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Finding and changing all of the wiki's references to Esther Fallick, who came out as trans today
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* DisguisedInDrag: Al Fallick does a memorably bad job of portraying a woman.
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* DisguisedInDrag: Al A pre-transition Esther Fallick does a memorably bad job of portraying a woman.
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* MasterOfDisguise: Claims to be one of these, all onstage evidence to the contrary. Then again, in-universe he really doesn't seem to get caught (and even Curt, who bashes him constantly for this, seems to repeatedly be unable to identify which of the waiters in an establishment is the one played by Al Fallick).
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* MasterOfDisguise: Claims to be one of these, all onstage evidence to the contrary. Then again, in-universe he really doesn't seem to get caught (and even Curt, who bashes him constantly for this, seems to repeatedly be unable to identify which of the waiters in an establishment is the one played by Al Esther Fallick).
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* DecompositeCharacter: With Barb, of Miss Moneypenny. Barb is a CompositeCharacter of Q and Moneypenny who obviously has taken Moneypenny's traits of being a cute blonde girl with a hopeless crush on the protagonist; the joke is that therefore Cynthia's secretary ends up being another GenericGuy played by Al Fallick.
* DecompositeCharacter: With Barb, of Miss Moneypenny. Barb is a CompositeCharacter of Q and Moneypenny who obviously has taken Moneypenny's traits of being a cute blonde girl with a hopeless crush on the protagonist; the joke is that therefore Cynthia's secretary ends up being another GenericGuy played by Al Fallick.
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!!! Actor: Al Esther Fallick
* DecompositeCharacter: With Barb, of Miss Moneypenny. Barb is a CompositeCharacter of Q and Moneypenny who obviously has taken Moneypenny's traits of being a cute blonde girl with a hopeless crush on the protagonist; the joke is that therefore Cynthia's secretary ends up being another GenericGuy played byAl Esther Fallick.
* DecompositeCharacter: With Barb, of Miss Moneypenny. Barb is a CompositeCharacter of Q and Moneypenny who obviously has taken Moneypenny's traits of being a cute blonde girl with a hopeless crush on the protagonist; the joke is that therefore Cynthia's secretary ends up being another GenericGuy played by
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misuse of YMMV
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* HoYay: The attraction between him and Curt is really played up in the first scene. [[spoiler: And then confirmed canon.]]
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* {{Adorkable}}: Tessa Netting brings this same energy to her first major TCB stage role that she does to her [=YouTube=] videos.
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* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: She makes a few comments along these lines, although it turns out the way Mother Russian made her strong was [[TykeBomb through trauma and abuse]].
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* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: She makes a few comments along these lines, although it turns out the way Mother Russian Russia made her strong was [[TykeBomb through trauma and abuse]].
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!!! Actor: Brian Rosenthal
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!!! Actor: Brian RosenthalCreator/BrianRosenthal
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* RevolvingDoorCasting: The Prince is a non-speaking BitCharacter who was played by a different Special Guest every night of the production.
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** He is ''also'', of course, an obvious {{Expy}} of Creator/WillFerrell as Franz Liebkind performing the lead role in ''Springtime for Hitler'', in ''Film/TheProducers''.
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* PlayingGertrude: The fact that Cynthia has been smoking "since 1939" (22 years before the present day of 1961) means she has to be at least ten years older than her actor Creator/LaurenLopez, who was 30 when the show came out.
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* SixtiesHair: Lauren wears a very memorable wig to portray Cynthia's 1961 bob haircut.
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* ContraltoOfDanger: Creator/LaurenLopez is a soprano, and Cynthia's singing voice is very much in this range, but her speaking voice is noticeably much deeper than Lauren's other characters (partly because of [[SmokyVoice her smoking]]).
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* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Seems to be the reason behind her chain-smoking habit, and she's very self-aware about how self-destructive it is. "I've been poisoning myself a little bit every day since 1939."
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* BloodKnight: He enjoys violence for its own sake -- indeed, it's the only thing that gives him pleasure -- and he'll take any job that gives him the chance to hurt people. [[spoiler: His motivations turn out to be somewhat more complicated than that when he turns out to be Owen, but the many women aged 14-22 he's murdered probably weren't necessary for the plan.]]
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* BloodKnight: He enjoys violence for its own sake -- indeed, it's the only thing that gives him pleasure -- and he'll take any job that gives him the chance to hurt people. [[spoiler: His motivations turn out to be somewhat more complicated than that when he turns out to be Owen, but the many women aged 14-22 he's murdered probably weren't necessary for the plan.EvilPlan and are in fact a sign of just how lost he is to TheDarkSide.]]
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* RogueAgent: Curt's recklessness during the Russian Affair indirectly leads to Owen's death. He later on becomes an actual RogueAgent when Cynthia directly orders him to back off of the Prussian Sloviskia affair and he refuses.
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* RogueAgent: Curt's recklessness during the Russian Affair indirectly leads to Owen's death. He later on becomes an actual RogueAgent when Cynthia directly orders him to back off of the Prussian Sloviskia affair and he refuses. [[spoiler: The play ends with him permanently resigning from Cynthia's employ and becoming an independent actor with a personal crusade to destroy CHIMERA, with Barb remaining his {{mole}} in the US government.]]
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* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Everything that's happened has been orchestrated by him on behalf of his mysterious employers in CHIMERA, to achieve their mad dream of a global SinisterSurveillance dystopia.]]
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* FourthReich: As is common in a spy thriller, there's apparently a whole faction of ThoseWackyNazis who [[TheRemnant survived World War II]] with [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys a huge amount of intact resources]] determined to establish a new fascist regime in another country. [[spoiler: And they don't know they're just a figurehead being manipulated by TheManBehindTheMan, the Deadliest Man Alive and CHIMERA.]]
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* DoubleAgent: Unbeknownst to Cynthia and the rest of the American intelligence community, Tatiana has gone rogue against the KGB and is secretly working for the Nazis, thanks to the Nazis using their surveillance network to threaten her family.
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* UnknownRival: The Deadliest Man Alive seems to have declared Agent Curt Mega his ArchEnemy and made a personal goal of taking him down, much like Scaramanga's vendetta against 007 in ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' -- which takes Curt off-guard, since the DMA's career started during his retirement and he's never even met him before. [[spoiler: [[ConnectedAllAlong Or so he thinks.]]
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* UnknownRival: The Deadliest Man Alive seems to have declared Agent Curt Mega his ArchEnemy and made a personal goal of taking him down, much like Scaramanga's vendetta against 007 in ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' -- which takes Curt off-guard, since the DMA's career started during his retirement and he's never even met him before. [[spoiler: [[ConnectedAllAlong Or so he thinks.]]]]]]
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* BestServedCold: [[spoiler: He's spent ''four years'' under a fake identity concocting an elaborate TakeOverTheWorld scheme, and for all his highfalutin language about [[NewEraSpeech ushering in a new era]], it's very clear his chief emotional motivation for all his crimes is vengeance against Curt for abandoning him.]]
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* OnlyMostlyDead: [[spoiler: He did, in fact, survive accident that Curt assumed killed him. We don't know the details of what happened to him in his recovery, but apparently it was painful and traumatic enough that [[ThatManIsDead he considers it a death.]]]]
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* OnlyMostlyDead: [[spoiler: He did, in fact, survive the accident that Curt assumed killed him. We don't know the details of what happened to him in his recovery, but apparently it was painful and traumatic enough that [[ThatManIsDead he considers it a death.]]]]
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* EvilGloating: [[spoiler: In classic Bond villain style. He seems to have, in fact, done everything he's done for the past four years for the sole purpose of being able to deliver Curt a blistering BreakingSpeech -- and unlike many examples of this trope he's able to do so without giving the heroes an opportunity to stop him in the process, being, in fact, the Deadliest Man Alive.]]
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* OnlyMostlyDead: [[spoiler: He did, in fact, survive accident that Curt assumed killed him. We don't know the details of what happened to him in his recovery, but apparently it was painful and traumatic enough that [[ThatManIsDead he considers it a death.]]]]
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* UnknownRival: The Deadliest Man Alive seems to have declared Agent Curt Mega his ArchEnemy and made a personal goal of taking him down, much like Scaramanga's vendetta against 007 in ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' -- which takes Curt off-guard, since the DMA's career started during his retirement and he's never even met him before. [[spoiler: [[ConnectedAllAlong Or so he thinks.]]
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Your Cheating Heart is an index.
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* YourCheatingHeart: The Informant was apparently setting up a HoneyTrap blackmail scheme on him by tempting him onto cheating on his wife with a hotter younger woman... played by the Informant himself.
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* {{Keet}}: Her small size, blonde hair and chirpy voice make her very much this trope (which is Tessa Netting's usual wheelhouse).
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* NotSoDifferent: Her plans for an automated worldwide surveillance system aren't actually that different from [[spoiler: Owen's]]; the only difference is she genuinely has good intentions and hasn't yet seen how easily such a system could be abused.
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* ResignationsNotAccepted: Her whole problem is that as one of the KGB's special {{Tyke Bomb}}s, this trope applies to her.
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* DisappearedDad: Curt's father died when he was young, and Mama Mega diagnoses his "Messiah complex" as the result of the lack of a strong male role model early in his childhood development.
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* AfraidOfBlood: As Barb lampshades, this is a highly inconvenient phobia for a professional killer to have; Curt replies that it's only ''his own'' blood he's scared of, but being so freaked out you uncontrollably vomit when you see yourself bleeding is still a pretty big liability in his line of work.
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* CaligulasHorse: On one memorable night, the Prince was played by Creator/LaurenLopez's chihuahua Diane.
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* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler: Owen shoots him dead as he makes his escape, just as a final KickTheDog to add to Curt's burden of guilt.]]
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* AGodAmI: [[spoiler: He muses that once he owns all the secrets in the world, "I'll be God".]]
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* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler: When Curt protests he watched Owen die, Owen calmly replies, "Part of me did."]]
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