Clark Gregg teases Phil Coulson’s resurrection on ‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’

Fans who had been waiting (im)patiently for answers with regard to Agent Phil Coulson’s mysterious resurrection on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. finally got some answers in the first new episode of 2014 entitled “The Magical Place.” The show did not reveal everything, but Clark Gregg, who plays Coulson, may have offered a huge clue as to the real answer.

The episode revealed that Coulson had been dead for days, not minutes as he had previously believed. Apparently, S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) “moved Heaven and Earth” to bring Coulson back via multiple operations and some sort of disturbing robot spider-like machine that rewired his brain. On the operating table, Coulson begged to die, but S.H.I.E.L.D. brought him back anyway.

A fan asked Gregg on Twitter how it’s possible to recode a man’s brain to make it stay alive, and Gregg responded with “seems almost inhuman.” This could of course just be an innocuous answer, or it could hint at something far more intriguing.

“@MythGeek: @clarkgregg how do you recode a mans brain to make it stay alive? #AgentsOfSHIELD” --Seems almost inhuman...

— Clark Gregg (@clarkgregg) January 8, 2014

One possibility is that Coulson himself is no longer human, or at least not fully human. Perhaps whatever the operations did to him brought him back as a different creation than just your garden variety human.

The other, much juicier option, is that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is about to introduce the Inhumans, the genetically enhanced race created by the Kree millions of years ago when they experimented on Earth’s primitive Homo sapiens to help in their war against the Skrull.

If Fury did indeed move Heaven and Earth to bring back Coulson, maybe he went as far as to get a little Inhuman help.

What do you think, fans? Did Gregg just spill the beans, or is this much ado about nothing? Let us know in the comments below.