History Awesome / AgentsOfSHIELDSeasonFive

* Ruby and her soldiers have the team at gunpoint, and she orders them to fire. There's a blur of motion, all the soldiers look comically down at their empty hands, and camera pan to a grinning Yo-yo [[CombatPragmatist dropping their guns in a pile behind her.]]

* After the Kree [[KickTheDog kill Tess]], Flint returns to the ceremonial chamber to prevent the Kree from punishing everyone else in retaliation for his escape. When the Vicar asks why he returned, Flint tells him he wants to make sure that no more [[ExactWords "innocent lives"]] are lost, and clenches his hand into a fist, causing the tiny crumbs of rock he dropped on the ground to form together into a jagged ''shard'' and launching it through the Vicar's [[EyeScream eyeball]] '''[[KickTheSonOfABitch out the back of his head.]]''' It's both gruesome and incredibly cathartic.
* As awful as the two of them are, you can't help but [[EvilIsCool cheer a little]] at the way Kasius and Sinara dispose of his brother and company this episode, the only Kree so far who [[KickTheSonOfABitch who are even worse than they are.]]

** And bonus points for the iconic "Crossing into Darkness", a variation of the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. theme, playing throughout ''this entire scene alone'', especially with Mike Peterson performing a PowerWalk down the Quinjet's ramp along with a host of other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.

* Mack getting his [[WeaponOfChoice shotgun-axe]] from the weapons cache Fitz left in the Lighthouse and then promptly demonstrating its ass-kicking potential on a Vrellnexian.

* Mack, the former engineering expert [[TechnicalPacifist who preferred to stay on base]], stunned his former best friend [[TookALevelInBadass with his new combat abilities.]] Taking out half a dozen [[WeaponOfChoice robotic guards with his shotgun-axe]] and bare fists in under a minute. Even managing a [[PreAssKickingOneLiner one liner before kicking their ass.]]

-->'''Ponarian:''' Marauder! You have yet to taste [[AlienLunch your snail.]] Perhaps such indulgences are above the tastes of unrefined men.\\

* A meta one: none other than ''Creator/PatrickWarburton'' shows up in the lighthouse as a hologram of former SHIELD agent Rick Stoner.

* A meta awesome moment goes to the writers for the fear-manifestation version of Mike Peterson. No event from this show has been mentioned in the films because of executive fiat, and the writers for this episode are able to use that to create a cerebral fear more terrifying than any monster. It wouldn't have anywhere near the punch without the franchise separation.

* The visual effects are something else, especially for [[spoiler:the crescent Earth. No, not crescent-moon-lit Earth, [[EarthShatteringKaboom the crescent that's all that's left of the planet]].]]

* The mere fact that [[spoiler:Fitz got a message to the team on the back of an old postcard despite it being 74 years after Earth's destruction]]. Even for this show, that's something else.

* May fights Sinara, Kasius's lead Kree enforcer, almost to a standstill despite having an injured leg and her opponent having high tech weaponry. [[spoiler: She loses, but it's still awesome.]]

* After the Kree [[spoiler:[[KickTheDog kill Tess]]]], Flint returns to the ceremonial chamber to prevent the Kree from punishing everyone else in retaliation for his escape. When the Vicar asks why he returned, Flint tells him he wants to make sure that no more [[ExactWords "innocent lives"]] are lost, and [[spoiler:clenches his hand into a fist, causing the tiny crumbs of rock he dropped on the ground to form together into a jagged ''shard'' and launching it through the Vicar's [[EyeScream eyeball]] '''[[KickTheSonOfABitch out the back of his head.]]''']] It's both gruesome and incredibly cathartic.
* As awful as the two of them are, you can't help but [[EvilIsCool cheer a little]] at the way Kasius and Sinara dispose of [[spoiler:his brother and company]] this episode, the only Kree so far who [[KickTheSonOfABitch who are even worse than they are.]]
* Despite having said bayonet rammed through his chest from behind, [[spoiler:Faulnak]] still has enough strength in him to [[DefiantToTheEnd curse Kasius' name]], calling him a weak and spineless disgrace who can only win by stabbing his enemies "InTheBack". Without missing a beat, Kasius replies, [[PreMortemOneLiner "And the front",]] and stabs him there as well. As Ward proved several seasons ago -- seeing [[spoiler:[[BigBrotherBully abusive siblings]]]] get their comeuppance is ''always'' satisfying.
* Despite planet Earth having been ''blown in half'', it seems that some people were strong enough to [[{{Determinator}} survive the damage]], as May and Enoch find out when they wake up in the survivors' base and their elderly leader [[WhamShot opens her palm]] to reveal [[spoiler:a wooden robin, i.e. an elderly Robin Hinton.]]

* How do Mack, Yo-Yo and Flint [[spoiler:thwart the Vrellnexian infestation in the humans' living quarters? By driving them into a single room using stolen gas grenades where Yo-Yo dispatches them all with splinter bombs taken from Fitz's weapon cache.]] Flint is left speechless.

* The plan Mack, Yo-Yo and Flint carry out against Kasius. First, they lure him down to the lab level by stealing his terrigen. Then, [[spoiler:they exploit his need for long-winded gloating to buy time for the other humans to move all of his bombs. When he finally sets them off, all he does is separate the human and Kree levels from each other, robbing him of the ability to seek retribution]]. And to finish off, they cover their escape by blowing up all the terrigen anyway.
* Daisy and Sinara's [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown vicious]] fight. [[spoiler:Deke saves Daisy when Sinara gets the upper hand, and while he's easily laid out, it gives Daisy time to get back up, and in a position to [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impale]] Sinara on a pipe when she jumps back at her.]]

* Kasius' remaining soldiers are preparing to make a stand against SHIELD, with their leader giving a speech about how the humans will be crushed... and then [[spoiler:Flint, floating in space, tosses the rocks he's gathered through the window, causing them all to be sucked out]].
* Deke saving Enoch from a Kree. [[spoiler:Then both choosing to sacrifice themselves to get S.H.I.E.L.D. back to their own time.]]
* The confrontation between Mack and Kasius. [[spoiler:After Kasius kills [[ItMakesSenseInContext Future Elena]] just to screw with Mack, he takes the Odium and goes into a berserk rage, pummeling Mack to the point that a blast from the Shotgun-Axe barely causes him to flinch. Just as Kasius is about to kill Mack, ''Jemma'' [[LaserGuidedKarma puts the hearing slug into Kasius' ear]], disorienting Kasius enough to allow Mack to impale Kasius with the Shotgun-Axe (with a previously unseen axe-swivel feature) right through the sternum.]]
* An OffscreenMomentOfAwesome to be sure, but the episode's stinger implies that [[spoiler: Flint could literally ''piece the shattered planet back together'']].

* After [[spoiler:Yo-yo gets [[AnArmAndALeg her arms cut off]] by Ruby]], Mack ''[[UnstoppableRage goes ballistic]]'' and [[FoeTossingCharge smashes through the robot soldiers like they're bowling pins.]] Note the fact that he's taking them down ''without'' his shotgun axe. That's right: Mack's fists are harder than steel.
* [[spoiler:Ruby]] and her soldiers have the team at gunpoint, and she orders them to fire. There's a blur of motion, all the soldiers look comically down at their empty hands, and camera pan to a grinning Yo-yo [[CombatPragmatist dropping their guns in a pile behind her.]]
* Noah [[spoiler:[[JumpingOnAGrenade jumping on the]] [[HeroicSacrifice exploding beacon]]]] to save Fitz and Daisy. Whoever builds the Chronicoms builds them ''[[UndyingLoyalty right]]''.

* As the rest of the team waits for Coulson to deliver the device, an alarm suddenly goes off warning of incoming aircraft. While initially fearing Hale managed to capture Deke, it turns into TheCavalry moment [[spoiler:when it's revealed that it's a Quinjet asking for clearance to land at the Lighthouse. And the voice on the other end is none other than Agent Davis. Daisy and May rush to the landing pad, just in case, when the Quinjet opens to reveal Deke, Davis, and a host of agents, all ready to help. And who was it that gathered all these people together? None other than Mike Peterson himself, leading the reinforcements the team needed. In one swift move, S.H.I.E.L.D. is back in fighting form.]]
** And bonus points for the iconic "Crossing into Darkness", a variation of the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. theme, playing throughout ''this entire scene alone'', [[spoiler:especially with Mike Peterson performing a PowerWalk down the Quinjet's ramp along with a host of other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.]]
** Davis is worthy of one all by himself since he [[spoiler:survived an attack by AIDA that everyone (in and out-of-universe) was sure killed him.]]
* Coulson and [[spoiler:Deathlok]] fighting off the various fear dimension hallucinations, including Lash, some Roaches, and Hive.

* The [[spoiler: Doctor's]] entire plan. He carefully arranges things so he can get Daisy alone in order to [[spoiler: restore her powers]] and the rest of the team won't have any choice but to let him. This is despite the fact that he's just [[spoiler: a fragment of Fitz's personality.]]

* Elena and Jemma [[spoiler:tricking Mack into letting Fitz out of his cell]].

* A meta awesome moment goes to the writers for fear-manifestation version of Mike Peterson. No event from this show has been mentioned in the films because of executive fiat and the writers for this episode are able to use that to create a cerebral fear more terrifying than any monster. It wouldn't have anywhere near the punch without the franchise separation.

* Mack, the former engineering expert [[TechnicalPacifist who preferred to stay on base]], stunned his former best friend [[TookALevelInBadass with his new combat abilities .]] Taking out half a dozen [[WeaponOfChoice robotic guards with his shotgun-axe]] and bare fists in under a minute. Even managing a [[PreAssKickingOneLiner one liner before kicking their ass.]]

** Not to mention hauling one of them all the way back to the containment module in possibly half a minute [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Just to help Yo-Yo.]]

* We see just how thorough HYDRA's destruction was back in season 3. After Hale shot Ruby's teacher, she and Ruby were the last two Hydra agents left. The organization didn't grow two more heads because it didn't have enough of a body to do so. Hale hasn't been successful in recruiting either: Anton is being forced, Creel misled, and everyone else is one of Anton's faceless robots. Talbot is the one who spearheaded the operation that did this, figuratively burning the monster's neck stumps so they don't grow back.

* Yo-Yo fighting Ivanov's LMD. Despite him having an edge due to not feeling pain, she ultimately wins by tackling him [[DestinationDefenestration out a window]]. This also has the benefit of [[KeystoneArmy deactivating the mech soldiers]].

* Creel touching the Gravitonium only causes him to constantly hear the voices of Hall and Quinn argue in his head and he slowly goes insane from it. Ruby with only 8% of the Gravitonium infused into her body goes insane almost ''immediately'' from Hall and Quinn's arguing and also suffers from PowerIncontinence causing her to accidentally kill Strucker. But in order to fix the mess he created, Glenn Talbot, the man who took a bullet to the head and survived, the man who was imprisoned and brainwashed to be a Hydra mole, infused himself with ''100%'' of the Gravitonium and had enough willpower and determination to not only make the voices stop (or at least ignore them), but be able to control the powers as easily as breathing. He became the MCU version of Graviton, potentially with the side effect of three personalities in his psyche, in order to defend SHIELD, a group he has been hunting for ''years'', because ''he messed up''. Well, that is one hell of an apology.

** Later on Quinn provides Talbot with information about the gravitonium, which only he and Hydra knew about. Hale is understandably shocked at the development.

* Daisy has her mind trapped in a simulation, being taunted by Taryan while her body is being taken to him in person. Her response is to brag about how his sons are both going to die, then uses her powers to break the inhibitor off her head, freeing herself.

* May fighting Qovas in a blade duel, easily keeping up with him and finally getting the upper hand. And when he spitefully launches missiles at the Lighthouse, she smugly reveals she and Deke changed the coordinates. They then teleport out, right before Qovas and his ship are vaporized.