![]() ![]() It’s not exactly a fridging for Ilsa, but it’s a pretty frosty exit for the most meaningful female character this franchise has had in years. Case in point: Dead Reckoning, where one brunette woman gets killed off so another brunette woman can live. More than twice? Fine, but she’s gotta make a hard exit by her third appearance, preferably to make room for another brunette with quasi-romantic chemistry with Ethan. ![]() Hang out with the same dark-haired lady more than once, though? Unlikely. Since then, we’ve seen Ethan free-solo skyscrapers, hang off and jump out of airplanes, drive off cliffs, outrun sandstorms, and swim underwater for several long minutes at a time. These have been constants since the first Mission: Impossible in 1996. Ethan is incapable of following orders, forever abandoning the missions he’s chosen to accept and going his own way to save as many people as he can. Ving Rhames has always been Ethan’s best friend, the trusted hacker Luther Stickell, who wears an impressive array of jaunty hats. These films, including the most recent Dead Reckoning Part 1, have certain static components: IMF is always the outsider among the other American intelligence agencies. What has seemingly become impossible within this milieu, though, is room for more than one brunette woman sidekick at a time. The stunts are more ludicrous, the villains more nefarious, the apocalypse more inevitable until the martyr Ethan Hunt sacrifices himself for us all. ![]() The Mission: Impossible franchise redefines its possibilities with each film. Warning: This post spoils many plot details of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One. As soon as one dark-haired female sidekick enters the franchise, another one leaves. ![]()
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