S.H.I.E.L.D.

S.H.I.E.L.D. is introduced in the first Iron Man flick and is, basically, a super-secret organization, a rather new one, which hasn’t even managed to find an acronym for itself. Thus, this is a gag that runs throughout the entire movie, with Coulson rarely finishing when he says Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division (which already sounded like a name made up especially for an acronym).

But, big surprise, SHIELD wasn’t new at all and had its name established after the Second World War! Thus, the secret organization was revealed to be quite old, and Coulson had no idea how to shorten that huge name. Was he kept out of the loop? How did Tony Stark, with all his gadgets, miss the long history of the organization?

And that especially if we are considering the major role it played in global politics. Nothing stays secret that long. And since I named S.H.I.E.L.D…