CBR: SHIELD Is Now a Real Government Program in the US and Canada

[Ravin' Ray]

The fictional S.H.I.E.L.D. has a real-world namesake that will monitor and analyze air, land or space-based threats to the U.S. and Canada.

BY KELVIN CHILDS

It is short for "Strategic Homeland Integrated Ecosystem for Layered Defense" and will be part of NORAD. Read more here.

I wonder if they will invite Samuel L. Jackson, Cobie Smulders, and the other SHIELD actors to visit the facilities.

[teapartyofthedead]

First Guardians of the Galaxy, and now SHIELD. I’m surprised Disney hasn’t sent their lawyers yet.

[MichaelC]

Don't forget Space Force with its Star Trek symbol. The world becomes more like fiction every day.

[Huntsman Spider]

Let's just hope they don't get infiltrated by some real-world HYDRA equivalent.

[Jabare]

as soon as I see A.I.M or Hydra I'm out

I'm already super weary of the real world Umbrella Corporation.

[Huntsman Spider]

as soon as I see A.I.M or Hydra I'm out

I'm already super weary of the real world Umbrella Corporation.

As a Resident Evil fan, I'm right there with you on that last part.

[Frontier]

Will this prevent the return of SHIELD in the comics? Although I guess it's not like it's stopped the FBI, CIA, etc. from being used in fiction.

[Huntsman Spider]

Will this prevent the return of SHIELD in the comics? Although I guess it's not like it's stopped the FBI, CIA, etc. from being used in fiction.

True enough, though given the sheer dysfunction, incompetence, and even at times flat-out corruption that reigned over at S.H.I.E.L.D., culminating in the events of Secret Empire, I'm still of the opinion that S.H.I.E.L.D. is where it needs to be right now.