YMMV / SPY×FAMILY

The following have their own pages:

• Fandom Specific Plot
• Memetic Mutation

Other examples:

• Adorkable: Watching Twilight a.k.a. Loid adopt Anya and then bumble his way into becoming a competent father is equal parts hilarious and sweet, especially with how serious and professional he is the rest of the time. Similarly, Yor's earnest naivety as she gives her all toward being a mother/wife, while also being insecure about how good a job she's doing, is equally sweet and hilarious.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: As this online review attests, Yuri's obsession with his sister could be classified as more of a Oedipus Complex than outright Incest-ant Admirer due to Yor effectively being the one that raised Yuri. While not better by any measure, it does present his jealously as more a kid throwing a temper tantrum because his mom is giving more attention to her new boyfriend/husband than to him.
• Aluminum Christmas Trees: In Mission 29 Yor, in her imagination, claims she and Anya will tell Loid they went to a Tomato Festival as to why Anya is covered in blood. One might think the Tomato Festival is just an excuse that Yor came up with, but there really is a Tomato Festival in Spain where thousands of people throw tomatoes at each other.
• Applicability: Chapter 94 in its original context reads as a point-for-point Detective Conan parody. Audiences less familiar with Detective Conan, especially outside of Japan, instead took it as a general parody of slasher movies and whodunnit mysteries, as well as a stealth complaint about how difficult it is to actually challenge a smart, competent, and powerful main cast with such stock plots and scenarios.
• And You Thought It Would Fail:
  • Due to Endo's history of having his manga cancelled early, he earned the nickname of "Axeman" in the West. While some view his artistic journey and SPY×FAMILY's resounding success as an Earn Your Happy Ending, others still liked to perpetuate the meme and "prophetically" predict that the manga would have been Cut Short in fewer than 10 chapters. But as of the time of writing, the manga is nearly reaching 100 chapters strong and not going anywhere anytime soon.
  • Even after it pulled numbers online, some people still claimed that 1) it was mostly popular in the West and that Japanese audiences actually didn't care for it very much, and 2) that it would certainly flop in physical form due to its availability on the Internet. Cue the first tankōbon completely selling out its initial 50k unit run within a week, making it one of Shueisha's most popular launches ever for a first volume and leading to some emergency reprints.
  • The anime also disproved this, bringing the biggest new anime ratings draw in a generation, outpacing long-time perennial favorite One Piece.
• Awesome Art: The animation is this in general, but the animation used in the openings really ups the ante with colorful, dynamic art. It is reminiscent of the beginning of old graphic novels. The first segment of the first opening in particular uses a colorful, paper cutout-like style reminiscent of Gekidan Inu Curry's work and is sure to please fans of Puella Magi Madoka Magica.^note Even the font used in said segment looks very similar to the witch runes from that series.
• Base-Breaking Character: While Yuri is generally liked by fans for him dealing with the Secret Police side of the war, there is a massive split about his Big Sister Attraction towards Yor. Some readers find it and the antics and interactions (especially with Loid) resulting from it hilarious. Other readers find his siscon tendencies too extreme, annoying, and out-of-place in the manga, and dislike how it seemed to essentially envelop his entire character early on, rather than focusing on other facets like that secret police stuff.
• The Catchphrase Catches On: Anya has caused children to call their parents "chichi" and "haha" like she does. Note that they're both very formal words used when talking about your parents in Japanese, not to your parents.
• Catharsis Factor:
  • Housemaster Henderson knocking Swan out with a Megaton Punch, after the Sadist Teacher sent Anya away from her interview in tears by mocking the loss of her real mother.
  • Given what a monstrous scumbag Keith Kepler is, watching his plan fall apart before his eyes and then seeing Yor cause his car to crash into a pole that injures him heavily is as cathartic as it is greatly amusing. Especially considering that moments ago, a Bad Future foreseen by Bond shows that hadn't Anya intervened, not only would he have started a war between Westalis and Ostania like he wanted, but also killed Twilight in the process, which makes Loid's Bond One-Liner after scaring him off prior to his downfall all the more satisfying:
    Loid: Your little revolution is over now.
• Common Knowledge: A persistent misconception involves referring to Henry Henderson as headmaster. He's not (and hasn't been) — he's a housemaster, meaning he's in charge of one of Eden's dormitories.
• Complete Monster:
  • "Inusan Crisis arc": Keith Kepler, alias Kevin Knowles, is the leader of a group of Ostanian college-aged isolationists. Strapping explosives to a pack of dogs, Keith intends to use the explosives to assassinate Westalian Foreign Minister Brantz in order to start a war between Ostania and Westalis. When the young Anya "Subject 007" Forger eavesdrops on Keith and his co-conspirators, Keith attempts to have her killed against the objections of his co-conspirators, only for Yor "Thorn Princess" Briar, Anya's adoptive mother, to rescue her. After his co-conspirators are taken into custody, Keith sets up an explosive-laden door for his pursuers, including Anya's adoptive father, Loid "Twilight" Forger, callously threatening the lives of Ostanian civilians in the process and saying they should at least take pride in dying for their country.
  • "Great Cruise Adventure arc": "Snoops", the otherwise unidentified information broker for Leonardo Hapoon, is a wireless operator and surveillance expert hired to track down mob family member Olka Gretcher and her infant son on behalf of a band of assassins aboard the Princess Lorelei Cruise. Keeping track of Olka and the rest of the ship and feeding the assassins information, Snoops intends to abandon his cohorts when the mission is complete, leaving them to die when they are confronted by Yor. Seemingly only bugging the cruise to track down the targets in question, Snoops—as Loid and Anya discover—has actually rigged several explosives aboard the ship, intending to frame Westalian terrorists for his own crimes, expressing a desire for the soon-to-be sinking ship to "serenade" him with the screams of the passengers.
• Creator Worship: The fanbase has heavily praised Tatsuya Endo for his witty and subversive writing of the series combined with being able to mix darker aspects, especially amongst former fans who called him "Axeman". The fact that he's known for continuously improving his writing through reading other literature adds to this.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Yuri getting hit by a truck on its own wouldn't exactly be funny. Yuri getting hit by a truck after spending four days with no sleep, before proceeding to shrug off the hit with only a couple bruises like it was nothing? Funny. The fact his being Made of Iron came from Yor accidentally giving him a Hilariously Abusive Childhood? Very funny. His lieutenant expressing exasperation with the fact that this is a regular occurrence for him and treating it more like an annoyance?! Hilarious!
  Lieutenant: How many times do I have to say this Yuri? Stop getting hit by trucks.
• Diagnosed by the Audience:
  • All three human members of the Forger family can be and have been read as being on the Autism Spectrum, enhancing the theme of building a supportive family out of outcasts and loners while presenting themselves as "normal":
    • All three are hypersensitive to perceived failure and rejection, leading them to wildly exaggerated imagine spots that operate on flimsy slippery slope fallacies. They are also the one person able to bond almost instantaneously with the other two after a lifetime of isolation. All three also have lifelong hyperfixation through which they generally see their lives through: Yor cannot help but think of how murder could resolve her problems, Loid thinks of his newfound family and his feelings for them in terms of spywork, and Anya has a fixation on the Spy Wars cartoon that is shown to help with her grades when they relate.
    • Both Yor and Loid have difficulties identifying their own emotions, particularly their growing romantic attachment to each other, and both their Character Arcs are centered on identifying and reconnecting with their true feelings.
    • Yor is Sarcasm-Blind, Literal-Minded, frequently distracted by her own train of thought, fidgets frequently, is hyper-fixated on weapons and murder despite actively suppressing such thoughts to appear normal and extremely competent in her area of expertise, but struggles to conform to expectations of her social positions, which she is anxious and self-critical about. Notably, while superhumanely athletic she has difficulties modulating her own strength, especially when younger. It certainly explains why Loid's "Honey Trap" backfired in Mission 35: that script assumed the target was neurotypical and would interpret and react to flirtatious social cues like a "normal" woman.
    • Loid has so many simultaneous thoughts they overwhelm Anya's telepathy, memorized encyclopedic knowledge of social norms that he uses to craft and execute highly detailed social scripts, for example the huge flowchart that he devised to help Franky in Short Mission 2, coming across as high-masking in a way that prepared him for espionage. Ironically, his cover story is that of a psychiatrist.
    • While Anya's behavior can mostly be explained by her age and background, she also has a literal-minded and analytical approach to communication, e.g. testing declarations on Becky to anticipate Damian's response and then being shocked that Damian reacts differently. Her telepathy can also be seen as a metaphor for hyper-empathy, including being overwhelmed by large crowds and picking up on others' emotions while missing the wider context.
    • Both Loid and Yor also demonstrate symptoms of trauma disorders, such as Loid’s pathological stoicism coupled with his intense feelings of anxiety suggesting emotional numbing, which is a symptom of of PTSD; Yor’s emotional arrested development can also be explained in part from the parentification she had to undergo from having to become her brother’s primary caretaker at such a young age.
  • Outside of the Forgers, following his debut in Chapter 93, Demetrius Desmond has been thought of as being some kind of autistic savant due to his near perfect skill level yet almost disturbing lack of thought and empathy, to the point the only thoughts Anya can pick up from his mind are him thinking he doesn't understand people, and that trying to would be a waste of time. General consensus is that this was in no way helped by his being primarily raised by Donovan, who Damian notes was always at Demetrius's side helping him study, yet Demetrius admits he barely knows the man anymore than Damian does, suggesting being raised in an ill-fitting environment for someone with his needs and leaving him emotionally detached.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Dominic is surprisingly well-liked for a character whose only real role in the series is to give Yuri and Camilla some sympathy points ^note  a role that's become kind of irrelevant in recent chapters since he hasn't interacted with Yuri since Chapter 24 and Camilla has taken a level in kindness. Being the only one of Yor's co-workers who's been nice to her from the get-go likely helps a lot.
  • Episode 5 of the anime introduces a minor anime-exclusive character who is a huge fan of Twilight, to the point of fanboying the entire time he's on screen. Despite being a minor extra, he quickly became popular for not only being such a fanboy of Twilight, but also being fun to watch. Said character being a spy and an agent of the same organization as Twilight helps too.
  • Martha Mariott, Becky's butler. Though her appearances have been few and she seems to merely be a kind and wise lady for much of the series, Loid notes in Mission 59 that she carries herself like an ex-soldier, and Martha shows remarkable physical prowess during the busjacking incident (even tasering Vadim when he uses Anya as a Human Shield) despite appearing middle-aged or older. As such, interest in Martha has begun to rise.
  • Daybreak, Twilight's self-proclaimed rival (hence his chosen codename). Despite only appearing twice so far (the second time only in one panel with no dialog), fans loved him for being an hilariously awful spy with massive ego and lust for glory.
• Epileptic Trees:
  • Due to both Anya and Bond having powers as a result of experimentations, as well as their former "Subject" numbers being "007" and "8" respectively, a subset of fans have come to believe that, at some point, the series will further the Numerical Theme Naming and reveal other subjects like Anya and Bond, being numbered 1-6 in some form, and end up connected to the Forger family.
  • Due to his presence in both Anya and Bond's backstories, as well as bearing a resemblance to and possibly being "Leonardo Hapoon", the Greater-Scope Villain of the "Great Cruise Adventure" Arc, there's a contingent of fans who believe the scientist with the cowlick will be a major antagonist later in the story, if not the Greater-Scope Villain. Some take it even further by suggesting that, as he would already have a connection to the rest of the Forger family, he'll have a connection to Loid by being his thought to be dead friend "Corporal", due to some noting he looks like a younger version of the scientist, and that the only things Loid got to indicate his death was the remains of his dogtags, with the reveal he's "Corporal" being done should the scientist address Loid by his real name.
• Estrogen Brigade:
  • Befitting a Martini-style spy, Loid Forger has a sizable female fan following. Mainly due to his rather non-threateningly handsome features, the deep voices his actors give him, the way he can shift from suave super-spy to Adorkable Bumbling Dad at any given moment, his Defrosting Ice King character arc, and his extremely wholesome budding relationships with Anya, Yor, and Bond, whom he always treats with utmost respect.
  • Yuri Briar has been known to be something of a fangirl magnet due to his youthful Pretty Boy looks, authoritative demeanor and role as a secret police officer, Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain nature, and Yandere obsessiveness; while the fact he's far too attached to his sister is a turn-off for many, many have also expressed that it's either overcome by the sheer degree to which he's gorgeous or a fun wrinkle that only makes him more appealing.
• Fandom Rivalry: With Mission: Yozakura Family due to both series often being compared to each other.
• Fanfic Fuel: What were the other four families like that previously adopted and returned Anya?
• Fan Nickname: Some fans have taken to calling the leader of the assassins in the cruise "Sniff Jobs", due to his sense of smell and similar appearance to Steve Jobs.
• Fanon:
  • Fans largely agree that it's inevitable Anya will become a formidable spy when she grows up (usually with a codename like "Midnight" or "Starlight"), and that she and Damian will also get married.
  • Certain fans theorize that Anya's signature horn hairclips are covering up bald spots left from her experimentation.
• Fanwork-Only Fans: There are some people on the internet who are fans of Yor despite not watching the show or reading the manga, as they like her attractive design and consume various NSFW works of her such as fan art and cosplays.
• Fountain of Memes: Anya's various exaggerated facial expressions have turned her into this. In fact, fans adoring her habit of making them was one of the reasons for the first popularity poll being about their favorite Anya faces instead of their favorite characters.
• Fourth Wall Myopia: Many fans wonder how Loid has not picked up on the fact that Anya has the ability to read his mind. While very important to the story, in the end Anya and Bond are the only characters who realize such a thing is even possible because 1) the projects that gave such powers were kept highly secret, and 2) WISE only knows what info they could get from the projects' secret reports, which generally stated they had mixed results at best. With the concept sounding like something that could only exist in fiction in-universe - and short of irrefutable evidence otherwise, such as Anya reciting someone's thoughts word-for-word - only the readers, Anya, and Bond would consider such an explanation plausible.
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • With Chainsaw Man due to both having the same editor (Rin Shihei). Their radically different tones are even somewhat complementary. Both ranked in the top 3 of their respective categories in the Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Awards 2019, and Spy×Family's voice actors even did a promotion for Chainsaw Man in late 2022.
  • With Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, since many fans have noticed the sheer resemblance between Loid and Shirogane (not only in looks, but also in personality and voice, despite having different voice actors), Yor and Kaguya (funnily enough, Kaguya was mistaken for an assassin at one point early in her series), and to a lesser extent Anya and Chika.^note This is especially hilarious for Latin American viewers, as Anya actually shares the same voice actress with Chika's Latin American voice actress, Elizabeth Infante. Crossover fan-art after the anime aired began to pop up everywhere. It also helps that Kaguya-sama's third season aired alongside it.
  • With Oregairu, due to its leads being voiced by Takuya Eguchi (Hikigaya and Loid/Twilight) and Saori Hayami (Yukino and Yor), respectively. Many people think that Loid and Yor are basically Hachiman and Yukino in a Cold War-esque world. Part 2 adds to the connection with Ayane Sakura (Fiona/Nightfall and Iroha) joining the voice cast.
  • With Buddy Daddies, which has been playfully dubbed as the gay version of this series. Both series have massive similarities, as the blond protagonist together with a dark-haired assassin have to raise a child together. Spy X Family fans happily received the other series as something else to watch on the same topics.
  • With Bocchi the Rock!, another comedy anime/manga that aired during the same season as the second cour and similarly features hilariously over-the-top characters.
  • Outside of manga and anime, it surprisingly has one with Avataro Sentai Donbrothers, due to the viral video meme about a floating parade featuring a model of the said series' red ranger Don Momotaro crashing into a model of Anya Forger. To add to this, Morisaki Win, who sings the theme songs for Donbrothers, was cast as Loid Forger in the stage show.
• Genius Bonus:
  • The Forgers' trip to familiarize themselves with high-class culture contains several. The painting of the naked lady resembles "Olympia" by Édouard Manet, which is displayed in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, a location that the in-universe gallery resembles. The opera they see is The Magic Flute in the manga judging by the Queen of the Night costume (the character who performs the most iconic aria of the show), and it fits the setting, being a German-language work. The anime uses Karl Orff's Carmina Burana, specifically the piece "Estuans Interius".
  • The name "Operation Strix". As Donovan Desmond's character sheet observes, "strix" is Latin for "owl", but it also refers to a demonic creature from classical mythology; according to Liberalis's "Metamorphoses", the strix is a bird of ill omen and a harbinger of war and civil strife.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
  • The manga is extremely famous in Southeast Asia. In particular, it is pretty much revered in Indonesia, and Indonesian Spy x Family videos rake in millions of views. It has gotten to the point where the Indonesian government used the characters for their campaign.
  • The same goes for Latin America, where both the manga and the anime are pretty popular, with Anya being the most popular character of the cast there.
  • While still well-liked in Japan, Yor is one of the most popular characters in the West, being nearly as iconic as Anya — largely due to her status as one of the few Ms. Fanservice Action Girl characters in anime who is an older adult but is still very youthful and endearing. Loid also gets quite a bit more attention than he does in Japan, for similar reasons; Western marketing for the series tends to focus on the family as a whole and emphasizes the series' action aspects, as opposed to Japan where Anya more clearly overshadows both her parents.
• Hype Backlash: With the absolutely massive onslaught of chiefly Twitter-based Yor and Anya memes when the anime was airing, some people understandably got sick of all the hype.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Yuri Briar's parents were killed in The War Just Before, likely when he was too young to have any real memories of them, leaving Yor as his only family. Then one day, he learns that his sister has been supposedly married for a year to a man who, from Yuri's perspective, came out of absolutely nowhere, which anyone in their right mind would be a little suspicious about. He also seems to genuinely believe he's doing the right thing as a member of the Secret Police, not realising that they're just using him to maintain order in their country. While none of this excuses his creepy behaviour or attempts to separate the Forger family (a family he's a part of, whether he likes it or not), it does explain why he's like that.
  • Damian Desmond is a spoiled Bratty Half-Pint with a ton of issues to work through, but the majority of those issues come from having an incredibly cold and neglectful father, who considers him a stranger and has no problem making this known.
  • Nightfall aka. Fiona Frost. She's deeply, desperately, passionately in love with Twilight, while also being a Hopeless Suitor because there's no room between him and Yor. But she's also a callous, selfish jerk who ultimately doesn't care about anyone or anything except Twilight, which makes it hard to feel too sorry for her.
• Jerks Are Worse Than Villains: Donovan Desmond is the main focus of Operation Strix, but what little is known of him makes him Ambiguously Evil at best. That is why the operation is set to be a long-running one to find out his exact motives. And despite his influence apparently being great enough to re-ignite the war between Ostania and Westalis easily and the presence of particularly heinous terrorists such as Keith Kepler, they are nowhere as hated as Housemaster Swan. Swan is a Sadist Teacher who takes his personal feelings over his divorce out on families, mocks Yor for not being a proper housewife because she doesn't do any cooking, needles Anya long enough until she bursts into tears, and even seems to relish in this. He also became a housemaster simply because he is the son of the former principal of Eden College, a fact he parades around, too. Many were delighted to see Mr. Henderson punching him to the ground 'quite elegantly' after Anya's admission exam.
• Love to Hate: Fiona Frost aka. Agent Nightfall is a selfish, bitterly resentful agent who covets Agent Twilight and wants to disrupt the family he created for the mission. However, she has become a popular secondary character for many fans because her one-sided secret love for Twilight & the actions she takes because of it are pretty hilarious to watch, and her Kick the Dog antics typically result in little more than sheer embarrassment for her. It also helps that other <WISE> Agents, including Twilight, do not think highly of her because of her Cold Jerkass nature.
• Memetic Badass:
  • After the scene where Anya punches Damian made it to the anime, it's very common to see memes featuring Anya either punching or generally beating powerful characters (usually from shonen or isekai series) such as Goku and Vegeta or Dio Brando.
  • Yor also gets this treatment, given that the series already shows her performing Chuck Norris Facts-esque feats of strength, skill, agility and endurance. The "memetic" part is merely the logical conclusion.
• Memetic Loser: Fans usually portray Yuri as an extremely pathetic siscon who fails in every situation, especially in attempts to separate Loid and Yor. It doesn't help that despite being a member of the Secret Police, when attempting to discover Loid's secret early on, not only did he fail to make Loid drunk ^note Not that it would've worked in the first place; Twilight's trained himself to drink without becoming intoxicated but he became drunk himself and accidentally outed his secret identity to Loid, only correctly guessing Loid's identity as a spy out of drunk jealousy rather than any solid proof.
• Memetic Molester: Yuri's weird obsession with his sister is often exaggerated by fans into incestuous feelings, with him being portrayed as a disturbing pervert towards Yor.
• Memetic Psychopath: Yuri is canonically a very unstable and strange person who is obsessed with his sister, but fans often turn him into an even more psychotic Yandere.
• Moe:
  • With her wide eyes and adorably innocent demeanor, it's no wonder why many fans consider Anya absolutely precious. This is pushed even further beyond by her adorable voice acting.
  • Yor too, particularly Saori Hayami's performance, which depicts her as a cuddly womanchild and sweetheart who just happens to be a walking slaughterhouse. In the English dub, Natalie Van Sistine depicts her with a mature contralto instead, making her come across as more dignified, yet also comically serious due to her inability to read and enact normal social cues.
• Moral Event Horizon: Keith, the leader of the isolationist terrorists, crosses it by ordering his accomplices to kill Anya after she eavesdrops on their plan to kill the foreign minister, something even they're initially hesitant to do. Keep in mind, he's a college student acting on racist ideologies rather than a hardened soldier or government agent.
• Most Wonderful Sound: Regardless of language, Yor's voice in the anime is very pleasant to listen to and is near universally beloved by the fandom.
• One True Pairing:
  • You'll be hard pressed to find anyone who ships either Twilight/Loid or Yor with anyone else in the series, including the ice-queen Fiona and extreme-siscon Yuri, especially given the series premise. Even in-universe the two are noted to have grown closer as a couple in spite of their "fake marriage" and frequent denial.
  • Damian and Anya are likewise incredibly popular as a Toy Ship, with fan-art of their aged up selves as a couple being prevalent.
• Portmanteau Couple Name:
  • Twilight/Loid and Yor: Twiyor, Loiyor (which fittingly sounds like "lair"). It's been noted by a couple of fans that Yolo, as in the acronym YOLO, also works. Some prefer the more Idiosyncratic Ship Naming of Twilight Princess.
  • Damian and Anya: Damianya (ダミアニャ in Japanese)
  • Yuri and Nightfall/Fiona: Yuriona
  • Twilight and Nightfall: Nightlight
  • Fiona and Franky: Frankiona
• Ron the Death Eater:
  • Both WISE and the Garden often get demonized in fan works that have the plot of Twilight and Thorn Princess being tasked to take each other out. (And in WISE's case, the plot of Twilight having to leave his family after the mission's over.)
    • WISE is often portrayed as corrupt or much more morally questionable, and willing to go to much further extremes to keep the peace or fulfill their objectives than in canon. This also often includes Handler, who is portrayed as a much colder person, being manipulative and cruel to Loid.
    • Garden is canonically a mysterious group with unknown allegiances or morals, but which nonetheless (illegally) keeps Ostania peaceful from the shadows. However, some fan works portray it as a villainous group that murders innocent people or is in cahoots with the State Security Service.
  • Fiona is sometimes portrayed as more extreme than in canon, with her being a Yandere towards Loid or trying to hurt Yor to get to him.
  • While Yuri is part of the secret police (the 'villains') in canon, is willing to torture, and has a weird obsession with his sister, some fan works exaggerate these traits, turning him into a Yandere with incestuous feelings towards Yor.
• Rooting for the Empire: While just about nobody wants Yuri to succeed in breaking up Loid and Yor, it's hardly rare to see people sympathizing with Yuri's constantly foiled chase for Twilight and saying that, considering how close he often comes to discovering the truth, they wish he could catch a break and finally discover Loid's identity both because he's very pitiable and because it would make for great drama.
• Self-Fanservice: Despite her immense strength, Yor has a very slim and slender physique. Many fanartists, however, prefer to make her strength more apparent by giving her more noticeable muscles, with some turning her into a borderline Amazonian Beauty.
• Ships That Pass in the Night: Yuri and Fiona are often shipped together, even though they have yet to formally meet, due to how they dislike the person that their loved one is married to.
• Signature Scene:
  • The scene of the Forger family all sitting at a table, Loid and Yor smiling while Anya looks curiously at them, is rather popular due to its promotional use and being prominently featured as both the opening of the manga and the anime's first OP.
  • Loid "proposing" to Yor in front of a giant explosion with a grenade pin perfectly encapsulates everything the series is about in a single panel.
  • The first instance of Anya's smug smile has majorly caught on. Ditto her punch to Damian.
• Spiritual Successor:
  • Most fans in the West who remember The X's will consider this story about a spy family fairly similar to that one.
  • To the Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Cameron Film True Lies, another romantic action-comedy about a sweet and clumsy housewife with a mischievous daughter who is unaware that her husband is actually an international superspy, while keeping a dangerous secret of her own behind his back. The chief difference being, however, while also an adorable sweetheart, Helen Tasker eventually becomes a daring adventurer like her husband Harry at her tale's end, while Yor Forger starts her story as a far more formidable warrior than Loid.
  • It also has similarities to Mr. and Mrs. Smith, given the core trope of a sham family whose lead couple are secretly spies and assassins and are unaware of each other's secret identities.
• Superlative Dubbing: The English dub has been praised by fans and critics alike. Alex Organ's performance as Loid/Twilight has been positively compared to the Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig versions of James Bond,^note  Which is very fitting since the character is a spy after all and is able to handle the character's various vocal disguises with ease. Natalie Van Sistine's version of Yor Forger-Briar takes a more Comically Serious interpretation that fits the character to a T, while still embodying both her sweet-&-caring side and her deadly-assassin persona. Megan Shipman, while certainly having some growing pains early on in the series, embodies Anya's childish persona extremely well. The rest of the cast, such as Anthony Bowling's Frankie, Dallas Reid's role as Yuri, and the always sultry Stephanie Young as <WISE> Handler Sylvia Sherwood, also embody their respective characters very well. One thing that helps is that most of the in-universe text is in English, adding more immersion compared to the Translation Convention of the Japanese original and changing its Reading Foreign Signs Out Loud to the characters simply reading the exact text out loud.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel: It's amazing how a fake family made up of a spy, an assassin, a telepathic little girl, and a dog with precognition powers can eventually grow to genuinely love each other and have heartwarming bonding moments. Anytime Anya and/or Bond is on-screen WILL provoke Cuteness Proximity, as will (most) times Yor is on-screen.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Chapter 94 has an interesting slasher movie / murder mystery plot that could’ve been a fun story arc that lasted multiple chapters, only for the killer to be easily detected by Anya, with his capture and arrest only described in the narration and with a few images, rather than the readers actually seeing what happened. The intent is supposed to be a Detective Conan parody and a comical subversion of both slasher movies and detective stories - specifically with Twilight's Nerves of Steel, common sense, and general competence at everything instantly dismantling the threat of the former, and Anya's telepathic ability/Bond's precognition ability turning the whodunnit into an anticlimax with the killer having a puerile motive in the case of the latter - but some fans were disappointed that this storyline was wrapped up inside of a single chapter, as they feel that it had the potential to be much more.
• Toy Ship: There is a lot of Damian×Anya fan art and fiction, due to readers finding their interactions adorable.
• Woolseyism:
  • The English translation of the manga is consistently fantastic. One example is in Mission 26: originally, Anya mishears "knowledge is power"^note chi wa chikara as "chihuahua power" ^note chiwawa chikara, complete with an Imagine Spot of a rather muscular chihuahua. In the English version she instead hears "Knowledge is the whole enchilada!" as "Knowledge is a swole chihuahua!", creating an equally sensible pun.
    • The Anime’s English Dub takes a different approach to the scene. In it, Yuri says "knowledge is power" like in the original Japanese version; however, he also says to Anya that "studying will unleash your brain's true power". The Dub has it so Anya takes this line more literally as "No [Dog] Leash is Power?" when imagining the chihuahua.
  • In the original Japanese, Anya calls Damian "Jinan", which means "Second son of the family". This would sound strange to non-Japanese speakers so the English manga translation changes it to Anya calling Damian "Scion boy", which refers to Damian's status as coming from a rich, powerful family rather than referring to him as the "Second son". (The English anime translations go with "Second son".)
  • In the English dub of the third episode of the anime, after the family pulls away from the rally and Anya starts to recover from the overwhelming thoughts of the crowd, she mentions she wants to eat, and Loid makes the understandable assumption that her reaction might've come from being hungry (instead of wondering how she's suddenly over her reaction).
  • In Chapter 94, the names of the people sharing the cabin with the Forgers are about as punny as you can get. Rather than let the puns get Lost in Translation, the English translation replaced the names with ones that preserve the puns. John Himajin^note himajin is Japanese for "loafer", for example, is renamed "Max Slacker".

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