We arrive over two decades from the Marvel cinematographic universe. Depending on your relationship with the franchise, which will seem wild or will leave you disconcerted that the property has not already succeeded in this brand. Sometimes, we have the impression that we have always lived in this post-“Iron Man-that the age of the cinematographic universe is all that was. But even within the MCU itself, there have been various eras, with a lot of experiences that you may have forgotten that Marvel Studios never attempted.
Remember “the incredible hulk?” Remember when the MCU tried to send Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and the incredible Hulk (Mark Ruffalo)? And then there was the Netflix era of “Defenders” programs – some of the most acclaimed entries by criticism of the whole franchise, some have since been brought back for new chapters on Disney +. Of course, they were not the only MCU television programs before the rise of Disney +. ABC had its own race with “Agents of Shield”, which was broadcast for seven entire seasons, as well as a much shorter series of lifespan than most fans have almost certainly forgotten: “Carter agent”.
Located in the wake of the Second World War, the show follows Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) in his work as an American intelligence operation. Atwell is great in the series because she is in “Captain America: The First Avenger”, but that did not prevent her from being canceled after only two seasons and 18 episodes. However, the influence of “the Carter Agent” can still be felt on the largest MCU, the most directly in the form of Eric Pearson. The writer won in the Marvel studios with the ABC series, and he has since delivered consecutive successes for the franchise, invigorating it at a time when Marvel property was struggling.
Agent Carter has launched a major MCU career
You may not know the name of Pearson, but it is one of the most coherent voices of the MCU writers for more than a decade. His first scripting credits come from a series of Marvel short films, that is to say short films that were included with the physical media packages for older MCU films as bonus features. His success in this arena finally allowed him to write more stable writing episodes during the two seasons of “Agent Carter”. The show obtained excellent criticism, season 1 won a superb overall note of 96% of criticism on Rotten Tomatoes. Throughout the series, Pearson also played a key role as editor -in -chief of history, in addition to writing several episodes personally.
After the cancellation of the show, Pearson stayed in Marvel, doing retouching work on “Ant-Man” and “Spider-Man: Homecoming” before obtaining another appropriate writing credit on “Thor: Ragnarok”-itself a massive success for the studio.
While Pearson has done additional work on a certain number of Marvel films in the meantime, in addition to writing popular films in other franchises like “Transformers One” and “Godzilla vs. Kong”, his biggest points of relevance for the MCU as a whole came in 2025. During a year when DC has managed to relaunch his own cinematographic universe, and with yields Describing, the two at the Pearson billet co-wrote consecutive successes for Marvel Studios in “Thunderbolts *” and “The Fantastic Four: First Steps”.
Although Marvels had many creatives increasingly high from different projects, his regulars like Pearson who have often provided coherence which – even through the less popular eras of the franchise – maintained the MCU a cultural basic food.
Why did Marvel cancel the Carter agent?
Despite solid criticism and a star of good faith in Atwell, “the Carter Agent” did not last as long as “the agents of Shield”, unfortunately, the “critical praise of the series has not led to a particularly high audience, which may be due in part to the relative distance of the history of the larger MCU. If you were not at all a fan of Marvel, you probably avoid the show, thinking that this would require prior knowledge of the franchise. And if you were a McU loyalist, there were not as much things there to connect to the films to come as, let’s say, “Agents of Shield”
“Agent Carter” was canceled in May 2016, only a few days after the original “Captain America” ​​trilogy ended on the big screen with the release of “Civil War”. Atwell landed on his feet, however, and immediately played in the legal dramatic series “Conviction”, which was also on ABC. She has since resumed her role as Peggy Carter as a voice actor for “Marvel’s What If …?” And on the big screen in “Doctor Strange in the Multaveve of Madness”, in addition to expressing Lara Croft in the animated series Netflix “Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft” and play thanks to the last two films “Mission: Impossible”.
Then Atwell would come back like Peggy Carter in “Avengers: Doomsday”. This simply shows that, even now, “agent Carter” continues to have a considerable impact on the MCU.
