The Mission: Impossible movies are not well-known for their consistent casts.
While Tom Cruise and Ving Rhames have shown up in every installment of the saga, the cast of these movies has often remained incredibly fluid.
The first four entries especially often gave Cruise’s Ethan Hunt an entirely new supporting cast and bosses to interact with.
Only in more recent entries have figures like Benji (Simon Pegg) and Ilsa (Rebecca Ferguson) become incredibly prominent and indispensable to the franchise.
Still, even these two are exceptions to the Mission: Impossible rule of supporting cast members being expendable.
If one wants evidence of this trend being alive and well just look at CIA director Erika Sloane, a character introduced in Fallout played by Angela Bassett.
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