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''D.E.B.S.'' is a 2004 film based on a 2003 short that made the rounds at the film festival circuit. The 2003 short was a silly story about a team of college girl spies and the romantic relationship of one of the spies with the archvillain. The 2004 production expands it into a feature film with a fair dose of camp.

The plot begins with one of the squads being tasked with staking out villainess Lucy Diamond. One member of the squad, Amy has always been fascinated by Lucy Diamond and is even writing a thesis on her. The stake out goes wrong and it ends up turning into a gun fight. Just afterwards, while chasing Lucy, Amy and Lucy end up meeting face to face. Despite holding each other at gunpoint, Lucy and Amy start talking to each other. After a distraction helps Lucy escape, it's revealed that Lucy is starting to really fall for Amy...

 

 

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* [[Affably Evil]]: Lucy

* [[Air Vent Passageway]]

* [[Amazon Brigade]]: The D.E.B.S. as a whole.

* [[Automatic Crossbow]]

** [[Spikes of Doom]]

* [[Designated Victim]]: In the short film the D.E.B.S. are annoyed that Amy keeps getting kidnapped by villainess Lucy In The Sky, unaware that it's all just to cover for their [[Dating Catwoman]] relationship.

'''Ms. Petrie:''' No time for pleasantries. }}

* [[The Ditz]]: Janet ("Have you seen my gun?")

* [[Dogged Nice Guy|Dogged Nice Girl]]: Lucy, even though she's a villain.

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Lucy tries to utilize this trope after Amy leaves:

Lucy: I don't like their attitude. }}

* [[Enter Stage Window]]

* [[Everything Sounds Sexier in French]]: Dominique embodies this trope, with a healthy dose of [[Poirot Speak]].

* [[Fake Nationality]]: Devon Aoki's terrible French accent is something that must be heard to be believed.

* [[Five-Token Band]]: Roger Ebert in his review basically said there is little to tell the main characters apart except for their race.

* [[Foe Yay]]: It's practically the entire plot!

* [[Four-Girl Ensemble]]: The starring D.E.B.S. squad is pretty much a textbook case with promiscuous Dominique, naive Janet, obsessive Max and self searching Amy.

** Strangely enough, everyone refers to individual agents as "a D.E.B.", despite the S standing for something. (Evidently, their strength is in numbers.)

* [[Genre Savvy]]

* [[Girls Love Stuffed Animals]]: Janet's bedroom includes a teddybear which holds her pistol for her.

* [[Hammerspace]]: The suction cups Lucy used to climb up the wall of the D.E.B.S. house.

* [[He Went That Way!]]

* [[Hidden Purpose Test]]: The hidden test in the [[SATs]], and the foundation of the plot.

* [[Hooked Up Afterwards]]: {{spoiler|[[Beta Couple]] Scud and Janet.}}

''Awesome.'' }}

* [[Hot Amazon]]: Max, who draws her gun at the slightest provocation.

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Where Lucy Diamond carries her gun and extra ammo clips when she's wearing skin-tight clothing.

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Max states that Amy (who's in a position she doesn't want or like, and is panicky as hell) doesn't know Formation Alpha Gamma. She might not, but the formation she gave was Alpha ''Kappa'' Gamma.

* [[Innocent Innuendo]]: Inverted in the short film -- the other D.E.B.S. think Amy is being tortured and desperately try to break down a door to free her, but her screams are actually caused by Lucy [[The Immodest Orgasm|bringing her to climax]].

* [[Interrupted Intimacy]]: {{spoiler|The other members of D.E.B.S. burst in on Amy and Lucy in bed together, [[Relationship Reveal|exposing their relationship]].}}

* [[Modesty Bedsheet]]

* [[Moment Killer]]

* [[Montages]]

** [["Falling in Love" Montage]]

* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]

* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: Dominique survives on a black coffee and cigarettes diet.

** He also serves as [[Mr. Exposition]].

* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Scud

* [[Rule of Funny]]

* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: the team's leader Max.

* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]

* [[She Fu]]: Amy's fight with Lucy in Amy's room in the D.E.B.S. house.

* [[She's Got Legs]]: Every member of D.E.B.S.

* [[Shoot Out the Lock]]: While the protagonists are secretly meeting with Lucy Diamond at Endgame, Bobby shoots a padlock that's securing a door leading to their location.

* [[Side Bet]]: After Lucy and Amy [[Almost Kiss]], Janet owes Scud fifty bucks.

* [[Spy School]]

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[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]