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Distinct from "[[Tuxedo and Martini]] [[Played for Laughs]]" in that [[Tuxedo and Martini]] is more about [[James Bond]] and the notion of the spy as the suave, evening-dressed, martini-ordering playboy. This trope is about a character who pretends to be a secret agent to assuage the tedium of their day-to-day existence and gets into no end of trouble when they encounter or blunder into the real thing (when combined with [[And You Thought It Was a Game]] and [[Mistaken for Badass]]). The character can actually work for an espionage agency, but as a paper-pusher, informant or some other unimportant thing rather than any kind of "superspy".
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May have some overlap with [[Miles Gloriosus]]. Contrast [[Teen Superspy]], who is an actual child ''and'' an actual super agent.
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