Destruction of the Framework

"He discovered that there were universes stacked on top of his own..." The subject of this article comes from an alternate universe connecting to the main timeline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This universe is designated by the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki as the "Framework".

Destruction of the Framework
Previous	Escape from Aida
Concurrent	Attack on the S.H.I.E.L.D. International Inquiry Attack on Aida Ambush on Aida
Next	Abduction at Rae's Restaurant
War	Aida's Emancipation
Date	May 2017
Location	Framework
Result	Aida deletes the Framework and its inhabitants Yo-Yo Rodriguez and Alphonso Mackenzie escape
Planned by	Aida
Executed by	Aida
Target	Framework * S.H.I.E.L.D.
Casualties	All Framework inhabitants *Burrows *Grant Ward *Antoine Triplett *Hope Mackenzie *Holden Radcliffe

"Aida's shutting down the Framework. It's collapsing on itself. This is what happens when you piss off your creator."

―Holden Radcliffe to Yo-Yo Rodriguez^[src]

The Destruction of the Framework was a successful attempt by the rogue android known as Aida to delete the Framework, which she previously used to create a new body.

Background

"She wants to circumvent her programming. Every step has been towards that goal. The Framework, Radcliffe, Fitz. We have to stop her."

―Jemma Simmons^[src]

Once they infiltrated into the Framework, Daisy Johnson and Jemma Simmons soon discovered the fascist regime ruled by HYDRA, but were surprised to discovered how different their friends were inside the virtual reality. Leo Fitz was a ruthless doctor and second-in-command in HYDRA, Melinda May was a high-ranking operative in HYDRA, Phil Coulson was a history teacher and Alphonso Mackenzie lived with his daughter. The two joined S.H.I.E.L.D., which operated as a resistance led by Jeffrey Mace, who was an Inhuman in the Framework. With the aid of virtual incarnations of people who were dead in the real world, like Grant Ward, Antoine Triplett and Burrows, Johnson and Simmons tried to convince their friends about the real world, while fighting against HYDRA and its leader, Madame Hydra, Aida's alias in the Framework at the same time.

Leo Fitz designs the machine for Aida

As Johnson and Simmons almost succeeded in gathering all their friends, Mace was killed in the Framework, killing him in the real world as well. Simmons then realized Aida's true plan for the Framework: in order to create a human body for herself, Aida needed a machine constructed out of Quantum Batteries. Putting the agents in the Framework was to prevent them from stopping her plan, and also using Fitz to design the machine through Project Looking Glass. Once Aida's plan was fulfilled, she could kill them all inside the Framework.

Eventually, Johnson and Simmons managed to return to the real world with Coulson, May, and Fitz, but without Mackenzie, who decided to stay with his daughter. Aida's plan for the Framework succeeded, as she created for herself a living human body. This body also granted Aida a number of superhuman abilities, obtained from Fitz's experiments on captured Inhumans.

Destruction

"This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a–"

―Holden Radcliffe^[src]

Aida decided to delete the Framework and all its contents. Meanwhile, Elena Rodriguez entered the Framework in order to convince Alphonso Mackenzie to exit it. She woke up in the middle of the world's crisis. With the help of Holden Radcliffe, she found Mackenzie who still refused to leave and was organizing the evacuation of the refugees sheltered at the Playground. While doing so, Mackenzie and Burrows noticed that several objects were being deleted.

Alphonso Mackenzie tries to comfort Hope before she is deleted

While Mackenzie, his daughter Hope, Radcliffe and Rodriguez were in a bus driven by Burrows and trying to leave the city, they saw a bridge with multiple cars vanish before Burrows and all the other passengers disappeared as well. As more and more details were deleted from the Framework, they headed back to Mackenzie's home, where Daisy Johnson created for Rodriguez and Mackenzie a way out of there. Only after Hope was deleted too, Mackenzie agreed to leave. As the last person in the Framework, Radcliffe accepted his death and was deleted before the Framework world was erased completely.

Aftermath

"A gaming system like the Framework, it's gonna be a cash cow."

―Deke Shaw to Sequoia^[src]

All the alternate characters who the real-world S.H.I.E.L.D. agents had interacted with were deleted with the Framework, including Holden Radcliffe's consciousness and memory. Although the simulated world was deleted, the Framework's data and historical archives continued to exist on the servers.

Alphonso Mackenzie was one of the most affected by the destruction of the Framework as he lost his virtual daughter. Though he was happy to have lived some moments with her, be it in a simulation, Mackenzie was also deeply troubled by the fact he felt sadder for the loss of his virtual daughter than he did when his real infant child had died.

Deke Shaw playing Remorath Rumble

Upon parting ways with S.H.I.E.L.D., Deke Shaw started his own tech company and stole many of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s technological patents and applications in his products. Using his previous experience with recreating the Framework in his original timeline, Shaw used the remaining data to create a Framework-based virtual reality video game called Remorath Rumble, in which users would enter a localized version of the Framework and fight against Remorath and Kree warriors.

Alternate Universe

"You're pimping out the Framework?"
"I never called it that, but yeah. That's the technology the hardware interface is based on. I had to rebuild the software from scratch because Kasius had the historical archives erased. But I was able to get my hands on the servers. I gathered bits of data here and there."

―Daisy Johnson and Deke Shaw^[src]

In an alternate timeline where Earth had been destroyed, the Framework servers survived, and nearly seven decades later, were found and obtained by the Kree Watch. While Kasius deleted the historical archives, Deke Shaw managed to obtain the data on the servers and recreated the Framework from scratch, recreating a virtual simulation of a bar on Earth during the early 21st century for recreational purposes in the Lighthouse.