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* [[If I Wanted You Dead...]]: The Americans, being understandably nervous about the Soviet fleet off their shores, give them several such moments, with the [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Crowning Moment of Awesome]] being {{spoiler|having four A-10 Warthogs zoom in under the radar horizon and box the ''Kirov'' with flares}}.
* [[It's Personal]]: In the book Ramius' main motive was to punish the state for the fact that his wife had died in a botched operation directed by a surgeon who had got the job from [[
** Not only was his wife's routine operation botched, but the "antibiotics" given to correct the botch were Soviet-manufactured "bonus" drugs. (In Clancy's version of the USSR at least, the workers are given a bonus for exceeding quota, and those products produced just to make quota were often poor or fraudulent, bypassing quality control completely). Further, what he considers the greatest crime is the State's suppression of religion that robbed him of a "hope, even if it was a lie" of seeing his wife again.
* [[The Medic]]: Doctor Petrov, naive but caring about his men, as well as a good officer who keeps order when the ''Red October'' is being evacuated. A quite [[Worthy Opponent]] -- in the movie, anyway, where he's played by [[Tim Curry]]. In the book he's described as being a doctor of dubious competence.
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