!!The comic book
%%* IronWoobie: Tara, especially in later stories.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Series/TheSandbaggers'', so much so it could have been called ''The Sandbaggers: The Next Generation''. Rucka is not shy about acknowledging that he borrowed the structure of SIS and many of the [[{{Expy}} character elements]], though there are significant divergences - ''The Sandbaggers'' dealt largely with the realpolitik of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar while ''Queen & Country'' mostly deals with the complexity of intelligence operations in a post-9/11 world, Rucka's D-Ops is happily married with kids, and most significantly, ''The Sandbaggers'' set their D-Ops as the protagonist, while ''Queen & Country'' primarily follows the character arc of one of the field agents.
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