Thread:Shabook/@comment-23892062-20161211004819/@comment-112155-20161211120929

Mainly, because this is an in-universe statement about something that has been already introduced. Not about something that may happen in the future.

It's imposible to make a general rule for things like these, and in this case, I simply had no time to search for Coulson's quote, that's the reason I asked.