Even more than instilling in a feeling of confidence in the characters and the public, the reminders in “The Final Reckoning” demonstrate that Ethan also has the capacity to affect fate. In fact, this may be what it has always been intended for. It was revealed at the beginning of the film that the entity is the foot of the rabbit, which was the mystery weapon that Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman) had Ethan fly in exchange for the life of his then wife, Julia (Michelle Monaghan), in “Mission: Impossible 3.”.

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Ethan is discouraged by this revelation, realizing that this means that he played an integral part so involuntary in the start of the entity. Ethan has always been characterized as a man who refuses to sacrifice an innocent life, a mandate born from the loss of his entire original team at the start of “mission: impossible”. During her mandate, McQuarrie increased the bet on Ethan’s personal mission, resumed of his origins in the loss of a still mysterious woman, Marie (Mariela Garriga), who was murdered by Gabriel (ESAI Morales) – an incident which led Ethan to join the MFI.

However, there is another more optimistic side of this equation: Ethan may have inadvertently triggered the entity, but he is also the only one who can stop it. The re -emergence of William Donloe (Rolf Saxon), which was dispatched to Alaska following the list of Ethan’s nights in the first film “Mission: Impossible”, allows Ethan to see that he did not inadvertently destroy the life of this man, but gave him the possibility of finding love and a new goal. Donloe refers the break -in of Ethan who accidentally left: a knife which formerly belonged to Franz Krieger (Jean Reno), a traitor who, with Jim Phelps (Jon Voight), helped kill Ethan’s original team. While this knife removed something from Ethan, he ended up giving something else. There are two sides with each room.

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This lesson is personified in the revelation that Jasper Briggs (Shea Whigham) is in fact Jim Phelps, Jr., a fact that explains the animosity of the man towards Hunt and the IMF. Briggs / Phelps initially rejects Ethan’s offering of apology and truces, but finally accepts it at the end of the film, after Ethan again made the impossible and killed the entity.

When all these Easter reminders and eggs are taken together, it is clear that they are not simply self-feminine references or even a lazy fans service, but elements in a greater thesis. With them, the series “Mission: Impossible” becomes a unique exercise in the creation of myths, by applying attributes of quasi-God to a character (and characters) who are still painfully human. It may seem impossible, but hey, that’s what Hunt and his team realize every day.