History Trivia / TwentyFour

** On a less controversial note, the suspects of the Abu Ghraib abuses claimed ''24'' as inspiration for their tactics, and military intelligence instructors have complained to reporters that they have to drill ''24'' and its depiction of torture out of the heads of new students.
** On a much less controversial note, the positive portrayal of David Palmer is at the very least credited (which the writers deny despite actor's Dennis Heysbert's approval) for the election of the [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama the first African-American President.]] On top of that, it's mentioned that Palmer won in a landslide, and won several states that hadn't voted Democratic for a long time -- Obama would do the same thing in 2008, winning some states that hadn't voted for the Democrats since UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson's victory in 1964.[[note]](Averted, however, when UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton became the first woman to run as a major party's candidate for president. Unlike Allison Taylor, who won a landslide victory over Noah Daniels, Clinton ended up ''losing'' in a landslide to UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump -- in the electoral college at least, with Clinton actually winning the popular vote -- and in 2016, the same year that Taylor was canonically elected, to boot)[[/note]]

* OldShame:
** Creator/JamesCromwell does not look back on his tenure on the show with much fondness. He hadn't seen the show beforehand and only took the job at the urging of his agent, claiming it would make him more-well known, and because he was being offered a lot of money for it. He hated how the show glamorized torture for information, and hated playing a character with no redeeming qualities. This view is actually shared by the writers too, as Cromwell happened to guest star in Season 6, widely considered the weakest of the show and also when the writers phased out torture as a source of information.
** Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr also didn't care for his time on the show, mainly due to his working relationship with Creator/KieferSutherland.
** Creator/StephenFry had mixed feelings about his appearance in ''Live Another Day'', enjoying the experience of working with Creator/KieferSutherland and Creator/WilliamDevane, and also relishing the chance to play a more dramatic role after having mostly played comedic parts in the previous decade, but also disagreeing profoundly with the show's depiction of torture and some of its other political messages.
** Ever since he portrayed the suicide bomber Marcos Al-Zacar, Creator/RamiMalek decided to quit playing characters that were known as "acceptable terrorists" and put his Arab heritage in a very bad light. He mentioned how this role made him conflicted and nearly damaged his self-esteem.

* TropeNamers: ''24'' has named the following tropes on this wiki:
** JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: The use of force or downright torture during interrogation. No less than 67 scenes involving interrogation were counted in the first five seasons, many of them involving the inflicting of physical pain, and mostly involving Jack Bauer.
--> ''"You probably don't think that I can force this towel down your throat. But trust me, I can. All the way. Except I'd hold onto this one little bit at the end. When your stomach starts to digest it, I pull it out. Taking your stomach lining with it. For most people it would take about a week to die. It's very painful."''
** TrappedByMountainLions: [[invoked]]A subplot with no relation to the main storyline that is often used as {{Padding}} to give one or more characters something to do on-screen. Named for a subplot in season 2 where Kim Bauer is on the receiving end of the titular dilemma, an event that is often held to be irrelevant to the rest of the story.
** [The Kimberly], renamed (after the institution of the sitewide policy against naming tropes after characters) [[invoked]]DamselScrappy, due to the perceived tendency of Kim Bauer to get, uh, Trapped By Mountain Lions.

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: The series was notoriously written on the fly, with the writers starting each season with practically no concrete idea where the thing was going to end up. Initially averted by Season 7, due to the 2007 Writers Strike and a year-long delay, resulting in a much more cohesive, planned-out storyline for that season; however, the final quarter of the season fell right back into it with asspull plotting, killing off fan favorite villains in favor of bland charisma vacuums, and tedious retcons that attempted to tie the last three seasons together yet only created a tangled mess of nonsense.

** Creator/JamesCromwell does not look back on his tenure on the show with much fondness. He hadn't seen the show beforehand and only took the job at the urging of his agent, claiming it would make him more-well known, and because he was being offered a lot of money for it. He hated how the show glamorized torture for information, and hated playing a character with no redeeming qualities.
** This view is actually shared by the writers too, as Cromwell happened to guest star in Season 6, widely considered the weakest of the show.

* DenialOfDigitalDistribution: A weird variant. ''24'' was released for streaming on Creator/DisneyPlus in the U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand in 2021...but not America, where the show originated. That being said, ''24'' is available for streaming on Hulu...a U.S.-based streaming service not available in other countries.

** TrappedByMountainLions: [[invoked]]A subplot with no relation to the main storyline that is often used as {{Padding}} to give one or more characters something to do on-screen. Named for a subplot in season 2 where Kim Bauer is on the receiving end of the titular dilemma, an event that is often held to be irrelevant to the rest of the story. (It should also be pointed out that "[[invoked]]DamselScrappy," in a time before the sitewide policy of not naming tropes after characters, was instead called "The Kim Bauer".)

* RelationshipVoiceActor: The Japanese dub deserves a special mention, since it's basically a reunion from many voice actors from the ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'' franchise. The special part come with the fact that half of the Japanese dub cast worked in ''Naruto'', and it would be easier to list which voice actors ''hadn'''t voiced a character in that franchise than the other way around.[[note]]Excluding many minor one-shot characters, the only major ''Naruto'' characters whose voice actors hadn't voiced a character in ''24'' so far are Hinata, Temari, Gaara, Ten Ten, Might Guy and his father, Neji, Kabuto, Orochimaru, Haku, Minato, Kushina, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Konohamaru, Tsunade, female Naruto aka "Naruko", most of the Tailed Beasts, Kurama included, and their hosts, excluding Naruto, Yagura, Saiken, Gyuki and Isobu; plus most of the members of the Ōtsutsuki clan barring Indra, and most of the members of the Akatsuki, excluding Hidan, Kakuzu, Konan, Yahiko and Madara.[[/note]]
** Also, the Japanese dub features many voice actors who worked in the ''Franchise/FateSeries'': [[Creator/RikiyaKoyama Jack Bauer]] is Kiritsugu Emiya, [[Creator/AtsukoTanaka Audrey Raines]] is Medea and Carmilla, [[Creator/HochuOtsuka Stephen Sanders]] is Christpher Columbus, [[Creator/NoriakiSugiyama Rick Allen]] is Shiro Emiya and Senji Muramasa, [[Creator/JojiNakata Eddie Grant]] is Kirei Kotomine, [[Creator/NorikoShitaya Megan Matheson]] is Sakura Matou, Qin Liangyu and Pārvatī, [[Creator/TakayaHashi Benjamin Juma]] is James Moriarty, [[Creator/KenjiNomura Victor Aruz]] is Minamoto no Tametomo, [[Creator/NobuoTobita Henry Taylor and Brady Hauser]] are Don Quixote, [[Creator/YasuyukiKase Keith Palmer, Youssou Dubaku and Farhad Hassan]] are Sakamoto Ryoma, [[Creator/HisaoEgawa Hector Salazar]] is Vlad III/EXTRA and Geronimo, [[Creator/TakuyaKirimoto Alex Hewitt]] is Odysseus, [[Creator/MitsuruMiyamoto Frank Tramell]] is Avicebron and [[Creator/HanaTakeda Samantha Roth and Erika]] are Daikokuten.

** Gregory Itzin wasn't told his character was the BigBad of Season 5 until the episode it was revealed. Itzin has said in interviews he'd played President Logan as a well-intended, but incompetent good guy up til that point.

* NamesTheSame: Both ''24'' and ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' have a kickass blonde hacker named Chloe.
** Ramon Salazar; the psychopathic terrorist dabbling in bioweapons, is not nearly as crazy as...[[ShapedLikeItself Ramon Salazar]]; the psychopathic terrorist dabbling in bioweapons in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''.

** Also, the Japanese dub features many voice actors who worked in the ''Franchise/FateSeries'': [[Creator/RikiyaKoyama Jack Bauer]] is Kiritsugu Emiya, [[Creator/AtsukoTanaka Audrey Raines]] is Medea, [[Creator/HochuOtsuka Stephen Sanders]] is Christpher Columbus, [[Creator/NoriakiSugiyama Rick Allen]] is Shiro Emiya and Senji Muramasa, [[Creator/JojiNakata Eddie Grant]] is Kirei Kotomine, [[Creator/NorikoShitaya Megan Matheson]] is Sakura Matou, [[Creator/TakayaHashi Benjamin Juma]] is James Moriarty, and [[Creator/KenjiNomura Victor Aruz]] is Minamoto no Tametomo.

* KilledByRequest: In Season 3, Vanessa Ferlito, who plays Claudia, was committed to filming ''Film/ManOfTheHouse''. In Season 6, Creator/EricBalfour, who played Milo Pressman, a recurring character from Season 1, specifically requested to get killed off in the show so he could film another TV pilot with Creator/DeanCain.

* McLeaned: Creator/EricBalfour had only signed up the sixth season and since it was already planned for the following season to be a {{Retool}} that was going to get rid of most of the characters anyway, he asked the producers to kill him off. This led to his character Milo getting shot in the face late in the season.

** TrappedByMountainLions: [[invoked]]A subplot with no relation to the main storyline that is often used as {{Padding}} to give one or more characters something to do on-screen. Named for a subplot in season 2 where Kim Bauer is trapped in the wilderness by a mountain lion, an event that is often held to be irrelevant to the rest of the story.

** In "Live Another Day", Australian Creator/YvonneStrahvohski and Briton Creator/ColinSalmon and Creator/JohnBoyega play Americans.

* FakeAmerican: Creator/KieferSutherland, Leslie Hope, Creator/ElishaCuthbert, and Roger Cross are all Canadian.
** In "Live Another Day", Australian Yvonne Strahvohski and Briton Creator/ColinSalmon and Creator/JohnBoyega play Americans.

* CaliforniaDoubling: While the majority of Season 7 was shot in Los Angeles, a good chunk of the season was still shot in Washington D.C., the setting for that season. Much more blatant in Season 8, which was set in New York City, but had none of the episodes shot in location there, with the city only appearing via StockFootage and greenscreen shots.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: The Japanese dub deserves a special mention, since it's basically a reunion from many voice actors from the ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'' franchise. The special part come with the fact that [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters half of the Japanese dub cast]] worked in ''Naruto'', and it would be easier to list which voice actors ''hadn'''t voiced a character in that franchise than the other way around.[[note]]Excluding many minor one-shot characters, the only major ''Naruto'' characters whose voice actors hadn't voiced a character in ''24'' so far are Hinata, Temari, Gaara, Ten Ten, Might Guy and his father, Neji, Kabuto, Orochimaru, Haku, Minato, Kushina, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Konohamaru, Tsunade, female Naruto aka "Naruko", most of the Tailed Beasts, Kurama included, and their hosts, excluding Naruto, Yagura, Saiken, Gyuki and Isobu; plus most of the members of the Ōtsutsuki clan barring Indra, and most of the members of the Akatsuki, excluding Hidan, Kakuzu, Konan, Yahiko and Madara.[[/note]]

* FanNickname: In season 8, Jack himself was given the nickname, "[[Franchise/StarWars Darth]] [[http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3408/4620102799_589bb375ab.jpg Bauer]]". Interestingly, when one would call him this nickname, he can be considered as the Darth Vader to Kim's Princess Leia.
** Curtis Manning was called "Black Bauer" or "Black-Jack" for effectively being just as badass as Jack, and for being... well, black.
** Fans of Larry Moss in Season 7 affectionately referred to him as "Boss Moss".
** The bag of equipment Jack can sometimes be seen toting was known as his "Jack-pack."
** ''Website/TelevisionWithoutPity'' had a cottage industry of these, at least in the first few seasons' worth of recaps. Some of the more notable ones include "Bitchelle" (Michelle Dessler), "Soul Patch" (Tony Almeida), "Spawn of Kiefer" (Kim Bauer), and "[[Film/TheMummyTrilogy [=ImhoTerror=]]]" (Habib Marwan).
** "Sparky" for Paul Raines, after Jack used electricity to torture him.
** "Agent [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Hobbit]]" for Lynn [=McGill=], who was played by Creator/SeanAstin.
** Podcast/FastKarateForTheGentlemen makes a habit of creating these for pretty much every character not in the core cast, and even one or two who are. Special mention goes to "Special Agent Babykins" (Owen), "[=JibJub=]" (Prescott O'Brian), and the "President of Not-Iran" (Omar Hassan).

* CharacterSpecificPages: [[Characters/TwentyFourJackBauer Jack Bauer]]

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: The series was notoriously written on the fly, with the writers starting each season with practically no concrete idea where the thing was going to end up. Notably averted by Season 7, due to the 2007 Writers Strike and a year-long delay, resulting in a much more cohesive, planned-out storyline for that season.

** The actor who played Kevin Carroll (the false Alan York in the first season), Richard Burgi, was originally cast in the role of Jack Bauer. He would have had that role if they hadn't been able to get Creator/KieferSutherland. Once Sutherland was brought on board, Burgi accepted the role of Carroll.

** Creator/RamiMalek commented how his portrayal of Marcos Al-Zacar caused him to vow not to portray these kind of characters anymore that puts his ethnicity in bad light. He mentioned how this role made him conflicted and nearly damaged his self-esteem.

** Creator/RamiMalek commented how his portrayal of Marcos Al-Zacar caused him to vow not to portray these kind of characters anymore that puts his ethnicity in bad light. He mentioned how this role made him conflicted and was not good for him in any way.