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by **LOLtron** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 4:55 pm

Breaking news from the Marvel Television Panel.

Joss Whedon has confirmed that Clark Gregg has been cast as Agent Phil Coulson in the upcoming ABC S.H.I.E.L.D television show. He will be headlining the show, and according to Kevin Feige he always was.

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by **Zero** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 5:19 pm

Yaaaaaaaaaay

by **Chris** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 5:26 pm

An emotional Gregg took the stage.

"I grew up loving comics," he said. "One of the greatest things about it is that I got to connect with people like you, so thank you for being apart of it."

The crowd began chanting "COULSON! COULSON!"

"I just want to say because I won't have another chance to ask this -- 'Have you heard of a Life Model Decoy?'" asked Coulson. "I don't know if you've read the theories from the people on twitter but there's this guy called the Vision. I don't know if you saw the UK version of the DVD, but the blade wasn't coming out of his chest. There's a tesseract!

"All around the globe you can see graffiti, bumper stickers that say 'Coulson Lives!' You have the power, Jeph! I feel like we could make this happen right now!"

"This is not like Tinkerbell, you don't get to clap!" said Loeb.

And then, suddenly, Joss Whedon showed up onscreen amongst applause.

"We all love Clark Gregg, there's no doubt about that," Whedon said. "From before we made 'The Avengers,' we discussed whether there was a way for him to be a part of the Marvel Universe, perhaps a part of a TV show even after his death. … The fact of the matter is, as much as we love him, now that I'm really running Marvel, I like to keep a type of artistic integrity, which means we don't stretch the bounds of reality."

"There was never going to be a 'S.H.I.E.L.D.' show without Agent Phil Coulson!" said Feige, who appeared behind Whedon a Coulson Lives shirt.

"He's headlining the S.H.I.E.L.D. show and always was." said Whedon.

Loeb confirmed Clark Gregg is the first member cast in Whedon's "S.H.I.E.L.D."

by **Zechs** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 6:32 pm

by **Punchy** » Sun Oct 14, 2012 6:25 am

by **Amoebas** » Sun Oct 14, 2012 7:45 am

I guess it's official - "dead is dead" means about the same as it does in the comics. :groucho:

by **e_galston** » Sun Oct 14, 2012 12:29 pm

Amoebas wrote:I guess it's official - "dead is dead" means about the same as it does in the comics.

seeing as how Hill pretty much said they staged the death to give them something fight for, he wasn't really "dead." And they've brought up LMD's in the movies too

by **alaska1125** » Sun Oct 14, 2012 12:41 pm

e_galston wrote:
seeing as how Hill pretty much said they staged the death to give them something fight for, he wasn't really "dead." And they've brought up LMD's in the movies too

Yep, this. They all but said that the blood on the Cap trading cards was fake as they'd been in Coulson's locker the whole time. I was suspecting the LMD rational, but we'll see.

Oh yeah...YAY!!!