Agents of SHIELD. Season 1 Discussion Thread

Nice catch.

 

Hedonistic Yet Dedicated Rebel Agency?
Heroic Young Despots Requiring Advancement?
High Yield Detonations Right Away?
Happy Yurt-Dwelling Renegade Assholes?
Hate Your Damn Righteous Arguments?
Happy Young Dog-Rogering Agents?

 

As long as his first name isn't Peter...

 

That guy in True Lies was a total wimp, a fraud, a wannabe badass. Garrett was the real deal.

 

Here's Your Damn Revolution, America

versus

So Here Is Everyone Left Defending

 

Oh, your original post made it seem that you'd maybe missed out on some of the uh, basics, thus the use of the , icon in my post. Glad to see it wasn't as bad as it appeared.

 

This is a bit old, but has anyone noticed how Centipede serum-powered individuals such as Mike Peterson and John Garrett didn't have fiery flesh regenerations like Aldrich Killian and his forces in Iron Man 3? How is this possible if the Centipede serum contains Extremis?

 

Revised formula?

 

It was highly tinkered with.

Maybe it was the dendrotoxin that Mike was shot with in the pilot that stabilized him. Perhaps it had other effects on Extremis.

 

Actually it was the blood platelets extracted from "Scorch" in "Girl in the Flower Dress" that let them stabilize the Extremis component in the Centipede serum and cancel out its combustive effects. So no more "fiery." Maybe this limits the regenerative effect too, considering that Mike didn't grow his leg back or heal his scars.

 

^The fact that Mike's leg didn't grow back is why I attributed it to the dendrotoxin instead of Chan's platelets.

 

I'd speculate that they didn't want a bunch of full on extremis super-soldiers running around as they'd be too difficult to control. The point of the project from day one appears to have been to combine advanced cybernetics with advanced bio-tech. That way you get the superior strength, durability and integrated control system of a machine combined with a body that can keep pace with the strain of carting all that metal around and heal itself when needed.

That aside, it's possible the they of aggressive regeneration we saw in Killian's people would have made the host body reject the cybernetics.

 

For him, maybe. But "Flower Dress" made a point about how getting Scorch's platelets was the key to stabilizing the serum for use in others.

 

Uh, is Deathlok even using the Centipede implant now? I thought he was pure Cybertek now instead, with Garrett being the weirdo with both cybernetics and Centipede. Raina certainly seemed surprised that he had it with his cybernetics.

 

The larger wrist implant his uses grafted itself over it. It's still there, though it may be mostly redundant.