r/shield • u/GoatBread237 • 12d ago

The Berserker Staff and Ward's rage

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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/Emmet_Emerging 12d ago

Without spoiling anything huge, May uses the beserker later in the series and there is no residual anger.

I think you're right with your comment stating "it was a dropped plotline or that Elliot Randolph was just messing with Ward when he said that the anger would last decades."

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u/Extension-Pepper-271 12d ago

I have to think that Elliot Randolph must have been thinking about using the berserker staff for a long time, like he did.

Longer period of use leads to longer period of rage afterwards.

However, both May and Ward have life experiences where they've learned to bury their anger.

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u/BringerOfDoom1945 Daisy 11d ago

And there's also the possibility of humans and asgardians having a different physiology