History Recap / AgentsOfSHIELDS4E22WorldsEnd

* AbsenteeActor: Triplett and Ward do not appear in any of the Framework scenes, and were presumably deleted offscreen at some point during its shutdown.

* RealityEnsues: Even when Yo-Yo comes to bring him back, Mack still refuses to leave Hope behind. Only after she disappears in his arms does he agree to leave with Yo-Yo.

* WhamLine:

* HeroicSacrifice: Fitz offers to stay behind and take responsibility for the LMD mess, but Daisy talks him out of it.

* InfantImmortality: Averted with the Framework version of Hope getting deleted with the Framework.

** Dr. Radcliffe is on a beach as everything in the Framework is being deleted, including himself. This is similar to how Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor were on a beach as the planet they were on was blowing up in ''Film/RogueOne''.

* EvilFeelsGood: As Aida tells Fitz, she enjoys hurting others because it makes her feel better. In fact, she prefers this emotional outlet over more benign activities like song writing.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Aida is a superstrong, volt-casting, lethal-wound-healing teleporter. She clearly made herself as powerful as possible but once the Rider gets his hands on her (literally), she's utterly helpless and quickly dies.

** Robbie's description of the MCU multiverse, with dimensions and worlds that would seem like Hell to humans and there being a constant war that Ghost Rider has been fighting in is essentially another version of the Ancient One's explanation to Stephen Strange about the nature of reality in ''Film/DoctorStrange2016''. The overhead shot of an intersection, as well as Aida and Ghost Rider falling from the sky, also call to mind the visuals of the Mirror Dimension fight that led to the death of the Ancient One's death, another woman who drew power from a dark dimension to give herself life. The portal Robbie makes at the end with his chain is identical to one made by a sling ring. He even opens the portal to a snowy mountain peak, the same kind Doctor Strange was sent to so he could master the ring.

** The little device the man in the suit uses to freeze the team in place is not unlike what Obadiah Stane used in ''Film/IronMan1'' to freeze Tony and Raza (albeit a much wide area and without the painful side effects).

* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Averted; the Framework along with everybody inside is deleted by Aida, but it's played for utter horror. Even those without memories of living there, who previously said it was expendable, [[SubvertedTrope changed their minds and said it just as real as reality]].

* FaceDeathWithDignity: Radcliffe is accepting of the fact that he's going to die as the Framework shuts down and is sitting on a beach to have quiet drink waiting for the end.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Aida teleports away the second she sees Robbie once she learns he can bypass her healing power.

* NothingLeftToDoButDie: As his physical body is dead, thus preventing his return to the real world and not having anything else to live for, Radcliffe simply goes to a deserted beach and awaits for his deletion.

** Ward and Tripp are nowhere to be seen in the Framework, which is pretty jarring considering they are major characters in the Framework. It can be assumed that they got deleted along with everyone and everything else in the Framework.

* BittersweetEnding: The day is saved, Aida is defeated and the Darkhold locked away. On the downside, Ivanov and his LMD army are still out there, Team Coulson are wanted fugitives (again), plus all are coping with what happened in the Framework to various degrees, with Fitz getting it the worst, and Talbot can't help because he's in a coma. The season ends with the Team being swept away by a mysterious group of [[TheMenInBlack Men in Black]].

** Daisy has come to realize that her actions after the season 3 finale (leaving S.H.I.E.L.D., becoming a vigilante, blaming herself for everything, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking dying her hair]]) was maladaptive, self-destructive, and she should have let her friends help her. That's why refuses to let Fitz do the same thing here.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: Aida is a superstrong, volt-casting, unkillable teleporter, but once the Rider gets his hands on her (literally), she's utterly helpless and quickly dies.

* BackForTheDead: Framework Agent Burrows, who constantly appeared as a major Resistance member throughout the Framework arc, returns for a few scenes before he and every other living thing in the Framework are deleted save Mack, Hope, Yo-Yo and Radcliffe.

* BittersweetEnding: The day is saved, Aida is defeated and the Darkhold locked away. But Ivanov and his LMD army are still out there, Team Coulson are wanted fugitives (again), plus all are coping with what happened in the Framework to various degrees, with Fitz getting it the worst, and Talbot can't help because he's in a coma. The season ends with the Team being swept away by a mysterious group of [[TheMenInBlack Men in Black]].

* CharacterDevelopment: Both Daisy and Simmons express regret for the dead people in the Framework, apparently having accepted that they were not just pieces of code. Even Elena, who expresses this view this very episode, seems sad about Hope at the end.

* EvilFeelsGood: As Aida tells Fitz, she enjoys hurting others because it makes her feel better.

* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Subverted; the Framework along with everybody inside is deleted by Aida, but it's played for utter horror.

* TheFaceless: The leader of the group that capture the team has his face entirely in shadow the entire time he's in the diner.

* HumanoidAbomination: As hinted at near the end of the previous episode, though Aida's body may be anatomically human, it's made of matter from the world the Darkhold comes from. Much like Eli's RealityWarper powers created tremors, doing this created a tear through which Robbie was able to return to Earth. Her mere existence is so unnatural that the Spirit of Vengeance hates her beyond anything Robbie has ever felt.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Ghost Rider is a Spirit of Vengeance, sure, but in all previous instances seemed to treat this more like a job. But when Aida manages to escape it, it lets out several angry roars of frustration. Lampshaded when Robbie tells Daisy and Coulson that the Rider "hates her in ways I've never felt."

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Robbie not only burns her arm with hellfire but then transforms into the Rider, Aida almost immediately runs away instead of trying to really fight him.

* SmugSuper: Having superpowers that make her NighInvulnerable has made Aida quite arrogant, treating Robbie's attempt to steal the Darkhold from her as an amusing trifle. Then she finds out how wrong she is when she can't heal from the damage caused by Ghost Rider's Hellfire chain.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich: Radcliffe sadly never gets to enjoy his last drink, being [[KilledMidSentence deleted from the Framework in the middle of his toast]].

* TogetherInDeath: Mack would rather stay in the Framework and die with Hope rather than go back to the real world and live without her. Yo-Yo then decides that she feels much the same way, and would also rather stay and die than go back and live without Mack. Ends up subverted when Hope is the first one of the three of them to disappear, which makes Mack finally agree to leave.

** There is also no reveal about what happened to Vijay Nadeer after undergoing a second terrigenesis. Aida has his first displayed power, which doesn't explain his unique condition.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: ''Everyone'' in the Framework is unceremoniously deleted just because [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Womanchild]] Aida was throwing a temper tantrum.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Radcliffe spends his final moments lamenting the fact that he never did get to achieve immortality as he always dreamed, but figures that it's just as well he didn't, because he wouldn't be able to enjoy it without Agnes.

* KilledMidSentence: As everything in the Framework is being deleted, Radcliffe decides to spend his last moments before he meets the same fate watching the sunset on a beach with a bottle of liquor. He pours himself a glass and raises it for a toast, quoting Creator/TSEliot, but is deleted before he can finish his sentence, and the glass he was holding just drops to the ground.

'''Coulson:''' Maybe not. ''(Grabs Aida's arm)'' But I'm pretty sure ''he'' can. ''(Turns into Ghost Rider)''

* NothingLeftToDoButDie: As his physical body is dead, thus preventing his return to the real world and not having anything else to live for, Radcliffe simply goes to a desserted beach and awaits for his deletion.

* GenreSavvy: Ivanov tells Daisy something to the effect of "You cannot defeat me." She lampshades that this is the point where someone ''does''. Cue timely flaming chain from Ghost Rider.

* BadBoss: Aida deletes the Framework along with everybody inside, despite knowing full well that this includes the many virtual HYDRA agents devoted to her, [[UngratefulBastard not to mention those virtual HYDRA scientists who helped with Project Looking Glass in order for her to become human in the first place]].

* HumanoidAbomination: As hinted at near the end of the previous episode, Aida did not truly gain a human body as the body is made of matter from the world the Darkhold comes from, indeed her creating the body ripped a hole in that world. Something about these facts causes her mere existence to inspire hatred from the Spirit of Vengeance that its host, Robbie, has never felt from it before.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich: Radcliffe sadly never gets to enjoy his last drink, being [[KilledMidSentence deleted from the Framework in the middle of his toast]], leaving his bottle and full glass behind. Though the bottle and glass are likely deleted as well.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich: Radcliffe sadly never gets to enjoy his last drink, being [[KilledMidSentence deleted from the Framework in the middle of his toast]], leaving his bottle and full glass behind.