

Foley felt that "one of the most important things was that the symbol be incorporated into her costume but especially onto the gauntlets, And it’s also on the back of her suit, which was a fun little touch that we added. We wanted to stay true to the comic book character fans love I wanted to please them but also make sure there was still some movement and length and sexiness in the hair." Bennet also received a superhero costume for the third season, again bringing the character closer to the version in the comics. For the third season, Bennet cut her hair to further her character's transformation to Daisy Johnson, as she is portrayed in the comics, though she did not cut her hair as short as her comic counterpart Bennet explained that "the comic book version of Daisy Johnson has very short, Miley Cyrus-esque hair. agent in the second season, she received a more tactical outfit. Skye's initial costume design was intended to keep her relatable, with inspiration coming from street style blogs, but as she became a more experienced S.H.I.E.L.D. Those two factors led us to coming up with a different notion of how she got her powers." Unlike the comic version, Skye is an Inhuman Jed Whedon explained that "We’ve created a different origin for her.we merged those two ideas together also because there are such rabid fans out there that if we stick to original story points from the comics, they will smell story points from miles away.

We got confirmation on that very early on, so we’ve been on that track ever since." Bennet was cast as Skye in December 2012, out of more than 400 actresses who auditioned for the role. Daisy Johnson was the main character that we wanted to go for.
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When the character of Skye was introduced to the series, it was always intended that she would be the MCU version of Johnson, as executive producer Maurissa Tancharoen explained, "there are always the series of clearances, but we always knew we wanted to evolve Skye into something else.

After helping an the earlier timeline version of Kora join the team, Daisy continues to work with her and Sousa one year after defeating the Chronicoms.ĭaisy Johnson was created by Brian Michael Bendis and Gabriele Dell'Otto for Secret War #2. While traveling through time to stop the Chronicoms from changing history in season seven, she enters into a relationship with time-displaced Agent Daniel Sousa and discovers she had an older half-sister, Kora, who had died in her timeline. following the fight with Eli Morrow in the fourth season of the series. and becomes known as the powered vigilante "Quake" to the public. team of Inhumans named the Secret Warriors, including Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez, Lincoln Campbell, and Joey Gutierrez.Īfter briefly being connected to Hive, and watching Lincoln Campbell, with whom she developed a romantic relationship, sacrifice himself for her, Johnson leaves S.H.I.E.L.D. Now using her birth name, Johnson forms a S.H.I.E.L.D. Skye's loyalties are tested when Jiaying attempts to start a war with S.H.I.E.L.D., and she ultimately sides with S.H.I.E.L.D. Skye soon meets Jiaying, who helps Skye control her abilities.

After reuniting with her father, Skye chooses to drive him away, knowing him to be a monster and murderer, though his wishes for her to fulfill her destiny-by unlocking her Inhuman abilities-are granted when she unintentionally comes into contact with the Terrigen Mists, which give her earthquake-generating abilities. Ward unfortunately turns out to be a Hydra mole, devastating and enraging Skye, who had harbored romantic feelings for him prior to realizing his true colors. Taking the name "Skye" since she disliked the name the orphanage gave her, she became a skilled hacktivist, opposing organisations like S.H.I.E.L.D.īeing a hacker led to Skye's involvement with Coulson, who decided to recruit her, and have Ward, and then May, train her to be a formidable field agent. Daisy Johnson was born in China to Calvin Johnson and his Inhuman wife Jiaying, but was soon taken by Hydra agents which infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D.
