Agent Coulson at the End of The Avengers?

Definitely not Coulson. If you watch that guy in higher resolution he wears glasses and a mustache. Maybe for misdirection, but that a would seem a little bit like a waste.

Again, if they're going to have it where Coulson didn't really die, they're going to SHOW that, or at least leave some serious doubt in the audience's mind in the end. Not a blink-and-you-miss-it passing shot, or even simply "oh, Fury lies...so he lies about EVERYTHING" etc.

Whedon already said that Coulson really did die, and that he's being brought BACK in SHIELD.

"If you watch that guy in higher resolution he wears glasses and a mustache"

This is completely true. I watched the bluray just now on a 67" screen. The actor looks more like Will Forte than Clark Gregg. Totally different hair/hairline, has a mustache, and does wear glasses.

Seems more like a producer cameo than anything else.

I'd take a magical resurrection over that. The LMD has always been an incredible cheat in the comics, and I can do without it in the movies/show.

Coulson's death/resurrection needs to be handled VERY carefully. If death is no longer a consequence, then it strips all the peril out of future stories. Yinsen and Howard Stark can appear in Iron Man 4!

It's already disproven. Watch the scene on a real tv.

Like I said, it's a cheat.

"Oh, it's okay, he's not really dead...that was a decoy!"

Imagine if Tony Stark had died at the end of Avengers. And then Iron Man 3 comes out, and it turns out that wasn't really Tony Stark. It takes away ALL threat, because they can just erase the death. No one is going to care about what happens to Tony Stark after that, because you know he can't die...because it's probably another decoy. It's just a lame cheat, and any writer can do what ever they want because it's easily undone in the next film.

I get that this is exactly how comics work, but this is movies. And we don't need the exact same things that are wrong with the comics (characters never really dying being a serious one) bleeding into the movies.

The main reason movies are different from comics, from a storytelling perspective, is that comics are monthly stories. The writers have to turn out a ton of material every year, and often they need to steer the stories back to status quo, which means resurrecting people that were important to the main character that were killed off now and then. Movies, you're going to get at most a handful of stories. Death NEEDS to have weight.

Got it. Still a cheat.

Not sure what to make of this. If Coulson is a regular human, and he has resuscitated in a medical lab I would think it would be sometime before he was sufficiently healed from his wounds.

On the other hand if he is indeed an LMD anything is possible. The above has been done multiple times since the late 70s in the comics.

Posted this already a while ago in some MCU related comment section usings these pics

"I think this might have been Coulson hinting that he never actually died."

Seriously, you guys need to pop the bluray in and watch this on a decent sized screen. After doing so myself, I cannot believe anyone would mistake this for Clark Gregg.