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* [[Action Series]]
* [[Aerosol Flamethrower]]
* [[Affably Evil]]: Madeline
* [[Aliens Made Them Do It]]: {{spoiler|Nikita and Michael, forced to have sex as part of a mission.}} [[Unresolved Sexual Tension|Not that they weren't headed in that direction anyway]].
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: In-universe: is Operations a power-hungry [[Magnificent Bastard]] bent on ruling the world or a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] who truly wants to keep the world safe by any means neccessary?
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** Michael Samuelle. Codename: Jacques.
** Operations a.k.a.: {{spoiler|Paul Wolfe}}
** And don't get me started on Section's enemies: Red Cell, Glass Curtain,
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Michael.
* [[Bad Boss]]: Operations makes a habit of killing his employees. Theoretically, this is justified since they're supposedly all former inmates facing life imprisonment. In practice, we find out plenty aren't.
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* [[Mnogo Nukes]]
* [[Morality Tropes]]: [[Shades of Conflict]]
** Almost all of the [[wikipedia:La Femme Nikita#Style and presentation|black and gray/grey]] [[Shades of Conflict]] sub-tropes apply. Section One uses immoral methods to stop terrorism. At the same time, Nikita's actions of upholding moral standards sometimes end in Section One losing the advantage.
** [[Black and Gray Morality]]: Though, more like black and extremely dark gray bordering on black morality.
* [[Nebulous Evil Organization]]: Red Cell ''AND'' Section One/Division.
* [[Oddly Small Organization]]: Section - Judging by its worldwide reach, and endless intelligence, would probably have hundreds or at least tens of thousands of employees, yet it always seems like a few dozens or so. (Most of which we already know) As a result, the big boss appears to be micro-managing everything they do. (One might suspect a man in charge of such an organization would have better things to do with his time).
** Possibly averted. There was the occasional hint that Section One is just a blacker than usual black ops division of the CIA.
* [[Only One Name]]: Few regular characters even get last names.
** The tropes of [[First-Name Basis]] and [[Last-Name Basis]] both apply. Most of the regular characters are known only by their first names. Several are known only by their last names.
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* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Since a lot of her missions required her to pretend to be rich.
* [[Recycled: the Series]]
* [[The Remnant]]: "The Collective", formed by the Remnants of Red Cell, Glass Curtain, the Freedom League and several other organizations defeated by Section One.
* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized]]: Self-lampshaded by Errol Sparks, leader of Glass Curtain, who sees himself as a crazed revolutionary.
* [[Right-Hand-Cat]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]].
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* [[Sexy Backless Outfit]]
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: The entire point of the series is Nikita and Section 1 occupying different places on the scale.
* [[Shoot the Dog]]: This entire series is an exercise in dog shooting.
* [[Spy Couple]]: Nikita and Michael.
* [[Spy Fiction]]
* [[Spy-Versus-Spy]]
* [[Story-Boarding the Apocalypse]]: Used to chilling effect in Season Two's Finale "End Game" by Operations and Adrian, especially due to the [[Harsher in Hindsight]] nature of the discussion. Operations justifies his support of {{spoiler|Saddam Hussein}} by describing the chaos that would follow if the dictator suddenly fell from power. In a unique take on the trope, Adrian provides her own take on the situation, stating that Operations will use {{spoiler|Hussein}} as an attack dog to seize control of the Middle East.
* [[Sympathetic Murderer]]: Can be applied to Nikita in the 2010 revival series, given an incident in the first episode {{spoiler|in which she shoots an innocent bystander dead during an otherwise staged robbery}}, yet the audience is expected to sympathize with her as the show's hero.
** Averted. It's revealed in 'All the Way' that the {{spoiler|'innocent' bystander is really a drug smuggler and killing him was the whole point of the robbery}}.
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* [[Time Bomb]]: Once or twice.
* [[Tomboyish Name]]: Nikita, depending on the language. Also, {{spoiler|section founder Adrian}}.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Tragic Hero]]
* [[Twist Ending]]: All the time, and the tradition continues with the CW remake.
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* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Section One, according to some. Some of their enemies as well. Nikita appears to fall into this category in the 2010 remake.
* [[Why Am I Ticking?]]
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]: the location of Section One's command center is only revealed to be in {{spoiler|Paris}} when the center is destroyed to prevent the enemy from gaining control. The other command centers and Section One sub-centers are never revealed unless they are destroyed or are temporary installations.
** The locations of the missions are constantly shown with on-screen text such as "Berlin, Germany, 20:00 hours". Other times the agents say "terrorist Smith was located in London" or "agent Greg is in Venice and will return by dawn". [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Femme_Nikita\]
** There are [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GBp_qRk9GA several] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX5admHkzsA episodes] where the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEgARMSVrCU location] is given as "Building X, Eastern Europe" or "this information came from Northern Europe", but generally the viewer knows where the operation is taking place.
** Yet, mysteriously, all the locations look an awful lot like Toronto, even Sierra Leone (barring some inserted stock footage for an establishing shot).
* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: Nikita's attempts to escape Section One seem to always end in bitter failure.
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: Abeyance is literally where you send incompetent agents to die in suicide missions.
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]
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