J. August Richards made his latest return as Mike Peterson in last night’s episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., as the show introduced ‘Deathlok 2.0’, debuting a new look for the cyborg superhero, complete with new costume. Here’s an official promo shot…
“Coulson has had Deathlok in his back pocket since we saw him last,” Richards tells IGN. “So he pulls me out of hiding to help him out with this really huge mission that is vital to S.H.I.E.L.D. As you can see, I got a lot of upgrades while I’ve been gone. My costume is very different. There are things that are still the same. The character has been evolving since we’ve seen him last. This is like Deathlok 2.0… I have so many cool abilities. I have three USB ports, a firewire connection, you can get wi-fi off of me, this thing on my arm makes cappuccinos, and I have all of these cool little powers here and there [Laughs]. I do have some new powers though. I think you’ll see them unfold over time though. I mean at the core he still is who he is. He has a bunch of mechanical parts that do a bunch of interesting things. This arm piece shoots rockets and he’s still super strong from the Centipede that he got in the first episode. Even in the comics I feel like he’s a character with a thousand powers that constantly unfold. It’s a character with a lot of possibilities. And again even with reading the comic, I feel like I can’t put a finger on ALL of his powers and the things that come over time.”
Asked whether we’ll see more changes to the character to bring him in line with his comic book counterpart, Richards added that: “ou know, it’s such work in progress and I can see a scenario where that happens. I was really excited in one episode where Mike was under a x-ray and we got to see that underneath it all he does look a bit like the comic character. We’ll see, it’s constantly evolving, as you can already see.”
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Originally published April 8, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
