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* [[Acceptable Targets]]: Private security firms i.e., mercenaries.

* [[Alas Poor Scrappy]]

* [[Alas, Poor Scrappy]]

** Ryan Chappelle, when Jack is forced to execute him on Stephen Saunders' demands.

** Lynn McGill. While [[Unwitting Instigator of Doom|his incompetence]] led to the terrorists getting his ID card and launching a gas attack on CTU, he [[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrifices his own life]] to save CTU from the gas.

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* [[Creator's Pet]]: Dana Walsh garnered quite a bit of hate for her subplot involving her past, and yet continued to remain relevant to the season's plot.

* [[Damsel Scrappy]]. Kim. To be fair, she got better, being eventually...

* [[Darkness Induced Audience Apathy]]: This may have set in for some viewers during or after season 5 when all but two major characters from season 1 had been killed off. Similarly, many newer characters added in seasons 2-4 had also been killed, written off or just forgotten about. Thanks to this and [[Anyone Can Die]] it became almost impossible to worry or even care about the possibility of new characters dying since by this point the show had become fairly predictable as far as character deaths go.

* [[Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy]]: This may have set in for some viewers during or after season 5 when all but two major characters from season 1 had been killed off. Similarly, many newer characters added in seasons 2-4 had also been killed, written off or just forgotten about. Thanks to this and [[Anyone Can Die]] it became almost impossible to worry or even care about the possibility of new characters dying since by this point the show had become fairly predictable as far as character deaths go.

** Renee Walker interestingly manages to escape this apathy. Fans took to her early on when she was added in ''season 7'' and many were just as angry as Jack when she was murdered in the show's final season.

* [[Double Standard]]: In Season 8, {{spoiler|Jack is nearly willing to start a war between the US and Russia in the name of avenging Renee's murder. Just one season earlier, he prevented Tony from executing the [[Complete Monster]] who murdered his wife and unborn child, with much less at stake than Jack's situation.}}