Black-Tie Infiltration: So frequently it was a shock to not see it employed.Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Joseph Stalin apparently tried to unravel the Rambaldi mystery.Because Destiny Says So: Sydney is The Chosen One according to prophecies of Milo Rambaldi and try as she might she can't escape her destiny.Bathtub Scene: Sydney gets one in "Mea Culpa" when talking to Francie.Also, the two-part episode in season 2, "Passage", where Irina goes undercover with Jack and Sydney to India as a family of tourists to recover six stolen nuclear warheads, is a badass family vacation if there ever was one. It's dangerous enough to mess with Sydney, but if you mess with Sydney and Jack at the same time, you're just asking for trouble. Bad Ass Family: Almost the characters are related somehow and sometimes they even go on missions together.
5 seconds and shoot you between the eyes.
Attending Your Own Funeral: The Covenant forces Sydney to do this as part of their brainwashing.The male characters' fighting styles are generally less flamboyant.
Artistic License Martial Arts: Mostly seen with the female characters, who occasionally use high-flying kicks, backflips and the like.It has also been prominent throughout the show, appearing in documents, files, and other places for keen-eyed fans. Arc Number: The number 47 is a significant one to Milo Rambaldi and many of his works and artifacts.Apocalypse Maiden: Sydney according to Rambaldi's prophecy: "Unless prevented, at vulgar cost, this woman will render the greatest power unto utter desolation.".And I Must Scream Sloane's ultimate fate, being trapped alone and underground but unable to die.Ambiguously Brown: So Elena is supposed to be Russian?.All Your Base Are Belong to Us: In "The Box", is about the SD-6 headquarters is taken over and made hostage by former SD-6 agent McKenas Cole.Because she'd been exposed, he had to finish her mission even after he rescued her., All Up to You: In "Tuesday" Marshall, normally the Mission Control, was late to work and got locked out when the base went into lockdown, and consequently was the only one available to rescue Sydney, who had been exposed, captured, and Buried Alive.The suave international terrorist Sark clearly has eyes for Sydney, but she'll have none of it. Is a deal going down? Or perhaps a Mexican standoff? If Sark is there, and it turns out a shootout, he will escape. Action Survivor: Many of the one-shot characters, such as Neil Caplan.Action Girl: Mainly Sydney, but also Irina, Lauren, Nadia, Rachel, Anna Espinosa and Allison Dorren.In her absence, Vaughn marries another woman, Lauren Reed. Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: In the finale of Alias season 2, Sydney is kidnapped and brainwashed for two years.Aborted Arc: Originally Irina was supposed to have more of a role in Season 4, but the actress left for contractual reasons.After the start of the second season, she's frequently shown shooting people to death. Sydney does not kill anyone until this point, apart from a rather contrived situation in which an assassin falls on a knife and in the second episode where she breaks a guard's neck. Though both this show and the show which was adapted from Marvel's Alias were made by what would become ABC Signature.
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