his new bartender in exchange for information on how he, his speakeasy, and his descendants will help S.H.I.E.L.D. in the future.[15]
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