!!This work has examples of:
* CreatorBreakdown: This was a ''physical'', rather than ''mental'', breakdown. Antonio Prohías suffered from a muscular disease in the 1980s that slowly deteriorated his ability to draw. By 1987, the MAD staff were forced to find a replacement artist.
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The comic is known as "X & Y" (Sometimes X vs Y) in Sweden and Norway where the spies did had names on their own although the comic is still kept in silent. The title is a NameAndName title where White Spy is known as X, Black Spy is called Y and Grey Spy is named Z.
* CreatorsPest: Antonio Prohías originally intended for the Grey Spy to represent neutrality, but quickly retired her because he found that doing so made her extremely predictable.
* TheOtherDarrin: After Prohías left the magazine, the art duties went to Bob Clarke, George Woodbridge (for two issues), and Dave Manak, typically with Duck Edwing handling gag writing. In 1997, Peter Kuper took over art and most of the writing duties, although other people sometimes write the gags for Kuper to draw.
* ReferencedBy:
** ''WebComic/AwfulHospital'' has Fern receive a package with the White Spy drawn on it.
** [[Music/MonsterREMAlbum "Star 69"]] by Music/{{REM}} features the line "doorbell rings, it's the FBI, we played ''Spy vs. Spy''."
** ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'':
*** One episode has a quick blackout segment where the White Spy sets up a spring-loaded boxing glove in a vending machine. [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim The Black Spy just walks up behind him and shoots him in the head]] to steal his documents.
*** Another episode has a brief sketch where the Black Spy tortures the White Spy a la ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006''.
** The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Spies Reminiscent of Us" has a brief gag in which both Spies are sitting peacefully on a couch together, with the White Spy bluntly saying that they've resolved their differences.

!!The games have examples of:
* NoExportForYou: There was a port of the second game for NES... only released in Japan. (See [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbSufvxod1M here.]])
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