Patrick Brennan Joins AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. As Blackout

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It’s been, well, months since I’ve watched an episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and I know I’m not the only person who can say that. Still, that has deterred ABC, Marvel and the S.H.I.E.L.D. crew from pulling out all the stops for the show’s final episodes of the season. There are movie crossovers, guest appearances by film stars, and most importantly the introduction of new villains from the Marvel universe.

The latest addition is Patrick Brennan as Marcus Daniels a.k.a. Blackout.  In an interview on Marvel.com, Brennan describe his character this way:

This guy… was shrouded in darkness, his soul, everything about him was shrouded in darkness until he comes across this Cello player. And the music was the only light that came into his soul, and it gave him hope and it gave him some sense of what light was. I thought to myself, oh my god, you don’t even need to explain anything else. Because music, to me, is what gets me through most of the time. My kids, my wife, and music. That aspect of it totally intrigued me. I thought that was quite beautiful and very interesting, that aspect of the character.

That Cello player has already played into the MCU mythos as one of Coulson’s love interests, but we’ll see her from the first time in the show played by Whedon-ite Amy Acker.

Of course, this is about Blackout, and really this scene, as described by Brennan, is what it’s all about:

We shot the first scene of the show last, on my last night. It was Marcus stepping off of a boat, when you first see him, and literally the boats in the harbor went off. As he walked down the harbor, the lights went off. It was like a kid in the candy store. They made me this incredible coat, it was a trenchcoat with a collar sticking up, that as soon as I put it on I felt like a villain. The costume was great. The people who did this jacket made it special. I tried to steal it but it didn’t work out. That last night was exciting [but] the whole thing was great, I couldn’t pick one [moment]. I really couldn’t.

Hopefully it’s as badass as Brennan makes it out to be because S.H.I.E.L.D. could use that right about now. This almost makes me want to shotgun the show when it appears on Netflix. Almost.