Asking any actor about their potential to join an upcoming Marvel movie or TV show can be a double-edged sword thanks to the studio’s adherence to secrecy, but that has yet to curb fans’ curiosity. Case in point: Cobie Smulders has been in nearly a dozen Marvel projects as former S.H.
I.E.L.
D. head Maria Hill, and was tragically killed off in Disney+’s Secret Invasion , making the fandom livid. But that’s not stopping anyone from asking if we’ll see her again, or from getting newly aggravated at Secret Invasion .
Smulders appeared at Terrificon on August 17 to talk about her career in full, from the world of superhero cinema to her network sitcom success with How I Met Your Mother and others. During the panel moderated by Joe Stuber of Comic Book Central , the Stumptown vet was asked her interest level in jumping back into the MCU, and while she sounds positive about it with her answer (via @AgentsofFandom ), it would take major narrative reconfiguring. As she put it: I would love to go back, but I have no idea what they have in store for the future of Marvel or my character at this point.
To be sure, it’s unlikely Maria Hill would have played naturally into upcoming Marvel TV shows like the horror-tinged spinoff Agatha All Along or the Man Without Fear’s return in Daredevil: Born Again . But with the Russo brothers returning for more Avengers movies with Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom as the overarching baddie, the universe continues to grow in ways that Nick.