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* ''Firewall''
* ''Dragonfire''
* ''Dragonfire''
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* DamselInDistress: Being the girlfriend of a spy who has been identified by a terrorist organization is not a healthy thing to be. [[spoiler: As Katia finds out, unfortunately.]]
* DeathFromAbove: [[spoiler: Once Sam locates the enemy fortress and delivers its coordinates to the US military, they take care of it with a missile strike.]]
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Even though they helped prevent WW3, [[spoiler: those Lucky Dragons caught by Red China are executed for treason.]]
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* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler: Once Sam locates the enemy fortress and delivers its coordinates to the US military, they take care of it with a missile strike.]]
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* RealityEnsues: Being the girlfriend of a spy who has been identified by a terrorist organization is not a healthy thing to be. [[spoiler: As Katia finds out, unfortunately.]]
** Even though they helped prevent WW3, [[spoiler: those Lucky Dragons caught by Red China are executed for treason.]]
** Even though they helped prevent WW3, [[spoiler: those Lucky Dragons caught by Red China are executed for treason.]]
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* ActionSurvivor: Sarah becomes one of these after the events of the book.
* ArmsDealer: The primary M.O. of the Shop.
* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler: Sarah suffers one of these but is protected by Eli, not that she cares given he's the reason she's been kidnapped in the first place.]]
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Sam formulates a war between the Shadows and the Shop in order to weaken both organizations.]]
* BigBad: Nasir Tarighian is the mastermind behind the Shadows. Andrei Zdrok is the head of the Shop.
** BigBadDuumvirate: The Shadows and the Shop duel for the status of BigBad. Later books usually have a VillainOfTheWeek.
** BigBadDuumvirate: General Tsun and General Zdrok are behind the events of ''Operation: Barracuda''.
* ArmsDealer: The primary M.O. of the Shop.
* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler: Sarah suffers one of these but is protected by Eli, not that she cares given he's the reason she's been kidnapped in the first place.]]
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Sam formulates a war between the Shadows and the Shop in order to weaken both organizations.]]
* BigBad: Nasir Tarighian is the mastermind behind the Shadows. Andrei Zdrok is the head of the Shop.
** BigBadDuumvirate: The Shadows and the Shop duel for the status of BigBad. Later books usually have a VillainOfTheWeek.
** BigBadDuumvirate: General Tsun and General Zdrok are behind the events of ''Operation: Barracuda''.
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* ActionSurvivor: Sarah becomes one of these after the events of the first book.
* ArmsDealer: The primary M.O. of theShop.
Shop. They sell hyper-advanced arms to terrorists, revolutionaries, and tin pot dictatorships while having no political allegiance themselves.
* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler: Sarah suffers one of these in ''Splinter Cell'' but is protected by Eli, not that she cares given he's the reason she's been kidnapped in the first place.]]
* BatmanGambit:[[spoiler:Sam [[spoiler: In ''Splinter Cell'', Sam formulates a war between the Shadows and the Shop in order to weaken both organizations.]]
* BigBad: Nasir Tarighian is the mastermind behind the Shadows. Andrei Zdrok is the head of theShop.
** BigBadDuumvirate: The Shadows and the Shop duel for the status of BigBad.Shop. Later books usually have a VillainOfTheWeek.
** * BigBadDuumvirate: The Shadows and the Shop duel for the status of BigBad in the first book.
** General Tsun and General Zdrok are behind the events of ''Operation:Barracuda''.Barracuda''.
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Heroic American operative versus a collection of arms dealers, terrorists, and renegade generals.
* ArmsDealer: The primary M.O. of the
* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler: Sarah suffers one of these in ''Splinter Cell'' but is protected by Eli, not that she cares given he's the reason she's been kidnapped in the first place.]]
* BatmanGambit:
* BigBad: Nasir Tarighian is the mastermind behind the Shadows. Andrei Zdrok is the head of the
** BigBadDuumvirate: The Shadows and the Shop duel for the status of BigBad.
** General Tsun and General Zdrok are behind the events of ''Operation:
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Heroic American operative versus a collection of arms dealers, terrorists, and renegade generals.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: General Prokofiev's wife does not take his adultery well. [[spoiler: She executes the Shop general before Sam is able to capture him.]]
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* ClingyJealousGirl: General Prokofiev's wife does not take his adultery well. [[spoiler: She executes the Shop general leader before Sam is able to capture him.]]
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* TheCracker: Igor Kasperov in ''Blacklist'' was one of these for the Russians before turning straight.
* DarkActionGirl: ''Blacklist'''s Viktoria Kolosov is a particularly dangerous example of such.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The books tend to be much more realistic and hard-edged than the games.
* DarkActionGirl: ''Blacklist'''s Viktoria Kolosov is a particularly dangerous example of such.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The books tend to be much more realistic and hard-edged than the games.
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* TheCracker: Igor Kasperov in ''Blacklist'' ''Blacklist: Aftermath'' was one of these for the Russians before turning straight.
* DarkActionGirl:''Blacklist'''s ''Blacklist: Aftermath'''s Viktoria Kolosov is a particularly dangerous example of such.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The books tend to be much more realistic and hard-edged than the games. Averted compared to ''Double Agent'' and ''Conviction'' where Sam is much darker as well as his superiors much more nebulous.
* DarkActionGirl:
* DarkerAndEdgier: The books tend to be much more realistic and hard-edged than the games. Averted compared to ''Double Agent'' and ''Conviction'' where Sam is much darker as well as his superiors much more nebulous.
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** GeneralRipper: General Tsun is a quintessential example of such. In ''Operation: Barracuda'', he intends to conquer Tawain and is willing to start WW3 as well as nuke the island in order to achieve victory.
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** GeneralRipper: General Tsun is a quintessential example of such. In ''Operation: Barracuda'', he intends to conquer Tawain and is willing to start WW3 as well as nuke the island in order to achieve victory.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: A rare example of such in the Splinter Cell series. The Lucky Dragons are horrified at the plans of General Tsun to take over Tawain.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: A rare example of such in the Splinter Cell ''Splinter Cell'' series. The Lucky Dragons are horrified at the plans of General Tsun to take over Tawain.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: In ''Splinter Cell'', how the Shadows view Nasir's attempts to justify his desire to destroy Iran as a plan to defeat America. This is due to the fact he is a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, he has a hatred for the former and wants revenge against them versus America or Israel.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: In ''Splinter Cell'', how the Shadows view Nasir's attempts to justify his desire to destroy Iran Iraq as a plan to defeat America. This is due to the fact he is a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, he has a hatred for the former latter and wants revenge against them versus America or Israel.
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* RedBaron: "The Snow Maiden'' is the villain in ''Blacklist.''
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* RedBaron: "The Snow Maiden'' is the villain in ''Blacklist.''Blacklist: Aftermath.''
** Tarighian's hatred of Iraq results in the Shadows turning against him.
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* XanatosGambit: Tarighian's main goal is [[spoiler: to use a weapon of mass destruction, codenamed "The Babylon Phoenix", against the city of Baghdad, Iraq, as a revenge for the actions taken by Iraq against Iran during the 1980s. While there really wasn't much of a benefit to The Shadows at the time, Tarighian attempted to sell the scheme to his organization by claiming that it would also create further disorder in Iraq, and in the middle east. This disorder would inevitable cause the people to turn against 'the West', namely the United States, since Iraq was currently under their watch.]]
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* XanatosGambit: Tarighian's main goal is [[spoiler: to use a weapon of mass destruction, codenamed "The Babylon Phoenix", against the city of Baghdad, Iraq, as a revenge for the actions taken by Iraq against Iran during the 1980s. While there really wasn't much of a benefit to The Shadows at the time, Tarighian attempted to sell the scheme to his organization by claiming that it would also create further disorder in Iraq, and in the middle east.Middle East. This disorder would inevitable cause the people to turn against 'the West', namely the United States, since Iraq was currently under their watch.]]
