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'''Jack Bristow:''' As I expected.|'''Alias,''' ''The Counteragent''}}
''Alias'' is a [[
Pretty much a show full of [[Impossible Mission]] episodes, with a twist -- Sydney must perform her mission for the CIA, while appearing to be performing her mission for SD-6. There's also a large element of soap opera though, as she learns all kinds of secrets about her parents and their [[Mysterious Past]].
Unusual for its willingness to embrace a fanciful [[Story Arc]] about a centuries-old prophecy. The first four seasons all featured a subtle, never explained [[Myth Arc]] about an [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Italian inventor with a penchant for odd drawings and fanciful words]]. Somehow this 15th century prophet is still relevant today. His designs have been implemented and his writings dissected. And apparently the global intelligence community has nothing better to do than go to war over every piece of technology he might have even glanced at.
Also notable for the fact that the show was [[Retool|ReTooled]] three separate times. Each time, character relationships and roles changed in fundamental ways.
One of the leaders in [[Wig, Dress, Accent]].
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* [[A
** Debatable, Sydney rather brutally breaks a guard's neck near the end of 1x02.
* [[Aborted Arc]]: Originally Irina was supposed to have more of a role in Season 4, but the actress left for contractual reasons.
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* [[Impossible Mission]]
* [[Incredibly Obvious Bug]]: Averted. Marshall loves to show off bugs that look like paper clips or pens, or in once case an actual cockroach.
* [[In
* [[Instant Sedation]]: Happens a ''lot''.
* [[Ironic Nursery Tune]]: "Pop Goes the Weasel" in Season Two's "Double Agent".
* [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]]: The show juggles with its Rambaldi devices, ancient conspiracies, modern spy dramas, and family problems. There's an overarching [[Myth Arc]], but by the fifth season there are too many pieces and they don't all fit it in the same puzzle.
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: Very few people, surprisingly. Danny, in the very first episode, then later the Iceman, {{spoiler|Francie}}, {{spoiler|Lauren Reed}}, {{spoiler|Emily Sloane}} and {{spoiler|Diane Dixon}}. Being a love interest other than Vaughn seems to be deadly. But for almost everyone else, [[Death Is Cheap]].
** Except for {{spoiler|[[Kill
* [[Kudzu Plot]]
* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]: Oh yes. Everything from the pilot, with its [[Nothing Is the Same Anymore]] plot -- Sydney's father is a double agent, her fiance is killed by Sloane, and Sydney becoming a double agent herself -- but there are a few other things that you ''will'' find yourself spoiled for by looking at just about any press for the show:
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** There are [[Cloning Blues|doubles of characters]] running around.
* [[Latex Perfection]]: Twice in one episode.
* [[
* [[Letting Her Hair Down]]: Sydney.
* [[Lingerie Scene]]: "Phase One," Notable in that this aired literally seconds after the ''Super Bowl'', but a year before the Janet Jackson incident so the [[Moral Guardians]] didn't make too much noise.
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* [[Not Even Bothering With the Accent]]: Melissa George as Lauren Reed. They wrote the character as American, cast an Australian who can do a serviceable American accent, and make her an American raised in England. The result was an Australian accent jumbled in with vague attempts at sounding American and English at different points. Inexplicably her parents, played by Raymond J. Barry and Peggy Lipton, Americans who were supposed to be doing American accents, would randomly use British inflections for no apparent reason. ''Even by the standards of a show where the accents were questionable much of the time'', the Reeds' accents were awful.
* [[Obstacle Exposition]]
* [[One
* [[Opening a Can of Clones]]: Rule of thumb on ''[[Alias (TV)|Alias]]'' - even if we've seen a body, they're probably [[Not Quite Dead|not dead]].
* [[Pair the Spares]]: Will Tippin and Francie. Also, much later, Weiss and Sydney's [[Dead Little Sister]], Nadia.
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** Repeatedly. One thing is consistent through all the reboots and changes is that Irina is not trustworthy and won't be there when Sydney needs her. Sydney, of course, repeatedly trusts her over and over and over in spite of this.
** Jack also counts, considering in the first season, Sydney seems to have no personal relationship with him whatsoever. She describes Jack as cold and emotionally distant, having never been there when she really needed him.
* [[Part
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: Marshall
** Weiss, too, to an extent.
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** Except Jack, who allegedly manufactured airplane parts for Jennings Aerospace.
* [[Spy Versus Spy]]: This show is one of the few non-intentional uses of the trope. In the beginning, it was CIA versus SD-6. And SD-6 also had enemies in K-Directorate. Then it became CIA versus the Covenant. And then CIA versus... well, that's when it started getting complicated.
* [[Star
* [[Storming the Castle]]: Bringing down SD-6.
* [[The Stoic]]: Jack Bristow, ladies and gentlemen.
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** "Syd... since that night... {{spoiler|you were missing. You've been missing for almost two years}}."
** "Well, for starters, my name's not {{spoiler|Michael Vaughn}}."
* [[Wig, Dress, Accent]]: Sydney's favorite method of disguise, occasionally used by other agents.
** Lampshaded by the TWOP [[Fan Nickname|nickname]] for her - "Spy Barbie".
* [[World of Snark]]: This is a [[JJ Abrams]] show. 'Nuff said.
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