Trivia / The Spy Who Dumped Me

• Follow the Leader: The Spy Who Dumped Me bears several similarities to Spy (2015).
  • Protagonist is a woman who at first has a boring/dead-end job but who gets recruited into a secret mission in Europe and takes a level in badass to become an Action Girl (Audrey and Susan)
  • Protagonist has a wacky, female best friend who is loyal to a fault and helps out on the secret mission (Morgan and Nancy)
  • At the start of the movie, the protagonist is involved with a hunky international spy who dies in the movie’s first act. He’s also Faking the Dead and revealed to be involved with the bad guys in both movies. (Drew and Bradley)
  • Protagonist also grows a spine over the course of the movie and stands up to the secret agent who walked all over her at the start of the movie
  • The best female friend has a connection to a celebrity that provides crucial help to the mission (Edward Snowden and 50 Cent)
  • The head of the MI6/CIA is a tough-as-nails woman (Wendy and Elaine)
  • One of the agents assigned to the same mission is a British man who goes rogue and later helps the protagonists (Sebastian and Rick Ford)
  • One of the antagonists is a European woman who has been trained in the life of crime her whole life (Nadejda and Rayna)