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== The Murdock of the movie is South African. ==
He speaks fluent Swahili (not a native South African language, true, but spoken widely across the continent), and his South African accent is more convincing than his American one. He just pretends to be American because...he's Murdock.
** Non-US citizens must have permanent residency to join the US military, and they are restricted to low-level positions that don't require security clearance. It is possible that Murdock became a US citizen after joining the army, however.
*** It doesn't matter which method he uses, he would still be restricted to lower-level positions and it would be difficult to acquire even the basic, entry-level clearance. Not impossible, but difficult, and it would still be the only clearance he could ''ever'' acquire. It would, however, be enough to allow him to progress completely through the vanilla army enlisted ranks and retire.
*** I've never seen someone who is not a native-born American limited to lower-level positions. That's completely false. You can become a citizen and get a top secret clearance. I know this first-hand. For example, I worked with a guy who was born in Iraq, served in the Iraqi Army, fought in the Iran-Iraq war (all of it), moved to Michigan, became a citizen, then several years later, went back to Iraq as a translator with a secret clearance.
** He's not "really" a native of South Africa. He has a fake passport that somehow got mixed up. He was supposed to be passing himself off as Jewish, but there's nothing in that scene that suggests that he isn't actually a natural-born American citizen. The fact that he spoke the language was just rule of cool or rule of funny.
** Probably rule of funny combined with the fact that the actor really is from South Africa (and played Wikus in District 9).
 
== Murdock is a [[Time Lord]]. ==
 
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{{color|red| Warning:}} What follows is an extremely complicated, long-winded, multi-fandom [[Epileptic Trees|Epileptic Tree.]] You have been forewarned.
 
[[Battlestar Galactica Classic(1978 TV series)|Starbuck]] finally made his way to earth, but on the way through the atmosphere, his ship got caught up in some kind of time vortex phenomenon. He fell through this "time storm" and was reverted to a baby, and then he crash landed in the year 1950.
 
Now, Starbuck's father, Chameleon.....you remember how the Nomen called him "The Jackal"? Yeah I figure that's significant because, you see, rogue Time Lords have this habit of using names prefaced by the word "The". There's the Doctor, the Master, the Rani.......so obviously The Jackal/Chameleon is a Time Lord!
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Theory number 2 makes the most sense. Anyway, sometime after ''Family Reunion'', Murdock found out about the Time War. Realizing he had no home planet to return to, he decided to remain on earth and continue his life as H.M. Murdock. Eventually he may have told the rest of the guys his secret. Or maybe he just told Face.
 
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== [[The a Team (Film)|The a Team]] is a sequel to [[Taken (Film)|Taken]] ==
 
"Hannibal" is an alias for Bryan Mills. [[The a Team (Film)|The a Team]] is his on-again-off-again Day Job, and ''[[Taken (Film)|Taken]]'' took place during his temporary retirement.
 
== The passport Hannibal used in the airport says Bryan Mills. ==
 
"Bryan Mills" is one of Hannibal's many aliases. He's just a father, going to meet his daughter in Paris... ''nope, nothing to see here...''
 
== The film is in continuity with ''[[Modern Warfare]]''. ==
 
[[Memetic Mutation|Years ago, a crack commando unit was sentenced to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit... and the world just fuckin' watched.]]
 
(Read it somewhere, thought it was cool)
 
General Shepherd called in every favour he had, but his best still wasn't enough to save Hannibal, his friend and trusted subordinate, from the tribunal. Nevertheless, when the A-Team broke out and went on the run, he offered all the discreet help he could.
 
Fast forward to [[MW 2]]. One of the things Shepherd does with his blank cheque is clear the A-Team's names. Regrettably, before he can send Hannibal and the Team after Price and Soap, he dies. [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|What a shame.]]
 
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