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10!!Season 1
11
12[[folder:The Asset]]
13* In the climax of this episode, Coulson is forced to send Franklin Hall falling into the gravity machine in order to stop it. Later on, we see S.H.I.E.L.D. agents locking up the mass of Gravitonium that had powered the machine...[[AndIMustScream only to see an arm reaching out from the mass]].
14[[/folder]]
15
16[[folder:Eye Spy]]
17* Akela Amador's situation. Forced to watch her team die, kept in a cell at the bottom of a mine shaft for four years before being rescued. Only for her "rescuers" to implant a cybernetic eye into her head which they use to send her missions and control her with the threat of a kill-switch in the eye.
18* People with eye issues should stay far, ''far'' away from this episode, particularly the scene involving Akela's surgery. Even with network TV limits, the EyeScream is horrific.
19* The poor ex-[=MI6=] agent who was also being controlled by the mysterious villain(s) behind the bionic eyes. His frightened "Oh God!" as Coulson flashes his badge will stick with you for a while.
20* His own EyeScream of the kill switch being flipped, his cybernetic eye turning around inside his socket before the GoryDiscretionShot censors the rest.
21[[/folder]]
22
23[[folder:Girl in the Flower Dress]]
24* When Chan attempts to use his fire powers without the use of his blood platelets, he scorches himself. His reaction upon first discovering this says it all.
25* The CruelAndUnusualDeath of the Centipede scientist by way of [[{{Pyromaniac}} Chan]] roasting her with his fire powers. [[http://i.imgur.com/Ar6jZf4.gif It has to be seen to be believed]]. A subtle touch: Her scream doesn't fade away. It just stops when her lungs and throat disintegrate.
26* The second-to-last scene of the episode is our first glimpse of Agent Coulson as anything but his usual straight, calm, collected demeanor, and it's nothing short of pure fury. It's more than a little jarring, coming from him.
27[[/folder]]
28
29[[folder:FZZT]]
30* Coulson's scar. Saying he simply got shanked is a vast, ''vast'' understatement: it's obvious Loki's scepter tore half his chest apart. In "T.A.H.I.T.I." he confirms his heart was torn in half.
31* The entire idea of the episode. There's an alien virus that can somehow infect humans and kill them with lightning from the inside. Simmons gets it, which nobody realizes until the Bus is in the air. Simmons has a couple of hours to cure herself of a virus that ''isn't even terrestrial in origin'', or the resulting lightning will destroy the plane and kill everyone on-board.
32* Blake's order to Coulson and Ward that they jettison their "infected cargo" (Simmons) into the ocean.
33[[/folder]]
34
35[[folder:The Well]]
36* The stinger includes an exchange certain to send shivers down the spine of anyone who's seen [[{{Series/Dollhouse}} a certain other Joss Whedon show]], and know its implications for Coulson.
37-->'''Coulson:''' Did I fall asleep?\
38'''Masseuse:''' Only for a little while.
39* The episode's namesake: Ward being haunted by memories of the time his ''[[TheSociopath truly]]'' evil big brother dropped his little brother down a well and forced Ward to watch the kid struggling to tread water.
40** The completely emotionless way that the older brother tells Grant that if he tries to help their little brother, he'll be thrown in next.
41* Ward's bouts of UnstoppableRage brought on by the Berserker Staff. The staff's effects on May and the hate group are nothing pleasant either.
42* Ward pulls Randolph aside to ask how long the staff's effects on him will last and gets the response "The strength wears off.[...]That dark, nasty ache in the pit of your stomach, the rage in your chest that makes you feel as if your heart's about to explode? It's worse on humans, but give it a few decades, and it'll wear off, too." It's disturbing in itself to hear that Ward could be dealing with unpleasant aftereffects for years, but it also raises questions about how much influence the staff's lingering "uncontrollable rage" may have had on his later choices in the series. And since Ward asked his question out of earshot of the rest of the team, they will presumably never know that it may have influenced his actions.
43[[/folder]]
44
45[[folder:Repairs]]
46* A good majority of the episode. From The Bus losing power and almost crashing, to Tobias stalking and imprisoning/incapacitating each member of the team in near-total darkness using his incorporeal state, nearly the entire episode is a seat-gripper.
47* A particular standout moment: the lights are mostly out, and the emergency lights are blinking on and off. The camera is focused on May in the foreground; when the light blinks on, she's alone. When it blinks out and on again, the threatening silhouette of a man looms in the background. The next time the light blinks out and back on again, the figure is gone.
48[[/folder]]
49
50[[folder:The Bridge]]
51* Mike Peterson calls his son, who happily tells him that his friend is watching him. When Mike asks Ace to put her on the phone, it turns out to be Raina. His son was being watched by his aunt.
52* The way Raina reacts to information about the Clairvoyant. She otherwise seems to be the very image of an emotionless manipulator, yet she begs Po for any information about the Clairvoyant and seems to be overwhelmed with childlike joy when he tells her that the Clairvoyant knows of her and thinks well of what she's done.
53* The sheer number of implants one of Centipede's soldiers has. One on each forearm, one on each shoulder, and multiple smaller ones on the back.
54[[/folder]]
55
56[[folder:The Magical Place]]
57* The Clairvoyant not being pleased with Edison Po’s methods and how willingly Raina agrees:
58-->'''Edison Po:''' The Clairvoyant would like to speak to you. \
59'''Raina:''' This is Raina... Yes... I agree... Thank you... I'll put him back on. \
60'''Edison Po:''' Yes, I'm here. ''[cellphone zaps and kills him]''
61* Coulson's cries of "Please, just let me die!" as a multi-armed robot probes his fully exposed brain during his seventh operation. The fact that he had already been through ''six'' operations before that one, and also seeing as how he was ''begging'' for them to let him die shows just show how much pain he was really in.
62** Given the reveal that Coulson himself was the supervisor of Project T.A.H.I.T.I., the potential horror of his begging becomes two-fold. Not only was he begging to die because he was in extreme pain and agony, but also because at that point he still remembered what happened to the previous subjects and would rather die than experience the same mental degeneration they suffered.
63* Mike Peterson wakes up to find himself alone, with his right leg partly blown up, and a scarred face. Then he thinks he's left alone and sees his face in the mirror before him, [[FromBadToWorse a message appears in his eye sight in the manner of Akela Amador]].
64[[/folder]]
65
66[[folder:Seeds]]
67* The pocket-sized cryogenic gadget that can completely ''freeze'' a whole pool in a matter of seconds. And it does exactly the same to Donnie in the middle of his University lecture hall. And to top it all off, the larger version of said device that can spontaneously create a small hurricane-sized super storm with hail chunks the size of lunch boxes, and it ends up killing Seth. This episode really drives home how terrifying Super Tech can be when used irresponsibly. [[ReedRichardsIsUseless Reed Richards]] might not be so wrong about keeping this stuff locked away.
68* As he is led away to the Sandbox for containment, Donnie drags his index finger along the car window, ''[[AnIcePerson creating ice]]'' in the process. And he ''smiles'' from his newfound power.
69[[/folder]]
70
71[[folder:T.R.A.C.K.S.]]
72* When Skye goes into the basement of Quinn's manor. [[NothingIsScarier It's dark, and appears empty at first]], but she soon finds a hyperbaric chamber that contains...[[ReforgedIntoAMinion Mike Peterson.]] Quinn and a bodyguard soon arrive, guns in hand, and we soon see that Mike is NotHimself.... And then later Skye gets shot twice by Quinn. She struggles to move and weakly say the word "Help" before finally collapsing into a pool of her own blood. Mike's new leg attaching and extending itself is also clearly extremely painful.
73** Not to mention Quinn's '''deeply''' disturbing/creepy behaviour in this scene - after he shoots Skye the first time, he ''[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything embraces and shushes her]]'', before '''firing again'''.
74[[/folder]]
75
76[[folder:T.A.H.I.T.I.]]
77* After being told Skye is going to die, Team Coulson all go into individual [[HeroicBSOD BSODs]]. Except for May, who proceeds to go to Quinn's interrogation room... and begins ''beating him senseless''. There's little doubt that if Coulson and Ward hadn't walked in and stopped her, May would have beaten Quinn to death with her bare hands.
78* The blue humanoid concealed in the tank that is not only revealed to be the source of the GH-325 serum that was injected into Coulson (and later, Skye), but is also horrifically ripped in half and looks to be decomposing. Coulson's [[HeroicBSOD thousand yard stare]] [[http://i.imgur.com/gfOqGJc.png says it all.]]
79[[/folder]]
80
81[[folder:Yes Men]]
82* The fact that even Nick Fury himself has gone off the grid just about the same time as Dr. Streiten.
83* One of Lorelei's slaves strangles his own wife to death because she was making too much noise. And the newlywed man she'd taken earlier (stranding his pregnant wife in the process) ended up backhanded into his car.
84* RewatchBonus. Ward tries to shoot May even after Lorelei is contained.
85[[/folder]]
86
87[[folder:End of the Beginning]]
88* Deathlok nearly choking Agent Blake to death.
89* Upon the agents finding Thomas Nash, the Clairvoyant taunts them through a computer (in a MachineMonotone, no less), and tells Coulson that Skye will be endangered again in the near future, and he won't be able to save her this time.
90* Poor Fitz, discovering that a friend and colleague is a DoubleAgent, and then being hunted down on an airplane where there's no escape. On a related note, seeing May go Franchise/{{Terminator}}-mode against him is equal parts this and awesome.
91* The Bus can be operated remotely.
92* Simmons and Triplett are at S.H.I.E.L.D. during the events of [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier CA:TWS]], though mercifully they aren't at the Triskelion.
93[[/folder]]
94
95[[folder:Turn, Turn, Turn]]
96* The slow reveal: "Out of the shadows, into the light", followed by "HYDRA" and the dawning realization that S.H.I.E.L.D. has been infiltrated by an organization that itself is the stuff of nightmares.
97* That heart-stopping instant where it looks like Triplett is a HYDRA agent, locking himself in a room with Simmons and pulling a knife out.
98* Victoria Hand rounding up S.H.I.E.L.D. agents at The Hub to determine who's with HYDRA and who isn't. Fortunately it's because she's trying to stop HYDRA, despite what it seems like the episode has been leading up to.
99* TheReveal of Ward as a HYDRA operative, calmly shooting the agents guarding Garrett (the Clairvoyant), shortly followed by Victoria Hand.
100* There was something extremely unsettling about the S.H.I.E.L.D. emblem on the closing title card being replaced with [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the HYDRA emblem]].
101* It's implied that instead of killing Fitz, HYDRA was going to somehow force him to work for them against his will. After Garrett would have him shot in the kneecaps for threatening him.
102* Coulson learning that he was manipulated into choosing all the other members of Team Coulson by May so that they would be capable of killing him if it turned out that he CameBackWrong.
103* Garrett's call of "Hail HYDRA!" and its answering echo from the off-screen firing squad facing down Coulson, May and Fitz.
104* After Ward kills the guards and Victoria Hand in cold blood, Garrett looks up at Ward and a SlasherSmile that can only be described as "hellish" spreads across his face... all the traces of AffablyEvil are gone in that devilish shot.
105[[/folder]]
106
107[[folder:Providence]]
108* Garrett casually thanks Ward for "the tip-off about the Cellist". It seems that Coulson's reunion with his long-lost LoveInterest in the next episode might not be under the happiest circumstances...
109* Any scene where Ward switches between his HYDRA persona and his S.H.I.E.L.D. persona is unbearably creepy.
110* Him calmly listing everything he did to get the team to trust him: acting like someone Coulson would want to mentor, becoming Skye's [=SO=], saving Simmons's life (also gaining Fitz's gratitude in the process), and seducing May.
111* Garrett's method for getting Ward back into character? Beating the crap out of him until he believes his performance. It helps that Ward is still half-smiling (though it's more like grimacing) through a mouthful of bloody teeth for much of the beating.
112* Every scene where Skye is unknowingly feeding HYDRA information through Ward, up to and including his arrival at Providence, since the plan from there is to find out as much as he can, kidnap Skye for her password, and kill the rest of TheTeam.
113[[/folder]]
114
115[[folder:The Only Light in the Darkness]]
116* Poor Audrey, having a mentally-unhinged stalker with ''superpowers''. It also goes the other way too, since from what is described, said stalker is in constant excruciating agony and the only form of relief he can find is in the music of a woman who is threatened by his very presence. It almost makes his death feel like a MercyKill.
117* Blackout in general is pretty creepy, what with the way the lights go out when he passes by them and his UnflinchingWalk.
118* Skye finding Koenig's body and discovering that Ward is a HYDRA infiltrator. Her reaction says it all.
119** That entire scene is nightmare fuel that feels like something out of a slasher movie. We have Ward looking around for her, calling out her name, all the while she is clearly putting everything together. We know that if they find her, she'll be killed, or at the very least captured and forced to activate the drive. The fact that after they find her, said character is suddenly very convincingly friendly, and makes up believable excuse for why Skye can't contact the team or Koenig, only makes things creepier.
120* Ward's revelation which from the flashback to his childhood in earlier episodes, might be the only truth he tells Skye in the whole episode that not only did his older brother force him to torture his younger brother, but his parents were even ''worse.'' In the flashback we see, Ward's older brother threw the younger sibling into a well and then ''made Ward watch the little boy desperately tread water and scream for help as he fought to keep from drowning. The above implies Ward did not try to sneak a rescue, HE was made to throw him in there, possibly to his death'' How the hell were Ward's parents ''even worse''?
121** Considering that he considered Garrett, and being stranded in the woods alone for six months, the better option... A lot worse.
122[[/folder]]
123
124[[folder:Nothing Personal]]
125* May digs up a flash drive containing details on the T.A.H.I.T.I. project and at the end of the episode shows it to Coulson. The drive contains one video. It's Coulson himself, revealed to be the director of the project. He advises Director Fury to terminate the T.A.H.I.T.I. project and threatens resignation over it. What's more, Coulson reveals that there were ''test subjects'' for the project, all of whom quickly deteriorated after the treatment, and while memory replacement staved off the meltdown, it did so inconsistently. And now this treatment has been given to both Coulson and (incompletely) Skye.
126* The device Deathlok uses on Ward, stopping his heart until Skye caved and spilled the drive's encryption. Just the idea of such a thing is bad enough!
127* When it's revealed how Ward killed Koenig; strangled him with a garrote with enough force to not only lift the latter's body off the floor, but ''slice into his neck'' and obliterate his trachea.
128* Skye floating out of the freefalling Lola after not having enough time to put on her seatbelt. And then the malfunctioning thrusters flip them upside down.
129* The whole team is facing jail time if they're caught again for their continued affiliation with S.H.I.E.L.D. and refusal to turn themselves in.
130* When Ward finally snaps at Skye on The Bus, it's genuinely frightening, as we get a glimpse of just how psychotic he truly is.
131[[/folder]]
132
133[[folder:Ragtag]]
134* Garrett's condition:
135** TheReveal of how far back it goes and, consequently, how long the Centipede project has likely been in the works.
136** The experience of having the cybernetics in one's body (a large chunk of his torso) shocked by an EMP.
137** The immediate physical reaction to Raina's makeshift attempt to replicate GH-325 being injected into his cybernetics.
138* Fitz and Simmons getting ''jettisoned from the bus '''into the ocean'''''. This is further amplified by them being conspicuously absent from the next episode previews, while the more obvious survival of the rest of the team is spoiled right then and there.
139* Coulson and the others in Cuba get ambushed by Kaminsky and other HYDRA agents in the dark.
140* We finally get more information about Skye's past. The village she was found in was destroyed, the whole population massacred, by a pair of monsters who were trying to get to her as a baby. Those monsters were [[HumanoidAbomination Skye's parents.]]
141[[/folder]]
142
143[[folder:Beginning of the End]]
144* Garrett ''punching through a US Marine Corps general, pulling out one of his ribs, and '''stabbing him with it.'''''
145* Ward and May's climactic fight is one of the nastiest brawls in the entire MCU so far. It involves multiple uses of power tools. She ''nails his foot to the floor,'' several times. Ward may have had it coming, but ''OW.''
146** Unlike with Skye (who Ward genuinely cared for in his own dysfunctional way), and Fitz and Simmons (who Ward felt conflicted about killing), Ward seems to ''enjoy'' hurting May. His taunts are ''incredibly'' creepy.
147* Against all odds, you and your best friend survive being dumped into the ocean from a plane, but the airtight, bulletproof, ''space-worthy'' box the two of you were dumped in has sunk to the ocean floor. Just when you've resigned yourself to starvation, or more likely, suffocation, against all odds, the both of you hit on a plan to break out of the box and get to the surface, But, just before the plan is put into motion, when it's too late to back out, your best friend reveals that the plan was only ever going to be for one person, and that that person is you, and they're going to stay behind so as to not hamper your escape attempt. And you helped them put that plan together, and you ''never even twigged once''. No wonder all Simmons can say is 'No' when Fitz breaks it to her.
148** And then you somehow manage to take your friend up to the surface with you and miraculously snag a rescue, but they sustain brain damage from lack of oxygen, and the best that can be said of them is that they're alive.
149* Cybertek's "Incentives Program" basically consists of holding loved ones hostage in order to compel individuals to work as handlers of the Centipede soldiers. And the construction zone Ward and May fight through makes it clear Cybertek was planning to expand it significantly.
150* Coulson getting up in the middle of the night, and scrawling the same alien language that drove Garrett insane all over the wall. Somehow, his [[DissonantSerenity tranquil demeanor]] while doing this makes it even creepier. This is especially the case if you realize that the writing is the same as the one found on the chalkboard by Ward in "Eye Spy". Gets worse when you listen to the creepy music played in the epilogue.
151* When Raina tracks down Skye's father, his hand is dripping with...something. What was he doing before she came in?
152* Coulson and May confronting Ward as he's being taken into custody by the military. On the surface, this seems like a major victory for Team Coulson complete with a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, however the [[DeathGlare expression on Ward's face]] is very unsettling, implying he may escape and seek revenge in the future.
153* Because Garrett has both the GH-325 ''and'' the Centipede serum in his system, he can take quite a lot of punishment before finally going down, but his appearance grows progressively more disturbing with each injury. After being shot several times by Nick Fury, his mouth becomes bloodied. His face then becomes covered in blood after Mike blasts him with a missile, and is made even worse when Mike stomps on him. Finally, after thought to be dead, he goes through a PainfulTransformation into a cyborg à la [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Darth Vader]], [[ClippedWingAngel at which point he's instantly vaporized]] [[InvokedTrope by Coulson.]]
154* Garrett himself throughout the entire episode. He grows very erratic in a short amount of time, to the point where even Ward, Raina and Quinn are frightened of him. He wasn't a paragon of sanity before, but he starts to kill on a whim, rants about seeing the universe and generally gives off the impression of being unstoppable all while wearing a big SlasherSmile. Bill Paxton does a good job of being both entertaining and terrifying at the same time.
155[[/folder]]
156
157!!Season 2
158
159[[folder:Shadows]]
160* Fitz is alive, walking around, and apparently getting better...yay! Except he's actually getting ''worse'' and he's begun hallucinating Simmons, who left because she thought it would help Fitz get better.
161* In a moment that's particularly dark in hindsight, Fitz is afraid he's hallucinating and asks Simmons if she's seeing the same thing he is, to which she promptly responds that she ''is'', and that he needn't worry. On this occasion it really is happening (confirmed by May, who sees it too), but Fitz being reassured that he's not hallucinating ''by his own hallucination'' speaks volumes about his grip on reality. As Coulson hints at the end of the episode, he doesn't even realise he's suffering a slow decline either, instead believing he's getting better with Simmons's help.
162* Hartley, after being ambushed by Creel, grabs the Obelisk in an attempt to use it against him. It ends up attaching itself to her hand and starts slowly killing her to the point that Hunter ultimately has to slice her forearm off with a knife.
163* Ward [[SanitySlippage hasn't been doing well]] since the end of season 1, to say the least.
164[[/folder]]
165
166[[folder:Heavy Is the Head]]
167* Since the revelation in the premiere that she's just Fitz's hallucination, every scene with Simmons is more than a little eerie.
168* The waitress who was serving Creel's table at the diner turning to stone after accidentally touching Creel, who had absorbed the Obelisk.
169* Coulson's hypergraphia attacks occur regularly, May knows about it, she helps him cover him up, and she keeps a gun nearby if she needs to kill him. Edges into slight tearjerker territory when Coulson is being stubborn about the dates and admitting how tired he is with holding the attacks off.
170[[/folder]]
171
172[[folder:Making Friends and Influencing People]]
173* HYDRA's methods of brainwashing high-value targets, such as Agent 33, which looks a lot like something from ''Film/AClockworkOrange''. All the while, Whitehall calmly delivers a chilling monologue.
174* Fitz decreasing the oxygen in Ward's prison so he can experience ''for himself'' what happened to Fitz's brain.
175* Donnie freezing a HYDRA agent, then shoving said agent to the floor on the way out, causing him to [[LiterallyShatteredLives shatter]] [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath rather gruesomely]].
176* The ending scene, with Whitehall and Bakshi discussing Simmons, especially with the line "We'll ''make'' her comply" played as a voiceover over a shot of Simmons standing in the elevator with an unsettlingly blank look on her face.
177* Simmons' bright and cheerful morning routine doesn't ''seem'' to be this, until she goes into the building and you see the HYDRA logo on the wall.
178[[/folder]]
179
180[[folder:Face My Enemy]]
181* The fact that HYDRA has developed technology that lets their agents impersonate whoever they want, and all they need is some DNA and a voice sample. Which begs the question of how they managed to get General Talbot's DNA, with the implication that the United States Army isn't as HYDRA-proof as they claim to be...
182* Dr. Whitehall corners Raina and implants a device on her that lets him torture her at will until she hands over the Obelisk. The fact that this is the first time we've actually seen Raina show genuine ''fear'' says a lot about Whitehall.
183* The fact that there's someone ''else'' in the world who may have been injected with GH-325, carving alien messages into random objects.
184* The revelation of how fragile the New S.H.I.E.L.D. can be struck home here. May gets knocked out long enough for a blood sample to be taken, thus allowing Agent 33 to impersonate her. This almost led to Director Coulson being captured and the Bus blowing up with his inner circle inside it. Without them, S.H.I.E.L.D. would've collapsed and HYDRA would've had one less thorn in its side.
185[[/folder]]
186
187[[folder:A Hen in the Wolf House]]
188* The Doctor is revealed to have a HairTriggerTemper on par with the Hulk's, which even ''he'' is similarly terrified of.
189* Simmons being revealed as a mole within HYDRA, and her walking into the lab to find everyone in the room staring at her.
190* Raina, of all people, freaking out and in tears for many of her scenes, considering that for the whole of Season 1 she was barely ruffled at any point, even when she was beating beaten and arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D. It really underscores how scary Whitehall and The Doctor are, and how terrifying it must be to be caught between them.
191[[/folder]]
192
193[[folder:A Fractured House]]
194* HYDRA has managed to manufacture flying discs which replicates the effects of the Obelisk/Diviner that would quickly reduce their enemies to dust. Chew on that for a while.
195* Ward revealing to Skye the reason why her father slaughtered everyone in that town when she was an infant: They were all HYDRA agents who had killed his wife.
196* Ward and his Senator brother about their family. Who's telling the real truth?
197** "So it's a well now." Tim [=DeKay=]'s calm delivery of the line is blood chilling.
198* Whatever the Ward family history may be, the idea of being handed back over to Christian clearly serves as some high quality Nightmare Fuel for Grant.
199* Grant Ward, one of HYDRA's agents within S.H.I.E.L.D., escapes during the transfer to the US Government Custody and the last shot we saw of him was killing the soldiers who were watching him.
200* [[WhamShot The last shot]] we have of the episode shows a never-before-seen man going to a tattoo parlor for some ink. What does he want? A new addition to the ''alien writing sprawling across his torso identical to the stuff Garrett and Coulson had been carving.''
201[[/folder]]
202
203[[folder:The Writing on the Wall]]
204* The carvings are becoming more and more frequent for Coulson, to the point that rather than being twice a month he carves ''every'' night. And it looks like it's a very demanding and unpleasant experience for him. He's drenched in sweat and looks desperate.
205* This whole episode has Coulson acting like a drug addict, needing to carve more and more to satisfy himself, physically lashing out whenever hindered, and even locking Skye in Ward's prison in order to get answers about the carvings from Thompson.
206* The guy from the WhamShot from last episode? Turns out he's Sebastian Derek, an early T.A.H.I.T.I. patient treated with the same GH-325 serum as Skye, Coulson, and Garrett. Oh yeah, and he used to be a S.H.I.E.L.D. black ops assassin. Fun.
207* Coulson experiencing flashbacks of Project T.A.H.I.T.I. and other participants' GH-235-induced SanitySlippage while hooked up to Raina's memory machine. He watches them shift from happy and peaceful to deranged and tormented. The only way to help them at that point was to torture them ''even more'' to rewrite their memories. At the end, Coulson sees himself superimposed on one of them.
208** We know that Coulson ended up needing memory replacement too -- what's the chance that Coulson didn't go insane before that? He probably ''was'' once one of those screaming, deranged "''things''", as Dr. Streiten referred to him in ''The Magical Place'', being hauled away to be operated on.
209* The entire premise of the episode is that there's a killer who carved alien symbol onto his victim's bodies until they died ''out of pain''. How this got a PG-rating is a wonder to critics as well as audiences.
210[[/folder]]
211
212[[folder:The Things We Bury]]
213* The secret behind Whitehall's youth. He stole the organs from an Obelisk-resistant woman who remained young and unchanged for years. Viewers get to see graphic details of the HYDRA scientists drawing blood and fluids as well as cutting her open. Even worse, the woman was Skye's mother, hence why the Doctor slaughtered all those HYDRA members in the immediate area, and secretly harbors so much hatred for Whitehall.
214* The full truth of the Ward Household is revealed and it ain't pretty. Grant and Christian were both physically abused by their mother, while their father turned a blind eye to it. Their other brother Thomas was the apple of their mother's eye and Christian wanted to hurt him to get back at her. But he didn't have the stomach for it, hence why he made Grant do it. Grant finally gets his brother to admit it. He then kills him and their parents, and does it in a way to make it look like a murder-suicide.
215** Throughout the episode, the way Christian tries to manipulate Grant is so textbook abusive it's enough to make anyone a little queasy.
216** How do we know that that's the truth? Christian only admits it under ''a lot'' of pressure -- what if it's not true, and he only "admitted" it because he was hoping it would get him out of the situation? For all we know, Grant is making it all up and he just wants [[FreudianExcuse an excuse for why he's the way he is]].
217* Grant Ward has rejoined HYDRA, and since he knows all the strengths and weaknesses of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Coulson's team like family. If you read the truth about the Ward Household then you know what Grant does to family.
218** Though, it might not be too bad of a nightmare, considering how he arranged "Face Time" with Coulson for Bakshi and noted he will be leaving further "presents" for S.H.I.E.L.D. Ward clearly has an ulterior agenda not in-line with HYDRA.
219* Coulson's meeting with the Doctor at the Australian satellite facility. After Triplett is shot by a HYDRA agent to protect Fitz while he works on installing the transceiver, the Doctor-who Coulson hasn't seen in person yet-pretends to be a facility employee with medical training who can help Trip. The Doctor helpfully works on "saving" Trip before maybe not so unintentionally referring to Coulson as "Phil". He's rather unimpressed when Coulson pulls a gun on him by rather cheerfully stating that he's actually severed one of Trip's arteries and if he lets go, Trip ''will'' die, and as a result forces Coulson and Fitz to throw their guns over to him. During the ensuing confrontation, the Doctor veers between affable and enraged, especially when his BerserkButton of calling his daughter "Skye" is pressed. Coulson's barely-contained fury is very visible, especially when the Doctor manages to get away by providing Coulson with the anti-coagulants he'll need to save Trip's life while he makes his exit.
220-->'''Coulson:''' I am going to find you again. And when I do, we're going to finish this talk.\
221[[spoiler:'''The Doctor]]:''' ''[grins]'' I look forward to it.
222[[/folder]]
223
224[[folder:Ye Who Enter Here]]
225* Mack having one of the Kree symbols ''painfully'' embedded on his hand by the temple's defenses, then being revealed to have undergone some sort of DemonicPossession and attacking the team. He even manages to briefly overpower Bobbi and [[NoSell shrug off]] ''four'' I.C.E.R. shots from Coulson.
226** The fact that that entire fight takes place around a thousand foot deep pit is enough to give you the screaming willies.
227[[/folder]]
228
229[[folder:What They Become]]
230* There is a second Obelisk. It begins reacting after the Obelisk in the city activates and it intrigues a man with literally no eyes. He doesn't even have eye sockets, just skin where his eyes should be!
231* Remember how a few episodes ago a HYDRA goon [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath was killed]] after he was frozen by Donnie Gill and then [[LiterallyShatteredLives shattered]]? Essentially the same thing now happens to Trip after being hit with the Terrigen crystal shards.
232* While they were later revealed to be okay, Raina and Skye's Terrigenesis at first appeared to be both of them undergoing petrification. Chloe Bennett's very convincing and equally disturbing scream of fear that accompanies it DOESN'T HELP.
233[[/folder]]
234
235[[folder:Aftershocks]]
236* Imagine suddenly losing your sight and then randomly teleporting through a room and into its walls. Then imagine doing that for ''fourteen hours''. Poor Gordon must have been out of his mind with terror.
237* The horrifying way transformed Raina kills a S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist. And not to mention we get several shots of her transformed state. Did we mention she's in pain all the time?
238* Skye discovers that she's a Gifted while she's in quarantine (i.e. a glass cage) and listening to her friends develop FantasticRacism. All she can do is wait for them to find out, and when they do, she won't be able to do anything about it. Suddenly Cal's concerns about her safety on Team Coulson are not so unreasonable.
239* Near the end of the episode, we see a device hidden within Coulson's office (on a model of Lola, no less) scanning for something...until it was revealed to be Fury's Toolbox. Then we see Bobbi and Mack revealed to be the ones looking for the Toolbox. Bobbi says she will be "making contact" soon.
240[[/folder]]
241
242[[folder:Who You Really Are]]
243* There are ''four'' more Diviners out there somewhere, and we don't know if HYDRA has them or where they're at.
244* Bobbi and Mack aren't working for HYDRA. But if not HYDRA, then just what the hell are they planning?
245** [[GentleGiant Mack]] '''chokes''' Lance to the point of unconsciousness when he asks one too many questions about the above.
246[[/folder]]
247
248[[folder:One Of Us]]
249* The reveal that Skye's attempts at controlling her powers just caused them to go inward, nearly shattering her bones.
250* Angar the Screamer. When we first see him, he's wearing a creepy, [[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Hannibal Lector]]-esque mask. He gets even scarier when the mask comes off. In a subtle but terrifying bit of CGI, he ''unhinges his jaw like a snake'' before letting out a bloodcurdling scream that drops everyone like flies...and then the birds start falling.
251[[/folder]]
252
253[[folder:Love in the Time Of HYDRA]]
254* Agent 33's real face is heavily burned, worse so than the mask was. Without it, she looks almost like [[{{Franchise/Batman}} Two-Face]]
255* It's disturbing to see how ''casually'' Ward and Agent 33 talked about how Ward killed the doctor who fixed Agent 33's nanomask because {{he knows too much}}.
256[[/folder]]
257
258[[folder:Afterlife]]
259* For all their talk of transparency and openess, the "Real SHIELD" is just as paranoid and full of FantasticRacism as HYDRA has been shown to be. Gonzalez insistently refers to Skye [[ItIsDehumanizing "it" or "something"]] and ignores Bobbi's points that Skye was acting in self-defense. They also immediately conclude that Coulson was building an army of super-humans on Fury's orders, on the basis of him having Skye on the team. ''These are supposed to be the good guys.''
260** Worse, [[ManipulativeBastard he's nothing but peaches and cream when he talks to Fitz and Simmons.]] [[BrokenPedestal They don't fall for it.]]
261* Lai Xi is pretty cultish: communal lifestyle, social isolation, members who join for the promise of ascension but only a few can be chosen, cryptically named leadership and a BigBrotherIsWatching omnipresent character along with a prison with no windows where a guy can smash things and scream his lungs out for days and nobody will notice a thing.
262[[/folder]]
263
264[[folder:Melinda]]
265* Eva Belyakov's daughter, [[CreepyChild Katya]], who's essentially a HumanoidAbomination in the form of a little girl. Ava Acres's nightmarish performance just sells it.
266** The worst thing about Katya is that she's not malicious or evil in any way. Even in her insanity, she's truly innocent and unaware about how terrifying her gift is.
267--->'''Katya:''' I ''like'' their pain... Take my hand... I need a new mother.
268* Jiaying implies that she was alive and conscious when her husband found her vivisected body in the woods and while he stitched her body back together again.
269[[/folder]]
270
271[[folder:The Dirty Half Dozen]]
272* Simmons' completely nonchalant attitude in her plan to hit Ward with one of the splinter bombs. [[CorruptTheCutie She's going down a]] ''[[CorruptTheCutie bad]]'' [[CorruptTheCutie road...]]
273** Even worse, when she kills Bakshi instead and is afterwards asked where he is, she just smiles and tells he didn't make it.
274* We also get to see the downside of Raina's gift. Imagine being able to see exactly what [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron Ultron]] will do to the world and being completely helpless to stop it.
275* The SHIELD break-in, at least from HYDRA's perspective. They knew SHIELD had highly-skilled operatives when they signed up to fight SHIELD. But they didn't know SHIELD had an Enhanced; imagine what it would have been like when Skye got there. She cleared out a room in a second with her powers. And that was one of the ''tamer'' uses of her powers. And then she easily massacred a room full of Hydra agents without even use her powers.
276* We briefly see when a HYDRA surgeon ''casually'' cuts Lincoln's unconscious body with a scalpel as if he was a lamb.
277[[/folder]]
278
279[[folder:Scars]]
280* It's implied that while being butchered by Whitehall, Jiaying was conscious enough to know that her organs were put in jars. Let that sink in for a moment.
281* Ward and Kara being able to take out Bobbi and planning to kill her. The borderline-SlasherSmile they share at the end really sells it.
282* There's something extremely unsettling about the Kree Monolith. A simple stone pillar with seemingly random holes in the surface changing into a liquid form and back again is somehow very eerie in its unnaturalness. It almost seems as if it as alive somehow.
283[[/folder]]
284
285[[folder:S.O.S.]]
286* Skye's mother's inhuman ability is ''sucking the life out of her hosts''. The audience sees it SEVERAL times throughout the finale episode.
287** Consider how old Jiaying is. She has possibly been doing this for ''centuries''. Cal said in the past one of the elders would sacrifice themselves every few decades so they could continue to have her guidance.
288** What's worse? [[OffingTheOffspring She even uses her draining powers on her own daughter]], complete with Skye/Daisy begging her mother to stop as her skin and eyes begin to pale.
289--->'''Jiaying:''' ''[as she is draining Skye/Daisy's life essence]'' I always believed the reason I endured all that torture and pain was for you. That you were my true gift. But you're not, this is.\
290'''Skye/Daisy:''' ''[with what little of her voice is left]'' Don't....do this....\
291'''Jiaying:''' You've made your choice. I'm sorry.
292* Jiaying killing Raina. Even worse? Skye/Daisy witnessed the whole thing happen right in front of her.
293* There's the ''lovely'' closeup of Ward [[{{Fingore}} shoving the needles under Bobbi's nails]].
294** Bobbi's entire ordeal is just pure NightmareFuel. The torture itself she's trained to overcome, and she's even alright when they're seconds away from killing her. Except they catch on to that, and so they decide to lure [[AchillesHeel Hunter]] there and kill him in front of her. Bobbi then has to stew in that for hours, set up in a terrifyingly simple trap that will give her [[ForcedToWatch a fully uninhibited view of Hunter getting shot and killed just a few feet away]]. Her clearly visible panic as she hears his coming closer is one of the most heart-wrenching scenes in the entire goddamned series.
295* Cal's completed transformation. Mister Hyde is terrifying.
296* The Inhumans invading the S.H.I.E.L.D. aircraft carrier, killing innocent agents and to take the Kree Weapon. The whole scene was a stuff of nightmares, since we know the variety of abilities the Inhumans could do.
297* Coulson, Mack and Fitz fighting Gordon who can teleport anywhere he likes. How it did end? Gordon gets a steel pipe stuck in his stomach.
298* After catching a dropped Terrigen crystal to save everyone on the ''Iliad'', Coulson begins to turn to stone. We are then treated to the very horrifying visual of Mack cutting off Coulson's left hand with an ax to save his life. Coulson's scream of pain is the stuff of nightmares.
299* How does Cal kill his wife Jiaying? He gives her a neck snap, followed by a crushing bear hug which probably crushed her insides to pulp.
300* The epilogue has its own horrors.
301** Ward has gathered up the remnants of HYDRA and is intent on forming his own team of HYDRA agents to oppose S.H.I.E.L.D.
302** The box of Terrigen crystals Skye has pushed into the ocean with her own powers had broken open, infecting the wildlife in the sea, mainly fishes. The fishes were then caught and processed into fish oil, which is then sold in supermarkets and other shops in the world. What happens when those Terrigen crystals-infected fish oil were consumed by humans...? How many people are either going to develop superpowers, or be petrified into stone.
303** Remember the Kree weapon which was sealed within the S.H.I.E.L.D. Aircraft Carrier? After Fitz accidentally unlocked the weapon's containment box and left, ''the Kree weapon turned into its liquid form, swallowed Simmons WHOLE (while she was still screaming), and went back to its original form in a matter of seconds.'' This leaves Simmons's fate in doubt until the next season.
304[[/folder]]
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306!!Season 3
307
308[[folder:Laws of Nature]]
309* Poor Joey has not had a good first day as an Inhuman. He takes a completely innocuous fish oil pill, and suddenly everything around him melts, and now there are people who are authorized to use lethal force on him, and yeah, he gets rescued, but now he [[YouCantGoHomeAgain can't go home again]].
310* Coulson watching a projection of the spread of fish-oil Terrigen that looks to be based on a combination of water currents and shipping schedules. The simulation predicts ''global'' saturation in seventeen months, twenty-two days. Now look back at the chaos of the opening sequence and ponder the fact that it was caused by ''one'' frightened and confused Inhuman.
311* Again, the monolith.
312** The monolith is a wormhole created by the Kree. When inactive it is a solid block of stone, but when active it is an undulating mass capable of capturing life forms and transporting them elsewhere in space.
313* Fitz calmly grabbing a shotgun, heading into the Monolith room, shooting out the lock, and entering the containment unit all screams of a potential [[DrivenToSuicide suicide by monolith]]. Then he completely and utterly ''loses his shit'' when it fails to do anything. Imagine heading into the den of the monster that killed your best friend, expecting it to do the same to you, and it doesn't. That hurts so much more than mere death.
314* Jemma Simmons after being swallowed by the Monolith.
315** Alone. Hurt. Hunted. On the other side of the universe and seemingly for weeks or months. What has she had to do to survive for so long?
316** If the Monolith's portal abilities are triggered by the Inhuman gene, then that makes Simmons' Inhumanity very likely. Going on her dim view of Inhumans from the second half of season 2, this idea alone would probably be in-universe Nightmare Fuel for Simmons.
317** The ending does ''not'' help in the slightest. Instead of the rousing and badass [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic S.H.I.E.L.D. theme]] over the credits, there's [[NothingIsScarier just the mournful wind of an alien planet, moaning endlessly]].
318* The alien, Lash, that's been hunting Inhumans and killing them. Skye and Lincoln barely faze the guy, Mack empties his gun into his gut and it doesn't slow him down. He has a nasty way of killing.
319[[/folder]]
320
321[[folder:Purpose in the Machine]]
322* The history of the Monolith. A flashback at the start of the episode shows a person being randomly selected to be swallowed up by the Monolith. It's implied that this happened to multiple people.
323* Ward's new vision for Hydra is already proving to be effective. In his first appearance, we see him speeding around a parking garage in a sports car, spouting a SocialDarwinist lecture to his second in command. He believes that Hydra's leadership had grown too complacent and reliant on their money and privilege, and that to be a true member, one has to 'earn' it. So what do his followers do? They stand ''completely still'' at each of the pillars, fully ready to die for Ward if he crashes into them. Oh, and the guy he's talking about is clinging to the hood the entire time.
324** Likewise, his quick molding of Werner von Strucker (son of the man himself) into a potential Hydra leader. Ward successfully uses the same SinkOrSwimMentor tactics that Garrett used on him, and at the end of the episode, we get the WhamShot of Werner getting close to Andrew Garner by enrolling in his class.
325* Simmons' CatapultNightmare after her rescue from the Monolith. It's clear that she's going to have a lot of issues resulting from her stay on the alien planet.
326** The fact that she kept a weapon on her the entire time on the trip home, the move to the containment room, and falling to sleep. She's been so traumatized that even with the rest of Team Coulson around her--even with Fitz ''right next to her''--she still didn't feel safe.
327[[/folder]]
328
329[[folder:Devils You Know]]
330* The shot of Lash's shadow shrinking to a more normal human shape. The unstoppable implacable serial killer who shows up out of nowhere and vanishes just as quickly can also hide as an ordinary human being with absolutely no one the wiser. Have fun sleeping.
331[[/folder]]
332
333[[folder:4,722 hours]]
334* The fact that the alien planet Simmons and Will were stranded on is apparently ''[[GeniusLoci alive]]''. It's that it's actively malevolent towards Jemma and Will. In their one attempt to actively escape, Jemma figures out that the next portal will open in the 'No Fly zone', over a canyon that Will has visited and charted to be 30 metres wide. After days of trekking, they get there and find that the canyon has increased to more than ''100 metres wide'' with a dead drop in the middle. The conclusion they both reach? ''The planet doesn't want them to leave. Ever''. TheReveal later that the planet was never alive can either make this easier to swallow or harder - on one hand, we now know what "It" ''is'', and that takes the edge off of what would otherwise be a case of NothingIsScarier. On the other hand, the explanation for exactly ''how'' "It" does what it does is chilling, especially when you consider that Hive doesn't have the power to directly drive people insane - Will's Astronaut Friend came after him ''[[GoMadFromTheIsolation simply because he went mad from the isolation.]]''
335* "It", the unknown, shapeshifting monster that roams the planet's surface, killing anyone unfortunate enough to cross its path.
336** The form it takes near the end of the episode -- ''the corpse of one of the astronauts who died on Will's mission'' looks freaking terrifying.
337* Imagine living the way Will has, stranded for fourteen years with no hope of rescue. Barely seeing the sun. Knowing you're, in part, responsible for the deaths of three men, and that their corpses may rise out of the sands of the planet to kill you when you exit your home. Imagine facing the abandoned city with the corpses of explorers past ''alone'', like the protagonist of a Lovecraft story.
338[[/folder]]
339
340[[folder:Among Us Hide...]]
341* Hunter's taken off the case to kill Ward. Though his desperation to do something is [[HeroicComedicSociopath played for laughs]] It's becoming quickly apparent that his solution to all problems is violence and death. Making one wonder if this is the start of a decline.
342* The reveal of Andrew Garner as Lash, the Inhuman that's been killing every member of his species that he can get his hands on. May's tear-stricken, speechless, horrified reaction mirrors what the audience is going through, especially with the fact that he's ''in their base, with at least three Inhumans[[note]]Daisy, Joey, and Alisha[[/note]] within arm's reach''.
343** The flashback of Andrew [[PainfulTransformation transforming]] into Lash before going to town on Werner's goons. No wonder Werner himself was so terrified when he bolted out of the store.
344[[/folder]]
345
346[[folder:Chaos Theory]]
347* The MookHorrorShow Lash pulls on damn near everyone in this episode. He rivals the Hulk on invulnerability, can smash you into a wall with a single blow, and even his human form can't be killed with mere guns. So how in the hell can you beat him?
348* Lash's reasoning behind killing Inhumans: he only kills the ones that would turn evil, and is killing them before it happens. Recall back to what Steve said in [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron AoU]] regarding 'ending the fight before it starts'? It really does appear that 'Good becomes Great, Bad becomes Worse'.
349* Lash's intentions aside, look at the people he kills; he killed humans that got in the way, he killed newly turned Inhumans that had the potential for darkness (which amounts to all of them) and he has killed long-term Inhumans that could use their abilities for evil purposes. Now you are probably thinking he is a hypocrite for saying this, since he kills people under a 'just' cause, but look at Joey, he was happy about his newfound control over his powers, and he could just as easily tear down a building in a few minutes as well as build one in an hour. His ''excitement'' seems to be the trigger for Lash to kill him, but Andrew is hesitant as it is possible to talk him out of it.
350* The stinger: Rosalind seems to be taking her orders from HYDRA, and is trying to deliver Coulson to them; meanwhile she is developing a romance with him and trying to lower his guard, and her 'legitimate' work entails putting Inhumans in stasis for now unknown purposes (for HYDRA).
351[[/folder]]
352
353[[folder:Many Heads, One Tale]]
354* Gideon Malick becomes a source of this when it is finally revealed where his allegiances truly lie. He has at his fingertips the ATCU (which Rosalind was completely unaware of until this episode) and the Order of the Monolith, which was in reality an older incarnation of HYDRA. His mission is to bring to Earth an ancient master that the Order had been serving for centuries through sacrifices, and to have an army of Inhumans under Malick waiting on the other side.
355** And that master he serves? The ''thing'' on the planet that's been terrorizing Will for over fourteen years and nearly killed Simmons. An Inhuman so powerful and evil that it had to be banished to the other side of the galaxy to be stopped. And Gideon wants to bring it back ''here''.
356* Ward, not to be outdone by Malick, has his share of horrifying moments in this episode. First, he engages in a bit of ColdBloodedTorture on Malick's men, with implements such as a kitchen knife and a blowtorch. Then, on his way to Germany, he blows a hole in the side of a full airplane, after warning the passengers -- much to their terror -- that they're about to experience some turbulence and will likely freeze to death. ''Then'', at the end of the episode, he starts torturing Andrew with mustard gas in the hopes of drawing out Lash.
357[[/folder]]
358
359[[folder:Maveth]]
360* How "It" works: It smells blood and moves to the injured party, then when the person dies, It crawls into their dead body and reanimates it. It is just a worm-like creature that controls the dead body.
361-->'''Fitz''': You're not Will.
362-->'''It''': No, Will died saving Jemma... from me.
363** And how do we learn this? Because whatever wounded Will's leg caused the flesh to be ''stripped to the bone''.
364** By the end of the episode, It has now taken over Ward's body as its new host, and we see the creature wriggling in his forehead.
365* When Grant Ward and his [[{{Mooks}} Hydra soldiers]] see a giant Hydra symbol sculpture Ward who [[EvenEvilHasStandards never truly believed in Hydra's goals]] becomes a true believer and for the first time says "Hail Hydra".
366* During the battle, Simmons is cornered by HYDRA and has to make a difficult choice: either free Andrew or possibly get killed. In the end, she does wind up freeing Andrew, who unleashes Lash on some HYDRA soldiers. This has direct consequences because later in the episode all the Inhumans that HYDRA had captured at their base are killed by Lash. May sees their body parts lying around.
367* Coulson's execution of Ward. As Ward is lying on the ground incapacitated, Coulson angrily glares down at Ward and presses his robotic hand down on his chest. As Ward helplessly struggles, Coulson presses his hand down further, crushing the HYDRA agent's chest. There's a sharp sound as his rib cage collapses. It's so brutal that Fitz is [[WhatTheHellHero visibly stunned]] for the rest of the scene.
368* "It" was explicitly named as an Inhuman. Which means that a human being was turned into that thing.
369* "It's" true identity: it's ''[[http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Hive_(Earth-616) Hive]]''. Things just got a little darker...
370[[/folder]]
371
372[[folder:Bouncing Back]]
373* "It"/Hive in Ward's body. Its movements and expressions are creepily stilted and lifeless as it speaks in a CreepyMonotone about its former glory and utters ominous vows of a return to power upon regaining its former strength. Brett Dalton's performance really sells the fact that the person this body used to be is ''gone''. It really says something when you can make eating a chicken leg with a glassy, hollow stare look bone-chilling. It doesn't help that the chicken leg is ''raw'', as is all the other food that HYDRA brings to it.
374** Ward's body is in a [[BodyHorror horrible state]]; it's emaciated, horribly pale, could easy pass as a zombie, and still has Coulson's hand print embedded in its chest.
375** The way It/Hive's hand starts to ''disintegrate'' as it promises to make a "believer" out of Giyera. Whatever that means, it can't be good.
376* Lucio, aka the "Medusa eyes" Inhuman. One glance, and Bobbi and Hunter both drop to the ground, petrified and helpless. The way their skin loses all color and their eyes are wide open makes it hard to tell at a glance if they're even still alive. And at the end of the episode, he's in the custody of HYDRA.
377[[/folder]]
378
379[[folder:The Inside Man]]
380* Hive finally manages to completely heal. How, you ask? By taking five living humans and [[StrippedToTheBone stripping them to the bone]] so it can use their flesh to repair its borrowed body. All that's left are bloody, smoking skeletons while Hive is covered with and standing in a puddle of what used to be ''people''.
381** Even better, the camera lingers on it as it rises, in such a way that it looks like [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou it is staring directly at the audience]].
382* The flashback to Maveth shows Ward's dying point of view after Coulson crushes his chest and leaves for the portal. The last thing Grant Ward ever saw is a ''thing'' slithering over his face.
383[[/folder]]
384
385[[folder:Watchdogs]]
386* It is a brief mention, but it was stated that there was staff at the ATCU building that gets imploded with nitramene. Considering how small the ball of rubble is compared to the original building, having fun thinking what the experience may have been for anyone inside.
387* The Watchdogs themselves are this: a hate group bent on the annihilation of everyone remotely 'alien' from the planet. And now that Gideon Malick/HYDRA is funding them, they've gone from being an online anti-alien group to full-blown domestic terrorists with enough weaponry to start a nuclear war. And because of the masks they wear, they could literally be ''anyone''.
388* The look of barely concealed disgust that Giyera gives Blake. You know that once the Watchdogs have served their purpose, whatever Giyera plans for their leader is ''not'' going to be pretty.
389* Seeing Daisy briefly become TheUnfettered is terrifying. More so if you don't know her, and even more so if you're on the receiving end. While the Watchdogs are clearly insane, they are partially right: the Inhumans (and others) are dangerous. There is a reason [[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar the Sokovia Accords]] are an important issue.
390[[/folder]]
391
392[[folder:Spacetime]]
393* We get to see Hive devour people onscreen, and it's just as horrifying as you might imagine.
394* Malick crushes a man's head, again onscreen.
395* More mild than most examples, but the Terrigen has permeated the ecosystem enough that nascent Inhumans can undergo Terrigenesis just by being out in the ''rain''.
396[[/folder]]
397
398[[folder:Paradise Lost]]
399* Coulson being haunted over killing Ward in "Maveth" to the point that he crushes a pipe upon remembering doing such a horrific execution. Though Fitz tries to reassure him that [[AssholeVictim Ward deserved to die]], it doesn't make Coulson proud of the way he killed him. He also feels that ''[[TheBadGuyWins Ward]]'' [[TheBadGuyWins was the true victor]] in their [[FinalBattle final confrontation]] and acknowledges that [[NiceJobBreakingItHero it's his fault that Hive found a new body to return to Earth]].
400* Hive speaking to Malick as his brother Nathaniel, who he sacrificed to save his own skin. Hive teaches then Malick the meaning of sacrifice by killing his daughter in front of him.
401[[/folder]]
402
403[[folder:The Team]]
404* This episode brings ''Franchise/TheThing'' levels of ParanoiaFuel, thanks to Hive finally using his MindControl ability on one of the Secret Warriors. The lack of trust and mounting tension throughout the entire episode makes Daisy being revealed as BrainwashedAndCrazy even more terrifying. After getting an eyeful of Hive dust, her face momentarily seems to take on an expression of horror before the brainwashing sets in.
405* The final scene establishes that while the other Secret Warriors might be dangerous, Daisy is the one who really earns the title of PersonOfMassDestruction. She brings down the entire hangar and does unknown amounts of damage to rest of the base in less than a minute. She didn't even seem to be putting any particular effort into it!
406** We also get to see how dangerous she is on a personal level. Remember Malick's vision of Hive inflicting his usual BodyHorror on him? Nope. That was Daisy concentrating her [[BadVibrations earth-shattering powers]] so intensely that his flesh melted off.
407* Simmons' post-mortem examination of Lucio is shown in [[NauseaFuel nauseatingly-graphic]] detail, including peeling back his skin and cutting the top off his skull to see his infected brain underneath.
408[[/folder]]
409
410[[folder:The Singularity]]
411* Hive's influence over the Inhumans in its sway is very reminiscent of a cult. Both Daisy and Alisha talk about how wonderful it feels to be around Hive and how they want Lincoln to join them. Its influence even pushes them to do things they would otherwise never do (Alisha kills her own clones and Daisy threatens to kill Fitz).
412** According to Simmons research, Hive's infection is more akin to addiction than brainwashing; Hive's spores affect the dopamine levels of his victims' brains, essentially drugging them into absolute loyalty towards Hive.
413* The "test" of the eye-enhancement tech that Fitz-Simmons have to perform to get in to see Dr. Radcliffe: installing the eyes in a living specimen. Simmons goes so far as to put a needle of anaesthetic [[EyeScream in the patient's pupil]] before exposing the test as a fake. The patient (Radcliffe himself) then gets up and casually takes the needle out of his own eye.
414* Hive taking on Will's persona while talking to Simmons. Exactly why it does this is unclear, but it's extremely disturbing.
415** Before that, there's the fact that Simmons is staring down the thing that spent six months hunting her. She's utterly terrified to the point of TearsOfFear, and who can blame her?
416* Hive's apparent master plan: replicate the Kree experiments that created the Inhumans to turn everyone on Earth into an Inhuman.
417[[/folder]]
418
419[[folder:Failed Experiments]]
420* The results of the first Radcliffe's first experiment with Inhumans. The poor test subjects are liquefied, screaming in agony the whole time. All this takes place on screen.
421* The Kree Reapers that land in the town HYDRA controls. In their hunt for Inhumans, they slaughter multiple people, including Alisha, armed with nothing more than blades. In turn, they NoSell every physical blow thrown at them. May can't tell if they're killing HYDRA agents, or everything they come across. No wonder Hive was terrified of these guys.
422[[/folder]]
423
424[[folder:Emancipation]]
425* The artificial Inhumans that the Watchdogs are turned into using Daisy's blood are alien-looking [[HumanoidAbomination Humanoid Abominations]] that cannot speak and rely on primitive instinct. While Dr. Radcliffe considers it a failure, Hive considers it good enough to subject ''the entire world to''!
426[[/folder]]
427
428[[folder:Absolution/Ascension]]
429* Hive has previously been shown to shrug off gunshots, a grenade and an RPG, and has been able to survive Lincoln's electrical blasts and even Lash's energy blast, with so much as a nick in his suit. Here, Daisy attacks him with her powers, stabs him repeatedly with a combat knife, and even breaks his spine and arms with her abilities, and he just regenerates. '''Nothing they do to him personally does more than mildly inconvenience him.''' Knowing all this, the humanity of Millenia ago had ''every right'' to be afraid of a being who was virtually immortal.
430* Hive's experience with the memory machine is essentially a schizophrenic freak out turned up to eleven. Imagine a normal person who has multiple personality disorder, and they lose track of which personality is the right one. Now imagine, instead of personalities, you had entire lives, and you are reincarnated with the memories of the previous lives still intact. For millennia... And imagine each and every one coming to the surface simultaneously, all believing that they are the current life. 100+ lives all interacting in your mind at once, with an eon of memories all pushed to the surface. It's more scary to think that Hive '''wasn't''' reduced to a huddled ball of insanity by this tactic.
431** Even worse when you think about exactly what must be in those memories. Every single one of his hosts, including his original body, must have had horrifying experiences and unpleasant deaths, and all crammed into his head. Imagine dying hundreds of times over, none in ways anyone would want to go.
432[[/folder]]
433
434!!Season 4
435
436[[folder:The Ghost]]
437* [[HorrifyingHero Ghost Rider]] himself is the stuff of nightmares. The way that the skin on Robbie's head slowly burns off to reveal the flaming skull is particularly unsettling. If his appearance isn't enough, his power certainly is; once he reveals his flaming skull, he absolutely curb-stomps Daisy, and was clearly more than capable of killing her if he hadn't decided that she didn't deserve it.
438** Ghost Rider running down the Aryan criminals in the opening. They're absolutely terrified, to the point that they fire an RPG to try and stop him. [[NoSell It doesn't work]], and the Rider's car just bursts into hellfire in response.
439** We don't see [[NothingIsScarier exactly what]] Ghost Rider does to one of the Aryans he kills, but whatever he did, it sent a ''lot'' of blood flying onto the car door and another criminal's face.
440*** Mack is reading off the crime scene report later. The GoryDiscretionShot in the opener was most likely that Aryan getting his head crushed, but he got off easy compared to his brother who was subjected to a ''reverse AssShove''. Though it cuts off, the intent is clear:
441---->'''Mack:''' [[CrossesTheLineTwice Spine pulled out of his-]]
442** The dispassionate way that Robbie executes the captive Aryan is bone-chilling.
443--->'''Aryan:''' I don't deserve to die!\
444'''Robbie:''' Everyone says that.
445** "''They say when the Rider burns you, he burns your soul.''"
446* The ghost in the box, and what it does to the Chinese gangsters who find it; instant HatePlague with zombie hallucinations. At the end of the episode, it's attached itself to May.
447[[/folder]]
448
449[[folder:Meet the New Boss]]
450* The episode opens like something out of {{Series/Supernatural}}, with a little boy seeing the ghost from last time. He tells his dad, who at first doesn't believe him; until the ghost reappears and flies through his chest. He then begins seeing the same things as the Chinese gangsters and May. His son approaches and says, "Daddy, I'm scared". But his father hears it in [[VoiceOfTheLegion a deep, echo-y voice]] while his son's eyes become blackened, dead things...
451* It turns out there are ''more'' spirits like the woman; they were apparently scientists researching an artifact called the Darkhold, and were [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard killed by their experiment.]] We don't see how, but it must have been very violent because they appear to be covered in blood and fresh wounds.
452* That book, the Darkhold? It's a ComicBook/DoctorStrange artifact, and a [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast very bad one.]]
453* In the previous episode. we saw May had been affected by the ghost woman. We'd expect her to turn herself in for testing or decontamination or something. She doesn't, but it's partially justified by the fact that she's seeing ''everyone's'' faces as being those of death. She doesn't think she can trust any of them, and ironically believes herself to be the OnlySaneMan. Since she's normally TheStoic, calm, and in control, watching her freak out and believe that all of her fellow S.H.I.E.L.D. agents have turned into monsters is deeply unsettling.
454** She goes to talk to the Chinese gang leader, believing he's sane as well. Except he starts rambling and then ''beating his head on the door until it '''bleeds'''''. Arguably May has it worse than the viewer: we can see he's clearly insane by now, but May looks at him and sees that he's DrivenToSuicide, past the DespairEventHorizon. And it's what awaits her if she doesn't find a way to stop everyone from turning into monsters. [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness Oh, wait...]]
455* The Ghost Rider, of course.
456** Daisy makes the mistake of [[BerserkButton threatening his brother,]] so he lights up a wrench and goes for her head. He ends the fight pretty quickly, too, though it takes a second hit this time. And after, we're not sure what he's going to do with her.
457** And then he transforms again, and this time its a bit more horrific. The lighting is odder, and the effect is faster. And once he's transformed? He ''literally'' burns a person's soul. Guess the [[ProperlyParanoid Aryan was right...]]
458[[/folder]]
459
460[[folder:Uprising]]
461* The blackouts cause a lot of this:
462** Daisy and Robbie talk about how looting and rioting typically take place during black outs because people feel emboldened. In other words, [[InternetJerk seven major cities with the lack of inhibition of the internet]].
463** Robbie specifically talks about his fear that his wheel-chair bound little brother will be stuck in a bad part of town.
464* The new villain, Senator Nadeer, is looking like TheUnfettered; seven major cities blacked out so the Watchdogs can zero in Inhumans while she fans the flames of Inhuman hatred. Imagining what she's going to do next is even scarier.
465* It's pretty disturbing (and [[TearJerker depressing]]) how quickly Yo-yo's so-called friends at the party turn on her when they find out she's the Inhuman the Watchdogs are looking for.
466[[/folder]]
467
468[[folder:Let Me Stand Next To Your Fire]]
469[[/folder]]
470
471[[folder:Lockup]]
472[[/folder]]
473
474[[folder:The Good Samaritan]]
475* Robbie's first transformation into Ghost Rider is [[MythologyGag lifted straight from the comics]]. His screaming mixed with the slow, obviously painful transformation is enough to give anyone shudders.
476** Likewise, Johnny Blaze's appearance as the Rider is a bit jarring for anyone familiar with only the [[Film/GhostRiderDuology previous film incarnations]] of him. [[http://screencrush.com/files/2016/11/agents-of-shield-gr-pic.jpg Go ahead,]] [[SchmuckBait take a look]].
477* By the end of the episode, Eli has succeeded with his plan, and gained godlike powers. And Coulson, Fitz, and Robbie are nowhere to be seen.
478[[/folder]]
479
480[[folder:Deals With Our Devils]]
481* Just the thought of being unharmed, only to find out you are now a ghost, and no one can hear or even see you.
482* Mace sends Simmons to a classified mission. The problem is that it is classified even to him, and upon trying to get Simmons back, the senator abruptly hangs up on him. Imagine being in Mace's shoes, realizing he just sent Simmons off with no backup and no idea where she is.
483** Even worse is Fitz overhears the whole thing, and is not only pissed, but ''terrified'' for Simmons' safety.
484* Nadeer's brother was [[AndIMustScream conscious and aware of everything around him while he was stuck in Terrigenesis]] (He could hear and remember Simmons introducing herself).
485* Eli's powers, being able to create carbon from effectively air. Including the ''air inside the human body''.
486* It turns out that the ghosts are being dragged into Hell slowly. Lucy and the others were stuck in limbo, too far up for Hell to affect them, while Coulson and co are too far down to affect their environment, and slowly sink into the depths with each passing moment. From what we hear from the Rider, Hell ain't pretty.
487* Mack getting taken over by the Ghost Rider- it fully suppresses his consciousness, leaving him unable to account for anything he does for ''hours''. During that time, he runs away from SHIELD, attacks the Chinese gangsters, and even kills a few of them. The experience brings to light all of the darkness inside of him, and leaves him ''broken''. And then there's the shot we get of the actual Spirit of Vengeance, outside of a host.
488* When Radcliffe opens the Darkhold, the camera is looking up at him. This is the perspective of the ''book''; book is reading its reader. What is that famous phrase, "And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you".
489** We also see his reaction. At first it's confusion, followed by shock, then mounting horror.
490[[/folder]]
491
492[[folder:The Laws of Inferno Dynamics]]
493* Agent Nathanson finds something horrifying at Radcliffe's house and Aida sees it with him. She strokes his cheek while he is stunned with fear and says "I'm sorry. I know how this feels..." and she snaps his freakin' neck; no emotion or anything. Then we see what Nathanson found; a bloody and unconscious May. Ladies and Gentleman, ''this'' is why androids were banned!
494** To make matters worse, another May -- a Life-Model Decoy who ''[[RidiculouslyHumanRobots no-one's recognised as such, not even her,]]'' -- is back at the base drinking whisky with Coulson.
495[[/folder]]
496
497[[folder:Broken Promises]]
498* The face Aida makes as she explains how the Darkhold showed her how to feel. You can see the madness in her eyes. The biggest kicker? It was ''all an act'', as Radcliffe was corrupted by the Darkhold and is now seeking it for himself to achieve immortality.
499* How about some ParanoiaFuel for you? Life Model Decoys are so convincing that LMD!May ''doesn't know'' that she is an android.
500[[/folder]]
501
502[[folder:The Patriot]]
503* While having trouble with interrogating the sniper who tried to kill Mace, Simmons comes up with an idea to make him talk. Claiming to have gotten quite a few skills at torturing people while with HYDRA, Simmons decides to show the guy what happened to the last person who refused to answer her questions: Aida's severed head in a cooler filled with ice, complete with some fake blood on the mouth to make it seem all the more real. The guy starts talking.
504* Toward the end of the episode, Fitz downloads Aida's data to investigate what made her turn on S.H.I.E.L.D. What truly makes the scene frightening is that Aida's head is partially activated, and ''talks to Fitz'' while he's doing this.
505[[/folder]]
506
507[[folder:Wake Up]]
508* Let's take a look at Radcliffe and Aida's entire treatment of the real May. Locking her into a LotusEaterMachine, running her through simulation after simulation to try and keep her calm and contained. The capper is putting her back into [[MyGreatestFailure the Bahrain Mission]], allowing May to 'save' Katya this time around and all this is done with the idea that they are helping May. The treatment of May is less a Doctor working with a patient and more of a Researcher playing with a test animal.
509[[/folder]]
510
511[[folder:Hot Potato Soup]]
512* After the Watchdogs start strong arming Radcliffe and Aida, Radcliffe gives Aida a nod, and she not only overpowers two Watchdogs, but also kills one by ''punching through his stomach''.
513** What makes it creepier is that when Radcliffe tells her to stand down, [[DissonantSerenity she just sits down, smiling politely, with her hand still soaked in blood.]]
514* Just before Mack is about to use his shotgun-axe on LMD Radcliffe, it asks why, if Mack doesn't consider it a living thing, he felt the need to turn him on before killing it. Mack's response? ''He wants to hear a robot scream!''
515[[/folder]]
516
517[[folder:BOOM]]
518* Doubles as ParanoiaFuel, but after her brother was outed as an Inhuman, Nadeer was paranoid she was an Inhuman as well, or at least a carrier. When Shockley crushes the Terrigen, she panics as the mist passes around her, only to see ''Shockley'' become cocooned.
519* Shockley's powers: he can manipulate the kinetic energy of his cells at an atomic level, pushing them to the point his body becomes combustible and highly explosive. He then reforms FromASingleCell (albeit without any clothes) to do it again. As Mace points out, he is now "an undetectable suicide bomber who can walk away."
520** Worst part, the Anti-Inhuman cell SHIELD has on board the Zephyr cannot contain his powers. Something that was designed to contain ''[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk the Hulk]]'' cannot contain Shockley.
521** After the explosion, we see Shockley reform. First it's a gas, then it forms into a skeleton ([[ComicBook/GhostRider we're seeing that a lot lately]]), before it forms meat, muscle, tissue, and finally Shockley. It's like Hive stripping a body from last season in reverse.
522[[/folder]]
523
524[[folder:The Man Behind the Shield]]
525* The ending of the episode: Coulson, Daisy, Mack, and Mace have all been replaced by [=LMDs=], and only [[NonActionGuy Fitz and Simmons]] are aware of it. And then they make it five, as the Coulson LMD reactivates the May LMD.
526[[/folder]]
527
528[[folder:Self-Control]]
529* The basic premise of the episode. The base is heavily infiltrated with android doubles of most of the team, leaving the remainder who are still human wondering who's left that they can trust. Worse, at the end of the last episode, everyone - viewers included - thought that Fitz and Simmons were the only two humans left of the main cast. Turns out that Fitz was an LMD too and *Daisy* was the other human remaining. Imagine that in the middle of a nightmare body double scenario, you discover that the *one* person you thought hadn't been replaced was a body double too.
530* Daisy and Simmons jump into their counterpart's identities in the Framework. But the Jemma Simmons of the Framework is already dead. So what happened to Jemma when she logged in?
531* If you could fix one regret in your life, what would it be, and who would you be if you did? Well, Coulson would be a teacher spreading fear of Inhumans, Fitz would be rich and dating someone else because Simmons died, and May would be working for HYDRA.
532* The fact that Ivanov's been reduced to [[BrainInAJar a severed head in a glass container]] who's now controlling an LMD of himself, courtesy of Aida.
533* Even after the truth about Fitz is revealed, Simmons struggles with the possibility that she could also be an LMD programmed to think she's the real thing.
534* The sight of the [=LMDs=] of Team Coulson trying to kill the ones who are opposing them. The fact that they're [=LMDs=] does nothing to lessen the horror of watching this family trying to kill each other. Stand out points include:
535** LMD Coulson coldly pointing a gun at LMD May right before she could ''blow them both up'' was highly disturbing, especially considering how much their human counterparts care about each other, made worse by the fact that both have recently realized that they love each other. She may be more than capable of emotion but he certainly wasn't.
536** LMD Fitz brutally stabbing Jemma while switching between human and robot personalities, followed by Jemma repeatedly stabbing LMD Fitz. After seeing how far one of them will go for the other (Jemma dragging Fitz from the bottom of the ocean; Fitz jumping through a portal to find Jemma), it's incredibly horrifying to see them attacking each other. Jemma is left visibly traumatized by the event; when Daisy finds her, Jemma keeps saying "It wasn't him" in a way that it's clear she is trying to reassure herself of this fact.
537** The [=LMDs=] of Coulson and Mack shooting Daisy after she defeats LMD Mace. Daisy has spent her life searching for a family, and now people who look like the men she views as a father and a brother are trying to kill her.
538** For some reason, the [=LMDs=] are also trying to carry out the Watchdogs' mission of '''[[FinalSolution genocide]]''' against the Inhumans, now using the Inhumans' trust of S.H.I.E.L.D. to get close to them by sending multiple [=LMDs=] of Daisy to execute them simultaneously. For extra horror, it was LMD Mack that tried to lead Yo-Yo into the trap.
539[[/folder]]
540
541[[folder:What If..]]
542* The Framework World, ALL OF IT, is pure NightmareFuel. Here's a highlight reel:
543** HYDRA is in control, and it is utterly normal.
544** Coulson being totally on board with the HYDRA party line and inhuman hate. PHIL. COULSON.
545** [[Film/TheAvengers2012 The Avengers and the Battle for New York]] aren't mentioned. Clearly, the Chitauri and Loki didn't win, but we don't know what ''did'' happen. Especially as Coulson was the one whose death saved the team.
546** Nothing about previous S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents or the Avengers are mentioned, leaving the fates of Fury, Hill, Hand, Bobbie, Clint, his family, Steve, Tony, Bruce, Natasha, and the Maximoff twins up in the air. The fate of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Science/Tech Academy does not bode well for them.
547** All of the anti-Inhuman hate and reference to Nazism.
548** May, trying to do a good thing, accidentally (if indirectly) causes the end of the world as we know it.
549** [[CowardlyLion Fitz]] of all people is TheDreaded MadScientist who performs ColdBloodedTorture on Inhumans.
550** Special mention to poor Simmons, who wakes up in the Framework ''[[BuriedAlive in an unmarked mass grave]].'' Her clothes are still stained with the blood of her counterpart's death and she looks into the hole she crawled out of to see another corpse rotted to bones.
551* In-Universe, Daisy is understandably scared when she realized that in the Framework, she and Ward remain a couple. She even cringes when he hugged her from behind.
552[[/folder]]
553
554[[folder:Identity and Change]]
555* If you thought the Framework world was horrible last week, just wait.
556** Mack lives in constant fear that Hydra will come after his daughter and himself; when you remember that Mack joined SHIELD before the Katya Incident occurred (2002 vs 2008), it's entirely possible he's hiding from the government because ''they know he's ex-SHIELD''.
557** May appears to have lost her ability to empathize. She all but states that she WouldHurtAChild and believes no one is innocent. She attacks Mack in front of Hope so that he'll cooperate, then uses Mack to trick Daisy/Skye into revealing her true allegiance. And once she catches Skye, May allows her men to ''beat the shit out of her''.
558** Fitz is the worst of all; he's cold, emotionless, a shell of his former self. A sadist who's almost as scary as Whitehall. The look in his eyes when he says, "I know exactly who I am..." and then shoots Agnes in cold blood. It's equal parts heartbreaking and terrifying. You can see that the kind and gentle man Jemma Simmons loved no longer exists. To top it off, at the end of the episode, he's just finished torturing Radcliffe and promises to do the same to Skye/Daisy. She tries to protest, the usual, "You don't want to do this" schtick. Fitz [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou looks right at the camera]] and says, "Yeah. I do."
559* While she's the BigBad and ObviouslyEvil, it's hard not to sympathize with Aid- [[BerserkButton sorry, Madame Hydra.]] She's a sentient being, and yet she was forced by her programming to be subservient to Radcliffe. He kept her locked in a closet and forced her to do menial tasks, he referred to her as less than human. Every part of her MotiveRant is true, and the thought of being in her position... (''shudder'').
560** It's also terrifying just to hear the rage in her voice. There's a reason 'mad' is a synonym for 'insane'.
561[[/folder]]
562
563[[folder:No Regrets]]
564* A bit less than the previous two episodes, but still, the Framework World delivers...
565** Remember that creepy scene in the [[Series/AgentCarter Red Room]]? It was empty when Peggy and the Howling Commandos entered. Now we get to see it in its full glory upgraded with Bakshi's 'Compliance' training from Season 2 stocked full of ''children'' to make them comply with HYDRA's party line. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even]] ''[[DarkActionGirl MAY]]'' [[NotSoStoic is horrified.]]
566[[/folder]]
567
568[[folder:All The Madame's Men]]
569* We have heard snippets of how bad a father Alistair Fitz was to Leopold, but we finally see first hand what he is like. The man embodies TranquilFury, and anyone who cannot do the same is seen as weak. Furthermore, it appears that in order to instill the personality into Leo he had to beat the poor guy, as evidenced when Leo snaps at him after he reports a failed raid on Daisy and May.
570** Worse is that Leo confided in Radcliffe about his father, whom the latter reveals to him while being interrogated. Radcliffe reveals to Alistair that in the 'other world' Alistair Fitz is a drunkard wife beater who disappeared from his son's life because he couldn't be bothered with him. He remarks that he was a failure there, and is still a failure now to his son as he can't catch a single escaped fugitive. The resulting NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from Alistair just furthers the fact that this guy, the man who raised Leopold Fitz in the Framework, is one messed up son of a bitch.
571[[/folder]]
572
573[[folder:Farewell, Cruel World!]]
574* The Framework has brought some terrifying things over the course of the season. But few of these can compare to the sight of ''Leopold Fitz'' threatening to ''murder Jemma Simmons'' after she killed his father. To add some extra horror, he actually ''did'' kneecap her just a few feet from the backdoor. Thank God Radcliffe intervened when he did.
575* For that matter, imagine being Leopold Fitz: S.H.I.E.L.D. Science Academy graduate, loving friend, a little skittish yet textbook BewareTheNiceOnes, all-around NiceGuy. You grew up in a loving household and have a close group of friends who would die for you - and you for them. And now, imagine waking up with a lifetime's worth of memories of yourself being a ruthless, murderous psycopath, responsible for torturing, maiming, and/or killing dozens of people, either through experiments, or ''point-blank shooting them in the chest.'' Worse, the memories feel natural, as if you could really have done all of it. No wonder he can barely breathe.
576* Imagine being in Mack's shoes for a minute, having to choose between the Framework and Reality. On the one hand, the world is being ravaged by terrorists and is constantly at war, and you serve as a part of the group that protects the people, but you have your girlfriend by you; or the world is being controlled by a terrorist organization hunting anyone who speaks out against them, you have thrown your lot in with the freedom fighters and are now an enemy of the state, but you have your bright little girl along for the ride. Which is worse?
577[[/folder]]
578
579[[folder:The Return]]
580* Aida's [[VillainousBreakdown psychotic break]] after Fitz tells her he's in love with Jemma, not her. Aida feels intense emotions, and lacks any emotional maturity due to just recently gaining a human body, so she's become an unstable {{Yandere}} with an apocalyptic grudge against humanity.
581** Seeing Aida lose her temper in general is terrifying. Even as Madame Hydra in the Framework, her reaction to Radcliffe hitting her BerserkButton was restrained to TranquilFury, which makes her sudden screaming fit all more jarring.
582* At one point, it seems like Aida will sleep with one of the Ivanov bots. Aida mounts him, only to bash the back of his head into the floor several times.
583* Aida/Ophelia now has the overwhelming desire to control the world by force, and she has the means and powers to do so. An angry, vengeful being with near unlimited and wide ranging powers (Gordon's teleportation, Lincoln's electric powers, Eva Belyakov's strength, and Jiaying's HealingFactor, among others), access to a supernatural artifact that can reshape the world, and an ally who can [[MesACrowd produce multiple LMDs of himself]] are all ingredients for a terrifying foe, as demonstrated by her rampage in this episode.
584* Yo-Yo waking up without her powers and StrappedToAnOperatingTable inside a wrecked building in the Framework. That ''scream''...
585[[/folder]]
586
587[[folder:World's End]]
588* Ghost Rider emotes for the first time in the series when Aida escapes him... by giving a ''primal scream of rage''!
589* The slow deletion of the Framework; while it [[ExpendableAlternateUniverse might not seem important,]] seeing people, apparently living and breathing ''people'' disappear, while those that remain are left confused by their absence; and they can't exactly distract themselves with their stuff because that's disappearing, too. And it doesn't matter if you run. No matter where you go in the world, the world itself is fading. It culminates in Hope disappearing from Mack's arms, leaving him broken.
590* Deserved or not, watching Ghost Rider roast Aida alive is pretty horrifying.
591* For all the months of his disappearance, Robbie was in another dimension where the Rider was in full control of his body while he was stuck in an AndIMustScream situation. Daisy sums it up as "terrible, painful and lonely". He also says this is only one of several alternate dimensions in the MCU that could legitimately qualify as our concept of Hell.
592* Aida's Yandere side is... [[http://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/File:Jansen_Henstridge.jpg creepy]].
593[[/folder]]
594
595!!Season 5
596
597[[folder:Orientation]]
598* The first half-hour or so is like a SurvivalHorror movie, as Coulson, Daisy, May, Mack, Jemma, and Yo-Yo find themselves in the derelict portion of an old space station crawling with monsters. And then they reach "civilization", which turns out to be just as dangerous.
599* The fact that when May teleported in, she has a pipe THROUGH HER LEG, narrowly missing being a victim of TeleFrag.
600* The team finally figures out where and when they are: Decades into a future in which the Earth has been destroyed and the surviving humans are all enslaved by the Kree.
601* Jemma's attempt to help a wounded man results in her being captured and enslaved by the Kree, who put ''something'' in her ear that allows them to disable her hearing on a whim.
602* The Renewal, full stop.
603* Way back in season 2, the Kree Vin-Tak warned that Daisy's powers could potentially grow to the point that she might be able to shatter continents. If Deke is to be believed, he was underselling it. Supposedly, Daisy ''shattered the planet''.
604[[/folder]]
605
606[[folder:A Life Spent]]
607* Apparently any human who turns 18 goes through the Terrigenesis where they are basically sold into slavery and that’s if they're lucky enough to have a useful power. If not, they are simply slaughtered in an exhibition match against the champion of the buyer.
608* Abbey the young girl Simmons helps mentor is at the beginning getting brutally {{Curb Stomp}}ed. Simmons is only able to watch as she watches this young girl fight for her life and can do nothing. The way she ''wins'' is almost as horrible. She phases her arm insubstantial and shoves it into her opponent's chest. Then she [[CruelAndUnusualDeath turns it solid again.]] [[{{Squick}} Ouch.]]
609* We finally see what the punishment is for breaking the rules of the Kree: getting sent to the remains of Earth which is a hellhole devoid of any life but Roaches.
610[[/folder]]
611
612[[folder:Rewind]]
613* Little Robin Hinton, the daughter of Charles Hinton, has the power of precognition. While Raina had her physical beauty taken, and Charles could no longer touch people, Robin sees all of time at once. Given she was 4 or 5 when she underwent Terrigenesis, this has effectively made her nonverbal, and she instead communicates through her drawings. According to her mother, her mind is scattered through the past, present and future; confusing at best and scary at worst. Although this later gets subverted when she seems to grow up into a well-spoken old lady, and one of the leaders on the destroyed Earth.
614* General Hale is an authority figure who ignores basic human rights, plans to kidnap gifted children ([[WouldHurtAChild at best!]]), and kills her subordinates in cold blood. Basically, she is the very thing Steve Rogers fears in CACW.
615[[/folder]]
616
617[[folder:Together or Not At All]]
618* We finally see a Vrellnexian/ Roach in the flesh and it looks horrifying. It looks like the spawn of a Xenomorph with the body of a panther. Doesn't make it any less [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome awesome though!]]
619* By now, about half of the named non SHIELD cast has been killed. All violently. At least one is stabbed in the back like Coulson... and gets a lingering shot and some blood on their chest/mouth. Apparently Coulson's death in Avengers was to have that, and was cut since it would have given the movie an R rating.
620[[/folder]]
621
622[[folder:The Last Day]]
623* Kasius decides that he's been "too lenient" with the humans in the Lighthouse and decides to punish them after Team Coulson escapes in the trawler. How? ''By driving the Vrellnexians to the floor where the humans live''. When Mack, Yo-Yo and Flint arrive, the floor is literally covered in bodies and we're treated to the sounds of people screaming as the Vrellnexians hunt them down.
624* Even in her dreams, Robin sees the past and future: people hurting, people dying, catastrophes. Her powers are ''literal'' nightmare fuel.
625[[/folder]]
626
627[[folder:Best Laid Plans]]
628* For several episodes now, it has been made clear that Kasius intends to destroy the Lighthouse when he leaves. This episode reveals how he intends to do that, in one of the most horrifying ways possible: the Kree have attached bombs to the O2 tanks within the Lighthouse. Not only would these cause massive explosions, but it would also set the entire Lighthouse's oxygen supply on fire, which in turn would ''burn everyone to death''.
629[[/folder]]
630
631[[folder:Past Life]]
632* The effects of the [[PsychoSerum Odium]] are truly terrifying. It is a drug used as a last resort by Kree warriors to allow them to "die with glory" by sending them into a berserker rage, making them incapable of feeling pain and greatly enhancing their strength. It is also strongly implied to eventually kill the user. Kasius force-feeds Odium to Tye, his Inhuman trainer, and then later ingests the rest of it himself during a final showdown with Mack. In both cases, ingesting the Odium causes black fluid to spill from the user's mouth and eyes, making Tye and Kasius look rather monstrous.
633* The fact that Future Elena has been killed and resurrected ''multiple times'' by the Kree over the course of several decades. They kill her when they don't need her and resurrect her when they do. And to top it all off, they've cut off both of her arms above the elbow, leaving her with useless stumps.
634[[/folder]]
635
636[[folder:All the Comforts of Home]]
637* Team Coulson has finally returned to the past, but it looks like the future they're trying to prevent is already starting to come true:
638** When Noah reveals a light emanating from the sky, Fitz-Simmons take a closer look at it the light and learn it's a Kree beacon, similar to the one used by Hive to summon the Reapers in "Failed Experiments." Hale activated it to draw Team Coulson out. It's entirely possible that beacon is what alerted Kasius's father to Earth in the first place. So not only is Earth [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar about to get a visit from Thanos]], but there may be a confederacy of Kree warlords and their armies on their way as well.
639** During the fight at the lab, Ruby uses her blades to slice off both of Elena's arms at the elbows, where just like Future!Elena. After Mack's attempts to console her that they're going to change the future, they just experienced a ''huge'' portent that it's going to come true.
640*** Also, the liberal amount of blood flow from Elena's elbows is truly horrifying. It makes all the previous severed limbs in the MCU look tame by comparison.
641** The Kree beacon was also a Plan B, but not to track Team Coulson to their base. It was a bomb intended to kill them. And it exploded right next to the White Monolith, showing how it was destroyed.
642* Pretty much everything about Ruby, daughter of [[BigBad General Hale]]: She's not some bratty teenage daughter who is skipping school and idolizes Daisy Johnson. She is a government-trained assassin who is obsessed with killing Quake and gladly mutilated Elena just to draw Daisy out. Also, while her room looks like a normal room in a house, it's actually in a secret military bunker, with a reinforced sealed door to keep her locked inside. What the hell ''is'' this girl?
643* The fact that Hale and her daughter just want to kill Coulson and his team. No arrest, no interrogation, no manipulation. They just want to outright ''kill'' them.
644[[/folder]]
645
646[[folder:The Real Deal]]
647* Blowing up the three monoliths in the previous episode caused a rift in space-time to form, with a RealityBleed from what Fitz dubs a "fear dimension": A person's deepest fears can manifest into physical form and attack them. It's a dimension literally made from NightmareFuel. Given the appearances of a Kree Warrior, Lash, an LMD of Jemma, and Hive, these manifestations are fully physical and capable of killing anyone who gets too close.
648* TheReveal of just what the deal with Ghost Rider cost Coulson: It burned out all the GH-325 in his body, causing the fatal injuries Coulson suffered in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' to decay. According to Jemma's analysis, Coulson's tissue didn't just turn necrotic; it ''has'' been necrotic for ''years''.
649* The manifestation of Coulson's deepest fear: That he wasn't revived by TAHITI, but is still on the operating table after Loki stabbed him.
650[[/folder]]
651
652[[folder:The Devil Complex]]
653* Framework!Fitz has returned as apparently a result of the fear dimension. Everyone, especially Fitz and Simmons, are incredibly unnerved by this.
654** His plan to capture Daisy and take out her chip so that she can use her powers to compress the gravitonium into the device needed to seal the rift is this as it involves his surgically removing it ''without even giving'' Daisy any proper anesthesia.
655** What makes it worse is TheReveal that Framework!Fitz was never there. It was all Fitz himself. Yes, kind, gentle Fitz, the love of Simmons' life, kidnapped and basically tortured one of his friends, simply because he felt it was the best option to close the tear. Even after the tear is closed and Fitz is imprisoned, he tells Jemma that, even after basically destroying his friendship with Daisy, he ''still'' feels all this was the right thing to do.
656* HYDRA has returned and General Hale is working for them.
657** And who is overseeing this revived HYDRA? None other than ''the Confederacy'', the Kree alliance led by [[GreaterScopeVillain Kasius' father]]. Not only was this guy responsible for the [[BadFuture dystopian conditions]] of the Lighthouse, it looks like he's responsible for the AlienInvasion that precipitated the destruction of Earth. It looks like we've found the BigBad of Season 5.
658[[/folder]]
659
660[[folder:Rise and Shine]]
661* What happened to Talbot in the six months he's been Hale's prisoner. Ruby has completely ''broken'' him, to the point that it's not sure what was a result of his brain damage or a result of Ruby's interrogation.
662[[/folder]]
663
664[[folder:Inside Voices]]
665* The result of Creel touching the Gravitonium. He learns that it's not just an element, ''it's alive''. When Franklin Hall was absorbed by the Gravitonium, it took his memories and sentience. Creel says that he can hear ''two voices'' in there, and the end of the episode reveals who the other voice is: it's ''Ian Quinn'', who was absorbed all those years ago after escaping, when Raina made some sort of deal with Hall.
666[[/folder]]
667
668[[folder:The Honeymoon]]
669* Reality bites ''hard'' for Yo-Yo when she tries to use her powers for the first time since getting prosthetic arms... and learns the hard way that her prosthetics aren't built to be subjected to high speeds.
670* Glenn Talbot is revealed to be a sleeper agent for the Confederacy.
671[[/folder]]
672
673[[folder:All Roads Lead...]]
674* The FamilyUnfriendlyDeath of Werner Von Strucker, with Ruby accidentally crushing his head like a beer can after getting infused with Gravitonium. ''You can see his blood splattering on the floor behind Ruby after his corpse falls.''
675* Coulson tries to defuse the hostage situation with Talbot by using his own HYDRA TriggerPhrase on him. Granted, he was trying to save a little girl, but dropping another layer of MindRape on a man with an already seriously broken mental state? That is ''cold.''
676[[/folder]]
677
678[[folder:Option Two]]
679* The Remorath are like something out of a SurvivalHorror movie, as they lope around the Lighthouse, slaughtering anyone who gets in their way. As an added bonus, their presence causes lights to go out and electronics to stop working.
680* The MookHorrorShow of Talbot, now pumped full of Gravitonium, killing every single Remorath.
681[[/folder]]
682
683[[folder:The One Who Will Save Us All]]
684* Talbot's slow [[SanitySlippage descent into madness]] as [[TheCorruption the Gravitonium corrupts his mind]] is quite unsettling. You can see the descent happen from hero to AntiHero to KnightTemplar, and it is accompanied with gruesome visuals of him compacting people into fleshy basketballs.
685[[/folder]]
686
687[[folder:The Force of Gravity]]
688* Talbot's reunion with his family is unsettling to watch. They know something's not right, and it's clear that he's going to snap at any moment. And he does [[BerserkButton when his wife mentions that S.H.I.E.L.D. called]].
689* Before they are interrupted, Talbot is talking about the only way he'd ever trust his wife again is if she joined him. The way he says it heavily implies that he's intending to absorb her the same way he did Creel, right in front of their son.
690[[/folder]]
691
692[[folder:The End]]
693* Talbot's final descent into madness. He threatens a young child's mother to make her tell him where he can get more Gravitonium, then he lands a massive spaceship on top of several buildings completely destroying the top few floors, and at the end he's fully willing to destroy the planet in his insane desire to become powerful enough to protect it from all threats.
694[[/folder]]
695
696!!Season 6
697
698[[folder:Window of Opportunity]]
699* Sarge in general is an incredibly chilling villain, if only because of how ''unsettling'' it is to see a man who looks and sounds ''exactly'' like the [[NiceGuy Coulson]] we all know and love display the exact same kind of affable, yet sociopathic and ruthless personality as ''Ward.''
700[[/folder]]
701
702[[folder:Code Yellow]]
703* This season has given us some new creative and terrifying ways to die, but this episode, showing what the alien parasite does to its victims, sets new records in FamilyUnfriendlyDeath and takes us from “sci-fi with a few scary moments” to outright {{Horror}}. Poor Keller starts jutting black crystals from his body as his limbs are stretched apart. Skin can be seen clinging to the crystals that have overextended his limbs. We're not talking Reed Richards type limb stretching; the crystal expands beyond the bounds of its host and there's just ''not enough flesh to go around,'' showing agonizing and graphic ripping and tearing. [[ShmuckBait See the final results]] [[https://i.imgur.com/IREvEsE.png here!]]
704** Oh, it gets better, as we learn more over the next handful of episodes. When the crystals reach another surface, that surface grows ''more'' crystals. (You can see a little of it in that image, the new growths on the walls and floor.) And the crystals from ''there'' cause ''more.'' The blue dagger things that are kryptonite to the parasite were preventing it from fully growing; from ''two'' victims you can get enough rapidly-growing razor-sharp crystals to ''at least'' fill a plane. So far, touching the crystal isn't enough to have it grow from you like an infection victim... but it ''will'' go straight through your body like a hot knife through butter. If you don't stop it with a dagger early, as in "within the first five or so seconds," remaining ''anywhere near'' is ''certain death by impalement.'' Also, they gain the energy to do this by feeding on the life force of the victim. Planets have life force too, accessible by {{Ley Line}}s. Enough of the Shrike gather at the right places, and soon your ''whole planet'' is being torn to shreds, giant crystal growths ripping their way out as easily as they do with {{Redshirt}}s. The best proof of their horrifying nature is that having seen ''them'' at work on too many planets, to the point that he'd do literally anything to stop their spread, is what has made Sarge ruthless enough to earn an entry on this page.
705[[/folder]]
706
707[[folder:Inescapable]]
708* Fitz and Simmons are put into a virtual mind prison by the Chronicoms, which causes them to eventually confront their respective [[EnemyWithin dark sides]] -- not just Leopold aka the Doctor, but also a Nightmare Simmons created from all the negative emotions that Jemma has been suppressing her whole life.
709** They end up captured by each other's dark side, leading to horrific torture scenes as Leopold puts Jemma in a machine to drain her mind, and Nightmare Simmons cuts Fitz's heart out with a bone knife.
710** Nightmare Simmons in general proves to be every bit as scary as Leopold, if not more so. Things veer straight into horror movie territory whenever she appears, she looks like something that crawled out of a nightmare, and Elizabeth Henstridge's performance is nothing short of terrifying.
711* Enoch points out that keeping [=FitzSimmons=] in the mind prison may end up killing them. Atarah makes it clear that she doesn't care.
712[[/folder]]
713
714[[folder:Collision Course (Part 1)]]
715* Sarge is willing to set off a nuke with a ''200 mile blast radius'', regardless of how many innocent civilians are caught in that area, if it means destroying Izel and the Shrike. He even leaves Snowflake, who'd been nothing but loyal to him, behind on the truck as it barrels towards the crystalline tower.
716* The fact that Izel, the woman who rescued [=FitzSimmons=] from certain death on Kitson, is actually the one responsible for unleashing the Shrike upon the galaxy.
717[[/folder]]
718
719[[folder:Leap]]
720* Izel is capable of {{Body Surf}}ing, which is not only a major case of ParanoiaFuel, but is also played for horror. She makes May shoot Sarge, makes Piper shoot herself in the hand, makes Mack start to strangle Deke, and ultimately [[PsychicAssistedSuicide makes Davis jump to his death]].
721** And to make things worse, by the end of the episode she's now possessing [[SuperSpeed Yo-Yo]], and makes a point of mentioning how she can now kill people before they can blink.
722[[/folder]]
723
724[[folder:From The Ashes]]
725* Last episode seemed very triumphant, with Sarge promising to stop Izel and starting to unlock his powers. ''This'' episode makes it clear that those powers are not under his control. The alien being inside him- Pachakutiq- is a raging monster barely controlled by what remains of Coulson's personality. He's strong enough to bend steel and knock down walls, and he wants ''out''.
726[[/folder]]
727
728[[folder: The Sign]]
729* Agent May and Sarge go into the ancient temple to confront Izel. At first, Sarge is able to curb-stomp her, but when it comes time to actually kill her, he can't bring himself to do it. May tries to talk to him, telling him that the pain holding him back is love, and it seems he might be coming around. And then he stabs Melinda May through the chest and tosses her through the portal like a piece of trash. He's not Coulson. He's not even Sarge anymore. He's Pachakutiq, the earth-shaker demon lord.
730* Izel may not be able to possess Yo-Yo anymore thanks to Fitz-Simmons and Deke, but that protection doesn't extend to her pets. One of the Shrike flies right into Yo-Yo's mouth at the end of the episode.
731[[/folder]]
732
733[[folder: New Life]]
734* We finally get to see Pachakutiq's true form, and it's ''disgusting''- a hulking insectoid with a face like a crustacean. He completely {{No Sell}}s Daisy's powers, beating her and Mack into the ground.
735* May manages to take a look into the Fear Dimension - and [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marvelcinematicuniverse/images/f/f0/Fear_Dimension_New_Life.png/revision/latest?cb=20190807100909 she sees hundreds, if not THOUSANDS]] of beings like Izel and Pachakutiq, ready to invade reality!
736[[/folder]]
737
738!!Season 7
739[[folder: The New Deal]]
740* The Chronicoms using a device that literally removes the faces of people, leaving [[TheBlank blank swathes of flesh]] in their place, in order to create new disguises for themselves.
741[[/folder]]
742
743[[folder: Adapt or Die]]
744* The Chronicoms reveal that they are replacing SHIELD agents with Chronicom hunters, first by implanting their memories before stealing their faces. Once Coulson and May save Rick Stoner from the same fate, there's a shot of the bodies of 3 agents that the hunters replaced, all with blank faces and only in their underclothing.
745* Nathaniel goes about operating on Daisy the same way that Whitehall operated on Jiaying. Even if the relationship ended badly between her and her mother, she got a taste of the terror and pain Jiaying went through.
746* Mack's parents had already been killed and replaced by Chronicoms, and they don't hold back with the EvilGloating.
747-->"[[YouAreTooLate They've been gone a while]]. ''[[BodyHorror I harvested their skins]].''"
748[[/folder]]
749
750[[folder: The Totally Excellent Adventures of Mack and the D]]
751* The sheer amount of [[BloodierAndGorier gruesome deaths]] inflicted by Sybil and her robots almost makes Ruby chopping off Elena's arms in Season 4 look tame by comparison.
752[[/folder]]
753
754[[folder: After, Before]]
755[[/folder]]
756
757[[folder: As I Have Always Been]]
758* Enoch's efficiency in taking down the team single-handedly, if you consider that he's a Chromicon anthropologist and the SHIELD agents have fought his species' hunters.
759[[/folder]]
760
761[[folder: Stolen]]
762* We finally get a good look at Daisy when she's not holding back her powers. It's almost reminiscent of a power-up scene from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', and it scares the hell out of Nathaniel despite him having a better degree of control than she does.
763[[/folder]]
764
765[[folder: Brand New Day]]
766* When Sybil's fleet reaches Earth, they waste no time annihilating nearly every SHIELD base on the planet via OrbitalBombardment.
767[[/folder]]
768
769[[folder: The End is At Hand]]
770[[/folder]]
771
772[[folder: What We're Fighting For]]
773[[/folder]]

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