Spies
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| Synonyms: | Secret Agents | |
| Related: | Assassins, Hitmen | |
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Spies, Secret Agents, Assassins, and Hitmen are fairly popular as canon elements for books, television series, films, etc., and they are a quite popular trope, especially for AUs, in fanfiction and other fanworks.
Many fans have remarked on the fact that canon that revolves around spies seems less likely to generate an active fandom than science fiction or crime dramas, even though many crime dramas do feature what amounts to intelligence work. (See NCIS: LA for example.) Nonetheless, many individual works about spies, particularly spy tv shows, have had active fandoms.
Spy canons range from Spy-Fi (campy 1960s spy fiction with science fiction elements) to extremely dark, gritty attempts at a realistic portrayal of intelligence work such as Spooks, with other examples like I Spy somewhere in the middle.
Canon Examples
Some spy shows and other media that have had active fandoms include:
- Alias
- Burn Notice
- Chuck
- Covert Affairs
- James Bond
- I Spy
- La Femme Nikita (in its various incarnations)
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- Spooks (a.k.a. MI-5 outside the U.K.)
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Spy and Assassin AU Fanwork Examples
- Hawaii Five-0: Set Fire to This Card House by zarah5. Steve/Danny spyfic AU.
- Stargate Atlantis: The Universe Is Not Enough by trinityofone. Crackfic in which Rodney is a secret agent.
- SGA: Judas Doesn't Answer by Auburn. SG-1 comes to Atlantis to hunt a spy.
- Supernatural RPF: Someone You Might Have Been by fleshflutter. J2 spyfic AU.
- {needs more examples}
