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11	->''"Being a secret agent is totally awesome. I get to do one-liners and climb around in the air vent, plus, Chelsea has so much money to burn, they bought me, like, all these cool new gadgets!"''
12	-->-- '''Christian Pulisic''', ''WebAnimation/TheChampions2018''
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14	Everyone knows this character. He wears a tuxedo with a small bowtie, a martini in one hand ([[DrinkBasedCharacterization shaken, not stirred]], naturally) and a pistol or revolver in the other. Announcing himself as "[[TheNameIsBondJamesBond Surname... Forename Surname]]", he engages in witty DoubleEntendre speak with busty high society women with EuphemisticNames that leads into the bedroom (who will, more often than not, [[GirlOfTheWeek vamoose before the end of the conflict]]). And just in case he finds himself in a particularly hopeless situation, he'll have a gadget hidden in his cufflinks that will allow him to defeat the {{mooks}} ([[BondOneLiner with a bad pun or two thrown in posthumously]]) and save the day. Tends to use [[ShoePhone gadgets]] that vary from realistic to over-the-top.
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16	The character that should have immediately come to mind with that description is, of course, Franchise/JamesBond. However, while Bond has definitely [[TropeCodifier popularized many of these aspects]], most {{Shallow Parod\|y}}ies 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 fieldwork).[[note]]The order of Martinis "Shaken Not Stirred" has occasionally been [[Series/TheWestWing criticised]] as giving a weaker drink (by breaking up the ice and watering down the drink). One annoyingly common mistake is for the parody character to get a ''gin'' martini instead of a ''vodka'' martini (it's a potentially legitimate concern with a gin martini, but with a vodka martini using vodka made from potatoes, the shaking gets rid of some nasty-looking oils on top. Also, gin often used to be almost ''[[GargleBlaster fifty percent alcohol by weight]]'', so many drink orders diluted it simply to make it more palatable. AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle!).[[/note]] It's also interesting to note that most of these tropes were NOT in the Creator/IanFleming books. For example, the films inverted his usual stirred-not-shaken order. Nevertheless, this is how James Bond is viewed by and large.
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18	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 flavoured" SpyFiction.
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20	This outfit is used to indicate an international spy figure in much the same way a ConspicuousTrenchcoat is used to indicate a spy or detective in a more urban environment.
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22	As so many of these characters could be seen as placeholders for James Bond, this whole page could be considered his character-specific subtrope of FountainOfExpies. Compare the GentlemanAdventurer. See also DeadUnicornTrope.
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25	!!Examples:
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28	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
29	* ''Anime/NajicaBlitzTactics'': Najica Hiragii is a [[GenderInvertedTrope rare female example]], so her outfit has a miniskirt and [[CombatStilettos heels]], but otherwise plays the trope straight in most episodes.
30	* ''Manga/{{Patalliro}}'': Bancoran is a handsome British super-agent with a long list of love interests.
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33	[[folder:Comic Books]]
34	* ''ComicBook/{{Planetary}}'''s John Stone is 50% James Bond, 50% [[ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} Nick Fury]], with the style and the gadgets and the [[TheNameIsBondJamesBond introduction]] to match.
35	* ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen: Black Dossier'', has a dark {{Deconstruction}} of the literary Bond, with all his worst aspects played up. Bond himself appears (with the serials scratched off -- his name is only given as "Jimmy", but we're also told he's related to Campion Bond)... and he's a sociopathic rapist manchild with a TorturePorn fetish who gets the crap kicked out of him after some jokes about a woman's stage name being Oodles O'Quim. He's quite a {{Jerkass}} even beforehand, so this is very satisfying. As well as that, he's reckless, bungling, AxCrazy, nervous, abusive, too reliant on his own gadgets (which often don't work), is a wonderful shot but pathetic in a fistfight and doesn't care for how much collateral damage he causes during operations. And all his adventures [[spoiler:are fabricated for British morale]]. Unfortunately, we see him walk off with the girl in the end, [[spoiler:after he murders her adoptive uncle, who had exposed him as a traitor, coward and in the pocket of the CIA.]] Allan Quartermain even mocks how sorry the British adventure hero has become.
36	** He later reappears in ''Century: 2009'' as a [[LaserGuidedKarma wheelchair-bound old man suffering from numerous diseases]], described as being [[AndIMustScream in constant pain but kept alive nonetheless]] as punishment for his crimes, despite being a 'hero' and having a knighthood. Meanwhile, six other agents took up the title of 007 to do fieldwork, although they're considerably more moral and likeable than Sir Jimmy. In general, Creator/AlanMoore doesn't like James Bond and especially Fleming's version. [[AuthorTract Did that come across]]?
37	** After de-aging himself and becoming BigBad of Vol. 4, there's an interesting bit where he laments how the "Tuxedo and Martini" approach of his heyday is giving way to gloomy modern espionage. [[note]]This is likely either Moore conceding that old spy movies are, if nothing else, fun to watch, or just meant to highlight that only a sociopath would bother trying to introduce "style" into a career as a government hit-man... maybe both.[[/note]]
38	* In ''ComicBook/AthenaVoltaire'', Desmond Forsyth, the British secret agent who sometimes works with Athena, seems to be of this school. Athena criticizes him for insisting on a nice suit even when there's a good chance of danger.
39	-->'''Desmond''': Athena, please. I'm representing the British Empire.\
40	'''Athena''': Yeah, well, you look less like you're ready for action and more like you're ready for ''tea''.
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43	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
44	* The titular Film/{{Argylle}} is a fictional superspy InUniverse and a cross between James Bond and [[Film/TheManFromUncle2015 Napoleon Solo]] (the Creator/HenryCavill version, naturally). The less glamorous Aiden Wilde (Creator/SamRockwell) comments on the silliness of [[OvertOperative spies standing out from the crowd]] but otherwise kicks as much ass as a superspy over 50 can (purposely, the action is on par with Creator/MatthewVaughn's previous spy fiction works -- ''Film/{{Kingsman}}''), and the ''real'' agent Argylle turns out to be [[spoiler:the mild-mannered spy fiction author Elly Conway, Argylle's creator herself, who went amnesiac]].
45	* In ''Film/TrueLies'', the major hook is that Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger plays a secret agent who keeps the nature of his work secret from his wife. His tuxedo is {{lampshade\|Hanging}}d in a [[ShoutOut scene during a secret mission]] [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} where he opens his drysuit to reveal a tux]]. We are then given a contrast between his work and home life by transitioning from this opening to his home where his daughter disrespects him and his wife [[TheGlassesGottaGo wears glasses]].
46	** When his wife finds out her husband embodies this trope, [[BattleCouple she wants in on it]].
47	* ''Film/XXx'' is essentially one big TakeThat against this trope[[note]]it's been alleged it was mostly created because Creator/ColumbiaPictures couldn't get the rights to Franchise/JamesBond after [[Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer MGM]] sued them for trying to start a rival version of the franchise with Kevin [=McClory=][[/note]], and opens 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 has 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 catch on to him.
48	* Even the ''Film/JamesBond'' films occasionally have their fun with this, especially the slightly DarkerAndEdgier Creator/DanielCraig ContinuityReboot. The only films Bond doesn't wear a tuxedo in are ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' and ''Film/LiveAndLetDie''.
49	** Take ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'', where after Bond has sneaked into a drug factory in a drysuit and blown it up. He comes out of the water, removes the drysuit -- [[SpyTuxReveal and reveals a neat tuxedo]].
50	** In ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' Bond turns up in a tux and is told off by a fellow agent. "This is a mission, not a fancy dress ball." Bond then has to get into a sniper position, and a velcro collar on his tux instantly converts it into a blacksuit so he doesn't stand out in the dark room. Also, in Bond's defense on this one, the mission takes place at a prestigious concert hall during a classical music production, so the tux actually helps him blend in while he's there as well.
51	** The martini line is subverted in ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'':
52	-->'''Bond''': Vodka martini.\
53	'''Bartender''': Shaken or stirred?\
54	'''Bond''': [[INeedAFreakingDrink Do I look like I give a damn]]?
55	** ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' {{lampshade\|Hanging}}s it by giving Bond and his companions the cover story of being teachers on sabbatical -- and staying in an appropriately inexpensive (and run down) hotel. A disapproving Bond upgrades them to a luxury hotel and claims they're teachers on sabbatical... who just won the lottery!
56	* Clark Devlin in ''Film/TheTuxedo'' is almost never seen without his tux. He's smooth with the ladies and dances very well. Slightly subverted in that most of that is due to the tux being [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman a highly-advanced piece of technology]] that does most of it for him. He is seen without his tux at the end, on the roof with a sniper rifle wearing something a SWAT member might wear. He is never shown in action, though.
57	* Carstairs from ''Film/CarryOnSpying'' is this trope, but it's not surprising because ''Spying'' was the first ''James Bond'' parody in movie history.
58	* Done in at least one scene per movie in the ''Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries''. In fact, the opening of [[Film/MissionImpossible1996 the very first movie]] involves the heroes in tuxedos.
59	* [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] rather heavily in ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', where the type is {{Deconstructed\|Trope}}, [[DeconReconSwitch then]] eventually played straight (though Eggsy drinks Winston Churchill martinis which are the polar opposite of Bond martinis). And played straight again in ''Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle''. The Statesmen (American counterparts of the very British Kingsmen) are more like [[AmericansAreCowboys "Cowboy Hats and Bourbon"]] in the latter.
60	* Subverted in ''Film/{{Haywire}}'', in which Paul, who Mallory believes to be an MI-6 agent sent to help her and who behaves just like this, is actually not a suave British spy but a thuggish Irish PsychoForHire who's been hired to kill her and another target and frame her for the other guy's death.
61	* ''Film/OperationLovebirds'' from 1965 is an early spoof of the genre. The lead character, a goofy novelty salesman mistaken for a secret agent, at one point ''snorkels'' out to the BigBad's island base in his tuxedo.
62	* ''Film/OnceUponASpy'' is a FailedPilotEpisode that feels like it should be a spoof but isn't. How well Creator/TedDanson would have handled the tuxedo and martini glass if the series had gone ahead is anyone's guess.
63	* ''Film/MissileXTheNeutronBombIncident'': No tuxedos, but the scenes at the Tehran casino suggest this aesthetic.
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66	[[folder:Literature]]
67	* ''Literature/TheJenniferMorgue'': The subject of both AffectionateParody and TakeThat in the Creator/CharlesStross novel. Because of the TheoryOfNarrativeCausality, the protagonist [[spoiler:and his girlfriend]] starts acting out James Bond tropes, commenting how much he differs from Bond. In regard to Bond's signature drink, every time it's ordered in the novel, there are comments on how awful it tastes.
68	* The Creator/TomClancy novels are rather scornful of the CIA types that the ''real'' intelligence agents refer to as 'Martini Mixers'.
69	* Hamish Bond in ''Literature/DraculaChaChaCha''.
70	* In ''Literature/SubversiveActivity'', Reddon (only his love interest calls him "James") wears evening dress, carries useful gadgets, expresses an appreciation for a vodka martini shaken not stirred, and appears constitutionally incapable of leaving an ''entendre'' undoubled. He also has a justification for wearing evening dress while breaking into the opponent's lair: at first he just says it's "rather a tradition in my service", but later he elaborates that ''because'' he and his secret service colleagues all dress that way when they go to work, it is ''de facto'' the uniform of the service, and therefore if he is captured by the enemy he can claim honorable treatment as a uniformed serviceman under UsefulNotes/TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar and avoid being shot out of hand as a spy.
71	* ''Literature/InDeath'': Roarke comes pretty close to this trope. ''Divided In Death'' had Peabody pretty much refer to him as an {{Expy}} of James Bond.
72	* The ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'' trilogy contains a particularly meta example in the form of Fission Chips, aka Agent 0000[[ArcNumber 5]], who joined the MI-6 on a whim after realizing that his personality, tastes, mannerisms, and physical appearance were basically the same as those James Bond, and is considered a bit of a laughingstock within the agency because of it, despite otherwise being a very good agent.
73	** Chips's other main flaw is that he's a ConspiracyTheorist, convinced that he's one step away from proving the existence of the [[NebulousEvilOrganisation vast underground super-criminal network]] known as BUGGER[[note]]read: SPECTRE[[/note]]. This being ''[[Literature/{{Illuminatus}} The Illuminatus! Trilogy]]'', his theories naturally [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight turn out to be 100% correct on nearly every detail]] (though he did get [[TheIlluminati the name]] wrong).
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76	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
77	* In ''Series/GilligansIsland'', the castaways find a locked government briefcase. Gilligan has a dream about being a Film/JamesBond[=/=]Series/MissionImpossible {{Expy}}, Agent 014, with him trying to deliver the briefcase while everyone from the secretary (Mary Ann) to the Big Bad (Mr. Howell) tries to kill him for it.
78	* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Bashir likes to run a holosuite program that enables him to basically BE the film James Bond, as seen in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E10OurManBashir Our Man Bashir]]". "Bashir, Julian Bashir." He also specifies his martinis "stirred, not shaken" to invert Bond's usual drink order. {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d all the way by Garak's constant snarking about it, when he was along for one run of the program ([[HolodeckMalfunction 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.
79	-->'''Garak''': ''[on having it explained to him that the decadent living and [[GirlOfTheWeek women]] are government-issue]'' I think I joined the wrong intelligence service!
80	* {{Parodied\|Trope}} in ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' with 'Agent Suave', who has a ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006''-style adventure in a high-stakes casino where all the games are typical village fête things like 'guess the weight of a fruitcake' and 'whack the rat'.
81	-->'''M {{Expy}}''': And, Suave... good luck.\
82	'''Suave''': I won't need luck.\
83	'''M Expy''': ...You're going to ''a casino''.\
84	'''Suave''': Oh, God, yes, that's right. Blimey. Fingers crossed!
85	** The same sketch also subverts the one-liners: it quickly turns out MissionControl provides them, [[spoiler:for both Suave and the villain]].
86	* ''Series/ReillyAceOfSpies'': Sidney Reilly. Considering that Reilly, a man shrouded in mystery, was possibly a RealLife inspiration for Bond, this makes it a bit of TruthInTelevision. Consider also that he was played by Creator/SamNeill, who was screen-tested for the role of Film/JamesBond in ''Film/TheLivingDaylights''.
87	* Played with a lot in ''Series/{{Chuck}}''. Chuck Bartowski is the furthest thing from James Bond you can find. But he still tries, because he's FunctionalGenreSavvy. When he evolves from TheWoobie to IronWoobie, he makes it work. In fact, because he's so successful (thanks to Casey, Sarah, and the Intersect) that "Charles Carmichael" -- the default name he uses when he goes on a mission -- becomes feared by the enemy agents as a Bond-esque Tuxedo super-spy. Bryce Larkin, in the early episodes, highlights the 'international superspy' as he should be, and Roan Montgomery basically IS Bond, if he were allowed to genuinely age.
88	* ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' tested out if you could [[SpyTuxReveal wear a tuxedo under a dry suit]] to crash a party on a yacht. After swimming underwater for half a mile, Jaime came up out of the water, stripped off the drysuit, and was able to attend the party in a perfectly presentable tux.
89	* ''Series/GetSmart'' is a spoof of SpyFiction in general, so naturally, the show includes a few digs at ''Franchise/JamesBond''. Max usually wears a suit and tie, but occasionally dons a tux while on assignment. Whenever he meets a contact, he introduces himself as [[TheNameIsBondJamesBond "Smart... Maxwell Smart]]. CONTROL Agent 86." The series also parodies the "shaken, not stirred" routine, by having Max either pick up the wrong drink [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny while distracted]], or by [[RunningGag spilling it on himself]], since his drink usually comes with an umbrella.
90	* ''Series/InLivingColor'' has a James Bond parody skit, where the agent asks for a beer "shaken, not stirred". He opens the can, and beer squirts out.
91	* ''Das Unsichtbare Visier'' (1973-79). Alarmed over the growing underground popularity of James Bond among their youth, the East German government created this TV series in which a Stasi agent played by Armin Mueller-Stahl battled the CIA, West Germans, resurgent Nazis, and other forces of decadent Western capitalism. Naturally, the Communist hero had to blend in with these capitalists while infiltrating them, enabling him to play this trope straight.
92	* ''Series/{{Burnistoun}}'' has a series of sketches featuring a James Bond parody. He's English and Tuxedo-clad, and is assigned various dangerous missions and has women with PunnyNames fawning all over him. His main shtick is making lame {{double entendre}}s, then pointing his gun at the camera and winking.
93	* One invention exchange on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' featured the Formal Flipper, a set of flippers that could be converted into dress shoes, so that spies who [[SpyTuxReveal go scuba diving with a tux on under their drysuit]] will have appropriate footwear when they reach their destination.
94	* ''Series/TheSpy'': Israeli secret agent Eli Cohen poses as a Syrian playboy, attends numerous black-tie cocktail parties and throws classy orgies to ingratiate himself with powerful Syrian figures. Complicating matters is the Muslim prohibition of alcohol, so he occasionally pretends to be too devout to accept an actual cocktail.
95	* Parodied in ''Series/RavensHome'' when one of Chelsea's dates is a secret agent who wears a tuxedo and bowtie.
96	* The ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' two-parter in Vegas has Al in an ImagineSpot where he is a suave, Bond-like character (complete with a theme song sound-alike in the background) who is swamped by beautiful woman, Peg is a cocktail waitress who he saves from a brutal man and he encounters a past conquest (who's working as a roulette dealer) named Yummy Allday. When the fantasy ends and after departing due to not having enough money to deal, the dealer asks who he was only for Peg to reply "Loser. Born loser."
97	* ''Series/{{Alias}}'': Sydney Bristow frequently adopts a [[GenderInvertedTrope gender-flipped version]] of this persona, in particular when she has to infiltrate various high-society functions.
98	* Played for laughs in ''Series/Danger5'''s first season, where the eponymous MultinationalTeam of spies frequently find themselves in evening wear and tasked with infiltrating glamorous locations, and are drinking and smoking almost constantly. Absent from the second season, which has a DarkerAndEdgier 1980s vibe, so now everybody is wearing white suit jackets with pink t-shirts and snorting cocaine by the handful.
99	* ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'' occasionally dips its toes into this kind of spy fiction, though usually from a more subversive and surrealist perspective. For example, "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE3ABAndC A, B, and C]]" has the spy protagonist infiltrating a fancy dress party - except this is actually [[DreamingOfThingsGoneBy a dream he's having]] about that party, which is being [[DreamWalker hacked into by his captors]].
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102	[[folder:Music]]
103	* The unnamed secret agent in Miike Snow's video for "Music/GenghisKhan". The whole video is an AffectionateParody of campy Martini-flavored spy movies, with extra QueerRomance and lots of dancing.
104	* When Music/PoetsOfTheFall performed their live CoverVersion of ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'''s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcjZZIRRBNA You Know My Name]]," for The Voice's ''Livenä Vieraissa'' compilation album, they engaged in Film/JamesBond cosplay, in stereotypically immaculate tuxes and bowties.
105	* In the video for Music/MichaelBuble's cover of "Feeling Good", Bublé portrays a suave Bond-style secret agent.
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108	[[folder:Pinballs]]
109	* The Baron shown on Creator/{{Bally}}'s ''Pinball/MataHari'' pinball.
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112	[[folder:Video Games]]
113	* Agent Jericho from ''[[VideoGame/BloonsTowerDefense Bloons TD Battles 2]]'' wears a tuxedo and uses a gun ([[DualWielding or two guns]]) to pop bloons while supporting the player and hindering the opponents with his abilities. He even has some quotes like "The name's Jericho, Agent Jericho"!
114	* In one scene in ''VideoGame/Rayman3HoodlumHavoc'', a Hoodlum dresses in a tuxedo and holds a gun in the classic James Bond poster pose, before throwing it aside and pressing a button on his arm, which produces a ridiculously large mechanical device, which fires a laser beam that turns an unfortunate caterpillar into something resembling a roast turkey.
115	* The Spy in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''. Impeccable three-piece suit (that can now come with a bow tie), upper-class speech patterns and haughty mannerisms (that is, when he isn't given to [[LameComeback childish insults]]), wears a [[GadgetWatches fancy wristwatch]] with a built-in [[InvisibilityCloak cloaking device]] and all sorts of other fancy gadgets. Promise not to get blood on his suit and he'll kill you quickly. Would probably fit in any high-class reception if he didn't [[HighlyVisibleNinja wear his balaclava at all times]].
116	* ''VideoGame/MetalGear''
117	** If one plays ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' enough times, Snake will do this with a Tuxedo instead of his trademark SpyCatsuit. And damn, he does look fiiiine in a Tux.
118	** Playing ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' while wearing the Tuxedo nets Naked Snake an amusing and annoyed lecture from [[TheAce The Boss]] about how impractical it is. There's also a conversation about James Bond with the other characters (specifically the Major, who is a complete James Bond fanboy) suggesting silly things (like a gun shaped like a snake) that he could use.
119	* The Imperial Agent player character in ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' is a thinly-veiled Film/JamesBond {{Expy}}.
120	* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'':
121	** The Spy in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert'' appears, at least to the Allies, as a man in a dapper if combat-inappropriate tuxedo-and-bowtie (even his icon is a man in a bowtie); selecting him or giving him an order causes him to reply in a Creator/SeanConnery-ish voice. Of course, to opponents (i.e., the Soviets) he looks like one of their own units, unless discovered by a [[EvilDetectingDog guard dog]].
122	** Goes even further in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'', in which one IdleAnimation for the Spy is Bond's pose on the poster of ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'' despite being unarmed. He also [[SpyTuxReveal switches effortlessly from a tuxedo to a wetsuit]] as needed. Instead of gadgets, he uses a combination of money and psychology (in-game, just money) to cause units to switch sides, can instantly disguise himself as any kind of infantry unit, and while unarmed, putting him in an IFV gives him a OneHitKill attack against infantry.
123	* Harry Tipper of ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters''. In the [[VideoGame/TimeSplitters2 second game]] he is [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} strapped to a bed with a laser aimed at him]]...
124	* ''Secret Agent Clank'', the character that Clank plays on television as his day job in '''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'', is an obvious James Bond parody.
125	** 'Ratchet in a tux' is a common skin unlocked throughout the [=PS2=] games.
126	* {{Inverted\|Trope}} by ''VideoGame/SpyParty'', where Spy players are ''least'' likely to choose this outfit as the spy, presumably because they expect the sniper will be suspicious of that character.
127	* In ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'', [[spoiler: Yuuya]] turns out to be one of these. His ED title card even reads "[[spoiler:Yuuya]] [[Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice Only Lives Twice]]".
128	* John Steele, the British super-agent in ''Videogame/EvilGenius'', is an obvious James Bond parody, showing up immaculately dressed to invade your IslandBase. He is also the toughest enemy in the game. His name, though, comes from John Steed of ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' and ''Series/RemingtonSteele''.
129	* ''VideoGame/SpyFox'', while he doesn't drink or wield a gun, is a blatant example. He uses the line "shaken but not stirred" to describe [[AmusingInjuries himself being jostled]], which happens to him often in his line of work.
130	* As a just ''barely'' LawyerFriendlyCameo of Bond, [[{{Pun}} Double-Bro Seven]] from ''{{VideoGame/Broforce}}'' is naturally one of these, down to one of his special attacks being an actual martini.
131	* Inteleon from ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield''. The final evolution of Pokémon number 007 of the regional dex, Sobble, it is a Secret Agent Pokémon, with plenty of biological variants of stock Bond weapons and gadgets, including a knife hidden in its tail, a glider made from a membrane on its back, special lenses in its eyes, and its signature ability to fire bullets of compressed water from its fingertips, with frequently taking a gun-like pose.
132	* {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d in ''VideoGame/SplinterCellChaosTheory'', where Sam grabs and interrogates one of the mercs at [[spoiler:Displace International]]. The guy is wearing a nice Italian suit and even offers Sam the name of his tailor. Sam says that tuxes aren't really his thing. The guy wonders why, since he's a spy. Sam replies that he's the real kind of spy, the kind that doesn't wear tuxes.
133	* Mathias Shaw of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' hovers between this and TheSpymaster; he's the head of his country's intelligence service, but he frequently goes into the field and one of the pre-recorded lines you can get when clicking on him is, "[[TheNameIsBondJamesBond It's Shaw, Mathias Shaw.]]"
134	* ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans2'' is set in TheSixties, and draws a lot of influence from '60s spy movies in its plot, which revolves around the VillainProtagonist Crypto traveling the world to stop a DiabolicalMastermind with an EvilPlan that runs counter to his own.
135	** In Albion, the game's parody of UsefulNotes/{{London}}, you meet Reginald Ponsonby-Smythe, agent of [=M16=] who functions as a parody of Film/JamesBond and [[Series/TheAvengers1960s John Steed]] in equal measure. He dresses in [[AgentPeacock a bright blue suit with a frilly cravat]], wields an [[ParasolOfPain umbrella gun]] as his weapon, and [[spoiler:turns out to be the ArcVillain of the Albion levels, as [=M16=] is actually "Majestic Command, 16th Sector", the British branch of [[TheMenInBlack Majestic]]]]. The other [=M16=] agents you encounter are likewise cut heavily from the Bond cloth, complete with direct [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] in both their dialogue and when [[TheGreys Crypto]] reads their minds.
136	** Throughout the game, Crypto also joins forces with the [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre KGB agent]] Natalya Ivanova, a [[SensualSlavs beautiful Russian blonde]] in a SpyCatsuit who's as much the archetypal female version of this trope as Ponsonby is the male version.
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140	* Good Hitler in ''Webcomic/{{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").
141	* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': In December of 2001 the strip did a James Bond parody called [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20011218 Snowfinger]]. After SantaClaus is mutated into an alien hybrid, [[HairRaisingHare Bun-bun]] is recruited by the ChristmasElves to stop Santa from distributing presents laced with alien mutagenic spores.
142	* ''Webcomic/KarateBears'' clean up good, and love to drink. [[http://www.karatebears.com/2012/11/bonds-that-last.html Look]].
143	* Agent 300 started out as a ShallowParody of Bond, used in his introductory comic to prove how useless a character like that would be in a confrontation with ''Webcomic/{{Niels}}''. However, his [[Creator/{{Humon}} author]] liked him so much he [[UnexplainedRecovery inexplicably recovers]] from the head wound Duncan deals him in that strip and quickly becomes a much more fleshed-out BreakOutCharacter.
144	** The fan-made spinoff comic ''Webcomic/SecretAgentMen'' has fun playing with this trope as it more fully explores the agency 300 and 250 work for.
145	* Parodied in the epilogue of ''Webcomic/{{Adventurers}}'', where Cody becomes a [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20060925.html "suave international superspy"]] and tries to order his soda "shaken and stirred."
146	* ''WebComic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'': D37-9E-A53 (Ace to his friends and family) is a vat-grown time-travelling spacefuture SuperSoldier rather than a spy, but otherwise nails pretty much the trope spot on. He wears a tuxedo when off duty, regularly drinks martinis, speaks with a British accent, [[TheCasanova has an eye for the ladies]] and acts as TheSocialExpert in his squad/family group.
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150	* in the ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' episode "Double-O Dale", both Dale and his role model Dirk Suave are depicted in tuxedo-and-martini style all the time while they are doing secret agent work.
151	* [[TheLancer Derek Blunt]] on ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck.'' Although he dresses and acts to fit the Bond stereotype, Blunt unusually eschews gadgets and tricks in favor of realistic spy work.
152	* ''WesternAnimation/GetAce'': [[TheNameIsBondJamesBond Union, Jack Union.]] He's like Creator/{{Sean Connery}}'s James Bond but based on the elderly version of the actor in his later years. He's a RetiredBadass who acts as a mentor to the titular protagonist and has spy gadgets in the form of braces just like him.
153	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' spoofed this type of character with "Matrix, Enzo Matrix", as well as ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces''.
154	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': [[Characters/ArcherSterlingArcher Sterling Archer]], a total {{Jerkass}} secret agent with massive mother issues, lives the trope -- notably, he puts off defusing a bomb to change from his tuxedo to a black turtleneck. It's portrayed in a kind of BunnyEarsLawyer way; his flair for the dramatic and fondness for women and alcohol constantly get him in trouble, and he's incredibly irresponsible with the safety of anyone around him, but much like Bond, when it comes to hand-to-hand combat, firefights, and other SoMuchForStealth stuff he's practically a superhero.
155	* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbElementaryMyDearStacy Elementary, My Dear Stacy]]" takes place in England. Because of a prior incident with the union, Agent P works with Agent Double 0-0. The latter takes hours to burn through a manacle, while Agent P simply gets the key off a table.
156	* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'':
157	** Discussed in the episode "[[Recap/TheVentureBrosS2E8FallenArches Fallen Arches]]", when [[HeroicComedicSociopath Brock]] needs to fight some {{mooks}} while wearing a tuxedo for his role in ''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'':
158	-->'''Brock''': I love wearing a tux when I kill guys. Makes me kinda feel like James Bond.
159	** In the episode "[[Recap/TheVentureBrosS04AllThisAndGargantua2 All This and Gargantua-2]]", when Brock is doing undercover recon at a space-borne casino, he eschews the baccarat table because "nobody but spies play baccarat". Cut to the baccarat table, where three men in tuxedos are receiving their drink orders, to discover that they all ordered martinis, shaken not stirred.
160	* {{Parodied\|Trope}} in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E24MysteryOnTheFriendshipExpress MMMystery on the Friendship Express]]", where Pinkie Pie believes Donut Joe is secretly this.
161	-->'''Pinkie Pie''': Or as he's known in the spy world, ''Mane''. ''Con Mane''.
162	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "[[Recap/ArthurS2E4ArthurMakesAMovieGoToYourRoomDW Arthur Makes a Movie]]", where the kids aren't allowed to go see a "James Hound" film, they decide to make one themselves. Practically the only thing they know about Hound is he wears a suit and bow tie, so Arthur (playing Hound) has to wear them even though they don't have a black bow tie, only a yellow polka-dotted one.
163	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E2YouOnlyMoveTwice You Only Move Twice]]", a parody where Homer unknowingly takes a job with an AffablyEvil DiabolicalMastermind, there is a Connery-Bond {{expy}} dressed in a tuxedo who escapes from a laser trap a la ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'', only to be accidentally stopped by Homer. It didn't end well for him.
164	* ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'' gives us high-ranking [[TimePolice time agents]] Brick and Savannah (who are copy-paste parodies of their [=VAs=]' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' characters), who, in contrast to their lower-ranking counterparts Balthazar Cavendish and Vinnie Dakota, have a high budget to spend on flashy outfits and fancy gear. They're not perfectly able to live up to the image, however, as their attempts at BelligerentSexualTension have thus far [[NoSparks fallen flat]].
165	* Penicillin G from ''WesternAnimation/OzzyAndDrix'' fits this trope as the third episode "Strep-Finger" was a spy parody episode for when Hector's illness was so severe, the doctor sent in a "special Cold War operative" to deal with it. Ozzy takes over this trope when Penicillin G was seemingly coughed out of Hector, but was revealed to have survived when he used his grappling hook to hang by Hector's bicuspid.
166	* ''[[WesternAnimation/WabbitALooneyTunesProduction New Looney Tunes]]'' recharacterizes WesternAnimation/PepeLePew as one of these.
167	* The ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'' episode "The Wrong Stuff" introduces Kitty Katswell's ex-partner Jack Rabbit, a suave and well-dressed secret agent who even sounds like Sean Connery. He turns out to have gone evil and willing to sell T.U.F.F. secrets to the villain Snaptrap.
168	* In the ''WesternAnimation/SevenLittleMonsters'' episodes "The Big Store" and "No Place Like Home", Three's persona of the day is a well-dressed secret agent who speaks with a Scottish brogue named Double-O-Three, clearly emulating Sean Connery's portrayal of James Bond.
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172	* Dusko Popov was a Yugoslav who worked for British intelligence (and convinced the Germans he was spying for them while feeding them false information) during World War II, mostly as a way to live large and have love affairs on an expense account. He worked with Ian Fleming and one of his exploits at a casino in Portugal may have inspired ''Literature/CasinoRoyale''.
173	* In UsefulNotes/WorldWarII both the British and American services recruited a large number of gentleman-spies. Some of them like TropeNamer Creator/IanFleming and [[Literature/TheQuietAmerican Graham Greene]] retired to write SpyFiction. Creator/DennisWheatley is best known for his paranoia-laden occult thrillers. Others like Nicholas Eliot continued as a career. Kim Philby found [[TheMole a second career.]]
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