Talk:S.H.I.E.L.D.

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what about a link to the british equivelant F.O.R.C.E. or A.S.S.H.A.T. or something equally stupid.

S.T.R.I.K.E. - now defunct, IIRC. --khaosworks 21:43, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Alliance color

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. See The New Avengers and The Pulse and Secret Wars (the new one) for more details. ~ Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:17, 2005 Jun 23 (UTC)

I disagree. Yes, occasionally, there are rogue units, but that's exactly what they are: rogue units that are at odds with the mainstream of the organization. It's an governmentally and internationally sanctioned organization with legal authority that is usually on the side of the good guys. —Lowellian (talk) 23:31, Jun 26, 2005 (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:

• Shield has twice tried to set up their own superhuman agent programs but both where eventually cancelled. The first time due to infiltration from agents of The Corporation (Quasar was a member of this team). (Need information on second superagent team.)
• Their use of telepaths.
• Their use of LMDs (Life Model Decoys).
• The Deltite takeover.
• The special branch created to fight GODZILLA (its existence IS canon in Marvel even today, as proven by the appearance of characters and concepts from the Godzilla comic book in other Marvel comics, such as Red Ronin's appearance in Avengers) even if the Giant Lizard itself cannot be referred to by name any more. Wilfredo Martinez 21:41, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Added facts on the first Super Agent team, the LMDs, the Psi-division and the Godzilla Squad. Still need info on the second Super Agent squad. Wilfredo Martinez 05:53, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SHIELD AS US AGENCY

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.

--Charlesknight 16:42, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Please refer to the Helicarrier article for contrary evidence - Dwight Williams