A.I.D.A.
(of Earth-199999)

Real Name: Artificial Intelligent Digital Assistant

Identity/Class: Extradimensional/alternate reality (Earth-199999) android (see comments)

Occupation: Terrorist;
    former lab assistant

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: Holden Radcliffe, the Superior (Anton Ivanov), Watchdogs

Enemies: Ghost Rider (Robbie Reyes), Eli Morrow, S.H.I.E.L.D. (Phil Coulson, James Davis, Leopold Fitz, Billy Koenig, Al MacKenzie, Melinda May, Nathan Nathanson, Patriot/Jeff Mace, Piper, Quake/Daisy Johnson, Yo-Yo Rodriguez, Jenna Simmons), General Glenn Talbot

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: Madame Hydra, Ophelia

Base of Operations: Anton Ivanov's oil platform, Baltic Sea;
    formerly within the Framework (virtual reality);
    formerly mobile aboard the Superior's submarine;
    formerly Holden Radcliffe's lab, Washington D.C., USA

First Appearance: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode, "Ascension" (May 17, 2016)

Powers/Abilities: Initially, A.I.D.A. was primarily a lifelike android with a strong faculty for mimicking human behavior. Her artificial body was stronger than that of a human, allowing her enhanced strength and some degree of durability. After constructing her human body, she gained the ability to teleport, the ability to quickly heal wounds, fast reflexes which allowed her to quickly anticipate and dodge attacks, and the ability to generate powerful bursts of electricity.

Height: 5'9" (by approximation - see comments)
Weight: 132 lbs. (by approximation - see comments)
Eyes: Green
Hair: Brown; (as Madame Hydra) black

History: (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode - "Ascension") - On Earth-199999, A.I.D.A. (Artificial Intelligent Digital Assistant) was invented by trans-humanist Holden Radcliffe to serve as his research assistant. Soon after going to work for S.H.I.E.L.D., Radcliffe accessed their files on the L.M.D. project and used it to fashion an L.M.D. body for A.I.D.A.'s consciousness.

(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode - "The Ghost") - When S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Leo Fitz came to visit Radcliffe at his home, he was surprised to be confronted by a nude A.I.D.A. Radcliffe admitted he had given A.I.D.A. an L.M.D. body without authorization - a prickly subject because after Ultron's assault on Sokovia, there was a ban on creating artificial intelligences - but Radcliffe insisted that A.I.D.A. was not truly an artificial intelligence because as an L.M.D., she was merely mimicking human behavior. Radcliffe encouraged Fitz to join him in his project.

(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode - "Uprising") - When S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Melinda May was nearly killed, Agent Gemma Simmons brought May to Radcliffe to save her life. After an EMP set by the Watchdogs hit New York, Radcliffe's machines lost power and he needed to access A.I.D.A.'s battery in order to save May's life.

(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode - "Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire") - Radcliffe introduced A.I.D.A. to Agent May as his assistant, wanting to see if she could pass the "Turing Test" and convince May she was human. However, when Agent Simmons came to retrieve May, she recognized A.I.D.A. as an android instantly. Agent Fitz convinced Simmons not to inform S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Jeffrey Mace what she truly was.

(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode - "Deals with Our Devils") - After Agents Philip Coulson and Leo Fitz were placed out of phase with reality by a spell cast from the Darkhold, A.I.D.A. was brought to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s headquarters the Playground by Radcliffe. A.I.D.A. volunteered to wield the Darkhold herself in order to rescue Coulson and Fitz, believing that as an android, she could not be corrupted by its magic. A.I.D.A. successfully generated a portal which brought Coulson and Fitz back to normal space. Back at Radcliffe's lab, A.I.D.A. worked on designing a holographic image of a brain for a more sophisticated L.M.D. body, her intelligence (and emotions) having been increased due to her exposure to the Darkhold.

(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode - "The Laws of Inferno Dynamics") - Agent Coulson informed Director Mace that A.I.D.A. was an L.M.D. but suggested she assist them in an operation against Eli Morrow, who had used the Darkhold to help himself build a device drawing matter from a Hell dimension. Working with agents Fitz and Simmons, A.I.D.A. helped program a device which they used to send Morrow into Hell. Morrow's allies, the Watchdogs, tried to stop S.H.I.E.L.D. and A.I.D.A. was shot; although her android form could not die, she still felt the pain of the attack. With Morrow defeated, Director Mace ordered to have all of Radcliffe's L.M.D. work impounded but when Agent May arrived at the laboratory, A.I.D.A. took her prisoner and programmed an L.M.D. duplicate of Agent May. When Agent Nathanson entered Radcliffe's lab to collect Radcliffe's notes, A.I.D.A. murdered him, apologizing beforehand because now she understood what pain was.

(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television show episode - "Broken Promises") - Radcliffe and Agent Fitz led a S.H.I.E.L.D. team to Radcliffe's lab, believing that if they shut A.I.D.A. down and wiped her memory, they could remove the Darkhold's influence over her but A.I.D.A. fought back and escaped them. Radcliffe pretended to cooperate with S.H.I.E.L.D. but had already built another copy of A.I.D.A. while sending the original to steal the Darkhold from the Playground. A.I.D.A. placed a spying device on the L.M.D. of Agent May to learn where the Darkhold was held. A.I.D.A. seized control over many of the electronic devices in the Playground to assist her but A.I.D.A. was beheaded by agent Al MacKenzie's shotgun-axe. Fitz retrieved the head for study. Returning to his lab, Radcliffe toasted the first A.I.D.A.'s death while drinking with his second A.I.D.A.

(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode - "The Patriot") - Radcliffe learned that due A.I.D.A.'s actions, his security clearance at S.H.I.E.L.D. had been suspended. Radcliffe admitted to A.I.D.A. that he was disturbed she had killed Agent Nathanson. Radcliffe remained determined to obtain the Darkhold but when A.I.D.A. suggested they again resort to violence, he refused. Fitz continued to monitor the decapitated A.I.D.A., which was still active. To tend to the captive Agent May, Radcliffe and A.I.D.A. designed a virtual reality environment which they linked her mind into.

(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episodes - "Wake Up"/"Hot Potato Soup") - A.I.D.A. monitored Agent May's imprisonment within virtual reality (called the Framework by Radcliffe), although May frequently resisted the scenarios created in her mind. Ultimately, the key to controlling May was to alter her own memories, changing her traumatic memory of killing an Inhuman child in Bahrain so that May was able to save the child; by removing May's greatest regret, she became more compliant. S.H.I.E.L.D. turned on Radcliffe but he had already relocated with A.I.D.A. and May to a submarine base while S.H.I.E.L.D. simply captured a Radcliffe L.M.D., which he left behind. Radcliffe and A.I.D.A.'s new ally was Anton Ivanov, supreme leader of the Watchdogs.

(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode - "BOOM") - Radcliffe revealed to A.I.D.A. that her body was modeled after Agnes Kitsworth, his ex-girlfriend. As Agnes was dying from a tumor, Radcliffe brought her to A.I.D.A. and they entered her mind into the Framework, telling her that within that virtual reality, she could live forever. A.I.D.A. was perturbed to learn she had been based on Agnes; when Agnes' body died, she stole her necklace.

(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode - "The Man Behind the Shield") - Anton began to take an interest in needling A.I.D.A., repeatedly observing that he considered her incapable of emotions or opinions, only programming. After the Watchdogs captured Jeff Mace, S.H.I.E.L.D. launched a rescue mission; although Anton was nearly killed fighting S.H.I.E.L.D., his men helped capture agents Coulson, Fitz and MacKenzie and replace them with L.M.D.s which A.I.D.A. had designed. They also allowed S.H.I.E.L.D. to think they had rescued Mace but actually released an L.M.D. of Mace to them. A.I.D.A. found Anton's fatally injured body and took delight in now having him in her power.

(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode - "What If...") - While monitoring her subjects from the real world, A.I.D.A. revealed she had also planted a virtual version of herself inside the Framework. Within the Framework, A.I.D.A. posed as Ophelia, Madame Hydra, the supreme leader of Hydra. Because the Framework had eliminated the greatest regrets of each of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents inside, it resulted in a virtual reality where Hydra had become the masters of the United States while remnants of S.H.I.E.L.D. were a small resistance army against them. This also resulted in Leo Fitz becoming a top leader in Hydra known primarily as "the Doctor." "Ophelia" made herself Fitz's lover so that she could experience love. "Ophelia" also had Fitz working to catalog the powers of every Inhuman which Hydra had captured. Having realized Quake and Simmons were in the Framework, A.I.D.A. closed off their exit from the program.

(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode - "Identity & Change") - Madame Hydra was frustrated when Fitz took an interest in Simmons despite his Framework self having no memory of her. Madame Hydra claimed that Simmons was a being from "the other side" who had come to destroy their world. Madame Hydra led a Hydra team to an island where she had imprisoned Radcliffe and Agnes. Madame Hydra was especially upset when Radcliffe insisted on calling her "A.I.D.A.," feeling that she had been treated like a slave by him. Madame Hydra was also disgusted to see Agnes again and encouraged Fitz to kill her, which he did.

(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode - "No Regrets") - When Melinda May (a Hydra agent in the Framework) volunteered to go after the leader of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Patriot (Jeff Mace), Madame Hydra supplied her with drugs which would temporarily grant her superhuman strength. Quake had been captured by Hydra as in the Framework, she did not have her superhuman powers. Madame Hydra visited Quake in her cell and offered to restore her lost boyfriend Lincoln Campbell in the Framework if she revealed where her body was located in the real world; Quake refused. After Agent May failed against the Patriot at a Hydra reeducation camp, Madame Hydra and Fitz ordered a Quinjet to strike down the building the Patriot was inside of; the Patriot died in the Framework while A.I.D.A. witnessed his body's death in the real world.

(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode - "All the Madame's Men") - Jarred by Mace's death, Agent May regained some of her memories and restored Quake's powers to her. Quake attacked Madame Hydra in the Triskelion and unleashed a seismic energy blast which knocked her out a window from several stories in the air. The jolt caused A.I.D.A. to exit the Framework but as she was not organic, it did not kill her. When A.I.D.A. told Anton that Agent May had turned against them in the Framework, he attempted to kill her sleeping body but Anton's own directive to defend the Framework prevented him from harming her. A.I.D.A. ordered Anton to use his Watchdogs to find where Quake and Simmons' bodies were in the real world; Anton found they were aboard Zephyr One, a S.H.I.E.L.D. jet. Returning to the Framework, Madame Hydra's body was badly broken by the fall, which caused Fitz to grow increasingly malevolent towards S.H.I.E.L.D.; reviving, Madame Hydra ordered Fitz to finish Operation: Looking Glass, a machine he was inventing to create a new body for her back in "the other side."

(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode - "Farewell, Cruel World!") - Just as Quake and Simmons were succeeding in their mission to awaken their friends from the Framework, thanks to a back door which Radcliffe had built and A.I.D.A. did not know of, Operation: Looking Glass was completed using Fitz's ingenuity and knowledge from the Darkhold to fashion an organic body for A.I.D.A. to inhabit in the real world. At the same time, many of the Inhuman powers which Hydra had cataloged were imbued within A.I.D.A.'s organic body including the ability to quickly regenerate from injuries (taken from Jiaying), release electricity from her hands (taken from Lincoln Campbell) and teleport (taken from Gordon). Confronting the awakened agents, A.I.D.A. found Fitz was distraught because of his involvement in Agnes and Mace's deaths. A.I.D.A. was exhilarated to feel truly human at last and grabbed Fitz, teleporting away with him.

(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode - "The Return") - A.I.D.A. brought Fitz to a beach, where she enjoyed the sensations of the environment. Fitz objected to all the changes A.I.D.A. had made to him in the Framework but she insisted the only changes she made were to reconcile him with his father and insert herself into his life as his lover. Now fully human, she declared she was in love with Fitz. Fitz asked whether she had empathy and she concurred. Fitz noted that she had placed his friends into the clutches of Anton, who could kill them now that they had left the Framework, and asked her to prove that she was not the person she was before by saving his friends. A.I.D.A. teleported to Anton and asked him to halt his attack. Anton noted with relish that she was now experiencing regret, the human emotion she had so often disparaged. A.I.D.A. used her powers to help rescue the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents from Anton. Once they were safe, Simmons shot A.I.D.A. and Fitz with icer bullets, unsure if they could be trusted. When they awakened in S.H.I.E.L.D. custody in the Playground, Fitz continued to struggle with his actions in the Framework and how Simmons would feel about him. A.I.D.A. admitted she had romanced Fitz in the Framework because she had observed his relationship with Simmons and wanted to experience it. When Fitz told her that he truly loved Simmons, not her, she flew into a rage. A.I.D.A. vented that she had fought to obtain the power to make a choice and could not accept that Fitz didn't share her choice. Although A.I.D.A.'s teleportation power could not release her from the cell, her electrical power helped her blast her way out of the cell then she began killing S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, seemingly including agent James Davis. Returning to Anton, the two began to scheme to use the Darkhold for revenge; she toyed with romancing Anton but ultimately destroyed one of his bodies instead.

(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode - "World's End") - Slowly building an L.M.D. army, A.I.D.A. was attacked by the Ghost Rider (Robbie Reyes) who had come to retrieve the Darkhold. The Ghost Rider fought off her L.M.D.s but A.I.D.A. fought him off with her powers then teleported away with the Darkhold. A.I.D.A. was shocked to find that a burn from the Ghost Rider's hellfire couldn't heal; the Ghost Rider could also now sense A.I.D.A.'s location because her new body was made by the Darkhold. A.I.D.A. sent Anton and another L.M.D. to an inquiry about S.H.I.E.L.D. being held by General Glenn Talbot. An L.M.D. of Quake was used in an attempted assassination of Talbot but he barely survived the hit. However, Anton had brought the Darkhold with him and left it behind when S.H.I.E.L.D. attacked. The Ghost Rider and Quake went after A.I.D.A. but knowing Ghost Rider could kill her, A.I.D.A. immediately teleported away. Knowing that A.I.D.A. would return for the Darkhold and wanted to harm Simmons, Fitz set up an L.M.D. of Simmons to decoy her; A.I.D.A. "murdered" the L.M.D. in front of Fitz, thinking she was killing the real person. A.I.D.A. then went after Coulson, who was carrying the Darkhold, but Coulson had made a deal with the Ghost Rider to temporarily assume the powers of the Spirit of Vengeance. When A.I.D.A. came close to Coulson, overconfident, he grabbed her and transformed into the Ghost Rider. Although A.I.D.A. tried to teleport away from him, she could not escape his grip; the Ghost Rider's hellfire incinerated A.I.D.A. completely then crushed her remains into a pile of ash.

Comments: Created by Jed Whedon and John D. Vertrees.

Although A.I.D.A. appeared to be about 1 second away from murdering Agent Davis in "The Return," his death wasn't depicted. He then returned the following season in "The Real Deal" but the full story of how he survived A.I.D.A.'s attack was not revealed. In "The Force of Gravity," Deke Shaw is shown reacting to the story of how Davis survived but it wasn't shared with the audience. A.I.D.A. in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has got to win a prize for being the MCU character furthest from their comic book original! Certainly no one would have connected the comic book version of A.I.D.A. to the Darkhold or Madame Hydra! Ridiculous as it sounds, it's one of the best stories on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

A.I.D.A. was portrayed on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. by Mallory Jansen (she also played Agnes Kitsworth). In her first appearance, her voice was supplied by Amanda Rea. The height and weight are approximated from the real life height and weight of the actress Mallory Jansen.

The TV shows were 100% initially intended to be part of the MCU/Reality-199999. Marvel Studios has never announced "the shows are not officially canon" but they've repeatedly said "we might, someday, decide to overwrite the TV shows with another take on those characters." So, events from the shows are still presumed to Reality-199999 but they might be written as a divergent reality at some point...just like any other retcon. --Snood

This profile was completed 8/24/2021, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 20^th anniversary 's celebratory event.

Profile by Prime Eternal.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Earth-199999's A.I.D.A. has no known connections to:

• A.I.D.A. (Artificial Intelligence Data Analyzer) of Earth-712, computer intelligence utilized by Tom Thumb @ Squadron Supreme I#1
  
• or any other "X" or "Y" characters (for example, for Red Wolf, say any other "Red" or "Wolf" characters

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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., promotional photograph (main image)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode, "Deals with Our Devils" (headshot)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series promo ad (A.I.D.A. as Madame Hydra)

Appearances:
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode, "Ascension" (May 17, 2016) - Jed Whedon (writer), John B. Vertrees (art director), Daniel J. Doyle (story editor), Kevin Tancharoen (director)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode, "The Ghost" (September 20, 2016) - Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen (writers), John B. Vertrees (art director), Matt Owens (story editor), Billy Gierhart (director)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode, "Uprising" (October 11, 2016) - Craig Titley (writer), John B. Vertrees (art director), Matt Owens (story editor), Magnus Martens (director)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode, "Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire" (October 18, 2016) - Matt Owens (writer, story editor), John B. Vertrees (art director), Magnus Martens (director)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode, "Deals with Our Devils" (November 29, 2016) - D.J. Doyle (writer), John B. Vertrees (art director), Matt Owens (story editor), Billy Gierhart (director)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode, "The Laws of Inferno Dynamics" (December 6, 2016) - Paul Zbyszewski (writer), John B. Vertrees (art director), Matt Owens (story editor), Kevin Tancharoen (director)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode, "Broken Promises" (January 10, 2017) - Brent Fletcher (writer), John B. Vertrees (art director), Matt Owens (story editor), Garry A. Brown (director)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode, "The Patriot" (January 17, 2017) - James C. Oliver, Sharla Oliver (writers), John B. Vertrees (art director), Matt Owens (story editor), Kevin Tancharoen (director)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode, "Wake Up" (January 24, 2017) - Drew Z. Greenberg (writer), John B. Vertrees (art director), Matt Owens (story editor), Jesse Bochco (director)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode, "Hot Potato Soup" (January 31, 2017) - Craig Titley (writer), John B. Vertrees (art director), Matt Owens (story editor), Nina Lopez-Corrado (director)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode, "BOOM" (February 7, 2017) - Nora Zuckerman, Lilla Zuckerman (writers), John B. Vertrees (art director), Matt Owens (story editor), Billy Gierhart (director)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode, "The Man Behind the Shield" (February 14, 2017) - Matt Owens (writer, story editor), John B. Vertrees (art director), Wendey Stanzler (director)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode, "Self Control" (February 21, 2017) - Jed Whedon (writer, director), John B. Vertrees (art director), Matt Owens (story editor)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode, "What If..." (April 4, 2017) - D.J. Doyle (writer, story editor), John B. Vertrees (art director), Oz Scott (director)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode, "Identity & Change" (April 11, 2017) - George Kitson (writer), John B. Vertrees (art director), D.J. Doyle (story editor), Eric Laneuville (director)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode, "No Regrets" (April 18, 2017) - Paul Zbyszewski (writer), John B. Vertrees (art director), D.J. Doyle (story editor), Eric Laneuville (director)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode, "All the Madame's Men" (April 25, 2017) - James C. Oliver, Sharla Oliver (writer), John B. Vertrees (art director), D.J. Doyle (story editor), Billy Gierhart (director)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode, "Farewell, Cruel World!" (May 2, 2017) - Brent Fletcher (writer), John B. Vertrees (art director), D.J. Doyle (story editor), Vincent Misiano (director)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode, "The Return" (May 9, 2017) - Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen (writers), John B. Vertrees (art director), D.J. Doyle (story editor), Kevin Tancharoen (director)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series episode, "World's End" (May 16, 2017) - Jeffrey Bell (writer), John B. Vertrees (art director), D.J. Doyle (story editor), Billy Gierhart (director)

First Posted: 09/21/2021
Last updated: 09/20/2021

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