Maria Hill

Cobie Smulders
Cobie Smulders
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2014, Cinematic: Hill takes control of the Project Insight Helicarriers from the Triskelion command center and fires them at one another as Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D. fall.

Cinematic

A former S.H.I.E.L.D. commander and deputy director who served as Nick Fury's right hand through the Chitauri invasion. In 2014 she helped hide Fury's survival and bring down Hydra. She then worked at Stark Industries while aiding Coulson and the Avengers, was lost in the Snap and restored in 2023, and in 2026 helped Fury and Talos fight Gravik's Skrull invasion until Gravik, posing as Fury, killed her in Moscow.

Comics

A former Marine and S.H.I.E.L.D. agent from Chicago who becomes the agency's director after Nick Fury goes underground. She enforces the Superhuman Registration Act, steps down for Tony Stark, resists Norman Osborn, later leads the agency again and runs the Pleasant Hill prison, loses the directorship in 2017, and in 2023 starts a new superhuman intelligence project. All her activity is on Earth.

Timeline 23 events

  1. Modern · Comics: With Nick Fury in hiding after the Secret War, Hill is made interim executive director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and curbs its support for superheroes.
  2. Modern · Comics: Hill pressures Captain America to lead a registration enforcement effort, and he flees the Helicarrier, beginning the Civil War.
  3. Modern · Comics: At the end of the Civil War she becomes deputy to Tony Stark, the new S.H.I.E.L.D. director.
  4. Modern · Comics: During the Skrull invasion of Earth, Hill abandons the Helicarrier after Skrull-infected systems fail.
  5. Modern · Comics: With S.H.I.E.L.D. replaced by H.A.M.M.E.R., Norman Osborn declares Hill a fugitive, and she aids Stark's resistance.
  6. Modern · Comics: Hill helps rescue Thor and protects Stark during the Siege, then takes charge of the Avengers.
  7. Modern · Comics: Steve Rogers reactivates S.H.I.E.L.D., and Hill returns as deputy before taking over as director again.
  8. Secret Wars · Comics: Hill oversees the Kobik-powered Pleasant Hill prison in Connecticut and is gravely wounded when Baron Zemo's inmates revolt.
  9. Secret Wars · Comics: The World Security Council removes Hill as director, and she flees with plans for a planetary force field.
  10. Fresh Start · Comics: Hill fakes her own assassination and frames Taskmaster to destroy the Rubicon Trigger.
  11. Fresh Start · Comics: Hill uncovers a second wave of Skrull infiltrators and works with Stark's friendly Skrulls to defeat them.
  12. Fresh Start · Comics: Impressed by the Fantastic Four, Hill begins a secret project she calls the Super Human Intelligence: Extra-Legal Division.
  13. 2012 · Cinematic: Hill is at the P.E.G.A.S.U.S. facility when Loki takes the Tesseract and Hawkeye, chases them in a jeep, and survives the collapse of the facility.
  14. 2012 · Cinematic: Hill helps Fury run the Helicarrier through the attack on it and the Battle of New York, and challenges the World Security Council's nuclear order.
  15. 2014 · Cinematic: Hill uses a drug to slow Fury's heart so Hydra believes he is dead, then frees Captain America, Black Widow and Falcon.
  16. 2014 · Cinematic: Hill takes control of the Project Insight Helicarriers from the Triskelion command center and fires them at one another as Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D. fall.
  17. 2014 · Cinematic: Hill takes a job at Stark Industries to avoid prosecution while secretly feeding intelligence to Fury.
  18. 2014 · Cinematic: Hill tips off the Air Force about Fury's Providence base, then helps Coulson's team escape and confronts Grant Ward.
  19. 2015 · Cinematic: Hill passes Coulson's tip about the Scepter to the Avengers and later helps Fury command the Helicarrier at the Battle of Sokovia.
  20. 2018 · Cinematic: Hill leaves Stark Industries to join Fury and turns to dust in the Snap while driving through Atlanta.
  21. 2023 · Cinematic: Restored by the Blip, Hill attends Tony Stark's funeral and finds Fury changed after leaving for the S.A.B.E.R. space station.
  22. 2026 · Cinematic: Hill and Talos work against Gravik's Skrull invasion and call Fury back to Earth from S.A.B.E.R.
  23. 2026 · Cinematic: At the Unity Day bombing in Moscow, Hill is shot and killed by Gravik disguised as Nick Fury.

allied with

Nick Fury, Phil Coulson, Steve Rogers, Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff), Sam Wilson (Captain America), Talos, Kate Bishop, Melinda May, Leo Fitz, Bobbi Morse

enemy of

Loki Laufeyson, Grant Ward, Ultron, Steve Rogers, Norman Osborn (Green Goblin), Everett Ross, John Garrett

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Last checked 22 Oct 2026