Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Executive Producers Talk Adrianne Palicki's Mockingbird, Plus New Season 2 Team Picture Released!

News broke several weeks ago that Adrianne Palicki would play Mockingbird on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. in Season 2. But how will the character blend into the show?

Executive producers Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen spoke to Comic Book Resources about the character and the actress. "Well, we're very excited to have the beloved character, Mockingbird, on the show," Tancharoen said. "Adrianne Palicki was a perfect fit for the role. She was someone we pictured from the beginning. It's thrilling to have a nice, sort of skilled, sexy spy in the mix. And I think with the handful of characters that we have added to the show, it's just to illustrate what the new S.H.I.E.L.D. may look like. Coulson is operating with limited resources, so he has to bring people into the fold. So it may feel like we're expanding a lot, but really, the people that you will see are basically the people we have at our disposal."

The site asked the producers for their thoughts on acquiring a character who could easily appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. "Well, obviously, we all exist in one universe, and if we didn't, we could have any character we wanted. We could kill them and do what we wanted with them," Whedon said. "It is nice that we're all in one universe, so when we get something, it does have weight. It does exist in the Cinematic Universe and we're in constant communication with features, and there's a database of what they're using, what they plan to use, what we can and can't use. We just try to carve out our little spot, and Mockingbird's a good example of someone who we can really lean on as a major character."

"Right. And in the Marvel Universe everything is fluid," Tancharoen added. "The show was basically born out of what has been already established in the Cinematic Universe, so as much as we have benefitted from having characters that you've seen in the film[s] appear on our show, there is always a possibility for the reverse. So we do think that all our characters have potential to crossover at some point and there's always that possibility, and Mockingbird is a nice, exciting new character for us to have that does have crossover potential.

Mockingbird gets increased strength and agility in the comics when she is injected with a serum, so we'll see if the show or movies bring that into play.

In other news, Marvel has released the first official photo of the entire team from Season 2, which you can check out here.

What do you expect from Palicki as Mockingbird? How do you think she will integrate into the show and the larger Marvel universe? Let us know in the comments section.