And why would Loki have thought that? Even Clint hadn't seen that far ahead when explaining (in excruciating detail) everyone's flaws and faults and weaknesses. Coulson would only have met several of them in gathering them together for this united threat. The thought of 'if this man specifically dies, the plan goes to shit, because they'll all unite under a common banner' sure hadn't hit him because it seems a little ludicrous. Even now, it seems...wild.

"I think so, too. He asked me about it, you know. That I didn't kill Fury, because I admire the man. Told him that was part of it, yeah. And that I'm better with a stick and a string than a gun. That I was still fucked up from the initial attack and the mindfuck. None of it was a lie, but...excuses, I guess. To hide how much of that had been me. I don't know, the lines get...blurred sometimes."