The Stupid Reason Agent Coulson is Still Alive Is...[SPOILERS]
Fri, April 26, 2013 
/Film apparently got the scoop today on the real reason Clark Gregg's character, Agent Coulson, will be in the planned Marvel's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." TV series. Keep in mind this is possibly just a rumor.
As you remember, in Joss Whedon's summer block-buster The Avengers, the flimsy and really poorly written reason why the super-hero team finally decided to unite was due to Loki murdering Agent Coulson, a character which didn't have much of a back-story or emotional attachment to anyone despite the many people who were already killed by that point in the film, and evem then Nick Fury had to exaggerate his death to guilt-trip the team.
Well, with the announcement of The Big Bang Theory With Superheroes Marvel's S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series, it was revealed Gregg would return to basic cable television as none other than the deceased Phil Coulson.
"Is he going to be The Vision?! What about a clone?! Some super awesome super-hero reason to why he's back?? Is he immortal??" You might all ask, thinking of what imaginative way they could bring back a character that exists in the world of different dimensions, aliens, iron-suits, super-soldiers, flying battleships, and magic cubes?
In the pilot, it’s revealed Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), the ultimate super spy, faked Agent Coulson’s death on purpose to motivate The Avengers. Some S.H.I.E.L.D. members were in on it (including, possibly, Maria Hill played by Cobie Smulders) but The Avengers were not. Their security clearance wasn’t high enough. Coulson was forced to hold his breath as part of the ruse and that’s a point of contention among his colleagues After the fact, Fury moved him to a remote location until things died down, and then he was reinserted into duty at the time of the show.
I'll let that sink in with you for a moment. Keep in mind we wont know till the series premieres; but if that's true, I'm laughing so hard I'm crying. BRAVO JOSS.
Reader Comments (2)
I don't mind that he's back. I think that's great. But would it be too much to ask to just have them say that he was stabbed and almost died but the medics were able to save him? Fury knew he was alive but told the Avengers otherwise. Just saying he was able to be saved is so much better than saying the entire thing was a ruse. Was Loki in on it too?
At this point I wouldn't doubt if this was some big contrived thing. You know they probably meant for him to die and then realized the fans loved him so copped out on it.