History AgentsOfSHIELD / TropesAToE

** Before [[spoiler: Ward]], Malick considered bringing in other Hydra leaders in on his plan to bring Hive back to the planet, but didn't passed them on for pragmatic reasons (Alexander Pierce being too bloodthirsty, Garrett being too narcisstic). That said he gives the latter praise for bringing [[spoiler: Ward]] into Hydra, saying it was the best thing he has ever done for the organization's cause.

*** [[spoiler: He tries to convince Skye that, despite being a HYDRA plant and lying "to everyone about everything", his feelings for her are genuine. She doesn't buy it.]]

** Ellen Nadeer: She genuinely loved her mother and was devastated by her death. Unfortunately, the experience made her develop a [[FantasticRacisim hatred towards anything alien]], and takes said hatred on Inhumans. [[spoiler: She almost has her own brother killed by the Watchdogs for becoming an Inhuman, but after he begs for his life, she decides not to go through with it. She finally follows through with it personally at the end, but if they were in each other's shoes he would've done the same to her—after all, they had made a promise to each other.]]

** Before [[spoiler: Ward]], Malick considered bringing in other Hydra leaders in on his plan to bring Hive back to the planet, but didn't passed them on for pragmatic reasons (Alexander Pierce being too bloodthirsty, Garrett being too narcisstic). That said he gives the latter praise for bringing [[spoiler: Ward]] into Hydra, saying it was the best thing he has ever done for the organization's cause.

** Whitehall ends up on the receiving end, as no less than two villains have opened up about how they really feel about him [[spoiler:following his death]]. That said, Whitehall wants nothing to do with the "ancient cult" facet of HYDRA, viewing it as a religious nonsense while preferring the scientific aspects established by the Red Skull over the more barbaric . He even tried to convince a young Gideon Malick and his brother Nathaniel to abandon the cult in favour of Whitehall's vision for HYDRA. He considers the boy's father Wilfred to be a coward, as the man divised a method to prevent himself from being selected as a sacrifice to the Monolith]].

Like Rogue, Jiaying can drain the lifeforce of others with a touch. It keeps her young, similar to the X-Men villain Selene.

** [[spoiler: Nathaniel Malick seems to be the MCU version of the X-Men villain of Mister Sinister, who believed in cultivating and redistributing powers from mutants to those deemed worthy. They even share the same first name.

** Malick watching Hive kill his daughter right in front of him is enough for the man to perform.

** TheMole: [[spoiler: Grant Ward: Even at his worst, he never loses his friendly tone or charming personality. And contrary to Garrett, it's genuine. Well, only for the first two seasons.]]

** Gideon Malick: [[spoiler: He He starts off as Faux, but after his HeelRealization, his politeness towards Coulson appears to be genuine.]]

** TheMole: [[Spoiler: Even at his worst, he never loses his friendly tone or charming personality. And contrary to Garrett, it's genuine. Well, only for the first two seasons.]]

** In the comics, [[spoiler: Hive was a human HYDRA agent subjected to an experiment involving bio-engineered parasites created by HYDRA that bonded with him. Here, he is an Inhuman worshiped by HYDRA]]

** The fourth season [[spoiler:has two]], as it kicks off with a plot where Lucy and her ghostly cohorts are driving a nefarious plot over the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Darkhold]], Jeffrey Mace is an overly micromanaging new Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Robbie Reyes rampages as Ghost Rider. Partway into the season, [[spoiler:Reyes' uncle Eli Morrow is revealed as the true seeker (and now the wielder) of the Darkhold's power, but he dies two episodes later.]]. Going into the [=LMD=] arc, it appears that Senator Nadeer is S.H.I.E.L.D.'s newest foe as the Watchdog's patron and leader of the Inhuman hunt. [[spoiler:Then she dies unceremoniously in an explosion and the focus shifts to Anton Invanov, The Superior, and true leader of the Watchdogs. Then ''he'' is DemotedToDragon by Aida who has also (kinda-sorta)killed her creator, Holden Radcliff.]]

** The first season's Big Bad, the Clairvoyant is somewhat like this. A HiddenVillain throughout most of the season's run who is someone always 15 steps ahead of our heroes, and is said to be [[TheOmniscient omniscient]], and is able to see everything he wants. [[spoiler: He is revealed to be a high ranking SHIELD agent that underwent a FaceHeelTurn, using his clearance level to commit crimes]].
** Skye's father is feared by [[TheStoic Raina]] Raina, due to a combination of his unstable and violent behavior, and being one of the few people she cannot manipulate. Coulson even mentions how Raina doesn't get scared that easily.

** By Season 6, Daisy has actively been cultivating a reputation across the galaxy as someone to fear, due to the Destroyer of Worlds.

** Coulson is relatively unfazed when [[spoiler:Vergil, while [[KilledMidSentence explaining the team's situation to them]], gets his head split open in front of the group by a Vrellnexian in "Orientation", and simply mades a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] [[CasualDangerDialogue comment]] about Vergil being unable to finish a complete sentence.[[note]]After Mack had knocked him out earlier, also mid-sentence, when he mistook Vergil for a threat.[[/note]]]]

* The Clairyvoyant [[spoiler: John Garrett]] didn't want any unnecessary blood to be shed in finding out how Coulson was brought back to life.

** Whitehall ends up on the receiving end, as no less than two villains have opened up about how they really feel about him [[spoiler:following his death]]. That said, Whitehall wants nothing to do with the "ancient cult" facet of HYDRA, viewing it as a religious nonsense while preferring the scientific aspects established by the Red Skull over the more barbaric . He even tried to convince a young Gideon Malick and his brother Nathaniel to abandon the cult in favour of Whitehall's vision for HYDRA. He even considers the boy's father Wilfred to be a coward, having divised a method to prevent him from being selected as a sacrifice to the Monolith]].

*** He does not put much stock in such things as revenge or closure, viewing them as insignificant in the grand scheme of things.
** [[spoiler: Eli Morrow] wanted godlike power, but still does care who he hurts to get it. Killing his coworkers is one thing, but he objects to endangering thousands of innocent lives and warns Coulson to run as he starts up the experiment that will give him powers.

** Jaco doesn't go out of his way to hurt people, and even warns a child away from what was going to a blast radius.]]
** [[spoiler: Wilfred Malick lets Deke leave with his life after learning that the latter had saved his life years ago, though promises that he shouldn't expect the same pardon if they cross each other again]].

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** [[Spoiler: Kim Johnson is replaced with CanonForeigner as the mother of Daisy Johnson]]

** [[Spoiler: Daisy Johnson was a human mutate in the comics. In the show, she is an Inhuman. Her subsequent appearances in the comics have since retconned her as being an Inhuman.]]

* AdaptationalJobChange

** [[Jiaying: She was greatly concerned that her daughter was with SHIELD, who she believed to have been the ones who subjected her to unspeakable torture. She likewise is terrified when Nathaniel manipulates Kora to turn against her and the comments from Li about putting Kora down.]]
** [[Spoiiler: Simmons' brain implant was not only meant to protect Fitz, but also their daughter Alya.]]

** [[The BigBad of the Ghost Rider arc After he's revealed to be a power-hungry maniac, he warns Coulson to get away as quickly as possible as he prepares to begin the process of acquiring his god-like power, and later, after he suffocates a complaining underling by creating diamonds inside of his lungs, he tells the others that they might want to cut him open to get the rest of them.
** [[spoiler: Radcliffe:He is entirely friendly to pretty much everyone (unless he thinks that they're working for HYDRA) and gets on very well with fellow scientists Fitz and Simmons, especially Fitz — as of season 4, the two are frequently sharing beers and discussing science. Really, he's mostly harmless. His only problem is his occasional lack of a moral compass, which doesn't really help matters when he takes one brief glimpse of the text of the evil Darkhold.]]

** [[Spoiler: General Hale. In her later appearances, her politeness towards SHIELD appears to be genuine, however she started off as FauxAffablyEvil]].
** [[spoiler: As a head of HYDRA, Wilfred Malick is not without a certain sense of courtesy and honor, as shown when he spares Deke's life in 1955 after the latter spared him in 1931, citing his gratitude for Deke's role in his rise to power, although he tells Deke not to expect the same courtesy a second time.

** [[spoiler: Robbie Reyes was in his late teens in the comics. Here he is depicted being in his late twenties to early thirties.

** Following the events of "The Bridge", [[spoiler Mike Peterson]] loses his right leg. It is later replaced with high tech leg.

** ** Cal's formula includes several drugs, steroids as well as such oddities as gorilla testosterone and ''peppermint''

*** [[Three Monoliths appear in Season 5 and 6, where they are used by Izel to open a portal to the Fear Dimension.]]

** [[spoiler: Nathaniel says that none of Hydra's main branches interested him, not sacrificing members for a squid alien or taking over the world, but seeing Daisy's powers made him research Inhumans, eventually wanting to gain powers of his own. He decides to take one of the most dangerous powers in existence, and has no idea how to control them, much as Daisy did when they first manifested. This culminates in him demolishing his hideout, apparently killing himself in the process (after he broke almost every bone in his body from the constant vibrations)]]
.* BecomingTheMask: TheMole shows signs of this, something both The Clairvoyant and Raina comment on. In "Ragtag", [[spoiler:he admits he cares about the team, but isn't willing to make a HeelFaceTurn for them.]]

** [spoiler: Talbot upon absorbing Gravitonium and developing a God-complex, becomes the final BigBad of Season 5]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Whitehall ends up on the receiving end, as no less than two villains have opened up about how they really feel about him [[spoiler:following his death]].

** Some of the Inhumans' powers are very similar to that of some X-Men.
*** Gordon's teleportation is similar to Nightcrawler's, even including the smoke effect.
*** Alisha's power of duplication is exactly the same as Jamie Madrox's.
*** Like Rogue, Jiaying can drain the lifeforce of others with a touch. It keeps her young, similar to the X-Men villain Selene.

** Hive is a worm-like PuppeteerParasite. Shades of the [[Literature/{{Animorphs}} Yeerks]], much?.
*** Also, Hive is more or less a stand-in for Apocalypse; his backstory, immortality, goals, and overall personality have far more in common with that character than the comics Hive.

** Ruby shares some similarities to the Sin, the daughter of Red Skull

** In "The Well", Skye wonders if perhaps ''all'' ancient gods were just visiting aliens. Unlike ESP, this hypothesis doesn't get the brush-off.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Cal's formula includes several drugs, steroids as well as such oddities as gorilla testosterone and ''peppermint''.

** Gideon Malick and his ancestors have worked to bringing back [[spoiler: Hive]] to the planet, not even considering the fact that Hive's goals are aligned with what they believe it to be. This ends up leading to his own downfall.

** [[spoiler: Ian Quinn sought out Gravitonium for his own intentions. At the end of Season 1, he is given his Gravitonium back and escapes without the heroes being able to find him. Season 5 reveals that the Gravitonium consumed his body, transferring his couciousness into the substance, where he would be trapped in a never ending argument with the couciousness of Franklin Hall, who had been absorbed into the Gravitonium earlier in the series.

* TheBigDamnKiss: Happens in "The Force of Gravity" between [[spoiler:Coulson and May, in the middle of a fight.]]

** It's not even known what he (or the rest of Sarge's men) really are, but Jaco's biology seems to differ slightly from the others. He's seen huffing cleaning fluid while Sarge remarks he hasn't breathed his own atmosphere in ages. It would seem wherever Jaco is from, the atmosphere is thick with ammonia - quite toxic to regular humans.* BlackAndGrayMorality:

* CatchPhrase: Whenever Coulson is questioned about his injury, he refers to recovering in Tahiti, always describing it as "It's a magical place", suggesting that his memories of the place might not be real. He's fully dropped it by "Yes Men" where he says "It sucked" when asked by Agent Sitwell.

* BeardOfEvil: Soon after [[spoiler:Ward is revealed to be a HYDRA agent]], he decides to start letting his beard grow out. However, he doesn't get a real one until season 2.
* BeardOfSorrow: The reason Ward has such a full beard in season 2. [[spoiler:Tortured by grief and regret, Ward attempted suicide at least three times while incarcerated, and isn't allowed near anything even remotely sharp. Fitz has developed quite bit of stubble himself, possibly due to the brain damage he suffered causing him to forget things like shaving.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The Framework was designed to remove a person's greatest regret in life, and then [[AlternateHistory alter history accordingly]]. This leads to [[CrapsackWorld everything in the Framework world going straight to Hell]].
** [[spoiler:Coulson: His biggest regret was that joining S.H.I.E.L.D. prevented him from having an ordinary life. In the Framework, he turned down Nick Fury's offer and is now a high school teacher who doesn't even care that HYDRA is taking one of his students. He even tells the kid not to forget his bag, since he's not coming back.]]
** [[spoiler:May: Her biggest regret was [[IDidWhatIHadToDo killing Katya in Bahrain]]. In the Framework, she didn't kill her. As a result, Katya was sent to the US where she caused an incident that killed over 100 people, mostly students. This allowed HYDRA to easily take over by stoking people's FantasticRacism against Inhumans and presenting themselves as the best solution to the problem. Meanwhile, May now has an even ''bigger'' regret in ''not'' killing Katya since she could have prevented those 100 deaths by doing so and is now an Inhuman-hunting KnightTemplar loyally serving HYDRA.]]
** [[spoiler:Fitz: His greatest regret was having a lousy relationship with his father, though he acknowledges that this is a good thing since [[AbusiveParents his father was a gigantic dick]]. In the Framework, he was raised solely by his father, and grew up to be just as big of a dick. He is now the NumberTwo in HYDRA, and a sadistic MadScientist who performs cruel experiments on Inhumans.]]
** [[spoiler:Mace: The only aversion to the trope whose regret was truly corrected. His greatest regret was that [[FakeUltimateHero he was never the hero that he pretended to be]]. In the Framework, he leads LaResistance against HYDRA, is a real Inhuman, and really does save people (albeit at the [[HeroicSacrifice cost of his own life]]).]]
* BecomingTheMask: TheMole shows signs of this, something both The Clairvoyant and Raina comment on. In "Ragtag", [[spoiler:he admits he cares about the team, but isn't willing to make a HeelFaceTurn for them.]]

* BloodlessCarnage:
** While the show isn't shy about showing violence and the resulting aftermath in season 1, the Night-Night guns and [=ICERs=] allow the characters to engage in gunplay while keeping the body count low since targets are knocked out, rather than outright killed.
** In season 2 and 3, it's averted such as in "Aftershocks" where there's real guns used and even a headshot.
** It's fully gone by the start of season 4 with the introduction of ''Comicbook/GhostRider''; what he does to the Aryan Brotherhood thugs is ''nasty''.

* AdultFear: Raina uses threats against Mike Peterson's son to get to him.
* AffablyEvil: The Clairvoyant, revealed to be [[spoiler:John Garrett]], keeps the chummy, friendly attitude he had long before the reveal of who he was, and is shown to have a pretty fun VillainousFriendship with his [[TheDragon dragon]], and generally treats his subordinates with a lot of friendly respect, with the only exception of Quinn. Doesn't change the fact he's a murdering sociopath who'd gladly kill anyone to make himself immortal.

** Hive tries to completely drain Daisy of blood in an attempt to recreate the gene-altering experiment that created him. He also seems to care little for the fact that the Primitives seem mostly incapable of thought or any type of free will.

* BlackAndGrayMorality:

* {{Expy}}: Some of the Inhumans' powers are very similar to that of some X-Men.
** Gordon's teleportation is similar to Nightcrawler's, even including the smoke effect.
** Alisha's power of duplication is exactly the same as Jamie Madrox's.
** Like Rogue, Jiaying can drain the lifeforce of others with a touch. It keeps her young, similar to the X-Men villain Selene.

** [[spoiler: Downplayed. "Hive" is used in both the show and comics, but the "Alveus" name was invented for the show.]]

** In the comics, Eric Koenig's sister was named Ilsa Koenig. Then again, Ilsa Koenig was also a member of the German Resistance and Nick Fury's lover during World War II, so maybe it's not accurate to say that LT is based on Ilsa.
** Daniel Whitehall: In this show, his real name is Werner Reinhardt, while Daniel Whitehall is a name he took when he came to America to work for Hydra.
** Flint's real name in the comics is Jaycen. Here, his codename is his real name.

** Lorelei. She can zap the will of any man just by saying a pair of words. In comics, Lorelei is nowhere that powerful. In comics, she's just a ButtMonkey with delusions of being [[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry better than her sister]], who repeatedly fails to get Thor to drink her love potions and has the brilliant idea of challenging a dragon to a contest of wills.]]
** [[spoiler: Hive in the comics, was just one of several HYDRA leaders introduced in Secret Warriors who was a genetically engineered parasite monster whose only power, beyond turning a random host into a tentacle monster, was controlling and assimilating people with Puppeteer Parasite creatures it spawned (which needed special labs to grow) and bringing back a recently dead Viper as a Humanoid Abomination (which he only demonstrated once). Here, the people who genetically engineered Hive into what he is are the Kree, and he's the founder of HYDRA's original form, an immortal Inhuman, who can effortlessly devour humans, control Inhumans, and is very hard to kill. Not to mention, while in the comics Hive took years to completely control a host and couldn't speak in an understandable fashion, here, Hive gains control of his hosts pretty quickly and can speak perfectly fine using them.

** The first season's Big Bad, the Clairvoyant is somewhat like this. A HiddenVillain throughout most of the season's run who is someone always 15 steps ahead of our heroes, and is said to be [[TheOmniscient omniscient]], and is able to see everything he wants. [[spoiler: He is revealed to be a high ranking SHIELD agent that underwent a FaceHeelTurn, using his clearance level to commit crimes]].
** Skye's father is feared by [[TheStoic Raina]] Raina, due to a combination of his unstable and violent behavior, and being one of the few people she cannot manipulate. Coulson even mentions how Raina doesn't get scared that easily.
** Daniel Whitehall: his subordinates are terrified of failing him, and rightly so, given his penchant for ColdBloodedTorture and utter lack of anything resembling a conscience. Even the usually unflappable Raina is scared of him. [[spoiler: Daisy is terrified when Nathaniel mentions the man's name in Season 7.]]

** Robbie Reyes/Ghost Rider: Everyone is deathly afraid of him, from a combination of the fact that he's powerful as all hell (literally), a cold-blooded and merciless killer, and that virtually nothing is known about him, especially concerning his seemingly inexplicable powers. Coulson's team puts on a brave and commanding front, but even they know he's a time bomb best not set off. Coulson sells his continued participation to Director Mace as, more or less, "nothing we have can stop him."

** [[spoiler: Downplayed. "Hive" is used in both the show and comics, but the "Alveus" name was invented for the show.]]

** In the comics, Eric Koenig's sister was named Ilsa Koenig. Then again, Ilsa Koenig was also a member of the German Resistance and Nick Fury's lover during World War II, so maybe it's not accurate to say that LT is based on Ilsa.
** Daniel Whitehall: In this show, his real name is Werner Reinhardt, while Daniel Whitehall is a name he took when he came to America to work for Hydra.
** Flint's real name in the comics is Jaycen. Here, his codename is his real name.

** Lorelei. She can zap the will of any man just by saying a pair of words. In comics, Lorelei is nowhere that powerful. In comics, she's just a ButtMonkey with delusions of being [[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry better than her sister]], who repeatedly fails to get Thor to drink her love potions and has the brilliant idea of challenging a dragon to a contest of wills.

** The first season's Big Bad, the Clairvoyant is somewhat like this. A HiddenVillain throughout most of the season's run who is someone always 15 steps ahead of our heroes, and is said to be [[TheOmniscient omniscient]], and is able to see everything he wants. [[spoiler: He is revealed to be a high ranking SHIELD agent that underwent a FaceHeelTurn, using his clearance level to commit crimes]].
** Skye's father is feared by [[TheStoic Raina]] Raina, due to a combination of his unstable and violent behavior, and being one of the few people she cannot manipulate. Coulson even mentions how Raina doesn't get scared that easily.
** Daniel Whitehall: his subordinates are terrified of failing him, and rightly so, given his penchant for ColdBloodedTorture and utter lack of anything resembling a conscience. Even the usually unflappable Raina is scared of him. [[spoiler: Daisy is terrified when Nathaniel mentions the man's name in Season 7.]]

** Robbie Reyes/Ghost Rider: Everyone is deathly afraid of him, from a combination of the fact that he's powerful as all hell (literally), a cold-blooded and merciless killer, and that virtually nothing is known about him, especially concerning his seemingly inexplicable powers. Coulson's team puts on a brave and commanding front, but even they know he's a time bomb best not set off. Coulson sells his continued participation to Director Mace as, more or less, "nothing we have can stop him."

** Ward's mother was abusive towards her two elder sons, Christian and Grant, and Ward's father is said to have, at the very least, turned a blind eye. Only the youngest was ever treated well by their mother. Christian in turn lashed out at Grant and their youngest brother, even ''throwing the youngest down the well''. Grant is also said to have been properly screwed up as a child and ended up in juvie after trying to burn Christian alive. Then John Garrett got his hands on Grant and became an even more twisted father figure to the young man.

** [[spoiler:Daisy Johnson]] was known as "Skye" for the first two seasons. Her parents' names were also modified to accommodate the changes to her backstory.

* AdaptationalBadass: Lorelei. She can zap the will of any man just by saying a pair of words. In comics, Lorelei is nowhere that powerful. In comics, she's just a ButtMonkey with delusions of being [[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry better than her sister]], who repeatedly fails to get Thor to drink her love potions and has the brilliant idea of challenging a dragon to a contest of wills.

** Raina, the girl in the flower dress, who pretends to help the people but she screws over when it comes to completing her mission.

** The last episodes of the third season mention many times that the powers of the Inhumans are not random, that they are designed with a purpose, [[InMysteriousWays even if that purpose is never clear]]. Did anyone said "Intelligent design"?

** This is not [[Series/{{Descendants}} the first time]] Dove Cameron has played a [[DaddysLittleVillain the child of a villain]], trying to make her mother proud, except of course, she chooses evil.

** In the Season 2 episode "A Hen in the Wolf House", Skye mockingly calls Lance ''[[Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy Ron Burgundy]]''. Crator/PaulRudd, who played Brian Fantana in the ''Anchorman'' films, plays Scott Lang a.k.a. Ant-Man.

* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodeNames: With most of the major characters, this trope doesn't apply: they are either adaptions of comic book characters with no SecretIdentity (Hill, Hand, Talbot, Fury), or complete {{Canon Foreigner}}s (the main cast, Coulson included). With characters who do have a codename in the comics, this trope is usually played straight, but sometimes also [[AvertedTrope averted]].

** On a meta level, Creaotr/BrettDalton mentioning that he'd be the BigBad of Season 3. [[spoiler:He just didn't specify which of his characters would fill that role.]]

** Deke first meets Team Coulson [[spoiler:in a now-aborted [[BadFuture alternate timeline]]]] at the beginning of Season 5, and [[spoiler:attempts to perform a HeroicSacrifice to send them back through time. At the end of Season 7, he elects to stay behind in the alternate timeline in order to bring the Chronicom Fleet back to 2019 with the Zephyr One, performing a non-lethal HeroicSacrifice to do so.]]

** With the Season 5 finale being written as a SeriesFauxnale, the series both begins and ends with [[spoiler:both Tahiti and Centipede Serum.]]

** Season 6 starts out with Sarge as the BigBad for the agents on Earth [[spoiler:before devolving into the lesser of two evils in the EvilVersusEvil conflict with Izel, eventually teaming up with the agents to stop Izel]]. Atarah and the Chronicoms become the antagonist of the "Search for Fitz" arc and then remain a background presence for the rest of the season before Atarah is murdered and Malachi and the rest return in full force in the finale. Sarge [[spoiler:ultimately ends up teaming up with Izel in the finale as well]] after he is revealed to be a malevolent entity named [[spoiler:Pachakutiq in a copy of Coulson's body]], ultimately making the antagonist of the season a BigBadEnsemble with the Chronicoms, first led by Atarah and later by Malachi, on one side and the BigBadDuumvirate of Sarge and Izel on the other, though Sarge and Izel are the major threats.

* AnAesop: ''Every'' episode of this show has one; it's contractually obligated, even though you might not expect a show of this genre to be used as a platform for promoting aesops.

%% * CluelessAesop: This show ''cannot'' handle [[RippedFromTheHeadlines newsworthy issues]] well, especially on the topics of LGBT politics, and it has been accused of glamorizing obesity by one critic on the blogosphere who accused Creator/ChloeBennet, the actress who plays Skye/Daisy Johnson, of being obese.

%% * CluelessAesop: This show ''cannot'' handle [[RippedFromTheHeadlines newsworthy issues]] well, especially on the topics of LGBT politics, and it has been accused of glamorizing obesity by one critic on the blogosphere who accused Chloe Bennet, the actress who plays Skye/Daisy Johnson, of being obese.

** On a meta level, Brett Dalton mentioning that he'd be the BigBad of Season 3. [[spoiler:He just didn't specify which of his characters would fill that role.]]

%% * AnAesop: ''Every'' episode of this show has one, it's contractually obligated, even though you might not expect a show of this genre to be used as a platform for promoting aesops.
** It's unclear if [[spoiler