Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Four Controversies Raised in 2013

For a show that’s designed to appeal to the broadest possible demographic and make basically no waves, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has managed to get quite a few people pretty worked up in the first half of its freshman season.Aside from the obvious fanboy gripes about every little nitpicky detail that kind of comes with the territory of being a comic book series, S.H.I.E.L.D. has taken the ability to raise controversies to a new level, engaging religion and politics in a way that you really don’t expect from a show that anchors ABC’s Tuesday primetime lineup.Sometimes, it was accidental and sometimes it seemed like it was done quite on purpose–but it seems as though Marvel Studios’s first foray into live-action television can’t get too far from controversy. Here are the ones that stuck out to us, in no particular order: