Benjamin Pollack

"What makes you so sure that the sign is pointing in the right direction?" "You made me sure, because you got it to work."

- Benjamin Pollack and Claire Wise

Benjamin "Benny" Pollack is a regular guy who finds a Chitauri weapon after teh Battle of New York. He uses it to steal from banks with his girlfriend, Claire Wise. They catch on to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s radar and are asked to join them. The two accept.

Using the weapon
Benny is an unemployed scientist, with a pronounced talent for technology. When an inactive Chitauri weapon falls into his lab, Benny is able to repair it and make it work again. Claire, his girlfriend, convinces the hesitant Benny to use the gun to rob some banks. In a few days, the two of them collect a large amount of money from every bank they robbed.

Attacked by Agent Sitwell
While in a motel to take a break from "work", Benny is sent by Claire to the room besides theirs, so that he could ask the guys in there to turn down the volume of the music they're listening to. In the other room, anyway, Benny finds a secret agent who has been following them, who easily knocks him out and ties him up. Benny manages, anyway, to break the stereo with the music and to warn Claire of the agent's presence, and Claire uses the gun to try and save Benny. During the fight, Benny charges the agent to save Claire, but in the process the gun is broken, and it shoots by itself destroying the room.

Joining S.H.I.E.L.D.
When Sitwell, the agent who arrested them, realizes that Benny is the one who repaired the gun, he chooses to enlist him instead of killing him following the orders. Benny enters S.H.I.E.L.D. in the "R&D Think Tank" section, so that he can work for them reverse-engineering Chitauri technology recovered from the battle of New York.

Relationships

 * Claire Wise - Girlfriend
 * Jasper Sitwell - Enemy turned teammate.
 * Agent Blake - Enemy turned teammate.

Trivia

 * During one of the robberies, Benny wears an Empire State University shirt. In the comic books, ESU was attended by Peter Parker, better known as Spider-Man.