Mission: Impossible (film series)
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| Name: | Mission: Impossible |
| Abbreviation(s): | MI |
| Creator: | Bruce Geller (based in Mission: Impossible (television series)) |
| Date(s): | May 22, 1996 May 24, 2000 May 5, 2006 Dec 16, 2011 July 31, 2015 July 27, 2018 July 14, 2023 June 28, 2024 |
| Medium: | Film |
| Country of Origin: | USA |
| External Links: | Mission: Impossible (1996) Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) Mission: Impossible III (2006) Ghost Protocol (2011) Rogue Nation (2015) Fallout Effect (2018) Dead Reckoning I (2023) Dead Reckoning II (2024) |
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Mission: Impossible is a spy-action film series taking place six years after the events of the previous TV series it was inspired by. Each movie follows Ethan Hunt, an IMF agent, and his team as they try to stop an enemy force and prevent an impending global disaster.
Canon Overview
The film series focuses on Ethan Hunt over the course of thirty years of his career working for the Impossible Missions Force (IMF) and how his job intersects with his personal life. Throughout the years, Ethan meets and works with several different agents, some of which become his allies, close friends and partners.
Mission: Impossible
Ethan Hunt is framed for the murder of his IMF team during a botched mission in Prague and accused of selling government secrets to an arms dealer known only as "Max". On the run, Ethan seeks to uncover the real traitor and clear his name.Wikipedia
Mission: Impossible 2
Ethan goes back in action and works with professional thief Nyah Nordoff-Hall. The duo go undercover to stop rogue IMF agent Sean Ambrose (who is also Nyah's former lover) from stealing a deadly virus, starting a pandemic, and selling the antidote to the highest bidder.Wikipedia
Mission: Impossible III
Ethan is engaged to Julia Meade, who is unaware of his true job. He assembles a team to face the elusive arms and information broker Owen Davian who intends to sell a mysterious dangerous object known as "The Rabbit's Foot".Wikipedia
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Ethan and the entire IMF are blamed for the bombing of the Kremlin while investigating an individual known only as "Cobalt". He and three other agents are left to stop him from starting a global nuclear war.Wikipedia
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Ethan Hunt comes under threat from the Syndicate. Faced with the IMF's disbandment, Hunt assembles his team for their mission to prove the Syndicate's existence and bring the organization down by any means necessary.Wikipedia
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
When an IMF mission to recover plutonium ends badly, the world is faced with the threat of the Apostles, a terrorist organization formed by former members of the Syndicate. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill the original mission, the CIA begins to question his loyalty and his motives.Wikipedia
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
An AI known as "the Entity" is responsible for the sinking of the next-generation Russian submarine Sevastopol. The Entity has since gone rogue and entrenched itself into cyberspace; the secret to stopping or controlling it lies with the key which Ethan Hunt and the IMF must track down, as various world powers and nefarious forces race to obtain the key in order to use the Entity for their own purpose.Wikipedia
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two
Undisclosed plot, film in production.
Characters
- Ethan Hunt: An IMF agent and leader of a team of operatives.
- Luther Stickell: An IMF technician and computer hacker, a member of Ethan's team and one his closest friends.
- Benji Dunn: An IMF agent and technician, a member of Ethan's team and one his closest friends.
- Julia Meade: A doctor and Ethan's ex-wife.
- William Brandt: An IMF Agent and intelligence analyst.
- Jane Carter: An IMF agent who works with Ethan.
- Ilsa Faust: A disavowed MI6 agent and Ethan's ally.
- Solomon Lane: An ex-MI6 Agent who became the leader of The Syndicate and the Apostles.
Fandom
The release of the films in 1996 brought fans old and new to the Mission Impossible fandom, nonetheless the majority of fanfiction on AO3 dates back to 2004, with a fanworks boom in 2012, after the release of Ghost Protocol, when communities, challenges and kink memes were created by fans on LiveJournal, Dreamwidth, InsaneJournal and Tumblr because of this movie. Which inevitably increased the number of fanworks and other fans activities.[citation needed]
As for fanfiction, crossovers have a relative proportion, recently most notably with The Avengers (269 works), due to the casting of Jeremy Renner as William Brandt in the third and fourth films and Clint Barton in the MCU franchise (147 works).[1] Closely followed by the crossovers with S.W.A.T. (2003) (109 works), The Unusuals (85 works), The Bourne Legacy (84 works), Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (65 works), James Bond (Craig Movies) (58 works) and Captain America (54 works) as May 2022.[1]
RPF and RPS are relatively common in fandom, however they lose in number to FPF/FPS.
Shipping
By far the most common pairings are slash relationships such as Benji Dunn/Ethan Hunt (534 works), William Brandt/Ethan Hunt (399 works) and William Brandt/Benji Dunn (107 works).[2] Straight or canon relationships like Ilsa Faust/Ethan Hunt (161 works) and Ethan Hunt/Julia Hunt (42 works) are largely ignored or marginalized.[2]
And gen or polyamorous relationships can also be cited as being found in minor numbers, such as William Brandt/Benji Dunn/Ethan Hunt (10 works).
Example Fanworks
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Archives, Communities & Resources
- Mission: Impossible (Movies) tag at AO3
- Mission: Impossible (Movies) RPF tag at AO3
- Mission: Impossible tag at FFN
- Mission: Impossible (crossover) tag at FFN
- Mission: Impossible (communities) tag at FFN
- Mission: Impossible (forum) tag at FFN
- ghotocol-kink [1] kink meme for Ghost Protocol (2012)
References
- ^ a b "Mission: Impossible (Movies) - Only Crossover Works Archive of Our Own". Archived from the original on 2022-05-27.
- ^ a b "Mission: Impossible (Movies) - Relationship Works Archive of Our Own". Archived from the original on 2022-05-27..
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