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beth-is-rainpaint · 11 months

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Rewatch of 7x07, “The Totally Excellent Adventures of Mack and the D”

Favorite scene(s):

- Just. Everything with Deke trying so hard to be a good friend to Mack. He is truly the sweetest.

- Also Deke being a weirdly great S.H.I.E.L.D. agent when he’s allowed to do things his own way (he just needs a little help!)

- Mack finding out Deke has been taking care of little Mack and little Ruben

- Mack getting back into the game with his shotgun axe (and cutting off the arms of his S.H.I.E.L.D. jumpsuit LOL)

- Mack and Deke going to visit little Mack and little Ruben

- The Mackelena reunion hug :’)

Favorite quote(s):

Deke: You know he single-handedly demolished the Chronicoms, right? / Coulson: Actually, it cost me both hands.

Deke: I mean, they were your parents. I don’t think that pain ever goes away completely. But every day’s a little easier.

Other noteworthy stuff:

I am the kind of person who wants to know characters’ birthdays, and while it bothers me that we don’t get official birthdays for May, Elena, Mack, and Deke, at least we know, thanks to this episode, that Mack was born in 1972.

This is literally the only “musical” episode/sequence of anything that’s not inherently a musical that I can watch without extreme secondhand embarrassment. (There’s still a little, but it’s also combined with a weird, wryly amused, motherly sort of sense of pride seeing Deke having the time of his life and sounding remarkably good while doing so.)

Also, even now, almost three years later, I always have to stop and listen to “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” when it comes on the radio.

I would very much like to read a fic about Mack and Deke visiting little Mack, little Ruben, and Marcus. (I like to think they played catch because apparently playing catch is still an unfulfilled dream of Deke’s.)

Hey remember when we all thought for five seconds that the little robot was taking the time stream to Fitz? *lolsob*

#aosrewatchs7 #aos #agents of shield #agents of s.h.i.e.l.d.

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agentmanatee · 2 years

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What Disney Plus needs more than anything else - and I mean I need it not want it - is a Deke Squad spin-off.

Seriously, the episode 7x07 "The Totally Excellent Adventures of Mack and the D" is so good that I recommend any lover of the 80s to watch it; even if you've never seen an episode of Agents of Shield. It's such a fun love letter to the decade.

And Marvel Studios can use it to explore the Era of 80s comics or MCU characters who were around in the 80s. We could have a young Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne as Ant-Man and the Wasp. How hilarious would Hank's and Deke's interactions be? If you thought he got on Fitz's last nerve! 😃

Or a young Nick Fury. There's so much potential to Fury being Deke's protégé. I headcanon the man who brought the final piece in the finale as being his grandfather. Maybe there's a way for Deke to bring back Enoch; all he needs is his hard-drive.

And we'd have little Mack and can even have Deke pay visits to teenage Mack and May! And literal baby FitzSimmons when they're born.

#deke shaw #deke squad #mcu #disney plus #marvel #the characters from this episode are too perfect to only be in one episode #i love them #aos 7.07 #aos 7×07 #if you love the 80s watch it #it's not even my favorite episode #but it's the one that i want the most people to see #my fave characters aren't even in it #someone pitch it to feige

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accidental-spice · 1 year

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Top 5 episodes of agents of shield?

Oh, that's HARD. Let's see if I can remember them all...

As I Have Always Been (S7E9)

Parting Shot (S3E13)

The Totally Excellent Adventures of Mack and The D (S7E7)

Melinda (S2E17)

FZZT (S1E6) tied with S. O. S. (S2E21 & 22)

Thanks for the ask!!!

#ask response #aos

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j0rdanvic · 7 months

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I just watched Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 7x07 "The Totally Excellent Adventures of Mack and The D"

#AgentsofSHIELD #trakt

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perthshirecottage · 4 years

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Something that got me about this episode is how willing Deke was to let the Changs back into the group. He didn’t yell at them or berate them in anyway. He could see how bad they felt without him adding to it. Instead he told them that it was okay that they were afraid and he didn’t think any less of them for not being ready for something so wildly outside of their comfort zone. He told them about things that he liked about them as individuals, not as twins. He made them feel better about themselves after something that they saw as shameful and he hugged them without hesitation. Deke is convinced he is a horrible leader but that shows that he is a good one.

The biggest thing that that shows is that Deke takes all of the awful things that happen to him and he tries to do better than how others treated him. I think that’s what drives me so crazy about how the team treats him. They act like he is some annoying tagalong who doesn’t care about anyone but himself and only ever tries to rip off other people’s ideas because he deserves to be rich.

Yes, in his start up, Deke did use previous tech as inspiration for his inventions. But he is smart enough to reverse engineer those things. And then what does he want to do with that money? He wants to end world hunger. He wants to provide better medical care. He looks at a world that is not doing these things. People that are sick and hungry and he remembers growing up like that. And he sees that this world that is is still whole and intact actually has the resources to help people and isn’t doing that. So he makes lots of money because he wants to feel secure and safe after always being poor, but we don’t see anything to indicate that he is actually living in a mansion surrounded by supermodels. He is in his company and working for a better future so no one has to feel the way he did growing up. He is even in a committed relationship with Sequoia, not sleeping around. Deke has a cause and a way to fund it. Then everyone just complains about how much of a hack he is. He was learning how to live in a world he know nothing about on his own and he discovered how important money was so of course he got as much as he could. But he also learned to thrive. And yeah, he bought a pair of expensive shoes but he has probably never owned anything nice in his entire life. He can be forgiven for wanting something nice for once that I’m sure someone else suggested since he has no idea who Jordan even is. And I’m fact, the only time Deke offers to buy anything it’s a home (yes a castle is extravagant but it’s the thought that counts) for his grandparents. And does Deke keto flaunting that he is rich? Yes. But he straight up says that he learned that money is important in this world. The hallmark movies may say it’s not but the way people live disagrees with this so that is something Deke took as the truly most important thing. So he thinks that if it is so important then he must need it to be considered worthy of anything. So he keeps talking about it in the hopes of being cared for in a way he hasn’t since he was nine years old! A literal child!! He just doesn’t realize the rest of the team doesn’t actually care about that stuff.

And then he had to find out that Fitz had died. One of his only family members was gone and no one had the basic decency to tell him that. Even if Jemma wanted to prevent him from feeling pain, he still did have a right to know. He had a right to decide to help if he wanted to but wasn’t given that option. And then Deke snuck his company into the base, not so he could continue to make money but so he could help to stop Izel. Deke even figured out how to stop Izel. He is the one who realized that it was harmonic frequencies that stopped her. And Deke didn’t tell Nana and Bobo that it wasn’t just him making the bracelets, but it’s also the first time he felt truly accepted by anyone on the team including his grandparents. It’s probably the first time he felt cared for and accepted in a really really long time and he didn’t want to lose that by revealing that it was his own team doing the work. And then Fitz called him a hack. Deke grew up in a world where he never had the resources to create anything on his own. He had to deal with only hobbling together scraps from a broken world to make anything and to also, you know, survive. Deke never had the luxury of building for the sake of building. Of learning for the thrill of learning. It was all about survival. And instead of gently explaining that the world doesn’t work that way, he gets yelled at. So he runs off to help, because he does want to make a difference.

Deke has put himself on the line for these people even before he knew about his familial connection. He did it because he believed that they could save the world. Deke willingly gave his life on the off chance that it would make the world a better and safer place. Even the decision to turn in Daisy was to keep the Kree from attacking innocents on the upper levels. But because we know Daisy personally and better we are fully on her side even though the guy who lives there warned her that going on guns blazing was the best way to get people killed. It wasn’t a good thing he did by any means, and Daisy so did not deserve it but Deke weighed her life against the life of everyone in the lighthouse and chose literally *the entire human race*. Deke made it clear it wasn’t just about money for him and was thinking about the bigger picture.

The thing is, that in previous seasons, Deke was only with the team for a handful of very stressful days. I suppose he was an easy target for their frustrations. They considered him as some weirdo they got stuck babysitting. A lot of the dumb things Deke does are a lack of understanding the culture he was dropped into. It’s *not* his fault that he doesn’t understand the time period he is in. Of course he is going to make some mistakes and say or do something strange. But he rolls with it. He figures out how to get by and keep going. S7 is giving Deke a chance to actually be seen and heard. The team is forced into spending time with him and going on missions with him. And for the first time they have no choice but to see him as nothing more than a human being. Not the rando that they can’t shake because he knows more about the future than them. Not the idiot who steals ideas and only cares about getting rich. They are spending time with him and getting to see what exists under their preconceived notions of him. I don’t think anyone has actually made an attempt to get to know *Deke*. They judged him based off their first meeting and no one bothered to get to know him beyond that, not even Jemma.

I absolutely adore that Deke uses his trauma to help people. He wants to keep people from starving but he also wants to comfort people. He wanted to be there for Mack because no one was there for him. Deke was nine and his mom was dead and his dad was too busy chasing after some fairy tale to take care of his kid. So Deke kept offer himself as a source of comfort for Mack. Deke even went and helped young Mack and his family because Deke knew what if felt like to be abandoned. He wanted another kid to feel loved and cared for, the opposite of what Deke went through. Mack had something completely horrific happen to him and lashed out and Deke still offered to be there. Deke didn’t even yell back because he knew Mack was only coming from a place of intense grief.

Deke also made sure there was a way to defend themselves against the Chronicoms if they ever came back. He did that all on his own. Deke has the least training out of everything (read none) and still did his best to teach his team to protect the world while making sure every single one of them, even Cricket, feel valued. Deke never felt welcomed to the team. He felt shunned and uncared for. So he made sure that when he made his team no one ever felt like he did.

The team gets to see that Deke wants to do the right thing. He wants to makes friends. He wants to try. I look forward to seeing where Deke ends his story. I wish we had gotten to see more of his story because it has been so good and interesting, especially this last season.

#agents of shield spoilers #agents of shield #deke shaw #the totally excellent adventures of mack and the d #character analysis #deke deserved better #defend deke squad #deke squad

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spockvarietyhour · 4 years

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#Deke Shaw #Jeff Ward #Agents of SHIELD #Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.#The Totally Excellent Adventures of Mack and the D #GIF #my gifs #S07E07 The Totally Excellent Adventures of Mack and the D #Spoilers #AOS Spoilers #Danny watches Agents of SHIELD

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middlespring · 4 years

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One of my favourite things about 7×07 is that Deke in no way saw his little team as a bunch of, as Mack ever so eloquently put it, "losers". Untrained? Sure. Have a lot to learn? Of course. But where Mack saw some ridiculous people playing dress-up, Deke saw potential and loyalty. He cared about them, tried to train them with his limited equipment, was soft, gentle, and supportive. And not once he was disrespectful towards any of them.

In conclusion, I think that in time Deke Shaw will make an amazing leader.

#aos #agents of shield #agents of shield season 7 #deke shaw #my precious space child #the totally excellent adventures of mack and the d

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ataraxiacleaver · 4 years

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oodlife · 4 years

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Season 7 Deke is my ideal man.

#agents of shield #agents of s.h.i.e.l.d.#season 7 #jeff ward #deke shaw #MCU #marvel #The Totally Excellent Adventures of Mack and the D

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agl03 · 4 years

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Why in the promo pics deke has no eyeliner and Mack has no beard ?

Hi Anon,

Because they are stuck for what I’m thinking is 9-18 months in the 80′s According to the Press Release Mack goes to his Childhood home to mourn the loss of his parents where goes a bit Endgame Thor with the beard and all. While Deke uses that time to turn the Lighthouse into a Rock Star Party bad. Something, will happen that sends Mack back to the Lighthouse, whips everyone and himself back into shape, just in tie for the robot uprising.

#aos spoilers #the totally excellent adventures of Mack and the D

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rodpower78 · 4 years

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Mack: Nice work, D.

Deke: Thanks... Mack Daddy.

Mack: Nope.

Deke: Roger that.

#alphonso mack mackenzie #deke shaw #tv quotes #marvel's agents of shield #abc #mack and deke #funny banter #episode 7x07 #the totally excellent adventures of mack and the d

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ashleybenlove · 4 years

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