Jasper Sitwell

"The 21st century is a digital book. Zola taught HYDRA how to read it. Your bank records, medical histories, voting patterns, emails, phone calls, your damn SAT scores! Zola's algorithm evaluates people's past to predict their future." "What then?" "Oh God, Pierce is gonna kill me." "What then?!" "Then the Insight helicarriers scratch people off the list... a few million at a time."

- Jasper Sitwell and Captain America

Jasper Sitwell was a Level 7 S.H.I.E.L.D. operative and member of HYDRA. Sitwell was indoctrinated into the ranks of HYDRA, for whom he took on a role as a double agent within S.H.I.E.L.D. Several of his missions involved extraterrestrials and demigods. During the years of service he became a good friend with his fellow agent Phil Coulson. Overtly, he conducted his duties with efficiency, while covertly he aided a deep-rooted conspiracy to reshape the world in HYDRA's image. Eventually, his true allegiance was uncovered by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Captain America and Black Widow, who kidnapped him and forced him to reveal the truth behind Project Insight, shortly after which he was killed by the Winter Soldier.

Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Jasper Sitwell was born on Thursday, December 13, 1973 in Norfolk, Virginia as a. He joined S.H.I.E.L.D. and served with distinction as a field operative (Sitwell's "Patsy" ploy is legendary within S.H.I.E.L.D.), eventually rising to a Level 6 security clearance. However, he was an undercover HYDRA agent.

Finding Thor in New Mexico
While tailing Dr. Bruce Banner after his return to the United States, Agent Jasper Sitwell was reassigned to New Mexico under agent Phil Coulson after the discovery of Mjølnir in the desert. He was among the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who confiscated Professor Selvig and Jane Foster's research on wormholes. Jasper Sitwell was the head of the laboratory studying the hammer when Thor attacked and attempted to retrieve Mjolnir. When Thor was finally apprehended, Sitwell oversaw Coulson's interrogation of him.

When another wormhole opened in the desert, Sitwell, Coulson and other S.H.I.E.L.D. re-visited the desert and witnessed the arrival of the Destroyer. He asked Coulson if the robot was something of Stark's, but Coulson said that Stark never tells him anything. Afterwards, the Destroyer attacked the agents and the nearby town. Sitwell was among the survivors.

The Consultant
"I can do it. I'm a great 'patsy.'" "Yes you are; your 'patsy's' legendary. In fact, when I think of the word 'patsy,' I..." "Alright!"

- Jasper Sitwell and Phil Coulson

Sitwell met Phil Coulson in a café to discuss a major problem: the World Security Council wanted Emil Blonsky freed from custody and integrated into the Avengers Initiative. Sitwell and Coulson both knew the truth about the Abomination and hatched a plan to avoid Blonsky's liberation, choosing to send The Consultant to annoy General Thaddeus Ross, who had Blonsky in custody, to the point that he would never release the prisoner.

Chitauri Invasion
"We got a hit, 62% match. Wait cross check 79%" "Location?." "Stuttgart Germany, 28 Koenigstrasse. He's not exactly hiding."

- Jasper Sitwell and Phil Coulson locate Loki

Jasper Sitwell was transferred to the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier as a computer expert. He located Loki in Stuttgart, and during Clint Barton's Attack on the Helicarrier, Sitwell's abilities came in handy in regaining control of the Helicarrier despite the heavy damages.

Item 47
"I don't think you're taking this assignment very seriously." "That's funny; I was just thinking the same thing about you. While you've been in here gathering video clips, I've been out investigating."

- Felix Blake and Jasper Sitwell

Agent Sitwell was partnered with Felix Blake to capture two bank robbers, who had at their disposal the only Chitauri Gun among the 47 retrieved on Earth after the Battle of New York which was still functioning. Beating Blake on time, Sitwell managed to foresee the two's movements and to anticipate them, and reach them in a motel, with the order of collecting the weapon and killing the two. Once at the motel, Sitwell took the room next to Benjamin Pollack's and Claire Wise's, and disturbed them with music at high volume. Pollack knocked on his door to ask him to lower the volume, but Sitwell easily subdued him and tied him up. Pollack managed to warn Wise, who attacked Sitwell with the alien gun. During the subsequent fight, the gun was knocked loose and shot automatically, destroying most of the room, and all of the stolen money. Sitwell tied up Pollack and Wise and prepared to follow his orders, until he discovered that the gun was working because Pollack, who was a scientist, had repaired it.

Seeing potential in the couple, Sitwell, instead of arresting or killing them, recruited Pollack and Wise to S.H.I.E.L.D., much to Blake's disappointment.

The Hub
"Do you have authorisation to access that panel?" "Of course, I certainly have it right here in my bag. He's on to me." "Are you on coms with someone? This is Agent Sitwell I need..."

- Jasper Sitwell and Jemma Simmons

Soon after, Sitwell was assigned to the Hub, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s primary operational staging and support center under Agent Victoria Hand. He was present during the first briefing for the mission to disable the Overkill Device in South Ossetia. After the mission began, he caught Jemma Simmons attempting to break into the Hub's mainframe. He initially tried to politely question her, but when it became clear she was communicating with someone else, he tried to call for back-up, but Simmons shot him with a Night Night Gun and rendered him unconscious. Sitwell was taken to the infirmary, and after his recovery, he asked Agent Hand about the extraction of agents Leo Fitz and Grant Ward, as he believed there was not going to be one. Hand revealed that she trusted that Coulson would extract his own team.

The Clairvoyant
"How was Tahiti?" "It sucked."

- Jasper Sitwell and Phil Coulson

Sitwell met with Coulson, who had requested a meeting with Nick Fury. Sitwell claimed Fury was off the grid and would summon him if he wanted to talk. When Sitwell asked how Coulson's alleged stay in Tahiti went, Coulson merely replied "It sucked." Shortly afterwards, Sitwell met with Coulson, Victoria Hand, Felix Blake, Antoine Triplett and John Garrett aboard the Bus. The team discussed Coulson's recent encounters with a terrorist who claimed to have Clairvoyant powers and was responsible for the creation of the Centipede Soldiers and the cyborg assassin Deathlok. The team decided to split into pairs, each investigating a different individual with potential psychic powers that had been rejected from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Index, in hopes of locating the Clairvoyant. However, Sitwell was called away on another mission, to escort the Lemurian Star, before he could participate.

Hostage Situation
"I told you, S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn't negotiate."

- Jasper Sitwell to a pirate

While Sitwell was aboard the Lemurian Star, the ship was hijacked by pirates led by Georges Batroc. Captain America, Black Widow, and Brock Rumlow led a team to retake the ship. Unbeknownst to Rogers and Romanoff, Sitwell was on the ship to guard sensitive information about Project Insight. Fury, suspicious about the possible infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D., had hired Batroc's terrorists to raid the ship so he could send his trusted agent Romanoff to retrieve the information about Project Insight.

HYDRA Uprising
"Zola's algorithm is a program...for choosing Insight's targets!" "What targets?" "You! A TV anchor in Cairo, the Undersecretary of Defense, a high school valedictorian in Iowa City. Bruce Banner, Stephen Strange, anyone who's a threat to HYDRA! Now, or in the future."

- Jasper Sitwell and Captain America

Nick Fury was subsequently attacked and supposedly killed by the Winter Soldier. Afterwards, Rogers refused to hand over the information Fury had given him about Project Insight and was branded a fugitive by Alexander Pierce. Sitwell commanded an operation and ordered Brock Rumlow and his STRIKE team to capture Rogers, but they were unsuccessful and Sitwell watched Rogers escape. With Rogers having escaped the Triskelion and was now on the run, Sitwell attempted to give orders to his S.H.I.E.L.D. team and told them to scan all cameras for a sighting of Rogers and report it directly to him. Despite his direct orders, Sitwell was questioned by Sharon Carter who demanded to know his reasons until Pierce arrived and personally explained the situation, claiming that Rogers had withheld important information about Fury's assassination. Later, Sitwell had lunch with Senator Stern, and they discussed exercise regimes and Stern's sexual partners. As they prepared to leave, Stern complimented Sitwell's S.H.I.E.L.D. pin and they exchanged a secret phrase: Hail HYDRA as Stern left with his security team. Rogers and Romanoff had figured out that Sitwell was guarding the Project Insight information on the Lemurian Star and followed him to this location as they watched from a distance. Unaware that he was being watched, Sitwell was called by Alexander Pierce but when he answered he spoke instead to Sam Wilson, who was watching him from across the street. Wilson informed Sitwell that he wanted him to get into a car down the street so they could go for a drive together, when Sitwell questioned why he should obey, Wilson revealed that a sniper had Sitwell in their sights and was ready to assassinate him if he did not obey these orders. Wilson lured Sitwell to a rooftop where he was confronted by Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff who questioned him. Sitwell was at first confident about his situation as he believed that Rogers would be unwilling to actually kill him, and Rogers seemingly agreed. However instead Rogers allowed Romanoff to kick him off the roof, and Wilson used his wing suit to grab Sitwell and return him to the roof as he continued to scream in terror and was dumped on the ground. Frightened by the experience, Sitwell revealed everything he knew about Project Insight and HYDRA's plans for the world. He explained that Arnim Zola had created an algorithm that would allow the three Helicarriers to target and execute millions of potential threats to HYDRA's rule, such as Bruce Banner and Stephen Strange. Sitwell feared that his life was in danger for exposing this information as he knew that he would now become a target for Pierce.

Assassination
"We'll use him to bypass the DNA scans and access the Helicarries directly." "What? Are you crazy? That is a terrible, terrible idea."

- Steve Rogers and Jasper Sitwell

Sitwell was kept as hostage, thrown in a car and driven by Sam Wilson to the Triskelion, as Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff intended to use his biometric data to access the Project Insight Helicarriers and shut down Project Insight directly from the inside. Sitwell was mortified by the concept, calling Rogers crazy and the plan a terrible idea. However before Sitwell could argue his point, while they were driving along the freeway, the Winter Soldier leaped onto the roof of the car and attacked the group. Under the orders of Alexander Pierce who needed to keep Sitwell from giving away more information and stopping his plans, the Winter Soldier grabbed Sitwell and ripped him from the car before throwing him out the window into the opposite lane as Sitwell screamed in terror before being killed when his body was slammed into by an oncoming semi-truck.

Legacy
"I know Agent Sitwell was in charge of filling your ranks."

- John Garrett to the undercover agents surrounding him

After it became apparent to Coulson's Team that John Garrett was the mysterious Clairvoyant, he was surrounded by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents with a kill-order from Victoria Hand, who believed that he and Coulson's team were sleeper HYDRA agents. Coulson told the agents to arrest Garrett for being the Clairvoyant; Garrett invoked that Sitwell recruited at least some of them, causing the agents loyal to HYDRA to kill their comrades and surround Coulson's team.

Abilities

 * Expert Combatant: Sitwell had a large knowledge of hand-to-hand combat, easily overpowering Benjamin Pollack in a fight.
 * Master Spy: Sitwell was a master spy, making all of S.H.I.E.L.D. believe he was a loyal agent of theirs, when in reality he was an operative of HYDRA.

Allies

 * HYDRA
 * Alexander Pierce † - Leader
 * Arnim Zola †
 * STRIKE
 * Brock Rumlow †
 * Jack Rollins
 * John Garrett †
 * Grant Ward † - HYDRA Colleague
 * Stern
 * Avengers - Former Allies
 * Tony Stark/Iron Man
 * Thor
 * Bruce Banner/Hulk

Enemies

 * S.H.I.E.L.D. (First Incarnation) - Allies (while undercover) turned Enemies
 * Nick Fury - Director
 * Maria Hill - Deputy Director
 * Coulson's Team - Colleagues
 * Phil Coulson - Friend
 * Melinda May
 * Leo Fitz
 * Jemma Simmons
 * Skye
 * Sharon Carter - Colleague
 * Victoria Hand † - Colleague
 * Felix Blake - Colleague
 * Antoine Triplett † - Colleague
 * Claire Wise - Recruit
 * Benjamin Pollack - Recruit
 * Steve Rogers/Captain America - Colleague turned Enemy
 * Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow - Colleague turned Enemy
 * Clint Barton/Hawkeye - Colleague
 * Falcon
 * Destroyer
 * Loki
 * Chitauri
 * Georges Batroc
 * Winter Soldier - Killer

Appearances
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 * Iron Man: I Am Iron Man!
 * Thor
 * Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant
 * The Avengers Prelude: Fury's Big Week
 * The Avengers
 * Marvel One-Shot: Item 47
 * Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * Season One
 * The Hub
 * The Magical Place (mentioned)
 * Yes Men
 * End of the Beginning
 * Captain America: The Winter Soldier
 * Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * Season One
 * Turn, Turn, Turn (mentioned)
 * Season One
 * Turn, Turn, Turn (mentioned)

Non-canon appearances

 * Lego Marvel's Avengers
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