Agent Carter season 2 will introduce the energy known as Darkforce to the MCU, creating connections to Doctor Strange and beyond.
In a recent interview with Comic Book Resources, showrunner Michele Fazekas explained how Darkforce comes to be, and how it may impact future Marvel stories. The energy’s strange origins (no pun intended) begin at a nuclear company called Isodyne Energy.
“Basically, Isodyne is a company that we invented based in part on real life companies like Radiodyne or General Atomic or the beginnings of the Jet Propulsion Lab,” Fazekas says, “all of which were in L.A. in the ’40s, and were developing the space program and were developing nukes.”
“What you’ll learn is they were involved in the nuclear testing out in the desert when they were testing the, at the time they were calling it the atom bomb,” she continues. “One of these tests didn’t go as expected. You’ll learn more about that in Season 2, but [Isodyne] stumble upon what people in the Marvel Universe will know as Darkforce.”
For the purposes of Agent Carter season 2, the power will be called “Zero Matter.” But as Fazekas explains, the energy will have plenty of time to build up its reputation.
Darkforce, she says, is “our tie-in to the Doctor Strange universe, and also to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., because you’ve seen it [there] as well.”
Darkforce, though not named as such, was first seen in season 1 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as the power wielded by villain Marcus Daniels. Daniels himself was also the result of science-turned-magic — his early light-sucking abilities were enhanced by experiments performed by a Hydra-controlled S.H.I.E.L.D.
Like Daniels himself, Darkforce has also transmuted over its time in the Marvel universe. The power, therefore, may manifest differently across its presentations in Agent Carter, Doctor Stranger, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
“The cool thing about what we learned as we researched Darkforce over the course of Marvel comic book history is, it affects people in different ways,” says Fazekas. “It’s created a bunch of superheroes, it’s created a bunch of villains, and it has all these different properties. It could be a liquid, it could be a gas, it could be a solid, it could give you powers, it could kill you. It has a lot of different applications, which was cool for us. We were able to select what we liked and sort of make our own rules as to what it does, how it operates, and who it affects in our world.”
Fans will have to wait until November to see Darkforce in Doctor Strange — but thankfully, Agent Carter season 2 is just around the corner.
The two-hour Agent Carter season 2 premiere airs on Jan. 19 at 9:00 p.m. on ABC.
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