Alexander Pierce (Earth-199999)

Alexander Pierce
Name	Alexander Pierce
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	World Security Council, S.H.I.E.L.D., Hydra
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Hair	Red
Origin and Living Status
Living Status	Deceased
Reality	Earth-199999
Personal Information
Identity	No Dual
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Hydra double-agent, member of the World Security Council
Base of Operations	Triskelion, Washington, D.C.
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
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 Captain, to build a better world, sometimes means tearing the old one down... And that makes enemies. 

—Alexander Pierce

History

Alexander Pierce was a Hydra agent who infiltrated the World Security Council. During a hostage situation in Bogota, he met S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Nick Fury, who sucessfully saved the hostages, including Pierce's daughter. Pierce was surprised by Fury's performance and later made him director of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Decades later, the influence of Hydra over S.H.I.E.L.D. grew stronger, and a set of three heavily armed Helicarriers were built under "Project Insight." The Helicarriers were allegedly supposed to form a security network to protect the Earth, but Hydra actually desired to use them to target and kill approximately 20 million people selected by Zola's algorithm, any individual which would pose a thread for Hydra's new world order.

After discovering the hijacking of a S.H.I.E.L.D. boat by Georges Batroc was actually planned by Fury in order to recover confidential files related to the Project Insight, Pierce deployed the Winter Soldier to kill him. After being attacked by the Winter Soldier, a heavily damaged Fury contacted Captain America, who told the Captain not to trust anyone as S.H.I.E.L.D. had been compromised, before seemingly perishing.

Following Fury's apparent demise, Pierce talked with Captain America, and discovered Rogers had hid something from him. Pierce deployed other corrupt S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to capture Cap, who went undercover along with Black Widow. A new assignment was given to the Winter Soldier by Alexander, to kill Rogers and Romanoff. After gaining information related to the true objective of Project Insight from the hand of Jasper Sitwell, Rogers, Romanoff and their ally Falcon were captured by S.H.I.E.L.D., but they soon escaped captivity.

Pierce proceeded to continue with his plan, but as S.H.I.E.L.D. was getting prepared to deploy the Helicarriers, Captain America infiltrated the Triskelion and revealed by loudspeaker the true of Hydra influencing S.H.I.E.L.D. and prompted every clean agent to stand up against Hydra. While Captain America and Falcon infiltrated the Helicarriers to modify their programming to change the targets from the people selected by Zola's algorithm to the helicarriers themselves, Black Widow rescued the rest of the members of the World Security Council, who had been taken hostage by Pierce, and forced him to help her and Nick Fury, who revealed his survival to Pierce, to unlock every single one of S.H.I.E.L.D./Hydra's secrets and upload them to the Internet.

The Helicarriers were destroyed, and Hydra's secret were released to the world. However, Pierce attempted to use a remotelly-controlled miniature explosive he had hid in Black Widow's clothes to force Fury to let him go. Using a micro-EMP, Black Widow disabled the bomb, and thus Nick Fury had the liberty to shoot Pierce, killing him.

Notes

• Robert Redford portrays Alexander Pierce in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
• Alexander Pierce was a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent level 6.

See Also

• 3 appearance(s) of Alexander Pierce (Earth-199999)
• 3 minor appearance(s) of Alexander Pierce (Earth-199999)
• 7 mention(s) of Alexander Pierce (Earth-199999)
• 6 image(s) of Alexander Pierce (Earth-199999)
• 1 quotation(s) by or about Alexander Pierce (Earth-199999)
• 2 victim(s) killed by Alexander Pierce (Earth-199999)