Clark Gregg Still Hopes That 'The Avengers' & 'Agent Coulson' Will Meet Up At Some Point

He's the only one

If he comes back then it's gonna have to mean something and really effect the Avengers. Can't just be a lame ass throw away

@Th0rOdinson @WakandasSoul Yeah, just catched up on that, thank you. A shame, it would be a good opportunity to approximate the film and TV universes.

Meh. His character sucks. Hopefully, he dies soon.

Coulson isn't returning to the films, it would need too much complicated explanations that would have no relevance to the film plots. Almost as certainly the Avengers aren't going to appear in AoS, unless maybe some of them in the final episode of the whole series, if they can plan for it beforehand and decide to go out with a bang.

I think their best option would have been to have a scene somewhere in season 2 where someone mentions the Avengers and how they still think Coulson is dead, and Coulson responds with something like "What? You think I didn't tell them after Fury appointed me as the director? They would have found out sooner or later anyway, better I come to them with explanations before that." After that movies and AoS could retain their courses. So much has happened in the movies since Coulson's death that it doesn't have to be mentioned ever again, so people who just watch movies could assume Coulson is still dead, and those who also watch tv could assume that the Avengers know that Coulson is alive, they just don't happen to ever mention it during their film adventures. Maybe it wouldn't be too late even now, but iirc the happenings around Age of Ultron in AoS, namely Coulson communicating through Maria Hill, suggested that the Avengers weren't still supposed to know about Coulson being alive. Which is quite dumb.

I'd rather have the defenders

I still think it should have happened, while they were filming Age Of Ultron, by reintroducing the Marvel One-Shots, and put it on the Ultron blu-ray. Have the Avengers meet up at their new base, after cleaning up Sokovia. Coulson is waiting there to reveal everything that has happened so far, funny banter and emotion happens. Coulson says he is rebuilding SHIELD and if they ever need help, call him

It would be quite fitting to have him reveal this in a One-Shot. Its where Agents of SHIELD technically had its beginnings as they put more focus on Coulson. Plus it would have been perfect, the One-Shot would have tied into the events of Age Of Ultron, it would have been the perfect half way point between Coulson randomly turning up in the movie (confusing the hell out of non-AOS fans) and all the budget being spent on bringing the Avengers into AOS...why the heck didnt they do this?

Also, when Infinity War comes around, it NEEDS to be a huge cross-media event. On top of being the focus of the two part movie, Agents of SHIELD (if its still on) needs to have the team be battling a threat connected to Thanos (even if it was Nebula turning up to do a job for Thanos, and she works with HYDRA remnants to do it), and a finale can be a balls out battle happening at the same time as the events in the movie (maybe it could be the perfect evolution of the previous seasons while also, tying with the overall MCU). There needs to be another Defenders mini-series dealing with the heroes defending the Earth while the Avengers are fighting Thanos in space....seriously, Infinity War cant just be a simple finale, it needs to be something special to wrap up this chapter in the MCU

I'd be satisfied with just a mention at this point.