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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 ''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 ''The Bear and the Dragon'' the same agent, on an undercover mission in Communist China,<ref>As a visiting Japanese businessman - Clancy knows better than to assume that Japanese and Chinese people look alike.</ref>
**** Fridge Brilliance: One of the problems deep cover agents have is emotionally identifying with the people they're infiltrating, in a Becoming The Mask sense. Perhaps the constant internal 'why I hate these people' rants are the character's coping mechanism for trying to avoid this.
* Also in the genre, the protagonist in the W.E.B. Griffen book, "The Hostage", Charley Castillo, thinks to himself that he likes Mel Gibson movies, and goes into detail about why, which has no relevance to the plot. It would come off strongly as product placement if Gibson was a product.
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