Kara Lynn Palamas, also more commonly known as Agent 33, is a major antagonist in Season 2 of the TV series Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..
She was a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who was brainwashed by HYDRA leader, Daniel Whitehall, and following his death, she became the lover and accomplice of Grant Ward while also seeking revenge against the ones responsible for her predicament.
She was primarily portrayed by Maya Stojan, Ming-Na Wen while disguising as Melinda May, and Chloe Bennet while briefly disguising as Skye. Raquel Gardner also briefly portrayed the role when Kara was disguised as General Talbot's wife.
Her Evil Ranking[]
Her Villainous Deeds[]
Season 2[]
- Upon being brought to Whitehall, Kara was subjected to the Faustus method and, although she fought hard to resist the effects and also escape, she eventually succumbed and surrendered to his power, thus becoming blindly loyal to HYDRA and also as an assassin and secretary to Whitehall.
- Now under the influence of the Faustus method, Agent 33 assisted Sunil Bakshi in the mission to steal the painting marked with the Words of Creation. After May found the apartment where they were hiding out in, 33 and Bakshi subdued her before using a nano-mask to assume her identity.
- Now disguised as May, 33 traveled to the Bus and tricked Coulson that Glenn Talbot, whom Bakshi was disguised as, was honest when asking for assistance. Tricking Coulson into the hotel room for an ambush, 33 planted a virus on the Bus in an attempt to destroy it.
- However, after arriving there, 33 was compromised and fought Coulson, only for the real May to intervene. The two of them then fought throughout the hotel room, ending with May electrocuting her in the face, permanently scarring the mask to her face.
- Weeks later, 33 was sent to collect Raina. However, after a fierce fight with Skye, Lance Hunter knocked her out and they escaped. She then told Whitehall of this and the tracker that Coulson placed in Raina.
- Notified Whitehall of Grant Ward's mission and how he took Skye hostage and let the plane live. Whitehall, displeased with Ward's decision then ordered her to have it shot down.
- The next day in Puerto Rico, 33 oversees Ward, Calvin Zabo and Skye try and get the upper-hand on HYDRA, only to fail. 33 then exchanged banter with a captive Ward regarding her disfigured face. After S.H.I.E.L.D. raided the building, she enters the shootout and tries to kill Coulson and Zabo, only to find that Whitehall was killed.
- After Whitehall's death, she escapes the building with Ward after he offered to help her.
- She and Ward kidnapped the inventor of the nano-mask and forced him to try and fix the mask on her face. Although he was able to repair it and give it a small update, he was unable to remove it, and afterwards, they kill him so he wouldn't talk.
- Disguised herself as Skye and tried to seduce Ward, only for him to reject it due to having lost his feelings for Skye when she shot and left him for dead.
- After Ward told her about what his abusive family and John Garrett made him into, and how he found a way to move past it., she is inspired by this and the two of them broke into a military base led by Talbot and broke out Sunil Bakshi, while also demonstrating how her brainwash programming stopped working. Back at their hotel room, Bakshi was successfully subjected to the Faustus method, and also explained to them about 33's civilian life and what Bobbi did.
- When Bakshi asked her if his compliance would be rewarded; she cruelly told him it would not. Ward and Palamas watched closely as Bakshi succumbed to the method and became blindly loyal to their orders
- A few weeks later, she and Ward developed a relationship and continued to hide from S.H.I.E.L.D. in Mexico, while Kara also found an old photo of her to conceal her scarred face. Kara was then ambushed and taken hostage by Coulson and Deathlok to lure in Ward, where they needed his help in finding Wolfgang von Strucker and Dr. List, in exchange for Ward being mind-wiped and given a new start. Although she was hesitant about Ward being mind-wiped, the two of them agreed and brought Bakshi to them so they can find List.
- When Bakshi revealed Ward's true orders to trade Deathlok for List's experiments in exchange for a meeting with Strucker, Coulson believed that Ward had betrayed them. When the tensions rose Coulson, Lance Hunter and Ward aimed their guns at each other while Palamas held a knife to Leo Fitz's throat. Ward was able to calm the situation and Palamas released Fitz so he could order Deathlok to play along and not fight back.
- Despite working with SHIELD, her and Ward's plan was to deceive them and capture Bobbi.She pretended to be disheartened.
- Remembering that Bobbi Morse was the one indirectly responsible for her experience, Kara stuck to the plan and slowly began to gain her trust. She was shown to be happy after hearing from Jemma Simmons how the brainwash programming was fully removed from her.
- Later, she killed the agent watching her before posing as May once more and tricking Bobbi into leaving the base.
- During the Quinjet flight, the two of them exchanged notes regarding Bobbi's relationship with Hunter. Upon arriving in Spain, Kara revealed herself and the two of them fought, and while Bobbi knocked her out, Ward ambushed and kidnapped her.
- Wanting Bobbi to succumb to the same amount of pain Whitehall put her through, Kara and Ward patiently tortured her with needles in her fingers alongside with a parasitic and anaesthetic. However, Bobbi failed to surrender to the pain and tried to overpower them in a fist fight, only for Ward to dislocate her knee.
- Knowing that Bobbi doesn't regret what she did (as her actions saved twenty-four S.H.I.E.L.D. agents), Ward and Kara decided to have her watch as a rigged sniper rifle shoots someone in front of her. Though neither one tells her whom that someone is, they are hoping that it is Hunter.
- After S.H.I.E.L.D. arrives, the two of them crossed off the team. This is partly to make sure that Hunter is the only one available to rescue her so that he can get shot in the process, rather than some other innocent agent. However, May also tricks Kara into disguising herself as the former, which also tricked Ward, who is heartbroken upon learning he accidentally killed her.
Season 3[]
- She is posthumously responsible for Ward seeking revenge on S.H.I.E.L.D, blaming them for Kara's death and every pain that he's endured, aby taking over the remnants of HYDRA as its new leader. Months later, Ward would have Werner von Strucker try to kill May's ex-husband, Andrew Garner, feeling that it would make the two of them even. Although this failed, he was able to torture a captured Garner regarding his condition. He then later killed Coulson's girlfriend, Rosalind Price, right in front of him, mocking him about how he now knows how it feels. Unfortunately for Ward, this set in motion a chain of events that ultimately led to his own death at Coulson's hands.
Why She Doesn't' Stand Out?[]
- Though she passes the baseline through her high kill count, affiliation with Ward and sadistically/ psychologically torturing Bobbi, she fails the heinous standards to Whitehall, Bakshi and even Ward, as all three manipulated her into working with them. Ward also has more personal villainy towards Coulson and his team given how severely his actions harmed. He even has a higher kill count and more resources- the latter happens after he takes control of HYDRA.
- She is extremely tragic. She was unintentionally sold out by Bobbi, who gave away the location of the safe house, though this was done to save twenty four S.H.I.E.L.D agents and protect her cover. However, this led to her being brainwashed by Whitehall and Bakshi, losing her identity and being manipulated and accidentally killed by her ally and lover, Grant Ward. This also makes her a scapegoat.
- She is insecure due to the loss of her past identity and her facial mask being disfigured. After Whitehall's death, she all but loses herself, but with Ward's help, Kara manages to reclaim her old identity.
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