...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Jack Ryan
- 467 statements
- 88 feature instances
- 104 referencing feature instances
| Jack Ryan | type |
TVTItem | |
| Jack Ryan | label |
Jack Ryan | |
| Jack Ryan | page |
JackRyan | |
| Jack Ryan | comment |
Tom Clancy's most famous series of novels, which focus mainly on CIA analyst Jack Ryan and —to a lesser extent— CIA field operative John Clark. Four of them have been adapted into movies, one inspired series of video games, while a film (Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit) and a series (Jack Ryan) are reboots of the universe not based on any specific novel. Among fans, this continuity is often referred to as the "Ryanverse." | |
| Jack Ryan | fetched |
2023-03-25T12:59:25Z | |
| Jack Ryan | parsed |
2023-03-25T12:59:25Z | |
| Jack Ryan | processingComment |
Dropped link to ClearAndPresentDanger: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Jack Ryan | processingComment |
Dropped link to DeadOrAlive: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Jack Ryan | processingComment |
Dropped link to DebtOfHonor: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Jack Ryan | processingComment |
Dropped link to DiscussedTrope: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Jack Ryan | processingComment |
Dropped link to ExecutiveOrders: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Jack Ryan | processingComment |
Dropped link to JackRyanShadowRecruit: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Jack Ryan | processingComment |
Dropped link to LockedOn: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Jack Ryan | processingComment |
Dropped link to PatriotGames: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Jack Ryan | processingComment |
Dropped link to RainbowSix: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Jack Ryan | processingComment |
Dropped link to RedRabbit: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Jack Ryan | processingComment |
Dropped link to RedStormRising: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Jack Ryan | processingComment |
Dropped link to TeethOfTheTiger: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Jack Ryan | processingComment |
Dropped link to TheBearAndTheDragon: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Jack Ryan | processingComment |
Dropped link to TheCardinalOfTheKremlin: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Jack Ryan | processingComment |
Dropped link to TheHuntForRedOctober: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Jack Ryan | processingComment |
Dropped link to TheSumOfAllFears: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Jack Ryan | processingComment |
Dropped link to TheSumofAllFears: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Jack Ryan | processingComment |
Dropped link to ThreatVector: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Jack Ryan | processingComment |
Dropped link to WithoutRemorse: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Jack Ryan | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Jack Ryan / int_133f1c12 | type |
The Spymaster | |
| Jack Ryan / int_133f1c12 | comment |
The Spymaster: Bob Ritter is the CIA's Deputy Director (Operations), meaning that he is the man who oversees all of the CIA's human intelligence assets and field operations. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_133f1c12 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_133f1c12 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_133f1c12 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_157822af | type |
Shrine to Self | |
| Jack Ryan / int_157822af | comment |
Shrine to Self: Several military characters are shown to have this attitude. Clancy calles it the "I Love Me Wall". | |
| Jack Ryan / int_157822af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_157822af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_157822af | |
| Jack Ryan / int_17942015 | type |
Remember When You Blew Up a Sun? | |
| Jack Ryan / int_17942015 | comment |
Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?: Done with both Clark and Ryan (and to a lesser extent, Ding Chavez). For Ryan, few will ever pass up the opportunity to remark upon the time he dealt with the ULA invasion of his home in Patriot Games. Clark's list is rather longer, ranging from picking up KGB Chairman Gerasimov's family in Cardinal of the Kremlin, to rescuing former Japanese Prime Minister Koga in Debt of Honor, to guiding the bombs to kill Ayatollah Daryaei in Executive Orders. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_17942015 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_17942015 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_17942015 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_1869b4b1 | type |
Unreliable Narrator | |
| Jack Ryan / int_1869b4b1 | comment |
Unreliable Narrator: Clancy writes a lot of enemy plotting from their POV (as the protagonists rarely meet the antagonists directly). As said enemy plotters are frequently ideological and/or mentally unbalanced, their assessment of an operation can differ radically from what it will or could actually achieve. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_1869b4b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_1869b4b1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_1869b4b1 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_18d15922 | type |
Title Drop | |
| Jack Ryan / int_18d15922 | comment |
Title Drop: Done in most of his novels, with a few exceptionsnote Without Remorse, Cardinal of the Kremlin and The Bear and the Dragon are the only ones that don't. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_18d15922 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_18d15922 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_18d15922 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_19769f50 | type |
Defeat Means Friendship | |
| Jack Ryan / int_19769f50 | comment |
Defeat Means Friendship: One of the rare examples of this trope occurring on a national level, as the post-Cold War period eventually ends up with America's foremost strategic partner being Russia. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_19769f50 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_19769f50 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_19769f50 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_1d18887f | type |
Pay Evil unto Evil | |
| Jack Ryan / int_1d18887f | comment |
Pay Evil unto Evil: Teeth of the Tiger. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_1d18887f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_1d18887f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_1d18887f | |
| Jack Ryan / int_24321e44 | type |
Only Sane Man | |
| Jack Ryan / int_24321e44 | comment |
Only Sane Man - Arnold van Damm seems to serve as one for Jack Ryan, especially in regards to toning down Jack's idealism by tempering it with knowledge the real world is not nearly as ideal. May even serve as a meta example by lampshading how Clancy's own views, even in his own literary universe, don't completely work out as they were intended. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_24321e44 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_24321e44 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_24321e44 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_25bc8511 | type |
Generation Xerox | |
| Jack Ryan / int_25bc8511 | comment |
Generation Xerox: Jack Ryan, Jr. joins the CIA like his father, while Sally goes to medical school like her mother. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_25bc8511 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_25bc8511 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_25bc8511 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_260926c3 | type |
Failure Is the Only Option | |
| Jack Ryan / int_260926c3 | comment |
Failure Is the Only Option: Scott Adler's negotiation sessions with America's enemies always inevitably fail despite his skill; they have to, otherwise the United States military wouldn't get the chance to strut their stuff. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_260926c3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_260926c3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_260926c3 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_26fb2f9e | type |
Past Experience Nightmare | |
| Jack Ryan / int_26fb2f9e | comment |
Past Experience Nightmare: Ryan's no James Bond. He's not the "kill-the-bad-guy, never-look-back" type; rather his experiences have a lasting effect on him, particularly the Colombian Incident. According to Cathy, there were some nights where she'd be woken up from Jack crying in his sleep. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_26fb2f9e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_26fb2f9e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_26fb2f9e | |
| Jack Ryan / int_3946634e | type |
The Smart Guy | |
| Jack Ryan / int_3946634e | comment |
The Smart Guy: Ron Jones, from his first appearance in Red October, is characterized as one of these; by Sum of All Fears has a doctorate from Caltech, and continues to prove his smartness well into Debt of Honor. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_3946634e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_3946634e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_3946634e | |
| Jack Ryan / int_397f480b | type |
Spy School | |
| Jack Ryan / int_397f480b | comment |
Spy School: Several references are made throughout the series to "The Farm", a CIA training facility in Virginianote Specifically, Camp Peary. For obvious reasons, the CIA has never confirmed, denied or spoken about the existence of a CIA training facility there. In some of the latter books Clark is shown teaching some classes there. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_397f480b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_397f480b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_397f480b | |
| Jack Ryan / int_3d5547b0 | type |
Perfect Poison | |
| Jack Ryan / int_3d5547b0 | comment |
Perfect Poison: The succinylcholine used in Teeth of the Tiger. It kills by simulating a heart attack via muscular paralysis, and is rapidly eliminated from the bloodstream, leaving no traces of what killed its victim. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_3d5547b0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_3d5547b0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_3d5547b0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_3d699462 | type |
Curb-Stomp Battle | |
| Jack Ryan / int_3d699462 | comment |
Curb-Stomp Battle: American military forces versus just about anybody else, from Debt of Honor onwards. Clark and Chavez versus their various opponents. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_3d699462 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_3d699462 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_3d699462 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_3f0b2f50 | type |
Make It Look Like an Accident | |
| Jack Ryan / int_3f0b2f50 | comment |
Make It Look Like an Accident: The magic assassination drug used by The Campus agents in Teeth of the Tiger is supposed to make it look like the victim died of natural causes. Later, after being hit with this drug one poor sap gets run over by a streetcar, further disguising that it was a hit and not an accident. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_3f0b2f50 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_3f0b2f50 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_3f0b2f50 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_3f6d2c98 | type |
Cold Sniper | |
| Jack Ryan / int_3f6d2c98 | comment |
Cold Sniper: Played straight, inverted, and deconstructed in different novels. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_3f6d2c98 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_3f6d2c98 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_3f6d2c98 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_43a045de | type |
Dropped a Bridge on Him | |
| Jack Ryan / int_43a045de | comment |
Dropped a Bridge on Him: In The Teeth of the Tiger, Robby Jackson is said to have become president in his own right and then been assassinated by a member of the KKK. This happens between books and is only barely mentioned in passing. Some of the newer books have tried to make this more meaningful by having it be one of the primary motivations for Jack running for president again, but still... Also applies to Bob Ritter, who was an important character in the early Jack Ryan novels until he resigned from the CIA at the end of Clear and Present Danger. In Dead or Alive it's mentioned that Bob Ritter died of cancer a few years prior. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_43a045de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_43a045de | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_43a045de | |
| Jack Ryan / int_443b78cd | type |
Tranquil Fury | |
| Jack Ryan / int_443b78cd | comment |
Tranquil Fury: John Clark is master of this. He makes a CIA deputy director damn near piss his pants in fear without even raising his voice and while still speaking respectfully. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_443b78cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_443b78cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_443b78cd | |
| Jack Ryan / int_44f5d199 | type |
Pretty in Mink | |
| Jack Ryan / int_44f5d199 | comment |
Pretty in Mink: Cathy Ryan has a mink coat she wears to some political galas. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_44f5d199 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_44f5d199 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_44f5d199 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_49fb5ccb | type |
Combat Pragmatist | |
| Jack Ryan / int_49fb5ccb | comment |
Combat Pragmatist: Consistently present throughout all of the novels. In the words of several of the commanders in various books, "'Fair' means that I bring all of my men back home alive. Fuck the others." | |
| Jack Ryan / int_49fb5ccb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_49fb5ccb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_49fb5ccb | |
| Jack Ryan / int_4b1eeadf | type |
Reporting Names | |
| Jack Ryan / int_4b1eeadf | comment |
Reporting Names: While their more formal designations are usually given at least once, generally Soviet hardware is usually referred to by its NATO reporting name. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_4b1eeadf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_4b1eeadf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_4b1eeadf | |
| Jack Ryan / int_50b1855d | type |
Spy Fiction | |
| Jack Ryan / int_50b1855d | comment |
Spy Fiction: The Stale Beer variety. Given a Lampshade Hanging on multiple occasions by John Clark. "Larson, if this were a movie, you'd be a blonde with big tits and a loose blouse." In The Film of the Book, the above is averted. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_50b1855d | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_50b1855d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_50b1855d | |
| Jack Ryan / int_50f66629 | type |
Crazy-Prepared | |
| Jack Ryan / int_50f66629 | comment |
Crazy-Prepared: The U.S. military, which makes plans for literally every conceivable military scenario. Probably Truth in Television. To keep things interesting, a spanner is usually thrown in the works to keep them from being overpowering (The Navy is too drawn down to effectively fight Japan, a biological attack renders most of the US Army unable to deploy, their own supply line to the front is a single train-track, etc). | |
| Jack Ryan / int_50f66629 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_50f66629 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_50f66629 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_50f848cc | type |
Technology Porn | |
| Jack Ryan / int_50f848cc | comment |
Technology Porn: Lots of equipment, especially military technology, gets long, lovingly detailed descriptions. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_50f848cc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_50f848cc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_50f848cc | |
| Jack Ryan / int_52d4cd25 | type |
Anonymous Ringer | |
| Jack Ryan / int_52d4cd25 | comment |
Anonymous Ringer: The American President prior to 1988 is never identified by name until Clancy manages to clear the backlog of Real Life Presidents and starts dropping in his own, starting with Bob Fowler. In later novels, however, Reagan and George H. W. Bush are referred to by name, and Bill Clinton's Monica Lewinsky sex scandal is alluded to. On the British side, Prince Charles and Margaret Thatcher are also referred to only referred to by title, though Tony Blair does get first-named in The Bear and the Dragon. While Clancy had admitted that his books are something of an allegory to real life, this tendency does cause some of his books to contain some considerable continuity errors, such as the assassination attempt on John Paul II being in 1982 instead of 1981 in Red Rabbit, or Ronald Reagan running for reelection in 1988 in Clear and Present Danger (though in the second case it may well be Walter Mondale who defeated Reagan in 1984). | |
| Jack Ryan / int_52d4cd25 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_52d4cd25 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_52d4cd25 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_52fbbe7 | type |
Yellow Peril | |
| Jack Ryan / int_52fbbe7 | comment |
Yellow Peril: His portrayal of Japan in Debt of Honor and China in The Bear And The Dragon. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_52fbbe7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_52fbbe7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_52fbbe7 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_55940b68 | type |
Doorstopper | |
| Jack Ryan / int_55940b68 | comment |
Doorstopper: With a few exceptions like The Hunt for Red October and Red Rabbit, Ryanverse novels tend to be on the long side. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_55940b68 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_55940b68 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_55940b68 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_56515a39 | type |
Artistic License – History | |
| Jack Ryan / int_56515a39 | comment |
Artistic License – History: At one point Cliff Rutledge says that the USA has the longest continual stable government in the world, which is a fairly dubious statement. Whilst the various criteria can be subjectively defined for various ends, many would argue that there are several "continual stable governments" that have existed for longer - the UK has maintained a constitutional monarchy, with various constitutional revisions down the years, since 1707, for example. That said, what Rutledge means is slightly unclear, he could be talking about the USA being the oldest Republic or democracy, both of which are slightly more defensible positions* Still not necessarily true, though. Depending on how wide or narrow your definitions of "continual", "stable" and "democracy" are. Iceland, San Marino, the Iroquois and the Isle of Man can viably claim further back, depending on definition. Given the time between publications of his novels, "time" for the characters gets stretched out as events in Real Life occur. For instance, Ryan leaves government service around 1992 in The Sum of All Fears, but somehow spends only two years on vacation until Debt of Honor, which takes places in 1996, and serves as President for another year or two up until 2001-ish between Executive Orders and The Bear and the Dragon. More conventionally, Clancy sometimes uses up-and-coming data/speculation when discussing weapons that are going to be fielded in the near-future, which ends up falling flat when it turns out incorrectly. For instance, in Debt of Honor it is mentioned that the next ship in line after John Stennis is going to be the United States, which was the name for Harry S. Truman when she was laid down, but changed afterwards. The F-22, whose first production models are rolled out for Debt of Honor is referred to as the Rapier. The nickname was later changed to Raptor. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_56515a39 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_56515a39 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_56515a39 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_56c55ed8 | type |
I Am Not Left-Handed | |
| Jack Ryan / int_56c55ed8 | comment |
I Am Not Left-Handed: When the North Carolina National Guard goes to the NTC for training exercises against the 11th ACR, they don't let on that they have IVIS training. Regular Army units go to the NTC and get their asses handed to them in engagement after engagement (that's the point). The National Guard detachment completely decimates the 11th in their first engagement. The General in charge of the NTC is not happy with his men. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_56c55ed8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_56c55ed8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_56c55ed8 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_596f675a | type |
Smoking Is Cool | |
| Jack Ryan / int_596f675a | comment |
Smoking Is Cool: Largely averted. While Ryan was a former smoker (and occasionally fell back into the habit after becoming President), most of the actual badasses don't smoke, with the US Army Rangers and Rainbow being specifically singled out at various times. The occasional military personnel does smoke, but Clancy makes it fairly clear that they do so as a stress reliever. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_596f675a | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_596f675a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_596f675a | |
| Jack Ryan / int_64e975cf | type |
Manly Tears | |
| Jack Ryan / int_64e975cf | comment |
Manly Tears: Both Ryan and Clark aren't afraid to cry when they need to; Ryan when he promises to take care of Zimmer's family for him, Kelly upon realization that Pam lied to protect him to the very end, Clark upon meeting Oreza twenty years after faking his own death, both Clark and Chavez upon the birth of John Conor Chavez. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_64e975cf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_64e975cf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_64e975cf | |
| Jack Ryan / int_68333a8b | type |
Elite Army | |
| Jack Ryan / int_68333a8b | comment |
Elite Army: Generally invoked regarding the United States armed forces. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_68333a8b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_68333a8b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_68333a8b | |
| Jack Ryan / int_6a4f3cf7 | type |
Took a Level in Dumbass | |
| Jack Ryan / int_6a4f3cf7 | comment |
Took a Level in Dumbass: Almost all of Clancy's villains do this at one point or another in most of his books after The Sum Of All Fears. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_6a4f3cf7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_6a4f3cf7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_6a4f3cf7 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_75c952bf | type |
Our Presidents Are Different | |
| Jack Ryan / int_75c952bf | comment |
Our Presidents Are Different - Jack Ryan seems to be a mix of President Iron and Personable, whereas Ed Kealty is shown as President Playboy, Scheming, and Strawman. Incidentally, between Executive Orders and The Bear and the Dragon, Ryan's election platform largely comes off as selling himself as Jack Ryan, Regular Guy. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_75c952bf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_75c952bf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_75c952bf | |
| Jack Ryan / int_7a265daa | type |
Eagleland | |
| Jack Ryan / int_7a265daa | comment |
Eagleland: The first flavor, although both versions are discussed frequently. More specifically, Clancy generally differentiates between the types, generally casting the 'good guys' as Type 1, and Type 2s are generally frowned upon, to say the least. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_7a265daa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_7a265daa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_7a265daa | |
| Jack Ryan / int_7ba8b9d8 | type |
TearYourFaceOff | |
| Jack Ryan / int_7ba8b9d8 | comment |
Tear Your Face Off: Multiple books feature somewhat graphic descriptions of a well-placed headshot plastering someone's face against a wall. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_7ba8b9d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_7ba8b9d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_7ba8b9d8 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_8391b1c7 | type |
Artistic License – Law | |
| Jack Ryan / int_8391b1c7 | comment |
Artistic License – Law: The Teeth of the Tiger has the protagonists running a privately funded assassination squad against terrorism suspects. This includes a stack of fill-form presidential pardons pre-signed by former President Jack Ryan (naturally throwing in a contrast with the Fox News Liberal administration that succeeded him). Besides the dubious legality of such a concept in the first place, this does absolutely nothing for an operator arrested by a foreign government or even by a US state government: the President can only pardon federal offenses. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_8391b1c7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_8391b1c7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_8391b1c7 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_8878f3be | type |
Badass Army | |
| Jack Ryan / int_8878f3be | comment |
Badass Army: America (and to lesser extents other good guys) are portrayed as commanding one, though America seems to get the lion's share. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_8878f3be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_8878f3be | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_8878f3be | |
| Jack Ryan / int_889f217f | type |
Hot Sub-on-Sub Action | |
| Jack Ryan / int_889f217f | comment |
Hot Sub-on-Sub Action: More subs attack each other in Clancy's novels than in the entire history of naval warfare. On the other hand, most of these novels are premised on the Cold War heating up a bit, so it's entirely justified: after the '60s, that kind of sub-to-sub combat was not only possible but likely given that NATO and Warsaw Pact subs were constantly on one another's tails. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_889f217f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_889f217f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_889f217f | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9a1d239e | type |
Been There, Shaped History | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9a1d239e | comment |
Been There, Shaped History: John Clark almost did this. He claims that he once had Abu Nidal's head in his gunsights, but he never received approval to pull the trigger. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9a1d239e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9a1d239e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_9a1d239e | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9b54d536 | type |
Evil Counterpart | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9b54d536 | comment |
Evil Counterpart: The Ghost Ship is this to The Campus. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9b54d536 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9b54d536 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_9b54d536 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9c47b23b | type |
Dirty Communists | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9c47b23b | comment |
Dirty Communists: Played more or less straight until The Cardinal of the Kremlin, but completely turned on its head afterwards, to the point where the Russian Federation actually becomes a NATO member nation in The Bear and the Dragon. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9c47b23b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9c47b23b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_9c47b23b | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9cc7c9fe | type |
A Nuclear Error | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9cc7c9fe | comment |
A Nuclear Error: Averted; Clancy's discussion of the political conditions surrounding the deployment of nuclear weapons is very accurate. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9cc7c9fe | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9cc7c9fe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_9cc7c9fe | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9d473705 | type |
Official Presidential Transport | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9d473705 | comment |
Official Presidential Transport: The series occasionally has scenes set aboard the real Air Force One. Being a techno-thriller series, Clancy goes into more technical detail than most depictions of the aircraft. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9d473705 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9d473705 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_9d473705 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9dab0a6e | type |
Continuity Nod | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: All over the novels and some of the games. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9dab0a6e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_9dab0a6e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_9dab0a6e | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a18fda9c | type |
Dumb Muscle | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a18fda9c | comment |
Dumb Muscle: Occasionally invoked by government officials regarding their bodyguards/SPOs. They (and the Marines) are usually characterized as "knuckle draggers," though in the case of the Secret Service, most if not all of them have at least a college degree and, in the case of Andrea Price, a Masters. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a18fda9c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a18fda9c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_a18fda9c | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a20d4674 | type |
Techno Babble | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a20d4674 | comment |
Technobabble: Clancy's lengthy, loving descriptions of exactly how military technology works can occupy whole chapters. A typical example can be found in Sum of All Fears, where a chapter is given over to describing how a thermonuclear bomb detonates. However, the process is plot-relevant, as the engineer who designed it didn't complete a step needed to ensure the detonation was as powerful as intended, providing a crucial clue that prevents all-out war. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a20d4674 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a20d4674 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_a20d4674 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a3f6dba3 | type |
Action Duo | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a3f6dba3 | comment |
Action Duo: Clark and Chavez. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a3f6dba3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a3f6dba3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_a3f6dba3 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a4414a05 | type |
Adaptation Dye-Job | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a4414a05 | comment |
Adaptation Dye-Job: In the books Cathy Ryan is a blue-eyed blonde, while nearly all the actresses who've played her have been brunettes. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a4414a05 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a4414a05 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_a4414a05 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a6c99b08 | type |
Shoot Out the Lock | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a6c99b08 | comment |
Shoot Out the Lock: Defied — in several novels it's pointed out that this does not work in real life. In most cases, the shooter has to use several more bullets and messily destroy the lock mechanism to open the door. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a6c99b08 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a6c99b08 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_a6c99b08 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a6e8221e | type |
Status Quo Is God | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a6e8221e | comment |
Status Quo Is God: Fought tooth and nail, but ultimately victorious in favor of real world progression. Many of Jack Ryan's, and others', accomplishments are undone or nullified within the next book or two. In Executive Orders, Saddam Hussein is assassinated and his top generals tuck tail and run, allowing Iran to take over and form the United Islamic Republic. By the time the inevitable war rolls around, the UIR is forming ties with many other would-be member states. But at the conclusion of the novel, Iran and Iraq split perfectly into their pre-union borders and no mention of Islamic unification is ever made again. In Debt of Honor, Japan and America go from traditional allies to being at war, ending with America victorious and both countries back to being BFF in the next book. After Jack Ryan ascends to the presidency, he makes several changes to policy, including how to prosecute the War on Drugs, simplifying the tax code, encouraging common people to aspire to Congress as opposed to traditional politician, and so on. By The Bear and the Dragon, those common people he helped elect are becoming more and more influenced by the Washington power culture and forgetting their roots. And by Teeth of the Tiger, almost all of his revolutionary policies have either been nullified or blunted by the next president, despite their overwhelming popularity. A good chunk of the plot of A Sum of All Fears is devoted to a plan to achieve peace in the Middle East. Jack Ryan devises a plan that brings together many of the world's foremost Christian, Jewish, and Muslim leaders to form the Jerusalem Treaty, which holds even through the largest Islamic terrorist event in history. However, a few throwaway lines in Teeth of the Tiger mention that the treaty eventually fell apart and things went back to the status quo. The whole point of Cardinal of the Kremlin is America's efforts to get a hold of the Russian plans for an anti-ballistic missile laser weapon while keeping the Russians from getting the American plans for a similar system (and vice versa from the perspective of the Russians). In The Bear and the Dragon, it gets mentioned that despite the info the CIA provided on the Russian system, they were never able to build a laser powerful enough to shoot down ICBMs, allowing the Chinese nuclear arsenal to remain a threat. A major plot point in The Bear and the Dragon is the CIA was able to get access to the private records of a Chinese Politboro member about what went on in their meetings, allowing them to know what China's leadership decided on in their meetings within a day of them making the decisions. In Threat Vector it gets mentioned that the Politboro member in question died a few months after the events of that book, rendering their source useless and leaving the US government in the dark as to what the new Chinese Politboro is up to. In The Bear and the Dragon Russia becomes a NATO member and has acquired the resources to attempt to revitalize their economy and bring their nation into the 21st century. In Command Authority, Russia is still a mess, and Grushavoy's successor withdraws from NATO and starts on a plan to revert Russia back into the USSR. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a6e8221e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a6e8221e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_a6e8221e | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a8559a9f | type |
RealLife | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a8559a9f | comment |
Given the time between publications of his novels, "time" for the characters gets stretched out as events in Real Life occur. For instance, Ryan leaves government service around 1992 in The Sum of All Fears, but somehow spends only two years on vacation until Debt of Honor, which takes places in 1996, and serves as President for another year or two up until 2001-ish between Executive Orders and The Bear and the Dragon. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a8559a9f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a8559a9f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_a8559a9f | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a864d2d8 | type |
Commie Land | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a864d2d8 | comment |
Commie Land: The USSR itself serves as the setting for some scenes, with a significant focus in The Cardinal in the Kremlin. Some other scenes throughout the series occur in Soviet client states. The Peoples Republic of China, in The Bear and the Dragon, gets a good bit of focus, as the main antagonists of the book. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a864d2d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a864d2d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_a864d2d8 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a94eaaa4 | type |
Odd Friendship | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a94eaaa4 | comment |
Odd Friendship: Representatives Alan Trent (a gay Democrat from Massachusetts) and Sam Fellows (a Mormon Republican from Arizona), both members of the House Select Intelligence Committee, who were introduced in The Cardinal of the Kremlin. Later in the series, the oddness of the friendship is explicitly commented upon. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a94eaaa4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_a94eaaa4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_a94eaaa4 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_ac1e30d8 | type |
Red Scare | |
| Jack Ryan / int_ac1e30d8 | comment |
Red Scare: Until the collapse of the Soviet Union and the events in The Sum of All Fears, Cold War tensions between the US and its allies and the Soviet Union are a significant part of the overall plot. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_ac1e30d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_ac1e30d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_ac1e30d8 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_b51128fa | type |
Gilded Cage | |
| Jack Ryan / int_b51128fa | comment |
Gilded Cage: The White House, and more metaphorically the presidency itself, is identified as one by President Ryan after he realizes the full implications of the place. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_b51128fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_b51128fa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_b51128fa | |
| Jack Ryan / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
| Jack Ryan / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: Clancy takes the opportunity in several of his novels to note that none of the things that happen in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels would ever pass muster in reality; in Clancy's own words, Fleming was a failed British spy. Pot shots are also taken at NBC and environmentalists in Executive Orders and Rainbow Six. Occasionally, Clancy's author filibusters (see above) can veer into this territory. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_b53077b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_b53077b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_b53077b3 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_b593baf1 | type |
Author Filibuster | |
| Jack Ryan / int_b593baf1 | comment |
Author Filibuster: Dotted about the series, generally reflecting a conservative position — for example, reducing the military budget is never presented as a good idea, America has "the best healthcare system in the world", Good Girls Avoid Abortion, the death penalty and sometimes downright vigilantism are presented positively, and economic cooperation with China is strategically unsound. The series generally doesn't suffer from it however. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_b593baf1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_b593baf1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_b593baf1 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_bb01ad0e | type |
Cool Boat | |
| Jack Ryan / int_bb01ad0e | comment |
Cool Boat: You might think every US naval vessel was this, given the amount of loving description Clancy visits on them. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_bb01ad0e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_bb01ad0e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_bb01ad0e | |
| Jack Ryan / int_bbf11c0 | type |
Genius Bruiser | |
| Jack Ryan / int_bbf11c0 | comment |
Genius Bruiser: John Kelly is, by most standards, a physically imposing man, and has demonstrated his strength multiple times, but, despite having only a high-school level education, has impressive analytical ability and can think on his feet (which is what prompted Ritter to hire him). During his tour in Vietnam, he was nominated for Officer Candidate School on at least three separate occasions, and has since then garnered enough knowledge to discuss subjects with college professors in their areas of expertise. He also speaks at least four languages fluently enough to pass as a native speaker. By Rainbow Six, he holds the rank of a simulated Major General. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_bbf11c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_bbf11c0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_bbf11c0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_bc74ef27 | type |
Berserk Button | |
| Jack Ryan / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: Most of the central characters have one. For John Clark it's drugs. Anything and everything about them pisses him off to no end. After reading Without Remorse it's not hard to understand why. For Jack Ryan, it's harming his family or insulting his integrity. After he becomes president, harming Americans can be added to the list. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_bc74ef27 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_bc74ef27 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_bc74ef27 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_bec0417c | type |
Happily Married | |
| Jack Ryan / int_bec0417c | comment |
Happily Married: Jack and Cathy Ryan, Robbie and Cecilia Jackson, John and Sandra Clark. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_bec0417c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_bec0417c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_bec0417c | |
| Jack Ryan / int_c11515f5 | type |
Issue Drift | |
| Jack Ryan / int_c11515f5 | comment |
Issue Drift: The RyanVerse novels have grown more politically focused over time, reflecting Clancy's conservative (and occasionally libertarian) viewpoints. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_c11515f5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_c11515f5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_c11515f5 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_c3478f1d | type |
Badass Bookworm | |
| Jack Ryan / int_c3478f1d | comment |
Badass Bookworm: Jack Ryan, even more than in the books. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_c3478f1d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_c3478f1d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_c3478f1d | |
| Jack Ryan / int_c3a7dcab | type |
Qurac | |
| Jack Ryan / int_c3a7dcab | comment |
Qurac: Surprisingly, given the subject matter, Averted. Clancy seems fairly cognizant of the region and its people. In Debt of Honor, he mentions that Iraq can get pretty cold in the winter. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_c3a7dcab | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_c3a7dcab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_c3a7dcab | |
| Jack Ryan / int_c515d358 | type |
America Saves the Day | |
| Jack Ryan / int_c515d358 | comment |
America Saves the Day: A fairly standard plot, especially in later novels, although semi averted in Commander in Chief and very explicitly averted in Clear and Present Danger, The Sum of all Fears, and Rainbow Six. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_c515d358 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_c515d358 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_c515d358 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_ca87e3ec | type |
No Name Given | |
| Jack Ryan / int_ca87e3ec | comment |
No Name Given: The U.S. President in the early novels is never given a name, instead being referred to simply as 'the President'. It gets rather ridiculous in later novels after the election of Bob Fowler when characters refer to him but still just call him 'the one Fowler beat'. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_ca87e3ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_ca87e3ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_ca87e3ec | |
| Jack Ryan / int_ccc62785 | type |
I Want My Beloved to Be Fashionable | |
| Jack Ryan / int_ccc62785 | comment |
I Want My Beloved to Be Fashionable: In Patriot Games, Cathy Ryan has Jack buy some rather nice English suits. It's extended on and commented on throughout many of the subsequent novels. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_ccc62785 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_ccc62785 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_ccc62785 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_cdd676a3 | type |
Hyper-Competent Sidekick | |
| Jack Ryan / int_cdd676a3 | comment |
Hypercompetent Sidekick: Jack Ryan made a career our of this, serving as deputy director (intelligence), and later Central Intelligence, in the CIA, National Security Adviser, and Vice President of the United States. It becomes something of a minor plot point in Executive Orders when other world leaders don't respect him as the new American president because they don't believe he has what it takes to actually lead. They are proven to be oh so wrong by the end. Arnie Van Damm is this to Presidents Fowler, Durling, and Ryan. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_cdd676a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_cdd676a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_cdd676a3 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_ce70175b | type |
Sociopathic Soldier | |
| Jack Ryan / int_ce70175b | comment |
Sociopathic Soldier: Soviet KGB troops tend to get this treatment, as distinct from the Red Army's soldiers. Even the Red Army soldiers show their disdain for their green-shoulder-board-wearing comrades. This is Truth in Television; following Stalin's use of the KGB to purge the ranks of the Red Army, many soldiers in the Red Army viewed the KGB with distrust and suspicion. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_ce70175b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_ce70175b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_ce70175b | |
| Jack Ryan / int_d001c42c | type |
Anti-Villain | |
| Jack Ryan / int_d001c42c | comment |
Anti-Villain: Depending on context, the KGB or the whole U.S.S.R. before their becoming the Russian Federation and the resultant Heel–Face Turn. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_d001c42c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_d001c42c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_d001c42c | |
| Jack Ryan / int_d54b9eb3 | type |
Inter-Service Rivalry | |
| Jack Ryan / int_d54b9eb3 | comment |
Interservice Rivalry: All over the place. CIA vs. FBI, FBI vs. Secret Service, KGB vs. GRU, etc. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_d54b9eb3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_d54b9eb3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_d54b9eb3 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_d9c4365c | type |
Reset Button | |
| Jack Ryan / int_d9c4365c | comment |
Reset Button: This appears to have been pushed, as noted above in the Arab–Israeli Conflict entry, in the two most recent Ryanverse books, Teeth of the Tiger and Dead or Alive (much more obviously so in the latter case, since in order to be able to incorporate 9/11 and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars into his plot, Clancy pretty much had to do away with the events of Executive Orders. This also applies to the US/Russian relationship.) | |
| Jack Ryan / int_d9c4365c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_d9c4365c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_d9c4365c | |
| Jack Ryan / int_dd53c52b | type |
Crushing Handshake | |
| Jack Ryan / int_dd53c52b | comment |
Crushing Handshake: Skip Tyler, Jack Ryan's good friend, was described as giving overly powerful handshakes of the Does Not Know His Own Strength variety. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_dd53c52b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_dd53c52b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_dd53c52b | |
| Jack Ryan / int_de7b7cbf | type |
Drugs Are Bad | |
| Jack Ryan / int_de7b7cbf | comment |
Drugs Are Bad: Played straight when Ryan asks for a Presidential pardon for Clark and as soon as he mentions that the people Clark murdered were drug dealers, it's a slam dunk. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_de7b7cbf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_de7b7cbf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_de7b7cbf | |
| Jack Ryan / int_de89c0a1 | type |
Dating What Daddy Hates | |
| Jack Ryan / int_de89c0a1 | comment |
Dating What Daddy Hates: It's mentioned a few times that Cathy Ryan's father has never forgiven Jack for quitting his financial sector job to become a teacher (and later a CIA analyst). | |
| Jack Ryan / int_de89c0a1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_de89c0a1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_de89c0a1 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_e2023325 | type |
StrawmanPolitical | |
| Jack Ryan / int_e2023325 | comment |
Strawman Political: Clancy makes regular use of strawman liberals, pacifists, and environmentalists throughout his novels. The rare aversions (such as Arnie van Damm) are generally refreshingly honest and as even-handed as one might expect. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_e2023325 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_e2023325 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_e2023325 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_e3585b3d | type |
No Party Given | |
| Jack Ryan / int_e3585b3d | comment |
No Party Given: Trent and Fellows's parties are not explicitly named, even though it's quite obvious that Trent is a liberal and Fellows is a conservative. Ditto for Fowler and Durling, who belong to the same party as Fellows. Ryan himself claims no particular party, until he runs again for the Presidency as a Republican in Locked On. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_e3585b3d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_e3585b3d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_e3585b3d | |
| Jack Ryan / int_e5421161 | type |
Expy | |
| Jack Ryan / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: Gennady Iosefovich Bondarenko, who, in an inversion from the other examples from Red Storm Rising, is an expy of General Alekseyev. Although Tom Clancy has never confirmed it, most readers believe that the character of Ed Kealty is an expy of real life US Senator Ted Kennedy. Both of them are Democratic senators from New England, both of them have liberal political views, both come from wealthy families, and both have been involved in sex scandals. General Secretary of the CPSU Andrey Ily'ch Narmonov is a very obvious expy of Mikhail Gorbachev. The Emir is an obvious expy of Osama bin Laden. Valeri Volodin from Command Authority is Vladimir Putin in all but name. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_e5421161 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_e5421161 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_e5421161 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_e663d3ef | type |
Only a Flesh Wound | |
| Jack Ryan / int_e663d3ef | comment |
Only a Flesh Wound: Often averted. Gunshot wounds incapacitate and kill or nearly kill several protagonists. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_e663d3ef | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_e663d3ef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_e663d3ef | |
| Jack Ryan / int_eb06cc52 | type |
Elite Agents Above the Law | |
| Jack Ryan / int_eb06cc52 | comment |
Elite Agents Above the Law: Clear and Present Danger refers to the explosive growth of Colombian narcotics trafficking within the United States, which President Bob Ritter deems a threat to national security. As such, he has his NSA man, James Cutter, cherrypick an elite team to conduct covert sabotage operations against the cocaine cartel. When actions escalate into an airstrike that obliterates one kingpin's compound (wives, mistresses and children included), that's United States military killing foreign nationals on their home soil, which is an act of war. Once this indiscretion starts unraveling, the politicos leave their underlings to be killed or captured. The Teeth Of The Tiger revolves around a private counterterrorism hit squad secretly established by former President Jack Ryan. Ryan supplied the group with a stack of pre-signed presidential pardons to shield its operatives from prosecution. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_eb06cc52 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_eb06cc52 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_eb06cc52 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_f142296a | type |
"Get Out of Jail Free" Card | |
| Jack Ryan / int_f142296a | comment |
"Get Out of Jail Free" Card: John Clark gets one when the President of the United States pardons him. It goes up to eleven in The Teeth of the Tiger, in which the ex-President has issued preemptive pardons to all of the Black Ops operatives with blanks for names, dates, and offenses committed. The dubious legality of this is lampshaded by the man in charge. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_f142296a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_f142296a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_f142296a | |
| Jack Ryan / int_f458e883 | type |
Right Man in the Wrong Place | |
| Jack Ryan / int_f458e883 | comment |
Right Man in the Wrong Place: Jack Ryan on several occasions — as he points out, he's an intelligence analyst, not a spy, but keeps getting forced into the role by being on the spot. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_f458e883 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_f458e883 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_f458e883 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_f96f188c | type |
Drives Like Crazy | |
| Jack Ryan / int_f96f188c | comment |
Drives Like Crazy: Robby Jackson has a tendency to handle his car with the same... panache, you might say, as he does his F-14. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_f96f188c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_f96f188c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_f96f188c | |
| Jack Ryan / int_fe8a1029 | type |
Feed the Mole | |
| Jack Ryan / int_fe8a1029 | comment |
Feed the Mole: Used in several of the novels. In particular, the "canary trap" is a tool used by CIA to identify possible leakers by producing several slightly different copies of the same document, and using that to identify which copy is being leaked and narrow down the possible suspects. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_fe8a1029 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_fe8a1029 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_fe8a1029 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_ffad4e9f | type |
Shown Their Work | |
| Jack Ryan / int_ffad4e9f | comment |
Shown Their Work: Considering that Clancy was an insurance salesman with no prior military experience before becoming an author (his poor eyesight prevented him from becoming an officer in the United States Navy like he dreamed), a lot of the details included in his works (particularly the earlier books, before he started licensing his own name out to other authors), gained from purely open sources, occasionally to the discomfort of government agencies whose job is to protect classified information that he inadvertently managed to derive from publicly available information. In fact, the descriptions of submarine warfare in The Hunt For Red October are so realistic that it has become one of the only fictional works to appear on the U.S. Naval Academy's recommended reading list. | |
| Jack Ryan / int_ffad4e9f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_ffad4e9f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_ffad4e9f | |
| Jack Ryan / int_name | type |
ItemName | |
| Jack Ryan / int_name | comment |
||
| Jack Ryan / int_name | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan / int_name | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Ryan | hasFeature |
Jack Ryan / int_name | |
| Jack Ryan / int_name | itemName |
Jack Ryan |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.