‘Marvel’s ‘Agents of SHIELD’ Casts ‘Breaking Dawn’ Actor Patrick Brennan as Blackout

Villainous character has the power to suck the energy out of anything around him

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“Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD” has cast Patrick Brennan as the villain Marcus Daniels (bad-guy name: Blackout), Marvel.com reports.

Brennan, who played Liam in “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2” and was in NBC’s short-lived 2007 drama “The Black Donnellys,” will first appear in “Providence,” the 18th episode of the ABC series, and will play a larger role in the next episode.

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On the series, Blackout will have the power to suck the energy out of anything around him.

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Brennan said that the character is “shrouded in darkness” until he encounters Audrey, the cello player, who’ll be played by “Angel” alum Amy Acker.

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“This is the way they explained it to me: This guy, Marcus Daniels, a.k.a. Blackout, was shrouded in darkness, his soul, everything about him was shrouded in darkness until he comes across this cello player,” Brennan said. “And the music was the only light that came into his soul, and it gave him hope and it gave him some sense of what light was.”

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