When Katya killed the Bahrainis she was controlling, May was forced to kill Katya. S.H.I.E.L.D. assumed Eva was the threat and Katya was caught in the crossfire, and May was lauded for saving the S.H.I.E.L.D. team single-handedly and given the nickname 'the Cavalry'.
After hearing the gun shot, Coulson rushed in, only to find May sitting on the floor with Katya's corpse stretched out in her arms. Coulson told her that she needed to "let the girl go". The incident scarred May mentally and earned her the nickname "The Cavalry" within S.H.I.E.L.D., a designation she despised.
Her devotion to duty and ability to problem-solve under even the most stressful of situations earned May the nickname “The Cavalry” among her fellow agents, as well as a past rescue mission in which she allegedly took on several adversaries at once.
Empathy: After her time in Izel's realm, May gained the powers of empathy, feeling the emotions of those around her, the closer the proximity the stronger the emotions.
May, together with Mackenzie and Sarge headed to the Temple of the Forgotten to stop Izel from unleashing her realm's powers on Earth, however, Sarge took Izel's side and killed May, throwing her body into her realm.
After using an atom bomb to end Izel and her horde, the Agents celebrated while Melinda May shot an imprisoned Sarge for wearing her dead lover's face.
Travelling through time. Coulson and his teammates are later abducted and sent to the future, to prevent the extinction of humanity. After their return, his team discover the Ghost Rider burned through the GH-325 that kept Coulson alive, causing him to slowly die ever since.
Melinda May is brought on to the recently resurrected S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson's team as pilot and field agent, to investigate superhumans and other related phenomena. She is shown to be in a relationship with fellow agent Grant Ward.
Melinda Qiaolian May was the Life-Model Decoy of the real Melinda May, created by Holden Radcliffe and Aida with the secret mission to find the Darkhold. However, the May LMD was unaware of her true mission, living several days as the real May before discovering her true purpose.
Melinda Qiaolian May is a character from ABC/Marvel's 2013 television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Also known as The Cavalry, she is a legendary agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.. She is portrayed by Ming-Na Wen.
The rest of the team seek Hand, but when Garrett insists they kill her and mentions the Clairvoyant's crimes, including using the mind probe on Raina, Coulson, who never shared that information, realizes Garrett is the true Clairvoyant.
Grant Ward isn't exactly a sociopath, but he's somewhere in that spectrum, and his affection for Agent 33 is suspiciously coincident with her ability to help him in a series of high-risk missions.
Cavalry (“an army component mounted on horseback”) comes from the Italian word cavalleria, which may mean either “cavalry” or “chivalry.” Two earlier meanings of cavalry in English, now both obsolete, are “horsemanship” and “knighthood.” In modern English the word can also refer to an army component moving in motor ...
Phil Coulson Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. May decides to leave HYDRA and join the resistance. She breaks Johnson out and gives her her inhuman powers. On their way out, they are stopped by Aida, Johnson quakes her out the window, leaving her fatally injured.
Aftermath. Traumatized by the incident, Melinda May became withdrawn from Andrew to the point where she divorced him. She later retired from field work and transferred to desk duty and administrative work.
Aida would kidnap May and replace her with a Life Model Decoy connected to the Quantum Brain to keep the imposter constantly appraised with Aida's secret agenda. After Agent Nathanson discovered the captive May, Aida killed him and defeated Fitz and Radcliffe when they arrived to shut her down.
Skye served within HYDRA as an operative and had relationships with Grant Ward, making him believe that he can be a good man. Skye was unaware that she had latent Inhuman abilities, as Ward concealed her DNA test results, so HYDRA would not hunt her down.
Grant develops a romantic relationship with Kara. In an attempt to ambush those who were coming to rescue Bobbi Morse, Grant accidentally kills Palamas while she is in disguise as Melinda May, and blaming S.H.I.E.L.D., decides to take over the now leader-less Hydra.
Having grown up being abused by his own family, Ward was recruited and trained by John Garrett before becoming one of the many HYDRA agents who had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D.. He strategically got himself into Phil Coulson's team under the orders of Garrett, who was secretly a mastermind known as "the Clairvoyant" ...
MayWard had a certain level popularity during Season 1, particularly after it became known that both May and Ward began to have a sexual relationship. However, this ship declined in popularity after it was revealed that Ward was H.Y.D.R.A. and maintained no sexual or romantic feelings towards May.
In The Avengers, Coulson's death is actually what brings the team together. His last words were, "This was never going to work if they didn't have something to…" and Nick Fury kind of takes all the credit.
It was because they thought they weren't going forward at all. Speaking to io9, actor Clark Gregg stated that: "Coulson goes off to Tahiti with Agent May at the end of season five without much time left and it was a very moving, sad thing the show did. We thought we were maybe done.
As explained in ULTIMATE X-MEN (2001) #11, Ultimate Fury was transporting Weapon X through Kuwait when their convoy was ambushed. He lost his left eye in the explosion but was ultimately saved by the man who would become Wolverine. And, he's worn the eyepatch ever since!
