Warning: the following contains spoilers for "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" and, by extension, "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
So, that happened.
In a move that can only be described as "what-how-why-they-can't-do-that," the newest Marvel Studios movie, ended with the dissolution of its most prominent organization: the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division.
When Cap and Black Widow learn that Red Skull's Hydra legacy lives on throughout the highest levels of S.H.I.E.L.D., the two heroes team together with Falcon, Maria Hill and Nick Fury to bring the entire organization down. They're successful, and by the end of "Winter Soldier," S.H.I.E.L.D. is no more.
It's a bold creative choice to remove one of the most reliable pillars of the Marvel Cinematic Universe completely from the equation. Not just because it changes the face of the universe, and not just because it throws the story of into doubt (who will assemble Earth's mightiest heroes now that Nick Fury is unemployed and presumed dead?), but also because it throws an entire television series completely out of whack.
Or are there still ways for "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." to continue without S.H.I.E.L.D. up and running as an official entity? Of course there are.
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