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6->''"There's a man who leads a life of danger\
7To everyone he meets, he stays a stranger\
8With every move he makes, another chance he takes\
9Odds are he won't live to see tomorrow\
10Secret Agent Man! Secret Agent Man!\
11They've given you a number.... and taken away your name!"''
12-->-- '''Johnny Rivers''', "[[Series/DangerMan Secret Agent Man]]"
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16Related to the [[ActionGenre Action]] [[ActionSeries Series]], although not necessarily a series, and not necessarily even action-heavy, it's any work in which the main character or characters are spies, secret agents, [[DoubleAgent double agents]], or some other form of espionage professional. Spy Fiction tends to fall along a spectrum of what we've dubbed "flavours": From "Martini" to "Stale Beer".
17* '''[[TuxedoAndMartini Martini Flavored]]''' ([[Film/JamesBond shaken, not stirred]]) Spy Fiction is what you might call the [[TuxedoAndMartini Tuxedo]] Approach. This involves glamorous parties, fast cars, hot women in {{Spy Catsuit}}s, [[SexFaceTurn Sex-Face Turns]], high-risk casino games, cool gadgets, and brutal fights involving guns, fists, and big explosions (swap those adjectives around as you wish). This is the HotterAndSexier spy game, with a more glamorized and idealistic approach, clearly defined "good guys" and "bad guys" and more of an action movie feel, sometimes to the point where [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything nobody ever actually]] ''[[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything spies]]'' [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything on anyone]]. Despite the glamour, spying is not for the faint of heart, as it is fraught with danger and the stakes are massive. A DeathTrap is par for the course. The main example here is, of course, Franchise/JamesBond, particularly the movies. Also known as the Eurospy style, after the many low-budget European spy movies in TheSixties that tried to cash in on the success of Bond.
18* '''Stale Beer Flavored''' Spy Fiction could also be called the [[ConspicuousTrenchcoat Trenchcoat]] Approach. Predating the Martini approach, this is the DarkerAndEdgier spy game in that it does not romanticize the profession. It involves {{Dead Drop}}s, brush-pasts, blackmail, and [[ShootTheDog morally iffy things]]. Spying is stressful, and you may end up a [[ProperlyParanoid paranoid]] [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] or worse. The plots are more [[HardboiledDetective gritty]] and [[BlackAndGrayMorality morally ambiguous]], spying reflects power politics between whichever nations or organizations are involved, and other nations and people are caught in the crossfire. Consequently, the stakes tend to be a lot lower: rather than dealing with plots to TakeOverTheWorld or completely destroy the rival, Stale Beer plots typically involve seemingly minor plans for the possibility of incremental gain--or which might not in the end significantly change the state of play among the powers. This is the approach taken by Creator/LenDeighton and ''Franchise/TheBourneSeries'', Creator/JohnLeCarre, and by ''Series/{{Callan}}'', the classic counterpoint to James Bond. Ironically, the original ''Literature/JamesBond'' novels by Creator/IanFleming are like this, and both Creator/TimothyDalton and Creator/DanielCraig played the character this way.
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20And within these two poles, we have various mixes and flavours:
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22* '''Dirty Martini''' Spy Fiction (also referred to as "Stale Beer Served in a Martini Glass") is the gritty style of espionage taking place in [[CrapsaccharineWorld glamorous international or domestic locations]], such as Japan, Italy, Spain, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Hawaii, etc. ''Series/{{I Spy}}'', the Anime ''Anime/PrincessPrincipal'', and the Daniel Craig ''James Bond'' films exemplify this trope.
23* '''Bathtub Gin Flavored''' Spy Fiction applies to civilians drawn knowingly or unwittingly into the world of espionage that is either "martini flavored," "stale beer flavored," or a "dirty martini." They may have or not have transferable skills to help them survive, and they may or may not become realized agents at some point. Examples include: Mrs. Peel (''Series/TheAvengers1960s'', in the opening voiceover intro, she is introduced as a "talented amateur"), Chuck (''Series/{{Chuck}}''); Amanda King (''Series/ScarecrowAndMrsKing''), Mrs. Polifax (The Literature/MrsPollifax series) or some Bond girlfriends (''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', ''Film/{{Goldeneye}}'', ''Film/{{Spectre}}''); the show ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_%28TV_series%29 Masquerade]]'' (where civilians with special occupational or avocational expertise are drafted to help the government on one-off missions; and Tom Hank's character in ''Film/TheManWithOneRedShoe''. Creator/AlfredHitchcock also exemplified this to a tee in his earlier films, especially in such stories as ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'', ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooMuch'', and ''Film/The39Steps1935''. A contemporary example of this is the TV series ''Series/TheNightManager'' starring Creator/TomHiddleston.
24* '''Layered Drink Flavored''' Spy Fiction applies to a Byzantine-style of espionage full of intrigue, twists, misdirection, etc. Example: The novels of ''Creator/JohnLeCarre'', such as: ''Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy'', ''Film/TheRussiaHouse'', and ''Film/TheTailorOfPanama'' to name a few.
25* '''Absinthe Flavored''' Spy Fiction applies to those missions that are in- or touch on- the realm of ''SpeculativeFiction'', defined by Wikipedia as: "A broad category of fiction encompassing genres with certain elements that are nonexistent in terms of reality, recorded history, or nature and the present universe, covering various themes in the context of the supernatural, futuristic, and many other imaginative topics." Examples of Speculative Fiction in Spy Fiction: The James Bond Films: ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'', Bond encounters: Solitaire, a psychic who uses tarot cards, and in the film's tag, the Voodoo God Baron Samedi; in ''Film/DieAnotherDay'', Bond encountered genetic manipulation so advanced that actual physical changes could be brought about in a subject. Television series: In ''Series/TheWildWildWest'', James West was once shrunk to doll-size, was imprisoned in an alternate reality inside a painting, entered the dimension of Limbo, and even encountered the ''PhilosophersStone'' of alchemic lore; in ''Series/{{The Avengers|1960s}}'', Steed was once shrunk to doll-size; and in ''Series/{{Alias}}'', the "Rambaldi Devices". ''Series/{{The Prisoner|1967}}'' is probably the codifier for this subgenre, with surrealist science fiction elements and social allegory taking precedence over literal plot. In literature, the writings of Creator/WilliamSBurroughs offer a particularly MindScrew-y form of this.
26* '''[[ConspiracyThriller Bleach and Ammonia Flavored]]''' A common variant of this genre full of GovernmentConspiracy plots in which AnyoneCanDie, often filled with disposable henchmen -- a situation in which even the protagonist may even find himself/herself. Naturally DarkerAndEdgier than other versions of this genre. Examples include films such as ''Film/SafeHouse'' and ''Film/ThreeDaysOfTheCondor''.
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28In other words, the Tuxedo Approach would have a [[DefectorFromCommieLand Soviet defector]] be a [[SensualSlavs gorgeous, aloof Slavic beauty]] with whom the hero will probably elope at some point; the Stale Beer Approach would have a Soviet defector be a shaken, morally gray individual looking more for personal profit or some other material benefit (e.g. trying to get out of the way of an impending [[ThePurge purge]]) than for any virtues of right or wrong. The "Dirty Martini" would be set in a glamourous location from the former but the defector would be from the latter; the Bathtub Gin variant would have the defector be an innocent civilian who's gotten mixed up in events over their head; the "Layered Drink" would have twists and turns leaving us unable to trust whether hero or defector are who they say they are; "Bleach and Ammonia" would probably kill off both hero ''and'' defector at some point; and "Absinthe" would have the defector be a sorcerer battling the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s who are ''really'' in charge of the Soviets.
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30The Martini Flavored and Stale Beer Flavored tropes as well as the various trope permutations (Dirty Martini and Bathtub Gin) may involve a CloakAndDagger agency, AgentsDating, or any of the full gamut of EspionageTropes.
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32Spy Fiction can often overlap with some other genres. Any stories which concern international espionage, military intelligence, geopolitical conflicts (both [[DuringTheWar hot]] and [[ProxyWar cold]] wars), will obviously overlap with MilitaryAndWarfareWorks. Stories about ([[TheInfiltration undercover]]) police detectives or law enforcement agents investigating domestic criminal activity tend to fall under MysteryFiction and PoliceProcedural, though they're not always classified as being in the spy genre. {{Conspiracy Thriller}}s are very closely related, as they also tend to revolve around people who work for (or have close encounters with) secretive organizations pursuing their own political agendas. There's also NinjaFiction, which may sometimes feature {{ninja}}s conducting espionage for intelligence purposes in addition to covert assassinations.
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34In the US, it was the subject of CyclicNationalFascination during TheSixties.
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36Go to ''VideoGame/SpyFiction2003'' if you're looking for the [=PS2=] game released by Access Games in 2003.
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38----
39
40!!Spy Stories:
41[[index]]
42[[foldercontrol]]
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44[[folder:'''Categories''']]
45[[AC:Works by medium]]
46* SpyLiterature
47\
48[[AC:Related genres]]
49* ConspiracyThriller
50* NinjaFiction
51[[/folder]]
52
53[[folder:Multimedia Franchises]]
54* ''Franchise/TheBourneSeries''
55* ''{{Franchise/Hitman}}''
56* ''Franchise/JackRyan''
57* ''Franchise/JamesBond''
58* ''Franchise/MenInBlack''
59* ''Franchise/SpyKids''
60[[/folder]]
61
62[[folder:Animation]]
63* ''Animation/AgentAli'': Bathtub Gin with Dirty Martini and Absinthe mixed in - Ali is a middle-schooler who gets recruited by MATA, an agency founded by Cyberaya's mayor to protect the city. Some of Ali's family are part of MATA already, other agents in training are below or above Ali's age, with various reasons for joining MATA. Futuristic gadgets and destructive power sources make the Martini and Absinthe, the grittiness is apparent in conflicting loyalties and the long-lasting consequences the missions have on some agents. In the movie, GreyAndGrayMorality is more at play, as [[CreateYourOwnVillain the mayor is responsible for shaping the antagonist's destructive, but initially well-meaning, cause]].
64[[/folder]]
65
66[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
67* ''Manga/ZeroZeroNineOne'': [[TechnicolorNinjas Technicolor Ninja]] [[NinjaZombiePirateRobot cyborg spy girls with miniskirts and machinegun breasts]], traveling the world and looking ''great'' doing it... while taking part in stories about betrayal, tragedy, and moral ambiguity, with happy endings virtually nowhere to be found.
68* ''Manga/FromEroicaWithLove'' -- Stale Beer with occasional Martini flavoring. Specifically, the spy character enjoys stale beer while the thief he's after drinks his martinis from diamond glasses.
69* ''Anime/HighCard'' -- contains a bit of Martini and Stale Beer. High Card's an agency tasked by the Fourlandian government to pursue special cards taken from the royal castle. The team does their work by fighting while looking good and by being a BadassInANiceSuit.
70* ''Anime/LycorisRecoil'' -- A dark and dangerous '''Dirty Martini''' world with Chisato thinking (or at least acting like) she's the protagonist of an idealistic and fun Creator/RogerMoore and Creator/PierceBrosnan ''Tuxedo and Martini'' Bond Film, whereas Takina and the rest of the organization (tries) to embrace the cruel and dark ''Stale Beer'' cynicism of a Creator/TimothyDalton and Creator/DanielCraig Bond Film in spite of Chisato trying her darned best to make everyone look on the bright side of life.
71* ''Manga/MissionYozakuraFamily'': A rather zany (but no less dangerous) Bathtub Gin Flavored world that our protagonist Taiyo Asano finds himself in. Starting out as a regular (if not traumatized due to losing his family) high school student, he discovers that his ChildhoodFriend is the heiress to the famous family of spies. Having his life threatened by her KnightTemplar of a brother, he ends up married to his friend in order to survive and to protect her. While he slowly begins to become a more accomplished spy, he is still rather baffled by the antics of this world of spies.
72* ''Anime/NajicaBlitzTactics'' -- Martini, complete with a soundtrack straight out of a '60s spy TV series.
73* ''Anime/NightRaid1931'': The first half (most especially the first episode) started out as Martini due to the protagonists using their PsychicPowers (in place of tech and gadgets) and the setting being in Shanghai which in RealLife is the CityOfSpies. Then the second half went to Stale Beer, particularly the episodes detailing historical events such as the Mukden Incident which leads to the Japanese occupation of Manchuria and Emperor Puyi's coronation. The epilogue episode deals with the February 26 incident, which paves the way to the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar.
74* ''Anime/PrincessPrincipal'' -- Dirty Martini. The Principal Team's adventures are outwardly glamorous, with car chases, Fancy {{Steampunk}} gadgets and a ''very'' stylish (ElegantGothicLolita) wardrobe. On the other hand, they're teenage killers who will ShootTheDog if the mission requires it, and there are quite a few hints at the psychological issues their life brings with it.
75* ''Anime/ReleaseTheSpyce'' -- Martini with a NinjaFiction fruit twist.
76* ''Literature/SpyClassroom'' -- Dirty Martini, but just barely. It's more Stale Beer that has a toothpick-and-olive floating in it.
77* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'' -- Dirty Martini with an Absinthe-infused cherry(maybe two). At a glance, we have a [[TheAce super-spy]] tasked to infiltrate the high society where his target resides. Look deeper, and we see an ''exhausted'' man being worked like a dog, so traumatized by his past experience of war that he'd do anything to prevent it, in the service of an agency staffed with people broken in their own ways from the spy business.[[labelnote:such as]]Handler mentions how she ''had'' a child once, Frankie can't get any romantic relationships due to his work, and Fiona's unable to express her emotions. [[/labelnote]] But there are also many genuinely sweet moments with Loid's cover family; that is to say his wife[[note]]who is really an assassin working for the other side[[/note]], adopted daughter[[note]]a telepath who escaped from a government project, knows ''both'' her parents' real identities(and thinks that's really cool!), and works desperately behind the scenes to both hold her family together(occasionally getting caught up in Papa's line of work) and not get found out[[/note]], and dog[[note]]also an escaped lab experiment, and a clairvoyant[[/note]].
78* ''Manga/UnderNinja''
79[[/folder]]
80
81[[folder:Comic Books]]
82* ''ComicBook/ActionMan'' -- Martini
83* ''Recap/AsterixAndTheBlackGold'' is a parody of James Bond, with the expy even named [[PunnyName Doubleosix]].
84* ''ComicBook/BatwomanRebirth'' has the Martini elements of cool gadgets, exotic locales, and even a character who's a rough Q analogue, but has Stale Beer characteristics like moral grayness, a WretchedHive setting, and the title character having to face her dark past. Kate Kane's operations also lean more toward black-ops than black-tie.
85* ''ComicBook/BigfootAndGrayOnTheRun'' -- Parodied Martini, mainly through the comical [[EvilDuo evil agent duo]] formed by Agents Daye and Knight.
86* ''ComicBook/{{Casanova}}'' is Martini and Absinthe. Psychic duels, paratime shenanigans, hidden ultra-advanced civilizations and helicasinos for the win.
87* ''ComicBook/{{Dominatrix|2007}}'' - Bathtub gin flavored mostly.
88* ''ComicBook/LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' seems to be of the opinion that ''all'' spies are Stale Beer flavored, and the ones who play at being Martinis are deluded thugs dressing up their work with fancy toys.
89* ''ComicBook/MenInBlack''
90* ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'' -- ''Very'' parodied Martini after it began as [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness a parody of the detective genre]].
91* ''ComicBook/NickFury'' -- Started out closer to Stale Beer (the character debuted as a WWII SergeantRock then reappeared in {{Creator/Marvel|Comics}}'s "modern day" as a CIA operative) but rapidly took a turn towards Martini when Creator/JackKirby got involved and he got a Helicarrier and clones of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler started taking over the world. Then Creator/JimSteranko came on the scene, Nick shaved his scruffy beard and the comic became some kind of radioactive psychic martini/mescaline cocktail.
92** ''ComicBook/FuryMax'' -- The grimiest, nastiest, volatile, stale beer you will ever find.
93** ''ComicBook/FuryMyWarGoneBy'' -- the dirtiest, grittiest, darkest most Stale beer imaginable.
94* ''ComicBook/QueenAndCountry''
95* ''ComicBook/TheSecretService'', a comic written by Creator/MarkMillar with art by Dave Gibbons. A street-tough kid from East London is recruited into a version of [=MI6=] straight out of the Bond movies, with all the [[FishOutOfWater culture]] [[SlobsVersusSnobs clash]] one would expect. In short, it's a Martini made with drinks you nicked from the liquor store.
96* ''Comicbook/SleeperWildStorm'' - '''Black''' Martini. Takes all the tropes of Martini (flying cars, cool gadgets, alien technology, superpowers) and runs them through a blender full of Chambord.
97* ''ComicBook/SpyBoy'' -- TeenSuperspy does Film/JamesBond at its most high tech, combined with puns and a lot of flat out weirdness.
98* ''ComicBook/SuperAgentJonLeBon'' -- A [[ChildrensComics Children's Comic Book]] about a bumbling-but-successful spy in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals.
99* ''ComicBook/WonderWomanBlackAndGold'': A story in the series called "Espionage" is a throwback to the "Mod Era" of Wonder Woman where Diana was an [[Series/TheAvengers1960s Emma Peel knock-off]] but with more a DarkerAndEdgier tone and art style.
100[[/folder]]
101
102[[folder:Fan Works]]
103* ''Fanfic/{{Flutterspy}}'' -- A comic ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic that uses the Bathtub Gin approach, as gentle, timid Fluttershy is dragged into a LighterAndSofter version of a Martini story.
104[[/folder]]
105
106[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
107* ''WesternAnimation/BarbieSpySquad'' is a lighthearted take on the genre, with ace gymnasts foiling a cat burglar's plot as spies.
108* ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'' -- Martini-style bathtub gin, though the first film wasn't even a spy film at all.
109* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe2'' - Martini (Parodied).
110** ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe3''
111* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' - Actually, it's a {{deconstruction}} of {{superhero}} movies, but it has some elements of Martini, like gadgets or hot girls.
112** ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2''
113* ''WesternAnimation/SpiesInDisguise'' - Martini. Soft, but with a smack of Stale Beer.
114[[/folder]]
115
116[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
117* ''Film/The355''
118* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfTartu'' (1943) - It's a little Stale with a dash of Bath Tub -- there's humor, intrigue, but fear due to the real threat of brutal Nazis.
119* ''Film/AgentForHARM'' -- Martini
120* ''Film/AmericanUltra'' -- a rare Stale Beer parody, specifically ''Film/TheBourneIdentity'' as a slacker comedy. In other words, [[StonerFlick Dirt Weed]]. Also crosses over into Bleach & Ammonia.
121* ''Film/AngelWithTheIronFists''
122* ''Film/{{Argylle}}'' -- Martini
123* ''Film/AsiaPol'' - Creator/ShawBrothers attempts to spoof the Bond films with this AffectionateParody, involving Creator/JimmyWangYu. And it's NOT the first of its kind...
124* ''Film/AtomicBlonde'' features a synth-heavy '80s soundtrack, fancy hotel rooms and nightclubs, and a [[FemmeFatale gorgeous]], [[KickingAssInAllHerFinery stylish]], [[ActionGirl ass-kicking]] female superspy as its heroine, presented with just a bit too much glamour to fall into Stale Beer. However, this goes hand-in-hand with brutal fight scenes, a gritty, [[BlackAndGrayMorality morally cloudy]] story about the onset of Soviet collapse in [[UsefulNotes/BerlinWall divided Berlin]], and a heavy {{aver|tedTrope}}sion of BeautyIsNeverTarnished on the part of said heroine.
125* ''Film/AustinPowers'' -- Martini (parodied)
126* ''Film/LesBarbouzes'' -- 1964 French spy BlackComedy
127* ''Film/BarelyLethal'' -- Combining TeenSuperspy with high school drama.
128* ''Film/BlackButler''
129* ''Film/TheBourneSeries'' -- Stale Beer
130** ''Film/TheBourneIdentity''
131** ''Film/TheBourneSupremacy''
132** ''Film/TheBourneUltimatum''
133** ''Film/TheBourneLegacy''
134** ''Film/JasonBourne''
135* ''Film/BodyOfLies'' - Goes for the Dirty Martini route.
136* ''Film/TheBrainStealers''
137* ''Film/BurnAfterReading'' - Every character seems to think they're in a different type of spy movie. They are all wrong; they are in fact in a really, really [[BlackComedy dark]] {{farce}}.
138* ''Film/BurnNoticeTheFallOfSamAxe'': Less stale beer or martini, more Sam Axe trying to make a Cuba Libre with ''aguardiente'' because rural Colombia in the early 2000s (FARC was still a thing then).
139* ''Film/CarryOnSpying'' -- Martini (parodied) and Stale Beer.
140* ''Film/CatsAndDogs'' is a Martini parody where the cat is the villain instead of the villain's mascot. [[IndecisiveParody The first film can be read as a parody or a straight example]], in that it's not actually any sillier than a straight example of the Martini genre except for the TalkingAnimal part, but the second film is a much more direct Bond spoof.
141* ''Film/CodeNameDiamondHead'' -- Martini
142* ''Film/TheCourier2021'' is Bathtub Gin combined with Stale Beer; an ordinary British salesman is recruited to pass intel to MI-6 from a Russian spy - there's a running risk of them both being caught by the KGB and the threat of nuclear war looming over them, which takes a personal toll on both of them. BasedOnATrueStory.
143* ''Film/DarlingLili'' -- Martini made with Bathtub Gin, as the main character was not a professional spy before [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI the war.]]
144* ''Film/{{DEBS}}'' -- Malt, in [[TheFifties 1950s]] SweetheartSipping style, perfect for the romance that eventually develops [[DatingCatwoman between the heroine and her supposed archnemesis]]. (In fact, they do exactly that in one scene. Though ironically enough, they also have a few beers together in an earlier scene.)
145* ''Film/TheDebt'' --Focuses on the mental challenges of operating undercover, and the emotional scars left by making the morally ambiguous decisions spy work demands.
146* ''Film/EspionLeveToi'' -- Bleach and Ammonia Flavored
147* ''Franchise/TheFastAndTheFurious'': Later films entered this territory due to SequelEscalation as [[TrueCompanions the Family]] started doing jobs for the government stopping supervillains and terrorists. Between the glamour, exotic locales, gorgeous women, and the series’ trademark bevy of {{Cool Car}}s, it falls squarely into Martini territory, even if the series’ [[WorkingClassHero working-class street protagonists]] ironically prefer a nice cold [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Corona beer]].
148* ''Film/{{Firefox}}'' -- Stale Beer until the plane takes off, when it becomes Martini very quickly.
149* ''Film/FiveFingers1952'': BasedOnATrueStory. Creator/JamesMason's gentlemanly portrayal of the spy involved give it martini highlights, but the real life events it is based on tend be stale beer.
150* ''Film/GForce'' -- Martini parody with [[TalkingAnimal talking animals]].
151* ''Film/{{Ghosted|2023}}'' -- Martini parody. The trailer presents an exotic adventure with romcom elements.
152* ''Film/TheGoodShepherd'' -- Stale Beer. It chronicles the life and career of an UsefulNotes/{{OSS}} and UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} agent, with his work depicted as particularly unglamorous and the main character being downright apathetic in general.
153* ''Film/Gotcha1985''
154* ''Film/TheGrayMan2022'' -- Stale Beer in the vein of the ''Bourne'' series.
155* ''Film/TheGuest'' -- Stale Beer and Bathtub Gin PlayedForHorror, in which an unsuspecting family gets dragged into the mess after an evil version of Jason Bourne shows up at their door. In short, the cheap beer that gets served to [[TheScourgeOfGod irresponsible teens in a horror movie]].
156* ''Film/HamossadHasagur''
157* ''Film/{{Hanna}}'' -- Stale Beer in the way of ''Film/TheBourneSeries'', but with a [[TeenSuperspy teenage girl]] as the protagonist. (Hey, if she's old enough to fight, she's old enough to have a beer.)
158* ''Film/HeartOfStone'' -- Dirty Martini.
159* ''Film/TheHumanFactor'' -- Graham Greene, who wrote the source novel, later said that he wanted to write a story that showed spies as mundane office workers, civil servants who just happen to work for a spy agency. In the movie Nicol Willamson plays a dull office drone in [=MI6=], who also happens to be passing intelligence along to the Soviets.
160* ''Film/IfLooksCouldKill'': Martini through and through, playing with the "Bathtub Gin" variety by the means of a ''serious'' case of MistakenIdentity.
161* ''Film/TheIpcressFile'' -- Probably the UrExample for Stale Beer, but it's significantly less stale than the beer served by Le Carre. Later works by Deighton (e.g. ''Film/FuneralInBerlin'') aren't so much Stale Beer as rather What Gets Wrung Out Of The Bar Mat (which has occasionally been used as well to wipe the boots of this or the other spy coming in from the cold).
162* ''Franchise/JackRyan'' -- Stale Beer
163** ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober''
164** ''Film/PatriotGames''
165** ''Film/ClearAndPresentDanger''
166** ''Film/TheSumOfAllFears''
167** ''Film/JackRyanShadowRecruit''
168** ''Film/WithoutRemorse''
169* ''Film/JackStrong''
170* ''Film/JamesBond'' -- [[TropeCodifier Vodka Martini, shaken not stirred]]. In the Creator/TimothyDalton and Creator/DanielCraig films, it isn't shaken quite as much, and some elements of Stale Beer has found its way in to make Dirty Martini, but there is still no doubt it is overall Martini.
171** Eon Productions series:
172*** ''Film/DrNo''
173*** ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''
174*** ''{{Film/Goldfinger}}''
175*** ''{{Film/Thunderball}}''
176*** ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''
177*** ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''
178*** ''Film/DiamondsAreForever''
179*** ''Film/LiveAndLetDie''
180*** ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''
181*** ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''
182*** ''{{Film/Moonraker}}''
183*** ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''
184*** ''{{Film/Octopussy}}''
185*** ''Film/AViewToAKill''
186*** ''Film/TheLivingDaylights''
187*** ''Film/LicenceToKill''
188*** ''Film/GoldenEye''
189*** ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies''
190*** ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough''
191*** ''Film/DieAnotherDay''
192*** ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006''
193*** ''Film/QuantumOfSolace''
194*** ''{{Film/Skyfall}}''
195*** ''{{Film/Spectre}}''
196*** ''Film/NoTimeToDie''
197** Non-Eon films:
198*** ''Film/CasinoRoyale1954''
199*** ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'': Parody Martini with a sugar cube laced with LSD substituting for the olive. And maybe a pot-brownie chaser.
200*** ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''
201* ''Film/JohnnyEnglish'' -- Martini, parodied.
202** ''Film/JohnnyEnglishReborn''
203** ''Film/JohnnyEnglishStrikesAgain''
204* ''Film/JourneyIntoFear'' - Bathtub Gin flavored, as an American Everyman runs afoul of Nazi assassins.
205* The ''{{Film/Kingsman}}'' series:
206** ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', a film adaptation of [[ComicBook/TheSecretService the comic book]] written and directed by Creator/MatthewVaughn, was more of an AffectionateParody / {{Homage}} to the most far-fetched Bond movies, but with enough serious elements and style to never fall into straight parody.
207** ''Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle'', a sequel to the above.
208** ''Film/TheKingsMan'', a prequel set in UsefulNotes/TheSecondBoerWar and UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.
209* ''Film/LeLion'' -- A detainee of a mental hospital pretends to be a spy. The girlfriend of a psychiatrist working there is kidnapped, so the shrink eventually buys the story of his patient and releases him.
210* ''Film/TheManFromUNCLE2015'' - As a Reconstruction of 60s spy-fi, it presents the Cold War, CIA-KGB conflict as very Stale Beer, but the agents tasked with the biggest cases are Martini flavored. Think of a bar where everyone orders beer, and one patron comes in and gets a perfect martini.
211* [[/index]]''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':[[index]]
212** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' plays up the Stale Beer approach, complete with morally gray conspiracies, a government agency that may have sinister agendas, and a hero who is forced to confront his idealism against the cynical world he has found himself in. Being a superhero film, it naturally also comes with some Martini flavorings, especially in regards to the tech.
213** ''Film/BlackWidow2021'' is similarly Stale Beer with some superhero Martini elements, but its Beer is even staler than ''Winter Soldier''[='s=]. Three of the four main characters are women who were raised as {{TykeBomb}}s, and very few punches are pulled as to the abuse they suffered -- trafficked as young girls, forcibly sterilized, underwent psychological conditioning, and their organization has since escalated to using mind control drugs. And they're among the 5% who even ''survive'' the training.
214* ''Film/MataHari'' -- A VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory film about the famous dancer/spy, here played by Creator/GretaGarbo
215* ''Franchise/MenInBlack'' - A sci-fi cocktail of Martini and Absinthe. [[TheMenInBlack The titular MIB]] are basically a SecretPolice agency responsible for maintaining the {{masquerade}} of [[AlienAmongUs extraterrestrials secretly living on Earth]]. They do their jobs by using all sorts of high-tech gadgets and weaponry, while [[BadassInANiceSuit wearing fancy black suits]].
216** ''Film/MenInBlack''
217** ''Film/MenInBlackII''
218** ''Film/MenInBlack3''
219** ''Film/MenInBlackInternational''
220* ''Film/Mile22''-- Betrayals and secret agendas, mixed along with the action.
221* ''Film/MinistryOfFear'' -- Ray Milland chased by Nazis who want his MacGuffin
222* ''Film/TheMinistryOfUngentlemanlyWarfare'': The SOE is somewhere between spies and a commando force.
223* ''Film/MissMend''
224* ''Film/MissileXTheNeutronBombIncident''
225* The ''Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries'' falls into the Dirty Martini variety compared to the Martini-flavored TV series that it's based on. The action feels more visceral and the otherwise NiceGuy Ethan Hunt risks his reputation by deliberately disobeying orders and committing treason to save the world. Furthermore, the CIA, IMF, and [=MI6=] aren't above backstabbing each other to cover their own tracks. That said, the films don't shy away from glamorous parties, fast cars, and hot women one would expect from a Martini-flavored spy fic. Also, the fanciful gadgets and elaborate disguises from the TV series are still here and seen favorably.
226** ''Film/MissionImpossible1996''
227** ''Film/MissionImpossibleII''
228** ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII''
229** ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol''
230** ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation''
231** ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout''
232** ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoning''
233* ''Film/Momentum2015'' - ActionGenre movie that crosses into Bleach and Ammonia territory. Creator/OlgaKurylenko plays a CIA trained infilitration specialist up against a professional CleanupCrew backed by a [[GovernmentConspiracy corrupt US senator]].
234* ''Film/MrAndMrsSmith2005'' features a ''dueling'' between the types; John is Stale Beer, Jane is Martini.
235* ''Film/{{Nikita}}''
236* ''Film/TheNovemberMan'' -- Stale Beer, which is surprising because Creator/PierceBrosnan plays the lead agent.
237* ''Film/TheNumbersStation''
238* ''Film/OnceUponASpy'' -- Martini. A FailedPilotEpisode that was trying very hard to cash in on the Film/JamesBond films of the late 70s, ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' and ''Film/{{Moonraker}}''.
239* ''Film/LOperationCornedBeef'' -- parody of Stale Beer.
240* ''Film/OperationDouble007'' -- The PoorMansSubstitute for Creator/SeanConnery as Film/JamesBond.
241* ''Film/OperationFortuneRuseDeGuerre'' -- Martini
242* ''Film/OperationLovebirds'' -- Martini, parodied.
243* ''Film/OSS117'' -- The older films are Martini. The 21st century films with Creator/JeanDujardin are Margaritas (parodies).
244** Older films:
245*** ''Film/OSS117IsNotDead''
246** Jean Dujardin films
247*** ''Film/OSS117CairoNestOfSpies''
248*** ''Film/OSS117LostInRio''
249*** ''Film/OSS117FromAfricaWithLove''
250* ''Film/TheOstermanWeekend'' -- A messy stale beer with something floating in it.
251* ''Film/OurManFlint''-- '''So''' over the top martini that it becomes a parody.
252* ''Film/LeProfessionnel'' -- A French agent who was betrayed by his superiors and sold out to an African dictator comes back with a vengeance.
253* ''Film/Red2010''. Beer, Beer, Martini, Beer, Beer, Martini, Martini ... Frank, Sarah and Marvin are definitely beer. Cooper, the Fed after them, is so martini his eyes should be pimento stuffed olives. Victoria and Ivan are the champagne.
254* ''Film/RedNotice''. Layered Drink Flavored, plenty of misdirection and plot twists.
255* ''Film/RedSparrow'', TheFilmOfTheBook, has Dirty Martini glamour and exotic locations mixed with the unvarnished brutality of Bleach & Ammonia.
256* ''Film/Ronin1998'' -- The film was largely responsible for making Stale Beer popular again (and possibly revitalizing Spy Fiction in general at the time). No heroes, no flashy technology (there is some high-technology monitoring involved, mostly during a car ambush, but that's it) the two main protagonists are easily approaching retirement age, tons of moral ambiguity.
257* ''Film/TheRookies'' - a Chinese spy parody film where a RagtagBunchOfMisfits have to save the world from a killer virus that turns people into plants. It's as ridiculous as it's action-packed.
258* ''Film/TheSaintLiesInWait'' - Margaritas (comedy).
259* ''Film/TheScarletCoat'', about a Patriot agent in the American Revolution investigating a treasonous plot to turn over the fort at West Point to the British
260* ''Film/{{Shatter}}''
261* ''Film/TheSoldier'' -- stale beer.
262* ''Film/{{Spies}}'' -- silent film directed by Creator/FritzLang.
263* ''Film/SpiesLikeUs'' -- Stale Margarita Beer, in that two bumbling slackers caught cheating on the final test to become Stale Beer agents are secretly selected to be decoys for a real team, ending up in one comical situation after another. But they end up saving the day when one of the real agents gets killed and they stop a GeneralRipper from starting World War III.
264* ''Film/{{Spy}}'' -- Martini, done in a comedic fashion with plenty of LampshadeHanging but not necessarily a parody, as Susan Cooper's heroics are played straight. Rick Ford, though, ''is'' a parody of a Jason Bourne-esque Stale Beer spy, and of [[AdamWesting his actor]] Creator/JasonStatham's characters in general.
265* ''Film/SpyGame'' -- Scotch, and never less than 12 years old.
266* ''Film/SpyHard''
267* '''Film/TheSpyInBlack'' is a 1939 film with a German spy infiltrating a Scottish island to destroy the British fleet.
268* ''Film/SpyKids'' -- Martini, [[DefangedHorrors non-alcoholic]] of course (let's call it Kool-Aid or Fruit Punch).
269** ''Film/SpyKids1''
270** ''Film/SpyKids2IslandOfLostDreams''
271** ''Film/SpyKids3DGameOver''
272** ''Film/SpyKidsAllTheTimeInTheWorld''
273** ''Film/SpyKidsArmageddon''
274* ''Film/{{Stormbreaker}}'': A [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] of the first novel.
275* ''Film/{{Survivor|2015}}''
276* ''Film/TheTallBlondManWithOneBlackShoe'' -- parody of Stale Beer
277** ''Film/TheReturnOfTheTallBlondMan'' -- parody of Martini
278* ''Film/{{Telefon}}'': Creator/CharlesBronson has to stop a RenegadeRussian from activating the {{Manchurian Agent}}s in the United States!
279* ''Film/{{Tenet}}'' - acid. A science fiction spy film, The Protagonist (he really is called the Protagonist in the film) journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time. This involves inversion, which is progressing backwards in time.
280* ''Film/TheThinMan'' (book and movies) -- Nora is from a [[UnclePennybags Martini]] background, but happily follows Nick into the private eye's Stale Beer life.
281* ''Film/ThreeDaysOfTheCondor'' -- thriller with Creator/RobertRedford as a CIA analyst.
282* ''Film/{{Topaz}}'': Described by Creator/AlfredHitchcock as a "realistic James Bond film", it has an intricate plot involving characters from the US, the USSR, France and Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, based on [[RippedFromTheHeadlines real events]]. But the lead character is an {{Antihero}} Bond {{Expy}}, complete with globetrotting and womanizing, and using everyday gadgets (and food items) to conceal cameras and microfilm figures heavily into the story.
283* ''Film/TripleAgent'': A very dry depiction of a man with conflicting loyalties in France on the eve of World War II, and, since it's written and directed by Creator/EricRohmer, very [[SpeechCentricWork Speech-Centric]].
284* ''Film/TrueLies'' -- Martini all the way, by way of AffectionateParody. The heroine ''wants'' to be in a glamorous spy movie and falls for a [[HonestJohnsDealership used car salesman]] who poses as a secret agent, without realizing that her seemingly boring salesman husband actually ''is'' a secret agent, which gives her [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor more than she bargained for]].
285* ''Film/UndercoverBrother'' -- Cristal or Ciroc. Specifically, it's Martini meets BlaxploitationParody.
286* ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': The film incorporates many SpyFiction tropes. For instance, the proto X-Men work for the CIA for Cold War business and [[BigBad Shaw's]] plan is reminiscent of ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. Flavor-wise, it's Martini mixed with Absinthe, with mutant powers factoring heavily into the action.
287* ''Film/XXx'': [[TotallyRadical Four Loko. Or a Jägerbomb.]] Specifically, it's Martini by way of what the [=Y2K=]-era [[ExtremeSportsPlot extreme sports culture]] considered cool, keeping the gorgeous women, gadgets, cool cars, and explosions but swapping out the suits and ties for muscle shirts and tribal tattoos, the jazzy Bond theme for heavy metal and hip-hop, and the Aston Martin for a motocross bike, a snowboard, and a Pontiac GTO. The opening scene contains a TakeThat at Bond, as an {{expy}} of the spy gets killed at a Music/{{Rammstein}} concert due to how he stuck out in the crowd.
288** ''Film/XXxStateOfTheUnion'': Swaps out the first film's extreme sports aesthetic for GangstaRap, with the new, [[DarkerAndEdgier "tougher and nastier"]] [=xXx=] Darius Stone being an ex-Navy SEAL and former gangster who recruits his old partners in crime to fight the bad guys. Notably, instead of [[SpiesAreLecherous loose women]], his vice is fast food, with him asking for fries and a shake when a woman trying to seduce him offers "anything you want."
289** ''Film/XxXReturnOfXanderCage'': Returns to the style of the original film, with Xander Cage leading a team of thrillseekers seeking to stop rogue agents.
290[[/folder]]
291
292[[folder:Literature]]
293See SpyLiterature.
294[[/folder]]
295
296[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
297* ''Series/TwentyFour'' -- Stale Beer
298** ''Series/TwentyFourLiveAnotherDay''
299** ''Series/TwentyFourIndia''
300** ''Series/TwentyFourJapan''
301* ''Series/AdamAdamantLives'' -- Martini
302* ''Series/TheAgency''
303* ''Series/AgentX'' - Mixture of Stale, Bathtub Gin and Bleach.
304* ''Series/AlexRider''
305* ''Series/Allegiance2015''
306* ''Series/{{Alias}}'' -- Martini
307* ''Series/TheAmericans'' focuses on the dangers and stresses of living a double life as KGB agents in 1980s USA and how far one can go for one's country.
308* ''Series/{{Andor}}'' -- Set in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' universe and follows Rebel spy Cassian Andor (from ''Film/RogueOne''). Unapologetically Stale Beer-flavored.
309* ''Series/TheAssets'' is a BasedOnATrueStory miniseries about Aldrich Ames.
310* ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' -- Martini, or rather Champagne.
311* ''Series/BarbaryCoast'' - Tequila and Bolo Tie (Martini and Tuxedo in TheWildWest)
312* ''Series/BerlinStation'' -- Stale Beer
313* ''Series/TheBlacklist'' -- Stale Beer
314** ''Series/TheBlacklistRedemption'' - Unlike its parent series, it's a lot more fun and glamorous, leaning more on Dirty Martini.
315* ''Series/{{Blindspot}}'' -- Stale Beer
316* ''Series/BornToSpy'' -- Martini, [[DefangedHorrors non-alcoholic]] of course (let's call it Kool-Aid or Fruit Punch).
317* ''Series/BurkesLaw'' -- In its incarnation as ''Amos Burke, Secret Agent''.
318* ''Series/BurnNotice'' -- An odd Dirty Martini blend. Michael Westen's fashion sense and the Miami setting suggest martini, and his skill level is definitely Tuxedo. But the work he gets is more or less stale beer (Westen emphasizes the boredom a ''lot'' in his voiceover narration) with a few flashy scenes/explosions per episode. A good description might be "Stale Beer in a Martini Glass." On the other hand, the work Michael was doing before he was burned was distinctly Stale Beer, and (patriot that he is), he wants to go back to ''that'' life.
319* ''Series/{{Callan}}'' -- Extremely bitter Stale Beer.
320* ''Series/TheChampions1968'' -- Spies with PsychicPowers.
321* ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' -- Martini and Bathtub Gin (AffectionateParody)
322* ''Series/Citadel2023'' -- Martini.
323* ''Series/TheCompanyYouKeep''
324* ''Series/{{Condor}}''
325* ''Series/Counterpart2018'' -- Stale Beer. The show is very much a classic Cold War espionage thriller -- spies working under the noses of diplomats, sleeper agents and intelligence sources, dead drops and covert assassinations -- but with a ScienceFiction twist: the "other side" isn't a foreign government, but an AlternateUniverse.
326* ''Series/CovertAffairs'' -- Dirty Martini. It looks like regular Martini, but a lot of emphasis is placed on how hard the job is and the stresses it places on the agent's personal life.
327* ''Series/Crisis2017'' -- Stale Beer. The Public Security Mobile Investigation Unit Special Investigation Team gets involved in meeting up with informants, setting up sting ops and surveillance in arresting high-profile criminals/terrorists.
328* ''Series/Danger5'' -- Parody of Martini-flavoured thrillers from TheSixties.
329* ''Series/DangerMan'' aka ''Secret Agent'' -- Mostly Stale Beer, at the insistence of star and co-producer Patrick [=McGoohan=]; he found the Martini style both unrealistic and ethically questionable.
330* ''Series/DepartmentS'' -- Most definitely martini
331** ''Series/JasonKing''
332* ''Series/Deutschland83''
333* ''Series/DiplomatKurodaKousaku'' - Stale Beer. This involves a career diplomat who uses his diplomat status and his foreign affairs ministry reputation to get things done by using his language skills, his wits and knowledge on political matters. He has help from a friend of his in the CIA and a female Dojikko detective.
334* ''Series/TheEqualizer''
335** ''Series/TheEqualizer2021''
336* ''Series/{{Fauda}}''
337* ''Series/LaFemmeNikita'' -- Martini with hints of Stale Beer.
338** ''{{Series/Nikita}}'' -- Martini with hints of Stale Beer.
339* ''Series/FortuneHunter'' -- Martini
340* ''Series/TheGame2014'': Realistic spy drama set in 1970's Britain.
341* ''Series/GetSmart'' -- spoof of Martini. Arguably [[AmbiguouslyJewish celery soda. Or an egg cream.]] Mmm, egg cream.
342* ''Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger'' - Stale beer. This was one of the first sentai-based shows that had some spy fiction tropes in this, considering the show was produced during the Cold War.
343* ''Series/{{Homeland}}'' a gritty and dramatic [[Post911TerrorismMovie post-9/11 thriller series]].
344* ''Series/ISpy'' -- Stale Beer Served In a Martini Glass. The "Stale Beer" element comes from the grittiness of espionage work coupled with the main characters often discussing and wrestling with their consciences regarding the moral ambiguity and the ethics of their profession. The "Served In a Martini Glass" element is that the assignments occur in glamorous international and domestic locations: Tokyo, Italy, Spain, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, etc.
345* ''Series/Intelligence2006''
346* ''Series/Intelligence2014''
347* ''Series/{{Iris|2009}}''
348** ''Series/AthenaGoddessOfWar''
349* ''Series/ItTakesAThief1968''- Whatever's in the fridge.
350* ''Series/JackRyan''
351* ''Series/{{JAG}}'' swung in its depiction of the espionage business. While UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} officer Clayton Webb often is portrayed as a martini spy on the superficial level, there's also a whole lot of morally ambigious stale beer stuff in his line of work as well, and often used story-wise as a stark contrast to the morally superior JAG officers (and the U.S. military in general). Other than Webb and a couple of other exceptions, people in the spy business tends not to be trustworthy at all. Webb himself is morally ambiguous being something of a WellIntentionedExtremist. His main saving graces are that he is not personally corrupt, is devoted to his country and is usually loyal to his friends at least at the end of the episode.
352** ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' varies in its depiction of spying. Sometimes it's the martini approach - Ziva described it as "It's not all fast cars and sex...Well, there was a lot of sex." One of her flashbacks is shooting someone from the back of a motorbike. Later, the series seems to favor the stale-beer approach a ''lot'' more, with plenty of extremely boring stakeouts featuring.
353*** ''Series/NCISLosAngeles''
354*** ''Series/NCISNewOrleans''
355*** ''Series/NCISHawaii''
356*** ''Series/NCISSydney''
357* ''Series/JeanClaudeVanJohnson'' - Dirty Martini.
358* ''Series/Jericho1966'' -- Short-lived martini series about a multinational trio of Allied spies behind enemy lines during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
359* ''Series/KillingEve'' is Stale Beer vs. Martini. Specifically, it's about a bored, desk-bound [=MI5=] officer who finds herself in pursuit of a glamorous FemmeFatale assassin, with a ''lot'' of FoeRomanceSubtext between them.
360* ''Series/LondonSpy'' - Bleach and Ammonia Variety with a dash of Bathtub Gin, as the main character is a civilian who falls in love with a programmer who works for [=MI6=]. When the [=MI6=] programmer is ruthlessly murdered by his own handlers in an effort to destroy the technology he created, his civilian lover gets pursued by the ruthless and unscrupless agents of these various shadowy organisations who all seem intent on ruining his life.
361* ''Series/MacGyver2016'' -- A Mix of Stale and Martini.
362* ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'' -- Martini, mixed with Bathtub Gin in that civilians often get mixed up in the heroes' adventures.
363** ''Series/TheGirlFromUNCLE'' -- Martini
364* ''Series/ManInASuitcase'' -- Stale beer, served in anything from a martini glass to an unwashed ashtray (depending on the episode).
365* [[/index]]''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':[[index]]
366** ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' -- Martini
367** ''Series/AgentCarter'' -- Largely Martini, but Stale Beer seeps in since Peggy regularly has to deal with institutionalized sexism.
368** ''Series/SecretInvasion2023''
369* ''Series/MIHigh'' -- Lemonade flavoured, with a group of Franchise/JamesBond style [[TeenSuperspy teen superspies]] operating out of an ElaborateUndergroundBase under their high school. And their handler is a retired top field agent [[AlmightyJanitor posing as the school caretaker]].
370* ''Series/MissionImpossible'' -- ''Definitely'' Martini.
371* ''Series/Mossad101'': Alternates between gritty and smooth.
372* ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' episodes featuring Michael Haggerty of [=MI6=] are Stale Beer in a Martini Glass, or as stale as you can get while also being a CozyMystery. (Stale beer with a pot of tea?) The episodes where Jessica gets involved are also Bathtub Gin. There are also Bathtub Gin episodes that don't include Michael, when Jessica's AmateurSleuth tendencies get her investigating a murder that has an espionage connection.
373* ''Series/MySpyFamily''
374* ''Series/MyOwnWorstEnemy'' -- Swings between Martini and Stale Beer every episode. For example, the missions JANUS performs (protecting a foreign political candidate from assasination, thwarting a bomb plot, [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique interrogating targets]], retrieving a government employee from [[RedChina enemy hands]]) fall under Stale Beer, their [[ElaborateUndergroundBase workplace]] and [[OmniscientDatabase its]] [[ViewerFriendlyInterface equipment]] are clearly Martini; in addition to [[BadassInANiceSuit all of]] [[CoolCar Edward's]] [[WallofWeapons stuff]].
375* ''Series/TheNewAdventuresOfBeansBaxter'' -- Lemonade
376* ''Series/TheNightManager'': The spying takes place in glamorous locations (Switzerland, Majorca, Cairo) among [[TheBeautifulElite people of wealth and taste]], but back in London, the spymaster works out of a distinctly unglamorous warehouse office and constantly has to deal with bureaucracy and politics. Made with Bathtub Gin because the hero Jonathan Pine is a civilian hotel manager who is recruited to the spy trade.
377* ''Series/TheOldMan'' -- Dirty Martini. The protagonist is a gritty CIA operative who conducted guerrilla warfare in Afghanistan. However, he's also wealthy enough to afford luxury housing and travel when needed.
378* ''Series/OnceAThief'': 1990s Canadian spy action TV series following a group of three spies who work for a mysterious agency. The show was a parody of media often taken seriously, and mocked tropes and action scenes in spy thrillers.
379* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' often crosses over into the Bleach and Ammonia flavor.
380* ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'' -- Starts off like it's going to be a Martini (albeit if not Dirty then at least somewhat smudged), but someone keeps adding increasing amounts of Absinthe into the mix as the show goes on. And maybe some LSD as well. Either way, the ride's crazy but watch out for that hangover.
381* ''Series/TheProfessionals'': The protagonists, Bodie and Doyle, are visibly working-class, {{street smart}} and prepared to bend the rules on their assignments - particularly in comparison to the polished style of John Steed and Emma Peel of ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'', Brian Clemens' earlier series. And they drove Ford coupés rather than Aston Martins or Ferraris.
382* Series/ReillyAceOfSpies -- There are touches of Martini, as Reilly was a playboy on his off hours, but the series is based on Sidney Reilly's real life during the early 1900s naval arms race and features plenty of sordid betrayal and real politics.
383* ''Series/{{Rubicon}}'' -- Primarily focuses on a group of analysts digging through piles of intelligence with one supporting character bitterly bored while another has taken to partying and drug use to cope.
384* ''Series/TheSandbaggers'' -- extremely Stale Beer (characters often comment, "this isn't James Bond.")
385* ''Series/ScarecrowAndMrsKing'' - AffectionateParody of 80s Cold War Martini-flavoured, and its clash with suburbia. A spiritual predecessor of ''Chuck'' in many ways.
386* ''Series/TheSecretService'' -- Absinthe
387* ''Series/SeventeenMomentsOfSpring'' -- 1970s Soviet Union miniseries about a Russian spy who has spent years as a DeepCoverAgent in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany, conducting TheInfiltration and rising to the rank of colonel in SS intelligence.
388* ''Series/SheSpies''
389* ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'' -- as Martini as the 70s TV series budget allowed.
390** ''Series/TheBionicWoman'' comes closer to stale beer than martini as Jamie Sommers eschews glamor for working in her non-spy hours as a schoolteacher and living in a loft above a farmhouse. But when she is sent on missions the stakes are often of the "save the world" level, and she does get to put on fancy clothes when the mission calls for it.
391* ''Series/SlowHorses'' -- Based on the Literature/JacksonLamb novels by Mick Herron about a JadedWashout (but [[UnderestimatingBadassery far from incompetent]]) agent in charge of a department where the British secret services send their embarrassments, screw-ups and dregs. Decidedly Stale Beer. The cheap, nasty kind, with a few fag-ends floating on top.
392* ''/Series/{{Sparrow}}''
393* ''Series/{{Spooks}}'' -- Martini, but with major Stale Beer elements.
394* ''Series/TheSpy'' is based on the real life Israeli spy Eli Cohen, who posed as a wealthy Arab playboy to ingratiate himself into the highest levels of the Syrian government.
395* ''Series/StrangerThings'' -- Eleven's backstory mixes the glamour of PsychicPowers and parallel dimensions with the inhumanity of the secret government program (based on the real-life [=MKUltra=] program) that tried to weaponize them and turn her into a TeenSuperspy. The third season also introduces a group of villainous Soviet spies trying to steal and copy the research done at Hawkins National Laboratory. The Absinthe elements of their story include the ElaborateUndergroundBase, the sci-fi technology they use to open a portal to the Upside Down, and [[EldritchLocation the Upside Down]] itself and [[EldritchAbomination its inhabitants]], while the Stale Beer elements include the ruthless hitman they send to cover it up, the tragic defector Alexei, and the fact that it all takes place in a ([[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere seemingly]]) [[EverytownAmerica ordinary, boring American small town]].
396* ''Series/{{Tehran}}'': It involves a female Mossad agent of Israeli-Iranian heritage to infiltrate Tehran and take out Iranian military defenses. It shows the problems of how something unexpected can potentially ruin an entire op. It also shows Mossad's cooperation with the rest of the Israeli military in conducting joint operations.
397* ''Series/TillDeathTearUsApart''
398* ''Series/TheTimeInBetween'' and the novel on which it's based: Bathtub Gin, as it revolves around a seamstress whose closeness to the elite gets her drawn in as a spy for the British in pre-World War II Spain.
399* ''Series/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy'' -- A seven-part miniseries based on the first book in Creator/JohnLeCarre's ''Literature/TheQuestForKarla'' trilogy. Stale Beer, like its source matterial.
400* ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGobusters'' -- A sentai spy fiction series with Bleach and Ammonia properties applied.
401** ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers'' has some aspects of Bleach and Ammonia.
402* ''{{Series/Treadstone}}'' -- A prequel to ''Film/TheBourneSeries''.
403* ''Series/TrueLies2023'' -- Like the film, a parody of the Martini-based property
404* ''Series/{{Turn}}'' is set during the UsefulNotes/AmericanRevolution and focuses on the Culper Spy Ring in New York City, Long Island, and North Jersey, spying on the British for UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington's army (which spent a lot of time on Long Island at first, but later spent most of its time in the upper reaches of the Passaic Valley in what is now Morris and Passaic Counties, New Jersey). The intelligence work is distinctly unglamorous.
405* ''Series/UltraSevenX'', while having some franchise-traditional elements, is this, having trenchcoat agents investigating some alien incidents in CyberPunk setting.
406* ''Series/TheUnit'' - Partially stale beer since the Unit sometimes helps the CIA and sometimes get tangled up with operations they think are a bad idea.
407* ''Series/Vagabond2019''
408* ''Series/AVerySecretService''
409* ''Series/WhiskeyCavalier'' deals with international espionage in both glamorous and grimy situations.
410* ''Series/TheWildWildWest'' -- Martini all the way. Don't let {{the Western}} setting fool you.
411* ''Series/XCompany''
412* ''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'' has a sub-arc within the overall UsefulNotes/WorldWarI storyline, in which Franchise/IndianaJones (who was already volunteering for the Belgian Army) gets recruited by a French intelligence agency to conduct undercover missions around Europe. While one episode where Indy travels to neutral Spain is a relatively comedic Martini story, other episodes set in wartorn countries are (usually) Stale Beer, not shying away from the overall WarIsHell theme of the WWI episodes. Especially the one where he visits [[UsefulNotes/SaintPetersburg Petrograd]] during the onset of the [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Russian Revolution]], [[spoiler:which ultimately concludes with a tragic DownerEnding]].
413[[/folder]]
414
415[[folder:Music]]
416* The "{{Music/Genghis Khan|2016}}" music video by Miike Snow -- Martini with a tiny rainbow [[{{Camp}} paper umbrella]] in it.
417[[/folder]]
418
419[[folder:Pinball]]
420* The ''Pinball/SecretService'' pinball game zigzags between playing it straight and doing a lighthearted parody of the Martini genre.
421[[/folder]]
422
423[[folder:Roleplays]]
424* ''Roleplay/AlphaTeamMissionDeepFreezeRPG'' is based upon ''Toys/LEGOAlphaTeam'', listed above under Martini, so naturally it shares many of its Martini characteristics. However, compared its source material, the RPG is considerably DarkerAndEdgier, tackling more serious themes such as death (a subject avoided entirely by the LEGO toyline) which causes it to dip into Stale Beer on occasion.
425[[/folder]]
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427[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
428* ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'' -- This ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' campaign mixes Stale Beer and Absinthe with the Franchise/CthulhuMythos in a ConspiracyKitchenSink.
429** ''TabletopGame/WorldWarCthulhu'' (the ''The Darkest Hour'' and ''Cold War'' settings) -- As spies, the {{player character}}s are in incredible danger, paranoid in case the Gestapo, KGB or cultists have uncovered them, always aware that capture or worse could be right around the next corner.
430* ''TabletopGame/DemonTheDescent'', a 'Techgnostic Espionage' game under ''TabletopGame/ChroniclesOfDarkness'', where the player characters can lie so well even magical truth detector would be ineffective, the conspiracy theorists are the ones properly paranoid, revealing your true identity will result in the enemy's agents zeroing on you immediately, and the opposition is literally godlike mechanical intelligence existing across the universe and different planes of existence.
431* ''TabletopGame/NightsBlackAgents'': Bloody Martini. The player characters are elite secret agents [[KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade being hunted down for discovering that a secret society of vampires controls the world]]. Exotic spy gadgets, high-octane chases, and exciting combat scenes abound.
432* ''TabletopGame/NinjasAndSuperspies'' thrusts the player characters into a world of espionage and action in the far east where they can take on the role of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a stealthly ninja... or a deadly super spy.]] It's one of Palladium's lesser known works but still has some pretty interesting mechanics and is definately worth checking out for fans of old kung-fu movies and spy films.
433* ''[[TabletopGame/{{Pandemic}} Pandemic Legacy Season 0]]'' offers Bathtub Gin Made with Rubbing Alcohol. The premise is that you're a medical graduate recruited via the CIA through an unassuming classified ad, tasked with saving the world from a Soviet SyntheticPlague called Project MEDUSA. There's a bit of both Stale Beer and Martini mixed in; on one hand, you've cool gadgets, high stakes, and glamorous (and occasionally [[RummageSaleReject ridiculous]]) outfits, but on the other hand, you're eliminating Soviet agents, infiltrating dangerous places, and eventually have to find a way to deal with [[spoiler:a murderous RogueAgent who's been utterly broken by torture.]]
434* ''TabletopGame/PsionicsTheNextStageInHumanEvolution'': A Bleach and Ammonia Bathtub Gin Jägerbomb. It's self-consciously [[PunkPunk punk]] as all get-out, with the default [=PCs=] as terrorists cum ravers fighting against The Agency, in a world where AnyoneCanDie, evil conspiracies fight to control the world, and people's heads explode from out-of-control psychic powers. Tradecraft is de-emphasized for the protagonists (who are kids with serious emotional problems and powers that make them living weapons), but highly important to their enemies.
435[[/folder]]
436
437[[folder:Theatre]]
438* ''Theatre/SpiesAreForever'' -- Parody
439* ''Theatre/SpyFestigal'' -- Parody
440[[/folder]]
441
442[[folder:Toys]]
443* ''Toys/LEGOAgents'' -- Martini
444* ''Toys/LEGOAlphaTeam'' -- Martini
445[[/folder]]
446
447[[folder:Video Games]]
448* ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'' takes the action, gadgets, explosions and sexy women of the Martini genre, but mixes in the moral ambiguity, power politics, betrayal, and some of the gritty combat of the Stale Beer genre. In particular, it starts out more Stale Beer-flavored (with Saudi Arabia being the kind of mission you might expect [=MI6=] or Delta Force to be sent on in the real world) and adopts more Martini characteristics later on. Oh, and Steven Heck [[RealityIsOutToLunch is spiking the drink with something really weird]].
449* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'', oddly for a ''Call of Duty'' game, took a Stale Beer approach, as it had a plot about secret, morally nasty operations done in secret by both the US and Russia. Much of the game really took place in a dingy torture room, along with a ''very'' gritty atmosphere and secret story underlying the game. The game did have some Martini flavoring, in the vein of a ''Film/JamesBond''-esque attempt at destroying the US and some gadgets -- but due to just how dark the plot is, it dives right back into stale beer.
450** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'' is, for the most part, significantly less gritty, focusing more on a Bond-esque hi-tech plot to destroy the superpowers of the world, and done with gadgets and a super-villain that's very reminiscent of a Bond villain, but the flashbacks still contain much of the grittiness and moral grayness of the first game.
451** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsColdWar''
452* ''VideoGame/ColdWinter'' -- you're ex-M16, recruited into a secret spy ring and have to stop a terrorist plot to instigate a nuclear attack and reset civilization.
453* ''VideoGame/ConfidentialMission'' -- Being an arcade LightGunGame, [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything there's not much actual spywork being done]], but elements such as the protagonist being a tux-wearing James Bond CaptainErsatz, the soundtrack and the campy plot invoke this flavour.
454* ''VideoGame/CovertAction'' - Stale Beer Microbrew from Creator/SidMeier, which almost tastes more like a PoliceProcedural. There is a heavy emphasis on good ol' fashioned investigation, and in the combat sections, it's better to lay traps or sneak past enemies than shoot them.
455* ''VideoGame/DeceiveInc'' is a Martini-flavored [[SocialDeductionGame Social Deduction]] HeroShooter. You play as one of several spies sent on a mission to retrieve a MacGuffin, competing with your fellow spies to escape with the payload first.
456* ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans2'' heavily homages and parodies the Martini spy movies and shows of TheSixties. Natalya Ivanova is a [[SensualSlavs drop-dead gorgeous KGB agent]] who teams up with the protagonist Cryptosporidium-137. Reginald Ponsonby-Smythe is a British AgentPeacock super-spy who does the same [[spoiler:until he reveals that he's actually working for TheMenInBlack trying to stop him]], the BigBad, Soviet Premier Milenkov, is framed as a DiabolicalMastermind in the mold of any number of classic Bond {{supervillain}}s, and the plot is a globe-trotting adventure set in exotic locales like UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco, UsefulNotes/{{London}}, UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}}, Siberia, and finally, Milenkov's SupervillainLair on [[MoonBase the moon]].
457* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII - [[DownloadableContent Mark of the Assassin]]'': [[FantasticDrug Wyvern poison]]. Hawke and co. ''think'' they're taking part in TheCaper, until it turns out the "thief" they're helping is Qunari (the local super-determinist religion). She's there to stop a defector from giving the Orlesian Empire military secrets that could hurt her people and get plenty of civilians killed in the crossfire. The result: a Cold War story with wyverns, giants and elves.
458* ''VideoGame/EvilGenius'', except you play as the villain and must fend off attempts at the Forces of Justice infiltrating or attacking your island base. Enemy superagents are (more or less) [[{{Expy}} expies]] of Franchise/JamesBond, Franchise/{{Rambo}}, Creator/BruceLee, [[GirlOfTheWeek Honey Ryder]], and [[Comicbook/BlackWidow Natasha Romanoff]].
459* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' gives us Stale ''irradiated'' Beer mixed in with Bleach and Ammonia, if a certain path is taken. The Stale Beer is the Railroad faction, which uses a lot of spy tradecraft including dead drops, code names, signs and counter signs, covert speak, disguises etc. The beer is considered irradiated, as the setting is in a post-apocalyptic death world with horribly mutated creatures coming out of the woodwork everywhere and trying to kill you, and radiation poisoning being a constant threat. Although, you can try to Martini it up by walking around in a nice suit or dress, the post apocalyptic setting makes that Martini very dirty. There is also an unhealthy dose of bleach, what with the Institute kidnapping people to replace them with synth doppelgängers and conducting experiments to turn those kidnapped people into AxCrazy super mutants. For added measure, you can even find bottles of ''actual'' 200-year-old stale beer everywhere.
460* ''VideoGame/FoxHunt'' - Martini-flavored Stale Beer. A FullMotionVideo parody where a pop culture buff is hired to hunt down a disgruntled movie director threatening Hollywood with nuclear missiles.
461* ''VideoGame/FurFighters''
462* The ''{{Franchise/Hitman}}'' games certainly have some trappings of classic spy fiction, starring an [[ProfessionalKiller elite assassin]] [[BadassInANiceSuit with a nice suit]] whose job entails going on globe-trotting secret missions to kill people; but his motives boil down to his own greed and bloodlust, rather than politics, ideology, or fighting evil. Superficially resembles Martini, but dark and gritty enough to be closer to Stale Beer.
463** ''VideoGame/HitmanCodename47''
464** ''VideoGame/Hitman2SilentAssassin''
465** ''VideoGame/HitmanContracts''
466** ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney''
467** ''VideoGame/HitmanAbsolution''
468** ''VideoGame/WorldOfAssassinationTrilogy'':
469*** ''VideoGame/Hitman2016''
470*** ''VideoGame/Hitman2''
471*** ''VideoGame/Hitman3''
472* ''VideoGame/{{KGB}}'' aka ''Conspiracy'' - extremely stale beer produced in state-owned Soviet brewery struggling with constant shortages of raw materials.
473* The ''Franchise/MassEffect'' trilogy has you play as a SPECTRE super-agent who is given unlimited authority to preserve galactic security. For most of the game, you just go to places in PoweredArmor and shoot people. But two instances where you actually have to do some covert intelligence gathering become very Martini, with you infiltrating a party at a swanky upscale locale in either a futuristic tuxedo, or a LittleBlackDress.
474* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
475** ''VideoGame/MetalGear1''
476** ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake''
477** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' is pure Stale Beer, with a few fantastic elements.
478** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' amped up the fantastic elements to MagicRealism levels, while pushing the Stale Beer elements to breaking point.
479** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' was far more straightforward, deliberately using Martini tropes in the style of Stale Beer.
480** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPortableOps''
481** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' is much more solidly Stale Beer than the others, and it rejects most of the fantastical elements in favor of amping up the science-fiction elements, becoming more of a techno-thriller (albeit a ''very'' mind-screwy one).
482** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker''
483** ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' is Stale Beer mixed with an energy drink, as it delves into conspiracies and the horrors of child warfare while also having Raiden suplexing [[HumongousMecha giant mechas]].
484** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV''
485*** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVGroundZeroes''
486*** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''
487* ''VideoGame/MySimsAgents''
488* ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever'' -- An AffectionateParody of '60s Martini spy movies in the manner of ''Film/AustinPowers'', the protagonist being a glamorous DistaffCounterpart to Bond who wields a ton of gadgets and battles over-the-top villains and their outrageous henchmen.
489* ''VideoGame/PerfectDark''
490* ''VideoGame/PhantomDoctrine'': Stale beer with a touch of bleach and ammonia. AnyoneCanDie, brainwashing, torture and suicide bombing are on the menu for everyone including the good guys, anyone and everyone could be a double agent, and there are no indications that your best efforts actually make anything better.
491* ''VideoGame/PrimeTarget'': You're a Secret Service agent investigating a Senator's murder.
492* The ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' franchise is overall an Absinthe example; the premise involves an international espionage organization composed entirely of people with PsychicPowers, all missions either being done as research into the mental world or averting disaster caused by paranormal terrorism, their exploits made public in the form of a ScienceFiction comic book. The first game has the plot of Bathtub Gin, its protagonist Raz being a fan of the Psychonauts who aspires to be one and winds up uncovering an internal conspiracy where one of its agents had gone rogue and aspires for world domination.
493** ''VideoGame/PsychonautsInTheRhombusOfRuin'' is a more conventional [[TuxedoAndMartini Martini-plot]] (including a Bond-style TitleThemeTune) where they try to rescue the head of the psychonauts from a supervillain in an underwater layer.
494** ''Videogame/Psychonauts2'' adds Bleach and Ammonia into the mix, the plot less concerned with the typical Psychonauts mission and more of a conspiracy surrounding its founding and the presence of a mole out to undermine them.
495* ''VideoGame/RollingThunder''
496* ''VideoGame/SecretAgentClank'' -- Martini Parody SpinOff (of ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'') InSpace
497* ''VideoGame/SensoryOverload'' -- you're an amnesiac CIA spy investigating a MadScientist's MindControl tech, but then you're caught in it and must find a way out
498* ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'' may to be this if you choose to be a G.U.N. agent. Game trying to be Stale Beer, but the elements from other ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' games make it closer to Martini.
499* ''VideoGame/SoldierOfFortune'' -- Extremely ''bloody'' Stale Beer
500* ''VideoGame/SpecialProjectY'' -- Bond meets ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfBayouBilly''.
501* ''VideoGame/SlySpy'' -- Blatant Americanization of ''Franchise/JamesBond''.
502* ''VideoGame/SniperPathOfVengeance''
503* ''VideoGame/SpiderAndWeb''
504* The ''VideoGame/SplinterCell'' series of video games are stale beer spy fiction, and every installment gets progressively darker and grittier as time goes on. It should be no surprise it's a Creator/TomClancy property.
505** ''VideoGame/SplinterCell1''
506** ''VideoGame/SplinterCellPandoraTomorrow''
507** ''VideoGame/SplinterCellChaosTheory''
508** ''VideoGame/SplinterCellDoubleAgent''
509** ''VideoGame/SplinterCellConviction''
510** ''VideoGame/SplinterCellBlacklist''
511* ''VideoGame/SpyFiction2003'' -- A Deconstructed Martini that didn't quite do well in foreign bars due to mistranslations with the recipe. A DeconstructionGame for the classic spy genre that unfortunately got a bad English translation.
512* ''VideoGame/SPYFox''
513* ''VideoGame/SuperSpyHunter''
514** ''VideoGame/SpyHunter2001''
515** ''VideoGame/SpyHunter2''
516** ''VideoGame/SpyHunterNowhereToRun''
517** ''VideoGame/SpyHunter2012''
518* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' -- The Imperial Agent's base storyline has on the surface Martini action, infiltration, flirtation, taking on TheConspiracy etc. But it becomes apparent that Imperial Intelligence is literally the only thing enabling TheEmpire to function. Officers and Sith kill each other for promotion, FantasticRacism results in short term alliances, the list goes on. And then it turns out [[spoiler:Imperial Intelligence does secret brainwashing on all agents, the player included, to ensure they follow orders, driving them to the brink of insanity. Finding all this crap leads the frustrated agent's best ending to be where they make themselves UnPerson just so they can help TheEmpire however they see best.]]
519* ''VideoGame/TheSuperSpy'' - you're a spy InNameOnly however, instead of espisionage you went straight to kicking and punching
520* ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter''
521* ''VideoGame/ThunderJaws''
522* ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis''
523* ''VideoGame/WatchDogsLegion'': The big hook of the game is that you can play as anybody you see on the streets of UsefulNotes/{{London}}, and among the character types you can recruit are spies, who each get a silenced pistol, a spy watch that lets them remotely jam enemies' weapons, a [[CoolCar spy car]] (which resembles a classic Jaguar or Aston Martin) that comes equipped with [[WeaponizedCar missiles and an AR cloak]], and a [[BadassInANiceSuit nice suit]]. The tutorial has you playing as one such spy, named [[Creator/TimothyDalton Dalton]] [[ShoutOut Wolfe]]. Playing as anyone else, however, is closer to Dirty Martini with a shot of Bathtub Gin, with some Bleach and Ammonia thrown in if [[FinalDeathMode you have permadeath enabled]], with other character types ranging from ordinary construction workers and nurses to {{professional killer}}s to FootballHooligans. And when you add in the fact that every character is a hacker, you can throw in a side of [[https://www.vice.com/en/article/xywxm7/how-a-german-soda-became-hackers-fuel-of-choice Club-Mate.]]
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525
526[[folder:Visual Novels]]
527* ''VisualNovel/BansheesLastCry'' -- Stale Beer, involving [[spoiler:Japanese]] spies working for various intelligence agencies in Nagano as they try to get the drop on the other rival spy.
528* ''VisualNovel/QueensGambit''
529[[/folder]]
530
531[[folder:Web Animation]]
532* ''WebAnimation/PigeonImpossible'' - No actual ''spying'', but a CIA agent's eventful first day on the job.
533* ''WebAnimation/PrincessNatasha'' -- Lemonade flavoured.
534[[/folder]]
535
536[[folder:Web Comics]]
537* ''Webcomic/NecessaryMonsters'' -- Martini, though you '''really''' [[ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow don't want to know]] [[CosmicHorrorStory what the hell they put in instead of an olive]].
538* ''Webcomic/SecretAgentMen'' -- A fan-made spinoff of two [[BreakoutCharacter breakout characters]] from ''Webcomic/{{Niels}}'', one of whom started off as a ShallowParody of Film/JamesBond, the other of whom was a Stale Beer spy from the start.
539* Webcomic/SundaeComics: A stale beer agent shows up in this strip [[https://sundaecomics.com/2019/07/28/four-color-adventure/]]
540* ''Webcomic/SpyingWithLana''
541[[/folder]]
542
543[[folder:Web Original]]
544* ''Website/SCPFoundation'' -- [[MindScrew Absinthe laced with every single hallucinogenic/psychoactive drug known to man]]. The titular SCP Foundation are an [[TheMenInBlack international secret society]] organized akin to a paramilitary intelligence agency, devoted to [[{{Masquerade}} concealing the existence of every paranormal anomaly in the world at all costs]]. Stories focusing on the Foundation's undercover agents, and their interactions with various rival Groups of Interest, would otherwise fit very well with the Stale Beer flavor of spy fiction; were it not for the presence of [[ArtifactOfDoom cursed artifacts]], [[OurMonstersAreWeird strange monsters]], and other supernatural elements.
545[[/folder]]
546
547[[folder:Western Animation]]
548* ''WesternAnimation/AgentElvis'' -- TBD.
549* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' -- Martini (parodied).
550* ''The Boy'' -- Martini meets ABoyAndHisX.
551* ''WesternAnimation/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKids'' is a nonalcoholic martini, where [[TeenSuperspy teen superspies]] solve international crimes while maintaining a cover identity of a hit pop band.
552* ''WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego'' -- This cartoon adaptation of [[Franchise/CarmenSandiego the video game series]] is a more kid-friendly take on ''Franchise/JamesBond'', though the title character is more of a [[PhantomThief highly stealthy]] [[ClassyCatBurglar professional thief]] rather than a spy. Though she does have frequent encounters with members of a [[NebulousEvilOrganization SPECTRE-style criminal organization]], and actual spies/detectives from an [[InterpolSpecialAgent international police intelligence agency]].
553* ''WesternAnimation/CoolMcCool'' -- Martini meets {{Superhero}}.
554* ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse''
555* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' - Everything in the fridge plus the kitchen sink. While the show is mainly a superhero spoof, its origins lie in being a secret agent spoof of the margarita variety. A good portion of the episodes still are this whenever S.H.U.S.H is involved. Of particular note is episode "In Like Blunt" where Darkwing is partnered with his inspiration Derrick Blunt, the show's James Bond parody, who wrote stories of his adventures after he retired. However, Darkwing was more inspired by the ''movie'' versions of Blunt's stories, which are more martini based and gadget-oriented while the real Blunt hates the gadget aspect of the movies in particular since a "true spy only relies on their wits and what's around them" and is more of a stale beer in a martini glass type. Mixed in is the usual comedic, Loony Tunes type slapstick and the over the top comic/martini villainy.
556* ''WesternAnimation/DelilahAndJulius''
557* ''WesternAnimation/GetAce'' - Bathtub Gin with drops of Martini and Absinthe.
558* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' -- The [[Creator/JackieChan titular protagonist]] is a [[AdventurerArchaeologist martial-artist archaeologist]] who gets recruited as an unofficial agent of a secret police intelligence agency called Section 13, traveling on globe-trotting adventures to thwart various criminals and supernatural villains. However, the espionage elements of the story are heavily downplayed in favor of the far more prominent [[UrbanFantasy magical elements]], although Jackie's friend Captain Black (the leader of the aforementioned Section 13) plays a consistent supporting role throughout the series.
559* ''WesternAnimation/JamesBondJr'' -- This is a literal ''Franchise/JamesBond'' cartoon after all, so what else can be expected aesthetics-wise?
560* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' -- Spy by night, cheerleader by day. A {{bowdlerized}} James Bond. Cool gadgets, big explosions, no one dies.
561* ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'' -- The AnimatedAdaptation of the first ''Film/MenInBlack'' movie.
562* ''WesternAnimation/QForce'' -- LGBTQ spies fight {{Camp}} threats in places ranging from gay bars to royal palaces.
563* ''WesternAnimation/RyanDefratesSecretAgent''
564* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretShow'' -- Martini to the point of utter parody
565* ''WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel'' -- Martini, although Secret does wear a trenchcoat.
566* ''WesternAnimation/SpyGroove''
567* ''WesternAnimation/SpyKidsMissionCritical''
568* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' -- Martini parody with teenage girls as the protagonists.
569** ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpiesTheMovie''
570** ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingSpiez''
571* ''WesternAnimation/TheXs''
572* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' -- Bane Venom or Reach Soda. It's covert {{superhero}}ics. After telling the Franchise/JusticeLeague that they are no longer content to play the role of sidekicks, the Team is formed under Franchise/{{Batman}}'s supervision. He sends them on covert missions around the world, usually intending them to observe, sabotage, escort, or rescue. More often than not, they come upon a villain's secret plans, which have to be dealt with right then and there. Their missions bring them into conflict with a [[NebulousEvilOrganisation mysterious supervillain group called "The Light"]].
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