| Agent Carter |
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| Name: | Margaret "Peggy" Carter |
| Gender: | Female |
| Place of Birth: | Place of Birth |
| Age: | 72 |
| Aliases: | Agent Carter |
| Origin: | Skilled Normal |
| Origin Earth: | 324 |
| Present Location: | unknown |
| Occupation: | Retired Spy |
| Team: | None |
| Alignment: | Hero |
| Significant Other(s): | unknown |
| Powers and Abilities: | No Powers |
| Portrayed by: | Helen Mirren/Hayley Atwell |
Margaret Carter grew up in a wealthy family right outside of London. She had an elder brother, a worrying mother and a mostly absent father. Her dreams were not of princesses and dresses: they were of dragon slaying and treasures and adventure. She often played the knight while playing with her brother in the backyard. She was rarely the lady - quite to their mother's disapproval and constant berating.
Eventually, Peggy started to give in to her mother's cajoling. While in her private time with her brother, she would be herself - chugging beers, making dirty jokes and working on her right hook - she was outwardly quite a proper young woman. She got high marks in school, then during the war effort immediately joined the Military in an attempt to serve her country. Her keen mind took her to Bletchley Park. Soon, she became one of their top codebreakers. A quick study to both other languages and code, people soon knew to bring the toughest codes to her.
Having met a nice young man by the name of Fred Wells, Peggy did what many women of her age did: she accepted a proposal. Fred was a nice man, but also only saw her in the box she presented herself: a proper woman, uninterested in adventure, in fighting, in action. Her mother was pleased, her brother disappointed. Around this time, she was recommended for active duty - spywork with the Special Operations Executive. She discussed it quite a bit with Fred over the next few weeks. The discussions turned into arguments, the arguments devolved into fights. He didn't think it proper for his wife to be out risking her life on the front lines and wanted her safe at Bletchley Park. He argued that she did good, safe work there. It was unnecessary for her to be out in the field, did she really want to risk her life every day? Realizing this was the man she agreed to spend the rest of her life with and he had no idea who she actually was, she broke off the engagement. The next day she accepted the position with the SOE.
Peggy excelled in her work at the SOE. One of her first assignments involved infiltrating a Nazi held castle and extracting a brilliant scientist by the name of Abraham Erskine. That first spy mission would continue to inform the rest of her life - not only because of her career but the people who soon became entangled in the project to which it led. Once Erskine agreed to help the Allies and the SSR with the research that had disastrously created the Red Skull, Project Rebirth was started. Erskine would perfect his formula on the American dime. Her unmitigated success in extracting Erskine led her to a full time position with the SSR and a becoming a key member of Project Rebirth.
More than a dozen candidates were chosen for the Super Soldier Serum injection. The one man that stood out both in Erskine and Peggy's view was Steve Rogers. He was eventually chosen to undergo the experimental injections that turned him into Captain America. Despite Erskine's death due to a terrorist attack in their secret labs, Peggy continued to believe in the project and in Steve. She continually butted heads with Colonel Chester Phillips on the matter by attempting to reinstate him into the company and for active duty. She was rebuffed every time. This all eventually came to a head when she helped Captain Rogers commandeer a plane piloted by Howard Stark to rescue Bucky Barnes from enemy territory.
Once he - and the team that were soon to be known as the Howling Commandos - were rescued, Peggy helped Colonel Phillips in planning attacks against HYDRA and the Nazis. She worked closely with the French Underground, often going undercover to gather information and bring back key intelligence for the war effort. She also worked closely with Steve and the Howling Commandos in their efforts to bring down HYDRA. During a decisive battle with HYDRA, Steve jumped aboard a plane during take off in order to stop the Red Skull from blowing up every major city across the world. On that plane, he sacrificed himself by intentionally crashing it into the ocean before it could reach its destination of New York.
After the war, Peggy grieved the loss of Steve. She thought the man was the love of her life - but like many people during those times, that didn't stand for much. Millions of people lost their their loved ones. Her loss - despite how public - was no more than anyone else. And so, Peggy mostly grieved in silence. While she had friends like Howard Stark and eventually Edwin Jarvis, she would never get over the people she lost in WWII and then afterward during her work with the SSR. After the war, she continued to work at the SSR, though - much like other women who were called to action during the war - she was now viewed as unnecessary or a peculiarity.
This, however, did not phase Peggy. All she needed to do was prove to them that she was an SSR Agent well before there was ever a Captain America, she was there because of her own skills and merits. Time and again, she fought the injustice of a shared mentality that women should not do field work. Though it was an uphill battle, she showed many of her coworkers and superiors that she was an equal. Tired of all the death added up from the war as well as the collateral damage that tended to pile up around her, Peggy left fieldwork for a few years, taking an outpost job in the government. A mission from Howard Stark in Russia involving alien technology reminded her of her love of fieldwork and doing something more useful than paperwork. She worked for years with SHIELD, becoming one of their best agents and continually fighting against stereotypes.
Personally, Peggy also grieved and then moved on from Steve. Eventually, she married and had children. She remained a SHIELD agent, partaking in multiple dangerous and world saving missions over the course of life. Eventually, at the age of 65, she retired from SHIELD for good. Mostly. While a private citizen, she continued to advise and help when she could. Peggy Carter was never one to simply step back from a fight when she could help.
Though at times gruff and sarcastic, Peggy also has quite a bit of compassion. While she may be tough as nails, she is also kind and caring towards others. She believes there is good in people and tends to not write anyone off at a glance. As she knows how easy to dismiss others without a thought as well as put on a fake face, she looks deeper at people and their motivations before judging them. She genuinely cares about people and tends to give them second chances. This also means that she does not fall for a pretty face or a fake sob story. As she looks past surfaces, she sees tends to see the best and the worst in people.
To a certain extent, Peggy is a force of nature. She is a force of will and grit that dares others to try and stop her. When her mind is made up on something, she will tell others to either move aside or get in line.
Throughout her life, Peggy has felt quite a strong sense of duty. This is not only to her country and her people, but also to SHIELD as well as her friends and family. She is more than willing to put her life on the line to defend them and their values.
Peggy has spent much of her life relying on her own merits and expecting few people to have her back. She trusts her own judgement, her own moral compass and is not afraid to speak her mind. Being a female field agent in the 40s, she pointedly ignored people who attempted to explain to her proper place in the world, instead showing them exactly what she was capable of doing. Doing what she knows is right because it is right is something that she has done throughout her years.
Peggy has seen quite a bit of bloodshed and death in her lifetime and does not wish to add any more to it. While she will never hesitate to defend herself and will use deadly force if it is necessary, her first instinct is not to kill.
From her youngest years, Peggy has felt a sense of duty to help make the world a better place. She feels a need to do what she thinks is right. Despite her retired status, she will do what she feels is necessary in order to protect the people and the freedoms that she has spent her entire life defending.
While some retirees desire the quiet life, Peggy is quite the opposite. While she enjoys a vacation every once in awhile she also values hard work and adventure. She has a desire to be useful and to help people.
Peggy has worked for SHIELD in multiple different capacities. While she is now retired, she still has a few favors she could call in as well as all of the training she received at their facilities.
While some of those friends are literally old, Peggy has a vast network of contacts through her time with working for SHIELD as well as when she was in the army. While some of them are retired - as she is - that doesn't mean they cannot be useful.
Peggy certainly knows that people tend to dismiss the elderly as nonthreatening as well as frail. She's often used her senior citizen status to hide in plain sight to gather intel as well as to surprise attackers with her combat training.
Peggy is able to make just about anything around her into a weapon or a defense. She is always aware of her surroundings and how they can help her gain an edge against an opponent. She has a mean backswing with a stapler.
Fluent in English, German, French and Russian, Peggy is a bit of a polyglot.
Though a skilled fighter, Peggy is not a martial artist; she is a brawler. When she fights someone, she throws her entire body and everything else she can find at them until they have fallen over. She has certainly used her hand to hand combat training far less as she has grown older, but it's all still there. She just cannot hit quite as hard as before.
Having been through a war as well as decades at SHIELD, Peggy knows her way around multiple different guns and is quite a good shot. She's not exactly a sharpshooter, but she rarely wastes a bullet unless she's laying down cover fire. As she has grown older, she has relied more on her shooting than her brute strength.
Peggy has been trained for many years in espionage and information collection and she's incredibly skilled at it. She is adept at disguising herself and her voice to slip undetected into various facilities, both secured and civilian. She is good with faking accents as well as thinking on her feet to avoid being trapped in lies.
Peggy is a passionate person who believes strongly in the strength of her convictions. When she sees events that bring about injustice or sees people who are reckless with human life, she does not get sad or depressed; she gets angry. At times there is a well of fury and anger just below the surface of Peggy's countenance, ready to be released.
Retired, Extremely Dangerous. While Peggy still has all her training, her combat instincts and her ability to fire weapons, she is past seventy years old. She doesn't move as fast as she used to and she doesn't heal as quickly. She's not exactly frail, but she's also not able to do all the things that she could in her twenties.
Though Peggy has lived in America for quite awhile, she grew up in Britain and as such learned to not divulge things that may be pressing upon her. Her natural instinct is to bury anything worrying and to work on it on her own time. While this can be good on missions, it can wreak havoc on her personal life.
Throughout the war and then later on throughout her life, Peggy found that those closest to her tended to die tragic deaths. It didn't matter how close or incidental they were to her life, her profession made it very hard to carry on a personal life. Though she has worked very hard to secure a balance between her spying and her home, she will always blame herself should anything happen to those around her.
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