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* [[Awesome Music]]: [[Jerry Goldsmith]] did the show's theme (and three episode scores).

* [[Badass Decay]]: Heroes Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin are sometimes subject to plot dependent [[Badass Decay]], when necessary. E.g., in the third act of the third season episode, "The Five Daughters Affair, Part II", Solo and Kuryakin fight THRUSH's "karate killers" ( {{spoiler|who despite that name (as given in the credits) do very little actual killing in the episode}}) for about the sixth time in this two-part adventure. Despite holding their own in several earlier fights with the karate killers, in this scene Solo and Kuryakin completely lose whatever fighting skills they've demonstrated earlier, and are straightaway handed their asses by the THRUSH "killers" in mere seconds. This is necessary, of course, to set up the fourth act's climax and resolution (therefore "plot dependent").

** Paired in that episode with plot dependent [[Took a Level In Badass]]; during the fourth act's climax/resolution, Solo and Kuryakin beat up on the karate killers even more easily than they themselves were beaten up on in the previous act (though it's arguable that the karate killers were subject to plot dependent [[Badass Decay]] vice Solo and Kuryakin receiving a plot dependent boost in skill).

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Illya Kuryakin.

* [[Estrogen Brigade]]: Coalesced around Illya Kuryakin/David McCallum.

** The sequence when, according to plan, a drunken Donfield (played by Shatner) wanders around an embassy reception, rattling off nonsense, and stumbles into Vladek (played by Nimoy) becomes a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].

* [[Ho Yay]]:

*** "At least we still have each other."

** In The Virtue Affair, at a threat to Napoleon, Illya's lower lip actually wibbles before he gives up to save Solo's life.

 

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