Is 'Agents of SHIELD' Teasing the Death of an Agent?

With only two episodes of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD left this season (and possibly ever), could [...]

By Jamie Lovett

With only two episodes of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD left this season (and possibly ever), could one SHIELD agent fall before the end?

A new Agents of SHIELD advertisement featured in today's Marvel Comics releases hints that that may be a possibility.

The advertisement places Agents Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen) back-to-back with Qovas (Peter Mensah), the leader of the Remorath and a member of the Confederacy Council. The advertisement tagline reads, "Only One Survives." Take a look below.

Agents of SHIELD May Qovas Ad

The preview for this week's episode of Agents of SHIELD, "The Forces of Gravity," teased that May and Qovas would get into a fight. Now it seems that fight will be a fatal battle. But who will come out alive?

"The Forces of Gravity" is the penultimate episode of Agents of SHIELD's fifth season and it remains unclear if the series will see a sixth. The finale episode is titled "The End," which seems to suggest finality.

ABC Television head Channing Dungey said at the TCA press tour that she was cautiously optimistic about Agents of SHIELD's future.

"The creative this season, I honestly think, has been the strongest its ever been," Dungey said. "We've been really excited about what the producers have been talking about for the second half of the season. I'm really looking forward to hearing them come in and talk about what their ideas would be for season 6, so we can make a better determination about whether we're going to order another season or not."

For their part, the showrunners have said that the finale is written in a way that it can serve as either a season or a series finale.

"We'll never end something without the potential for more story," Maurissa Tancharoen said at the Agents of SHIELD 100th episode premiere. "That's how we've ended every season because, whenever we've come to the end of all the seasons past, we go into that mostly not knowing until the very last minute, so we're basically doing the same thing to close out Season 5. It can fit well as a possible series finale, and it can fit well as just another season's end."

Meanwhile, if this is the end for Coulson and crew, star Clark Gregg seems satisfied with the way the story has gone.

"I have questions about the future of the show and for Coulson," said Gregg. "It's been a really ... there's been some very dark developments, and from the minute Joss [Whedon] pitched me the show five years ago, it was clear that he wouldn't be brought back to life without repercussions, and some of those are finally coming due. So, it's a fun story arc to tell and it's been a very moving ending of the season, and we'll see what happens from here."

Marvel's Agents of SHIELD airs Fridays at 9 pm ET on ABC.

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