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Anne Simmons (mother),
Astra Simmons (grandmother);
Leo Fitz (husband),
Alya Fitz (daughter),
Jed Fitz (son),
Deke Shaw (alternate reality descendant);
Will Daniels (ex-boyfriend; deceased)
History
Correction: I'm a biochemist, not a bird...
- — Jemma Simmons
- — Jemma Simmons
Early Years
Doctor Jemma Anne Simmons (born September 1987) was the only daughter of both geniuses Mark Simmons, a former Roxxon executive, and Anne Simmons, a retired A.I.M. scientist. Growing up with a gift and undying passion and enthusiasm for science, she proved to be a genius biochemist and having impressively graduated college at the age of 16, her outstanding excellence rendered her to become one of the youngest and most prominent members of S.H.I.E.L.D. research division as soon as she was recommended by her parents and peers to join the organization's exclusive academy that was mainly based in Newark, New Jersey. In her first years in the Academy, Jemma grew to be highly respected by her professors such as Franklin Hall, but at the same time, that reputation made her become intellectual rivals with a fellow classmate by the name of Leo Fitz due to his personal love for science (albeit more in engineering) often matching hers in almost every single way throughout their academic years. However, as time slowly passed by within the academy, the two who got used to being enemies in the first place would only become closer in a friendlier and more developing manner every time they were assigned to be paired during various tasks and projects which would serve as the stepping stone in forming the notorious "Fitz-Simmons" partnership, as if their fate to be bounded together had inevitably been written in the stars. Thanks to their newfound inseparable partnership, both Simmons and Fitz graduated from the academy three years early by the 2000s, in which Simmons was top of her class, earning two PhDs.
Coulson's Team
Along with her best friend Fitz, Simmons would later be recruited into the team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson, effectively bringing back the brilliance of Fitz-Simmons into a better and more altruistic use, and worked with them on all of their missions which were mostly in the field. While on the team, Simmons became friends with teammates Daisy "Skye" Johnson, Grant Ward, and (later) Alphonso Mackenzie, while she also grew to respect the initially cold and fierce yet approachable and dependable agent Melinda May. During Hydra's Uprising, Simmons helped the hunt for the rest of the sleeper and double agents which included John Garrett, after revealing themselves to be a coercive parasite for S.H.I.E.L.D. since it was founded. During this covert schism, Jemma herself became a double agent of Hydra for S.H.I.E.L.D. in order to investigate other projects that were always part of Hydra's plan of new world order and domination, and despite her slip-ups, her significant contribution became a deciding variable for S.H.I.E.L.D. to fight back by preventing those projects from being activated. Just like most of her teammates, Jemma was devastated learning that Ward had been a sleeper agent of Hydra, especially since she witnessed his sudden revelation of betrayal with her own eyes.
From the ashes of both Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D. due to the final efforts of Captain America to stop the launch of the former's Project Insight, Simmons stayed with the team to help the renovation of S.H.I.E.L.D. under the directorship of Coulson, as former director Nick Fury had personally requested to the team before effectively leaving the agency to pursue his own mission to find the broken remnants of Hydra growing across the globe. As the global threat in the form of the Movement Alliance had followed in the wake of Hydra's fall, Jemma and the rest of Coulson's team dealt with an out of the world encounter with Inhuman Royal Family on the Moon due to their encounter with the colonizing Skrulls, whose actions had led to the eventual exposure of the Inhumans across the world, which they prioritized as their primary objective shortly after the catastrophic conflict. Traumatized by the overwhelming amount of causalities and ruins of destruction that ravaged the world for weeks, not to mention countless several near-death experiences that they've encountered, Jemma and Fitz remained dependable to each other as they tried their best to recover psychologically speaking, becoming closer more than ever. Unfortunate for the two, the pairing's unspoken thing which Fitz had been holding to himself for years remains undisclosed due to their unmanageable business as S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Civil War
During their investigation to deal with Inhumans in America, their thorough discovery had both positive and negative repercussions: crossing paths with the isolationist turned extremist Inhuman Jiaying, which in turn forced S.H.I.E.L.D. to start a secret war against Jiaying's Afterlife community which would have ended up becoming more tragic and chaotic for the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. if it wasn't for the incidental intervention of the diplomatic set of documents that was the Superhuman Registration Act, which essentially changed the course of leadership within the agency as Maria Hill selected by the United States Government along with the sanctity of the United Nations to appoint her as deputy director of the agency, much to Jemma and the team's daze and confusion since they never gave up on their objective on searching and dealing with dangerous Inhumans.
Deeming Coulson's leadership as irresponsible and degrading to the image of a recovering S.H.I.E.L.D. for letting dangerous Inhumans on the loose as they grow in numbers instead of apprehending them, Hill had Coulson's team be placed under suspension from any field activities in the meantime, and any act of resistance and opposition against their orders would only get them to deal with far more legal consequences not even S.H.I.E.L.D. is responsible for managing since it was the government's decision. As the Superhuman Civil War ignited in every hero-populated state in the country, Coulson's team and the heroes who were against the legislative act used an effective distraction in order to give the outlawed Captain America and his Secret Avenger faction a chance to track down the final true location of the mastermind that catastrophically ended Ultimate War, subsequently defeating him and handing him to the authorities for his crimes against humanity. Despite knowing what their doing as morally righteous, their actions had automatically deemed them as criminals for a while, forcing Coulson's team to go into hiding.
More than a Biochemist
In the aftermath of the superhuman and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s clandestine Civil War, the World Security Council had to hold Maria Hill on stand-by in response to her questionable decision to help out the separated Anti-Registration faction of S.H.I.E.L.D., which was led by former director Phil Coulson and his team with included Jemma, who fortunately escaped capture from the authorities during the final stand-off in New York. When Jeffrey Mace was appointed S.H.I.E.L.D.'s new Director due to the decision of the Registration Act. Although she did not trust him at first due to her loyalty to Coulson, Mace nevertheless appointed Simmons as his advisor in science and technology, becoming one of the superiors in the organization. For the next several months, the council decided to hold Hill's position while they find her replacement, and unbeknownst to anyone, Hill and acting director Jeffrey Mace had already made contact with Coulson in secret, to which they mutually agreed to have Coulson replace Hill as secret co-directors with Mace from that moment forward, believing that the only other person besides Nick Fury who was determined and efficient in leading the organization was none other than Coulson himself, something that Jemma has always believed.
Making a Commitment
In the aftermath of the Skrull Empire's thwarted Secret Invasion on Earth by the late 2010s, S.H.I.E.L.D. became aware of the dark Inhuman deity-like figure, Hive, upon his return from interstellar banishment and soon had to fight against his Inhuman army in the form of the Afterlife's and the Attilan Royal Family's Inhumans, which intended to transform all Earth's humanity into Inhumans. Fitz and Simmons along with the agency had teamed up with the Inhuman Royal Family and Jiaying's group to find a cure to Hive's power of controlling Inhumans' minds, including their close friend and teammate Daisy Johnson (now the vibrokinetic superhero agent Quake), before S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Inhuman alliance eventually managed to kill Hive, at the cost of casualties that included dozens of notable brainwashed Inhumans, who still fought to their last breath trying to snap out of Hive's irresistible coercion.
During the climatic finale of their war against Hive, even Fitz risked his life in order to finish the cure alone as a way to protect Jemma from Hive's unstoppable carnage, much to Simmons' distress before realizing how much he truly loves her all this time, more than as just her best friend seeing how willing he was to sacrifice himself to keep her safe and sound. Despite the deaths that Hive had caused among his coerced Inhumans, Simmons and her fellow scientists were able to mass-produce the cure and subsequently treat the Inhuman survivors in time, while Fitz continues to recover from his injuries inflicted by Hive. Shortly after returning in their normal lives, Jemma decided to give her relationship with Fitz a chance to take a higher step to the next level with dinner. That very night, Jemma gladly reciprocated her feelings for the very same man that had always been by her side since they first met at the academy with a passionate night. Fitz-Simmons started as rivals, which unknowingly developing into the best of friends, but little did they know that their blooming chemistry which endured through thick and thin, shows that they have always been fated to be soulmates and lovers, as if it was written in the stars.
Fighting Darker Futures
By the late 2020s, Fitz-Simmons and the rest of the team were mysteriously pushed forward in time to an alternate dystopian future by Deke Shaw, an ally of the time-hopping mutant Cable and incidentally their descendant, who warned them about the temporal catastrophes known as a Chronic Convergence, consisting of two futures: one where most of life was eliminated by a futuristic virus into an inhabitable cosmic husk, and one where the Earth was destroyed by a destructive force before it was taken over by different alien empires to scavenge the remaining resources. Jemma was greatly motivated to do whatever it takes to help her descendant and their newfound allies, even successful in convincing the initially skeptic Fitz that they should at least try and find a way to save everyone in the present, most especially their dear family and loved ones.
Willingly helping out Deke and the Clan Askani, they were able to gather enough information on how they could prevent this future from coming to pass before returning to the present timeline around late 2025, wherein they came to join along with the Avengers International who were already dealing the villainous mind who would be causing it: A.I.M. Fitz-Simmons helped Hank Pym and his team against their former teacher turned A.I.M. leader Franklin Hall, who was responsible for destroying the Earth in one future due to his earth-shattering use of the powerful element Gravitonium. They built a matter-converter engine, and activated it so they could contain Hall and the rest of the Gravitonium with Quake's help, before shooting the villain off to the Sun to be scorched off.
In the following year, wherein S.H.I.E.L.D. was revamped under Quake's directorship the place of Mace's resignation, Jemma and the team had finally deduced that the second future they once traveled to — wherein most of life was eradicated by a virus — was finally enacted by Mister Sinister with his deadly techno-organic Legacy Virus. Thankfully, their trip with Clan Askani had given them sufficient data to help them create the cure for the artificial illness, which successfully averted the second apocalyptic event which they were foretold and saved the lives of innocent from infection, albeit at the cost of numerous people who risked their lives to ensure the completion of the cure, notably their senior scientist and good friend Curt Connors as well as their former director Mace, which Jemma has grown to greatly respect both.
Powers and Abilities
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Abilities
- Genius Level Intellect
- Multilingual
- Master Scientist
- Expert Biochemist
- Expert Physician
- Experienced Spy
- Trained Marksman
- Expert Combatant
Strength level
- Class 8
Weaknesses
- Non-Superhuman Physical Conditioning
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- Various advanced technology equipment
- Various conventional technology equipment
- Fitz-Simmons Armory
- Cloaked Bulletproof Vest
- Backscatter Glasses
- Fitz-Simmons' Tablets
- D.W.A.R.F.s
- Fitz-Simmons Armory
- S.H.I.E.L.D. issue communications equipment
Transportation:
- Various S.H.I.E.L.D. vehicles
- Zephyr One
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Bus (formerly)
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarriers
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Flight Packs
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Shuttles
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Flying Cars
Weapons:
- Plasma pistols and rifles
- Various S.H.I.E.L.D. weapons
- Night-Night Gun
- I.C.E.R. Guns
- Various conventional firearms
Notes
- No special notes.
- ↑ Modern Comics' S.H.I.E.L.D. Files: The Coulson Division
Trivia
- Jemma Simmons is described as an "attractive nerd," in which she became dated with several men throughout her adult life who were mesmerized by her beauty, but were overwhelmed with her brains and her constant habit of talking about science in every dinner. In Jemma's defense, she already found them incompatible once they found her scientific side strange as if it was a form of compatibility test, something that her soulmate and later husband Fitz would strongly agree with.
- Simmons is good friends with Agent Bobbi Morse, who formed their friendship when the latter began to work as a biologist, sharing their love for their respective fields of scientific works. Their friendship only strengthened with Bobbi had to monitor and save Jemma when her cover was blown during Hydra Uprising.
- Along with Fitz and Morse, Simmons often worked with senior scientist, Dr. Curt Connors — the former Lizard — when he officially joined S.H.I.E.L.D. as the three young scientists were the first ones to develop a healthy work relationship and respectable friendship with Connors.
- Same as her Earth-199999 counterpart, this version of Jemma also grew up with a fascination for stars since she was a child, which got her and Fitz to name their first child Alya, after her favorite star.
- Simmons is an avid fan of Doctor Who, who even found herself catching up with the series by binge-watching its newer episodes after the fall of Norman Osborn's Dark Reign (2018), when S.H.I.E.L.D. was still being reestablished after its two-year rebranding into H.A.M.M.E.R., a time when her position as advisor was being reassessed by the authorities for a few weeks before she could officially return to work.
See Also
- Appearances of Jemma Simmons (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Jemma Simmons (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Jemma Simmons (Earth-61615)
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