History ComicBook / SpyBoy

* WidgetSeries: While the rest of the world of [=SpyBoy=] is quite... colorful, the mission of Japan is flatout bizarre. Four words: [[spoiler:Giant Iron Chef Mecha]].

* TheMafia: Schweitzer's father seems to have connections. How far and how big is let vague during the Butch affair but [[spoiler: is clearly a nobody compared to the power Gila can muster]].

* ShipSinking: Bombshell and Alex after the TimeSkip.

* BaitAndSwitch: A very infamous one; SpyBoy is confronting the villainous Madam Imadam, when she drops this bombshell in the last page of the issue;

--> ''Next issue:'' "--'s sister."

* UnInstallment: The series skips issue number 13, but the miniseries The MANGA Affair published later contains issues 13.1, 13.2 and 13.3.

** [=REMbrandt=], the artist of dreams.

* BananaInTheTailpipe: Messed with in one of the early issues, where Bombshell stops a (moving) car of bad guys by tossing what appears to be a lit cigarette into the tailpipe. The car blows up several blocks later. Considering that Bombshell is an explosives expert, however, [[JustifiedTrope it's not quite as far-fetched]].

* Fanservice: As the cheesecake cover of [=SpyGirl=] above indicates, the series had plenty of this. Bombshell had her own version of that same cover, and then there's the various [[FemmeFatale femme fatales]] [=SpyBoy=] comes up against.

* DeadPersonImpersonation: [=SpyGirl=] during the [=SpyBoy=]'s "Manga Affair" and [[spoiler: Alex's mother to Butch's mother]].

* FakeMemories: As we learn in ''The M.A.N.G.A. Affair'', [[spoiler:the [=SpyGirl=] we've been following is actually a totally different person who was given fake memories of the original [=SpyGirl=] when she died -- assuming that "orginal" girl wasn't ''also'' some other person who was just brainwashed into thinking she was [=SpyGirl=]]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Barbie Q and Taketmatesa are never see or heard again after being hit by a Wave in the Marispan casino.

* SpyTuxReveal

* TeenSuperspy

* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:[=SpyGirl=] when she discovers she is not the original, but a double replacement, and that her past life as Yukio was not hers in the first place.]]

* WatchingTheReflectionUndress: [=SpyBoy=] is sharing a plane with Bombshell. She warns him not to look back, and so he promises not to turn around while staring at her reflection in the sheer surface in front of him. His SuperDeformed alter ego informs him that he's going to hell for this.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: BQ and Taketmatesa are never see or heard again after being hit by a Wave in the Marispan casino.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Butch gives a unintended one to [[spoiler:her deceased mother]] at the end of Confidential.
* RogueAgent: [[spoiler:Seems to be a possible future for Alex.]]

* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler: [=SpyGirl=] didn't]]

* TheMafia: Schweitzer's father seems to have connections. How far and how big is let vague during the Butch affair but [[spoiler: is clearly a nobody compared to the power gila can muster]].

* EvilParentsWantGoodKids
* FakeMemories: [[spoiler:[=SpyGirl=] #2]]

* FireForgedFriends

* CliffHanger: ''Final Exam'', and with it the entire series, ends this way. [[spoiler: [=SpyBoy=] is incriminated as a terrorist alongside his father and their gang, Anita is discovered, and Lori shows she was a S.K.I.N.S. spy all along and offering a very [[EmptyPromise dubious]] offer while suffering an existential crisis]]. It is either the most epic or the most sadistic ending you would ever see.

* ChangelingFantasy: Alex wishes at the beginning for one to escape his crappy school life until he realize how brutal the espionage world really is. [[spoiler:For Butch it's to escape the living hell that is his family life... it never truly sticks]].

* AscendedFanboy: Downplayed. Alex always liked spy movies and he's a fan of Franchise/JamesBond, being honored that his last name was [[Creator/IanFleming Fleming]]. But converting into a TeenSuperspy as the way he did (being a ManchurianAgent all his life and without memories of being [=SpyBoy=] when he's in trance) and with the background he later discovered [[spoiler:(his parents being super spies and her mother who was supposed to be dead is the BigBad)]], made Alex forget about what he loved in a beginning.

* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Grenades are Bomshell's WeaponOfChoice.

** To ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' of all things in one issue.

* MrSmith: In this world most cover names go with Girl, Guy, Dude and in one case [[AwesomeMcCoolname Main Man]].

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: [=SpyGirl=] has pink hair. When she goes undercover in the USA, she hides her hair under a blonde wig.

* [[ComicBookAdaptation Manga Adaption]]: ''[=SpyBoy=]: The Manga Affair'' is done by the same people, but it is deliberately drawn in a more traditional {{Manga}} artstyle than when compared to the original comic.

** When ComicBook/YoungJustice infiltrated said high school, they used even more obvious aliases, including Rob Roy (ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}) and Helena Troy (ComicBook/WonderGirl). Mercifully the charade didn't last long.

** Yoma Ma, which is both a play on famous cellist Y-Yo Ma, and a YourMom joke (say it out loud).

* [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Armor Piercing Discourse]]: Butch give an epic one to [[spoiler:both Anita and Gila at the end of the Confidential arc]].

* TotallyNotASpy: Guy Mcguffin.

* [[WidgetSeries Widget Nation]]: While the rest of the world of [=SpyBoy=] is quite... colorful, the mission of Japan is flatout bizarre. Four words: [[spoiler:Giant Iron Chef Mecha]].