Clark Gregg confirms that the mystery of how Agent Coulson survived Loki will be revealed tonight.
For any fan of Agents of SHIELD, or the greater Marvel Cinematic Universe at large, there remains one pressing question nagging at the back of the mind: How is Agent Coulson still alive?! We saw him take a blade through the abdomen compliments of Loki in 2012’s The Avengers. That ain’t one you walk away from very easily!
Well tonight, those questions are apparently going to be answered in the mid-season premiere of Agents of SHIELD,. Actor Clark Gregg confirmed as much when he spoke with TV Guide earlier about the premiere.
“As a fanboy, I thought, ‘How are they going to do this?’” said Gregg to TV Guide. “’They've been keeping this for 10 episodes.’ We know that there's something bogus about the magical place concept. He can't even say Tahiti without turning into a robot. Is he a robot? How did they bring him back? Is he some kind of Life Model Decoy, as all the Marvel fans think? Is he the Vision? There's all these theories. How do you do this for real and really pay it off? At the same time, you don't want them to go, ‘Well, I guess that's the finale of the show. There's really no need to continue after this. The bullet was in the chamber, now it's completely blown.’ When I read the script, I was blown away because it's completely satisfying to me as a fanboy, and, as probably the biggest fanboy in Phil Coulson in the Marvel Universe, because it's not a tease, it's: here's what happened!
The episode airs tonight at 8pm ET/PT on ABC.