History Recap / AgentsOfSHIELDS4E15SelfControl

** Aida finding a LogicBomb in her programming and solves it with homicide is one to ''Film/2001ASpaceOdyssey''.

** The trick Daisy uses to confuse LMD Mack as to which of the duplicates is the real her is similar to the one used by Bruce Wayne to get the drop on Ducard during the League of Shadows test in Film/BatmanBegins.
** Film/TheMatrix. Daisy and Jemma get plugged into the Framework, and they discuss with Yo-Yo the very adverse effects of staying too long, dying, or being interrupted while in the middle of the simulation.
** {{Film/Avatar}}. The show even calls it as such. A person plugged into the Framework has his consciousness controlling his AlternateReality semblance, aka avatar.
** Aida finding a LogicBomb in her programming and solves it with homicide is one to Film/ASpaceOdyssey.
** Aida reviving Ivanov into a cyborg with [[BrainInAJar his brain in a canopy device]] parallels Dr. Faxx turning Cain into Film/RoboCop2.
** Daisy uses sonic bursts for propulsion like [[Film/ManOfSteel Superman]]. She also takes down a couple of [=LMD=] with sonic KameHameHadoken, destroying [=LMD=] Mack like [[Manga/DragonBallZ Gohan did to Cell]].

** [[spoiler: May ending up working for HYDRA brings to mind Cap's controversial line "Hail Hydra."]]

** Androids infiltrating the highest S.H.I.E.L.D. ranks leading into a grand ParanoiaFuel parallels the show's {{Comicbook/Hydra}} arc that started in Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier.

* ShoutOut: The Framework's AlternateReality is one to Comicbook/ScarletWitch's Comicbook/HouseOfM event.

* ShoutOut: The trick Daisy uses to confuse LMD Mack as to which of the duplicates is the real her is similar to the one used by Bruce Wayne to get the drop on Ducard during the League of Assassins test in ''Film/BatmanBegins''.

** {{Film/Avatar}}. The show even calls it as such. People plugged into the Framework has his/her consciousness controlling her AlternateReality semblance.

** The Framework's AlternateReality is one to Comicbook/ScarletWitch's Comicbook/HouseOfM event.
** Daisy uses sonic bursts to propel herself like [[Film/ManOfSteel Superman]]. She also takes down a couple of [=LMD=] with sonic KameHameHadoken.

** Aida reviving Ivanov into a cyborg with his brain in a canopy device parallels Dr. Faxx turning Cain to Film/RoboCop2.

* BaitAndSwitch: In the Framework, Daisy thinks her boyfriend is Lincoln only to discover it's Grant Ward!
** Before that, we ere led to believe Daisy had been replaced with an LMD. Turns out the fourth LMD wasn't her but Fitz.

** It is also used by the android Sonny in ''Film/IRobot''.

** It was foreshadowed for long time, but Aida finally turns on Radcliffe and manages to kill him despite her programming to protec his life.

* ShoutOut: The trick Daisy uses to confuse LMD Mack as to which of the duplicates is the real her is the same one used by Bruce Wayne to get the drop on Ducard during the League of Assassins test in ''Film/BatmanBegins''.

* DeadAlternateCounterpart: The version of Jemma inside the Framework is dead.

* HeroicSacrifice: LMD May blows herself and LMD Coulson up to stop LMD Coulson from getting to Jemma and Daisy.

** The one thing an LMD of an Inhuman can't duplicate is an Inhuman's power, so Daisy gives Jemma a light Quake to prove that she's real.

** It was foreshadowed for long time, but Aida finally turns on Radcliffe.

** Used intentionally by Daisy when she slightly alters the clothing of one of her LMD duplicates in order to trick LMD!Mack into believing it was her.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Radcliffe's insistence on having LMD!May be a perfect replica of the original except for her command to secure the Darkhold and to preserve human life is what allows her to make the choice the real May would when that command is no longer in effect.

* ShoutOut: The trick Daisy uses to confuse LMD!Mack as to which of the duplicates is the real her is the same one used by Bruce Wayne to get the drop on Ducard during the League of Assassins test in ''Film/BatmanBegins''.

* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: It was foreshadowed for long time, but Aida finally turns on Radcliffe.
** LMD!May pulls a heroic version, siding against Radcliffe's vision and sacrificing herself to help Daisy and Simmons.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Radcliffe's insistence on having LMD!May be a perfect replica of the original except for her command to secure the Darkhold is what allows her to make the choice the real May would when that command is no longer in effect.

** Used intentionally by Daisy when she slightly alters the clothing of one of her LMD duplicates in order to trick LMB!Mack into believing it was her.

* CooldownHug: Jemma learns about the LMD infiltration after discovering altered security alerts and has to kill a Fitz [=LMD=] brutally. Daisy learns by discovering a small group of Daisy [=LMDs=] inside a containment unit, and witnessing another group kill S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. They prove to each that they are human through Daisy quaking them with a hug.

Paranoia strikes SHIELD as the Playground is infiltrated by a handful of [=LMDs=], following Mace's rescue mission.

!!Tropes in this episode:

* AccidentalProposal: LMD!Fitz proposes to Real!Simmons, and says that Real!Fitz had been considering proposing himself. Jemma decides she'll have to have an answer for the real Fitz when she next sees him.

* CloningBlues: LMD!May has them ''hard'', having May's memories but knowing that she isn't May.

* CooldownHug: Jemma learns about the LMD infiltration after discovering altered security alerts and has to kill a Fitz [=LMD=] brutally. Daisy learns by discovering a small group of Daisy [=LMDs=] inside a containment unit, and witnessing another group kill SHIELD agents. They prove to each that they are human through Daisy quaking them with a hug.

* DeathGlare: LMD!Fitz gives Jemma a distinctly unsettling one as Jemma screams while stabbing him repeatedly.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: When the SHIELD agents at the scene of Fitz's death discover that he's an LMD, LMD!Mace and LMD!Coulson quickly dispose of them.
* HeroicSacrifice: LMD!May blows herself and LMD!Coulson up to stop LMD!Coulson from getting to Jemma and Daisy.

** [=LMDs=] don't have respiratory systems, so Jemma and Daisy are able to identify every LMD on the base by flooding it with knockout gas - anyone still standing (who they didn't personally revive) is a machine.
* MurderSuicide: LMD!May takes herself and LMD!Coulson out with a bomb.
* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: Daisy, running from LMD!Mack, hides herself in a crowd of [=LMDs=] of herself.
* PistolWhip: LMD!Coulson runs out of bullets when killing the SHIELD agents who happened upon Fitz's status as an LMD, so he smashes the last one's face in.
* RasputinianDeath: Jemma drops an engine on LMD!Fitz, stabs him in the chest repeatedly, and cuts his neck before he finally gives out. [[UnexplainedRecovery And then he gets better.]]
* RevealingCoverUp: While snooping around the security feeds after escaping LMD!Mack, Daisy spots LMD!Coulson and LMD!Mace killing three SHIELD agents when they discover that Fitz's dead body is actually an LMD.
* RevealingInjury:
** Jemma has Fitz cut his wrist to prove that he isn't an LMD, since if he's an LMD she'll be able to see the robotics in his wrist.
** Daisy proves that Mack is an LMD by Quaking him so hard that his face dissolves, revealing the metal skull underneath.
* TrailersAlwaysLie: The episode trailer implies that LMD!Coulson will capture and PistolWhip a screaming Fitz. In truth, the pistol-whipping and Fitz screaming are from different scenes, and Fitz was himself an LMD who was being beaten up by a human Simmons in the scene in which Fitz was screaming.

* WoundedGazelleGambit: When Fitz cuts his wrist open to prove he's not an LMD, he winds up slicing an artery. When Jemma sweeps down to help stop the bleeding, he shows his true colors.

** [=LMDs=] don't have respiratory systems, so Jemma and Daisy are able to identify every LMD on the base by flooding it with knockout gas - anyone still standing is a machine.

* RasputinianDeath: Jemma drops an engine on LMD!Fitz, stabs him in the chest repeatedly, and cuts his neck before he finally gives out. [[IGotBetter And then he gets better.]]

* RevealingInjury: Jemma has Fitz cut his wrist to prove that he isn't an LMD, since if he's an LMD she'll be able to see the robotics in his wrist.

* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: It was foreshadowed for long time but Aida finally turns on Radcliffe.

* CooldownHug: Jemma learns about the LMD infiltration after discovering altered security alerts and has to kill a Fitz [=LMD=] brutally. Daisy learns by discovering a small group of Daisy LMDs inside a containment unit, and witnessing another group kill SHIELD agents. They prove to each that they are human through Daisy quaking them with a hug.

Paranoia strikes SHIELD as the Playground is infiltrated by a handful of LMDs, following Mace's rescue mission.

* CooldownHug: Jemma learns about the LMD infiltration after discovering altered security alerts and has to kill a Fitz LMD brutally. Daisy learns by discovering a small group of Daisy LMDs inside a containment unit, and witnessing another group kill SHIELD agents. They prove to each that they are human through Daisy quaking them with a hug.

* CooldownHug: Jemma learns about the LMD infiltration after discovering altered security alerts and has to kill a Fitz LMD brutally. Daisy learns by discovering a small group of Daisy LMDs inside a containment unit, and witnessing another group kill SHIELD agents. They prove to each that they are human thoguh Daisy quaking them with a hug.

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