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* DepravedDwarf: In "Target!", the main villain of the episode Draker employs a midget assassin named Klokoe (played by Creator/DeepRoy) takes an undeniable glee in killing: giving a sadistic grin when he stabs Steep with a syringe full of toxin while disguised as a child.
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* DepravedDwarf: In "Target!", the main villain of the episode Draker employs a midget assassin named Klokoe (played by Creator/DeepRoy) who takes an undeniable glee in killing: giving a sadistic grin when he stabs Steep Steed with a syringe full of toxin while disguised as a child.
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* DepravedDwarf: In "Target!", the main villain of the episode Draker employs a midget assassin named Klokoe (played by Creator/DeepRoy) takes an undeniable glee in killing: giving a sadistic grin when he stabs Steep with a syringe full of toxin while disguised as a child.
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* NoWaterproofingInThefuture: In "Complex", Purdey destroys the murderous A.I. controlling the building by triggering the sprinkler in the basement, causing it to short out.
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* PopTheTires: One of the people chasing the MacGuffin in "The Tale of the Big Why" shoots out the tyres on Steed's Range-Rover to stop Steed and Gambit chasing her.
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* PopTheTires: PopTheTyres: One of the people chasing the MacGuffin in "The Tale of the Big Why" shoots out the tyres on Steed's Range-Rover to stop Steed and Gambit chasing her.
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* SequelEpisode: "The Last of the Cybernauts?" sees the return of the titular villains and completes the trilogy that started with "The Cybernauts" and "Return of the Cybernauts".
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* AlcoholIsGasoline: In "Emily", the Avengers are attempting to transport a car to a forensics lab. When an irate farmer shoots at them, he punctures the fuel tank and all the petrol leaks out. Tasked with finding fuel, Purdey and Gambit locate a HillbillyMoonshiner. After knocking the moonshiner out, they take six gallons of his potent hooch (leaving cash behind to pay for it). They use this to fuel the car to get to their destination.
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* FindTheCure: In "Target", Purdey and Steed are poisoned and Gambit has to race to find the antidote: which the villain has hidden in the centre of the agency's ShootingGallery.
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* OldHeroNewPals: Steed doesn't form a couple with a LadyOfAdventure ActionGirl anymore, instead partnering with a more straight-up ActionGirl and a male agent who's younger than him.
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* TheRemnant: In "K is for Kill", a cadre of Soviet soldiers are accidentally awoken from their cryogenic sleep and embark on following their original Cold War orders; attacking several former military targets that have been abandoned for decades.
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** In "K is for Kill", a cadre of Soviet soldiers are accidentally awoken from their cryogenic sleep and embark on following their original Cold War orders; attacking several former military targets that have been abandoned fordecades.decades.
** It turned out there was another cache with Cybernauts left after Dr. Armstrong's demise back in the original series, and those are remote-controlled this time. Felix Kane finds them and uses them for his revenge against Steed, Purdey and Gambit.
** In "K is for Kill", a cadre of Soviet soldiers are accidentally awoken from their cryogenic sleep and embark on following their original Cold War orders; attacking several former military targets that have been abandoned for
** It turned out there was another cache with Cybernauts left after Dr. Armstrong's demise back in the original series, and those are remote-controlled this time. Felix Kane finds them and uses them for his revenge against Steed, Purdey and Gambit.
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* TheCorpseStopsHere: Happens to Steed twice in "Medium Rare" as part of a FrameUp. The first time, he sent to a DoomedAppointment and arrives just after the man he was supposed to meet has been murdered, and seconds before internal security arrives. The second time, he happens to walk him on a murder the killer was planning on framing him for. The killer knocks him out and leaves him beside the body with the murder weapon in his hand.
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* ContinuousDecompression: In "Trap", Steed, Gambit and Purdey are on a plane when the main cabin starts filling with gas. Gambit opens the main door to depressurize the cabin and suck out the gas. The depressurization goes on for long enough for the pilot get out of the cockpit and still be sucked out of the plane.
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* ContinuousDecompression: In "Trap", Steed, Gambit and Purdey are on a plane when the main cabin starts filling with gas. Gambit opens the main door to depressurize the cabin and suck out the gas. The depressurization goes on for long enough for the pilot to get out of the cockpit and still be sucked out of the plane.
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* CarMeetsHouse: In "Three Handed Game", an amnesiac agent desperate to find his way back to Steep crashes his motorbike through the window of Steed's living room.
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* PinPullingTeeth: In "K is for Kill: The Tiger Awakes", one of the Russian does this before tossing a grenade through the window of the Allied HQ museum.
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Just like its predecessor, it should not be confused with the Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} comics of the same name, ''Comicbook/NewAvengers''.
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* DecoyConvoy: The New Avengers succeed in smuggling a Soviet scientist into the United Kingdom. However, the man's heart is weakened from being malnourished and overworked. The heroes transport the scientist to hospital in an ambulance, which is followed by Soviet agents seeking to repatriate the defector. Two more identical ambulances appear, and the three emergency vehicles then shuffle themselves like a shell game, including through a tunnel. At an intersection, one ambulance goes left, one goes right, and one goes straight. The Soviet agents come to dead stop, unsure which ambulance to pursue.
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* {{Cyborg}}: In "The Last of the Cybernauts", after his plan to use Cybernauts against Steed, Purdey and Gambit fails, crippled villain Felix Kane has himself mounted on Cybernaut legs and gets a Cybernaut arm, then goes on a rampage to try and kill Purdey.
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!!''The New Avengers'' provides examples of:
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: "Gnaws".
* AIIsACrapshoot: In "Complex", the computer controlling the entirety of the security headquarters has actually been constructed to act as a spy for the Soviets. It starts murdering any agents who get too close to figuring out its secret.
* AirVentPassageway: In "The Deadly Angels", Purdey gets into the maze in the health farm by crawling through the vents.
* AnimalAssassin: In "Cat Among the Pigeons", the villains uses birds as his assassins.
* AnachronisticClue: In "K is for Kill: Tiger by the Tail", Steed and Gambit realise that the K agent had a recent photo of his target despite having in [[HumanPopsicle cryogenic suspension]] since UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. This tells them that the agent had access to a recent file since his awakening.
* ApocalypseHitler: "The Eagle's Nest" featured a group of Nazis attempting to revive the cryogenically preserved body of Hitler.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The threat in "Gnaws" is a sewer rat mutated to monstrous size by an undiluted experimental growth formula spilled down the drain.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Colonel "Mad Jack" Miller in "Dirtier By The Dozen".
* BadHabits: "The Eagle's Nest".
* BlowGun: Used by an assassin in "Target!". Gambit turns the tables on him by blowing down the end of the blow gun, causing him to swallow the poison dart.
* BodybagTrick: In "Hostage", Purdey's kidnappers carry her out of her flat hidden in a coffin.
* BookSafe: In "Forward Base", a Russian agent has the radio for contacting the eponymous forward base inside a copy of the Bible.
* BulletCatch: In "The Gladiators", the Russians had developed a super-martial arts training program which would enable those who survived to deflect bullets with their hands. The graduate did fairly well, but it turned out he could only deflect attacks from one direction at a time.
* CasualDangerDialog: In "The Midas Touch", Gambit and Purdey have a casual conversation about who was the director of ''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre'' during a CarChase.
* CarFu:
** In "The Last of the Cybernauts...??", the super-strong Kane physically shoves Mike's Range-Rover into him, squashing him between two cars and knocking him out before going after Purdey.
** In "K is For Kill: Tiger by the Tail", Purdey takes the handbrake off Colonel Stanislav's car while it is parked on a slope, causing it to roll downhill and slam into him.
* CarMeetsHouse: In "Three Handed Game", an amnesiac agent desperate to find his way back to Steep crashes his motorbike through the window of Steed's living room.
* CatFight: The episode "Angels Of Death" has Purdey taking on not one but two gorgeous female opponents (played by Caroline Munro and Pamela Stephenson), after Gambit's basic decency prevents him hitting women and they beat the bejasus out of him.
* CaughtInASnare: Happens to Gambit in "Trap" when he is trapped by Soo Choy's men.
* ClickHello: Gambit pulls this when he gets the drop on Colonel 'Mad Jack' Miller in "Dirtier by the Dozen".
* ClothingCombat: In "Trap", Gambit improvises a bolas out of his tie and a pair of shoes.
* ContinuousDecompression: In "Trap", Steed, Gambit and Purdey are on a plane when the main cabin starts filling with gas. Gambit opens the main door to depressurize the cabin and suck out the gas. The depressurization goes on for long enough for the pilot get out of the cockpit and still be sucked out of the plane.
* TheCorpseStopsHere: Happens to Steed twice in "Medium Rare" as part of a FrameUp. The first time, he sent to a DoomedAppointment and arrives just after the man he was supposed to meet has been murdered, and seconds before internal security arrives. The second time, he happens to walk him on a murder the killer was planning on framing him for. The killer knocks him out and leaves him beside the body with the murder weapon in his hand.
* CostumeCopycat: In "Hostage", one of the villains dresses in a copy of Steed's distinctive suit, bowler hat and umbrella as part of a plan to frame Steed as a traitor.
* CovertGroup: Soviet spymaster Ivanov planted many undercover agents in Great Britain, where they wormed close to tactically important persons, ready to assassinate them on cue. This covert network was called "the House of Cards," because select playing cards would activate the moles. British Avengers John Steed, Emma Peel and Mike Gambit thwarted Ivanov and neutralized his moles.
* CutPhoneLines: Done in "Sleeper" to isolate central London while the gang are TakingOverTheTown.
* CyanidePill: In "The Eagle's Nest", Gambit captures an enemy operative who kills himself with a concentrated dose of jellyfish venom.
* DanceBattler: Purdey was a former ballerina who practiced a very balletic fighting form, complete with pirouettes and high kicks.
* DangerTakesABackSeat: In "Cat Among the Pigeons" Steed is attacked by [[AnimalAssassin a falcon]] that has been planted in the back of his car.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The creators felt that the original series had gone as far as it could in terms of parody, so this time they aimed for real stories and straight, Creator/LenDeighton-type spy stories.
* DeadfootLeadfoot: In "The Deadly Angels", Steed is in a car being driven by one of his friends. A sign is flashed that causes the friend to suffer a fatal heart attack. The car continues to careen along as Steed attempts to steer it to a safe stop.
* DeathCourse: An episode had one of these disguised as a British agent training course. Agents would be shot with harmless little darts to show whether they passed. The villains poisoned the darts.
* DeepCoverAgent: The episode "House of Cards" features a rogue Russian agent activating an old cold war project of deep, deep cover agents, [[spoiler:two of whom are old friends of Steed]].
* DisconnectedByDeath: In "Target!", the poisoned Palmer manages to make it to a phone booth and call Steed. He gasps out some vital information, including the fact that he is already dead, before keeling over.
* DisposableVagrant: One of the victims of the giant rat in "Gnaws" is a tramp.
* DodgeTheBullet: In "K is for Kill: Tiger by the Tail", Gambit is able to use his pistol to deflect the bullet a Russian assassin fires at him.
* TheDoorSlamsYou: An intruder kicks the door closed into Steed's face as he goes to enter Stannard's apartment in "The Eagle's Nest".
* {{Doppelganger}}: "Faces", of the MagicPlasticSurgery variety.
* DramaticDrop: The villain attending Steed's party drops his champagne glass when he hears the general announce that the 'Eye of God' satellite is going to do an underground scan of Buckinghamshire, where he has concealed his stolen missile.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: At the end of "Sleeper", Steed, Gambit and Purdey steal outfits from unconscious robbers and infiltrate the gang, using the balaclavas to disguise their identities.
* EasyAmnesia: A variant in "To Catch a Rat". A agent suffering crippling injuries in an attempt on his life and loses all of his memories. Unlike most uses of this trope, his memory stays gone for 17 years. The EasyAmnesia comes into play when a blow to his head (from a child's swing) restores his memory instantly.
* TheEiffelTowerEffect: "Complex", the first episode filmed in Canada, opens with a shot of the CN Tower in Toronto so there can be no doubt where they are.
* EmbarrassingCoverUp: In "To Catch a Rat", Purdey and Gambit charge into a church expecting to confront an enemy agent. Instead, the confront two local ladies arranging flowers. Purdey immediately announces that this is wrong and he cannot force her to marry her and storms out. Gambit stands there for a few moments looking embarrassed before hurriedly stuffing some money in the poor box and slinking out after her.
* EmptyQuiver: In "Obsession", a rogue air force officer steals a rocket to blow up the Houses of Parliament during a state visit by a Middle Eastern statesman.
* EnemyEatsYourLunch: The Avengers help themselves to the Unicorn's champagne while holding him prisoner in his apartment in "The Lion and the Unicorn".
* EvilCripple: Felix Kane in "The Last of the Cybernauts...??". A double agent crippled and hideously disfigured trying to escape from Steed, Gambit and Purdey, Kane is confined to a wheelchair and resurrects the robotic Cybernauts to extract his revenge.
* EvilElevator: In "Complex", the murderous AI controlling the building causes the floor to drop out of the elevator beneath Greenwood's feet, send him plummeting to his death.
* EvilFormerFriend: In "Dead Men Are Dangerous", Steed's life is threatened by a revenge campaign from Mark Crayford, a childhood friend (at least to Steed), who viewed Steed as a lifelong rival, and who Steed was forced to shoot when he revealed himself to be a double agent.
* EyepatchOfPower: Colonel Miller has one in "Dirtier By The Dozen". It's [[FridgeLogic never explained]] how a man with only one eye could remain as a serving line officer in the British Army.
* FakingTheDead: In "Dead Men are Dangerous", Mark Crayford starts his scheme of revenge against Steed by having himself declared dead and a death certificate issued in his name, so Steed will not suspect him.
* FingerInTheMail: In "Hostage", the kidnappers send Steed a lock of Purdey's hair with a warning that worse is to follow if Steed does not obey their instructions.
* GroupieBrigade: The Avengers stage one as a distraction to allow them to snatch a defector from an airport in "House of Cards".
* HandCannon: In "Gnaws", Gambit thinks enemy agents might be using some kind of specialised armoured transport in the sewers, and arms himself with a handgun which, in his words, will "stop a tank at 30 paces". In the end, it proves just as effective against the actual threat which turns out to be a giant rat.
* HandOrObjectUnderwear: In "Three Handed Game", Purdey bursts in on Gambit as he is posing as a life model for a sculptress. He hurriedly grabs a sheet to cover himself up.
* HarbingerOfImpendingDoom: "Trap" opens with an agent being caught eavesdropping on the villains. Despite being shot by a guard, he manages to escape and survives long enough to deliver a cryptic message concerning a drug deal to Gambit.
* HeroStoleMyBike: In "The Lion and the Unicorn", Gambit steals a window washer's three-wheeled van to chase a fleeing thug through the streets of Paris. Naturally he ends up wrecking it.
* HeyYouHaymaker: Gambit does this to O'Hara in "The Gladiators" when he finds O'Hara scoping out the bad guys' escape route. He taps him on the shoulder and then slugs him on the jaw as he turns round.
* HillbillyMoonshiner: In "Emily", Gambit and Purdey fight a hillbilly moonshiner to acquire several gallons of his hooch in order to fuel a car (ItMakesSenseInContext).
* HiredGuns: The [[ArmyOfThievesAndWhores rouge British Army unit]] in "Dirtier By The Dozen".
* HooksAndCrooks: In TheTeaser to "The Eagle's Nest", a pair of sentries disguised as anglers kill an intruder on the island by lashing him with poisoned fishing hooks.
* IHaveYourWife: In "Hostage", a gang of villains abduct Purdey and hold her hostage to ensure Steed's compliance.
* ImpairmentShot: Double vision and going in and out of focus are used to indicate curare poisoning in "Target!". There is a prolonged sequence from Steed's POV as he staggers poisoned through the ShootingGallery.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: The border guards in "Dead Men are Dangerous" show some spectacularly bad aim when they manage to miss Steed despite him lying prone on the ground no more than 20 or 30 feet away.
* ImprovisedWeapon: In "Dirtier by the Dozen" Gambit uses Purdey's bra as an improvised sling to knock out a commando.
* InstantSedation: "Sleeper", where a group of bank robbers disperse a powerful knockout drug over UsefulNotes/{{London}} early on a Sunday morning in order to pull off a series of bank heists.
* ISurrenderSuckers: In "Trap", Purdey walks up to the captain of Soo Choy's men and gives herself up. While he is securing her, Steed gets the drop on him and knocks him out.
* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: In "The Tale of the Big Why", TheMole draws a gun on Steed, Gambit and Purdey and plans to shoot them so they cannot reveal his secret. Steed orders Gambit to disarm him and Gambit moves forward. TheMole fires but his gun merely clicks as the hammer falls on empty chamber. Steed had spotted the gun in TheMole's pocket and - suspicious of why an undersecretary would be carrying a loaded pistol - had removed the clip.
* KangarooCourt: In "Dirtier by the Dozen", Colonel 'Mad Jack' Miller holds a drumhead court martial and sentences one of his to be [[ShotAtDawn executed by firing squad]].
* KillAndReplace: This is the bad guys scheme in "Faces", using MagicPlasticSurgery to create doubles of people in the security services, then killing the original and having the doppelganger take their place.
* LadyInRed: Purdey in "Dirtier By The Dozen", in contrast to the men all dressed in khaki.
* LastBreathBullet: After being shot by the White Rat in "To Catch a Rat", Gunner struggles to his feet long enough to shoot the Rat as he was about to shoot Purdey.
* LetterboxArson: A variant occurs in "Complex". When Purdey is trapped inside a building that is trying to kill her, Steed and Gambit alert her that she needs to trigger the sprinkler system by dumping a large quantity of matches and lighters into the mail chute, which is the only access the AI cannot seal off. Purdey uses a lighter to set off the sprinkler and destroy the computer.
* LivingOnBorrowedTime: An enemy agent in one episode who had a bullet working its way toward his brain, and was desperate to kill Steed before that happened.
* LockDown: "Complex".
* LovesOnlyGold: Professor Turner in "The Midas Touch". Gold is Turner's obsession, which is why he names his secret project Midas. A {{Plaguemaster}}, Turner creates a PoisonousPerson named Midas that he intends to sell to the power that can pay him the greatest amount of gold.
* MagicPlasticSurgery: Used by the bad guys in "Faces" to create doubles used in their KillAndReplace scheme.
* MarriedToTheJob: In "House of Cards", Steed refers to his career as "my one and only marriage…and I've been very faithful."
* MistakenForAnImposter: In "Faces", both Gambit and Purdey go undercover to infiltrate an organisation that is creating duplicates of intelligence operatives, where they are employed as doubles of themselves. Each ends up believing that the other is an imposter, and has killed the real Gambit/Purdey.
* MobileShrubbery: "Sleeper" contains an odd variant, in that does not involve any actual cover. Steed and Gambit pretend to be asleep at a bus stop. Every time the gangster there looks away, they slide closer to him. He is just on the verge of working out something is wrong when they jump him.
* TheMole: In "To Catch a Rat", a former agent recovers his memory after having amnesia for 17 years. He remembers he was hunting a mole known as 'the White Rat'. Realising the the Rat is still in the department, he resumes his hunt.
* MuggedForDisguise: In "Sleeper", the main bad guy disposes of of a visiting scientist and steals his clothes to take his place at a demonstration where he plans to steal the secret weapon.
* MuggingTheMonster: In "Dead Men are Dangerous", a mugger attempts to mug a ex-spy and trained killer. The spy slams him around and then recruits him as a henchman.
* MurderByCremation: In "Complex", the murderous AI controlling the building disposes of one its victims by dumping him into the building's trash incinerator.
* NewOldFlame: The villain in "Obsession" is an ex-fiancee of Purdey who had never been mentioned before.
* NobodyHereButUsStatues: Purdey poses as a mannequin in a store window in an attempt to avoid two of the robbers in "Sleeper". She is hampered by the fact that her pants keep falling down.
* NoImmortalInertia: The soldiers in the Russian 'secret army' who have been in 'cold storage' since UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in the "K is for Kill" two-parter. When they are killed they revert to their chronological age.
* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: In "The Deadly Angels", Gambit is held at gunpoint by a secretary. He starts instructing her on the proper way to hold and search a prisoner at gunpoint. When he tells her to take the safety catch off the gun, she goes to obey. As she does so, he turn around and snatches the gun off her. He then gives it back to her, kisses her and asks her for a date.
* {{Novelization}}: A half-dozen storylines from the series were adapted as novels. (The parent series also had a series of books based on it, but they were all original novels.)
* OfCorpseHesAlive: In "The Lion and the Unicorn", Steed has to go to extreme lengths in order to convince the Unicorn's gang that he is still alive (after being accidentally shot by one of his own men) in order to prevent a gang war and recover a hostage the Unicorn's gang is holding.
* OffWithHisHead: In "Trap", Soo Choy plans to behead Steed, Gambit and Purdey as revenge for foiling his drug operation. He gets as far as getting Gambit's head on the chopping block.
* OlderAndWiser: Steed.
* OnlyOneName: Purdey.
* OutfitDecoy: In "Emily", Steed tapes his bowler hat to the roof of a car to protect a palm print (ItMakesSenseInContext). Later the police are after them and Steed manages to temporarily lose them by taping his hat to the roof of a different brown car (and stealing that driver's hat to tape to the roof of Emily).
* OutsideRide: In "Dead Men are Dangerous", Gambit leaps on the back of a fleeing car. He gets thrown off but manages to pull off the number plate as he goes.
* ParanoiaGambit: In "Forward Base", Purdey and Gambit spook a Russian agent into revealing the location of the base by calling him to tell him his cover is blown, and then doing absolutely nothing. They reason that the fact that he cannot find them will absolutely convince him that they are on to him.
* PinPullingTeeth: In "K is for Kill: The Tiger Awakes", one of the Russian does this before tossing a grenade through the window of the Allied HQ museum.
* {{Plaguemaster}}: Professor Turner in "The Midas Touch". Turner has found the ultimate carrier for a host of deadly diseases, calls him Midas and offers him to the highest bidder in exchange for gold.
* PocketProtector:
** In "The Midas Touch", smuggler Hong Kong Harry is shot by an assassin to prevent him from reaching a meeting. He is saved because he is wearing a quarter of a million dollars worth of gold dust inside a FatSuit.
** In "Faces", Steed is saved when his doppelgänger's bullet hits the pocket watch givien to him minutes earlier by his best friend's widow.
** In "K is for Kill: Tiger by the Tail", Steed is saved by because he is a gentleman. Although he doesn't smoke, he carries a cigarette case for those of his friends who do, and an assassin's bullet strikes the cigarette case.
* PoisonousPerson: Midas in "The Midas Touch". Midas is the perfect carrier for diseases, and {{Plaguemaster}} Professor Turner turns him into a living weapon whose slightest touch kills.
* PopTheTires: One of the people chasing the MacGuffin in "The Tale of the Big Why" shoots out the tyres on Steed's Range-Rover to stop Steed and Gambit chasing her.
* PrettyInMink: Purdey dons a fur coat when she poses as a gangster's moll in "Faces".
* PursuedProtagonist: "The Eagle's Nest" opens with an agent on a remote island being chased by two murderous anglers. He attempts to seek sanctuary in a monastery where things do not go well for him.
* TheRemnant: In "K is for Kill", a cadre of Soviet soldiers are accidentally awoken from their cryogenic sleep and embark on following their original Cold War orders; attacking several former military targets that have been abandoned for decades.
* RenegadeRussian: In the "K is for Kill" two-parter, Colonel Stanislav is a hardliner who is not happy with the thawing Cold War, and puts in a motion a scheme set up after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in an attempt to trigger WorldWarIII.
* RevealingInjury: In "To Catch a Rat", Gunner knows that he will be able to identify the White Rat because he shot the White Rat in the left leg during their last encounter.
* {{Revival}}
* RodAndReelRepurposed: The sentries in "The Eagle's Nest" are disguised as anglers, and use their fishing rods and weighted lures to kill any outsiders who come too close to discovering the island's secret.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: "Gnaws".
* SapientHouse: In "Complex", the AI controlling the building siezes control of the building systems and uses them to murder anyone it thinks is getting too close to uncovering its secret.
* SeekingSanctuary: In TheTeaser to "The Eagle's Nest", a PursuedProtagonist flees from his attackers into a monastery. He disturbs the monks at their devotions, demanding sanctuary. This ends badly for him, as the monks are actually [[BadHabits Nazis in disguise]].
* SelfOffense: In "To Catch a Rat", Purdey and Cromwell end up attacking each other when they both have the same idea of searching Cledge's apartment in the dark.
* SexyJester: In "Three Handed Game", Purdey puts on clown wig, red nose and face paint.
* ShootingGallery: "Target!".
* ShootTheRope: Done as part of a TwangHello by a bow-wielding assassin in "Faces". He uses an arrow to sever the the rope holding up a training dummy next to Purdey as a way of announcing his presence.
* ShotAtDawn: In "Dirtier by the Dozen", Colonel 'Mad Jack' Miller has one of his men executed by firing squad following a drumhead court martial.
* SmartHouse: "Complex" has a Canadian intelligence building controlled by an AI. The AI has control over all of the building's systems. Turns into SapientHouse territory when the AI starts uses the those systems to murder anyone who comes too close to discovering its secret.
* SoMuchForStealth: At the start of "The Lion and the Unicorn", Steed and Purdey are listening at the door of the hotel room of ProfessionalKiller the Unicorn when Purdey knocks over an ashtray and they have to flee for their lives.
* StabTheSalad: TheTeaser of "Complex" opens with what appears to be a sniper sighting down a rifle on someone exiting a building. As he squeezes the trigger, it is revealed that he is actually using a special long-distance camera mounted on a rifle-style stock to take a photograph.
* StrappedToABomb: In "The Lion and the Unicorn", the villains strap a bomb to their royal hostage in case Steed attempts a double-cross before the hostage exchange can take place.
* StupidJetpackHitler: "The Eagle's Nest".
* StylishProtectionGear: Purdey had a gold silk karate gi, which really stood out compared to Gamnit's plain white one when they were sparring.
* SufferTheSlings: In "Dirtier by the Dozen", Gambit uses Purdey's bra as an improvised sling to hurl a rock that knocks out a commando.
* SupernaturallyYoungParent: In "K is for Kill", Colonel Stanislav activates a cadre of Soviet soldiers who were put into [[HumanPopsicle cryogenic sleep]] shortly after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. One of the soldiers is his father, who now appears about half the age of his son.
* SuperWindowJump: Gambit was fond of doing this when he was racing to the rescue. He comes crashing through the window of a folly in "Dead Men are Dangerous", a health farm in "the Deadly Angels", and a suburban home in "Complex".
* SwissCheeseSecurity: Enemy agents seem to wander into Steed's house in every other episode.
* TakeOffYourClothes: In "To Catch a Rat", Purdey tells Cromwell to take of his trousers, to his obvious surprise. It turns out she had ripped his trousers during the struggle and intends to sew up the rip.
* TakingOverTheTown: In "Sleeper", a gang uses a secret weapon to knock out a section of central London, then put in roadblocks and [[CutPhoneLines cut the phone lines]] to allow them to loot a series of banks at will.
* TelepathicSprinklers: In "Complex", Purdey is trapped inside a building which is attempting to kill her. Steed and Gambit dump a bunch of matches and lighters to her through the mail chute. She uses these to trigger the sprinklers which go off through the entire building and short out the computer controlling the building.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: In "The Tale of the Big Why", the Avengers find themselves alternatively pursuing or being pursued by a brains-and-brawn pair of thieves who do not even know what the MacGuffin they are trying to steal is: merely that it is extremely valuable in the right hands.
* TownWithADarkSecret: "The Eagle's Nest" where a remote Scottish island was harbouring a dark secret. The island had been secretly taken over by Nazis at the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and the monastery as being used to house the cryogenically frozen body of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler until such time as they could revive him.
* ToyotaTripwire: In "The Tale of the Big Why", Gambit and Purdey drive after two villains who chasing a man across a field. Gambit opens the door of the Range-Rover as they drive past to knock down one of the villains as he stops to aim his shotgun at the fleeing man.
* ThrowABarrelAtIt: In "Dial A Deadly Number", a strong {{mook}} throws a barrel at Steed while they're in a wine cellar.
* TransferableMemory: In "Three Handed Game", a device is invented that allows memories and skills to be transferred from one mind to another. It is stolen by a mercenary who intends to use it to steal espionage secrets. When the Avengers get too close, he uses it to transfer his mind to a new body.
* TrojanPrisoner: Steed and Purdey pull this trick to inflitrate Soo Choy's base in "Trap"
* TwangHello:
** Done by a bow-wielding villain to announce his presence to Purdey in "Faces".
** In "Dirtier by the Dozen", Gambit is unlocking Purdey's cell when a knife embeds itself in the door beside his head.
* UnderwaterBase: In "Forward Base", the eponymous base turns out to be an elaborate submersible community hidden in Lake Ontario.
* TheWallsAreClosingIn: In "The Deadly Angels", Steed and Purdey are trapped in a room with the walls closing in to crush them. They end up extremely close quarters before Gambit manages to switch the machinery off.
* WarForFunAndProfit: In "Dirtier by the Dozen", Colonel 'Mad Jack' Miller plans to trigger a war in the Middle East and use the confusion to loot whatever isn't nailed down and disappear before any of the powers involved can work out what has happened.
* WithMyHandsTied: In "The Tale of the Big Why", Purdey takes down one of her kidnappers despie having her hands tied.
* {{Yellowface}}: The Chinese crime lord Soo Choy in "Trap" is played by a Caucasian actor in obvious yellowface. In fact, it is not even obvious at first that he is supposed to be Chinese and not a white man who has adopted Oriental mannerisms. Made more obvious by all of his henchmen being played by Asian actors.
* YellowPeril: The Chinese crime lord Soo Choy in "Trap", who wears traditional Chinese robes and a Mandarin cap and generally comes across as a poor man's Fu Manchu. Not helped by being played by a Caucasian in obvious YellowFace.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In "The Last of the Cybernauts...??", Kane employs Goff to get the Cybernauts working. Once they are operating, he quickly determines that Goff is only an engineer and incapable of making any improvements to the robots, he uses a Cybernaut to snap Goff's neck.
* YourCostumeNeedsWork: In "Faces", Gambit poses as a homeless man to infiltrate a group creating duplicates of intelligence operatives. While looking for someone he can turn into a double of Gambit, the plastic surgeon initially doesn't think the disguised Gambit will be suitable.
* YouWouldntShootMe: At the end of "Obsession", Purdey and her NewOldFlame are standing pointing guns at each other, with him standing between her and the rocket that is about to be launched at the Houses of Parliament. He calmly states that she will not be able to bring herself to shoot him. However, Gambit, who arrives at this point, has no such qualms and shoots him.
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