Alright, we’re ignoring the obvious: those shadowy assholes Fury reported to couldn’t all be HYDRA. They or their assistants didn’t like being sidelined by a subordinate and went to ground for a year. Coulson probably didn’t even know they existed, which is the organizational downside to hiding security clearance levels within other security clearance levels.



I was hoping for SWORD, but this makes more sense. For all we know, the shadowy assholes are assholes because they’re all legacy kid superspies, kind of like how the KGB/FSB will be in a century.



Maybe Coulson will get pissed about this and align with Talbott. America’s military never liked international supervision, and there really being a demon UN violating our sovereignty really should piss us off.Some of HYDRA will continue to fight, but I bet most of the goons who Ultron doesn’t get around to wiping out will either jump ship to douche SHIELD once they hear that all is forgiven or will put down stakes in third world shitholes like N Korea, Venezuela and Mozambique.

In summary, it’s America vs Vintage SHIELD vs Buddy Cop SHIELD vs FARC HYDRA vs A couple of aliens vs alien lovers vs Fu Manchu vs Revanchist Private Security Start Ups (Stark and his Iron Legion) vs left over mad scientists who missed out on joining AIM.

Jemma will side with Douche-Shield, Fitz and Coulson with Cap, and Nick Fury will straight up not give a fuck and will trust things to his widely dispersed Patton Oswald Life Model Decoys.