History ComicBook / Spyboy

* ArtShift: During the middle of the Marispan affair (or the beginning of the Bet Your Life arc) the art changes from anime-style to something out of [[Comicbook/{{Hellboy}} Mike Mignola's]] mind and back again.

[[caption-width-right:157:You'll be seeing a lot [[FanService of this]].]]

--> "I am... your ''mother''--"
--> ''(Next issue):'' "--'s sister."

* ChangelingFantasy: Alex wishes at the beginning for one to escape his crappy school life until he realizes how brutal the espionage world really is. [[spoiler:For Butch it's to escape the living hell that is his family life... it never truly sticks]].

* CliffHanger: ''Final Exam'', and with it the entire series, ends this way. [[spoiler: [=SpyBoy=] is incriminated as a terrorist alongside his father and their gang, Anita is discovered, Lori shows she was a also a spy all along and offers a very [[EmptyPromise dubious]] offer to Alex while he's suffering an existential crisis, and the last page is Spyboy being torn between Anita and his dad, promising they can start a new life together]]. It is either the most epic or the most sadistic ending you would ever see.

* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler:[=SpyGirl=]]] during [=SpyBoy=]'s "Manga Affair" and [[spoiler: Alex's mother to Butch's mother]].
* DeepCoverAgent: [[spoiler: Both Anita and Lori are discovered or otherwise lose their fake identities at the end]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Say what you will about Gila's ruthlessness, but [[spoiler: she has a soft spot for orphans and shed tears hearing Butch's family life]].
* EvilMatriarch: [[spoiler:Butch's mom was a physical and emotional abuser]].

* FanService: As the cheesecake cover of [=SpyGirl=] above indicates, the series had plenty of this. Bombshell had her own version of that same cover, and then there's the various [[FemmeFatale femme fatales]] [=SpyBoy=] comes up against.

* GoodFeelsGood: Butch and [[spoiler: Anita, both times]].

* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler: Butch doesn't care Anita is not his real mother; she is the only person who has ever gave a crap about him]].

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Amusingly enough, in the comic book crossover between [=SpyBoy=] and Comicbook/YoungJustice, Robin actually asks [=SpyBoy=]'s team if they indeed took the Stormtrooper Marksmanship course — never realizing that HE was also displaying Stormtrooper level of accuracy.

* TheMafia: Schweitzer's father seems to have connections. How far and how big is left vague during the Butch affair but [[spoiler: is clearly a nobody compared to the power Gila can muster]].
* MamaBear: Rita Moody would go to any lengths to protect Butch. [[spoiler: Even more epic because she is in fact Anita Fleming, Alex's mother and she ''literally'' sacrificed her face, identity and contacts to keep protecting him]].

* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler:[=SpyGirl=] didn't. The one we know is a different person brainwashed into thinking she was the original]].

* ParentalAbandonment: Alex suffers from the "Mommy Dead Syndrome", [[spoiler: doubly so because her mother is actually next to him... deeply caring for his VitriolicBestBuds Butch]].

* RogueAgent: [[spoiler:Seems to be a possible future for Alex]].

-->'''Young Girl:''' “He… he took my sister… he…”
-->'''Spyboy:''' “Shut up.” (applies injection).
-->'''Young Girl:''' “What are you doing ?!”
-->'''Spyboy:''' “General anti-toxin. Should counter the tranq effects. Now shut up.”
-->'''Young Girl:''' “Can you save my sister ?! She’s in danger—!”
-->'''Spyboy:''' “[[WouldHurtAChild Not as much as you’ll be if you don’t shut up.]]”

* SpyGlasses: Alex's goggles. Among other gadgets they include a version of the flash that allows changing between the Alex and Spyboy personalities.

* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:[=SpyGirl=] when she discovers she is not the original, but a double replacement, and that her past life as Yukio was not hers in the first place]].

* UnreliableNarrator: It resulted that [[spoiler: the first meeting with [=SpyGirl=] in #10 was a complete fabrication by M.A.N.G.A.]]

* WeHaveReserves: This seems the default reaction to all the enemies of [=SpyBoy=], sending henchmen to their death without blinking and eye [[spoiler: and the response of M.A.N.G.A to [=SpyGirl=]'s demise]].

* JustForPun: As with much of David's work, [=SpyBoy=] is ''littered'' with wordplay.
** Madam Imadam, who works for an organisation known as the Palindrome.
** Annie Mae, Japanese techno-mage-something.
** [=REMbrandt=], the artist of dreams and a ShoutOut to painter Creator/RembrandtVanRijn.
** Yoma Ma, which is both a play on famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and a YourMom joke (say it out loud).

* PunnyName: Annie Mae. Yoma Ma.