20 Things You Didn't Know About Mission Impossible 2

7. Greek Mythology

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So the plot of MI2 mainly revolves around a biological weapon called Chimera and its antidote Bellerophone. You may think that these are just random, cool sounding names but they were specifically chosen.

Chimera refers to a monster from Greek mythology, described as a fire-breathing lion with a goat's head coming out of its back and snake's head on its tailend and Bellerophone refers to the hero who slayed it.

It's nice little nod to the mythology but ts a shame that more thought went into naming the two macguffins then the rest of the plot.

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