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Agents of SHIELD season 2 News, Rumors, Pics, etc. until release...

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And yeah. The poster works thematically for me too.
 
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The use use of fire in itself is not an indicator one way or the other. As I pointed out, the crucial detail is that his attempt was circumspect. I was actually going to mention poisoners, but I didn;t want to stray too far from topic, but seeing as you brought it up: to my knowledge, most serial killers who are known to use poison (mostly women, but a few notable men) tend to like to stick around so they can see their handiwork in action. Same with pyromaniacs. Indeed, for a lot of them, watching it is the whole point.

When Ward set that fire, he wasn't acting out some power fantasy, he's taking revenge and (I'm assuming) protecting his younger brother. Motivation and context matter in this regard.
You may be right. And we'll probably never know, since they'll probably never get into it that deeply. Unless they play it like Soap and decide that his aberrant behavior was caused by a brain tumor. They'll remove it, he'll be Gunga Din for a few episodes, then back on the team. :rommie:
 
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Reverend: counter-question here.

Protecting his younger brother...or avenging him?

Actually, that did occur to me, but you'd have thought something that significant would've been flagged up, no? Either way, I'd be surprised if he haven't hear the last of the Ward family.

Indeed, after they showed the thing with his brother, I thought they might be building him up as a future villain, maybe even a known super-villain?
 
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I think it would be a little cheesy for the brother to become a supervillain. Sometimes people just have real world problems. I think it would undermine the seriousness of the hell Ward went through to make it fantastical instead.
 
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If there's a known super-villain with the surname of Ward, I don't remember off the top. But I don't have the memory of a George Olshevsky or a Peter Sanderson for these things, as much as I've tried.
 
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Stewart Ward sounds tempting but I think Grant would be more redeemable if his brother died before he set the fire as DEWLine suggests.

Still, after everything he's done, I think there is no true redemption for Ward but I'm starting to hope they turn Ward into a vigilante, hunting down the threats he released.
 
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I feel that's kind of what Deathlok's role is right now, though.
 
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Alidar: Thanks for the memory refresher. Sometimes, it's difficult to keep up with this stuff.
 
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A major stretch, one suspects, at the moment.
 
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Either way, I'd be surprised if he haven't hear the last of the Ward family.

Well, we know we're going to see more of Skye's family. I suspect we'll learn more about Triplett's family. We just met a member of May's family at the end of last season. And I would certainly enjoy an explanation about Koenig's "family".

So Ward's family may definitely come back into play.
 
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Maybe Ward will become Wonder Man and his brother will be Grim Reaper. Wonder Man had a redemptive arc back in the day, though he was never a stone cold killer.
 
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You know it occurs to me that if one of Ward's brothers ends up as a super villain (or just an antagonist/killer) then I think it ought to be the younger brother rather than older one. After all, most real human monsters were made rather than born. Indeed, we've seen how much it twisted Grant being forced to inflict torment, imagine what it was like to be on the receiving end of that from the (presumably) one person he trusted.

There's no way anyone comes out of that kind of upbringing with all of their dogs barking. Certainly a much more interesting back story than just being a garden variety sadist.
 
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^Calling it right now: Skye's mum. ;)
 
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You know it occurs to me that if one of Ward's brothers ends up as a super villain (or just an antagonist/killer) then I think it ought to be the younger brother rather than older one. After all, most real human monsters were made rather than born. Indeed, we've seen how much it twisted Grant being forced to inflict torment, imagine what it was like to be on the receiving end of that from the (presumably) one person he trusted.

There's no way anyone comes out of that kind of upbringing with all of their dogs barking. Certainly a much more interesting back story than just being a garden variety sadist.

We already have Grant Ward for that, though.

Although I don't think any of Ward's powers should get superpowers.
 
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Either way, I'd be surprised if he haven't hear the last of the Ward family.

Well, we know we're going to see more of Skye's family. I suspect we'll learn more about Triplett's family. We just met a member of May's family at the end of last season. And I would certainly enjoy an explanation about Koenig's "family".

So Ward's family may definitely come back into play.

Not to mention Simmons' easily worried Mum and Fitz's distant parents.
 
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You know it occurs to me that if one of Ward's brothers ends up as a super villain (or just an antagonist/killer) then I think it ought to be the younger brother rather than older one. After all, most real human monsters were made rather than born. Indeed, we've seen how much it twisted Grant being forced to inflict torment, imagine what it was like to be on the receiving end of that from the (presumably) one person he trusted.

There's no way anyone comes out of that kind of upbringing with all of their dogs barking. Certainly a much more interesting back story than just being a garden variety sadist.

We already have Grant Ward for that, though.

Although I don't think any of Ward's powers should get superpowers.

Grant Ward isn't exactly what I'd call super villain material. More like an anti-villain type. Besides, they seem to be setting him up for a redemption arc, possibly followed by death.

Also, super-villain =/= super powers.

Lex Luthor is just a really smart bloke with a huge bank roll. Just like Iron Man in that regard. Lethal amounts of shrapnel and an electro-magnet in the chest cavity doesn't count as a super power.
 
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