Adrianne Palicki Joins ‘Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ As Mockingbird!
Briefly: Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. just found its latest guest star in comic-book lover and Friday Night Lights star Adrianne Palicki.
The actress will appear in the fifth episode of the show’s second season, with the possibility of further appearances down the road. She’ll portray Bobby Morse / Mockingbird. Need a refresher? Here’s the characters origin via ComicVine:
Barbara Morse graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. in biology and passed her Civil Service examination so she could work with her biology professor, Dr. Wilma Calvin, on the government-sponsored project to rediscover the Super-Soldier formula that created Captain America. While in the government’s employ, Morse’s exemplary record came to the attention of SHIELD and she was invited to undertake training in her spare time. A champion gymnast in high school, Morse excelled at both the physical regimen and arts of espionage taught to all field agents. When Dr. Theodore Sallis, a maverick scientist also working on the Super-Soldier project, disappeared, Morse was given her first field assignment: to accompany SHIELD agent Paul Allen, suspected of being a traitor, to the Antarctic paradise known as the Savage Land in order to enlist the services of the hero Ka-Zar to find Sallis. Allen and Morse succeeded in contacting Ka-Zar and took him to the Florida Everglades. Although Sallis was never found (unbeknownst to them, he had been transformed into the Man-Thing), Ka-Zar and Morse flushed out a splinter group of the subversive organization AIM (Advanced Idea Mechanics) who were attempting to steal the Super-Soldier formula, and revealed Allen to be a member. SHIELD director Nick Fury assigned Morse as an escort to Ka-Zar during his stay in civilization, and the two managed to thwart yet another attempt by AIM to seize the Super-Soldier formula. Though Barbara Morse became romantically involved with Ka-Zar, she could not convince him to forsake the Savage Land. Preferring field work over biology, Morse was given another assignment: to trail the subversive El Tigre in South America. Coincidentally, this mission also took her to the Savage Land, where she renewed her acquaintance of Ka-Zar. Completing the assignment with the Jungle Lord’s aid, she returned to SHIELD.
I wasn’t a big fan of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. until its first season hit about the halfway point. After that, I was hooked, and I cannot wait to see what season two brings. Patton Oswald teased the character back at SDCC, which you can watch in the video below:
Are you looking forward to the new episodes? What do you hope to see? Sound out below!
Source: THR
