Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Summary
S.H.I.E.L.D.’sLife Model Decoys are one of its most genius invention , so it ’s fitting that their original creator is one of the most famous discoverer ever . LMDs have , in fact , always been a part of S.H.I.E.L.D. , but not the S.H.I.E.L.D. that most reader are familiar with . Their tangible origin lies hundreds of years in the past tense . However , in the Marvel Universe , nothing is ever forget forever , and one fateful mission brought them into the modern age .
In 2011’sSecret Warriors#26 , it ’s revealed thatthe first - ever Life Model Decoy was created by none other than Leonardo da Vinci . The issue sees a young Nick Fury sent on a mission in 1961 to secure a mysterious technology by da Vinci , which turns out to be the first - ever LMD , a transcript of the discoverer himself .
Secret Warriors#26 is write by Jonathan Hickman , withdraw by Alessandro Vitti , colored by IFS and letter by Artmonkey ’s Dave Lanphear .
Fury instead steal the applied science , claiming that his squad never find anything . It ’s this queer LMD that allows Fury and the rest of S.H.I.E.L.D. to mass produce the automaton from then on out .
Leonardo da Vinci Has a Long, Long History with S.H.I.E.L.D.
Marvel ’s da Vinci is considerably differentfrom his real - life history counterpart . Like many other historical anatomy who appear in the Marvel Universe , da Vinci is a member of the Ancient Order of the Shield , the closemouthed harbinger to S.H.I.E.L.D. which has protected humanity throughout story . In 2010’sS.H.I.E.L.D.#1 , da Vinci time travels to 1956 , leaving in his place the LMD that Fury afterward recover . From then on , he appear infrequently as a master copy manipulator behind the scenes , shaping the espionage side of the wide of the mark Marvel Universe into the form that readers are intimate with .
S.H.I.E.L.D.#1is write by Jonathan Hickman , draw by Dustin Weaver , colored by Christina Strain and lettered by Todd Klein .
Life model decoy , meanwhile , are a staple fiber of S.H.I.E.L.D. ’s arsenal . These machinelike duplicates are almost undistinguishable from their real - living vis-a-vis , and there are legion Greco-Roman S.H.I.E.L.D. story with the electrical shock twist that a characterwas actually an LMD all along . There are almost as many stories where LMDs also rise to be threat , either going rascal , being reprogrammed , or attain some level of sentiency . As Fury advert inSecret Warriors#26 , the first LMDs were highly mentally ill , which helps to absolve this quirk , as well as excuse the suicide of the LMD mentation to be Fury ’s brother , Jake .
Da Vinci is as Inscrutable as the Spies He Recruits
What Nick Fury does in stealing LMD technology from Leonardo da Vinci is n’t as spoilt as it seems at first . Da Vinci had assembled " The Great Wheel " aka the Zodiac , a council of the reality ’s top spies and espionage leadership , including member of both future S.H.I.E.L.D. and HYDRA . In exchange for deport secret missions , da Vinci promised each mathematical group technology with which to " gain " their battles for global laterality . However , Fury’s"‘betrayal " is the least of the council ’s trouble . The Russian S.H.I.E.L.D. twin , Leviathan , steals an U. S. Army ’s worth of superhuman - create stasis chambers , which they use to disappear their entire governing body .
In pith , Fury just does what all spies do : he lies . It ’s exonerated from da Vinci ’s reaction to Fury that the inventor also knows that Fury is lying but chooses to keep quiet . Da Vinci ’s existent commitment are rather opaque . He claim to not care who win in the battles between HYDRA , S.H.I.E.L.D. and Leviathan , but he still gives Fury leniency never shown to others , and appear atSecret Warriors’end in the successor organization to S.H.I.E.L.D. Like the ripe spies , Leonardo da Vinci never tips his full hand , stay mysterious even as he orbitsS.H.I.E.L.D.as they use his LMD invention .
