agent. The "Watchdog" was actually a government agent who staged the ruse on John Walker's behalf so that he can re-emerge as the U.S. Agent. As Captain America, Rogers continued to oppose the Watchdogs, especially once they kidnapped his then-girlfriend Bernie Rosenthal. Although he and U.S. Agent arrested all the Watchdogs at the Vermont compound, the organization was apparently still active by Captain America #394, when Watchdog Prime joined his fellow division chiefs in a meeting with the Red Skull. At the time, they were expanding their operations and membership westward across the United States. Other versions In the Ultimate Marvel universe, the Watchdogs are a terrorist hate group that were killed by Scourge. In other media Television The Watchdogs appear in live-action media set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This version of the group is a radical Inhuman-hunting group, initially led by ex-S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Felix Blake using a wheelchair and secretly supported by Hydra. The group first appear in the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Introduced in their self-titled, season three episode, they attack an Advanced Threat Containment Unit (ATCU) facility. In season four episode "Uprising", the Watchdogs, now backed by anti-Inhuman senator Ellen Nadeer, use an EMP device to shut down power in various cities holding Inhumans to halt Inhuman registration, but their plans are foiled by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Mack, Phil Coulson, Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez, and Leo Fitz. In the episode "Broken Promises", Nadeer orders a group of Watchdogs to guard her while she attends to her Inhuman brother, Vijay. However, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Daisy Johnson, Jeffrey Mace, and Jemma Simmons confront Nadeer and defeat the Watchdogs, though the senator escapes and kills Vijay before meeting with the Watchdog Superior, Anton Ivanov. In the episode "BOOM", Watchdog Tucker Shockley is exposed to Terrigen gas and turns into an explosive Inhuman, killing Nadeer. In response to this, Ivanov arranges for S.H.I.E.L.D. to capture Shockley while the former and the Watchdogs capture Mace. In the episode "The Man Behind the Shield", Ivanov confronts Coulson and Johnson, only to be buried alive by the latter. In the episode "Self-Control", the android AIDA converts Ivanov into an LMD and places his head in a jar to coerce him into helping her steal the Darkhold and protect her Framework. In the episode "The Return", Ivanov receives multiple robotic copies of himself that he can control mentally. In the season five episode "The Devil Complex",