History YMMV / AgentsOfShield

** In the Season 2 finale ''SOS'', upon seeing [[spoiler:Jiaying]]'s plan in action, Mack states that he thought ''his'' mom was crazy for watching Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}}. In July 2015, the MCU's main news network, WHIH News, created a Twitter account. The third account it followed? Fox News.

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* QuestionableCasting: In Season 2, Tim [=DeKay=] was cast as Ward's older brother, Christian, who was first seen in a flashback in "[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E8TheWell The Well]]". In that flashback, the two brothers are played by actors only two years apart in age. In the present, [=DeKay=] is at least twenty years older than Brett Dalton. Of course, besides the age gap (which itself can be justified by the two being OlderThanTheyLook[=/=]YoungerThanTheyLook respectively), most haven't had a problem with his portrayal of Christian, at least. Later, Thomas confirms that Christian was significantly older than himself and Grant, indicating that the past flashback was either retconned or was just [[UnreliableNarrator Ward's perception of what was going on]].

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* WTHCastingAgency: In Season 2, Tim [=DeKay=] was cast as Ward's older brother, Christian, who was first seen in a flashback in "[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E8TheWell The Well]]". In that flashback, the two brothers are played by actors only two years apart in age. In the present, [=DeKay=] is at least twenty years older than Brett Dalton. Of course, besides the age gap (which itself can be justified by the two being OlderThanTheyLook[=/=]YoungerThanTheyLook respectively), most haven't had a problem with his portrayal of Christian, at least. Later, Thomas confirms that Christian was significantly older than himself and Grant, indicating that the past flashback was either retconned or was just [[UnreliableNarrator Ward's perception of what was going on]].

** Season 1: [[spoiler:[[AdaptationalVillainy John Garrett]] is also known as [[TheChessmaster the Clairvoyant]]. Heading the Centipede Project as [[Characters/MCUHYDRALeadership a powerful figure in HYDRA]], the Clairvoyant has superpowered individuals abducted and experimented on; implants his soldiers with {{Explosive Leash}}es that are activated should they fail him or outlive their usefulness; had [[Characters/MCUPhilCoulson Coulson]] tortured to reveal the secret of his revival; frames an innocent paralyzed man for his crimes, before having him gunned down; and frequently kidnaps and threatens the loved ones of his "employees" to ensure their complete loyalty. Two of his most notable victims are S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Akela Amador and Mike Peterson, whom he implants with bombs to force them to complete missions and massacre innocents against their will; the latter is turned into the cyborg villain Deathlok, and his son is later abducted as extra incentive for his compliance. [[FauxAffablyEvil Despite his cheery demeanor]], the Clairvoyant has no loyalty or empathy for anyone, not even to his undyingly loyal right-hand man, [[Characters/MCUGrantWard Grant Ward]], whom he nearly killed to further his own plans and later forces to attempt to murder his two friends, Fitz and Simmons, in order to prove he's not weak. Ultimately, [[ItsAllAboutMe the Clairvoyant]]'s true interest was extending his own life, and once he'd achieved that he'd go on to plan world domination with a legion of enslaved Centipede soldiers.]]

* EvilIsSexy:
** Camilla Reyes invoked this when she attempted to seduce Coulson.
** Raina, with her flower dress wardrobe being very flattering. A common occurrence during the episodes in which she appeared was Clark Gregg receiving messages on Twitter from fans saying that they found her very beautiful, to which Gregg responded in agreement (quite funny considering that Coulson for the most part shut down her attempts at sucking up to him).
** Lorelei is quite attractive. When you're played by Creator/ElenaSatine, playing a woman capable of enthralling men is quite believable.
** [[spoiler:Ward]] isn't too bad himself, either.
** Even ''[[SilverFox Malick]]'' has his fans, due to being always very classily dressed and portrayed by the magnetic charisma of Powers Boothe. It's the [[GutturalGrowler voice]] that does it.
** Eva Belyakov, an Inhuman woman with SuperStrength. She's portrayed by superhot Winter Ave Zoli. Although she might not be genuinely evil, since she's BrainwashedAndCrazy in her entire on-screen appearance.
** For PunchClockVillain example, there is Alisha, the redheaded Inhuman girl, played by real-life StatuesqueStunner stunt performer Alicia Vela-Bailey (she's 5' 9").
** For WellIntentionedExtremist (well, for Inhumans, anyway) example, [[spoiler:Jiaying]] may qualify as well.
** Aida, whose wardrobe is very flattering and is played by Mallory Jansen.
** Sinara, thanks for being [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe blue-skinned Kree]] [[DarkActionGirl female warrior]] with FormFittingWardrobe. She's also the very first female Kree ''ever'' to appear in the MCU, even if she's a CanonForeigner.
** Kasius isn't so bad, either, not to mention he's also a rather [[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide feminine]] PrettyBoy.
** Ruby might be an [[AxCrazy unhinged psychopath]], but she's also an unhinged psychopath played by the gorgeous, slender, and athletic Dove Cameron, and who spends a lot of time walking around in [[FormFittingWardrobe very tight]] [[HellBentForLeather black leather]] and [[FoeYayShipping quasi-hitting on]] Daisy.

** Season 7: [[{{Seers}} Sibyl]], the Chronicom Predictor, leads the Hunters in their invasion of Earth's past. Forming an alliance with [[Characters/{{MCUHYDRA}} HYDRA]], Sibyl fast-tracks [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier Project Insight]] to kill the Avengers while they're still children, having her Hunters kill and steal the faces of both loyal S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and Mack's parents. Sibyl survives an explosion that destroys her Hunters and convinces a lonely programmer to construct crude replacements, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killing him once they're complete]] and providing knowledge of the future to Nathaniel Malick. With her help, Malick recruits killers destined to die because of S.H.I.E.L.D. and lays siege to the Inhuman sanctuary of Afterlife, subjecting the inhabitants to agonizing power-stealing processes. Sibyl later makes contact with the Chronicom fleet and orders them to obliterate every S.H.I.E.L.D. base on the planet, intent on repeating the process upon being transported back to the primary timeline, and threatens to enslave Coulson out of annoyance with his constant interference. While rationalizing her invasion as an effort to save her species from extinction, this is little more than Sibyl's coldly logical belief that [[TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies Chronicoms are superior and more deserving of survival over humanity]].

** Season 2: [[MadDoctor Dr. Werner Reinhardt]], aka [[FourEyesZeroSoul Daniel Whitehall]], is one of the [[Characters/MCUHYDRALeadership heads of HYDRA]] and a true believer in [[Characters/MCUJohannSchmidt Johann Schmidt]]'s cause of eliminating TheEvilsOfFreeWill. Whitehall has performed horrific human experiments since UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, testing how quickly people died after touching the Obelisk. In the 1980's, Reinhardt brutally tortured and eviscerated Skye's mother, Jiaying, via surgery to obtain her powers of lasting youth. With his newfound youth, Whitehall mentored future generations of HYDRA sleeper agents, artificially inseminating one girl for the "Destroyer of Worlds" super soldier project. In the present, Whitehall brags about mastering the art of keeping victims conscious while performing gruesome and invasive surgeries without anesthesia; brainwashes people, including loyal [[Characters/{{MCUSHIELD}} S.H.I.E.L.D]] agents, into becoming his slaves; frames S.H.I.E.L.D. for killing sprees he himself organized; and ordered the Bus shot down, despite Ward promising mercy, after forcing its passengers to surrender Skye. Whitehall's goal is to use the Obelisk and the city it leads to in order to create a WeaponOfMassDestruction, which he will use to kill millions, if not billions of people. In his final appearance, Whitehall plans to torture Skye to death and force her father to watch.

** In "Aftershocks", Lance jokes that all Radio Shacks are secret HYDRA bases. The company announced its bankruptcy a couple weeks before the episode aired. Later, Radio Shack also made an appearance in ''Film/CaptainMarvel'' (taking place in 1995) in a scene featuring young Fury and Coulson.

** Season 1 received a lot of complaints for being slow and dull, thanks to being constructed largely as a ProlongedPrologue for ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''. When the film's release got closer, it picked up considerably. Season 2 features a whole new confidence level from the writing team, letting the show cover its own major events in the MCU rather than waiting for the next film before it can latch on to the big stuff, and Season 3 ups the ante even further, telling a story with a grander scale than any other MCU property except perhaps ''Thor'', to the point that you could make a good case that the show is now the ''most'' required viewing to properly understanding the MCU's ongoing story.

** In "Aftershocks", Lance jokes that all Radio Shacks are secret HYDRA bases. The company announced its bankruptcy a couple weeks before the episode aired.

* FanMyopia: Fans of the show, and even [[https://uproxx.com/tv/agents-of-shield-chloe-bennet-marvel/ some of the actors themselves]], are very outspoken on their wishing for the show to be acknowledged by the movies, or even doing a crossover with them. They fail to realize that only a small percentage of the average MCU movie fan has heard of, let alone watched the show, and would be quite confused about Coulson's survival, HYDRA, and S.H.I.E.L.D. still being active years after the events of ''Winter Soldier'' and more.

*** Rather hilariously canon in the Framework though, as Skye and Ward are together as agents of Hydra and are living together.

** Season 1: [[AdaptationalVillainy John Garrett]] is also known as [[TheChessmaster the Clairvoyant]]. Heading the Centipede Project as [[Characters/MCUHYDRALeadership a powerful figure in HYDRA]], the Clairvoyant has superpowered individuals abducted and experimented on; implants his soldiers with {{Explosive Leash}}es that are activated should they fail him or outlive their usefulness; had [[Characters/MCUPhilCoulson Coulson]] tortured to reveal the secret of his revival; frames an innocent paralyzed man for his crimes, before having him gunned down; and frequently kidnaps and threatens the loved ones of his "employees" to ensure their complete loyalty. Two of his most notable victims are S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Akela Amador and Mike Peterson, whom he implants with bombs to force them to complete missions and massacre innocents against their will; the latter is turned into the cyborg villain Deathlok, and his son is later abducted as extra incentive for his compliance. [[FauxAffablyEvil Despite his cheery demeanor]], the Clairvoyant has no loyalty or empathy for anyone, not even to his undyingly loyal right-hand man, [[Characters/MCUGrantWard Grant Ward]], whom he nearly killed to further his own plans and later forces to attempt to murder his two friends, Fitz and Simmons, in order to prove he's not weak. Ultimately, [[ItsAllAboutMe the Clairvoyant]]'s true interest was extending his own life, and once he'd achieved that he'd go on to plan world domination with a legion of enslaved Centipede soldiers.

** Grant Ward's character arc in general, particularly with [[JustEatGilligan reasons not to just take him out for good wearing thin]] and arguably only surviving as long as he did because of PlotArmor (and being a blatant DracoInLeatherPants). Some believe that his character only stuck around as long as he did just to keep the "[[RootingForTheEmpire Stand With Ward]]" fanbase [[JustHereForGodzilla around]] -- which is not helped by how Season 2 didn't really ''do'' much with him, besides [[JustForPun granting]] him enough AlternativeCharacterInterpretation that it allowed fan sympathy to [[GoneHorriblyRight really take off]].

** "[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Frozen Fitz]]", "Fitzsicle", or "[[JustForPun Leocold]]" for Main Timeline Fitz that was frozen in Enoch's ship and the team is intending to retrieve after [[spoiler:the death of Time Traveller Fitz]] at the Season 5 finale.

* CompleteMonster: See [[Monster/MarvelCinematicUniverse here]].

** Ward. There's been a split of opinion on if Ward is really just a victim of abuse who's in desperate need of support for him to get past his darkness and ultimately redeem himself, just as much of an abusive, selfish, irredeemable, manipulative bastard as Garret was who doesn't understand or care about the extent of how much he's hurt others, or a complex Antivillain . His constant lies muddy things further, as it ends up being unclear until Season 3 if he was really abused by his family or if he's just a violent bully who blames them for his issues rather than accept them [[spoiler:(until Thomas clarifies that yes, they ''were'' abusive, '''but''', Grant himself was just as bad, if not worse)]]. The split of opinion continued up until [[spoiler:Grant's eventual death]].
*** Ward's relationship with Kara, due to how ambiguous it is from his end. Did he recognize her as a kindred spirit who had endured similar hardships to him and wanted to help her overcome them the way he did, or was he taking advantage of a confused and vulnerable woman who had no one else to turn to in order to shape her into an [[UndyingLoyalty Undyingly Loyal]] weapon the way Garrett had done to him? Regardless of whether he had ulterior motives in helping her or not, did he truly love her, or was it an act? His reaction to [[spoiler:her death in the Season 2 finale]] shows that, at the very least, he did care about her deeply, but that hasn't stopped the debate over what his true motives were.
** Was Christian Ward [[spoiler:telling the truth in his confession about making Ward torture their younger brother, or just saying anything that might get Ward to stop? It's revealed in Season 3 to be the former]].

** Although it's [[ForegoneConclusion obviously impossible]] [[DramaticIrony for him to get the chance]], a number of fans sympathize with [[spoiler:Talbot after he becomes Graviton]] and feel that he is [[VillainHasAPoint absolutely right]] about the need for extreme measures to stop [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Thanos and his forces]]. Also, he's [[EvilIsCool pretty damn badass]], too.

** Even ''[[SilverFox Malick]]'' has his fans, due to being always very classily dressed and portrayed by the magnetic charisma of Powers Boothe. It's [[BadassBaritone the]] [[GutturalGrowler voice]] that does it.

* MoralEventHorizon:
** "The Well" has an example in Ward's flashbacks; turns out his DarkAndTroubledPast had something to do with [[spoiler:his older brother Christian]] crossing the MEH at his expense. [[spoiler:"Throw him the rope, and I'll throw you in there, too."]]
** An InUniverse example in "Girl in the Flower Dress": Skye decides Miles crossed the MEH by selling Chan Ho Yin out to Centipede for a million dollars. This on top of hacking S.H.I.E.L.D. against her orders. Chan Ho Yin may be a tool, but this revelation made Miles come across as a bigger tool and perhaps irreparably lowered Skye's opinion of Miles.
** Edison Po when he [[spoiler:insists on torturing Coulson's memories of his death out of him]]. Even Raina wasn't pleased that he would resort to potentially deadly torture.
** Having had his InUniverse crossing point in the previous episode with his manipulation of Seth and Donnie, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Ian Quinn]] definitely crosses it in "T.R.A.C.K.S." when he [[spoiler:shoots Skye and then later gloats about it to Coulson. Even before this happens, we can see he has an extremely callous attitude toward Mike Peterson, viewing him as little more than a weapon]].
** Lorelei forces a husband to murder his own wife simply because she can and then later rapes Ward whilst he's under her control. However, she makes it clear she crossed it many centuries ago, when she gloats to Sif about making her lover a "pet" and using him as a SexSlave. She even forced to Sif to kill him in the end. It's made clear she's done all this and more countless times over her very long life.
** [[spoiler:Garrett]] is clearly over the MEH by the time [[spoiler:he's]] revealed to be the Clairvoyant. Even [[spoiler:his]] most visible crossing point, [[spoiler:provoking Ward into shooting an actor he set up to pose as the Clairvoyant]], happens before [[spoiler:he's implied to have been the Clairvoyant all along]]. More generally, [[spoiler:he crossed the MEH with his spy game against his own organization. He crossed it at least fifteen years before the series began, he targeted Ward, made him think that he was going to protect him (Ward had burned down the house with his abusive brother inside and his parents wanted him tried as an adult), before dumping him in the woods for six months with very little except the clothes on his back and a dog called Buddy. He later ordered Ward to kill the dog because caring about anything is a weakness]]. And if even all that wasn't bad enough for you, his ultimate crossing point comes when [[spoiler:he orders Ward to kill Fitz and Simmons]].
** Daniel Whitehall is already over the line in the present day, having crossed it when he [[spoiler:experimented with the Obelisk on human beings, performed an operation to make himself youthful again 44 years later at the cost of the life of the sole survivor, and]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking contributed to the first TV-14 rating of the series in a significant fashion]]. And even before [[spoiler:the vivisection]] was revealed, he crossed it by [[spoiler:brainwashing Kara Palamas, an act that led directly to her being stuck with May's face for much of the series, her loss of identity, and, ultimately, her death by friendly fire]].
** Agent Calderon crosses it in "One Door Closes" by going over Bobbi's head and trying to kill Skye rather than take her alive as Bobbi had insisted.
** What Nick Fury did to revive [[spoiler:deceased S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson]] is considered this by some. The full circumstances aren't exactly clear, but [[spoiler:it ended with Fury siphoning some kind of drug out of a decomposing alien corpse]].
** Towards the end of Season 2, we start to see just how nasty Jiaying has become since Whitehall vivisected her. [[spoiler:If killing Gonzales and attacking her own city with a stolen S.H.I.E.L.D. Quinjet to manipulate her people into starting a war wasn't enough, murdering Raina and executing helpless prisoners in cold blood, plus planning to effectively doing this to anybody who stands in her way (even if it's her own daughter), confirms without a doubt how far beyond redemption she is.]]
** Any sympathy you may have had for Ward up to that point evaporates in "S.O.S." when [[spoiler:not only does he brutally torture Bobbi Morse and plans on killing her, but then he changes that plan to instead setting a trap so that the person who comes to rescue her (most likely Hunter) will get shot to death instead, and Bobbi will have to helplessly watch it happen]]. He cements it in "Closure" when he [[spoiler:murders Rosalind Price with a cheap long-range shot and taunts Coulson about it over the phone]]. Now, ItsPersonal between him and Coulson, and if there was any possibility of turning back by that point, that went out the window at that very moment.
** Even Simmons has one, albeit a personal one, which she crosses by [[spoiler:attempting to frag Ward with a cheap shot, which Ward wastes no time criticizing as something the Simmons he knew wouldn't have done]]. More tellingly, this marks the moment where Simmons abandons her "totally nonviolent" personification, a moment foreshadowed in some earlier episodes during Season 2.
** Hive has a number of possible crossing points, but [[spoiler:its willingness to let Daisy be completely drained of her blood]] is horribly callous, even by Hive's standards. If that didn't do it for you, wait until he's satisfied with the Primitive strain of the Inhuman virus. All of his other actions could be explained as an extremely zealous ambition to unify the world, but by having no issue in completely throwing out humanity's minds in favor of obedient brute slaves makes it clear that he's only in it for power and deluding himself.
** The Watchdogs [[spoiler:(or whoever happens to be pulling their strings)]] cross it in "Uprising" by [[spoiler:engineering an Inhuman witch hunt with [=EMPs=] in places with Inhumans in them and a massive frameup. The [=EMPs=], by the way, come to New York at the worst possible moment: when Simmons and Dr. Radcliffe have to stop May's heart to reboot her brain, at a critical moment where her life is in extremely serious danger due to the nature of the operation (thankfully, she manages to survive thanks to a last-minute intervention courtesy of Dr. Radcliffe's LMD companion)]].
** [[spoiler:James]] crosses it when he sells out his fellow Inhumans to the Watchdogs.
** Senator Nadeer nearly crosses it when she [[spoiler:orders the Watchdogs to kill her own brother, before he talks her out of it]]. Then she jumps right over it at the end of the episode, [[spoiler:killing him herself after he reveals his powers]]. If even then you still sympathized with her ([[spoiler:after all, he would've done the same to her if she was the one who had become an Inhuman, and she knew that perfectly well--in fact, they had promised each other in the wake of their mother's death at the hands of the Chitauri]]), you most definitely didn't after she teamed up with [[spoiler:Dr. Radcliffe]] to humiliate S.H.I.E.L.D. in a public hearing, nearly causing the aftermath of "out of the shadows and into the light" all over again.
** Aida's multiple atrocities could count, but as she repeatedly argues she was only doing what she was programmed to. [[spoiler:Once she gains free-will though, she ''definitely'' crosses it when she responds to Fitz's rejection of her by violently attacking him, and trying to teleport them both away while loudly declaring her plans to rape him. Fitz is saved this fate, though, but this leads her to decide that making the Framework world a reality would be suitable revenge for his rejection.]]
** In the Framework, Fitz is depicted as a MadScientist who gleefully crosses the MEH whenever Inhumans and subversives are involved, and this incarnation cements himself as an utterly depraved bastard by [[spoiler:murdering Agnes in cold blood]], if [[spoiler:his tests on Inhumans]] didn't do so by that point. If ''that'' didn't do it, [[spoiler:ordering an airstrike on a reeducation camp building full of children]] most definitely would have.
** General Hale crosses it when she [[spoiler:shoots her subordinates Evans and Lucas in cold blood]].
** Voss goes over by [[spoiler:murdering Robin to prevent her from telling Daisy how S.H.I.E.L.D. can get to their own time]].

** [[BigGood Enoch]] is a Chronicom anthropologist sent to record human evolution. Learning of an extinction-level event that will occur in the near future, Enoch kidnaps the [[Characters/{{MCUSHIELD}} S.H.I.E.L.D. agents]] and sends them to the year 2091 in order to prevent the end of the world. Later assisting Leo Fitz in reuniting with his friends by [[TheSlowPath cryogenically freezing him]], Enoch and Fitz infiltrate the Kree Inhuman auction to save the latter's teammates, Enoch sacrificing himself so S.H.I.E.L.D. can return to the present. With the timeline changed, Enoch helps Fitz go on the run, before reluctantly betraying both him and Simmons to the Hunters when informed they want to learn how to time travel in order to save Chronyca-2. [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch Later rescuing his friends]], Enoch defeats a Hunter sent after him before stealing his skin to infiltrate the Chronicom forces and once again save [=FitzSimmons=]. Having stolen a Chronicom Time Stream, the three spend years preparing to stop the Hunters, returning to the time they left to put their plan into motion. Secretly scattering throughout history pieces of a time machine later used to contact Fitz and successfully execute the rest of their plan, Enoch ultimately [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices]] himself once more so that S.H.I.E.L.D. can escape a time loop, dying content that [[UndyingLoyalty he is and always has been their friend]].

** Episode 100: [[spoiler:Fitz and Simmons get married!]] And it's about goddamn time]].
** As [[ShootTheDog controversial]] as her decision was, some people cheered when, after tormenting, threatening, and mutilating our heroes sadistically and without remorse, [[spoiler:Ruby gets killed when Yo-yo slices her throat with [[HoistByHisOwnPetard her own chakram]].

** The series as a whole could easily be subject to this trope. ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' went out of its way, particularly in the early seasons, to respond to and reference the events of the MCU films and their various aftermaths. ''Not once'' did the films ever acknowledge the existence or actions of the characters in ''Agents'' beyond subtle easter eggs, with even the return of the original Helicarrier in ''[[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron Age of Ultron]]'' being ascribed to [[{{Handwave}} some "friends"]] by Nick Fury[[note]]who had even shown up ''in person'' in the TV series, multiple times[[/note]], and none of the ''Agents'' characters present in any capacity (though Kevin Feige did point out the connection to the show in an interview at the time). Even in the GrandFinale crossover of ''[[Film/AvengersEndgame Endgame]]'', it was Edwin Jarvis from ''Series/AgentCarter'' who got to appear for [[{{Cameo}} a single line]], and none of the characters from ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' (to say nothing of ignoring the other Marvel TV properties like ''[[Series/CloakAndDagger2018 Cloak and Dagger]]'', ''[[Series/Runaways2017 Runaways]]'', and the Netflix series). Granted, a lot of this was due to [[JurisdictionFriction strife behind-the-scenes]] between the film and television sides of the Marvel production empire, but even after the split was resolved and new Marvel series were made, the revived S.H.I.E.L.D. was basically replaced by S.W.O.R.D. for ''Series/WandaVision'' and ignored entirely in ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'' (except for, again, a background easter egg).

** Although Deke spends most of Season 6 acting like an UpperClassTwit (although he does have a job as a new-wave Elon Musk-ian tech firm CEO, all his "inventions" are either stolen S.H.I.E.L.D. designs or illegal future-tech, so he does precious little ''actual'' work), near the end of the season, after putting up with yet another TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from Fitz, he completely loses it and goes on a tirade explaining his entire worldview: he grew up in a [[CrapsackWorld post-apocalyptic hellscape]], his home [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong doesn't even exist anymore]], all his friends and everyone he knew are [[RetGone erased]], the woman he had a crush on thinks he's a loser (and when he went out and became rich and famous and came back, she ''still'' thinks he's a loser), his new best friend was a spy, his new [[AsianAirhead girlfriend]] was a [[AlphaBitch psycho]] (and his ''new'' new girlfriend was [[AxCrazy even more so]]), and his [[SupernaturallyYoungParent grandparents]] either hate him or don't take him seriously enough to even share important events in their lives (like the fact that one of them ''died.'' Though [[BackFromTheDead he got better]]. [[AlternateSelf Technically]].) In an instant, any [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] overtones that might have festered over the first three quarters of the season evaporate, and it's impossible not to feel bad for the poor guy.