And of course, The Bourne Legacy doesn't even have Bourne in it (though that's the 'legacy' part). The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum.

Artifact Title: The Bourne Identity makes sense given the context of the movie.In fact the only major characters to survive the series are Bourne himself and Pamela Landy, and even Landy's fate is still left ambiguous as of the end of Legacy. In Jason Bourne, Nicky Parsons, after having been in the series since the very first one, Identity, finally bites it.Neal Daniels is then set up to be the man who could answer Bourne's questions, but is blown up. In Ultimatum, Simon Ross (played by notable actor Paddy Considine) is set up to be a main character, then efficiently dispatched by an assassin.

Abbott is later exposed as a murderer and traitor and commits suicide. Later, Danny Zorn, Conklin's right-hand man and one of the few surviving Treadstone agents, is murdered by Ward Abbott.

In Supremacy, Marie (a character who survived the entire book series) is suddenly killed during a chase sequence.

In the first film, Conklin is anti-climactically murdered at the end.Anyone Can Die: Several important characters are surprisingly dispatched over the course of the series:.Most significantly, Ward Abbott's equivalent in the books was essentially the Big Good of the first book he's revealed to be a corrupt CIA official in the films. Moreover, Conklin in the books, while playing a similar role as Bourne's Treadstone handler, was a far more sympathetic character who, in the second and third books becomes a close friend and ally of Bourne's, whereas in the film he's portrayed as nothing more than another amoral CIA bureaucrat. In the films on the other hand, he actually was an assassin for the CIA. In the books, Bourne was not really an assassin, but a deep-cover CIA operative posing as one to bring down an assassin. Adaptational Villainy: On multiple levels.

Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Several, including the dialogue with Professor in Identity, Bourne's apology to Irena Neski in Supremacy, and the conversation (rather monologue) with Nicky in Ultimatum.

This series as a whole provides examples of:

The jason bourne movies in sequence