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* SingleTargetSexuality: It's downplayed as he was implied to be attracted to Skye by some Freudian slips and nervous behavior, but from "FZZT" onward he's exclusively Jemma-sexual, barring the occasional act of brainwashing. Unfortunately, not only is brainwashing a real problem in the MCU, it's something of an occupational hazard for S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. When Fitz is plugged into the Framework, AIDA alters his memories so that she takes Jemma's place in Fitz's life. This causes Fitz to not only become a sadist but to develop obsessive loyalty not to Jemma, but to AIDA, who in the Framework is known as Madame HYDRA. When his father asks if he's seeing another woman, Fitz laughs it off as though the idea were preposterous. When Fitz is woken up from the Framework, AIDA still wants to be with him, but even with two lives' worth of memories, Fitz says he can't love anyone but Jemma, which causes AIDA to snap.

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* SingleTargetSexuality: It's downplayed as he was implied to be attracted to Skye by some Freudian slips and nervous behavior, but from "FZZT" onward he's exclusively Jemma-sexual, barring the occasional act of brainwashing. Unfortunately, not only is brainwashing a real problem in the MCU, it's something of an occupational hazard for S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. When Fitz is plugged into the Framework, AIDA alters his memories so that she takes Jemma's place in Fitz's life. This causes Fitz to not only become a sadist but to develop obsessive loyalty not to Jemma, but to AIDA, who in the Framework is known as Madame HYDRA.Hydra. When his father asks if he's seeing another woman, Fitz laughs it off as though the idea were preposterous. When Fitz is woken up from the Framework, AIDA still wants to be with him, but even with two lives' worth of memories, Fitz says he can't love anyone but Jemma, which causes AIDA to snap.

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* HateSink: In the Framework, he is initially shown as just an average HYDRA scientist, like Arnim Zola, who is evil but has limits, but he is later revealed to be on the heinous scale of Daniel Whitehall, with the one redeeming quality being his love for his father and Madame Hydra.

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* HateSink: In the Framework, he is initially shown as just an average HYDRA scientist, like Arnim Zola, who is evil but has limits, but he is later revealed to be on the heinous scale of Daniel Whitehall, with the one redeeming quality being his love for his father and Madame Hydra. Among the resistance, he's thoroughly [[TheDreaded Dreaded]], and Mace's reaction to hearing that Simmons loves Fitz is basically, "Are you crazy?"
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* TranquilFury: His anger tends to take a cold and understated form, until he's SuddenlyShouting.
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* EnemyWithin: He serves as this to Fitz in the episode [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS5E14TheDevilComplex "The Devil Complex"]], surfacing as a split personality who takes ruthless but necessary actions like restoring Daisy's powers through surgery against her will that go against the morals of Fitz's regular personality. At first, Fitz believes the Doctor is an EnemyWithout made real by the portal to the Fear Dimension that's been acting up in the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents' base recently, but then Daisy reveals she cannot see the person Fitz is arguing with, whereas Fear Dimension manifestations can be seen and touched by everyone. In fact, he was brought out by a combination of crisis-level stress and Fitz's old brain injury.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's very attached to his father and to Ophelia, and is enraged when the former is killed and the latter is injured. He also shoots Agnes because Ophelia claims that she's a threat to her whom Dr Radcliffe wants to replace her with, and believes Ophelia's half-truths about herself having been treated as a slave in another world she escaped from that's now intruding on theirs.

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's very attached to his father and to Ophelia, and is enraged when the former is killed by Jemma and the latter is injured.injured by Daisy. He also shoots Agnes because Ophelia claims that she's a threat to her whom Dr Radcliffe wants to replace her with, and believes Ophelia's half-truths about herself having been treated as a slave in another world she escaped from that's now intruding on theirs.

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's very attached to his father and to Ophelia, and is enraged when the former is killed and the latter is injured. He also shoots Agnes because Ophelia claims that she's a threat to her whom Dr Radcliffe wants to replace her with, and believes Ophelia's half-truths about herself having been treated as a slave in another world she escaped from that's now intruding on theirs.



* HateSink: In the Framework, he is initially shown as just an average Hydra Scientist, like Arnim Zola, who is evil but has limits, but he is later revealed to be on the heinous scale of Daniel Whitehall, with the one redeeming quality being his love for his father and Madame Hydra.

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* HateSink: In the Framework, he is initially shown as just an average Hydra Scientist, HYDRA scientist, like Arnim Zola, who is evil but has limits, but he is later revealed to be on the heinous scale of Daniel Whitehall, with the one redeeming quality being his love for his father and Madame Hydra.Hydra.
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** It gets worse in season 2: as if brain damage wasn't bad enough, after Simmons left from worry that she was impeding his recovery, he's started talking to an imaginary version of her as his only way to cope with everything that's happened.

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** It gets worse in season 2: as if brain damage wasn't weren't bad enough, after Simmons left from worry that she was impeding his recovery, he's started talking to an imaginary version of her as his only way to cope with everything that's happened.
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** Played straight with [[EvilMeScaresMe The Doctor]], who kills at least two innocent people in the Framework, Jeffrey Mace and Agnes Kitsworth. Because in the Framework YourMindMakesItReal, this means that both of their minds are dead in real life too.

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** Played straight with [[EvilMeScaresMe The Doctor]], who kills at least two innocent people in the Framework, Jeffrey Mace and Agnes Kitsworth. Because in the Framework YourMindMakesItReal, this means that both of their minds are dead in real life life, too.



* HeroKiller: The Doctor kills at least two innocent people from the real world in the Framework, Jeffrey Mace and Agnes Kitsworth. Because in the Framework YourMindMakesItReal, this means that both of them are dead in real life too.

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* HeroKiller: The Doctor kills at least two innocent people from the real world in the Framework, Jeffrey Mace and Agnes Kitsworth. Because in the Framework YourMindMakesItReal, this means that both of them are dead in real life life, too.

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** All the above examples are when he was restrained by his own conscience and family and brought up in the real world. In the Framework, having a good relationship with his {{Jerkass}} father, no Jemma, and with Aida/Madame Hydra feeding him half-truths, allows him to easily torture Inhumans (including Daisy) and kill an innocent woman ForTheEvulz in the Framework.

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** All the above examples are when he was restrained by his own conscience and family and brought up in the real world. In the Framework, having a good relationship with his {{Jerkass}} father, no Jemma, and with Aida/Madame Hydra feeding him half-truths, half-truths about herself being a refugee from another world to play on his protectiveness of her, allows him to easily torture Inhumans (including Daisy) and kill an innocent woman (Agnes Kitsworth) ForTheEvulz in the Framework.
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* AmnesiacDissonance: After being returned to reality from the Framework, Fitz regains all his original memories and also retains all the memories of being the cruel "Doctor" there. This causes him to be full of guilt over his evil actions (like killing Director Mace and Agnes) and wonder if he's actually a bad person.

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* AmnesiacDissonance: After being returned to reality from the Framework, Fitz regains all his original memories and also retains all the memories of being the cruel "Doctor" there. This causes him to be full of guilt over his evil actions (like killing Director Mace and Agnes) Agnes, who were both real people) and wonder if he's actually a bad person.

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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: An interesting example. When Fitz is plugged into the Framework, Aida alters his memories so that his father stayed in his life and that she was a part of it instead of Simmons. This causes the Framework version of Fitz to become a sadist, brutally experimenting on Inhumans and having his romantic tendencies in the real world perverted into obsessive loyalty to Aida and HYDRA. When Fitz wakes up and gains his real memories again, he is utterly ''traumatized'' by what he did inside the Framework, unable to even look Jemma in the eye.

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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: An interesting example. When Fitz is plugged into the Framework, Aida alters his memories so that his cruel father stayed remained in his life instead of his mother and so that she Aida herself, in her guise of "Ophelia"/Madame Hydra, was a part of it instead of Simmons. This causes the Framework version of Fitz to become a sadist, cold and sadistic MadScientist, brutally experimenting on Inhumans and having his romantic tendencies in the real world perverted into obsessive loyalty to Aida and HYDRA. When Fitz wakes up and gains his real memories again, he is utterly ''traumatized'' by what he did inside the Framework, unable to even look Jemma in the eye.



* MadScientist: Fitz has shown shades of this throughout the series, however during his time in the Framework these tendencies were hyped up when he was known as the cold-hearted and sadistic Hydra Doctor.

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* MadScientist: Fitz has shown shades of this throughout the series, however during his time in the Framework these tendencies were hyped up when he was known as the cold-hearted and sadistic Hydra HYDRA Doctor.
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** He doesn't ''exactly'' disagree when his projection of Simmons describes Mack as being attractive, since she's technically a part of his own imagination. It should also be noted that well over half of the HoYay entries are taken from Fitz's interactions with male cast members.

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** He doesn't ''exactly'' disagree when his projection of Simmons describes Mack as being attractive, since she's technically a part of his own imagination. It should also be noted that well over half of the HoYay entries are taken from Fitz's interactions with male cast members.[[invoked]]
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* AmnesiacDissonance: After being returned to reality from the Framework, Fitz regains all his original memories and also retains all the memories of being the cruel "Doctor" there. This causes him to be full of guilt over his evil actions (like killing Director Mace and Agnes) and wonder if he's actually a bad person.
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** Fitz's ultimate lowest point happens after he comes back from the Framework. His AlternateSelf was a cold-blooded HYDRA scientist on the level of Daniel Whitehall, referred to by the moniker "The Doctor" to the general public and who's name is enough to fill anyone with dread. Since the Fitz of the real world retains memories from ''both'' his lives, he gets sent past a HeroicBSOD and straight through the DespairEventHorizon, unable to even look at Jemma after what he's done. This is especially ironic because for the past four seasons Fitz has been the one to love Jemma unconditionally, and now he has to face himself after he told Jemma (in an alternate reality) that she means nothing to him (luckily, Simmons is a very understanding person).

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** Fitz's ultimate lowest point happens after he comes back from the Framework. His AlternateSelf was a cold-blooded HYDRA scientist on the level of Daniel Whitehall, referred to by the moniker "The Doctor" to the general public and who's whose name is enough to fill anyone with dread. Since the Fitz of the real world retains memories from ''both'' his lives, he gets sent past a HeroicBSOD and straight through the DespairEventHorizon, unable to even look at Jemma after what he's done. This is especially ironic because for the past four seasons Fitz has been the one to love Jemma unconditionally, and now he has to face himself after he told Jemma (in an alternate reality) that she means nothing to him (luckily, Simmons is a very understanding person).
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* DisappearedDad: When asked about his immediate family in "Providence", he says his only relative is his mother. This was already hinted at in [Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E12Seeds "Seeds"]], when it's implied that [[FriendlessBackground his mum was his only real companion]] before he met Simmons. Later confirmed in "Hot Potato Soup", where Simmons tells Mack that Fitz's father abandoned him and his mother when he was ten. Fitz hasn't seen him since, and has no real desire to change that. At least, no ''conscious'' desire to see him again...

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* DisappearedDad: When asked about his immediate family in "Providence", he says his only relative is his mother. This was already hinted at in [Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E12Seeds [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E12Seeds "Seeds"]], when it's implied that [[FriendlessBackground his mum was his only real companion]] before he met Simmons. Later confirmed in "Hot Potato Soup", where Simmons tells Mack that Fitz's father abandoned him and his mother when he was ten. Fitz hasn't seen him since, and has no real desire to change that. At least, no ''conscious'' desire to see him again...
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** Zig-zagged as ''Creator/IainDeCaestecker'' never actually stopped portraying the disability even after the plot moved on & his performance joined the new status quo. If you rewatch, in Season 1 Fitz almost never stumbles over his obnoxiously. large. words. But as the brain damage plot starts taking a backseat mid-season 2 (because he's improving), he starts using a more accessable and *relatively* simpler vocabularly that is harder to stumble over. Which he does, all the time, stuttering & stumbling periodically in his dialogue, right up until Fitz's very last scene of the show.
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->''"You make things from the genius of your mind and the goodness of your heart to help people."''

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->''"You make things from the genius of your mind and the goodness of your heart to help people."''
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Getting impaled through the chest by a huge piece of sheet metal after some debris fell on top of him, his hands are shaking, he can barely speak and [[TearJerker he's obviously in immense pain]] when he dies of shock. Thank God there's another one.

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Getting impaled through the chest by a huge piece of sheet metal after some debris fell on top of him, his hands are shaking, he can barely speak and [[TearJerker he's obviously in immense pain]] pain when he dies of shock. Thank God there's another one.



* PlatonicLifePartners: While he was attracted to her when she first joined the team, him and Skye/Daisy develop into this, particularly after he becomes her confidant and stands-up for her following her Terrigenesis. They share a deep friendship and trust in each other, being arguably each other's closest friend after Simmons. This all serves to make the break down of their friendship following Fitz's temporary SanitySlippage in "The Devil Complex" an even greater {{Tearjerker}}.

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* PlatonicLifePartners: While he was attracted to her when she first joined the team, him and Skye/Daisy develop into this, particularly after he becomes her confidant and stands-up for her following her Terrigenesis. They share a deep friendship and trust in each other, being arguably each other's closest friend after Simmons. This all serves to make the break down breakdown of their friendship following Fitz's temporary SanitySlippage in "The Devil Complex" an even greater {{Tearjerker}}.tearjerker.

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* TheSmartGuy: Shares the role with Simmons because they're TheDividual. He s

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* TheSmartGuy: Shares the role with Simmons because they're TheDividual. He sspecializes in the technological side of things.
* TheSoCalledCoward: After his CharacterDevelopment in "The Hub", he's more akin to this. His "cowardice" being more a matter of his opinions than his actions.
* TheSlowPath: Fitz is the only member of the team who's not transported to the future via Kree Monolith, instead, he tracks down Enoch, who gives him a cryostasis pod, in which he simply sleeps for the next several decades until being woken up at the same point in the timeline where the others have arrived.
* StarCrossedLovers: He and Simmons have been put through Hell and back over the course of the series. Then they [[NotHyperbole literally become this]] when Simmons gets taken by the Monolith. He even {{Lampshade|Hanging}}s this in "Many Heads, One Tale", when he says that he and Simmons are "cursed" and that the cosmos wants them apart.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: With Scott Lang. Both Fitz and Scott independently got the idea to use the quantum realm to travel back in time to retrieve a lost item from the past needed to save the world.
* StupidSexyFlanders: He's resigned to his hallucination of Simmons having a crush on Mack, and openly admits this probably means he agrees with her assessments of the latter's attractiveness. Ironically, the real Simmons doesn't get along with Mack at first.
* TantrumThrowing: Has an occasional tendency to do severe damage to the surfaces of lab tables when he's really, really upset.
* TechnicalPacifist: He has no problems with firing [=ICERs=] at people, the prospect of helping torture someone, or trying to fight back with fisticuffs to defend himself, but if he has to ''kill'' someone, he balks at it. This changes as the series progresses, where he develops the will to kill.
* TeenGenius: He and Simmons were both mentioned to have been this back when they were at the Academy.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Considering how things ended for him in Season One, Season Two begins with things not looking too bad for Fitz. He may have some pretty severe nominal aphasia, a touch of paranoia, and be on a string of medications, but since he could have been left brain-dead he got pretty lucky: He's still a capable engineer and Simmons is constantly by his side to reassure and encourage him. Except Simmons left months ago after deciding that her presence was hindering his recovery, but her absence only caused him to disconnect from reality completely, and now he's [[ImaginaryFriend hallucinating her and unable to work. What Fitz (and the audience) sees as frustrating but gradual recovery, the rest of Team Coulson recognises as a rapid descent into madness.]] However, in the second episode of Season Two, he shows that he's aware "Simmons" isn't really there despite the hallucination continuing to talk to him, and he's able to come up with a solution to stop Creel, but he needs Mack to essentially help translate his own ramblings to himself first. Comes back ''way'' later in Season 5, when he starts hallucinating the Framework version of himself as a separate entity thanks to his old brain injury.
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: After Coulson describes him as too damaged to ever return to work in the Season 2 premiere, he does a pretty good job of demonstrating he's still valuable to the team in the following episodes, provided Mack can provide the missing words brought on by his aphasia and Hunter can do the physical work he's no longer able to since losing some of the mobility in his hands. Of course, Coulson's gloomy prognosis probably didn't take into account how much Fitz's psychological distress over Simmons leaving was holding back other aspects of his recovery.
* TimeyWimeyBall: Because he was the only member of the team who took TheSlowPath to the BadFuture, when Fitz travels back in time with the rest of the team he returns to a timeline where there's already a version of him alive, albeit in cryogenic stasis. When the main Fitz dies in the Season 5 finale, the team resolves to take the ''Zephyr'' and go looking for the version of him that's still frozen on Enoch's spaceship somewhere.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** His CharacterArc in "The Hub" is about adding the 'badass' part to his BadassBookworm credentials.
** He goes up another level in "Laws of Nature" where he outsmarts mobsters and then escapes from them with his objective in hand. Then, in "Purpose in the Machine", he literally jumps into an unstable portal just on the hope of finding Simmons on the other side.
** Shown to be a side effect of his alternate self in the Framework come Season 5, as he seems to have better combat training and a mean streak to back it up, which surprises Hunter who wasn't present for the Framework stuff.
* TookALevelInJerkass:
** He handles the events of "Turn, Turn, Turn" worst of all, and ever since then he's been [[BreakTheCutie generally less sociable and pleasant]].
** Season Two builds on this following the incident that leaves him brain-damaged. He's completely socially withdrawn, except from his hallucination of Simmons, to whom he's frequently irritable and unkind. He also shows a few more violent tendencies which were only hinted at in Season Two, though he limits himself to [[TantrumThrowing inanimate objects]] and Ward.
** Although it's an alternate reality version of him, Season Four cranks this all the way up until [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale the dial breaks.]] To the point where the very potential that sweet, dorky Fitz could ever have the potential to be like that traumatizes a large portion of the team - Fitz himself perhaps worst of all.
** Starts to happen to the real Fitz in Season 5, as a result of seeing both his alternate evil self and a BadFuture that apparently cannot be prevented. Mack calls him out on this, and Fitz ends up pulling a HeroicSacrifice which averts the BadFuture. Thankfully, there's still another version of Fitz out there in space who has a chance to do better, and probably will, without the pressure of the BadFuture weighing on his mind.
** Season 6 sees Fitz at his most desperate, both to survive a hostile universe, and to reunite with Jemma. The stress understandably gets to him, but unfortunately the one who's taking the brunt of it is poor [[NiceGuy Enoch]]. Enoch is truly going out of his way (and well outside his parameters) to help Fitz - he even considers him his best friend! And yet all Fitz does is demean and manipulate the poor guy. Not long after, Enoch suffers a massive [[HeroicBSOD existential crisis]], moaning and pouting from severe depression while Fitz fights to save both of them. It's then when Fitz realizes just how important he is and how much he means to him, and finally returns the friendship Enoch's given him.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The very specific sandwich that [[ThroughHisStomach Simmons makes for him]] in "The Hub". His relationship with it has mutated into something of a CargoShip among the fanbase (and the cast themselves, if the "behind the scenes" photo showing Fitz and the sandwich happily reunited is anything to go by).
* TranquilFury: Fitz doesn't seem quite as furious as his teammates when it's his turn to rake Ward over the coals, but what he does to him... ''[[LaserGuidedKarma ain't that a kick in the head!]]''
* UndyingLoyalty: When you get Fitz's loyalty, it's nearly impossible to break.
** To Coulson. When the others begin to think he's acting erratically after HYDRA's return he tells the others to zip it.
** To Ward. Even after he's revealed to be TheMole, Fitz is the only person on the team who's still convinced that Ward must have a good reason for what he's done. After Ward tries to kill him and Simmons, this goes away.
** To Skye. When Simmons develops her bout of FantasticRacism and everyone else is wary of Skye's new powers, he's the only one who doesn't hesitate to be on her side 100%. He's her SecretKeeper for an episode or two, he stands up for her in arguments about her - he knows what it's like to suddenly be "different", and he refuses to treat her as he was treated.
** To Simmons. He originally joined Team Coulson because Simmons wanted to be a field agent, and Fitz went along to keep working with her. Then he's willing to sacrifice his life to save her, which leaves him with brain damage. While the fallout of this damages the relationship between Fitz and Simmons, they ultimately reconcile, just in time for Simmons to get swallowed by the Monolith. Fitz then spends the next six months looking for a way to get her back, and when he does, he jumps into a portal without hesitation to find her.
* VillainKiller: Leo Fits is surprisingly good at killing [[TheDragon Dragons]], killing [[spoiler:Gordon]] at the end of Season 2 and [[spoiler:Giyera]] at the end of Season 3.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: While his Doctor persona puts things into motion in "The Devil Complex", he resorts to rather questionable methods towards the goal of containing the dimensional crack in the Lighthouse.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Seems to have a genuine fear of dead things and the possible diseases they can carry.
* WideEyedIdealist: Just as Simmons seems ready to abandon this role towards the end of the season, Fitz takes it up, insisting that no one is inherently evil, and that Ward must have genuinely cared for them. An unusual case in that this trope comes into effect ''after'' BreakTheCutie has comprehensively taken place for his character.
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!!Alternate Versions

[[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.
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[[folder:Framework Leopold Fitz / The Doctor]]
!!''Dr. Leopold James Fitz''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Scottish
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/IainDeCaestecker
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Miguel Ángel Ruiz [Disney dub], Arturo Castañeda [Sony Dub] (Latin-American Spanish dub), Thadeu Matos (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

"The Doctor" is Fitz's cruel alter-ego in AIDA's Framework, who continues to manifest himself in the real world from his counterpart's broken psyche.
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* AlternateSelf: The Framework version of himself is a cruel sociopath known as The Doctor. This is because who Fitz becomes is based on which single parent he grew up with; while the real version of himself grew up with his caring mother (who raised him to become the AllLovingHero he is today), his Framework counterpart grew up with his ruthless and abusive father, who never left him and instead took him away from his mom when he was young. As AIDA reveals later, she also injected herself into his life in her Framework identity as Ophelia/Madame Hydra and in effect replaced Simmons as his friend and LoveInterest, which also had a lot to do with it.
* AntiHero: Ironically, given his Framework crimes, the Doctor ends up functioning as this in the real world, as though his actions are still questionable, up to and including a torturous surgical procedure, his intentions appear to be good this time around.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: In the Framework, having a good relationship with his {{Jerkass}} father, no Jemma, and with Aida/Madame Hydra feeding him half-truths, the normally compassionate Fitz develops into a psychopath easily willing to torture Inhumans (including Daisy) and kill an innocent woman ForTheEvulz in the Framework. Perhaps he is right: we don't know him at all.
* BreakoutVillain: The Doctor became incredibly popular with fans for his sheer creepiness, leading to him returning in guest roles in the next two seasons.
* DoNotCallMePaul: This is used to differentiate the Framework version of Fitz from his personality in the real world. His Framework self goes by "Leopold" to people he knows personally and "The Doctor" to nearly anybody else, with very few people calling him "Fitz". This is ironic because his Framework self is the one that stayed with his father and would more reasonably want to carry on the family name - although in the Framework, most HYDRA members are familiar with both the father and the son, so in a way, this actually makes some sense.
* TheDragon: Fitz serves as Ophelia's lover and the second-in-command of [=HYDRA=] within the Framework as "the Doctor."
** DragonAscendant: While he doesn't take over as the villain for the season as a whole, after [=AIDA=]'s Ophelia avatar within the Framework is taken out of commission by Daisy, the Doctor becomes the new head of [=HYDRA=], spearheading the hunt for S.H.I.E.L.D. to avenge his lover.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Leopold maintains Fitz's ''NiceGuy'' attitude, but it’s all a façade.
* HateSink: In the Framework, he is initially shown as just an average Hydra Scientist, like Arnim Zola, who is evil but has limits, but he is later revealed to be on the heinous scale of Daniel Whitehall, with the one redeeming quality being his love for his father and Madame Hydra.
* HeroKiller: The Doctor kills at least two innocent people from the real world in the Framework, Jeffrey Mace and Agnes Kitsworth. Because in the Framework YourMindMakesItReal, this means that both of them are dead in real life too.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He hesitates when Holden Radcliffe begs him not to kill Agnes, then goes through with it anyway.
* KnightOfCerebus: His presence always brings with it unquestionable dread, as the personification of all of Fitz's faults and potential for evil.
* MadScientist: The Doctor was feared for his unethical and immoral scientific experiments on Inhumans, and his complete lack of sympathy towards those who went against the regime.
* SharpDressedMan: He's always dressed in an immaculate three-piece suit.
* UndyingLoyalty: This trait is turned against Fitz when he is plugged into the Framework. Because AIDA altered his memories so that she was a part of his life instead of Jemma, Fitz develops undying loyalty to ''her'', which leads to undying loyalty to the Framework version of ''HYDRA''. Add to that that his sadistic father was still part of his life in this world, and Fitz becomes a sadist while in the Framework. Luckily, Radcliffe forcibly throws him into the portal to the real world before he can hurt Simmons, and when Fitz wakes up he's utterly ''traumatized'' by what he did in the Framework, thoroughly and completely broken by what happened in there.
* UnholyMatrimony: He and Ophelia are romantically involved. [[spoiler:He later becomes this with Nightmare Jemma, giving up their hunt for the real [=FitzSimmons=] in their memories to [[HeadTiltinglyKinky passionately]] make out]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: In his Doctor persona in [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS5E14TheDevilComplex "The Devil Complex"]], he resorts to rather questionable methods towards the goal of containing the dimensional crack in the Lighthouse.
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* IllBoy: He ends Season One in a coma with suspected brain damage, providing a hook for Season Two and [[EveryonesBabySister significant angst for everyone else]], especially Simmons. Season Two still has him in this role, but shows him making a slow but sure recovery.



* TheSmartGuy: Shares the role with Simmons because they're TheDividual. He specializes on the technological side of things.
* TheSoCalledCoward: After his CharacterDevelopment in "The Hub", he's more akin to this. His "cowardice" being more a matter of his opinions than his actions.
* TheSlowPath: Fitz is the only member of the team who's not transported to the future via Kree Monolith, instead, he tracks down Enoch, who gives him a cryostasis pod, in which he simply sleeps for the next several decades until being woken up at the same point in the timeline where the others have arrived.
* StarCrossedLovers: He and Simmons have been put through Hell and back over the course of the series. Then they [[NotHyperbole literally become this]] when Simmons gets taken by the Monolith. He even {{Lampshade|Hanging}}s this in "Many Heads, One Tale", when he says that he and Simmons are "cursed" and that the cosmos wants them apart.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: With Scott Lang. Both Fitz and Scott independently got the idea to use the quantum realm to travel back in time to retrieve a lost item from the past needed to save the world.
* StupidSexyFlanders: He's resigned to his hallucination of Simmons having a crush on Mack, and openly admits this probably means he agrees with her assessments of the latter's attractiveness. Ironically, the real Simmons doesn't get along with Mack at first.
* TantrumThrowing: Has an occasional tendency to do severe damage to the surfaces of lab tables when he's really, really upset.
* TechnicalPacifist: He has no problems with firing [=ICERs=] at people, the prospect of helping torture someone, or trying to fight back with fisticuffs to defend himself, but if he has to ''kill'' someone, he balks at it. This changes as the series progresses, where he develops the will to kill.
* TeenGenius: He and Simmons were both mentioned to have been this back when they were at the Academy.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Considering how things ended for him in Season One, Season Two begins with things not looking too bad for Fitz. He may have some pretty severe nominal aphasia, a touch of paranoia, and be on a string of medications, but since he could have been left brain-dead he got pretty lucky: He's still a capable engineer and Simmons is constantly by his side to reassure and encourage him. Except Simmons left months ago after deciding that her presence was hindering his recovery, but her absence only caused him to disconnect from reality completely, and now he's [[ImaginaryFriend hallucinating her and unable to work. What Fitz (and the audience) sees as frustrating but gradual recovery, the rest of Team Coulson recognises as a rapid descent into madness.]] However, in the second episode of Season Two, he shows that he's aware "Simmons" isn't really there despite the hallucination continuing to talk to him, and he's able to come up with a solution to stop Creel, but he needs Mack to essentially help translate his own ramblings to himself first. Comes back ''way'' later in Season 5, when he starts hallucinating the Framework version of himself as a separate entity thanks to his old brain injury.
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: After Coulson describes him as too damaged to ever return to work in the Season 2 premiere, he does a pretty good job of demonstrating he's still valuable to the team in the following episodes, provided Mack can provide the missing words brought on by his aphasia and Hunter can do the physical work he's no longer able to since losing some of the mobility in his hands. Of course, Coulson's gloomy prognosis probably didn't take into account how much Fitz's psychological distress over Simmons leaving was holding back other aspects of his recovery.
* TimeyWimeyBall: Because he was the only member of the team who took TheSlowPath to the BadFuture, when Fitz travels back in time with the rest of the team he returns to a timeline where there's already a version of him alive, albeit in cryogenic stasis. When the main Fitz dies in the Season 5 finale, the team resolves to take the ''Zephyr'' and go looking for the version of him that's still frozen on Enoch's spaceship somewhere.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** His CharacterArc in "The Hub" is about adding the 'badass' part to his BadassBookworm credentials.
** He goes up another level in "Laws of Nature" where he outsmarts mobsters and then escapes from them with his objective in hand. Then, in "Purpose in the Machine", he literally jumps into an unstable portal just on the hope of finding Simmons on the other side.
** Shown to be a side effect of his alternate self in the Framework come Season 5, as he seems to have better combat training and a mean streak to back it up, which surprises Hunter who wasn't present for the Framework stuff.
* TookALevelInJerkass:
** He handles the events of "Turn, Turn, Turn" worst of all, and ever since then he's been [[BreakTheCutie generally less sociable and pleasant]].
** Season Two builds on this following the incident that leaves him brain-damaged. He's completely socially withdrawn, except from his hallucination of Simmons, to whom he's frequently irritable and unkind. He also shows a few more violent tendencies which were only hinted at in Season Two, though he limits himself to [[TantrumThrowing inanimate objects]] and Ward.
** Although it's an alternate reality version of him, Season Four cranks this all the way up until [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale the dial breaks.]] To the point where the very potential that sweet, dorky Fitz could ever have the potential to be like that traumatizes a large portion of the team - Fitz himself perhaps worst of all.
** Starts to happen to the real Fitz in Season 5, as a result of seeing both his alternate evil self and a BadFuture that apparently cannot be prevented. Mack calls him out on this, and Fitz ends up pulling a HeroicSacrifice which averts the BadFuture. Thankfully, there's still another version of Fitz out there in space who has a chance to do better, and probably will, without the pressure of the BadFuture weighing on his mind.
** Season 6 sees Fitz at his most desperate, both to survive a hostile universe, and to reunite with Jemma. The stress understandably gets to him, but unfortunately the one who's taking the brunt of it is poor [[NiceGuy Enoch]]. Enoch is truly going out of his way (and well outside his parameters) to help Fitz - he even considers him his best friend! And yet all Fitz does is demean and manipulate the poor guy. Not long after, Enoch suffers a massive [[HeroicBSOD existential crisis]], moaning and pouting from severe depression while Fitz fights to save both of them. It's then when Fitz realizes just how important he is and how much he means to him, and finally returns the friendship Enoch's given him.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The very specific sandwich that [[ThroughHisStomach Simmons makes for him]] in "The Hub". His relationship with it has mutated into something of a CargoShip among the fanbase (and the cast themselves, if the "behind the scenes" photo showing Fitz and the sandwich happily reunited is anything to go by).
* TranquilFury: Fitz doesn't seem quite as furious as his teammates when it's his turn to rake Ward over the coals, but what he does to him... ''[[LaserGuidedKarma ain't that a kick in the head!]]''
* UndyingLoyalty: When you get Fitz's loyalty, it's nearly impossible to break.
** To Coulson. When the others begin to think he's acting erratically after HYDRA's return he tells the others to zip it.
** To Ward. Even after he's revealed to be TheMole, Fitz is the only person on the team who's still convinced that Ward must have a good reason for what he's done. After Ward tries to kill him and Simmons, this goes away.
** To Skye. When Simmons develops her bout of FantasticRacism and everyone else is wary of Skye's new powers, he's the only one who doesn't hesitate to be on her side 100%. He's her SecretKeeper for an episode or two, he stands up for her in arguments about her - he knows what it's like to suddenly be "different", and he refuses to treat her as he was treated.
** To Simmons. He originally joined Team Coulson because Simmons wanted to be a field agent, and Fitz went along to keep working with her. Then he's willing to sacrifice his life to save her, which leaves him with brain damage. While the fallout of this damages the relationship between Fitz and Simmons, they ultimately reconcile, just in time for Simmons to get swallowed by the Monolith. Fitz then spends the next six months looking for a way to get her back, and when he does, he jumps into a portal without hesitation to find her.
* VillainKiller: Leo Fits is surprisingly good at killing [[TheDragon Dragons]], killing [[spoiler:Gordon]] at the end of Season 2 and [[spoiler:Giyera]] at the end of Season 3.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: While his Doctor persona puts things into motion in "The Devil Complex", he resorts to rather questionable methods towards the goal of containing the dimensional crack in the Lighthouse.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Seems to have a genuine fear of dead things and the possible diseases they can carry.
* WideEyedIdealist: Just as Simmons seems ready to abandon this role towards the end of the season, Fitz takes it up, insisting that no one is inherently evil, and that Ward must have genuinely cared for them. An unusual case in that this trope comes into effect ''after'' BreakTheCutie has comprehensively taken place for his character.
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!!Alternate Versions

[[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.
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[[folder:Framework Leopold Fitz / The Doctor]]
!!''Dr. Leopold James Fitz''
[[quoteright:336:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_doctor___aoss6.png]]
[[caption-width-right:336:''"Did you think that you could play in the shadows without me?''"]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Scottish
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/IainDeCaestecker
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Miguel Ángel Ruiz [Disney dub], Arturo Castañeda [Sony Dub] (Latin-American Spanish dub), Thadeu Matos (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

"The Doctor" is Fitz's cruel alter-ego in AIDA's Framework, who continues to manifest himself in the real world from his counterpart's broken psyche.
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* AlternateSelf: The Framework version of himself is a cruel sociopath known as The Doctor. This is because who Fitz becomes is based on which single parent he grew up with; while the real version of himself grew up with his caring mother (who raised him to become the AllLovingHero he is today), his Framework counterpart grew up with his ruthless and abusive father, who never left him and instead took him away from his mom when he was young. As AIDA reveals later, she also injected herself into his life in her Framework identity as Ophelia/Madame Hydra and in effect replaced Simmons as his friend and LoveInterest, which also had a lot to do with it.
* AntiHero: Ironically, given his Framework crimes, the Doctor ends up functioning as this in the real world, as though his actions are still questionable, up to and including a torturous surgical procedure, his intentions appear to be good this time around.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: In the Framework, having a good relationship with his {{Jerkass}} father, no Jemma, and with Aida/Madame Hydra feeding him half-truths, the normally compassionate Fitz develops into a psychopath easily willing to torture Inhumans (including Daisy) and kill an innocent woman ForTheEvulz in the Framework. Perhaps he is right: we don't know him at all.
* BreakoutVillain: The Doctor became incredibly popular with fans for his sheer creepiness, leading to him returning in guest roles in the next two seasons.
* DoNotCallMePaul: This is used to differentiate the Framework version of Fitz from his personality in the real world. His Framework self goes by "Leopold" to people he knows personally and "The Doctor" to nearly anybody else, with very few people calling him "Fitz". This is ironic because his Framework self is the one that stayed with his father and would more reasonably want to carry on the family name - although in the Framework, most HYDRA members are familiar with both the father and the son, so in a way, this actually makes some sense.
* TheDragon: Fitz serves as Ophelia's lover and the second-in-command of [=HYDRA=] within the Framework as "the Doctor."
** DragonAscendant: While he doesn't take over as the villain for the season as a whole, after [=AIDA=]'s Ophelia avatar within the Framework is taken out of commission by Daisy, the Doctor becomes the new head of [=HYDRA=], spearheading the hunt for S.H.I.E.L.D. to avenge his lover.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Leopold maintains Fitz's ''NiceGuy'' attitude, but it’s all a façade.
* HateSink: In the Framework, he is initially shown as just an average Hydra Scientist, like Arnim Zola, who is evil but has limits, but he is later revealed to be on the heinous scale of Daniel Whitehall, with the one redeeming quality being his love for his father and Madame Hydra.
* HeroKiller: The Doctor kills at least two innocent people from the real world in the Framework, Jeffrey Mace and Agnes Kitsworth. Because in the Framework YourMindMakesItReal, this means that both of them are dead in real life too.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He hesitates when Holden Radcliffe begs him not to kill Agnes, then goes through with it anyway.
* KnightOfCerebus: His presence always brings with it unquestionable dread, as the personification of all of Fitz's faults and potential for evil.
* MadScientist: The Doctor was feared for his unethical and immoral scientific experiments on Inhumans, and his complete lack of sympathy towards those who went against the regime.
* SharpDressedMan: He's always dressed in an immaculate three-piece suit.
* UndyingLoyalty: This trait is turned against Fitz when he is plugged into the Framework. Because AIDA altered his memories so that she was a part of his life instead of Jemma, Fitz develops undying loyalty to ''her'', which leads to undying loyalty to the Framework version of ''HYDRA''. Add to that that his sadistic father was still part of his life in this world, and Fitz becomes a sadist while in the Framework. Luckily, Radcliffe forcibly throws him into the portal to the real world before he can hurt Simmons, and when Fitz wakes up he's utterly ''traumatized'' by what he did in the Framework, thoroughly and completely broken by what happened in there.
* UnholyMatrimony: He and Ophelia are romantically involved. [[spoiler:He later becomes this with Nightmare Jemma, giving up their hunt for the real [=FitzSimmons=] in their memories to [[HeadTiltinglyKinky passionately]] make out]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: In his Doctor persona in [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS5E14TheDevilComplex "The Devil Complex"]], he resorts to rather questionable methods towards the goal of containing the dimensional crack in the Lighthouse.
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to:

* TheSmartGuy: Shares the role with Simmons because they're TheDividual. He specializes on the technological side of things.
* TheSoCalledCoward: After his CharacterDevelopment in "The Hub", he's more akin to this. His "cowardice" being more a matter of his opinions than his actions.
* TheSlowPath: Fitz is the only member of the team who's not transported to the future via Kree Monolith, instead, he tracks down Enoch, who gives him a cryostasis pod, in which he simply sleeps for the next several decades until being woken up at the same point in the timeline where the others have arrived.
* StarCrossedLovers: He and Simmons have been put through Hell and back over the course of the series. Then they [[NotHyperbole literally become this]] when Simmons gets taken by the Monolith. He even {{Lampshade|Hanging}}s this in "Many Heads, One Tale", when he says that he and Simmons are "cursed" and that the cosmos wants them apart.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: With Scott Lang. Both Fitz and Scott independently got the idea to use the quantum realm to travel back in time to retrieve a lost item from the past needed to save the world.
* StupidSexyFlanders: He's resigned to his hallucination of Simmons having a crush on Mack, and openly admits this probably means he agrees with her assessments of the latter's attractiveness. Ironically, the real Simmons doesn't get along with Mack at first.
* TantrumThrowing: Has an occasional tendency to do severe damage to the surfaces of lab tables when he's really, really upset.
* TechnicalPacifist: He has no problems with firing [=ICERs=] at people, the prospect of helping torture someone, or trying to fight back with fisticuffs to defend himself, but if he has to ''kill'' someone, he balks at it. This changes as the series progresses, where he develops the will to kill.
* TeenGenius: He and Simmons were both mentioned to have been this back when they were at the Academy.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Considering how things ended for him in Season One, Season Two begins with things not looking too bad for Fitz. He may have some pretty severe nominal aphasia, a touch of paranoia, and be on a string of medications, but since he could have been left brain-dead he got pretty lucky: He's still a capable engineer and Simmons is constantly by his side to reassure and encourage him. Except Simmons left months ago after deciding that her presence was hindering his recovery, but her absence only caused him to disconnect from reality completely, and now he's [[ImaginaryFriend hallucinating her and unable to work. What Fitz (and the audience) sees as frustrating but gradual recovery, the rest of Team Coulson recognises as a rapid descent into madness.]] However, in the second episode of Season Two, he shows that he's aware "Simmons" isn't really there despite the hallucination continuing to talk to him, and he's able to come up with a solution to stop Creel, but he needs Mack to essentially help translate his own ramblings to himself first. Comes back ''way'' later in Season 5, when he starts hallucinating the Framework version of himself as a separate entity thanks to his old brain injury.
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: After Coulson describes him as too damaged to ever return to work in the Season 2 premiere, he does a pretty good job of demonstrating he's still valuable to the team in the following episodes, provided Mack can provide the missing words brought on by his aphasia and Hunter can do the physical work he's no longer able to since losing some of the mobility in his hands. Of course, Coulson's gloomy prognosis probably didn't take into account how much Fitz's psychological distress over Simmons leaving was holding back other aspects of his recovery.
* TimeyWimeyBall: Because he was the only member of the team who took TheSlowPath to the BadFuture, when Fitz travels back in time with the rest of the team he returns to a timeline where there's already a version of him alive, albeit in cryogenic stasis. When the main Fitz dies in the Season 5 finale, the team resolves to take the ''Zephyr'' and go looking for the version of him that's still frozen on Enoch's spaceship somewhere.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** His CharacterArc in "The Hub" is about adding the 'badass' part to his BadassBookworm credentials.
** He goes up another level in "Laws of Nature" where he outsmarts mobsters and then escapes from them with his objective in hand. Then, in "Purpose in the Machine", he literally jumps into an unstable portal just on the hope of finding Simmons on the other side.
** Shown to be a side effect of his alternate self in the Framework come Season 5, as he seems to have better combat training and a mean streak to back it up, which surprises Hunter who wasn't present for the Framework stuff.
* TookALevelInJerkass:
** He handles the events of "Turn, Turn, Turn" worst of all, and ever since then he's been [[BreakTheCutie generally less sociable and pleasant]].
** Season Two builds on this following the incident that leaves him brain-damaged. He's completely socially withdrawn, except from his hallucination of Simmons, to whom he's frequently irritable and unkind. He also shows a few more violent tendencies which were only hinted at in Season Two, though he limits himself to [[TantrumThrowing inanimate objects]] and Ward.
** Although it's an alternate reality version of him, Season Four cranks this all the way up until [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale the dial breaks.]] To the point where the very potential that sweet, dorky Fitz could ever have the potential to be like that traumatizes a large portion of the team - Fitz himself perhaps worst of all.
** Starts to happen to the real Fitz in Season 5, as a result of seeing both his alternate evil self and a BadFuture that apparently cannot be prevented. Mack calls him out on this, and Fitz ends up pulling a HeroicSacrifice which averts the BadFuture. Thankfully, there's still another version of Fitz out there in space who has a chance to do better, and probably will, without the pressure of the BadFuture weighing on his mind.
** Season 6 sees Fitz at his most desperate, both to survive a hostile universe, and to reunite with Jemma. The stress understandably gets to him, but unfortunately the one who's taking the brunt of it is poor [[NiceGuy Enoch]]. Enoch is truly going out of his way (and well outside his parameters) to help Fitz - he even considers him his best friend! And yet all Fitz does is demean and manipulate the poor guy. Not long after, Enoch suffers a massive [[HeroicBSOD existential crisis]], moaning and pouting from severe depression while Fitz fights to save both of them. It's then when Fitz realizes just how important he is and how much he means to him, and finally returns the friendship Enoch's given him.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The very specific sandwich that [[ThroughHisStomach Simmons makes for him]] in "The Hub". His relationship with it has mutated into something of a CargoShip among the fanbase (and the cast themselves, if the "behind the scenes" photo showing Fitz and the sandwich happily reunited is anything to go by).
* TranquilFury: Fitz doesn't seem quite as furious as his teammates when it's his turn to rake Ward over the coals, but what he does to him... ''[[LaserGuidedKarma ain't that a kick in the head!]]''
* UndyingLoyalty: When you get Fitz's loyalty, it's nearly impossible to break.
** To Coulson. When the others begin to think he's acting erratically after HYDRA's return he tells the others to zip it.
** To Ward. Even after he's revealed to be TheMole, Fitz is the only person on the team who's still convinced that Ward must have a good reason for what he's done. After Ward tries to kill him and Simmons, this goes away.
** To Skye. When Simmons develops her bout of FantasticRacism and everyone else is wary of Skye's new powers, he's the only one who doesn't hesitate to be on her side 100%. He's her SecretKeeper for an episode or two, he stands up for her in arguments about her - he knows what it's like to suddenly be "different", and he refuses to treat her as he was treated.
** To Simmons. He originally joined Team Coulson because Simmons wanted to be a field agent, and Fitz went along to keep working with her. Then he's willing to sacrifice his life to save her, which leaves him with brain damage. While the fallout of this damages the relationship between Fitz and Simmons, they ultimately reconcile, just in time for Simmons to get swallowed by the Monolith. Fitz then spends the next six months looking for a way to get her back, and when he does, he jumps into a portal without hesitation to find her.
* VillainKiller: Leo Fits is surprisingly good at killing [[TheDragon Dragons]], killing [[spoiler:Gordon]] at the end of Season 2 and [[spoiler:Giyera]] at the end of Season 3.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: While his Doctor persona puts things into motion in "The Devil Complex", he resorts to rather questionable methods towards the goal of containing the dimensional crack in the Lighthouse.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Seems to have a genuine fear of dead things and the possible diseases they can carry.
* WideEyedIdealist: Just as Simmons seems ready to abandon this role towards the end of the season, Fitz takes it up, insisting that no one is inherently evil, and that Ward must have genuinely cared for them. An unusual case in that this trope comes into effect ''after'' BreakTheCutie has comprehensively taken place for his character.
[[/folder]]

!!Alternate Versions

[[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]]

[[folder:Framework Leopold Fitz / The Doctor]]
!!''Dr. Leopold James Fitz''
[[quoteright:336:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_doctor___aoss6.png]]
[[caption-width-right:336:''"Did you think that you could play in the shadows without me?''"]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Scottish
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/IainDeCaestecker
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Miguel Ángel Ruiz [Disney dub], Arturo Castañeda [Sony Dub] (Latin-American Spanish dub), Thadeu Matos (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

"The Doctor" is Fitz's cruel alter-ego in AIDA's Framework, who continues to manifest himself in the real world from his counterpart's broken psyche.
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* AlternateSelf: The Framework version of himself is a cruel sociopath known as The Doctor. This is because who Fitz becomes is based on which single parent he grew up with; while the real version of himself grew up with his caring mother (who raised him to become the AllLovingHero he is today), his Framework counterpart grew up with his ruthless and abusive father, who never left him and instead took him away from his mom when he was young. As AIDA reveals later, she also injected herself into his life in her Framework identity as Ophelia/Madame Hydra and in effect replaced Simmons as his friend and LoveInterest, which also had a lot to do with it.
* AntiHero: Ironically, given his Framework crimes, the Doctor ends up functioning as this in the real world, as though his actions are still questionable, up to and including a torturous surgical procedure, his intentions appear to be good this time around.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: In the Framework, having a good relationship with his {{Jerkass}} father, no Jemma, and with Aida/Madame Hydra feeding him half-truths, the normally compassionate Fitz develops into a psychopath easily willing to torture Inhumans (including Daisy) and kill an innocent woman ForTheEvulz in the Framework. Perhaps he is right: we don't know him at all.
* BreakoutVillain: The Doctor became incredibly popular with fans for his sheer creepiness, leading to him returning in guest roles in the next two seasons.
* DoNotCallMePaul: This is used to differentiate the Framework version of Fitz from his personality in the real world. His Framework self goes by "Leopold" to people he knows personally and "The Doctor" to nearly anybody else, with very few people calling him "Fitz". This is ironic because his Framework self is the one that stayed with his father and would more reasonably want to carry on the family name - although in the Framework, most HYDRA members are familiar with both the father and the son, so in a way, this actually makes some sense.
* TheDragon: Fitz serves as Ophelia's lover and the second-in-command of [=HYDRA=] within the Framework as "the Doctor."
** DragonAscendant: While he doesn't take over as the villain for the season as a whole, after [=AIDA=]'s Ophelia avatar within the Framework is taken out of commission by Daisy, the Doctor becomes the new head of [=HYDRA=], spearheading the hunt for S.H.I.E.L.D. to avenge his lover.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Leopold maintains Fitz's ''NiceGuy'' attitude, but it’s all a façade.
* HateSink: In the Framework, he is initially shown as just an average Hydra Scientist, like Arnim Zola, who is evil but has limits, but he is later revealed to be on the heinous scale of Daniel Whitehall, with the one redeeming quality being his love for his father and Madame Hydra.
* HeroKiller: The Doctor kills at least two innocent people from the real world in the Framework, Jeffrey Mace and Agnes Kitsworth. Because in the Framework YourMindMakesItReal, this means that both of them are dead in real life too.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He hesitates when Holden Radcliffe begs him not to kill Agnes, then goes through with it anyway.
* KnightOfCerebus: His presence always brings with it unquestionable dread, as the personification of all of Fitz's faults and potential for evil.
* MadScientist: The Doctor was feared for his unethical and immoral scientific experiments on Inhumans, and his complete lack of sympathy towards those who went against the regime.
* SharpDressedMan: He's always dressed in an immaculate three-piece suit.
* UndyingLoyalty: This trait is turned against Fitz when he is plugged into the Framework. Because AIDA altered his memories so that she was a part of his life instead of Jemma, Fitz develops undying loyalty to ''her'', which leads to undying loyalty to the Framework version of ''HYDRA''. Add to that that his sadistic father was still part of his life in this world, and Fitz becomes a sadist while in the Framework. Luckily, Radcliffe forcibly throws him into the portal to the real world before he can hurt Simmons, and when Fitz wakes up he's utterly ''traumatized'' by what he did in the Framework, thoroughly and completely broken by what happened in there.
* UnholyMatrimony: He and Ophelia are romantically involved. [[spoiler:He later becomes this with Nightmare Jemma, giving up their hunt for the real [=FitzSimmons=] in their memories to [[HeadTiltinglyKinky passionately]] make out]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: In his Doctor persona in [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS5E14TheDevilComplex "The Devil Complex"]], he resorts to rather questionable methods towards the goal of containing the dimensional crack in the Lighthouse.
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** This trait gets taken UpToEleven in Season 6 when Fitz literally becomes jealous...''[[InsaneTrollLogic of himself.]]'' Specifically, the time-displaced version of himself that married Jemma and later died. Whenever he starts disparaging his alternate self, [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe Jemma gets exasperated at how absurd Fitz is acting.]] It's ridiculous enough that it even gives ''Deke'' pause.

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** This trait gets taken UpToEleven in In Season 6 when 6, Fitz literally becomes jealous...''[[InsaneTrollLogic of himself.]]'' Specifically, the time-displaced version of himself that married Jemma and later died. Whenever he starts disparaging his alternate self, [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe Jemma gets exasperated at how absurd Fitz is acting.]] It's ridiculous enough that it even gives ''Deke'' pause.



* EvilMeScaresMe: UpToEleven after he gets out of the Framework. The Doctor's crimes traumatize Fitz to the point of severe PTSD and self-loathing, and he still hasn't gotten over it by the end of Season 4.

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* EvilMeScaresMe: UpToEleven after After he gets out of the Framework. The Doctor's crimes traumatize Fitz to the point of severe PTSD and self-loathing, and he still hasn't gotten over it by the end of Season 4.



* MadScientist: Fitz has shown shades of this throughout the series, however during his time in the Framework these tendencies were hyped UpToEleven when he was known as the cold-hearted and sadistic Hydra Doctor.

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* MadScientist: Fitz has shown shades of this throughout the series, however during his time in the Framework these tendencies were hyped UpToEleven up when he was known as the cold-hearted and sadistic Hydra Doctor.



** Although it's an alternate reality version of him, Season Four cranks this [[UpToEleven all the way up]] until [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale the dial breaks.]] To the point where the very potential that sweet, dorky Fitz could ever have the potential to be like that traumatizes a large portion of the team - Fitz himself perhaps worst of all.

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** Although it's an alternate reality version of him, Season Four cranks this [[UpToEleven all the way up]] up until [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale the dial breaks.]] To the point where the very potential that sweet, dorky Fitz could ever have the potential to be like that traumatizes a large portion of the team - Fitz himself perhaps worst of all.
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[[folder:Framework Leopold Fitz / The Doctor]]
!!''Dr. Leopold James Fitz''
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[[caption-width-right:336:''"Did you think that you could play in the shadows without me?''"]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Scottish

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[[folder:Framework Leopold [[folder:Fitz LMD]]
!!''Leo
Fitz / The Doctor]]
!!''Dr. Leopold James Fitz''
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[[caption-width-right:336:''"Did you think that you could play in the shadows without me?''"]]
LMD''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Scottish
Life-Model Decoy



!!!'''Voiced By:''' Miguel Ángel Ruiz [Disney dub], Arturo Castañeda [Sony Dub] (Latin-American Spanish dub), Thadeu Matos (Brazilian Portuguese dub)



"The Doctor" is Fitz's cruel alter-ego in AIDA's Framework, who continues to manifest himself in the real world from his counterpart's broken psyche.

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"The Doctor" is Fitz's cruel alter-ego in AIDA's Framework, who continues An android duplicate of Agent Leo Fitz, created to manifest himself in infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D. as part of Radcliffe's plans to replace the real world from his counterpart's broken psyche.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.
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[[folder:Framework Leopold Fitz / The Doctor]]
!!''Dr. Leopold James Fitz''
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[[caption-width-right:336:''"Did you think that you could play in the shadows without me?''"]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Scottish
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/IainDeCaestecker
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Miguel Ángel Ruiz [Disney dub], Arturo Castañeda [Sony Dub] (Latin-American Spanish dub), Thadeu Matos (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

"The Doctor" is Fitz's cruel alter-ego in AIDA's Framework, who continues to manifest himself in the real world from his counterpart's broken psyche.
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