History Recap / AgentsOfSHIELDS4E20FarewellCruelWorld

* AGlitchInTheMatrix: When Coulson is sent through the Backdoor, it sends out a ripple which exposes the Framework as a computer construct to everyone in attendance. May (who didn't fully believe it) and Mack (who had literally only heard about it minutes before) are predictably stunned.

** Virtual or not, Hope is still Mack's daughter who he (from his perspective) had spent ten years raising as a single parent. He won't abandon her so quickly, especially after finding out that she's dead in the real world.

* YankTheDogsChain: All of Team Coulson (sans Mack) escape from the Framework... only for Aida to settle into her new body and teleport herself and Fitz away from the rig before him and Jemma can be reunited, while the ''Zephyr'' is being attacked by Ivanov's goons.

** Jemma is utterly distraught at killing Alistair. Not because she killed someone (even if he was just an avatar, he's still [[HateSink Alistair Fitz]], who Jemma utterly despises in the real world) but because it means that there is no way Leopold will even consider listening to her now.

* MythologyGag: Daisy suggests that Trip take up the mantle of Patriot after Mace's death. After the comic version of Mace was killed, the mantle was taken up by Eli Bradley, who physically resembles Trip.

* BroughtDownToNormal: Coulson and May think that Aida transferring herself to an organic body means she's vulnerable ("she bleeds just like we do!") but she had the to foresight to include superpowers in her new design, which means this is more a case of DiscardAndDraw.

* MythologyGag: Daisy suggests that Trip take up the mantle of Patriot after Mace's death. After the comic version of Mace was killed, the mantle was took up by Eli Bradley, who physically resembles Trip.

* VillainousValor: Alistair refuses to give in to Jemma's demands that he get Fitz to come alone, instead telling Fitz to send a strike team before trying to overpower Jemma himself. He gets shot for the trouble, ruining any attempt by Jemma to get through to Fitz.

* YankTheDogsChain: All Team Coulson (sans Mack) escape from the Framework... only for Aida to settle into her new body and teleport herself and Fitz away from the rig before him and Jemma can be reunited, while the ''Zephyr'' is being attacked by Ivanov's goons.

* BecomeARealBoy: Aida succeeds in creating herself a living, organic body; and was even ambitious enough to give it some superpowers as well.

** Fitz is deeply traumatized by his actions in the Framework. He's the only member of the team who didn't turn against HYDRA before exiting, he was complicit in and responsible for many of their atrocities, and he killed two people who were real, one of which was on his team and the other an innocent bystander.
** Virtual or not, Hope was still Mack's daughter which he (from his perspective) had spent a decade with. He won't abandon her so quickly, especially since his daughter is dead outside the Framework.

* YouAreTooLate: Coulson decapitates Aida's LMD body, but she's already linked to the Framework and her consciousness is uploaded into the human body she built for herself.

* BecomeARealBoy: Aida succeeds in creating herself a living, organic, superpowered body.

* CallBack: When Coulson goes to destroy Aida's body to trap her in the Framework, he laments that all he has is a small surgical knife while Mack had a shotgun-axe.

* GoryDiscretionShot: We don't see Coulson cutting off Aida's head, we only see her decapitated body lying in the background afterwards.

** Virtual or not, Hope was still Mack's daughter which he spent an entire lifetime with. He won't abandon her so quickly, especially since his daughter is dead outside the Framework.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Fitz is horrified by his actions in the Framework once he's back in the real world, fearing that he's a bad person.

** Having spent weeks drugged into unconsciousness, May is incredibly weak and can't walk after being disconnected from the Framework.

* BigDamnHeroes: Radcliffe stops Fitz from killing Jemma then throws him into the Backdoor.

** In a meta-sense, Framework!Fitz is basically HYDRA!Cap from the concurrent ComicBook/SecretEmpire arc. After his release from the Framework, Fitz was ''utterly distraught'' on the atrocities he did, including the death of Jeffrey Mace. Given how downright controversial [[ComicBook/CaptainAmericaSteveRogers Nick Spencer's Captain America]] was as an outright villain, the repercussions of his HYDRA command after an eventual ResetButton has been constantly questioned.

* MultipleReferencePun: The title of the episode is "Farewell, Cruel World!". It looks like an homage to the phrase "Goodbye, cruel world!" (most often used when a character is dying and leaving behind a less than pleasant life), but here it means that the team are leaving the Framework (the cruel world), and with it still running, hoping for Mack at least to "fare well" (be happy).

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Fitz, still disoriented from the switch to the real world, sees Aida and assumes she's Ophelia from the Framework. He stumbles over to her, keeping May from getting a clear shot, which later allows Aida to teleport them both away.

* BittersweetEnding: More on the "bitter" side. While Coulson, May, Fitz, Daisy and Simmons escape the Framework, Mack chooses to stay, Fitz is traumatized by his actions within and is kidnapped by Aida, who has successfully transferred her consciousness into a living organic superpowered body.
* CallBack: When Coulson goes to destroy Aida's body to trap her in the Framework, he laments that all he has is a small surgical knife while Mack had a shotgun-axe. He decapitates her, but it doesn't stop the process of the Looking Glass machine.
* CasanovaWannabe: When Tripp talks with Daisy about the real world, he asks if he was involved with any of the women on her team. When she says no, he asks why she'd want to go back to such a bleak world. She finds it funny, but he's still striking out.

* GoryDiscretionShot: We don't see Coulson cutting off Aida's head, we only see her decapitated body lying in the background afterwards. Given that Coulson was trying to decapitate a grown woman with a scalpel, the execution would have been a '''very''' slow and messy process.

* {{Irony}}: In the Framework, Aida led an organization founded on the persecution of Inhumans. Given that her human body in the real world has superpowers, she may in fact ''be'' an Inhuman, and possibly was one in the Framework.

* ItsAllMyFault: Said word by word by Radcliffe as he throws Fitz into the Backdoor.
* JustAMachine: While Simmons and Daisy are still firmly upholding this opinion, Mack defies it, stating that Hope is real enough to him.

* LegacyCharacter: Daisy suggests that Tripp take up the Patriot mantle. He thinks the suit would look good on him.

* MultipleReferencePun: The title of the episode is "Farewell, Cruel World!". It looks like an homage to the cliched phrase "Goodbye, cruel world!" (most often used when a character is dying and leaving behind a less than pleasant life), but here it means that the team are leaving the Framework (the cruel world), and with it still running, hoping for Mack at least to "fare well" (be happy).

* MythologyGag: Daisy suggests that Tripp take up the mantle of Patriot after Mace's death. After the comic version of Mace was killed, Eli Bradley took up the mantle, who physically resembles Tripp.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Fitz, still disoriented from the switch to the real world, sees Aida and assumes she's Ophelia from the Framework. He stumbles over to her, keeping May from getting a clear shot and allowing Aida to teleport them both away. Though, to be fair, that was a new trick.

* YankTheDogsChain: All Team Coulson (sans Mack) escape from the Framework... only for Aida to settle into her new body and teleport herself and Fitz away from the rig before him and Jemma can be reunited. Meanwhile, Jemma and Daisy are awake, but Daisy has to tell Yo-Yo that Mack is still in the Frameworkd, and the ''Zephyr'' is being attacked by Ivanov's goons.

* TeleportersAndTransporters: Aida's new body has the ability to teleport. Apparently she built some superpowers into it.
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Mack seems shocked after shooting an HYDRA agent himself.

* AbsenteeActor: Brett Dalton doesn't appear as Grant Ward this episode.

* GoryDiscretionShot: We don't see Coulson cutting off Aida's head, we only see her decapitated body lying in the background afterwards.

* ExactWords: When Mack makes Daisy promise he'll be back in time to bring his daughter to bed, she just says that he will be exactly where he is supposed to be.

* AccidentalMurder: When Simmons tries to force Alistair Fitz to get his son to her at gunpoint, she kills him in an ensuing battle.

* LeeroyJenkins: After learning about him, Simmons immidiately storms of to confront Fitz's father. After accidentally killing him, this almost costs them the mission.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The normally stoic Madame Hydra get's worried when she hears about Simmons trying to lure Fitz to the backdoor. Even more jarring the real world when she wakes up in her human body, she seems almost overwhelmed by all her feelings.

** Virtual or not, Hope was still Mack's daughter which he spent an entire lifetime with. He won't abandon her so quickyly, especially since he has no alive daughter outside the Framework.

* DreamApocalypse: Simmons correctly surmises that Aida is ultimately planning to unplug the Framework, effectively destroying the entire virtual reality.

* HeroicBSOD: After what The Doctor did to Agnes, Mace, Daisy and Jemma, Fitz is practically catatonic by the time AIDA takes him away. He doesn't seem to hear May or Coulson yelling at him so they can stop AIDA.

* {{Irony}}: In the Framework Aida led an organization founded on the persecution of Inhumans. Given that her human body in the real world has superpowers, she may in fact ''be'' an Inhuman (as the MCU wiki speculates).

* MultipleReferencePun: The title of the episode is "Farewell, Cruel World". It looks like an homage to the cliched phrase "Goodbye, cruel world" (most often used when a character is dying and leaving behind a less than pleasant life), but here it means that the team are leaving the Framework (the cruel world), and with it still running, hoping for Mack at least to "fare well" (be happy).

* NakedOnArrival: Aida's new body is built without clothing, but her minons left a bathrobe to take care of that problem.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Fitz, still disoriented from the switch to the real world, sees Aida and assumes she's Ophelia from the Framework. He stumbles over to her, keeping May from getting a clear shot and allowing Aida to teleport them both away. Though to be fair, that was a new trick.

* PistolWhipping: Radcliffe does this to Fitz after stopping him from killing Jemma. It doesn't knock him out, merely disorients him enough that Radcliffe can toss him into the Backdoor without Fitz putting up a struggle, since Radcliffe is still weakened from being beaten and tortured, and Jemma's on one leg from a gunshot wound.

* SmashCut: When Jemma hears that Alistair is still part of Fitz's life in the Framework, she asks May if May still has access to Hydra personnel files. Cut to Jemma pulling a gun on Alistair at his home address.

* YankTheDogsChain: All Team Coulson (sans Mack) escape from the Framework... only for Aida to settle into her new body and teleport herself and Fitz away from the rig before him and Jemma can be reunited. Meanwhile, Jemma and Daisy are awake, but Daisy has to telll Yo-Yo that Mack is still in the Frameworkd, and the ''Zephyr'' is being attacked by Ivanov's goons.