Awesome / Agents Of SHIELD Season Seven

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

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The New Deal

• Daisy fighting one of the Chronicom cops when he tries to ambush her, finishing the fight by hitting him with a quake-enhanced punch that sends him flying.
  • Deke is grabbed by another Chronicom, but manages to get loose by stabbing him in the head with his scanner.
  Chronicom: How many agents are there?
  Deke: Enough.
• Coulson and Mack are surrounded by gunmen in the speakeasy. Coulson proceeds to disarm the one holding a shotgun on him and even confirms that bullets don't hurt him, while Mack takes out the rest by himself.
• Daisy and Coulson fighting two of the Chronicoms in the hotel kitchen. Especially good is Daisy's comment right before starting.
  Chronicom: Quake. I've been looking forward to this.
  Daisy: Too bad. For me it's just another fight.

Know Your Onions

• Despite still recovering from her injuries in the previous season finale, May is still able to go toe-to-toe with Enoch (who has upgraded himself with Hunter combat training), and actually starts to win when the others show up and stop the fight.
• Koenig keeping his cool when the Chronicom cops burst into his speakeasy in search of the team, even swallowing the bullet that Jemma pulled out of Freddie's contact so they won't find it.
• The shootout and fight with the Chronicoms at the docks.

Alien Commies From the Future!

• Upon being presented with an imposter claiming to be Peggy Carter, Daniel Sousa doesn't bat an eye and pretends he's never seen Carter before, giving Simmons enough rope to hang herself with before he springs his name on her.
• Sharpe may be a racist pig, but he is still a high level S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, which means the team's attempts to scare him into revealing information gets no result. He is rattled only when the use their advanced technology to make him believe that they are aliens.

Out of the Past

• Team Coulson managed to successfully save Sousa, despite a few hiccups in their logistics, on the day of his assassination.
• The reason Sousa was targeted? He had discovered HYDRA's infiltration of SHIELD long before the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

A Trout in the Milk

• Agent Sousa gets props for not giving up his style choice of a suit in the chaotic sea of 70s fashion. Daisy notes that suits work fine because uptight people exist in all time periods.

Adapt or Die

• May's empath abilities give SHIELD an advantage over the Chronicoms: they have no emotions, so while they can simulate emotion and humanity, she can see right through them.
• Coulson destroys the time ship underneath the Lighthouse with him inside it. It helps that he can be rebuilt.
• Sousa and Daisy get two understated moments when Nathaniel Malick has them captured:
  • Before she's left in a catatonic state from being forcefully drained of her Inhuman blood, Daisy manages to sneak a shard of glass into the palm of her hand, and shows it to Sousa when he encourages her to keep fighting.
  • Sousa in turn uses the glass to kill the guard sent to collect him, and after Nathaniel collapses the roof of the building on himself, carries Daisy out with him when they escape. Keep in mind he still has a crippled leg at this point and probably didn't get to retrieve his cane on the way to the Zephyr.

The Totally Excellent Adventures of Mack and the D

• Stranded in 1982 with no technology and no help, Deke manages to start a career, use it to create a semi-functional branch of SHIELD, restore Coulson, successfully monitor the Chronicoms' activity, and provide for young Mack, his brother and his uncle in this timeline. Then Mack is able to turn Deke's team into proper SHIELD agents. All of this in twenty months.

After, Before

• May and Yo-Yo are late to the Zephyr, so May waits for it to reappear, which it does right above them. She then quickly does a flip to the top of the ship to park it just as it jumps again.
• For a villainous example, Nathaniel Malick has gone from just another sacrifice to Hive in the original timeline, to a greater threat than Gideon could ever hope to be.

As I Have Always Been

• Despite his existential depression and visible frustration at the Time Drive's malfunctions, Coulson stays as levelheaded as he was in his human life through the whole episode. This was while he was still getting readjusted to his LMD body after twenty months in a television, and remembering every event of the loop where Daisy and the team don't succeed in escaping the time loops.
• Enoch unhesitatingly sacrifices himself to help the team escape from the time storm.

Stolen

• When confronted by Garrett, May effortlessly beats the crap out of him, and he only manages to escape thanks to his new teleportation powers.

Brand New Day

• An understated one, but Yo-Yo demonstrates again why her powers were nerfed in various ways before to keep them from becoming a Story-Breaker Power: when Kora takes out the power in the Lighthouse, the two inhuman-powered mooks' cell door opens. They sneak out and even seem to have a drop on her. She takes them both out in literally two seconds flat and immediately goes to Coulson and May (with the two bad guys in tow so they don't do anything funny) to alert them of the security locks being unlocked throughout the base. One gets the impression that having to take down two superpowered mooks is an afterthought to her.
• Crossed with Heartwarming: Coulson defends Ward to Cora when she says he still would've ended up either bad or worse even without Garrett molding him and with May's silent approval, Coulson acknowledges what he and the rest of the team took so long to realize themselves:
  Coulson: We've seen a world where Ward was good, because the right person helped guide him down the right path. People can change. Even you.
• It's a major Downer Ending, but you have to give props to the chronicoms: having received the necessary information from Sybil, they jump into orbit around Earth and immediately destroy every single active S.H.I.E.L.D. site on the planet (minus the Lighthouse) via Orbital Bombardment. Bonus points for the VFX department for showing the Triskelion being blown to kingdom come with a single hit.

The End is At Hand

• How do you start a series finale? By bringing back various weapons and ideas from all the way back to the second episode of the show! The shockwave staff that Ward used in that episode becomes the sneak attack to defeat the Chronicom boarding party. Further, Sousa of all people figures out how to use the Chronicoms to jury-rig a couple of tactical nukes using the Zephyr's missiles.

What We're Fighting For

• The utter gambit pileup between Sibyl, Team Coulson, and Malick comes to a head. Malick wants to become a hero by defeating the invaders and establishing himself as the ruler of a grateful world; Sibyl meanwhile wants to eliminate SHIELD to allow a successful invasion. Their inner conflict allows Team Coulson to get the drop on both of them. Coulson plays Sibyl like a fiddle, allowing them to reprogram the Hunters with May's power— empathy. This results in Sibyl's 1000-strong armada of Chronicoms becoming as empathetic as Enoch, and results in a peaceful colonisation and integration of the surviving Chronicoms while Sibyl and her loyalists are destroyed.
  • The script really sums up the awesome here:
    Sibyl: Oh? And what comes next?
    Suddenly May drops through the ceiling, knocking Sibyl down, landing in a hero pose.
    May: The Cavalry!
• Furthermore, Daisy takes on Malick and is able to defeat him by doing what he would not— risk her own life to destroy everything. She earned the epitaph Destroyer of Worlds.
• Deke, after three seasons of being bounced all around the timelines, ignored on all accounts by the other agents, finally gets to show his technological chops and leadership by using his knowledge of future technology to repurpose the Quantum Tunnel to take back the Chronicoms and save that reality. He even becomes the branched timeline's Director of SHIELD by virtue of being the most intelligent techie remaining.