Melinda May

Melinda May is an elite S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, and one of the agency's veteran field operatives. A veteran pilot and soldier with years of experience, she withdrew from field duty after an incident in Bahrain which left her mentally scarred. The ordeal earned her the nickname "The Cavalry", a name that she highly detested. However, she returned to the field when Agent Coulson recruited her onto his team, becoming the pilot of the Bus and taking part in most of the team's field operations. Until recently she was reporting in secret to Nick Fury on Coulson's mental state, and in fact, she was behind the unusual makeup of the team for this purpose. When this was discovered by Coulson, relations between them became poor, but they have since reconciled.

Lately, Melinda has come to accept and start using her nickname.

Sometime after the Battle of New York, Melinda May assembled a team of agents to keep an eye on Phil Coulson's recovery for Nick Fury. Coulson, however, believed he had set up the small, highly trained team of agents to tackle the cases that had not been classified yet. The team originally consisted of Coulson, Melinda May, Grant Ward (a specialist to put down Coulson if necessary), Leo Fitz (a technician to reprogram Coulson's brain), and Jemma Simmons (to repair Coulson's body).

They were first sent to investigate an enhanced human, Mike Peterson, who was able to survive an exploding building, and a hacktivist group called the Rising Tide, that seemed to have information. Skye, a member of the Rising Tide, met with Peterson to warn him about S.H.I.E.L.D., saying that they cover up superhero-based events and that she can help him, which he declined.

Later, Skye was abducted by Coulson and Ward and questioned on their plane. She did not cooperate initially but eventually revealed what she knew. After visiting the explosion scene, Coulson's team was able to recreate it and learn that it was caused by another subject exploding due to Extremis. While attempting to get info to the team, Skye was kidnapped by Peterson, now on the run from the authorities. Coulson's team was able to track them down and subdue Peterson, without him causing mass damage while stopping an assassin that was sent by Debbie. With Peterson in S.H.I.E.L.D. custody, Coulson offered Skye a place on the team and they went to investigate an 0-8-4.

Skye was integrated into Phil Coulson's team as a consultant and the team's next assignment was in Peru. Their mission was to track an "an object of unknown origin" or "0-8-4". The team arrived and quickly realized that the object was actually a piece of forgotten HYDRA technology powered by Tesseract energy. Coulson met with Camilla Reyes, and brought her team aboard the Bus.

While on the plane, Reyes betrayed Coulson and had planned to take the HYDRA weapon for herself, so she could destroy the Peruvian rebels. The squabbling team members banded together utilized each of their talents and took out Reyes' men. Reyes was taken into custody. Skye texted another member of the Rising Tide, confirming that she had infiltrated Coulson's team. Later, Nick Fury personally met Coulson on the plane and scolded him for the damage to the plane and reminded him about the risk Skye poses.

S.H.I.E.L.D. then searched for one of its assets, Franklin Hall, who was kidnapped by his former research partner and CEO of Quinn Worldwide named Ian Quinn. His soldiers used a gravity device on the S.H.I.E.L.D. convoy that was transporting him. Quinn wanted to use Hall to take control of the planet's gravity by building a giant Gravitonium generator. Phil Coulson and his team headed to Malta. Skye volunteered to infiltrate Quinn's mansion during his party so that Coulson and Grant Ward could rescue Hall.

Skye tricked Quinn into believing she is betraying S.H.I.E.L.D. for Rising Tide to get his guard down. However, Coulson discovered that Hall perpetrated his own escape and wanted to destroy the massive device, believing that no one should be able to possess the technology. Coulson warned him that doing so would end up killing millions. There was a violent disagreement, which leads to Coulson being forced to leave Hall to die as he fell into the middle of the generator. Coulson ordered that the Gravitonium be placed under high security and off the books in the Fridge. S.H.I.E.L.D. did not notice that Hall was still somehow alive, but trapped within the Gravitonium.

After a series of thefts throughout the world that was almost impossibly premeditated, Phil Coulson and his team investigated and uncovered the identity of the thief: his former protégé Akela Amador. Coulson had presumed that she was dead and did not believe that she was capable of turning on S.H.I.E.L.D. The team nearly caught up to her, but she managed to evade them. Melinda May took matters into her own hands upon finding Amador's hotel room. Coulson caught up to her and found out she was being blackmailed through a Backscatter X-Ray Eye Implant. The device also had a fail-safe bomb in case she rebelled.

Coulson took her to the Bus and hijacked her feed so Grant Ward could take over her new mission. Ward broke into the Todorov Building and discovered an image of a mysterious chalk drawing. Leo Fitz took out the bomb while the others worked to remove the camera from Amador's right eye. Coulson caught up to who he thought was the mastermind behind Amador's thefts known only as the Englishman, but the man was quickly killed through a similar device to Amador's. Coulson and Ward were left to wonder who was behind her thefts. Amador was taken away by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.

When Index-registered pyrokinetic Chan Ho Yin was kidnapped from his Hong Kong apartment by a woman named Raina, the team was sent to investigate. Chan was brought to a nearby lab where Debbie managed to harvest the fire-resistant platelets in Chan's blood. The platelets allowed the Extremis element of the Centipede Serum to be stabilized without the explosive after-effects. Having gotten what they needed from him, Debbie ordered Chan to be drained, killing him.

But before that could happen, Chan was released by a S.H.I.E.L.D. extraction team led by Phil Coulson and Agent Quan Chen. Unfortunately, Chan was tired of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s interference in his life and killed Quan. Raina then abandoned Debbie, leaving her to be incinerated by Chan. Raina escaped before the lab was destroyed when Chan detonated from an Extremis over-dose. Before the destruction of the lab, Skye managed to extract a few files from the building's mainframe, enough to give S.H.I.E.L.D some new leads on their activities.

After the Battle of Greenwich, the team was sent to London for cleanup. The pieces of Dark Elf technology left behind after the battle were collected by S.H.I.E.L.D., and the damage was cleaned up overnight. After the cleanup, the team was called in to investigate a report of a strange artifact discovered in a Norwegian pine tree that was dated at over 5,000 years old. The artifact in question was a piece of the Berserker Staff, an Asgardian weapon that granted the user superhuman strength. It had been stolen by a couple belonging to a paganist hate group.

The team consulted a professor of Norse mythology, Elliot Randolph. It was he who took them about the powers of the staff. (Including the granting of strength to the holder, the staff also "shone a light into your darkest places," meaning that it would dredge up memories of things that the user had tried hardest to forget. An example is when Grant Ward picked up the staff, he remembered visions of his childhood and brothers.) They also learned that the staff had been broken into three parts, which sparked a race between the hate group and Coulson's team to find all three pieces.

The second piece was recovered by Professor Randolph in the catacombs of Seville, Spain, but was then stolen by the paganists. It was during this search that Agent Ward picked up the staff and was subjected to its effects. The professor was taken into custody by Phil Coulson, and under interrogation, discovered that Randolph was the original Berserker that first wielded the staff. Randolph also revealed the location of the third and final portion of the staff, which was in a monastery in Ireland. When the team arrived with Randolph in tow, they realized that, once the location of the piece was revealed, the paganists had beaten them to the spot. The leader of the paganists stabbed Randolph in the chest, and a fight between the two groups broke out. After the fight ended with Melinda May and Ward victorious, the team shipped the staff off to the Fridge, and stayed in a hotel for a few days before returning to the Bus.

Edison Po was broken out of Havenworth Federal Penitentiary by a squadron of Centipede Soldiers. They took him to the new Centipede lab in Oakland, California, where Raina updated him on the project's status. Po determined that S.H.I.E.L.D. presented a threat that needed to be taken care of. He set a trap for S.H.I.E.L.D. with three Centipede soldiers in ambush, however, S.H.I.E.L.D. had recruited Mike Peterson. Peterson's presence turned the tide against the Centipede soldiers, but it also gave Po and Raina the inspiration for a plan of action.

Raina kidnapped his son Ace and threatened to have him killed if Peterson did not obey her instructions. Believing that Centipede wanted to exchange Peterson for his son, Phil Coulson accompanied Peterson to the exchange site in Long Beach, California. Seeing no other way to save his son, Peterson betrayed Coulson to Raina. After seeing to his son's safety, Peterson tried to make up for his actions by returning to rescue Coulson, but he was seemingly killed in an explosion.

Raina escaped the scene with Coulson by way of helicopter. Upon leaving the scene, Raina explained to Coulson that their true interest was in the nature of Coulson's mysterious revival after his "death" before the Battle of New York, as this is seemingly the key to "Stage Three" of the Group's unknown plans.

S.H.I.E.L.D. left no stone unturned in their search for Coulson. A sting operation performed by Coulson's team under the direction of Victoria Hand netted the international criminal T. Vanchat, who had had dealings with Centipede Project in the past. Between the intel gained from Vanchat, as well as an independent study of Vanchat's finances by Skye, S.H.I.E.L.D. determined the locations of several Centipede operations around the globe, as well as Coulson's location in the Mojave Desert.

While S.H.I.E.L.D. teams struck simultaneously at multiple Centipede locations across the globe, Coulson's team headed to Mojave to rescue Coulson. After subduing a cadre of Centipede-powered soldiers, Coulson was located and saved while Raina was taken into custody.

After the events of Phil Coulson's kidnapping, S.H.I.E.L.D. became interested in finding the Clairvoyant. Coulson's Team boarded a train in Italy on which a Cybertek security group were shipping a package to Ian Quinn. Skye and Leo Fitz tracked the Cybertek package to Quinn's mansion, where, in the basement, Skye was confronted by Quinn, who revealed that Mike Peterson is alive, having been kept in a Hyperbaric Chamber.

The Cybertek package contained a high-tech prosthetic leg which Quinn then fitted onto Peterson's amputated right leg. Quinn then shot Skye twice in the stomach and left her for dead while Peterson escapes. S.H.I.E.L.D. then raided the mansion and Quinn was arrested. Skye; however, was left near death and was temporarily sustained by being placed into Peterson's hyperbaric chamber.

Skye was rushed to a S.H.I.E.L.D. Trauma Zentrum to save her life. The doctors were only able to stabilize her, which forced Coulson to bring her to the S.H.I.E.L.D. location where he was revived. John Garrett and Antoine Triplett boarded the Bus in order to claim Ian Quinn but instead helped Coulson's team in recovering the drug that revived him from the Guest House, which was a former top-secret storage facility at a classified location that was previously affiliated with S.H.I.E.L.D..

Coulson, Grant Ward, Garrett and Fitz entered and found the place rigged with explosives after they took out the only two guards. Fitz was able to find the drug, while Coulson found a room marked T.A.H.I.T.I. Fitz got back to the Bus to deliver the drug while Coulson explored the room. Inside, Coulson found more of the drug as well as discovering that the drug is coming from the upper half of a blue-skinned humanoid corpse. The team was able to get out before the facility exploded, but Coulson raced to prevent Fitz giving Skye the drug, based on what he has seen in the T.A.H.I.T.I. room. Fitz managed to give the drug to Skye quickly enough to save her.

S.H.I.E.L.D. was summoned to investigate an energy reading in the desert consistent with the imminent arrival of an Asgardian. They encountered Sif, who had come to Earth seeking Lorelei, an Asgardian criminal who had traveled to Earth seeking to enslave humanity.

Phil Coulson's team and Sif traveled to Rosie's Desert Oasis that was used as a hideout by Lorelei, but after a short battle, Lorelei enthralled Grant Ward and escaped with him. They traveled to Las Vegas, where Lorelei learned much of Earth's governments from Ward and used this information to formulate a planetary takeover. However, Ward informed Lorelei of the threat posed by his team, and together, the two infiltrated the Bus in an attempt to kill them. Lorelei enthralled Leo Fitz, who in turn isolated the rest of the team while Ward took control of the plane.

However, Lorelei's plans were ruined before they could even begin, as she underestimated the threat posed by Melinda May, who distracted Ward from Sif as Lorelei dueled her. Sif bested Lorelei in combat, silencing her with the collar. The enthralled were freed from Lorelei's control immediately. Sif took Lorelei back to Asgard, where she was returned to imprisonment.

After John Garrett and Antoine Triplett were attacked at a S.H.I.E.L.D. Safe House in Sydney by Deathlok, Phil Coulson invited them, Victoria Hand, Felix Blake and Jasper Sitwell to the Bus to hunt for the Clairvoyant. The agents were split into teams so that they could pursue leads on different Clairvoyant candidates. Before Sitwell could take part in the mission, he was ordered by Nick Fury to go to the Lemurian Star.

Blake and May were sent to a Tranquility Bridge nursing home to search for Thomas Nash who was a catatonic man who claimed to be a psychic. The pair however encountered Deathlok and Blake was critically injured by him. Before Deathlok escaped, Blake managed to tag him with Tag Rounds. S.H.I.E.L.D. concluded that Nash is the Clairvoyant because of Deathlok's presence along with the falsifying of his nursing home records. The team converged on Deathlok's next location which was an abandoned horse racing track. Meanwhile, Triplett and Jemma Simmons stayed behind at the Hub with Hand.

The team encountered Deathlok again, but he fled into the sewers soon after being engaged. The team however discovered a hidden room where Thomas Nash who was a vegetative man on life support who had to speak through a computer, was hiding. Nash surrendered and boasted that as the Clairvoyant, he would always be watching them. When he said that Centipede Project will kill Skye, Ward shot him in the chest, killing him. Ward was detained for his actions and accused by Coulson for working with the Clairvoyant by shooting Nash to misdirect away from the Clairvoyant's true identity.

Coulson's team started arguing among themselves after Phil Coulson and Skye figured out that the Clairvoyant was actually a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent with a high clearance who was predicting people's actions because he had access to their S.H.I.E.L.D. files. When Leo Fitz discovered Melinda May's a hidden phone line, he told Skye who told Coulson as he was interrogating Ward. May tried to incapacitate Fitz with an I.C.E.R., but she was trapped at gunpoint between Coulson and Skye. As they argued by their secrets and loyalties, Victoria Hand redirected the Bus towards the Hub to kill them.

Hand believed that Coulson's team were sleeper agents for HYDRA, because the HYDRA Uprising had begun, and in the Hub with her were only four other agents she found loyal. John Garrett had two S.H.I.E.L.D. UAVs chasing him, but he called Coulson who piloted the Bus and saved him. May was knocked out and put in detention with Ward as Garrett boarded. They assumed that Hand was the Clairvoyant when Skye discovered a secret message telling HYDRA agents worldwide to attack.

When Coulson's team arrived at the Hub, they decided to find Jemma Simmons and Antoine Triplett because they were sent there as consultants on Deathlok. Triplett and Simmons proved their loyalty to S.H.I.E.L.D., but Hand was adamant that Coulson was a traitor. Ward convinced Coulson that if Hand was the Clairvoyant, she should not be allowed access to the secrets and weapons they had procured from their various missions; therefore, Skye created an encrypted hard drive with the information. The team separated into Ward and Skye and Coulson with the others and Garrett to free Simmons and imprison Hand.

Garrett accidentally revealed that he was the Clairvoyant and a HYDRA agent as he pushed Coulson to kill Hand by showing that he knew information about him and Raina that Coulson revealed to no one. As Garrett attempted to have May and Coulson killed by other HYDRA loyalists, Skye and Ward ignited an explosion that saved them. Hand had Garrett arrested. As she was taking Garrett to the Fridge, Victoria Hand was killed by Grant Ward, who actually was HYDRA agent.

Ward freed Raina from her imprisonment as Coulson's team was assessing the losses of S.H.I.E.L.D. to HYDRA. Glenn Talbot called to send peacekeepers to the Hub, so Coulson's team fled and ultimately found Providence, Nick Fury's secret base. They met Eric Koenig as Garrett and Ward raided the Fridge for its weaponry and to free its prisoners, including Ian Quinn and Marcus Daniels. When Koenig told Coulson's team that HYDRA captured the Fridge, Skye told Ward the location of Providence. Ward and Garrett learned that Raina couldn't access the Hard Drive, so Ward went to Providence to retrieve the pass codes or Skye herself.

Coulson's team separated to pursue Daniels; May left because Coulson did not trust her and Ward and Skye stayed with Koenig in order to find other escapees. Ward killed Koenig to keep his loyalty secret, but Skye discovered the body. She boarded the Bus with him anyway, knowing that he was a HYDRA agent because she wanted to know his motives. She discovered that he wanted access to the hard drive.

Meanwhile, the others battled Blackout and learned of Coulson's relationship with Audrey Nathan, the cellist and Daniels' obsession. After they defeated him, they found the Bus and the others gone.

When Fitz found the body of Koenig and Simmons did an autopsy, the teammates deduced that Skye was abducted and Ward was a traitor. Just then, Glenn Talbot came to Providence with the team of United States Air Force soldiers, led there by Maria Hill. After conversing with Coulson, Hill decided to help Coulson's team to escape Talbot and to retrieve Skye. Both were accomplished, but not before Ward and Deathlok got the codes they wanted from the hard drive.

The next morning, Coulson's team decided to raid Cybertek to learn all they can about Deathlok. In the Cybertek Corporate Headquarters, May and Coulson learned that Garrett was the original Deathlok. They also learned of the Barbershop Headquarters. Going to Cuba, Fitz and Simmons found the Bus at a separate place from the Barbershop, but they were captured by Ward. Aboard the Bus, Fitz attacked Garrett with an EMP, nearly killing him, but angering Ward to the point of ejecting Fitz and Simmons from the Bus into the ocean in a Medical Pod. When the rest of Coulson's team attacked the Barbershop, Kaminsky awaited them with the Berserker Staff and a team of Centipede Soldiers.

Coulson's team ultimately escaped Kaminsky and destroyed the Headquarters when May took the Berserker Staff and destroyed the building's support columns. The team used a program written by Skye to find the Centipede Project in New Mexico and led an assault against them there.

Meanwhile, Nick Fury rescued Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons, before he went to help in the battle by providing Coulson with the Destroyer Armor Prototype Gun. After defeating Garrett and Ward and freeing the hostages, including Ace Peterson, Coulson's team was given a new mission by Fury: rebuild S.H.I.E.L.D. with Coulson as Director and the Playground as their headquarters. As Coulson rebuilt S.H.I.E.L.D., the team ceased to exist and was folded into the larger organization.

Phil Coulson wanted to rescue Deathlok from HYDRA and find the Scepter so he reunited Grant Ward with Melinda May, Leo Fitz and himself to sneak in and lead an Attack on the Arctic HYDRA Research Facility. Jemma Simmons volunteered for the mission, saying that her medical skills would be necessary since HYDRA was disassembling Deathlok; she had the ulterior motive of wanting to use a Splinter Bomb to kill Ward. Skye left Afterlife, with the help of Gordon, to join the team so that she could rescue Lincoln Campbell who was also captured by HYDRA and was at the Arctic HYDRA Research Facility. Upon Skye's arrival, Ward noted that Coulson's Team was reunited.

However, tensions were extremely high; Ward attempted to give a debriefing about how Sunil Bakshi was his mole in the facility, but he was afraid to turn his back on the others as he spoke. He explained that he was apologetic for his actions and sought redemption; no one believed him. Coulson split the team into two parts: one for rescue, the other to disable the base for Robert Gonzales to attack. During the assault, Simmons accidentally killed Bakshi with her Splinter Bomb when he defended Ward. Coulson and May had words as Coulson snuck off to access HYDRA's computers to locate the Scepter. Peterson and Campbell were both rescued and brought to the Playground.

Following the Assassination of Rosalind Price at the hands of Grant Ward, Phil Coulson gathered up every other member of the original team, conducting a series of interviews on each one about their experiences with Ward while he was a member of their team on the Bus.

Name: Melinda Qiaolian May

Codename: The Cavalry

Also known as: Mellie

Born: November 20, 1965

Age: 52-53 (Appears to be about 36 years old - the story is set in 2018)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Bisexual

Career: Veteran S.H.I.E.L.D. operative

Clearance: Level 7

Height: 5'4

Weight: 52 kg (114.64 lbs)

Build: Toned, athletic, lean but wiry physique

Measurements: 34B-25-34

Hair colour and length: Armpit-length dark brown hair

Eye colour: Dark brown

Facial features: Melinda is a gorgeous woman of Chinese descent with armpit-length dark brown hair, dark brown eyes, an square-shaped face, almond-shaped eyes, high cheekbones, full lips, and a toned athletic build.

She looks like her MCU counterpart portrayed by Ming-Na Wen.

Like Ming-Na Wen, the actress who portrays Melinda May, May has a distinctive voice that is often calm, measured, and authoritative. Her voice has a smooth, steady quality that conveys confidence and control, which is fitting for her character's role as a skilled and experienced agent. There's also a subtle strength and determination in her tone, reflecting May's resilience and capability.

May's uniform consists of a deep blue close-fitting jumpsuit that has the S.H.I.E.L.D. emblem on the shoulders. She wears a black leather vest over the top of this jumpsuit. She wears black combat boots with them.

Playful & Mischievous: Phil Coulson described her as warm, fearless, and even a bit of a prankster. She was notorious for having a wicked sense of humor. She didn't just crack jokes; she deliberately pulled practical jokes.

Family Woman: She was happily married to Dr. Andrew Garner and was actively planning to start a family.

Spontaneous: She was a rule-breaker who enjoyed the thrill of the job and the company of her husband, Andrew, and her friends.

Forced Stoicism: The trauma of killing Katya Belyakov didn't destroy her personality, but it forced her to lock it behind a wall of stoicism to survive the guilt.

Functional Humour: May could still smirk at another person's misfortune and be vaguely amused - so long as it was genuinely humorous. She still had the capacity for practical jokes as shown when she pulled the whipped-cream gag on Fitz in season 1.

The Wall: She adopted the "Ice Queen" persona as a protective shell. While she still felt deeply, she refused to let those feelings dictate her actions, leading many to believe she was a robot.

Regaining Her Sense of Self: While tempered by experience, May regained much of her pre-Bahrain personality. She became more expressive and warm like she was before before Bahrain. She regained much of her wicked sense of humour and tendency to pull practical jokes.

Reintegratraton: May became warmer and more at peace than she ever was as "The Cavalry". She regained her nurturing side.

Master Martial Artist: May is an extremely skilled and formidable hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist. She is one of the most lethal agents S.H.I.E.L.D. has ever seen, having been training since she was 12 and possessing more black belts than the notorious Black Widow. For one, she practices tai chi. May was able to take down a Centipede assassin and beat Grant Ward in a sparring match and twice again, once when he was under the influence of Lorelei and the other time when they fought at Cybertek.

Staff Mastery: May is extremely skilled at using a staff in combat, like when she wielded the Berserker Staff as a whole. She also improvised a lamp to impale Eva Belyakov, and wielded a metal rod against Jeffrey Mace, although she was overpowered by his enhanced strength.

Sword Mastery: May is extremely skilled at using a sword in combat, being able to wield Sarge's Sword with great effect against Izel in a sword fight and killed her with it.

Knife Mastery: May is extremely skilled with a knife. She is as lethal with one as she is with her bare hands, a sword, or a staff.

Expert Marksman: May prefers not to use firearms during her missions unless strictly necessary, generally preferring her melee combat and improvisational skills. If forced to use one, May is an exceptional markswoman.

Master Acrobat: May is exceptionally athletic, and can be seen using her acrobatic skills to her advantage. She was able to surpass the speed of a running Cybertek security guard by doing multiple handsprings to take him out. Her reflexes, quickness, and coordination are remarkable enough to evade Absorbing Man's ball and chain, the rope dart knife of elite assassin Marcus Scarlotti, perform an aerial off a car, dodge Sinara's orbs with a heavily wounded leg, and flip through active gunfire while returning accurate shots of her own.

Master Spy: May is regarded as one of the best spies in S.H.I.E.L.D. She was Phil Coulson's right hand during his directorial days. She also taught Skye everything she needed to know about being a spy. During the Rescue in Bahrain, May was able to get into the building swiftly and sneak around to take soldiers quietly and stealthy. She has been able to disguise herself as well. She posed as Shu Wong as well as speaking mandarin in order to infiltrate the ATCU.

Expert Tactician: Even though Phil Coulson was director of S.H.I.E.L.D., May was able to effectively give her input on situations. When Coulson was on assignments, May was often the leader.

Master Pilot: May is a highly proficient pilot, able to perform such feats as flying through the eye of a storm with a plane as large as the Bus, or deceiving a series of HYDRA Quinjets into believing the plane had been destroyed using a clever cloaking maneuver. She, as mission commander, is usually in charge of piloting the Quinjet as well. After being ambushed and sent into the future, May was able to use her knowledge and skill to effectively fly and dock the Trawler through the debris field of what was once Earth despite having never flown a spaceship. Since then, she has received training from Tess and is now a competent spacecraft pilot, even able to efficiently return to the Lighthouse from the Earth fragment 616 on a cut off and depleting fuel supply.

Multilingualism: May is fluent in her native English, as well as Cantonese, Mandarin, and Spanish. She used this skill in missions in Hong Kong, the Cayman Islands, and Miami, respectively. She knows abit of Russian, but claims she makes incorrect pronunciations.

Peak physical condition: May is in excellent shape.

May is one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s deadliest agents, having more black belts than the notorious Black Widow herself. Her fighting style consists of:

Striking and grappling:

• Bare Knuckle Boxing
• Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
• Combat Hapkido
• Combat Judo
• Dumog
• Jeet Kune Do
• Military Krav Maga
• Military Taekwondo
• Muay Thai Lerdrit (Military Muay Thai)
• Panantukan
• Silat (Maphilindo Silat, Silat Harimau, Silat Serak & Silat Cimande)

Acrobatic maneuvers:

• Acrobatics
• Parkour

Knife Fighting:

• Military Krav Maga
• Muay Thai Lerdrit
• Pekiti-Tirsia & Sayoc Kali
• Silat (Maphilindo Silat, Silat Harimau, Silat Serak & Silat Cimande)

Staff & stick fighting:

• Jeet Kune Do
• Pekiti-Tirsia & Sayoc Kali
• Wing Chun

Sword Fighitng:

• Kamiizumi Nobutsuna's Shinkage-ryū
• Kenjutsu
• Iaijutsu
• Yagyū Shinkage-ryū

Firearms:

• Combat Shooting

Stealth, espionage, survival:

• Ninjutsu

• Sidearm

• Model: SIG Sauer P226 MK25
• Chambered in: .357 SIG
• Purpose: Serves as May's sidearm
• Holstered: It is almost always holstered on her right hip at all times

• Tactical Knife

• Model: Cold Steel Tai Pan Nightfall
• Handle: Kray-Ex handle
• Cross-guard: Stainless steel double quillon guard
• Blade Length: 7.5 inches
• Blade Width: Approximately 1.375 inches
• Blade Material: CPM-3V steel
• Blade Finish: Satin finish
• Pommel: Tapered, semi-pointed stainless steel pommel used as a skull-crusher
• Blade Coating: DLC (Diamond-like carbon) coating

• Backup and Utility Knife:

• Model: Cold Steel SRK 3V
• Handle: Kray-Ex handle
• Cross-guard: Double quillon guard
• Blade Length: 6 inches
• Blade Width: Approximately 1 inch
• Blade Material: CPM-3V steel
• Blade Coating: DLC (Diamond-Like Carbon) coating

1. William May - Biological Father

2. Lian May - Biological Mother

3. Andrew Garner, aka Lash - Ex-Husband and Attempted Victim (Deceased)

Avengers:

1. Steve Rogers, aka Captain America

2. Clint Barton, aka Hawkeye

3. Tony Stark, aka Iron Man

4. Bruce Banner, aka Hulk

5. Thor Odinson

6. James "Rhodey" Rhodes, aka War Machine

7. Wanda Maximoff, aka Scarlet Witch

8. Pietro Maximoff, aka Quicksilver - Deceased

9. Sam Wilson, aka Falcon

10. Vision

11. T'Challa, aka Black Panther

12. Scott Lang, aka Ant-Man

13. Hope van Dyne, aka The Wasp

14. James "Bucky" Barnes, aka Winter Soldier

15. Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow

16. Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel

17. Kamala Khan, aka Miss Marvel

18. Peggy Carter, aka Captain Carter - Sharon Carter's great aunt

S.H.I.E.L.D.:

1. Nick Fury

2. Maria Hill

3. Phil Coulson's team: • Phil Coulson • Leo Fitz • Jemma Simmons • Lance Hunter • Daisy Johnson, aka Quake

4. Bobbi Morse

5. Alphonso Mackenzie

6. Antoine Triplett - Deceased

7. Robert Gonzales

8. Tomas Calderon

9. Anne Weaver

10. Sharon Carter, aka Agent 13 - Peggy Carter's Great-niece

1. Loki Laufeyson

2. Chitauri

3. T. Vanchat

4. Alexander Pierce - Deceased

5. Gideon Malick - Deceased

6. Jasper Sitwell - Deceased

7. Brock Rumlow, aka Crossbones - Deceased

8. Jack Rollins

9. Russo

10. John Garrett - Deceased

11. Grant Ward - Deceased

12. Kara Palamas, aka Agent 33 - Deceased

13. Mark Smith

14. Mark Basso

15. Wonsik

16. Bobbitt

17. Glenn Talbot

18. Ultron - Deceased

19. Ultron Sentries - Deceased

20. Thanos, aka The Mad Titan

21. Georges Batroc, aka Batroc the Leaper

22. Anthony "Tony" Masters, aka Taskmaster

23. Emil Blonksy, aka Abomination

24. Victor Creed, aka Sabretooth

25. Monica Rappaccini, aka Scientist Supreme

Enemy factions:

1. HYDRA

2. A.I.M.

3. The Rising Tide

• Level 1: The lowest level. Agents with this clearance had the least access and were typically assigned to support roles like technical, maintenance, or secretarial positions.

• Level 2: Details for this clearance aren't specified, but it's a step up in access from Level 1.

• Level 3: Level 3 agents are often assigned to administrative tasks like sorting files and accessing S.H.I.E.L.D. records, though this could also be a temporary demotion for reasons like a traumatic event, as in the case of Agent Melinda May

• Level 4: Some Level 4 agents work as field agents at this level.

• Level 5: Many Level 5 agents work as foot soldiers, often wearing body armor.

• Level 6: Level 6 agents specialize in espionage and combat.

• Level 7: Level 7 is similar to Level 6, but agents with this clearance get access to more sensitive information, higher priority missions, and full access to details on the Battle of New York back in 2012.

• Level 8: Level 8 gives agents more access to information that could risk the lives of agents with lower clearance levels. Some Level 8 agents work as mission controllers rather than field agents.

• Level 9: Level 9 is typically associated with the Deputy Director (Maria Hill being Deputy Director), other high-ranking field agents can also achieve this level. Level 9 grants access to most of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s files and knowledge of high-ranking projects and missions. Agents who demonstrate significant expertise, leadership, and trust, especially in specialized roles, may be granted this level of access.

• Level 10: Held by the Director. As Director, they have access not only to all S.H.I.E.L.D. files, but to the world's most important files and secrets. The only known person that has Level 10 Clearance is Nick Fury.

° Alpha Level is an additional clearance level that was given to the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Secretary of the World Security Council, as those were the two highest ranking positions that oversaw S.H.I.E.L.D. Two simultaneous Alpha Level Clearance inputs were needed in order to disable all encryption on S.H.I.E.L.D. files. The only known people to have Alpha Level Clearance were Nick Fury and Alexander Pierce before the latter was shot dead by Fury.

° Omega Level is an additional Clearance Level that is needed to access special files, such as the full details of Project Rebirth, or Camilla Reyes' hijacking of the Bus. The only known person to have Omega Level Clearance is Nick Fury.

• Director Nick Fury bears the same likeness of his MCU counterpart portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson, standing 6'2 and wearing his signature outfit that consists of a black leather trenchcoat, black turtleneck sweater that zips up at the front, black tactical military style cargo pants, black leather gloves (occasionally), black leather combat boots, his black signature eyepatch wrapped around his bald head and covering his left eye and a black goatee for facial hair. He also has a black utility belt with a holster on his right thigh that holds his Smith & Wesson M&P sidearm.

• The means of transportation for Coulson's team is a specialised Boeing C-17 Globemaster III that is known as 'the Bus'. The Bus serves as an airbourne mobile command station for Coulson's team.

• The version of Phil Coulson that appears in this story is an LMD (Life Model Decoy) after the events of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Ghost Rider when the real Phil Coulson died after he made a deal with the Spirit of Vengence to defeat the powerful being known as Aida. This undid the effects of Project T.A.H.I.T.I. which kept Coulson alive after he was killed by Loki during the events of The Avengers (2012) and spent his last days with May in Tahiti. He was later brought back as an LMD, though the real Phil Coulson is dead.

• S.H.I.E.L.D.'s new headquarters after the HYDRA Uprising of 2014 and the Battle at the Triskelion is 'the Playground'.

The Playground was created as a base for the Strategic Scientific Reserve in 1949. Agent Peggy Carter, who went on to become one of the founders of S.H.I.E.L.D., oversaw the construction of the base.

S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury renovated the Playground, from being an old bunker belonging to the Strategic Scientific Reserve, into a complete secret facility upgraded with the latest technology. Fury devised the Playground to be so complete that it could potentially serve as headquarters for the whole agency.