Line #99 Awesome/AgentsOfSHIELDSeasonFour


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''Meet [[ComicBook/GhostRider the one who decides]]. You'll be [[OneManArmy seeing a lot of him on this page]]. And on [[NightmareFuel/AgentsOfSHIELD this page]].'']]
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4	->'''Daisy Johnson:''' You don't get to decide who deserves to die!\
5	'''Robbie Reyes:''' I'm not the one who decides.
6	-->-- Ghost Rider makes his proper introduction to the MCU, ''The Ghost''
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8	Awesome Moments from Season Four of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''.
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10	For awesome moments from other seasons, go to the appropriate page.
11	* [[Awesome/AgentsOfSHIELDSeasonOne Season One]]
12	* [[Awesome/AgentsOfSHIELDSeasonTwo Season Two]]
13	* [[Awesome/AgentsOfSHIELDSeasonThree Season Three]]
14	* '''Season Four'''
15	* [[Awesome/AgentsOfSHIELDSeasonFive Season Five]]
16	* [[Awesome/AgentsOFSHIELDSeasonSix Season Six]]
17	* [[Awesome/AgentsOfSHIELDSeasonSeven Season Seven]]
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21	[[folder:The Ghost]]
22	* The episode opens with Daisy- sorry, ''[[ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames Quake]]'' now- suiting up; meanwhile, a group of guys is running scared shitless in a pickup truck. Anyone who's seen the previews believes they're running from Ghost Rider- only for Daisy to appear, having been the one to disable their truck. Then the writers finish the BaitAndSwitch by having the big GR appear after all. One of the Aryans in the truck has an itchy trigger finger and pulls out an ''RPG''. The Rider never hesitates and drives his car right into the missile! More SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome as the car ''backflips'' while on fire. The best part? It's at first only on fire from the explosion. But as the car flips, you can ''see'' the Rider's flames light up the undercarriage and replace those from the explosion. Then the car lands on all four fiery wheels and keeps going, smashing into the Aryans truck. This is the first 5 minutes.
23	* When Daisy meets Robbie the first time, she thinks he's an ordinary guy working at the junkyard. Then as he's leading her to the office, she hears him flip his keys and stops cold, remembering that sound from earlier. She turns just as Robbie's eyes light up and hits him with her powers, slamming him against a van and ''denting it''. The blow would've disabled most people, broken several bones from the impact and shattered others by the vibrations. [[NoSell Robbie shrugs it off]] and comes at her, eyes aglow. He grabs a piece of rebar and lights it up with hellfire, and the battle begins. It was quite an adrenaline rush for the new AntiHero.
24	-->'''Robbie:''' So... Guess you have the Devil inside you, too.
25	* During the fight, Daisy calls Robbie out on his vigilantism. She questions his choice of victims. A detective? He had blood on his hands, Robbie informs her. A teacher? A ''pedophile'', Robbie claims. Fed up, Daisy declares that he isn't allowed to decide who dies. Robbie gives her a funny look. "I'm not the one who decides," he tells her. And then the Rider comes out...
26	* Ghost Rider initially rips a car's bumper off to use as a weapon against Quake. It has just enough time to catch fire before she blows it out of his hands with her power. The Rider seems startled a moment, then gets angry and punches her- and that's it, the fight's over, ''because that's just how hard he hits''.
27	* It says a lot about the episode that Coulson having an x-ray projector in his hand is one of the least cool things that happens. Still awesome though.
28	* Mack gets an [[ShoutOut exploding pen]] from Fitz.
29	* We officially have Life Model Decoys in the MCU. They're not perfect yet, but they exist.
30	* Daisy's stint as a rogue vigilante should be given props as well; she's evaded SHIELD's tracking (which includes the seismic monitoring they developed back when she was under Hive's thrall), to the point that Mack and Coulson were both completely unable to find her in spite of their best efforts, even though she was regularly able to track down Yo-Yo to score bone-repairing drugs. She's also been fighting ''without'' her gauntlets, including using her powers regularly, despite the strain this was causing her body. When she's suiting up, she's visibly covered in bruises and not in great shape.
31	[[/folder]]
32
33	[[folder:Meet the New Boss]]
34	* How about the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic music]] that plays when Robbie is getting ready at the start of the episode? The Ghost Rider has a rockin' theme.
35	* Daisy not only tracks Robbie down at his work, she pretends to be an old friend, casually throwing out details from his childhood, which must be incredibly unnerving for him.
36	* Ghost Rider versus Quake, Round 2! Does Daisy whip out some new moves based on what she saw and totally kick Robbie's ass? Well, she tries. But Robbie beats her in two hits, and he doesn't even transform!
37	** To be fair, Daisy was fighting with at least one fractured arm.
38	* Props have to be given to May for holding it together as long as she did. Every other person affected by the ghost has succumbed instantly. May managed to focus on helping her team and lasted at least a day. Crosses into SugarWiki/{{heartwarming\|Moments}} when you consider her motives are not to destroy the 'monsters', but to help her friends.
39	** When May finally does snap, she manages to beat all four of her trainees ''and'' Coulson with his power hand, all at once. She's finally stopped by- well, look at the next entry.
40	* Jeffrey Mace, the new director, has looked like a pompous ass the entire episode, a PR-focused bureaucratic moron. Then he appears out of nowhere when Agent May goes on her rampage, and proceeds to NoSell all of her blows, even when she picks up a pipe. We might think he's a robot or even a Life Model Decoy. Then-
41	-->'''May:''' You're a monster.\
42	'''Jeffrey:''' I prefer the term... ''Inhuman''.
43	** He then easily {{Neck Lift}}s her and slams her into the wall, knocking her out instantly.
44	** Interestingly, Jeffrey is not a CanonForeigner -- he's a Golden Age superhero known as Patriot (a LegacyCharacter for Captain America, later taking up Cap's mantle himself). In this rendition, he's even more powerful.
45	* Mack still has his Shotgun-Axe!
46	* Mack is trapped in a chamber that will either ghost-ify him or explode. A ghost is reaching for Fitz, [[DarkestHour about to turn him into a raving lunatic like May.]] Then [[BigDamnHeroes Ghost Rider]] shows up and ''grabs'' the ghost. Only then does he transform (completely on-screen again, way to go animators!), and ''burns the ghost into nothingness!'' Repeat: Ghost Rider burns a ghost to death. If that sentence sounds counter-intuitive, then you haven't been paying attention.
47	* Mack works out on his own that Daisy and Yo-Yo have been communicating, and the latter has been stealing medication from SHIELD for the former. Not only does it show he's [[GeniusBruiser smarter than he looks]] (for a character who's normally "just" an engineer/mechanic), but it's also one of the most heart-wrenching moments the show has ever had.
48	* The show throws a TakeThat at ABC for canceling ''Series/AgentCarter'', with Coulson talking about how she had a ton of amazing adventures that we will unfortunately never get to see. Well, we can always hope for some flashbacks.
49	[[/folder]]
50
51	[[folder:Uprising]]
52	* Daisy and Robbie beating up the looters that were threatening Gabe. Note that Robbie does it all ''without'' any help from the Rider.
53	* Coulson, Mack, and Fitz rescue Elena from the Watchdogs by effortlessly taking all of them down. Special mention goes to Fitz ''stabbing a guy through the hand''.
54	** Then the four of them do it to another group of Watchdogs in a MookHorrorShow.
55	* Fitz figures out the location of the EMP device with nothing but [[AwesomenessByAnalysis some homemade compasses and math.]]
56	* Jeffrey announcing the official and legal revival of S.H.I.E.L.D. live on television.
57	[[/folder]]
58
59	[[folder:Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire]]
60	* Coulson and Mack engage in a car chase with Robbie, which is awesome in and of itself. But wait until you see how they deal with a passing truck. Robbie simply swerves to avoid it, but Coulson and Mack have to go underneath, and they ''still'' manage to get Lola to the other side of the truck in one piece.
61	** There's also how Coulson ends the chase -- he knows that without her flight capacities restored, Lola can't catch up to the Hell Charger. So instead, he herds Robbie a certain way, causing him to ram head first into a cloaked Quinjet.
62	*** Note that the Hell Charger takes the impact without a scratch (confirmed by Mack). The same cannot be said for the Quinjet.
63	* The fight we've been waiting for: Hellfire vs Ghost Rider:
64	** James tries off his flaming [[ChainPain chain]] again to kill Jemma and Daisy. Unfortunately for him, [[BigDamnHeroes he does it in the presence of Ghost Rider]]. [[BattleTrophy Now it's Robbie's chain.]]
65	** James throws a fire bomb at Robbie and he takes it full in the face. The result is nothing but ScratchDamage, if even that, and Robbie delivering a PreAsskickingOneLiner just before transforming: "It's time to pay for your sins."
66	** The spectacular explosion and fireworks display that's set off at the conclusion of the fight between James and Robbie, followed by the latter dragging the former OutOfTheInferno -- badly burned, but alive, thus keeping his promise to Coulson.
67	[[/folder]]
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69	[[folder:Lockup]]
70	* Robbie and Mack, while on the trail of Lucy, are set upon by two ghosts set on infecting them. Robbie incinerates them both.
71	-->'''Mack:''' Ghostbusted...
72	* Ghost Rider kills the last of the Fifth Street Locos by burning him alive in his cell. When [[TheDreaded the Rider]] comes back out into the prison riot, ''everyone'' heads back to their cells and tries locking their doors rather than deal with him.
73	* Director Mace responds to some racist remarks from Senator Nadeer towards Inhumans by publicly outing himself as an Inhuman, much to uproarious applause and Senator Nadeer's embarrassment.
74	* Shortly after, Simmons gets out of further lie detector tests by warning Director Mace she'll have to tell the truth about one of his alleged exploits, a warning which essentially amounts to blackmail. Director Mace realizes that he has been HoistByHisOwnPetard and orders the exemption for Simmons to avoid any embarrassment of his own.
75	* While she eventually gets overwhelmed, Daisy gets props for taking on an entire prison full of Watch Dogs inmates; not only does she hold her own, but she proceeds to hand several of them their asses -- and without even using her powers! Bonus points when you remember the reason ''why'' she's not using her powers; her left arm is ''still broken'', and the rest of her bones aren't in great shape either. She still took out a room full of guys in spite of this handicap. May taught that girl ''well''.
76	[[/folder]]
77
78	[[folder: The Good Samaritan]]
79	* Mace sends Jemma on a mission for the government without telling her any details or even where's she going (she's being blindfolded). He tries to reassure her with his "a team that trusts" catchphrase, but [[ShutUpHannibal she won't even let him finish]], having had enough of his hypocritical bullshit.
80	* The team gets a concrete sight of just how powerful Ghost Rider is when he breaks out of a containment module. For full reference, one of these things was able to hold Lash in the previous season, and was designed from anti-''Hulk'' research.
81	* Ghost Rider takes on the Director. Ghost Rider wins.
82	** On Jeffrey's end, he's barely even affected by the beating he gets. He's back to normal seemingly only a few minutes afterwards, and seems more annoyed or insulted than injured.
83	** Coulson freely admitting that S.H.I.E.L.D had no way of containing Ghost Rider, despite all the stuff they were dealing with on a daily basis.
84	* Lucy's [[MuggingTheMonster attempt to kill Robbie]]. She treats him like a random human, phases through him... only for him to NoSell her madness plague and grab her by the wrist. Cue an OhCrap from her before she's a wisp of smoke.
85	* The reveal that the Darkhold story is tied into Isodyne, our first indication that the Marvel crew is working to give us a resolution to the cliffhanger ''Agent Carter'' was cancelled on.
86	[[/folder]]
87
88	[[folder:Deals With Our Devils]]
89	* The Ghost Rider, being unable to affect anything while in Robbie's body, jumps to the next angry person -- Mack. Seeing Mack transform into the Ghost Rider is yet more awesome, as is the Spirit of Vengeance possessing him to begin with. Like with the ''first'' Ghost Rider, his form is different than Robbie's, indicating the special effects team took the time to craft ''three'' different Ghost Riders, when they would've easily gotten away with just reusing the same face.
90	* Radcliffe is the first person to resist the allure of the [[TomeofEldritchLore Darkhold]]. After reading less than two pages of it, he immediately recognizes the [[ArtifactofDoom danger it really is.]]
91	* The titular DealWithTheDevil: The Rider helps defeat Eli, and Robbie helps settle the Spirit's scores. All of them. Watch the Rider's face when Robbie makes the offer. The Spirit's reaction suggests that no one has ''ever'' made anything close to such an offer.
92	* Aida ''appears'' to be able to see and hear Fitz and Coulson, as she uses their suggestion to build an interdimensional portal.
93	** In a dark awesome way, the technology she used to build the portal also allows her to build a brain, presumably for herself so that she could freely pass as a human.
94	* Though not as impressive as her prison fight, Daisy effortlessly takes out several members of the Chinese gang that Eli employed without taking a single hit, ''and'' with her left arm still in bad shape.
95	* In TheStinger, Robbie clambering through the portal, presumably from Hell itself. Thus, he EscapedFromHell.
96	[[/folder]]
97
98	[[folder:The Law of Inferno Dynamics]]
99	* The battle against Eli and his minions goes about as well for them you'd expect it to.
100	** Coulson goes in by himself, unarmed, to talk to Eli; that alone takes serious guts. Then he calls in the team, and frees Ghost Rider himself.
101	** We finally see [[ActionPolitician Director Mace]] in action, complete with body armor. His entrance is him palming a guy around 50 feet through the air. It can only be assumed his plan to bring SHIELD good publicity by leading the charge himself worked.
102	** Yo Yo gives the most impressive use of her powers yet by rearranging the entire battlefield to the good guys' advantage. Suffice it to say, the gang members are dead in about 5 seconds (real time). This is after outrunning an ''explosion''.
103	** Robbie going down the burning corridor from said explosion with no damage.
104	* While the above battle is going on, Fitz, Simmons, Radcliffe, Daisy, and Aida are working on the ''real'' plan: they make a huge portal underneath Eli and the Rider (who is holding Eli in place), which sucks them into another dimension. All the while, Daisy has to absorb successively more powerful earthquakes to allow Aida to work.
105	* Eli's no slouch either. In about a week, he has worked his way from creating carbon to ''plutonium''. That's not enough for him so he worked his way through the entire periodic table and has started creating compounds -- he fills a glass with water just to show off to Robbie. That's still not enough; he plans to ''create life itself'' next.
106	* Eli is the first and, so far, only person to subdue the Rider for a time. It turns out that a sufficient amount of sudden pain can prevent the transformation.
107	* Senator Nadeer has underestimated Director Mace once again. This time, he's able to convince the public that "Agent Johnson" (not "Quake") was [[DeepCoverAgent working an undercover mission against the Watchdogs all along]]. This negates all of her bad publicity and forces Nadeer to walk back her rabid anti-Inhuman stance for the public. Having a PR guy as TheFace of SHIELD turned out to be a good call.
108	* Daisy uses her powers to jump ''a hundred feet'' in the air, then lands safely afterwards.
109	* Aida manages to create a Life Model Decoy of Agent May that fools absolutely everybody.
110	[[/folder]]
111
112	[[folder:BrokenPromises]]
113	* Radcliffe tricking everyone and masterminding the plot behind the episode. He has built a second Aida and was able to program the first to have emotional responses, so that she would appear corrupted. It is also revealed that their plan is to show the benefits of the LMD program by having Agent May's LMD pass as human, which so far is working as the LMD doesn't know it is a machine.
114	* Vijay Nadeer managing to convince his sister that he is not an Inhuman by stating that he has no powers and beat 'the virus'. In truth he is an Inhuman and has superhuman reflexes and speed to defeat the Watchdogs.
115	To elaborate, one of the watchdogs tries to attack Vijay with a knife, and Vijay dodges his swings at superspeed. Then Vijay quickly punches and elbows the Watchdog repeatedly, leaving him dazed.(Again, all at superspeed.) To finish him off, he grabs ahold of his arm, and pulls him into the path of another Watchdogs fist. And Vijays not being sloppy about it either-he's clearly been well trained. The lead Watchdog pulls a gun on Vijay, and there's three more Watchdogs with him. The scene switches to Mace, Daisy, and Simmons for a few seconds, then goes back to Vijay. And in that time, Vijay apperntly took down two of the Watchdogs, chased down the lead Watchdog, and threw him through a door. Vijay goes after him while the lead Watchdog (getting desperate) calls for help. The ''only'' reason he actually gets away from Vijay is because another Watchdog managed to come up behind Vijay with a knife, and Vijay had to deal with him or get stabbed. And Vijay deals with him ''fast''. He easily dodges the man's punches, before decking him. The last Watchdog tries to attack him, and Vijay takes him down with several rapid fire punches, slams his head into a nearby table, takes his gun, and fires a warning shot into the air. The only thing that ''finally'' stops Vijay is his sisters arrival.
116	** Taking out multiple armed men would've been cool enough, but Vijay did it while also dealing with superpowers he didn't even know he had, ''and still managed to show some level of control over them.'' Mace and Simmons him take down the last two Watchdogs, and are clearly stunned at what he's already capable of.
117	* Then when he is killed by his sister and dumped into the ocean, he undergoes ''another Terrigenesis''!
118	* Mack coming up behind Aida and [[OffWithHisHead beheading her]] with his shotgun-ax.
119	-->'''Mack:''' [[BondOneLiner Roll credits.]]
120	* Simmons, the very picture of grace under pressure, affecting a southern accent when pretending to be a lobbyist to contact Senator Nadeer. And taking out Nadeer's assistant when the act didn't work.
121	-->'''Daisy:''' Simmons, are you there? Is everything okay?\
122	'''Simmons:''' A bit bloody and bruised but I'll survive. We ''may'' have a bit of a political situation on our hands when he wakes up, but now we can trace that call.
123	[[/folder]]
124
125	[[folder:The Patriot]]
126	* Mace stopping a shot from a sniper by hefting the podium he's speaking behind. And when he realizes it's explosive, he tosses the whole thing in the air.
127	** Not to mention Daisy nailing said sniper with an epic in-background quake-assisted-jump takedown.
128	* May fighting her way free of the LotusEaterMachine Radcliffe's stuck her in. Sadly, she doesn't make it far.
129	* Simmons pretending to be a TortureTechnician, aided by use of Aida's severed head as a prop, in order to scare the assassin into talking.
130	* Mace bluffing the squad of ex-HYDRA {{Mooks}}, long enough for Mack to blow up their signal blocker truck.
131	** Mace and Coulson then having a shootout with them all, until [[BigDamnHeroes Daisy shows up to save them]].
132	** Mack's one-on-one fight with the head mook, before LMD May shows up and helps him end it.
133	* Coulson laying down the law to Mace -- he can stay on as the face of SHIELD and handle the political angle, but from now on, [[TheManBehindTheMan Coulson's retaking operational command]].
134	* After seasons of acting as at best an ObstructiveBureaucrat and at worst a bullying thug, Talbot gets it spelled out very clearly that he isn't the one calling the shots for SHIELD and never will be.
135	** For bonus points it's the easygoing scientist duo of Fitz and Simmons that deal with Talbot, who take advantage of the very system that he's been pushing on SHIELD to make him dance to their tune. Talbot is basically so messed over that he has no choice but to do what they say.
136	[[/folder]]
137
138	[[folder:Wake Up]]
139	* While everything quickly goes to hell after, Daisy holding her own at a senate meeting about her vigilante activities as Quake and Inhumans being a danger to society. She even manages to get in a good shot at Nadeer about how Inhumans are regular people -- a neighbor, a friend, a ''brother'' -- which briefly throws Nadeer off and leaves her silent.
140	[[/folder]]
141
142	[[folder:Hot Potato Soup]]
143	* When Ivanov's thugs attempt to forcefully escort her and Radcliffe off of the submarine, Aida proceeds to [[CurbStompBattle utterly wipe the floor with them.]]
144	* Radcliffe's plan to acquire the Darkhold worked perfectly. As soon as LMD!May got her hands on it, she turned on Coulson and refused to back down even after Coulson pointed out that the real May wouldn't betray him. After she was busted by Daisy's quake-slaps, she seized another opportunity to hand it over to him.
145	[[/folder]]
146
147	[[folder:BOOM]]
148	* Towards the end of the episode, Mace allows himself to be captured to hold off the Watchdogs to give [=FitzSimmons=] time to trap Shockley and save Daisy from his trap. Throughout the entire episode, Mace, having been told that he can no longer take the Patriot Serum due to the risk of cardiac arrest, is in a funk over how to help SHIELD. He finally gets his chance. When the time comes, he doesn't even hesitate to inject the serum into himself, not only surviving, but bringing a truck to a stop with his bare hands.
149	* Earlier in the episode, Daisy was trying to find the counter-frequency to prevent Shockley from blowing himself up. Since she can't, she improvises -- and blows him up ''repeatedly'' to buy time until they can bring up a capture device.
150	[[/folder]]
151
152	[[folder:The Man Behind The Shield]]
153	* Mace remaining DefiantToTheEnd towards Ivanov throughout the episode.
154	* Coulson confronts Ivanov, who rattles off his conspiracy theories and how Coulson ties into his origins. Coulson is [[KirkSummation less than impressed]]:
155	-->"As far as I'm concerned you're just another {{redshirt}}, like so many others, who tried unsuccessfully to stop me from saving the world. [[BadassBoast 'Cause that's what I do.]] So cool origin story, bro. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday But this means]] ''[[ButForMeItWasTuesday nothing]]'' [[ButForMeItWasTuesday to me]]."
156	** And then Daisy -- who, as Coulson points out, actually ''does'' have a [[ItsPersonal personal reason]] to hate Ivanov -- bursts open the doors to the room and marches in. She then proceeds to fight Ivanov hand-to-hand, fighting evenly, until she finally decides to [[CombatPragmatist just use her powers to beat him]].
157	--->'''Ivanov:''' I strive for perfection. You are a genetic cheater.\
158	'''Daisy:''' I'm not a cheater. You're just playing by the old rules. [[PreAsskickingOneLiner The game has changed.]] ''[uses her powers to drop the ceiling on Ivanov]''
159	* The Watchdogs and/or Aida get an OffScreenMomentOfAwesome since they captured Coulson, Mack and Daisy actually Fitz, as revealed in the next episode during the mission without anyone realizing it.
160	[[/folder]]
161
162	[[folder:Self Control]]
163	* Simmons getting the drop on LMD!Fitz, dropping an engine on him, and then brutally stabbing him to death. The expression on her face is a mix of horror and determination.
164	* Daisy's epic fight with LMD!Mace, culminating in her quaking his legs out from under him and then stabbing him on the way down.
165	* Daisy blasting both LMD!Coulson and LMD!Mack away with two shockwaves at once. LMD!Mack is ''ripped to shreds!''
166	** This is not a normal quake blast; this is a ''charged'' quake blast. Combined with the look of resolve on her face, it makes for a powerfully emotional sequence.
167	** Props to the effects team as well, for the ''absolutely glorious'' slow-mo CGI of the vibration-dissembled pistols and an exploding LMD!Mack.
168	* LMD!May pulling a TakingYouWithMe on LMD!Coulson.
169	-->'''LMD!May:''' My programming was to get the Darkhold. That came from Radcliffe. But my impulse to keep Coulson safe and close? That desire? That came from me.\
170	'''LMD!Coulson:''' That's good.\
171	'''LMD!May:''' And I'm sorry to say... you're not him.
172	[[/folder]]
173
174	[[folder:What If...]]
175	* Crossed with Heartwarming: As Framework Ward comes across Daisy and Jemma meeting, he pulls a gun and demands to know if Jemma is Daisy's source in the Resistance. With HYDRA agents closing in, Daisy tries to calm Ward down by lowering her gun, and swears that she has nothing to do with the Resistance. Just after that, Ward fires his gun...killing the HYDRA agent who had been coming down the stairs--revealing [[IronicEcho he's a SHIELD spy in this reality]].
176	-->'''Ward:''' [[GoodAllAlong Well, I do.]]
177	[[/folder]]
178
179	[[folder:Identity and Change]]
180	* Daisy pulls a [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier Captain America]] with a group of Hydra goons in the Triskelion elevator.
181	[[/folder]]
182
183	[[folder:No Regrets]]
184	* Aida tries to explain to Daisy that she's not responsible for the dystopia of the Framework. Radcliffe can hear her from his cell and isn't having any of it.
185	-->'''Madame Hydra:''' All I did was fix one thing in everyone's life. A regret. The subsequent world is simply a consequence of your actions. Algorithms, running their natural course, as Dr. Radcliffe always intended.\
186	'''Dr. Radcliffe:''' ''[through the wall]'' THIS ISN'T WHAT I MEANT, YOU SADISTIC WITCH!
187	* After all his self-loathing about being an artificially created hero and wondering if he had it within him to be one for real, Jeffrey Mace gets his answer. After the team saves most of the kids in a building that was just bombed, just one is left. Mace unhesitatingly jumps in to protect him when the ceiling falls in, and then uses every bit of his strength to lift the debris back up, stabilizing the building just long enough for everyone to get out, at the cost of his own life in the real world. There's no question anymore, the man is a true hero.
188	* The previous two episodes hinted pretty hard that the Framework's version of HYDRA is at least partly a TakeThat at the Donald Trump administration. In this episode, the show drops all subtlety by having its co-leader Fitz observe Daisy's reaction to torture and say: "Nevertheless, she persisted."
189	* Tripp is back. Repeat. Antoine Tripplett, killed off in Season 2 for no discernible reason, is returned, he was a spy in HYDRA for Mace, is STILL the grandson of a Howling Commando and continues to use his gear, and SURVIVED THE EPISODE.
190	* In TheStinger, May arrives in Daisy's cell and demands to know if she truly is an Inhuman. Daisy says yes, "powerful enough to bring down this whole building." May then smashes a Terrigen crystal at her feet and says, " I hope so". Daisy's grin promises much pain and suffering for HYDRA to come.
191	[[/folder]]
192
193	[[folder: All The Madame's Men]]
194	* Radcliffe of all people gets one when he [[DefiantCaptive defies]] Alistair Fitz's questioning and gives him a ReasonYouSuckSpeech about what a pathetic man he is in the real world.
195	* Coulson's RousingSpeech to the world live on national propaganda TV. People immediately rally against HYDRA. Before that, the show snipes at Trump again by having Coulson say "HYDRA doesn’t think we’re smart enough to know when we’re being fed alternative facts."
196	* May and Daisy's escape from the Triskellion is ''glorious''. Highlights include May taking down three men mid flip (and it's clearly Ming-Na Wen herself doing it), and Daisy delivering a magnificent ShutUpHannibal to Madame Hydra in the form of quaking her ass out of a window, 40 floors up.
197	** Not to mention Daisy quaking an in-flight grenade back through the windshield of a SUV full of Hydra Mooks with a RightBackAtYa GoryDiscretionShot cutaway.
198	[[/folder]]
199
200	[[folder:Farewell, Cruel World!]]
201	* Radcliffe taking out the HYDRA guard next to him and saving Simmons by pistol whipping Fitz, thus stunning him long enough for Radcliffe to literally drag him over to the gateway and toss him in.
202	[[/folder]]
203
204	[[folder:The Return]]
205	* This might just be the most effects-heavy episode ''yet''.
206	** Firstly, all of Ophelia's powers. Gordon's teleportation, Lincoln's electricity, Jiaying's healing, and super-strength, all well represented.
207	** Then there's the spoilered out scene in the next entry.
208	** There are quite a few scenes of the Russian's sub, the underwater base, and the Zephyr.
209	** Combining the effects with an ''actual'' moment of awesome, Coulson using his laser shield to cut off one of the Ivanovs face!
210	** Surely some of those explosions weren't practical effects.
211	* Coulson and May taking on two [=LMDs=] of Ivanov and winning, with Coulson luring it into a puddle and electrocuting it, while May takes a shot of epinephrine to give her the strength to basically ''beat an LMD to death'' with a hammer.
212	* Daisy getting into a MexicanStandoff with the military, and then forcing ''Talbot'', who is stubbornness personified, into backing down through sheer intimidation, just by stretching her hand out.
213	* At the end of the episode, Team Coulson is looking at its DarkestHour: they're on the run again, Yo-Yo jumped into the Framework to try and convince Mack to return, Fitz's mental state is at its absolute lowest, and Aida is an unstoppable PhysicalGod planning to take revenge on Team Coulson with Ivanov. So by the time the episode ends and the interdimensional gate springs to life, one has to ask: [[FromBadToWorse how can it possibly get any worse?]] [[SubvertedTrope It doesn't]], because [[BackForTheFinale Ghost Rider has finally returned from Hell.]] And he's got his flaming chain, which he dramatically wraps around himself like [[Film/GhostRider2007 another Ghost Rider]]. Aida and Ivanov, [[ArcWords it's time to pay for your sins]].
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217	* Robbie/Ghost Rider is just wall to wall awesome.
218	** Robbie shows up out of nowhere to confront Aida, Ivanov, and his [=LMDs=]. Robbie tosses them around like dolls (while untransformed) and burns Aida's arm, which her powers can't heal. Aida then tries to shock him. ''Big mistake.'' All that does is summon the Rider, and she teleports away in sheer terror. She spends the rest of the episode trying to avoid him at all costs.
219	** During their second encounter, joined by Daisy, Robbie flips Ivanov into the air and Daisy quakes his head off.
220	--->'''Coulson:''' ''[arriving two seconds too late, sounding extremely disappointed]'' [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee I missed it, didn't I? You two together and we missed it! Damn!]]
221	** Finally, Aida has gotten wise and makes sure to be nowhere near Robbie. She finds Coulson alone with the Darkhold and figures she's won. Then Coulson's face starts burning off and she realizes '''[[OhCrap he's not alone]]'''...
222	*** The lead-up to this moment is awesome in and of itself.
223	---->'''Aida:''' Don't you get it? [[TemptingFate You can't kill me!]]\
224	'''Coulson:''' Maybe not. [grabs Aida by the arm] [[WhamLine But I'm pretty sure]] ''[[WhamLine he]]'' [[WhamLine can.]]
225	*** And, again, props has to be given to the VFX team for crafting four different skulls for each character possessed by the Rider thus far.
226	** And after a brief teleporting FreefallFight, Ghost Rider delivers the most satisfying coup de grace in the series thus far: He utterly ''incinerates'' Aida with hellfire before smashing her charred corpse into the floor.
227	** Hell, the first scene Ghost Rider is in counts as one, not for the fact he appears after Aida attacks him, but for his reaction after she teleports away. We knew the Spirit was full of anger, but that was pure ''rage''!
228	* Kudos for Fitz's acting; he sounds absolutely panicked, terrified and defenseless, and Aida fell for it hook, line and sinker. The [=LMD=] Simmons that he created is a second awesome moment since it fooled someone who used to ''be'' an [=LMD=].
229	** Alternatively if it ''wasn't'' acting, kudos for Fitz keeping to the plan and not falling apart when facing Aida.
230	* Jemma shooting Aida with an [=MP5=], after she and Fitz used an LMD of Jemma to trick Aida, no less:
231	-->'''Aida:''' ''[standing up, bullet wounds healing]'' Your trap failed. You can't stop me!\
232	'''Jemma:''' I know. I just really wanted to do that.
233	* Robbie apparently has been taking classes with the Sorcerers, as he can now use his chain to summon portals through space.
234	* Ivanov gets a villainous one by managing to succeed in his plan to turn the public against Inhumans and SHIELD, by having an LMD of Daisy shoot Talbot in the head, then having Mace's autopsy (revealing him not to be Inhuman) leaked to the press. However, whether or not the Men in Black work for him remains to be seen...
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Context Awesome / AgentsOfSHIELDSeasonFour