Alisha Whitley was a minor supporting character in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. She was an Inhuman who possessed the ability to clone herself, able to create and control up to four duplicates of her body. Initially a member of Afterlife and one of Jiaying's closest confidantes, she would briefly work with S.H.I.E.L.D. following Afterlife's destruction. She would ultimately become a pawn of the dark Inhuman known as Hive.
History[]
Season 2[]
Alisha Whitley was one of many residents in Afterlife, a settlement established by Jiaying as a safe haven for Inhumans. Whitley herself was one of the few members of the community to go through Terrigenesis, emerging with the ability to produce four identical clones of herself with which she could communicate with telepathically through a hive mind system. Over time, Whitley developed a deep emotional attachment to her doubles, and also became a close confidante of Jiaying.
When Raina came to Afterlife following her Terrigenesis, Alisha was tasked by Jiaying with guarding her, as Jiaying believed she had been using her gift of foreseeing the future to manipulate others and slowly take over as the leader of the Inhumans. Alisha joined Jiaying, Skye and Gordon in confronting her before she was left alone with Raina while Jiaying went to speak with S.H.I.E.L.D.. When Jiaying was seemingly shot by Robert Gonzales and Afterlife was fired upon by a Quinjet, Alisha ran to Jiaying's aid and took her to safety.
After the failed negotiations with S.H.I.E.L.D., Jiaying convinced the Inhumans that they had to fight against S.H.I.E.L.D. to live in peace. Alisha and a team of Inhumans were sent to hijack the Iliad. During the hijacking, she encountered Alphonso Mackenzie who demanded to know what they had done with Skye. Though she attempted to stop him, he escaped.
Duplicating herself, Alisha went across the entirety of the Iliad and quickly defeated anyone who resisted, using her duplicates to trick and defeat the crew in hand-to-hand combat while she worked alongside Lincoln Campbell. Before long they had captured the entire S.H.I.E.L.D. crew including the commanders Anne Weaver and Oliver. Two of Alisha's doubles armed with guns stood guard over the crew while another watched over Skye in her cell as Gordon welcomed Jiaying onto the ship and they looked over their victory.
Mack managed to knock out Alisha while she was guarding Skye and the pair made their way through the ship to send a distress call to Phil Coulson asking for aid. Skye later attempted to stop her Jiaying as Alisha and a team of Inhumans attempted to load Terrigen Crystals onto a Quinjet to be dropped onto major cities. Jiaying ordered Alisha to take care of her and while Jiaying escaped, Alisha replicated herself and started to fight Skye and before long were able to overpower and defeat the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.
As Alisha and her duplicates began to mercilessly beat Skye into submission, Melinda May and Lincoln came to her aid and attacked her duplicates. Alisha watched from a distance while her replicas fought May and Lincoln while Skye went to confront Jiaying. Knowing that the only way to stop her was to defeat the source of the duplicates, Lincoln stopped May from shooting her and was able to electrocute the original Alisha, which made her and all of her duplicates pass out. With Alisha out of the picture, it did not take long for the Inhumans be defeated.
Season 3[]
Sometime after the ordeal with S.H.I.E.L.D., Alisha learned of the Inhuman outbreak unwittingly caused by Jiaying in the previous conflict, and that the newly born Inhumans were being hunted down and killed by a mysterious assailant. Despite the nature of their previous encounters, Alisha approached S.H.I.E.L.D. and offered her services to them in exchange for helping her people. On orders from Phil Coulson, she traveled to Hollywood, California, where she sent one of her duplicates to see Shane and Lori Henson.
Alisha's duplicate told the Hensons that the Terrigen Mist had spread worldwide and had caused others to go through Terrigenesis. They discussed how the Hensons had seen that the ATCU were hunting down Lincoln. When Lori asked Alisha if she was the one who sent her an e-mail asking other Inhumans to assemble, Alisha expressed confusion and told them she was unaware of the e-mail. When Alisha asked them to let her see their computer, the Inhuman killer, revealed to be a monstrous Inhuman named Lash, broke into the apartment and attacked the three.
The Hensons were killed immediately and Alisha's duplicate fought the monstrous beast in revenge for the murders of her friends. Back on the Quinjet, Alisha reported to Coulson, who sent Daisy Johnson and Alphonso Mackenzie to assist her. Ultimately, Alisha's duplicate was also killed by Lash; she felt the searing pain and found it hard to control her powers. Coulson demanded to know what was happening and she informed him that Lash was there to kill them all and he could not be stopped.
With Lash having escaped and Alisha disturbed from experiencing her own painful death, Coulson took her to the Playground and had her evaluated for the trauma that she had experienced while Daisy, Mack and the ATCU examined the crime scene for evidence. Andrew Garner took charge of her case and helped her through her ordeal, although Alisha spent time lying in bed alone simply trying to comprehend the terrible thing she had experienced and the mental damage it had caused her.
Despite being protected by S.H.I.E.L.D., Alisha was confronted by Hive and the dark Inhuman took over her mind. Now linked to the Hive mind, Alisha left two of her duplicates at the safehouse while she joined Hive. While she was with him, she reported the actions of her duplicates as they battled Lincoln, who had come to retrieve Alisha before Hive reached her. Though the duplicates nearly overcame Lincoln, they were attacked by May. They fought the two, knocking out May and nearly shooting her before Lincoln overpowered the replica holding the gun on May. Lincoln knocked the gun away; however, the other duplicate reached it and responded by shooting the second duplicate. Once the first was dead, the second tried to attack May again, but was shot by Coulson.
Though each death caused the original Alisha to greatly suffer, under Hive's control she felt only that they were worthy sacrifices. She joined Hive and the other Inhumans under his sway as he revealed his plan to recreate the Kree experiments that had created him, announcing that he had bought an entire village where they would begin.
Upon Hive's activation of the Kree Orb procured from Hellfire, Kree Reapers answered the call and descended to Earth in order to bring their creation to heel. Alisha intercepted one and tried to fight him by herself and with a double, but both were quickly overpowered and defeated one after the other: the double's hand was crushed and her head was smashed to the ground while the original was brought down by two punches. Before the Kree buried his voulge in her, Alisha's last words to him was that they should have been proud of what the Inhumans have become.