John Garrett (comics)

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John Garrett is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

John Garrett
John Garrett as depicted in Secret Warriors #7 (August 2009). Art by Alessandro Vitti (penciller/inker) and Sunny Gho (colorist).
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Elektra: Assassin #2 (September 1986)
Created by	Frank Miller (writer) Bill Sienkiewicz (artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	John Garrett
Species	Human cyborg
Team affiliations	S.H.I.E.L.D.
Abilities	Skilled marksman

The character appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., portrayed by Bill Paxton in season one and James Paxton in season seven.

Publication history

John Garrett first appeared in Elektra: Assassin #2 (September 1986), and was created by Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz.

Fictional character biography

John Garrett worked for the CIA and went through special covert training.^[1] In 1961, Leonardo da Vinci invited Garrett to the Pieta base in Rome to be a member of the Great Wheel. Leonardo sent Garrett, Vasili Dassiev, Shoji Soma and Daniel Whitehall to Giza to acquire a power source from a Brood vessel. Garrett approved the idea of using the power source to run the rejuvenations chambers found by another team. He was present when the chambers were stolen by Russian soldiers led by Victor Uvarov and Dassiev, who nearly kill him.^[2]

Garrett has gotten in trouble with the law and ended up in different prisons. After his times in each prison, Garrett was recruited to work for S.H.I.E.L.D., with his criminal records mysteriously vanishing.^[3]

Garrett is later converted into a cyborg with a cybernetic right hand.^[4] He once collaborated with Elektra to fight the Hand. Due to Garrett going haywire, Elektra places him in stasis, where he thinks that he is the President of the United States.^[5] He is later freed by agents of Snakeroot and reinstated into S.H.I.E.L.D.^[6]

Powers and abilities

John Garrett is a trained agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., and a skilled marksman. As a cyborg, approximately 80% of his body is replaced with S.H.I.E.L.D. cybernetics with only his head and a few of his organs still being natural. He has plastic skin and metal alloy bones, with his muscular system consisting of a combination of pneumatics, hydraulics, and internal electrical generators. His cyborg body grants him enhanced strength, speed, stamina, durability, regeneration, and agility.

Other versions

An alternate universe variant of John Garrett from Earth-1610 appears in Ultimate Hawkeye #2. This version is a human S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.^[7]

In other media

• John Garrett appears in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., portrayed by Bill Paxton. This version is a high-level S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and munitions expert and a former cohort of Phil Coulson who works alongside Grant Ward and Melinda May.^[8][9] Garrett is later revealed to be a high-ranking Hydra sleeper agent known as "The Clairvoyant" and Project Centipede's mastermind.^[10] Garrett is also the Deathlok program's first test subject who is dying from organ failure. In the episode "Beginning of the End", after being rejuvenated with Kree blood, Garrett engages Coulson in battle before the latter receives help from Nick Fury and Mike Peterson. The three defeat him, but Garrett escapes and upgrades himself, only to be killed by Coulson.^[11]
  • A younger alternate timeline version of Garrett, portrayed by James Paxton, is introduced in the season seven episode "Stolen". Nathaniel Malick recruits him after telling him of his future and grants him teleportation powers from the Inhuman Gordon.^[12] After Malick leaves him for dead, Garrett sides with S.H.I.E.L.D. and helps them regroup following a Chronicom attack before he is accidentally killed by Victoria Hand, who mistakes him for a threat.^[13]