Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD: If Hive’s Plan Works Out

With the events that have transpired so far, the season three finale of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD promises to be a big one.

The stakes are high for humanity as Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD heads into its season three finale. If you happened to miss the last episode, here’s what’s going on heading into Tuesday:

Radcliffe has figured out enough of the Kree formula to create primitive Inhumans. Hive plans to take said formula, put it in the nuclear weapon he stole from the ATCU, and fire it into the earth’s atmosphere to infect a vast majority of the world’s population.

It makes him sound like a Bond villain.

Now it’s up to our SHIELD compatriots to stop him from turning almost half the world into primitive Inhumans that will listen to his every whim and fancy. It’s a Terrigen bomb that he has only in theory (and the bomb part), and it’s a shame that it’s not with a perfected version of the Kree formula. If it was, that would make for a great next season full of super-powered people.

So let me play devil’s advocate for a moment.

Let’s theorize for a moment that in the season finale, our Agents of SHIELD have found some sort of cure–better than the one they gave Andrew/Lash. They know they can’t stop the bomb, but they can infuse its formula with the cure. But it turns out, all it does it make it into an actual Terrigen bomb. Not primitive versions of Inhumans, but fully realized.

Kind of like the fish oils, except it affects everyone.

If there was one major complaint about the first two seasons of Agents of SHIELD, it’s that for a show about people dealing with superheroes, there sure as heck weren’t many super-powered people. With the introduction of the Inhumans, Daisy taking control of her powers, and Lincoln joining the SHIELD team, there’s definitely been more superpowers.

But imagine a show where there’s nearly an infinite amount of Inhumans popping up. Even more than what we’ve seen in this third season. You can have more off-brand mutants like James being Gambit. Sure we already had a clairvoyant and Alicia looked like a pale Jean Grey, but have an actual telepathic person. You can’t go as obvious as bone claws, but what about someone who can teleport to places they’ve been to before?

Maybe Hive’s plan isn’t that bad of an idea. Sure, it takes away any idea of choice for those who want super powers, like how Jiaying ran things. And if you’re going by her logic, what are the purposes of these new Inhumans? Just to serve Hive? SHIELD is going to have a heck of a time battling against an army that will sacrifice every single part of themselves for their leader.

Then again, this is all hinging on the hypothetical idea that SHIELD fixes Hive’s bomb and said bomb actually goes off.

Let’s reground ourselves before I wrap this up. Anything with this catastrophic of a result would catch the eye of some certain big screen superheroes we all know and love, not to mention draw Nick Fury out of hiding, maybe send Thor back down to Midgard. AKA it’s not going to happen, at least not to the scale that Hive wants, because then the movies would have to acknowledge Agents of SHIELD.

However, if SHIELD wants to go this route, the possibilities are endless. And I am all for it.