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I know what you're doing. Trying to distance yourself from everyone else so they don't drown in your wake? I invented that move.
―May to Quake[src]


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.

Background

Official description

Agent May is an expert pilot and martial artist. Though she was once a legend in the agency, she mysteriously resigned herself to a quiet desk job in recent years. Further information temporarily classified. Security Level 7 required.

Personality

May is a "top-notch pilot, weapons expert, and soldier who is described as being soulful but damaged by her time spent in combat."

Powers and Abilities

  • Pilot: May has the ability, to commandeer various aircrafts.
  • Combatant: May is an extremely skilled agent in her ability to fight. She has displayed various martial arts and hand-to-hand combat skills.
  • Empathy: Following her stay in the Fear Dimension, May developed the ability to experience the emotions of those in close proximity to her. The closer they were, the stronger she felt them.

Appearances

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

In 2007, Melinda May and Phil Coulson went to Bahrain to find a woman with powers. When she unsuccessfully tried to reason with Eva Belyakov, this led to a battle between S.H.I.E.L.D. and Belyakov. May entered the hiding where Belyakov was, entering she realized that all men were under the control of Belyakov. After killing Eva, she thought men would be freed from her control but immediately she noticed that really Katya, the daughter of Eva was the one who controlled the other. As Katya wanted to attack her, she had no choice to shoot the girl, killing Katya.

In "Love in the Time of HYDRA", May spoke to Coulson about the possibility that Skye leave S.H.I.E.L.D. for a while, until she is able to control her powers. Coulson agreed and decided to take Skye to a cabin. Later, Talbot informed Phil Coulson and Melinda May that Grant Ward and Agent 33 had released Sunil Bakshi, for unknown reasons. After the conversation with Talbot, Coulson and May agreed that Alphonso Mackenzie was hiding something.

When Coulson found out that Mack and Bobbi Morse were not loyal to them, he sent May to confront Morse. She asked for whom she worked, Morse replied that for SHIELD. Thinking it was a lie, May and Bobbi Morse began to fight before Morse escape from the confrontation. She told Skye to flee from his hiding since learned that Gonzales' SHIELD would attack her. Later, May broke into Coulson's office and knocked out Gonzales, allowing Coulson escape. She finally surrendered after Coulson escape. After learning that Coulson withheld her the Theta Protocol, she asked Jemma Simmons to open Fury's toolbox.

Simons confessed to her that the case was fake and that Fitz had taken the original. May then told this to Mack and Morse and asked to hack into Deathlok's hardware to know the location of Coulson and Hunter. Having hacked Deathlok, she and Simmons saw Ward and Coulson teaming up.

When Phil Coulson came to Playground, Gonzales leave May decide if they should aid Coulson in his battle against HYDRA. May asked to speak alone with Coulson before deciding. She said she was annoyed by the Theta Protocol. May was suspicious about working with Ward after his betrayal. Later, she along with her friends and Ward broke into the HYDRA Arctic Research Base and rescued Deathlok and Lincoln Campbell.

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Season One: "Pilot" • "0-8-4" • "The Asset" • "Eye Spy" • "Girl in the Flower Dress" • "FZZT" • "The Hub" • "The Well" • "Repairs" • "The Bridge" • "The Magical Place" • "Seeds" • "T.R.A.C.K.S." • "T.A.H.I.T.I." • "Yes Men" • "End of the Beginning" • "Turn, Turn, Turn" • "Providence" • "The Only Light in the Darkness" • "Nothing Personal" • "Ragtag" • "Beginning of the End"

Season Two: "Shadows" • "Heavy is the Head" • "Making Friends and Influencing People" • "Face My Enemy" • "A Hen in the Wolf House" • "A Fractured House" • "The Writing on the Wall" • "The Things We Bury" • "...Ye Who Enter Here" • "What They Become" • "Aftershocks" • "Who You Really Are" • "One of Us" • "Love in the Time of HYDRA" • "One Door Closes" • "Afterlife" • "Melinda" • "The Frenemy of My Enemy" • "The Dirty Half Dozen" • "Scars" • "S.O.S."
Season Three: "Laws of Nature" • "Purpose in the Machine" • "A Wanted (Inhu)man" • "Devils You Know" • "4,722 Hours" • "Among Us Hide..." • "Chaos Theory" • "Many Heads, One Tale" • "Closure" • "Maveth" • "Bouncing Back" • "The Inside Man" • "Parting Shot" • "Watchdogs" • "Spacetime" • "Paradise Lost" • "The Team" • "The Singularity" • "Failed Experiments" • "Emancipation" • "Absolution" • "Ascension"
Season Four: "The Ghost" • "Meet the New Boss" • "Uprising" • "Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire" • "Lockup" • "The Good Samaritan" • "Deals With Our Devils" • "The Laws of Inferno Dynamics • "Broken Promises" • "The Patriot" • "Wake Up" • "Hot Potato Soup" • "BOOM" • "The Man Behind the Shield" • "Self Control" • "What If..." • "Identity and Change" • "No Regrets" • "All the Madame's Men" • "Farewell, Cruel World!" • "The Return" • "World's End"
Season Five: "Orientation" • "A Life Spent" • "A Life Earned" • "Rewind" • "Fun & Games" • "Together or Not at All" • "The Last Day" • "Best Laid Plans" • "Past Life" • "All the Comforts of Home" • "The Real Deal" • "Principia" • "The Devil Complex" • "Rise and Shine" • "Inside Voices" • "The Honeymoon" • "All Roads Lead..." • "Option Two" • "The One Who Will Save Us All" • "The Force of Gravity" • "The End"
Season Six: "Missing Pieces" • "Window of Opportunity" • "Fear and Loathing on the Planet of Kitson" • "Code Yellow" • "The Other Thing" • "Inescapable" • "Toldja" • "Collision Course (Part I)" • "Collision Course (Part II)" • "Leap" • "From the Ashes" • "The Sign" • "New Life"
Season Seven: "The New Deal" • "Know Your Onions" • "Alien Commies from the Future!" • "Out of the Past" • "A Trout in the Milk" • "Adapt or Die" • "The Totally Excellent Adventures of Mack and the D" • "After, Before" • "As I Have Always Been" • "Stolen" • "Brand New Day" • "The End is at Hand" • "What We're Fighting For" •

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