History Characters / IMFAgents

* HotTeacher: To Lindsey

** In ''Rogue Nation'' he is held as a [[ShirtlessCaptives Shirtless Captive]] in the beginning.

-->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!

'''Jim:''' "Don't, Jim"?! (''whips around and shoots her in anger'')

and takes sadistic glee in trying to render Ethan to pieces with a helicopter rotor.]]

* ActionGirl

* CaptainObvious: In ''Rogue Nation'' he keeps pointing out the self-evident, though as a warning more than anything.

* TheDeterminator: As Hunley notes in ''Rogue Nation'', Hunt is "the manifestation of destiny itself". He never ever gives up no matter the circumstances and no matter how many times he has failed.

* MeaningfulName: His name "Ethan" means strong and firm, fitting his [[TheDeterminator determinator]] status and his admirable quality of staying firmly on the side of good no matter how far he's pushed or how many times he's accused of going rogue. His surname "Hunt" also means that he AlwaysGetsHisMan in the end.

* MsFanservice: When she dresses up in the Vatican, [[ShesGotLegs the camera emphasizes on her legs]] as she leaves her Lamborghini.

* MsFanservice: When she dresses up in the missions. She has [[ShesGotLegs the legs]] and the cleavage. It became useful for her HoneyTrap with the lecherous tycoon Brij Nath.

* KnifeNut: Is crazy skilled with knives. In fact, [[spoiler:he was the one who killed Sarah with [[ChekhovsGun that same knife.]]]]

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:He is deep down a psychotic and homicidal PsychoForHire, having stabbed Sarah to death and takes sadistic glee in trying to render Ethan to pieces with the helix.]]

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:It would have been easier to just drive off the helicopter until the tunnel met its end than trying to chop Ethan with the helix in a very narrow tunnel. It gave Ethan a chance to blow up the chopper with the bomb gum.]]

An IMF agent who posed as "Job" at Kittridge's orders to catch the real traitor.

* ShipTease: Openly flirts with Jack before and during the mission, and vice versa.

* ShipTease: Openly flirts with Sarah before and during the mission, and vice versa.

* {{Foil}}: To Krieger from the first film. Both were chosen alongside Luther to help Ethan and both fulfill similar roles as field agents for the team. Billy, however, isn't nearly as antagonistic as Krieger [[spoiler:and doesn't betray the team]]. Billy and Krieger are both helicopter pilots and the ones who lower Ethan in their respective movie's infiltration scenes; Billy's goes off without a hitch while Krieger's allergies and violence nearly compromise the mission.

* MsFanservice: When she dresses up in the missions. She has [[ShesGotLegs the legs]] and [[AbsoluteCleavage the cleavage]]. It became useful for her HoneyTrap with the lecherous tycoon Brij Nath.

* TheAce: Ethan can use any weapon, drive any vehicle, and do any stunt that's required to complete the mission. No obstacle is too big or too insane to overcome, no danger too great he wouldn't put his own body through. He's incredibly calculative, creative, unpredictable, but above all else has a moral core of absolute iron that pushes his body through injury and fatigue, all to save as many lives as he can and catch the bad guys.
* AcePilot: Played with in ''Fallout''. He just learnt how to fly but can fly like one.

* NiceHat: His derby he begins wearing as of ''Rogue Nation.''

'''All spoilers in Team Leader Jim's entry will be left [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked]] per site policy. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.'''

->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Creator/PatrickPoivey (first film), Yvan Attal (second film), Jean-Philippe Puymartin (all subsequent films)

->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Creator/PatrickPoiver (MI I), Yvan Attal (MI II), Jean-Philippe Puymartin (MI III and on)

* [[WhenSheSmiles When He Smiles]]: He has Tom Cruise's legendary winning smile. Sean Ambrose even notes that the hardest part of impersonating him was "grinning like an idiot every fifteen minutes".

* [[WhenSheSmiles WhenHeSmiles]]: He has Tom Cruise's legendary winning smile. Sean Ambrose even notes that the hardest part of impersonating him was "grinning like an idiot every fifteen minutes".

->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleII'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Ghost Protocol]]'' (cameo) | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation Rogue Nation]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]''

->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Ghost Protocol]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation Rogue Nation]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]''

->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleII'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Ghost Protocol]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation Rogue Nation]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]''

-->'''Ethan''': Can we get a cappuccino machine in here? Because I don't know what you call this.
-->'''Jack''': I call it 'cruel and unusual'.
-->'''Claire''': Excuse me, I made that coffee.
-->'''Jack''': ''Exactly.''

-->'''Jack''': Just don't chew it.

->'''Played By''': [[Creator/MaggieQ Maggie Q]]

->'''Appearances''': ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleIII Mission Impossible III]]''

* TheCynic

* ThePessimist: Constantly doubts the mission will succeed and usually goes to the worse case scenario.

->'''Played By:''' Josh Holloway

* BaldOfAwesome: A Ving Rhames staple and a look Luther's had since the first film.

* 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".

* TookALevelInBadass: He started as a techinician working behind a desk, but by ''Rogue Nation'', he's a fully operational field agent.

* BadassBeard: Briefly sports this in the six-month TimeSkip in ''Rogue Nation''.

* BadassMoustache: He's one of Ethan's most reliable and trustworthy teammates, and appropriate, has a nice moustahce in the second, third, and fifth films.

* CombatPragmatist: He does whatever it takes to win. In Mission: Impossible III he uses a car to kill Davian, in Ghost Protocol he drives a car down several stories to get to his mission.

%%* LightningBruiser:

* {{Foil}}: To Krueger from the first film. Both were chosen alongside Luther to help Ethan and both fulfill similar roles as field agents for the team. Billy, however, isn't nearly as antagonistic as Krieger [[spoiler:and doesn't betray the team]]. Billy and Krieger are both helicopter pilots and the ones who lower Ethan in their respective movie's infiltration scenes; Billy's goes off without a hitch while Krieger's allergies and violence nearly compromise the mission.

* CrazyAwesome: Several characters have called him flat-out insane, but nobody questions that what he does is awesome.[[invoked]]

* {{Expy}}: Outside of the ''Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries'', he's basically a retroactive SpearCounterpart to ex-SHIELD agent-turned crime boss Sharon Carter from the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse's ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'' as both were great American secret agent heroes, only to become two-bit cash-grabbing criminals under another alias (Jim as "Job," while Sharon's the "Power Broker") following feeling disillusioned with their work with a general feeling of uselessness as heroic spies following the ends of the major conflicts they before played a part in (Jim following the end of the Cold War, while Sharon following the Infinity Saga).

->'''Played By:''' Marcel Iures

* {{Expy}}: Outside of the ''ilm/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries'', he's basically a retroactive SpearCounterpart to ex-SHIELD agent-turned crime boss Sharon Carter from the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse's ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'' as both were great American secret agent heroes, only to become two-bit cash-grabbing criminals under another alias (Jim as "Job," while Sharon's the "Power Broker") following feeling disillusioned with their work with a general feeling of uselessness as heroic spies following the ends of the major conflicts they before played a part in (Jim following the end of the Cold War, while Sharon following the Infinity Saga).