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{{quote|''"He's not a child! He's a lethal weapon!"''|'''Army major''', ''[[Alex Rider|Stormbreaker]]''}}
A hero with all of the style, panache and gadgetry of [[James Bond]], the
The
Compare [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World]].
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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]]''
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== 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''.
* [[Artemis Fowl]] is one, albeit self-employed. No government agencies for him - Artemis has the style and the gadgets. Juliet is another, and even joins a SWAT team in ''The Eternity Code''.
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* 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 ''[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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** Point of order: the Kids Next Door, strictly speaking, are tweens. [[Teens Are Monsters|They consider actual teenagers the enemy.]]
* ''[[Grossology]]''
* ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids]]'':
* ''[[Bruno the Kid]]''. Partially subverted in that his employing agency thought he was an adult, due to his using an avatar when communicating with them.
* ''[[Mary Kate and Ashley In Action]]''. No, really.
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