Tessie has just shared with you her thoughts about why Fitz from Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD is her Favorite Boyfriend. I also have a Favorite Boyfriend from the show, but he’s much more mature. I like Agent Phil Coulson best of all. And what’s not to like? He is a fearless leader who is willing to take chances and “think outside the box.” He always seems to be in complete control, and nothing rattles him.

Except when it does, like when he started to find out more about what really happened to him after he died. Up till now, he’s always been a Company Man, saying “You’ve got to trust the system.” But now he’s not so sure that the system can be trusted, so we get the impression that he’s going to start to go off on his own a bit…a RENEGADE! I can’t wait to see what happens when our smart and fearless leader loosens up and starts to ACT outside the box!

There is so much potential for Agent Coulson, with the entire SHIELD team behind him and totally devoted to him, to go places and make changes that have never before happened in this Marvel Universe. I can’t wait to see where we go from here!

But that’s not what I came here to talk about, is it? Let’s talk instead about how cute Agent Coulson is! Yes, I know he’s “middle aged,” so it’s hard to imagine that a Whimsie would think of him as a Boyfriend, but at the same time, there is something youthful and impishly adorable about him! He’s short, so his physical presence is not overpowering. That’s part of what makes him cute. And also…what a great smile! And always a sparkle in his eye!

I like also that he has this fascination with the superheroes of the past. He has a lot of Marvel Memorabilia that he collects in his office. Remember in The Avengers movie, what a fan-boy he was when he met Captain America? That was cute! He has such a respect for all superheroes—as someone in his position should! But he takes it to the next level, and I like that about him.

Oh! And let’s not forget: he has a car named Lola…that flies! Having a Boyfriend with a car is always a plus. Having a Boyfriend with a really cool car is an even bigger plus. But nothing beats a Boyfriend with a car that FLIES! And he always looks so cool when he’s flying around in his car, with his aviator shades, looking like, “Oh yeah…my car is flying…no big deal…”

But it is a big deal, and everything about Agent Phil Coulson is a big deal. He is deceptively unimposing on the outside, which makes it only more surprising and delightful when you find out what he can do, and what he WILL do, for the good of all mankind.

My SHIELD Boyfriend may not have any bona-fide “superpowers” like Iron Man or Thor, and he may not even have the “super-smarts” of Tessie’s Boyfriend Leopold Fitz, but it’s impressive how much heart and courage he is willing to employ in order to do his job to the best of his ability. And his job is not being the manager of the local grocery store, or selling insurance—his job is keeping the world safe from every kind of threat from both super-villains, and just ordinary bad guys. That he does… and he looks good doing it! What more could we possibly ask from our most enchanting non-superhero?

Chrissy’s note: The Whimsies had planned to write and post their “My Favorite Boyfriend” essays all at the same time, but then The Man and I began a big project of sorting through boxes and boxes of Marvel Comics, and little Trixie became so distracted by the number of new and wonderful comics she had never seen before, that she has spent the last several days not writing, but reading! So Tessie and Tillie will share their thoughts with you now, and Trixie will be along in a few days, after she gets caught up on her reading.

Trixie and Tillie are always teasing me because I consider Fitz from the TV show Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD to be one of My Favorite Boyfriends. I don’t know why they tease me, but it’s probably because they think I’m only watching the show BECAUSE of him… which is absolutely not true! It’s a great show, full of fun and suspense, and that’s why I watch it. But any show is made even better when it just happens to have a smart cute guy in it!

Yes, Fitz is smart and cute, but those are not the only things I like about him. First of all, let’s consider his name: Leopold Fitz. What a great name! They could call him “Leo,” and it would still be a great name! He sounds like he could be a Russian novelist, or jazz musician, don’t you think?

Of course they call him Fitz, because it “fits” so perfectly with the name of the other scientist on board, Jemma Simmons. Fitz…Simmons….get it? Cute! But what’s cutest of all is the way these two are with each other. It’s so obvious they care about each other very much. They are so much alike they can even finish each other’s sentences. They are both super-smart, but in different areas, so it’s like they are two sides of one really really super-smart scientist who knows EVERYTHING. When you’ve got Fitz and Simmons together, you’ve got a lot of scientific power working for you, and sometimes they even help each other out, because they can bounce ideas off each other.

But that’s not the best thing about the two of them together. Well, it is for the other SHIELD agents sometimes, when Fitz and Simmons step in to save the day, but the best thing for us in the audience is seeing how much they care about each other.

At first I thought they were a married couple, or boyfriend and girlfriend, but then it became apparent that they are just really good friends and close co-workers. They are as close as a guy and girl can be without getting romantic. Tillie tells me the word to describe them is “platonic.” I don’t know if they ever will get romantic. A part of me thinks that would be cool—and that’s saying a lot, because I consider Fitz MY boyfriend, but here I am saying it would be okay if he became Simmons’ boyfriend. They are that good together, that even I wouldn’t mind it if they became romantic. A part of me thinks they would be good together as a romantic couple. And if they ever got married and had kids, how smart and cute would those kids be?? Just think about THAT for a while!

But then…another part of me thinks…no, they are just perfect the way they are. They should stay that way. Now, I don’t know much about real romance, but from what I see in movies and read in books, sometimes a real romance can do a lot to mess up a good friendship. And this SHIELD team cannot afford to have their Fitzsimmons working at any less than top capacity! And for us in the audience, it WORKS that they are “platonic.” So as Miss Chrissy says, the other part of me has to agree: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Really. I think it would be best to just keep them the way they are.

So that’s probably the best thing I like about Fitz. But that’s not all! As I’ve already mentioned, of course, he’s cute. He has the most beautiful skin, almost as clear and shiny and beautiful as a Whimsie! And his curly hair is cute too! But what about that accent? Is it British? Is it Scottish? You know, I have to be honest: sometimes I can’t always understand everything he’s saying, but he sounds so adorable when he says it, I could just listen to him for hours and hours!

It’s good to have a favorite TV show, but it’s even better when one of the characters on that show is also one of your Favorite Boyfriends. I would watch SHIELD even if Fitz wasn’t on it. It wouldn’t be as good of a show, but I would still watch it. But it’s more fun this way.