History NightmareFuel / AgentsOfSHIELD

* It's pretty disturbing (and [[TearJerker depressing]] how quickly Yo-yo's so-called friends at the party turn on her when they find out she's the Inhuman the Watchdogs are looking for.

** Worst part, the Anti-Inhuman cell SHIELD has on board the Zephyr cannot contain his powers. Something that was designed to contain ''[[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk the Hulk]]'' cannot contain Shockley.

* Hive's experience with the memory machine is essentially a schizophrenic freak out turned UpToEleven. Imagine a normal person who has multiple personality disorder, and they lose track of which personality is the right one. Now imagine, instead of personalities, you had entire lives, and you are reincarnated with the memories of the previous lives still intact. For millennia... And imagine each and every one coming to the surface simultaneously, all believing that they are the current life. 100+ lives all interacting in your mind at once, with an eon of memories all pushed to the surface. It's more scary to think that Hive '''wasn't''' reduced to a huddled ball of insanity by this tactic.

* Mike Peterson calls his son, who happily tells him that his friend is watching him. When Mike asks Ace to put her on the phone, [[AdultFear it turns out to be Raina.]] His son was being watched by his aunt.

** Robbie specifically talks about his fear that [[AdultFear his wheel-chair bound little brother will be stuck in a bad part of town]].

** Mack lives in [[AdultFear constant fear]] that Hydra will come after his daughter and himself; when you remember that Mack joined SHIELD before the Katya Incident occurred (2002 vs 2008), it's entirely possible he's hiding from the government because ''they know he's ex-SHIELD''.

* The alien, Lash, that's been hunting Inhumans and killing them. Skye and Lincoln barely faze the guy, Mac empties his gun into his gut and it doesn't slow him down. He has a nasty way of killing.

* Ward and Kara being able to take out Bobbi and planning to kill her. the borderline-SlasherSmile they share at the end really sells it.

* The SHIELD break-in, at least from HYDRA's perspective. They knew SHIELD had highly-skilled operatives when they signed up to fight SHIELD. But they didn't know SHIELD had an Enhanced; imagine what it would have been like when Skye got there. She cleared out a room in a second with her powers. And that was one of the ''tamer'' uses of her powers.

-->'''Fitz''': You're not Will.\\
'''It''': No, Will died saving Jemma... from me.
*** And how do we learn this? Because whatever wounded Will's leg caused the flesh to be ''stripped to the bone''.

* When Grant Ward and his [[{{Mooks}} Hydra soilders]] see a giant Hydra symbol sculpture Ward who [[EvenEvilHasStandards never truly believed in Hydra's goals]] becomes a true believer and for the first time says "Hail Hydra".

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[[caption-width-right:350:''I saw '''It''', whatever it is. Something was out there.'']]

** Not to mention Quinn's '''Extremley''' disturbing behaviour in this scene - after he shoots Skye the first time, he ''[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything embraces and shushes her]]'', before '''firing again'''.

* The carvings are becoming more and more frequent for Coulson, to the point that rather than being twice a month he carves ''every'' night.

** Oh, it gets better, as we learn more over the next handful of episodes. When the crystals reach another surface, that surface grows ''more'' crystals. (You can see a little of it in that image, the new growths on the walls and floor.) And the crystals from ''there'' cause ''more.'' The blue dagger things that are kryptonite to the parasite were preventing it from fully growing; from ''two'' victims you can get enough rapidly-growing razor-sharp crystals to ''at least'' fill a plane. So far, touching the crystal isn't enough to have it grow from you like an infection victim... but it ''will'' go straight through your body like a hot knife through butter. If you don't stop it with a dagger early, as in "within the first five or so seconds," remaining ''anywhere near'' is ''certain death by impalement.'' Also, they gain the energy to do this by feeding on the life force of the victim. Planets have life force too, accessible by LeyLines. Enough of the Shrike gather at the right places, and soon your ''whole planet'' is being torn to shreds, giant crystal growths ripping their way out as easily as they do with {{Redshirt}}s. The best proof of their horrifying nature is that having seen ''them'' at work on too many planets, to the point that he'd do literally anything to stop their spread, is what has made Sarge ruthless enough to earn an entry on this page.

* Blake's order to Coulson and Ward that they jettison their "infected cargo" (Simmons) into the ocean. Becomes a case of FridgeHorror when you realize the practical implications of the instruction: they're either going to have to MercyKill her first, or force her out of the cargo hold while she's still aware of what's going on.

* Mike Peterson calls his son, who happily tells him that his friend is watching him. When Mike asks Ace to put her on the phone, [[AdultFear it turns out to be Raina.]] His son was being watched by his aunt. [[FridgeHorror We never find out what happened to her.]]

* The whole team is facing jail time if they're caught again for their continued affiliation with S.H.I.E.L.D. and refusal to turn themselves in. Not only is it quite undeserved and basically an attempt by Col. Talbot to extract more information they don't possess, but FridgeHorror kicks in at the thought of any of these people (but particularly non-combatants like [=FitzSimmons=] and Skye) in jail alongside genuinely dangerous criminals.

** An added dose courtesy of FridgeHorror: We still don't know how Skye's parents came to be those monsters. If there's a genetic component, then there's no guarantee that Skye won't one day become one herself. In other words, how much of the survivors' description was metaphor (they're monsters because they slaughtered a village) or literal (they're from another planet/dimension.)

** That book, the Darkhold? It's a ComicBook/DoctorStrange artifact, and a [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast very bad one.]]
** Also some Fridge Horror: the line in question mentions '''A''' Darkhold. Not '''The'''. As in there is more than one of those out there...

* Mack getting taken over by the Ghost Rider- it fully suppresses his consciousness, leaving him unable to account for anything he does for ''hours''. During that time, he runs away from SHIELD, attacks the Chinese gangsters, and even kills a few of them. The experience brings to light all of the darkness inside of him, and leaves him ''broken''.
** Not to mention the fact that the Rider considered the situation where he ''fully suppressed Mack'' to be be ''"not ideal"''. Makes you [[FridgeHorror wonder]] just what the Rider considers an "ideal" host.
** And then there's the shot we get of the actual Spirit of Vengeance, outside of a host.

** FridgeHorror starts kicking in when you realize Bahrain happened ''prior'' to the Battle of New York and the Cambridge Incident happened within a short time after that. So it's possible that HYDRA was in control when that would have occurred, thus no Avengers at all.
*** Keep in mind, the first third or so of Film/{{Thor}} happens on Asgard, i.e. out of HYDRA control. Once Thor arrives on Earth, he interacts with A) S.H.I.E.L.D. and B) Astrophysicist Jane Foster. In this reality HYDRA has replaced S.H.I.E.L.D. and probably keeps a close eye on an Astrophysicist who hypothesizes dimension/space travel. So, who ''did'' Thor meet and interact with on Earth? And how does this play into Loki's plans? Is he openly ruling Asgard? Did he ever meet Thanos?
*** Even more FridgeHorror: Consider how the Nazis were into Norse mythology, and consider Thor's [[SmugSuper personality]] when he arrived on Earth, before his CharacterDevelopment. A few flattering words, some ego-stroking, and HYDRA would have a PhysicalGod at their beck and call.
*** Was Steve Rogers ever rescued? Is he still trapped? Or did HYDRA just find and kill him?

* The Clairvoyant not being pleased with Edison Po’s methods and how willingly Raina agrees

* Coulson being haunted over killing Ward in "Maveth" to the point that he crushes a pipe upon remembering doing such a horrific execution. Though Fitz tries to reassure him that [[KarmicDeath Ward deserved to die]], it doesn't make Coulson proud of the way he killed him. He also feels that ''[[TheBadGuyWins Ward]]'' [[TheBadGuyWins was the true victor]] in their [[FinalBattle final confrontation]] and acknowledges that [[NiceJobBreakingItHero it's his fault that Hive found a new body to return to Earth]].

* Coulson being haunted over killing Ward in "Maveth" to the point that he crushes a pipe upon remembering such a horrific execution. Though Fitz tries to reassure him that [[KarmicDeath Ward deserved to die]], it doesn't make Coulson proud of the way he killed him. He also feels that ''[[TheBadGuyWins Ward]]'' [[TheBadGuyWins was the true victor]] in their [[FinalBattle final confrontation]] and acknowledges that [[NiceJobBreakingItHero it's his fault that Hive found a new body to return to Earth]].

* Coulson being haunted over his killing Ward in "Maveth" to the point that he crushes a pipe upon remembering such a horrific execution. Though Fitz tries to reassure him that [[KarmicDeath Ward deserved to die]], it doesn't make Coulson proud of the way he killed him. He also feels that ''[[TheBadGuyWins Ward]]'' [[TheBadGuyWins was the true victor]] in their [[FinalBattle final confrontation]] and acknowledges that [[NiceJobBreakingItHero it's his fault that Hive found a new body to return to Earth]].

* RealityEnsues ''hard'' for Yo-Yo when she tries to use her powers for the first time since getting prosthetic arms... and learns the hard way that her prosthetics aren't built to be subjected to high speeds.

** Daisy and Robbie talk about how looting and rioting typically take place during black outs because people feel emboldened. In other words, [[{{GIFT}} seven major cities with the lack of inhibition of the internet]].

* When Grant Ward and his {{Mooks Hydra soilders}}see a giant Hydra symbol sculpture Ward who [[EvenEvilHasStandards never truly believed in Hydra's goals]] becomes a true believer and for the first time says "Hail Hydra".

* When Grant Ward and his {{Mooks Hydra soilders]}}see a giant Hydra symbol sculpture Ward who [[EvenEvilHasStandards never truly believed in Hydra's goals]] becomes a true believer and for the first time says "Hail Hydra".

* When Grant Ward and his [[Mooks Hydra soilders]] see a giant Hydra symbol sculpture Ward who [[EvenEvilHasStandards never truly believed in Hydra's goals]] becomes a true believer and for the first time says "Hail Hydra".

** 'You're not Will.'

* Coulson being haunted over his killing Ward in "Maveth" to the point that he crushes a pipe upon remembering such a horrific execution. While Fitz is right in that [[KarmicDeath Ward deserved to die]], it doesn't make Coulson proud of the way he killed him. He also feels that ''Ward'' was the true victor in their final confrontation and acknowledges that [[NiceJobBreakingItHero it's his fault that Hive found a new body to return to Earth]].

* Coulson being haunted over his killing Ward back in "Maveth" to the point that he crushes a pipe upon remembering such a horrific execution. While Fitz is right in that [[KarmicDeath Ward deserved to die]], it doesn't make Coulson proud of the way he killed him. He also feels that ''Ward'' was the true victor in their final confrontation and acknowledges that [[NiceJobBreakingItHero it's his fault that Hive found a new body to return to Earth]].

** Paradise Lost even shows that Coulson isn't at all proud of the way he killed Ward, being haunted over doing so.

'''Edison Po:''' Yes, I'm here. ''[cellphone zaps and kills him] ''
'''Raina:''' [sighs]

'''Edison Po:''' Yes, I'm here. '''[cellphone zaps and kills him] '''
'''Raina:''' [sighs]\\\