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A standard television and film plot. An assignment is received in [[The Teaser]]. A planning session is held ([[Avengers Assemble]]). Then comes [[The Caper]] or [[The Con]], often using a [[Master of Disguise]] and an [[A-Team Montage]]. The resolution is as close to end of [[The Tag]] as possible. At about the 40-minute mark, there is a [[Pseudo Crisis]]. An [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee]] will almost certainly be in play, either obviously or carefully hidden.
"Caper films" share the same basic structure, with different timing and sometimes without the assignment being assigned.
The trope takes its name from the series ''[[Mission: Impossible (TV series)|Mission: Impossible]]'', whose Impossible Mission Force did one of these every week. As such, note that not every impossible mission is an [[
For missions that actually are impossible, see [[Impossible Task]].
Not to be confused with the video game ''[[Impossible Mission (video game)|Impossible Mission]]''. Also see [[Suicide Mission]].
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* The story "Diamonds in the Desert" from ''[[The Midnightverse]]''.
== [[Film]] ==
* The eponymous task of "Inception" in the [[Inception|film of the same name]].
* ''[[The League of Gentlemen (film)|The League of Gentlemen]]'' is probably the [[Ur Example]] of the trope.
* The ''[[National Treasure]]'' film series includes some of the loftiest ever devised, from stealing the Declaration Of Independence to kidnapping the President of the United States.
* ''[[Ocean's Eleven]]'' and its sequel, ''Ocean's Twelve'' both hit almost all the common features of an Impossible Mission.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Despite its few episodes, ''[[Firefly]]'' did two of these, in "Ariel" and in "Trash".
* Mercilessly parodied in the ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' game "Improbable Mission," which had agents given missions involving high stakes but ordinary tasks, such as doing laundry or mowing the lawn.
* The ''[[Farscape]]'' episode "Fractures" (S03 E18): Crichton's run on the Command Carrier.
* And of course there is the [[Trope Namer]] and [[Trope Codifier]], ''[[Mission: Impossible (TV series)|Mission: Impossible]]'' (although its film sequels didn't quite follow the formula as laid out above).
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