History Film / MissionImpossibleFallout

** Ethan and Walker perform a HALO jump and run straight into a thunderstorm. [[spoiler:Walker even makes the mistake of asking if Ethan is "afraid of a little lightning".]] Makes you wonder if anyone at Paramount has played ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater''. It even doubles as {{Foreshadowing}}, since [[spoiler:the "lightning" line in [=MGS3=] was said by the villain.]]

* BystanderSyndrome: In this film, if you have an accident while riding a motorbike in Paris in front of people, nobody will call for aid or act concerned. In their defense, it is pretty obvious that all of Paris' police force are after him.

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: To cover up a puddle of blood in the Parisian nightclub, Ilsa pretends that Walker has a nosebleed and tells him to tilt his head back. You should tilt your head forwards if you have a nosebleed; tilting backwards could cause the blood to enter the lungs and potentially drown you.

** Benji finally gets to wear a mask at long last. [[spoiler:Twice, in fact!]]

* EliteMook: The [[spoiler:fake 'John Lark']] Ethan Hunt and August Walker fight in Paris turns out to be an extraordinarily tough and fast combatant who very nearly kills Ethan and Walker ''combined'' and establishes himself as one of the most capable fighters in all six films. All this despite having no lines or [[spoiler: real name]] and having maybe five minutes of screentime.

'''Walker:''' [[spoiler: When I wrote those words, I wasn't referring to your peace or Hunt's suffering.]]

** Hunt also does a crazy stunt with high chances of falling to his death, after climbing on the Burj Khalifa tower in ''Ghost Protocol'' and hanging outside a plane in ''Rogue Nation''. It's with a pilotless helicopter this time around.

* BottomlessMagazines: Averted as the BigBad runs out of ammunition while shooting a squad automatic weapon at Ethan. Though that doesn't explain while he doesn't have another drum available.

''Mission: Impossible – Fallout'' (2018) is the sixth entry in the ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries Mission: Impossible]]'' film series, written and directed by Creator/ChristopherMcQuarrie (''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'', ''Film/TheUsualSuspects''), who is the first director to return to the series, and starring Creator/TomCruise as Ethan Hunt once again.

* AbsenteeActor: William Brandt (Creator/JeremyRenner) does not appear due to the actor being busy filming ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.[[note]]Renner also refused to return when Brandt was originally written to take the place of Luther as a hostage in the opening sequence when Hunt's team loses the plutonium to the Apostles, and would have [[DroppedABridgeOnHim gotten abruptly]] [[DeadStarWalking killed off]] in the process.[[/note]]

* EasterEgg: During the BathroomBrawl, Walker's grunts and GoodOldFisticuffs briefly play the Mission: Impossible theme!

* EasterEgg: During the BathroomBrawl, Walker's grunts and GoodOldFisticuffs (right after he [[TheCoatsAreOff removes his jacket]]) briefly play the Mission: Impossible theme!

* EasterEgg: During the BathroomBrawl, Walker's grunts and GoodOldFisticuffs (right after he [[TheCoatsAreOff removes his jacket]]) play the first couple of bars of the Mission: Impossible theme!

* RevealingCoverup: [[spoiler: Walker's attempt to frame Hunt doesn't convince anyone. Even Sloane, who is out for Ethan's blood for losing the bombs, is at the very least doubtful of the claim, and the mere suggestion that Hunt is John Lark by Walker is enough for Hunley to be convinced that Walker is totally untrustworthy, to the point he actually informs Hunt himself of this and Sloane, Hunley and Hunt all realise that Walker might be John Lark himself, so they manage to set him up and get him to incriminate himself into admitting just that. Had he not attempted this frame up Walker might have managed to get away with everything.]]

* RuleOfDrama:
** A real TrustPassword would not consist solely of a famous quote, because anyone who knew the quote could supply the countersign.

-->'''Walker''': What's the matter, Hunt? You afraid of a little lightning? -- *ZING*

** The helicopter Ethan is dangling out of in the first released image has a large decal that says "Airbus", the same company which made the A400 that Ethan hung out of in ''Rogue Nation''. (Airbus' people even helped Tom Cruise learn to pilot helicopters)

* ShipSinking: This film quietly and gently puts to bed any notion that [[spoiler:Ethan and Julia could ever get back together, as she has fallen in love with and married someone else]], but also establishes that [[spoiler:they will always care about each other, but Hunt's work means they could never really settle down.
Julia tells Ethan outright that her relationship with him made her who she is now and she's incredibly happy with her life, and hearing this allows Ethan to truly move on, as well.]]

** After the three cannisters of plutonium are stolen [[spoiler:Ethan is shown listening to news reports of nuclear devastation in Rome, Mecca and Jerusalem, but they turn out to be fake news broadcasts being used for a classic IMF con to make the bombmaker think his EvilPlan has succeeded.]]

** He - and his team - also have this reaction when [[spoiler:Julia reveals herself in the middle of ground zero. Julia "returns one" when Ethan "corrects" her assumption that he's on vacation that he's actually working, as she realizes immeidatly that the mysterious way in which she and her husband were allowed to set up this medical camp must have been to make sure she was present for an attack on Ethan]].

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: There are no sewers big enough for a boat to navigate through in Paris, much less with an opening on the Seine.

* KillTheLights: A tactic employed by the Syndicate agents.

* SuicideMission: What Hunt and co. acknowledge their outing to [[spoiler: Kashmir is.]] Also one for [[spoiler:Lane, who chooses to stay at the blast site rather than easily escape.]]

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: After his identity reveal, [[spoiler:John Lark has Hunt at gunpoint at the elevator]] but admits he cannot kill him because the organisation still needs Hunt to turn himself in as John Lark.

** Lane's police transport gets t-boned into a river by a truck driven by Ethan. The apostles were right that bullets can't get into this armored truck, but water can.

** Benji is also being a bit more aggressive than usual towards Solomon Lane, however, it's quite understandable when you consider the fact that [[spoiler: he strapped him to a bomb in ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'']].

** A heroic version exists as well regarding the same event as above: [[spoiler:If Ethan and Benji hadn't tried to save Luther and escaped with the plutonium briefcase, the entire film probably would not be happening. Indeed, several characters called Ethan out on it, and Luther even admits that the only reason they're all in this whole mess in the first place is because Ethan wouldn't let him die.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Walker is impaled through the head by a winch attached to a helicopter, and he falls down the cliff face into the helicopter's exploding wreckage, leaving bloodstains along said cliff face.]]

* DeconReconSwitch: Of the SamaritanSyndrome trope. On one hand, Ethan's tendency to try to save as many people as he can results in a lot of problems that could be avoided had Ethan make the hard decisions and focus on TheNeedsOfTheMany. He tends to derail a safer, more efficient plan in favor of a way riskier one if it means he could avoid a few casualties, and always focusing on protecting the lives of his teammates over the success of the mission. Many characters see this aspect of Ethan as a FatalFlaw and call him out on it. Villains don't hesitate to exploit it. And all of these is taking a heavy toll on Ethan. On the other hand, all his attempts at protecting people ''does'' pay off in the long run. His teammates are [[UndyingLoyalty unquestioningly loyal]] to him and will follow him into a SuicideMission without hesitation because of this quality. [[spoiler:He manages to complete the mission in Paris against all odds with zero police casualty, showing that while a non-violent solution is difficult, it ''is'' possible to do. And him deciding to leave his marriage life with Julia means he's able foil many world-threatening plans in missions that nobody else could do. And the knowledge of every life he's able to save is what keeps Ethan going no matter how impossible the mission is. Contrast this with the villains John Lark and Solomon Lane, both of whom are driven to villainy because they've killed and let so many people, even innocents, die in the name of "the greater good", they finally stopped caring about human life in general and became murderous sociopaths.]]

* DisposablePilot: Standard action-movie procedure. Hunt hijacks a helicopter, [[ForcedFriendlyFire shoots]] the pilot, kicks him out the door and takes his seat.

* DoubleMeaningTitle: The subtitle of the movie could refer to either: the unforseen consequences of [[Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation the previous film]] (the formation of The Apostles after Lane was taken into custody), [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the result]] of Ethan choosing to protect his team over securing the plutonium, or [[spoiler:the team rushing to prevent nuclear fallout from killing 1/3 of the world's population.]]
* DramaticUnmask: As per usual with the latex mask gambits in the series. For a twist, both turn out to be [[spoiler:Benji]].

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: The [[DreamIntro opening scene]] starts out like this. [[spoiler:Ethan had a nightmare where he and Julia are about to marry near a lake, but then the priest starts ranting about how Ethan's life as an agent means he could never live a peaceful life with Julia, and that her life will always be in danger. The distressed Ethan then turns to look at the priest, who turns out to be Solomon Lane, who gloats to Ethan that he should've killed him. Suddenly, a nuclear bomb detonated in the distance, annihilating everyone. This foreshadows the entire latter half of the film, where Solomon Lane escapes from custody and plans to detonate nuclear weapons at a medical camp in Kashmir where Julia happens to be working (Lane and Walker arranged for her to be there to threaten Ethan). The camp itself is also located near a large lake that is one of the main water sources in Asia, which means that if the bombs detonated, the resulting radiation contamination would be devastating enough to kill one-third of the world population.]]

* EasilyForgiven: Ilsa is quite understanding about Ethan running her over. Aware of their constant GoodVersusGood entanglements, she lets him know that she knew he "had his reasons".

* EverybodyLaughsEnding: The HospitalEpilogue ends with everyone laughing. Hunt comments that it's not actually helpful under his condition.

** The CIA's decision to put an ''assassin'' on Ethan Hunt and his team, with orders to execute the lot of them if they go rogue again, might seem extreme, until you consider what Ethan's done every other time he's gone rogue, including: selling all the CIA's {{Deep Cover Agent}}s to a crime boss, stealing an extremely dangerous biological device for an arms dealer, giving nuclear launch codes to a terrorist, and nearly funding a multi-national criminal syndicate. Sure enough he also goes rogue here.

** [[spoiler: When Walker tries to jailbreak Lane, Lane's body language is somewhat "off" when he first wakes up, for example holding out his hand and telling Walker to calm down, which seems a little odd for the otherwise usually very still and cold Lane. These gestures are however something that ''Benji'' does quite a lot, and of course "Lane" turns out to be Benji in a mask; presumably it took him a few moments after waking up to properly get into character.]]

** Bassett's character herself is a lot more patronizing and snarky and authoritarian than Hunley is, even at his worst. She also has his old job, and is openly contempuous of the IMF, while Hunley respected the IMF and Ethan in particular even as he tried to hunt Ethan down.
* ForcedFriendlyFire: Hunt uses a co-driver of the helicopter he hi-jacked to [[DisposablePilot kill the pilot]] who himself was about to shoot Hunt.

** En route to Paris, Ethan points out Walker's violent tendencies, saying the reason agencies haven't found John Lark yet is because Walker killed an informant who was going to provide more information about Lark. [[spoiler:After the reveal that Walker is John Lark and has been working with Solomon Lane the whole time, it is evident that Walker killed the informant so he wouldn't be found.]]

** Ethan has an ImagineSpot where he's faced with the choice of shooting a French police officer to maintain his cover. He goes to a lot of trouble to avert this scenario, only to find himself in the same position through sheer bad luck.

** In all fairness, it's far more likely that [[spoiler: the team in the boat was already waiting for Ethan in the aquaduct, underneath the grate that they cut open for him to jump down into and avoid being captured by the police.]]

* GoodCopBadCop: Luther and Ethan use this act successfully on Delbruuk in his hospital bed.
* GoodVersusGood: Ethan and Ilsa are at odds over what to do about Lane: Ethan needs him alive to trade for the remaining plutonium cores, while Ilsa needs to kill him in order to be forgiven for her actions by the British government. [[spoiler:Luckily, Lane survives the events of the film and the CIA hands him over to MI-6 through the White Widow, securing Ilsa's loyalty to MI-6.]]

* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:Julia, but not with Ethan. She found new love with a kindhearted doctor.]]

* HellishCopter: Ethan is forced to hijack a helicopter (mid-flight!) to pursue the villain. And both aircraft end up crashing.

* ImprobablePilotingSkills: Ethan gets in contact with his team, telling them that he's taken a helicopter [[spoiler:to go after Walker, who has the bombs' detonator]]. Benji and Luther express surprise that Ethan can pilot a helicopter. Soon after, it's shown that he doesn't know exactly how to fly it, as he looks over the myriad of screens and lights. Despite this, he manages to catch up to [[spoiler:Walker]]'s helicopter despite his own being horrifically damaged and knock them both out of the sky.

** During the helicopter duel, Ethan tries to use the cargo payload his helicopter is carrying as a kind of weighted bomb. [[spoiler: It fails.]]

* InstantSedation: Because of course there is. One example is when the crew arrives in London and needs to stash Solomon in a cell. They give him a hypo and he is out like a proverbial light. [[spoiler: And Hunley gets the brunt of the same device a few moments later as he tries to collect Hunt to take him home and terminate the mission. That's two in one location!]]

* JumpedAtTheCall: Once [[spoiler:Julia]] intuits that something is going wrong, the character doesn't hesitate to show up and help in any way possible. Downplayed in that the character is kept out of combat.

* LaughingMad: Debruuk, the nuclear scientist who ascribes to Lark and the Apostles' worldview, can't stop giggling.

* MagicCountdown: The 15 minute nuclear bomb countdown lasts for over 22 minutes on screen.

* MistakenForGay: After knocking out the man they think is John Lark in the men's toilet at the Grand Palais, Hunt and Walker hide in a toilet stall so Ethan can use his likeness to create a mask. While they wait for the mask to complete, a group of drunkards enter the toilet and see their legs under the stall. They mistake them for having a gay orgy and proceed to repeatedly knock on the stall door to tease them.

* MovingTheGoalposts: First the White Widow only wants Hunt to extract Lane in exchange for the plutonium. After he delivers she demands Ilsa on a plate.

* TheNeedsOfTheMany: A constant theme of this film. There are many times that Ethan is forced to choose between the success of the mission and the lives of those he cares about, and he always prioritizes the latter first even if it means the fate of the world is at risk. In fact, his decision to [[spoiler:save Luther's life instead of escaping with the three nuclear cores]] kickstarts the whole plot of the movie. Hunley is not entirely happy with the decision, but he admires Ethan's quality of caring individuals, which means Hunley can always trust him to have his back. [[spoiler:CIA Director Sloane came to agree with this as well in the ending, finally realizing that with people like Ethan to care and protect individual lives means higher-ups like Sloane can focus fully on the big picture while trusting their agents to do the right thing and still get the job done.]] By contrast, Solomon Lane and [[spoiler: August Walker]], star agents whose careers were marked by a willingness to sacrifice others for "the greater good", ended up going rogue as their definition of "the greater good" shifted over time.
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: During the mission in Paris, as the team is extracting [[spoiler:Solomon Lane]], they are accidentally spotted by a young lady police officer, who sees what is obviously a kidnapping going on and pulls her gun on them. They don't really have time to explain who they are or the real nature of their mission to her, and Walker begins readying his own gun to shoot her. Ethan, having a history of seeing young, promising women being executed in front of him, really doesn't want to see this happen again and tries to convince her to walk away. [[spoiler:He is spared from taking direct action when the officer is shot non-fatally by the White Widow's brother's hit squad when they suddenly arrive. As they prepare to finish her off Ethan guns down the hit squad instead. Then he helps the officer use her radio to call for backup, and reassures her that she will be all right before leaving with his team to continue the mission.]]

* NiceGuy: [[spoiler:Julia's new husband]] is a borderline saint, dedicating himself to helping others as a doctor and being a warm, friendly person.

** Taking out Solomon Lane left the rest of the Syndicate to continue operating mounting whatever attacks they want; granted, they would be dangerous with or without Lane, but Lane at least convinced himself that he had a fixed agenda that the Apostles as a whole seem to lack.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Lane and Lark’s plan goes off without a hinch, up until both of them decide to [[spoiler:bring Julia into the picture in hopes of demoralizing Ethan. Julia, after she learns about the IMF’s mission, helps foil the bad guys’ plan by helping Luther disarms a nuclear bomb when before that he is seriously undermanned and would most likely not be able to disarm the bomb fast enough on his own. Moreover, with Julia’s life on the line, [[ItsPersonal Ethan has even more motivation to complete the mission than ever before.]]]]

** The team manage to spring Solomon Lane from his prison escort at great risk and despite the usual complications, [[spoiler:bundle him into a prepared escape vehicle, throw open the doors to the garage...and find an armed policewoman staring at them in astonishment.]]

** He - and his team - also have this reaction when [[spoiler:Julia reveals herself in the middle of ground zero. Julia "returns one" when Ethan "corrects" her assumption that he's on vacation that he's actually working, as she realized the dire of the situation she's in (as Walker had convinced her and her husband to station there at ground zero, practically guaranteeing their demise if Ethan's team failed to disarm the bomb)]].

** And of course Tom giving a BigHeroicRun like the taxman found him. If anything, they're parodying it at this point.

* ParallelConflictSequence: The climax spreads the action into three locations. Hunt goes after [[spoiler: Walker]] and the detonator, Luther defuses one of the bombs with the help of Julia, and Ilsa and Benji fight Lane in the cabin.
* PracticalEffects: Director Creator/ChristopherMcQuarrie managed to keep the ''Mission: Impossible'' franchise tradition of practical stunts, practical action, and real locations with as little green screen as humanly possible.

** Walker regularly tries to introduce himself to the others only to receive no name in return.

* SceneryPorn: During the chase sequences in Paris and London. The mountains of Kashmir are also quite pretty.

** Seemingly the only way to top Tom Cruise hanging out of a Airbus A400 is to put him on the struts of a pilot-less helicopter, with even less places to have safety harnesses.

* SequelHook: [[spoiler: Even with John Lark dead and Solomon Lane back in custody, the Apostles are still loose by the end of the movie. It is also very likely that Lane will escape from custody a second time with the Apostles still being active.]]

* ShipSinking: This film quietly and gently puts to bed any notion that [[spoiler:Ethan and Julia could ever get back together, as she has fallen in love with and married someone else]], but also establishes that [[spoiler:they will always care about each other, but Hunt's work means they could never really settle down]]. [[spoiler:Julia tells Ethan outright that her relationship with him made her who she is now and she's incredibly happy with her life, and hearing this allows Ethan to truly move on, as well.]]

* ShootOutTheLock: Defied and Justified. [[spoiler:In the climax, Benji tries to find the second nuke that he believes to be hidden inside one of the radioactive equipment boxes at the medical camp. At first he tries to pick the lock but realizes he couldn't get it done fast enough, so he pulls out a gun and prepares to shoot it out. ''Then'' he realizes that if the nuke is in the box, shooting out the lock could risk blowing it up. So Benji puts the gun away and grabs a nearby fire extinguisher to smash out the locks instead.]]
* ShootTheHostage: [[spoiler:In the opening, Luther is taken hostage by the Apostles, who demand that Ethan hand over the briefcase containing the three nuclear cores. Ethan instead shoots at Luther, who's wearing a BulletproofVest, to drop him so he could shoot the enemies. Unfortunately, while Ethan and Benji tend to Luther's wounds, they leave the nuclear briefcase unguarded and it is stolen anyway.]]

** The massive [[{{BFG}} machine gun]] that Walker uses while shooting at [[spoiler: Ethan]]'s helicopter is ''not'' a precision weapon. Shooting from a moving helicopter at ''another'' moving helicopter, at high speeds and poor angles for aiming means that he's unable to get more than a few glancing hits on his target, and it quickly runs out of ammo a few minutes later anyway.

** It is revealed that while removing the first one, Luther also implanted a second one, which they use to track Lane to the scene of the climax.