History Recap / AgentsOfSHIELDS1E12Seeds

* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Donnie is never referred to as "Blizzard", the codename of his comic book counterpart.

** A Professor Vaughn is mentioned, who could be Gilbert Vaughn. He is the father of Wendell Vaughn, former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and the Avenger ComicBook/{{Quasar}}.

* WeatherControlMachine: In the climax Donnie and Seth build a machine (with financial backing from Quinn) that creates an ice hurricane, with the machine itself in the eye.

-->'''Fitz:''' He's a good kid. I even helped him with his...[-power problem-].

* PayingTheirDues: InUniverse example. May considers Skye's work in tracking down Coulson's location in the previous evidence as proof that she's serious about being a S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent, so now she's willing to help Skye on a personal matter.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: May [[DiscussedTrope discusses]] what she would do if she ever decided to quit S.H.I.E.L.D. and go off the grid. It involves hiding in the wheel well of a jumbo jet on a long flight and parachuting out at a random point (This is incidentally how they allow the rogue agent to drop back off the map). She brings it up as she wonders if Coulson is about to quit S.H.I.E.L.D. himself.

* SuicidePill: The rogue S.H.I.E.L.D. tries to take one when May has him cornered, but she kicks it out of his hand.

[[caption-width-right:300:From [[http://www.geeklegacy.com/planting-the-seeds-of-a-better-show-marvels-agents-of-shield-review/ geeklegacy.com]]: "Frozen guy is [[IncrediblyLamePun the coolest part]] of the episode (har har)."]]

[[caption-width-right:300:From [[http://www.geeklegacy.com/planting-the-seeds-of-a-better-show-marvels-agents-of-shield-review/ geeklegacy.com]]: "Frozen guy is [[IncrediblyLamePun the coolest part]] of the episode (har har)."]]

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: May discusses what she would do if she ever decided to quit S.H.I.E.L.D. and go off the grid. It involves hiding in the wheel well of a jumbo jet on a long flight and parachuting out at a random point (This is incidentally how they allow the rogue agent to drop back off the map). She brings it up as she wonders if Coulson is about to quit S.H.I.E.L.D. himself.

-->'''Quinn:''' [[ArcWelding And I have a message for you. The Clairvoyant told me to say hello.]]

-->'''Fitz:''' He's a good kid. I even helped him with his...battery...problem...

** The same speech referencing Hydra also references AIM (Advanced Idea Mechanics), a long-time super-science villain organization in the Marvel comic universe.

** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' is referenced several times. Bucky Barnes is on the S.H.I.E.L.D. memorial wall, and Fitzsimmons give a speech crediting S.H.I.E.L.D.'s creation to the work of the SSR.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: May discusses what she would do if she ever decided to quit S.H.I.E.L.D. and go off the grid. It involves hiding in the wheel well of a jumbo jet and parachuting into China. She brings it up as she wonders if Coulson is about to quit S.H.I.E.L.D. himself.

* InterserviceRivalry: We see there's a friendly one between the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academies, as Fitzsimmons compare the Science/Tech Academy to Ward's time in Operations (Essentially nerds vs jocks). A Communications Academy is also mentioned, but the rivalry doesn't extend to it because a) it's their job to monitor communications from the other two and b) it's the easiest of the three to get into and graduate from.

* EvilPlan: Ian Quinn is funding SHIELD students to create a weather control ice machine and the students lure Fitz to the Academy by staging a deadly prank so he can help them fix it. What Quinn wants with such a device goes unsaid.

** In the episode "0-8-4", Coulson told Skye that an 0-8-4 was something of unknown origin, "kind of like you". In this episode, we find out that Skye was once literally a S.H.I.E.L.D. 0-8-4.

* {{Irony}}: Skye's goals when she was captured and recruited were to publicly reveal the secrets S.H.I.E.L.D. protected and to find out why they were involved in covering up her past. If she'd succeeded, she would have made herself and anyone she knew a target to whoever had slaughtered everyone protecting her when she was a baby.

* {{Irony}}: Skye's goals when she was captured and recruited were to publicly reveal the secrets S.H.I.E.L.D. protected and to find out why they were involved in covering up her past. If she'd succeeded, she would have made herself and anyone she knew a target to whoever had slaughtered anyone between them and her when she was a baby.

* {{Irony}}: Skye's goals when she was captured and recruited wer to publicly reveal the secrets S.H.I.E.L.D. protected and to find out why they were involved in covering up her past. If she'd succeeded, she would have made herself and anyone she knew a target.

* {{Irony}}: Skye's mission when she was recruited was to publicly reveal the secrets S.H.I.E.L.D. protected and to find out why they were involved in covering up her past. If she'd succeeded, she would have made herself and anyone she knew a target.

* {{Irony}}: Skye's claimed mission when she was recruited was partly to reveal the secrets S.H.I.E.L.D. protected. One of those secrets would have been ''her''.

-->'''Fitz:''' He's a good kid. I even helped him with his…battery…problem...

-->'''Coulson:''' Okay, what's going on?
-->'''May:''' What do you mean?
-->'''Coulson:''' You're ''talking.''
-->'''May:''' Because ''you'' aren't.