History Film / MissionImpossibleRogueNation

* JerkassHasAPoint: When explaining why he wants to shut down the IMF, Director Hunley brings up the massive amounts of collateral damage that their missions cause and the insanely risky gambles Hunt takes to pull off his missions.
** His mention that their victories seem more like luck than anything else rings close to the truth -- consider the fourth film, where Hunt and his team did provide the villain valid launch codes as Hunley points out, the nuke was only disarmed after its control console falling down several stories ''just happened to fail'' to break it enough to render it inoperable as the villain intended, and Ethan happened to survive the same fall without sustaining any injury that prevented him from canceling the detonation (say a broken back?) -- all of this within seconds of the detonation itself.

* [[KarmicDeath Karmic]] NonLethalKO: [[spoiler:Lane is captured by trapping him in a glass box then pumping it full of the same gas that was used to incapacitate Ethan at the start of the movie to give him a taste of his own medicine]].

* NonIndicativeName: "The Disk" is a thumb drive.[[note]]Strictly speaking, in IT terminology, dis''C'' is reserved for actual optical media, such as Compact Disc or Digital Video Disc, while dis''K'' is any mountable drive, virtual or otherwise, such as Hard Drive Disk[[/note]]

** Characters use products from Nokia, Dell, and Microsoft and it's quite obvious that all the devices are running Windows 10.

** Ethan is inexplicably wearing a suit in the Airbus sequence, confirmed by WordOfGod to have been a nod to Film/NorthByNorthwest and Cary Grant.
** Blink and you'll miss it, but the mission briefing [[{{Pun}} briefly]] displays a number of locations of Ethan's previous missions, such as China, Germany and Spain. It also displays some images of Creator/TomCruise from previous movies in the series.

** After their shenanigans in the previous films (Namely the whole "Clipping a building in San Francisco with an ICBM as it crashed into the bay" thing), the IMF is still being investigated, and is shut down.

* AccidentalTruth: [[spoiler:Hunley attempts to warn the Prime Minister what a potential threat Ethan Hunt is by playing up his abilities, even suggesting that Hunt has probably anticipated them having that exact discussion. Ethan is ''standing in the room with them'' '''disguised as Atlee''' having set Hunley up to be there at that time through the simple yet elegant method of having Brandt ''[[FakeDefector pretend]]'' to betray the team; Hunley thus walks Brandt and "Atlee" ''right through security to meet the Prime Minister'' because ''Brant told him he was Hunt's target'']].

* AMacGuffinFullOfMoney: [[spoiler:The ledger that holds 2.4 '''''billion''''' pounds sterling worth of funding for The Syndicate is this for Lane, as it will provide him with the money he needs to keep the Syndicate running for decades. As a neat twist, it turns out that the ledger is digitized and sealed in a liquid-cooled server. At the climax of the movie, Hunt reveals that he's destroyed the only remaining copy of the ledger, and claims that he has memorized all the data, turning ''him'' into a LivingMacGuffin [[AMacGuffinFullOfMoney Full of Money]].]]

->'''Ethan:''' The Syndicate is real. A [[TitleDrop rogue nation]], trained to do what we do.\\

!!''Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation'' provides examples of:

* StandardSnippet: Opera buffs knew that if part of the plot is taking place during a performance of ''Turandot'', that we were going to hear ''Nessun Dorma'' at some point. [[spoiler:In fact, the assassination attempt on the Austrian chancellor is scheduled to take place at the end of the aria, when you could expect massive applause to drown out the sound of a shot.]] A recognizable chunk appears in the score later [[spoiler:as Ilsa departs.]]

* AtTheOperaTonight: A big chunk of the second act of the movie takes place during a performance of ''Theatre/{{Turandot}}'' at the Vienna Opera.

''Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation'' is a 2015 {{action|Genre}} {{spy|Fiction}} {{thriller}} film and the fifth entry in the ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries Mission: Impossible]]'' film series, directed and written by Creator/ChristopherMcQuarrie (''Film/TheUsualSuspects'', ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'') from a story by [=McQuarrie=] and Drew Pearce, and starring Creator/TomCruise as Ethan Hunt.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: In one of the most practical instances of this trope, Ilsa makes a point of ditching her shoes and going barefoot any time she needs to run or fight. This subverts the HighHeelPower trope by acknowledging that heels are actually quite cumbersome and difficult to move around in.

* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: Benji while at the opera, doing computer work:
-->'''Benji:''' Join the IMF, see the world! On a monitor. In a closet...

* ShesGotLegs: The camera loves to focus on Ilsa's magnificent legs. Ilsa's shoes are specifically focused on in two separate scenes -- the torture scene near the beginning of the film, in which she removes them and Ethan compliments them, and the chase scene atop the Vienna opera house when she asks him to remove them for her. There seems to be no in-story reason for it, aside from this trope.

* KnifeNut: Ilsa is shown keeping a few secreted on her person.

* PantyShot: Completely averted. Ilsa does a lot of ladder-climbing and railing-hopping backstage at the opera, and while the viewers see quite a bit of her legs, a combination of editing and well-chosen camera angles keep her honor intact and her underwear unseen.

* CIAEvilFBIGood: It's initially set up to give the impression that the CIA are the antagonists alongside The Syndicate. [[spoiler:Except that it's British intelligence under Atlee who turn out to be far more sinister than the CIA, who're unaware that The Syndicate even exists.]]

''Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation'' (2015) is the fifth entry in the ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries Mission: Impossible]]'' film series, directed and written by Creator/ChristopherMcQuarrie (''Film/TheUsualSuspects'', ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'') from a story by [=McQuarrie=] and Drew Pearce, and starring Creator/TomCruise as Ethan Hunt.

* BadassBeard: Ethan briefly sports this in the six-month TimeSkip.

* NotSoDifferent:
** Ilsa and Hunt, as she points out [[spoiler:when she suggests they both simply abandon their missions and disappear]].
** Lane attempts to pull this on Hunt as well, but he doesn't buy it.

** Brandt has less screentime and plot importance than the previous film, mostly a bureaucrat until getting involved in the action in the second half of the film. Conversely Benji is ''more'' prominent, the central plot doesn't get started until he joins with Ethan. Luther hits a middle ground, he has more screentime than TheCameo in ''Ghost Protocol'', but still considerably less than his appearances in the first three films.
** While Brandt and Benji had some chances to kick some butt in action scenes in the previous films, Hunt is the only IMF agent involved in any fighting this time round. Of course, he's got Faust at his side so it's not exclusively him.

* EvilBrit: Solomon Lane [[spoiler:and Atlee. Given that the former was a British agent tasked with running The Syndicate before going rogue. While the latter conceived it as an attempt to guarantee British interests, and isn't afraid to dispose of agents or do things even the CIA disapproves of.]]
* EvilCounterpart: The Syndicate is a criminal version of the heroic IMF; a group of agents at the pinnacle of their game but only serving their own ends, not those of a nation. [[spoiler:The reason for this is that the Syndicate is a pet project of the British government that was never supposed to get off the ground[[note]]Originally it was simply envisioned as their own take on the IMF but the PM didn't like that the group had unchecked autonomy and nixed the project[[/note]] but the one charged with creating it went forward anyway and then lost control of the group]].

* FamedInStory: Ethan's exploits over the decades have made him a LivingLegend in the intelligence community, to the point that low level agents will break cover to {{Squee}} about it.

* NonIndicativeName: "The Disk" is a thumb drive.[[note]]Strictly speaking, in IT terminology, disC is reserved for actual optical media, such as Compact Disc or Digital Video Disc, while disK is any mountable drive, virtual or otherwise, such as Hard Drive Disk[[/note]]

* PlausibleDeniability: A series staple. [[spoiler: After confirming Atlee originated the plan for The Syndicate via the Prime Minister, holding both him and Hunley hostage while they get the PM's [[BorrowedBiometricBypass biometric credentials]], and eventually capturing Atlee himself, Ethan and Brandt tell Hunley that HE was the one who protected the PM after Atlee shot him with a sedative (as Ethan was disguised as Atlee, the PM is just disoriented enough to remember that part). Hunley later told a special committee that shutting down the IMF was a gambit because they were worried The Syndicate had infiltrated them, and needed Ethan's role as a disadvowed agent to be absolute in order to root out The Syndicate and eventually restore the IMF]].

** [[spoiler:During the mission in Marocco, Ilsa hacks the water gates control and reboots it in order to grant Ethan access. The engineers managing the system quickly notice the problem and reverse the whole process before locking it down, preventing Ilsa from hacking it further. As a result of that, Ethan runs out of air before he can get out. If not for Ilsa diving in to save him, Ethan would've died down there for sure]].

* RealityEnsues:
** After their shenanigans in the previous films (Namely the whole "Clipping a building in San Francisco with an ICBM as it crashed into the bay" thing), the IMF is still being investigated, and is shut down. [[spoiler:...aaand is reinstated at the end of the film, acknowledging that there ''are'' missions only they can handle. On top of ''that'', the witch-hunting bureaucrat who had them shut down is forced to claim the whole thing was all part of the plan, due to the possibility of the Syndicate having infiltrated the highest levels of government]].
** Ethan runs down a narrow hallway while bad guys try to shoot him, [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy kicking up a bunch of dramatic debris but not stopping him]]. [[spoiler:Then we find he did, in fact, get wounded, though he survives.]]
** Benji keeps passing the lie detector tests Hunley frequently gives him to check his loyalties. However, those tests are at best unreliable, and Hunley presumably knows a well-trained person can fool them. [[spoiler:Like Benji.]]
** The mission in Morocco is full of this. Ilsa even lampshades the impossibility of the mission before it begins. [[spoiler:During the mission itself, Ilsa hacks the water gates control and reboots it in order to stop the strong current from obstructing Ethan. The engineers quickly notice the problem and reverse the whole process before locking it down, preventing Ilsa from hacking it further. The resuming strong water current proves to be just a ''touch'' more than even [[WeDoTheImpossible Ethan himself]] can handle -- he successfully completes his task, but runs out of air ''just'' before he can escape. If not for Ilsa diving in to save him, Ethan would've died down there for sure. The mission really is impossible]].
** Ethan drowns and is resuscitated in Morocco and spends a good chunk of the ensuing car ''and'' motorcycle chase driving at full speed while thoroughly discombobulated and suffering from a patchy memory. Averted in that due to his resulting state of [[AchievementsInIgnorance oxygen-deprived calm recklessness]] he is operating at 110% and makes mincemeat of all his opponents via some of the most intense stunts in the series to date.
--->'''Benji:''' ''[watches Hunt take the driver's seat]'' Whoa, whoa, whoa, are you sure you wanna drive? A minute ago you were '''dead!'''\\
'''Hunt:''' ''[eyes unfocused and ''clearly'' out of it]'' What are you talking about?\\
'''Benji:''' ''[gets in the car]'' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck This is not gonna end well]].
** During the Morocco motorcycle chase, a Syndicate mook pulls out a gun, turns to aim at Ethan, and smashes headlong into a car he didn't see coming.

* ReverseMole: [[spoiler:Ilsa Faust was sent to infiltrate The Syndicate by [=MI6=].]]