Blackout (Marcus Daniels)

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This article is about Marcus Daniels version in Marvel Comics. For the half-demon and Ghost Rider villain in Marvel Comics, see Blackout (Lilin). For the DC Comics character, see List of DC Comics characters: B § Blackout.
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Blackout (Marcus Daniels) is the name of a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is the first character to use the name within the Marvel Universe.

Patrick Brennan portrayed the character in two episodes of the first season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Publication history

Blackout first appeared in Nova #19 and was created by Marv Wolfman, Carmine Infantino, and Tom Palmer.[1]

Fictional character biography

Marcus Daniels was born in

Darkforce
, he had the chance to find out. Calling himself Blackout, his body was now flushed with power, becoming a surface of control of the Darkforce dimension. However, despite his powers threatening to go out of control, he escaped from Croit's attempts to cure him and fled.

Blackout returned to the laboratories, however, as he needed the stabilizer device to control his energies. But he also returned to find revenge on Croit— Blackout's sanity began to suffer as well. He believed Croit was researching energies from "Black Stars" and that his body now generated such energy. He further believed that Croit was defrauding the government with his research and had bribed a judge to frame him for stealing his secrets. Instead of an accident causing his powers, Daniels thought Dr. Croit willfully subjected him to an experiment in exchange for dropping charges against him.

Nova encountered Blackout on his way to exact revenge, and Blackout easily defeated the young hero. Before Nova could catch up with him, Blackout returned to the labs, killing Croit and his new assistant by letting them “merge with the color spectrum” (actually, by shunting them to the Darkforce dimension). Following another skirmish with Nova, Blackout himself vanished into this dimension when he fell back onto the stabilizer during the battle, destroying it.[2]

The stabilizer somehow ended up at

Rhino
in order to gain revenge on their captors. The villains were confronted by the Avengers, but Blackout and Moonstone escaped to the Darkforce Dimension by nearly causing the nuclear core of the complex to melt down as a distraction.

Moonstone, a former psychiatrist, treated Blackout in order to learn his true origin, but he remained in an irrational state. When the Avengers tracked them down, Blackout opened up another aperture into the Darkforce dimension in attempting to escape them, sucking himself and Moonstone inside.

Inhumans and their ally, Dazzler, who defeated the villains and returned them to Project: Pegasus on Earth.[4]

Moonstone next appeared recruited by

Fixer had created a device to mentally force Blackout to obey his commands. Blackout was instrumental in Zemo's takeover of the Avengers' headquarters by sending the entire mansion into the Darkforce dimension in one of the team's darkest hours. Doctor Druid, used his psychic ability to break through Zemo and Moonstone's manipulations, restoring some of Blackout's mental faculties. With relative sanity restored, Blackout resisted Zemo's mental commands, the strain of which made Blackout collapse from a massive cerebral hemorrhage.[5][6]

Blackout's body was remanded into the custody of the Commission on Superhuman Activities.[volume & issue needed] Years later, his body was taken by Baron Zemo, manipulated like a puppet on strings to serve as a member of his team as he confronted the new Thunderbolts over the life of their member Photon. During the battle between the two teams, Zemo revealed Blackout was merely a shell in which he kept the Smuggler trapped. This had the desired effect of turning his brother, Atlas against his team, and Zemo gained the upper hand. He also used Blackout's access to the Darkforce dimension in severing Photon's physical form.[volume & issue needed]

A person who looks like the original Blackout appears as part of the

Hood's alliance with super-powered heroes.[7] He was later seen during the Siege of Asgard as part of the Hood crime syndicate.[8]

During the "Opening Salvo" part of the "

Crossbones and Sin, Maria Hill located "Bob" and shoots him in the head enough to drop the Darkforce dome around Manhattan.[11]

During the "Damnation" storyline, Blackout is revived when Doctor Strange uses his magic to restore Las Vegas.[12]

Blackout appears with Hood's gang in their fight against Iron Man, Victor von Doom, a rebooted War Machine, and a battalion of Doombots.[13]

Powers and abilities

The first Blackout was exposed to cosmic radiation, giving him the power to tap into the

Moonstone
allowed him to maintain his Darkforce constructs for a considerably longer period of time. Blackout wore a costume with circuitry that helped him confine the Darkforce within his body. The costume was designed by Dr. Abner Croit. Blackout had a master's degree in physics, especially in the study of radiation.

In other media

Television

Marcus Daniels appears in

Audrey Nathan, whom he considered his personal light, but is confronted by Coulson and his team, who overload him with spotlights modified to produce gamma radiation and cause him to explode.[16]

Video games

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-4654-7890-0
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  2. ^ Nova #19
  3. ^ The Avengers #236-238
  4. ^ Dazzler #32
  5. ^ The Avengers #273-277
  6. ISBN 0-8160-1356-X.[1]
  7. ^ New Avengers #61
  8. ^ Siege #3
  9. ^ Captain America: Steve Rogers #16. Marvel Comics.
  10. ^ Secret Empire #0. Marvel Comics.
  11. ^ Secret Empire #8. Marvel Comics.
  12. ^ Doctor Strange: Damnation #1. Marvel Comics.
  13. ^ Invincible Iron Man #600. Marvel Comics.
  14. ^ "Exclusive: Patrick Brennan Brings a Blackout to Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Marvel. March 28, 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-03-29. Retrieved March 28, 2014.
  15. ^ Cheylov, Milan (director); Brent Fletcher (writer) (April 15, 2014). "Providence". Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 1. Episode 18. ABC.
  16. ^ Misiano, Vincent (director); Monica Owusu-Breen (writer) (April 22, 2014). "The Only Light in the Darkness". Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 1. Episode 19. ABC.
  17. ^ "Cloak & Dagger Join LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2". CBR. 20 March 2018. Retrieved 21 April 2018.

External links

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