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** Ivanka was given [[Hair of Gold]] in a re-design.
* [[Animesque]]: The character artwork is done this way by SpyHunter, an American.
* [[Arabian Nights Days]]: The Altair base evokes this trope. However, although it is based in Iran (as was the real [[
* [[Author Appeal]]: How else do you explain the contortion scenes in Episode III?
** Or the Psychics. Or the spies. Or almost everything about it. [[Doing It for
* [[Bishounen]]: Boris Rubanenko, Daisuke Midori, and Nikolai Kitano, to name a few.
** Alec Langley could fit into this, but it's a bit of a stretch because [[Evil Is Sexy]].
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* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Boris takes over Khina's mind from afar to have her assassinate Elodie. {{spoiler|She fails.}}
* [[Brother-Sister Team]]: Subverted - Ivanka is working against her brother Boris.
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Psychics do this sometimes, often in their native language. For example, the call for Boris's Blood Rose attack is "''Krov' roza''", [[Bilingual Bonus|which in fact is Russian for]] [[Exactly What It Says
** And, of course, Michiru and Daisuke [[Gratuitous Japanese|call out their Ninjutsu attacks in Japanese,]] ''[[Naruto]]''-style.
* [[Camp Gay]]: Nikolai and Claude, although they're only bisexual.
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** [[Gay Paree]]: Elodie lives in Marseille, on the southern Mediterranean coast of France, and has only been to Paris for a circus festival.
** [[Glorious Mother Russia]]: Boris and Nikolai call each other "comrade" ("Comrade Alec" is becoming something of a [[Catch Phrase]] for the former) and have ties to the Red Army / KGB, but that's about it.
** [[Olive Garden]]: Fiona Marino (who is not scheduled to appear in the story until Episode V) lives in an uncommonly used part of Italy: the Isle of Capri. And unlike what this trope would have you believe, [[Heroes Want Redheads|she is a redhead]] (but then again, [[Thunderball
** [[Oktoberfest]]: West Germany, as depicted in Episode I, looks and feels remarkably similar to any old Western-world place. As is the disco scene (this is [[The Seventies]], after all). Of course, Ivanka and Boris defected here from the Soviet Union.
** [[Qurac]]: The [[
*** Also, the Altair base, although it is technically under the control of the Soviet Union / Omega Order.
*** Bonus points since the actual [[
** [[Tokyo Is the Center of
*** Also, Nikolai was born and raised in rural Hokkaido before defecting to Russia.
* [[Hot Scientist]]: Wendy Blume.
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* [[Identical Grandson|Identical Son]]: Alec and Jake were so similar at first, but this was changed when Jake was given a little beard.
* [[Intercontinuity Crossover]]: SpyHunter's crossover fanfics with [[Totally Spies]]. Contains copious amounts of [[Take That]].
* [[It Is Pronounced "Tro
** For those unfamiliar with Persian / Arabic, "Kh" is a glottal sound, like the "Ch" in German or Hebrew, or the "J" in Spanish. It is not (commonly) found in English... [[Lampshade Hanging|Or French... Or Japanese.]]
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Especially when it's the detonator for a bunch of exploding throwing stars.
* [[Karaoke Box]]
* [[Magic
* [[Marshmallow Hell]]: Happens to Alec by Khina in the Episode I Bonus chapter.
* [[Meganekko]]: Wendy Blume.
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* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Artemis Gilliam is an [[Expy]] of [[American Idol|Simon Cowell]]. He even judges a karaoke contest at one point.
* [[No One Could Survive That]]: {{spoiler|Boris being pinned down by a truck and riddled with a full clip of AK bullets. Yet being a Psychic, he survived the whole thing.}}
* [[Not Distracted
** Or Khina during their first encounter(s).
* [[Paid Harem]]: The Altair base. And on a small scale, Gabriel Garnett.
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* [[Psychic Powers]]: Many of the villains - and some of the allies - are Psychics, and demonstrate all manner of powers.
** Even [[Ninja|ninjas]] are Psychics, in a sense. Alec makes the connection that "''ninjutsu'' is probably some variation on the whole psychic philosophy".
* [[Rape
* [[Recycled in Space]]: It's [[James Bond]]... with [[Psychic Powers|Psychics]].
** The plot for Episode II also draws many comparisons to [[
* [[Redhead in Green]]: [[Inverted]] by Aika Akagi, who has [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|green hair]] and a red [[Spy Catsuit]].
* [[Renegade Russian]]: Boris Rubanenko. Officially, he pledges alleigance to the Soviet Union. {{spoiler|However, in Episode I he plans to nuke the West AND East indiscriminately, so that both sides will be weak enough for a Psychic takeover.}}
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** {{spoiler|Turns out it ''was'' senseless after all. You can imagine Alec's surprise when he saw Boris alive two years later.}}
* [[Shameless Self Promotion]]: [[Tropers/Spy Hunter 29|the author himself started this page]].
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Spy Fiction]]: Martini, more so in Episode III than the first two. [[Psychic Powers|With eye of newt.]]
* [[Suck My Rose]]: Boris's 'Blood Rose' attack. Which involves killing the victim ''by teleporting it into his/her heart''.
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