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* [[Alas, Poor Scrappy]]: The shot of {{spoiler|the dead Francie, after the double takes over}} is heartbreaking.

* [[Complete Monster]]: Dr. Lee and Sloan.

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Sark was supposed to be a one-off character, a gofer for K-Directorate or Irina or the Alliance. Fan reaction to David Anders was so great that he became more and more high-profile, eventually taking over the [[Big Bad]] mantle {{spoiler|in the series finale flash-forward}}.

** "Suit and Glasses" was the character's official name until his real name was given a few seasons later.

** Jack Bristow is also often referred to as "Spy Daddy" by fans.

** Once {{spoiler|Francie}} was killed, and her identity assumed by an identical imposter, she went by the name {{spoiler|Evil!Francie}} or {{spoiler|[[Terminator|The Francinator]]}}.

* [[Foe Yay]]: A rare, ''married couple'' example - Jack and Irina. Syd/Sark and Syd/Anna also fall under this category.

** Weiss and Vaughn were also a very popular pairing. Check out the below exchange for proof:

'''Weiss''': Well, something's going on. No man naturally smells as good as you do right now. }}

*** And Jack and Weiss. And Jack and Will. And Jack and Vaughn. And Vaughn and Will. And Will and Sark. It really got ridiculous.

** Dr. Brezzel's assistant, Kaya, looked at Sydney (and everybody else for that matter) like she wanted to tear her clothes off.

** The end of S3/start of S4 was the sharkjump. They show had gone off the rails because of the utter failure of Abrams and Co. to cope with the absence of Lena Olin (not her fault, theirs), and they tried to reboot the show, more ot less recreating season one with a new SD-6 under Arvin Sloane. The broke continuity, rewrote Rambaldi's prophecies, scrambled characterizations around, and stumbled around in search of a plot. This whole thing was SUCH a huge insult to WSOD that the writers often Lampshaded it themselves, especially through the rational, accurate assessment of the Arvin Cloane character, who points out aloud the sheer absurdity of the idea that Sydney and Dixon would be willing to work with Arvin Sloane at all after the things he'd done to their loved ones.

*** Things went off the rails in Season Three, but not irreparably. The show could still have recovered if the producers and writers had simply done the rational thing and written Irina out of the show. Granted her fan base would have howled, but the absence of Lena Olin meant they could not be satisfied anyway.

** Many fans blamed this on JJ Abrams shifting his focus to ''[[Lost]]'', which premiered around the beginning of ''Alias'''s 4th season.

* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: The show had many, many memorable guest stars.

* [[Retroactive Recognition]]:

** Ron Rifkin is now known for playing [[Brothers and Sisters|Saul Holden]].

** David Anders went on to play [[Heroes|Adam Monroe]] and [[The Vampire Diaries|John Gilbert]].

** Lauren.

** Marshall can be very funny and an integral part of the show, but his constant awkward yammering and Sloane/Jack/Dixon/Sydney/Vaughn/etc yelling "Marshall, get on with it!" got very, very annoying.

* [[Seasonal Rot]]: Some say this of Season 3, 4 and/or 5.

* [[Shipping]]: Sydney/Vaughn was [[Fan-Preferred Couple|extremely prominent]], followed closely by Sydney/Sark, Vaughn/Sark, and Jack/Irina.

** The scene between Jack Bristow and Elsa Caplan in Season 2's "Endgame." <ref>Elsa Caplan is a Russian spy who was tasked with marrying scientist Neil Caplan. Thinking she is as duplicitous as Irina Derevko, Jack spits insults at her, eventually promising that she will "never see [her] child again." Elsa shouts "Don't you dare take my son away from me! Don't you dare--!" before bursting into tears. It's heartbreaking and very real, and Jack is stricken speechless by his realization that she deeply cares for both her husband and child</ref>.

** Emily Sloane: The scene in "Almost Thirty Years" where she drinks the wine, her {{spoiler|betrayal of Sloane, then her almost-escape and death scene}} in "Truth Takes Time" and the scene in "In Dreams" when {{spoiler|Jacqueline's death is revealed}}.

* [[Villain Decay]]: One of the saddest things about season five is how it reduces Irina from a woman with complex loyalties and even more complex motivations to a simple [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] [[Evil Matriarch]]. Most definitely a point of [[Fanon Discontinuity]]; Irina's storyline ''really'' ends when Jack lets her walk away at the end of "Before the Flood".

* [[Villain Sue]]: Kelly Peyton

** Wait... Sonia Braga is supposed to be {{spoiler|''Russian''}}?

*** So was Isabella Rossellini.

* [[The Woobie]]: Sydney and Nadia. Especially Nadia.

 

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