Izel is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Sarge) of Season 6 in the TV series Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..
She is an incorporeal demonic entity from an alternate dimension and the creator of the parasitic Shrike, which she uses to destroy planets that she comes across. She is revealed to be the former lover of Pachakutiq/Sarge and that the two wanted to reclaim the Di'Allas so that they can summon their people from their dimension and gain physical forms.
History[]
Past[]
Izel was once an incorporeal demon from an unnamed dimension and was also the mistress of Pachakutiq until he possessed the duplicate of S.H.I.E.L.D. director Phil Coulson. Inspired by this, she created herself a physical body and escaped to Earth. She encountered the Incan civilization, who saw her as a god and placed her into their mythology. They also built a temple in Yucatán, which was made from the same material as the Di'Allas, relics from her realm that would be able to open a portal to her realm.
Search for the Di'Allas[]
Believing that the Di'Allas could help her civilization escape the realm of darkness and gain physical bodies, she decided to use them. However, they were stolen and hidden somewhere else on Earth. Prior to his amnesia, Pachakutiq sent her to retrieve the Di'Allas, who would then start leading a team to hunt her down and kill her for supposedly killing his family and taking his memories of them. In truth, however, he longed for her and his memories were conflicted with Coulson's own.
After many years, Izel traveled across different worlds across the universe to find the Di'Allas and those that turned up empty, she used parasitic demons known as the Shrike which she created herself. After hearing about how the Chronicoms had possession over the Monoliths, Izel led a crew of Shrike-possessed individuals to the planet to retrieve them. Once again turning up empty, she had her Shrike destroy the planet and although she escaped, her crew was killed off by Sarge and his crew.
Arrival on Earth[]
Upon hearing that the Di'Allas may in fact be on Earth still, Izel needed a ship and new "crew members" to get there. Learning about the humans Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons, Izel sought them out on Kitson and after witnessing Mister Kitson put them in a life-death gamble, she bought their freedom. After a drink, she recruits them onto her new crew and they then take control of a scavenger ship to get to Earth.
After arriving on Earth, Izel starts using the Shrike to possess every scavenger on the ship except for Fitz and Simmons. She then explains her search for the Di'Allas (which they called Monoliths) and then persuades them that someone else (meaning Sarge) is responsible for her crew's death and the destruction of Chronyca-2. Taking over the entire crew for a small personal army, Izel readied them as the ship arrived on Earth just as other Shrike manifested a crystallized tower for her.
Now reuniting with Fitz and Simmons, Izel hopes on using their intellect in locating her Di'Allas for her. However, upon sensing that the tower was destroyed, she realizes that Sarge is on Earth and has the ship enter the upper atmosphere. After Fitz and Simmons are able to establish radio contact, they make contact with Zephyr One, which had Sarge on board. The two exchanged threats and after Sarge brought up his family and the memories of them she took, Izel calmly fired back by saying that they weren't real. After S.H.I.E.L.D. boarded the ship and took out the Shrike-enslaved scavengers, Izel escaped by possessing Davis as Jaco sacrificed himself to destroy the remaining Shrike.
Infiltrating the Lighthouse[]
Inside the Lighthouse, Izel took possession of Melinda May before entering Sarge's holding cell and shooting him dead, knowing that it would help him start recalling who he really is. She then possesses several agents trying to find where the Di'Allas are. The agents catch on and learn of her presence. She makes an example of her capabilities by killing Davis before possessing Mack gain access to the room. After achieving this retrieving the device containing their energy, Izel is confronted by Sarge and she reveals to him about his past and how he gained this form, but he still doesn't believe her. She then possesses Yo-Yo Rodriguez in order to escape on the Zephyr One, but Mack volunteers to go with her in which she agrees.
Finding the temple[]
Wanting to find the temple created by the Incans, Izel tricked Yo-Yo into giving up the name of the one who knows where it is. Meeting Dr. Marcus Benson on the Zephyr, she manipulates him into giving it up but not long before Mack and Yo-Yo help him escape to notify the others. Izel brings the two to the temple and reveals that she intends on bringing her kind from her realm to Earth, so they can gain physical forms. Requiring the Di'Allas to open the portal, she uses the device to create Flint and use that and his Inhuman powers to rebuild the relics.
Final battle and death[]
As Deke arrives to save them, Mack, Yo-Yo and Flint escape with him. Izel then uses her powers over the Di'Allas to open the portal. Confronted by Sarge and May, she was able fully awaken him and help embrace his life as Pachakutiq by stabbing May before shoving her through the portal. As they await for their kind, they learn that May used the sword to kill the first three, who were meant to complete the sequence. Izel heads through to complete it personally and fights May before opening the portal completely and returning to Earth. As she attempts to kill a distracted Daisy, May impales her from behind and she disintegrates, thus causing the extinction of the Shrike, and Pachakutiq is soon killed by Mack and Daisy as well.