History Film / MissionImpossibleII

* ScalingTheSummit: We meet Ethan Hunt climbing Dead Horse Point in Utah.

* IncrediblyObviousBomb: Luther sees the bomb's red flashing light reflected in a puddle beneath his van.

* ClimbSlipHangClimb: Happens to Ethan Hunt whilst on holiday free soloing - rock climbing without ropes - in Utah.
* ClimbingTheCliffsOfInsanity: Ethan is introduced climbing a Utah mountain barehanded before he gets his mission briefing. Keep in mind he was doing that ''for fun''. He was on vacation.

* ScalingTheSummit: We meet Ethan Hunt climbing in Utah.

* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Did Ethan nail Ambrose with an ensuigiri? Yes, he did.

** Ethan acts more like a James Bond expy than his characterization in the other films, being able to quickly seduce a woman he just met into the sack and has no problem going for guns time and time again.

* MajorityShareDictator: Ambrose's big plan is to use the money he gets from selling Bellerophon back to McCloy to buy 51% of Biocyte, which will have its stock price going through the roof once Chimera starts killing people on the streets and the fact that Bellerophon is the only available cure becomes public.

** Ethan and Nyah first seeing each other was inspired by Tony and Maria's first scene in ''Film/WestSideStory''.

Ethan is snagged out of a vacation to track down a rogue IMF agent living in UsefulNotes/{{Sydney}} who has stolen a very dangerous virus and has malicious plans for it. He is sent to recruit a ClassyCatBurglar and ends up falling for her. That is made all the more complicated when he learns that she is an ex-girlfriend of the rogue agent and the agency wants her to infiltrate his group. Ethan has to put aside his personal feelings as he tries to stay one step ahead of his rival.

* BackstabBackfire: With a gun and a vial of Belleraphon!

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: In the climax of the movie, Nyah injects herself with the last sample of the Chimera virus. If Ambrose kills her then, before the virus replicates enough to be harvested or reaches its contagious phase, he will lose the obscene amounts of money he planned to make selling the antidote for the virus.

* DullSurprise: Creator/ThandieNewton barely changes her expression whether trying to convey seduction, loyalty, betrayal, etc.

* KissOfDistraction: Nayah distracts Ambrose with a kiss while stealing the envelope containing the memory card from his pocket. She tries something similar when she returns the envelope (sidling up against him), but this time it doesn't work--(a) he realizes it instantly, and (b) even if not, she puts it in the wrong pocket, which would have tipped him off eventually.

* MajorityShareDictator: Ambrose's big plan is to use the money he gets from selling Bellerophon back to Mc Cloy to buy 51% of Biocyte, which will have its stock price going through the roof once Chimera starts killing people on the streets and the fact that Bellerophon is the only available cure becomes public.

* TorosYFlamenco: There is a sequence taking place in this kind of Spain where they managed to mix Pamplona's Running of the Bulls with Seville's Easter processions, Valencia's Falles, and about any other Spanish cliché. Also, Swanbeck tells Ethan that "the people are burning the saints to worship them", which is completely false; the already mentioned Falles DO burn figures, but not of saints, and in Easter processions figures of saints are taken out, but NOT burned (some of those figures are ''centuries'' old, and their continued healthy state is SeriousBusiness for the confraternities that take care of them).

* FamousLastWords:
** "You're not Dimitri?" Dr. Vladimir Nekhorvich
** "Raise your arms very slowly." Hugh Stamp
** "You should have killed me." Sean Ambrose

** The cigar cutter scene and the DisguisedHostageGambit to ''{{Film/Darkman}}''

* InformedAbility: Nyah's supposed to be a master thief, but we only see her use her skills twice and she gets caught both times (to be fair, Ethan admits triggering the alarm the first time).

* OddballInTheSeries: As demented as the action sequences have become as the series has gone by, this is the only film in which Ethan [[GunFu shoots two guns while jumping through the air]]. It's also the only film in which he and his team are [[SternChase not forced to take it on the lam]] at some point.

* TheSociopath: Ambrose is the second biggest in the series after Owen Davian.

* SchizoContinuity: To date, 'M:I-II'' is the only film in the series to never have its events referenced or connected with the other films in any way. As well, while Ethan and Luther return from the [[Film/MissionImpossible first film]], none of the other characters introduced in this film ever appear again in the later films. By contrast, every installment from the [[Film/MissionImpossibleIII third]] and onward introduces at least one new recurring character to the series. ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation Rogue Nation]]'' and ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]'' do feature a few [[CallBack Call-Backs]] to this film, however.

* SchizoContinuity: To date, ''M:I-II'' is the only film in the series to never have its events referenced or connected with the other films in any way. As well, while Ethan and Luther return from the [[Film/MissionImpossible first film]], none of the other characters introduced in this film ever appear again in the later films. By contrast, the [[Film/MissionImpossibleIII third]], [[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol fourth]], and [[Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation fifth]] installments all introduce at least one new recurring character to the series. ''Rogue Nation'' and ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]'' do feature a few [[CallBack Call-Backs]] to this film, however.

* BigBad: Sean Ambrose, who is going to steal and release a gene-engineered super-virus to become incredibly rich.

* OddballInTheSeries: As demented as the action sequences have become as the series has gone by, this is the only film in which Ethan [[GunFu shoots two guns while jumping through the air]]. It's also the only film in which he and his team are [[SternChase not forced to go on the run]] at some point.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Ethan disguises himself as Stamp, tricking Ambrose into shooting the real Stamp, who's disguised as Ethan. The real Ethan takes the virus and leaves. The movie started with Ambrose imitating Ethan in the same fashion.]]

%%* BigBad: Sean Ambrose.

* TriggerHappy: Sean Ambrose is well-known to be one, or as Ethan calls it, "getting your gun off". [[spoiler:It definitely comes to bite Ambrose in the ass at the climax because he is so driven to play around with (who he believes is) a captured Ethan before blowing him away with a peoper IronicEcho PreMortemOneLiner ("''[[MultipleGunshotDeath This]]'' is what is called 'getting your gun off'") that he didn't noticed that it was Stamp wearing [[LatexPerfection an Ethan mask]] until it was too late.]]

%%* DisturbedDoves: Courtesy of Creator/JohnWoo, of course!
%%* TheDragon: Hugh Stamp.

%%* ViolentGlaswegian: Sean Ambrose.

* TheVillainMakesThePlot: Sean is obviously the case, but Dr. Nekhorvich [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hEshu6RIog summarizes]] the trope brilliantly;
-->Every search for a hero... must begin with something that every hero requires; a ''villain.''

* DarkerAndEdgier: This is not only the darkest in the series (at least until ''[[MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]''), but also the one that came closest to being slapped with an R rating. It has a higher rating in most countries for this reason.

* DarkerAndEdgier: This is not only the darkest in the series, but also the one that came closest to being slapped with an R rating. It has a higher rating in most countries for this reason.

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''Mission: Impossible II'' (2000) is the second entry in the ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries Mission: Impossible]]'' film series, starring Creator/TomCruise as Ethan Hunt.