History AgentsOfSHIELD / TropesFToH

* ForWantOfANail: The reason the Framework is a CrapsackWorld -- each of the five prisoners was calmed enough to accept it with a CosmicRetcon of "[[MyGreatestFailure their greatest regret]]" -- which had world-shattering consequences;
** Melinda May's [[spoiler:assignment in Bahrain ended with her killing an Inhuman child who was mind-controlling everyone around her. In the Framework, she succeeded in rescuing the child, who went on to kill over a hundred people in the US, permanently souring humanity's view of Inhumans and leaving her a cold, professional shell]].
** Phil Coulson [[spoiler:has become weary of his life as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, and subconsciously [[IJustWantToBeNormal desired a normal life]]. In the Framework, he thus rejected an offer of S.H.I.E.L.D. membership; without him, the Avengers never formed, and [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier HYDRA completed its coup d'état and rose to power]], killing most of the world's superhumans and subversives]].
** Alphonso Mackenzie [[spoiler:mourns his daughter, Hope, who died just days after birth. In the Framework, she survived, and he never joined S.H.I.E.L.D., instead living a quiet life as a single father]].
** Jeffrey Mace [[spoiler:has always regretted not being a true Inhuman, instead being dependent on a chemical cocktail for hour-long boosts of superhuman strength and resilience. In the Framework, he is Inhuman, and the heroic director of the S.H.I.E.L.D. resistance]].
** Leo Fitz [[spoiler:has always [[WellDoneSonGuy desired his father's acceptance]], a thuggish drunk who bemoans his son's love of science. In the Framework, his teetotaler father dotes on him... while still being thuggish and authoritarian, raising Fitz as a Mengele-like MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate who proudly builds weapons for HYDRA]].
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** The pilot contains a clear homage to ''Film/BackToTheFuture''. The scene where Lola takes flight is shot very similarly to the [=DeLorean=] taking flight at the end of the first movie.

** Two episodes, "T.R.A.C.K.S." and "T.A.H.I.T.I.", are stylized as acronyms which are never explained. T.A.H.I.T.I. appears InUniverse, so it may get some explanation down the road -- a FreezeFrameBonus [[http://40.media.tumblr.com/9504f416962cc70ee4d0fda7ab0107fb/tumblr_ne9n6hgnt41tlns7wo8_r1_1280.jpg reveals as]] partially [[MainliningTheMonster Terrestrialized Alien Host]] [[HealingPotion Integrative Tissue I.]].

** The Inhumans themselves look down on anyone who wasn't born with a (latent) power, with Gordon disregarding Cal as a 'science experiment' despite the Inhumans themselves being the product of Kree experiments. Taken UpToEleven with [[spoiler:Jiaying,]] who stages an attack from S.H.I.E.L.D. to justify an offensive attack on them.

** Phil Coulson [[spoiler:has become weary of his life as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, and subconsciously [[IJustWantToBeNormal desired a normal life]]. In the Framework, he thus rejected an offer of S.H.I.E.L.D. membership; without him, the Avengers never formed, and [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier HYDRA completed its coup de tat and rose to power]], killing most of the world's superhumans and subversives]].

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Averted when [[spoiler:Ward]] tries to talk his way into a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility. No matter what he says or does, even the usual 'call their superiors' trick, [[RealityEnsues they absolutely refuse to let him in and invite him to call up the chain of command.]] He does eventually get them to let him in, but he needs a helicopter shooting at him to do so.

** In Season 4 Mallory Jansen (AIDA/Agnes/Ophelia/Madame Hydra) portrays the BigBad of the entire Season, featuring heavily in all three big story arcs while only missing two episodes, and appearing in more episodes than John Hannah (Radcliffe), who is a main cast member.

** Same with Kasias and Sinara -- usually he is the only one talking.

** In Season 6, Sarge, the BigBad for most of the season, [[spoiler:is a malevolent entity similar to the Spirit of Vengeance that is posessing a copy of Coulson's body.]] Season 3's BigBad, Hive, an ancient Inhuman, posessses Grant Ward' body for the latter half of Season 3. In both cases, the body-stealing entity has the face of one of the original six of Team Coulson and is able to end up on Earth because of Monoliths. Both are NighInvulnerable and gained the memories of their host. The biggest difference between how the two posess their host is that Sarge [[spoiler:doesn't actually know who he is until Izel tells him that he's Pachakutiq in a copy of Coulson's body created by the Monoliths over a year prior, and that Coulson is a much bigger part of Sarge than Ward was of Hive.]]

** Ruth Negga (Raina) has appeared in nine episodes since her introduction in 1x05, appeared at a number of publicity events with the six original leads between seasons, and in Season 2 has nearly as many appearances as lead-credited Brett Dalton, but is still credited as a guest star.
** Natalia Cordova-Buckley is a semi-regular character in Seasons 3 and 4, but only became a regular in Season 5.

** In "The Patriot", Jeffrey Mace confesses that [[spoiler:he didn't actually do what everyone thought he did in Vienna, using his Inhuman super strength to save someone from being crushed under debris]]. This is ''exactly'' [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice how he dies for real]] in the Framework.]]

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler:
** [=#CoulsonLives!=] was the hashtag for the 7-second teaser.

** The same episode that states that Daisy Johnson destroyed the world also establishes that, thanks to the Kree destroying historical records, the Lighthouse inhabitants [[FutureImperfect aren't particularly reliable sources of information when it comes to history]]. [[spoiler:Sure enough, they turn out to have come to the wrong conclusion based on incomplete information divorced from context, as Glenn Talbot was actually responsible.]]

** The same episode that [[spoiler:"]]establishes[[spoiler:"]] that Daisy Johnson destroyed the world also establishes that, thanks to the Kree destroying historical records, the Lighthouse inhabitants [[FutureImperfect aren't particularly reliable sources of information when it comes to history]]. [[spoiler:Sure enough, they turn out to have come to the wrong conclusion based on incomplete information divorced from context, as Glenn Talbot was actually responsible.]]