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(Only crime that's unusual enough to attract their interest, though -- or nasty or personal enough to attract their anger.)
 
Occasional attempts to adapt the series to film or television have ended badly. [[Modesty Blaise (Filmfilm)|The 1966 film directed by Joseph Losey]] is particularly notorious. More successful was a sequence of [[Modesty Blaise (Literaturenovel)|novels and short story collections]], all written by O'Donnell.
 
The comic strip had an open [[And the Adventure Continues...]] type ending.
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=== The comic strip includes examples of: ===
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* [[Affectionate Nickname]]: To Willie, Modesty is always "Princess." It's a sign of respect as well as affection.
* [[All Bikers Are Hells Angels]]: "Samantha and the Cherub"
* [[And the Adventure Continues...]]
* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: Count Orlando Smythe in "The Balloonatic"
* [[As the Good Book Says...]]: Willie can supply a quotation from the Book of Psalms to fit any situation. He once spent a year in an Indian prison with nothing to read except a psalter and so he has all of the psalms memorised.
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* [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]: ''All the time''. They often have good reason to, though; they know that if they kill Modesty, Willie will hunt them down and kill them (or vice versa). Because of this, villains tend to want to kill them both at the same time.
* [[The Caper]]
* [[Chained to Aa Railway]]: In "Sweet Caroline", one of the attention getting murders committed by Sweet Caroline is to drug a famous actress and tie her to a railway track like a heroine from an old-time melodrama.
* [[Cold War]]
* [[Comic Book Fantasy Casting]]: Willie's appearance is based on [[Michael Caine]].
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* [[Diabolical Mastermind]]: Gabriel
* [[Disability Superpower]]: Recurring character Dinah Collier is blind and psychic.
* [[Distracted Byby the Sexy]]: Most notably with the use of The Nailer, a trick in which Modesty enters the scene of battle topless, distracting the male thugs for a few seconds, which are often enough for she and Willie to get the upper hand. Although developed for the novels, the Nailer was eventually introduced into the comic strip, too.
* [[The Ditz]]: Aniela
* [[Double Standard]]: Averted; both protagonists routinely take lovers. Willie more than Modesty, admitted. By the last arcs in the strip, Modesty has several old flames who she routinely cycles between, with all parties involved aware of the others. Willie, on the other hand, has a lot of flings and one-night stands, with Maude Tiller (and in the book version, Lady Janet Gillam) as the recurring love interest.
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=== Adaptations with their own trope pages include: ===
 
* ''[[Modesty Blaise (Filmfilm)]]'' (the 1966 movie)
* ''[[Modesty Blaise (Literaturenovel)]]'' (the novel and its sequels)
 
=== Other adaptations include examples of: ===
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