Continuity mistake: In the opening scene where Mike and his kid have a conversation outside a toy store, an explosion comes from the top floor of an apartment building. Just before Mike runs off to go save some of the people from the building, he says "Stay with Bernie" to his kid and Bernie then does this. After he says this and runs off, the kid and Bernie are a good foot away from the toy store. The next shot when Mike shouts "Watch my boy!" to Bernie, the kid and Bernie are a great distance away from the toy store without any time to move. (00:01:20)
Continuity mistake: When Ward is in the apartment in Paris, he begins a fight with two people. At a point during this fight, a couch is knocked over and two cushions fall off the couch. The cushions disappear a few seconds later. (00:04:45)
Continuity mistake: As Mike watches the news in the cafe, he is seen lowering his head just as the shot from the reverse angle ends. From the following shot in front of him, he is seen lowering his head a second time. (00:11:10)
Continuity mistake: When Agent Ward goes onto the aircraft to find Agent Fitz and Agent Simmons having an argument, Simmons put a cup of coffee on the desk. It vanishes from the desk a few seconds after she does this. (00:15:40)
Continuity mistake: In the interrogation room, Skye asks "The truth. What are you after?" and Agent Ward replies "World peace." A few seconds after this line, the light on Skye's head and hair keeps appearing/disappearing/changes position. (00:22:25)
Continuity mistake: After the interrogation, Skye tells Agent Coulson about Agent Ward. Coulson says during this scene,"It's a magical place" and Skye says "Ward doesn't like your style. Kinda think I do." At The End of this line, Skye is looking at Coulson. In the next shot, she's suddenly looking 90 degrees in the opposite direction. (00:26:55)
Continuity mistake: When Simmons is scanning the tree, first she holds the scanner vertically, then the shot changes and instantly she is holding it horizontally. (00:07:50)
Continuity mistake: When the Asgardian bends the knife, he bends the tip up at the very end. When he takes his hand off the knife, the entire front half of the knife is straight. The shot changes again and the knife is bent differently again. (00:24:15)
Continuity mistake: When Jemma, Skye, and Ward are at the Academy it is daytime. When Seth and Donnie are in the parking garage it is night time briefly. Then, it becomes daytime when they flash back to Ward, and remains daytime when they flash to Seth and Donnie.
Continuity mistake: In the scene when Coulson is using a diagram to explain to The Team that Cybertek is the common denominator of everything that's happened during the season, he starts tracing lines that connect various bubbles of the diagram to each other, ending with one that links "the bus" to "GH-325." In the next few shots that last segment suddenly disappears, only to reappear later on. (00:04:15)
Purpose in the Machine - S3-E2
Continuity mistake: When May is sitting on the couch talking to her father, the candles behind them are not lit for a couple of shots. They are lit when they start talking and when they finish.
Continuity mistake: When the Watchdogs destroy the government facility near the start of the episode, 6 shots of Nitramene are fired onto the building's exterior before it implodes. But moments later when Coulson calls Mack, he (Coulson) is watching the news report of the event, and the 6 shots of Nitramene are nowhere to be seen.
Continuity mistake: In the opening of episode 20, Coulson meets General Talbot in a saloon that is a secret entrance to their hidden base, a base that is many stories underground. Yet in episode 22 Coulson uses his robot arm to call another jet; it appears outside a window! He can't have a window in his office, if the base is several stories underground. And to verify it isn't a "video window" or "projection screen", Mac throws a chair through it, essentially saying "We are above ground, let's go get in that jet in front of us." (00:19:40)
Continuity mistake: When Fitz is examining Aida's head, Mack hands him a bottle of beer. He sets the beer on the table and the beer magically twists itself about. It isn't much and it's easy to miss. It's only a few centimeters or so. (00:38:30)
Continuity mistake: When the Chairperson calls the meeting to order and wants to swear in Daisy, you see Senator Nadeer is already sitting next to him. In the next shot, as Daisy is standing up, Nadeer is taking her seat.
Continuity mistake: When Daisy is hugging Jemma after proving they're both human, Daisy's right arm is hooked entirely around Jemma's neck. There's an angle change and a lens flare (possibly to help cover the cut) and Daisy's right arm is now at 90°, with her hand on Jemma's left shoulder. (00:21:15)
Continuity mistake: When Daisy and May knock on the door of the SHIELD contact, the agent opened the door outward. Later when they were under attack, May dragged the agent in, and Daisy closed the door from inside. (00:17:39)
Continuity mistake: When Fitz and his dad are walking together and talking about Dr. Radcliffe, the tablet computer that Fitz' dad is holding jumps from his left hand to his right hand between shots.
The Return - S4-E21
Continuity mistake: During the fight between Coulson, May and the two Ivanovs, the metal pipe that Coulson is wielding gets bent when Ivanov takes it off him. When he throws the pipe to the floor, it's straight again.
Together or Not At All - S5-E7
Continuity mistake: When Faulnak hands the gun to Kasius at The End of their firearms conversation, he turns it around so that he's offering the grip. In the next shot, he's holding it by the grip and offering the barrel instead. (00:16:35)
Chosen answer: Coulson believes he was resuscitated then sent to Tahiti to recuperate. "A magical place," he calls it. But in the "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." episode "The Magical Place", Coulson, through a mind-reading machine, learns that he was treated by S.H.I.E.L.D. and a fake memory of Tahiti was placed as a "mask" of sorts over the painful memory of the operation, which involved a drug seemingly of alien origin to repair the damage, coupled with a lot of morally dubious surgery.