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** He was fine until he left a message on her answering machine using a wiretapped line. If he'd only paid attention...
* [[Death By Sex]]: {{spoiler|Francie}}.
* [[Deep
** As well as {{spoiler|Lauren}} in season 3, a villainous example.
* [[Die Hard On an X]]: The season one two-parter, "The Box" featured spooks taking over SD-6 while Sydney and her father were just arriving. They immediately start a Die Hard plan to eliminate the enemy spies.
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* [[First Episode Spoiler]]: To the point where [[Nothing Is the Same Anymore]] after the ''pilot''.
* [[Flak Jacket]]
* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]: Season one's [[Big Bad]], "Suit-and-Glasses".
* [[The Generic Guy]]: Rachel Gibson and Thomas Grace were two characters added in the 5th season to fill in while Jennifer Garner was pregnant (which meant she wasn't up to full Action Girl speed). They were both fine and action-y, but neither one was equal to Sydney.
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Dixon, an excellent guy to have as backup and whose brains are well-balanced with his brawn.
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* [[Mysterious Parent]]: Both of Sydney's and Nadia's count.
* [[Mysterious Past]]: Pretty much everyone's got one.
* [[No
* [[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]]
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** There are other, more minor [[Retool|ReTools]], but these are the major ones. Season 5 is sort of a [[Retool]], but it's constantly changing and never settles. The interesting thing is that all of the original characters are maintained (minus {{spoiler|Will and Francie}}) despite all of the changes in the show. The same might be said of any show, but in ''Alias'' all of the characters completely change teams at least once and repeatedly betray one another, some of them over and over, in ways that would destroy most real (and even most TV) relationships.
* [[She Fu]]: One of the [[Trope Codifier|Trope Codifiers]].
* [[Shout
* [[Significant Monogram]]: Sydney's dad Jack is a Cold War relic of a superspy with the initials "JB." [[James Bond|Hmmm...]]
* [[Sinister Surveillance]]
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* [[Spy From Weights and Measures]]: While working for SD-6, Sydney and associates ostensibly work for Credit Dauphine Bank.
** Except Jack, who allegedly manufactured airplane parts for Jennings Aerospace.
* [[Spy
* [[Star-Making Role]]: Jennifer Garner.
* [[Storming the Castle]]: Bringing down SD-6.
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* [[There Are No Therapists]]: Subverted. Dr. Barnett is even a [[Recurring Character]].
* [[Time for Plan B]]
* [[Time Skip]]: One of the biggest [[Wham! Line|WhamLines]] in the show - {{spoiler|"Syd, you've been missing for almost two years."}}
* [[A Tortured Index]]: Just about ''everything'', usually more than once. This element is used more than fight sequences, as torture sequences involve less choreography.
* [[Trash the Set]]
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* [[Was Just Leaving]]: "Authorized Personnel Only: Part 2".
* [[Western Terrorists]]: Sark.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: ''Every'' season finale.
** And the episode "Phase One."
* [[Wham! Line]]: There are a number:
** "I've waited almost thirty years for this." {{spoiler|"MOM?!"}}
** "Syd... since that night... {{spoiler|you were missing. You've been missing for almost two years}}."
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