Amnesiac Dissonance: Throughout the series, he's horrified to learn what a merciless killer he was.Marie used to try to help me remember the names. Swiss Bank Account: In The Bourne Identity, the only clue he has to his identity in the beginning is the details of a Swiss numbered bank account.Bourne is the chameleon, the killing machine, the beast on a short leash. So Webb is the loving husband the history professor, the man who mourns his past. Neither is a particularly happy soul, given that the former was the deep cover creation of a man who was a merciless killer after the latter lost his whole family to an anonymous air raid in Vietnam and went into the jungles as a merciless anti-VC weapon in a deeply black ops program. Split Personality: Beginning with the second book, we have the contrast between Bourne and Webb.However, his memory loss does not affect his combat skills in the slightest. Never-Forgotten Skill: Jason Bourne is introduced with having amnesia.See also The Day of the Jackal, another espionage thriller and resulting films where Carlos supposedly got his nickname. Master of Disguise: Bourne's story was influenced by real-life 20th-century assassin Carlos "The Jackal", who was infamous for his ability to blend in and elude the authorities.
The point behind this myth is to insult Carlos the Jackal and force him into the open to confront Bourne. He does not assassinate anyone he just takes credit for prolific assassinations, which real murderers happily let him. False Flag Operation: The whole point of Jason Bourne, at least in the original Ludlum books.Subverted after he discovers that he's not really an assassin, but rather, a deep-cover agent posing as one. But in the first three-fourths or so of Identity, Bourne exhibits this since he believes he is a contract killer. Amnesiac Dissonance: Not as much as the film version.
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