Koening was a rather upbeat, friendly individual despite the seriousness of his job. Even so, he found espionage and secrecy to be essential to the foundation that S.H.I.E.L.D. was built on especially in light to the recent discovery of HYDRA infiltrating S.H.I.E.L.D. and remained very by-the-book even after S.H.I.E.LD.'s leadership fell as he refused to compartmentalise information to Coulson's team as he did not know them, only to Coulson himself. Following the Battle of New York and the beginning of the HYDRA Uprising, Koenig was highly cautious and only began to trust Coulson's Team after submitting them to a Lie Detector. Unfortunately when he began to trust the Team, he was also killed by the HYDRA sleeper operative, Grant Ward.
Publication Information
- S.H.I.E.L.D. : Eric Koenig
- Version : Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Alter Ego :
- Lightning Foot
- Steve Rogers
- Known As :
- Type : S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Level 6
- Relative :
- Unnamed Mother
- Unnamed Father
- Billy Koenig : Brother
- Sam Koenig : Brother
- Thurston Koenig : Brother
- LT Koenig : Sister
- Affiliation :
- Gender : Male
- Origin : Earth
- Season : Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- First Appeareance : Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 1 Episod 18 : Providence
- Last Appeareance :
- Number of Appeareance :
- Potrayer : Patton Oswalt
- Main View : Full Episod
Eric Koenig was a quadruplet and grew up with brothers Billy, Sam, Thurston and a sister, LT. One of them even gave him the nickname "lightning foot". Eric, Billy, Sam, and LT grew up and joined S.H.I.E.L.D., while Thurston became a slam poet activist. Eric, Billy, and Sam often puzzled agents with their similarities, such as when Antoine Triplett mentioned to Skye how similar Billy was to Eric and wondered if they were truly just twins, or when Skye mistook Billy for Eric when she first arrived at the Playground with the rest of her team.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 1 Episod 18 : Providence
Eric Koenig was stationed in Providence, a secret safe house belonging to Nick Fury, after the Battle of New York. Agent Koenig named the place himself and even decorated it over the two years that he had been there in total isolation, entertaining himself by playing online video games with his brothers who were stationed at the Playground. Using information provided by Nick Fury, Phil Coulson and his team were able to locate Providence and get past security. As they stepped into the base, Koenig greeted them and showed them around the base. Koenig introduced himself and told them he would issue lanyards when the agents had been cleared; when Coulson asked about Nick Fury, Koenig claimed he had been killed by HYDRA during an assassination attempt in Washington, D.C. and informed them that the Fridge had been taken over by HYDRA, much to Coulson's shock as he revealed they had an agent at the Fridge.
Abilities
- Expert Hacker : Eric Koenig worked with Skye in hacking NSA satellites to view the Raid of the Fridge and remain undetected by the United States Government. Koenig worked closely with computers, monitoring Coulson's team through their lanyards. However, he sometimes trusted them over his own instincts, as when he trusted the Lie Detector's readings more than his feelings towards Grant Ward.
Weapons
- Walther PPK/S : The Koenigs used a Walther PPK/S as their sidearm. Eric had his weapon by his side when submitting the members of Phil Coulson's team to "Orientation" at the Lie Detector, grabbing it when Grant Ward's answers made him believe he was hiding something, but Koenig did not shoot as Ward answered with selective truths to hide his true motives.
- Main Article : The Koenigs
