During his time as an agent, he recruited Grant Ward into HYDRA and became a fatherly figure to him. During the HYDRA Uprising, Garrett broke his cover, fled S.H.I.E.L.D. and then restarted the Centipede Project with the goal to recreate the life-saving drug of GH.325, which he desperately needed to heal his failing organs. He attempted to use the knowledge given to him by the drug to take over the world, but was stopped by Phil Coulson, Deathlok and Nick Fury in the Battle at Cybertek, and was subsequently killed by Coulson with the Peruvian 0-8-4 while he was upgrading himself. Many people under Garrert's servitude, namely Ward, have immense loyalty and dedication to Garrett himself rather than the cause he serves under, displaying impressive charismatic abilities. However, he was extremely manipulative and willing to change his character to take advantage of the needs of the person he was fooling.
Publication Information
- S.H.I.E.L.D. : John Garrett
- Version : Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Alter Ego :
- Known As : Jonathan Garrett
- Type :
- Relative :
- Affiliation :
- Formerly S.H.I.E.L.D.
- HYDRA
- Centipede Project
- Cybertek
- Garrett's Team
- Gender : Male
- Origin : Earth
- Season : Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- First Appeareance : Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 1 Episod 2 : 0-8-4
- Last Appeareance :
- Number of Appeareance :
- Potrayer : Bill Paxton
- Main View : Full Episod
With Ward, he acts as a father-figure for the troubled young man, on account of sensing he was in need of one and preyed on this remorselessly in order to get him to join HYDRA. A toxic and abusive paternal figure towards Ward, Garrert utterly refused to allow him to feel attachment to anything and would manipulate Ward's loyalty towards him to abandon and kill whatever he may have cared about to please him, although it never did work as he expected, as exemplified by Ward's pet Buddy and friends Fitz and Jemma Simmons, whom he admitted he cared about before ejecting the two of them from a plane. He was not above emotionally blackmailing a person or threatening children by kidnapping Ace Peterson to force Deathlok into helping him.
To avoid his death, Garrett injected himself with GH.325, which radically changed his personality: he became more arrogant and insane and began to lose touch with reality, claiming to feel "the universe" and prophesying "the end", among other bizarre statements. The Kree formula caused him to view the coming Inhumans, such as Raina and Skye, as the next step of evolution and that the world would be theirs after the humans were killed, something which Garrett attempted to assist with using his Centipede Soldiers. His apparent madness was so great that even Grant Ward, his most loyal follower, began to question him.
Abilities
John Garrett had to use the Centipede Device to keep himself alive, and despite its properties, he was unable to gain the powers the Centipede Serum granted until he was injected with GH.325, which managed to heal all the internal injuries he sustained and improve a condition that had been worsening over the years.
- Superhuman Strength : Through the Centipede Serum, Garrett gained a considerable amount of strength, enough to throw a man across a room with a single punch, or to carve a hole in the chest of another.
- Superhuman Durability : Once injected with the GH.325 and mixed with the Centipede Serum, Garrett was able to withstand a full magazine of handgun shots, and even the direct explosion of a rocket in his chest, something that, though left him badly wounded, would have killed any ordinary human being.
- Regenerative Healing Factor : The GH.325 healed far more than the internal injuries that Garrett had sustained years before; its use through the Centipede Serum allowed him to permanently benefit from the healing properties of the drug. Garrett almost instantly healed from more than a dozen gunshots, and despite Deathlok stomping on Garrett's chest with his cybernetic leg, an injury which should have been fatal, Garrett was able to heal enough to survive until his ultimate death.
- Master Marksman : John Garrett was a highly trained marksman skilled in sharpshooting, and one of the best marksmen in the agency. He had such accuracy that he almost did not need to aim in order to shoot an immobile target. Garrett had also become an expert in gunfights, managing to overcome opponents using a diversion and approach them to shoot at point blank range.
- Expert Martial Artist : Garrett was skilled enough in hand-to-hand combat to give Phil Coulson a good fight, once his true allegiance to HYDRA was revealed, who defeated him using a Thunderstick.
- Master Spy : Garrett spent years pretending to be a loyal agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. despite being a HYDRA operative. No one knew that he was the Clairvoyant; Ian Quinn predicted that shooting Skye would bring the Clairvoyant, but no one was suspicious of Garrett's subsequent arrival. Garrett also had Thomas Nash in place to deflect suspicion from himself.
- Expert Pilot : Garrett was able to avoid the missiles of two S.H.I.E.L.D. UAVs that pursued him; Garrett was able to coordinate his piloting skills with Phil Coulson, who trained with him.
Weapons
As an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and a HYDRA operative, Garrett was highly skilled with all types of firearms.
- Glock 17 : John Garrett carried a Glock 17 pistol as his sidearm grabbing it in anticipation of an ambush when he was tasked to investigate some candidates for the identity of the Clairvoyant
- Smith & Wesson Model 64 : Garrett carried this revolver to a young Grant Ward during his time in Wyoming, promising to teach him to shoot even better than himself.
- Heckler & Koch UMP45 : Both Grant Ward and John Garrett used these submachine guns during the infiltration into the Guest House.
- Mossberg 500 Field : Garrett used these shotgun in the forest of Wyoming to hunt some ducks in 1999, during the same day he abandoned Ward in the forests.
- M4A1 Carbine : The standard weapon used by S.H.I.E.L.D. Strike Team members, that Garrett also used while tracking Deathlok and the Clairvoyant in Florida.
- FN SCAR-H with EGLM : Garrett grabbed a a FN SCAR-H with an Enhanced Grenade Launching Module attached to it to defend himself from Deathlok when he attacked the S.H.I.E.L.D. Safe House in Sydney, though he did not fire a single shot.
- I.C.E.R. (Pistol Carbine) : Garrett was handed one of Leo Fitz's improved non-lethal weapons to infiltrate the Hub and deal with Victoria Hand.
- Biomechanics :
- Centipede Device : Garrett was outfitted with an internal device that injected him a serum based on Abraham Erskine's Super Soldier Serum mixed with Gamma Radiation and the Extremis formula. Given his condition, the serum was not as effective on Garrett as it was on other subjects, and it simply helped him to stay alive until he was cured by the GH.325
- Cybertek Prosthetic Leg : Garrett's damaged legs were replaced with a cybernetic prosthesis designed by Cybertek, able to enhance his speed. Forearm Rocket Launcher: Garrett was also installed with two rocket launchers on to his forearms, allowing him to fire guided mini-rockets at his targets.
- Pick-Lock Device : A little explosive that Garrett used to enter a secure room inside the Fridge, where the items that supposedly had been sent to space through the Slingshot were being kept.
