Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Ten Marvel Characters We Want to See

As we did when Arrow first went on the air, we figured that tonight’s first trailer for Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was as good a chance as we were going to get to take a look at what little we know about the show so far and speculate as to what characters from the Marvel Comics universe might do particularly well on the series.Here are our ground rules, which are a bit more involved than they were for Arrow:

• Because Marvel has a cinematic universe to craft, we’re not expecting non-S.H.I.E.L.D. characters from The Avengers and other films to appear on the series. If they do, it’ll be great–but this isn’t about “Hey, wouldn’t it be cool to see Hulk again?”.
• Similarly, we’re also going to focus primarily on characters unlikely to appear in a solo film anytime soon. So no Ant-Man and Wasp; no Iron Fist, Runaways, Guardians of the Galaxy, Black Panther, Dr. Strange. We’ll treat these characters as we treat The Avengers.
• Because Marvel’s characters are scattered as far as film rights, we’re going to assume for the sake of argument that nobody will appear on the TV series who aren’t lined up to appear in a Disney/Marvel Studios film, or couldn’t if Marvel wanted them to. That means no X-Men, no Spider-Man characters, etc. If a character is owned by another studio for film, we’ll assume they’re off-limits for TV too, even though that might not technically be the case in 100% of situations.

Alright, so onto the list…