History ComicBook / SHIELD2010

** Major MarvelUniverse threats show up long before they canonically ever noticed Earth, such as Ancient Egypt being attacked by the Brood, a Celestial in China, and [[spoiler:friggin' Galactus showing up in Renaissance Italy]]. That last one is the most egregious retcon, as surely [[spoiler:Galactus]] would remember getting his ass kicked by humans, yet in his next chronological appearance he makes no mention of ever having visited Earth, and is shocked when humans defeat him.

* {{Retcon}}: Jonathan Hickman made several additions to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s history through this series and his run on ''ComicBook/SecretWarriors'' before it. The first, from ''ComicBook/SecretWarriors'', was that [[spoiler:S.H.I.E.L.D. has always been a secret division of the HYDRA organization ([[IKnowYouKnowIKnow or possibly vice versa, or maybe both]])]] and the premise of the 2010 series was that S.H.I.E.L.D. or an organization which will one day become it has been around since ancient Egypt and had various of [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy history's greatest minds]] as members.

** To tie these two retcons together [[spoiler:a HYDRA agent in ''ComicBook/SecretWarriors'' refers to the organization as "the Spear", and ''SHIELD'' has the Brotherhood of the East represented by a spear, just as the Brotherhood of the West is represented by a shield]].

* {{Retcon}}: Jonathan Hickman made several additions to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s history through this series and his run on ''ComicBook/SecretWarriors'' before it. The first, from ''ComicBook/SecretWarriors'', was that [[spoiler:S.H.I.E.L.D. has always been a secret division of the HYDRA organization]] and the premise of the 2010 series was that S.H.I.E.L.D. or an organization which will one day become it has been around since ancient Egypt and had various of [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy history's greatest minds]] as members.

* TheOmniscient: The Forever Man [[spoiler:aka Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti, who also plays TheChessmaster setting up a number of events in the 2011 series.]]

** Major MarvelUniverse threats show up long before they canonically ever noticed Earth, such as Ancient Egypt being attacked by the Brood, a Celestial in China, and [[spoiler:friggin' Galactus showing up in Renaissance Italy]].

The main story of the first issue is set in 1953 shortly after the death of Soviet dictator UsefulNotes/JosephStalin, during the height of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar. S.H.I.E.L.D. agents [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Nathaniel Richards]] and [[ComicBook/IronMan Howard Stark]] enlist a young man named Leonid with unspecified superpowers into the organization, taking him to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s High Council in the Immortal City under Rome. The High Council reveals that they know "the final fate of Man", and their mission is to ensure nothing threatens the world before this occurs. They have chosen Leonid because he has a destiny. Flashbacks reveal that the S.H.I.E.L.D. was founded by Imhotep following a battle (alongside ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} and the original ComicBook/MoonKnight) against the Brood, and that previous agents include Zhang Heng (who tricked a Celestial into using the sun to give birth to its child instead of destroying the Earth or the Moon to do so), Galileo Galilei (who fought against Galactus) and Leonardo da Vinci (who is shown with a mysterious device, flying off in an ornithopter).

* AncientConspiracy: Both S.H.I.E.L.D. and HYDRA began as one

** [[spoiler:Appears literal with Star Child after reading the Quiet Math, who being a [[PhysicalGod Celestial]] makes a turn toward MadGod.]]

* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: To appease the Vatican, the [[spoiler:early appearance and defeat of Galactus]] is covered up by the switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, thus erasing the events from "ever happening".

* TheOmniscient: The Glowing Man [[spoiler:aka Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti, who also plays TheChessmaster setting up a number of events in the 2011 series.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: Nikola Tesla
* {{Retcon}}: Jonathan Hickman made several additions to SHIELD's history through this series and his run on ''ComicBook/SecretWarriors'' before it. The first, from ''ComicBook/SecretWarriors'', was that [[spoiler:SHIELD has always been a secret division of the HYDRA organization]] and the premise of the 2010 series was that SHIELD or an organization which will one day become it has been around since ancient Egypt and had various of [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy history's greatest minds]] as members.

** There's also Howard Stark (father of [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]]) and Nathaniel Richards (father of [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]]) as SHIELD agents.

The main story of the first issue is set in 1953 shortly after the death of Soviet dictator UsefulNotes/JosephStalin, during the height of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar. Shield agents [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Nathaniel Richards]] and [[ComicBook/IronMan Howard Stark]] enlist a young man named Leonid with unspecified superpowers into the organization, taking him to Shield's High Council in the Immortal City under Rome. The High Council reveals that they know "the final fate of Man", and their mission is to ensure nothing threatens the world before this occurs. They have chosen Leonid because he has a destiny. Flashbacks reveal that the Shield was founded by Imhotep following a battle (alongside ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} and the original ComicBook/MoonKnight) against the Brood, and that previous agents include Zhang Heng (who tricked a Celestial into using the sun to give birth to its child instead of destroying the Earth or the Moon to do so), Galileo Galilei (who fought against Galactus) and Leonardo da Vinci (who is shown with a mysterious device, flying off in an ornithopter).

* AncientConspiracy

*** In a panel where Imhotep faces the brood there is a particularly familiar warrior in the background, looking closely it is [[spoiler:Apocalypse]]