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Clark Gregg Talks Captain Marvel Role

Captain Marvel will bring Clark Gregg's Phil Coulson back into the MCU fold, but unlike the one who stars in Agents of SHIELD, this version of the agent will be a bit of newbie to the whole super-spy thing. Coulson hasn't been a part of the MCU since Marvel's Avengers, where he was stabbed by Loki. The rest of Avenger-dom (is that a word?) doesn't know he's still alive, but he's been quite active in the years since. As Gregg told EW though, Coulson in Captain Marvel is a less refined version and is pretty new to this gig. “He’s a bit of a new guy in S.H.I.E.L.D.” Gregg says. “He’s a lot younger. It’s the earliest we will have seen him, so when he says, ‘Mr. Stark, this isn’t my first rodeo’ in Iron Man, this is maybe the rodeo he’s talking about.” Captain Marvel is set in the 1990s, so it takes place way before Coulson lost his cool around Captain America and put Iron Man in his place. All totaled though Captain Marvel may very well be the most powerful person Coulson's ever been around, including the Avengers. "Getting to see Captain Marvel come to life, I mean that's a really cool character...and, at least in the comics, one of the most powerful characters in the Marvel universe. Perhaps more powerful than any character we've seen, with the exception of Thanos, so to have that be Brie Larson was cool for me. I'm excited to go with my daughter to see it." If you need a refresher on who Captain Marvel is and her history, you can get everything you need to know about the powerful hero right here.