History Series / TwentyFour

* FiveManBand: The unofficial CTU crew from Season 7 effectively becomes one for a while:
Bill as TheLeader Bill, Tony as TheLancer, Chloe as TheSmartGuy, Jack is TheBigGuy and Renee TheHeart.

** In Day 6, Abu Fayed turns out to have stolen his suitcase nukes from Graem and Phillip Bauer. Even ignoring Graem and Phillip's involvement in the unrelated events of Day 5, what are the odds that Fayed would have two separate connections to Jack and to Jack's estranged family?

''24'' can be seen as a throwback to earlier works: a ''Film/DirtyHarry'' for the War on Terror, or even a [[FilmSerial Republic Serial]] for the 21st century. It is also jokingly referred to as "the Jack Bauer Torture Hour", or "the Jack Bauer Power Hour". Try to guess why. On top of that, the series isn't scared of {{Player Punch}}es; AnyoneCanDie, to an extent that was only equaled when ''Series/GameOfThrones'' took to the airwaves.

** Season Nine (''LiveAnotherDay''): [[spoiler: On the bright side, Jack prevented China and the U.S. from going to war. On the down side... oh boy, where to start? Audrey is dead, Heller's Alzheimer's Disease is getting worse due to the stress of his daughter's death and he grimly notes that soon he'll forget he even had a daughter, and Mark is facing life imprisonment for his actions and is shattered upon discovering that everything he did in his misguided attempt to protect his wife has now all been for nothing. Kate blames herself for failing to keep Audrey alive and resigns from the CIA. Jack, worn out and exhausted after everything that's happened willingly turns himself in to the Russian Government in exchange for Chloe, who now has to deal with survivors guilt what with Jack sacrificing himself for her, and need we remind you her family is still dead so she doesn't really have anything left back home to go back to. And if we're counting main characters who were removed from play right before the finale, both Adrian and Jordan are also dead and Navarro is facing execution for being a traitor. The only one who doesn't end up in a worse position than when things started is Erik Ritter.]]

# The first revolved around the life and times of President David Palmer (Creator/DennisHaysbert), who is elected after the first season ends but resigns in the third; it also deals with Jack's BackStory, having participated in a clandestine operation in Kosovo (authorized by then-Senator Palmer) that [[GoneHorriblyWrong Went Horribly Wrong]] and resulted in the creation of the {{Big Bad}}s for two separate seasons.

''24'' is an American action drama TV series starring Creator/KieferSutherland as Jack Bauer, agent for a GovernmentAgencyOfFiction tasked with stopping domestic terrorism, during some very bad days. Each season of the series takes place in RealTime over the course of a [[ExtremelyShortTimespan 24-hour period]] (each episode is one hour out of that day), during which Jack is called into service to RaceAgainstTheClock and stop a terrorist threat.

** [[spoiler:Max]] from Day 2, though he was [[TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised finally defeated in The Game]].

"Shut it down....." ''00:00:03 ... 00:00:02 ... 00:00:01 ...'' '''00:00:00'''

** So does this mean Palin in 2012 then?

* TheyDo: Tony & Michelle, Bill & Karen and Jack & Renee. ''Strongly'' implied with Martha Logan and Aaron Pierce.

** And in Day 8, one hour ''after'' what was mentioned in the spoiler above, [[spoiler:Renee gets killed by a sniper bullet, [[DeathBySex after screwing Jack Bauer]]]].

%%* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:Renee Walker]]

Bill as TheLeader Bill, Tony as TheLancer, Chloe as TheSmartGuy, Jack is TheBigGuy and Renee TheChick.

All nine seasons and the movie ''Legacy'' take place on Creator/DisneyPlus.

In January 2016, the show was slated for another return. Fox ordered a pilot for a SequelSeries called ''24: Legacy''. It takes place in the same continuity as the original show and features one returning cast member. Sutherland returned on the other side of the camera, as executive producer, but the showrunners the character of Jack Bauer did not appear. ''Legacy'' premiered following the Super Bowl on February 5, 2017, and finished its first season on April 17. But in June of the same year, Fox announced that it was also to be ''Legacy''[='s=] only season, as they cancelled the show, though the channel would at the same time state that they were still looking into creating another incarnation of the series.

!!'''Spoilers ahoy!''' Read at your own risk. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.

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The series also leans ''heavily'' into GrayAndGreyMorality. Jack may have ChronicHeroSyndrome, but he's also an UnscrupulousHero, the TropeNamer for the "JackBauerInterrogationTechnique," and a BrokenAce from season after season of "IDidWhatIHadToDo" chaos. While the villains are unquestionably bad people who are willing to kill, EvenEvilHasLovedOnes (who, of course, Jack is willing to use as leverage against those villains in true CowboyCop fashion).

'''Spoilers ahoy!''' Read at your own risk. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.

Hit US TV series starring Creator/KieferSutherland as Jack Bauer, agent for a GovernmentAgencyOfFiction tasked with stopping domestic terrorism, during some very bad days. Each season of the series takes place in RealTime over the course of a [[ExtremelyShortTimespan 24-hour period]] (each episode is one hour out of that day), during which Jack is called into service to RaceAgainstTheClock and stop a terrorist threat.

Each season since then has revolved around a large-scale terrorist threat to a major city, usually backed up by a CrazyPrepared BigBad, a well-thought-out EvilPlan, and, sometimes, a DiabolicalMastermind, typically revealed during a WhamEpisode. So far, the threats have been nuclear bombs, a bio-weapon, a nerve agent, and more nuclear bombs, with some presidential assassinations along the way. All in a day's work, eh?

The series is shot in strict {{real time}}, and covers a full 24 hours, though approximately six of them take place during various commercial breaks, which are also used to elide travel or handle logistics like meal breaks, naps and visits to the toilet. It uses of a lot of SplitScreen to get multiple angles on the same action, never employs SlowMotion, and displays ticking digital clocks as book-ends to commercial breaks and at various times during each act; these factors contribute to the sense that events are moving at a breakneck pace. It follows not only the adventures of Jack and other field agents, but also political intrigue centering around the elected officials who give Jack orders back at CTU, often straight up to the President of the United States. It leans ''heavily'' into GrayAndGreyMorality: Jack may have ChronicHeroSyndrome, but he's also an UnscrupulousHero and the TropeNamer for the "JackBauerInterrogationTechnique;" and while the villains are unquestionably bad people who are willing to kill numerous people, EvenEvilHasLovedOnes. (Who, of course, Jack the CowboyCop is willing to use as leverage against those villains.) Jack himself is a BrokenAce from season after season of "IDidWhatIHadToDo" chaos. Finally, it isn't scared of {{Player Punch}}es; AnyoneCanDie, to an extent that was only equaled when ''Series/GameOfThrones'' took to the airwaves.

The show has involved three major {{Myth Arc}}s played out over the course of three installments each.

TheMovie, hinted at as early as Season 5, was scheduled to begin shooting in Spring 2012, but died at the hands of budgeting issues. Instead, it returned as a 12-episode mini-series called ''Series/TwentyFourLiveAnotherDay'' (although the subtitle doesn't appear on screen), which took place in London and aired from May to July 2014. It involved the return of much of the central cast and crew.

Creator/AnilKapoor has driven forward an effort to create a Hindi-language {{remake}} of the show, also entitled ''[[Series/TwentyFourIndia 24]]'. Kapoor plays the main character, Jai Singh Rathod. The show aired on the Indian network Colors from October 4th, 2013 to October 9th, 2016.

''24'' can be seen as a throwback to earlier works: a ''Film/DirtyHarry'' for the War on Terror, or even a [[FilmSerial Republic Serial]] for the 21st century. It is also jokingly referred to as "the Jack Bauer Torture Hour", or "the Jack Bauer Power Hour". Try to guess why.

All nine seasons take place on Creator/DisneyPlus.

* AnAxeToGrind: Season 8 Premiere: Jack Bauer + 2 {{Mooks}} + Fire Axe = 2 dead {{Mooks}}.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Intentional or not, it seems that villainous characters on the show don't last very long in bed. A great example of this is in Season 8, with [[spoiler: Renee Walker. The sex she has with villain Vladimir Laitanan to maintain her cover? Five minutes, give or take. The sex she has with hero Jack Bauer when they get their long-awaited RelationshipUpgrade? ''Nearly the entire episode''.]]

* SeriesFauxnale: Day 4.

*** In one instance in Day 8, a lone terrorist with a pistol manages to take out an entire NYPD ESU entry team.

** UpToEleven when he gets a man to talk by ''shooting his innocent wife in the leg.''