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{{trope}}
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A hero with all of the style, panache and gadgetry of [[James Bond]], the
▲{{quote|''"He's not a child! He's a lethal weapon!"''|'''Army major''', ''[[Alex Rider (Literature)|Stormbreaker]]''}}
The
▲A hero with all of the style, panache and gadgetry of [[James Bond]], the [[Teen Superspy]] exists to save the world (or maybe just the kids) from megalomaniacs bent on world domination. And he'll do it all without being old enough to have a martini. Or drive. And he'll still have to find time to do his homework.
▲The [[Teen Superspy]] is the [[Improbable Age|implausibly young]] agent of secret agency. Perhaps she's been [[Tyke Bomb|trained from birth]] for this role. Perhaps she's carrying the legacy of a missing or dead parent. Perhaps the government figures no one will suspect children of being secret agents. Perhaps they were just in the wrong place at the right time. Whatever the case, expect them to have [[Shoe Phone|an arsenal of high-tech spy gadgets disguised as typical teen paraphernalia]].
▲Compare [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save The World]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* [[Archie Comics]] examples:
** At the height of the spy craze in the 60s, Archie published stories about "The Man from R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E.", featuring Archie and his pals as secret agents.
** More recently Betty and Veronica have appeared as "Agents B & V", clad in the requisite [[Spy Catsuit
* The post-''[[Zero Hour]]'' Invisible Kid from ''[[The Legion of Super Heroes]]''.
* ''[[Secret Warriors]]''
== Fan Works ==
* 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]]'' (
* Michael Corbin from ''[[If Looks Could Kill]]''
* Lance Elliot from ''[[The Double 0 Kid]]''
* The children in ''[[Catch That Kid]]''
* ''[[
* The eponymous ''[[Teen Agent]]''.
* Kim from the [[Live Action Adaptation]] of ''[[Kim Possible]]'' released in 2019.
== Literature ==
* [[Alex Rider]]. He was secretly trained from
** And in the third book, we learn that the CIA tried to do the same thing and failed miserably, with their teen super-spy getting killed almost immediately on his first mission. Alex succeeds because he is just very, very good at what he does, and very, very, ''very'' lucky.
* The ''[[CHERUB]]'' series of novels. CHERUB tries a lot harder to be realistic than most other versions of
* The ''[[Spy High]]'' series of novels
* [[The Gallagher Girls]]'' book series trains teenage girls to be spies.
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** He is definitely a wrong-place/wrong-time variant. His first 'mission' started out as a vacation after washing out of the local Barrayaran military acadamy and he only contacted his government ''after'' they filed treason charges over the whole Private Army Thing.
* Alianne in the ''[[Tortall]]'' series is a borderline example. While she is {{spoiler|the spymaster for a very successful [[La Résistance|rebellion]] and later government,}} she has this as her main job (she's 17), lacks any special gadgets (Medieval society) and [[Shown Their Work|relies on traditional, entirely un-flashy techniques,]] like [[Feed the Mole|feeding the mole]] and carefully asking questions. So, while she is indeed a teenager and a very capable spy, [[Subverted Trope|she isn't working the way we'd expect her to at all.]]
* [[James Bond]] has a whole series of ''[[Young Bond]]'' novels about him as a
** He only acts as an official spy in the final novel ''By Royal Command''.
* [[
* ''[[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
* 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".
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* Benjamin "Beans" Baxter, Jr from ''[[The New Adventures Of Beans Baxter]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[
* The 9-year-old lead character in ''[[Joe 90]]''.
* The yellow ranger of spy-themed ''[[
* ''[[Aim High]]'', a web series.
== Video Games ==
* Raz becomes this at the end of ''[[
* {{spoiler|Sakazaki Yuuya}} in ''[[Hatoful Boyfriend]]'' turns out to be one investigating {{spoiler|Dr. Iwamine Shuu and the Hawk Party}}. If the player completes his route, the heroine runs away with him and it's implied that they become partners.
== Web Comics ==
* Teen [[Gender Bender|T-Girl]] Cookie Jarr is one of ''[[Jet Dream (
* ''[http://spy6teen.com Spy6teen]'' features sixteen year old, Cally Calhoon, who works for a hi-tech government agency called MK Black between classes.
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* ''[[Kim Possible]]'' (she's a freelancer but otherwise fits the trope)
* ''[[Totally Spies!]]''
* ''[[The Amazing Spiez]]''
* ''[[James Bond Jr.]]''
* ''Princess Natasha''
* ''[[Kids Next Door]]''
** Point of order: the Kids Next Door, strictly speaking, are tweens. [[Teens Are Monsters|They consider actual teenagers the enemy.]]
* ''[[Grossology]]''
* ''[[Butch Cassidy and
* ''[[
* ''[[Mary Kate and Ashley In Action]]''. No, really.
* ''[[Invisible Network of Kids]]''
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