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A standard television and film plot. An assignment is received in [[The Teaser]]. A planning session is held ([[Avengers Assemble]]), complete with an [[Obstacle Exposition]]. Sometimes an [[Unwinnable Training Simulation]] follows, just to underscore how difficult the task is. 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 -- and sometimes an [[Impossible Mission Collapse]] will complicate matters immensely.
If it involves [[Cool Plane]]s, it becomes an [[Airstrike Impossible]].
"Caper films" share the same basic structure, with different timing and sometimes without the assignment being assigned.
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== [[Fan Works]] ==
* The story "Diamonds in the Desert" from ''[[The Midnightverse]]''.
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* 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.
* Naturally, the various ''[[Mission: Impossible (film)|Mission: Impossible]]'' films.
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== [[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]]''
== [[Real Life]] ==
* The ''[[Valkyrie]]'' plot to kill Hitler during [[WW 2]] came close to a real-world expression of this trope.
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