| “ | I would hate for you to think that I'm anything like the Grant Ward you knew over there. | „ |
| ~ Grant Ward |
Grant Ward is a major character in Season 4 of the Marvel television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. He is a digital recreation of the real-world person of the same name in the Framework, a virtual world in which HYDRA reigns supreme. Recruited into S.H.I.E.L.D. by Victoria Hand, he would remain loyal to the organization as HYDRA took over.
Ward would join HYDRA as a double-agent, and during his time there would enter a relationship with fellow agent Skye. When Skye was replaced by her real-world counterpart, Ward would work with her to save her friends and bring them back to the real world, with Skye and her team also helping S.H.I.E.L.D. to defeat HYDRA.
After the team left the Framework, Ward and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s celebrations of victory would be short-lived, as HYDRA leader Aida would delete the Framework as well as everything in it.
He was portrayed by Brett Dalton, who also played his real-world counterpart in the same series, Mike Munroe in Until Dawn and Freyr in God of War Ragnarök.
History[]
When Ward was a teenager, he was incarcerated after being found guilty of arson. He believed his life to be over, however S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Victoria Hand would convince him he could still be a good person, and asking him to join her organization. Ward would accept Hand's offer and join.
Ward would remain a loyal Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. for many years, until one day an Inhuman named Katya Belyakov would kill 279 people in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after being brought there from Bahrain by S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Melinda May. This event, which would later be known as the Cambridge Incident, would cause HYDRA to come out of the shadows and take over the world, using humanity's newfound fear of Inhumans to establish a fascist world order.
In the years after HYDRA's takeover, Ward would join them as a double-agent for S.H.I.E.L.D., and would start dating a fellow agent named Skye. Later on, Skye would be replaced by her non-Framework counterpart, Daisy Johnson, who connected to the Framework in order to save her friends, who had been involuntary plugged into it. Ward, unaware his girlfriend had been replaced, was confused as to why she was acting differently, until that night Johnson met up with her friend Jemma Simmons. Ward would observe as the two conversed, eventually ambushing them and asking if Simmons was Johnson's source in the Resistance. Johnson would deny it, at which point Ward would reveal his true loyalty and would help the two escape from the Triskelion, HYDRA's headquarters. As they escaped, Johnson would reveal her true name to Ward.
Ward would help Johnson and Simmons as they tried to rescue their friends from the Framework and bring them back to the real world. Once all of the team was recruited to S.H.I.E.L.D., he would accompany them on a mission to the HYDRA Broadcasting Centre to send a message to humanity to rise up against HYDRA. Johnson and her team would leave to a hidden backdoor that would allow them to escape the Framework. As people started to fight against HYDRA, Ward would briefly celebrate their victory before the Framework was deleted by Aida, an artificial intelligence who, in the Framework, was HYDRA's leader.
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