Whereas it seemed just like the Marvel Cinematic Universe was phasing out live-action Disney+ exhibits with the cancellation of Daredevil: Born Once more and Marvel Man, that isn’t what is going on. A brand new sequence referred to as Zodiac is coming. Brad Winderbaum, head of Marvel Tv, revealed it at Marvel’s New York Comedian Con 2026 panel and stated it’s a live-action spy thriller that’s taking a look at a 2028 launch date. The emblem was proven, and throughout the title Zodiac was the SHIELD image, and for the reason that time period Zodiac has a historical past with SHIELD in Marvel Comics, it acquired folks excited with the prospects that the MCU may deliver again Brokers of SHIELD.
There is no such thing as a announcement that anybody from Marvel’s Brokers of SHIELD will return in Zodiac, however the information and the emblem nonetheless have followers excited in regards to the chance. When Winderbaum stated clues may very well be discovered within the title design, and the SHIELD emblem showing in that design, it has numerous followers excited. There are additionally rumors that Samuel L. Jackson shall be again as Nick Fury and that his brother, Jake Fury, may be the villain. If that is Zodiac from the comics, bringing again the Brokers of SHIELD forged, much like how the MCU did with the Netflix heroes in Daredevil: Born Once more, may make for a really anticipated sequence.
5) Lance Hunter
Nick Blood performed Lance Hunter, a mercenary who is available in to assist the group after he meets Agent Phil Coulson in Marvel’s Brokers of SHIELD. Hunter debuted within the Season 2 premiere, “Shadows,” as a former SAS soldier engaged on Isabelle Hartley’s (Lucy Lawless) mercenary crew. He’s additionally an unique comedian guide character, debuting in Marvel UK’s Captain Britain Weekly #19 (1977) by Gary Friedrich and Herb Trimpe, because the director of STRIKE, Britain’s reply to SHIELD.
He joined SHIELD on the TV sequence after he was provided a bribe to promote out the group. He’s the ex-husband of Bobbi Morse (Adrianne Palicki), a personality often called Mockingbird within the comics. Each Hunter and Bobbi left SHIELD within the Season 3 episode “Parting Shot.” They had been captured in a botched mission, and Coulson received their launch by saying they would go away SHIELD. This was imagined to arrange a derivative sequence referred to as Marvel’s Most Needed, however it by no means made it to sequence. Zodiac may simply deliver again Hunter, and presumably Bobbi.
4) Melinda Might
Ming-Na Wen’s Melinda Might was the clear breakout star from Marvel’s Brokers of SHIELD. She debuted within the sequence “Pilot” and was a part of the forged via the sequence finale, “What We’re Combating For.” She was an unique character created for the sequence. Might crossed into comics afterward, debuting in SHIELD #1 (2014) by Mark Waid and Carlos Pacheco. Her backstory was tough, as she needed to kill the Inhuman Eva Belyakov in 2008 Bahrain, after which needed to shoot Eva’s younger daughter Katya to save lots of the hostages.
The trauma ended her marriage to Andrew Garner (Blair Underwood), who was later revealed because the Inhuman serial killer Lash in Season 3. Season 4 swapped her for a Life Mannequin Decoy constructed by AIDA and trapped her thoughts within the Framework, and Season 7 induced her to grow to be unable to really feel her personal feelings however sense everybody else’s. She completed the sequence by displaying that Might grew to become a professor at SHIELD’s Coulson Academy. Might is one of the best area operative from the sequence, and she or he could be one of the best guess for Zodiac.
3) Mack Mackenzie
Henry Simmons performed Alphonso ‘Mack’ Mackenzie, and he debuted within the Season 2 premiere of Marvel’s Brokers of SHIELD as a mechanic. He’s based mostly on Al MacKenzie from the comics, a personality who debuted in Nick Fury vs. SHIELD #3 (1988) by Bob Harras and Paul Neary. Together with Bobbi Morse, Mack was loyal at first to Actual SHIELD, a rival to Agent Coulson’s group that broke away after the Hydra infiltration. He finally got here round and joined Coulson’s group.
He constructed himself a shotgun axe, which grew to become his fan-favorite weapon of selection on the present. He developed a relationship with Elena “Yo-Yo” Rodriguez, which lasted from Season 3 to the finale. Mack rose via the ranks to grow to be the Director of SHIELD after the Season 5 finale. He additionally confirmed up once more within the six-part digital spinoff sequence Brokers of SHIELD: Slingshot. When Brokers of SHIELD ended, Mack was nonetheless operating SHIELD, so it is sensible that he would return in Zodiac.
2) Daisy Johnson / Quake
Chloe Bennet was the principle protagonist from the beginning on Marvel’s Brokers of SHIELD. When launched, she glided by the title Skye, a hacker that Agent Coulson recruited to work for SHIELD. She realized in Season 2 that her beginning title was Daisy Johnson. She debuted in comics in Secret Battle #2 (2004) by Brian Michael Bendis and Gabriele Dell’Otto because the daughter of Calvin Zabo (Mister Hyde). Within the comics, she grew to become the Director of SHIELD.
Brokers of SHIELD utterly reinvented the character, and she or he has nearly no connection to the comics. As an alternative, she turned out to be an Inhuman quite than a mutant-adjacent agent, and her powers activated in Season 2 due to the Terrigen Mist. Daisy shaped the Secret Warriors, a SHIELD group of Inhumans together with Yo-Yo, Lincoln Campbell, and Joey Gutierrez, and by Season 4 she was working because the vigilante Quake. Because the present’s strongest agent, she ought to positively return for Zodiac.
1) Agent Phil Coulson
The character who linked Marvel’s Brokers of SHIELD to the general MCU was Agent Phil Coulson. Clark Gregg first performed Coulson in Iron Man (2008), and he returned for Iron Man 2 and The Avengers. Whereas Loki killed him in The Avengers, he returned for Brokers of SHIELD, and it was later proven that Nick Fury revived him via Challenge TAHITI utilizing Kree know-how, and he was implanted with false recollections of rehab in Tahiti.
Fury made him Director of SHIELD after Hydra’s infiltration, however he was changed by Jeffrey Mace after the Sokovia Accords took impact. In Season 5, Coulson died once more, this time in peace in Tahiti, however he ended up returning as an enhanced Life Mannequin Decoy (LMD), the place he traveled the world in his purple 1962 Corvette, Lola. Whereas this makes it just a little laborious for the precise Agent Coulson to return, Gregg shared the Zodiac title card, and because it included the SHIELD emblem, he has been the character most linked to returning.
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