History YMMV / WithoutRemorse

* MagnificentBastard: [[CrusadingWidow John Kelly]] is a US Navy SEAL [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge pursuing vengeance]] on the people who murdered his pregnant wife, Pam. Starting by trapping a Russian Diplomat in his own car demanding the name of Pam's killer [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness before killing him]] Kelly is arrested and goes on to brutalize several prison guards, getting the attention of the US Government who then get Kelly out of prison and assign him to a black ops team to track down Pam's assassin, Victor Rykov. Tracking Rykov to Russia, Kelly figures out that the mission was a set up to get the US and Russia to go to war, where he volunteers to stay behind while his team escapes the country, killing numerous Russian cops. Surviving the onslaught, Kelly [[FakingTheDead fakes his death]] to meet up with his team before tracking down [[BigBad Thomas Clay]] and tricking him into revealing himself as the one who put the hit on Kelly. Killing Clay before leaving the US, Kelly takes the alias "John Clark", and returns a year later to propose a counter-terrorism team he calls "[[SequelHook Rainbow]]".

* MagnificentBastard: [[CrusadingWidower John Kelly]] is a US Navy SEAL [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge pursuing vengeance]] on the people who murdered his pregnant wife, Pam. Starting by trapping a Russian Diplomat in his own car demanding the name of Pam's killer [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness before killing him]] Kelly is arrested and goes on to brutalize several prison guards, getting the attention of the US Government who then get Kelly out of prison and assign him to a black ops team to track down Pam's assassin, Victor Rykov. Tracking Rykov to Russia, Kelly figures out that the mission was a set up to get the US and Russia to go to war, where he volunteers to stay behind while his team escapes the country, killing numerous Russian cops. Surviving the onslaught, Kelly [[FakingTheDead fakes his death]] to meet up with his team before tracking down [[BigBad Thomas Clay]] and tricking him into revealing himself as the one who put the hit on Kelly. Killing Clay before leaving the US, Kelly takes the alias "John Clark", and returns a year later to propose a counter-terrorism team he calls "[[SequelHook Rainbow]]".

** [[spoiler]Arguably, it is the straw the breaks the character arc for Sandy, without such she wouldn't be convinced of Kelly's line of thinking and would not have continued helping neither be romantically involved with him.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: Michael B. Jordan plays a Navy SEAL. People immediately started making jokes that the film is [[Film/BlackPanther Killmonger's]] prequel movie.

* JustHereForGodzilla: Interest in the movie increased online when it was revealed [[spoiler:the ending sets up a future ''Literature/RainbowSix'' film]].

* CaptainObviousReveal: [[spoiler: It is blatantly obvious that Clay is the true mastermind behind the conspiracy, and that Ritter was GoodAllAlong, despite obvious set ups like him being a {{Jerkass}} to the team and not being around for them in desperate times.]]

** The other girls don't have it much better, especially her friend Doris (her brother died in Vietnam, and her mother of breast cancer, she ran away from home after some very cruel SlutShaming by her father in a moment of drunken weakness that he instantly regretted but couldn't find her tell her that, she's beaten for information on Pam then sees her die anyway, and then after being rescued she's tracked down again by the mob).

* FanonDiscontinuity: The death of [[spoiler:Doris]] is tempting to ignore for being irrelevant to the main plot and having a ShootTheShaggyDog vibe to it.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Doris Brown got too much attention and prominence for the fate Clancy gave her, especially when just killing her father in a HeroicSacrifice moment could have achieved the same plot effect and made for better writing.

** The other girls don't have it much better, especially her friend Doris.

* {{they wasted a perfectly good character}}/{{dropped a bridge on her}}; Doris Brown got too much attention and prominence for the fate Clancy gave her, especially when just killing her father in a {{heroic sacrifice}} moment could have achieved the same plot effect and made for better writing.
* TheWoobie: Pamela Madden had a really shitty life. She was driven to run away from home as a teenager due to her controlling, emotionally abusive father. She was then taken in by a pimp who knew just how to spot young girls who had run away from home. He got her hooked on drugs and started prostituting her. She endured the horrors of watching Henry Tucker and his associates rape, torture, and kill girls who got out of line. Eventually she escaped and met Kelly. The two of them quickly fell in love and it was looking like Pamela might actually have a shot at happiness, but then she was recaptured by Tucker. She was raped, tortured, killed, and her body dumped in a public fountain.

* TheWoobie: Pamela Madden had a really shitty life. She was driven to run away from home as a teenager due to her controlling, emotionally abusive father. She was then taken in by a pimp who knew just how to spot young girls who had run away from home. He got her hooked on drugs and started prostituting her. She endured the horrors of watching Henry Tucker and his associates rape, torture, and kill girls who got out of line. Eventually she escaped and met Kelly. The two of them quickly fell in love and it was looking like Pamela might actually have a shot at happiness, but then she was recaptured by Tucker. She was raped, tortured, killed, and her body dumped in a public fountain.

* CompleteMonster: [[TheChessmaster Henry Tucker]] smuggles high-grade heroin into the Baltimore area inside the bodies of American soldiers killed in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. He distributes the drugs via a stable of prostitutes that he controls using drugs, rape, and torture. When one of his girls escapes and befriends the hero, ex-[[UsefulNotes/NavySeals Navy SEAL]] John Kelly, Tucker has her kidnapped, then rapes her, tortures her, and mutilates her corpse, [[ForcedToWatch forcing the other girls to watch]], before dumping it in a public fountain. As Kelly tracks him down while murdering his people, he grows increasingly desperate, going so far as to [[BadBoss kill his own associates out of paranoia]], then attempts to kill his remaining girls when they prove to be a security risk.

* CompleteMonster: [[TheChessmaster Henry Tucker]] smuggles high-grade heroin into the Baltimore area inside the bodies of American soldiers killed in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. He distributes the drugs via a stable of prostitutes that he controls using drugs, rape, and torture. When one of his girls escapes and befriends the hero, ex NAVY Seal John Kelly, Tucker has her kidnapped, then rapes her, tortures her, and mutilates her corpse, [[ForcedToWatch forcing the other girls to watch]], before dumping it in a public fountain. As Kelly tracks him down while murdering his people, he grows increasingly desperate, going so far as to kill his own associates out of paranoia, then attempts to kill his remaining girls when they prove to be a security risk.

* CompleteMonster: The protagonist, an ex Navy SEAL named John Kelly, runs afoul of a drug ring run by a man named Henry Tucker. Tucker smuggles high-grade heroin into the Baltimore area inside the bodies of American soldiers killed in Vietnam. He distributes the drugs via a stable of prostitutes that he controls using drugs, rape, and torture. When one of his girls escapes and befriends Kelly, he has her kidnapped, then rapes her, tortures her, and mutilates her corpse, forcing the other girls to watch, before dumping it in a public fountain. As Kelly tracks him down while murdering his people, he grows increasingly desperate, going so far as to kill his own associates out of paranoia, then attempts to kill his remaining girls when they prove to be a security risk. In the end, he is shot down like a dog without pity, and even the police admit that Kelly did something that they themselves might have done were they not bound by the law.

* DesignatedHero: John Kelly does some ''very'' nasty things to get his revenge on the drug dealers. AssholeVictims they may be, it can still be rather hard to read the decompression chamber torture scene without being disgusted. To be fair, Clancy does lampshade this both in this book and subsequent novels whenever Mr. Clark's past is brought up. Jack Ryan himself subtly calls him out in ''Executive Orders'', saying that he can't condone or forgive Clark for what he did.

* CompleteMonster: The protagonist, an ex Navy SEAL named John Kelly, runs afoul of a drug ring run by a man named Henry Tucker. Tucker smuggles high-grade heroin into the Baltimore area inside the bodies of American soldiers killed in Vietnam. He distributes the drugs via a stable of prostitutes that he controls using drugs, rape, and torture. When one of his girls escapes and befriends Kelly, he has her kidnapped, then rapes her, tortures her, and mutilates her corpse, forcing the other girls to watch, before dumping it in a public fountain. As Kelly tracks him down while murdering his people, he grows increasingly desperate, going so far as to kill his own associates out of paranoia, then attempts to kill his remaining girls when they prove to be a security risk. In the end, he is shot down like a dog without pity, and even the police admit that Kelly did something that they themselves might have done were they not bound by the law.

* CompleteMonster: protagonist, an ex Navy SEAL named John Kelly, runs afoul of a drug ring run by a man named Henry Tucker. Tucker smuggles high-grade heroin into the Baltimore area inside the bodies of American soldiers killed in Vietnam. He distributes the drugs via a stable of prostitutes that he controls using drugs, rape, and torture. When one of his girls escapes and befriends Kelly, he has her kidnapped, then rapes her, tortures her, and mutilates her corpse, forcing the other girls to watch, before dumping it in a public fountain. As Kelly tracks him down while murdering his people, he grows increasingly desperate, going so far as to kill his own associates out of paranoia, then attempts to kill his remaining girls when they prove to be a security risk. In the end, he is shot down like a dog without pity, and even the police admit that Kelly did something that they themselves might have done were they not bound by the law.