ChocolateButter
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This show did a lot of things right, but one thing that definitely did not work was the SWORD Director Hayward character.
Firstly, the MCU has already had too many antagonistic military/government characters in its history, there’s no need to add another one.
Secondly, it was really weird how he seemed fairly normal in his first appearance, and then slowly devolved into being cartoonishly evil, that by the finale he thought it was a good idea to just start open firing at children.
The one-dimensionality of his character is bad enough, but then they didn’t even really do anything with him!
Honestly, I was really hoping that they’d pull that move from the Avengers cartoon and reveal that this guy was secretly Ultron wearing a human suit the whole time.
By the end that was the only thing that would have redeemed this waste of a character.
Initially I was excited when we were about to meet the director of SWORD but then this guy came on screen. From the get go I just assumed he wouldn't last past the season, be it removed from the position or death. Especially when they went as far to designate him as acting director only. Definitely felt like a placeholder just to pave the way for Abigail Brand to eventually take over in Secret Wars or Captain Marvel 2. But at least he helped get Vision a real body again for future appearances!