Category:Espionage Tropes

Tropes about spies or the process of spying, or that are endemic to Spy Fiction.

See also:
 * Big Brother Is Watching This Index (Real Life Espionage Agencies)
 * Disguise Tropes
 * Distraction Tropes
 * Spy Literature

Tropes

 * Agent Provocateur
 * "Alone With Prisoner" Ploy
 * And Some Other Stuff
 * Backwards-Firing Gun
 * Bluff the Eavesdropper
 * The Book Cipher
 * Briefcase Blaster
 * Checkpoint Charlie (AKA Border Crossing)
 * Chekhov's Skill
 * CIA Evil, FBI Good
 * City of Spies
 * Clipboard of Authority
 * Cloak and Dagger
 * Conspicuously Public Assassination
 * Cover Identity Anomaly
 * Deadly Delivery
 * Deep-Cover Agent
 * Double Agent
 * Double Reverse Quadruple Agent
 * Duel of Seduction
 * Fake Defector
 * False-Flag Operation
 * Fast Roping
 * Feed the Mole
 * Flock of Wolves
 * Gadget Watches
 * Get Into Jail Free
 * Goggles Do Something Unusual (aka. Spy Glasses)
 * Government Agency of Fiction
 * The Handler
 * Heel Face Mole
 * Hidden Wire
 * Honey Trap
 * Imminent Danger Clue
 * I Never Told You My Name
 * Incredibly Obvious Bug
 * Incredibly Obvious Tail
 * The Infiltration
 * Infraction Distraction
 * Involuntary Suicide Mechanism
 * Leave No Witnesses
 * Literal Surveillance Bug
 * Loose Lips
 * Manchurian Agent
 * Master of Disguise
 * Mata Hari
 * Mission Impossible Cable Drop
 * Mistaken for Spies
 * The Mole
 * Mole in Charge
 * Moscow Centre
 * Mr. Smith
 * Mugged for Disguise
 * Not My Driver
 * Overt Operative
 * Overt Rendezvous
 * Play-Along Prisoner
 * Prisoner Exchange
 * Ransacked Room
 * Reading the Enemy's Mail
 * Red Herring Mole
 * Resignations Not Accepted
 * Reverse Mole
 * Rogue Agent (AKA Renegade Operation)
 * Room Disservice
 * Run for The Border
 * Shoe Phone
 * Sinister Surveillance
 * Smithical Marriage
 * Spies in A Van
 * Spotting the Thread
 * Spy Catsuit
 * Spy Couple
 * Spy Fiction
 * Spy From Weights and Measures (aka Front Organisation)
 * Spy Satellites
 * Spy School
 * Spy Ship
 * Spy Speak
 * Spy's Suspicious Spouse
 * Spy Tux Reveal
 * Spy-Versus-Spy
 * The Spymaster
 * Stealth Expert
 * Stealthy Colossus
 * Surveillance As the Plot Demands
 * Talking Through Technique
 * Teen Superspy
 * Ten Little Murder Victims
 * This Page Will Self-Destruct
 * Time Travelers Are Spies
 * Totally Not a Spy
 * Tracking Device
 * Tree Cover
 * Trigger Phrase
 * Undercover As Lovers
 * Wannabe Secret Agent
 * We Do Not Know Each Other