Victoria Hand

"No single agent is that important." "Coulson is."

- Victoria Hand and Grant Ward Victoria Hand is a high-ranking Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. with Clearance Level 8. Hand is well-known to lower ranking agents and has a reputation for brusqueness and expects promptness from agents under her.

Biography
After Victoria Hand joined S.H.I.E.L.D., she was able to rise through its ranks, eventually becoming one of the highest-ranked agents in the organization, and being assigned to The Hub.

Operation Overkill
"You need to trust the system, Agent Coulson."

- Victoria Hand Hand oversaw an operation from the Hub to destroy an enemy weapon called the Overkill Device and neutralize the South Ossetian rebels that built it.

To this end, she assigned agents Grant Ward and Leo Fitz with the task of neutralizing the weapon before launching the attack. Ward and Fitz were successful, and the attack commenced.

Despite not having an extraction plan for Ward and Fitz, Hand was confident that their team-leader, Agent Phil Coulson would secure his team's safe return.

Centipede
"Mr. Vanchat. We were hoping you could help us find a friend."

- Victoria Hand

Hand coordinated an effort to find abducted Agent Phil Coulson and to take down Centipede. She led a S.H.I.E.L.D. team to take custody of the notorious criminal Vanchat, who had had dealings with Centipede in the past, during a transaction to sell Chitauri metal to a buyer named Emily Deville.

Leading many teams across the globe from The Bus, Agent Hand got rid of the consultant Skye, apparently with the approval of Agent Melinda May, while one of her best men was trying to interrogate Vanchat.

When Agent Grant Ward successfully obtained information about Vanchat's transactions, Agent Hand led many strike teams running raids on every known buyer of Chitauri metals around the globe, some of them being Centipede safe houses, but not before questioning Agent Ward's attitude after Skye's disappearance from the plane and Ward's very own interrogation methods. She also noted that both Director Nick Fury and Commander Maria Hill wanted constant updates on the situation of the rescue mission.

When the helicopter used in Coulson's kidnapping appeared in a laboratory near the Mojave Desert, Agent Hand personally led a strike team to investigate the activities at the lab.

After Agent Coulson was rescued by his own team, Hand informed Coulson that Director Fury was very relieved after hearing of Coulson's successful rescue mission, and updated him on the success of the take down of multiple Centipede operations. After that, she returned to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Headquarters, commenting that The Bus wasn't really her style.

Hunt for the Clairvoyant
Agent Hand was called to the Bus by Coulson from the Helicarrier along with agents Jasper Sitwell and Felix Blake. After the Bus' takeoff she was briefed on the mission, by Coulson, John Garrett, and Antoine Triplett. She expressed her doubts about the true abilities of the Clairvoyant to no avail. She left the plane after the briefing to return to the Hub to run back-end support for the mission. After Agent Blake was critically injured by Deathlok, and the team returned to the Hub, she again expressed her disapproval to Coulson. She ordered agents Jemma Simmons and Antione Triplett] to work within the Hub as consultants on Deathlok's capabilities. Hand watched the team's battle with Deathlok and the confrontation with [[Thomas Nash. Later in the Hub, she informed her agents that once the Bus landed, she wanted everyone except Coulson taken, saying that Coulson was hers.

Relationships

 * S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * Nick Fury - S.H.I.E.L.D. Director
 * Maria Hill - S.H.I.E.L.D. Deputy Director
 * Jasper Sitwell - S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague
 * Felix Blake - S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague
 * John Garrett - S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague
 * Antoine Triplett - S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague
 * Coulson's Team
 * Phil Coulson - S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague
 * Grant Ward - S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague
 * Melinda May - S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague
 * Leo Fitz - S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague
 * Jemma Simmons - S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague
 * Skye - S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague

Trivia

 * Victoria was major character in the comics. She acted as a liason to Norman Osborn during his time as director of H.A.M.M.E.R., an organization that temporarily replaced S.H.I.E.L.D. after the Secret Invasion, and then as a liason to Captain America and one of the teams of Avengers. She was killed in the line of duty and there is a statue honoring her on the lawn of Avengers Mansion.