History AgentsOfSHIELD / TropesIToM

* LoveTriangle: Either a [[TriangRelations Type 3 or Type 4]] forms around Simmons towards the end of Season One, with Fitz and Triplett on the other two sides.

* ILoveNuclearPower: It's suggested that Scorch gained his [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinetic]] abilities thanks to a nuclear plant that caught fire near his house.

* MainliningTheMonster: GH.325 is revealed to be extracted from [[spoiler:an alien corpse (probably Kree)]] in "T.A.H.I.T.I.".

** In Season 5, Brigadier General Hale has taken Talbot's place in wake of his [[spoiler:brain injury at the hands of an LMD of Daisy,]] and she cranks Talbot's traits from the earlier seasons UpToEleven, treating Fitz incredibly harshly during his six months in prison, planning to kidnap Robin as a way of stockpiling weapons, and [[BadBoss shooting two of her subordinates when they failed to catch the agents one too many times]].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Season Three will have ten main characters. Then there's all the recurring characters.

** When told that they are in outer space, Mack: Great that is [[RecycledInSpace one thing we haven't done yet]].

* KilledOffForReal: So far, each season has featured {{Character Death}}s that have been [[CharactersDroppingLikeFlies rendered permanent]]

** [[spoiler: One of the reasons why Deke One of the reasons Deke chooses to be the one to stay behind in the alternate timeline is because he knows that Sousa and Daisy like each other, and he just wants Daisy to be happy.]]

** [[spoiler: Coulson LMD adamant that he is not a Chronicom.]]

[[spoiler: Ruby gets when Yo-Yo slashes her throat with her own chakrams, echoing how Ruby had used those chakrams to cut of Yo-Yo's arms]].
[[spoiler: General Hale ends up getting killed by Talbot, who she had spent six months torturing for information. The fact that he becomes the champion that she sought to create with Infusion Chamber and Gravitonium also qualifies]].

** Ruby does this to Fitz-Simmons telling them to work faster on rebuilding on the Infusion Chamber or she would start cutting off body parts like she did to their friend, (Yo-Yo).

** In ''Stolen'', [[spoiler: When he confronts Daisy and Jiaying, Nathaniel pretty much summarizes all the horrible things Jiaying did in the season 2 finale. In the final episode and then killing her himself when she tries to kill Daisy, and this came just after Daisy had just told Jiaying how her mother had hurt her, adding even more shock from Jiaying. And when Jiaying tried to defend Daisy from Nathaniel, she ends up getting her neck snapped by the man, who says that she won't live forever after all.
** In ''What We Are Fighting For'', [[spoiler: When he comes across Daisy, Nathaniel brings up how he killed Jiaying so easily. As if that wasn't bad enough, he goes as far as to mock Daisy for being unable to stop Jiaying in the other timeline and how someone had to save her]].
even mocking her for being unable to do it in the other timeline, and how someone had to save her from Jiaying.

** Holden Radcliffe ends up kidnapped by Hive

* KillItWithFire: At the end of "Hot Potato Soup", [[spoiler:the LMD's are disposed of in the incinerator at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, but the May LMD is spared, with the hope that she may lead Team Coulson to the real May]].

** May acknowledges that the team has a "small but active fanbase" in "All the Comforts of Home".

* MoralMyopia: In "T.A.H.I.T.I.", the team assault the "Guest House" facility and kill the two guards posted there. Those two people are not bad guys. They are JustFollowingOrders, and those orders come from Nick Fury. Sure, the team tries a peaceful approach first, and they are in a hurry because of Skye dying, but it is surprising that nobody in the team has any second thoughts about murdering two decent guys. [[spoiler:The fact that two out of four members of the assault team were HYDRA agents trying to discover the base's secrets was part of the suspicious lack of moralizing. In fact, the HYDRA agents were the ones who did the shooting]].

* MyGreatestFailure: The [[spoiler:Agents of HYDRA]] arc reveals what this is for several of the main characters [[spoiler:and explores what life would be like without them]].

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Oh Fitz. [[spoiler:Finds out the woman he's in love with and spent six months doing everything he could to rescue from another planet fell in love with someone else while she was there. He promptly gets to work rescuing him too.]]

* ImmuneToBullets: Hive's brainwashed Inhumans are immune to the ICER rounds due to the way he messed with their neural chemistry. This makes capturing them alive more difficult than it could be. It comes to a head in the finale, when [[spoiler:Hive's minions detonate a gas bomb in the Playground, turning a number of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents into Alpha Primitives. The agents only have [=ICERs=] for personal defense, rendering them practically helpless]].

* InspectorJavert: Colonel Talbot doesn't care if Coulson's team was involved with the villains or not -- he has his orders to bring them in, no matter what. This fades as Season 2 progresses, though.

* IRejectYourReality: [[spoiler:"Real" S.H.I.E.L.D. is entrenched in their views that Coulson has been compromised by the GH serum and can't be trusted. Whenever anyone brings up that Coulson's been trying to stop HYDRA from getting ahold of alien artifacts (even Bobbi, who is part of their board of directors) they twist the facts around so Coulson is hunting these artifacts for himself and not for the greater good. Also, despite the fact that HYDRA spent decades and decades infiltrating SHIELD (starting right after [=WW2=]), they also seem to hold Nick Fury solely responsible, because in his role as TheSpymaster he kept a lot of things ''secret'' (like bases and resources that were essential to thwarting the HYDRA takeover).]]

** At the end of the first season, [[spoiler:Quinn and Raina, despite brief turns in prison earlier in the season, are able to escape Garrett's downfall.]]

** In "Ragtag", [[spoiler:Garrett orders Ward to kill a dog, just to prove a point.]]

** Later in the series, this is The Clairvoyant's plan for Fitz when he gets captured, and possibly Simmons as well.

* LittleNo: Fitz gives a slow, soft one despair and denial in "FZZT," when it looks like [[spoiler:Simmons' last hope for surviving the alien virus has failed.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Fitz gets hit hard with this once he regains his original memories and personality upon waking up from the [[InsideAComputerSystem Framework]].

** Season Five has [[spoiler:Lt. Evans, Anton Ivanov, Werner von Strucker, Ruby Hale, Brigadier General Hale, Carl "Crusher" Creel, Qovas, Brigadier General Glenn Talbot, and Dr. Leopold Fitz]] all confirmed dead, though [[spoiler:the [[BackupTwin original Fitz]] is still technically cryogenically frozen on a spacecraft somewhere up in Earth's orbit which TheTeam is planning on retrieving]], whilst [[spoiler:Ian Quinn, a [[BigBadEnsemble minor antagonist]] from the first season, was [[TheReveal revealed]] to have been [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty absorbed into the Gravitonium]] courtesy of a vengeful Franklin Hall]]. Meanwhile, [[spoiler:[[BigGood Phil Coulson]], who's [[SecretlyDying slowly dying]] thanks to the [[DealWithTheDevil deal with Ghost Rider]] that cost him the [[BizarreAlienBiology Kree blood]] that was keeping him alive, decides to [[ButNowIMustGo retire as Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.]] so that he can spend [[FaceDeathWithDignity what remaining time he has left]] to take [[ActionGirl Agent Melinda May]] on holiday in Tahiti]].
*** The "[[spoiler:S.H.I.E.L.D. in Space]]" arc also {{Inverted|Trope}} the trope since it took place [[spoiler:in a [[BadFuture far future]]]] where, despite the deaths of several notable characters such as [[spoiler:Ben, Grill, Faulnak, Robin Hinton, Sinara, the entire Kree Watch, Elena Rodriguez, Kasius, and [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Enoch]]]], none of them actually mattered, since [[spoiler:TheTeam had successfuly prevented the event(s) leading to this dark future from ever happening]].
** Season Six has [[spoiler:Damon Keller, Pax, Jaco, Agent Davis, Izel and Sarge]] all confirmed dead. [[Spoiler:May takes a fatal wound from Sarge in "The Sign" and dies in "New Life", but Simmons, by her own indication, begins the process of healing May, leaving May in a coma at the end of the season.]] The finale also sees [[spoiler:a hyper-advanced LMD of Phil Coulson, complete with a brain upload from before his passing, which essentially resurrects Coulson for the final season]] and inverts the trope.
** Season Seven has [[spoiler:Wilfred Malick, Luke, Enoch Coltrane, Gordon, Jiaying, most of S.H.I.E.L.D., a pre-HYDRA John Garrett, Nathaniel Malick and Sibyl]] all confirmed dead, though [[spoiler:the "main" timeline branched off following the death of Wilfred Malick, thus creating an alternate timeline]]. {{Subverted|Trope}} in the case of [[spoiler:Daniel Sousa, whose death was [[DeathFakedForYou faked]] as a result of future S.H.I.E.L.D. managing to avoid his death by [[TrickedOutTime tricking out time]]]].

** Season Six sees the deaths of [[spoiler:Damon Keller, Pax, Jaco, Agent Davis, Izel and Sarge. May takes a fatal wound from Sarge in "The Sign" and dies in "New Life", but Simmons, by her own indication, begins the process of healing May, leaving May in a coma at the end of the season.]] The finale also sees [[spoiler:a hyper-advanced LMD of Phil Coulson, complete with a brain upload from before his passing, which essentially resurrects Coulson for the final season]] and inverts the trope.

** It's not confirmed by the Framework, but it's heavily implied throughout the later half of the show that Daisy feels this way about [[spoiler:Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E22Ascension Lincoln's death]].]]