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Accidentally Accurate is for authors getting obscure facts accidentally right in their works.


* AccidentallyAccurate: Elena is surprised to learn that S.H.I.E.L.D. never had a space division, as she had always assumed that they had "people on the moon". There are people on the moon, [[Series/{{Inhumans}} they just have more in common with Elena than S.H.I.E.L.D.]]
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* DiegeticSwitch: The Talking Heads song "This Is The Life" is played throughout the prologue, only to be revealed to be coming from the radio on the truck that is about to kidnap Coulson and co.

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* DiegeticSwitch: The Talking Heads song "This Is The Life" Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" is played throughout the prologue, only to be revealed to be coming from the radio on the truck that is about to kidnap Coulson and co.
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** Deke's clothing and helmet look similar to those of [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Peter Quill a.k.a. Starlord]]. The helmet also has elements of Iron Man's and Ant-Man's.

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** Deke's clothing and helmet look similar to those of [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Peter Quill a.k.a. Starlord]].Star-Lord]]. The helmet also has elements of Iron Man's and Ant-Man's.
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* TeleFrag: May arrives on the outpost alone with her leg right where a pipe is.

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* TeleFrag: May arrives on the outpost alone with her leg right where a pipe is. This was a handy way for the producers to take some weight off Ming-Na Wen throughout the first part of the season, as she was still recovering from a serious knee injury and surgery during the Season 4 to 5 hiatus.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Elena's having her forearms nearly destroyed through torture is one to losing her arms in the comics. This gets a lot more focus during the last episode of the first half of the season when she is seen without her arms, and once again during the following episode when she actually does lose her arms.



** Elena's having her forearms nearly destroyed through torture is one to losing her arms in the comics.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Initially, Coulson considered the possibility that the space base was built in the eighties by [[Film/IronMan Howard Stark]] though he quickly dismisses the idea by saying "That doesn't feel right."

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* WrongGenreSavvy: Initially, Coulson considered the possibility that the space base was built in the eighties by [[Film/IronMan Howard Stark]] though he quickly dismisses the idea by saying "That doesn't feel right."" [[spoiler: He's not wrong about the base being built in the 80s though as they later find out when they return to the present.]]

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* ChekhovsGun: Five of them are set up at the beginning of this episode to be followed up in future episodes.

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* ChekhovsGun: Five Six of them are set up at the beginning of this episode to be followed up in future episodes.


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** The Monolith itself. A fragment of it is repeatedly fired as a ChekhovsBoomerang throughout the season.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Initially, Coulson considered the possibility that the space base was built in the eighties by [[Film/IronMan Howard Stark]] though he quickly dismisses the idea by saying "That doesn't feel right."
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* DiegeticSwitch: The Talking Heads song "This Is The Life" is played throughout the prologue, only to be revealed to be coming from the radio on the truck that is about to kidnap Coulson and co.

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* ChekhovsGun: Four of them are set up at the beginning of this episode to be followed up in future episodes.

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* ChekhovsGun: Four Five of them are set up at the beginning of this episode to be followed up in future episodes.


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** The Vrellnexians are featured prominently in this episode, but Virgil notes that they only appeared recently. Episode 6 explains how they got here.
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* WeHardlyKnewYe: Virgil is killed by one of the creatures before he can explain anything to the team.

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* ChekhovsGun: Three of them are set up at the beginning of this episode to be followed up in future episodes.

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* ChekhovsGun: Three Four of them are set up at the beginning of this episode to be followed up in future episodes.


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** The Postcard written by Fitz is written in Episode 5.

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* ShoutOut

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* ShoutOutSelfDeprecation: Mack's saying "Science, my ass!" may refer to the repeated use of [[DoingInTheWizard scientific]] [[SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic explanation]] for various magical, mystical, or supranatural phenomenons throughout MCU (particularly this show itself).
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* ChekhovsGun: Two of them are set up at the beginning of this episode to be followed up in future episodes.

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* ChekhovsGun: Two Three of them are set up at the beginning of this episode to be followed up in future episodes.


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** When they get sent to the base initially, Coulson notes that he did not bring the hand that has all his gadgetry. Again fired in Episode 5.
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* TrailersAlwaysLie: All promotional trailers for Season Five heavily hyped the fact that the cast is now InSpace, effectively preserving the reveal that they moved through time and technically remained ''sort of'' on Earth.
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** The second comes from the fact that they are, in fact, in space. The monolith they were put through, however, only brought them a relatively short distance into Earth's orbit, playing with the expectations again, in that everyone assumed they were in at least another star system or in the interstellar medium.

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** The second comes from the fact that they are, they, in fact, in space. The monolith did not move through space at all. Instead the underground facility they were put through, however, only brought them a relatively short distance into Earth's orbit, playing with in, is now exposed to the expectations again, in that vacuum of space after the Earth was torn apart, while everyone assumed they were in at least another star system or in the interstellar medium.system.
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* TheMenInBlack: Enoch is definitely one, while his goons seem to be regular Humans.
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* ChekhovsGun: Two of them are set up here to be followed up in future episodes.

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* ChekhovsGun: Two of them are set up here at the beginning of this episode to be followed up in future episodes.
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* ChekhovsGun: Two of them are set up here to be followed up in future episodes.
** The child's pictures in the unknown Agent's house are fired in Episode 5.
** The same agent fetches a bottle of liquid in his fridge. It is referred to again in Episode 5 but we are not told of what this liquid is.
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* EarthShatteringKaboom: Took place about a century ago.

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* EarthShatteringKaboom: Took place Something reduced Earth to a cresent chunk about a century ago.



* GenreSavvy: Mack is adamant that the team ''not'' [[LetsSplitUpGang split up]] with hostile aliens about. He's fairly confident BlackDudeDiesFirst will surely follow.

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* GenreSavvy: Mack is adamant that the team ''not'' [[LetsSplitUpGang split up]] with hostile aliens about.about because he's a fan of movies that look like their current situation. He's fairly confident BlackDudeDiesFirst will surely follow.



* HereWeGoAgain: Jemma's reaction to the news that she is [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E1LawsOfNature once again]] in space.

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* HereWeGoAgain: Jemma's reaction to the news that she is [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E1LawsOfNature once again]] in space.space is a minor panic attack.



* ImmediateSequel: To the previous episode.

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* ImmediateSequel: To This episode begins with a little backtracking from the previous episode.to see the mysterious military guys arrive. Then it comes on the heels of the last episode from season 4.



** The second comes from the fact that they are, in fact, in space. The monolith they were put through, however, only brought them a relative short distance into Earth's orbit, playing with the expectations again, in that everyone assumed they were in at least another star system or in the interstellar medium.

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** The second comes from the fact that they are, in fact, in space. The monolith they were put through, however, only brought them a relative relatively short distance into Earth's orbit, playing with the expectations again, in that everyone assumed they were in at least another star system or in the interstellar medium.



* OhCrap: Coulson when he realizes he's in front of a soon-to-activate portal obelisk.

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* OhCrap: Coulson when he realizes he's in front of a soon-to-activate portal obelisk.obelisk is quick fear.
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** Elena's having her forearms nearly destroyed through torture is one to losing her arms against Daniel Whitehall in the comics.

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** Elena's having her forearms nearly destroyed through torture is one to losing her arms against Daniel Whitehall in the comics.
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** Elena's having her forearms nearly destroyed through torture is one to losing her arms against Daniel Whitehall in the comics.

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* ShoutOut: When Mack laments about the lack of cool tools in Coulson's robotic hand, Coulson replies that he's not ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget''.

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut
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When Mack laments about the lack of cool tools in Coulson's robotic hand, Coulson replies that he's not ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget''.


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** As the Kree are blue, Mack compared one of them with "[[Franchise/TheSmurfs Papa Smurf]]"
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* MythologyGag: Elena asks Phil if S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn't have some sort of outer space division called ''S.P.E.A.R.'' in an obvious reference to S.W.O.R.D., from the comics. (There’s also a S.P.E.A.R., but it’s just the Chinese equivalent to S.H.I.E.L.D.)

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* MythologyGag: Elena asks Phil if S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn't have some sort of outer space division called ''S.P.E.A.R.'' in an obvious reference to S.W.O.R.D., ''(Sentient World Observation and Response)'', from the comics. (There’s also a S.P.E.A.R., but it’s just the Chinese equivalent to S.H.I.E.L.D.)

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* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: Deke gets Jemma, May, Coulson and Daisy out of custody by convincing the Kree guardian that they were set up by Virgil.



* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: Deke gets Jemma, May, Coulson and Daisy out of custody by convincing the Kree guardian that they were set up by Virgil.
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* ArtificialLimbs: Prior to going to the dinner, Coulson swapped out his super hi-tech robot hand for a basic prosthetic, since he figured they were about to be arrested and the government would confiscate the more advanced hand.

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* ArtificialLimbs: Prior to going to the dinner, diner, Coulson swapped out his super hi-tech robot hand for a basic prosthetic, since he figured they were about to be arrested and the government would confiscate the more advanced hand.
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* ContinuityNod:
** [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E8ManyHeadsOneTale Looks like Fitz wasn't wrong about fate and the cosmos wanting him and Simmons kept apart.]] Daisy even lampshades the literalness.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Mack as the main argument for why the team shouldn't split up: It'll lead to the monsters picking them off one by one, starting with him.
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** Earlier, Zeke cutting through Coulson's talk of where they were abducted with "What year?"

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** Earlier, Zeke Deke cutting through Coulson's talk of where they were abducted with "What year?"
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Deke's helmet looks like a mashup of Star Lord's, Iron Man's, and Ant-Man's


** Deke's clothing and helmet look similar to those of [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Peter Quill a.k.a. Starlord]]

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** Deke's clothing and helmet look similar to those of [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Peter Quill a.k.a. Starlord]]Starlord]]. The helmet also has elements of Iron Man's and Ant-Man's.

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