History Series / AlexRider2020

* ContinuitySnarl: Alan Blunt remarks that Scorpia's letter bore a scorpion on the envelope, while the only logo we see is a stylised "S" built into a hexagon. Perhaps this was left in from an earlier draft of the script.

** [[spoiler:[[AxCrazy Razim]] is mentioned twice by Julia Rothman as a rival in the first episode of Season 3, whereas in the books he didn't appear until ''Scorpia Rising'']].

*** [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}}, as the third season is the confirmed end of the series. [[MythologyGag Much like in the books]], Alex is targeted by Nile with a sniper rifle, but Yassen ends up killing him before he can take the shot]].

** [[spoiler:Yassen Gregorivich snipes the last clone when he points a gun at Alex.]]

* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:After Alex is hit by a snowplough during his escape, he's rushed to hospital. Eva Stellenbosch comes looking for him, just in time to see him dramatically flatline on the operating table. When she's gone, Alex looks up and says, "Did she buy it?"]]

** [[spoiler:Just as in the book, Alex is targeted by a sniper (in this case Nile, out for payback) after being debriefed by Mrs Jones -- but Yassen, seemingly [[IOweYouMyLife out of courtesy to Ian Rider]], gets to Nile first, while in the book Alex ''was'' shot but survived]].

* TrappedByGamblingDebts: Played with. It wasn't gambling, exactly, but Luca Kovacic got stuck working for Scorpia after losing all of his money in a high-risk investment scheme, having a similar if less "scandalous" effect.

** How are [[spoiler:some of Dr. Greif's clones female]]? It's a ''simple'' bit of genetic engineering, apparently.

** [[spoiler:Similarly, Julia Rothman is willing to [[DisproportionateRetribution wipe out an entire city]] ''and'' kill Alex as payback for getting deceived by John Rider, with [[ConsummateProfessional Max Grendel and Yassen]] both ripping her a new one for putting Scorpia at risk for her own revenge]].

* ItsPersonal: It's made clear that despite Rothman insisting otherwise that the reason why she's specifically targeting Britain and involving Alex, [[spoiler:as long revenge scheme against both the Department and Alex's father John for using her as source of insider information, with Julia wanting to gain Alex's trust just to see the look on his face when she kills him as an extra bit of satisfaction.]]

* {{Handwave}}: How are [[spoiler:some of Dr. Greif's clones female]]? It's a ''simple'' bit of genetic engineering, apparently.

* HandWave:
** How did Scorpia disperse the Invisible Sword nanoparticles throughout the population of Bath? We never really see, and there's only a brief reference to the dispensers being scattered throughout public places. [[spoiler:This ''is'' reflected when the transmitter is switched on, as not everyone in the city is affected]].
** [[spoiler:Apparently, Scorpia's new incarnation was able to be dismantled just as quickly, as Julia Rothman left compromising files blowing the organisation wide open on her laptop, despite the fact that the other board members would have realised something was up once Invisible Sword failed and might have had a chance to get to hiding. However, Rothman was [[JustifiedTrope deranged and revenge-obsessed enough]] that it's possible to see her overlooking this]].

The first season is available in the UK on Creator/PrimeVideo. The series became available in the US on [[Website/{{IMDb}} Freevee]] in November 2020. Season two was released in December 2021, and uses the plot of the fourth book, ''Eagle Strike''. Season three, based on the fifth book, ''Scorpia'', is due to premiere on 4 April 2024.

* MythologyGag: Tom suggests that Alex could infiltrate Julia Rothman's art show by dressing as a waiter while he [[WeNeedADistraction stages a distraction]] by setting off fireworks -- ''exactly'' how Alex snuck into Rothman's MasqueradeBall in ''Scorpia''. Kyra then scoffs at the idea and uses her HollywoodHacking skills to put Alex on the guest list in about five minutes flat.

* VillainInAWhiteSuit: Julia Rothman is a [[GenderInvertedTrope relatively rare example]] of a female villain choosing this as her default attire. She has a [[LightIsNotGood tendency to wear white in general]], too.

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* AdaptationalVillainy: {{Downplayed}}. David Friend is shown to be a CorruptCorporateExecutive who was involved in some shady dealings and nearly jailed for fraud. In the books, there was no indication of this, but it's a pretty good explaination as to why [[{{Blackmail}} Alan Blunt has so much leverage over him]].

* AdaptationalHeroism: Max Grendel makes an effort to talk Julia out of going through with Invisible Sword on the scale of violence that she has planned rather than merely deciding to quit to avoid personally dirtying his hands.

** [[spoiler:Scorpia was betting ''heavily'' on the British intelligence services evacuating the reserve football team to the military base. If they'd followed Mrs. Jones' original plan, there's no way the terahertz transmitter pod would have been able to reach them all]].

* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: [[spoiler:How Alex manages to infiltrate Mrs. Jones' secure apartment building, with Yassen hacking the internal phone lines to confirm the delivery was "genuine" and his gun hidden amidst the food]].

* DidNotGetTheGirl: A bit of a recurring theme for Alex. In Season 1, he's interested in Ayisha, a girl at his school, but [[spoiler:Duplicate!Alex]] [[NoodleIncident says something horrible/creepy to her]] [[BitchSlap putting an end to that relationship]] before it's even begun. While in Season 2, Sabina ends up thinking that [[StalkerWithACrush he's pretending to be a spy in order to get close to her]]. While she's proven wrong, and they share an AlmostKiss, she tells him he [[UnresolvedSexualTension can't be around her for a while]] as her father's still recovering from his injuries. There's a bit of ShipTease with Kyra too, but it never goes beyond that [[spoiler:until they get a RelationshipUpgrade in Episode 7 of Season 3]].

* DidNotGetTheGirl: A bit of a recurring theme for Alex. [[spoiler:In Season 1, he's interested in Ayisha, a girl at his school, but Duplicate!Alex [[NoodleIncident says something horrible/creepy to her]] [[BitchSlap putting an end to that relationship]] before it's even begun. While in Season 2, Sabina ends up thinking that [[StalkerWithACrush he's pretending to be a spy in order to get close to her]]. While she's proven wrong, and they share an AlmostKiss, she tells him he [[UnresolvedSexualTension can't be around her for a while]] as her father's still recovering from his injuries. There's a bit of ShipTease with Kyra too, but it never goes beyond that.]]

** [[spoiler:In the series Stellenbosch is killed when a gas explosion in Point Blanc's operating theatre buries her in rubble during a fight with Alex. In the book, she is shot by Wolf and falls out of a window.]]
** [[spoiler:In the book, Grief/Greif was killed when Alex rammed a snowmobile into his helicopter. In the tv series, he's killed with neurotoxin courtesy of Gregorovitch.]]

* ItsPersonal: It's made clear that despite Rothman insisting otherwise that the reason why she's specifically targetting Britain and involving Alex, [[spoiler:as long revenge scheme against both the Department and Alex's father John for using her as source of insider information, with Julia wanting to gain Alex's trust just to see the look on his face when she kills him as an extra bit of satisfaction.]]

* BettyAndVeronica: A downplayed variant is present with Alex as Archie, Sabina being the more "normal" Betty to Kyra's snarky, troubled Veronica. [[spoiler:[[DidNotGetTheGirl The ending leaves things rather ambiguous with both of them]]]].

* AcademyOfEvil: Malagosto, Scorpia's training centre for assassins, where "classes" include hand-to-hand combat, marksmanship, and infiltration planning. This is actually played straighter than it was in ''Scorpia'', with all students being orphaned {{Tyke Bomb}}s in their mid twenties at most, rather than experienced former special forces personnel, [[spoiler:with Alex's age being an outlier]], as was the case in the books.