Alternative Character Interpretation in Totally Spies!.
- What if Alex always assuming that Britney is going to replace her isn't forgetting the lesson she learned last time but a genuine fear? Alex is the youngest of the team and very emotionally sensitive, so being worried that she'll be replaced by a more competent agent isn't completely out there, especially since Sam and Clover never reassure her they'd never replace her (admittedly that's probably because they think it doesn't need to be said and is plain to all that they're never going to abandon each other).
- The Spies are rich, impulsive, and often petty. Perhaps W.O.O.H.P. is steering them away from becoming another set of ridiculous villains?
- This especially works for Clover. She has several disturbing fantasies about getting revenge on Mandy for rather petty slights and once used her position as a W.O.O.H.P. agent to steal another girl’s shoes. In "Escape From W.O.O.H.P. Island," her shoddy beauty products cause Sam and Alex's Once an Episode mutations (albeit borderline realistic ones).
- It may be unlikely the girls would become evil, but what would happen if the girls had never met each other and W.O.O.H.P. still decided to make them spies?
- They would either have to work on their own or be forced to team up with people they didn’t like (Mandy) or with spies who didn’t care about them at all (Tad). Without anyone to watch their backs, they would likely die.
- If all three managed to survive their missions, W.O.O.H.P. would instead have three teenage girls who are either depressed or traumatized, shells of themselves.
- Luckily for the girls, Jerry, and the world, they were able to meet each other and become best friends forever, and it was only after this that Jerry decided to make them spies. With their talents and teamwork they eventually become three of W.O.O.H.P.’s best agents. The of the reason they're able to work well as a spy team is that they all have each other.
- Each W.O.O.H.P. spy possesses a spy gene. That includes former W.O.O.H.P. employees who were fired for breaking the rules. Some unsuccessful or ex-W.H.O.O.P. agents turned to evil after being fired or rejected. For example, a man who wanted to be a spy but wasn’t accepted into any agency was able to con the girls into stealing for him so he could expand the world until it exploded. It’s also possible quite a few of villains have the spy gene but they slipped through W.O.O.H.P.’s cracks. (W.O.O.H.P. is only one company and judging by the fact The Amazing Spies takes place in Canada and that Jerry works from that office as well as the one in Beverly Hills, he likely couldn’t find every potential W.O.O.H.P. employee and test them in time). This doesn’t apply to every villain as some are just born evil or crazy or both. But still it’s something to think about.
- Is Mandy really as cruel and awful as she makes herself out to be, or is she just a Lonely Rich Kid who suffers from a Inferiority Superiority Complex and wants to feel loved, and mistakenly believes that the only way to be loved is by being the absolute best at everything (beauty, popularity, winning contests, dating the hottest guys, etc.)? Her hostility to the girls (mostly Clover) is because she sees each of them as competition and she antagonizes them because she fears that unless she is better than them, she will have no friends. She doesn't realize that her anti-social attitude is the real reason she might have trouble making actual friends instead of fake, shallow friends like the girls she hangs out with.
- In the episode "The Eraser", she immediately latches onto Sam as her new BFF after the latter saves her hair from being ruined. She makes an honest effort to be nice to her compared to how she acts with her "friends" Caitlin and Dominique, who showed in the episode "A Spy is Born" that they are only hanging out with her due to her popularity. Their shallow friendship may subconsciously reinforce Mandy's fears of losing them unless she is better than everyone else.
- At the end of "Feng Shui is Like Sooo Passe", she seems to truly want to be Tara's friend after she becomes popular and doesn't realize until it is too late that she had been driving away her admirers. She looks surprised and maybe a little guilty when Tara begins to cry because of her actions.
- Also, whenever Mandy chooses to be nice to the spies (even though these moments are short-lived), she goes above and beyond to make them like her, which may be another sign of her loneliness and just wanting real friends. She just has a very misguided way of going about it and due to having a Hair-Trigger Temper, anything she perceives as a form of betrayal will cause her to lash out at the girls because in her mind, they had been using her.
- Is Clover really a perky, ditzy fashionista or is she secretly a Stepford Smiler who believes her self worth is based on her beauty, popularity and what the guys think of her?
- In the episode "Beauty Is Skin Deep," Clover becomes very depressed after getting rejected by her crush. She lets herself go and doesn't snap out of it until he tells her that the reason he refused her is because he already has a girlfriend. It makes one wonder how she would react if a guy legitimately rejected her, no girlfriend involved.
