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what about a link to the british equivelantF.O.R.C.E. orA.S.S.H.A.T. or something equally stupid.— Precedingunsigned comment added by172.212.211.40 (talk •contribs •WHOIS)17:35, 13 June 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I set it to grey "background:#cccccc" because in an organization like S.H.I.E.L.D., the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is always doing. SeeThe New Avengers andThe Pulse and Secret Wars (the new one) for more details. ~Dread LordCyberSkull✎☠ 23:17, 2005 Jun 23 (UTC)
SHIELD'S role has long been ambiguous. Originally the agency acted as a partially public anti-terrorist organization with authority to act anywhere in the World (Fury was seen reporting to a shadowy committee, presumably the United Nations Security Council, which (used to include) the USA.) However, with the passing of the years SHIELD has been reinterpreted more as a typical espionage agency, including doing "black ops" of questionable morality, as well as apparently answering only to the United States (which would make their activities illegal on foreign soil.) Note that SHIELD was recreated from the ground up (after the takeover by the Deltites, I believe) so maybe this change in nature happened then. I believe it was then that the original meaning of the Acronym was changed as well. Confirmations?
SHIELD's new role seems to overlap those of such organizations as the CIA and NSA, both of which apparently do exist in the Marvel Universe. This has not been clarified.
Also, an Iron Man miniseries claimed that SHIELD was Tony Stark's idea, but its canonicity might be in question.
Other facts that should be included in the main text:
The events of Bendis's New Avengers run (specifically NA16) pretty much spell out that SHIELD is solely a US agency (when it stopped being a UN Agency is beyond me). I'll alter the article to that effect tomorrow unless someone has seen something to indicate that is not the case.
--Charlesknight16:42, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Please refer to theHelicarrier article for contrary evidence -Dwight Williams
Why is SHIELD listed as low-importance on the importance scale for comics?HYDRA was just listed as Mid, as are a lot of other articles less significant than SHIELD.
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Didn't these two Commando Units Battle among themselves from time to time. And didn't Sgt Rock's group come out on top...and there also seemed to be a group that represented England? After watching IronMan tonight and the reference to S.H.I.E.L.D. it brought back some old memories, but I wasn't sure on this one.—Precedingunsigned comment added byGambler1 (talk •contribs)06:02, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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HAMMER and the like should have their own articles instead of just redirects here:—Precedingunsigned comment added by24.190.34.219 (talk)01:03, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think it's needed yet, but I have created auserspace draft for Agent Phil Coulson fromIron Man,Iron Man 2, andThor. Feel free to edit it. :) --Boycool42 (talk)03:12, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
As I mentioned on the MCU discussion page, I do believe that Coulson has earned his own page. He is in the new Ultimate Spider-Man TV Series, and Joe Quesada wants to incorporate him into comics at some point. I just don't know how to propose to make the page (Boycool142's page would be perfect). --99.126.137.220 (talk)17:16, 24 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
~ S.H.I.E.L.D. History ~
Has anyone readed the "S.H.I.E.L.D." Comic of Marvel. There's a new One Shot, that deals with the histroy of the agency and it's much diferent from what one can read in the article. I don't want to spoil something and I'm affraid, my English isn't strong enough to write all the stuff down here, but I guess this must become a part of the article. It's about Leonardo Da Vinci, Newton, S.H.I.E.L.D. founded in ancient times and so on.I've only readen the first issue, so if anyone got the second or the third, I don't know, how long the One Shot will be, she or he should add the new history here![1]Thank you very much.—Precedingunsigned comment added by81.210.180.2 (talk)17:42, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
References
I am on this small personal quest to eradicate the misspelling "Issac Newton" from Wikipedia, and this page seems to have some, but since I don't have any of the comic books in question, I cannot check if it originates from them (in which case I'd be a little wary of correcting it). (On marvel.com, Google seems to find it spelled both ways.) Can someone who does have the comics confirm or deny how the name is spelled there? --Ørjan (talk)00:53, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The comics all spell his name as "Isaac Newton". --LexSanz (talk)12:17, 28 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Iamnowgoingtotalkinlatin ŞÿḿẞọĹṥ Ĺâțįṇ— Precedingunsigned comment added by107.5.106.52 (talk)00:42, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Under the article's Fictional History section, there is a sentence that reads, " S.H.I.E.L.D. has been inconsistently portrayed as under U.S., rather than U.N., control, possibly by writers unaware of the agency's fictional history." The "possibly" portion of the sentence sounds like the editor who wrote it is putting in his own personal theory. I would like to remove that part of the sentence but wanted some consensus first.Applegamer (talk)17:41, 6 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Darcy mentioned S.H.I.E.L.D. in Thor: The Dark World, yet is not included under "In other media"— Precedingunsigned comment added by108.13.126.21 (talk)23:24, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Should there be links to such things asUnited Nations orPresident of the United States? I don't know the style you guys are going-for here, but i'd say these should link to their versions within the Marvel universe.JamesEG (talk)16:42, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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