Awesome / Agents Of SHIELD Season Five

Awesome Moments from Season Five of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..

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Orientation

• Daisy and May have multiple Big Damn Heroes moments that are this.
• The visual effects are something else, especially for the crescent Earth. No, not crescent-moon-lit Earth, the crescent that's all that's left of the planet.
• Mack kills a kree with an axe. It's not even his shot-gun axe, but something he stole from the kree.
• The mere fact that Fitz got a message to the team on the back of an old postcard despite it being 74 years after Earth's destruction. Even for this show, that's something else.

A Life Spent

• Yo-Yo uses her Super-Speed to excellent effect. First, after using her powers to make Grill think her Metric's malfunctioning, she zips into his office, grabs the Kree tablet and passes it off to Daisy all without him noticing. She later plants a gun on Grill's assistant and claims that he threatened her in order to get him out of the group's hair and into Grill's (relatively) good graces.
• Daisy makes short work of a pair of Kree in hand-to-hand combat, showing she's just as formidable a fighter without her powers. This is especially notable in that the Kree are shown to be far stronger and more resilient than humans and can shrug off some pretty serious hits. May's martial arts training really paid off!
• While Abby spends most of her fight with Lady Basha's champion getting beaten up, she's able to pull herself together when it counts, despite her pain and panic. First, she makes herself super-dense to block his punch and break his arm, then she sticks her arm out and makes it intangible, thus bypassing all of his armor and muscle mass. She wins with a One-Hit Kill, which is very impressive for a girl who hasn't fought before or been trained for combat. ^note  Granted, she most likely wasn't trying to kill him, but it still happened.

A Life Earned

• May fights Sinara, Kasius's lead Kree enforcer, almost to a standstill despite having an injured leg and her opponent having high tech weaponry. She loses, but it's still awesome.

Rewind

• Fitz managing to work out what happened to the team, despite six months in confinement, using nothing but textbooks to work out what was impossible, eventually settling on Alien Abduction as the only logical reason.
• Big points to Fitz for being able to hide a coded message in angry soccer letters destined for a SHIELD agent. He gets extra points for sneaking them past government agents specifically looking for coded messages.
• Hunter's Big Damn Heroes moment when he waltzes into the base acting like Fitz's attorney and then blows a hole in the wall for their escape.
• Enoch gets one when he saves the group from the Army using the same freezing tech he used on Team SHIELD.
• Fitz going Guns Akimbo on the soldiers attacking them, singlehandedly holding them all off while Hunter looks on, stunned.

Fun and Games

• Flint killing Grill with his newfound powers.
• Fitz gets a fabulous Insult Backfire moment on the slimy Senator Ponarian during dinner that shuts everyone up:
  Ponarian: Marauder! You have yet to taste your snail. Perhaps such indulgences are above the tastes of unrefined men.
  Fitz: I find moist creatures distasteful. Much like the fat mouths schlepping 'em down.
• May vs. Ben in the arena, it's a brutal, supremely well-choreographed fight between SHIELD's most feared agent and a psychic Inhuman who can read her movements. Awesome on both accounts, because A) Ben, an untrained teenager, is holding his own against SHIELD's deadliest One-Man Army, and B) May is still holding her own against him, and even manages to get the upper hand. May's moves are faster than a psychic can read them. She does this with a bad leg.
• Daisy vs Sinara in the arena. At one point, Daisy uses her vibrations to pull a Catch and Return on one of Sinara's metal balls.
  • Not to mention that, despite Sinara having so far been near-invincible, Daisy clearly has the upper-hand in the fight. Aside from a few hits, the Kree gets utterly trounced.
• FitzSimmons and Daisy's escape. Fitz starts ICEing guards while Simmons slashes Kasius' throat, and after Daisy's powers are inhibited before she can use them on anyone, the two jump out of the viewing box, with Fitz shooting at the forcefield controls in midair in order to trap everyone else in the box. Then, while they're running away, Simmons proposes to him, and he says yes ^note  Don't let Fitz fool you . Best proposal ever.

Together or Not at All

• An injured May is staggering through the ruins of the surface Earth, with the Roaches hot on her heels. She makes the mistake of crouching down long enough for one to lunge at her...and it just writhes on the end of Enoch's wooden spear. And then he calmly informs her that it was the third Vrellnexian he'd saved her from while on her trail. Enoch don't fuck around.
  • Shoutout to the FX team here: we finally get to see one of the Roaches in their full, slimy, glory, and it looks amazing, easily the best CGI life form we've seen on the show since Hive's Game Face in Season 3. Not to mention the shots of the Trawler in flight, which looks better and better every time they take it out.
• After the Kree kill Tess, Flint returns to the ceremonial chamber to prevent the Kree from punishing everyone else in retaliation for his escape. When the Vicar asks why he returned, Flint tells him he wants to make sure that no more "innocent lives" are lost, and clenches his hand into a fist, causing the tiny crumbs of rock he dropped on the ground to form together into a jagged shard and launching it through the Vicar's eyeball out the back of his head. It's both gruesome and incredibly cathartic.
• As awful as the two of them are, you can't help but cheer a little at the way Kasius and Sinara dispose of his brother and company this episode, the only Kree so far who who are even worse than they are.
• Despite having said bayonet rammed through his chest from behind, Faulnak still has enough strength in him to curse Kasius' name, calling him a weak and spineless disgrace who can only win by stabbing his enemies "In the Back". Without missing a beat, Kasius replies, "And the front", and stabs him there as well. As Ward proved several seasons ago — seeing abusive siblings get their comeuppance is always satisfying.
• Despite planet Earth having been blown in half, it seems that some people were strong enough to survive the damage, as May and Enoch find out when they wake up in the survivors' base and their elderly leader opens her palm to reveal a wooden robin, i.e. an elderly Robin Hinton.
• Upon finding out that Deke sold out Daisy, an injured Fitz declares he's going to cut his throat open. It's pretty clear that he would have followed through on that threat if he hadn't been shot.

The Last Day

• When an angry mob threatens Flint, Mack stands between them and basically says "Come on, make my day" with his body language. The guy at the front of the mob didn't like his chances, and nobody moves as the group withdraws.
• Mack getting his shotgun-axe from the weapons cache Fitz left in the Lighthouse and then promptly demonstrating its ass-kicking potential on a Vrellnexian.
• How do Mack, Yo-Yo and Flint thwart the Vrellnexian infestation in the humans' living quarters? By driving them into a single room using stolen gas grenades where Yo-Yo dispatches them all with splinter bombs taken from Fitz's weapon cache. Flint is left speechless.

Best Laid Plans

• The plan Mack, Yo-Yo and Flint carry out against Kasius. First, they lure him down to the lab level by stealing his terrigen. Then, they exploit his need for long-winded gloating to buy time for the other humans to move all of his bombs. When he finally sets them off, all he does is separate the human and Kree levels from each other, robbing him of the ability to seek retribution. And to finish off, they cover their escape by blowing up all the terrigen anyway.
• Daisy and Sinara's vicious fight. Deke saves Daisy when Sinara gets the upper hand, and while he's easily laid out, it gives Daisy time to get back up, and in a position to impale Sinara on a pipe when she jumps back at her.

Past Life

• Fitz calmly triggering a boobytrap which beheads several Kree warriors.
• Kasius' remaining soldiers are preparing to make a stand against SHIELD, with their leader giving a speech about how the humans will be crushed... and then Flint, floating in space, tosses the rocks he's gathered through the window, causing them all to be sucked out.
• Deke saving Enoch from a Kree. Then both choosing to sacrifice themselves to get S.H.I.E.L.D. back to their own time.
• The confrontation between Mack and Kasius. After Kasius kills Future Elena just to screw with Mack, he takes the Odium and goes into a berserk rage, pummeling Mack to the point that a blast from the Shotgun-Axe barely causes him to flinch. Just as Kasius is about to kill Mack, Jemma puts the hearing slug into Kasius' ear, disorienting Kasius enough to allow Mack to impale Kasius with the Shotgun-Axe (with a previously unseen axe-swivel feature) right through the sternum.
• An Offscreen Moment of Awesome to be sure, but the episode's stinger implies that Flint could literally piece the shattered planet back together.

All the Comforts of Home

• After Yo-yo gets her arms cut off by Ruby, Mack goes ballistic and smashes through the robot soldiers like they're bowling pins. Note the fact that he's taking them down without his shotgun axe. That's right: Mack's fists are harder than steel.
• Ruby and her soldiers have the team at gunpoint, and she orders them to fire. There's a blur of motion, all the soldiers look comically down at their empty hands, and camera pan to a grinning Yo-yo dropping their guns in a pile behind her.
• Noah jumping on the exploding beacon to save Fitz and Daisy. Whoever builds the Chronicoms builds them right.
• The shot of the underwater hangar opening, which looks at least as good as The Raft in Captain America: Civil War.

The Real Deal

• As the rest of the team waits for Coulson to deliver the device, an alarm suddenly goes off warning of incoming aircraft. While initially fearing Hale managed to capture Deke, it turns into The Cavalry moment when it's revealed that it's a Quinjet asking for clearance to land at the Lighthouse. And the voice on the other end is none other than Agent Davis. Daisy and May rush to the landing pad, just in case, when the Quinjet opens to reveal Deke, Davis, and a host of agents, all ready to help. And who was it that gathered all these people together? None other than Mike Peterson himself, leading the reinforcements the team needed. In one swift move, S.H.I.E.L.D. is back in fighting form.
  • And bonus points for the iconic "Crossing into Darkness", a variation of the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. theme, playing throughout this entire scene alone, especially with Mike Peterson performing a Team Power Walk down the Quinjet's ramp along with a host of other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
  • Davis is worthy of one all by himself since he survived an attack by AIDA that everyone (in and out-of-universe) was sure killed him.
• Coulson and Deathlok fighting off the various fear dimension hallucinations, including Lash, some Roaches, and Hive.
• After everything that's happened to them in the last ninety-nine episodes, Fitz and Simmons finally get married!

Principia

• Deke managing to fight off a Fear Dimension apparition of a Kree warrior, including disarming it of its own axe! For someone who fans had assumed was merely an Action Survivor, Deke's quick killing of the apparition shows that anyone who survives into adulthood in the Lighthouse is a Badass Normal by default.
• Mack, the former engineering expert who preferred to stay on base, stunned his former best friend with his new combat abilities. Taking out half a dozen robotic guards with his shotgun-axe and bare fists in under a minute. Even managing a one liner before kicking their ass.
  Mack: It's Hammer Time.
  • Not to mention hauling one of them all the way back to the containment module in possibly half a minute just to help Yo-Yo.

The Devil Complex

• The Doctor's entire plan. He carefully arranges things so he can get Daisy alone in order to restore her powers and the rest of the team won't have any choice but to let him. This is despite the fact that he's just a fragment of Fitz's personality.

Rise and Shine

• We see just how thorough HYDRA's destruction was back in season 3. After Hale shot Ruby's teacher, she and Ruby were the last two HYDRA agents left. The organization didn't grow two more heads because it didn't have enough of a body to do so. Hale hasn't been successful in recruiting, either: Anton is being forced, Creel misled, and everyone else is one of Anton's faceless robots. Talbot is the one who spearheaded the operation that did this, figuratively burning the monster's neck stumps so they don't grow back.
• Coulson casually no-selling the same mind-game Ruby and Hale pulled on both Talbot and Werner, picking apart the entire play, not the least bit intimidated or confused. If anything, he's just exasperated by having to do the whole song-and-dance:
  Coulson: By the way, when Hale's done playing games, I'll be in my room. (calmly walks off, not waiting for an answer, leaving Ruby exactly as flabbergasted as they expected Coulson to be)

Inside Voices

• Creel switching sides and helping Coulson and Talbot escape from Hale.
  • His brawl with Ruby, where she holds her own despite being half his size and having no active powers of her own.
• Elena and Jemma tricking Mack into letting Fitz out of his cell.

The Honeymoon

• Daisy and Ruby's long-awaited face-off. And like with Creel, despite Daisy's powers giving her an edge, Ruby still holds her own admirably.
• Ruby rebelling against her mother, locking her in her own cell.
• Yo-Yo fighting Ivanov. Despite him having an edge due to not feeling pain, she ultimately wins by tackling him out a window. This also has the benefit of deactivating the mech soldiers.
  • Also, if you notice, Ivanov keeps trying to protect his face — and after he crashes to the ground, there is blood next to his head. Yo-Yo just killed the real Ivanov and not an LMD.

All Roads Lead...

• Daisy and May breaking into Hale's bunker and kicking all kinds of ass.
  • Or even the way they break into the bunker. The Inhuman transport/containment chamber flies down while one missile is shot out of the Zephyr at the same time. The missile outspeeds the chamber and drills through the ground and into the bunker with the chamber following behind.
• Coulson talking down the brainwashed Talbot from killing himself, and providing an opening for Mack to Icer him.

Option Two

• Creel touching the Gravitonium only causes him to constantly hear the voices of Hall and Quinn argue in his head and he slowly goes insane from it. Ruby with only 8% of the Gravitonium infused into her body goes insane almost immediately from Hall and Quinn's arguing, and also suffers from Power Incontinence causing her to accidentally kill Strucker. But in order to fix the mess he created, Glenn Talbot, the man who took a bullet to the head and survived, the man who was imprisoned and brainwashed to be a HYDRA mole, infused himself with 100% of the Gravitonium and had enough willpower and determination to not only make the voices stop (or at least ignore them), but be able to control the powers as easily as breathing. He became the MCU version of Graviton, potentially with the side effect of three personalities in his psyche, in order to defend SHIELD, a group he has been hunting for years, because he messed up. Well, that is one hell of an apology.

The One Who Will Save Us All

• A lone Ramorath left in the Lighthouse takes the odium and charges Mack. Remember that both an odium-charged Kasius and a Ramorath warrior were each on their own more than a fight for Mack and the other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. Mack, on the other hand, has clearly had enough of taking on invulnerable alien assassins, and thrashes the guy in short order.
• Talbot explains why he hasn't been driven mad the way Ruby and Creel were: all Hall and Quinn needed was a 'general' to get them in line and stop their arguing.
  • Later on, Quinn provides Talbot with information about the gravitonium, which only he and HYDRA knew about. Hale is understandably shocked at the development.
• Talbot's war strategy: Establish dominance, then dictate terms. In both the initial meeting with Qovas and then the Confederacy Leadership this strategy is pulled off to frightening perfection, due to Graviton's powers.
• Zephyr One's (chronological) maiden voyage into space is a sight to behold.

The Force of Gravity

• Daisy has her mind trapped in a simulation, being taunted by Taryan while her body is being taken to him in person. Her response is to brag about how his sons are both going to die, then use her powers to break the inhibitor off her head, freeing herself.
• Deke, of all people, sneaking onto the Remorath ship, knocking at least one guard out to get to Coulson and May and free them.
  • Then, when he and May are breaking onto the bridge, he uses his belt to strangle one of the guards.
  • Using his limited knowledge of the Remorath language to redirect the ship's missiles back at it while also programming the teleporter to get him and May out in time.
    Deke: I know zero.
• May fighting Qovas in a blade duel, easily keeping up with him and finally getting the upper hand. And when he spitefully launches missiles at the Lighthouse, she smugly reveals that she and Deke changed the coordinates. They then teleport out, right before Qovas and his ship are vaporized.
  May: Told you I didn't need a gun to kill you.
• Coulson and Daisy taking out the Remorath that broke onto the Zephyr One. Special points to Coulson, who grabs a Remorath about to come at Daisy from behind and slams it through a glass wall.

The End

• The final confrontation against Talbot. Negotiations have failed, so Daisy downs the last sample of Centipede serum to amplify her power to send him flying into orbit.
• After a whole season full of constant warnings and the ever-looming reminder that destiny arrives all the same, from a girl who can see the future to a man that lived through it, the fact that Team Coulson defied all expectations and changed the fate of the world lays good claim to being their greatest moment.

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