Nikita (TV series): Difference between revisions

Nikita was one of the best of Division's operatives, who became the first to ever successfully escape the program three years ago after the agency had her fiance killed. After spending the last three years planning her revenge, Nikita declares war against the agency by thwarting a crucial assassination. Unwilling to remain hidden in the shadows any longer, Nikita delivers a message directly to Division's director... she is going to bring the agency down, one mission at a time if she has to, and she vows to ensure that no one else will have their lives stolen in the way that Division took hers.

 

 

Not in continuity with the previous series, ''[[La Femme Nikita]]'', on which it is also based.

* [[The Atoner]]: A big theme of the show. Nikita herself embodies the concept, {{spoiler|Michael}} slowly becomes one over the course of the season, and Owen somewhat deconstructs it in his last appearance, due to the influence of a [[Fantastic Drug]].

* [[Awesome McCoolname|Awesome McNickname]] Birkhoff's handle from back in his hacker days was "Shadow Walker".

{{quote| '''Percy:''' You don't kill someone just because they made a mistake.}}

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Less than in the original series, but after all, this is ''Nikita'' we're talking about.

** "Crossbow" (2x22): {{spoiler|Percy's attempt to blackmail the President ends with Nikita and Micheal stuck in Division, Alex and Sean outside, and the Marines may be on their way.}}

* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: Amanda's specialty.

* [[Concealment Equals Cover]]: The cover used on all sides can be of questionable effectiveness at that goal, including canvas laundry baskets.

* [[Conspicuously Public Assassination]]: In the first episode, wherein Division attempt to assassinate a foreign leader in his New York hotel.

* [[Deadly Euphemism]]: When Division kills their own agents/trainees/prisoners, they refer to it as having "cancelled" them.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Michael, Nikita, Alex, Birkhoff, even Percy sometimes... it's very nearly [[World of Snark]].

** Nikita actually refers to it as such when she finds out about it.

* [[Death By Origin Story]]: Nikita's fiancee.

** Sean to Oversight (specifically his mother).

** Ari to Semak.

** Ari Tasarov becomes this to Sergei Semak over the course of Season Two {{spoiler|and eventually evolves into a full-blown [[The Starscream|Starscream]].}}

* [[Dramatic Unmask]]: Alex in the first episode {{spoiler|and Nikita looking at the other mask at the end.}}

* [[Five-Bad Band]]: Division

** [[The Big Bad]] - Percy {{spoiler|(Amanda in Season 2)}}

** [[The Evil Genius]] - Amanda

** [[The Brute]] - Roan

* [[Get a Room]]: Said by [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Birkhoff to Michael and Nikita]] when Michael asks Nikita if she is alright whilst being in the CIA HQ, to which she replies "Oh, babe, I will be as soon as you get me out of here."

* [[Gilded Cage]]: {{spoiler|Percy}}'s prison in Season 2 is rapidly becoming one.

** As of the latter end of Season 2, {{spoiler|Zetrov is no longer antagonistic, with Amanda and Ari on the run, making them the Bad, and Percy the Evil, due to him being the bigger threat now.}}

* [[Government Agency of Fiction]]: Division started as this, though at this point it's more of a mercenary outfit than anything else.

*** [[Plot Immunity|Except when shooting at Nikita or her associates]], of course.

* [[In the Blood]]: Alex's father told her she would be like him because its "in her blood".

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Alex.

* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: The entire thing in ''Falling Ash''.

* [[I Owe You My Life]]: Michael to Percy, due to Percy {{spoiler|talking Michael out of suicide after his family's murder}} by promising to help find the murderer.

* [[Kill Sat]]: At the end of season 2, Percy gains control of an old Strategic Defense Initiative laser satellite, and uses the threat of it to make the President his puppet.

** {{spoiler|Turns out, the SDI satellite was a dud, and was just a cover for Percy's real method of destroying targets.}}

* [[Latin Land]]: ''Nikita'''s version of Santiago, Chile's capital.

* [[Leave No Witnesses]]: Division's stock-in-trade.

* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: Owen is too reckless for Nikita's liking.

* [[Loose Lips]]: Thom in the first episode, Michael in the fifth.

* [[Meaningful Echo]]: Nikita and Michael tend to have a lot of the same lines, especially when they're trying to teach Alex something.

* [[Mega Corp]]: Zetrov, Alex's father's corporation, which appears to have started out as an oil company before expanding into... well, everything else.

** As a bonus, Alex's mental defenses manifest as Dream!Nikita. At one point, Amanda's questioning manifests as Dream!Michael. Dream!Nikita fights off Dream!Michael for a few minutes... before they [[Slap Slap Kiss|end up making out passionately]]. Both Alex and Amanda lampshade the UST.

* [[Mook Face Turn]]: When Sara, an underperforming Division candidate, is sent on a suicide mission, Nikita intervenes and kidnaps her. When she finally gets Sara to accept that Division planned to have her killed, she is able to convince Sara to go into hiding after delivering one final blow to her former employers.

** {{spoiler|Birkhoff}} may or may not have pulled one in "Pandora" due to his friendship with {{spoiler|Michael}}. It wasn't very clear if it was permanent or a one time thing.

* [[One-Man Army|One Woman Army]]: Nikita Vs. Division. Nikita generally wins.

** In case no one had gotten the point yet, it's made quite clear in "All The Way", when Nikita takes on a whole room of Division recruits and guards. She wins, quite easily.

** Tasarov, the head of Division's Russian counterpart Gogol, seems to fit this trope better.

** And the first season finale implies that Percy really is only in it for the money. One of the [[Omniscient Council of Vagueness|Oversight]] members suggests that the whole motivation for his plan to {{spoiler|kill and replace the head of the CIA}} is for access to the CIA's enormous black budget.

* [[Ship Tease]]: There has been significant ship tease between Sean Pierce and Alex, culminating in them holding hands at {{spoiler|Madeline Pierce's gravestone, as Sean says goodbye to his mother.}}

** There has also been some ship tease between Birkhoff and Sonya, Division's new IT expert.

* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Sean spends much of 2x12 shirtless {{spoiler|and tied to a chair, after Nikita and company catch him and take his wetsuit}}.

** This continues in 2x21 "Dead Drop", as he recovers from being shot.

* [[Shoot the Dog]]: Alex {{spoiler|killing Thom and framing him as a spy}} borders on this, although she did the former in self-defense.

* [[Shout-Out]]:

** Birkhoff calls the black boxes Percy's [[Harry Potter|Horcruxes]] in "Betrayals".

*** In a later episode, he refers to Ari as "Lord Voldemort".

** Apparently, [[Mission Impossible|Tom Cruise in a harness]] couldn't break into the SCIF <ref> [[wikipedia:Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility|Sensitive Compartmented Intelligence Facility]]</ref> room in Langley.

** After {{spoiler|his house is destroyed}}, Birkhoff tells the others he'll meet up with them "[[Star Wars|on Tattooine, or wherever I set up the next rebel base.]]"

** In "Power", after Nikita flirts with two guards and then knocks them out, she quips, "[[Star Wars|Boring conversation anyway]]."

** In "Shadow Walker" Division sends three trucks to deliver some money. Alex sugests that they see which truck is riding lowest "Hey, I [[The Italian Job|saw it in a movie once]]". Later, when Birkoff does just that, Micheal snarks "I guess Birkhoff saw the same movie".