Marvel Studios and Disney will be trying to further expand the massive success of their superhero universe this fall, making the jump from big-screen movies to small-screen television with the premiere of ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the new spinoff show that follows the men and women of the Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division, as they try to combat the new threats that arise in an Avengers world, following the team’s milestone battle in New York against the alien Chitauri.
More interesting, however, is the synopsis for the Pilot episode of the show, which premieres on Tuesday September 24th:
These agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. have a mission: To investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.
In the premiere episode, “Pilot,” it’s just after the battle of New York, and now that the existence of super heroes and aliens has become public knowledge, the world is trying to come to grips with this new reality. Agent Phil Coulson is back in action and has his eye on a mysterious group called the Rising Tide. In order to track this unseen, unknown enemy, he has assembled a small, highly select group of Agents from the worldwide law-enforcement organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division). The group’s first assignment together as a team finds them trying to track down an ordinary man who has gained extraordinary powers. Powers that could have devastating consequences.
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the one line in that synopsis that raises eyebrows on the careful observer is the mention that in the pilot the team will track down an “ordinary man who was gained extraordinary powers” – the keyword in that sentence being “gained.” We already know that there are no mutants in Marvel’s universe (thanks to legal snags from Fox’s X-Men rights), but what that synopsis describes is something different than the Marvel One-Shot “Item 47,” in which leftover Chitauri technology was the catalyst for mayhem. The S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot will explore the idea of regular people being able to gain superpowers – the question is: by what method will they do so?
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. premieres on Tuesday, September 24 @8pm EST on ABC.
