Gideon Malick

Gideon Malick's History

Gideon Malick was a powerful businessman, political figure, and one of the leaders of HYDRA, and he eventually became the HYDRA head that other heads feared. Having been raised by his father to help with HYDRA's ancient goal to return Hive to Earth through sacrifices, Malick becomes one of HYDRA's infiltrators within the World Security Council. Malick advised Nick Fury during the founding of the Avengers and the Battle of New York while aiming to manipulate Fury for HYDRA's interests. Having left the Council just before their HYDRA Uprising, Malick became an advisor for President Matthew Ellis. From there, he orchestrated the Advanced Threat Containment Unit's formation and manipulated the agency into capturing the Inhumans for Hive's army.

Following the defeat of Baron Strucker, Malick joined forces with Grant Ward so they could finish Project Distant Star Return to finally accomplish the return of Hive. Despite the efforts of Phil Coulson to stop him, and Ward's demise on Maveth, Malick's plans were fulfilled when Hive possessed Ward's corpse and returned to Earth, while Malick dedicated himself to ensuring Hive's victory, manipulating Glenn Talbot and Anton Petrov to help him. However, Malick became disillusioned with Hive due to the vision of his death given to him by Charles Hinton, and following his daughter's murder by Hive, Malick betrayed HYDRA and cooperated with S.H.I.E.L.D.. However, this resulted in Malick being murdered by an enthralled Daisy Johnson.