History Recap / AgentsOfSHIELDS4E11WakeUp

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Aida mutters "Oh no, not again." It later turns out to be a simulation loop.

* ActorAllusion: Thurston Koenig, the one Koenig sibling who isn't an agent, is introduced when Coulson's team shows up at his comedy club show. Like the other Koenig brothers, he's played by Creator/PattonOswalt, a stand-up comedian.

* ThirdActMisunderstanding: Flat-out defied with Mack and Elena. After she asks him about the personal time he took (which left him out of the mission) and he replies that he was visiting his ex, she gets the wrong idea and tries to calmly walk out, only for him to explain that he was merely providing said ex a shoulder to cry on as they remembered their deceased baby girl. Elena is instantly sympathetic and the air is cleared.

* HarsherInHindsight: Later in the season, May's happy ending is [[ForWantOfANail extrapolated into a whole world]] and it [[CrapsackWorld isn't pretty]].

* HarsherInHindsight: Later in the season, May's happy ending is [[ForWantOfANail extrapolated into a whole world]] and it [[CrapsackWorld isn"t pretty]].

* HarsherInHindsight: In a later season, May's happy ending is [[ForWantOfANail extrapolated into a whole world]] and it [[CrapsackWorld isn"t pretty]].

* HarsherInHindsight: In a later season, Mei"s happy ending is [[ForWantOfANail extrapolated into a whole world]] and it [[CrapsackWorld isn"t pretty]].

* NotStayingForBreakfast: Right after Mack and Elena have sex for the first time, he gets a text message and leaves. She's obviously very hurt by this and can't get any straight answers out of anyone about where he went(even Coulson says ''he'' doesn't know), and comes to believe he went to meet another woman. When she later confronts him about it, mentioning that perhaps they should break up, Mack cracks and tells her the truth: that he ''did'' go see another woman; his ex-wife, the mother of his deceased daughter. With the next day being their daughter's birthday, he went to her so they could remember the girl together, it was just bad timing. By the end of the story, Mack and Elena have reconciled.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Aida openly questions why they need to keep the real May alive when they have successfully planted her LMD double on S.H.I.E.L.D. Radcliffe insists that they need to keep her around for further testing and improvements on the LMD May, plus he doesn't see himself as a killer.

* AntiVillain: Radcliffe is shown more and more to be one; he actually thinks he's working for good and rejects the idea of killing when isn't needed, while also being uncomfortable with Aida doing it when it was needed. Even when he takes May's own memories to keep her trapped he does so by taking her worst memory and giving it a happy ending. However, he's also fine with working with Nadeer and the Watchdogs to achieve his goal.

* AntiVillain: Radcliffe is shown more and more to be one. He actually thinks he's working for good and rejects the idea of killing when isn't needed, while also being uncomfortable with Aida doing it when it was needed, and even with his mental manipulation tries to ease the pain, even when he takes May's own memories to keep her trapped he does so by taking her worst memory and giving it a happy ending. But he's also fine with working with Nadeer and the Watchdogs to achieve his goal.

* BoomHeadshot: Subverted. Fitz shoots LMD Radcliffe in the forehead, but the bullet ricochets off of his metal skull. The impact, however, does put the LMD out of commission.

* GreaterScopeVillain: "The Superior" is once again mentioned by Nadeer.

** May's initial capture by Aida. She's a highly-trained spy who is (justifiably) paranoid and cautious as a rule. She's concerned that Aida may have been corrupted by exposure to the Darkhold, and doesn't trust that she'll behave within her programming. And yet she goes to collect Aida alone, and turns her back on her long enough for Aida to attack and sedate her.

* LikeASonToMe: Radcliffe says this to Fitz when he (or rather, his LMD) gets imprisoned and questioned by Fitz.

* PetTheDog: Radcliffe creates fake memory based on May's mission in Bahrain, where she doesn't fail to save Katya Belyakov.

* VillainHasAPoint: All the legal violations by Team Coulson which Senator Nadeer brings up are factually correct.

* WhatTheHellHero: Jemma scolds Fitz for reactivating Aida's head.

* NotStayingForBreakfast: Right after Mack and Elena have sex (possibly for the first time), he gets a text message and leaves. She's obviously very hurt by this and can't get any straight answers out of anyone about where he went(even Coulson says ''he'' doesn't know), and comes to believe he went to meet another woman. When she later confronts him about it, mentioning that perhaps they should break up, Mack cracks and tells her the truth: that he ''did'' go see another woman; his ex-wife, the mother of his deceased daughter. With the next day being their daughter's birthday, he went to her so they could remember the girl together, it was just bad timing. By the end of the story, Mack and Elena have reconciled.

* TrailersAlwaysLie: The trailer implied this would be a WhamEpisode in which Nadeer manages to cast S.H.I.E.L.D. as a rogue organization

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Radcliffe and Elena make this observation about Coulson and May, despite both (actually Coulson and the May LMD) independently denying it.