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{{quote|''"Shaken, not stirred, will get you cold water with a dash of [[Did Not Do the Research|gin]] and dry vermouth. The reason you stir it with a special spoon is so not to chip the ice. [[James Bond|James]] is ordering a weak martini and being snooty about it."''|'''President Bartlet''', ''[[The West Wing]]'' <ref>Bartlet has forgotten that James orders ''vodka'' martinis</ref>}}
Everyone knows this character. He wears a tuxedo with a small [[Bow Ties Are Cool|Bowtie (which Is Cool)]], a martini in one hand ([[Drink Order|shaken, not stirred]], naturally) and a Walther PPK in the other. Announcing himself as "[[Surname First Name Surname|Surname... Forename Surname]]", he engages in witty [[Double Entendre]] speak with busty high society women that leads into the bedroom. And just in case he finds himself in a particularly hopeless situation, he'll have a gadget hidden in his cuff links that will allow him to defeat the [[
The character that should have immediately come to mind with that description is, of course, [[James Bond]]. However, while Bond has definitely popularized many of these aspects, most [[Shallow Parody|Shallow Parodies]] out there can't seem to find anything beyond the above paragraph to make fun of (They also seem to miss that Bond typically wore situation-appropriate attire during field work).
Contractually guaranteed to show up in ''everything'' that has to do with secret agents from ~1963 onwards. Exceptions are almost noteworthy in their own right, although there is the alternative trope of "Stale Beer flavour" [[Spy Fiction]].
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* The movie ''[[XXX]]'' was essentially one big [[Take That]] against this trope, and opened with one such agent being easily tracked down and killed because his tux stood out in the heavy metal concert he tried to escape through. Then used again where Darius had to dress up as a waiter at a party. The disguise works well enough to hide him amongst a lot of other guys when they were on to him.
* Even the [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] films occasionally have their fun with this.
** Take ''[[Goldfinger]]'', where after Bond has snuck in to a drug factory in a <s>wetsuit</s> drysuit and blown it up. He comes out of the water, removes the
** In ''[[Casino Royale]]'' a waiter asks Bond how he wants his martini, but... if he has a vodka-martini, his drink should be shaken and never stirred. If he has a gin-martini, his drink should be stirred and never shaken. Bond doesn't call him on it, despite the fact that he should be an expert.
{{quote|''Bond: I'll have a martini''
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* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''. Bashir likes to run a holosuite program that enables him to basically BE the film James Bond. "Bashir, Julian Bashir." He also specifies his martinis "stirred, not shaken" to invert Bond's usual drink order. [[Lampshaded Trope]] all the way by Garak's constant snarking about it, when he was along for one run of the program ([[Holodeck Malfunction|When something weird happened, of course]]). Despite the presence of an honest to goodness secret agent in the program, Bashir ignores him because he's playing James Bond, and is not in an actual covert operation, and the two play by different rules.
{{quote|'''Garak''' (on having it explained to him that the decadent living and [[Bond Girl
* Parodied in ''[[That Mitchell and Webb Look]]'' with 'Agent Suave', who has a ''[[Casino Royale]]''-style adventure in a high-stakes casino where all the games are typical village fete things like 'guessing the weight of a fruitcake' and 'whack the rat'.
{{quote|'''M [[Expy]]:''' And, Suave... good luck.
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* Good Hitler in ''[[Goats]]'', e.g. [http://www.goats.com/archive/080826.html here]. Note tuxedo, martini; the "last, first last" introduction may not have been included, though. In fact there's an entire Good Hitler franchise in the Goats verse, replacing not only Bond flicks ("Die and Die Again", "Death Never Lives Twice", "Quantum of Hitlers"), but almost every other known movie ("Good Hitler vs. Space Hitler", "The Search for Good Hitler").
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'': In December
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' example: "Double-O Dale." Both Dale and his role model Dirk Suave are depicted in
* [[The Lancer|Derek Blunt]] on ''[[Darkwing Duck]].'' Although he dresses and acts to fit the Bond stereotype, Blunt unusually eschews gadgets and tricks in favor of realistic spy work.
* One episode of ''[[Re Boot]]'' spoofed this type of character with "Matrix, Enzo Matrix", as well as ''[[Wacky Races]]''.
* ''[[Archer]]'', a total [[Jerkass]] secret agent with massive mother issues, lives the
** [[Insistent Terminology|"Tactleneck!"]]
* ''Phineas & Ferb'': "Elementary, My Dear Stacy" takes place in England. Because of a prior incident with the union, Agent P works with Agent Double-O O. The latter takes hours to burn through a manacle, while Agent P simply gets the key off a table.
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