Agents of SHIELD’s Chloe Bennet Eyes Quake Comeback — The MCU Series Poised to Launch Her Spinoff

Chloe Bennet isn’t done causing tremors. After Daisy Quake Johnson’s death-defying Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. finale, the star says she’s ready to return for a standalone Quake spinoff.

Chloe Bennet is not done shaking the MCU. Or at least, she would not mind getting the band back together. The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. standout says she is absolutely open to suiting up as Daisy 'Quake' Johnson again, which immediately sets off all the 'how could that work now?' questions AoS fans have been batting around since the finale.

Chloe Bennet would come back as Quake (if Marvel actually calls)

Bennet told Looper she would happily reprise Daisy, even for a spinoff. She played the role across all seven seasons, starting at 20 and wrapping at 27, and her finale was literally a life-or-death swing-for-the-fences moment in space. So, yeah, she is attached.

"I dont think I realized when I first auditioned for the role how much this entire entity, how much this character, how much this universe and how much S.H.I.E.L.D. was going to be just a part of me for the rest of my life. I definitely would be open to playing her again. But I have not been asked to, so... But, listen, 'Coulson Lives' started on Twitter, so who knows?"

That last bit is the inside-baseball nod: the fan campaign that resurrected Phil Coulson for TV started as a hashtag. Stranger things have happened in this franchise.

Where AoS sits in MCU canon (the short, honest answer: it is complicated)

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ended in 2020 and Marvel has been cagey about what is canon and what is multiverse-adjacent. The official line has never really pinned it down, and lately the multiverse gives them cover to do whatever they want. Translation: if Marvel wants Quake back, they have plausible deniability to make it happen.

Quick refresher: the AoS basics that still matter

• Title and tone: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. blended action, drama, sci-fi, and superhero pulp, and it grew into time travel, Inhumans, Hydra resurgences, aliens, and the usual internal conspiracies.
• Who made it: Created by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, and Maurissa Tancharoen; run by Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jeffrey Bell.
• Based on: S.H.I.E.L.D. from Marvel Comics by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
• The run: 7 seasons, 136 episodes; episodes ran about 41–44 minutes on ABC from September 24, 2013 to August 12, 2020.
• Production: ABC Studios, Marvel Television, and Mutant Enemy Productions.
• Cast you remember: Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge.
• Music: Mostly Bear McCreary, with Jason Akers contributing in season 7.

So where is Daisy now, and how could she fit back in?

The finale sent Quake into deep space with a new mission and a found family vibe, which left the door wide open for more. On Earth, S.W.O.R.D. exists now, thanks to WandaVision. If Marvel wants Daisy back on the board, slotting an Inhuman with quake powers into a space-and-threat-monitoring outfit is a layup. It also quietly re-opens the Inhumans lane without having to reboot the whole concept.

The Daredevil: Born Again angle

There were rumblings that Quake might show up in Daredevil: Born Again season 1. That did not happen, but the rumor mill has not shut up about later seasons. And honestly, she makes sense in that world. Matt Murdock needs reliable help on the streets when he is lawyering by day and getting concussed by night; Daisy can handle herself and then some. She is also a neat bridge for the MCU to introduce more Inhumans without making it a capital-I Initiative.

There are a couple of fun connective tissues already:

- Both characters came up through the Saint Agnes Orphanage in their on-screen backstories. Daisy was left there under the alias 'Mary Sue Poots' by a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent for her safety; Matt landed there after his father died. Thin? Sure. But it is a wire you can tie.

- Daisy started as a Rising Tide hacker in AoS season 1. Fans have long pointed at The Punisher's Micro as a kindred spirit from that same hacktivist world. It is more Easter egg than roadmap, but it is there if Marvel wants it.

Comics cross-pollination (aka, Marvel does this all the time)

Marvel Comics eventually pulled TV-originals into print. Phil Coulson became a recurring figure in the comics years after his on-screen death, and characters like Leo Fitz also made the jump. If you are sensing a pattern, you are right: once a character catches on, Marvel likes to move them between mediums.

About those wild casting stories

There has been loud speculation that Marvel could bring back legacy faces in unexpected ways, up to and including the eyebrow-raising rumor that Robert Downey Jr. might show up as Doctor Doom. That is not confirmed, so treat it as what it is: noise. The bigger point stands, though. If Marvel is open to that level of remixing, bringing Chloe Bennet back as Quake is not exactly a stretch.

Bottom line

Bennet is game. The finale left Daisy perfectly positioned for more. The canon fog is thick enough that Marvel can slot her anywhere from S.W.O.R.D. to Hell's Kitchen. And history shows that fan campaigns can actually move the needle. If 'Coulson Lives' could happen, 'Quake Returns' is not far-fetched.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is streaming on Disney+ in the U.S. Daredevil: Born Again is a Disney+ series.