New Characters in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

(SPOILERS BELOW)

This first sentence is just to clarify there will be spoilers for the show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and that anyone reading this who doesn’t want to have the current season spoiled for them should stop reading already. Anyway, two new characters have shown up in the show. Robbie Reyes, the new Ghost Rider, and Jeffrey Mace, the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D. Until the fifth episode these characters seem to fit into predetermined roles. Mace is the happy, true of heart good guy while Robbie is a killer who desires nothing more than to do so. With these most recent episodes we learn more about the two of them.

Keeping secrets and being very manipulative, Mace shows his true colors. For Mace it’s not always do the morally good thing, but to do everything for the good. Lying, blackmail, and even hunting down people he knows he can trust just to make everyone else feels safe. Robbie on the other hand finally meets a man he’s been looking for. The person he believes to be the reason Robbie’s younger brother is paralyzed. Yet when he speaks to him he doesn’t immediately turn to flames and kill the guy, no he talks to him hinting that maybe it’s not his will to kill.