Marcus Daniels was a minor antagonist in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. He was a superhuman criminal who wielded the negative energy known as Darkforce, which allowed him to absorb or cancel out other forms of energy, even kill others merely by touching them. He was portrayed by Patrick Brennan.
Marcus Daniels was based on a Marvel Comics character of the same name who also went by the criminal alias "Blackout" due to his power set.
History[]
Pre-series history[]
Daniels was born in 1972 in New York. His education included a science degree in physics from a university between 1990 and 1996. Before his arrest, he worked as an assistant to Dr. Abner Croit. During an experiment involving a force called Darkforce, Daniels was subjected to a lab accident that granted him the power to absorb any form of energy, empowering himself. He used his abilities to pursue the target of his affections, cellist Audrey Nathan, but his advances were thwarted by Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D., who imprisoned him in the Fridge.
However, rather than attempt to rehabilitate Daniels or remove his powers (as thought by Agent Coulson), the staff at the Fridge experimented on him, increasing his power.
Providence[]
Daniels only makes a brief appearance in this episode. After John Garrett and Grant Ward gain access to the Fridge, they seize as many of the facility's stored weapons and devices they can to further HYDRA's goals. Garrett uses a Tesseract-based energy cannon to blast an opening in the Fridge's detention area, freeing all of the super-powered inmates locked away and setting them loose into the outside world, including Daniels.
The Only Light in the Darkness[]
Daniels arrived at a dock where he killed a man and stole his truck in order to get to Portland to continue his pursuit of Audrey Nathan. Daniels referred to her as "his light."
Daniels approached Nathan while she was jogging but Coulson's team cut him off and attempted to overload him with high powered lights but he knocked them down with a blast of Darkforce. Eventually, Daniels came to the theatre and was again attacked by Agents Coulson and Antoine Triplett with the concentrated lights but this time with the addition of the Gamma Power Reserve and he exploded.