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A recurring cartoon feature in ''[[Mad]]'' magazine, originally created by the Cuban exile Antonio Prohías. As the title implies, it is about two spies, Black and White, who constantly try to outdo (usually read as: "kill") each other with varying levels of success. Sometimes a plan goes off without a hitch, sometimes the other Spy has a hidden countermeasure that makes everything blow up in their faces (literally, whenever possible). Occasionally, a female Grey Spy would show up to do them both in.
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There are a small set of different games based on the series, the first being the most ported of all of them.
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* [[Acme Products]]: These often pop up in Kuper's strips.
* [[Animated Adaptation]]: For MAD TV sketches. They follow the scripts of various strips to the letter most of the time.
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* [[Cartoon Bomb]]: Regularly deployed by both spies.
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: The first gag had both spies trying to poison each other. ''Neither one died''!
* [[Cheated Angle]]: The Spies' heads are almost never shown from the front, but it does happen from time to time. (See the page image for [[This Is Going to Suck]] for an example.)
* [[Chocolate Baby]]: In one of the little mini-comics you'll find permeating the margins of Mad Magazine, White Spy arrives home to find his obviously pregnant wife Grey Spy knitting a little black spy suit.▼
** Of course in the first place BOTH Spies' skin are the same color. You never hear about the Red and Blue spies being "Racist". ▼
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Occasionally the spies will reuse previous plans with new twists.
* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: The strip's been running in color since 2001, but many depictions and animations of the Spies still portray them in a monochrome world.
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* [[Gambit Pileup]]
* [[Gambit Roulette]]: A particularly notable example is the black spy staging his own decommissioning from his embassy in an elaborate scheme to kill the white spy.
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* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: Happens often, usually thanks to one of the spies tinkering with the other's trap.
* [[I Know You Know I Know]]: Too many times to count.
* [[Instrument of Murder]]: Weapons disguised as musical instruments occur a few times.
* [[Live Action Adaptation]]: In a series of [https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22spy+vs+spy%22+mountain+dew+commercials Mountain Dew commercials] starting in 2004.
* [[Ludicrous Gibs]]: Prohias wasn't shy about drawing shoes, hats, and dentures flying all over the place after an explosion. Later comics began to graphically illustrate heavy wounds, once Peter Kuper took over.
* [[Maximum Capacity Overload]]: Deliberately done in one comic, with White tricking Black into carrying several 1000-pound weights on an elevator (he thinks they are White's secret plans).
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* [[Xylophone Gag]]: In a rare example of the trope working, White Spy rigs a piano to squirt nitro glycerin into Black Spy's mouth when he pushes certain keys. Boom.
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: It is exceptionally easy to bait the AI into your traps. Even on hard and/or the last level(s) of the game.
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