History YMMV / JackRyan

* CompleteMonster: Season 2: [[TheDragon Mateo Bastos]] is [[PresidentEvil President Nicolas Reyes]]'s head of security, but manages to surpass Reyes in cruelty. Participating in the bombing that led to the deaths of Senator Jim Moreno and countless others, Bastos would murder the family of a bodyguard whom his associates bribed, [[WouldHurtAChild children included]], before attempting to kill the bodyguard himself. He also captures a group of rebels and [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]] them into making false confessions, and murders US soldier [[spoiler:Matice]] before having his men defile [[spoiler:Matice]]'s corpse. He later kidnaps [[spoiler:James Greer]] and tortures him at his prison camp, where he holds numerous Venezuelan political prisoners to torture and kill, including [[spoiler:the husband of Gloria Bonalde, Reyes' main political rival]]. Bastos takes [[spoiler:Greer]] to Reyes' mansion for further interrogation while ordering his men to execute his remaining 41 prisoners. When [[spoiler:Greer]] frees himself and tries to shoot Bastos, he uses one of his own men as a HumanShield. A ruthless servant of a dictator, Mateo Bastos represents the worst of the Venezuelan regime.

* {{Sequelitis}}: Ever since the [[WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell end of the U.S.S.R as convenient baddies]], the books began to deal more with internal US politics, with Jack eventually becoming President. Some feel the books became more of [[WriterOnBoard a platform for Clancy's right-wing political views]] at the expense of story.

* AcceptableTargets: The U.S. State Department is almost never portrayed in a positive light. While there are individually good members, like Scott Adler, the rest of the department is portrayed as inept, corrupt, or stupid.

* CompleteMonster: [[TheDragon Mateo Bastos]], from season 2, is [[PresidentEvil President Nicolas Reyes]]'s head of security, but manages to surpass Reyes in cruelty. Participating in the bombing that led to the deaths of Senator Jim Moreno and countless others, Bastos would murder the family of a bodyguard whom his associates bribed, [[WouldHurtAChild children included]], before attempting to kill the bodyguard himself. He also captures a group of rebels and [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]] them into making false confessions, and murders US soldier [[spoiler:Matice]] before having his men defile [[spoiler:Matice]]'s corpse. He later kidnaps [[spoiler:James Greer]] and tortures him at his prison camp, where he holds numerous Venezuelan political prisoners to torture and kill, including [[spoiler:the husband of Gloria Bonalde, Reyes' main political rival]]. Bastos takes [[spoiler:Greer]] to Reyes' mansion for further interrogation while ordering his men to execute his remaining 41 prisoners. When [[spoiler:Greer]] frees himself and tries to shoot Bastos, he uses one of his own men as a HumanShield. A ruthless servant of a dictator, Mateo Bastos represents the worst of the Venezuelan regime.

* {{Narm}}: Season 2 is based around the threat of Venezuela (which is led by a right-wing dictator) who wants to become a nuclear power and immediately destroy America. To anyone with the slightest idea of the country’s true geopolitical situation, this is insanely laughable. In real life, Venezuela has been in the brink of colapse both economically and socially, and the far-left Authoritarian Maduro Regime has been in desperate survival mode since 2018, so having a plot revolving around a resurgent Venezuela that wants to destroy North America with nuclear weapons is plain audacious to the audience.

* MultipleChoicePast: An odd example. Early works in the series didn’t try to rewrite world history, but starting with ''Clear And Present Danger,'' the series developed its own timeline of US presidents and world-shaking events. Later books in the series were clearly set in this timeline - while occasionally referencing real life presidents like Bush and Reagan, or events like the Iraq War, that could not have happened in the Ryanverse world as described. Even interquel books like ''Red Rabbit'' suffered heavily from timeline and story inconsistency.

* {{Narm}}: Season 2 is based around the threat of Venezuela (which is lead by a right-wing dictator) who wants to become a nuclear power and immediately destroy America. To anyone with the slightest idea of the country’s true geopolitical situation, this is insanely laughable. In real life, Venezuela has been in the brink of colapse both economically and socially, and the far-left Authoritarian Maduro Regime has been in desperate survival mode since 2018, so having a plot revolving a resurgent Venezuela that wants to destroy North America with nuclear weapons is plain audacious to the audience.
** The initial assumption above is mercifully dropped very quickly in exchange for more believable international intrigue dealing with the Venezuelan President’s corruption. [[spoiler: When Ryan and company StormTheCastle of the Venezuelan capital like its an 1980’s action movie, the narm comes back.]]