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The bear and the dragon tv tropes
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the bear and the dragon tv tropes
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  • Narm: Season 2 is based around the threat of Venezuela (which is led by a right-wing dictator) who wants to become a nuclear power and immediately destroy America.
  • Mateo Bastos, The Dragon to Reyes, killing the family of a bodyguard his associates bribed, and going after his children as well, serves to show just how ruthless he will be in destroying opponents of Reyes.
  • In Season 2, the Big Bad Nicolas Reyes already establishes himself as an evil dictator, but he crosses the line when he personally murders General Ubarri, his best friend and the Token Good Teammate of his inner circle.
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  • Season 1 Big Bad Suleiman murdering a church full of innocent people with the sarin gas, an excruciatingly painful death, is the moment it becomes clear what kind of a person he really is.
  • Followed by: "Get on the fucking plane!" note Sometimes edited as "Get on the damn plane!" or just "Get on the plane!" The ubiquity of a specific advertisement featuring these lines, first during the 2018 World Cup and later on Twitch, lead to it becoming a popular copypasta.
  • Memetic Mutation: "I can't go to Yemen, I'm an analyst!".
  • Genius Bonus: Mike November has an incredibly non-descript name, as it's made up of the NATO phonetic designations for "M" and "N".
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    A ruthless servant of a dictator, Mateo Bastos represents the worst of the Venezuelan regime. When Greer frees himself and tries to shoot Bastos, he uses one of his own men as a Human Shield. Bastos takes Greer to Reyes' mansion for further interrogation while ordering his men to execute his remaining 41 prisoners. He later kidnaps James Greer and tortures him at his prison camp, where he holds numerous Venezuelan political prisoners to torture and kill, including the husband of Gloria Bonalde, Reyes' main political rival. He also captures a group of rebels and tortures them into making false confessions, and murders US soldier Matice before having his men defile Matice's corpse. Participating in the bombing that led to the deaths of Senator Jim Moreno and countless others, Bastos would murder the family of a bodyguard whom his associates bribed, children included, before attempting to kill the bodyguard himself. Complete Monster: Mateo Bastos, from season 2, is President Nicolas Reyes's head of security, but manages to surpass Reyes in cruelty.But then his story goes on, and on, never connecting back to the main storyline aside from having him in the vicinity of Ryan and Greer briefly in Turkey. Tombstone's entire storyline is this, as his only point of contact with the rest of the season 1 storyline is him saving Hanin.Stanley is played by the recognizable actor Lee Tergesen, which hints the character is going to play a bigger role, but it's not the case. They are never heard from again and other than making Tombstone feel even more pathetic than usual, prompting him to disobey orders later, the pair have zero impact on the plot and their actions and motives are never explained at all. Blanche and Stanley leave, refusing to take Tombstone's money.

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    Stanley encourages Tombstone to have sex with Blanche, then beats him with his belt for no obvious reason.

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  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In "Black 22," depressed drone operator Victor, AKA " Tombstone" gets rich and drunk in Vegas and goes back to is home with shady couple Stanley and Blanche.
  • Some feel the books became more of a platform for Clancy's right-wing political views at the expense of story.
  • Sequelitis: Ever since the end of the U.S.S.R as convenient baddies, the books began to deal more with internal US politics, with Jack eventually becoming President.
  • Even interquel books like Red Rabbit suffered heavily from timeline and story inconsistency.

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    Later books in the series were clearly set in this timeline - while occasionally referencing real life presidents like Bush and Reagan, or events like the Iraq War, that could not have happened in the Ryanverse world as described. Early works in the series didn’t try to rewrite world history, but starting with Clear And Present Danger, the series developed its own timeline of US presidents and world-shaking events. Robert Fowler isn't a particularly likeable character but it's hard not to feel sorry for him when you take into account what happens to him. Iron Woobie: John Clark and Cas Podulski.












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