Mission: Impossible

Cruise action series

Mission: Impossible is an American media franchise centered on a team of secret agents who carry out dangerous, often implausible operations.

The name has become shorthand for any task that seems nearly impossible to accomplish: Getting him to apologize is mission: impossible.

The phrase echoes the show's famous setup: "Your mission, should you choose to accept it..."

Related
  • spyCovert information gatherer
  • secret agentClandestine government operative
  • actionProcess of doing
  • espionageCovert intelligence gathering
  • IMFGlobal economic assistance organization

Tom Cruise · stunt · death defying · Ethan Hunt · mask · disguise · gadget · face mask · rubber mask · heist · thriller · helicopter · motorcycle · skydiving · betrayal · double cross · timer · bomb

Opposites
difficulty and risk level

Mission: Impossiblemission accomplished

Task finished, goal met

piece of cake · walk in the park · cakewalk · slam dunk · sure thing

action spy thriller genre

Mission: ImpossibleAustin Powers

Get Smart · Spy Kids · The Naked Gun · Inspector Clouseau

work excitement and glamour

Mission: Impossibledesk job

Seated indoor employment

office work · nine-to-five · paperwork · data entry · filing

Family

mission, missions, missionary, missionaries, emissary, emission, emissions, remission, transmission

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Mostly American · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG