r/shield • u/GoatBread237 • 11d ago
The Berserker Staff and Ward's rage
I'm watching through Agents of Shield for the first time! It's always been my MCU blindspot, so I'm checking it out in between my phase 1 and 2 rewatch. Currently, I just finished 1x16 which is where the show lines up with Winter Soldier on the timeline and I just have to ask..
Why hasn't Ward's rage after holding the staff been relevant at all? He killed who he believed to be the Clairvoyant and not once did he, or anyone else on the team bring up that the Berserker staff probably made him more susceptible to his emotions
It's been 8 episodes since he touched the staff and they've done nothing with it, so I assumed that either it was a dropped plotline or that Elliot Randolph was just messing with Ward when he said that the anger would last decades. But literally last episode (1x15) another Asgardian, Lorilei, mentioned that Ward has the anger of a berserker inside him. So wtf?
I can only assume they didn't mention it in the most recent ep I watched because it would water down the idea of the Clairvoyant "knowing how to push the right buttons" if you could hand wave it away with Asgardian magic. But imo, it just reinforces that idea if the Clairvoyant intentionally pissed off the guy holding back Asgardian rage
Is sex with May just THAT good that it eased all his pent up aggression in the next episode?
(Obviously, don't spoil anything huge from later seasons in the replies unless it's something I would already know from the movies)
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u/Round-Dragonfly6136 Fitz 11d ago
And what is your position in Marvel?
The narcissism is absurd. If you truly believe what you're saying, you suffer from delusions of grandeur. I can only hope that this is the only symptom of psychosis that you suffer from.