History Characters / MissionImpossibleVillains

'''[[center: [- [[Characters/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries Main Character Index]] -]]]'''
----
[[foldercontrol]]

!Max Crime Syndicate

[[folder:Max]]
!!"Max"/Mrs. Mitsopolis
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cf07cc51_377e_4c03_9a9d_60980b20b785.jpeg]]
%%[[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/VanessaRedgrave
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Danielle Girard
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossible Mission: Impossible]]''

->''"I don't need to tell you what a comfort anonymity can be in my profession.... it feels like a warm blanket!"''

A criminal weapons dealer who is negotiating with the rogue [=IMF=] agent known as "Job".
----
* AffablyEvil: Max is a reasonable business person and took a like on [[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.
** It also looks like she's ''flirting'' with Ethan during their shared escape from an [=IMF=] hit squad.
* ArmsDealer: A particularly wealthy and powerful one at that, who is cooperating with "Job".
* 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.
* EnemyMine: Ethan gains Max's trust and forms a temporal alliance with her so that he can track down "Job" in exchange of giving her the [=NOC=] List.
* 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 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]].
* NonActionBigBad: Rarely does anything herself, but overall manages to do alot anyway.
* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: Max is her criminal nickname. Ethan jokingly asks her if her true name is "Maxine".
* PutOnAPrisonBus: Max is taken into IMF custody after her plans are thwarted at the end of the first film.
* VillainousBreakdown: Max blames her assistant Matthias when their laptop stops working during the [=NOC=] List download. [[HollywoodHacking It was actually Luther jamming down the signal.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: She seems to be remembered as this in ''Mission Impossible: Fallout'', having spent a decent sum of her blood money on charity in order to acquire a reputation as a philanthropist; apparently large sums of evil money can buy you quite the patina of virtue.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:"Job" (Spoilers)]]
!!"Job", real name Jim Phelps
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossible Mission: Impossible]]''
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JonVoight
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Claude Giraud

->''"Well, you think about it Ethan, it was inevitable. No more UsefulNotes/ColdWar. No more secrets you keep from yourself. Answer to no one but yourself. Then, you wake up one morning and find out [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidentsOfTheUnitedStates the President]] is running the country without your permission. The son of a bitch, how dare he. Then you realize, it's over. You are an obsolete piece of hardware, not worth upgrading, you got a lousy marriage, and 62 grand a year."''

The rogue agent of the [=IMF=] that works with Max. See Characters/IMFAgents for more details.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Henchman]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Andreas Wisniewski
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Vincent Ropion
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossible Mission:Impossible]]'' | ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Ghost Protocol]]''

A henchman of Max's.
----
* TheBusCameBack: A surprise reveals he is out of prison and working for The Fog.
* TheDragon: To Max.
* TheVoiceless: During all his appearances, he never mutters a single word.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:White Widow]]
!!White Widow/Alanna Mitsopolis
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alanawhitewidow.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Family, what can you do?"'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/VanessaKirby
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Elsa Davoine
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]''

->'''White Widow:''' You can't possibly be John Lark?\\
'''Ethan Hunt:''' I'm not, actually. It's an alias.\\
'''White Widow:''' I suppose it's better than John Doe.

An arms dealer whom John Lark is supposedly meeting with to get his plutonium cores. She is the daughter of Max and also known in public as Alanna Mitsopolis.
----
* AffablyEvil: Like her mother, she's an international criminal, but she's always incredibly polite and charming. It helps that she started working undercover for the IMF later in the film.
* ArmsDealer: Much like her mother, although she seems less... sophisticated than her.
* BrotherSisterTeam: Her brother Zola is also a high-ranking member in her organization.
* TheChanteuse: Her first appearance visually invokes the trope, with her on a stage, dressed in white, sensually wrapped around a microphone stand. This establishes her with visual shorthand as a FemmeFatale.
* DarkActionGirl: Well, she's incredibly AffablyEvil, but she's still an ArmsDealer and one who can definitely hold her own in a fight (from what is shown at least).
* GirlOfTheWeek: Played with. She is clearly interested in Ethan. She even wears a big, conspicuous silver black widow dress clasp, in a nod to her nickname, and her possible Bond Girl inspiration. [[spoiler:Ironically, it turns out she is working for an intelligence agency.]]
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Her face went bright with excitement the moment "John Lark" mentioned his ruthlessness. Earlier, she was practically turned on when he killed the assassins to protect her.
* MsFanservice: She wore a ''very'' form-fitting white dress in her first appearance.
%%* StockingFiller: In this case, a butterfly knife.
* VillainousCrush: Well, not really a villain but still a morally ambiguous individual. She seems to be turned on by “John Lark” when he speaks of his reputation and gets excited upon seeing him in action. Later on, she kisses him passionately for no real reason just because she wants to.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Much like her mother.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Zola]]
!!Zola Mitsopolis
->'''Portrayed by:''' Frederick Schmidt
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]''

The White Widow's brother, who also serves as the top enforcer of her organization.
----
* BigBrotherInstinct: Though it's ambiguous about whether he's younger or older than her, it's clear that Zola cares a lot for his sister, which puts him at odds with 'John Lark'/Ethan when he gets involved with her. The feeling is mutual on his sister's side, with the White Widow cutting him a slack when Ethan tells her that Zola's plan to get Solomon Lane in Paris is ineffective.
* BrotherSisterTeam: He serves as second-in-command of his sister's organization.
* TheDragon: And also her top enforcer. He's the one who handles the planning and executing missions on the White Widow's behalf, as well as her personal bodyguard.
* TheUnfettered: Has shades of this. He's the one in charge of the plan to extract Solomon Lane from the police convoy in Paris, which would result in dozens of police casualties, of which he doesn't care at all as long as Lane is retrieved alive for his sister. Ethan is able to use this to his advantage to justify diverging from the original plan to the White Widow by explaining that Zola's callous attitude toward casualties would have gotten a lot of his own men killed, along with potentially killing Lane in the crossfire.
[[/folder]]

!Ambrose & Associates

[[folder:Sean Ambrose]]
!!Sean Ambrose
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/villain_dude.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Feel like pleading for your life?"'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/DougrayScott
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Patrice Baudrier
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossibleII''

->''"You know women, mate. Like monkeys they are. Won't let go of one branch until they've got hold of the next."''

A rogue agent of the [=IMF=] turned criminal.
----
* AxCrazy: He's a volatile, short-tempered man for whom violence is as natural as breathing.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Having read Ethan's operational history, he understands his fellow agent enough to know the precise when and how Ethan will infiltrate [=BioCyte=] to destroy the Chimera virus.
* BadBoss: He mutilates Stamp's finger for questioning his attempt to reignite his relationship with Nyah. It makes him especially bad considering that Stamp's suspicions about Nyah were correct. [[spoiler:Ambrose also kills Stamp later on, but that was the result of Hunt swapping faces with him.]]
* BigBad: Of the second film.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Ambrose is smug, arrogant and greedy, but his love for Nyah is genuine.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He has a pretty dismal view of Ethan's preference for elaborate ruses rather than just offing civilians.
* 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).
* EvilGloating: He does this quite a bit which fits nicely with his overconfidence.
* FaceHeelTurn: He was a former agent before going rogue although he wasn't much more heroic then given his willingness to take out bystanders.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He can try to be charming, but it always breaks down into temper tantrums at the slightest provocation.
* ForTheEvulz: Averted. While Sean is a bad, ''bad'' man, he's ultimately in it for the money and pride rather than just to be a dick.
* GeniusBruiser: He's quite clever, in addition to a dangerous physical combatant.
* {{Greed}}: His entire plan is motivated by greed with a dash of resentment thrown in for good measure.
* HairTriggerTemper: Ambrose storms through his film in a barely-concealed rage at virtually all times.
* {{Jerkass}}: In addition to being a sociopath willing to kill millions for a hefty payoff, he's generally a dick with a serious anger management problem.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Ambrose is definitely a grade-A jerkface, but he's not wrong when he points out that Nyah is only in danger because Ethan brought her into this mess in the first place. For a moment, it sounds like he genuinely wishes that she'd stayed far away.
* LackOfEmpathy: He's completely indifferent to the millions who will die in his scheme.
* LargeHam: Scott's performance is many things. Restrained is not one of them.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Ambrose lives quite extravagantly for a government civil servant. Contrast Hunt's comfortable middle-class house in ''Mission Impossible III'' with Ambrose's oceanside Australian [=McMansion=].
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Unlike [[spoiler: Jim Phelps]], who went insane from decades of job burnout, or [[spoiler: Musgrave]], Hendricks, or Lark, who all were [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well Intentioned Extremists]] employing various extreme methods to achieve their idea of "the greater good", Ambrose is simply an opportunist who decides to go rogue when the opportunity for an obscenely large payout presents itself.
* 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.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He claims: "Women are like monkeys. Won't let go of one branch until they get hold of the next." It's a double offender when the "monkey" comment is heightened by the fact that Nyah is a ''black'' woman.
* SmugSnake: He's not ''dumb'', but he's got quite an opinion of himself that his actual skills just don't measure up to. His operational M.O. is basically MurderIsTheBestSolution, in contrast to Ethan's more subtle and clever GuileHero methods. His cleverest ruse, impersonating Ethan in the beginning of the film, wasn't even his own idea, but rather standard [=IMF=] protocol that he was assigned due to Ethan not being available for the job.
* TheSociopath: His feud with Ethan goes way back. Ethan generally goes out of his way not to hurt innocent people and security guards just doing their jobs, while Sean is never happy unless he "leaves a few hats on the ground."
* TriggerHappy: Ethan mentions that Ambrose has a love for "getting his gun off". He notably [[spoiler:kills Stamp]] by [[MultipleGunshotDeath shooting him very dead]] and using Ethan's term as an attempted IronicEcho [[spoiler:and only notices that it was Stamp wearing an Ethan mask when it's too late]].
* ViolentGlaswegian: He's a man of rage and violence with a Scottish accent as thick as his temper.
* VillainousCrush: Appears to be genuinely in love with Nyah, enough to be legitimately hurt and angry upon realizing that she's playing him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Stamp]]
!!Hugh Stamp
[[quoteright:340:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/c3d500f7_2d51_4c1a_b008_c5caf621cb90.jpeg]]
%%[[caption-width-right:340:some caption text]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Richard Roxburgh
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Patrick Laplace
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossibleII''

Ambrose's main henchman.
----
* DeathlyUnmasking: [[spoiler: Dressed up with a mask of Ethan Hunt, leading to him being murdered by Ambrose. However, Ambrose then notices the distinctive injury on "Ethan's" finger and unmasks him to reveal his true identity.]]
* TheDragon: Ambrose's right-hand man.
* {{Fingore}}: Ambrose mutilates one of his fingers for questioning his relationship with Nyah. [[spoiler: It's how he identifies him after Hunt swaps faces with him and tricks Ambrose into riddling him with bullets.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: He suspects Nyah is up to no good when she returns to Ambrose. He's right.
* RedRightHand: Ambrose cuts off the tip of his finger ("mercifully" deciding not to cut it to the first joint) and Stamp spends the rest of the film with it in a cast. It's very distinctive and focused on whenever he's in scene, shown to bleed when Billy slams a door on him [[spoiler:and identify him as the man Ambrose accidently killed thinking he was Ethan]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Wallis]]
!!Wallis
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/WilliamMapother
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossibleII''

Ambrose's tech savvy henchman.
----
* TheBrute: Though we never get to see such brute.
* OhCrap: His final expression before [[spoiler: an articulated lorry smashes into the car he's driving]].
* TooDumbToLive: Insists on driving at full speed on a busy Australian highway, despite visibility being reduced to nothing thanks to a thick cloud of smoke caused by Ethan. [[spoiler: It ends with Wallis and a couple of other mooks getting obliterated when a lorry they didn't see coming smashes into their car]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:[=McCloy=]]]
!!John [=McCloy=]
[[quoteright:341:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/21d3d66e_6eed_4954_96e2_6cb13250173d.jpeg]]
%%[[caption-width-right:341:some caption text]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/BrendanGleeson
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Sylvain Lemarié
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossibleII''

->''"I needed to know just how bad the disease was in the real world, not just the lab. You were genetically splicing together strains of influenza to create a cure for all influenzas, but you were also creating a disease so terrible in Chimera, the cure would be priceless! I needed Chimera in order to peddle Bellerophon; it's not that difficult to understand, is it? Look, I've got the virus, you've got the cure. I need them both. Time was, a shot of penicillin would knock off every bloody bug in the zoo. Not anymore. If I couldn't make money killing the microscopic little shits that are out there, well, you'd help me put one out there that I could make money on. Well, there it is. I've confessed. I, John C. [=McCloy=], am in business to make money. Now forget any deal you may have made with that thug Ambrose, get me treated and let's go back to work!"''

CEO of Biocyte Pharmaceuticals and an ally to Ambrose.
----
* BadBoss: Injects his scientist with the nre virus willingly and kills him.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Reveals that his motive was to only get money and allies with Ambrose to spread the Chimera virus [[EvenEvilHasStandards despite finding it repulsive.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: As mentioned above he's absolutely horrified by Ambrose's plan to infect Sydney with the virus.
* FatBastard: He's fat and an asshole.
* KarmaHoudini: Nothing bad happens to him discounting the fact he's now disgraced.
[[/folder]]

!Davian & Associates

[[folder:Davian]]
!!Owen Davian
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/philip.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"You can tell a lot about a person's character by how they treat people they don't have to treat well."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/PhilipSeymourHoffman
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Creator/EmmanuelJacomy
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII''

->''"You have a wife, girlfriend? Because you know what I'm gonna do next? I'm gonna find her, whoever she is, I'm gonna find her and I'm gonna hurt her. I'm gonna make her bleed, and cry, and call out your name, and you're not going to be able to do shit, you know why? 'Cause you're gonna be this close to dead. And then I'm gonna kill you, right, in front of her."''

A sociopathic arms dealer.
----
* ArmsDealer: He's notorious for selling weapons to terrorist organizations. The plot of the third movie revolves around him trying to sell the Rabbit's Foot, a theoretical weapon of mass destruction.
* AxCrazy: Despite his dispassionate and flat demeanour, his penchant for torture and murder along with putting bombs in people’s heads for little more than shits and giggles show that an unhinged mind lurks within.
* BadBoss: Executes his head of security for [[YouHaveFailedMe failing to prevent Ethan from abducting him.]]
* BigBad: Of the third film. [[spoiler:He turns out to be in a BigBadDuumvirate with Musgrave.]]
* CreepyMonotone: He often speaks in a low, almost drawling voice with little emotion.
* DeadpanSnarker: Extreme emphasis on the deadpan, which he keeps up even when interacting with regular people. After Zhen spills wine on him as part of a plan to get him alone, he responds to her apologies with.
--> ''"It's fine, [[SarcasmMode I always spill red wine on my custom-made white shirt]]."''
* DissonantSerenity: A major reason why he's so terrifying is that he carries out, or talks about carrying out, horrific acts of violence while rarely dropping his bored-sounding voice. The one time he shifts his tone to something resembling vague amusement is when he's remembering how he murdered Ethan's friend for fun.
* EvilSoundsDeep: He's got a very deep voice, which he combines with an eerily calm and soft spoken tone.
* ExplosiveLeash: Seems to be one of Davian's preferred tricks. He implants small bombs in the heads of his hostages and activates them when they get away. Or for fun.
* FatBastard: He's not obscenely overweight, but he's still fat and an utter sociopath.
* ForTheEvulz: During his interrogation, Davian briefly becomes an unusually intimidating CloudCuckooLander as he gives the aforementioned speech, but then he says that when he blew up the skull of Farris, he did it for one reason; fun. [[spoiler: Played straight at the end when Davian tortures both Hunt and Julia and gives his promise; that he will make them scream and Julia will cry Hunt's name out]].
* ForcedToWatch: He promises to make Julia watch while he kills Ethan, but in the climax, decides to force Ethan to watch him kill Julia instead.
* GeniusBruiser: Davian is a criminal mastermind and, while not a top-level fighter like Ambrose, he is able to do decently in a GoodOldFisticuffs brawl with Ethan, albeit while the latter is seriously weakened.
* IHaveYourWife: He kidnaps Ethan's wife, Julia, to force Ethan to steal the Rabbit's Foot and deliver it to him.
* ItsPersonal: The softspoken rant to Ethan quoted above when the agent catches him.
* KickTheDog: His murder of Lindsey Farris and taunting Ethan about it definitely qualify.
* KnightOfCerebus: Possibly the darkest villain in the whole series.
* LackOfEmpathy: He never shows any signs of emotion and barely spares a second thought to all the bloodshed and pain he causes.
* NecessarilyEvil: Not how Davian views himself--he personally couldn't care about such things--but [[spoiler:Musgrave]] believes eliminating him would only result in two others springing up in his place, making it more profitable to use his unsavory business to further "nobler" ends.
* NervesOfSteel: He shows zero fear after being captured by Ethan and left at his mercy, ignoring all his questions while calmly stating how he's going to torture the woman Ethan loves in front of him. He doesn't even cave when Ethan opens the doors of their airplane, threatens to throw him out, and begins cutting the restraints securing him one-by-one. He also doesn't flinch at all when Ethan shoots at him with an assault rifle from well outside the weapon's effective range.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Gives a very brutal one to Ethan in the finale, [[spoiler: due to the charge going off in Ethan's head.]]
* NoNonsenseNemesis: When he has Julia as his hostage, he does the standard, "I'll kill her if you don't cooperate" move with Ethan, saying he has ten seconds to tell him where the Rabbit's Foot is before he kills her. Unlike other villains, he's completely immune to Ethan's attempts to talk, threaten or negotiate his way out of the situation. When he gets to ten, [[spoiler:he shoots her. Subverted when it turns out it wasn't Julia but a hench-woman who failed him, but his partner does state Davian just wanted to kill Ethan and Julia both.]]
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Besides the sadistic glee he gets from his work, he seems to be ultimately beholden only to whoever is signing his checks, even working for [[spoiler:Musgrave]] who sees him as useful for his own schemes.
* {{Sadist}}: Likes to make people suffer for fun.
-->''"And you saw what I did to your little blonde friend at the factory right. Oh... that was nothing. That was... fun. [[ForTheEvulz That was fun]]."''
* TheSociopath: His finger won't shake when he has it on a gun's trigger and he can cause untold bloodshed, both indirectly and personally, without a hint of any emotion beyond sadism and apathy. And unlike previous and later villains in the series, there's no indication of a sympathetic motive or that he's capable of any genuine affection or love for others. Davian is just a monster, through and through.
* SoftSpokenSadist: He can talk about all the pain he'll inflict on a person with a very casual tone.
* TheStoic: He's a SoftSpokenSadist who almost never loses his cool even when being shot at or subject to "enhanced interrogation".
* StoutStrength: It's made clear in his fight with Ethan that at least some of his heavy build is muscle as he is able to fight Ethan using just brute strength.
* TerroristsWithoutACause: Owen Davian is an ''ArmsDealer'' without a cause. The man provides weapons to anybody who pays him, without caring what the weapons are for or how horrifying they are. He never even raises his voice, let alone tells any reasons he may have to be such a monster.
* WarForFunAndProfit: He's in on [[spoiler:Musgrave's]] plan to sell the Rabbit's Foot to Middle-Eastern terrorists to give a pretext for America to go to war. While his partner is [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned]], Davian's just in it for the money.
* UndignifiedDeath: When brawling with a weakened Ethan in the street [[spoiler:he gets anticlimatically and almost comedically face crushed by a passing truck]].
* 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".]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: He's respected enough to be invited to the Vatican and is seen by the rest of the world as a legitimate businessman with Brassel claiming they've found it impossible to connect him to anything.
* YouHaveFailedMe: His head of security failed to prevent his abduction by Ethan's team. In response, [[spoiler:Davian puts a mask over her to make her look like Ethan's wife then kneecaps and murders her as part of his psychological torture of Ethan.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Brownway]]
!!Brownway
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/EddieMarsan
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII''

The man in charge for placing explosive implants.
----
* TheDragon: Though he doesn't appear much. He only serves to place the explosive implants and that's all.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Brownway hardly appears in the film, then dies.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Head of Security]]
!!Head of Security
->'''Portrayed by:''' Bahar Soomekh
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII''

Owen Davian's interpreter at the Vatican and also head of security.
----
* CunningLinguist: As an interpreter, her job is to communicate with Davian and other foreign people. She is fluent in Italian (the only language shown as she didn't live for long).
* YouHaveFailedMe: She did not do her job properly and hence pays the price [[spoiler:by being disguised as Julia to psychologically torture Ethan]].
[[/folder]]

!Cobalt & Associates

[[folder:Hendricks]]
!!Kurt "Cobalt" Hendricks
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/henricks.jpg]]
[-[[caption-width-right:300:'''William Brandt:''' 190 IQ. Served in Swedish Special Forces. Professor of physics, Stockholm University. Specialist in nuclear endgame theory. Asked to resign... well, because he's crazy. ]]-]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/MichaelNyqvist
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Gabriel Le Doze
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Ghost Protocol]]''

->''"How will the world finally end? It is my job to predict the unthinkable. To treat the deaths of billions as a game. After 20 years of this, I was numb. Until a new question crossed my mind. What happens after the end of the world? Every two or three million years, some natural catastrophe devastates all life on Earth. But life goes on. And what little remains is made stronger. Put simply, world destruction is an unpleasant but necessary part of evolution. What happens then, I wondered, when mankind faces the next end of the world. I looked to Hiroshima, Nagasaki... thriving cities rebuilt from the ashes, monuments to the unimaginable, dedicated to the concept of peace. It occurred to me here that nuclear war might have a place in the natural order. But only if it could be controlled. Only if it touched every living soul equally. May there be peace on Earth."''

A Swedish nuclear strategist who wants to start a nuclear war.
----
* AffablyEvil: Yeah yeah, Kurt is making a plan on destroying the world and is a complete maniac. Hell, the first thing he does in the film is breaking someone's neck, but Hendricks isn't a BadBoss like many other villains and often negotiates with them.
* BigBad: Of the fourth film.
* ColdHam: His relieved sigh after he launches the missile in Mumbai comes out as overdramatic as he tells to himself that his plan came out as expected.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Committed by himself. He throws himself from a parking lot with the suitcase and lands several stories below, so Ethan can never catch him and thinking he succeeded in his plans. [[spoiler:He survives just long enough to see Ethan deactivate the missile, then he succumbs]].
* DyingSmirk: He smiles at Ethan before falling to his death in the parking, believing his plan for nuclear armageddon has succeeded.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: In his younger days, Kurt was a Swedish commando. The unit was never specified.
* GeniusBruiser: Hendricks is a genius nuclear physicist with an IQ of 190, as well as being former Swedish special forces and, while he's aged out of his glory days, he's still able to give the team a good chase in Dubai and put up a decent fight when confronting Ethan in the finale. He's also clever enough to anticipate Ethan's moves during the chase in Dubai (including Ethan's incredibly unorthodox ploy of using a car as a battering ram) and stay one step ahead of him.
* GlassCannon: He might not be able to go the distance in an extended punch-out like Ambrose could, but he doesn't really ''need'' to since, thanks to his training, he manages to break Ethan's leg within seconds (though Ethan counters by breaking his arm just as quickly).
* LightIsNotGood: He seems to favor clean white suits, compared to the 3 previous villains' preference for black suits.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: His fight with Ethan in the finale is pretty brutal, resulting in a broken leg for Ethan and a broken arm for Hendricks.
* OddlySmallOrganization: His organization seems to be limited to himself and Wistrom, with him contracting out work to mercs like Sabine. To top it off for much of the movie "Wistrom" is actually Hendricks wearing a LatexPerfection mask. Presumably when your goal is to destroy the world it can be hard to find recruits.
%%* OhCrap:
* OmnicidalManiac: Cobalt thinks a nuclear war will bring peace and prosperity to (whatever is left of) humanity.
* PreMortemOneLiner: When one of Hendrick's associates is relieved that he's free of his obligations, he utters a relieved "Thank God."
-->'''Hendricks''': You can thank him in person. (Fires a silenced bullet.)
* StealthExpert: He somehow manages to singlehandedly infiltrate the Kremlin, plant explosives in key locations, and steal a nuclear football suitcase as well as the KGB's files on his identity, all without being detected and even successfully framing the IMF for blowing the Kremlin up. He also sneaks up on and fiber wires at least one security guard like a pro.
* ThanatosGambit: Throws himself off the top of a parking garage while clutching the control briefcase for the nukes in order to stop Ethan from preventing the launch.
* UnknownRival: The only villain in the series to not personally know Ethan, nor say his name or exchange any dialogue with him.
* VillainousBreakdown: He is very pissed off when Ethan comes to Abu Dhabi to stop his deal with Sabine [[spoiler:after fighting him during the sandstorm disguised as Wistrom]].
* VillainousUnderdog: This guy came within seconds of destroying the world, with nothing more than his own personal skills, 1 loyal henchman, and a modest sum of money for buying resources, presumably obtained from selling his worldly possessions and going underground.
* WeakButSkilled: Hendricks is still in pretty good shape, as evidenced by the chase in Dubai, but when he goes toe-to-toe with Hunt at the end of the film it's clear that he's pretty heavily outmatched, as Hendricks has been retired from field work for decades while Hunt is a younger, top-level, and still currently active operative. He still manages to hold his own even after getting his arm broken early on, even managing to break Ethan's leg with a single strike within seconds of engaging in hand-to-hand.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He wants to start a nuclear war just to prove himself right about the dangers of nuclear missiles to humanity. Which, in any sane person's mind, defeats the point, but...
** A deleted scene elaborates that his goal is to start a nuclear war ''now'' while one would still be survivable, rather than wait for the next generation of [=WMDs=] which would be powerful enough to exterminate all life on Earth.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Wistrom]]
!!Marius Wistrom
[[quoteright:263:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/f91ebe2a_4ddd_4bf1_96cd_93858813cfd1.png]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Samuli Edelmann
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Luc Boulad
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Ghost Protocol]]''

Hendricks' main (and seemingly only) henchman.
----
* BadassNormal: Subverted. Manages to evade Hunt during a chase scene until it turns out it's just Hendricks in a mask. Though he does manage to give Brandt a decent fight later on in the finale.
* TheDragon: To Hendricks.
* DramaticAmmoDepletion: He apparently didn't bother to bring even 1 spare magazine for his pistol, as he immediately discards it after emptying the mag in his firefight with Jane in the finale.
* InTheBack: [[spoiler: How he dies; Benji shoots him from behind while he's got Brandt in a chokehold]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sabine]]
!!Sabine Moreau
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lea.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"No diamonds, no codes."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/LeaSeydoux
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Creator/LeaSeydoux
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Ghost Protocol]]''

->'''Sabine:''' How good is your backup?\\
'''William Brandt:''' The best.\\
'''Sabine:''' ''(Laughs)'' I've killed the best.

A French assassin who kills IMF operative Trevor Hanaway in order to steal nuclear launch codes, which she plans to sell to Hendricks for a large sum of diamonds.
----
* BadassBoast: She brags that she's "killed the best".
* ClothingDamage: Her dress is ripped during her fight with Jane.
* 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.
%%* CombatStilettos:
* DarkActionGirl: She's a formidable assassin who seems to be OnlyInItForTheMoney and has taken the villains' side to achieve her goals.
* DesignatedGirlFight: With Jane, justified as she killed Trevor.
* DestinationDefenestration: In the tallest building in the world.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:She falls from the very ''Burj Khalifa'' after Jane kicks her out. Strangely enough we don't see her body while Ethan chases Wistrom.]]
* EvilWearsBlack: She wears a black dress.
* FauxActionGirl: Mostly averted due to being lethal with a gun and a CombatPragmatist, but she is clearly hopelessly outmatched against a trained IMF agent like Carter in a hand-to-hand fight.
* FrenchJerk: She's French and a cold-hearted assassin.
* HeroKiller: She kills Agent Hanaway in the opening.
* LovesOnlyGold: It's mentioned that as an assassin, she only accepts diamonds as payment. Given her SmugSnake attitude, it seems likely she just enjoys having a dramatic signature.
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: In a manner similar to ''Film/LethalWeapon2'', Moreau was responsible for the death of Carter's love, Agent Hanaway.
* NotSoStoic: Panics when she sees [[spoiler: Jane charging at her with murder in mind]].
* ProfessionalKiller: Appearing from nowhere and kills Trevor immediately when she approaches him. Efficient and quick.
* SmugSnake: Sabine's full of pride when she thinks she has the upper hand, but quickly loses her composure the moment things start not going according to plan, in contrast to the heroes who manage to improvise and adapt when their plans fall through.
* TheSociopath: A cold blooded assassin. She didn't shed any tears for anything she did.
* WeirdCurrency: She likes to be paid with diamonds.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Fog]]
!!The Fog
->'''Portrayed by:''' Ilia Volok
->'''Dubbed in French By:''' Lionel Tua
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Ghost Protocol]]''

->'''Ethan Hunt:''' Our countries are on the brink of war.\\
'''The Fog:''' [[WarForFunAndProfit War is very good for business.]]\\
'''Ethan:''' [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Nuclear war?]]\\
''({{Beat}})''\\
'''The Fog:''' Go on.

A Russian arms dealer.
----
* ArmsDealer: He's one.
* EnemyMine: He makes a deal with Ethan to track down Hendricks in Mumbai and later with [[InspectorJavert Sidorov]] to demonstrate Ethan's innocence.
* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: Much like Max, he prefers to use his nickname to preserve his anonymous status.
* PragmaticVillainy: The above quotes. He's not above taking advantage of the countless of wars in the world as opportunities to sell his weapons and make good profits, but he [[EvenEvilHasStandards draws the line at nuclear war]], because it means the world will be devastated with billions of casualties, most likely including him as well, and you can't sell weapons when you're dead.
[[/folder]]
----

!Independent Villains
[[folder:The Plutonium Dealer]]
!!The Plutonium Dealer
->'''Portrayed by:''' Caspar Phillipson
->'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]''

->'''The Dealer:''' I have survived in this business with the help of a voice in my head. This voice is never wrong. And whenever I meet you, it tells me the same thing.\\
'''Ethan:''' What's that?\\
'''The Dealer:''' ''Nothing.''

An Eastern European arms dealer who is Ethan's contact to procure the three plutonium cores before the Apostles do.
----
* ArmsDealer: And one that is apparently influenced enough to get his hands on three plutonium cores and crossed paths with Ethan more than once.
* NoodleIncident: It's implied from the dialogue that Ethan used to do business with him before, but we're never elaborated further except for the fact that the Plutonium Dealer never trusted Ethan once in all of their previous deals, and his instincts are definitely on point. It's still not enough to save him.
* NoNameGiven: He's never named in the movie.
* ProperlyParanoid: He's absolutely distrustful of Ethan and never lets his guard down once the entire time they do business together, and when it seems like Ethan is going back on his deal, he doesn't hesitate to order his henchmen to gun him and Benji down. Unfortunately for him, [[DidntSeeThatComing he didn't account for the Apostles.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Killed off by the Apostles in his first and only scene in the movie.
[[/folder]]
----

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It seems to be implied that she died sometime after the events of the first film, given how her daughter in ''Fallout'' refers to her in the past tense, however it's never flat-out stated that Max is deceased.

* ShesGotLegs: At one point, she lifts up her dress to get the knife she hid under it, showing her beautiful leg in the process. The camera even helpfully shoots from a low-angle in that brief shot.

* TheSociopath: His finger won't shake when he has it on a gun's trigger and he can cause untold bloodshed, both indirectly and personally, without a hint of any emotion beyond sadism and apathy.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: He's respected enough to be invited to the Vatican and is seen by the rest of th world as a legitimate businessman.

* DarkActionGirl: Kick ass and is bad.

* StockingFiller: In this case, a ButterflyKnife.

* LackOfEmpathy: He barely spares a second thought to all the bloodshed and pain he causes.

* TheSociopath: His finger won't shake when he has it on a gun's trigger.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: He's respected enough to be invited to the Vatican.

->''"Well, you think about it Ethan, it was inevitable. No more UsefulNotes/ColdWar. No more secrets you keep from yourself. Answer to no one but yourself. Then, you wake up one morning and find out [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidents the President]] is running the country without your permission. The son of a bitch, how dare he. Then you realize, it's over. You are an obsolete piece of hardware, not worth upgrading, you got a lousy marriage, and 62 grand a year."''

* BlondesAreEvil: Downplayed, as he never directly harms anybody.

* BlondesAreEvil: Subverted. Ethan thinks she's just a normal arms dealer, but Hunley reveals she's working with the CIA.

* TheUnfettered: Has shades of this. He's the one in charge of the plan to extract Solomon Lane from the police convoy in Paris, which would result in dozens of police casualties, of which he doesn't care at all as long as Lane is retrieved alive for his sister.

* ArmsDealer: And one that is apparently influenced enough to get his hands on three plutonium cores.