secret agent occupation theme
A character working with espionage or the like is engaged in their chosen profession.
Notes
This profession is naturally a gray area between legal, illegal, and war type of themes. It is included here because there are many stories that feature romanticized ideas of secret agents as heroes.
9 total · 8 major · 1 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| columbo1971e5x03 | major | Geronimo and Brenner were two secret CIA operatives. Their spy-master, the CIA director, dramatically appeared in order to tell Columbo to cease and desist in his investigation. |
| movie: Cypher (2002) | major | The story follows the mild-mannered, unemployed accountant Morgan Sullivan as he becomes a corporate spy under the employ of the nefarious Digicorp corporation. |
| movie: Moonraker (1979) | major | We saw super-spy James Bond do stereotypical super-spy things. |
| movie: Naked Lunch (1991) | major | Bill came under the delusion that he was a secret agent who was working under the orders of a giant talking beetle. |
| movie: Tenet (2020) | major | The Protagonist was recruited to work as a secret agent for the Tenet organization, and it was all cloak-and-daggers from there. |
| movie: The Lady Vanishes (1938) | major | It transpires that Miss Froy was a spy, and everything that happened around her was connected to that fact. |
| movie: The Rocketeer (1991) | major | The movie star Neville Sinclair turned out to be a Nazi spy who's been tasked retrieve a Howard Hughes designed experimental rocket-powered jet pack for the Third Reich. |
| movie: Zeta One (1969) | major | The story follows the Section 5 spy James Word as he regales his secretary about an investigation into the women from Angvia. |
| columbo1971e8x01 | minor | Elliot was going to go under cover himself in order to expose Soviet double agents. |