History Fridge / MissionImpossibleRogueNation

* Back in ''Film/MissionImpossible1996'', one of the SpySpeak phrases that indicate you're accepting a mission is "No, I prefer the theater." Here, Ethan mails Benji tickets to a presention of "Turandot" in Austria to help foil an assassination in an actual theater. The concept of a theater of operations is thus quite literal this time.

* Back in ''Film/MissionImpossible1996'', one of the SpySpeak phrases that indicate you're accepting a mission is "No, I prefer the theater." Here, Ethan mails Benji tickets to a presention of "Turandot" to help foil an assassination in an actual theater. The concept of a theater of operations is thus quite literal this time.

* A low-level operative breaks cover in a record shop when speaking to Hunt apparently just to {{Squee}} about all the ludicrous missions he's pulled off. But the record she hands him is later shown to be a message directly from the Syndicate, and Solomon Lane, its leader, is present in the shop throughout the whole scene, and kills her at the end. Maybe she was actually trying to tip Ethan off with an OutOfCharacterAlert...

* Ethan ultimately trips Lane up in the final confrontation because he’s willing to do the one thing Lane never would; Ethan is willing to put himself at risk and sacrifice himself to save his friends and achieve his mission goal, but Lane was never willing to take that kind of risk for the sake of the mission. Even when [[spoiler:Lane returns in ''Fallout'' and is willing to die as part of his final plan, then his actions are motivated by a hatred of Ethan and desire to destroy his enemy compared to Ethan’s love of his friends and allies (to say nothing of Lane having likely suffered some form of breakdown during his two years of constant interrogation where he now sees death as his only "escape")]]

* In Ilsa's compound in Casablanca, as Hunt and Benji walk in, there are ''two'' wetsuits hanging up - one in Hunt's size, the other in hers. She, or perhaps more accurately, Lane and the Syndicate, have already picked Hunt for the ledger heist, even if he doesn't know it yet.
* The plot of Puccini's ''Turandot'', the opera seen in the film, concerns a princess trying to discover the name of a suitor, much the same as Ethan is trying to do for Ilsa and Lane at that point in the movie. To cap things off, a variation of 'Nessum Dorma' returns as Ilsa's main theme.

* A low-level operative breaks cover in a record shop when speaking to Hunt apparently just to {{Squee}} about all the ludicrous missions he's pulled off. But the record she hands him is later shown to be a message directly from the Syndicate, and Solomon Lane, its leader, is present in the shop throughout the whole scene, and kills her at the end. Maybe she was actually trying to tip Ethan off with an OOCCharacterAlert...

* In Ilsa's compound in Casablanca, as Hunt and Benji walk in, there are ''two'' wetsuits hanging up - one in Hunt's size, the other in hers. She, or perhaps more accurately, Lane and the Syndicate, have already picked Hunt for the ledger heist, even if he doesn't know it yet.

* In Ilsa's compound in Casablanca, there are ''two'' wetsuits hanging up - one in Hunt's size, the other in hers. She, or perhaps more accurately, Lane and the Syndicate, have already picked Hunt for the ledger heist, even if he doesn't know it yet.

* Once again, being ''Mission: Impossible'', there are many, many failures and only a couple of real successes...
** Ethan hanging off the A400 is ''Plan D''.
** Retrieving the ledger from the secure computer facility was an ImpossibleMission. Ethan drowns in the torus, and would have died if Ilsa hadn't jumped in to save him.
** Ethan chases Ilsa for the ledger; when that doesn't work, he tries to ensure that she doesn't fall back into Syndicate hands by drawing away and taking out their goons. When she gets away with the ledger, he hopes it will be enough for MI6 to pull her out of deep cover. None of it works. Ilsa is rejected by Attlee, and ends up going back to the Syndicate anyway.
** All of Ethan's actions after being captured by the Syndicate were anticipated by Solomon Lane, and set up in order to get him to retrieve and unlock the red box for Lane. This is underlined by Lane and the Syndicate being the source for the mission briefings in this movie.