Phase Zero
Characters

Deke Shaw

The Lighthouse

Deke ShawMarvel TelevisionEarth-616

A scavenger from a ruined future who arrives in the present and finds it wonderful, which nobody else on the team can forgive.

Deke Shaw is described by his own series as the ultimate survivor and a roguish scavenger, living on the space station Lighthouse in the year 2091, sharp and quick and able to get you anything for a price. Jeff Ward plays him.

He is the clearest sign of what Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. became in its later seasons: a show that had stopped waiting for the films to give it permission and started running time travel, alternate timelines and a 1930s period season on its own authority.

Minor spoiler

During the final fight with the Kree Kasius, Enoch and Deke give their lives to send Coulson’s team back to their own time. Deke arrives in the present regardless, which the series treats as a joke and then takes seriously.

Played by
Jeff Ward
Role
Scavenger, then whatever is going
Affiliation
S.H.I.E.L.D., loosely
What they can do
None. He trades.

The journey

What happens to this person, title by title.

  1. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.2013

    Met in 2091 on a space station, dies getting the team home, and turns up in the present anyway.

Appears in

  1. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.2013

Sources

Facts last checked on Sep 10, 2026