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-->'''Theodore Brassel:''' ''[looking down at Ethan from atop] Now I am not a stranger to disrespect, you don't get to where I am without developing a thick skin. But what I won't stand for. What I will lose sleep over - and I love my sleep - is the idea of an irresponsible, rogue Agent working in my office. So I'm going to slow things way down here. ''[draws his face nearer]'' You can look at me with those judgemental, incriminating eyes all you want, but I bullshit you not. I will bleed on the flag to make sure the stripes stay red.''
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-->'''Theodore Brassel:''' ''[looking down at Ethan from atop] atop]'' Now I am not a stranger to disrespect, you don't get to where I am without developing a thick skin. But what I won't stand for. What I will lose sleep over - and I love my sleep - is the idea of an irresponsible, rogue Agent working in my office. So I'm going to slow things way down here. ''[draws his face nearer]'' You can look at me with those judgemental, incriminating eyes all you want, but I bullshit you not. I will bleed on the flag to make sure the stripes stay red.''
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->''You have a wife, girlfriend? Because you know what I'm gonna do next? I'm gonna find her, whoever she is, I'm gonna find her and I'm gonna hurt her. I'm gonna make her bleed, and cry, and call out your name, and you're not going to be able to do shit, you know why? 'Cause you're gonna be this close to dead. And then I'm gonna kill you right in front of her.''
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-->'''Theodore Brassel''': ''[Looking Brassel:''' ''[looking down at Ethan from atop] Now I am not a stranger to disrespect, you don't get to where I am without developing a thick skin. But what I won't stand for. What I will lose sleep over - and I love my sleep - is the idea of an irresponsible, rogue Agent working in my office. So I'm going to slow things way down here.[draws ''[draws his face nearer] nearer]'' You can look at me with those judgemental, incriminating eyes all you want, but I bullshit you not. I will bleed on the flag to make sure the stripes stay red.''
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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: The team successfully rescues Farris from her captors and finally escape the area via helicopter...[[spoiler: only the implanted bomb in her head goes off right before the defibrillator is ready to deactivate the bomb.]] Understandably, they are chewed out by their boss.
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** The team successfully rescues Farris from her captors and finally escape the area via helicopter...[[spoiler: only the implanted bomb in her head goes off right before the defibrillator is ready to deactivate the bomb.]] Understandably, they are chewed out by their boss.
** The team successfully rescues Farris from her captors and finally escape the area via helicopter...[[spoiler: only the implanted bomb in her head goes off right before the defibrillator is ready to deactivate the bomb.]] Understandably, they are chewed out by their boss.
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* TheSociopath: Owen Davian, moreso than any other bad guy in the series.
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-->'''Theodore Brassel''': ''[Looking down at Ethan from atop] Now I am not a stranger to disrespect, you don't get to where I am without developing a thick skin. But what I won't stand for. What I will lose sleep over - and I love my sleep - is the idea of an irresponsible, rogue Agent working in my office. So Im going to slow things way down here.[draws his face nearer] You can look at me with those judgemental, incriminating eyes all you want, but I bullshit you not. I will bleed on the flag to make sure the stripes stay red.''
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-->'''Theodore Brassel''': ''[Looking down at Ethan from atop] Now I am not a stranger to disrespect, you don't get to where I am without developing a thick skin. But what I won't stand for. What I will lose sleep over - and I love my sleep - is the idea of an irresponsible, rogue Agent working in my office. So Im I'm going to slow things way down here.[draws his face nearer] You can look at me with those judgemental, incriminating eyes all you want, but I bullshit you not. I will bleed on the flag to make sure the stripes stay red.''
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Davian would have likely not known the identity of his kidnapper had Luther not called Ethan by name. [[spoiler: Unless of course TheMole having him completely brief him on Ethan's team]]
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* SoYouKnow: Ethan tells Luther that the magnetic one should be encrypted to which Luther replies that he knows that
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* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:Farris]], as a result of the [[spoiler:explosive charge going off]]. Also includes a hefty dose of NightmareFuel and EyeScream.
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* BlackTieInfiltration: Hunt's team infiltrates an event at an Italian palace in order to abduct the MonsterOfTheWeek.
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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: [[spoiler:When Musgrave puts Julia on the phone to talk to Ethan, he asks her the name of the lake where they met, to verify her identity. She correctly answers, "Wanaka".]]
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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: [[spoiler:When Musgrave puts Julia on the phone to talk to Ethan, he Ethan asks her to tell him the name of the lake where they met, to verify her identity. She correctly answers, "Wanaka".]]
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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: [[spoiler:When Musgrave puts Julia on the phone to talk to Ethan, he asks her the name of the lake where they met, to verify her identity. She correctly answers, "Lake Wanaka".]]
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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: [[spoiler:When Musgrave puts Julia on the phone to talk to Ethan, he asks her the name of the lake where they met, to verify her identity. She correctly answers, "Lake Wanaka"."Wanaka".]]
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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: [[spoiler:When Musgrave puts Julia on the phone to talk to Ethan, he asks her the name of the lake where they met, to verify her identity. She correctly answers, "Lake Wanaka".]]
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* ContinuityNod: When discussing stealing the Rabbit's Foot, Luther mentions the security makes [[Film/MissionImpossible Langley]] look like a cakewalk.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: We only see the aftermath of Ethan stealing the Rabbits' Foot, and not the actual theft itself, although we do see part of the infiltration.
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* HowWeGotHere: The films begins with Ethan and “Julia” held hostage by Davian as he threatens Ethan to know where the rabbit’s foot or he will kill “Julia” the rest of the movie shows how Ethan and Julia end up in this predicament. [[spoiler: Davian did kill “Julia“but she is actually his head of security, the real Julia however is held hostage in a similar building one mile away.]]
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* HowWeGotHere: The films begins with Ethan and “Julia” held hostage by Davian as he threatens Ethan to know where the rabbit’s foot is or he will kill “Julia” the rest of the movie shows how Ethan and Julia end up in this predicament. [[spoiler: Davian did kill “Julia“but she is actually his head of security, the real Julia however is held hostage in a similar building one mile away.]]
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* DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler: TheMole, Musgrave, survives Davian for about several minutes after Davian is killed by Ethan until he is gunned down by Ethan's wife Julia.]]
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* TheDragon: [[spoiler: Musgrave.]]
** DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler: TheMole, Musgrave, survives Davian for about several minutes after Davian is killed by Ethan until he is gunned down by Ethan's wife Julia.]]
** DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler: TheMole, Musgrave, survives Davian for about several minutes after Davian is killed by Ethan until he is gunned down by Ethan's wife Julia.]]
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[BigBad Davian]] spends most of the final battle delivering one to Ethan [[spoiler: due to the charge being activated in his head.]] Moments later, Ethan delivers one right back to Davian.
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* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:It doesn't work out, but give credit to Owen Davian. He has Ethan handcuffed to a chair in a hideout, has a gun, and has Ethan's wife bound and gagged as a hostage. He knows that after a quick interrogation, he'll be allowed to kill Ethan. Yet he still takes the time to implant an explosive charge in Ethan's brain just in case he escapes, which he does. Then he even leaves the hideout and goes to where Ethan's real wife is being kept, where he knows Ethan will go if he escapes, so in the event that an escape happens he gets the satisfaction of beating and killing a weakened Ethan in front of his wife. In hindsight it's almost as if he planned for Ethan to escape. However, he's just barely careless enough to get killed in the end.]]
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* AirVentPassageway: Ethan escapes the IMF headquarters via an air vent. The vent Ethan crawls out of is in a room with pamphlets for the Virginia Department Of Transportation, his cover job, implying that he uses that room frequently and either knows of -- or set up -- that opportunity, should he ever need it.
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* AirVentPassageway: Ethan escapes the IMF headquarters via an air vent. The vent Ethan crawls out of is in a room with pamphlets for the Virginia Department Of Transportation, his cover job, implying that he uses that room frequently and either knows of -- or set up -- that opportunity, should he ever need it.job.
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* DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler: TheMole, Musgrave, survives Davian for about several minutes after Davian is killed by Ethan until he is gunned down by Ethan's wife Julia.]]
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''You have a wife, girlfriend? [[ItsPersonal Because you know what I'm gonna do next?]] [[IHaveYourWife I'm gonna find her, whoever she is]], I'm gonna find her and I'm gonna hurt her. I'm gonna make her bleed, and cry, and call out your name, and you're not going to be able to do shit, you know why? 'Cause you're gonna be this close to dead. And then I'm gonna kill you right in front of her.''
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* DeadpanSnarker: Brassel.
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-->'''Brassel''': It is unacceptable that chocolate makes you fat, but I've eaten my share, and guess what?
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-->'''Brassel''': It is unacceptable that chocolate makes you fat, but I've eaten my share, and guess what?
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* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Ethan's offscreen mother and uncle who were briefly mentioned in the first film are implied to be deceased at the time of this movie based on comments from Julia's mother.
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''Mission Impossible III'' (2006) is the third film in the ''Film/MissionImpossible'' film series starring Creator/TomCruise.
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Ethan is in semi-retirement, only training new agents, and is engaged to Julia Meade, a nurse who thinks he works for the Virginia Department of Transportation. He is convinced to come out of retirement when he learns that one of his students has been captured. After the simultanous success and failure of that mission they learn that she was tracking down the whereabouts of an elusive arms dealer named Owen Davian (Creator/PhilipSeymourHoffman) and that he is looking for an unspecified item known as [[MacGuffin the "Rabbits Foot."]]
The big-screen directing debut of Creator/JJAbrams (who also co-scripted and did a bit of digital work), this film falls back to cloak-and-dagger tricks, with the action being more through time-frame constrictions or compromised missions, and even takes time to develop its characters.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: Right after the rooftop-swing stunt.
* AirVentPassageway: Ethan escapes the IMF headquarters via an air vent. The vent Ethan crawls out of is in a room with pamphlets for the Virginia Department Of Transportation, his cover job, implying that he uses that room frequently and either knows of -- or set up -- that opportunity, should he ever need it.
* AsYouKnow: "Magnetic means encrypted..." "[[TheSmartGuy Yeah]], [[CaptainObvious I know that]]."
* BadassBoast
-->'''Theodore Brassel''': ''[Looking down at Ethan from atop] Now I am not a stranger to disrespect, you don't get to where I am without developing a thick skin. But what I won't stand for. What I will lose sleep over - and I love my sleep - is the idea of an irresponsible, rogue Agent working in my office. So Im going to slow things way down here.[draws his face nearer] You can look at me with those judgemental, incriminating eyes all you want, but I bullshit you not. I will bleed on the flag to make sure the stripes stay red.''
* BashBrothers: Once Ethan brings Farris back up to cognitive shape using adrenaline in a syringe, they proceed to fight off the opposition in this manner (including Farris reloading Ethan's gun for him without any vocal communication).
* BigBad: Davian
* BigHeroicRun: One of the most impressive examples ever in ''III'', explicitly stated to be over a mile and done rather close to RealTime (he is running for several minutes).
* BondOneLiner: [[spoiler:"Now I'm out." after killing a {{mook}} with his last bullet.]]
* BriefAccentImitation: The third movie reprises the little throat patches that are able to alter their voice into the voice of whoever they are imitating through LatexPerfection, and shows how both are made.
** [[https://literalminded.wordpress.com/2006/05/05/a-panphonic-poem-for-mission-impossible-3/ The filmmakers contacted a linguistics professor and had him write a poem that included every English phoneme.]] The target recites the poem into a recording device, which then builds a "voice mask" for the imitating agent. [[MST3KMantra The professor noted how unrealistic this is, but admits it didn't detract much from the film.]]
* CameraSpoofing: The classic "Polaroid Punk" version, with a printed picture in front of the lens.
* CharacterDevelopment: As 'M:I III' broadens its focus beyond the mission at hand to include Ethan's personal life, Ethan is a far more rounded (and motivated) character here than in the previous films. Luther gets a little of this too; rather than just another appearance as one of Ethan's agents, his genuine friendship with Ethan is central to his role in the movie.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The "brain bomb" countdown used in the first act lets us know about how long Ethan has in the third act.]]
* ChekhovsSkill: A long-term example - Ethan's ability to lip read and his wife's training as a nurse comes in handy near the end of the film, then it shows up again in ''Ghost Protocol'' when Ethan finds out how badly injured he is at the Russian hospital.
* ContrivedClumsiness: An accidental-on-purpose spill is used to force a kidnapping victim into the bathroom, where he can be abducted through the vents.
* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: [[spoiler:Julia has to do this to Ethan]].
* CuttingTheKnot: The third mission has most everything set up as typical cloak-and-dagger style, but Ethan didn't have time to plan out a more complex escape method and so he just had to fight his way out.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:It doesn't work out, but give credit to Owen Davian. He has Ethan handcuffed to a chair in a hideout, has a gun, and has Ethan's wife bound and gagged as a hostage. He knows that after a quick interrogation, he'll be allowed to kill Ethan. Yet he still takes the time to implant an explosive charge in Ethan's brain just in case he escapes, which he does. Then he even leaves the hideout and goes to where Ethan's real wife is being kept, where he knows Ethan will go if he escapes, so in the event that an escape happens he gets the satisfaction of beating and killing a weakened Ethan in front of his wife. In hindsight it's almost as if he planned for Ethan to escape. However, he's just barely careless enough to get killed in the end.]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Davian is killed very suddenly in the final fight by a speeding truck crushing his head. Deliberately done as Creator/JJAbrams felt that Ethan trying to save his wife and himself was the bigger conflict.]]
* ElevatorActionSequence: Ethan Hunt, after being slipped a pocket knife, waits until his restraining gurney enters an elevator to make his escape. He disables three guards, one with a telephone, while still strapped to his stretcher.
* EvilCounterpart: The bad guys here seem to have all the resources and tech IMF has. [[spoiler:Presumably because Musgrave is supplying or at least helping them, though they ''are'' high-class arms dealers...]]
* ExplosiveLeash: The first words spoken are: "We put an explosive charge in your head." (unless Ethan screaming in pain counts as a word).
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Brassel's very first scene establishes him as an intelligent, driven man. [[spoiler:So why on Earth would he contact Davian from the computer ''in his own office''? The movie deliberately interrupts both Ethan and the audience before they have time to think about it.]]
* GeniusBruiser: Davian, while not exactly trained, is very strong and capable of throwing Ethan around.
* HighAltitudeInterrogation: In an airplane, after Ethan's initial interrogation of Davian fails, he opens a hatch in the floor and hangs his hostage down the hatch such that he feels the massive winds in his face, meanwhile cutting the zips holding him in his seat. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Davian doesn't crack]] and, worse, he learns Ethan's name from the others shouting at him to stop.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Davian has Ethan confirm that the Rabbit's Foot is real by using the LatexPerfection Ethan has used throughout the series to threaten and kill "Jules".]]
* IndyPloy: Offscreen, but when Ethan goes to retrieve the Rabbit's Foot, we hear over the frequency that he needs pickup ASAP. In the commentary, Cruise and Abrams noted that the audience has seen that sort of thing twice already[[note]]And, technically, in this film as well, if you count kidnapping Damian[[/note]] so they didn't need to show it.
-->'''Ethan''': LOOKUPLOOKUPLOOKUP! *quick pan to Ethan hurtling out of a skyscraper window*
* InMediasRes: Combined with HowWeGotHere, the opening sequence of the third movie is one of the best scenes of the series. Note the subversion of the ActionPrologue. No stunts, no explosions, and two or less gunshots, but the tension is ''higher'' than comparable scenes in most other movies.
* InstantSedation: Hunt's girlfriend is kidnapped by a stranger who casually places a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdermal_patch transdermal patch]] the width of a ''pencil eraser'' onto the back of her hand between her thumb and forefinger. She barely has enough time to ask what the stupid thing is before she drops like a sack of potatoes.
* JitterCam: The camera jitters around quite a bit in action scenes and at few other tense moments, but stays still otherwise.
* MacGuffin: The "Rabbit's Foot" is a classical [=MacGuffin=], {{lampshaded}} by the fact that nobody will ever tell Ethan what it actually is or does, although Creator/SimonPegg's character's cryptic speculation is almost better than a briefing. The only clue is a biohazard label.
-->'''Benji Dunn''': ''It's interesting - I used to have this professor at Oxford, okay? Doctor Wickham, his name was and he was, like, this massive fat guy, you know? Huge, big guy. We used to call him - you know, well, I won't tell you what we used to call him. But he taught biomolecular kinetics and cellular dynamics. And he used to sort of scare the underclassmen with this story about how the world would eventually be eviscerated by technology. You see, it was inevitable that a compound would be created which he referred to as '[[http://movieclips.com/gZeX-mission-impossible-3-movie-the-anti-god/ the Anti-God]].' It was like an accelerated mutator or sort of, you know, like a, an unstoppable force of destructive power, that would just lay waste to everything - to buildings and parks and streets and children and ice cream parlors, you know? So whenever I see, like, a rogue organization willing to spend this amount of money on a mystery tech, I always assume... it's the Anti-God. End-of-the-world kinda stuff, you know. ...But no, I don't have any idea what it is. I was just speculating.''
* OhCrap: Ethan after crash-landing into an office only for the parachute to re-engage and suck him back out into a freefall.
* OneBulletLeft: In the rescue mission that opens the third film, Ethan and Farris have nearly escaped with only one Mook in front. Farris asks Ethan how much ammo he has left, to which he responds with "[[PreMortemOneLiner Enough.]]" He then fires a single round that knocks the Mook out the window, to which Ethan then discards his weapon.
-->'''Ethan''': [[BondOneLiner Now I'm out.]]
* ShesGotLegs: The camera admires Zhen exiting the Lamborghini from the bottom up.
* TheSociopath: Owen Davian, moreso than any other bad guy in the series.
* TheStoic: Davian. He doesn't even show any emotion when Ethan dangles him out of an airplane.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: A non-physical version when the team has to blow up the Lambo at the Vatican. Zhen doesn't like destroying such a nice car, and cringes as she presses the button.
* TrueCompanions: Ethan's team, who risk their careers and freedom to help him. Dunn in particular is a tech guy who works at IMF headquarters and even cracks that he hopes they share a cell together while helping him.
* WhyAmITicking: Used to great effect.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Enemy soldiers in direct a [=UCAV=]... By surveilling the situation with a ''SniperRifle''. However: [[spoiler:they were trying to frame Ethan, and the rifle was presumably for point defense, not the distracting explosions they really wanted]].
* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler: The gagged "Julia" Davian shoots at the beginning / end of the film is actually his Italian translator from the Vatican sequence- it turns out she was also his head of security disguised via LatexPerfection, so the fact that he got kidnapped on her watch means she failed him big time- and she pays for it big time.]]
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: The team successfully rescues Farris from her captors and finally escape the area via helicopter...[[spoiler: only the implanted bomb in her head goes off right before the defibrillator is ready to deactivate the bomb.]] Understandably, they are chewed out by their boss.
** [[spoiler: Julia is shot dead in front of Ethan, but that wasn't the real Julia. The ''real'' Julia is in a similar building one mile away.]]
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