Night-Night Gun

S H O T G U N - A X E !!!!!!

D.W.A.R.F.s

Yo-yo’s necklace of DEATH

The Haig

Lemons

Puffies

Barracolada

Blue Shirt

Iconic firearms from the show’s props auction

Night-night Sniper Rifle:

Night-night Guns:

I.C.E.R. Gun:

I.C.E.R. Rifle:

Peruvian 0-8-4:

ATCU Guns:

The Shotgun-Axe:

Framework Hydra Gun:

I.C.E.R.s and one regular gun that “traveled” to the future:

Kree Blaster:

Sarge’s Plasma Gun:

Pax’s Blaster:

Black History in Superheroes on Film and TV:

Henry Simmons as Alphonso “Mack” MacKenzie from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Mack is a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent as well as the team’s mechanic. A man of faith, Agent Mack is a big guy with a bigger heart, who doesn’t enjoy violence, but will do whatever is necessary to protect the ones he loves. His signature weapon of choice is his very own crafted “shotgun-axe” that doubles as both a firearm and melee weapon.

Gather ‘round, folks, hear the Legend of the Shotgun-Axe.😁

A truly fearsome weapon that will fight aliens and robots, travel through time, stand for peace (ahem) and justice, defend the weak and punish the wicked.

Portents of Its coming were already present in the Season 2 finale, when Alphonso The Righteous carried a bright red emergency axe as his trusty companion.

Its advent was foretold in 3x01 when our Virtous Hero, undoubtly struck by divine inspiration, wished for “a shotgun-axe combination of some kind” to face the Inhuman Menace yet to be known as Lash.

“Really got to commit to that shotgun-axe idea”, the Stalwart Champion then vowed to the Gods in 3x07.

And now comes a makeshift avatar, only a shadow of Its Holy Form that will be unleashed upon the unsightly Primitives in 3x22, yet already mighty.

Seriously, this thing has had more episodes than many regular guest stars and a longer arc and more development than some (humanoid) characters get. I bet the writers were joking about what weapons the AoS characters would use in a Zombie Apocalypse, couldn’t decide whether Mack was the shotgun or axe guy, then someone went “Both. Both is good”.

And a legend was born.

The Big Sister?

*climbs on the Daisy-shaped soapbox that’s been collecting dust in a corner since 1x05*

So, this episode suddenly introduces a concern about sidestepping civil liberties because Daisy has been tracking the Watchdogs online, matching the louder keyboard warriors’ IPs to their meeker offline selves, not caring at all for their freedom of speech to hate.

I could point out that Daisy’s been doing this kind of stuff since her name was Skye, with Coulson’s blessing.

Or that the sidestepping of civil liberties has been occurring since the Pilot, when a certain wayward hacker was abducted out of her van, with a hood over her head, and interrogated with no access to legal counsel.

Instead, I’ll just list a few highlights from this season so far:

Mack put a tracker on Lincoln without his knowledge or consent.

S.H.I.E.L.D. conducted illegal surveillance of a government agency and government personnel (the ATCU, Rosalind, Banks).

Coulson, Bobbi and Hunter kidnapped Thomas Ward, threatening his personal safety.

Coulson ordered FitzSimmons to subject Von Strucker Jr., a gravely injured patient, to a torturous experimental procedure to extract intel and then Lincoln to perform an unorthodox, non-consensual medical treatment to facilitate it.

S.H.I.E.L.D. infiltrated a diplomatic conference and conducted illegal surveillance of several international delegates.

Yet, tracking a hate group that advocates ethnic cleansing is what prompts a lecture on the abuse of power, and breaking a car window to obtain intel is what warrants the Face of Dismayed Disapproval.

🤨😒🙄

I would love a storyline exploring how much Daisy needs to hold herself back with the kind of power she has (all of it: the hacking, the quaking and the belonging to a secret agency with no accountability) and what happens when she doesn’t.

But this isn’t it.

*steps off the soapbox, tucks it in for future use*

Stuff that crossed my mind:

PSA: the Watchdogs are scumbags.

I thought you were gonna finally ride it when we drove to Baja. -- [...] Look, I told you, I got buried in work. Big Mack was thinking to go with Mack Mini on this Baja trip back in the S2 finale. So it’s really Jiaying’s fault he didn’t get the chance.

Yeah, honestly job hasn't been great lately. Management's out of control, new people keep coming in every day, no experience. And the two friends I was closest to, they just got, uh, transferred for good. So, Mack’s not a fan of Coulson’s command decisions this season anymore than he was last season, is wary of Joey and Lincoln (I suspect he has no objections to Elena’s involvement 😉). And he’s not as close to his partner Tremors or his friend Turbo as he was to Bobbi and Hunter.

[The Watchdogs on TV imploding the ATCU building] This is awesome. Right? Wrong. Although that imploding trick is cool.

Nitramene is another nod to Agent Carter’s season 1.

Thank you, Nerd Herd. Daisy watched Chuck.

Do we take this debris back with us, study it? -- Uh, yeah, sure. If if you've been working out.  'Cause it weighs like 100,000 tons. It's a building. 🤣🤣

I’m quite comfortable blaming myself, actually, for the lot of it. You guys should have t-shirts made.

What happened to those Inhumans, not your fault. It isn’t your fault either, May.

We should go pick one [of the Watchdogs sympathizers she’s been tracking] up and see what he knows. --  And what? Shake him down? Without even knowing if the guy we picked was actually involved?  [...]  it's kind of Gestapo, don't you think? Indeed, nazis were notorious for recruiting mixed-heritage young women who wanted to stop violent, racist bigots set to exterminate her and her people. 😒😁

It's not about how they act. It's about how we respond. I agree with this sentiment (no snark) but are you familiar with the Paradox of Tolerance, Mack?

Ok, Fitz, you’re with me. -- Uh, am I? The chain of command in these field missions remains very confusing. Neither Mack nor Fitz want to go along with Daisy’s plan but Mack refuses, Fitz grumbles and Daisy just does what she wants.🤔

I get that Lincoln’s powers make him a potentially invaluable field asset but maybe, given his reluctance, a position in the science department should have been considered instead, as he’s also probably the best expert on all things Inhuman still alive.

I can’t afford the house. I can’t afford to leave. This is how they get you. System’s rigged. They want to keep you down and in the dark, man. -- You sound like those Watchdogs nuts. -- Well, they got the right idea. Someone’s got to fight back. Target a vulnerable (Inhumans are individually powerful but are very few and scattered) minority and channel against it the anger people are legitimately feeling about the state of things, so that anger isn’t used to foster real change. That’s what the Watchdogs (rather, the puppet masters behind them, Malick at this point in time) are really doing, isn’t it? Depressingly mirroring real life.😩

I just feel guilty all the time. How do you make it stop? -- You don't. You use it, channel it. The Hate Fu Master has another Padawan. 😎

Don’t interrupt me! You got it? You haven’t earned that right yet. I don’t know you. I vetted every member of this team except you. Well, I believe Daisy vetted him quite extensively and, frankly, I am offended on her behalf that you apparently don’t trust her totally professional judgement on the matter. 😂

Don't give me hope, Jemma. I don't want hope. And I was fine without angst for once. 😔 

We’re done. Go to black. [...] -- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! What are you doing? She’s going after the violent mob that wants her dead and currently outnumbers her several tens to 1 with no plan, no backup and no thought to the possible consequences. Why? Is that a problem?😁

Maybe we slowed it down, but..must be the modifications that Blake made. -- What does that mean? -- That sooner or later, this bomb is gonna go off. And then I'll implode. Which is gonna be messy. Fitz’s weary, matter-of-fact delivery both amuses me and saddens me. He’s already seen so much that imploding is just another day at the office. Daisy’s reaction is much more frantic, with good reason: nitramene is weird and her friend is now in deadly danger because she was too caught up with going after the Watchdogs.

I searched for you. I wanted to make you part of the new S.H.I.E.L.D. Add Blake to the list of people Coulson wanted to involve but couldn’t find and, all things considered, nuS.H.I.E.L.D. is probably better off without.

I’ll quake it off. -- No, no, no! It’s too unstable. One single line of dialogue and the question “why can’t Daisy quake it” is dealt with and out of the way, without undermining her (and other characters’) intelligence nor well established abilities. See, S6? How is this difficult?

What you're doing's not about truth. It's about hate. -- And you're above that? You've never just killed someone because you hate them, Phil? Hate's a good motivator. This is the line that made me permanently dislike Blake. Because, yeah, Phil just killed someone for revenge. It’s bad but he had plenty of good reasons to hate Ward and Ward was a terrible human being. Blake is targeting an entire group of people, none of which have done anything to him personally (and the majority of them have done nothing to anybody at all), just to rile his idiots up. 😠

Is liquid nitrogen safe with all that exposed skin? 🥶 I mean, yeah, safer than imploding but... 🥶🥶

You did it right. Offered a dissenting opinion, but when the time came, you did what I asked. Well, a slightly less lethal version. Which is good, yes? Not shooting to kill? Sometimes I can’t tell with you this season.

He wanted one, an Inhuman, someone for his men to go after. We brought him Daisy. Well, Daisy kinda brought herself.

So, this is what you do at S.H.I.E.L.D.?  This kind of stuff? -- Ruben, I'm a mechanic. I hate this stuff. Mack is really missing that espresso machine... 😁

What the hell are you doing? -- Shotgun-axe. A moment of reverent silence, please. 

If everything goes as planned, we'll all get what we want, Mr. Blake. Our common enemies will be dead, and you'll have troops, armed to the teeth, at your command. -- Yeah. Sounds right. Sounds wrong. Because Blake will disappear from the face of the Earth and the following season the Watchdogs will be run by Senator Evil and the Superior Scumbag.

But the damned thing was just too front-heavy. Having said that, he’d splattered the monster’s front legs with shot quite nicely and it had definitely slowed down - but considering he’d been aiming for the head, he’d missed quite spectacularly. It was, after all, twenty feet high.

The scaly head came snarling down and snapping at him, and Mack braced himself. He couldn’t exactly run away, since Daisy lay unconscious at his feet. He’d get one swing...