Agent Coulson has signed multi-movie deals, so he's considered part of the pack...
but why? what is his purpose? he's pretty much extraneous so far. unless there's going to be some sort of big reveal about him later on he's the Marvel equivalent of a redshirt.
Originally Posted By: rex
He's the guy they can get when Samuel L. Jackson is off doing other things.
Exactly. Did you miss a movie or something?
I'm talking storyline purpose. I don't think it's that hard to figure out what I'm asking for here. let's not be intentionally dense.
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Sure.....if they were saying he's part of The Avengers team.
are they not doing so by featuring him along with the rest?
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Depending on how they present the concept of The Avengers, he may be ground-support akin to Jarvis. He might be their slightly-nicer Henry Gyrich analogue. He might be crowd-control or their government liaison field-operative Or, he just might be the connective thread for a lot of the movies,
those would work as explanations, but I still find no real reason to have him up there with the rest.
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freeing Sam Jackson up to appear in the meatier sections.
All in all, it's just a picture of the actors involved in the mammoth Avengers project, including Joss Whedon and Marvel Exec Kevin Feige. I don't think it really means anything except that they signed him for a multi-picture deal like the rest, and thus included him with the rest of the actors...
