Melinda May

Melinda May in The Cavalry: S.H.I.E.L.D. 50th Anniversary v1 #1.

Melinda May is a female television character who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Melinda May

She came to be one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s best agents where she joined Phil Coulson's team to investigate how the terrorist, Abu Mussan got hold of an Uru sword. Along with Jemma Simmons, May helped Heimdall the owner of the Uru sword break free from Mussan's terrorist group. After Heimdall was dispossessed from the influence of an alien rock, May was debriefed by S.H.I.E.L.D. director Maria Hill. (S.H.I.E.L.D. v3 #1)

Some time later, May and Agent Leo Fitz were appointed to protect Wiccan from Ethan Slaughter, who shot most of Earth's most powerful sorcerers. With the help of Scarlet Witch, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents were able to do so and then traveled to Antarctica, where the team found out about Horguun, who produced the magic bullets with which Slaughter gunned the sorcerers down. They were able to stop Horguun and his workers. When they left, Fitz turned out to be possessed by Dormammu's mindless plague and shot the Scarlet Witch. (S.H.I.E.L.D. v3 #5) As Earth's most intelligent people slowly started transforming into Mindless Ones and Doctor Strange was captured by Dormammu in the Dark Dimension, May entered the Dimension alongside Coulson and S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Jeremiah Warrick. May fought off the Mindless Ones, but was knocked out when she was not concentrating. As she woke from unconsciousness, she watched Absorbing Man wreck Dormammu by absorbing the material his throne was made of and taking on its properties. (S.H.I.E.L.D. v3 #6)

Agent May teamed up with Mockingbird and together battled against a band of super-powered monstrosities created by Dr. Lucien Geist. (S.H.I.E.L.D. v3 #8)

After the dissolution of S.H.I.E.L.D., Melinda became an agent of the F.B.I. (The Marvels v1 #2)

Overview

Personality and attributes

In her time with S.H.I.E.L.D., she had seen a lot of things and in experience agents were not called in to deal with pleasant things. (S.H.I.E.L.D. v3 #8)

Notes

• Melinda May was an original character created by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, and Maurissa Tancharoen where she was portrayed by actress Ming-Na Wen and first appeared in the Pilot episode for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (September 24, 2013)
• She was introduced into the comics by Mark Waid and Carlos Pacheco where she debuted in S.H.I.E.L.D. v3 #1 (February, 2015).

Alternate Versions

• In S.H.I.E.L.D. v3 #12 (2015), an alternate version of Melinda May was shown in a possible future timeline in the Multiverse. After the Asgardians waged a war on Midgard, believing the killer of Odin to have been from Earth, Phil Coulson and his team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents were the last surviving heroes. Taking advantage of a debt for having saved him months earlier, Coulson requested for Heimdall to be teleported to Asgardia in order to put an end to the onslaught. The Heimdall from the past answered Coulson's demands, and not only teleported them to Asgardia, but to their past, before Odin's assassination. Using equipment and weapons taken from the fallen heroes, including a gauntlet from an Iron Man Armor in May's possession, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents made their way to Odin's throne-room and stopped the Scarlet Centurion from murdering the king, by striking him as soon as he teleported into the scene. Leo Fitz breached Scarlet Centurion's armor by shrinking and growing full size inside of it, heavily damaging the villain and allowing Odin to take care of him. After confronting Odin for the actions his warriors would've taken had he died, the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. were teleported back to the future, which now saw Earth perfectly safe.

In other media

Television

• In Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Melinda May made her first appearance in the setting of the live-action television series where she was portrayed by actress Ming-Na Wen. Melinda Qiaolian May was born to William May and Lian May. At age seven, she became an ice skater and admired the famous ice skater Dorothy Hamill, winning many awards in competitions. However, she found the ice was too hard when she fell, so at the age of 12, she became a martial artist, where the floors were padded. May eventually joined S.H.I.E.L.D., believing that the agency was the best defense of the United States of America and the world against any possible threat. During school, she took a dance class which she dropped two weeks later so that she could graduate and get actual field assignments. Trained by the best S.H.I.E.L.D. had to offer, May became an ace pilot and a weapons expert, a soldier who could perform above and beyond the call of duty. She was one of the few S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who had more black belts than Natasha Romanoff, whom she met and befriended. May met Phil Coulson during a mission in which the two were paired up together. During the mission, their commander sent them to a coffee shop in Sausalito on a retrieval operation without an exit strategy. May wound up in the bay for five hours until Coulson eventually fished her out. Melinda May used to be a field agent for S.H.I.E.L.D., and was highly skilled at her job. She became a colleague of Agent Phil Coulson and was also married Dr. Andrew Garner, a S.H.I.E.L.D. psychologist. It was shown that she had been in a relationship with fellow agent Grant Ward. Coulson would later tell newly recruited agent Skye that May, during a mission in Bahrain in 2008, single-handedly took out a superhuman threat and several accomplices, saving a team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, though a young girl was killed in the crossfire. Left traumatized by the experience, May withdrew from field duty. Later, her trauma is shown to be gradually healing. She also ended her relationship with Ward. Unknown to Skye and Coulson, May is monitoring their conversation, and reporting to someone else. When the Hydra Uprising begins, May revealed that she knew the truth about Coulson's resurrection and was monitoring him on director Nick Fury's orders, and Coulson refuses to trust her any more. Feeling unwanted, she leaves, searching to find out the truth behind Coulson's resurrection. She found the truth and brings it back to Coulson. May later incapacitated Ward, who was a double agent for Hydra, and after Ward's mentor John Garrett's death, goes with the team to the Playground to help restart S.H.I.E.L.D., under the newly promoted director Coulson.

Video games

• In in Marvel: Future Fight, Melinda May appeared as a supporting character for Agent Coulson in the setting of the mobile video game.
• In Marvel Puzzle Quest, Melinda May appeared in the setting of the video game.

Appearances

• S.H.I.E.L.D. v3:

External Links

• Marvel.com Entry
• Marvel Database Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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