History Characters / MissionImpossibleFilmSeriesCIA

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne''

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne''

* InterserviceRivalry: They've butt heads with the IMF multiple times.
* SinisterSpyAgency: In all films made so far in which the CIA has made an appearance, the only inarguably "good-guy" agent that has appeared is a ButtMonkey office guy. All of the others are either highly morally-grey InspectorJavert willing to sacrifice people to smoke out the people they assume are the bad guys (and one of which [[spoiler:accepts keeping the IMF active after her attempted inquisition, because as long as the IMF cares about [[AMillionIsAStatistic preventing covert operations from ending in mass casualties]], [[MoralSociopathy it won't be her problem]]]]), or [[spoiler:the freaking BigBad.]]

->''"If you have a problem with my methods you can always stay behind. [[BorrowedCatchPhrase Your mission, should you choose to accept it.]] Isn't that the thing?"''

* BigBadDuumvirate: With Solomon Lane in ''Fallout''. Walker is the one who came up with the EvilPlan, while Lane is going along with it to get revenge on Ethan. While they do have different motives, they are still working together nonetheless.

* CrazyPrepared: More of a man of action but he had some of his men infiltrating the CIA's assault squad in case his cover is blown and keeps a picture of Julia just in case he needs leverage on Hunt.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Gets half of his face scarred by helicopter fuel and is later impaled through the skull by a hook which pulls him down a cliff face and into the exploding wreckage of a helicopter, leaving very noticeable bloody residue along said cliff face. It's not pretty, to say the least.

* DisneyVillainDeath: An especially brutal example. He's pulled off a cliff by the falling wreckage of a helicopter... because its cargo hook which has been lodged in the cliff up to that point keeping it from falling is dislodged by Ethan and impales him through the head.

* InformedAbility: Famed as a huge physical threat and Ethan's equal, and explicitly referred to as the CIA's best killer. However, doesn't get many chances to prove it, and against "Lark" in the bathroom, he doesn't fare better nor last much longer than Ethan. He's pretty impressive against a couple of mooks but he doesn't quite live up to his hype.

* NeverHurtAnInnocent: Infamously known for not doing this as his job is to assassinate and clean up. When the group is spotted by a police officer he is ready to gun her if Ethan can't convince her to walk away.

* TheSociopath: He is very good at keeping a façade, as he is in fact the extremist nicknamed "John Lark", although he’s not as bad as Lane, who wants to murder millions ''[[DisproportionateRetribution over a grudge]]'', something which even Walker is disgusted by, albeit, [[PragmaticVillainy for the wrong reasons.]]

* UngratefulBastard: Ethan saves him from death when he is struck by lightning HALO jumping over Paris, but when they land Walker doesn't even mention it despite both men nearly dying as a result- the fact that it was his own damn fault might have something to do with it.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: During a shoot-out with the Entity's goons in Venice, he has the chance to kill Ethan while he's helpless and taking cover behind a car, but ultimately can't bring himself to kill Hunt in cold blood while he's seemingly cooperating. [[spoiler: This saves mankind twice over, first by ensuring Hunt is still alive to foil the Entity in the end and second by showing Ethan that Briggs is a good man who also fundamentally values the sanctity of life, something which leads him to reach out and successfully forge an alliance aboard the Orient Express.]]

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* CunningLinguist: Speaks at least Italian and French

* ProperlyParanoid: A RunningGag in the film sees him pulling the faces of random strangers thinking that they are Ethan in disguise, but given how that's often the modus operandi of IMF agents and how frequently Ethan employs it on his missions, you couldn't really blame him for being too careful.

* HeroAntagonist: Subverted. Walker is in the way of IMF's mission out of fear that Ethan Hunt and his allies could go rogue. Of course this gets averted when it turns out Walker is actually working with Lane.

* InformedAbility: Played up as a huge physical threat and Ethan's equal, and explicitly referred to as the CIA's best killer. However, he fails to live up to this in the film proper as his first act is nearly getting himself killed in a HALO jump, then gets his ass handed to him with Hunt in the fight against "Lark" in the bathroom, and even NonActionGuy Hunley gets some decent licks in until Walker pulls a knife. He does put up a solid showing against Ethan in the final fight, but both men have taken so much damage beforehand from the helicopter crashes that even that rings a bit hollow. He's pretty impressive against a couple of mooks but he doesn't quite live up to his hype.

[[caption-width-right:300:''"How many times has Hunt’s government betrayed him, disavowed him, cast him aside? How long before a man like that has had enough?"'']]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Gets half of his face scarred by helicopter fuel and is later impaled through the skull by a hook which pulls him down a cliff face and into the exploding wreckage of a helicopter, leaving very noticeable bloody residue along said cliff face. It's not pretty, to say the least.]]
* DeathByDisfigurement: [[spoiler:Shortly after half his face is chemically burnt, he dies falling off a cliff.]]

* DisneyVillainDeath: An especially brutal example. [[spoiler:He's pulled off a cliff by the falling wreckage of a helicopter... because its cargo hook which has been lodged in the cliff up to that point keeping it from falling is dislodged by Ethan and impales him through the head.]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: He drops the nice guy façade after he’s outed as John Lark.

* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Kills Hunley in the process of escaping with Lane.]]

* InformedAbility: Played up as a huge physical threat and Ethan's equal, and explicitly referred to as the CIA's best killer. However, he fails to live up to this in the film proper as his first act is nearly getting himself killed in a HALO jump, then gets his ass handed to him with Hunt in the fight against "Lark" in the bathroom, and [[spoiler: even NonActionGuy Hunley gets some decent licks in until Walker pulls a knife. He does put up a solid showing against Ethan in the final fight, but both men have taken so much damage beforehand from the helicopter crashes that even that rings a bit hollow]]. He's pretty impressive against a couple of mooks but he doesn't quite live up to his hype.
* ItsPersonal: Well, he claims to have nothing against Ethan and doesn't seem to care all that much about Lane's quest for revenge against him, but he eventually makes it personal anyway by threatening Julia]].

* MadeOfIron: He's a beast physically and treats [[spoiler:Hunley raining blow after blow on him as a mild irritation as he goes for his knife.]]

* TheMole: [[spoiler: Is actually John Lark, and is working on the mission with Ethan to try to frame him]].
* MoleInCharge: [[spoiler: Is the [=CIAs=] leading agent in the hunt for John Lark and the Apostles, despite secret being Lark himself.]]
* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:His plan literally comes within seconds of succeeding.]]

* OhCrap: This is Walker's final expression just before [[spoiler:getting a steel hook straight in his eye socket]].
* TheParagonAlwaysRebels: He's described as one of the [=CIA=]'s best assassins and much like Lane himself, he ultimately turns against the system he's spent his career protecting due to increasing disillusionment. Apparently, several other [=CIA=] operatives agree with him enough to turn on their own squadmates when Sloane sends a team to capture him.

* RogueAgent: He is utterly ruthless in his pursuit of John Lark and the Apostles to the point of killing every Apostle he ever came across, and Hunt is reluctant to work with him because of his extremist methods. [[spoiler: In reality, fed up with the world, he goes rogue and is Lark himself, and presumably was only killing those Apostles in order to maintain his cover by not having any witnesses.]]

* SixthRanger: Walker is initially set up as the odd one out member of Ethan's team, the quiet but brutish CIA agent assigned to shadow Hunt at Sloane's behest. [[spoiler:Subverted when he's revealed to be [[SixthRangerTraitor the true identity of Lark.]] Ilsa ends up becoming the team's SixthRanger instead, just like the last film.]]
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:He is very good at keeping a façade, as he is in fact the extremist nicknamed "John Lark", although he’s not as bad as Lane, who wants to murder millions ''[[DisproportionateRetribution over a grudge]]'', something which even Walker is disgusted by, albeit, [[PragmaticVillainy for the wrong reasons.]]]]

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Ultimately Walker constantly dismissing Ethan’s methods as inefficient and the IMF’s gadgets as just tricks means that [[spoiler:he’s exposed because he is caught off-guard by the team using those gadgets against him. Since Walker didn’t know how good those gadgets were, the team are able to trick him into admitting his true agenda to Benji while Benji is disguised as Solomon Lane]].
* UngratefulBastard: Ethan saves him from death when he is struck by lightning [=HALO=] jumping over Paris, but when they land Walker doesn't even mention it despite both men nearly dying as a result- the fact that it was his own damn fault might have something to do with it.

* WhyWontYouDie: [[spoiler:Screams this at the end of his and Hunt's final fight]].

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** At the end of ''Fallout'', [[spoiler: she comes to understand why Ethan and the IMF are needed, in a way]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Her suspicion over Hunt [[spoiler: and Walker]] are justified when you consider her position.

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartI''

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartI''

* TheseTwoGuys: He's never seen without his partner Degas.

Briggs's partner

* TheseTwoGuys: He's never seen without his partner Briggs.

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!!August Walker

CIA assassin who is assigned to work with Ethan Hunt, something neither man is comfortable with as Walker is far more ruthless and brutal in his methods in their mutual pursuit of the terrorist known as John Lark. [[spoiler: It later turns out that he ''is'' John Lark]].

* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: Walker wants to kill a third of the world's population so that the world powers will finally work together to fix something, which might create peace later on]].
* ArcWords: [[spoiler: "There cannot be peace without first, a great suffering. The greater the suffering, the greater the peace."]]

* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:With Solomon Lane in ''Fallout''. Walker is the one who mainly came up with the EvilPlan, while Lane is going along with it to get revenge on Ethan. While they do have different motives, they are still working together nonetheless.]]

* TheBrute: A very physical man.
* CowboyCop: At first appears to be the CIA version of this as Ethan accuses him of having killed many members of the Apostles instead of bringing them in for questioning. [[spoiler: Truth is he was getting rid of witnesses.]]
* CrazyPrepared: More of a man of action but [[spoiler: he had some of his men infiltrating the CIA's assault squad in case his cover is blown and keeps a picture of Julia just in case he needs leverage on Hunt.]]

* TheDreaded: Enough for Luther to warn Ethan about him.

* EvilIsBigger: [[spoiler: Played by the 6'1 and brawny Henry Cavill, towers over Ethan, played by the 5'7" Tom Cruise.]]
* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler: As John Lark, his motives are similar to that of [[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Kurt Hendricks]], as both villains wanted to use nuclear weapons to destroy the world in the name of peace.]]
* FacialHorror: [[spoiler:Gets the right side of his face scarred after getting splashed with aviation fuel from his crashed helicopter]].
* FallenHero: [[spoiler:By the time ''Fallout'' starts, he's been doing shady things as John Lark.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: He drops the nice guy façade [[spoiler:after he’s outed as John Lark.]]

** [[spoiler: More so when it's revealed that he's a mole working with Lane. For as much as Ethan tends to go rogue, he's still on the side of the "good guys" in the end, Walker on the other hand isn't]].

* HeroAntagonist: Subverted. Walker is in the way of IMF's mission out of fear that Ethan Hunt and his allies could go rogue. Of course [[spoiler: this gets averted when it turns out Walker is actually working with Lane]].
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: Kills Hunley in the process of escaping with Lane.]]
* HiddenVillain: [[spoiler:He's John Lark, the infamous terrorist who forms one half of the film's BigBadDuumvirate.]]

* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:Well, he claims to have nothing against Ethan and doesn't seem to care all that much about Lane's quest for revenge against him, but he eventually makes it personal anyway by threatening Julia]].
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:His plan is to cause a massive tragedy using nuclear bombs, under the belief [[MiseryBuildsCharacter it will make the world come together and trigger a new wave of peace in the long run]].]]

* NeverMyFault: Throughout the initial mission to capture Lark, Walker acts as though Ethan is the reason this whole mission is going wrong, even though such problems are his fault, such as damaging the mask-making technology by hitting Lark with it. [[spoiler:The fact that he is the ''real'' Lark at least suggests he's not an ignorant idiot but was doing all that on purpose]].
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: This is Walker's final expression just before getting a steel hook straight in his eye socket]].
* TheParagonAlwaysRebels: He's described as one of the [=CIA=]'s best assassins and [[spoiler: much like Lane himself, he ultimately turns against the system he's spent his career protecting due to increasing disillusionment. Apparently, several other [=CIA=] operatives agree with him enough to turn on their own squadmates when Sloane sends a team to capture him.]]

* RecklessSidekick: Some of his actions are needlessly dangerous to the point of endangering the mission, the most obvious one being jumping off a plane ''into a thunderstorm'' despite Hunt warning against it, something that very nearly gets both men killed when Walker is struck by lightning and knocked unconscious. Ironically enough though, [[spoiler: as John Lark he views Solomon Lane as ''his'' reckless sidekick because Lane insisting on getting revenge on Hunt meant constant delays and sidetracks in their mission.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: He ''thinks'' he is the cold, pragmatic Blue to Hunt and [[spoiler:Lanes']] more passionate, emotional Reds, but it is actually the reverse since underneath his cool exterior he is a violent, hot-headed and reckless killer [[spoiler: and terrorist]], while the other two are - despite their emotional ties- much more cool-headed and efficient overall.

* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler: Walker is fed up with the world after having been abused and abused, mistreated and mistreated day after day by his own government, that it is eventually understandable why he went insane in the end. It is obvious that the above quote isn't referring to Hunt, but actually '''himself'''. His terrorist attacks are all because he wants to cause peace, as well]].

* VillainExitStageLeft: [[spoiler:His goal in the climax after he and Lane set off the nuclear weapons is to escape on a helicopter to a minimum safe distance while Lane stays behind, [[DrivenToSuicide intending to perish in the explosion]]. Ethan must try to stop him by commandeering the second helicopter to go after him.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: You can't talk about this guy without talking about his true identity.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Walker's suspicion over Hunt is understandable when you think about it. [[spoiler: Also in his work with Lane. All he wants is to create a large enough international incident to get the world's powers working together. Arguably more so than Lane, as Lane seems to do this out of spite against Hunt]].

* WouldHurtAChild: As Ethan points out, [[spoiler: John Lark unleashes a smallpox plague that results in the deaths of millions, including women and children, so he is an absolutely ruthless terrorist.]]

[[folder:Denlinger]]
!!Denlinger
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/CaryElwes
A CIA chief and intelligence community official involved in the hunt for the Entity.
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* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:He has grand ambitions of using the Entity to shape the US government to his image, but he's killed by Gabriel right after revealing these ambitions.]]
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Subverted. He tries to get Gabriel to enter into an alliance with him since they have similar goals, but Gabriel guesses Denlinger will betray him at some point and kills him instead.]]
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: [[spoiler:His end plan for the Entity is to use it to take over the US government and purge anyone he sees as having outdated ideals.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:He was involved in the creation of the program that would become the Entity, and caused it to go rogue when he had it infect a Russian nuclear sub.]]
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* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:With Lane after being outed as Lark. While they do have different motives, they are still working together nonetheless.]]

* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: Walker is fed up with the world after having been abused and abused, mistreated and mistreated day after day by his own government, that it is eventually understandable why he went insane in the end. It is obvious that the above quote isn't referring to Hunt, but actually '''himself'''. His terrorist attacks are all because he wants to cause peace, as well]].

* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler: Once he's revealed to be John Lark.]]

* RecklessSidekick: Some of his actions are needlessly dangerous to the point of endangering the mission, the most obvious one being [[spoiler: jumping off a plane ''into a thunderstorm'' despite Hunt warning against it, something that very nearly gets both men killed when Walker is struck by lightning and knocked unconscious]]. Ironically enough though, [[spoiler: as John Lark he views Solomon Lane as ''his'' reckless sidekick because Lane insisting on getting revenge on Hunt meant constant delays and sidetracks in their mission.]]

* VillainExitStageLeft: [[spoiler: His goal in the climax after he and Lane set off the nuclear weapons is to escape on a helicopter to a minimum safe distance while Lane stays behind, [[DrivenToSuicide intending to perish in the explosion]]. Ethan must try to stop him by commandeering the second helicopter to go after him.]]

* WhyWontYouDie: [[spoiler: Screams this at the end of his and Hunt's final fight]].

* SinisterSpyAgency: In all films made so far in which the CIA has made an appearance, the only inarguably "good-guy" agent that has appeared is a ButtMonkey office guy. All of the others are either a highly morally-grey InspectorJavert willing to sacrifice people to smoke out the people they assume are the bad guys (and one of which [[spoiler:accepts keeping the IMF active after her attempted inquisition because as long as the IMF cares about [[AMillionIsAStatistic preventing covert operations from ending in mass casualties]], [[MoralSociopathy it won't be her problem]]]]), or [[spoiler:the freaking BigBad.]]

->'''Played By:''' Rolf Saxon
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/AlecBaldwin
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Bernard Lanneau
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation Rogue Nation]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]''

For more information, see the page ''Characters/IMFLeadership''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/AngelaBassett
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Creator/MaikDarah
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/HenryCavill
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Creator/AdrienAntoine
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]''