History Recap / AgentsOfSHIELDS4E9BrokenPromises

** Mack and Yo-Yo provide a ton to various 80s and 90s science fiction films with [[AIIsACrapshoot evil robots]], including ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''Film/WeirdScience'', ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'', ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'', and ''Film/ShortCircuit''. Near the end, Mack even makes a reference to ''Series/SmallWonder''.

** Radcliffe is the ''true'' mastermind of the LMD scheme to get the Darkhold, having been corrupted like Eli Marrow before him by just the briefest ''glance'' of the book.

** Mack and Yo-Yo provide a ton to various 80s and 90s science fiction films with [[AIIsACrapshoot evil robots]], including ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''Film/WeirdScience'', ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'', ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'', and ''Film/ShortCircuit''. Near the end, Mack even makes a reference to ''TV/SmallWonder''.

%%* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Mack and Yo-Yo independently share the same reaction to Radcliffe building a robot.

** Mack and Yo-Yo provide a ton to various 80s and 90s science fiction films with [[AIIsACrapshoot evil robots]], including ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''Film/WeirdScience'', ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'', ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'', and ''[[TheLastOftheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Short]] [[Film/ShortCircuit Circuit]]''. Near the end, Mack even makes a reference to ''TV/SmallWonder''.

* EverythingIsOnline: Aida is able to take over a good part of the Playground and a Quinjet by means of HollywoodHacking. Lampshaded by Fitz, who reveals that he and Daisy built a completely offline mainframe for the base specifically because of this possibility. Once he hooks it up, they can get control back.

* FreudianExcuse: Senator Nadeer lost her mother in the Battle of New York, sparking a hatred of anything alien -- especially Inhumans, which have alien DNA. This even extends to her brother, who she intends to have executed by the Watchdogs. When that plan goes south, she murders him herself.

* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Vijay claims that this is why he was in the cocoon so long; he was fighting the change, and ultimately won by coming out the other side completely human. The Watchdog captain finds this ludicrous, and he's ultimately proven right; Vijay is an Inhuman with SuperSpeed. He claims not to have known he had powers until he was forced to used them.
* TooDumbToLive: Vijay willingly goes with two people, his sister Ellen and the lead Watchdog, who want him dead and unsurprisingly gets shot as a result. He survives (apparently) through sheer luck when he undergoes a second Terrigenesis.
* TomatoInTheMirror: The May LMD is unaware she's in fact an LMD, programmed to act and believe she's the real May.

* TheMole: LMD May is, seemingly unwittingly, a being used by Aida and Radcliffe to spy on S.H.I.E.L.D.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Senator Nadeer clearly loved her parents very much. She also loves her brother, but not enough to not kill him for being an Inhuman.

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Mack and Yo-Yo independently share the same GenreSavvy reaction to Radcliffe building a robot.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Mack is extremely GenreSavvy about robot uprisings, but TheReveal shows that this was actually yet another MadScientist scenario.

** Mack and Yo-Yo provide a ton to various 80s and 90s science fiction films with [[AIIsACrapshoot evil robots]], including ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''Film/WeirdScience'', ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'', ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'', and ''[[TheLastOftheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Short]] [[Film/ShortCircuit Circuit]]. Near the end, Mack even makes a reference to ''TV/SmallWonder''.

* BatmanGambit: Aida shuts down LMD!May, fakes some injuries, then locks her in a room with Coulson while wirelessly monitoring her audio and visual input. She hopes that Coulson will expose where the Darkhold is being hidden, which he does.

** Mack and Yo-Yo provide a ton to various 80s and 90s science fiction films with [[AIIsACrapshoot evil robots]], including ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''Film/WeirdScience'', ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'', ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'', and ''[[TheLastOftheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Short]][[Film/ShortCircuit Circuit]]. Near the end, Mack even makes a reference to ''TV/SmallWonder''.

** Mack and Yo-Yo provide a ton to various 80s and 90s science fiction films with [[AIIsACrapshoot evil robots]], including ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''Film/WeirdScience'', ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'', ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', and ''Film/MaximumOverdrive''. Near the end, Mack even makes a reference to ''TV/SmallWonder''.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Of a sort. Mack and Yo-Yo make a bunch of lighthearted references to various AIIsACrapshoot movies as a way to explain why Aida is a bad idea, despite the fact that the MCU has had some [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron very real problems with artificial intelligence very recently]]. It's even more jarring because in previous episodes characters had listed Ultron as a reason why Radcliffe's LMD program was a bad idea. They're may just be joking.

* BaitAndSwitchBoss: After being hyped as the show's next BigBad, Aida is killed only for Radcliffe to be revealed as the true antagonist with Aida as TheDragon.

* FailsafeFailure: Radcliffe built safety precautions into the base LMD design, including a tracker and a remote shutdown capability, but Aida found and disabled them before anyone realized that she'd gone rogue -- or so everyone believed. In actually, the trope is subverted: he masterminded the entire incident and Aida was doing exactly as he planned.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Nadeer is convinced that Terrigenesis is the next stage of the Chitauri invasion; turning humans into aliens. She ignores (or just doesn't know) the fact that Inhumans have existed for thousands of years, were created by the Kree for an entirely different reason (though, in fairness, [[HumanWeapon not a good reason]]), and that it's not a virus anyway.

** Earlier, when the May LMD goes to attack, Aida shuts her down. She then makes a cut on her head so when the LMD "wakes up," she thinks she was knocked out. This shows that rather than being a knowing spy, the LMD is unaware she isn't the real May.
* RockBeatsLaser: Fitz's backup system is an extremely obsolete PC that runs on large floppy discs. Once he plugs it into the main system, Aida's programming is unable to manipulate it. (And by extension, it's implied that this is something Radcliffe didn't account for.)

* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Vijay claims that this is why he was in the cocoon so long; he was fighting the change, and ultimately won by coming out the other side completely human. The Watchdog captain finds this ludicrous, and he's ultimately proven right; Vijay is an Inhuman with SuperSpeed. He claims not to have known he had powers until he was forced to used them, however.

* VisionaryVillain: His corruption by the Darkhold has reverted Radcliffe to his transhumanism roots, as he's now convinced the use of the book will move humanity beyond its limits.

** Radcliffe built a second Aida, and appears to have been fully aware of everything that the original one was doing the whole time.

* ShoutOut: Mack and Yo-Yo provide a ton to various 80s and 90s science fiction films with [[AIIsACrapshoot evil robots]], including ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''Film/WeirdScience'', ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'', ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', and ''Film/MaximumOverdrive''. Near the end, Mack even makes a reference to ''TV/SmallWonder''.

* BaitAndSwitchBoss: After being hyped as the show's next BigBad, Aida is killed only for Radcliffe to be revealed as the true antagonist.
* BatmanGambit: Aida shuts down LMD May, fakes some injuries, then locks her in a room with Coulson while wirelessly monitoring her audio and visual input. She hopes that Coulson will expose where the Darkhold is being hidden, which he does.

* CementShoes: Vijay is shot by his sister and dumped in a lake tied to a very large rock. He's apparently not dead, though, as he enters another Terrigenesis cocoon upon hitting the bottom.

* FreudianExcuse: Senator Nadeer lost her mother in the Battle of New York sparking a hatred of anything alien -- especially Inhumans, which have alien DNA. This even extends to her brother, who she intends to have executed by the Watchdogs. When that plan goes south, she murders him herself.
* GenreSavvy: Mack is not at all surprised that a robot has gone rogue, citing various films where that is the end result (at one point stating "This is how ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'' ends"). Yo-Yo has the same reaction once she is told of it.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: This is discussed in regard to Agent Nathanson, who is assumed to have seen something Aida didn't want known to others, hence why she killed him but went out of her way not to kill others.

** Even though Nadeer tried to have him killed for being an Inhuman and her associates tried to kill him in spite of her ordering them not to, Vijay still goes with her because she convinces him that S.H.I.E.L.D. would just turn him into a weapon. Because that would somehow be worse than dying. He doesn't even raise any objections to the guy being on the helicopter with them. It earns him a bullet to the stomach.
** After finding Agent Nathanson's body, neither Fitz or anyone else has Radcliffe's lab searched for any clues as to why she would murder him. Even a cursory investigation would have discovered Agent May, who was hidden just a few meters away in a closet. Aida does make an excuse as to why she killed him, claiming it was just to keep herself from being shut down, but this is only after she invades the base. Radcliffe may have talked Fitz out of doing a search, but that's never covered.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Nadeer is convinced that Terrigenesis is the next stage of the Chitauri invasion; turning humans into aliens. She ignores (or just doesn't know) the fact that Inhumans have existed for thousands of years, were created by an entirely different species for an entirely different reason (though, in fairness, [[HumanWeapon not a good reason]]), and that it's not a virus anyway.
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Out of a series disparaging remarks about Aida, Radcliffe takes exception to her being characterized as a SexBot. He hasn't slept with her; they're {{just friends}}. Fitz just cringes while Radcliffe remains oblivious to why this isn't helping.
* JustAMachine: Mack makes it very clear he does not see Aida as a woman.

* ManchurianAgent: LMD May doesn't appear to know she's a fake, judging by her attempt to attack Aida while they're alone. Aida remotely shuts her down, then modifies her slightly so that her audiovisual feed is piped to Radcliffe.

* RockBeatsLaser: Fitz's backup system is an extremely obsolete PC that runs on large floppy discs. Once he plugs it into the main system, Aida's programming is unable to manipulate it. (And by extension it's implied that this is something Radcliffe did not account for.)

* ThickerThanWater: {{Subverted}} with Senator Nadeer, as it first seems like she is protecting her brother, but in the end shoots him herself. To her, she was keeping her promise to "do" him right if he was taken by the Terrigen mist.
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Vijay claims that this is why he was in the cocoon so long; he was fighting the change, and ultimately won by coming out the other side completely human. The Watchdog captain finds this ludicrous, and he is ultimately proven right; Vijay is an Inhuman with SuperSpeed. He claims not to have known he had powers until he was forced to used them, however.
* TooDumbToLive: Vijay willingly goes with two people who want him dead and, surprise, gets shot. He survives (apparently) through sheer luck when he undergoes a second Terrigenesis.
* TomatoInTheMirror: The May LMD is unaware she is in fact an LMD, programmed to act and believe she is the real May.
* UngratefulBastard: After Daisy accuses Jeffrey of using her for his own publicity, he accuses her of this, since he took the heat off her and she is now an official agent again.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Mack is extremely GenreSavvy about robot revolts but TheReveal shows that this was actually yet another MadScientist scenario.

* ApologeticAttacker: Senator Nadeer doesn't [[spoiler: like killing her own brother, in fact it brings her to tears. For about five seconds, before she callously shoves his body off of her.]]

* FreudianExcuse: Senator Nadeer lost her mother in the Battle of New York sparking a hatred of anything alien -- especially Inhumans, which have alien DNA. This even extends to her brother, who she intends to have executed by the Watchdogs.[[spoiler: When that plan goes south, she murders him herself.]]

* ThickerThanWater: {{Subverted}} with Senator Nadeer, as it first seems like she is protecting her brother, [[spoiler: but in the end shoots him herself. To her, she was keeping her promise to "do" him right if he was taken by the Terrigen mist.]]

* TooDumbToLive: Vijay willingly goes with two people who want him dead and, [[spoiler: surprise, gets shot. He survives (apparently) through sheer luck when he undergoes a second Terrigenesis.]]

* ApologeticAttacker: Senator Nadeer doesn't like killing her own brother, in fact it brings her to tears.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Of a sort. Mack and Yo-Yo make a bunch of lighthearted references to various AIIsACrapshoot movies as a way to explain why Aida is a bad idea, despite the fact that the MCU has had some [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron very real problems with artificial intelligence very recently]]. It's even more jarring because in previous episodes characters had listed Ultron as a reason why Radcliffe's LMD program was a bad idea.

* EverythingIsOnline: Aida is able to take over a good part of the Playground and a Quinjet by means of HollywoodHacking.

* FreudianExcuse: Senator Nadeer lost her mother in the Battle of New York sparking a hatred of anything alien -- especially Inhumans.

** After finding Agent Nathanson's body, neither Fitz or anyone else has Radcliffe's lab searched for any clues as to why she would murder him. Even a cursory investigation would have discovered Agent May, who was hidden just a few meters away in a closet. Aida does make an excuse as to why she killed him, claiming it was just to keep herself from being shut down, but this is only after she invades the base. Radcliffe may also talked Fitz out of doing a search, but that's never covered.

%%** Vijay would probably have stayed dead if Nadeer had done anything other than pitch his body into the ocean, which is filled with diluted Terrigen.

* ShoutOut: Mack and Yo-Yo provide a ton to various 80s and 90s science fiction films with [[AIIsACrapshoot evil robots]], including ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''Film/WeirdScience'', ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'', ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', and ''Film/MaximumOverdrive''. Near the end, Mack even makes reference to ''TV/SmallWonder''.

* ThickerThanWater: {{Subverted}} with Senator Nadeer, as it first seems like she is protecting her brother, but in the end shoots him herself. To her, she was keeping her promise to "do" him right if he was taken by the Terrigen mist.

* TooDumbToLive: Vijay willingly goes with two people who want him dead and, surprise, gets shot. He survives (we assume) through sheer luck when he undergoes a second Terrigenesis.

** Vijay's dead body is dumped in the ocean, only to immediately be covered in another Terrigenesis cocoon.