Gideon Malick

**Gideon Malick** was a powerful businessman, political figure and one of the leaders of HYDRA, while he eventually became the HYDRA head that other heads feared. Having been raised by his Father to follow HYDRA's ancient beliefs based around the eventual return of Hive through sacrifices, Malick had later become one of HYDRA's infiltrators within the World Security Council. Malick advised Nick Fury throughout the founding of the Avengers, as well as their Battle of New York, while aiming to manipulate Fury for HYDRA's best interests. Having left the Council just prior to the HYDRA Uprising, Malick had become an advisor for President Matthew Ellis. From there, Malick had personally orchestrated the formation of the Advanced Threat Containment Unit, and manipulated the agency into capturing the Inhumans in order to build an army for Hive to command.

Following the defeat of Baron Strucker, Malick had joined forces with Grant Ward so they could finish Project Distant Star Return to finally accomplish HYDRA's oldest aim of ensuring the return of Hive. Despite all of the efforts of Phil Coulson to stop him, and Ward's demise on Maveth, Malick's plans were fulfilled when Hive possessed Ward's corpse and returned to Earth, while Malick dedicated himself to ensuring Hive's eventual victory, manipulating Glenn Talbot and Anton Petrov to assist him to achieve this. However, Malick became disillusioned with Hive due to a vision of his own demise given to him by Charles Hinton, and following his daughter's murder by Hive, Malick then cooperated with S.H.I.E.L.D., as he then betrayed HYDRA. However, that only resulted in Malick being killed by an enthralled Daisy Johnson under Hive's orders.

## Relationships

* Grandmother †
* Wilfred Malick † - Father
* Nathaniel Malick † - Brother
* Amira Malick † - Wife
* Stephanie Malick † - Daughter

Allies* HYDRA
	+ Wolfgang von Strucker †
	+ Alexander Pierce†
	+ Daniel Whitehall†
	+ John Garrett †
	+ Hale †
	+ Fischer †
	+ Grant Ward † - Former Enemy and Subordinate
	+ Kebo †
	+ R. Giyera † - Former Subordinate
	+ Lucio † - Former Subordinate
	+ Kirk Vogel †
	+ Turkish Old Man- Subordinate
* Symposium on Alien Contagion
	+ Anton Petrov †
	+ Xiao Chen
	+ Ellen King
	+ Haruto Yakimura
	+ Nathi Zuma
* V. Ramirez †
* E. Flores †
* G. Richardson †
* R. Gray †
* B. Robinson †
* T. Nguyen †
* Androvich †
* World Security Council
	+ Pamela Hawley - Former Ally
* S.H.I.E.L.D. - Temporary Allies
	+ Nick Fury - Former Subordinate
	+ Maria Hill - Former Subordinate
	+ Phil Coulson †
	+ Leo Fitz
	+ Jemma Simmons
	+ Bobbi Morse
	+ Lance Hunter
	+ Alphonso mackenzie
	+ Secret Warriors
		- Daisy Johnson - Attempted Victim and Killer
		- Lincoln Campbell †
		- Joey Gutierrez
		- Elena Rodriguez
* Loki †
* Chitauri
	+ Leviathans
* ATCU
	+ Rosalind Price † - Former Ally
	+ Glenn Talbot †
* Werner von Strucker † - Former Ally
* Andrew Garner† - Former Prisoner
* George Talbot - Former Hostage
* Carl Creel †
* Dimitri Olshenko
* Charles Hinton † - Victim
* Transia Corporation
	+ Rowan Hamilton† - Victim
* Alveus/Hive † - Former Ally and Former Idol

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