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* SadClown: Snowflake's ObfuscatingInsanity looks a lot like this; she's dealing with the trauma of watching all sorts of worlds get destroyed by putting an impossibly, insanely brave face on it.
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* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: {{Subverted}}. The person Sarge and Snowflake give May to kill is infected by the Shrike. They just want to test her.
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* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: {{Subverted}}. The person Sarge and Snowflake give May to kill is infected by the Shrike. They just want to test her.her, and demonstrate to her what the Shrike is.
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* ContinuityNod: Enoch mentions that he kidnapped Team Coulson and then sent them into a dystopian future.
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* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: {{Subverted}}. The person Sarge and Snowflake give May to kill is infected by the Shrike. They just wanted to test her.
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* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: {{Subverted}}. The person Sarge and Snowflake give May to kill is infected by the Shrike. They just wanted want to test her.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: The Chronicoms after losing their planet and reduced to near-extinction will do ''anything'' to survive ... which also means they will casually kill people who, even if they aren't a threat, are also no use to them either. It might be that only the most ruthless in pursuing the goal survived, much like Thanos, but Enoch's words imply that at least Altarah used to be different.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: The Chronicoms after losing their planet and reduced to near-extinction will do ''anything'' to survive ...survive... which also means they will casually kill people who, even if they aren't a threat, are also no use to them either. It might be that only the most ruthless in pursuing the goal survived, much like Thanos, but Enoch's words imply that at least Altarah used to be different.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Fitz '''''explodes''''' at Enoch when he tells him that the only way he could save their friends was by telling the Chronicoms that holding Jemma hostage is the perfect way to motivate Fitz to perfect a way of time travel for them.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Fitz '''''explodes''''' at Enoch when he tells him that the only way he could save their friends was by telling the Chronicoms that holding Jemma hostage is the perfect way to motivate Fitz to perfect a way method of time travel for them.
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* ItsPersonal: May tells Sarge that she is gonna kill him painfully for messing with her. She laters settles on just knocking him out and capturing him after learning his true motives, however.
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* MythArc: One is slowly presenting itself. The Chronicom's home world has been destroyed in what seems to be a series of mysterious annihilations of various planets. Sarge and his crew are travelers from across the galaxy who are seeking to stop the Shrike, who travel from world to world and destroy them to herald the arrival of their creator.
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* MythArc: One is slowly presenting itself. The Chronicom's Chronicoms' home world has been destroyed in what seems to be a series of mysterious annihilations of various planets. Sarge and his crew are travelers from across the galaxy who are seeking to stop the Shrike, who travel from world to world and destroy them to herald the arrival of their creator.
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* TheReveal: The bat-like creatures are called Shrike and are somehow related to the mysterious Monoliths Team Coulson keeps encountering. Sarge's team didn't create them; they are ''hunting'' them down to try to prevent them from destroying worlds.
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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Attention is drawn to the fact that not only does Sarge look like Coulson, but uses many of the same turns of phrases, adding to both May's and the viewer's confusion as to what the relation between the two is.
* TheStinger: Enoch and Fitz are reunited and Enoch releases some mysterious gas in Fitz's cell.
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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Attention is drawn to the fact that Sarge not only does Sarge look looks like Coulson, but uses many of the same turns of phrases, phrase, adding to both May's and the viewer's confusion as to what the relation between the two is.
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** Altarah and the remaining survivors of the Chronicom. She wants to go back in time to save her home planet, fair enough. But Daisy and the others would probably be more eager to help her if she wasn't holding Fitz captive and threatening to kill them all if she doesn't give them what she wants. Not to mention assuming they're lying, without motive, when they say they don't know ''how'' they did it or deciding to kill them instead of letting them go if they can't help.
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** Altarah and the remaining survivors of the Chronicom. She wants to go back in time to save her home planet, fair enough. But Daisy and the others would probably be more eager to help her if she wasn't holding Fitz captive and threatening to kill them all if she doesn't give them what she wants. Not to mention assuming they're lying, without motive, when they say they don't know ''how'' they did it it, or deciding to kill them instead of letting them go if they can't help.
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* TitleDrop: A twofer: Sarge thinks May killed Coulson, but sees in her eyes that he's wrong, and says it; in a flashback, May asks Coulson if he is having trouble standing because he drank too much, and he counters with it.
* TookALevelInJerkass: The Chronicoms after losing their planet and reduced to near-extinction will do ''anything'' to survive ... which also means they will casually kill people who even if they aren't a threat are also no use to them either. It might be that only the most ruthless in pursuing the goal survived, much like Thanos, but Enoch's words imply that at least Altarah used to be different.
* TookALevelInJerkass: The Chronicoms after losing their planet and reduced to near-extinction will do ''anything'' to survive ... which also means they will casually kill people who even if they aren't a threat are also no use to them either. It might be that only the most ruthless in pursuing the goal survived, much like Thanos, but Enoch's words imply that at least Altarah used to be different.
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* TitleDrop: A twofer: Sarge thinks starts out thinking that May killed Coulson, but sees in her eyes that he's wrong, and says it; in a flashback, May asks Coulson if he is having trouble standing because he drank too much, and he counters with it.
* TookALevelInJerkass: The Chronicoms after losing their planet and reduced to near-extinction will do ''anything'' to survive ... which also means they will casually kill peoplewho who, even if they aren't a threat threat, are also no use to them either. It might be that only the most ruthless in pursuing the goal survived, much like Thanos, but Enoch's words imply that at least Altarah used to be different.
* TookALevelInJerkass: The Chronicoms after losing their planet and reduced to near-extinction will do ''anything'' to survive ... which also means they will casually kill people
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** While it doesn't quite rise to the level of a CatchPhrase, Coulson has used "the other thing" repeatedly over the years as a short hand way of acknowledging something being the opposite of what was expected.
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* ImpairmentShot: May, coming to from being drugged, briefly overlaps her flashbacks to her last days with Coulson and what she is seeing around her with Sarge.
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May learns the true goals of Sarge's team. Meanwhile, Daisy and Jemma are on the hunt to get Fitz back from the Chronicom hunters that took him.
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!!Tropes in this episode:
* AmputationStopsSpread: Sarge compares his plan to stop the Shrike to cutting off a limb, the implication being that Earth is the infected limb in this analogy.
* BadassBoast: Davis ''tries'' to, by stating "Dropping aliens is what I do best!". The reaction he gets however is just embarassment.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: The Chronicoms wiped out the Confederacy and hijacked their fleet.
* BigBadEnsemble: In addition to Sarge and his team, who are revealed to be {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s, you now have Altarah and the surviving Chronicoms who will kill anyone who can't or won't help them with their goal to develop time travel, and finally the mysterious and so far unseen Creator behind the Shrike.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Chronicoms believe that Enoch and Fitz "tampered" with the universe, although that's just a pretext to leverage them to help them travel through time.
* CallBack: Benson wants to explore Peru and Yucatán. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E2084 Peru]] was where they found the 0-8-4 device inside an Incan temple. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E1LawsOfNature Yucatán]] is where Fitz traveled to study the origins of the space monolith.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Mack struggles with his new responsibilities as director.
* ConflictingLoyalty: Enoch is clearly torn between his friendship with Fitz and his people.
* ContinuityNod: Enoch mentions that he kidnapped Team Coulson and then sent them into a dystopian future.
* TheCorruptor: Sarge wants to turn May to his side. He fails.
* EndangeredSpecies: The Chronicoms, with their homeworld destroyed. All survivors now reside on the former Confederacy ships.
* EntertaininglyWrong: From Sarge's POV, he assumes that Coulson is his doppelgänger. He's been to countless worlds, so showing up on one where another man had his face is too much of a coincidence.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Sarge states that Snowflake enjoys her job a little too much for his taste.
* {{Flashback}}: The episode has several to May and Coulson during his dying days in Tahiti.
* FromBadToWorse: Enoch states that having the Confederacy after them would have been ''preferable'' compared to the Chronicoms.
* GeniusBonus: InUniverse, Benson calls attention to what Tinker was saying: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachacuti Pachakutiq]]. It means "the cataclysmic overturning of Andean time-space".
* GoingNative: Altarah notices how much Enoch has changed since spending time with humans.
* GreaterScopeVillain: The mysterious "Creator" behind the Shrike, whom Sarge is looking forward to killing.
* HeroicBSOD: Enoch is ''still'' having his existential crisis from the last episode when he first appears. Jemma and Daisy manage to snap him out of it with assurances that he succeeded in his mission to save the Earth, and ''they'' are his friends along with Fitz.
* HeroicSacrifice: Jemma gives herself up to the Chronicoms to save her friends and be with Fitz again.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: {{Subverted}}. The person Sarge and Snowflake give May to kill is infected by the Shrike. They just wanted to test her.
* InternalReveal:
** Enoch learns that the BadFuture has been averted.
** Sarge makes the connection that he had a doppelgänger on Earth, whom S.H.I.E.L.D. was close to.
** Daisy, at the end of the episode, is about to learn about Sarge.
* ItsPersonal: May tells Sarge that she is gonna kill him painfully for messing with her. She laters settles on just knocking him out and capturing him after learning his true motives, however.
* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: Altarah knows what Daisy can do, so she's hiding Fitz on another ship. If Quake harms her, the Chronicom fleet have outstanding orders to spread across the galaxy so that Fitz will never be found.
* MythArc: One is slowly presenting itself. The Chronicom's home world has been destroyed in what seems to be a series of mysterious annihilations of various planets. Sarge and his crew are travelers from across the galaxy who are seeking to stop the Shrike, who travel from world to world and destroy them to herald the arrival of their creator.
* ObfuscatingInsanity: After about four episodes of Snowflake seeming very unhinged, she seems to break the act, and seems more lucid after May calls her "nuts".
* OlderThanTheyLook: Sarge is 100 Earth years old, and claims he'll easily live another 100.
* TheReveal: The bat-like creatures are called Shrike and are somehow related to the mysterious Monoliths Team Coulson keeps encountering. Sarge's team didn't create them; they are ''hunting'' them down to try to prevent them from destroying worlds.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The Chronicoms' home planet was destroyed. They want Daisy and [=FitzSimmons=] to tell them how they traveled through time so they can do the same to save their planet.
* ShootTheDog: Benson sympathizes with Elena, as he too had to decide over the fate of his husband when he was rendered brain-dead after an accident.
* ShutUpHannibal: May is utterly immune to anything Sarge offers up.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Attention is drawn to the fact that not only does Sarge look like Coulson, but uses many of the same turns of phrases, adding to both May's and the viewer's confusion as to what the relation between the two is.
* TheStinger: Enoch and Fitz are reunited and Enoch releases some mysterious gas in Fitz's cell.
* StupidEvil:
** Altarah and the remaining survivors of the Chronicom. She wants to go back in time to save her home planet, fair enough. But Daisy and the others would probably be more eager to help her if she wasn't holding Fitz captive and threatening to kill them all if she doesn't give them what she wants. Not to mention assuming they're lying, without motive, when they say they don't know ''how'' they did it or deciding to kill them instead of letting them go if they can't help.
** Sarge and his crew are willing to go to any lengths to stop the spread of the Shrike and destroy their creator, as they're a threat to entire worlds. Problem is they're a small crew that, as far as any local authorities who could help them are concerned, can be easily be mistaken for causeless terrorists who ''themselves'' are the cause of the Shrike. The fact that they're so ruthless and inscrutable is a major stopping block in their goals.
* ThisCannotBe: Sarge is flummoxed that May considers ''him'' the doppelgänger, ''not'' Coulson.
* TookALevelInJerkass: The Chronicoms after losing their planet and reduced to near-extinction will do ''anything'' to survive ... which also means they will casually kill people who even if they aren't a threat are also no use to them either. It might be that only the most ruthless in pursuing the goal survived, much like Thanos, but Enoch's words imply that at least Altarah used to be different.
* WellIntentionedExtremist:
** Sarge's team. They're trying to ''save'' planets from the Shrike and have been following them from planet to planet hoping to destroy them. Trouble is they have no problem leaving massive amounts of collateral damage, and Sarge not so subtly implies he wants to destroy Earth if that's what it takes.
** Also Altarah. She wants to secure the future of her endangered people.
* WhatTheHellHero: Fitz '''''explodes''''' at Enoch when he tells him that the only way he could save their friends was by telling the Chronicoms that holding Jemma hostage is the perfect way to motivate Fitz to perfect a way of time travel for them.
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!!Tropes in this episode:
* AmputationStopsSpread: Sarge compares his plan to stop the Shrike to cutting off a limb, the implication being that Earth is the infected limb in this analogy.
* BadassBoast: Davis ''tries'' to, by stating "Dropping aliens is what I do best!". The reaction he gets however is just embarassment.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: The Chronicoms wiped out the Confederacy and hijacked their fleet.
* BigBadEnsemble: In addition to Sarge and his team, who are revealed to be {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s, you now have Altarah and the surviving Chronicoms who will kill anyone who can't or won't help them with their goal to develop time travel, and finally the mysterious and so far unseen Creator behind the Shrike.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Chronicoms believe that Enoch and Fitz "tampered" with the universe, although that's just a pretext to leverage them to help them travel through time.
* CallBack: Benson wants to explore Peru and Yucatán. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E2084 Peru]] was where they found the 0-8-4 device inside an Incan temple. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E1LawsOfNature Yucatán]] is where Fitz traveled to study the origins of the space monolith.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Mack struggles with his new responsibilities as director.
* ConflictingLoyalty: Enoch is clearly torn between his friendship with Fitz and his people.
* ContinuityNod: Enoch mentions that he kidnapped Team Coulson and then sent them into a dystopian future.
* TheCorruptor: Sarge wants to turn May to his side. He fails.
* EndangeredSpecies: The Chronicoms, with their homeworld destroyed. All survivors now reside on the former Confederacy ships.
* EntertaininglyWrong: From Sarge's POV, he assumes that Coulson is his doppelgänger. He's been to countless worlds, so showing up on one where another man had his face is too much of a coincidence.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Sarge states that Snowflake enjoys her job a little too much for his taste.
* {{Flashback}}: The episode has several to May and Coulson during his dying days in Tahiti.
* FromBadToWorse: Enoch states that having the Confederacy after them would have been ''preferable'' compared to the Chronicoms.
* GeniusBonus: InUniverse, Benson calls attention to what Tinker was saying: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachacuti Pachakutiq]]. It means "the cataclysmic overturning of Andean time-space".
* GoingNative: Altarah notices how much Enoch has changed since spending time with humans.
* GreaterScopeVillain: The mysterious "Creator" behind the Shrike, whom Sarge is looking forward to killing.
* HeroicBSOD: Enoch is ''still'' having his existential crisis from the last episode when he first appears. Jemma and Daisy manage to snap him out of it with assurances that he succeeded in his mission to save the Earth, and ''they'' are his friends along with Fitz.
* HeroicSacrifice: Jemma gives herself up to the Chronicoms to save her friends and be with Fitz again.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: {{Subverted}}. The person Sarge and Snowflake give May to kill is infected by the Shrike. They just wanted to test her.
* InternalReveal:
** Enoch learns that the BadFuture has been averted.
** Sarge makes the connection that he had a doppelgänger on Earth, whom S.H.I.E.L.D. was close to.
** Daisy, at the end of the episode, is about to learn about Sarge.
* ItsPersonal: May tells Sarge that she is gonna kill him painfully for messing with her. She laters settles on just knocking him out and capturing him after learning his true motives, however.
* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: Altarah knows what Daisy can do, so she's hiding Fitz on another ship. If Quake harms her, the Chronicom fleet have outstanding orders to spread across the galaxy so that Fitz will never be found.
* MythArc: One is slowly presenting itself. The Chronicom's home world has been destroyed in what seems to be a series of mysterious annihilations of various planets. Sarge and his crew are travelers from across the galaxy who are seeking to stop the Shrike, who travel from world to world and destroy them to herald the arrival of their creator.
* ObfuscatingInsanity: After about four episodes of Snowflake seeming very unhinged, she seems to break the act, and seems more lucid after May calls her "nuts".
* OlderThanTheyLook: Sarge is 100 Earth years old, and claims he'll easily live another 100.
* TheReveal: The bat-like creatures are called Shrike and are somehow related to the mysterious Monoliths Team Coulson keeps encountering. Sarge's team didn't create them; they are ''hunting'' them down to try to prevent them from destroying worlds.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The Chronicoms' home planet was destroyed. They want Daisy and [=FitzSimmons=] to tell them how they traveled through time so they can do the same to save their planet.
* ShootTheDog: Benson sympathizes with Elena, as he too had to decide over the fate of his husband when he was rendered brain-dead after an accident.
* ShutUpHannibal: May is utterly immune to anything Sarge offers up.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Attention is drawn to the fact that not only does Sarge look like Coulson, but uses many of the same turns of phrases, adding to both May's and the viewer's confusion as to what the relation between the two is.
* TheStinger: Enoch and Fitz are reunited and Enoch releases some mysterious gas in Fitz's cell.
* StupidEvil:
** Altarah and the remaining survivors of the Chronicom. She wants to go back in time to save her home planet, fair enough. But Daisy and the others would probably be more eager to help her if she wasn't holding Fitz captive and threatening to kill them all if she doesn't give them what she wants. Not to mention assuming they're lying, without motive, when they say they don't know ''how'' they did it or deciding to kill them instead of letting them go if they can't help.
** Sarge and his crew are willing to go to any lengths to stop the spread of the Shrike and destroy their creator, as they're a threat to entire worlds. Problem is they're a small crew that, as far as any local authorities who could help them are concerned, can be easily be mistaken for causeless terrorists who ''themselves'' are the cause of the Shrike. The fact that they're so ruthless and inscrutable is a major stopping block in their goals.
* ThisCannotBe: Sarge is flummoxed that May considers ''him'' the doppelgänger, ''not'' Coulson.
* TookALevelInJerkass: The Chronicoms after losing their planet and reduced to near-extinction will do ''anything'' to survive ... which also means they will casually kill people who even if they aren't a threat are also no use to them either. It might be that only the most ruthless in pursuing the goal survived, much like Thanos, but Enoch's words imply that at least Altarah used to be different.
* WellIntentionedExtremist:
** Sarge's team. They're trying to ''save'' planets from the Shrike and have been following them from planet to planet hoping to destroy them. Trouble is they have no problem leaving massive amounts of collateral damage, and Sarge not so subtly implies he wants to destroy Earth if that's what it takes.
** Also Altarah. She wants to secure the future of her endangered people.
* WhatTheHellHero: Fitz '''''explodes''''' at Enoch when he tells him that the only way he could save their friends was by telling the Chronicoms that holding Jemma hostage is the perfect way to motivate Fitz to perfect a way of time travel for them.
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