9. Agent Carter (Marisa Carpico)
Peggy Carter may not be the MCU’s most important character, but she is indispensable.  She founded S.H.I.E.L.D., for one. The Avengers would just be a bunch of unemployed attractive people with superpowers without that morally questionable organization. More importantly, she’s the woman in Steve Rogers’s (Chris Evans) refrigerator, though he was technically the one frozen in ice for decades. Still, while Peggy is the tragic lost love responsible for Steve’s perpetual air of loneliness, she’s so much more than that too, and her ABC spinoff show, Agent Carter, proves that every week.
Agent Carter is light and fluffy in a way Supergirl tries to be, but does it with infinitely more grace. The show is unafraid to have the pulpy tone of 1940s comics. Every case involves some sort of fringe science and pretty much every villain used to be a Nazi. And because it takes place in the past, the show isn’t beholden to every new MCU movie in the same way as Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., something which hamstrung that show’s first two seasons. The show even gets to explore the female Russian spy storyline that’s only ever gotten small references in the films, even though that experience is fundamental to the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) character.
However, Peggy might not be as enjoyable as she is if not played by Haley Atwell. She plays the character with a really appealing mix of confidence, wit, competence, sex appeal and vulnerability that it’s easy to see why Steve Rogers fell in love with her.
Best Line: “It really doesn’t bother me. I don’t need a Congressional honor. I don’t need Agent Thompson’s approval or the President’s. I know my value.  Anyone else’s opinion doesn’t really matter.”
Peggy says this at the end of Agent Carter‘s first season finale after her coworker Jack Thompson (Chad Michael Murray) takes credit for saving New York City. While she has plenty of wittier or more badass lines, none of them encompass who she is quite like this.
Favorite Moment: The moment in Captain America: The First Avenger when she cold cocks that sexist soldier. You’d be hard pressed to find a more memorable introduction for a character in the MCU—let alone one that’s more revealing.
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