Paris is the secondary antagonist of the 2023 spy action film Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning and one of the two tritagonists (alongside Theo Degas) in its 2025 sequel Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.
She is an assassin working for Gabriel and the Entity who is sent in pursuit of the Impossible Mission Force in order to obtain both halves of the key to the Entity's secrets.
She is portrayed by Pom Klementieff, who also played Haeng-Bok in the 2013 Oldboy remake, Laser in Thunder Force, and Marianna Antoinette in The Killer's Game.
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History[]
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning[]
Paris first accompanied Gabriel when he was sent to the airport where a buyer for one of the key halves was present. She covertly killed the buyer, but he did not have the key half on him. In fact, the key half was with Grace, who had been hired by an unknown employer to take it from Ethan Hunt before he or anyone else could deliver it to the buyer.
After Grace boarded a plane to Rome and Ethan followed her there, Gabriel and Paris made their way there as well. Paris led a team of goons to the site of a stand-off between, Ethan and Grace, US agents Jason Briggs and Degas, and the Italian police. After she and her goons exited their armored vehicle, Paris opened fire on the police, leading to a shoot-out that gave Ethan and Grace time to drive away in a stolen police car. Undeterred, Paris got back into the armored vehicle and drove after them, plowing through cars and other obstacles that were in her way. However, Ethan and Grace were able to evade her by switching to a smaller car and driving through a narrow pass that her armored vehicle could not fit through.
Paris then accompanied Gabriel as he attended a party organized by the White Widow (who revealed herself to be Grace's employer) and the Entity to discuss the sale of the two halves of the key. She stayed hidden in the crowd at first, but showed herself to the IMF as soon as they arrived. When Ethan attacked the White Widow's goons to buy Ilsa and Grace time to escape, Paris took part in the skirmish to try and hold back Ethan while Gabriel pursued Grace. Although Ethan was able to escape the party and chase after Gabriel, the Entity hacked his communications and led him into a narrow alleyway where Paris and another goon had prepared an ambush for him. Despite being outnumbered, Ethan was able to fight them both off, but chose to spare Paris's life.
Paris then boarded the Orient Express, the location where the transaction of the completed key was to take place, and went to retrieve Gabriel, who had also infiltrated the train by hiding in a large suitcase with an oxygen mask on. After Paris opened the suitcase, she went with Gabriel to sabotage the train's emergency break as part of the Entity's carefully calculated plan. Along the way, the two met with Denlinger, who revealed himself to be the one who caused the Entity to go rogue and transform into its current state. Denlinger proposed an alliance between himself and Gabriel, but Gabriel refused and killed him instead, before turning around and stabbing Paris, deducing she would betray him as well, before leaving her for dead.
However, Paris was able to muster up the strength to get up and later saved Ethan and Grace from falling after Gabriel blew up the train bridge. Paris then revealed to Ethan that the chamber the key unlocked was on board the crashed Sevastapol submarine before becoming delirious due to blood loss. However, when Jasper Briggs and Degas came across her body, Degas checked her and discovered she still had a pulse.
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning[]
Two months later, the IMF breaks Paris out of prison for help in stopping Gabriel and the Entity. She leads the team and Dagas to Gabriel's bunker and shows them the chamber Gabriel uses to communicate with the Entity. Ethan goes in the chamber despite Paris warning him that it might change him and talks to the Entity, who reveals its plan to terrorize the world by launching itself across the globe and predicts that Gabriel will kill his best friend Luther Stickell. Ethan runs to save Luther, but is too late as Gabriel trapped Luther in a cave with a nuclear bomb forcing Luther to sacrifice himself to migitate the explosion.
Following Luther's death, the team learns that Gabriel stole Luther's "Poison Pill" that would be used to activate the Entity with the Padvoka from Sevastopol. Ethan goes to retrieve the Padvoka from the submarine with the key while Paris, Benji and Grace travel to St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea. They meet former CIA analyst William Donloe and his wife Tapessa. They are suddenly attacked by terrorists but manage to escape.
At the bunker, the team is ambushed by Gabriel's men who planted another nuclear bomb similar to the one that killed Luther. While Ethan chases after Gabriel, Paris, along Benji and Grace, goes to the control room to stop the Entity and Dagas, Donloe and Tapessa stay behind to disarm the bomb. Since Benji was shot during the ambush, Paris has to operate on his wound using her skills as an assassin leaving Grace to hack the controls herself. Paris manages to heal Benji and Grace stops the Entity by containing it in a vial ending its threat on the world. They are then reunited with Dagas, Donloe and Tapessa who were able to escape the explosion thanks to a 10-second headstart.
Paris, Benji and Grace eventually reunite with Ethan in London and Grace gives Ethan the briefcase containing the Entity before the team went seperate ways.
Personality[]
Paris is a beautiful skilled combatant who revels in violence and enjoys getting to fight others. She is ruthless when carrying out the missions she is assigned and shows no hesitancy in plowing through whatever obstacles are in her way, as shown by her driving her armored vehicle through numerous cars and other objects in her pursuit of Ethan and Grace during the chase in Rome. Although Paris is a merciless individual, she is someone who repays kindness shown to her, as seen by her saving Ethan's life in the end.
Skills and Abilities[]
- Physical strength and endurance: Despite being a woman, Paris shows enough physical toughness and combat prowess to be able to hold her own in hand-to-hand fights against much larger and stronger male opponents, even being able to overpower multiple opponents at once.
- Close Quarters Combat: Paris is highly skilled at both hand-to-hand and melee fights, able to stand her ground with just her fists and with improvised melee weapons, such as the lead pipe she wields against Ethan.
- Vehicular Maneuverability: Paris demonstrates impressive skill at driving motor vehicles. During the chase in Rome, she was able to expertly steer her armored vehicle while in pursuit of Ethan and Grace, plowing through various obstacles and moving around whatever obstacles she couldn't drive through.
- Beauty: Paris is shown to be a very beautiful and dangerous woman to ever appear in the film series, as she blows kisses to her victims before killing them and making them a heart through glass, only to join Ethan’s team and redeem herself but still remains as a beautiful woman.
Relationships[]
Allies[]
- Impossible Mission Force - Former Enemies turned Teammates
- Ethan Hunt - Former Enemy turned Rescuee
- Grace - Former Enemy turned Rescuee
- Benji Dunn
- Theo Degas
- William Donloe
- Tapeesa
Enemies[]
- Gabriel † - Former Leader turned Traitor and Attempted Killer
- The Entity - Former Ally
- Denlinger †
- Captain Koltsov
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Along with Solomon Lane, White Widow, Zola Mitsopolis, the Entity, and her employer Gabriel, Paris is one of the five villains of the Mission: Impossible film series who appears in more than one film.
- Pom Klementieff was given creative freedom by director Christopher McQuarrie and producer Tom Cruise to develop Paris by building the character around her abilities and anything she brought together through ongoing conversations, allowing her to improvise some of her scenes.
- Reportedly, this also included asking Cruise to kick her in the stomach for real when filming a fight scene, which he refused to do.
- Paris, along with Gabriel, Denlinger and The Entity, are the first villains since Ghost Protocol not to be affiliated with The Syndicate.
- Paris shares her name with the same character, The Great Paris, that Leonard Nimoy played in the 1966 Mission: Impossible TV series.
External Links[]
- Paris on the Mission: Impossible Wiki
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