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"I designed a biological implant to suppress my memories. I named her D.I.A.N.A. She's adorable, and we're inseparable. Literally."
―Jemma Simmons to Deke Shaw[src]

The Digital Implanted Axon Neurotransmission Attenuator, abbreviated as D.I.A.N.A., was a biological implant designed by Jemma Simmons to suppress her memories, primarily about the location of Leo Fitz.

History[]

Blocking Jemma Simmons' Memories[]

"D.I.A.N.A. is acting up, and I'm... I'm forgetting the things I'm supposed to know, and more dangerously, I'm remembering the things I'm not."
―Jemma Simmons to Deke Shaw[src]

Before returning to her S.H.I.E.L.D. team in the past to stop the Chronicom Colonization of Earth, Jemma Simmons created D.I.A.N.A. so that it would prevent her from remembering the location of Leo Fitz to protect him from being targeted by the Chronicoms. Once they jumped back to 2019, Enoch implanted D.I.A.N.A. into Simmons' head, and she immediately forgot about Fitz's location, as well as the existance of her own daughter.[2]

When Simmons started experiencing slight memory loss and concentration breaks she feared that D.I.A.N.A was malfunctioning so she asked Enoch to remove it and check if it had any problems. While Enoch was checking the implant, Deke Shaw walked in, and upon seeing Enoch interfering with Simmons' brain, he freaked out and attacked Enoch. Simmons was then obligated to explain to Shaw that she had an implant blocking her memories so she wouldn't know the location of Fitz.[3]

Jumping from 1983, Zephyr One entered a time storm where Daisy Johnson and Coulson were stuck in a time loop and forced to relive several attempts of saving the team before the Zephyr reached the end of the storm. In order to do that, they needed to fix the Time Drive. Simmons was the only person who would know how to do that, but only if she didn't have her memories blocked by D.I.A.N.A. In these several attempts, Johnson and Coulson tried to convince Simmons to remove her implant and asked for the other's help. However, Enoch was programmed to prevent the implant from being removed at all costs, so he fought the team several times, even reaching the extent of killing them in some loops.

Johnson, Shaw and Coulson finally managed to convince Simmons and successfully removed the implant in one of the loops. Once the implant was removed, all of the suppressed memories start flowing in Simmons' brain, overwhelming her and she instantly burst into tears. The loop would reset everything and the implant went back in place.[4]

Once out of the time storm, the Zephyr returned to 1983 once more and the team settled down at the Lighthouse. There, Johnson told Simmons they removed her implant during the time loops and asked her if she remembered anything, also telling her that she was inconsolable. Simmons answered by saying it didn't matter because she must not remember Fitz's location or anything else D.I.A.N.A. was blocking.[5]

Nathaniel Malick captured Simmons and attempted to search her memories using the Cerebral Fusion Machine, but D.I.A.N.A. prevented him from learning Fitz's location. As designed by Fitz, the implant enacted its emergency safety measures, causing Simmons to completely forget everything, including Fitz.[6] The Chronicoms subsequently injected her with a fluid that dissolved the implant, releasing its hold on her memories, though she remained unable to access them afterward.[7] After reuniting with the team, Fitz was able to help Simmons regain her memory by telling everyone the story of their time together, causing Simmons' memories to slowly come back piece by piece.[2]

Capabilities[]

D.I.A.N.A. was a device that was able to block and suppress one's memories selectively or entirely, even resisting a Cerebral Fusion Machine when used in an attempt to access those blocked memories, as tried by Nathaniel Malick. The only way to recover the blocked memories was to remove the implant. However, when it was dissolved by the Chronicoms, the implant did not return the memories to Simmons automatically, requiring assistance from Fitz for her to regain them.

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References[]

  1. ↑ Saying Goodbye to FitzSimmons on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 7.13: What We're Fighting For
  3. ↑ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 7.06: Adapt or Die
  4. ↑ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 7.09: As I Have Always Been
  5. ↑ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 7.10: Stolen
  6. ↑ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 7.11: Brand New Day
  7. ↑ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 7.12: The End is at Hand
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