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* TrueCompanions: The above quotes describe his loyalty to Ethan Hunt very well. He knows he’s putting his life on the line, he knows he’s in over his head, but he will do it anyway because Ethan is his friend. The sentiment is returned by Ethan, [[spoiler:who did everything in his power, up to and including drugging the British Prime Minister and the head of {{MI6}}, to save Benji after he’s kidnapped by the Syndicate.]] Indeed, he’s the second most frequent member of Ethan’s team after Luther.
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* AlwaysGetsHisMan: No matter what, Ethan never fails. Subverted in Rogue Nation ''Rogue Nation'' in which he does fail, and Fallout, ''Fallout'', in which he lets the baddie get away to save his team.team. Then it's zig-zagged as even if he failed to get his target now, he always has a backup plan or comes up with another one fast enough to ultimately nail the bad guys in the end anyway.
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!!Hannah Williams
->'''Played By:''' Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible''
A co-worker of Ethan who participates in the opening mission to retrieve the NOC list in Prague.
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* DisposableWoman: Like Sarah, she's killed off in the opening film. Though it's ambiguous whether it was [[spoiler:Claire]] or [[spoiler:Jim Phelps]] who done her in. Ethan chooses to believe that it was the latter.
* WeHardlyKnewYa: She's perhaps the least fleshed out character among Ethan's original team before her death.
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!!Hannah Williams
->'''Played By:''' Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible''
A co-worker of Ethan who participates in the opening mission to retrieve the NOC list in Prague.
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'''Zhen:''' All I do is copy.\\
'''Declan:''' That's funny. Get moving now.\\
'''Zhen:''' I'm already on the way.
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->''"It was my op. I put him in the field. And [Sabine] left him just alive enough for me to see him die."''
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* FatalFlaw: He refuses point-blank to leave anyone behind, which apparently extends to those who do him a solid or push his 'mentor' button: this trait seems to stem from losing his team in ''Film/MissionImpossible'' and [[spoiler: his protege]] in ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII''. This is a downright foolhardy habit for an agent in perpetual danger, constantly having to put up with betrayal and shifting loyalties. Ilsa Faust and Solomon Lane (and before that, Owen Davian!) play him every which way as a result. This tendency of Hunt's is also implied what causes him to be behind the mission in Berlin mentioned in the lose weapons grade plutonium to rogue agents in ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]'' trailer going south; and indeed Fallout]]'', when he lets the movie itself seems plutonium out of his sight to be focused on deconstructing this flaw.save one of his team members.
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'''Luther:''' For mere mortals, no. For me, I could've done this at home.
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* AcePilot: He pilots a helicopter in the first film's climax, as part of [[spoiler:Jim]]'s escape plan, even going so far as to fly it into the '''Channel Tunnel''' when things go pear-shaped.
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->''"I am a field agent, I know the risks. More than that, I am your friend, no matter what I tell the polygraph every week. Now you called me because you needed my help, and you still do. So I am staying. And that is all we are going to say about that."''
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* KnifeNut: Is crazy skilled BlackBestFriend: Since Ethan met him in the first film, they've become close friends and allies. Also, he was the only recruit in the first film who didn't have a FaceHeelTurn.
* DeadpanSnarker: He has a dry wit he frequently deploys.
* DemotedToExtra: He sits out for ''Ghost Protocol'' and only appears in the last scene. ''Rogue Nation'' gives him a bigger part again.
* PlayfulHacker: He was the main hacker figure before the third film, after Benji's AscendedExtra appearance. Though that didn't stop Luther from helping his old friend Ethan when required.
* ReformedCriminal: Used to be on the wrong side of the law, now works for IMF.
* ScaryBlackMan: In ''Rogue Nation'', lets Brandt know withknives.
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* TrueCompanions: In the fifth movie he makes evident his loyalty isn't to IMF, or the government, it's to ''Ethan Hunt'' andwanted revenge.no one else.
* DeadpanSnarker: He has a dry wit he frequently deploys.
* DemotedToExtra: He sits out for ''Ghost Protocol'' and only appears in the last scene. ''Rogue Nation'' gives him a bigger part again.
* PlayfulHacker: He was the main hacker figure before the third film, after Benji's AscendedExtra appearance. Though that didn't stop Luther from helping his old friend Ethan when required.
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->'''Played By:''' Jean Reno
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible''
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->'''Played By:''' Jean Reno
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible''
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!!Lindsey Farris
->'''Played By:''' Creator/KeriRussell
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII''
A young apprentice of Ethan Hunt that was kidnapped by Davian's men.
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!!Lindsey Farris
->'''Played By:''' Creator/KeriRussell
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII''
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* BadassInDistress: The movie opens with her being rescued from her kidnappers
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Ethan says they were so.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Killed very suddenly just when one thought she might be useful on Ethan's Team.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Her kidnap forced Ethan to do one final mission before retirement. [[spoiler:Then she suddenly died from an implanted chip inside her head, forcing him to go back to the IMF]].
* BadassInDistress: The movie opens with her being rescued from her kidnappers
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Ethan says they were so.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Killed very suddenly just when one thought she might be useful on Ethan's Team.
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BadassBookworm: Between ''Ghost Protocol'' and ''Rogue Nation'', Benji earns his badassery in battle.
*LikeBrotherAndSister: BreakoutCharacter: He was introduced late into the third film and only had a supporting role. By ''Ghost Protocol'' and ''Rogue Nation'' he's become one of the primary cast.
* DeadpanSnarker: Loves making sarcastic comments.
* DistressedDude: [[spoiler: Is captured by the Syndicate and held ransom in exchange for the unencrypted Red Box and its mysterious contents during the final third of ''Rogue Nation''. GuileHero that he is, Ethansays they were so.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Killed very suddenly just when one thought she might be useful on Ethan's Team.
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* IconicSequelCharacter: He only came to theIMF]].franchise in the third film, but since then he's been on every installment and with a [[AscendedExtra steadily increasing amount of plot importance and screentime]].
* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: Is called by his nickname basically all the time, even Hunley, the CIA director, refers to him as "Benji Dunn" instead of "Benjamin Dunn".
* PlayfulHacker: That's his main ability. He had substituted Luther in the fourth film as the tech savvy.
* PluckyComicRelief: When you need a couple of good laughs in the film, Benji is your man. Of course, he's played masterfully by Simon Pegg.
* TheSmartGuy: Very good with technology.
* TookALevelInBadass: He started as a techinician working behind a desk, but by ''Rogue Nation'', he's a fully operational field agent.
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* DistressedDude: [[spoiler: Is captured by the Syndicate and held ransom in exchange for the unencrypted Red Box and its mysterious contents during the final third of ''Rogue Nation''. GuileHero that he is, Ethan
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Killed very suddenly just when one thought she might be useful on Ethan's Team.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Her kidnap forced Ethan
* IconicSequelCharacter: He only came to the
* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: Is called by his nickname basically all the time, even Hunley, the CIA director, refers to him as "Benji Dunn" instead of "Benjamin Dunn".
* PlayfulHacker: That's his main ability. He had substituted Luther in the fourth film as the tech savvy.
* PluckyComicRelief: When you need a couple of good laughs in the film, Benji is your man. Of course, he's played masterfully by Simon Pegg.
* TheSmartGuy: Very good with technology.
* TookALevelInBadass: He started as a techinician working behind a desk, but by ''Rogue Nation'', he's a fully operational field agent.
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!!Lindsey Farris
->'''Played By:''' Creator/KeriRussell
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII''
A young apprentice of Ethan Hunt that was kidnapped by Davian's men.
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* BadassInDistress: The movie opens with her being rescued from her kidnappers
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Ethan says they were so.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Killed very suddenly just when one thought she might be useful on Ethan's Team.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Her kidnap forced Ethan to do one final mission before retirement. [[spoiler:Then she suddenly died from an implanted chip inside her head, forcing him to go back to the IMF]].
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!!Lindsey Farris
->'''Played By:''' Creator/KeriRussell
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII''
A young apprentice of Ethan Hunt that was kidnapped by Davian's men.
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* BadassInDistress: The movie opens with her being rescued from her kidnappers
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Ethan says they were so.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Killed very suddenly just when one thought she might be useful on Ethan's Team.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Her kidnap forced Ethan to do one final mission before retirement. [[spoiler:Then she suddenly died from an implanted chip inside her head, forcing him to go back to the IMF]].
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* ActionGirl
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: No explanation for her absence in ''Rogue Nation'', despite clearly accepting Ethan's offer to join his team. [[note]] Patton wasn't available to return [[/note]].
* DesignatedGirlFight: With Sabine Moreau. [[ItsPersonal Justified as Sabine killed Trevor]].
* RevengeBeforeReason: Jane is accused of this after killing Trevor's assassin, but to be fair, she presented a certain danger at the time.
* ShesGotLegs: Oh boy, does she ever! The target of her HoneyTrap notices.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The only female member of the team in the fourth film.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: By the fifth and sixth films, it is unknown what happened to her.
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!!William Brandt
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/JeremyRenner
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Ghost Protocol]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation Rogue Nation]]''
One of Ethan's new recruits. An assistant to the IMF Secretary and a former field agent with a dark past.
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* TheAtoner: See MyGreatestFailure below.
* BadassBureaucrat: He was first introduced as an assistant to the IMF Secretary. Then you learn he wasn't all the time in his desk and has great combat skills.
* CaptainObvious: In ''Rogue Nation'' he keeps pointing out the self-evident, though as a warning more than anything.
* TheCynic
* DeadpanSnarker: He's very sardonic.
* MissionControl: Fulfills this purpose for some time ''Rogue Nation''.
* MyGreatestFailure: He feels guilty for failing at protecting Julia. [[spoiler:Though this was deliberately made up by Ethan for Julia's safety and keep her out from his dangerous IMF missions]].
* ThePessimist: Constantly doubts the mission will succeed and usually goes to the worse case scenario.
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/JeremyRenner
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Ghost Protocol]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation Rogue Nation]]''
One of Ethan's new recruits. An assistant to the IMF Secretary and a former field agent with a dark past.
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* TheAtoner: See MyGreatestFailure below.
* BadassBureaucrat: He was first introduced as an assistant to the IMF Secretary. Then you learn he wasn't all the time in his desk and has great combat skills.
* CaptainObvious: In ''Rogue Nation'' he keeps pointing out the self-evident, though as a warning more than anything.
* TheCynic
* DeadpanSnarker: He's very sardonic.
* MissionControl: Fulfills this purpose for some time ''Rogue Nation''.
* MyGreatestFailure: He feels guilty for failing at protecting Julia. [[spoiler:Though this was deliberately made up by Ethan for Julia's safety and keep her out from his dangerous IMF missions]].
* ThePessimist: Constantly doubts the mission will succeed and usually goes to the worse case scenario.
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!!Lindsey Farris
->'''Played By:''' Creator/KeriRussell
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII''
A young apprentice of Ethan Hunt that was kidnapped by Davian's men.
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* ActionGirl: She is Ethan's favorite IMF pupil and had been personally trained by him, so she begins fulfilling this trope the moment she is broken free.
* BadassInDistress: The movie opens with her being rescued from her kidnappers
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Ethan says they were so.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Killed very suddenly just when one thought she might be useful on Ethan's Team.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Her kidnap forced Ethan to do one final mission before retirement. [[spoiler:Then she suddenly died from an implanted chip inside her head, forcing him to go back to the IMF]].
->'''Played By:''' Creator/KeriRussell
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII''
A young apprentice of Ethan Hunt that was kidnapped by Davian's men.
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* ActionGirl: She is Ethan's favorite IMF pupil and had been personally trained by him, so she begins fulfilling this trope the moment she is broken free.
* BadassInDistress: The movie opens with her being rescued from her kidnappers
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Ethan says they were so.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Killed very suddenly just when one thought she might be useful on Ethan's Team.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Her kidnap forced Ethan to do one final mission before retirement. [[spoiler:Then she suddenly died from an implanted chip inside her head, forcing him to go back to the IMF]].
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!Ethan's Protégés
[[folder: Lindsey Farris]]
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!London Substation
[[folder: Record Shop Girl]]
!!Record Shop Girl
->'''Played by:''' Hermione Corfield
->'''Appearances:''' Rogue Nation
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Suddenly killed by Solomon Lane after the mission sequence.
* MsFanservice: She's . . . hot.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: Sure, it comes after the famous plane sequence but her death is what shows us Lane's brutality and his plans.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Sort of, as her death shows Lane's first appearance.
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[[folder: Jane Carter]]
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[[folder: William Brandt]]
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!Ethan's Protégés
[[folder: Lindsey Farris]]
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!London Substation
[[folder: Record Shop Girl]]
!!Record Shop Girl
->'''Played by:''' Hermione Corfield
->'''Appearances:''' Rogue Nation
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Suddenly killed by Solomon Lane after the mission sequence.
* MsFanservice: She's . . . hot.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: Sure, it comes after the famous plane sequence but her death is what shows us Lane's brutality and his plans.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Sort of, as her death shows Lane's first appearance.
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* AlwaysGetsHisMan: No matter what, Ethan never fails. Subverted in Rogue Nation in which he does fail, and Fallout, in which he lets the baddie get away to save his team.
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* Heroic Willpower: He has unbreakable will, which is remarked on by many.
* HonorBeforeReason: Ethan shows this in Fallout, when he lets the baddies have the plutonium bombs just so he can save Luther.
* HonorBeforeReason: Ethan shows this in Fallout, when he lets the baddies have the plutonium bombs just so he can save Luther.
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* NeverHurtAnInnocent: A code he always follows. Fallout expands on this, as when he imagines what White Widow's plan is he changes it, to spare innocent cop lives.
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!Chimera Mission Team
[[folder: Billy Baird]]
!!Billy Baird
->'''Played By:''' John Polson
->'''Appearances:''' [[Film/MissionImpossibleII Mission: Impossible II]]
* AcePilot: Billy is very good at flying helicopters, which is why he is recruited by Hunt.
* ComicRelief:
* FunnyForeigner: He's very Australian, and very funny.
* PutOnABus: Like most other agents, as usual.
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!Rabbit's Foot Mission Team
[[folder: Zhen Lei]]
!!Zhen Lei
->'''Played By''': [[Creator/MaggieQ Maggie Q]]
->'''Appearances''': [[Film/MissionImpossibleIII Mission Impossible III]]
* ActionGirl: Like most Maggie Q characters.
* MaleGaze: See MsFanservice.
* MsFanservice: She's really hot.
* PutOnABus: Like most of the other movies' main cast.
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[[folder: Declan Gormley]]
!!Declan Gormley
->'''Played By:''' [[Creator/JonathanRhysMeyers Jonathan Rhys Meyers]]
->'''Appearances:''' [[Film/MissionImpossibleIII Mission: Impossible III]]
* AcePilot: Has excellent skills in flying, as he shows he can narrowly miss windmills on purpose.
* PutOnABus: With Zhen Lei.
!Chimera Mission Team
[[folder: Billy Baird]]
!!Billy Baird
->'''Played By:''' John Polson
->'''Appearances:''' [[Film/MissionImpossibleII Mission: Impossible II]]
* AcePilot: Billy is very good at flying helicopters, which is why he is recruited by Hunt.
* ComicRelief:
* FunnyForeigner: He's very Australian, and very funny.
* PutOnABus: Like most other agents, as usual.
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!Rabbit's Foot Mission Team
[[folder: Zhen Lei]]
!!Zhen Lei
->'''Played By''': [[Creator/MaggieQ Maggie Q]]
->'''Appearances''': [[Film/MissionImpossibleIII Mission Impossible III]]
* ActionGirl: Like most Maggie Q characters.
* MaleGaze: See MsFanservice.
* MsFanservice: She's really hot.
* PutOnABus: Like most of the other movies' main cast.
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[[folder: Declan Gormley]]
!!Declan Gormley
->'''Played By:''' [[Creator/JonathanRhysMeyers Jonathan Rhys Meyers]]
->'''Appearances:''' [[Film/MissionImpossibleIII Mission: Impossible III]]
* AcePilot: Has excellent skills in flying, as he shows he can narrowly miss windmills on purpose.
* PutOnABus: With Zhen Lei.
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Any good spy agency needs good agents, and IMF has it all.
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!Ethan Hunt
[[folder:Ethan Hunt]]
!!Ethan Matthew Hunt
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/TomCruise
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleII'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Ghost Protocol]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation Rogue Nation]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]''
->''"Hunt is uniquely trained and highly motivated - a specialist without equal - immune to any countermeasures. There is no secret he cannot extract, no security he cannot breach, no person he cannot become."''
-->--'''Alan Hunley'''
The IMF's most efficient field agent.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: In the third film. He was only training recruits and was about to marry Julia. Then the IMF asked him for OneLastJob to save one of his recruits who was kidnapped by Owen Davian. [[spoiler:Her death led him to stop Owen Davian and at the end he continued inside the IMF.]]
* AntiHero: His status as an IMF agent is under ''constant'' scrutiny, as though his record is exemplary, "StartXToStopX" being his go-to plan has his superiors tearing their hair out.
* TheAce: He's a top notch field agent and has a great calculating mind. A small and hilarious deconstruction (with LampshadeHanging by Benji Dunn) was seen on the fifth film where he almost drowned and couldn't do action stunts. Though that didn't impend him from driving a car or riding a motorbike. Throughout the fifth film he's constantly doing things TheAce does, but taking hits and stumbling, showing he's still human despite his TheDeterminator status.
* BatmanGambit: His schemes often rely on Hunt's keen psychological knowledge of his rival.
* TheChessmaster: Hunt's success in the field comes directly from his uncanny ability to outmaneuver any opponent in his way with complex and daring gambits.
* TheDeterminator: As Hunley notes in ''Rogue Nation'', Hunt is "the manifestation of destiny itself".
* FatalFlaw: He refuses point-blank to leave anyone behind, which apparently extends to those who do him a solid or push his 'mentor' button: this trait seems to stem from losing his team in ''Film/MissionImpossible'' and [[spoiler: his protege]] in ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII''. This is a downright foolhardy habit for an agent in perpetual danger, constantly having to put up with betrayal and shifting loyalties. Ilsa Faust and Solomon Lane (and before that, Owen Davian!) play him every which way as a result. This tendency of Hunt's is also implied to be behind the mission in Berlin mentioned in the ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]'' trailer going south; and indeed the movie itself seems to be focused on deconstructing this flaw.
* GeniusBruiser: He's both highly skilled in combat (be it close quarters or gunplay) and a superb tactician.
* GuileHero: A very cunning man, and also a hero.
* HotTeacher: To Lindsey
* TheHero / TheProtagonist: The lead hero of every film of the franchise.
* IndyPloy: While he works best planning ahead of time, he's more than capable with coming up with stratagems on the heat of the moment.
* InTheHood: He is depicted as this in ''Ghost Protocol''.
* KansasCityShuffle: A frequent tactic of Ethan's involves relying on the villain's own wit and arrogance to make him ''think'' he knows what Ethan is up to and put up countermeasures, only for Hunt to reveal that was exactly what he planned all along.
* TheLeader: Every time he recruits a team, he's always the leader. Though in the first half of the first film, he was at the orders of veteran agent Jim Phelps.
* ManipulativeBastard: A heroic version. He manipulates his rivals into doing exactly what he wants.
* NiceGuy: For the most part Ethan is a friendly, unassuming and humble agent who is primarily focused on saving innocent lives.
* NoRespectGuy: A key plot element in ''Fallout''. Despite his portfolio of ''[[LiteralMetaphor literally]]'' [[WeDoTheImpossible doing the impossible]] over and over again, his superiors never fail to take an opportunity to throw him to the wolves and act almost ''disappointed'' when he survives anyway.
-->“How many times has Hunt’s government betrayed him? Disavowed him? Cast him aside? How long before a man like that has had enough?”
* StartXToStopX: In '''''every''''' film, he eventually falls back on the exact same ridiculous plan; "Steal the horrifically dangerous MacGuffin, use it as bait to draw out the real enemy, then [[XanatosSpeedChess improvise]] the capture/elimination of said enemy in the process of retrieving it."
## The CIA NOC(Non-Official Cover) list. Failing to retrieve it would have annihilated the US intelligence community.
## The Chimera superflu and the Bellerophon universal flu cure. This nearly resulted in Australia getting hit with a plague outbreak.
## The Rabbit's Foot. Whatever the hell this was, it was so dangerous even the terrorist he delivered it to was unwilling to open the container to confirm its authenticity.
## ''Nuclear launch codes.'' This nearly resulted in WorldWarThree. It ''did'' result in a nuclear missile clipping the Transamerica pyramid.
## '''2.4 billion pounds sterling.''' Considering how the NebulousEvilOrganization was ''already'' carrying out high-profile assassinations and terror attacks, this would have resulted in the creation of a hybrid of Blackwater and ISIS.
** ...or as Agent Hunley put it;
-->The IMF's misadventures date back to my earliest days at the CIA; when the IMF broke into the CIA to steal a list of covert operatives. And now more recently, a Russian nuclear warhead clipped the Transamerica pyramid before plunging into the San Francisco Bay. This made possible by IMF agents who did willingly provide the launch codes to a known terrorist!
* TheStrategist: In all five movies, he serves as this for the IMF.
* XanatosSpeedChess: In every movie of the franchise, the villain counterattacks in a manner that derails Hunt's original plan (at least partially), so Hunt always has to adjust his plan on the fly to succeed.
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!Ethan's Original Team
[[folder:Team Leader Jim]]
!!Jim Phelps
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JonVoight
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible''
A veteran agent of the IMF and a mentor figure to Ethan Hunt.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:In the original TV series, he was the main protagonist. Here, he's the BigBad.]]
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:He is really a backstabbing psychopath.]]
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Jim's plans rely heavily on people reacting in a very certain way that is nigh-impossible to predict.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Of the first film.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Far from being AFatherToHisMen like he appears, Jim is a self-serving psychotic monster.]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:To Ethan. Jim is a respected and well-liked IMF agent, and a mentor to Ethan. His betrayal devastates Ethan.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:As part of his AdaptationalVillainy.]]
* EvilIsPetty: As part of his Freudian Excuse.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:He was a great IMF hero, only to become a two-bit cash-grabbing criminal presumably driven insane by disillusionment.]]
* FreudianExcuse: Following the Cold War found his new job a waste of his talents.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler: Jim becoming disillusioned with his career following the end of the Cold War drove him to have a psychotic break and betray his comrades.]]
* MayDecemberRomance: His wife Claire is 24 years his junior.
* TheMole: That killed all of Ethan's crew and set him up.
* SchrodingersCast: [[spoiler: Main hero in the TV series, main villain in the movie.]]
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:He has no qualms over killing his own teammates and his wife Claire.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Almost all tropes about him have their context marked as spoiler.
* WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell: [[spoiler:His motivation. Jim considers himself a useless desk boy with little control due to the end of the Cold War, when he was at the height of his career, as a result, Jim [[GoMadFromTheRevelation goes insane]].]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Claire]]
!!Claire Phelps
->'''Played By:''' Emmanuelle Béart
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible''
The young beautiful wife of Jim Phelps.
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* FemmeFatale: She has some traits of it: a supposed innocent appearance, seducing Ethan, involvement in darker crimes...
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: With the deaths of Sarah and Hannah in the first film, she is the only female in Ethan's new team.
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[[folder:Sarah]]
!!Sarah Davies
->'''Played By:''' Kristin Scott-Thomas
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible''
A co-worker of Ethan whom he has in great steem and respect.
* DisposableWoman: A non-romantic version, but she serves the same purpose--her death causes the hero angst, yet she's never mentioned again.
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[[folder:Jack]]
!!Jack Harmon
->'''Played By:''' Emilio Estévez
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible''
The tech savvy from the first film.
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* EyeScream: His eye is ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by a running unstoppable lift. [[spoiler:Deliberately done by Jim Phelps]].
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He doesn't survive the mission but tells Ethan how the bubblegum bomb works which was useful during the Channel Tunnel battle.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: First one to die with the least amount of character development.
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!Ethan's New Team
[[folder: Franz Krieger]]
A skilled agent who participates in the mission to recover the NOC list.
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* KnifeNut: Is crazy skilled with knives.
* TheMole: Former IMF agent who got disavowed and wanted revenge.
[[/folder]]
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!Ethan Hunt
[[folder:Ethan Hunt]]
!!Ethan Matthew Hunt
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/TomCruise
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleII'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Ghost Protocol]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation Rogue Nation]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]''
->''"Hunt is uniquely trained and highly motivated - a specialist without equal - immune to any countermeasures. There is no secret he cannot extract, no security he cannot breach, no person he cannot become."''
-->--'''Alan Hunley'''
The IMF's most efficient field agent.
----
* TenMinuteRetirement: In the third film. He was only training recruits and was about to marry Julia. Then the IMF asked him for OneLastJob to save one of his recruits who was kidnapped by Owen Davian. [[spoiler:Her death led him to stop Owen Davian and at the end he continued inside the IMF.]]
* AntiHero: His status as an IMF agent is under ''constant'' scrutiny, as though his record is exemplary, "StartXToStopX" being his go-to plan has his superiors tearing their hair out.
* TheAce: He's a top notch field agent and has a great calculating mind. A small and hilarious deconstruction (with LampshadeHanging by Benji Dunn) was seen on the fifth film where he almost drowned and couldn't do action stunts. Though that didn't impend him from driving a car or riding a motorbike. Throughout the fifth film he's constantly doing things TheAce does, but taking hits and stumbling, showing he's still human despite his TheDeterminator status.
* BatmanGambit: His schemes often rely on Hunt's keen psychological knowledge of his rival.
* TheChessmaster: Hunt's success in the field comes directly from his uncanny ability to outmaneuver any opponent in his way with complex and daring gambits.
* TheDeterminator: As Hunley notes in ''Rogue Nation'', Hunt is "the manifestation of destiny itself".
* FatalFlaw: He refuses point-blank to leave anyone behind, which apparently extends to those who do him a solid or push his 'mentor' button: this trait seems to stem from losing his team in ''Film/MissionImpossible'' and [[spoiler: his protege]] in ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII''. This is a downright foolhardy habit for an agent in perpetual danger, constantly having to put up with betrayal and shifting loyalties. Ilsa Faust and Solomon Lane (and before that, Owen Davian!) play him every which way as a result. This tendency of Hunt's is also implied to be behind the mission in Berlin mentioned in the ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]'' trailer going south; and indeed the movie itself seems to be focused on deconstructing this flaw.
* GeniusBruiser: He's both highly skilled in combat (be it close quarters or gunplay) and a superb tactician.
* GuileHero: A very cunning man, and also a hero.
* HotTeacher: To Lindsey
* TheHero / TheProtagonist: The lead hero of every film of the franchise.
* IndyPloy: While he works best planning ahead of time, he's more than capable with coming up with stratagems on the heat of the moment.
* InTheHood: He is depicted as this in ''Ghost Protocol''.
* KansasCityShuffle: A frequent tactic of Ethan's involves relying on the villain's own wit and arrogance to make him ''think'' he knows what Ethan is up to and put up countermeasures, only for Hunt to reveal that was exactly what he planned all along.
* TheLeader: Every time he recruits a team, he's always the leader. Though in the first half of the first film, he was at the orders of veteran agent Jim Phelps.
* ManipulativeBastard: A heroic version. He manipulates his rivals into doing exactly what he wants.
* NiceGuy: For the most part Ethan is a friendly, unassuming and humble agent who is primarily focused on saving innocent lives.
* NoRespectGuy: A key plot element in ''Fallout''. Despite his portfolio of ''[[LiteralMetaphor literally]]'' [[WeDoTheImpossible doing the impossible]] over and over again, his superiors never fail to take an opportunity to throw him to the wolves and act almost ''disappointed'' when he survives anyway.
-->“How many times has Hunt’s government betrayed him? Disavowed him? Cast him aside? How long before a man like that has had enough?”
* StartXToStopX: In '''''every''''' film, he eventually falls back on the exact same ridiculous plan; "Steal the horrifically dangerous MacGuffin, use it as bait to draw out the real enemy, then [[XanatosSpeedChess improvise]] the capture/elimination of said enemy in the process of retrieving it."
## The CIA NOC(Non-Official Cover) list. Failing to retrieve it would have annihilated the US intelligence community.
## The Chimera superflu and the Bellerophon universal flu cure. This nearly resulted in Australia getting hit with a plague outbreak.
## The Rabbit's Foot. Whatever the hell this was, it was so dangerous even the terrorist he delivered it to was unwilling to open the container to confirm its authenticity.
## ''Nuclear launch codes.'' This nearly resulted in WorldWarThree. It ''did'' result in a nuclear missile clipping the Transamerica pyramid.
## '''2.4 billion pounds sterling.''' Considering how the NebulousEvilOrganization was ''already'' carrying out high-profile assassinations and terror attacks, this would have resulted in the creation of a hybrid of Blackwater and ISIS.
** ...or as Agent Hunley put it;
-->The IMF's misadventures date back to my earliest days at the CIA; when the IMF broke into the CIA to steal a list of covert operatives. And now more recently, a Russian nuclear warhead clipped the Transamerica pyramid before plunging into the San Francisco Bay. This made possible by IMF agents who did willingly provide the launch codes to a known terrorist!
* TheStrategist: In all five movies, he serves as this for the IMF.
* XanatosSpeedChess: In every movie of the franchise, the villain counterattacks in a manner that derails Hunt's original plan (at least partially), so Hunt always has to adjust his plan on the fly to succeed.
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!Ethan's Original Team
[[folder:Team Leader Jim]]
!!Jim Phelps
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JonVoight
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible''
A veteran agent of the IMF and a mentor figure to Ethan Hunt.
----
* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:In the original TV series, he was the main protagonist. Here, he's the BigBad.]]
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:He is really a backstabbing psychopath.]]
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Jim's plans rely heavily on people reacting in a very certain way that is nigh-impossible to predict.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Of the first film.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Far from being AFatherToHisMen like he appears, Jim is a self-serving psychotic monster.]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:To Ethan. Jim is a respected and well-liked IMF agent, and a mentor to Ethan. His betrayal devastates Ethan.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:As part of his AdaptationalVillainy.]]
* EvilIsPetty: As part of his Freudian Excuse.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:He was a great IMF hero, only to become a two-bit cash-grabbing criminal presumably driven insane by disillusionment.]]
* FreudianExcuse: Following the Cold War found his new job a waste of his talents.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler: Jim becoming disillusioned with his career following the end of the Cold War drove him to have a psychotic break and betray his comrades.]]
* MayDecemberRomance: His wife Claire is 24 years his junior.
* TheMole: That killed all of Ethan's crew and set him up.
* SchrodingersCast: [[spoiler: Main hero in the TV series, main villain in the movie.]]
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:He has no qualms over killing his own teammates and his wife Claire.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Almost all tropes about him have their context marked as spoiler.
* WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell: [[spoiler:His motivation. Jim considers himself a useless desk boy with little control due to the end of the Cold War, when he was at the height of his career, as a result, Jim [[GoMadFromTheRevelation goes insane]].]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Claire]]
!!Claire Phelps
->'''Played By:''' Emmanuelle Béart
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible''
The young beautiful wife of Jim Phelps.
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* FemmeFatale: She has some traits of it: a supposed innocent appearance, seducing Ethan, involvement in darker crimes...
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: With the deaths of Sarah and Hannah in the first film, she is the only female in Ethan's new team.
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[[folder:Sarah]]
!!Sarah Davies
->'''Played By:''' Kristin Scott-Thomas
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible''
A co-worker of Ethan whom he has in great steem and respect.
* DisposableWoman: A non-romantic version, but she serves the same purpose--her death causes the hero angst, yet she's never mentioned again.
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jack]]
!!Jack Harmon
->'''Played By:''' Emilio Estévez
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible''
The tech savvy from the first film.
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* EyeScream: His eye is ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by a running unstoppable lift. [[spoiler:Deliberately done by Jim Phelps]].
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He doesn't survive the mission but tells Ethan how the bubblegum bomb works which was useful during the Channel Tunnel battle.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: First one to die with the least amount of character development.
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!Ethan's New Team
[[folder: Franz Krieger]]
A skilled agent who participates in the mission to recover the NOC list.
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* KnifeNut: Is crazy skilled with knives.
* TheMole: Former IMF agent who got disavowed and wanted revenge.
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