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** [[Tom Clancy]] espoused his world view at length in ''The Bear and the Dragon''. |
** [[Tom Clancy]] espoused his world view at length in ''The Bear and the Dragon''. |
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** It started to become really obvious with ''Executive Order''. |
** It started to become really obvious with ''Executive Order''. |
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*** Justified trope in both novels given that at this point in the timeline Jack Ryan is a politician, and he's ''supposed'' to give speeches. |
*** Justified trope in both novels given that at this point in the timeline Jack Ryan is a politician, and he's ''supposed'' to give speeches. Indeed, if Clancy always skipped over Jack actually making the speech and just cut to the results, President Ryan would zig-zag straight into the [[Informed Ability]] trope. |
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** In a Tom Clancy book, John Clark thought to himself that a movie, implied to be ''[[Air Force One]]'' (which in reality did pretty well with critics), was a stupid movie that makes airport security overly diligent. This is most likely an indirect [[Take That]] at [[Harrison Ford]], who Tom Clancy had hated as Jack Ryan. |
** In a Tom Clancy book, John Clark thought to himself that a movie, implied to be ''[[Air Force One]]'' (which in reality did pretty well with critics), was a stupid movie that makes airport security overly diligent. This is most likely an indirect [[Take That]] at [[Harrison Ford]], who Tom Clancy had hated as Jack Ryan. |
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** In ''Debt of Honor'' a scene in one chapter takes place on a bullet train ride that a Japanese-American spy working for the CIA is riding on. Upon making observations about the passengers on the train, he concludes that he hates just about every aspect of the strange and morally debased Japanese culture and wants to go back home to the good ol' USA as soon as he can. It's pretty much disconnected from the rest of the plot. |
** In ''Debt of Honor'' a scene in one chapter takes place on a bullet train ride that a Japanese-American spy working for the CIA is riding on. Upon making observations about the passengers on the train, he concludes that he hates just about every aspect of the strange and morally debased Japanese culture and wants to go back home to the good ol' USA as soon as he can. It's pretty much disconnected from the rest of the plot. |
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