History Awesome / AgentsOfSHIELDSeasonFour

-->"As far as I'm concerned you're just another {{redshirt}}, like so many others, who tried unsuccessfully to stop me from saving the world. [[BadassBoast 'Cause that's what I do.]] So cool origin story, bro. But this means ''nothing'' to me."

* While she eventually gets overwhelmed, Daisy gets props for taking on an entire prison full of Watch Dogs inmates; not only does she hold her own, but she proceeds to hand several of them their asses -- and without even using her powers! Bonus points when you remember the reason ''why'' she's not using her powers; her left arm is ''still broken'', and the rest of her bones aren't in great shape either. She still took out a room full of guys in-spite of this handicap. May taught that girl ''well''.

** And, in a meta moment of awesome, we get to see the Rider transform ''back to Robbie''! Way to go animators!

* In a meta way, managing to pull off the OnceMoreWithClarity effect used throughout the episode.

* While the above battle is going on Fitz, Simmons, Radcliffe, Daisy, and Aida are working on the ''real'' plan: [[spoiler: they make a huge portal underneath Eli and the Rider (who is holding Eli in place), which sucks them into another dimension.]] All the while, Daisy has to absorb successively more powerful earthquakes to allow Aida to work.
* Eli's no slouch either. In about a week, he has worked his way from creating carbon to ''plutonium''. That's not enough for him so he worked his way through the entire periodic table and has started creating compounds- he fills a glass with water just to show off to Robbie. That's still not enough; he plans to ''create life itself'' next.

* Daisy uses her powers to jump ''several thousand feet'' in the air, then lands safely afterwards.

* We officially have Life Model Decoys in the MCU. They're not perfect yet but they exist.
* Daisy's stint as a rogue vigilante should be given props as well; she's evaded SHIELD's tracking (which includes the seismic monitoring they developed back when she was under Hive's thrall), to the point that Mack and Coulson were both completely unable to find her in-spite of their best efforts, even though she was regularly able to track down Yo-Yo to score bone-repairing drugs. She's also been fighting ''without'' her gauntlets, including using her powers regularly, despite the strain this was causing her body. When she's suiting up, she's visibly covered in bruises and not in great shape.

* At the end of the episode, Team Coulson is looking at its DarkestHour: they're on the run again, [[spoiler:Yo-Yo jumped into the Framework to try and convince Mack to return]], Fitz's mental state is at its absolute lowest, and Aida is an unstoppable PhysicalGod planning to take revenge on Team Coulson with Ivanov. So one has to ask: [[FromBadToWorse how can it possibly get any worse?]] [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope It doesn't]], because [[HesBack Ghost Rider has finally returned from Hell.]] And he's got his flaming chain, which he dramatically wraps around himself like [[Film/GhostRider another Ghost Rider]]. Aida and Ivanov, [[ArcWords it's time to pay for your sins]].]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''Meet [[ComicBook/GhostRider the one who decides]].'']]

* When Daisy meets Robbie the first time, she thinks he's an ordinary guy working at the junkyard. Then as he's leading her to the office, she hears him flip his keys and stops cold, remembering that sound from earlier. She turns just as Robbie's eyes light up and hits him with her powers, slamming him against a van and ''denting it''. The blow would've disabled most people, broken several bones from the impact and shattered others by the vibrations. [[NoSell Robbie shrugs it off]] and comes at her, eyes aglow. He grabs a piece of rebar and lights it up with hellfire, and the battle begins.

*** Note that the Hell Charger takes the impact without a scratch. There's a dent in the Quinjet's nose, though.

** James throws a fire bomb at Robbie and he takes it full in the face. The result is nothing but ScratchDamage and Robbie delivering a PreAsskickingOneLiner just before transforming: "It's time to pay for your sins."

* Ghost Rider kills the last of the Fifth Street Locos by burning him alive in his cell. That's enough for the rioting prisoners to retreat back into their respective cells. When [[TheDreaded the Rider]] comes into a prison riot, ''everyone'' goes back to their cells.

* The team gets a concrete sight of just how powerful Ghost Rider is when he breaks out of a containment module. For full reference, one of these things was able to hold Lash in the previous season.

* Eli is the first person [[spoiler:to subdue the Rider]] for a time. It turns out that a sufficient amount of sudden pain can prevent the transformation.

** Robbie shows up out of nowhere to confront Aida, Ivanov, and his [=LMDs=]. Robbie tosses them around like dolls and burns Aida's arm, which her powers can't heal. Aida then tries to shock him. ''Big mistake.'' All that does is summon the Rider, and she teleports away in sheer terror. She spends the rest of the episode trying to avoid him at all costs.

** Finally, Aida has gotten wise and makes sure to be nowhere near Robbie. She finds Coulson alone with the Darkhold and figures she's won. [[spoiler: Then Coulson's face starts burning off and she realizes ''[[OhCrap he's not alone]]''...]]

* Simmons, the very picture of grace under pressure, affecting a southern accent when pretending to be a lobbyist to contact Senator Nadeer. And taking out Nadeer's assistant when the act didn't work.
-->'''Daisy''': Simmons, are you there? Is everything okay?\\
'''Simmons'': A bit bloody and bruised but I'll survive. We ''may'' have a bit of a political situation on our hands when he wakes up, but now we can trace that call.

* While everything quickly goes to hell after, Daisy holding her own at a senate meeting about her vigilante activities as Quake and Inhumans being a danger to society. She even manages to get in a good shot at Nadeer about how Inhumans are regular people to a neighbor, a friend, a ''brother'' which while briefly throws Nadeer off and leaves her silent.

* Radcliff's [[spoiler: plan to acquire the Darkhold worked perfectly. As soon as LMD!May got her hands on it she turned on Coulson and refused to back down even after Coulson pointed out that the real May wouldn't betray him. When after she was busted by Daisy's quake-slaps she seized another opportunity to hand it over to him. What's more awesome in a meta sense is that this is an aversion of the UnspokenPlanGuarantee that avoids the supposed "flaws" of doing so.]]

* The Watchdogs and/or Aida get an OffScreenMomentOfAwesome since they captured Coulson, Mack and Daisy [[spoiler: actually Fitz]] during the mission without anyone realizing it.

** This is not a normal quake blast; this is a ''charged'' quake blast. Combined with the look of resolve on her face makes for a powerfully emotional sequence.

-->'''Ward:''' [[HeelFaceTurn Well, I am.]]

* Daisy pulls a Captain America with a group of Hydra goons in the Triskelion elevator.

* In TheStinger, [[spoiler:May arrives in Daisy's cell and demands to know if she truly is an Inhuman. Daisy says yes, "powerful enough to bring down this whole building." May then smashes a Terrigen crystal at her feet and says, " I hope so". The following grin promises much pain and suffering for HYDRA to come.]]

* Coulson's RousingSpeech to the world live on national propaganda TV. People immidiately rally against HYDRA. Before that, the show snipes at Trump again by having Coulson say "HYDRA doesn’t think we’re smart enough to know when we’re being fed alternative facts."
* May and Daisy's escape from the Triskellion is ''glorious''. Highlights include May taking down three men mid flip (and it's clearly Ming-Na Wen herself doing it), and Daisy delivering a magnificent ShutUpHannibal to Madam Hydra in the form of quaking her ass out of a window, 40 floors up.

* Shortly after, Simmons gets out of further lie detector tests by warning Director Mace she'll have to tell the truth about one of his alleged exploits, a warning which essentially amounts to blackmail. Director Mace realizes that he had been hoist with his own petard and orders the exemption for Simmons to avoid any embarrassment of his own.
* While she eventually gets overwhelmed, Daisy gets props for taking on entire prison full of Watch Dogs inmates; not only does she hold her own, but she proceeds to hand several of them their asses -- and without even using her powers! Bonus points when you remember the reason ''why'' she's not using her powers; her left arm is ''still broken'', and the rest of her bones aren't in great shape either. She still took out a room full of guys in-spite of this handicap. May taught that girl ''well''.

* When Daisy meets Robbie the first time, she thinks he's an ordinary guy working at the junkyard. Then as he's leading her to the office, she hears him flip his keys and stops cold, remembering that sound from earlier. She turns just as Robbie's eyes light up and hits him with her powers, slamming him against a van and ''denting it''. The blow would've disabled most people, broken several bones from the impact and shattered others by the vibrations. [[NoSell Robbie shrugs it off]] and comes at her eyes aglow. He grabs a piece of rebar and lights it up with hellfire, and the battle begins.

[[caption-width-right:350:''Meet [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner the one who decides]].'']]

--->'''Coulson:''' Maybe not. [grabs Aida by the arm] [[WhamLine But I'm pretty sure]] ''[[WhamLine he]]'' [[WhamLine can.]]

** Finally, Aida has gotten wise and makes sure to be nowhere near Robbie. She finds Coulson alone with the Darkhold and figures she's won. [[spoiler:And then Coulson's face starts burning off and she realizes ''[[OhCrap he's not alone]]''...]]
*** And, again, props has to be given to the VFX team for crafting [[spoiler: four different skulls for each character possessed by the Rider thus far.]]
** And after a brief teleporting FreefallFight, [[spoiler:Ghost Rider delivers the most satisfying coup de grace in the series thus far: he utterly ''incinerates'' Aida with hellfire before smashing her charred corpse into the ground.]]
** Hell, the first scene Ghost Rider is in counts as one, not for the fact he appears after Aida attacks him, but after she teleports away, his reaction. We know the Spirit is full of anger, but that was pure ''rage''!
* Jemma shooting Aida with an MP5:
-->'''Aida:'''(standing up, bullet wounds healing) You're trap failed. You can't stop me!

* Ivanov gets a villainous one by managing to succeed in his plan to turn the public against Inhumans and SHIELD, by having an LMD of Daisy shoot Talbot in the head, then having Mace's autopsy (revealing him not to be inhuman) leaked to the press. However, whether the Men in Black work for him or not remains to be seen...

* Jemma shooting Aida with an AK-47:

** During their second encounter, joined by Daisy, Robbie flips Ivanov into the air and Daisy quakes his head off. It's so awesome that Coulson actually acknowledges it.
--->'''Coulson:''' ''[arriving two seconds later, sounding extremely disappointed]'' I missed it, didn't I? You two together and we missed it! Damn!

* Fitz tricks Aida into killing an LMD of Jemma and the real Jeamma shoots her with an AK-47 when she tries to take the Darkhold from Coulson.

* Possibly the last time we'll mention this, but this might just be the most effects-heavy episode ''yet''.