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Warning: This post spoils many plot details ofMission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One.
TheMission: Impossiblefranchise redefines its possibilities with each film.
These have been constants since the firstMission: Impossiblein 1996.
Hang out with the same dark-haired lady more than once, though?
Case in point:Dead Reckoning,whereone brunette woman gets killed off so another brunette woman can live.
Emmanuelle Bearts Claire dies at the end ofMission: Impossible.
Its all veryHighlander-esque for these women; there can be only one!
Someone somewhere will surely say this is all very feminist, actually!
But those qualifications dont quite change the assembly-line feeling of Ilsa leaving this franchise right when Grace enters it.
