Maria Hill

"You put those people together, you can't expect what's going to happen."

- Maria Hill

Maria Hill is an espionage agent working for S.H.I.E.L.D.

The Avengers
The high-ranking S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Maria Hill enjoys a well-deserved reputation as tough-minded and by the book. Her clearheaded pragmatism is a valued source of reason during the critical discourse surrounding the Avengers Initiative.

Friends and Allies

 * Steve Rogers/Captain America
 * Tony Stark/Iron Man
 * Bruce Banner/Hulk
 * Thor
 * Clint Barton/Hawkeye
 * Nick Fury
 * Black Widow
 * Phil Coulson

Enemies

 * Loki
 * Chitauri

Appearances/Actresses

 * Canon (1 film)
 * The Avengers (First appearance) - Cobie Smulders

Behind the scenes

 * Before Cobie Smulders was cast as Agent Hill, Morena Baccarin, Jessica Lucas and Mary Elizabeth Winstead screen tested for the part.
 * Smulders cuts her hair Bob Short for the film.
 * Smulders was going to work with Joss Wheddon in Wonder Woman as the title character.

Trivia

 * Prior to SHIELD being disbanded in the comics, Maria Hill served as the head of SHIELD before Tony Stark took over due to Nick Fury having to go into hiding regarding his illegal operation of sending in a team of superheroes (consisting of: Spider-Man, Daredevil, Wolverine, Captain America, Luke Cage, and Black Widow) on an unapproved mission in Lavteria during Marvel's Secret War Storyline (unrelated to the similarly named Secret Wars that was released several decades earlier).
 * Maria Hill was also notably the head of the main Avengers team in the comics until Steve Rogers took command following his return to the role of Captain America.