My next Mission: Impossible countdown covers an element of these movies that borders on problematic: the treatment of the women characters.

The series has a bad habit of introducing a new woman (sometimes a love interest, always a brunette) only to ditch her by the next movie, either through death or by simply not referencing her again. There are some exceptions, which I’ll get to.

So let me kick off my ranking of the WOMEN of Mission: Impossible.

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