Modesty Blaise (comic strip): Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"The most complex, sophisticated, skilled and intelligent of all [[Action Girl|action heroines]]."''|'''Jennifer K. Stuller''', author of ''Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology''}}

 

 

The comic strip had an open [[And the Adventure Continues...]] type ending.

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* [[Accidental Kidnapping]]: Willie is kidnapped in "Milord" when he is mistaken for Guido Biganzoli.

* [[Action Dress Rip]]: Modesty's skirts are designed to tear away, leaving her legs free for action.

* [[Gladiator Games]]: "Those About to Die"

* [[Gladiator Revolt]]: "Those About to Die"

* [[Heroic Neutral]]

* [[Hollywood Silencer]]: Just about every time somebody shows up in the comic strip with a silenced handgun, it's a revolver. Attaching a silencer to a revolver doesn't do much.

* [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game]]: "The Killing Ground"

* [[I Have Your Wife]]: In "Samantha and the Cherub", Lucy Kolin, the wife of Soviet musician who defected to the West, is kidnapped. Her husband is told to renounce his defection and return to the USSR if he ever wants to see her again.

* [[Improvised Weapon]]: At least [[Once an Episode]]

* [[Ironic Nickname]]: Her mentor started calling her "Modesty" as a joke.

* [[Lady of War]]: Modesty

* [[Latex Perfection]]: In "Butch Cassidy Rides Again", the gang uses latex masks to make themselves appear identical to the Hole-In-The-Wall Gang.

* [[Milkman Conspiracy]]: The secretary/spies in "The Head Girls"

* [[More Expendable Than You]]: Whenever a caper requires Modesty to put her life on the line, Willie asks if he can't do it instead.

* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: The Boote brothers in "The Wicked Gnomes"

* [[Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty]]

* [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee]]

* [[Unwanted Rescue]]: In "The Vanishing Dollybirds", Modesty and Willy set out to break a white slavery ring. However, at the end, it turns out that the girl they originally set out to rescue is perfectly happy as a member of the sheik's harem. Unfortunately they don't learn this until several people - including the woman's sister - are killed.

 

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[[Category:The Sixties]]

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