Line #167 Characters/SpiesAreForever


1	[[foldercontrol]]
2
3	!Heroes
4
5	[[folder:Agent Curt Mega]]
6	!!! Actor: [[TheDanza Curt Mega]]
7	* 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.
8	* AgentsDating: Curt and Tatiana try this before very quickly deciding to just be friends. [[spoiler:Curt and Owen in the past.]]
9	* BeardOfSorrow: Following the Russian Affair.
10	* 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.
11	* DrowningMySorrows:
12	-->Then I pour myself a drink \
13	And then another \
14	And another drink \
15	Until it does the trick
16	* DontYouDarePityMe: A lot of his problems come from this attitude after his fall from grace.
17	* EagleLand: Represents the classic American hero's attitude of overconfident individualism and callous indifference to rules. Lampshaded when he finds himself out-Ugly-Americaned by Richard Big while flirting with Tatiana at the casino.
18	* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: [[spoiler: Owen and Chimera's plan for a world free of spies and secrets would effectively out Curt and Owen. Curt uses this fact to try to stop Owen]].
19	* GadgetWatches: Barb tries to get Curt to use his to photograph the documents and transmit them to her in the first scene. Curt refuses to do this, instead promising to hand them over directly when he escapes.
20	* HeartbrokenBadass: Curt is frequently crippled in the field by memories of Owen.
21	* TheHero: A square-jawed all-American badass.
22	* IdiotHero: Isn't much for book learning or for thinking his actions through before jumping in fists swinging. [[spoiler: Owen snarks at him that he's prone to surrounding himself with teammates smarter than he is, and letting them take the fall for his mistakes.]]
23	* IncompatibleOrientation: Barb has a planet-sized crush on him. [[spoiler:Too bad he's gay.]]
24	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Acts like an asshole and a bully to the people around him most of the time, especially to the "nerds" in Barb's tech department. It turns out a lot of this is to try to protect himself from the pain that comes from getting too close to people.
25	* MyGreatestFailure: His confidence in his own unstoppability was completely unshakable, until the day one of his fuckups cost Owen his life.
26	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Does this multiple times throughout the story, including when his CuttingTheKnot plan to reveal the threat to the Prince's life in public just drives the Nazis to assassinate him immediately.
27	* 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.]]
28	* ScrapHeapHero: Curt for four years [[spoiler:after Owen's death]]. He drinks, grieves, and grows a BeardOfSorrow.
29	* StraightGay: [[spoiler: An all-American masculine badass who, it turns out, has never had any time for girls.]]
30	* TechnicianVsPerformer: He had this relationship with his partner Owen, being the more flamboyant and cocky one prone to "winging it" as opposed to making and sticking to a plan. Unfortunately, this tendency to recklessness and carelessness went too far one day and cost Owen his life.
31	* TraumaButton: Anything that reminds him of Owen is a major {{Trigger}} for him, giving him {{Flashback Echo}}es of Owen's death.
32	* TuxedoAndMartini: He's an American {{Expy}} of Franchise/JamesBond, although his initial cockiness and irresponsibility are {{flanderiz\|ation}}ed almost to the point of being an {{Expy}} of WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}.
33	[[/folder]]
34
35	[[folder:Tatiana Slozhno]]
36	!!! Actor: Mary Kate Wiles
37	* ActionGirl: She matches or outdoes Curt in general competence, and she's one of the very few people besides him who can take the Deadliest Man Alive in a fight.
38	* AgentsDating: Curt and Tatiana try this before very quickly deciding to just be friends.
39	* BetterAsFriends: After one AwkwardKiss, she and Curt decide this about their relationship. [[spoiler: Curt's orientation makes this the only possible option.]]
40	* ConnectedAllAlong: Although Tatiana had never met Agent Curt Mega before the events of the show, she ''has'' apparently met his ex-partner Owen [[NoodleIncident at some point]]... [[spoiler: judging by her shocked "Owen?" when the Deadliest Man Alive reveals his true face.]]
41	* 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.
42	* EmotionlessGirl: She's extremely cold when Curt first meets her, her later warming up to him is all an act, and it's only after they're at his mom's safehouse that she genuinely opens up to him.
43	* EvilRedhead: Seems like one at first, but she's not so bad when you get to know her.
44	* FakeRussian: Played by American Creator/MaryKateWiles (which is already obvious to the audience because Wiles first appeared as [[TheChanteuse the American-accented Chanteuse]] in the ActionPrologue).
45	* FemmeFataleSpy: Comes off as a classic stereotype of one at first, although the "fatale" part is subverted.
46	* ForcedIntoEvil: Tatiana has no personal love for the Soviet regime and takes no pleasure in deception or killing, but has had no choice about her career since childhood. She has only contempt and hatred for Baron von Nazi and the Deadliest Man Alive, but has been forced to become a DoubleAgent for them -- at tremendous risk to her and her family's lives -- thanks to their surveillance program.
47	* IHaveYourWife: Tatiana can't quit the spy game despite her desperate desire to because the bad guys are holding her family as leverage -- first the KGB themselves (with her family trapped behind the Iron Curtain and with all the civil liberties one might expect in Khruschev's USSR), then Baron von Nazi via his surveillance program.
48	* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: She's still in her evening gown from her night at the casino when she betrays Baron von Nazi to fight for Curt's survival, although most of the time this is subverted and she dresses in a practical jacket and pants when she's working.
49	* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: She makes a few comments along these lines, although it turns out the way Mother Russia made her strong was [[TykeBomb through trauma and abuse]].
50	* MysteriousWoman: When she first shows up neither Curt nor the audience knows anything about her, other than the obvious fact that she's Russian and a spy.
51	* ResignationsNotAccepted: Her whole problem is that as one of the KGB's special {{Tyke Bomb}}s, this trope applies to her.
52	* TheStoic: Her ice breaking when she chooses to save Curt is a major piece of CharacterDevelopment.
53	* SensualSlavs: Very much played up at first, then downplayed after she and Curt decide they're BetterAsFriends.
54	* TykeBomb: Went through something similar to the ComicBook/BlackWidow "Red Room" program, although unlike Black Widow she seems to have maintained her connection to her birth family. She's apparently been trained since she was ''four'' and deployed since she was ''thirteen''.
55	* VodkaDrunkenski: She taunts the other members of the team about their inability to match her shot-for-shot when they go on their bender.
56	[[/folder]]
57
58	[[folder: Barb Larvernor]]
59	!!! Actor: Tessa Netting
60	* ButtMonkey: The canon Q's frustration with how callously Bond treats his work is exaggerated here, with Curt wantonly wreaking havoc in Barb's lab, Cynthia making Barb ''live in a fishing boat'' nearby during Curt's mission (because they blew the whole budget on Curt's luxurious accommodations) and Curt being so inattentive during her briefings he keeps forgetting to wear the high-tech rocket shoes she made him because [[SkewedPriorities they don't match his outfit]].
61	* {{Expy}}: She's a CompositeCharacter of Q and Miss Moneypenny.
62	* GadgeteerGenius: The smartest genius in a whole team of geniuses, all of whom are hard at work on various anachronistic science-fiction inventions. She herself intimates she may be on the cusp of inventing TheInternet.
63	* {{Keet}}: Her small size, blonde hair and chirpy voice make her very much this trope (which is Tessa Netting's usual wheelhouse).
64	* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: Wears a lab coat the entire show except for one scene at the end.
65	* MissionControl
66	* NerdGlasses
67	* TheSmartGirl
68	* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Talks Curt through his missions (not that he listens to her advice).
69	[[/folder]]
70
71	[[folder: The Informant]]
72	!!! Actor: Esther Fallick
73	* BeneathNotice: A big part of his "MasterOfDisguise" strategy is just repeatedly disguising himself as a waiter.
74	* DisguisedInDrag: A pre-transition Esther Fallick does [[IronyAsSheIsCast a memorably bad job of portraying a woman]].
75	* EveryoneHasStandards: His first encounter with Curt has him come off as the most bumbling, incompetent secret agent imaginable, and yet he points out in response to Curt's criticisms that he's never gotten his own partner killed.
76	* {{Expy}}: Of recurring Franchise/JamesBond character Felix Leiter, Bond's swaggering American contact from the CIA. (Note that this is arguably a case of a DecompositeCharacter, since Curt and Owen's original relationship mapped fairly well onto Leiter and Bond.)
77	* LossOfIdentity: Has a hilariously {{melodrama}}tic monologue about how his life of switching from identity to identity constantly has inflicted this psychological damage on him... even though each of those identities is nothing but a WigDressAccent.
78	* 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 Esther Fallick).
79	* NoNameGiven: Despite the fact that he's one of the main characters and becomes part of TheTeam, he is never given a name, not even in the character lists.
80	* OvertOperative: He's even worse at not looking like a spy than a TuxedoAndMartini operative like Curt Mega.
81	* PaperThinDisguise: Despite his whole shtick being a MasterOfDisguise, in reality they're not much more than a WigDressAccent, especially the one that ''literally'' involves a wig and a dress.
82	* PornStache: The biggest thing that undermines his claim to being a MasterOfDisguise is that his highly distinctive mustache never comes off, even when he's being a woman.
83	* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler: Owen shoots him dead as he makes his escape, just as a final KickTheDog to add to Curt's burden of guilt.]]
84	[[/folder]]
85
86	[[folder:Director Cynthia Houston]]
87	!!! Actor: Creator/LaurenLopez
88	* SixtiesHair: Lauren wears a very memorable wig to portray Cynthia's 1961 bob haircut.
89	* 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."
90	* {{Expy}}: Of the female version of M played by Creator/JudiDench, who's appeared in all the Franchise/JamesBond films since ''Film/{{Goldeneye}}''. [[spoiler: (Notable because that film, which introduced the idea of a female head of [=MI6=], also introduces 006/Alec Trevelyan, the obvious inspiration for Owen.)]]
91	* HypocriticalHumor: Shows that she's shamelessly apolitical by chumming it up on the phone with both [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon the loser]] and [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy the winner]] of the recent 1960 presidential election.
92	* IronLady: The video that introduces her in the [=YouTube=] recording of the show outright calls her a "Boss B***h".
93	* ManOfAThousandVoices: A BaitAndSwitch joke. She tells us she's a gifted vocal impressionist, and does a mean impression of JFK while on the phone with Richard Nixon to try to cheer him up after the election, only to then [[HypocriticalHumor end up on a phone call with the newly-elected JFK]], where she likewise tries to mollify him by offering to do an impression... and then tells him she can only do one of people with a [[HollywoodNewEngland Boston accent]].
94	* PintSizedPowerhouse: Lauren Lopez is fairly short even when in heels, but her character is BAD. ASS.
95	* SecretTest: She ''loves'' testing Agent Mega by springing deadly threats on him without warning and seeing how he reacts, without much thought for the collateral damage that might result.
96	* SinkOrSwimMentor: Literally a "Wear a bulletproof vest to every meeting with me or else die when I unexpectedly shoot you" mentor.
97	* SirSwearsALot: In a show where no one is particularly shy about dropping F-bombs, she still stands out. Her very first words (in the form of a written note) after the TimeSkip are "Don't fuck this up or I'll kill you myself".
98	[[/folder]]
99
100	[[folder:Mama Mega]]
101	!!! Actor: Creator/LaurenLopez
102	* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Curt predictably finds her to be this; heroic secret agent or no heroic secret agent, she's unhesitant about sharing embarrassing stories from his childhood.
103	* HiddenDepths: Her hobby of puttering around with arts and crafts apparently translates to being very skilled at forging official documents.
104	* SeinfeldianConversation: In her old age she apparently finds it impossible to keep in mind that the future of the free world is at stake and has a higher priority than her issues with her broken fridge or her hopes that Curt will give her grandchildren.
105	* ShipperOnDeck: Is extremely enthusiastic about the idea of Curt and Tatiana getting married, despite their protests.
106	[[/folder]]
107
108	[[folder:Susan]]
109	!!! Actor: Esther Fallick
110	* 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 Esther Fallick.
111	* EatTheEvidence: Eats the note that Curt says to give to Cynthia, and also Curt's clearance badge at the end.
112	* ExtremeDoormat: Ends up ''taking a grenade'' for Curt and ambiguously dying of it (for no good reason, as one of Cynthia's abusive tests).
113	* GenderBlenderName: His name is Susan, but he's a man. (This could be chalked up to it being a last name.)
114	* SecretTest: Cynthia calls to her secretary Susan for a cup of coffee, only for a man to suddenly burst into her office and attack her -- only for her to reveal this was a test to see if Curt would intervene and, when he doesn't, has her address the man as "Susan" and dismiss him in disgust.
115	[[/folder]]
116
117	!Villains
118
119	[[folder:Dr Baron von Nazi]]
120	!!! Actor: Creator/BrianRosenthal
121	* AdolfHitlarious: The real Hitler is, of course, long dead at this point, but lives on in the Baron's memory and as his hand puppet.
122	* AristocratsAreEvil: And a more evil one than usual, since his noble family is apparently the "von Nazi" family.
123	* BigBadWannabe: It's painfully obvious from the first time we meet him that this guy is more of a clown than a threat, but we don't learn the details until [[spoiler: his henchman the Deadliest Man Alive executes him the instant he gets the land deed from the Prussian Sloviskians.]]
124	* CampStraight: A fan of flamboyant dance numbers, Von Nazi is nevertheless ambiguously straight. [[spoiler: An interesting juxtaposition to the StraightGay Curt and Owen]].
125	* ConsultingMisterPuppet: Talks to a hand puppet of his uncle Adolf Hitler whenever he needs to reassure himself and stroke his own ego.
126	* DamnedByFaintPraise: Part of the joke with his character is he never really makes much of an attempt to defend the Nazis' genocidal racism in and of itself, instead just deflecting to the generally-agreed-upon good things that happened under Nazi rule (the Autobahn, Volkswagen cars, Fanta soda) to argue "Nazis Are Not So Bad".
127	* {{Expy}}: A very loose one of classic Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, being a self-proclaimed DiabolicalMastermind with a much more physically imposing [[TheDragon Dragon]] (the DMA standing in for Emilio Largo), and the whole initial ExcusePlot with the bomb being highly reminiscent of Blofeld's first film appearance in ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''. Also one for Hugo Drax of ''Literature/{{Moonraker}}'', the Bond villain known for being a former Nazi (although he only had this backstory in the original book).
128	** 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''.
129	* 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.]]
130	* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: He's ''Doctor'' Baron von Nazi, to you.
131	* NoNameGiven: Presumably "Doctor" and "Baron" are both titles, meaning his actual first name remains unknown throughout the show.
132	* NWordPrivileges: Many commenters have pointed out a huge factor in TCB getting away with this character is it's very well-known Brian Rosenthal, who plays him, is Jewish, as is director Corey Lubowich.
133	* SissyVillain: He keeps glitter up his sleeve and does self indulgent musical numbers complete with back up dancer henchpeople. The homophobic elements of this trope are interestingly played with in that while the "manly" hero squares off against the sissy villain, [[spoiler: Curt]] is textually gay, and Von Nazi is ambiguously straight.
134	* SpinOffspring: Hitler famously didn't have any biological kids (at least, none that he acknowledged), so having a nephew take up his mantle is the next best thing. (Slightly TruthInTelevision, since Hitler had two nephews by his half-brother Alois Jr. in RealLife -- one of whom, William, famously defected to the Allies while the other, Heinz, was a loyal Nazi who died in the Eastern Front in the war.)
135	%%* ThoseWackyNazis:
136	* VillainousUnderdog: Incredibly, he seems to see Germany as the real victim of World War II and the USSR and USA as the aggressors and oppressors, and just blithely refuses to acknowledge why no one agrees with his slogan "The Nazis are not so bad".
137	[[/folder]]
138
139	[[folder:Deadliest Man Alive]]
140	!!! Actor: Creator/JoeWalker
141	* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: [[spoiler: As Owen Carvour, he was the professional, careful spy who tried to limit collateral damage and get the job done right. After he was embittered and transformed by his near-death experience, he turned that same analytical mind toward ''maximizing'' collateral damage and creating as much pain as he could for its own sake.]]
142	* 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 EvilPlan and are in fact a sign of just how lost he is to TheDarkSide.]]
143	* CastAsAMask: [[spoiler: The DMA and Owen Carvour, played by Joey Richter, are one and the same, with Joe Walker cast as the DMA -- acting against Joey Richter as Sergio! -- to make it extra unlikely for the viewers to guess. Even with a LatexPerfection mask we just have to chalk up the DMA's extra fifty pounds of muscle to Owen's acting skills.]]
144	* DramaticGunCock: He racks the slide on his semiautomatic as often as normal people check their watch.
145	* DragonInChief: It was always pretty obvious he was much more competent and dangerous than Baron von Nazi, but it's only after he casually executes his boss that it's confirmed he was always really in charge.
146	* EvilBrit: Of the Cockney variant. He's clearly meant to evoke a LondonGangster from a Creator/GuyRitchie movie, including his OnlyInItForTheMoney (and [[{{Sadist}} pleasure]]) ethos.
147	* {{Expy}}: Of many Bond villains, but his shtick of being a totally amoral hired killer makes him one of Francisco Scaramanga from ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' -- who was, indeed, described in the trailer of that film as "the Most Dangerous Man Alive". [[spoiler: After TheReveal it turns out he's an Expy of Janus, Alec Trevelyan's alter ego in ''Film/{{Goldeneye}}''.]]
148	* FakeBrit: American Joe Walker adopts a Cockney accent for the Deadliest Man Alive.
149	* HeManWomanHater: We don't see him being ''particularly'' violent toward women as opposed to men onstage, but Cynthia tells us he's a "sick fuck" who shows a preference for women among his 1,147 confirmed kills.
150	* IconicOutfit: [[spoiler: It's not immediately apparent because Joe Walker and Joey Richter look so different, and because the DMA's shirt is a tight muscle shirt and not a button-up, but his brown-shirt-black-pants outfit is the same color of clothes Owen Carvour was wearing when he died. As soon as Joey-as-the-DMA puts on Owen's signature blue jacket, it's obvious.]]
151	* LatexPerfection: [[spoiler: When he reveals his true identity, Joe Walker does a ''terrifyingly'' good job of looking like he's about to peel the skin off of his skull before going behind a screen and switching places with Joey Richter carrying a rubber mask.]]
152	* ProfessionalKiller: He has no particular loyalties and will work for anyone who will hire him, even someone as vile as Baron von Nazi, although it's less about the money than the chance to utilize his skills (as he says, he'd even do it for free!). [[spoiler: This part turns out to be an act, and he has a very specific and [[ItsPersonal very personal]] goal indeed.]]
153	* RedBaron: Played with in that its treated like his real name on occasion eg von Nazi calls him "Mr Deadliest Man" but Curt also remarks "I wonder what would earn a man that title." Justified in that a world famous criminal could hardly go by his real name, so probably [[spoiler: Owen never gave his character a real name,]]to avoid getting caught (and just because it sounds cool).
154	* SecretIdentityVocalShift: [[spoiler: Just before he takes off his mask, we get an extremely disturbing moment of Joe Walker doing a perfectly accurate lip sync of Joey Richter as Owen saying "Personal history does have its benefits, Mega."]]
155	* TortureTechnician: Curt only survives being ambushed in Tatiana's hotel room because he's absolutely determined to make Curt's death last as long as possible, as he lovingly details in the song "Torture Tango".
156	* 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.]]]]
157	* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: His true identity is the big reveal of the play.]]
158	* WorldsBestWarrior: It's in his name. He's spent the past several years earning a reputation as an utterly ruthless hired gun who never fails a mission.
159	* WouldHurtAChild: Luckily there's no child characters onstage for him to be violent toward, but Cynthia tells us he's a "sick fuck" who shows a preference for women ''[[FridgeHorror aged 14 to 22]]'' among his 1,147 confirmed kills.
160	* YouHaveFailedMe: In keeping with his reputation, he's prone to casually murdering henchmen for even the mildest offenses, including murdering them for murdering each other in imitation of this habit of his.
161	[[/folder]]
162
163	[[folder:Agent Owen Carvour]]
164	!!! Actor: Creator/JoeyRichter
165	* TheAce: He was AlwaysSomeoneBetter to Curt, and a constant object of admiration and comparison for him until Curt's carelessness killed him.
166	* [[spoiler:AntiVillain]]: [[spoiler:Owen is revealed to be the primary villain, but he only became evil after Curt left him for dead. It's hard to deny that he has a [[VillainHasAPoint legitimate grievance]] against the world of spycraft Curt represents, although the lengths to which he's taken it and the atrocities he's committed along the way make it hard to forgive him for any of it.]]
167	* BashBrothers: Made a perfect team with Curt, before his death. [[spoiler: Which is why he's become Curt's most dangerous enemy.]]
168	* [[spoiler: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.]]
169	* [[spoiler:BigBad]]: [[spoiler: Revealed to be after killing Von Nazi and removing his mask.]]
170	* [[spoiler:DiabolicalMastermind]]: [[spoiler: The actual mastermind of this story.]]
171	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler: Owen's fake torture of Curt while disguised as a Soviet agent in the ActionPrologue comes off a ''lot'' like a sex game.]]
172	* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler: Of Alec Trevelyan from ''Film/{{Goldeneye}}''. The ending also reveals he's one for Syndrome from ''Franchise/TheIncredibles'', with a plan to replace all spies like Curt with technology specifically to destroy his legacy.]]
173	* [[spoiler:EvilBrit]]: [[spoiler:Covers ''both'' variants of this trope -- he's a brutal Evil Cockney as the Deadliest Man Alive, while as himself he's a charming upper-class DiabolicalMastermind.]]
174	* 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.]]
175	* FakeBrit: American Joey Richter plays the upper class Brit Owen Carvour, [[spoiler: who also adopts a Cockney accent when played by Creator/JoeWalker as the Deadliest Man Alive.]]
176	* [[spoiler:AGodAmI]]: [[spoiler: He muses that once he owns all the secrets in the world, "I'll be God".]]
177	* IAmVeryBritish: Speaks in a sophisticated RP accent, and everything he says has an air of detached wit and erudition.
178	* IconicOutfit: [[spoiler: After revealing his true identity, he puts on the blue jacket he was wearing in the ActionPrologue over the DMA's brown muscle shirt and suddenly looks like "himself" again.]]
179	* [[spoiler:ItsPersonal]]: [[spoiler: His mad dream of putting the whole world under SinisterSurveillance isn't ''just'' ForTheEvulz -- it's a deliberate attempt to take total revenge on Curt Mega by making a mockery out of everything he's devoted his life to.]]
180	* [[spoiler:TheLostLenore]]: [[spoiler: His death wasn't just Curt's [[MyGreatestFailure greatest failure]] -- it left Curt permanently heartbroken from losing the only person he ever truly fell in love with.]]
181	* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan]]: [[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.]]
182	* MasterOfDisguise: Owen fools several Russians including Oleg in the opening scene. [[spoiler: His disguise as the Deadliest Man Alive is so convincing that he was [[CastAsAMask played by a different actor]].]]
183	* MyGreatestFailure: His death shattered Agent Mega's confidence and destroyed his career, sending him into a years-long downward spiral from which now he's only barely beginning to recover. [[spoiler: It didn't just shatter his confidence -- [[TheLostLenore it broke his heart]].]]
184	* [[spoiler:OnlyMostlyDead]]: [[spoiler: He did, in fact, survive the accident that Curt assumed had 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.]]]]
185	* SmallRoleBigImpact: He dies in the ActionPrologue, and only appears thereafter in Curt's brief PTSD {{Hallucinations}}, but his death is what triggered Curt's downward spiral and deprived the free world of ''two'' of their legendary super-spies, leading to the sorry state of the world today. [[spoiler: This turns out to be false -- Owen is the true identity of the Deadliest Man Alive and was the BigBad this whole time.]]
186	* TechnicianVsPerformer: He had this relationship with his partner Curt, being the thoughtful one who made the plans and provided the common sense and background research to clean up after the mistakes caused by Curt's recklessness. [[spoiler: After Curt's recklessness leaves him grievously wounded and Curt abandons him for dead, he decides to become an ultimate technician and devise a brutal new world order that will take power away from loose cannons like Curt permanently.]]
187	* [[spoiler:ThatManIsDead]]: [[spoiler: When Curt protests he watched Owen die, Owen calmly replies, "Part of me did."]]
188	* TortureTechnician: Disguises himself as one and hilariously fakes "torturing" Curt in the ActionPrologue to set up their ambush of Oleg. [[spoiler: Played horribly straight when he tortures Curt as the Deadliest Man Alive in "Torture Tango", although we don't find out this was a CallBack until after TheReveal.]]
189	* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: TheReveal that Owen is the Deadliest Man Alive and that Owen and Curt were lovers is the main thing about this play everyone loves, and is why everyone who recommends it ''insists'' that you avoid all spoilers or online discussion before seeing it.]]
190	[[/folder]]
191
192	[[folder:Sergio Santos]]
193	!!! Actor: Creator/JoeyRichter
194	* ArmsDealer: As he says, it's his job and he's good at it, despite his goofy mannerisms.
195	* BunnyEarsLawyer: He may not seem to take his work very seriously, but getting his hands on a suitcase nuke to sell on the black market is no mean feat, especially in the year 1961.
196	* HenPeckedHusband: More frightened of ruining his anniversary dinner than getting shot.
197	* LovableRogue: An over-the-top version of this archetype, who doesn't seem to even register that people might consider his job evil or even dangerous.
198	* PetTheDog: Asking for his the signature for his nephew is pretty cute, and almost makes you forget this guy makes a living selling deadly weapons to terrorists.
199	* PunchClockVillain: His verse of "Somebody's Gotta Do It" says he's only in his line of work because it's the best way he can find to support his family.
200	* RambunctiousItalian: A bit of a subverted trope here -- he's absolutely ''not'' the stereotype of [[TheMafia a grim, violent mafioso]] you might expect from an ArmsDealer, but the older comedy stereotype of a goofy gormless FunnyForeigner Italian.
201	[[/folder]]
202
203	[[folder:Oleg]]
204	!!! Actor: Creator/BrianRosenthal
205	* DirtyCommunists: Surprisingly enough for a Cold War spy story, he's the only named character who's a straight example of this trope in the whole play. (Tatiana turns out to be an apolitical DoubleAgent.)
206	* GogglesDoNothing: Is wearing safety goggles for no obvious reason in the ActionPrologue (possibly a gruesome implication he expects to be splashed with bodily fluids).
207	* SpareAMessenger: Is deliberately left alive by Curt and Owen so he can tell his superiors how badly the Soviets were screwed over by the US and UK in this operation.
208	* StarterVillain: Owen and Curt flawlessly working together to play him is our EstablishingCharacterMoment for both characters.
209	* TortureTechnician: Part of a duo of these threatening Agent Curt Mega in the first scene of the show -- unfortunately, one of them turns to be a disguised Owen Carvour.
210	[[/folder]]
211
212	!Other
213
214	[[folder:Prince Feurgin]]
215	!!! Actors: Various, notably the director Corey Lubowich in [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlF0gFzOX4tD1KJ5ZEnvhD55Qhnz-K0X2 the filmed version available on Youtube]]
216	* CaligulasHorse: On one memorable night, the Prince was played by Creator/LaurenLopez's chihuahua Diane.
217	* DescendedCreator: Played in the recorded version of the play by ''Spies Are Forever'' director and co-writer Corey Lubowich.
218	* InterfaceSpoiler: We get just enough time to realize that all of the actors in the cast are already onstage when the Prince's arrival is announced and therefore he must be played by someone we haven't seen before, before TheReveal he's played by the director.
219	* OverlyLongName: The Prince of the New Democratic Republics of Old Socialist Prussian Sloviskia
220	* PointyHairedBoss: The NDROSPS is a monarchy where the hereditary sovereign still holds primary executive power... which really sucks for them, when said sovereign is an inbred moron.
221	* RevolvingDoorCasting: The Prince is a non-speaking BitCharacter who was played by a different Special Guest every night of the production.
222	* RoyalInbreeding: If rumors are to be believed, a major reason he's so RoyallyScrewedUp is he's the product of several generations of BrotherSisterIncest.
223	* RoyallyScrewedUp: No one can get through a single sentence about him without dropping a new fact about how feckless, incompetent and repulsive he is.
224	* SelfDeprecation: The casting of the Prince is always an opportunity to have someone onstage it'd be funny to be roasted by the cast, including the director of the show himself.
225	* ShelteredAristocrat: He barely seems aware of the world around him, much less the extreme danger he's in as one of the most hated heads of state in the world.
226	* TheVoiceless: The Prince has no lines and doesn't audibly speak, instead [[ManChild idly putting his mouth on the microphone]] when asked to make a speech.
227	[[/folder]]
228
229	[[folder:Richard Big]]
230	!!! Actor: Creator/JoeWalker
231	* EveryoneHasStandards: The final punchline of the casino scene is that, despite his crude and brash behavior, Curt's bad temper and willingness to resort to violence in a public place actually shocks and offends him so badly he [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech tells him off for ruining everyone else's vacation experience]] and storms off in a huff.
232	* EverythingIsBigInTexas: He's a larger-than-life caricature of the idea of a "Texas oilman" millionaire.
233	* UglyAmericanStereotype: A wildly exaggerated portrait of a pushy, rude, obnoxious EagleLand Type 2 American.
234	[[/folder]]
235
236	[[folder:Vanger Borschtit]]
237	!!! Actor: Creator/JoeyRichter
238	* LargeHam: As befits the NDROSPS's biggest (and, implicitly, only) TV and radio personality.
239	* SixtiesHair: Has a very distinctive Beatles-style bowl cut.
240	* StepfordSmiler: Seems to be marginally more aware than his countrymen about how humiliating it is to be ruled by Prince Feurgin and to be gritting his teeth and smiling through the pain of this knowledge.
241	[[/folder]]
242
243	[[folder:Vladimir Poopin]]
244	!!! Actor: Creator/BrianRosenthal
245	* EvilCounterpart: We don't get much evidence about how evil he is but he's obviously just the {{Dirty Communist\|s}} version of Cynthia.
246	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His name, demeanor and position as a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer are all, of course, a reference to UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin, although the real Putin was only nine years old at the time this story takes place.
247	* ToiletHumor: His name, of course, is an intentionally IncrediblyLamePun.
248	[[/folder]]
249
250	[[folder:Redheaded Singer]]
251	!!! Actor: Mary Kate Wiles
252	* AllKnowingSingingNarrator: She's obviously a different person than Tatiana due to the American accent, and she's basically an homage to the many instances of TheChanteuse in a classic Franchise/JamesBond ActionPrologue.
253	[[/folder]]
254
255	[[folder:Prussian Diplomat]]
256	!!! Actor: Creator/JoeyRichter
257	* SweetOnPollyOliver: Is introduced enthusiastically making out with the Informant in disguise as a woman, despite "her" highly visible mustache. Then fails to recognize the Informant the next day in disguise as the Royal Notary, despite still having the same mustache.
258	[[/folder]]
259
260	[[folder:The Prime Minister]]
261	!!! Actor: Creator/LaurenLopez
262	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: "The Nazis, they're not so bad." "Stop it this instant! I've known these two men my whole life, why, Bertilus and I were school boys together. I'm proud to call them my countrymen." "I don't think we can elect another leader as wonderful as our blessed Prince Feurgin."
263	[[/folder]]

Context Characters / SpiesAreForever