After Scorpio is defeated & his group scattered, in comes one of my all time favorite characters. SHANG CHI, Master of Kung Fu. (Wang Baoqiang) Shang Chi is tracking The Wasp, as he wants the help of MI-6. When they all find each other he fights *everyone* to a standstill. (24/?

Incredibly, no one is hurt much more than bruises and sprains. It's not luck, though: Shang Chi is committed to pacifism even when he's whupping ass. It turns out he's in hiding & on the run from a very bad dude. (His dad) (25/?

Shang Chi's dad Zheng Zu (played by @BD_WONG) is, on the surface, real estate magnate and minor political functionary of the southeast asian city/state island Madripoor. Secretly, he's head of the criminal empire known to very few as CLAW. Also: maybe immortal? (26/?

Unbeknownst to all but the highest members, CLAW is actually a sect of LEVIATHAN, which provides key assistance to the defence/armament of Madripoor. Zheng Zu has two known surviving children. Shang Chi, his “Disgrace” of a son, left once he realized his father’s corruption. (27/

Zu's daughter Suwan, aka VIPER, ( @juju_chan) has risen in prominence in Shang Chi’s absence to run the day to day operations of CLAW. She leads their elite killing squad THE SERPENT SOCIETY and is fiercely competitive with her brother Shang Chi.
(28/?)

Jesus christ this is taking forever. OK so: SHIELD & MI-6 lead a joint operation to Madripoor to try and take down CLAW and Zheng Zu. FURY & the team (Contessa, Wasp, & Jimmy Woo being the A team) go in to meet their contact in the worst bar ever. He doesn't look like much.(29/?)

Short, Canadian, hairy, & grumpy– "Patch" turns out to know his way around the underbelly of the island, leading the team through back alleys, tunnels and under grates that Shang Chi had no idea about, until they are in the compound of Zheng Zu. (30/?

Oh, I forgot to underline HOW FUCKIN' HAPPY and vindicated Jimmy feels when Shang Chi shows up. His whole thing up until that point is like Mulder 1.0 and no one really believes him about CLAW. Here's this kung fu master spilling all of the tea and he's STOKED. (31/?

Ok anyway there's a whole big thing where Zu totally expected everyone, springs a trap on them, ZODIAC is revealed as this morphing undead Scorpio tumor beast, and the Serpent Society shows up to fight the good guys, and they all have a BIG FIGHT! (32/?

I can't do that justice so just know it'd be awesome. here's a fight scene from Queen Boxer:
Seeing Fury sends Zodiac out of his mind–he breaks his programming to hunt down Fury in a game of cat & mouse that leaves Fury scarred and badly battered. (33/?

Fury is saved when Jimmy Woo drops a crane on Zodiac, pinning him under several tons of steel. He.. appears to finally be dead. Zheng Zu & Shang Chi face off, Viper & the Serpent Society fight the Contessa & Wasp, it's fucking wild, man! (34/?)

Shang Chi & his dad fight in this brutal knock down drag out fight, going up a spiral staircase tower until they're both almost passing out. Shang Chi gets the upper hand, but can't quite bring himself to kill his evil father.. He's conflicted! Philosophical shit! (35/?

It starts to rain. Shang Chi's grip on Zheng Zu's neck weakens–he steps back. AND THEN THE VIPER WRAPS HER BULLWHIP AROUND HER DAD'S NECK AND YANKS HIM OFF THE BALCONY THEY ARE STANDING ON! Zu plummets to the rocky ocean below!! Wow! Classic bullshit! (36/?

There's some wrap up but the long and short of it is that Viper calls off all her people and SHIELD etc slink off to tend their wounds. Shang Chi goes with them. Viper looks like she'll be taking over Madripoor. Patch disappears into the shadows. (37/?)
(almost done!)

So that's FURY: Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season1. It sets up Nick Fury's start w/SHIELD, dangles some romance, & we even thought about being cheesy and having him lose his eye at the end there so Logan could give him his patch that is just a costume. (that's too much, tho) (38/?)

Because we're idiots, we even thought of cool things that could happen in Season 2, like: Pym discovers Pym Particles! (but they only work on inanimate objects)
The Viper/Suwan runs Madripoor & CLAW ! It is revealed that she was a HYDRA sleeper agent all along. (39/?)

Obviously Francois and I are big nerds and we watch all the MCU stuff even if we end up nitpicking it, we clearly enjoy it and it was fun to play with both that world & the ideas of people like Kirby, Steranko, Moench, Gulacy, Day, Parker, & Kirk, etc. (40/?

Just as a bit of housekeeping, the threading got broken on this real early, so if you missed the first few tweets, they're here: https://twitter.com/zacksoto/status/1074503691577679877

I'm reallly glad to finally get this out of my system even if it's just on twitter. It's been sitting in our google docs untouched for too long. Thanks for reading!

And Francois isn't on twitter but he's on IG so follow him there.
https://www.instagram.com/francoisvigneault/

(42/42) BYE!