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* MotorMouth: Coulson has to read off an entire page of alpha-numeric gibberish, which Fitz then has to type in to an uplink console, in thirty seconds in order to abort the missile launch.

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* {{Blooper}}: When Daisy steps onto the lift in her chamber, she's barefoot, but when she appears on the Quintet to face Hive, she has her shoes on (they were previously seen next to her bed).

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When Daisy steps onto the lift in her chamber, she's barefoot, but when she appears on the Quintet to face Hive, she has her shoes on (they were previously seen next to her bed).bed).
** At some points in the fight between May and the Primitives, May faces three opponents despite Hive only sending two Primitives with Radcliffe.


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* WhamLine: Please... take me back.

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* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Averted with Radcliffe. Hive orders him to undo the missile override, even though he complains that he lacks the engineering or technical skills to do that.

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* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Averted with Radcliffe. Hive orders him to undo the missile override, even though he complains that he lacks the engineering or technical skills to do that. When he realizes [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Hive will kill him if he can't do it]], he grabs the missile manual and pretty much just stalls, then defects to S.H.I.E.L.D. the first chance he gets.



* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: Coulson tells Daisy that vengeance against Hive wouldn't help her, just make it worse, as he already had the experience with Ward.

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* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: VengeanceFeelsEmpty:
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Coulson tells Daisy that vengeance against Hive wouldn't help her, just make it worse, as he already had the experience with Ward.Ward.
** Hive says the same thing during his fight with Daisy, quoting Ward... and then pauses, saying "Or will it? I can't remember," due to still being confused from the memory machine.
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* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Radcliffe defects to S.H.I.E.L.D. since Hive threatens to eat him whenever anything goes wrong.
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* MySkullRunnethOver: The team disassembles the memory machine and turns it into a portable version which they trick Hive into walking into once. Once active, it causes every host he's ever taken over to surface all at once, driving him insane. Ward's personality, being the most recent, provides him with some stability, but he struggles to focus.

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* MySkullRunnethOver: The team disassembles the memory machine and turns it into a portable version which they trick Hive into walking into once.into. Once active, it causes every host he's ever taken over to surface all at once, driving him insane. Ward's personality, being the most recent, provides him with some stability, but he struggles to focus.
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** Due to the effect of the memory machine on his brain, Hive quotes lines from several previous character, including many of Ward's.

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** Due to the effect of the memory machine on his brain, Hive quotes lines from several previous character, characters, including many of Ward's.

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* CallBack: Daisy's traumatic experience of being enthralled by Hive is extremely similar to [[Series/JessicaJones2015 Jessica Jones' traumatic experience of being enthralled by Kilgrave]], [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything which is itself an allegory for sexual abuse]].

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Daisy's traumatic experience of being enthralled by Hive is extremely similar to [[Series/JessicaJones2015 Jessica Jones' traumatic experience of being enthralled by Kilgrave]], [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything which is itself an allegory for sexual abuse]].abuse]].
** Due to the effect of the memory machine on his brain, Hive quotes lines from several previous character, including many of Ward's.
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* RedShirt: The S.H.I.E.L.D. agents that are turned into Primitives.
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* FakeOutOpening: The opening scene looks like another FlashForward with Coulson and Daisy trapped in a detention cell on Hive's prison planet, comments about them never realizing her vision of someone on the team dying meant ''everyone'' else on the team being killed, and Daisy wiring up some electronics that she thinks will take them back to Earth. [[DreamIntro And then she wakes up.]]

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* FakeOutOpening: The opening scene looks like another FlashForward with Coulson and Daisy trapped in a detention cell on Hive's prison planet, comments about them never realizing her vision of someone on the team dying meant ''everyone'' else on the team being killed, and Daisy wiring up some electronics that she thinks will take them back to Earth. Then Coulson tells her that [[EarthAllAlong they]] ''[[EarthAllAlong are]]'' [[EarthAllAlong on Earth]]. [[DreamIntro And then she wakes up.]]
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* ShutUpHannibal: Elena gets a wordless one in when she uses her speed to plant a beacon at Hive's feet allowing a gel-matrix cube to be dropped on him.

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* ShutUpHannibal: Elena gets a wordless one in when she uses her speed to plant a beacon at Hive's feet feet, allowing a gel-matrix cube to be dropped on him.



* VillainousBreakdown: Hive has one of these when the missile is stopped by S.H.I.E.L.D. typing in the kill codes, seething in rage. He also gets into it when the trap laid out for him makes him relive Ward and Will's memories, unable to tell the past from the present.

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* VillainousBreakdown: Hive has one of these when the missile is stopped by S.H.I.E.L.D. typing in the kill codes, seething in rage. rage and yelling at Radcliffe. He also gets into it when the trap laid out for him makes him relive Ward Ward, Will, and Will's Nathan Malick's memories, unable to tell the past from the present.
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* BaitAndSwitch: When Simmons is planning a vacation, she tells Fitz they'll do something that will take his breath away: snorkeling.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Much as in ''Series/JessicaJones2015'', Daisy's experience after leaving Hive's thrall is used as a metaphor for recovering survivors/victims of sexual abuse as well as recovering addicts.

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Much as in ''Series/JessicaJones2015'', Daisy's experience after leaving Hive's thrall is used as a metaphor for recovering survivors/victims of sexual abuse as well as recovering addicts.



* FreakOut: When Daisy desperately tries to get Hive to take her back, only to find that he can't, she goes berserk and attacks him.



* TheImmune: Whatever Lash did to free Daisy from Hive's control, he made it so that she can't be reinfected.



* VillainousBreakdown: Hive has one of these when the missile is stopped by SHIELD typing in the kill codes, seething in rage. He also gets into it when the trap laid out for him makes him relive Ward and Will's memories, unable to tell the past from the present.

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* VillainousBreakdown: Hive has one of these when the missile is stopped by SHIELD S.H.I.E.L.D. typing in the kill codes, seething in rage. He also gets into it when the trap laid out for him makes him relive Ward and Will's memories, unable to tell the past from the present.
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* ArcWords: "[[TitleDrop Absolution]]", which Hive mentioned last time while Daisy was still under his control, and which a now-recovered Daisy is trying to decipher.


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* TheBusCameBack: Giyera returns after an unexplained absence from Hive's army in the last few episodes.


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* CoDragons: With Alisha dead and Daisy's brainwashing cured, Giyera and James are now this for Hive.
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* BeAllMySinsRemembered: Daisy refuses to let herself be forgiven for what she did under Hive's control. When Mack does so anyway, she breaks down sobbing in his arms.


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* FreakOut: When Daisy desperately tries to get Hive to take her back, only to find that he can't, she goes berserk and attacks him.


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* TheImmune: Whatever Lash did to free Daisy from Hive's control, he made it so that she can't be reinfected.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Hive has one of these when the missile is stopped by SHIELD typing in the kill codes, seething in rage. He also gets into it when the trap laid out for him makes him relive Ward and Will's memories, unable to tell the past from the present.
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* ShutUpHannibal: Elena gets a wordless one in when she uses her speed to plant a beacon at Hive's feet allowing a gel-matrix cube to be dropped on him.
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* HeelFaceTurn: Radcliffe jumps at it when he has the chance, as he has long realized how insane Hive is.


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* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: Coulson tells Daisy that vengeance against Hive wouldn't help her, just make it worse, as he already had the experience with Ward.
* VillainBall: Instead of just taking control of Lincoln and then Elena from the get-go, Hive decides to take a MenacingStroll and ends up right where they wanted to have him.
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* FakeOutOpening: The opening scene looks like another FlashForward with Coulson and Daisy trapped in a detention cell on Hive's prison planet, comments about them never realizing her vision of someone on the team dying meant ''everyone'' else on the team being killed, and Daisy wiring up some electronics that she thinks will take them back to Earth. [[DreamIntro And then she wakes up.]]
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* {{Blooper}}: When Daisy steps onto the lift in her chamber, she's barefoot, but when she appears on the Quintet to face Hive, she has her shoes one (they were previously seen next to her bed).

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* {{Blooper}}: When Daisy steps onto the lift in her chamber, she's barefoot, but when she appears on the Quintet to face Hive, she has her shoes one on (they were previously seen next to her bed).
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* {{Blooper}}: When Daisy steps onto the lift in her chamber, she's barefoot, but when she appears on the Quintet to face Hive, she has her shoes one (they were previously seen next to her bed).
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**Hive's taunting Lincoln reeks of him being a better lover/provider to Daisy than "the ex".
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Much as in ''Series/JessicaJones2015'', Daisy's experience after leaving Hive's thrall is used as a metaphor for recovering survivors/victims of sexual abuse as well as recovering adicts.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Much as in ''Series/JessicaJones2015'', Daisy's experience after leaving Hive's thrall is used as a metaphor for recovering survivors/victims of sexual abuse as well as recovering adicts.addicts.



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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Much as in ''Series/JessicaJones2015'', Daisy's experience after leaving Hive's thrall is used as a metaphor for recovering survivors/victims of sexual abuse.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Much as in ''Series/JessicaJones2015'', Daisy's experience after leaving Hive's thrall is used as a metaphor for recovering survivors/victims of sexual abuse.abuse as well as recovering adicts.



* TrojanHorse: A batch of the Primitive gas is hidden in the shipment of parts to the hangar doors at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, turning several agents into Primitives.

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* TrojanHorse: A batch of the Primitive gas is hidden in the shipment of parts to the hangar doors at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, turning several agents into Primitives.Primitives.

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* CallBack: Daisy's traumatic experience of being enthralled by Hive is extremely similar to [[Series/JessicaJones2015 Jessica Jones' traumatic experience of being enthralled by Kilgrave]], [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything which is itself an allegory for sexual abuse]].
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Much as in ''Series/JessicaJones2015'', Daisy's experience after leaving Hive's thrall is used as a metaphor for recovering survivors/victims of sexual abuse.

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With Daisy released from Hive's control, SHIELD rushes to stop Hive's plans to dominate the planet.

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With Daisy released from Hive's control, SHIELD S.H.I.E.L.D. rushes to stop Hive's plans to dominate the planet.




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* ExplosiveLeash: The explosive vests meant to kill Inhuman agents if Hive sways them make a return. Both Lincoln and Elena are happy to wear them now that they've seen what Daisy did under Hive's sway.



* HumanPopsicle: S.H.I.E.L.D. manages to contain Hive in a gel-matrix cube, but his Primitives free him once the TrojanHorse plan gets into motion.
* IShallTauntYou: Hive tries to bait Lincoln by taunting him with his inability to provide Daisy with the emotional connection she needs. Lincoln doesn't take the bait and runs instead, though the implication still gets to him.



* OhCrap: Fitz's reaction when he realizes that Hive brought some of the primitive-making gas into the base.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Averted with Radcliffe. Hive orders him to undo the missile override, even though he complains that he lacks the engineering or technical skills to do that.

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* OhCrap: LiteralMinded: When trying to get the Primitives to help him, Radcliffle mentions "tools". They immediately grab some hand tools, which they hold wrong.
* MySkullRunnethOver: The team disassembles the memory machine and turns it into a portable version which they trick Hive into walking into once. Once active, it causes every host he's ever taken over to surface all at once, driving him insane. Ward's personality, being the most recent, provides him with some stability, but he struggles to focus.
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Fitz's reaction when he realizes the meaning of "Absolution"; it's the town in Montana where the parts to the hangar are manufactured.
** When Hive is released, Daisy realizes
that Hive brought some of he can use the primitive-making gas ''Zephyr'' to deliver his warhead since it can fly into the base.
stratosphere.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Averted with Radcliffe. Hive orders him to undo the missile override, even though he complains that he lacks the engineering or technical skills to do that.that.
* PlayAlongPrisoner: Daisy only stays in her cell because she feels she belongs there. When she sees a chance to get to Hive, she easily lets herself out.
* TrojanHorse: A batch of the Primitive gas is hidden in the shipment of parts to the hangar doors at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, turning several agents into Primitives.

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* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Averted with Radcliffe. Hive orders him to undo the missile override, even though he complains that he lacks the engineering or technical skills to do that.
* TonightSomeoneDies: In either this episode or the next, we will find out which of the cast dies in the flash-forward that was shown halfway through the season, and in Daisy's vision.

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* ItsAllMyFault: Daisy blames herself for what she did under Hive's control, in spite of the others trying to talk her out of it.
* OhCrap: Fitz's reaction when he realizes that Hive brought some of the primitive-making gas into the base.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Averted with Radcliffe. Hive orders him to undo the missile override, even though he complains that he lacks the engineering or technical skills to do that.
* TonightSomeoneDies: In either this episode or the next, we will find out which of the cast dies in the flash-forward that was shown halfway through the season, and in Daisy's vision.
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*OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Averted with Radcliffe. Hive orders him to undo the missile override, even though he complains that he lacks the engineering or technical skills to do that.
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With Daisy released from Hive's control, SHIELD rushes to stop Hive's plans to dominate the planet.


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*AGodAmI: When Simmons asks Daisy about the connection between Hive and "absolution", Daisy states that Hive sees himself as a god-like savior.
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*TonightSomeoneDies: In either this episode or the next, we will find out which of the cast dies in the flash-forward that was shown halfway through the season, and in Daisy's vision.

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