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Revision as of 03:52, 22 October 2014
History
The Obelisk is a dangers device of unknown power. According to Dr. Daniel Whitehall, the Obelisk may even contain the secret to beating death. The SSR recovered the device from Hydra and Dr. Whitehall at the end of World War II, making it the first 0-8-4 identified by the organization. In S.H.I.E.L.D.'s possession, the Obelisk was listed as a Level 10 asset.
The Obelisk in S.S.R. custody
After S.H.I.E.L.D.'s dissolution, Roger Browning, a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, tried to sell the organization's secrets to the highest bidder, including information on the Obelisk. Director Phil Coulson of the newly reformed S.H.I.E.L.D. had a team of mercenaries try to buy the intelligence from Browning, but a superpowered Hydra assassin known as Carl Creel killed Browning and made off with his information.
Soon afterwards, Coulson sent that same team of mercenaries and a team of his agents to recover the Obelisk from the army base it was being stored at to prevent it from falling into Hydra's hands. Once Izzy Hartley, the leader of the mercenaries, found the device, Creel attacked her. Hartley tried to use the Obelisk against him, but the moment she grabbed the device it painfully paralyzed her hand so she couldn't let it go. Coulson's agents and the other mercenaries were able to intervene in time to force Creel to escape, but, with them now under fire from the army, Hartley's partner Lance Hunter chose for his team to leave rather than complete the mission. As they drove away from the base, Hunter amputated Hartley's arm to save her from the Obelisk's power. However, Creel appeared in the middle of the street, absorbed the asphalt in the road into his body, and forced the car to crash into him and flip over. Hartley and her driver were killed instantly, while Hunter had to watch helplessly as Creel absorbed the rubber from the car's tires into his hand and take the Obelisk from Hartley's severed hand.[1]
While attempting to make contact with his Hydra contact, Creel discovers that he had absorbed some of the Obelisk's properties, causing him to accidentally petrify a waitress at the meeting point. He meets with his contact at another dropoff, but as a result of Lance Hunter attempting to assassinate him, causing a public panic, Raina steals the case containing the Obelisk and brings it to Skye's father. He makes her pick it up, which she reluctantly does, but her touch does not invoke any violent reaction from the 0-8-4. He states that the Obelisk allowed her to live and promised to reveal its secrets only if she brings Skye to him.[2]
Skye's father later brings the Obelisk to Whitehall, offering to show him how to use and survive it, in exchange that they get to kill Coulson.[3]