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| - Agent Phil Coulson was killed by Loki Laufeyson, the "god of mischief" just prior to the Battle of New York. He was aboard Director Fury's Helicarrier, and was assigned to guard the prisoner when the vessel came under attack. He was carrying a prototype weapon, a S.H.I.E.L.D. design directly consequent to the encounter with Thor and Loki a year earlier. Loki used his powers of illusion to make himself appear to be at the control panel for the cage, then skewered Coulson from behind with a Chitauri scepter. After he sent his step-brother plummeting earthward confined in the cage, the mischief-maker turned his attention back to the dying agent and his final words, beginning with, "You're gonna lose." Coulson proceeded to demonstrate Loki's "lack of conviction" but putting his last reserves of energy into discharging his weapon at the god. Coulson's action kept Loki from taking full advantage of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s disarray, and the Asgardian made his escape with his cohorts. Director Fury found the last vestiges of life in his friend, but they were already slipping away. Coulson's final words were, "This was never gonna work if they didn't have something to..." The concept may have inspired Fury to "mislead" Captain America and Tony Stark into believing that Coulson had, in his final moments, been carrying his "Captain America" card collection, looking to get Steve Rogers's signature.
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