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* SeriesContinuityError: The writers forgot that AIDA isn't allowed to kill; she snaps Nathanson's neck.
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* ArtisticLicenceChemistry: While caesium is very reactive to water and will react, explosively, to its presence. However, caesium is SO reactive to water that even the vapour in the air will set of a firery reaction, so it isn't a good idea for a trap.

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Absolute Cleavage was renamed Navel Deep Neckline. Removing examples that don't fit the trope.


* AbsoluteCleavage: Aside from {{Fanservice}}, there really is ''no'' reason for Daisy to have her uniform top unzipped to the bottom of her bra, especially considering that Yo-Yo has a jacket on over hers. Then again, once Yo-Yo takes off her jacket, her top is undone the same way, so maybe it's a bonding thing.


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* {{Fanservice}}: There really is ''no'' reason for Daisy to have her uniform top unzipped to the bottom of her bra, especially considering that Yo-Yo has a jacket on over hers. Then again, once Yo-Yo takes off her jacket, her top is undone the same way, so maybe it's a bonding thing.
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* PowerIncontinence: After absorbing all the earthquake energy generated by Eli's machine, Skye desperately runs outside and launches herself hundreds of feet into the air in a desperate bid to get rid of it all.
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* CannotSpitItOut: Mack just can't say he's interested in Yo-Yo.
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* RunningGag: Members of S.H.I.E.L.D. wondering who comes up the various names for people or things, such as Hive. In this episode, it's a historical ShoutOut to the "Demon Core" plutonium bomb used in early U.S. atomic tests.

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* RunningGag: Members of S.H.I.E.L.D. wondering who comes up the various names for people or things, such as Hive. In this episode, it's a historical ShoutOut to the "Demon Core" plutonium bomb used in early U.S. atomic tests.tests- which, for the record, got its nickname because it lethally irradiated two scientists.

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Not So Different has been renamed Not So Different Remark, and requires the characters to acknowledge the similarities in-universe.


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** When Robbie accuses Eli of being a killer, he replies that it runs in the family.
** Both Jeffrey and Phil realize that they've been keeping secrets and making teamwork impossible for the supposed greater good.

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NotSoDifferentRemark: When Robbie accuses Eli of being a killer, he replies that it runs in the family.
** Both Jeffrey and Phil realize that they've been keeping secrets and making teamwork impossible for the supposed greater good.
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* ContinuityNod: The idea that Eli, instead of creating matter out of nothing, is primarily harnessing energy and matter from other dimensions, is explicitly consistent with how the sorcerers of Kamar-Taj use magic in ''[[Film/DoctorStrange2016 Doctor Strange]]''.

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The idea that Eli, instead of creating matter out of nothing, is primarily harnessing energy and matter from other dimensions, is explicitly consistent with how the sorcerers of Kamar-Taj use magic in ''[[Film/DoctorStrange2016 Doctor Strange]]''. Strange]]''.
** Simmons mentions that creating an android AI is explicitly against [[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar the Sokovian Accords]].
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* AIIsACrapshoot: While Radcliffe made certain that Aida was ''not'' a true artificial intelligence (she was basically just a very sophisticated computer, though reading the Darkhold may have changed her), the problem is that a computer is going to do exactly what you tell it to unless you tell it otherwise. Aida was designed to keep SHIELD agents safe, and by her view, replacing them with LMD's is a perfectly acceptable way of doing that.

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* AIIsACrapshoot: While Radcliffe made certain that Aida was ''not'' a true artificial intelligence (she was basically just a very sophisticated computer, though reading the Darkhold may have changed her), the problem is that a computer is going to do keep doing exactly what you tell it to unless until you tell it otherwise. Aida was designed to keep SHIELD agents safe, and by her view, replacing them with LMD's is a perfectly acceptable way of doing that.

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* BadBoss: When one of Eli's goons questions him and brings up the fact that he hasn't paid them anything yet, Eli [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness murders him on the spot]] by filling his lungs with the requested payment.

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* BadBoss: ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: While Eli's makeshift nuclear device is definitely dangerous, it's not quite "level downtown LA" dangerous. Surrounding plutonium with a beryllium neutron reflector will cause a critical reaction, not a prompt-critical explosion. The reaction will heat the plutonium until it burns through the beryllium, at which point it will cool down. Until it does this, it '''will''' be releasing huge doses of harmful radiation. The "Demon Core" Fitz mentioned got its name by doing this twice in the Manhattan Project; in each case, a scientist's prompt thinking ended the criticality incident in about a second. Both scientists died of radiation poisoning and other people nearby suffered significant long-term damage; in reality, everybody in the building when Eli's beryllium door closes would have caught a serious dose in the few seconds before the plutonium is shifted to another dimension.
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When one of Eli's goons questions him and brings up the fact that he hasn't paid them anything yet, Eli [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness murders him on the spot]] by filling his lungs with the requested payment.
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* ShoutOut: May questions if Aida thinks, Coulson suggests she thinks about [[DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep electric sheep]]

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* ShoutOut: May questions if Aida thinks, Coulson suggests she thinks about [[DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep [[Literature/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep electric sheep]]
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* WhamShot: Aida murders Agent Nathanson, who'd been sent to collect all the technical data for the LMD project. TheStinger reveals that she's also keeping May prisoner in the lab, implying Coulson is having a drink with a May Life Model Decoy.

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* WhamShot: Aida murders Agent Nathanson, who'd been sent to collect all the technical data for the LMD Life Model Decoy project. TheStinger reveals that she's also keeping May prisoner in the lab, implying Coulson is having a drink with a May Life Model Decoy.LMD.

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