Patton Oswalt joins Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. tonight as Agent Eric Koenig.
After the game-changing events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier and last week’s tie-in episode – who side is Koening on?
SPOILER ALERT:
If you have seen the new Cap movie or last week’s episode you may want to stop reading now….
Hydra has infiltrated every level of S.H.I.E.L.D. The world thinks Nick Fury is dead. John Garrett is a traitor. In the final moments of last week’s episode – Agent Ward (Brett Dalton) shot Victoria Hand and showed his true allegiance. Ward has been a Hydra agent this whole time.
Coulson and what’s left of his team are on the run as S.H.I.E.L.D. crumbles when they encounter Oswalt’s character.
“When they first told me the character’s name, I’ll admit the first thing I did is I went on Wikipedia and looked up the M.O.D.O.K. character to see if Koenig was maybe his name before he became M.O.D.O.K., but it wasn’t,” Oswalt told Marvel. “They keep on talking about the Clairvoyant in the show and I’m like, ‘is that M.O.D.O.K.? Am I M.O.D.O.K.?”
In comics Koening was part of the original Nick Fury and his Howling Commandos. Oswalt will play the latest in a series of classic Marvel characters (John Garrett, Deathlok, Lorelei and Sif) interacting with the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
“They introduced Agent Garrett, who’s one of my favorite Marvel characters, and I kept asking them on the set, ‘is he going to be an android [like in the comics]?’” says Oswalt. “They’re just like, ‘you’ll have to wait and see.’ They clearly have plans. This is not the mid-‘90s anymore where they just handed comic book properties to anybody, they’re thinking I’m making a comic book [TV series] in this awesome universe and I don’t want to mess it up. And that’s a different motivation than what was happening in the ‘90s, and that’s real cool. I’m glad that changed, that they’re giving them to guys that welcome the tension of, ‘how do I make popular entertainment that still acknowledges this big fanbase that cares about this universe? And if I’m going to change things, can I do it in a way that makes them go oh wow?’”
For more of Oswalt’s interview here’s the Marvel.com link.
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. tonight at 8pm on ABC.
By Editor