History Manga / SpyXFamily

* AnAesop:
** Chapter 63 has one about being wary of news, when shady news of an Ostanian opera singer comes out in right-wing sponsored gossip magazines and with women who say they were paid to give certain statements, and the rebuttal hides the fact he ''did'' actually have several mistresses. Sometimes, magazines have their own political agendas and sources for such can be questionable.
** Chapter 91 makes the point that not everyone has the same emotional capacity to deal with trauma, and projecting the same standards onto everyone is both damaging and unfair.

* AnAesop: Chapter 63 has one about being wary of news, when shady news of an Ostanian opera singer comes out in right-wing sponsored gossip magazines and with women who say they were paid to give certain statements, and the rebuttal hides the fact he ''did'' actually have several mistresses. Sometimes, magazines have their own political agendas and sources for such can be questionable.

* AssholeVictim: To keep Yuri from seeming too villainous despite working for the secret police, the first person the SSS is shown interrogating, while not ''evil'', is shown with no redeeming qualities whatsoever and shamelessly admits that he was passing information to Westalis spies solely to bankroll his numerous affairs on his wife.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:

* FantasyKitchenSink: Basically, if you could imagine it in [[TwoFistedTales pulpier]] spy stories, HardBoiledDetective serials, or the not-blatantly-supernatural side of the SupernaturalMartialArts spectrum, you can find it here. This is an alternate Cold War era Earth where atomic WeirdScience has begun to unlock the mysteries of PsychicPowers in humans and animals, and where mutated people of unusual stature and deformities straight out of a ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' Comic Strip (dwarves like the Authen neighbours, the Frankenstein-head-shaped Glooman family, and literal giants such as Billy Watkins or mob-enforcer "Steel-Gut" Gullickson) are a noticed but casually accepted part of everyday life. SupernaturalMartialArts involving {{Pressure Point}}s and KiManipulation have ''not'' been rendered obsolete by automatic weaponry, and warriors who master said esoteric arts are in fact powerful enough to be more than a match for a hundred gunmen. The industry of DieselPunk science have not only created gadgets that not only comfortably in a Creator/RogerMoore era James Bond film agent's briefcase, but also found their way into [[SeriousBusiness black-market underground sports such as high stakes tennis,]] in the form of rocket-powered tennis rackets, booby-trap-laden transforming arenas, and SuperSerum steroids that render the user a towering-musclebound SuperSoldier ''literally'' resembling [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk The Red Hulk.]] As of ''Spy X Family: Code White'', the WeirdScience of Ostania has advanced to being capable of creating actual ''cyborgs'' with indestructible metallic skeletons, who can transform their limbs into gatling-guns that spray [[BottomlessMagazines an endless rain of bullets generated from within their own torsos]].

* FantasyKitchenSink: Basically, if you could imagine it in [[TwoFistedTales pulpier]] spy stories, HardBoiledDetective serials, or the not-blatantly-supernatural side of the SupernaturalMartialArts spectrum, you can find it here. This is an alternate Cold War era Earth where atomic WeirdScience has begun to unlock the mysteries of PsychicPowers in humans and animals, and where mutated people of unusual stature and deformities straight out of a ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' Comic Strip (dwarves like the Authen neighbours, the Frankenstein-head-shaped Glooman family, not to mention literal giants like Billy Watkins and countless mob-enforcers like Steel-Gut Gullickson that Yor regularly battles) are a noticed but casually accepted part of everyday life. SupernaturalMartialArts involving {{Pressure Point}}s and KiManipulation have ''not'' been rendered obsolete by automatic weaponry, and warriors who master said esoteric arts are in fact powerful enough to be more than a match for a hundred gunmen. The industry of DieselPunk science have not only created gadgets that not only comfortably in a Creator/RogerMoore era James Bond film agent's briefcase, but also found their way into [[SeriousBusiness black-market underground sports such as high stakes tennis,]] in the form of rocket-powered tennis rackets, booby-trap-laden transforming arenas, and SuperSerum steroids that render the user a towering-musclebound SuperSoldier ''literally'' resembling [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk The Red Hulk.]] As of ''Spy X Family: Code White'', the WeirdScience of Ostania has advanced to being capable of creating actual ''cyborgs'' with indestructible metallic skeletons, who can transform their limbs into gatling-guns that spray [[BottomlessMagazines an endless rain of bullets generated from within their own torsos]].

* FantasyKitchenSink: Basically, if you could imagine it in [[TwoFistedTales pulpier]] spy stories, HardBoiledDetective serials, or the not-blatantly-supernatural side of the SupernaturalMartialArts spectrum, you can find it here. This is an alternate Cold War era Earth where atomic WeirdScience has begun to unlock the mysteries of PsychicPowers in humans and animals, and where mutated people of unusual stature and deformities straight out of a ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' Comic Strip (such as the gigantic Watkins family, the Frankenstein-head-shaped Glooman family and the literal giants that Yor regularly fights) are a noticed but casually accepted part of everyday life. SupernaturalMartialArts involving {{Pressure Point}}s and KiManipulation have ''not'' been rendered obsolete by automatic weaponry, and warriors who master said esoteric arts are in fact powerful enough to be more than a match for a hundred gunmen. The industry of DieselPunk science have not only created gadgets that not only comfortably in a Creator/RogerMoore era James Bond film agent's briefcase, but also found their way into [[SeriousBusiness black-market underground sports such as high stakes tennis,]] in the form of rocket-powered tennis rackets, booby-trap-laden transforming arenas, and SuperSerum steroids that render the user a towering-musclebound SuperSoldier ''literally'' resembling [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk The Red Hulk.]] As of ''Spy X Family: Code White'', the WeirdScience of Ostania has advanced to being capable of creating actual ''cyborgs'' with indestructible metallic skeletons, who can transform their limbs into gatling-guns that spray [[BottomlessMagazines an endless rain of bullets generated from within their own torsos]].

* FantasyKitchenSink: Basically, if you could imagine it in [[TwoFistedTales pulpier]] spy stories, HardBoiledDetective serials, or the not-blatantly-supernatural side of the SupernaturalMartialArts spectrum, you can find it here. This is an alternate Cold War era Earth where atomic WeirdScience has begun to unlock the mysteries of PsychicPowers in humans and animals, and where mutated people of unusual stature and deformities straight out of a ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' Comic Strip (such as the gigantic Watkins family, the Frankenstein-head-shaped Glooman family and the literal giants that Yor regularly fights) are a noticed but casually accepted part of everyday life. SupernaturalMartialArts involving {{Pressure Point}}s and KiManipulation have ''not'' been rendered obsolete by automatic weaponry, and warriors who master said esoteric arts are in fact powerful enough to be more than a match for a hundred gunmen. The industry of DieselPunk science have not only created gadgets that not only comfortably in a Creator/RogerMoore era James Bond film agent's briefcase, but also found their way into [[SeriousBusinessin black-market underground sports such as high stakes tennis,]] in the form of rocket-powered tennis rackets, booby-trap-laden transforming arenas, and SuperSerum steroids that render the user a towering-musclebound SuperSoldier ''literally'' resembling [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk The Red Hulk.]] As of ''Spy X Family: Code White'', the WeirdScience of Ostania has advanced to being capable of creating actual ''cyborgs'' with indestructible metallic skeletons, who can transform their limbs into gatling-guns that spray [[BottomlessMagazines an endless rain of bullets generated from within their own torsos]].

* FantasyKitchenSink: Basically, if you could imagine it in [[TwoFistedTales pulpier]] spy stories, or the not-blatantly-supernatural side of the SupernaturalMartialArts spectrum, you can find it here. This is an alternate Cold War era Earth where atomic WeirdScience has begun to unlock the mysteries of PsychicPowers in humans and animals, and where mutated humans of unusual stature (such as the gigantic Watkins family, the Frankenstein-head-shaped Glooman family and the literal giants that Yor regularly fights) are a noticed but casually accepted part of everyday life. SupernaturalMartialArts involving {{Pressure Point}}s and KiManipulation have ''not'' been rendered obsolete by automatic weaponry, and warriors who master said esoteric arts are in fact powerful enough to be more than a match for a hundred gunmen. The industry of DieselPunk science have not only created gadgets that fit comfortably in a Creator/RogerMoore era James Bond film agent's briefcase, but also SuperSerum steroids that render the user a SuperSoldier (which in fact have gained widespread use in black-market underground sports [[SeriousBusiness like high stakes tennis), ]] and as of ''Spy X Family: Code White'', actual ''cyborgs'' with indestructible metallic skeletons, who can transform their limbs into gatling-guns that spray [[BottomlessMagazines an endless rain of bullets generated from within their own torsos]].

* WholePlotReference: Chapter 94 is a MysteryEpisode that directly follows the format of ''Manga/CaseClosed'', except the "detective" is the Forgers, so the culprit is apprehended almost immediately after the attempted murder.

* WholePlotReference: Chapter 94 is MysteryEpisode that directly follows the format of ''Manga/CaseClosed'', except the "detective" being the Forgers, so the culprit is apprehended almost immediately after the attempted murder.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: Its made clear that Ostania is ''not'' the most free or nice place to live. While it seems like a peaceful, well-maintained country on the surface, it's quite dangerous to be an Ostanian citizen. Even aside from the tensions with and prejudice against Westalis, its shown that pretty much the entire country and its people are [[BigBrotherIsWatching under constant surveillance]] from the government, the government has a SecretPolice that is virtually untouchable, which gives them free rein to arrest, torture and execute anyone they even ''suspect'' of being a criminal, and the common folk are conditioned to live in such a state of paranoia that simply being an unmarried woman past her 30's is considered suspicious, because they're convinced that only someone who has something to hide wouldn't want to start a family.

* FantasyKitchenSink: Basically, if you could imagine it in [[TwoFistedTales pulpier]] spy stories, or the not-blatantly-supernatural side of the SupernaturalMartialArts spectrum, you can find it here. This is an alternate Cold War era Earth where atomic WeirdScience has begun to unlock the mysteries of PsychicPowers in humans and animals, and where mutated humans of unusual stature (such as the gigantic Watkins family, the Frankenstein-head-shaped Glooman family and the literal giants that Yor regularly fights) are a noticed but casually accepted part of everyday life. SupernaturalMartialArts involving {{Pressure Point}}s and KiManipulation have ''not'' been rendered obsolete by automatic weaponry, and warriors who master said esoteric arts are in fact powerful enough to be more than a match for a hundred gunmen. The industry of DieselPunk science have not only created gadgets that fit comfortably in a Creator/RogerMoore era James Bond film agent's briefcase, but also SuperSerum steroids that render its user a SuperSoldier, (which in fact have gained widespread use in black-market underground sports [[SeriousBusiness like high stakes tennis), ]] and as of ''Spy X Family: Code White'', actual ''cyborgs'' with indestructible metallic skeletons, who can transform their limbs into gatling-guns that spray [[BottomlessMagazines an endless rain of bullets generated from within their own torsos]].

* GenreRoulette: A Dirty Martini Spy Thriller with Hong Kong Martial Arts Action an Cold-War-Era-Weird-Science Heartwarming Domestic Comedy starring a Heroic but BookDumb Psychic Little Girl who strives to beome an Academic Genius in an AcademyOfAdventure. Try saying that three times in a row.

* CrapsackWorld: Its made clear that Ostania is ''not'' the most free or nice place to live. Even aside from the tensions with and prejudice against Westalis, its shown that pretty much the entire country and its people are [[BigBrotherIsWatching under constant surveillance]] from the government, the government has a SecretPolice that is virtually untouchable, which gives them free rein to arrest, torture and execute anyone they even ''suspect'' of being a criminal, and the common folk are conditioned to live in such a state of paranoia that simply being an unmarried woman past her 30's is considered suspicious, because they're convinced that only someone who has something to hide wouldn't want to start a family.

** Mission 94 kicks off an (attempted)-murder mystery that starts off like a chapter-spanning arc...only to abruptly end in the same chapter since [[StoryBreakerPower Anya and Bond figure out who the culprit is and when they'll strike again using their powers]] and manipulate Loid into confronting them, resulting in everything getting neatly cleaned up.

* MysteryEpisode: Chapter 94 is a classic TenLittleMurderVictims plot in a ski lodge isolated by a blizzard... but with the Forgers involved, it's quickly wrapped up after the attempted murder of the first victim, courtesy of Anya's telepathy and Bond's precognition.

* AntiClimax: Chapter 94 deliberately invokes this twice. [[spoiler: At first, it sets out the plot of a slasher movie, where an urban legend seemingly comes to life to start gruesomely murdering people [[SnowedIn trapped in a ski lodge by the weather]]. Twilight utterly dismantles the threat with his NervesOfSteel, common sense, and wide array of skills, so the first would-be victim gets immediate medical treatment, the cut phone lines aren't an issue, and the fingers pointed at Yor don't lead to anything rash happening. Then, the story tries to GenreShift into a whodunnit murder mystery, only for Anya's mind-reading powers to instantly identify the culprit, learning how he invented the urban legend to cover for his crime, his [[DisappointedByTheMotive lame and unsatsifying motive]], and what he plans to do next. She then pokes Twilight in the right direction, who stops the crime and apprehends the criminal in two or three panels]]. It simultaneously shows how difficult it is to challenge the cast and how easily they can make mincemeat out of stock plots.
* ArmorIsUseless: A flashback {{avert|edTrope}}s this by showing how Twilight was once shot in the head and survived thanks to his helmet, though he still got injured and spent some time out of commission afterward. The probably toy helmet he wore as a boy also saved him from a piece of shrapnel during the bombing of his town. Also, while Yor still killed him pretty easily, all things considered, the most hurt she's ever gotten on a job is when she jammed her fingers fighting a man wearing a huge steel girdle.

* FantasyKitchenSink: Basically, if you could imagine it in [[TwoFistedTales pulpier]] spy stories, or the not-blatantly-supernatural side of the SupernaturalMartialArts spectrum, you can find it here. This is an alternate Cold War era Earth where atomic WeirdScience has begun to unlock the mysteries of PsychicPowers in humans and animals, and where mutated humans of unusual stature (such as the gigantic Watkins family, the Frankenstein-head-shaped Glooman family and the literal giants that Yor regularly fights) are a noticed but casually accepted part of everyday life. SupernaturalMartialArts involving {{Pressure Point}}s and KiManipulation have ''not'' been rendered obsolete by automatic weaponry, and warriors who master said esoteric arts are in fact powerful enough to be more than a match for a hundred gunmen. The industry of DieselPunk science have not only created gadgets that fit comfortably in a Creator/RogerMoore era James Bond film agent's briefcase, but also SuperSerum steroids that render its user a SuperSoldier (and in fact have gained widespread use in black-market underground sports [[SeriousBusiness like high stakes tennis), ]] and as of ''Spy X Family: Code White'', actual ''cyborgs'' with indestructible metallic skeletons, who can transform their limbs into gatling-guns that spray [[BottomlessMagazines an endless rain of bullets generated from within their own torsos]].

* FantasyKitchenSink: Basically, if you could imagine it in [[TwoFistedTales pulpier]] spy stories, or the not-blatantly-supernatural side of the SupernaturalMartialArts spectrum, you can find it here. This is an alternate Cold War era Earth where atomic WeirdScience has begun to unlock the mysteries of PsychicPowers in humans and animals, and where mutated humans of unusual stature (such as the gigantic Watkins family, the Frankenstein-head-shaped Glooman family and the literal giants that Yor regularly fights) are a noticed but casually accepted part of everyday life. SupernaturalMartialArts involving {{Pressure Point}}s and KiManipulation have ''not'' been rendered obsolete by automatic weaponry, and warriors who master said esoteric arts are in fact powerful enough to be more than a match for a hundred gunmen. The industry of DieselPunk science has created gadgets that fit comfortably in a Creator/RogerMoore era James Bond film agent's briefcase, SuperSerum steroids that render its user a SuperSoldier (and in fact have widespread use in black-market underground sports [[SeriousBusiness like high stakes tennis]], and as of ''Spy X Family: Code White'', actual ''cyborgs'' with indestructible metallic skeletons, who can transform their limbs into gatling-guns that spray [[BottomlessMagazines an endless rain of bullets generated from within their own torsos]].

* GenreRoulette: A Dirty Martini Spy Thriller with Hong Kong Martial Arts Action Heartwarming Domestic Comedy starring a Heroic but BookDumb Psychic Little Girl who strives to beome an Academic Genius in an AcademyOfAdventure. Try saying that three times in a row.

* AntiClimax: Chapter 94 deliberately invokes this twice. [[spoiler: At first, it sets out the plot of a slasher movie, where an urban legend seemingly comes to life to start gruesomely murdering people [[SnowedIn trapped in a ski lodge by the weather]]. Twilight utterly dismantles the threat with his NervesOfSteel, common sense, and wide array of skills, so the first would-be victim gets immediate medical treatment and the cut phone lines aren't an issue. Then, the story tries to GenreShift into a whodunnit murder mystery, only for Anya's mind-reading powers to instantly identify the culprit, learning how he invented the urban legend to cover for his crime, his [[DisappointedByTheMotive lame and unsatsifying motive]], and what he plans to do next. She then pokes Twilight in the right direction, who stops the crime and apprehends the criminal in two or three panels]]. It simultaneously shows how difficult it is to challenge the cast and how easily they can make mincemeat out of stock plots.

* ArmorIsUseless: A flashback {{avert|edTrope}}s this by showing how Twilight was once shot in the head and survived thanks to his helmet, though he still got injured and spent some time out of commission afterward. The probably toy helmet he wore as a boy also saved him from a piece of shrapnel during the bombing of his town.

** Gerald Gorey calls the SSS on Loid and states he is a spy solely because he is jealous of how well liked he is.

* FantasyKitchenSink: Of the UrbanFantasy variety. This is an alternate Cold War Era earth where atomic WeirdScience have begun to unlock the mysteries of PsychicPowers in humans and animals, where mutated humans of unusual stature (such as the gigantic Watkins family, the Frankenstein-head-shaped Glooman family and the literal giants that Yor regularly fights) are a noticed but casually accepted part of everyday life. SupernaturalMartialArts involving PressurePoint and KiManipulation have ''not'' been rendered obsolte by automatic weaponary, and warriors who master said esoteric arts in fact powerful enough to be more than a match for a hundred gunmen. The industry of DieselPunk science have created gadgets that fit comfortably in Creator/RogerMoore era James Bond Film agent's briefcase, SuperSerum steroids that render its user a SuperSoldier (and in fact have widespread use in black-market underground sporting [[SeriousBusiness like high stakes Tennis]], and as of ''Spy X Family: Code White'', actual ''cyborgs'' with indestructible metallic skeletons, who can transform their limbs into gatling-guns that spray [[BottomlessMagazines an endless rain of bullets generated from within their own torsos]].

* BreakTheCutie: To vent his own petty jealousy over the Forgers' happiness, Housemaster Swan ruthlessly forces Anya to compare her love for her stepmother Yor to her original mother (whom she likely has never even known), driving the little girl to tears. It's also the first time in the manga where her crying ''isn't'' PlayedForLaughs... not to mention the first time we witness the normally calm professional murderers Yor and Loid '''[[MamaBear truly]] [[PapaWolf enraged]] [[NightmareFuel onscreen]]'''

* BreakTheCutie: To vent his own petty jealousy over the Forgers' happiness, Housemaster Swan ruthlessly forces Anya to compare her love for her stepmother Yor to her original mother (whom she likely has never even known), driving the little girl to tears. It's also the first time in the manga where her crying ''isn't'' PlayedForLaughs... not to mention the first time we witness the normally calm professional murderers Yor and Loid '''[[MamaBear truly]] [[PapaWolf enraged] [[NightmareFuel onscreen]]'''

* BreakTheCutie: To vent his own petty jealousy over the Forgers' happiness, Housemaster Swan ruthlessly forces Anya to compare her love for her stepmother Yor to her original mother (whom she likely has never even known), driving the little girl to tears. It's also the first time in the manga where her crying ''isn't'' PlayedForLaughs.

* AnyoneCanDie: Discussed by Chloe, Yuri's partner, in Mission 89. Still bitter over being beaten by Twilight, who got away with the captured Westalis intelligence, Yuri wants to prove he's strong enough to protect Ostania, and, more importantly, Yor, so [[LeeroyJenkins he rushes into the hideout of suspected militants]] and takes them out single-handedly while chanting Yor's name. When Chloe comes in, a knife wielding suspected rushes Yuri from behind, but is taken out by Chloe. When Chloe calls him out for being so careless that he could've been stabbed, Yuri scoffs at the idea that being stabbed could hurt him, and Chloe responds by slapping him, twice, and flat out telling him "You will die. People die. Even ''you'', Yuri."

* DieselPunk: By the time of the ''Spy X Family: Code White'' motion picture, the Atomic-Era WeirdScience of this setting has advanced to the creation of ''indestructible cyborgs'', [[MoreMachineThanMan half metal, half flesh]], who can transform their arms into gatling guns.

* DieselPunk: By the time of Anime/SpyFamilyCodeWhite, the Atomic-Era WeirdScience of the setting has advanced to the creation of ''indestructible cyborgs'' who can transform their arms into gatling guns.

* FantasyKitchenSink: Of the UrbanFantasy variety. This is an alternate Cold War Era earth where atomic WeirdScience have begun to unlock the mysteries of PsychicPowers in humans and animals, where mutated humans of unusual stature (such as the gigantic Watkins family, the Frankenstein-head-shaped Glooman family and the literal giants that Yor regularly fights) are a noticed but casually accepted part of everyday life. SupernaturalMartialArts involving PressurePoing and KiManipulation have ''not'' been rendered obsolte by automatic weaponary, and warriors who master said esoteric arts in fact powerful enough to be more than a match for a hundred gunmen. The industry of DieselPunk science have created gadgets that fit comfortably in Creator/RogerMoore era James Bond Film agent's briefcase, SuperSerum steroids that render its user a SuperSoldier (and in fact have widespread use in black-market underground sporting [[SeriousBusiness like high stakes Tennis]], and as of Anime/SpyFamilyCodeWhitem actual ''cyborgs'' with indestructible metallic skeletons, who can transform their limbs into gatling-guns that spray [[BottomlessMagazines an endless rain of bullets generated from within their own torsos]].

* WeirdScience: Anya and Bond being psychics notwithstanding, this is a world where SuperSerum that turn sportsmen into literal giants and as of Anime/SpyFamilyCodeWhite ''cyborgs with machine gun arms'' are steadily becoming more commonplace due to the advances of this trope.