Honestly I’d want to see the movie be about the First Wave agents. The game already tells the story of the Second Wave agents, but the first wave guys are all written out before the game even starts, save for a few that we see pop up in Echoes.

Exactly. Anyone can be an SHD agent, so it comes down to figuring out who you want to make the protagonist, and giving them their own character arc. Some of the agents were from outside the city, some from inside, so is our protagonist somebody from inside the city? What internal struggle do they have to deal with in…

There were a lot of sub-plots that make their own fascinating narrative threads, too. Like April Kelleher’s whole thing (I have a physical copy of ‘New York Collapse’ so I’ve read all of the notes.) and that small group of first-wave SHD agents that got wiped out, including the agent that died saving April from the…

Not to mention that The Division is supposedly filled with secret agencies and sleeper cells, not the average day soldier. Meaning that the people going into downtown New York may actually not be full time professionally trained soldiers, but people who had lives before they we’re called into duty.

Agreed. The Division’s story suffered by being open-world and multi-player (no main character), but what was there was pretty great.