'Agent Carter' Season 2: Seven Best Moments From Hayley Atwell's Marvel Spy Peggy : MStarsNews

After being introduced to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Steve Rogers' love interest in Captain America: The First Avenger, Hayley Atwell's Peggy Carter has become one of the most iconic female characters in the franchise, with two excellent seasons set in the sexist 1940s.

Unfortunately, there's a chance ABC might cancel the show, due to lackluster ratings despite its cult-hit status. So in case there's no season three to enjoy, here are the seven best things the kickass spy from ABC's Agent Carter brought us in season two.

1. Bernard, the Flamingo.

When Peggy lands in Los Angeles, partner-in-crime Edwin Jarvis (James D'Arcy) picks her up in one of Howard Stark's convertibles, a car filled with random things a Howard Hughes-like billionaire might have around.

As the two characters met again on the sunny West Coast, one thing caught Peggy's attention: a flamingo named Bernard. The avian homebody and newest resident of the Stark mansion, and Jarvis' never-ending cause of headaches.

Sure, it's silly, but it's just as hilarious.

2. Edwin Jarvis' Wife, Ana

After hearing about Jarvis' Hungarian wife throughout the first season, she (Lotte Verbeek) finally appeared in take two of Peggy's postwar adventures. She's funny and full of double entendres about her husband's very Englishman way of doing things, but there's something else about Ana this season: She has a killer beginning but a blah middle.

By the end of the season, Ana's struggles have brought her back to the center, but the character's full potential was sadly never realized.

3. Peggy Balancing Between Suitors

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As Jarvis tells her during "Monsters," Peggy goes "from famine to feast" in the romance department. After swearing off men after Steve Rogers' supposed death, Peggy's back in action in season two: She has unfinished business with Daniel Sousa (Enver Gjokaj) and a new man turns up, the brilliant Dr. Jason Wilkes (Reggie Austin).

Of course, Peggy doesn't choose until the final minutes of the season, ultimately picking Sousa, who's the most Steve Rogers-like of the two. Peggy has a soft spot for the boring good guys.

4. The Kickass Villain Ladies

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Wynn Everett's super-villainess, a Hedy Lamarr-type who had the looks (and the job) of a Hollywood movie star as well as the brains of a Nobel Prize winner, was a more-than-worthy rival to Peggy this season as she tried to control Zero Matter. Still, things got even more fun when the Black Widow-type villain from the first season, Bridget Regan's Dottie Underwood, came back as an unlikely partner/menace.

The recurrent theme of Agent Carter has been owomen from the '40s overcoming the roles society has assigned them, and it's not only the complex heroine proving everyone wrong: The bad ladies are much scarier than all the bad guys put together!

5. Whitney's Mobster Boyfriend Joseph Manfredi

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Ken Marino is an actor who can light up any scene. His comedic timing is always top-notch, and he brings an aura of fun to anything.

Here he plays an irate mobster who becomes Whitney's boyfriend after she kills her husband. Some of the season's funniest moments involve him, from his conversations with his Italian nonna to how he's prepared to kill anyone just because they catch him in a bad mood.

Violent? Yes. Fun? Even more so!

6. Howard Stark Showing Up in the Right Moment

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Dominic Cooper popped in much less in season two than he did in season one, but the effect the character has is, much like Manfredi, a breath of fresh air.

Bringing intelligent conversation to the table and more than a few wink-wink-nudge-nudge moments, it's always a joy to have Tony Stark's philandering dad be the smuggest man in any room.

7. The Dream Sequence/Musical Number

The second-to-last episode of the second season, "A Little Song and Dance," brought together two of ABC's biggest properties, as characters from Agent Carter donned their boogie shoes for a Hollywood extravaganza with some of the guys from Dancing with the Stars.

Bringing back the glamour of Gene Kelly films of the '40s and '50s, the beautiful scene was a feast for the eyes and ears, and totally appropriate for the show's tone. Atwell showed that she's a triple threat: she acts, sings and dances.