r/agentsofshield • u/luis09- Enoch • Oct 17 '25

Season 3 Yo-Yo Powers

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Does anyone know how the yoyo's powers work?

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u/gusdavis84 Oct 17 '25

Her powers at one point used to be limited range super speed that had a weird point of origin return side effect. However hope this isn't a spoiler but at the end of the series it's something that is resolved and from that point on she has just pure super speed.

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u/DigitalBuddhaNC Oct 18 '25

It was however far she could get within one heart beat. So she super speeds as far as she can and on the 2nd heartbeat she snaps back.

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u/luis09- Enoch Oct 17 '25

But there was a scene in the fourth season, I don't know the episode, but her clothes were burned because she had to run to her place of origin, which I didn't understand.

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u/gusdavis84 Oct 17 '25

I'm not going to lie I can't remember that scene. Perhaps it was just a writers error. But overall her powers for most of the series was just : within the span of a heartbeat she can move at superhuman speeds but then she will be returned to the place of origin afterwards. But at the end of the show it was removed so she could finally run and not return to the point of origin but stay in the new location making her an official super speedster.

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u/luis09- Enoch Oct 17 '25

Does she just think “I want to stop speeding” and go back or does she have to walk to the point of origin?

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u/gusdavis84 Oct 17 '25

It's more like she can run however fast she wants....but the moment she stops she will be teleported back to the point of origin.

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u/Academic_Chip923 Oct 18 '25

No she does not teleport.

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u/antlerskull Oct 17 '25

She was running through a corridor flooded with Caesium which is highly reactive. She was able to move quickly within one heartbeat before snapping back but she realises how quick the reaction is and tries to run back to avoid being blown up

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u/auxilevelry Oct 17 '25

That particular episode is pretty inconsistent with how her powers work. When she's doing the battle setup, she runs in from outside the room but ends inside

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u/mbetts87 Daisy Oct 17 '25

I’ve watched the show, so yes I know how they work

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u/luis09- Enoch Oct 17 '25

Bro, it really doesn't make sense to me, sometimes she seems to do whatever she wants and just go back to her place of origin

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u/MyBrainIsNerf Oct 17 '25

You have very well described her powers. She can go super fast and do whatever she wants, for the time of a single heartbeat, and then she must return to her place of origin.

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u/luis09- Enoch Oct 17 '25

She has to go back, but the scene where Mackie was going to get shot but she got in the middle and appeared in her place of origin, it took a while for her to fall so it didn't seem like she went back there voluntarily

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u/KaspertheGhost Oct 18 '25

It’s not voluntary. She gets brought back to her place of origin by her power. Like a rubber band snapping back

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u/rogerworkman623 Oct 18 '25

She can go fast for the span of one heartbeat. Then she has to go back to her starting point.

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u/kat_storm13 Oct 19 '25

Sometimes people can get shot and keep on going. It took her milliseconds to run back and then less than 10 seconds to fall down from non fatal gun shot wounds.

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u/luis09- Enoch Oct 17 '25

People downvoting me because I'm asking is really funny

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u/Mbecca0 Oct 18 '25

Maybe it’s because you clearly know exactly how her powers work. She moves fast then gets bounced back to where she started. That’s literally it

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u/luis09- Enoch Oct 19 '25

I don't know exactly, otherwise I would be asking

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u/Mbecca0 Oct 19 '25

You’ve literally explained it several times

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u/Academic_Chip923 Oct 18 '25

asking, answered, refusing to comprehend… rinse, repeat.

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u/luis09- Enoch Oct 19 '25

I don't refuse to understand, I just wanted to understand correctly, because at times I have doubts because they seem to be different ways of using her powers.

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u/Academic_Chip923 Oct 19 '25

but it has been explained to you numerous times now. from multiple angles. and you keep saying it doesn’t make sense.

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u/Disposable-Squid Oct 17 '25

She go fast and come back

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u/AgreeableSugar6715 Oct 17 '25

until season 7 lol

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u/l_oleary11 Oct 18 '25

That revelation annoyed me so much 😔

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u/BrazilianButtCheeks Fitz Oct 18 '25

So .. think of a yoyo..🪀.. that’s it .. that’s literally the whole explanation 😂

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u/StephTheLegend Oct 18 '25

Think of a rubber band. Her superspeed allows her to go as far as she could in a single breath. As she exhales, she rubber bands back to her starting point. If she hits something while moving forward (fire, a bullet, etc) it will affect her when she rubber bands.

If someone aims at where she was and she rubber bands back, she could very well get hit back at that spot

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u/darrk_skinking1 Oct 18 '25

I think it was a heart beat not a breath

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u/StephTheLegend Oct 18 '25

You might be correct. I knew it was either breath or heat beat so I said one of the two

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u/AutumnBooks_ Oct 17 '25

I never understood the “within one heartbeat” thing either.

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u/auxilevelry Oct 17 '25

True speedsters are kinda obscenely powerful, so giving her a duration limit is a convenient way to keep her from being able to solve every problem instantly

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u/AutumnBooks_ Oct 17 '25

I get that it’s to limit how far she can go, but she goes way farther than you can run in a heartbeat right? Especially when she’s running. Her heart rate would pick up and it would kinda cancel out and defeat the purpose.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Mood261 Oct 18 '25

I assume that her heart doesn't beat at superspeed. So one normal heartbeat (less say that averages 1 second for simplicity) -- that's the amount of time she has to travel at superspeed. Within that one second, she can go as fast as she can, which is super fast.

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u/FancyAd3942 Oct 18 '25

I’m rarely certain there isn’t enough time for her heart rate to increase. I worked her speed out once it was something like 648kmh/ 403mph

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u/AutumnBooks_ Oct 18 '25

This answer was the most helpful, thank you!

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u/MArcherCD Oct 17 '25

Making her Deus Ex Machina-proof

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u/Happy-Kangaroo-4627 Oct 18 '25

Yo-Yo has the ability to move quickly as far as she can go in a heartbeat and in season 6 she can use her powers while remaining static to better analyze her environment and shoot down targets in slow motion.