Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Easter Eggs and Marvel Comics References in "Turn, Turn, Turn"

Warning: Spoilers ahead for Captain America: The Winter Soldier.See that up there? That's because [...]

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Warning: Spoilers ahead for Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

See that up there? That's because the first thing we have to address, when talking about the Marvel Comics references in this episode of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is that it takes a lot more getting acclimated to if you haven't yet seen Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and it spoils a lot of plot elements from that movie, in theaters now. That's where we found out that HYDRA was back, that Nick Fury was "dead" and more. Besides that, elements of The Winter Soldier were reworking the Nick Fury vs. S.H.I.E.L.D. storyline by Bob Harras and Paul Neary. Those elements seem to be what's driving the third act of the season. We won't touch on every story beat that comes from, or is a result from, The Winter Soldier. The ones that are really significant to the plot or have a particular point of interest to discuss, though, we'll bring up.

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S.H.I.E.L.D. 616 Just like Officer Lance on Arrow is "DC52," The Bus is "S.H.I.E.L.D. 616," a reference to Marvel's "616 Universe." And just like with the Arrow reference, we tend not to mention it every time since it's so pervasive. It's been a while since it was mentioned, though, and frankly there are so many fresh eyes probably on tonight's episode that it seemed worth bringing up. Hand the double triple agent In the comics, Victoria Hand doesn't work for Hydra -- but that doesn't mean she stays good all the time. After Norman Osborn took control of S.H.I.E.L.D. and rebranded it as H.A.M.M.E.R., it was Hand who played a key role in helping him out...although she ultimately turned out to be a triple agent who died protecting Nick Fury. "Don't trust anyone" The last thing we see Weaver tell Simmons is the same thing Nick Fury told Captain America with his "dying breath" in The Winter Soldier. That it comes from a trusted Agent we've seen already in the show is a nice touch.

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The catalogue Just about every major episode yet this season got a quick mention when Ward was running down all the things on Coulson's computers that could be dangerous if it fell into the hands of HYDRA. Oh, and did anybody else notice that after Skye put all that stuff on a hard drive, she gave it to Ward, who proceeded to go off the reservation in the third act? Solid planning, guys. Literally the only people who you wanted to keep the information from are the ones who you handed it to. Recruited by Agent Sitwell Last episode, we saw Jasper Sitwell head off to the Lemurian Star, a ship where he would enter into the story of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Here, he gets a name-drop as the man who recruited the troop of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who get the drop on Coulson, May and Fitz. True believer "I wouldn't say I'm a true believer," Garrett tells Coulson. That's a wink-and-a-nod to one of Stan Lee's famous Mighty Marvel catch-phrases. Skye's no dummy She figured out that Ward and May were having an affair? Good on her, considering that you'd have to be pretty stupid not to. The timeline A lot of people have wondered whether the current storyline on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. took place just before, just after or during Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and how much spoilage there would be as a result. Turns out, quite a bit. The film took place during the film, with Captain America's victory against HYDRA spelled out (but not seen) during the episode. Unfortunately, Cap's big, dramatic Captain America Speech didn't appear on the episode, which was something that we'd heard some fans speculating would give us an exact timeline.

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