Captain America: The Winter Soldier – What Does It Mean For Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.?

The Marvel Universe was Steve Rogers’s playground in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, as Captain America reveled in a level of Easter eggs not previously seen in a Marvel Studios film.The film also set the stage for much of what is to come in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — most notably, establishing a threat (Von Strucker, his organization and Loki’s scepter) and a pair of new heroes (Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch) to be introduced in next year’s Avengers: Age of Ultron.But what of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., arguably the property most directly impacted by the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier?Along the way, various actors involved with the production described it alternately as a S.H.I.E.L.D. movie or as a weigh station between Marvel’s The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron. You can certainly see where each of those ideas could come from, even while the picture succeeded in retaining its feeling of being a Captain America movie for the most part.But when you make a massive summer tentpole that revolves around — and ultimately dismantles — the organization and command structure in charge of your weekly, hour-long drama, there’s going to inevitably be some fallout. These summer movies, after all, are way bigger than any one episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.  is likely to be.