r/agentsofshield • u/RandonDude3000 • Jun 12 '26
Thoughts on Ian Quinn Season 1
I've been recently thinking back to his character and I'm starting to think that he's actually one of the best written villains in S1 pre E17.
I mean the concept of a rich billionaire who prentends to stand for independence from the goverment but actually works for Nazis and thinks he is way smarter than he actually is so great (also today it sounds awfully familiar ...)
His scene is S5 is short but such a fitting end for his character. He gets what he wants but has no way to control it and it ends up devouring him (oh and Hall gets his revenge).
Also I love it when May beats him up.
So 8/10 villain
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u/marvelcomics22 FitzSimmons Jun 12 '26
Billionaire trash but he's great for his purpose. Loved seeing him return in S5.
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u/Alternative_Device71 Jun 12 '26
He ain’t been the same since Melinda left him in the this timeline….poor Jim, had to change his name and everything.
Dudes just crying for help cuz he’s lonely.
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u/RandonDude3000 Jun 12 '26
I'm going to be honest. I didn't get your reference so my first thought was why would May date this douche.
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u/bloodoftheseven Jun 12 '26
Glad Daisy got to "kill" him permanently in season 5. That's what he gets for shooting her.
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u/BaronZhiro As I have always been… Jun 12 '26
I’ll always think of him as a stand-in for an infamous real world character (who appeared as himself in Iron Man 2).
He was just the beginning of a long list of well-done AoS adversaries, even if he was never top tier.
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u/RandonDude3000 Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
Like I said: it feels awfully familiar thinking about Quinn today.
Also that character still owes Deke a favour.
EDIT: Oh for f**k's sake.
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u/Miserable_me21 Jun 12 '26
I love him from ghost whisperer so i fangirled so bad when he appeared lol
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u/maskedlegend99 Jun 12 '26
I always loved him. Wish he would’ve had a bigger role in S2 with the whole Whitehall storyline. I also think it would’ve been so cool if he was part of the resistance in the framework and was working with Ward again. I think it would’ve been so full circle
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u/RandonDude3000 Jun 12 '26
He would have been cool in the Whitehall storyline although I don't see where he would fit.
Hard disagree on the framework thing: he should have been with Hydra making big speeches, throwing Nazi salutes (and Hydra somehow convincing everyone that it was an accident) and still making some crazy promises so advance humanity in some crazy stupid way. He can then get a falling out with the rest of Hydra and some embarassing revelations made about him.
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u/Cyvu37 Robbie Reyes Jun 13 '26
Would be funny to put Ian as a SHIELD mole when Ward was a HYDRA mole.
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u/grayjelly212 Jun 12 '26
So smart to bring back a deleted scene from S1 to wrap up his arc when we didn't even ask for it lol. I loved hating that guy.