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Agents of SHIELD’s Shotgun Axe: Obscure Object of Desire?

Mack's shotgun ax (courtesy cbr.com)
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I am not now nor have I ever been a Marvel comic geek. Fan? Whatever. The whole superhero thing leaves me cold, especially when every movie ends with an epic (read interminable) fight scene where the good guys/Israeli chick win. I might be wrong about that . . .

I gave up on Marvel movies and TV a while ago. So the following from cbr.com (great bike BTW) falls on my stone deaf ears:

In the premiere of the show’s third season, Mack journeyed with Daisy Johnson to recruit Lincoln Campbell for the spy agency’s Secret Warriors program. During their pitch, the three are attacked by the Inhuman Lash, whereupon Mack makes the offhand remark that begins it all. “I need a bigger gun, or my ax… maybe a shotgun/ax combination of some sort.” . . .

We got our first look at the Shotgun Axe when Mack had to Dead Rising one out of his dad’s old shotgun and the butcher knife in his brother’s house. It was clear that this was going to be a slow burn, as the question changed from whether the Shotgun Axe would be a thing to when it would be a thing . . .

Like the Agents themselves, the Shotgun Axe has been through a lot over the last two years, from slicing up duplicitous LMDs to trying to dispose of evil ghosts. It even briefly made its way into space during the first half of the current season where it got to do what few weapons can dream of: Kill mindless aliens in space and impale an alien tyrant.

How great is that? Not so great that I want one. At all. You?

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