Here Is How Agent Carter Will Tie Into Doctor Strange

As Marvel's cinematic universe continues to expand with more and more movies and TV shows, so do the connections between them, even though some seem more direct than others.

It was revealed last year that the second season of Marvel's Agent Carter would include a mysterious extra-dimensional energy known as Darkforce. Now, while speaking to Comic Book Resources, the show's showrunners, Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters talked about how they will use the energy in the show and how it will connect with a certain Marvel movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Doctor Strange.

Basically, Isodyne is a company that we invented based in part on real life companies like Radiodyne or General Atomic or the beginnings of the Jet Propulsion Lab — all of which were in L.A. in the ’40s, and were developing the space program and were developing nukes. That’s what Isodyne is, and what you’ll learn is they were involved in the nuclear testing out in the desert when they were testing the, at the time they were calling it the atom bomb — and one of these tests didn’t go as expected. You’ll learn more about that in season 2, but they stumble upon what people in the Marvel Universe will know as Darkforce, but because they’ve never seen it before they just name it Zero Matter. That’s our tie-in to the Doctor Strange universe, and also to S.H.I.E.L.D. because you’ve seen it in S.H.I.E.L.D., as well.

This isn't the first time Darkforce has been used in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the first season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Darkforce gave rise to a villain nicknamed Blackout. In Agent Carter however, things will be different.

The cool thing about what we learned as we researched Darkforce over the course of Marvel comic book history is, it affects people in different ways. It’s created a bunch of superheroes, it’s created a bunch of villains, and it has all these different properties. It could be a liquid, it could be a gas, it could be a solid, it could give you powers, it could kill you. It has a lot of different applications, which was cool for us. We were able to select what we liked and sort of make our own rules as to what it does, how it operates, and who it affects in our world.

Marvel's Agent Carter premieres January 19, while Doctor Strange opens in theaters on November 4.

Source - Comic Book Resources

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