Maria Hill

"Everything's changing. A little while ago, most people went to bed thinking that the craziest thing in the world was a billionaire in a flying metal suit. Then aliens invade New York then were beaten back by, among others, a giant green monster, a costumed hero from the 40's, and a god."

- Maria Hill to Grant Ward

Maria Hill is the Deputy Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., and also bears the title of "Commander". She enjoys a well-deserved reputation as tough-minded and by the book. Her clearheaded pragmatism is a valued source of reason during the critical discourse surrounding the Avengers Initiative. After Nick Fury faked his death, she worked with him and was a part of the assault team that took down the helicarriers from Project Insight.

Loki's arrival
Maria Hill and Nick Fury went to the main facility of Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. to check out the strange amount of energy that the Tesseract was emitting. When they arrived, Loki was teleported there via the Tesseract. He mind-controlled several S.H.I.E.L.D. agents while killing others. He escaped on a S.H.I.E.L.D. truck and Hill went in pursuit. The Tesseract created a powerful surge of energy that collapsed all the area around it. Agent Hill got stuck under a collapsed bridge, but survived. She radioed Fury, informing him of what had happened and asked him what should they do.

Battle of New York
"You put those people together, you can't expect what's going to happen..."

- Maria Hill

She went on the Helicarrier, and was present during Loki's escape. She informed Nick Fury that a pilot went rogue and was going to bomb New York City. She last appeared on the Helicarrier with Nick Fury, agreeing that the Avengers would come back when they need to.

New Actions
After the successful recovery of a Chitauri Neural Link that international criminal Vanchat was housing in Paris, Hill interviewed and evaluated Agent Grant Ward, during his unofficial promotion to Clearance Level 7 and assignment to Agent Coulson's newly created team.

She also oversaw the team's first mission, to investigate the Rising Tide and the Hooded Hero. During this time, both she and Dr. Streiten showed concern about Phil Coulson's status after his recovery in Tahiti after his death and his lack of awareness of the truth of the circumstances that surrounded his death.

Agent Coulson later reported directly to her after Mike Peterson was successfully sedated in Los Angeles.

According to Agent Victoria Hand, when Coulson got abducted by the Centipede Group, both Director Nick Fury and Commander Maria Hill wanted constant updates on the situation of the rescue mission coordinated by Agent Hand.

The HYDRA conspiracy
Prior to the launch of Project Insight, Nick Fury called Hill to Washington, D.C. following his discovery of suspicious information about S.H.I.E.L.D.'s intentions for Project Insight. After Nick Fury's apparent death at the hands of the Winter Soldier, Hill took Fury to a secret location so that he could heal and they could gather information about the truth about what was going on at S.H.I.E.L.D.. After Captain America and Black Widow discovered HYDRA's infiltration of the spy organization, Hill accompanied them in their attempt to disable and destroy Project Insight.

After the battle at the Triskelion left S.H.I.E.L.D. in shambles, Hill visited the Human Resources department of Stark Industries.

Friends and Family

 * S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * Nick Fury - S.H.I.E.L.D. Director
 * Phil Coulson - S.H.I.E.L.D. subordinate
 * Natasha Romanoff - S.H.I.E.L.D. subordinate
 * Clint Barton - S.H.I.E.L.D. subordinate
 * Victoria Hand- S.H.I.E.L.D. subordinate
 * Grant Ward- S.H.I.E.L.D. subordinate
 * Avengers
 * Steve Rogers/Captain America - Ally
 * Tony Stark/Iron Man - Ally
 * Bruce Banner/Hulk - Ally
 * Thor - Ally

Enemies

 * Loki - Enemy
 * Vanchat - Enemy
 * Ultron - Enemy
 * HYDRA
 * Alexander Pierce
 * Jasper Sitwell