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* [[Canon Sue]]: Ethan's pretty close, if not way into this territory. One reviewer posited that Tom Cruise likes to play Ethan Hunt because Hunt is one of the only characters that can act as escapism for him (one of the richest, most influential, and best-connected people in the country at the time most of the movies were made).
=== The TV series ===
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Lalo Schifrin's iconic theme tune, still used in parodies and commercials to this day.)
* [[Ear Worm]]: It goes hand-in-hand with the Crowning Music of Awesome. '''Everybody''' knows the ''Mission Impossible'' theme song.
** If you watch a few episodes, you'll also find the incidental music running through your head.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Landau quickly eclipsed star Steven Hill, even though he was only intended as an occasional guest star.
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: One episode centered around a staged film purporting to show atrocities committed by American troops in Vietnam. In light of what was later revealed, it gets uncomfortable fast.
* [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]: "Mindbend".
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: So ''very'' many.
* [[Memetic Mutation]]:
** The show's whole concept - [[Impossible Mission]] is a trope of its own.
** The theme tune still represents clever operations to outwit a target, from jewel heists to squirrels looking for nuts.
** "[[This Page Will Self-Destruct|This tape will self-destruct in five seconds]]" - especially popular for parodies, where the self-destruct is often over-powered and bad news for the person close to it.
* [[Narm]]: "Some of that dialogue is terrible, isn't it?" - ''[[Mission Impossible]]'' writer-producer William Read Woodfield. (Example, from "A Game Of Chess": "Then we're all set except for the typhoid. Who's got it?")
* [[Values Dissonance]]: Originally, the IMF were a group of people choosing to use their specific talents in spy work purely for the good of their nation. (Starting in 1966, still the era of "[[John F Kennedy|Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country]].") This wouldn't have worked in the 1996 movie, so it made the IMF a deeply covert part of the US intelligence services. Even in the time of [[Richard Nixon]], the idea of American agents covertly manipulating foreign countries as heroes was going out of fashion, and the IMF spent some time working their wiles on organised crime.
 
=== The films ===
* [[Complete Monster]]: Sean Ambrose in the second movie. He plans to poison 17 million people in Australia with the deadly virus Chimera (as a start; he plans to sell it to terrorists and pharmaceutical companies around the globe)- injected in his former girlfriend Nyah - so he could make a fortune off the cure as he's the only man who has it.
** Owen Davian in the third movie, as well. His actions - {{spoiler|selling weapons to terrorists, killing agents by bombs implanted in their heads, [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|brutally beating up]] the defenseless hero in front of his equally defenseless wife}} - are bad enough, but still things to be expected from a villain in a spy movie. It's his complete lack of any redeeming qualities and incapability of showing any other emotion than annoyance, anger, and a really creepy combination ''of [[Dull Surprise]] and sadistic glee'' that really makes him qualify for the title. Hearing him count to ten while holding Ethan's wife hostage execution-style is pants-shitting scary.
{{quote| ''"What I did to your friend was....fun. It was fun."''}}
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: The ''Mission: Impossible'' theme. The version in the first film even made it onto top-ten charts around the world.
** The movie version is so closely associated with Tom Cruise that it's the background music in the infamous "Happyology" award video that kicked off the Anonymous protests against "Happyology". If you listen closely you'll notice there's no looping, someone is actually strumming the ''Mission Impossible'' theme for about fifteen minutes.
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* [[Even Better Sequel]]: ''Ghost Protocol'' is easily the best-reviewed film of the series, with 93% on Rotten Tomatoes.
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: The trailer for the fourth film {{spoiler|shows the bombing of the Kremlin, a major symbol of the Russian government}}. The trailer was played on the same day as the terrorist attacks in Oslo, Norway.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: After ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]'' became a big hit, an interviewer asked [[Simon Pegg]] if he was going to do the whole Hollywood thing now, to which he replied "It's not like I'm going to be in ''Mission: Impossible III''". Guess again, Simon! (It's not the only time he's [[Spaced|made a prediction]] like [[Star Trek (Filmfilm)|that one]].)
** [[Word of God]] says William Brandt was put in the fourth movie so that he could become the series' new protagonist if [[Tom Cruise]] ever left. In the end, Cruise stayed on for the fourth movie...but around the same time, Jeremy Renner ''did'' end up becoming [[The Bourne Series]]' new protagonist after [[Matt Damon]] dropped out of ''The Bourne Legacy''.
* [[In Name Only]]: The view of many fans of the TV series, as well as the ''cast'' of said series.
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