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The Terminal List is an American action thriller television series based on Jack Carr's 2018 novel of the same name. The series tells the story of a Navy SEAL who seeks to avenge the murder of his family. It stars Chris Pratt (who also serves as an executive producer), Constance Wu, Taylor Kitsch, Riley Keough, Arlo Mertz, and Jeanne Tripplehorn. The Terminal List was released on Amazon Prime Video on July 1, 2022. The series is scheduled to have a second season, based on the novel True Believer. Prime has also ordered a prequel spin-off series centering on the character of Ben Edwards.The series follows Lieutenant Commander James Reece (Chris Pratt) after his platoon of Navy SEALs are ambushed while on a covert mission. Reece returns home to his family with conflicting memories of the event and questions about his culpability. As new evidence comes to light, Reece discovers dark forces working against him, endangering not only his life but the lives of those he loves.
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Miles Gloriosus
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Miles Gloriosus: Steve Horn fancies himself a soldierly badass, and bolsters this image by getting SEAL tattoos (even though he never actually served) and participating in controlled tactical training for sport. All of that chutzpah quickly disappears once Horn is finally faced with Reece.
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Dirty Coward
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Dirty Coward: Most of Reece's targets qualify, but none are as dirty as Secretary Hartley. When she realizes that she's next on Reece's list, she reteats to her fortified island to ambush him, while also taking Katie hostage. When Reece manages to corner her anyway, she commits suicide rather than face consequences.
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A Father to His Men
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A Father to His Men: Reece was this to his team before they were all killed.
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Ambiguous Situation
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Ambiguous Situation: It's never made completely clear who detonated the tunnel explosives that killed most of Reece's team. Reece initially remembers their SDF guide triggering the tripwire in panic, but the NCIS investigation convinces him that it was one of his own teammates, though the NCIS is deliberately trying to frame the team for their own demise and Reece's memories of the mission become increasingly conflicting due to his brain tumor.
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Fantastic Drug
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Fantastic Drug: Reece and his men take an experimental drug that was manufactured by Capstone Industries and designed to prevent PTSD. Instead, however, it gives them cancerous tumors.
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Adapted Out: Raife Hastings doesn't appear in Season 1, despite playing a critical role in the book's climax (Ben fulfills his role instead.) A corrupt Muslim cleric who is a member of the conspiracy in the book is also absent in the show.
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Karmic Nod
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Karmic Nod: In the final scene of the season, Ben does not denies his role in the ambush, mentions that he hoped to give his friends a "death with their boots on" rather than convalesce in bed waiting for the tumors to kill them, reminds Reece that he helped him (out of both friendship and disgust at the fact the other members of the conspiracy killed Reece's family) and tells Reece that it's okay to blow his brains out.
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Adaptational Heroism
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Adaptational Heroism: In the book, Ben is an active member of the conspiracy and secretly helps to try to assassinate Reece. In the show, he abandons the conspiracy after they murder Reece's family and assists him in killing each of them out of a sense of guilt (though Reece still kills him after learning of his involvement).
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: Season 1 ends with Reece uncovering the conspiracy and avenging the deaths of his men and family. But this includes killing his best friend Ben, who was also involved in the conspiracy. Not to mention that Reece is suffering from cancer and presumably has only a few years to live and wander off to parts unknown, with law enforcement still hunting him down.
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Villains Want Mercy
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Villains Want Mercy: The vast majority of Reece's revenge targets devolve into begging for mercy once cornered.
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Affably Evil
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Affably Evil: Hartley is initially presented as empathetic towards Reece's immense loss of his team and family, until she's revealed to be the mastermind behind the entire plot.
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Through the Eyes of Madness
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Through the Eyes of Madness: As the season goes on, Reece‘s sickness worsening leads to him getting more and more hallucinations, erroneous memories and doing things he did not wanted to do because he is reacting to them (like talking to a baby monitor in a flashback only to find out that he picked up a walkie-talkie and is taking to Agent Layun).
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Disc-One Final Boss
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Disc-One Final Boss: Steve Horn initially shapes up to be the overarching villain, but dies at the end of episode five.
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Real Life Writes the Plot
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Real Life Writes the Plot: The novel, being released in 2018, set Odin's Sword in Afghanistan before all US forces completely withdrew from the country in August 2021. The series was released in 2022, a year after the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and thus places Odin's Sword in Syria.
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Shell-Shocked Veteran
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: Reece suffers from PTSD and fatigue from fighting in Afghanistan. That's the reason why he accepts Horn's offer to take up the drug that allegedly cures his PTSD along with his men with encouragement from Ben.
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Adaptational Nice Guy
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Adaptational Nice Guy: Hartley is far more courteous and kind in the series then her book counterpart, who is noted to be imposing and insensitive and throws her power around to get what she wants.
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Crusading Widower
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Crusading Widower: Reece.
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Villainous Breakdown
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Villainous Breakdown: When Katie Buranek attempts to publish an expose about The Conspiracy, Senator Hartley invites her to her fortified island to "tell her side of the story" while waiting for Reece. However, Katie doesn't buy Hartley's story and successfully records her confession so Hartley attempts to have her killed, but is interrupted by Reece and Ben's attack. Then when it seems that Katie is succeeding in talking Reece into letting the law deal with her, Hartley opts to commit suicide rather than face any consequences.
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Outliving One's Offspring
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Outliving One's Offspring: Again, Reece.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: Lorraine Hartley. She orders Reece to carry out a covert mission that leads to the deaths of some of Reece's men (through letting them ingest a Fantastic Drug that could possibly cure their PTSD but instead gives them cancer). Although she is only a part of a conspiracy alongside Steve Horn, Mike Tedesco, and ultimately, Ben Edwards.
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Anti-Hero
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Anti-Hero: Reece is willing to use questionable methods in order to exact revenge on the people who killed his team and family. He also shows no mercy when his victims cannot fight like putting a bullet on Steve Horn's head, strapping his CO with a bomb when he realizes that he was involved in the ambush that kills his men, and torture a conspirator to death. The only instance he shows any sympathy is when he realizes that Ben was involved in the conspiracy and Mercy Kill him by shooting him in the head.
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Corrupt Corporate Executive
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: Steve Horn is the CEO of Capstone Industries and is completely a massive Jerkass.
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After surviving an ambush that was perpetuated by his fellow countrymen, Reece is willing to uncover their dirty secrets by mercilessly killing his enemies.
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Cassandra Truth
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Cassandra Truth: Reece suspects foul play in Operation Odin's Sword and Boozer's supposed suicide from the beginning, but due to the deliberate efforts of Secretary Hartley and Admiral Pilsner to cover up the mission, he's branded as an unhinged terrorist.
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Race Lift
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Race Lift: Katie Buranek was originally Czechoslovakian in the novel while in the TV series, she is Chinese. Both versions of the character share the same backstory of having escaped an oppressive Communist regime and at one point the TV version of the character mentions that she went into journalism because her father paid the price of standing up against President Deng Xiaoping, implying that he was one of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protestors. Although the race change never explains why the TV character doesn't have a Chinese last name.
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Authority Equals Asskicking
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Authority Equals Asskicking: Reece is capable of taking down PMCs, Cartels, and FBI agents whether he is with himself or with his fellow soldier Edwards. He is also a Lieutenant Commander in the US Navy, specifically the Navy SEALs.
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Inspector Javert: FBI Special Agent Tony Layun, the head of the Fugitive Retrieval division, is a younger and hipper Expy of Sam Gerard out to get what it looks like a loose-cannon, potentially deranged SEAL out to cause terrorist mayhem and becoming obsessed. He even uses "relentless pursuit" a couple of times early in the story as a Character Catchphrase.
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