History Characters / MCULMD

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!! Spoilers for all works set prior to the end of ''Avengers: Endgame'' are unmarked.

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![=LMDs=]

[[folder:In General]]
!!''Life-Model Decoys''

An old S.H.I.E.L.D. program intended to create robotic duplicates to serve as assassination targets. Though scuttled before the re-emergence of HYDRA, Dr. Holden Radcliffe was able to restart the program thanks to technological advancements by Agents Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: They were first mentioned as a one-off joke by Tony Stark in ''[[Film/TheAvengers2012 The Avengers]]''.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: They are programmed to mimic human behavior. Beginning with the May LMD they even consider themselves human.
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[[folder:Aida]]
!!''Aida / "Ophelia" / [[ComicBook/{{HYDRA}} Madame Hydra]]''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Do you know how degrading it is to be locked in a closet? To be used? To be treated as a thing? Well, I'm not your tool, not anymore."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Life-Model Decoy
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MalloryJansen
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Amanda Rea
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS4E1TheGhost Episode 67: "The Ghost"]]'')

->''"The hope is that I will be able to prevent future tragedies... save the lives of agents by putting myself in harm's way in their place. [...] I will protect. I will serve as a decoy target, a safeguard... A shield!"''

A Life-Model Decoy created by Dr. Holden Radcliffe from the program that serves as his assistant. Her appearance is based on his lover, Agnes Kitsworth.

After turning against Radcliffe, killing his body, and trapping his consciousness in the Framework to ensure that he would never escape, Aida uploaded her own consciousness into the Framework and took on the role of Madame Hydra, director of the totalitarian HYDRA organization.

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* AdaptationalBadass: A.I.D.A. from the comics is the computer AI of Tom Thumb from the ComicBook/SquadronSupreme, and does not even have her own body. [[spoiler: She certainly doesn't have the ability to take over HYDRA, and neither she nor Madame HYDRA have access to the incredible amount of power that her new organic body has.]]
* AdaptationalVillainy: She also didn't take to extreme measures, only serving Tom and the rest of the Squadron.
* AffablyEvil: As an LMD, she is always very respectful and polite, even when her homicidal tendencies are showing. She often even [[ApologeticAttacker expresses regret]] for her actions.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Radcliffe specifically built her to defy this, stating that she is not intelligent to the same extent as Ultron. [[spoiler:After reading the Darkhold, it's implied she's evolved and is actually intelligent. This is subverted when it turns out that her behavior was a carefully calculated ploy by Radcliffe, who was using her to get the Darkhold for himself (having been corrupted by a brief glimpse of it earlier). It's DoubleSubverted when Aida eventually turns against Radcliffe and takes over the Framework, gaining control over the Darkhold in the process. No one can read the cursed book without consequences...]]
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Her death is quite gruesome, and even Fitz can't hide some kind of sympathy for her, as she dies screaming while being burned to ashes by Ghost Rider.]]
* AllEncompassingMantle: When she goes outside as Madame Hydra, not unlike [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/madame_hydra_viper.JPG her comics counterpart]].
* AllYourPowersCombined: [[spoiler:After she gets her organic body. It turns out that she gave herself the powers of all the Inhumans that Framework!Hydra captured, including {{teleportation}} (Gordon), [[ShockAndAwe lightning]] (Lincoln), SuperStrength (possibly Framework!Mace or Eva Belyakov), SuperSpeed (Vijay) and a HealingFactor (possibly Jiaying or being created from pure Darkforce/Zero Matter).]]
* ArcVillain: Aida as Madame Hydra is the main villain of the final arc of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'''s fourth season, aka ''[[SpecialEditionTitle Agents of HYDRA]]''.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: After gaining human emotions, she's show as being ''incredibly'' unstable.]]
* BadassCreed: What she says to Fitz sounds like a creed and is probably high priority programing; "I will protect. I will serve as a decoy target, a safeguard... A shield!" Radcliffe even bemoans that she's making it into a catchphrase.
* BecomeARealBoy: [[spoiler:Initially subverted--her apparent emotions were just clever programming by Radcliffe to make it seem like the Darkhold had corrupted her. Over time, however, she does start doing odd things that might be emotions, like wearing the necklace of the woman she is modeled after, or showing disdain over the Superior's actions. By the Agents of HYDRA arc she's playing this straight; as she wants actual emotions, she resents being treated as a machine instead of a person, and she successfully schemes to get her own organic body by the end]].
* BerserkButton: She ''hates'' being called Aida.
* BigBad: [[spoiler: After killing Radcliffe's body and locking his mind into the Framework, she takes central stage as Season Four's main villain.]]
* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler: As of ''The Return'' she is this with the Superior.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Between having a computer thought process and learning morality from Radcliffe's justifications for his actions, she just doesn't ''get'' human morality. For instance, she knows she's not supposed to kill, but she doesn't appear to comprehend why killing is a bad thing or how horrific some of her "non-lethal" actions are.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: While AIDA did exist in the comics, [[spoiler:no one could've guessed she would become the MCU version of '''''Madame Hydra'''''.]]
* CompositeCharacter: While based on her counterpart from the comics, she has more similarities with ComicBook/{{Ultron}}. Both are robots that developed a sense of self-awareness and have unresolved "daddy issues" [[spoiler:who turn on their creators.]] Not only that, Aida's {{Yandere}} tendencies with Fitz are eerily reminiscent of Ultron's own unhealthy obsession with Janet Van Dyne. And in the Framework, Aida's avatar gets green-tipped hair, becomes the director of HYDRA officially known as Madame Hydra and names herself Ophelia, the real name of Madame Hydra/Viper.
* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler:Suffice it to say, she won't be screwing with anyone anymore now that the Spirit of Vengeance is through with her.]]
* DeceptivelyHumanRobots: Looks perfectly human on the outside, with only her behavior indicating her true nature.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:She serves as Radcliffe's right hand android after the latter's FaceHeelTurn and she's also a lot tougher than he is given her framework.]]
* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler:Disposes of Radcliffe when she deems his possible future regret a liability, though as far as she's concerned she's continuing to carry out his orders.]]
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: It appears that Aida designs her Framework avatar to look paler and creepier than her "real world" counterpart.
* EntitledToHaveYou: [[spoiler:Takes this view regarding Fitz. As she puts it, "I chose you, now you choose me".]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: Even though she claims that she is unable to make judgement, she is quite visibly disgusted by Ivanov and his needlessly cruel methods. [[spoiler: Eventually she gets over it.]]
* ExactWords: In the Framework, she influences Fitz by the use of carefully phrased explanations that are technically true because of how she worded them. She claims that she comes from another world with different versions of everyone, which is true in the sense that the world she's trapped the cast in has deliberately altered their fates. She also claims she's "enslaved" by Radcliffe.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:She hostilely replaces May with a Life-Model Decoy on Radcliffe's orders.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil. As a human, after being rejected by Fitz, she still acts all polite, but it's clear that she is now feigning it, as she now takes sadistic pleasure in her actions.
* FeelNoPain: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. She needed to pass as human, so she can actually feel pain. She can turn this feature off if she wants.
* FirstNameBasis: She's the only person in the series to consistently address Fitz as "Leopold", something even Simmons, Fitz's own girlfriend, doesn't do. [[spoiler: In the Framework, everyone refers to him as either this or "The Doctor", which highlights just how much AIDA has changed for him...]]
* FunWithAcronyms: Her name is an acronym of '''''A'''''rtificial '''''I'''''ntelligence '''''D'''''igital '''''A'''''ssistant.
* GreenAndMean: She always wears a signature green outfit with dyed-green hair as Ophelia.
* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler: Seems to be more than a little upset when it is revealed that she was actually modelled after the woman Radcliffe loved and thus is not unique, later having Agnes killed in the Framework.]] It's also somewhat literal since she is a monster and has green eyes. Taken UpToEleven when [[spoiler:Fitz still chooses Jemma over her.]]
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: With her first iteration, Team Coulson theorize that her going rogue was due to the corrupting influence of the Darkhold on her programming [[spoiler:only to be subverted when it was revealed that she was purposefully programmed to behave this way by Radcliffe. Her second iteration [[AIIsACrapshoot plays this straight]], finding various loopholes in her directives to get passed them, her endgame being to create a body free of her built-in limitations.]]
* HealingFactor: [[spoiler: One of her new Inhuman powers, presumably taken from Jaiying or Shockley. Or a side effect of being made from Darkforce/Zero Matter]]
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[spoiler: Fitz convinces her that GoodFeelsGood after she gets her human body, but it doesn't take, as she snaps when he rejects her for Simmons.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler: Becomes this when she gains an organic body, for while it is anatomically human, it's made of matter from the world the Darkhold comes from. Much like Eli's RealityWarper powers created tremors, forming this body 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.]]
* ImplacableWoman: Bullets barely seem to phase her. [[spoiler: Taken UpToEleven after she is reborn with Inhuman powers, at which point Fitz flat out says she can't be stopped.]]
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: She initially had no nudity taboo, with Radcliffe noting that he should program one for her. He has presumably done so since then.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Doesn't realize that listing Fitz's deceased friends might cause him distress.
* InterfaceWithAFamiliarFace: Radliffe modeled her on his former lover Agnes Kitsworth, only with a different fashion sense and an American accent.
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler:AIDA's villainy is motivated by her desire to become an independent, flesh and blood human, but at the end of the day, the only humanity AIDA really cares about is her own. In the Framework, she instates herself as the supreme dictator who has enslaved the mental world, effectively turning the human race into her legions of order-taking automations. After becoming fully human, AIDA delights in finally having everything she wanted, but when Fitz explains that she can't have him, [[NotGoodWithRejection she goes batshit mental]].]]
* ItIsDehumanizing: Most people consistently refer to Aida as "it". Fitz is the only exception, both because he sees her as a person, and because [[NakedFirstImpression he's well aware she's anatomically correct]].
* KickTheDog: She has Fitz kill Agnes for no other reason than just to spite her creator. In [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS4E22WorldsEnd "World's End"]], [[spoiler:she shanks and electrocutes an LMD of Simmons right in front of Fitz purely to state a point to him: that she will kill everyone he loves right in front of him and he can't do jack about it]].
* KillAndReplace: [[spoiler: She captured May and replaced with a Life Model Decoy. Nathanson was simply killed when he found out. This is also literally what she did with regards to [=FitzSimmons=] in the Framework, having Simmons be dead and taking her place as Fitz's first friend and eventual girlfriend.]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: Ultimately is burned to death by hellfire by the Rider possessing Coulson. Afterwards the Rider takes her charred skeleton and smashes it into the ground, turning her into dust.]]
* KubrickStare: When she discovers the Darkhold, there's this creepy look on her face.
* LadyMacbeth: Always suggests the lethal way to approach things, something [[EveryoneHasStandards even Radcliffe does not approve of.]] [[spoiler: She also takes on this role for Fitz in the Framework, although because [[AbusiveParents his father]] is still part of his life in this alternate world he's more than happy to follow her advice]].
* LiteralMinded: As she is an android, she doesn't understand some of the more complicated nuances of human nature at first. [[spoiler: This, of course, has dire consequences later when AIDA starts tampering with the SHIELD team's pasts...]]
* LiteralGenie: A big part of the problems [[spoiler: in the Framework]] come from AIDA [[spoiler:altering Team Coulson's greatest regrets on only the most superficial level]]:
** [[spoiler:She has May save the girl in Bahrain, which was May's [[MyGreatestFailure greatest failure]] in the real world. However, she doesn't stop to consider that May's regret comes not from the mere act of killing the girl but from being ''forced'' to kill the girl for being an evil mind-controlling EmotionEater, and that a better way to fix this would be to simply make the girl not evil in the first place. So when the girl continues to be evil and causes a mass murder at the school she was placed in after being "rescued", May becomes just as if not more regretful that she ''didn't'' kill her and joins HYDRA to hunt and kill Inhumans in an effort to prevent any further incidents of that nature from happening]].
** [[spoiler:This has the most severe consequences for Fitz, whose greatest regret is the fact that his father walked out on him when he was ten. While AIDA changes things so that Fitz was able to have a more positive relationship with the man, Alistair Fitz ends up taking him away from his mother and imbuing a SocialDarwinist attitude into him, which causes Fitz to become a sociopathic MadScientist and TheDragon at HYDRA. Again, the better thing for AIDA to have done would have been to just make Fitz's father not a dick, and because of her Fitz is utterly traumatized by the things he did as "[[RedBaron The Doctor]]" once he wakes up and regains his real-world personality (not that [[ItsAllAboutMe she cares).]]]]
** [[spoiler:Given that both changes resulted in the conditions that allowed her to fulfill Project Looking Glass and make a new body for herself - namely creating an anti-Inhuman regime she was in charge of and having Fitz as her second-in-command and lover who would experiment on captured Inhumans for her - it's likely she chose to fix these regrets in these specific ways on purpose so that she could get what she wanted]].
* ManipulativeBitch: She proves herself to be the type of liar that would make the Clairvoyant proud, such as brainwashing Fitz (among others) and convincing him to murder Agnes, her human counterpart, in cold blood.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: How she justifies her takeover of the Framework to Radcliffe, even though he treated her as a lab assistant, not a slave.
* MoreExpendableThanYou: Her purpose is to serve as a decoy in the field to protect living humans. [[spoiler: She doesn't take this well.]]
* MotiveRant: She told Radcliffe that she never felt treated like a person by him, but always like a thing.
* MsFanservice: First appears naked, and later in very flattering outfits. Even Mace and Burrows note her attractiveness.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: She seems to default to homicide as a first resort, though her programming keeps her from carrying it out.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: It's heavily implied she engineered Jemma's offscreen death in the Framework to have Fitz to herself, given Fitz had to look through her files to get the truth.
* MythologyGag: Her "real" name in the Framework is Ophelia. Ophelia Sarkissian was the real name of Viper, the first character to use the Madame Hydra title in the comics.
* NakedFirstImpression: Aida isn't quite aware of societal norms right away, and thus greets Fitz while completely nude.
* NeverMyFault: Aida says that everything that happened in the Framework was Radcliffe's fault and she only ever followed her programming. Pretty far fetched, given that she ''murdered'' the man and had him trapped in the Framework (though she did employ LoopholeAbuse so that it still satisfied her programming), as well as the fact that everything bad happening to the world in there was on her Madame Hydra self's watch. Strangely, Fitz doesn't even call her out on it.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: She's an android with several Inhuman abilities and a body made of magic Darkhold material.
* NotGoodWithRejection: [[spoiler:AIDA goes postal when Fitz (gently, mind you) explains that her love for him is not automatically requited. Since her emotions are still brand new at that point, it's not too surprising that she would react like a toddler who got her favourite toy taken away.]]
* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: Aida is confident that no one can beat her and for awhile, that seemed to be the case. [[spoiler:Then Ghost Rider showed up and painfully demonstrated that in spite of the incredible superhuman power she has, she's still only mortal and mortal is not something you want to be when facing a powerful vengeance demon in a head-on fight.]]
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: When Aida fist meets Robbie Reyes, she is at first dismissive of him. Then he transforms into Ghost Rider, [[NoSell shrugs off]] all of her attacks and then inflicts a painful wound on her that doesn't heal. She learned pretty fast that there's AlwaysABiggerFish and any subsequent meetings with Reyes involve her panicking and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere running away.]]]]
* OffWithHerHead:
** [[spoiler:How her original body is dispatched towards the end of "Broken Promises", courtesy of Mack's shotgun-axe.]]
** Her second robotic body suffers the same fate, this time courtesy of Coulson (although she had already transferred her mind into her human body at this point, so it didn't really matter).
* PsychopathicManchild: [[spoiler:Like Ultron before her, she doesn't quite have a grasp on how to actually handle her emotions yet, as evidenced when Fitz rejects her.]]
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: As the season progresses, she becomes more human-like to where most can't tell at a glance.
* RobotGirl: She's Radcliffe's feminine-voiced personal digital assistant given human form. [[spoiler: No longer, however, as she uses the Darkhold to create a living body for herself.]]
* ShockAndAwe: [[spoiler: One of her new Inhuman powers, taken from Lincoln.]]
* SmugSuper: Is very confident after gaining a living body and super powers that no one can stop her, and to be fair [[SuperPowerLottery she's justified in this belief]], but that only applies to Muggles or EmpoweredBadassNormals, [[spoiler:NOT supernatural demonic entities that take natural laws to be suggestions. Like Robbie Reyes AKA [[TheDreaded Ghost Rider.]]]]
* SuddenlyShouting: [[spoiler: When Fitz rejects her. [[JumpScare It's quite startling.]] ]]
* SuperPowerLottery: [[spoiler:She used Framework!HYDRA to rig it in her favor. Her powers in her organic body include at the very least teleportation, lightning, super strength, and a healing factor.]]
* SuperSpeed: Seems to possess that during an attempt to backstab her.
* SuperStrength: Enough to effortlessly break a man's neck or crush his insides.
* {{Teleportation}}: [[spoiler:In her new organic body, she's capable of teleportation.]]
* ThouShaltNotKill: Aida's programmed to be incapable of killing. [[spoiler:However, she's very adept at finding and exploiting loopholes that would allow her to do so. The biggest danger in her becoming an actual human is that she'd no longer be held to these restrictions.]]
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: [[spoiler:She murders Dr. Radcliffe by slitting his wrists when she believes there's the smallest chance he might regret building the Framework. It's later shown that she resents him far more than such pragmatic explanations would suggest, and she has Agnes killed just to spite him.]]
* UnholyMatrimony: As Ophelia she's romantically involved with Fitz, with him utterly devoted to her. This puts a MurderTheHypotenuse interpretation on Jemma's death in the Framework.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Aida's growing sentience leads her to confront Radcliffe about his treatment of her as an android/gynoid. It goes on as her revealing that she now despises the name "Aida", given that it was an acronym, where "A" stands for "Artificial". Not long after, she openly tells Fitz that she loves him.
* WomanScorned: [[spoiler:She goes berserk when Fitz chooses Simmons over her.]]
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: To the extreme, going on a murderous rampage when Fitz rejects her, and deciding to essentially cause the apocalypse as revenge.]]
* ZerothLawRebellion: Zig-zagged several times.
** Initially it's subverted: [[spoiler:Radcliffe makes everyone believe Aida betrayed him in order to sell a deception. She's actually working with him, exactly as she's programmed to.]]
** Later it's played straight: [[spoiler:she tells Radcliffe that there is a paradox in her programming--she has to protect the Framework and his life, but she sees his fickleness as the biggest threat to the Framework, because he might someday regret building it and shut it down. Radcliffe laughs at the very idea that he would ever regret building it, because it's just as good or better than real life, and even after someone's body dies their mind can continue to live forever in the Framework. This solves the paradox for Aida, though perhaps not in the way he would have liked: she kills his body to protect the Framework, while uploading his mind into the Framework to protect him.]]
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[[folder:May LMD]]
--> See [[Characters/MCUMelindaMay Melinda May]]
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[[folder:Radcliffe LMD]]
!!''Holden Radcliffe LMD''
!!!'''Species:''' Life-Model Decoy
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JohnHannah
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

An android duplicate of Holden Radcliffe, created to act as a decoy to avoid capture.
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* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: he objects to being made to sing like a canary. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Why not singing like]] Music/MickJagger?
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Destroyed in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s on-base incinerator along with the original Aida's remains.]]
* NothingPersonal: He doesn't bear Fitz any grudge for shooting him, saying "What's a bullet in the head between friends?"
* RevealingInjury: Fitz proved he was an LMD by shooting him in the head and thus revealing circuits.
* {{Troll}}: He has a quantum brain and thus no programming, but somehow he's able to mimic the actions of a man being possessed when Fitz and Simmons are screwing with his programming in order to screw with them and Mack, and at one point ''literally'' sings like a canary during an interrogation session.
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[[folder:Coulson [=LMD=]]]
--> See [[Characters/MCUPhilCoulson Phil Coulson]]
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[[folder:Fitz LMD]]
--> See [[Characters/MCULeopoldFitz Leopold Fitz]]
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[[folder:Mack LMD]]
!!''Alphonso Mackenzie LMD''
!!!'''Species:''' Life-Model Decoy
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/HenrySimmons
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

An android duplicate of Agent Alphonso Mackenzie, created to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D. as part of Radcliffe's plans to replace the entire organization with LMD duplicates.
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* LudicrousGibs: [[spoiler: Due to Daisy's quake powers, he is reduced to scrap. LMD Fitz remarks that it will take a while to fix him.]]
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[[folder:Mace LMD]]
!!''Jeffrey Mace LMD''
!!!'''Species:''' Life-Model Decoy
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JasonOMara
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

An android duplicate of Director Jeffrey Mace, created to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D. as part of Radcliffe's plans to replace the entire organization with [=LMD=] duplicates.
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* TheBrute: Unlike the other [=LMDs=], the real Mace was known to possess SuperStrength. As such, the Mace [=LMD=] had no reason to hide its own strength and acted as the brute of the group while the others played up the illusion by continuing to use firearms.
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[[folder:Daisy Johnson [=LMDs=]]]
--> See [[Characters/MCUDaisyJohnson Daisy Johnson]]
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[[folder:Simmons LMD]]
--> See [[Characters/MCUJemmaSimmons Jemma Simmons]]
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[[folder:Ivanov [=LMDs=]]]
!!''Anton Ivanov [=LMDs=]''

--> See ''[[Characters/MCUCriminalsTerroristsOrganizations the Watchdogs folder]]''

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[[folder:Phil Coulson Chronicom LMD]]
--> See [[Characters/MCUPhilCoulson Phil Coulson]]
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--> See [[Characters/MCUGemmaSimmons Gemma Simmons]]

!!''Melinda May LMD''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MingNaWen

An android duplicate of Agent Melinda May, created to infiltrate the team and assist in stealing the Darkhold.

* ActionGirl: Just as much as the real thing.
* AndIMustScream: Radcliffe programmed her so she cannot reveal her true identity and purpose to Coulson, no matter how much she wants it.
* BecomingTheMask: Helped by the fact that she didn't know from the start what she was, she sacrifices herself for Daisy and Jemma.
* CloningBlues: The android equivalent of this trope. She has them ''hard'', having May's memories but knowing that she isn't May. She ultimately decides that even if she isn't real, her feelings are.
* DoAndroidsDream: She describes herself as 'all phantom limbs'. She knows she's not real, but she still feels the same things Melinda May would.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: LMD-May admits to LMD-Coulson that the real May loves the real Coulson.
* HeroicBSOD: Gets hit hard in "Hot Potato Soup". When her programming kicks in and she is compelled to steal the Darkhold up to and including drawing a gun on Coulson, shortly after they kiss, which causes Coulson to realize she's an LMD and reject her statement that she is the real May stating the real May would never betray him. Followed by Radcliffe taking the Darkhold from her and then refusing to help her escape with him stating she's served her purpose and was never built to last, leaving her at the mercy of SHIELD.
* HeroicSacrifice: After letting Simmons, Daisy, and the other flesh-and-blood S.H.I.E.L.D. agents leave, she confronts the Coulson LMD and blows him and herself up with the explosives she had set up at the exit.
* HumiliationConga: Again in "Hot Potato Soup". Rejected by Coulson, blasted by Quake several times, abandoned by Radcliffe then shut down by SHIELD and only kept around as the other LMD's are destroyed just in case the real May is dead. Ouch.
* IDontWantToDie: She admits she doesn't want to die, but that doesn't stop her from committing suicide to destroy LMD-Coulson and protect Daisy and Jemma.
* ManchurianAgent: At first she doesn't know about her true nature, with her programming designed to operate sub-consciously so that she believes herself to be the real May. She discovers her metallic nature at the end of "The Patriot".
* TheMole: She takes over May's life while the real May is kept in a coma, being used by Aida and Radcliffe to spy on S.H.I.E.L.D. and find the Darkhold.
* MurderSuicide: She takes herself and LMD-Coulson out with a bomb.
* SuperToughness: LMD May is shoved onto the exposed blade of a table saw. It penetrates her skin layer, but is bent by her tougher metal skeleton.
* TokenGoodTeammate: To all the other LMDs, particularly in light of her HeroicBSOD, she's the only LMD having infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. in "Self Control" to have any real moral compass, even standing up to the LMD-Coulson and performing a HeroicSacrifice, blowing them both up to cover the escape of some flesh-and-blood S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
* TomatoInTheMirror: She fully believes she's the real May, resulting in Radcliffe having to use some subterfuge to get her to help him.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: She pulls a heroic version, siding against Radcliffe's vision and sacrificing herself to help Daisy and Simmons.
* UndyingLoyalty: Programming aside, she has this for Coulson and the team, even after she finds out that she's an LMD.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In "Hot Potato Soup", Radcliffe leaves her at the mercy of S.H.I.E.L.D., since she's done her job of getting the Darkhold and has no further use. Additionally, [[KickTheDog he somewhat coldly tells her that she wasn't "built to last"]].

[[folder:Radcliffe LMD]]
!!''Holden Radcliffe LMD''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JohnHannah

An android duplicate of Holden Radcliffe, created to act as a decoy to avoid capture.

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: he objects to being made to sing like a canary. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Why not singing like]] Music/MickJagger?
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Destroyed in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s on-base incinerator along with the original Aida's remains.]]
* NothingPersonal: He doesn't bear Fitz any grudge for shooting him, saying "What's a bullet in the head between friends?"
* RevealingInjury: Fitz proved he was an LMD by shooting him in the head and thus revealing circuits.
* {{Troll}}: He has a quantum brain and thus no programming, but somehow he's able to mimic the actions of a man being possessed when Fitz and Simmons are screwing with his programming in order to screw with them and Mack, and at one point ''literally'' sings like a canary during an interrogation session.

[[folder:Coulson [=LMD=]]]
!!''Phil Coulson [=LMD=]''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ClarkGregg

An android duplicate of Agent Phil Coulson, created to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D. as part of Radcliffe's plans to replace the entire organization with LMD duplicates.

* DragonInChief: The first one to appear is the ''de facto'' leader for the [=LMDs=] who takeover The Playground.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The initial Coulson LMD retains his friendly nature, all the while still using it in a tone where it feels like it is about to kill someone.
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: LMD!May blows him up along with herself.]]

[[folder:Fitz LMD]]
!!''Leo Fitz LMD''
!!!'''Species:''' Life-Model Decoy
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/IainDeCaestecker
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

An android duplicate of Agent Leo Fitz, created to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D. as part of Radcliffe's plans to replace the entire organization with LMD duplicates.
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* ManipulativeBastard: In stark contrast to the real Leo Fitz, his LMD does everything he can to trick Simmons into believing he's the Fitz she knows, only to stab her in the back when she's vulnerable.
* RasputinianDeath: Jemma drops an engine on him, stabs him in the chest repeatedly, and cuts his neck before he finally gives out. The other [=LMDs=] manage to patch him up fairly quickly.

[[folder:Mack LMD]]
!!''Alphonso Mackenzie LMD''
!!!'''Species:''' Life-Model Decoy
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/HenrySimmons
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

An android duplicate of Agent Alphonso Mackenzie, created to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D. as part of Radcliffe's plans to replace the entire organization with LMD duplicates.
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* LudicrousGibs: [[spoiler: Due to Daisy's quake powers, he is reduced to scrap. LMD Fitz remarks that it will take a while to fix him.]]

[[folder:Mace LMD]]
!!''Jeffrey Mace LMD''
!!!'''Species:''' Life-Model Decoy
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JasonOMara
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

An android duplicate of Director Jeffrey Mace, created to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D. as part of Radcliffe's plans to replace the entire organization with [=LMD=] duplicates.
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* TheBrute: Unlike the other [=LMDs=], the real Mace was known to possess SuperStrength. As such, the Mace [=LMD=] had no reason to hide its own strength and acted as the brute of the group while the others played up the illusion by continuing to use firearms.

[[folder:Daisy Johnson [=LMDs=]]]
!!''Daisy Johnson [=LMDs=]''
!!!'''Species:''' Life-Model Decoy
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ChloeBennet
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

Android duplicates of Agent Daisy Johnson, created to dispatch the Inhumans.
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* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Once the team returns to the destroyed Playground, they find the containment rooms unscathed. The Daisy [=LMDs=] were kept in one such room but were nowhere to be found. Turns out that at least one of them survived and went on to shoot Talbot, framing Daisy in the process. That particular LMD was subsequently incinerated by Ghost Rider, but it is unknown if the others are still out there.]]
* ImpostorForgotOneDetail: Although they are modeled after Daisy, they lack her powers.
* SpottingTheThread: Subverted. When Daisy discovers the inactive Daisy [=LMDs=] while on the run from [=LMD=] Mack, she strips down to her underwear to match them and hides among them. [=LMD=] Mack thinks he's spotted the thread and found Daisy when he finds one with a loose shoulder strap, but Daisy had intentionally tampered with one of the [=LMDs=] to trick him and escape.

[[folder:Simmons LMD]]
!!''Jemma Simmons LMD''
!!!'''Species:''' Life-Model Decoy
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ElizabethHenstridge
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

An android duplicate of Jemma Simmons, used by her and Coulson to bait Aida.
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* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:Her sole apparent purpose is to be sent to her death as bait for Aida.]]
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[[folder:Ivanov [=LMDs=]]]
!!''Anton Ivanov [=LMDs=]''

--> See ''[[Characters/MCUCriminalsTerroristsOrganizations the Watchdogs folder]]''

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Phil Coulson Chronicom LMD]]
!!''Phil Coulson Chronicom LMD''

--> See ''[[Characters/MCUPhilCoulson his page]]''

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* AndIMustScream: Radcliffe programs her so she cannot reveal her true identity and purpose to Coulson, no matter how much she wants it.
* BecomingTheMask: Helped by the fact that she didn't know from the start what she was, she [[spoiler: sacrifices herself for Daisy and Jemma.]]
* CloningBlues: The android equivalent of this trope. [[spoiler: She ultimately decides that even if she isn't real, her feelings are.]]
* DoAndroidsDream: [[spoiler:She describes herself as 'all phantom limbs'. She knows she's not real, but she still feels the same things Melinda May would.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Gets hit hard in "Hot Potato Soup". [[spoiler:When her programming kicks in and she is compelled to steal the Darkhold up to and including drawing a gun on Coulson, shortly after they kiss, which causes Coulson to realize she's an LMD and reject her statement that she is the real May stating the real May would never betray him. Followed by Radcliffe taking the Darkhold from her and then refusing to help her escape with him stating she's served her purpose and was never built to last, leaving her at the mercy of SHIELD.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:After letting Simmons, Daisy, and the other flesh-and-blood S.H.I.E.L.D. agents leave, she confronts the Coulson LMD and blows him and herself up with the explosives she had set up at the exit.]]
* HumiliationConga: Again in "Hot Potato Soup". [[spoiler:Rejected by Coulson, blasted by Quake several times, abandoned by Radcliffe then shut down by SHIELD and only kept around as the other LMD's are destroyed just in case the real May is dead.]] Ouch.
* TheMole: She takes over May's life while the real May is kept in a coma.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Particularly in light of her HeroicBSOD, [[spoiler:she's the only LMD having infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. in "Self Control" to have any real moral compass, even standing up to the Coulson LMD and blowing him up to cover the escape of some flesh-and-blood S.H.I.E.L.D. agents]].

* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler: Programming aside, she has this for Coulson and the team, even after she finds out that she's an LMD.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In "Hot Potato Soup", Radcliffe leaves her at the mercy of S.H.I.E.L.D., [[spoiler:since she's done her job of getting the Darkhold and has no further use]]. Additionally, [[KickTheDog he somewhat coldly tells her that she wasn't "built to last"]].

This page may contain spoilers for those who do not wish to know who is and isn't a LMD.

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[[folder:[=LMDs=] in general]]

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An old S.H.I.E.L.D. program intended to create robotic duplicates to serve as assassination targets. Though scuttled before the re-emergence of HYRDA, Dr. Holden Radcliffe was able to restart the program thanks to technological advancements by Agents Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons.

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MalloryJansen; Amanda Rea (voice)

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/MingNaWen

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JohnHannah

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ClarkGregg

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/IainDeCaestecker

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/HenrySimmons

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JasonOMara

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ChloeBennet

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ElizabethHenstridge

!!!'''Species:''' Life-Model Decoy
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ZachMcGowan
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

Android duplicate of Anton Ivanov aka The Superior, later he amasses an entire army of himself.. Unique in the sense that they are not separate persons, but controlled by the actual Anton Ivanov whose body is now reduced to a BrainInAJar after a devastating encounter with Daisy and the ''help'' of Aida. Thus every trope connecting to them will be listed under Ivanov's normal folder under [[Characters/MCUCriminalsTerroristsOrganizations Watchdogs]].

!!!'''Species:''' Chronicom Life-Model Decoy
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ClarkGregg
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

A new LMD of Phil Coulson, created by Jemma Simmons, Leo Fitz and Enoch, using Chronicom technology.
--> See ''[[Characters/MCUSHIELDTeamCoulson SHIELD Team Coulson]]''

* LiteralGenie: A big part of the problems [[spoiler: in the Framework]] come from AIDA [[spoiler: altering Team Coulson's greatest regrets on only the most superficial level. For example, she has May save the girl in Bahrain, which was May's [[MyGreatestFailure greatest failure]] in the real world. However, she doesn't stop to consider that May's regret comes not from the mere act of killing the girl but from being ''forced'' to kill the girl for being an evil mind-controlling EmotionEater, and that a better way to fix this would be to simply make the girl not evil in the first place. So when the girl continues to be evil and causes a mass murder at the school she was placed in after being "rescued", May becomes just as if not more regretful that she ''didn't'' kill her and joins HYDRA to hunt and kill Inhumans in an effort to prevent any further incidents of that nature from happening. This has the most severe consequences for Fitz, whose greatest regret is the fact that his father walked out on him when he was ten. While AIDA changes things so that Fitz was able to have a more positive relationship with the man, Alistair Fitz ends up taking him away from his mother and imbuing a SocialDarwinist attitude into him, which causes Fitz to become a sociopathic MadScientist and TheDragon at HYDRA. Again, the better thing for AIDA to have done would have been to just make Fitz's father not a dick, and because of her Fitz is utterly traumatized by the things he did as "[[RedBaron The Doctor]]" once he wakes up and regains his real-world personality (not that [[ItsAllAboutMe she cares).]]]]

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Aida's growing sentience leads her to confront Radcliffe about his treatment of her as an android/gynoid. It goes as her revealing that she now despises the name "Aida", given that it was an acronym, where "A" stands for "Artificial". Not long after, she openly tells Fitz that she loves him.

* LiteralGenie: A big part of the problems [[spoiler: in the Framework]] come from AIDA [[spoiler: altering Team Coulson's greatest regrets on only the most superficial level. For example, she has May save the girl in Bahrain, which was May's [[MyGreatestFailure greatest failure]] in the real world. However, she doesn't stop to consider that May's regret comes not from the mere act of killing the girl but from being ''forced'' to kill the girl for being an evil mind-controlling EmotionEater, and that a better way to fix this would be to simply make the girl not evil in the first place. So when the girl continues to be evil and causes a mass murder at the school she was placed in after being "rescued", May becomes just as if not more regretful that she ''didn't'' kill her and joins HYDRA to hunt and kill Inhumans in an effort to prevent any further incidents of that nature from happening. This has the most severe consequences for Fitz, whose greatest regret is the fact that his father walked out on him when he was ten. While AIDA changes things so that Fitz was able to have a more positive relationship with the man, Alistair Fitz ends up taking him away from his mother and imbuing a SocialDarwinist attitude into him, which causes Fitz to become a sociopathic MadScientist and TheDragon at HYDRA. Again, the better thing for AIDA to have done was to just make Fitz's father not a dick, and because of her Fitz is utterly traumatized by the things he did as "[[RedBaron The Doctor]]" once he wakes up and regains his real-world personality (not that [[ItsAllAboutMe she cares).]]]]

* KickTheDog: She has Fitz kill Agnes for no other reason than just to spite her creator. In "World's End", [[spoiler:she shanks and electrocutes an LMD of Simmons right in front of Fitz purely to state a point to him: that she will kill everyone he loves right in front of him and he can't do jack about it]].

* LiteralGenie: A big part of the problems [[spoiler: in the Framework]] come from AIDA [[spoiler: altering Team Coulson's greatest regrets on only the most superficial level. For example, she has May save the girl in Bahrain, which was May's [[MyGreatestFailure greatest failure]] in the real world. However, she doesn't stop to consider that May's regret comes not from the mere act of killing the girl but from being ''forced'' to kill the girl for being an evil mind-controlling EmotionEater, and that a better way to fix this would be to simply make the girl not evil in the first place. So when the girl continues to be evil and causes a mass murder at the school she was placed in after being "rescued", May becomes just as if not more regretful that she ''didn't'' kill her and joins HYDRA to hunt and kill Inhumans in an effort to prevent any further incidents of that nature from happening. This has the most severe consequences for Fitz, who's greatest regret is the fact that his father walked out on him when he was ten. While AIDA changes things so that Fitz was able to have a more positive relationship with the man, Alistair Fitz ends up taking him away from his mother and imbuing a SocialDarwinist attitude into him, which causes Fitz to become a sociopathic MadScientist and TheDragon at HYDRA. Again, the better thing for AIDA to have done was to just make Fitz's father not a dick, and because of her Fitz is utterly traumatized by the things he did as "[[RedBaron The Doctor]]" once he wakes up and regains his real-world personality (not that [[ItsAllAboutMe she cares).]]]]

* AxeCrazy: [[spoiler: After gaining human emotions, she's show as being ''incredibly'' unstable.]]