"average superhero has multiple names & identities" factoid actualy just statistical error. average superhero has two names & identities. Agent Daisy Louise Skye Tremors Quake Mary Sue Poots Destroyer of Worlds Jacqueline Rippon Sinara Smith Johnsons Georg, who has too many fucking names and identities to keep track of, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Imagine that you used to do superhero cosplay and then three years later there's rpf and fanart about you and Black Widow and your in-universe ship name is quack. This happened to my good friend Daisy Johnson
while I’m here in the X-Men reboot vibes before i turn against the mcu again, i have some ideas for what i would like to happen:
i really think they should bring back Chloe Bennet as Quake as the Director of a resurrected SHIELD (explanation below)
One thing i really felt was unexplored with Daisy’s character in AoS was that if she DOES want Inhuman liberation and freedom (which ngl, it feels like the writers forgot about by s5), she can’t accomplish it working within the system of SHIELD/national security
because of this, i think it could be very well explored if you give Daisy the role of a Val Cooper esque, being a very sympathetic ally of the X-Men, but may ultimately is still a US government asset before a mutant ally
we can have Daisy start off as someone who presents herself and believes herself to be an ally of the mutant cause, but prioritises national security, and then have a Genosha-type tragedy that can further radicalise her (see, Val Cooper’s ‘Magneto was right’ speech in X-Men ‘97) and make her a more active ally, and maybe leave SHIELD or break it away from being a government agency
now the primary problem, how do we reconcile the history of AoS with an MCU that at this point is clearly a universe that has left that history behind. There’s no way a writer can simultaneously allow both Inhumans and mutants in the same universe, while having to introduce both to audiences at the same time. This leads to, imo, two options
the first, give this Daisy and SHIELD a soft reboot. Daisy being an inhuman means little more than ‘descended from humans who were genetically modified to have powers’, and the wider inhuman storyline is more or less ignored by the current canon. This is, in my opinion, the messiest of the options writing wise, but is more likely to satisfy a lot of AoS fans
the second, and maybe better, option, is to do a harder reboot on Daisy and SHIELD. Retcon Daisy so that she’s, stay with me here, a mutant who’s X-gene somehow manifested in her 20s as opposed to a teenager (because we ARE keeping Chloe Bennet). We can still keep the vast majority of AoS’ first 1.5 seasons, making the necessary changes to keep it in line with the current MCU canon. We can keep a lot of the foundation of what makes AoS Daisy Daisy, with the changes that the MCU ignoring AoS demands
Lmaoo when I'm watching a Chinese drama and they're literally playing Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, one of my favorite shows of all time, in the background for no reason at all for a scene 😂😂😂
(The drama's The Sound of the Providence S2 btw, part of a tomb raiding franchise)