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Formerly an insurance broker, Mr. Clancy
Famous enough to be a brand name; the appellation "[[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It|Tom Clancy's...]]" has been applied to a TV miniseries, several series of novels, and a number of [[Video Games]]; all meet the author's demands for [[Shown Their Work|research]] and [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness|technical realism]], but most ''were'' made without much involvement from the man himself, and will definitely have no involvement now that [https://web.archive.org/web/20150906224022/http://www.gameinfowire.com/news.asp?nid=11890 Ubisoft has acquired the intellectual property rights to Tom Clancy's name.]▼
▲Famous enough to be a brand name; the appellation "[[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It|Tom Clancy's...]]" has been applied to a TV miniseries, several series of novels, and a number of [[Video Games]]; all meet the author's demands for [[Shown Their Work|research]] and [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness|technical realism]], but most ''were'' made without much involvement from the man himself, and will definitely have no involvement now that [http://www.gameinfowire.com/news.asp?nid=11890 Ubisoft has acquired the intellectual property rights to Tom Clancy's name.]
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▲== Novels ==
* ''[[Red Storm Rising]]'' -- A hypothetical [[World War Three]] scenario fought in the conventional theater. Due to an energy crisis, the USSR attacks NATO in a bid for oil. Cowritten with Larry Bond, who is mentioned in the foreword but not on the cover.
* The [[
* The ''[[Net Force]]'' series.
* The ''[[Literature/Op Center|Op Center]]'' series
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* ''[[HAWX
▲* ''[[Ghost Recon (Video Game)|Ghost Recon]]'' and ''Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter''
▲* ''[[HAWX (Video Game)|H.A.W.X.]]'' ([[Fun With Acronyms|High Altitude Warfare - Experimental Squadron]])
▲* ''[[Rainbow Six (Video Game)|Rainbow Six]]'' and ''Rainbow Six: Vegas''
▲* ''[[Splinter Cell (Video Game)|Splinter Cell]]''
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=== Clancy novels with their own trope pages include: ===
▲* The [[Jack Ryan (Literature)|Jack Ryan]] series.
* ''[[Red Storm Rising]]''.
* The ''[[Net Force]]'' series.
=== Other Clancy novels have featured the following tropes: ===
* [[America Saves the Day]]: A fairly standard plot, especially in later novels.
* [[Badass Army]]: America (and to lesser extents other good guys) are portrayed as commanding one, though America seems to get the lion's share.
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* [[Dirty Communists]]: Played more or less straight until ''The Cardinal of the Kremlin'', but completely turned on its head afterwards.
* [[Discussed Trope]]: Clancy loves to discuss the tropes related to [[Reality Is Unrealistic]], largely via characters commenting on how people expect various aspects of police and spycraft to work because they saw it in a movie.
* [[
* [[Every Bullet Is a Tracer]]: [[Averted]], unsurprisingly. When tracers are used (particularly in the miniguns on the Pave Low helicopters in ''[[Clear and Present Danger]]''), it's specifically mentioned that only one out of X bullets is a tracer round, for the purposes of assisting with aim<ref>miniguns aren't equipped with sights, as they're for area denial and not precision shooting</ref>. Given [[Gatling Good|minigun]] [[More Dakka|rate of fire]], it's also mentioned that it looks like a laser beam at full "rock and roll".
* [[Follow the Leader]]: Clancy's work popularized the techno-thriller genre.
* [[Guy in Back]]: Featured in several novels.
* [[Hot Sub
* [[In Name Only]]: The works whose titles include "Tom Clancy's" only bears his name on the cover, other creators working off of basic setting outlines written by Clancy. In general, many of the "Tom Clancy's" novels are somewhat less well received than the works directly from his hand (or word processor), particularly in regards to the "Op-Center" book series.
* [[Interservice Rivalry]]: All over the place. CIA vs. FBI, FBI vs. Secret Service, KGB vs. GRU, etc.
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* [[Pink Mist]]: Clancy, for all your realistically gory headshot descriptions.
* [[Red Scare]]
* [[Reds
* [[Reporting Names]]
* [[Russians With Rusting Rockets]]
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** Tom Clancy lived in Annapolis, Maryland -- site of the US Naval Academy. Between the staff and instructors living in town, and the fact that a nontrivial chunk of Annapolis' population are retired naval personnel and families, we can reasonably presume that at least one of his friends or neighbors was available for a professional consult.
** In his ''Playboy'' interview, Clancy said that some detail about submarine operation that he included in ''Red October'', that he had pieced together himself, turned out to be not only correct but classified. He got a visit from the FBI, trying to figure out how he had gotten that information. The conversation basically went:
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Clancy: "Know about what?"
Bureau: "We can't tell you, it's classified." }}
** It was not uncommon in the USN Sub community at the time to see highlighted copies of "Hunt For Red October" with different color shading marking what level of secrecy had been breached by Clancy's sources.
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