History Recap / AgentsOfSHIELDS4E13Boom

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** As it turns out, the Patriot serum is potentially lethal. That's to be expected when you modify a PsychoSerum, particularly one that nearly killed the last person (who happened to be its creator) to use it.
** Also, despite his power, Mace gets quickly captured by the Superior's men. Ivanov admits Mace is strong, then wonders aloud if he's also bulletproof, but the Russians subvert this by simply tasing Mace into submission.
** Happens off-screen, but it's mentioned that without his powers and without the same rigorous training most of the agents have, Mace is basically useless in combat, getting pinned by the tiny Agent Piper in ten seconds.
** There is no guarantee Nadeer would actually become an Inhuman, despite her brother being one. Plus, any Watchdog could potentially have an Inhuman gene, no matter how much they despise the notion.

** Shockley explodes in Nadeer's office, which was part of the Stamford Wing on Capitol Hill. Stamford, Connecticut was where Nitro killed the ComicBook/NewWarriors and over six hundred people, igniting ''ComicBook/CivilWar''.

* AdaptationOriginConnection: Shockley's powers of being able to explode and then return to normal seem to make him the MCU version of Nitro. In the comics he was a human mutant empowered by Kree experiments, here he's simply an Inhuman, who have similar origins.

** Radcliffe expresses this toward the Darkhold, losing his shit whe finds out the Superior has been reading it.

* GreenEyedMonster: Aida seems more than a little jealous of Agnes, and of Radcliffe's affection for her. Previously, she thought she was unique, now it turns out she is just modeled -- physically, at least -- after the real woman he loved. She even steals the necklace Agnes was wearing when Agnes' body dies.

* RealityEnsues:
** As it turns out, the Patriot serum is potentially lethal. That's to be expected when you modify a PsychoSerum, particularly one that nearly killed the last person (who happened to be its creator) to use it.
** Also, despite his power, Mace gets quickly captured by the Superior's men. Ivanov admits Mace is strong, then wonders aloud if he's also bulletproof, but the Russians subvert this by simply tasing Mace into submission.
** Happens off-screen, but it's mentioned that without his powers and without the same rigorous training most of the agents have, Mace is basically useless in combat, getting pinned by the tiny Agent Piper in ten seconds.
** There is no guarantee Nadeer would actually become an Inhuman, despite her brother being one. Plus, any Watchdog could potentially have an Inhuman gene, no matter how much they despise the notion.

* NotSoDifferent: Coulson isn't mad at Agnes for going with Radcliffe, as she was desperate and took the slimmest chance she had, something he would have done too (in regards to May).

* HowsYourBritishAccent: Mallory Jansen is Australian, but she portrays AIDA with an American accent. In this episode she also plays Agnes, the original human template for AIDA, who is Australian.

** There is no guarantee Nadeer would actually become an Inhuman, despite her brother being one. Plus, any Watchdog could potentially have an Inhuman gene, no matter how much they reject the notion.

* YourDaysAreNumbered: Agnes has an inoperable brain tumor. When Radcliffe realized he couldn't do anything to fix it, they ended the relationship. [[DefiedTrope By the episode's end, Radcliffe discovered a loophole]]; he can't save her body, but her mind can live on in the Framework.

* AssholeVictim: Senator Nadeer. On top of all she has done, which include [[CainAndAbel fratricide]], her last action before being blown up by Shockley's powers is laughing at him while he's enveloped by the Terrigenesis cocoon. Daisy even points it out when her death is confirmed, though Mace would have liked to see her be put to trial for her crimes.

** The initial plan for Nadeer was this, especially given Shockley's dialogue before breaking the crystal -- the Superior has apparently decided she was of more use as expendable inhuman bait than as the front of their organisation.

* AdaptationOriginConnection: Shockley's powers of being able to explode and then return to normal seem to make him the MCU version of Nitro. In the comics he was a human mutant empowered by Kree experiments, here he's simply an inhuman, who have similar origins.

* AdaptationOriginConnection: Shockley's powers of being able to explode but being able to return to normal seem to make him the MCU version of Nitro. In the comics he was a human mutate empowered by Kree experiments, here he's simply an inhuman, who are of similar origins.

* HeroicSacrifice: Mace activates the serum in his suit (which could possibly kill him) to confront the Watchdogs so that Daisy, Fitz, and Simmons can defeat Shockley and escape. While the serum ''doesn't'' kill him and activate his superpowers as usual, he still ultimately gets captured by the Watchdogs due to being outnumbered. Apparently his superhuman durability doesn't counter a human beings inherent response to being tased.

* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Demanding to know where Radcliff is, Daisy sends a vibro-blast at Shockley's head, making him smack the head of the Watchdog behind him.

* PetTheDog: Shockley tells the motel owner to run away before he blows himself up, although its unknown if the man made it out of the blast radius.

* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: When the plan for Daisy to just counter the vibrations of Shockley's explosive power proves to require too much time to practice, Daisy just resorts to ''making'' him explode over-and-over in the hopes of tiring him out. It doesn't ''quite'' work as Daisy's power takes more out of her than his does, but it ''does'' hold him off long enough for Fitz and Simmons to drive the containment device to capture him post-explosion before he can reform.

* YouShallNotPass: Mace confronts the Superior's men alone so that Fitz-Simmons can extract Daisy from the trap and contained Shockley. He gets captured as a result.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Agnes has an inoperable brain tumor. When Radcliffe realized he couldn't do anything to fix it, they ended the relationship. [[DefiedTrope By the episodes' end, Radcliffe discovered a loophole]]; he can't save her body but her mind can live on in the Framework.

-->'''Diasy:''' Where. Is. Radcliffe?