History Characters / MissionImpossibleFilmSeriesIMFAgents

* TheSmartGuy: Probably the most intelligent IMF agent of the entire series, being the tech expert, professional hacker and minder to the other team members.

-->“How many times has Hunt’s government betrayed him? Disavowed him? Cast him aside? How long before a man like that has had enough?”

## And finally, '''''the key to a Super-AI that can control every single digital/electronic system in the world.''''' [[spoiler:{{Justified}} in Part One, at least, as Ethan and his team figure that ''someone'' has to know where that key unlocks.]]

* 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 manages to bluff the Syndicate into letting his friend go.]]

* 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 UsefulNotes/{{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.

* [[Characters/MissionImpossibleFilmSeriesIMFLeadership IMF Leadership

[[folder:Ethan Hunt]]
!!Ethan Matthew Hunt
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[[caption-width-right:300:''[[{{Determinator}} "What's done is done when we say we're done."]]'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/TomCruise
!!!'''Dubbed in French By:''' Creator/PatrickPoivey (first film), Yvan Attal (second film), Creator/JeanPhilippePuymartin (all subsequent films)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleII'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne'' | ''Dead Reckoning Part Two''

->''"Your life will always matter more to me than my own."''

The IMF's most efficient field agent.

!Ethan's Original Team

[[folder:Team Leader Jim]]
!!Jim Phelps
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!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/JonVoight
!!!'''Dubbed in French By:''' Creator/ClaudeGiraud
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossible1996 Mission: Impossible]]''

A veteran agent of the IMF and a mentor figure to Ethan Hunt.

* AdaptationalVillainy: In the original TV series, he was the main protagonist. Here, he's the BigBad.
* AffablyEvil: He remains polite even when revealing himself as "Job" in the bullet train.
* AxCrazy: He is really a backstabbing psychopath.
* BatmanGambit: Jim's plans rely heavily on people reacting in a very certain way that is nigh-impossible to predict.
* BigBad: Of the first film. He betrays the IMF by allying with weapons dealer Max and steals the NOC List all because he feels worthless after the Cold War ended.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Far from being AFatherToHisMen like he appears, Jim is a self-serving psychotic monster.
* BrokenPedestal: To Ethan. Jim is a respected and well-liked IMF agent, and a mentor to Ethan. His betrayal devastates Ethan.
* DecoyProtagonist: Seems like the BigGood, but is actually the BigBad.
* EvilIsPetty: Following the Cold War found his new job a waste of his talents, and decided the best response was to betray all his comrades.
* EvilOldFolks: He is pushing 60 and is physically fit to the point he can knock out the much younger Ethan with his elbow, stand outside a running bullet train and climb to a helicopter.
* FaceHeelTurn: Jim becoming disillusioned with his career following the end of the Cold War drove him to have a psychotic break and betray his comrades.
* FallenHero: He was a great IMF hero, only to become a two-bit cash-grabbing criminal presumably driven insane by disillusionment.
* TheHeavy: Him selling out the IMF and plotting to acquire the CIA NOC list is what pushes the plot of the first film forward.
* HiddenVillain: He's [[TheMole Job]], the traitor Ethan is looking for.
* InNameOnly: He's anything but the original television hero.
* KarmicDeath: The first person of the original team that he murdered was Jack. In the final battle, he dies when Ethan uses the last stick of Jack's explosive gum on the helicopter that Jim was trying to escape on.
* MayDecemberRomance: His wife Claire is 24 years his junior.
* TheMole: He is the traitor "Job" that Kittridge is looking for and the one that killed all of Ethan's crew and set him up.
* MotiveRant: When trying to frame Kittridge as the traitor, Jim gives a long winded speech about why Kittridge would betray them: awful marriage, lack of funds, and a general feeling of uselessness as a spy with the Cold War over. Ethan quickly figures out that not only is Jim the Mole, but that the whole speech was Jim ranting about his own motivations rather than Kittridge's.
* OhCrap: Two of them in the first movie's climax.
** Firstly, his face is only one of shock when Ethan puts on glasses that allow Kittridge to find out about Jim's survival and treachery.
** Secondly, all he can do is watch in abject horror when Ethan shows him the last stick of Jack's exploding gum that he will use on the latter's escape plan: aka, the helicopter that the two are on.
* SchrodingersCast: Main hero in the TV series, main villain in the movie.
* TheSociopath: He has no qualms over killing his own teammates and his wife Claire.
* VillainousBreakdown: He goes batshit crazy when Ethan puts on his glasses and reveals his survival to Kittridge to the point he kills Claire, showing how much really a sociopathic and psychotic nut job he is at heart.
-->'''Claire:''' Don't. Don't, Jim. \\
'''Jim:''' "Don't, Jim"?! ''[whips around and shoots her in anger]''
* WalkingSpoiler: His villainy is kept entirely under wraps until two-thirds into the movie.
* WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell: 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 goes insane.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: He pretends having an injured arm from falling to the river when he tracks Ethan in London. In the bullet train, it's revealed to be in a perfect condition.

[[folder:Claire]]
!!Claire Phelps
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!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/EmmanuelleBeart
!!!'''Dubbed in French By:''' Creator/EmmanuelleBeart
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossible1996 Mission: Impossible]]''

The young beautiful wife of Jim Phelps; acts as transport/getaway driver for the team.

* FemmeFatale: She has some traits of it: a supposed innocent appearance, seducing Ethan, involvement in darker crimes...
* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler:And put in this role by her own husband, no less.]]
* InLoveWithTheMark: [[spoiler:A possible version; she tries to persuade Jim Phelps to leave Ethan alive. Later when she calls on Jim not to shoot him, Jim shoots her instead.]]
* LethalChef: Apparently makes terrible coffee for the team on every mission.
-->'''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.''
* MayDecemberRomance: She's noticeably younger than Jim. [[spoiler:This may have something to do with why Jim is quick to execute her when it looks like she's attracted to the younger Ethan.]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Betrays the IMF alongside her husband. She may or may not be responsible for personally killing Hannah with a car bomb as well.]]
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: With the deaths of Sarah and Hannah in the first film, she is the only female in Ethan's new team.
* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:Killed by her own husband Jim Phelps after her mistake blows his cover and reveals his survival and betrayal to Kittridge. Though his actual decision to kill her appears to have been motivated by her reluctance to let him kill Ethan, which he regards as betrayal in her affections.]]

[[folder:Sarah]]
!!Sarah Davies
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!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/KristinScottThomas
!!!'''Dubbed in French By:''' Kristin Scott-Thomas

A co-worker of Ethan whom he respects greatly; specializes in undercover work.

* DeepCoverAgent: Her specialty on the team; she gets deep undercover ahead of the crew to gain them access into the embassy for the mission.
* DisposableWoman: A non-romantic version, but she serves the same purpose--her death causes the hero angst, yet she's never mentioned again.
* ShipTease: Mutually flirts with Jack before and during the mission.

[[folder:Jack]]
!!Jack Harmon
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!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/EmilioEstevez
!!!'''Dubbed in French By:''' Serge Faliu

The tech savvy from the first film.

* EyeScream: His eye is ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by a running unstoppable lift. [[spoiler:Deliberately done by Jim Phelps]].
* ShipTease: Mutually flirts with Sarah before and during the mission.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He doesn't survive the mission but supplies Ethan with the exploding bubblegum, which gets Ethan out of not one, but two precarious predicaments in the film.
-->'''Jack:''' Just don't chew it.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Gets a considerable amount of screentime in the first 15 minutes due to his skills and name actor, but is the first team member to die.

[[folder:Hannah]]
!!Hannah Williams
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!!!'''Played By:''' Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

A co-worker of Ethan who participates in the opening mission to retrieve the NOC list in Prague; does surveillance to keep tabs on the team's targets.

* 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.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Even among Ethan's team of [[MauveShirt Mauve Shirts]], she's perhaps the least fleshed out member before her death.

!Ethan's Second Team

[[folder:Luther]]
!!Luther Stickell
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I get to keep the equipment after we're done."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/VingRhames
!!!'''Dubbed in French By:''' Jacques Martial (MI I and II), Creator/RichardDarbois (MI III), Saïd Amadis (MI IV and on)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossible1996 Mission: Impossible]]'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleII'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Ghost Protocol]]'' (cameo) | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation Rogue Nation]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne Dead Reckoning Part One]]''

->''"What'd they used to call you? The Net Ranger? Phineas Phreak? '''The only man alive who actually hacked NATO Ghost Com.'''"''
-->-- '''Ethan Hunt'''

A hacker, former criminal, and disavowed [[spoiler:but later reinstated]] IMF agent. He is one of Ethan's most trusted men and he's very often recruited in his missions.

* BlackBestFriend: It's never outright said, but by the way they treat each other and how Ethan confides in him, it's almost certain Luther is his best friend.
* 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, and is a central, plot-reliant character in ''Fallout''.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: To a lesser degree after the first film, but it's clear that he's still Ethan's oldest friend and ally. He's still the only character other than Ethan himself to appear in every movie in the series.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He's a disavowed IMF agent when Ethan met him for the first time in the first movie and is implied to be working in the shady business for quite some time. However, he draws the line at selling out the NOC list to the highest bidder, as it means the entire US intelligence network will collapse. This is the reason why Ethan trusts him with the disk containing the list as he's sure that Luther will never let it fall into the wrong hands.
* ImpliedDeathThreat: To Brandt. He makes it clear that if Brandt screws Ethan over, he will make him pay.
* TheLancer: To Ethan sometimes. He shows some skepticism about the "Impossible Missions" that his comrade plans and warns him that a marriage and relationship do not work at all in this kind of job.
* ManlyTears: Sheds a few of these in ''Fallout'' when talking to Ilsa just before the big climax in Kashmir.
* NonActionGuy: Luther is a hacker and tech guy, not a field agent. In the first film he never directly enters into combat. Though from the second film on he develops into an ActionSurvivor.
* NumberTwo: His authority tends to be second to Ethan's.
* 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. Later on he returns to being the main hacker. Benji's great, but Luther's even better.
* ReformedCriminal: Used to be on the wrong side of the law, now works for IMF.
* TheReliableOne: There's a reason Ethan always calls for his services.
* ScaryBlackMan: In ''Rogue Nation'', lets Brandt know with just a ''look'' that he'll have hell to pay if he betrays Benji and Ethan.
* TheSmartGuy: Probably the most intelligent IMF agent of the entire series, being the tech expert, professional hacker and minder to the other team members.
* TheSpock: He tends to be the most logical one on the team, and is often the one who keeps Ethan restrained.
* TokenGoodTeammate: In the original movie, barring Ethan himself he was the only member of Ethan's second team to not be a traitor.
* TrueCompanions: In the fifth movie, he makes evident his loyalty isn't to IMF, or the government, it's to ''Ethan Hunt'' and no one else. Considering Ethan [[spoiler:saves his life instead of protecting the plutonium cores]] in ''Fallout'', it's easy to see why.

[[folder:Krieger]]
!!Franz Krieger
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Try any sleight of hand with my money and I'll cut your throat."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/JeanReno
!!!'''Dubbed in French By:''' Jean Reno

->''"If we're going to Virginia, why don't we drop by Fort Knox? I can fly a helicopter right in through the lobby... and set it down inside the vault... and it would be a hell of a lot easier than breaking into the goddamn CIA."''

A helicopter pilot and disavowed IMF agent who participates in the mission to recover the NOC list.

* 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.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:He is deep down a psychotic and homicidal PsychoForHire, having stabbed Sarah to death. He comes within an inch of doing the same to Ethan in the air ducts after getting the NOC list, and later takes sadistic glee in trying to slice him to pieces with a helicopter rotor.]]
* BaitTheDog: While he never seems like he's on the up and up, Krieger's intro in the film is fairly disarming and affable. When the heist gets underway, however, Ethan has to physically stop him from stabbing an innocent security guard to death.
* TheBigGuy: Krieger's brought into Ethan's new team because of his physical abilities. During the heist, Krieger lowers Ethan into the room with only some pulleys and his own strength.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Intially appears to be an ally of Ethan, but is really TheDragon for Jim and a deranged PsychoForHire.]]
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:He was hired by Jim and Claire to kill Ethan's original team and Golitsyn, and retrieve the NOC List. He is hired back again by Claire to help Ethan's new team and then to help Jim in the bullet train]].
* TheMole: Former IMF agent who got disavowed and wanted revenge.
* 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 rotor in a very narrow tunnel. It gave Ethan a chance to blow up the chopper with the bomb gum.]]
* PsychoForHire: [[spoiler: For Jim Phelps, as he takes part in killing Ethan's original team and he's sadistic and homicidal.]]
* SlasherSmile: [[spoiler:Sports one when he tries to kill Ethan with his helicopter.]]
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:He shows no genuine empathy over the lives he takes.]]
* WeaksauceWeakness: Despite being the most homicidal character in the film, a rat and his allergies nearly do the team in at Langley.

!Kittridge's Team

[[folder:Barnes]]
!!Frank Barnes
!!!'''Played By:''' Dale Dye

Eugene Kittridge's main assistant.

* CoolOldGuy: He is around 60 years old and he still gets into action following Kittridge's orders. He is much more reasonable and less emotional than Kittridge.
* NumberTwo: The second in command of Kittridge's team and his main assistant.

[[folder:Golitsyn]]
!!Alexander Golitsyn
!!!'''Played By:''' Marcel Iureș

An IMF agent assigned by Kittridge to steal a decoy NOC list as part of an effort to draw Job out of hiding.

* RedHerring: He was deliberately posed as such by Kittridge as TheMole so he could track down the real traitor "Job".
* StarterVillain: He was the main target in the film's first act as a treacherous spy who wanted to give the NOC List to Max. Averted by the fact he was not a villain at all but an agent of the IMF.

[[folder:Benji]]
!!Benjamin "Benji" Dunn
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Join the IMF, see the world! On a monitor. In a closet..."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/SimonPegg
!!!'''Dubbed in French By:''' Cédric Dumond
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne''

->''"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."''

A tech savvy operative of the IMF who was recruited by Ethan for the Hendricks team. He's stuck around ever since.

* ActionSurvivor: In ''Ghost Protocol''. By ''Rogue Nation'' he still has shades of this with his panicking and despair in action but he's a lot more badass, and by the time of ''Fallout'' he's fully graduated too a combat-ready member of the team.
* AscendedExtra: [[SmallRoleBigImpact His role in the third film was small and only had a little crucial moment in stopping Davian]]. But in the fourth and fifth films he had passed a field test where he is now into action, taking various levels in badass.
* BadassBookworm: Between ''Ghost Protocol'' and ''Rogue Nation'', Benji earns his badassery in battle.
* 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, Ethan manages to bluff the Syndicate into letting his friend go.]]
* GuileHero: He's officially become this almost as much as Ethan by ''Fallout'', successfully disguising himself as both [[spoiler:Solomon Lane]] and [[spoiler:[[ItMakesSenseInContext Wolf Blitzer]]]] to trick the bad guys into giving up information the team needs.
* IconicSequelCharacter: He only came to the 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 team member.
* 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 technician working behind a desk, but by ''Rogue Nation'', he's a fully operational field agent.
* 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 UsefulNotes/{{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.

[[folder:Hanaway]]
!!Trevor Hanaway
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!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/JoshHolloway
!!!'''Dubbed in French By:''' Arnaud Arbessier
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol''

->''"It was my op. I put him in the field. And [Sabine] left him just alive enough for me to see him die."''
-->-- Regarding one of her deceased comrades (And also her secret lover), '''Trevor Hanaway'''

A skilled IMF agent who's in charge of the mission to steal the nuclear launch codes in Budapest but is killed by Sabine Moreau. Also Jane Carter's love interest.
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* AgentsDating: He and Agent Jane Carter are lovers, and Jane goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against Moreau for killing him.
* BadassNormal: Manages to kill three bad guys before dying.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: His last words before he died is him telling Agent Carter that he should've told her earlier that he loves her.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Managed to shoot two mooks while falling down to the ground very accurately, then later shoots one more mook after doing a rolling dive.
* TheLostLenore: To Agent Jane Carter.
* MauveShirt: Has a decent amount of characterization and badass moments before being offed.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only has a role in the opening scene and later a brief flashback scene regarding the same event, but his failure to obtain the nuclear launch codes drives the plot. Also, his death heavily affects Agent Carter's performance during the mission in Dubai.
* TragicMistake: After managing to take care of the hitmen who pursued him, Hanaway thought he's already in the clear and walks away into a nearby alley casually. It didn't occur to him that a lone woman who was approaching him in that same alleyway - who would've most likely heard the gunshots fired earlier - is another assassin until it was too late.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He's killed in less than two minutes after the film begins.
* TheWorfEffect: He's at least as good as Ethan Hunt in the field, capable of taking control of the mission, making quick decisions, and kicking asses along the way. He's then suddenly killed by Sabine Moreau to establish her as a dangerous foe.
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* DecoyProtagonist: As part of his AdaptationalVillainy.
* DrivenToMadness: A possible factor behind his FaceHeelTurn.
* EvilIsPetty: As part of his FreudianExcuse.

* FaceHeelTurn: 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: Jim becoming disillusioned with his career following the end of the Cold War drove him to have a psychotic break and betray his comrades.

* WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell: 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]].

* BlackBestFriend: It's never outright said, but by the way they treat eachother and how Ethan confides in him, it's almost certain Luther is his best friend.

* NumberTwo: For Ethan, of sorts.

* TheSmartGuy: Probably the most intelligent IMF agent of the entire series.

* TrueCompanions: In the fifth movie, he makes evident his loyalty isn't to IMF, or the government, it's to ''Ethan Hunt'' and no one else. Considering Ethan [[spoiler: saves his life instead of protecting the plutonium cores]] in ''Fallout'', it's easy to see why.

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* TwoferTokenMinority: She's the only person of color on the team in the fourth film.

* PlayfulHacker: That's his main ability. He had substituted Luther in the fourth film as the tech savvy.

** ...or as Agent Hunley put it;

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->''"Try any sleight of hand with my money and I'll cut your throat."''

* 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.

->''"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'''

* TheAce: Ethan can use any weapon, operate any vehicle, and pull off any wild stunt needed to complete the mission. No obstacle is too big or too complicated to overcome and there is 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.

* InNameOnly: He's anything, but the original television hero.

* RatedMForManly: He's very macho.

* PsychoForHire: For Max, as he started working for her after he is driven insane by the disillusionment with his work.

* KillTheCutie: Very quickly ends up on the receiving end of this trope.

* TookALevelInBadass: While already a skilled spy and cover agent in the first film, Ethan only showed marginal combat effectiveness early on. In later films, he's become a world-class hand-to-hand combatant.

!Ethan's New Team

A hacker, former criminal, and disavowed [[spoiler:but later reinstated]] IMF agent. He is one of Ethan's most trusted men and most times he's recruited in his missions.

One of Ethan's new recruits. An assistant to the IMF Secretary and a former field agent with a dark past.

A tech savvy of the IMF and new recruit to Ethan's most recent team.

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleII'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Ghost Protocol]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation Rogue Nation]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne Dead Reckoning Part One]]'' | ''Dead Reckoning Part Two''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/TomCruise
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Creator/PatrickPoivey (first film), Yvan Attal (second film), Creator/JeanPhilippePuymartin (all subsequent films)
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleII'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Ghost Protocol]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation Rogue Nation]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne Dead Reckoning Part One]]'' | ''Dead Reckoning Part Two''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/JonVoight
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Creator/ClaudeGiraud
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/EmmanuelleBeart
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Creator/EmmanuelleBeart
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible''

->'''Played By:''' Kristin Scott-Thomas
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Kristin Scott-Thomas
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/EmilioEstevez
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Serge Faliu
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible''

->'''Played By:''' Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/VingRhames
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Jacques Martial (MI I and II), Creator/RichardDarbois (MI III), Saïd Amadis (MI IV and on)
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleII'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Ghost Protocol]]'' (cameo) | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation Rogue Nation]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne Dead Reckoning Part One]]''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/JeanReno
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Creator/JeanReno
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible''

->'''Played By:''' Dale Dye
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible''

->'''Played By:''' Marcel Iureș
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossible''

->'''Played By:''' John Polson
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Jacques Bouanich
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleII Mission: Impossible II]]''

->'''Played By:''' [[Creator/MaggieQ Maggie Q]]
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Audrey Fleurot
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleIII Mission Impossible III]]''

->'''Played By:''' [[Creator/JonathanRhysMeyers Jonathan Rhys Meyers]]
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' David Krüger
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleIII Mission: Impossible III]]''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/PaulaPatton
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Laura Blanc
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Ghost Protocol]]''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/JeremyRenner
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Jérôme Pauwels
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Ghost Protocol]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation Rogue Nation]]''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/SimonPegg
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Cédric Dumond
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Ghost Protocol]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation Rogue Nation]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne Dead Reckoning Part One]]''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/JoshHolloway
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Arnaud Arbessier
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Ghost Protocol]]''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/KeriRussell
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Chloé Bertier
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII''

->'''Played by:''' Creator/HermioneCorfield
->'''Appearances:''' Rogue Nation

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Am I ready?"'']]

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[[caption-width-right:300:''[[JoinTheArmyTheySaid "Join the IMF, see the world! On a monitor. In a closet..."]]'']]