Clay Quartermain is a high-ranking agent of the espionage agency
S.H.I.E.L.D. who first worked with S.H.I.E.L.D. director
Nick Fury during a conflict with
Yellow Claw. Quartermain is part of the
U.S. military's "Hulkbusters" operation, which attempted to capture and contain the
Hulk. Quartermain and many other agents are seemingly killed by a self-aware, renegade "Deltan" variety of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s
Life Model Decoy androids, and replaced by an LMD. The most advanced of the Deltite LMDs, the LMD rebels upon learning it was not human, and is killed after several confrontations. The LMD of Quartermain later returns as an ally of
Deadpool and
Spider-Man. In 2007, Quartermain is
retconned into being a former romantic interest of
Jessica Jones as well as the leader of
S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Paranormal Containment Unit and a new incarnation of the S.H.I.E.L.D. "Hulkbusters" unit while recruiting
She-Hulk. He is also an advisor to a
co-called commander during the Hulk's
rampage. In the
Alias series, Quartermain works with Jessica Jones to uncover a conspiracy against the
President of the United States by investigating
Mattie Franklin, a superheroine who was trapped in mysterious circumstances. Additionally, it is revealed that Quartermain initially met Jones while the latter was recovering from a months-long ordeal with the
Purple Man. Quartermain is found dead in a suspected attack of the
Red Hulk. It is later revealed that Quartermain was killed by
Doc Samson after inadvertently learning of a plot by the Red Hulk and Samson to keep Red Hulk's identity as
Thunderbolt Ross secret. ==Other versions==