Doctor Who’s Returning Classic-Era Villain Explained

Warning: clues appear for Doctor Who series 15 show 7 of” Wish World.” Why not? Doctor Who’s past line finale” Empire of Death” brought up a frightening mask-wearing villain from the traditional era, so where’s the harm in making it two on the run? In the final moments of the penultimate episode of series 15, [ Wish World ]]…

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The Mission: Impossible brand is built on powerful Tom Cruise gaze, convoluted tale twists and reveals, and amazing feats. But, it is not based on powerful narratives. The majority of Mission films feature scoundrel officials and poorly defined MacGuffins, which would be a grating repeat if the plots were any indication. Yet, lack of narrative quality does not correlate to absence of tension. The majority of the movies feature superb villains who make Ethan Hunt, Cruise’s character, struggle and perform incredible feats, giving rise to the stunts we all adore.

Let’s take a look at the best of the worst as the franchise settles down ( maybe ) with Mission: Impossible &#8211, The Final Reckoning. The villains who literally drove Ethan Hunt up a wall or into a gigantic turbine or hanging from a biplane. Point of quality, initially. While the series does feature some entertaining henchmen like Paris ( Pom Klementieff ) and some stories feature shadowy baddies pulling the strings, like the evil duplicitous IMF director John Musgrave ( Billy Crudup ) or the Entity, we’re just looking at the main bad guys, the people who dare to match wills with Ethan Hunt.

7. Sean Ambrose ( Mission: Impossible II )

Mission: Difficult II about ended the company in its early stages. It seemed like a wise move to hire Hong Kong-based producer John Woo, who also has the same level of style as the first movie’s director, Brian De Palma. However, Woo and screenwriter Robert Towne ( a Hollywood star who co-wrote the first film ) base their account on the Alfred Hitchcock film Notorious, casting Thandiwe Newton in place of Ingrid Bergman as the untrustworthy detective who captures our hero&#8217, s center.

The mixture ended up being fatal. Woo&#8217’s theatrical approach clashed with poor characterizations, which was made especially obvious in M: I2&#8216, where the main antagonist, previous IMF agent Sean Ambrose, Dougray Scott, was played. The story of how Scott, the first people cast to play Wolverine in 2000&#8217, s X-Men, lost the part because of an on-set injury has been told time and again, overshadowing the worse insult, that he&#8217, s pretty badly used in this movie. Ambrose is disguised as Cruise’s figure in the beginning of the movie because he is intended to be Hunt’s black twice. However, he always possesses the personality and intensity of his adversary, coming off as too frequently as a sulking man-child than anyone who could endanger Hunt, let alone the entire world.

6. Kurt Hendricks ( Ghost Protocol from Mission: Impossible )

Kurt Hendricks, also known as Cobalt, is so much better in both vision and murder. Played by Swedish artist Michael Nyqvist, Hendricks is exactly the type of enemy who may concern Ethan Hunt. Hendricks wants to start a nuclear war between the United States and Russia because he is a real believer in a hedonistic philosophy. The IMF has no choice but to indulge in the kind of over-the-top action that makes the franchise but unique due to that fundamentalist belief.

The risk posed by Dick may give Ethan scaling the Birge Kalifa, but as a man, he&#8217, s a little screen. Nyqvist has nothing to do with this film other than influences, as evidenced by his numerous music roles in his native Sweden and in American films like John Wick. Hendricks never succeeds, but his minion Sabine ( Léa Seydoux ), whose personal connection to Hunt &#8217, his coworker Jane Carter ( Paula Patton ), gives her an edge that she never could have.

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5. Gabriel ( Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning and The Final Reckoning )

The main antagonist of Dead Reckoning and The Final Reckoning, the agent known only as Gabriel ( Esai Morales ) is set up as Ethan Hunt &#8217, s greatest foil. He was immediately responsible for Ethan joining the IMF, not only does he appear to have spy abilities that are even more advanced than our hero’s. We are informed that Gabriel killed Ethan and his girlfriend Marie and framed him for the crime, which put him on the radar of the IMF&#8217. Worse nevertheless, Gabriel emerges as an follower of the all-powerful AI known as the Entity, giving him a driving attitude to fit Ethan&#8217, s want to save everyone.

There&#8217 is nothing wrong with this characterization on paper. In reality, it stinks. Dead Reckoning and especially The Final Reckoning suffer from a self-mythologizing that keeps dragging the movie back into the past instead of charging forward, and Gabriel embodies that backwards impulse. Morales enjoys playing the villain role, but Gabriel’s worst sin bores the audience. Gabriel is given some significant moments of evil that directly kill fan favorites Ilsa Faust ( Rebecca Ferguson ) and Luther Stickell ( Ving Rhames ).

4. Jim Phelps ( Mission: Impossible )

Before moving on, we must be clear that Jim Phelps is a decent villain. He is a reflection of the strength of the other baddies, not a knock against Jim, because he ranks so poorly in this list. One of the main protagonists of the original 1960s television series ( albeit portrayed by Peter Graves instead of Jon Voight ), Jim Phelps makes Mission: Impossible into a legacy sequel, connecting the classic series to a new set of heroes.

Mission: Impossible, however, exhibits bravery unlike most legacy sequels, by transforming the protagonist into the new villain. At the beginning of the film, Phelps initially appears to have died during a mission that IMF boss Kitteridge later revealed to be a &#8220, mole hunt, which is carried out by Hunt &#8217’s team. &#8221, However, Phelps returns late in the film as first Ethan&#8217, s ally and then his enemy, the true traitor that Kitteridge seeks. Despite the fact that he was 57 when the movie was shot, a year younger than Cruise when Dead Reckoning was being made, he struggles a little with the stunts at the end.

3. August Walker ( Mission: Impossible – Fallout )

The buzz was all about the mustache that Henry Cavill developed for the film before Fallout. Due to the fact that he could or would not shave the face for reshoots of Justice League, director Joss Whedon had to digitally remove the stache from Cavill’s face, creating an infamously absurd looking Superman. It seemed like a petty move at the time, but once we all saw Fallout, we got it. The mustache appears incredible, and it is appropriate to continue.

The mustache is significant because it accurately describes August Walker, Cavill&#8217, his character. Described as a &#8220, blunt instrument&#8221, assigned to work with ( read: spy on ) Hunt for CIA Director Erika Sloane ( Angela Bassett ), Walker proves to be a force of nature who is just as destructive as our hero. Walker proves a credible threat to Ethan even before he&#8217 is revealed to be the malevolent John Lark, the man the IMF sought in Rogue Nation. He&#8217 ;s prepared to kill our hero at any moment, and he looks fantastic doing it.

2. ( Mission: Impossible III ) Owen Davian

Despite the death-defying derring-do in the Mission: Impossible franchise, it’s notable that the most terrifying moment occurs in a line of dialogue rather than one of Ethan Hunt’s deeds. When arms dealer Owen Davian wakes up to discover he&#8217, s been captured by IMF, he ignores Ethan&#8217, s questions and blithely asks some of his own: &#8220, Do you have a wife, a girlfriend? Because you already know what I’m going to do next, why? I’m going to find her and I’m going to hurt her, respectively. &#8221, It&#8217, s not so much the specific words that Davian says that send a chill down the spine. They were delivered exactly as they were, completely without any passion.

Of course, Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of the greatest actors of his generation, plays Davian. Hoffman &#8217, s ability to play cool and controlled ( and, in one memorable scene, play the ever-energetic Ethan Hunt disguised as Davian ) elevates the otherwise mundane J. J. Abrams-directed third film. In fact, Hoffman does a lot of the acting that it &#8217 makes it difficult to tell how mediocre Davian’s writing is, a demerit that places him in second place despite the utterly mesmerizing performance.

1. Solomon Lane ( Mission: Impossible &#8211, Rogue Nation )

Although Owen Davian may discuss killing Ethan&#8217’s loved ones, Solomon Lane actually almost almost succeeded in doing so. When sweet Benji reveals the bomb strapped to his chest, his expression of pure sorrow and terror reveals more about Lane’s capacity for evil than any of Davian’s monologues could. In fact, Lane encapsulates everything about the franchise&#8217, s past baddies, perfecting everything they tried to do. He has the quiet menace of Davian, Gabriel and Ambrose’s espionage abilities, and he has the twisted worldview of Hendricks. By the time he sends a bomb to Ethan’s estranged wife Julia Meade ( Michelle Monaghan ), Lane even develops a personal animosity like Phelps.

Much of the credit goes to Sean Harris, who uses his raspy voice and dark eyes to enhance the malevolence. Cruise&#8217, who is a genuine on camera, staring out of the screen with yearning blue eyes and a furrowed brow, is responsible for so much of the Mission: Impossible franchise. The exact opposite happens in Harris ‘ eyes. When he looks out from the screen, we see pools of blackness, drowning us in nothingness. If Hunt is the living manifestation of nihilism, as IMF Director Alan Hunley ( Alec Baldwin ) so famously put it, &#8220, the living manifestation of destiny, &#8221, then Lane is the opposite.

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