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* The movie ends up making Walker a subtle non-action guy. The first testament as his assassin skills are people who could have exposed Lark's (his) real identity, making it likely that at least a few let themselves be killed. Lark might be a hammer to Lane's scalpel due to the simplicity of his plans, but he is presented as a thinker first, a theorist through his manifesto, rather than someone who took direct action. All in all, Lark seems like a phisically fit planner whose assassin persona is forged rather than the foil for Ethan he is initially introduced as. This is true particularly coupled with the reveal of Lane's physical prowess, which makes him an actual foil for Ethan. The reason this is here and not under Fridge Brilliance is that of course this doesn't appear to be actually intentional from the movie, just a result of making Walker's skill an InformedAbility by giving two bad fights (first against possibly the best fighter in the franchise, and second requiring him to job quite a bit against the director because [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking God forbid an authority figure could be anything less than a real badass in hand-to-hand fighting,]] it's just funny how it ended up still making a coherent narrative by accident.
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* The movie ends up making Walker a subtle non-action guy. The first testament as his assassin skills are people who could have exposed Lark's (his) real identity, making it likely that at least a few let themselves be killed. Lark might be a hammer to Lane's scalpel due to the simplicity of his plans, but he is presented as a thinker first, a theorist through his manifesto, rather than someone who took direct action. All in all, Lark seems like a phisically fit planner whose assassin persona is forged rather than the foil for Ethan he is initially introduced as. This is true particularly coupled with the reveal of Lane's physical prowess, which makes him an actual foil for Ethan. The reason this is here and not under Fridge Brilliance is that of course this doesn't appear to be actually intentional from the movie, just a result of making Walker's skill an InformedAbility by giving two bad fights (first against possibly the best fighter in the franchise, and second requiring him to job quite a bit against the director because [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking God forbid an authority figure could be anything less than a real badass in hand-to-hand fighting,]] fighting, it's just funny how it ended up still making a coherent narrative by accident.
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* Mixed with FridgeHorror: the Apostles' final plan could have done ''much more'' than poison the water. The Kashmir region is infamously in dispute between India and Pakistan, two nuclear powers who've been at odds with each other for decades. Nuclear detonation in that area would have probably ignited tensions and led to ''''global thermonuclear war''''.
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* Mixed with FridgeHorror: the Apostles' final plan could have done ''much more'' than poison the water. The Kashmir region is infamously in dispute between India and Pakistan, two nuclear powers who've been at odds with each other for decades. Nuclear detonation in that area would have probably ignited tensions and led to ''''global '''''global thermonuclear war''''.
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* Mixed with FridgeHorror: the Apostles' final plan could have done ''much more'' than poison the water. The Kashmir region is infamously in dispute between India and Pakistan, two nuclear powers who've been at odds with each other for decades. Nuclear detonation in that area would have probably ignited tensions and led to ''''global thermonuclear war''''.
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*** Speaking of him sabotaging the mask making machine, that's more than carelessness, considering his vocal skepticism about how well they work it can be seem him as openly disrespecting the technology. It's also something that ends up biting him in the long run: since Ethan never makes the mask, he never sees the technology in action and never realize how good the face and vocal technology are, and because of it he ends up being easily deceived by it.
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* The movie ends up making Walker a subtle non-action guy. The first testament as his assassin skills are people who could have exposed Lark's (his) real identity, making it likely that at least a few let themselves be killed. Lark might be a hammer to Lane's scalpel due to the simplicity of his plans, but he is presented as a thinker first, a theorist through his manifesto, rather than someone who took direct action. All in all, Lark seems like a phisically fit planner whose assassin persona is forged rather than the foil for Ethan he is initially introduced as. This is true particularly coupled with the reveal of Lane's physical prowess, which makes him an actual foil for Ethan. The reason this is here and not under Fridge Brilliance is that of course this doesn't appear to be actually intentional from the movie, just a result of making Walker's skill an InformedAbility by giving two bad fights (first against possibly the best fighter in the franchise, and second requiring him to job quite a bit against the director because [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking God forbid an authority figure could be anything less than a real badass in hand-to-hand fighting,]] it's just funny how it ended up still making a coherent narrative by accident.
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* TheReveal that the White Widow was actually working with the CIA makes sense when you remember that all the way back in the first film, her mother Max ends the film making some sort of deal with Eugene Kittridge to keep herself out of prison. Since Kittridge is a former director of IMF and the IMF is a branch of the CIA, it's reasonable to believe that whatever deal Max made with the IMF/CIA also passes on to Alanna as well.
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** Another subtle foreshadowing: when Ethan questions Walker about his brutal methods, Walker rebuffed him by reminding him about the IMF's catchphase "Your mission, should you ''choose'' to accept it". Later in the movie, Solomon Lane gives Ethan an ArmorPiercingQuestion by asking whether there is a time that Ethan chooses ''not'' to accept a mission. Seeing that Walker shared a pretty similar idea with Lane, of all people, is a clever tip that the two are in leagues with each other.
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* Lane deliberately chooses the location of the first nuke to be HiddenInPlainSight ''on purpose''. He gambitted that the IMF would find it first and therefore they had to split up so that someone would remain to disarm it. The second bomb is deliberately well-hidden so the IMF would have to split up ''again'' to cover more grounds. After seeing Ilsa alone, he lets himself be seen by her to lure her into the house and get the drop on her easily while she's alone - then uses her to lure Benji there and do the same thing to him - systematically taking down Ethan's team one by one all by himself through divide and conquer.
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* At White Widow's palace, when Ethan is denying how he's Lark, the camera lingers on Walker, foreshadowing how he's Lark.
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* At White Widow's palace, when Ethan is denying how he's Lark, [[TraitorShot the camera lingers on Walker, foreshadowing how he's Lark.Walker]].
