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** They also had a minor plot relevance in that their own military service helped them deduce that the killer they were after must have had similar trainng and motivation. Plus one of them was Jack Ryan's father, whose veteran status had already been established as canon in earlier books.
** They also had a minor plot relevance in that their own military service helped them deduce that the killer they were after must have had similar trainng and motivation. Plus one of them was Jack Ryan's father, whose veteran status had already been established as canon in earlier books.
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* ArmiesAreEvil: Inverted. If a character has served or is serving, they are almost certainly a good person. The very few exceptions tend to be SoldiersAtTheRear anyway. Even characters who appear for a little less than a paragraph get a little military biography. Sometimes this is semi-justified, as it is pretty plausible for airline pilots to be retired Air Force, but sometimes taken to ridiculous levels, such as a couple of characters in ''Without Remorse'', whose military service is entirely throwaway and serves no purpose other than making already sympathetic characters more sympathetic.
** They also had a minor plot relevance in that their own military service helped them deduce that the killer they were after must have had similar trainng and motivation. Plus one of them was Jack Ryan's father, whose veteran status had already been established as canon in earlier books.levels.
** They also had a minor plot relevance in that their own military service helped them deduce that the killer they were after must have had similar trainng and motivation. Plus one of them was Jack Ryan's father, whose veteran status had already been established as canon in earlier books.
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* {{Doorstopper}}: Most of his novels, although if you can put them down before you finish them, there's something wrong with you.
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** Even Soviet/Russian characters utilize these sometimes, which makes no sense no matter how one looks at it.
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Formerly an insurance broker, Mr. Clancy was an American novelist specializing in techno-thrillers. His first and most famous novel is ''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober''.
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Formerly an insurance broker, Mr. Tom Clancy (April 12, 1947 -- October 1, 2013) was an American novelist specializing in techno-thrillers. His first and most famous novel is ''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober''.
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* CommieLandCommieLand: The setting for significant portions of the books, first the USSR and later the People's Republic of China after the Soviet Union fell apart.
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* EveryBulletIsATracer: {{Averted}}, unsurprisingly. When tracers are used (particularly in the miniguns on the Pave Low helicopters in ''Literature/ClearAndPresentDanger''), it's specifically mentioned that only one out of X bullets is a tracer round, for the purposes of assisting with aim[[labelnote:*]]miniguns aren't equipped with sights, as they're for area denial and not precision shooting[[/labelnote]]. Given [[GatlingGood minigun]] [[MoreDakka rate of fire]], it's also mentioned that it looks like a laser beam at full "rock and roll".
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* EveryBulletIsATracer: {{Averted}}, unsurprisingly. When tracers are used (particularly in the miniguns on the Pave Low helicopters in ''Literature/ClearAndPresentDanger''), it's specifically mentioned that only one out of X bullets is a tracer round, for the purposes of assisting with aim[[labelnote:*]]miniguns aren't equipped with sights, as they're for area denial and not precision shooting[[/labelnote]]. Given [[GatlingGood minigun]] [[MoreDakka rate rates of fire]], it's also mentioned that it looks like a laser beam at full "rock and roll".
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* GuyInBack: Featured in several novels.
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* GuyInBack: Featured in several novels.novels, with one of the more prominent examples being CDR Jackson's back-seater in ''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober'' becoming severely injured when Jackson's F-14 was attacked. The back-seater later gets mentioned briefly as taking command of his own carrier wing.
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* MoscowCentre: A majority of Clancy's fictional works involve the KGB or its successors. Until the last few Ryanverse novels, people of MoscowCentre were always cast as the antagonists, though infrequently as outright villains.
* MoscowCentre: A majority of Clancy's fictional works involve the KGB or its successors. Until the last few Ryanverse novels, people of MoscowCentre were always cast as the antagonists, though infrequently as outright villains.
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RedScare: Communists, first in the USSR and later in the People's Republic of China, are frequent adversaries in the novels.
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* TakeThat: Clancy takes the opportunity in several of his novels to note that none of the things that happen in Ian Fleming's ''JamesBond'' novels would ever pass muster in reality.
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* TakeThat: Clancy takes the opportunity in several of his novels to note that none of the things that happen in Ian Fleming's ''JamesBond'' ''Literature/JamesBond'' novels would ever pass muster in reality.
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* YanksWithTanks: In loving, loving detail...
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** One of Clancy's effective themes in his major works is the ForWantOfANail: one seemingly obscure thing or minor crime explodes way out of proportion all because the event is connected to important people through unlikely coincidences.
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** One of Clancy's effective themes in his major works is the ForWantOfANail: one seemingly obscure thing or minor crime explodes way out of proportion all because the event is connected to important people through unlikely coincidences. Or because the right person was not in the room to make the right call...
** One complaint about his novels was how most of the advanced tech gear he slavishly describes always worked: rarely did a gun jam or a helicopter crash due to accident.
** One complaint about his novels was how most of the advanced tech gear he slavishly describes always worked: rarely did a gun jam or a helicopter crash due to accident.
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* ''RedStormRising''.''Literature/RedStormRising''.
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* ''RedStormRising'' -- A hypothetical WorldWarThree scenario fought in the conventional theater. Due to an energy crisis, the USSR attacks NATO in a bid for oil. Cowritten with Larry Bond, who is mentioned in the foreword but not on the cover.
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* ''RedStormRising'' ''Literature/RedStormRising'' -- A hypothetical WorldWarThree scenario fought in the conventional theater. Due to an energy crisis, the USSR attacks NATO in a bid for oil. Cowritten with Larry Bond, who is mentioned in the foreword but not on the cover.
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\"passed away\" is a little more polite, and although I don\'t dislike Clancy (duh, check the edit history :P ) I think the RIP is just a bit beyond what\'s appropriate for the wiki.
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Tom Clancy himself [[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/books/tom-clancy-best-selling-novelist-of-military-thrillers-dies-at-66.html?hp&_r=1& died on October 1st, 2013]]. May he rest in peace.
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Tom Clancy himself [[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/books/tom-clancy-best-selling-novelist-of-military-thrillers-dies-at-66.html?hp&_r=1& died html passed away on October 1st, 2013]]. May he rest in peace.
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Famous enough to be a brand name; the appellation "[[InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt Tom Clancy's...]]" has been applied to a TV miniseries, several series of novels, and a number of VideoGames; all meet the author's demands for [[ShownTheirWork research]] and [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness technical realism]], but most ''were'' made without much involvement from the man himself, and will definitely have no involvement now that [[http://www.gameinfowire.com/news.asp?nid=11890 Ubisoft has acquired the intellectual property rights to Tom Clancy's name.]] Tom Clancy himself [[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/books/tom-clancy-best-selling-novelist-of-military-thrillers-dies-at-66.html?hp&_r=1& died on October 1st, 2013]].
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Famous enough to be a brand name; the appellation "[[InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt Tom Clancy's...]]" has been applied to a TV miniseries, several series of novels, and a number of VideoGames; all meet the author's demands for [[ShownTheirWork research]] and [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness technical realism]], but most ''were'' made without much involvement from the man himself, and will definitely have no involvement now that [[http://www.gameinfowire.com/news.asp?nid=11890 Ubisoft has acquired the intellectual property rights to Tom Clancy's name.]] ]]
Tom Clancy himself [[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/books/tom-clancy-best-selling-novelist-of-military-thrillers-dies-at-66.html?hp&_r=1& died on October 1st,2013]].
2013]]. May he rest in peace.
Tom Clancy himself [[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/books/tom-clancy-best-selling-novelist-of-military-thrillers-dies-at-66.html?hp&_r=1& died on October 1st,
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Famous enough to be a brand name; the appellation "[[InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt Tom Clancy's...]]" has been applied to a TV miniseries, several series of novels, and a number of VideoGames; all meet the author's demands for [[ShownTheirWork research]] and [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness technical realism]], but most ''were'' made without much involvement from the man himself, and will definitely have no involvement now that [[http://www.gameinfowire.com/news.asp?nid=11890 Ubisoft has acquired the intellectual property rights to Tom Clancy's name.]]
]] Tom Clancy himself [[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/books/tom-clancy-best-selling-novelist-of-military-thrillers-dies-at-66.html?hp&_r=1& died on October 1st, 2013]].
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** If you're referring to Detective Ryan, that's actually a continuity bit; that's Jack Ryan's father, who was mentioned in the first book as being a veteran.
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** Clancy's versions are extreme even by most versions of this trope. A car crash happens in Tennessee? [[spoiler: Japan declares war on the US.]] A priest dies in China trying to prevent an abortion? [[spoiler: China declares war on Russia.]] Each carefully laid out step by step.
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* OnlyAFleshWound: Completely and often tragically averted. Gunshot wounds incapacitate and kill or nearly kill several protagonists.
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* WhyWereBummedCommunismFell: Clancy has had mixed success in finding new [[BigBad Big Bads]] after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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* TakeThat: Clancy takes the opportunity in several of his novels to note that the that none of the things that happen in Ian Fleming's ''JamesBond'' novels would ever pass muster in reality.
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Example Indentation, and \"capitalist reforms\" doesn\'t change the fact they\'re still self-described communists, and are still a totalitarian dictatorship (at least to TBATD, haven\'t read Threat Vector)
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** Not really - the Russians just go from Dirty Communists to allies and good guys because they're no longer communist. Dirty Communist trope is still applied to China, which didn't go through reforms (to the point The Bear and the Dragon largely ignores decades of capitalist reforms in the country in order to be able to play the trope straight).
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* DirtyCommunists: Played more or less straight until ''The Cardinal of the Kremlin'', Kremlin'' for the Soviets/Russians, but completely turned on its head afterwards.
** Not really - the Russians just go from Dirty Communists to allies and good guysafterwards, not only because they're no longer communist. Dirty Communist of the fall of the Soviet Union. The trope is still applied to China, which didn't go through reforms (to the point The Bear and the Dragon largely ignores decades of capitalist reforms in the country in order to be able to play the trope straight). however.
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* AuthorFilibuster: The discussion of the US Tax Code in ''Executive Orders''. Almost any reference to abortion will elicit one of these from one of the characters.
* AuthorTract: ''Executive Orders'' basically features Jack Ryan cleaning up politics by putting Clancy's personal views into action.
* AuthorTract: ''Executive Orders'' basically features Jack Ryan cleaning up politics by putting Clancy's personal views into action.
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* HeartInTheWrongPlace: Discussed in ''Without Remorse''. One of the reasons the police are sure that their killer is ex-military is because the death wounds are exactly where the heart should be and not where the average person thinks it is.
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Formerly an insurance broker, Mr. Clancy is an American novelist specialising in techno-thrillers. His first and most famous novel is ''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober''.
Famous enough to be a brand name; the appellation "[[InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt Tom Clancy's...]]" has been applied to a TV miniseries, several series of novels, and a number of VideoGames; all meet the author's demands for [[ShownTheirWork research]] and [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness technical realism]], but most ''were'' made without much involvement from the man himself, and will definitely have no involvement now that [[http://www.gameinfowire.com/news.asp?nid=11890 Ubisoft has acquired the intellectual property rights to Tom Clancy's name.]]
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!!The Tom Clancy franchise includes the following major series and works:
[[AC:Novels]]
[[index]]
* ''RedStormRising'' -- A hypothetical WorldWarThree scenario fought in the conventional theater. Due to an energy crisis, the USSR attacks NATO in a bid for oil. Cowritten with Larry Bond, who is mentioned in the foreword but not on the cover.
* The Literature/JackRyan series - Written by him.
* The ''NetForce'' series - Licensed use of his name.
* The ''Literature/OpCenter'' series - Licensed use of his name.
* ''Literature/{{SSN}}'', based on a submarine simulator VideoGame of the same name. Written by him.
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[[index]]
* ''VideoGame/EndWar''
* ''VideoGame/GhostRecon'' and ''Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter''
* ''[[VideoGame/{{HAWX}} H.A.W.X.]]'' ([[FunWithAcronyms High Altitude Warfare - Experimental Squadron]])
* ''VideoGame/RainbowSix'' and ''Rainbow Six: Vegas''
* ''VideoGame/SplinterCell''
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!!Clancy novels with their own trope pages include:
* The Literature/JackRyan series.
* ''RedStormRising''.
* The ''NetForce'' series.
!!Other Clancy novels have featured the following tropes:
* AmericaSavesTheDay: A fairly standard plot, especially in later novels.
* BadassArmy: America (and to lesser extents other good guys) are portrayed as commanding one, though America seems to get the lion's share.
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Played straight, {{lampshaded}}, [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], [[DiscussedTrope discussed]], and averted in several places.
* CashCowFranchise: The reason for the existence of ''Net Force'' and ''Op Center'', not to mention all the Clancy spinoff games. Heck, the entire Clancy franchise became this long ago - he sold the ''rights'' to his name and, until recently, had ghostwriters.
* ColdSniper: Played straight, inverted, and {{deconstructed}} in different novels.
* ColdWar
* ColonCancer: Many of the games.
* CommieLand
* ContinuityNod: All over the novels and some of the games.
* ContrivedCoincidence: See the entry on that page. In general, lots of what gets the plot moving depends on either someone having a change of heart at the right moment, or someone making a discovery that went ignored by everyone else just in the nick of time. To be fair, much of this is justified since it's uncovered by analysts who are doing what they're paid for.
* CoolBoat: You might think every US naval vessel was this, given the amount of loving description Clancy visits on them. Clancy is almost never pictured without a baseball cap of a US Navy ship or unit, making those his IconicItem.
* CrazyPrepared: The U.S. military, which makes plans for literally every conceivable military scenario. Probably TruthInTelevision.
* DirtyCommunists: Played more or less straight until ''The Cardinal of the Kremlin'', but completely turned on its head afterwards.
* DiscussedTrope: Clancy loves to discuss the tropes related to RealityIsUnrealistic, largely via characters commenting on how people expect various aspects of police and spycraft to work because they saw it in a movie.
* {{Doorstopper}}: Most of his novels, although if you can put them down before you finish them, there's something wrong with you.
* EveryBulletIsATracer: {{Averted}}, unsurprisingly. When tracers are used (particularly in the miniguns on the Pave Low helicopters in ''Literature/ClearAndPresentDanger''), it's specifically mentioned that only one out of X bullets is a tracer round, for the purposes of assisting with aim[[labelnote:*]]miniguns aren't equipped with sights, as they're for area denial and not precision shooting[[/labelnote]]. Given [[GatlingGood minigun]] [[MoreDakka rate of fire]], it's also mentioned that it looks like a laser beam at full "rock and roll".
* FollowTheLeader: Clancy's work popularized the techno-thriller genre.
* GodwinsLaw: When the story is trying to rapidly establish the villainy of a particular country or ideology, expect a certain German dictator to crop up. A lot.
* GuyInBack: Featured in several novels.
* HeartInTheWrongPlace: Discussed in ''Without Remorse''. One of the reasons the police are sure that their killer is ex-military is because the death wounds are exactly where the heart should be and not where the average person thinks it is.
* HotSubOnSubAction: More subs attack each other in Clancy's novels than in the entire history of naval warfare. On the other hand, most of these novels are premised on the ColdWar heating up a bit, so it's entirely justified: after the '60s, that kind of sub-to-sub combat was not only possible but likely given that NATO and Warsaw Pact subs were constantly on one another's tails.
* InNameOnly: The works whose titles include "Tom Clancy's" only bears his name on the cover, other creators working off of basic setting outlines written by Clancy. In general, many of the "Tom Clancy's" novels are somewhat less well received than the works directly from his hand (or word processor), particularly in regards to the "Op-Center" book series.
* InterserviceRivalry: All over the place. CIA vs. FBI, FBI vs. Secret Service, KGB vs. GRU, etc.
* MnogoNukes
* MoscowCentre: A majority of Clancy's fictional works involve the KGB or its successors. Until the last few Ryanverse novels, people of MoscowCentre were always cast as the antagonists, though infrequently as outright villains.
* {{NSA}}
* OnlyAFleshWound: Completely and often tragically averted. Gunshot wounds incapacitate and kill or nearly kill several protagonists.
* PeaceThroughSuperiorFirepower: The American military arsenal is described in lavish, loving detail.
* PinkMist: Clancy, for all your realistically gory headshot descriptions.
* RedScare
* RedsWithRockets
* ReportingNames
* RussiansWithRustingRockets
* ScienceMarchesOn: Several books set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture make use of proposed weapons systems that never went into production, or never existed in the first place.
* ShootOutTheLock: Defied -- in several novels it's pointed out that this does ''not'' work in real life. In most cases, the shooter has to use several more bullets and messily destroy the lock mechanism to open the door.
* ShownTheirWork: He actually had Navy personal visit him demanding answers about what was in ''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober'', as some detail about submarine operation that he included in ''Red October'', that he had pieced together himself, turned out to be not only correct but classified. Clancy explained the details were readily available in many library books on submarines. Not bad considering that Clancy was an insurance salesman with no prior military experience before becoming an author.
* ShrineToSelf: Several military characters are shown to have this attitude.
* SociopathicSoldier: Soviet KGB troops tend to get this treatment, as distinct from the Red Army's soldiers. Even the Red Army soldiers show their disdain for their green-shoulder-board-wearing comrades.
* StrawmanPolitical: Clancy makes rather blatant use of strawman liberals, pacifists, and environmentalists throughout his novels. It's a given that such people will be morally weak as well.
* TakeThat: Clancy takes the opportunity in several of his novels to note that the that none of the things that happen in Ian Fleming's ''JamesBond'' novels would ever pass muster in reality.
* TearYourFaceOff: Clancy is rather fond of this. Multiple books feature somewhat graphic descriptions of a well-placed headshot plastering someone's face against a wall.
* {{Technobabble}}: Clancy's lengthy, loving descriptions of exactly how military technology works can occupy whole chapters.
* TechnologyPorn: Lots, especially military technology.
* TitleDrop: Done in virtually all of his novels, with very few exceptions.
* UnreliableNarrator: Clancy writes a lot of enemy plotting from their POV (as the protagonists rarely meet the antagonists directly). As said enemy plotters are frequently ideological and/or mentally unbalanced, their assessment of an operation can differ radically from what it will or could actually achieve.
* WhyWereBummedCommunismFell: Clancy has had mixed success in finding new [[BigBad Big Bads]] after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
* YellowPeril: Tom Clancy loves this. Apart from multiple Ryanvese examples, ''SSN'' has China goes to war with America over the Spratly Islands. Based on a submarine simulator VideoGame.
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Formerly an insurance broker, Mr. Clancy is an American novelist specialising in techno-thrillers. His first and most famous novel is ''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober''.
Famous enough to be a brand name; the appellation "[[InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt Tom Clancy's...]]" has been applied to a TV miniseries, several series of novels, and a number of VideoGames; all meet the author's demands for [[ShownTheirWork research]] and [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness technical realism]], but most ''were'' made without much involvement from the man himself, and will definitely have no involvement now that [[http://www.gameinfowire.com/news.asp?nid=11890 Ubisoft has acquired the intellectual property rights to Tom Clancy's name.]]
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!!The Tom Clancy franchise includes the following major series and works:
[[AC:Novels]]
[[index]]
* ''RedStormRising'' -- A hypothetical WorldWarThree scenario fought in the conventional theater. Due to an energy crisis, the USSR attacks NATO in a bid for oil. Cowritten with Larry Bond, who is mentioned in the foreword but not on the cover.
* The Literature/JackRyan series - Written by him.
* The ''NetForce'' series - Licensed use of his name.
* The ''Literature/OpCenter'' series - Licensed use of his name.
* ''Literature/{{SSN}}'', based on a submarine simulator VideoGame of the same name. Written by him.
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[[AC:Video Games ]]
[[index]]
* ''VideoGame/EndWar''
* ''VideoGame/GhostRecon'' and ''Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter''
* ''[[VideoGame/{{HAWX}} H.A.W.X.]]'' ([[FunWithAcronyms High Altitude Warfare - Experimental Squadron]])
* ''VideoGame/RainbowSix'' and ''Rainbow Six: Vegas''
* ''VideoGame/SplinterCell''
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!!Clancy novels with their own trope pages include:
* The Literature/JackRyan series.
* ''RedStormRising''.
* The ''NetForce'' series.
!!Other Clancy novels have featured the following tropes:
* AmericaSavesTheDay: A fairly standard plot, especially in later novels.
* BadassArmy: America (and to lesser extents other good guys) are portrayed as commanding one, though America seems to get the lion's share.
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Played straight, {{lampshaded}}, [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], [[DiscussedTrope discussed]], and averted in several places.
* CashCowFranchise: The reason for the existence of ''Net Force'' and ''Op Center'', not to mention all the Clancy spinoff games. Heck, the entire Clancy franchise became this long ago - he sold the ''rights'' to his name and, until recently, had ghostwriters.
* ColdSniper: Played straight, inverted, and {{deconstructed}} in different novels.
* ColdWar
* ColonCancer: Many of the games.
* CommieLand
* ContinuityNod: All over the novels and some of the games.
* ContrivedCoincidence: See the entry on that page. In general, lots of what gets the plot moving depends on either someone having a change of heart at the right moment, or someone making a discovery that went ignored by everyone else just in the nick of time. To be fair, much of this is justified since it's uncovered by analysts who are doing what they're paid for.
* CoolBoat: You might think every US naval vessel was this, given the amount of loving description Clancy visits on them. Clancy is almost never pictured without a baseball cap of a US Navy ship or unit, making those his IconicItem.
* CrazyPrepared: The U.S. military, which makes plans for literally every conceivable military scenario. Probably TruthInTelevision.
* DirtyCommunists: Played more or less straight until ''The Cardinal of the Kremlin'', but completely turned on its head afterwards.
* DiscussedTrope: Clancy loves to discuss the tropes related to RealityIsUnrealistic, largely via characters commenting on how people expect various aspects of police and spycraft to work because they saw it in a movie.
* {{Doorstopper}}: Most of his novels, although if you can put them down before you finish them, there's something wrong with you.
* EveryBulletIsATracer: {{Averted}}, unsurprisingly. When tracers are used (particularly in the miniguns on the Pave Low helicopters in ''Literature/ClearAndPresentDanger''), it's specifically mentioned that only one out of X bullets is a tracer round, for the purposes of assisting with aim[[labelnote:*]]miniguns aren't equipped with sights, as they're for area denial and not precision shooting[[/labelnote]]. Given [[GatlingGood minigun]] [[MoreDakka rate of fire]], it's also mentioned that it looks like a laser beam at full "rock and roll".
* FollowTheLeader: Clancy's work popularized the techno-thriller genre.
* GodwinsLaw: When the story is trying to rapidly establish the villainy of a particular country or ideology, expect a certain German dictator to crop up. A lot.
* GuyInBack: Featured in several novels.
* HeartInTheWrongPlace: Discussed in ''Without Remorse''. One of the reasons the police are sure that their killer is ex-military is because the death wounds are exactly where the heart should be and not where the average person thinks it is.
* HotSubOnSubAction: More subs attack each other in Clancy's novels than in the entire history of naval warfare. On the other hand, most of these novels are premised on the ColdWar heating up a bit, so it's entirely justified: after the '60s, that kind of sub-to-sub combat was not only possible but likely given that NATO and Warsaw Pact subs were constantly on one another's tails.
* InNameOnly: The works whose titles include "Tom Clancy's" only bears his name on the cover, other creators working off of basic setting outlines written by Clancy. In general, many of the "Tom Clancy's" novels are somewhat less well received than the works directly from his hand (or word processor), particularly in regards to the "Op-Center" book series.
* InterserviceRivalry: All over the place. CIA vs. FBI, FBI vs. Secret Service, KGB vs. GRU, etc.
* MnogoNukes
* MoscowCentre: A majority of Clancy's fictional works involve the KGB or its successors. Until the last few Ryanverse novels, people of MoscowCentre were always cast as the antagonists, though infrequently as outright villains.
* {{NSA}}
* OnlyAFleshWound: Completely and often tragically averted. Gunshot wounds incapacitate and kill or nearly kill several protagonists.
* PeaceThroughSuperiorFirepower: The American military arsenal is described in lavish, loving detail.
* PinkMist: Clancy, for all your realistically gory headshot descriptions.
* RedScare
* RedsWithRockets
* ReportingNames
* RussiansWithRustingRockets
* ScienceMarchesOn: Several books set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture make use of proposed weapons systems that never went into production, or never existed in the first place.
* ShootOutTheLock: Defied -- in several novels it's pointed out that this does ''not'' work in real life. In most cases, the shooter has to use several more bullets and messily destroy the lock mechanism to open the door.
* ShownTheirWork: He actually had Navy personal visit him demanding answers about what was in ''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober'', as some detail about submarine operation that he included in ''Red October'', that he had pieced together himself, turned out to be not only correct but classified. Clancy explained the details were readily available in many library books on submarines. Not bad considering that Clancy was an insurance salesman with no prior military experience before becoming an author.
* ShrineToSelf: Several military characters are shown to have this attitude.
* SociopathicSoldier: Soviet KGB troops tend to get this treatment, as distinct from the Red Army's soldiers. Even the Red Army soldiers show their disdain for their green-shoulder-board-wearing comrades.
* StrawmanPolitical: Clancy makes rather blatant use of strawman liberals, pacifists, and environmentalists throughout his novels. It's a given that such people will be morally weak as well.
* TakeThat: Clancy takes the opportunity in several of his novels to note that the that none of the things that happen in Ian Fleming's ''JamesBond'' novels would ever pass muster in reality.
* TearYourFaceOff: Clancy is rather fond of this. Multiple books feature somewhat graphic descriptions of a well-placed headshot plastering someone's face against a wall.
* {{Technobabble}}: Clancy's lengthy, loving descriptions of exactly how military technology works can occupy whole chapters.
* TechnologyPorn: Lots, especially military technology.
* TitleDrop: Done in virtually all of his novels, with very few exceptions.
* UnreliableNarrator: Clancy writes a lot of enemy plotting from their POV (as the protagonists rarely meet the antagonists directly). As said enemy plotters are frequently ideological and/or mentally unbalanced, their assessment of an operation can differ radically from what it will or could actually achieve.
* WhyWereBummedCommunismFell: Clancy has had mixed success in finding new [[BigBad Big Bads]] after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
* YellowPeril: Tom Clancy loves this. Apart from multiple Ryanvese examples, ''SSN'' has China goes to war with America over the Spratly Islands. Based on a submarine simulator VideoGame.
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