AGENTS OF SHIELD Producers Tease MOCKINGBIRD in Season 2 and Talk About the Series' Connection to the MCU



Last month Marvel revealed that a super spy was joining Season 2 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. While it's not Black Widow it is someone with a similar skill-set, Mockingbird.

Actor Adrianne Palicki (G.I. Joe: Retaliation) joins the cast of Agents of SHIELD as Bobbi Morse (a.k.a. Mockingbird) and producers Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen spoke to Comic Book Resources about the new addition.

"Well, we're very excited to have the beloved character, Mockingbird, on the show," Tancharoen said. "Adrianne Palicki was a perfect fit for the role. She was someone we pictured from the beginning. It's thrilling to have a nice, sort of skilled, sexy spy in the mix. And I think with the handful of characters that we have added to the show, it's just to illustrate what the new S.H.I.E.L.D. may look like. Coulson is operating with limited resources, so he has to bring people into the fold. So it may feel like we're expanding a lot, but really, the people that you will see are basically the people we have at our disposal.
"We used to be a ragtag group in a huge machine that was churning," Whdeon added. "Then, they were agents who had support. Now, that we have less, we sort of see all of them. So while our cast is getting bigger, it's actually because S.H.I.E.L.D. is getting smaller, we're using every resource we can."

The showrunners then spoke about how connected Agents of SHIELD is to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and how that affects characters they can, and can't, use in the television series.

"Well, obviously, we all exist in one universe, and if we didn't, we could have any character we wanted," Whdeon said. "We could kill them and do what we wanted with them. It is nice that we're all in one universe, so when we get something, it does have weight. It does exist in the Cinematic Universe and we're in constant communication with features, and there's a database of what they're using, what they plan to use, what we can and can't use. We just try to carve out our little spot, and Mockingbird's a good example of someone who we can really lean on as a major character. 
"Right. And in the Marvel Universe everything is fluid," Tancharoen continued. "The show was basically born out of what has been already established in the Cinematic Universe, so as much as we have benefitted from having characters that you've seen in the film[s] appear on our show, there is always a possibility for the reverse. So we do think that all our characters have potential to crossover at some point and there's always that possibility, and Mockingbird is a nice, exciting new character for us to have that does have crossover potential."

Marvel's Agents of SHIELD Season 2 premiere is on ABC on September 23 at 9 p.m. Eastern.