This Idea For Coulson’s Captain Marvel Introduction Is Absolutely Perfect
One Captain Marvel fan has come up with the perfect way to reintroduce Clark Gregg’s Phil Coulson in the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe prequel.
Set in the 1990s, the film is confirmed to include younger versions of such MCU favorites as Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury and Agent Coulson. Although Gregg has remained a mainstay of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Captain Marvel marks his first appearance in a Marvel Studios film since 2012’s The Avengers, in which he was (briefly) killed off.
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Posted on Reddit by a user named RescueInc, the idea connects Coulson to his role in The Avengers. In the scene imagined by RescueInc, Coulson would be introduced in Captain Marvel while enmeshed in “a tense acquisition of a critical object.”
The twist is that, as the camera pans out, Coulson is revealed to be negotiating for the final item to complete his collection of Captain America baseball cards. As a cherry on top, redditor JCiLee added that the person who possesses the coveted card should be none other than Stan Lee.
Coulson’s admiration for Captain America resulted in him meeting with his star-spangled hero in The Avengers and saying how he’d worked hard to collect the set of vintage cards. After the apparent death of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent at the hands of Loki, Fury used the blood-covered cards as a tool to spur the Avengers into action.
As dream MCU scenes and character introductions go, combining Coulson’s return with a Lee cameo is a stroke of genius. Audiences had just better hope that directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are lurking on Reddit.
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It’s unclear what role Coulson will have in Captain Marvel and whether it has anything to do with the post-credits scene of Avengers: Infinity War. With Captain Marvel taking place long before the devastating events of Infinity War, there are plenty of theories about how Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers will team with the surviving Avengers and how her standalone movie will lead into the end of Phase 3 with Avengers 4.
Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck from a script they wrote with Liz Flahive, Carly Mensch, Meg LeFauve, Nicole Perlman and Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Captain Marvel stars Brie Larson as Carol Danvers, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Jude Law as Mar-Vell, Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson, Lee Pace as Ronan the Accuser, Djimon Hounsou as Korath the Pursuer, Gemma Chan as Minn-Erva, and Ben Mendelsohn, Lashana Lynch, Algenis Perez Soto, McKenna Grace and Annette Bening in as-yet-undisclosed roles. The film arrives March 8, 2019.
