Mission: Impossible (film series)

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===
===Mission: Impossible 2===
===Mission: Impossible III===
===Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol===
===Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation===
===Mission: Impossible – Fallout===
===Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One===
===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.
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). 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.
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).. Straight or canon relationships like Ilsa Faust/Ethan Hunt (161 works) and Ethan Hunt/Julia Hunt (42 works) are largely ignored or marginalized.
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==
==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 kink meme for Ghost Protocol (2012)
==References==
Category:Mission: Impossible