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A comic book written by [[Greg Rucka]] about a group of spies in the Special Operations Section of the SIS called the Minders. The main character is Tara Chace, Minder Two. The series is known for a few things: the ridiculous amount of [[Shown Their Work|research]] Rucka does for each issue, the series [[Spiritual Successor|similarity]] to ''[[The Sandbaggers]]'', and just how realistic the whole thing is.
The first series has finished with 32 issues, three prequel volumes, and three novels. ''Operation: Broken Ground'' was the first published, but chronologically, they go:
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* [[Action Girl]]: Tara Chace.
* [[Action Mom]]: Massive spoiler: {{spoiler|Tara Chace in ''Private Wars''.}}
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* [[Broken Ace]]: Tara is beautiful, witty, and ''very'' good at her (''extremely'' difficult) job. She's also plagued with self-loathing (particularly after being ordered or [[I Did What I Had to Do|feeling compelled]] to commit [[Shoot the Dog|"''horrible'' but oh-so-''necessary''" acts]]) and has absolutely no life outside the job until {{spoiler|her daughter Tamsin is born.}}
* [[Cold Sniper]]: Subverted - Tara is sent to murder a Russian mobster with a sniper rifle. She does the job cleanly and without hesitation, but afterward [[Drowning My Sorrows|drinks heavily]] and engages in other forms of self-abuse.
* [[Dead Guy, Junior]]: {{spoiler|Tara has an affair with Tom in ''A Gentleman's Game'', and she names the resulting child Tamsin, which is a shortened version of ''Thomasina''}}
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Dirty Business]]: All of the Minders are called on to do terrible things; none of them feel good about it. Much of the series shows Tara's resulting self-abuse and struggle with the psychological aftermath. (Ironically, stone-cold killers are the ''last'' thing Crocker wants for agents.)
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* [[Downer Ending]]: A few times, things...don't end well. {{spoiler|A Gentleman's Game ends with Tom Wallace dead. Private Wars ends with the chessmaster of recent atrocities as President of Uzbekistan while Tara has to sacrifice more of her own soul to shoot the vengeful husband of the woman who'd been raped, tortured, and murdered at that President's behest to preserve stability in the region. In front of his own son. Only that her daughter is waiting back home for her gives this a glint of light.}}
* [[Expy]]: The series as a whole has a lot in common with ''[[The Sandbaggers]]'', but most characters are different in various significant ways. ''Most''. Paul Crocker and Tom Wallace are obviously modeled on Neil Burnside and Willie Caine, respectively.
* [[Firing One-Handed]]: And completely impractical, as shown with Russian gangsters.
* [[Fun
* [[Gratuitous French]]: For one issue (#25), Tara and her mother talk almost ''entirely'' in French.
* [[If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...]]: Tara to her mother's fiancé.
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: The Minders often have to make do without knives or firearms, so they've fough with everything from collapsible batons to items from an airport gift shop.
* [[Murphy's Bullet]]
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* [[Spy Fiction]]: Definitely, ''extremely'' in the Stale Beer category.
* [[The Spymaster]]: Paul Crocker, of course. Also Angela Cheng, the CIA Station Chief in London. Paul once jokes that at least a quarter of the staff at Security Services ([[MI 5]]) headquarters is on the CIA payroll. Given Angela's level of knowledge regarding what the Special Section is up to, this may not be entirely a joke.
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* [[There Are No Therapists]]: Averted, there is one (nicknamed "the Madwoman of the Second Floor") but due to the nature of their work, there's little she can do to help agents besides patch them up so they can return to the field and get demolished again...
* [[Funny Background Event|Unfunny Background Event]]: In Morningstar, the in backgrounds of two consecutive panels are a beggar with no hands bothering an agent, and then the same beggar being beaten up by the Taleban.
* [[Weapon of Choice]]: Subverted; Minders are only allowed weapons ''outside'' the UK.
* [[We Will Not Use Photoshop in
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