

If the obelisk turns out to be a Terrigen crystal, mass producing its effects would cause widespread - if, perhaps, watered down - terregenisis.
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Skye's father did, after all, show his distaste for Hydra in that same episode, so betraying them would be no skin off his nose. Using Hydra's resources, Skye's father could mass produce the obelisk and its effects, but here's the catch: He may be the only one who truly understands its properties, so - no matter how much Hydra tries to monitor his research - they could never know for certain that he's delivering what he promised.

Skye's father has joined Hydra, and - though they have a common enemy in Coulson - he clearly has ulterior motives. He also revealed that this obelisk formula was developed from its first deceased victim (the waitress from the first episode), meaning that their sample is not pure - and thereby not quite the same.īy the end of the episode, of course, Hydra does get the obelisk, but it doesn't come alone. Whitehall specifically mentions some victims only got ill as a result. For all intents and purposes, let's assume Hydra's scientists put the same amount of this obelisk formula in each of the wedding guests' champagne glasses in order to measure the effect. Here's where that gets interesting - not everyone was affected the same way. "A Hen in the Wolf House" opens with a Navy wedding that Hydra infiltrates and uses to test its latest weapon: A reverse-engineered obelisk effect. Again, let's note that the comics and the MCU don't necessarily mirror each other, but they do tend to inform each other's events.
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Marvel Comics made a pretty big deal out of that event, giving it its own series and making a larger effort to get the Inhumans more involved with goings-on in the mainstream Marvel Universe. In the comics, Black Bolt used a Terrigen bomb to kick off the events of "Inhumanity," transforming dormant Inhumans into their fully-realized, fully-powered selves. It'll seem like a leap at first, but bear with me: The obelisk is a Terrigen crystal that is going to become a Terrigen bomb. And, quite notably, he isn't very emotionally stable.

He claims to know how the obelisk works when no one else does. He's a doctor, as we saw when Raina interrupted his work. He's powerful - powerful enough to strike fear into Raina's heart. However brief his appearances have been in season 2 so far, "A Hen in the Wolf House" has revealed quite a bit. If Attilan is based in the Himalayas, as I suggest, that leaves the question of Skye's father. As previously mentioned, Joss Whedon - who helped created the show and oversees the Avengers - draws a lot of his inspiration from "Ultimates." A little coincidental, don't you think? Interestingly, the Ultimate universe Inhumans based their city Attilan in the Himalayas for 10,000 years. She was recovered in the Hunan province of China before she was brought to America. A good half of last season dwelt on the fact that Skye, as an infant, was labeled an 084 - an object of unknown origin, in S.H.I.E.L.D.-speak.
