Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Introduces Marvel Comics Supervillain Blizzard in New Clip

Things get a bit frosty between a group of S.H.I.E.L.D. cadets in the cold open (no pun intended) for Tuesday's episode of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. You can check it out embedded below. When a trio of boozy and bawdy cadets make their way to the pool to enjoy some downtime after a big test, they interrupt a quiet student trying to study in the bleachers--and the result is what seems to be a subconscious response that freezes the water and nearly drowns two of the kids. It doesn't look like he'll get away with much, though, as the look he gets indicates that he's not fooling anybody; S.H.I.E.L.D. seems to know he has powers. As previously reported, that would be Blizzard, a Marvel Comics supervillain whose alter ego was mentioned in the episode summary.

Blizzard is a bit more morally gray than many supervillains, having been a member of the villains-acting-as-heroes team the Thunderbolts and having been briefly "reformed" after a confrontation with James Rhodes. He has, as his name suggests, weather- and cold-based powers…which seem as though they'll be pretty key to the episode, according to the official description: "Seeds" – Coulson and May uncover startling information about Skye's past, while the team is swept into a storm at S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy, on "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," Tuesday, January 14 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. For the first bit of the season, producers and stars on the show kept vaguely promising that there was a plan in place to bring Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. more closely in line with the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe--and now with Blizzard and potentially Deathlok joining the fray, it does indeed appear they're going to attempt it. Fun fact: Not only was there an episode of AMC's The Walking Dead titled "Seeds," but it's the name of a Bruce Springsteen song. Springsteen, of course, wrote "Darkness on the Edge of Town," a title which was appropriated for a fan-favorite episode of Arrow last year.