Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-16461120-20160405223613/@comment-1618941-20161010213647

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: He could've been made an Avenger posthumously, but I don't believe it was ever directly stated to him that he would be an Avenger. Then again, I'm basing that on reading this thread since I haven't seen the movie yet.

See the movie, then join the debate. :)

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: My question is why isn't Coulson listed as an MCU Avenger when Nick Fury called him as much and the other Avengers considered him one?

Because it was a symbolic gesture on their part. The team formed as a team largely in the wake of his passing, and Fury played his death as a noble sacrifice to make sure that would happen, thereby giving the group reason to consider Coulson as one of the catalysts for their formation.

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Hell, the whole reason why he was revived was because Fury created Project Tahiti to revive an Avenger, and he used it on Coulson. ...By which point we've moved away from movie canon. That's one of the quirks of this shared universe - the movies set the stage, and the shows play as spinoffs, but thus far it has only been a one-way street. The movies have yet to acknowledge anything from the shows, and the two show franchises only acknowledge themselves and the movie-verse, not each other. As far as the movie perspective is concerned, Coulson died and is gone for good.