Rising Tide

The Rising Tide is a fictional organization featured in the ABC television series Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which is part of the greater Marvel Cinematic Universe. They were never presented as a full organization, but rather were represented by their individual members, and evidence of their actions. They first appeared in the pilot episode of the series.

Overview
The Rising Tide was a network of computer hacktivists who operated anonymously who came together in the wake of the Battle of New York, which showed the world that super-humans and aliens from other worlds exist. The Rising Tide used their resources to expose super-powered individuals living in hiding, believing that doing so would prevent them from being apprehended by government forces and secreted away. The Rising Tide believed that organizations such as S.H.I.E.L.D. were carrying out covert operations for just this purpose. The Rising Tide were not completely wrong in this assessment, as S.H.I.E.L.D. were in fact keeping tabs on super-powered individuals and maintained an index of such beings. By and large however, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attention to this phenomenon was for the purpose of protecting people with super-powers.

History
Two prominent members of the Rising Tide was a woman who called herself Skye, and her boyfriend, Miles Lydon. Skye worked and lived out of her van, and played a key role in bringing a man named Mike Peterson to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attention. Through this, S.H.I.E.L.D. learned of Skye and apprehended her. Unit leader Phil Coulson believed that Skye could actually be an asset to their efforts and inducted her into the agency on a trial basis.

Miles Lydon on the other hand, became more mercenary in his hacktivism. He hacked into S.H.I.E.L.D. files and learned about a superhuman living in Hong Kong named Chan Ho Yin. He sold this information to Raina of the Centipede Project for a million dollars. Miles Lydon was eventually arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D. and interrogated.

Members

 * Daisy "Skye" Johnson
 * David Lieberman
 * Miles Lydon

Appearances

 * 1) Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Pilot - Skye only. Others behind-the-scenes.
 * 2) Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Girl in the Flower Dress - Miles Lydon.
 * 3) Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Writing on the Wall - Micro; behind-the-scenes.