Line #113 ShoutOut/AgentsOfSHIELD


1	->''"I'll be damned. Tatooine."''
2	->--'''Phil Coulson'''[='=]s only reaction to waking up on an alien planet in "Maveth".[[note]]And making every scene he had with [[Creator/SamuelLJackson Nick Fury]] and [[Creator/NataliePortman Jane Foster]] [[CelebrityParadox really awkward]].[[/note]]
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5	* Several to ''Franchise/HarryPotter'':
6	** 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 Jullie. Their voices are highly similar although they're ''not'' sisters, cousins or related in any other way.
7	*** In "Fear and Loathing in the Planet Kitson", Daisy jokingly calls Simmons a Gryffindor, to which she counters she's actually Ravenclaw. [[BrickJoke She's really not Hermione.]]
8	** Dr. Hall, the VillainOfTheWeek in episode 3, is more or less an ActorAllusion to Ian Hart's role in the film adaptation as Professor Quirrell.
9	** In "Repairs", when Skye gets frustrated with [=FitzSimmons=] not letting her touch anything in their lab because she hasn't taken the required classes, she refers to the Academy as "your stupid S.H.I.E.L.D. Hogwarts" in retaliation.
10	** In "...Ye Who Enter Here", Skye refers to what the Obelisk can do as something out of ''Harry Potter''.
11	** "Love in the Time of HYDRA" has Hunter refer to [[spoiler:the "real" SHIELD]] as "Hufflepuff".
12	* [[ComicBook/SpiderMan "With great power comes..."]] [[HilariousInHindsight Said long before Marvel Studios got to use Spider-Man in the setting.]]
13	* Skye compares May to the [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay T-1000]] in "Repairs".
14	* [[Film/TrueLies "Have you ever killed anyone?" "Yes, a few! ...High-risk targets, but they were all terrible people!"]]
15	* Fitz-Simmons' little robots are named after WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs.
16	* Mike's MotiveRant at the end of the pilot is basically Creator/MichaelDouglas' speech from the end of ''Film/FallingDown'' modified for a world with superheroes.
17	* Fitz-Simmons are apparently ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' players: Skye's ex-boyfriend Miles fails their personal test of character only when they learn he modded the game specifically to play as a [[FelonyMisdemeanor Zombie Pigman]].
18	* This being a Creator/JossWhedon project, there's a few subtler ones to ''Series/{{Firefly}}''[=/=]''Film/{{Serenity}}'':
19	** In "0-8-4", Ward uses a staff weapon that releases a head-high shock wave of energy when it's shoved into the ground; it's almost the exact same move and effect as the one Simon uses to rescue River in the opening of ''Serenity''. It even has a component that launches into the air and produces the wave.
20	** "The Hub" ends with two of the heroes surrounded by bad guys, with no way to escape, and facing certain death. [[BigDamnHeroes They're rescued by their ship appearing out of nowhere]] [[GunshipRescue and hovering to pick them up.]]
21	** In "The Magical Place", pay attention to the logo on the security guards uniforms. It's the same as the logo of the private security firm from ''Serenity''.
22	** In "T.R.A.C.K.S.", the team attempted to pull off [[FireflyE02TheTrainJob "The Train Job"]].
23	** In "The Only Light in the Darkness", Fitz is given the desert island scenario question on the polygraph test (he's asked what he'd hope/expect to find if he was washed up on a desert island alone with a sealed crate). He answers "Simmons", recalling the iconic girl-in-a-box reveal from the ''[[FireflyE01Serenity Firefly]]'' pilot episode.
24	** On the subject of the above, the fact that on both shows, the GadgeteerGenius of the crew has a desperately unrequited crush on TheMedic, who is [[ObliviousToLove at best clueless about it,]] [[AllLoveIsUnrequited at worst often cold and distant]].
25	** Additionally, there's the entire layout and design of The Bus. The design seems exactly like something you'd expect to evolve into a Firefly-class ship, with the thrusters the same, the bay the same, the whole idea of staircases in the bay the same, and generally, it's a far more fancy, but plane-y precursor to the Firefly-class ships of Firefly.
26	** A very easy-to-miss one. In his first appearance, Col. Glenn Talbot says "you and your men can be on your merry", a paraphrase of one of Mal's lines from "{{Film/Serenity}}"
27	* Another subtle one to the Whedonverse: Simmons's crush on Mike Peterson only lasts an episode, but it serves as an oblique Shout Out to ''{{Series/Angel}}'': in both shows, a socially awkward genius (who happens to be a young, brunette woman) develops a crush on a character played by J. August Richards.
28	* A few references to ''Series/DoctorWho'':
29	** One scene in "The Hub" showing the interior of Fitz's bunk on the Bus reveals he's personalized it a bit with a miniature TARDIS. This wasn't a random shoutout either: the episode aired a couple weeks before the 50th anniversary of ''Doctor Who'', and in fact this was also done on several British television programs in tribute, including an episode of ''Series/HolbyCity'' that aired the same day as the SHIELD episode.
30	** When Simmons is put through a polygraph test in "The Only Light in the Darkness", one of the questions is what she'd hope to find if she was washed up alone on a desert island with only a single, sealed crate. Her answer, after a bit of thought, is the TARDIS.
31	** The ''Who'' references obliquely count as additional Marvel references, too, as Marvel published a ''Doctor Who'' comic strip in the UK for many years and the Franchise/{{Whoniverse}} even has its own official Marvel Universe number (Earth 5556).
32	** In "The Things We Bury", Skye runs down the code names for Coulson, Triplett, and Fitz during their mission. One of them (almost certainly Fitz) has apparently chosen "Time Lord".
33	** In "4,722 Hours", the video Simmons plays on her phone of team Coulson celebrating her birthday shows a cake in the shape of a TARDIS.
34	** Come the ''Agents of HYDRA'' leg of Season 4, a villain in the service of HYDRA is unsettlingly referred to as "the Doctor", who turns out to be [[spoiler:[[EvilCounterpart Fitz, now a]] TortureTechnician and SoftSpokenSadist. Personality-wise, the HYDRA-universe Fitz probably has more in common with either the Master or the Valeyard.]]
35	** In "Together Or Not At All", when the team find a gravitonium device, Fitz and Simmons test it together. Before entering the device, Simmons quips, "Allons-y", a favorite catch-phrase of Creator/DavidTennant when he played the Doctor.
36	*** Possibly unintentional, but the image of Fitz and Simmons embracing each other as they float upward in the gravitonium device resembles Amy and Rory embracing as they fall together in [[Recap.DoctorWhoS33E05TheAngelsTakeManhattan "The Angels Take Manhattan"]]. The episode's title also echoes Amy's words before they make the leap; "Together or not at all."
37	** In "The Real Deal", the rift between dimensions looks a lot like the cracks in time from season 5 of the revived series.
38	** The way [[spoiler:Talbot as Graviton]] kills people at the end of season 5 is similar to the Ice Warrior's in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E9EmpressOfMars Empress of Mars]]"
39	* [[spoiler:Graviton]]'s costume is very similar to the Kryptonian suits from ''Film/ManOfSteel'' - right down to a nearly-identical texture and the curved lines on the waist - and General Zod in particular, with their similar salt-and-pepper haircuts and [[BeardOfEvil beards.]] He even starts demanding that people [[KneelBeforeZod kneel.]]
40	* In Coulson's dream-flashback to Tahiti in "The Well", he and his masseuse have an exchange reminiscent of ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'':
41	-->'''Coulson:''' Did I fall asleep?\
42	'''Masseuse:''' For a little while...
43	* S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy's top computer science ace is "Cally Hannigan", presumably an appreciative nod to [[Creator/AlysonHannigan Alyson (Aly) Hannigan]], who played computer nerd extraordinaire Willow on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', of course.
44	* In "The End of the Beginning", [=FitzSimmons=] have a friendly disagreement as to who gets to be [[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Holmes]] and who's stuck being [[TheWatson Watson]]. (They both see themselves as Holmes, naturally.)
45	* 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.]] Interestingly, this mirrors [[Film/TheAvengers2012 The Avengers]]'s scene when Cap looks frustrated to find out that he is the only one who understands Nick Fury's reference to Literature/TheWizardOfOz.
46	* The warehouse scene in "Shadows" has many parallels to the warehouse from the Franchise/IndianaJones franchise. At the beginning of the episode, the crates the Howling Commandos seized from HYDRA have the "palm tree and swastika" seen in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', though the location given is far from the tropics.
47	* In "The Force of Gravity", right after the lights go out in the Zephyr, Daisy tells Coulson "[[Film/{{Poltergeist\|1982}} they're heeere....]]"
48	* Lance mentions a line from [[Franchise/StarWars Star Wars]] in "Shadows" when he asks whether Garrett went to the "dark side", except Coulson added that he went nuts as well.
49	** Also referenced in "Eye Spy" when Coulson sounds a lot like Obi-Wan talking about how he lost Vader to the Dark Side. The music even sounds close. Skye references it directly in case you missed the not very subtle reference.
50	** Bobbi is later seen in a Star Wars t-shirt.
51	** And Billy Koening has a closet full of Star Wars clothing.
52	** Then you have Cal. Evil for much of the second season and utterly, blindly loyal to the person who turns out to be the real BigBad. In the end, to save his child, grabs said BigBad and lifts them just like Vader did to the Emperor. Not to toss them into a shaft, though; to give them a broken spine.
53	** In "Ascension," Coulson [[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat fulfills]] another one of his [[NerdActionHero geeky fantasies]] by quoting Princess Leia via hologram:
54	-->'''Coulson:''' Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi! You're my only hope!
55	** [[HoYay Fitz and Hunter]] jokingly recite the famous [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack "I love you"/"I know" exchange]] right before Fitz [[spoiler: goes under hyper-sleep in Enoch's pod.]]
56	* Coulson's classic Corvette "Lola" turns out to have machine guns hidden behind the headlights, much like a [[Franchise/JamesBond certain other spy's]] Aston Martin [=DB5=].
57	* Even HYDRA's getting in on it - in "Making Friends and Influencing People", when Agent 33 is being brainwashed:
58	-->'''Mr. Whitehall:''' Mr. Bakshi, let's go again.\
59	'''Mr. Bakshi:''' Where do we start?\
60	'''Mr. Whitehall:''' At the beginning! Like the song says - ''[[Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic a very good place to start]].''
61	** This one is doubly funny once we learn Whitehall [[spoiler:was an actual World War II German Nazi]], so it's ironic that he would enjoy that play.
62	** In "Rise and Shine", HYDRA has a policy of making its students [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten kill their own pet dogs]], much like the trainees in ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService''.
63	* In "A Hen in the Wolf House" Skye realises that Hunter has been drinking fairly heavily during the mission. When he argues that he had to do so in order to maintain his persona, she snarks that he must be undercover as [[Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy Ron Burgundy]].
64	* Skye attempts to insult Hunter's British accent by nicknaming him ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}''. (Hunter immediately shoots this down by exasperatedly pointing out that ''Trainspotting'' is Scottish, whereas he's English.)
65	* Kyle [=MacLachlan=] portraying a man who lost his wife, forced to abandon his children, and was thrown into a one-man obsessive mission? Not unlike the eventual fate of ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'''s Paul Atreides, whom he portrayed in the Creator/DavidLynch [[Film/Dune1984 adaptation]].
66	* The outfits that Sarge and his team wear are straight out of ''Film/MadMax''. They even travel around in a giant [[Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior heavily armored]] [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad semi truck.]]
67	* To [[MythologyGag a previous MCU film]], when Sarge describes [[spoiler:detonating the bomb to kill the Shrike]] as "a small price to pay", one can be forgiven for automatically completing the sentence with "[[Film/AvengersInfinityWar for salvation.]]"
68	* To ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
69	** 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''.
70	** The Kree monolith aboard Agent Gonzales' aircraft carrier, the ''Iliad'', is behind door [[ArcNumber 47]].
71	** The Framework that features prominently in the fourth season is essentially the series' equivalent to Star Trek's MirrorUniverse.
72	* In "One of Us" Coulson is heard talking to Agent Broyles, sharing a name with a character from ''Fringe'', another show featuring strange science, alternate worlds, and people with "gifts".
73	** [[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 [[Creator/KirkAcevedo Charlie.]]
74	* The restaurant holdup at the start of "Love in the Time of HYDRA" sort of resembles ''Film/PulpFiction''.
75	* In "One Door Closes", Skye notes that she regrets having watched ''Film/ParanormalActivity'' before she was placed in an isolated cabin at night.
76	* The Bus's flight number was "SHIELD 616". 616 happens to be the multiversal number of the mainstream Marvel Comics universe.
77	** GeniusBonus: The bus [[spoiler: gets destroyed]] in "The Dirty Half-Dozen", just before [[ComicBook/SecretWars2015 the same thing happens to the continuity of the same number]].
78	* Skye refers to Raina's prickly appearance by snarking "I thought [your superpower] was [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog spinning really fast to collect gold rings]]".
79	** Said appearance seems to be inspired by the similar prickly monster girl Shuna Sassi from ''{{Nightbreed}}''.
80	* It's hard not to look at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hReYNlIoIWE this]] {{Oner}} action sequence with Skye and ''not'' think the fighting style was directly influenced by ''Film/JohnWick''.
81	* When Cal finally takes his serum, he falls ill and drops behind a table, popping back up onscreen having fully changed into a deformed monster. This is a shout out to the classic trick used to obscure Jekyll's transformation in the old Literature/DrJekyllAndMrHyde movies - a double reference, as Cal's supervillain identity in the comics is Mr. Hyde.
82	* After a SpeakOfTheDevil moment in "The Dirty-Half Dozen", Skye likens Ward to Film/{{Candyman}}
83	* In "Devils We Know", Mack compares Lash to a great white shark.
84	-->'''Mac:''' It's like a great white shark. Built to eat, sleep--\
85	'''Daisy:''' And kill.\
86	'''Mac:''' I was going to say "make little baby sharks", but then ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' was probably twenty years before you were born.[[note]]actually only thirteen years[[/note]]
87	* In "4,722 Hours" Will's astronaut crew are all named after other fictional astronauts: Austin for Col. Steve Austin in ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'', Brubaker for Col. Brubaker in ''Film/CapricornOne'' and Taylor for Col. Taylor in ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes''.
88	** The year they were sent to the mysterious planet might not be a ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' reference by itself, but combined with the portal artifact that leads there being called the Monolith, it's ''got'' to be deliberate.
89	* Season 3's Advanced Threat Containment Unit (ATCU) sure sounds similar, at least in name if not in function, to the [[Film/JurassicWorld Asset Containment Unit]].
90	* In "Many Heads, One Tale,":
91	** Hunter's hoodie and attitude while pretending to be a BoxedCrook hacker makes him very similar to Elliot Alderson in Series/MrRobot.
92	** The telekinetic Inhuman, R. Giyera, first demonstrates his powers to Bobbi and Hunter by [[Film/{{Push}} levitating two discarded guns in the air, and firing them without ever touching them]].
93	* In "Closure", Ward tells a captured Simmons that her more bold and ActionSurvivor mentality gives him a [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad "Furiosa-vibe"]].
94	* Mack proves he still has the nicknaming down when he dubs the Inhuman team the [[Franchise/PowerRangers 'Power Rangers']] in their StormingTheCastle moment in ''Maveth''.
95	** Coulson notes that the alien planet resembles [[Franchise/StarWars Tatooine]], complete with two moons.
96	* In "Spacetime", Fitz uses an analogy of 2D beings on a series of sheets of paper to explain that time is fixed. Earlier, there was a minor character named Edwin Abbot, after the author of ''Literature/{{Flatland}}''.
97	** Coulson refers to ''Film/TheTerminator'''s StableTimeLoop when trying to get his head round the SelfFulfillingProphecy. [[FelonyMisdemeanor And then he declares Lincoln is off the team for not having seen the film]].
98	* Dwight Frye is the name of the actor who played TheRenfield in Universal's Dracula.
99	* 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/TheDukesOfHazzard'' and ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious''.
100	* In "Let Me Stand Next To Your Fire," there are several very deliberate ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' references, [[WordOfGod confirmed]] by the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/58a046/agents_of_shield_bomb_expert_seemed_to_be_quoting/d8yzg1z writer]] to have been very intentional.
101	** Specifically, James quotes Junkrat, while Jemma more subtly channels Tracer.
102	* In "The Laws of Inferno Dynamics", Coulson wonders if Aida [[Film/BladeRunner dreams of electric sheep]].
103	* A double one in "The Honeymoon", where Talbot refers to the LMD [[spoiler: that shot him in the head]] as a "skinjob", which is a reference either to the ''[[Film/BladeRunner Blade]]'' ''[[Film/BladeRunner2049 Runner]]'' movies or to ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003''. Or both.
104	* "Broken Promises" reveals that Mack and Elena are both fans of the KillerRobot genre:
105	** When Aida contacts the Playground, Mack notes that it's similar to the ending of ''Film/TheLawnMowerMan''.
106	** As punishment for creating Aida, Elena declares that Radcliffe will have to watch all of the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' films.
107	--->'''Mack:''' ...even ''[[Film/TerminatorSalvation Salvation]]''?\
108	'''Elena:''' [[TakeThat He brought this on himself]].
109	** After Fitz describes Aida as being like Radcliffe's child, Mack says "[[Series/SmallWonder Small wonder]]".
110	* Shockley reconstitutes himself after becoming an Inhuman first as a skeleton, then adding muscle and sinew before he's finally human, like [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Dr. Manhattan after his disintegration.]]
111	* In the climax of "Self Control", [[spoiler:LMD May says she's [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain "all phantom limbs, but that doesn't make the pain less real"]]. Bonus points for actually being a doppleganger.]]
112	* In "Identity and Change":
113	** 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 (a white, British woman) reacts with a BigNo. [[Film/TheForceAwakens Sound familiar?]]
114	*** Continuing the ''Force Awakens'' parallels, when [[spoiler: he reappears in Season 5 in "The Devil Complex",]] the Doctor quotes Kylo Ren's line "I will finish what you started."
115	** Ophelia's visiting Radcliffe mirrors [[Film/RogueOne Director Krennic's visiting Galen Erso]]. It even ends with the death of Radcliffe's girlfriend, as it did Galen's wife.
116	** Radcliffe's last scene in the finale mirrors the climax of ''Rogue One'', with the shot of Radcliffe alone on the beach with a conspicuously large orange sun looming overhead appearing visually similar to Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor embracing on the beach just before [[spoiler: they're vaporized, Radcliffe by being [[KilledMidsentence deleted midsentence]] and Jyn and Cassian disintegrated by the Death Star firing.]]
117	** In "All Roads Lead...", after [[spoiler:she absorbs the Gravitonium, Ruby]] pulls Daisy towards [[spoiler:her]] telekinetically, bolt upright and rigid, much like the way [[Film/TheLastJedi Snoke pulled Rey towards him in his throne room]].
118	* In "Option Two", the way that Talbot [[spoiler:kills the Remorath]] is nearly identical to the way [[spoiler:"Lenny Busker" kills the Eye]] in ''Series/Legion2017''.
119	* In "Orientation, Part 1":
120	** 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. 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.
121	** 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."
122	* The font used for the series title for season 6 appears to be a ShoutOut to ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''.
123	* The episode title "As I Have Always Been" might very well be a ShoutOut to ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', [[spoiler: especially given Enoch's DownerEnding]].

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