Marvel ’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.season 6 has enter a lethal new scourge to Earth , the Shrike , but the new exotic threat bears a curious resemblance to Superman ’s Kryptonian crystal . The Shrike infects host bodies with a cricket bat - similar creature and transform them into ever - expanding shards of quartz - and this   looks just like how the crystal that spring the Fortress of Solitude in the Superman film oeuvre . Could Marvel be poke fun at the core mythology of one of their rival DC Comics ' flagship superheroes ?

block up the Shrike is the cause whySarge , the serious doppelganger of Phil Coulson , has follow to Earth . In this hebdomad ’s episode ofAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D. , " Toldja " , Sarge and his team   were contain prisoner by the undercover agent federal agency and yet , because he was withholding of the essence noesis about the Shrike , the Fake Coulson had the upper mitt all along . We now sleep with that the Shrike is an extraterrestrial entity that infects and destroys whole planets ; its last conquest was Chronyca-2 , the menage satellite of the Chronicoms . ground is next on the list and it seems the Shrike are also awaiting the comer of their mysterious creator . But , just as Sarge   looks indistinguishable to Phil Coulson , the transformation into limpid entities the Shrike causes behave more than a passing   likeness to Superman ’s menage satellite of Krypton . Indeed , the Shrike seems to castrate whole planets until they resemble Krypton !

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Jon Kent (AKA Superman’s Young Adult Son) with Kryptonite in the background

1978’sSuperman : The Movieintroduced the quartz   design   of Superman ’s birth humanity and hisFortress of Solitude . It was created by output and art architect John Barry , who previously was George Lucas ' product intriguer onStar Wars . Barry ’s quartz glass vision of Krypton was a vast departure from the pulpy , sci - fi look of   Superman ’s parentage satellite seen   in DC Comics ' Silver Age comedian and it has proven to be both revolutionary and influential . Beyond the four Superman movies of the 1970s-1980s , the popular crystal design of Krypton eventually joined the canon of the Superman comics . On idiot box , the crystal Fortress was adopted bySmallville , The CW’sSupergirlhas also maintained Krypton and the Fortress of Solitude ’s crystalline designing , and so has Syfy ’s   prequel   seriesKrypton .

Superman Returnsmade the Kryptonian crystals the key to Lex Luthor ’s master key plan . Bryan Singer ’s film was a subsequence to Richard Donner ’s first two Superman picture show , and both the Gene Hackman and Kevin Spacey versions of Luthor were clever master criminals obsessed with controlling genuine estate . InSuperman Returns , Lex stole crystal from the Man of Steel’sFortress of Solitudeand drop them in the Atlantic Ocean . His absurd end was for the crystal to create a new Kryptonian continent that would swallow up much of North and Central America , drink down meg . As the ' possessor ' of the novel continent , Lex planned to strike it rich by trade that material estate to desperate   survivors who want somewhere to survive .

InAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D. time of year 6 , the Shrike ’s program is a spate more straightforward : the citizenry of Earth will become septic and transmute into crystal clear entity , wiping out all life on the planet . What the Shrike ’s mysterious creator gets out of this is n’t known yet , but whatever   the end goal ofplanetary destructionmay be , it likely would n’t be as logistically problematic as Lex Luthor thinking he can plainly own and charge rent on a new alien continent without any sort of retaliation or retribution from the Earth ’s political science or Superman .

James Gunn’s Superman and Krypto comic

Moreso , Sarge give away that extreme cold is the helplessness of the Shrike ; in " Toldja " , the Agents were capable to save the Zephyr from being destroyed by a crystal outbreak   thanks to fly their ship into near orbit and ejecting the Shrike - taint . This answer is n’t far off from how Superman cross Luthor inSuperman Returns , when the Man of Steel   simply elevate Lex ’s Krypton continent , flew it out of the Earth , and hurled the entire mass into rich space .

All of these similarities   could   merely be a coincidence , but then again , Marvel may just be twinkle at DC ’s Superman crystal obsession since the Shrike apparently transform satellite until they resemble Krypton . And , view S.H.I.E.L.D. ’s   Daisy Johnson possess the Inhuman power to   manipulate gravity ,   perhaps fans should n’t be   too surprised ifAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.has Quake   vote down the pestilent crystal menace of the Shrike in a manner like to how Superman handle Lex Luthor ’s crystal continent .

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Marvel ’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.Season 6 melody Fridays @ 8 pm on ABC .

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