History ShoutOut / AgentsOfSHIELD

** After Team Coulson finds itself on a space station infested with hostile, carnivorous aliens, Coulson and Daisy suggest that they split up. Mack, showing his continued GenreSavvy, warns that this is how they'll get picked off one by one, specifically asking if either of them have see an ''Franchise/{{Alien}}s'' movie.[[note]]Please remember that [[Film/{{Aliens}} the second film]] featured Creator/BillPaxton, [[CelebrityParadox who played]] the BigBad in ''Agents''[='=] first season[[/note]]. Mack also pays homage to the common meme about black guys in horror movies by muttering [[BlackDudeDiesFirst "And you know who the first one's gonna be..."]], although, ironically, that particular trope has never been used in an ''Alien'' film.

** After Mack and Elena lament the lack of cool tools in Coulson's robotic hand, as he'd taken his "civilian hand" to avoid it being confiscated by the authorities they all assumed would be apprehending them, Coulson remarks, "I'm not [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget]]."

* In "Orientation, Part 1", after Team Coulson finds itself on a space station infested with hostile, carnivorous aliens, Coulson and Daisy suggest that they split up. Mack, showing his continued GenreSavvy, warns that this is how they'll get picked off one by one, specifically asking if either of them have see an ''Franchise/{{Alien}}s'' movie.[[note]]Please remember that [[Film/{{Aliens}} the second film]] featured Creator/BillPaxton, [[CelebrityParadox who played]] the BigBad in ''Agents''[='=] first season[[/note]]. Mack also pays homage to the common meme about black guys in horror movies by muttering [[BlackDudeDiesFirst "And you know who the first one's gonna be..."]], although, ironically, that particular trope has never been used in an ''Alien'' film.

* In "Orientation, Part 1", after Team Coulson finds itself on a space station infested with hostile, carnivorous aliens, Coulson and Daisy suggest that they split up. Mack, showing his continued GenreSavvy, warns that this is how they'll get picked off one by one, specifically asking if either of them have see an ''Franchise/{{Alien}}s'' movie.[[note]]Please remember that [[Film/{{Aliens}} the second film]] featured Creator/BillPaxton, [[CelebrityParadox who played]] the BigBad in ''Agents''[='=] first season[[/note]]

* In "Orientation, Part 1", after Team Coulson finds itself on a space station infested with hostile, carnivorous aliens, Coulson and Daisy suggest that they split up. Mack, showing his continued GenreSavvy, warns that this is how they'll get picked off one by one, specifically asking if either of them have see an ''Franchise/{{Aliens}}'' movie.[[note]]Please remember that [[Film/{{Aliens}} the second film]] featured Creator/BillPaxton, [[CelebrityParadox who played]] the BigBad in ''Agents''[='=] first season[[/note]]

** Framework Fitz murders an innocent (albeit someone he didn't know) woman in cold blood to prove his loyalty to the dark side, and an onlooking Simmons reacts with a BigNo. [[Film/TheForceAwakens Sound familiar?]]

** In the pilot, while arguing about the effectiveness of Fitz's "Night-Night" gun, Simmons says that "I'm not Hermione! I can't create instant paralysis with that!" The latter part of the comment is a reference to the scene where Hermione went Petrificus Totalus on Neville. Mind you, Simmons' appearance seem to deliberately invoke the image of Hermione from the movies on a regular basis. Trivia: in the Brazilian dub, as though a nod to this similarity, Hermione is voiced by Luisa Palomanes and Simmons is voiced by Luisa's sister Jullie. Their voices are nearly identical although they're ''not'' twins.

** In the pilot, while arguing about the effectiveness of Fitz's "Night-Night" gun, Simmons says that "I'm not Hermione! I can't create instant paralysis with that!" The latter part of the comment is a reference to the scene where Hermione went Petrificus Totalus on Neville. Mind you, Simmons' appearance seem to deliberately invoke the image of Hermione from the movies on a regular basis. Trivia: in the Brazilian dub, Hermione is voiced by Luisa Palomanes and Simmons is voiced by Jullie. The two actresses' voices sound strangely similar.

* At one point, Skye compares [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger Captain America]] to "The Dude" from ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', and becomes frustrated when [[PopculturalOsmosisFailure no one else gets it.]]

** In the pilot, while arguing about the effectiveness of Fitz's "Night-Night" gun, Simmons says that "I'm not Hermione! I can't create instant paralysis with that!" The latter part of the comment is a reference to the scene where Hermione went Petrificus Totalus on Neville. Mind you, Simmons' appearance seem to deliberately invoke the image of Hermione from the movies on a regular basis.

* In "Identity and Change," Framework Fitz murders an innocent (albeit someone he didn't know) woman in cold blood to prove his loyalty to the dark side, and an onlooking Simmons reacts with a BigNo. [[Film/TheForceAwakens Sound familiar?]]

* A couple to ''Series/DoctorWho'':

* In "The Things we Bury", the bus decloaks when landing in Hawaii, using the same sound effect of Klingon and Romulan cloaking devices in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
** The [[spoiler: Kree device on Gonzalez's carrier]] is behind door 47.

* After a SpeakOfTheDevil moment Skye likens Ward to Film/{{Candyman}}

** Coulson refers to ''Film/TheTerminator'''s StableTimeLoop when trying to get his head round the SelfFulfillingProphecy.

* In "Broken Promises", after Fitz describes the robot Aida as being like Radcliffe's child, Mack says "[[Series/SmallWonder Small wonder]]".

* In "The Ghost," a car enthusiast tells Daisy that Dodge Chargers are hard to find these days because so many of them were wrecked during the filming of ''Series/TheDukesOfHazard'' and the ''Film/FastAndTheFurious'' movies.

** In Ascension, Coulson [[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat fulfills]] another one of his [[NerdActionHero geeky fantasies]] by quoting Princess Leia via hologram:

* Lance mentions a line from Star Wars in "Shadows" when he asks whether Garrett went to the "dark side", except Coulson added that he went nuts as well.

-->'''Dr. Whitehall:''' Mr. Bakshi, let's go again.\\

'''Dr. Whitehall:''' At the beginning! Like the song says - ''[[Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic a very good place to start]].''

* In "Emancipation," James uses a chain as a fire whip. Doesn't that sound [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} familiar]]?

** [[spoiler: There being an alternate SHIELD seems quite similar to there being an alternate Fringe team, particularly in logo and building structure.]] [[RuleOfThree And]] one of its members is none other than Charlie.

* Skye compares May to the [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} T-1000]] in "Repairs".