Teen Superspy: Difference between revisions

Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta15)
No edit summary
(Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta15))
 
(2 intermediate revisions by one other user not shown)
Line 9:
 
Compare [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World]].
{{examples}}
 
{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
 
Line 25:
* The post-''[[Zero Hour]]'' Invisible Kid from ''[[The Legion of Super Heroes]]''.
* ''[[Secret Warriors]]''
 
== RealFan LifeWorks ==
* Any graduate of Harworts or the other national spy academies, or certain "home schooled" teens, in [[The Teraverse]].
 
== Film ==
 
* The title character of ''[[Agent Cody Banks]]''.
* ''[[Spy Kids]]'' (strictlyStrictly speaking, though, they are tween superspies.)
* Michael Corbin from ''[[If Looks Could Kill]]''
* Lance Elliot from ''[[The Double 0 Kid]]''
Line 35 ⟶ 38:
* ''[[D.E.B.S.]]''
* The eponymous ''[[Teen Agent]]''.
* Kim from the [[Live Action Adaptation]] of ''[[Kim Possible]]'' released in 2019.
 
== Literature ==
Line 51 ⟶ 55:
* ''[[Kim]]'' is a moderate example. He starts off in a plausible non-super way as a [[Street Urchin]] who is used by a passing spy to carry messages for him. The only thing super about him is his ability to flawlessly enter every culture in India.
* Phoenix in ''[[Red Handed]]'' is training to be an alien hunter.
* During the [[James Bond]]-inspired '60s superspy craze, Grosset & Dunlap published a hardcover kids' series of the adventures of ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150515054315/http://www.series.net/cool/about.html Christopher Cool, TEEN Agent]''. The Top-secret Educational Espionage Network kept the free world safe from the evil machinations of TOAD.
* ''[[Pygmy]]'' by [[Chuck Palahniuk]] has a group of these as [[Villain Protagonist]]s. They were sent to America by a totalitarian [[Commie Nazis|commie-Nazi]] regime with a mission to destroy the US government.
* The ''[[Alpha Force]]'' series of novels by Chris Ryan has a [[Multinational Team]] of kids who work for a covert agency after being shipwrecked together in the first novel, "Survival".
Line 63 ⟶ 67:
* The yellow ranger of spy-themed ''[[Tokumei Sentai Gobusters]]'' is 16 years old. Her two teammates don't qualify though as they're both aged in their 20s.
* ''[[Aim High]]'', a web series.
 
== Real Life ==
 
* Downplayed. Not exactly "super" but probably quite effective. During [[World War 2]] the [[Emniyet]] (roughly the Turkish FBI) paid shoeshine boys to serve as informers near hotels patronized by foreign diplomats. After all [[Clark Kenting|no one worries about servants.]]
 
== Video Games ==