History Recap / AgentsOfSHIELDS6E11FromTheAshes

* TheBusCameBack: Flint from Season 5 makes a reappearance at the end of the episode as an creation from Mack and Yo-Yo's imagination.

* TheBusCameBack: Flint from Season 5 makes a reappearance at the end of the episode as an illusion from Mack and Yo-Yo's imagination.

!!Tropes in this episode:

-->'''Skye:''' ''(planning to kill Sarge)'' The fact that you still think it's Coulson is exactly why it has to be me!

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Izel keeps Mack and Elena alive because she needs their minds to recreate the Monoliths for her.

* CeilingSmash: When Izel inhabits Yo-Yo’s body, she throws Mack into the ceiling if the Quinjet.

* TheReveal: The seeming contradiction between the fear dimension explanation and the real power of the creation monolith is explained. Namely! while humans possess great imaginations, they lack the capacity to truly control the creation monolith. So instead when the monolith accesses their minds it can only create things based on their strongest, darkest emotions, i.e. their fears.

* FateWorseThanDeath: When Benson tells Izel that he isn't afraid of death, she uses the power of the creation Monolith to bring his dead husband to life and then kill him, threatening to repeat it over and over to torment him. He gives in to her demands rather than go through it again. Neither Mack nor Yo-Yo blame him for giving in; both admit they don't know what they'd do in the same situation.

** When May believes Coulson's memories are coming to him, the Sarge shouts to her, "I'm not a cure for your loneliness!"

* MindRape: Izel uses psychological torture to compel Benson when he makes it clear that death threats won't do the job; using the power of the Monoliths, she creates his worst fear, which turns out to be his late husband Thomas telling him that he made the wrong choice by taking him off of life support. Izel then destroys the spectre of Thomas and threatens to recreate and destroy him again and again if Benson doesn't do what she wants, a threat that makes Benson finally cave in to her demands.

* PowerNullifier: The reason Sarge's knives and sword can harm the Shrike is because they resonate at a frequency which disrupts the natural resonance of the crystalline Shrike, and by extension Izel. Deke, Fitz, and Simmons decide to reverse-engineer this effect to produce belts which can block Izel's attempts to possess them.
* QuietCryForHelp: Yo-Yo subtly alerts Benson to Izel's presence in Mack this way after Benson mentions Agent Keller's ley line theory. Yo-Yo responds by acting as if Agent Keller was still alive, which the real Mack would know he isn't. Benson manages to delete the coordinates for the temple before Izel picks up on his apprehension and drops the act.
* TheReveal: The seeming contradiction between the fear dimension explanation and the real power of the creation monolith is explained. Namely that while humans possess great imaginations, they lack the capacity to truly control the creation monolith. So instead when the monolith accesses their minds it can only create things based on their strongest, darkest, emotions, i.e. their fears.

* WhamShot: At the end of the episode, Mack and Elena refuse to help Izel repair the Monoliths, only for Izel to point out that the Monoliths accessed their memories to bring the one thing through time that can:

* DeathSeeker: Sarge wants Skye to kill him before he loses control.

* KickTheDog: Izel's psychological torture of Benson further emphasizes her cruelty, putting her right up there with the likes of ''Hive'' in terms of villainy.