History Characters / MissionImpossibleFilmSeriesVillains

* SmugSnake: Gabriel is a sharp operator in his own right, matching his charisma and innate understanding of psychology to the Entity’s own MagnificentBastard planning. He’s also a smug prick who revels in the control he has over most situations… but Ethan is able to rattle him twice by noting that both Gabriel and the Entity are afraid of him, [[spoiler:and Gabriel himself has a horrified and panicked reaction to realizing that The Entity’s contingency plan of having Ethan kill Gabriel might actually happen, before getting outfoxed again at the end.]]

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!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'' | ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne'' | ''Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part Two''

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

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

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

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

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* AmbiguouslyEvil: PlayedWith. It's ''definitely'' antagonistic towards Ethan, displays a level of sadism and mockery towards him and his allies, and psychologically manipulates events to mentally break him or leave him in as poor a state as possible when facing it. It's also very callous and uncaring towards human life in general, being fine with Gabriel killing whomever he needs to in order to enact its will, [[spoiler:even Paris]]. However, despite that and the fact it already possesses the capability for untold destruction through digital warfare on an unseen scale, the Entity has not expressed any schemes or plans for what it intends to ''do'' with all that potential. Other villains were {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s willing to enact devastating terrorist attacks for a greater cause, but despite having more ability to enact that then they they could ever dream of, the Entity's plans in ''Part One'' solely revolve around getting the [[MacGuffin cruciform key to the Sevastopol]], [[spoiler:or ensuring nobody can find the sunken submarine]]. As Luther theorises that Gabriel was selected to be its main enforcer solely because of his past history with Ethan, it showcases that the Entity is ''afraid'' of Ethan, having predicted a scenario wherein he successfully finds and destroys it. Seen from that perspective, its antagonism of Ethan is because it's dealing with somebody who will ''kill'' it, and the Entity's actions throughout the film are callous attempts to pre-emptivly protect itself from harm.

* TheChessmaster: Being a nigh-omnipotent AI, this is pretty much a given. It has no physical form and can exist anywhere in the vast cyberspace, meaning nobody could shut it down without its original source code (which it has taken measures to ensure that nobody could access it unless they really go out of the way to look for it). It can process and manipulate data at lightning speed, meaning even the best hackers in the world cannot keep up with it. It relies on phantom agents whose identities are removed from every digital database, meaning no one except those who knew them personally can see them coming. It can anticipate any and all eventualities that could happen based on a person's prior operational history, meaning it can trick Ethan and his team into doing whichever it wants by using their own operational procedures and psych profiles against them. In fact, it pretty much has every single intelligence agency in the world by their balls already at the start of the film, and the only reason it hasn't taken over the world yet is because it chose not to, at least for now.
* ClockKing: It being an AI armed capable of intricate planning and calculations means its plans are structured to be very precise, involving things happening at specific moments in time. It's plan to [[spoiler:seize the combined key from the Orient Express involved Gabriel getting it at a specific moment in time, then jumping down onto a truck the Entity had set up for him before the train passed over a bridge, and detonating explosives that had been placed on said bridge.]]

* TheDreaded: The Entity's incredible power and virtual invincibility make it a figure of utmost dread to anyone who knows it's true nature. Naturally, this also makes some short-sighted individuals very interested in exploiting the Entity for their own purposes, which [[EvilIsNotAToy doesn't end well for anyone]].

* HybridPower: Part of what makes the Entity so terrifying is the fact that it was born from a fusion of two already-powerful programs: a Russian adaptive learning defense & stealth system potent enough to let the ''Sevastopol'' covertly approach just about any any navy in the world undetected and [[spoiler:an American infiltration and intelligence gathering program strong enough to find a backdoor into ''any'' digital system.]] Put those two programs together, and you've got a nigh-unstoppable, ever-evolving threat.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: Despite demonstrating that it has the ability to hack into any military, intelligence or communications system in the world the Entity seems content to just sit around and let the humans squabble amongst each other. Partly justified since, as a digital entity, it's limited in the degree it can ''physically'' impact things.

* RemovedAchillesHeel: The Entity already secured itself vast intel on potential threats and recruited operatives like Gabriel before the movie starts so cutting digital connection and going back to analog or paper is not gonna stop its influence.

* UriahGambit: Zig-zagged. [[spoiler:Its contingency for Gabriel failing to kill Ethan was to get Ethan to kill Gabriel instead, to ensure the knowledge Gabriel has of the Entity wouldn't fall into the hands of its enemies.]]
* VillainOpeningScene: The first scene we get in ''Dead Reckoning'' is of the Entity hacking into a Russian submarine and tricking it into downing itself. PlayedWith in that [[spoiler:it is also technically the origin for the Entity, as whatever was hidden in the sub is what caused it grow beyond its programming and go rogue.]]

* AffablyEvil: Max is a reasonable business person and took a liking to [[CassandraTruth Ethan after he told her that the NOC List]] Job gave her was fake. Other than that she can manipulate people and is an weapons dealer.

* TheCorrupter: It is said by Kittridge that she is quite good at corrupting vulnerable and desperate people such as "Job"[[spoiler:Jim Phelps]]. Funnily enough, she tries to do this with Kittridge at the end of the first film but it is unknown if she succeeded or not.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Downplayed. Max is, on paper, the more dangerous antagonist of the first film. She has an international weapon sales ring and if the data falls into her hands then it will put a lot of the IMF at risk. However, Max is shown to be quite pleasant and reasonable for a criminal businesswoman and even has some comedy at her expense. Job's coldness, onscreen body-count, and [[ItsPersonal personal connection to Ethan]] makes him far more loathsome and central as the antagonist even though Max poses the greater threat. To her, getting rid of the IMF is a business move while to Job it's a callous and cruel action [[spoiler:that has him betray and kill his friends and wife for his personal gain]].

!!!'''Dubbed in French By:''' Creator/ClaudeGiraud

!!!'''Dubbed in French By:''' Creator/VincentRopion

* TheVoiceless: During all his appearances, he never mutters a single word.

!!!'''Dubbed in French By:''' Elsa Davoine

->'''White Widow:''' You can't possibly be John Lark?\\

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: While it's ambiguous how evil she actually is in ''Fallout'', she technically remains on Ethan's side the entire film [[spoiler:and is revealed to have been working for the IMF/CIA all along]]. In ''Dead Reckoning, Part One'', however, [[spoiler:the circumstances surrounding the Entity's release and its effect on the balance of power forces her to change her side and joins Gabriel and the Entity to ensure her own survival, which means turning on Ethan and his allies. Time will tell if she will remain that way.]]

* EvilCounterpart: Set up as Ethan's, right down to being used as an "alternate" to him in the past. Part of his going rogue was his resentment at being AlwaysSecondBest. Among the film series' major villains he's also the only one able to match Ethan blow-for-blow in a physical fight up until the sixth film's John Lark (since Solomon never fights Ethan directly).

* HairTriggerTemper: Ambrose storms through his film in a barely-concealed rage at virtually all times.

* PoisonAndCureGambit: His EvilPlan boils down to this on a massive scale, causing a worldwide outbreak of a deadly, genetically-perfected hemorrhagic fever, before getting incredibly rich from getting all the stock in the company he's selling the cure to.

* BadBoss: Injects his scientist with the nre virus willingly and kills him.

* KarmaHoudini: Nothing bad happens to him discounting the fact he's now disgraced.

* DiabolicalMastermind: He's a renowned businessman who is in reality a massively wealthy arms dealer with his own private army, and who plans to escalate the War on Terror to make a profit.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: He opens the film with a captured Ethan and demanding information or he'll kill Julia, counting down to ten and dismissing any attempt at deception, misdirection, negotiation, reason or threats and making it extremely clear that he is not messing around. This shows right away that he is very intelligent and completely ruthless.

* EvilSoundsDeep: He's got a very deep voice, which he combines with an eerily calm and soft spoken tone.

* FlatCharacter: Deconstructed and PlayedForHorror. Unlike most other villains, Davian has no humanizing traits or backstory, and there's no recognizable traits to his personality besides his sadism. The result is utterly disturbing; Davian is utterly devoid of emotions, and comes across as almost inhuman.

** He's one to Ethan. They are both {{Determinator}}s who refuse to let anything get in the way of their goals, but differ signifigantly outside of that. Ethan is compassionate, HotBlooded, friendly, and refuses to ever let even a single person die when it could be prevented. Davian on the other hand is cold, dispassionate, [[TheUnfettered has no scruples to speak off]], and [[{{Sadist}} deeply enjoys killing people.]] And where Ethan is happy with a middle-class lifestyle, Davian lives a life of opulence he seems to take no joy in.

* {{Hypocrite}}: While taunting Ethan over the phone, he makes a point of how he judges people's character by seeing whether they are NiceToTheWaiter or not - pointedly referring to Ethan nearly killing him while holding him prisoner. Davian himself treats his prisoners horribly, and goes out of his way to kill them painfully, and he's rather curt and snide towards most people.

* LargeAndInCharge: Davian is overweight and the leader of a large, highly well-funded black market ring specializing in dealing weapons.

* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Davian is almost always seen wearing custom-made designer suits, and when he's kidnapped at the gala he's seen drinking a fancy-looking alcoholic drink.
* MaskOfSanity: He's always calm and composed to the point where he comes off as a perfectly ordinary if somewhat awkward guy to the average person. During his interrogation, Davian reveals he's entirely motivated by his own sadism and that he deeply enjoys the suffering he causes.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Brownway hardly appears in the film, then dies.

* CombatPragmatist: Her method of dispatching an agent who is noticeably taller and more muscular? Getting close and shooting him in the chest. She also uses a cork screw and a vase in her fight with Jane.
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* ArcSymbol: It's represented by a series of lines in a circular pattern, resembling a giant eye. Which represents its near-omniscience, and possibly also how it manipulates people's perceptions.

* FacelessEye: Keeping with the way it tracks everything in are lives the Entity is visualized by having a series of blue lights that makes one eye. [[spoiler: This is takes farther when the group is in the night club the Entity controls the lights to form a giant eye that sees everyone there.]]

* VillainsNeverLie: Subverted. It gets people to listen to it by trying to present itself as an infallible predictor of the future, but it's very willing to offer false prophecies to manipulate them. [[spoiler: Notably, it convinces the White Widow that she'll survive if one of Ilsa or Grace dies and she goes through with her plans to sell the key, but plans to kill her and everyone else aboard the Orient Express once Gabriel has either escaped with the completed key or has taken the secret of where to use it to his grave.]]
* VoiceChangeling: [[spoiler:At one point while Ethan was trying to find his way through the city of Venice he starts asking for directions from Benji until the Entity hijacks Benji's call and replicates his voice to give Ethan false directions to put him off course. Benji tries to smash his computer to shut off the call but it's too late. The Entity ends the call gloating to Ethan, showing how advanced it truly is.]]

* CripplingOverspecialization: He relies on the usage of knives in one on one combat, a little too frequently. Without it, he struggles hard against hand to hand specialists like [[spoiler: Ilsa and Ethan.]]

* EvilOldFolks: He's the same age as Ethan with grey hair to show it and he's one of Ethan's most bitter enemies.

* FauxAffablyEvil: He speaks in a polite manner and keeps a level tone at all times and can be quite charming when he wants to be, even treating Ethan like an old friend he's happy to see again, but Gabriel never quite disguises how ruthless and sadistic he really is.

* MysteriousPast: Invoked; the Entity has purged any past records of it's primary agent from existence. All the audience is told about Gabriel is his name (which is likely not even his real one) and that he and Ethan have a history wherein they fell out before Ethan joined the IMF. [[spoiler:As part of this falling out, Gabriel murdered Ethan's girlfriend, Marie, but his motive, as well as the nature of his and Ethan's relationship and enmity, is left unanswered by the end of ''Dead Reckoning: Part 1''.]] How and why he came to serve the Entity, as well as why Ethan believed him to be dead, are likewise unaddressed, leaving the bulk of Gabriel's character a mystery.

** Ethan very nearly [[spoiler:gives into his anger and [[StrikeMeDownWiithAllOfYourHatred kills Gabriel]]]] atop the train, which is exactly what the Entity wants. However, Gabriel [[spoiler:tries to save himself [[VillainHasAPoint by reminding Ethan he's the only one who can tell him what the key unlocks]]]], which stalls Ethan long enough to realize his mistake. Thus Gabriel himself (possibly unwittingly, as the Entity likely calculated that [[spoiler:he was unwilling to outright sacrifice himself for the cause]]) thwarts one of the Entity's chances of victory and keeps the chance to destroy it alive.

* PsychoKnifeNut: He has a proficiency for knives as his primary weapons, and proves to be even more adept at it than [[spoiler:Ilsa, which results in the latter's death.]]

* {{Sadist}}: Ethan describes him as such, and while Gabriel is generally unemotional he clearly takes a lot of enjoyment in tormenting Ethan and trying to kill those he cares about.

** He's also very good at hurting people and targeting psychological weakpoints, but Ethan does so to protect others, while Gabriel is a sadist.
** Gabriel blindly follows the Entity's orders, while Ethan is famous for being a RogueAgent. And while both men are spies who love a complicated heist-style infiltration plan while often relying on others to come up with them, Ethan is creative, filling in the holes with quick thinking when things go wrong, Gabriel is slavishly loyal to the letter of his master's plans, timing them down to the second on his wrist-watch and cannot improvise when something goes awry.

** Ethan is very attached to his friends, but Gabriel is a psychopath who [[spoiler:knifes his own assistant at the drop of a hat]], and has ''no'' attachment to anyone or anything, unless you count his mutual hatred of Ethan. And knives. Lots of knives. And what he does with them.

* TheSpook: All record of Gabriel was erased by the Entity to guarantee its chosen agent full freedom of movement without having to worry about law enforcement. The Entity even deletes Gabriel's image from surveillance systems in real time; the only indication of his presence apart from physically looking straight at him is a barely-distinguishable blur on security footage, which is nowhere near enough to identify him.

* AxCrazy: She is pretty violent and aggressive when it comes to fighting. She's happily grinning while ramming through police and civilian cars in Rome, and takes her time to try and scare Ethan with a pipe before attacking him.

** Also, to Ilsa. Both are women who are extremely good in a fist fight, but Ilsa likes to use knives and agility, while Paris prefers blunt objects. Ilsa is moral and uses violence reluctantly, but Paris ''lives'' for it. Ilsa is a semi-independent ally of Team Hunt and experienced spy, while Paris is Gabriel's muscle and hates using subtlety. [[note]]Assuming both characters share their actresses' ancestry, Paris is Korean, French (Western Europe), and Russian (Eastern Europe), while Ilsa is Nordic.[[/note]]

** Paris somehow manages to be an evil(er) counterpart to the White Widow too. Both are blonde, but the Widow prefers to talk and be charming (at least superficially), though she has zero problem with ordering or personally using force. She's also the ''leader'' of her arms-dealing organization, and controls her brother, while Paris is just Gabriel's servant. Widow's public face is a philanthropist, but Paris' public face is the exact same as her private face; a violent psychopath.

* YouShallNotPass: Fights Ethan in an alleyway to keep him from getting to Gabriel. [[spoiler:Ethan does defeat her and pass, but isn't able to get to Gabriel in time to save Ilsa.]]

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Apparently no one felt the need to tell him about the [=IMF=] despite him being the director of National Intelligence.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Apparently no one felt the need to tell him about the [=FMI=] despite him being the director of National Intelligence.

* TheSpook: All record of Gabriel was erased by the Entity to guarantee it's chosen agent full freedom of movement without having to worry about law enforcement. The Entity even deletes Gabriel's image from surveillance systems in real time; the only indication of his presence apart from physically looking straight at him is a barely-distinguishable blur on security footage, which is nowhere near enough to identify him.

* {{EvilCounterpart}}:

* IOweYouMyLife: [[spoiler:One of the reasons she returned to save Ethan was because he spared her life back in Venice, to her astonishment.]]

* BigBad: Of ''Dead Reckoning'' Parts One and Two.

* MeaninglessVillainVictory: [[spoiler:Davian eventually dies obtain the Rabbit's Foot… unfortunately for him, he dies shortly after before he can sell it.]]

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Musgrave is using him to start a war in the Middle East. In fact Musgrave says that Davian is just one of hundreds of interchangeable weapons dealers and is essentially just "a weed".]]

* VillainsNeverLie: Subverted. It manipulates people by trying to present itself as an infallible predictor of the future, but it's very willing to offer false prophecies to manipulate people. [[spoiler: Notably, it convinces the White Widow that she'll survive if one of Ilsa or Grace dies and she goes through with her plans to sell the key, but plans to kill her and everyone else aboard the Orient Express once Gabriel has either escaped with the completed key or has taken the secret of where to use it to his grave.]]

* SwordCane: She carries a sword cane when attending the party at the Doge's Palace in UsefulNotes/{{Venice}} to corner Ethan. She makes some use of it in the ensuing chase-fight in the city's ground streets, although she also switches to a [[ImprovisedWeapon metal pipe]] at one point.