One of the biggest mysteries surrounding the Marvel Movie Universe is how Agent Coulson survived with people jumping to large conclusion as to how it was done, maybe he’s an android?, is he The Vision? alien technology…etc.
But i have a different theory on how he managed to cheat death. So here is my post “How did Agent Coulson survive after the events of The Avengers”
Despite the somewhat reasonable explination given in the most recent episode of Agents Of Shield, it was still left a little bit vague and from comments ive seen on news websites reporting the story i found people are wanting a more detailed explaination. Something to pinpoint what exactly happened to Agent Coulson.
But i believe the evidence has been stairing your in the face from the very begining. Before i go into how i think he survived, i want to raise some facts about the Marvel Movie Universe first.
Phase One – as you know The Avengers or Avengers Assemble took place after the events of the previous set up movies “Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Captain America: The First Avenger, Incredible Hulk & Thor” Shield was a presence in all these movies. Lets look at some of the factoids that was created in this universe in the set up movie. Lets start with Captain America: The First Avenger.
Howard Stark, the inventor – Howard was a technological genius and some of the stuff he invented was used by captain america later in the movie, also the father of Tony Stark what you have to remember is that Howard was helping his country with the war so he was already involved in a military background. So Howards Technology and Howard Stark himself most of worked with Shield at some point. However Shield does seem to be a seperate entity to the army, being that Shield is pretty much a spy agency they would of either had access to the information or stole it. Either way Shield now displays an advance learning of technology that is not in the public domain.
Then there is Captain America, the super soldier serum… What we know about this is that they was trying to create this formula for many years but we also know that at its current state during ww2 was that it was unstable and the only successful candidate was Steve Rogers. Everyone who has been involved in the super soldier serum (in the movie universe) has become radically changed by its formula Red Skull, Abomination in theory you could also say The Hulk. But what do we know about this serum? 1. as of ww2 it was kept by the american army. or at least some of its research. Captain America was able to be suspended in animation although shield wouldnt know this until they dug up captain america. The serum seems to make 1. people strong, 2. can cause people to go into suspended animation. we will come back to this later.
Lets move to Iron Man
Both Iron Man films at the time displayed that Tony Stark had inherited his fathers technology genius. But we then start to see that Tony Stark becomes a person of interest for Shield – Infact it is Agent Coulsons first appearance in the movie universe. As of the second movie, Tony was asked to be a techical advisor for shield and thus in the avengers movie he had already built the helicarrier and of which would of been filled with start technology. Which is probably why he found it easy to hack the system. So we can assume that the technology that Sheild has is of Starks level already.
Finally lets look at Incredible Hulk and Ruffleos Hulk from Avengers. Going back to the serum and also gammer radition that created the Hulk, i would be safe to say that shield would know the ins and outs of Bruce Banner, They built the Hulk Chamber on board the shield vessle and black widow seemed to know what to expect from the hulk during there encounter in the film. A comment that Ruffleo said in the avengers movie was He tried to kill himself with a gun in his mouth but the hulk spit it out. The hulk has some form of healing ability like wolverine in this movie universe. So taking that into fact Bruce can never die. The Hulk wont let him.
So lets go back to The Avengers and Agent Coulson? How did he survive?
Well my theory is that Shield had been experimenting on the Super Soldier serum for many years although there only one successful candidate Steve Rogers only reappeared of recent years. So the only formula they would of had at the time was the one the abomination had and hulk i guess.
Said serum seems to give super strength, can shut down the body in suspended animation and also has healing properties… are we getting close here? A comment made in the agents of shield episode which sort of explained how coulson survived and why they operated on his brain… it was because they didnt want him to turn into something else? something else? what like a hulk or something?
It may not be the right answer but thats the answer im looking towards 1. its reasonable, 2. it already exists in the marvel movie universe.
But you know marvel, they always put in some sort of clue or hint at it… but alas its not like we saw Coulson being a huge fan of Captain America and having his trading cards?
again it is all conjecture based on the ideas already laid out by the movies so far. So what else is missing? well we didnt talk about Thor – from Thor The Dark World we find that the Asgardians have superior medical technology. And when you look at how coulson died, Thor was not present when Fury gave that speach about working together with Tony Stark and Steve Rogers.
So anyway thats food for thought.
one last thing if he was given hulk serum with restrictions, it would make sense why Mary Hill said he could never find out.
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