Hiding and Finding Super Dangerous Stuff

Finding Dangerous Stuff

If they don't know where it is and can't find out except through you, do not go and move it for safety. The bad guys will only follow you to it or take it from you.

Why do you think they let you know just how much they wanted to find it? "Thanks for saving us a ton of work! And giving us an excuse to laugh in your face and shoot you."

Instead, lead them on a long and dangerous journey into the heart of a secret prison with full surveillance and a dummy artifact. That way, when they try to take it and kill you, the whole thing's on camera and they're already in prison. Slam dunk case!

Buried in the deep.

(Re-)Hiding Dangerous Stuff

If it's really THAT dangerous and no one should ever use it, including you, then by all means, destroy it! The only excuses are if it's indestructible or if it's a living creature (that's not super creepy or a killing machine).

If you can't destroy it, put it someplace no living creature that you know of can survive. Try within a pool of magma or at the bottom of the deepest ocean trench you can reach. Eventually someone might invent the tech to get there but by then, you'll be too long dead to care.

This works too. Dangerous stuff mostly gone..

If you don't want anyone to find it, don't leave clues or maps. Otherwise it's guaranteed that people will try to find it, and after enough of them, someone will.

Image to the right from episode Day of the Samurai from Batman: The Complete Animated Series

Son of Coul vs the "Real S.H.I.E.L.D."

Spoiler Alert! Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episodes 2-14 Love in the Time of Hydra and 2-15 One Door Closes

• Transparent, my ass! The "Real S.H.I.E.L.D." is more secretive than Coulson's. If it's the "Real S.H.I.E.L.D.," why has no one heard of them? Why not tell people like Talbot not to work with Coulson and just hand everything over to them instead?

• Reporting to the World Security Council? No big thing, especially since it was compromised by HYDRA just as much as the original S.H.I.E.L.D. was.

• What has the "Real S.H.I.E.L.D." even been doing all this time? They had an entire aircraft carrier and what looks like lots more people. All Fury left Coulson was a cube, an old secret base and some Koenigs with an inexplicable love of lanyards. Yet it looks like Coulson's team did all the work. All the "Real S.H.I.E.L.D." seems to have done is spy on Coulson.

• Five people sat at the "Real S.H.I.E.L.D." table yet they looked anything but equal. It was quite obvious that the other four deferred to Gonzales. I didn't even realize they were supposed to be equal until they tried to feed Coulson that garbage in the second episode since the "Real S.H.I.E.L.D." reveal.

• Gonzales wanted to follow Fury's orders until the very end when HYDRA was blowing in the door right after Bobbie's democracy speech. The point when he pretty much had no choice but to help keep himself alive doing as the others by firing at the mass of enemies busting through the door. Fury gave the cube to Coulson, enough said.