History YMMV / SpiesAreForever

* EvilIsSexy: Joe Walker [[spoiler:and Joey Richter]] with a fairly decent English accent and engaging in buckets of FoeRomanceSubtext with the protagonist? Is it any wonder that DracoInLeatherPants tends to be in full effect within the fandom?

** The slightly uncomfortable cross-dressing jokes with the Informant many viewers said didn't age well took on a different dimension after Esther Fallick [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} transitioned]] in RealLife.

** [[spoiler: Played with with Owen/Curt in the end, in "One Step Ahead".]]

* OneTruePairing: Curt/Owen ''dominates'' in the fandom, with most of the ''Spies'' fanfic on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn being Curtwen. [[spoiler:And for good reason...]]

* OneTruePairing: Curt/Owen ''dominates'' in the fandom, with most of the ''Spies'' fanfic on AO3 being Curtwen. [[spoiler:And for good reason...]]

** At first, it's unclear exactly ''what'' The Deadliest Man Alive's seeming vendetta against Curt is about, especially since Curt is initially unaware of his existence and has been off-duty for four years. Watching it through a second time, the vendetta becomes outright heartbreaking.

* FoeYayShipping: An interesting one-sided variation between The Deadliest Man Alive[[spoiler:/Owen]] and Curt, ''especially'' during "The Torture Tango". Taken UpToEleven in the Reloaded concert version where, due to a lack of props, The Deadliest Man punctuates his lines in the song by ''kissing Curt's ear''.

* EvilIsSexy: Joe Walker [[spoiler:and Joey Richter]] with a fairly decent English accent and engaging in buckets of FoeYay with the protagonist? Is it any wonder that DracoInLeatherPants tends to be in full effect within the fandom?

* FoeYay: An interesting one-sided variation between The Deadliest Man Alive[[spoiler:/Owen]] and Curt, ''especially'' during "The Torture Tango". Taken UpToEleven in the Reloaded concert version where, due to a lack of props, The Deadliest Man punctuates his lines in the song by ''kissing Curt's ear''.

** The slightly uncomfortable cross-dressing jokes with the Informant many viewers said didn't age well took on a different dimension after Esther Fallick [[{{Transgender}} transitioned]] in RealLife.

* EvilIsSexy: Joe Walker[[spoiler:/Joey Richter]] with a fairly decent English accent and engaging in buckets of FoeYay with the protagonist? Is it any wonder that DracoInLeatherPants tends to be in full effect within the fandom?

-->'''Agent Curt Mega:''' ''(to audience)'' [[WhatTheHellHero WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!]]

* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: [[spoiler: The main thing the fandom loves about the show is TheReveal that Owen is the BigBad and that Curt and Owen were once lovers. This is why when ''Spies Are Forever'' is recommended it's almost always with a caveat to watch it as soon as possible without looking at online discussions.]]

* TheWoobie: Agent Curt Mega ''really'' gets put through a lot...

* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: As Creator/JoeyRichter himself said, when he started working on ''Spies Are Forever'' he thought he'd "never played a character as cool" as Owen. [[spoiler: It's especially a BaitAndSwitch when Owen dies and we see him again as Sergio, a character in his wheelhouse as ComicRelief... only for him to turn up as the resurrected Owen in Act 2, as a terrifyingly PlayedStraight sociopathic villain. Many fans consider this {{foreshadowing}} for him playing Uncle Wiley, a similar SatanicArchetype villain in the Franchise/{{Hatchetfield}} series.]]
* HilariousInHindsight: Baron von Nazi is a childish megalomaniac who allies himself with a Russian to help him gain power, delights at the prospect of eating cheeseburgers in bed and is little more than a puppet for his DragonInChief. Even though this show was produced during the 2016 US Presidential elections, this particular aspect has only gotten more hilarious since then.
** "Nazis Are Not So Bad" got a ton of MemeticMutation as a response to UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's assertion there were "very fine people" on both sides of the Charlottesville [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally Unite the Right rally]] in 2017.

* HeReallyCanAct: As Creator/JoeyRichter himself said, when he started working on ''Spies Are Forever'' he thought he'd "never played a character as cool" as Owen. [[spoiler: It's especially a BaitAndSwitch when Owen dies and we see him again as Sergio, a character in his wheelhouse as ComicRelief... only for him to turn up as the resurrected Owen in Act 2, as a terrifyingly PlayedStraight sociopathic villain. Many fans consider this {{foreshadowing}} for him playing Uncle Wiley, a similar SatanicArchetype villain in the Franchise/{{Hatchetfield}} series.]]

* FirstInstallmentWins: This was the Creator/TinCanBrothers' first full-length stage production, and the one by far most commonly referenced by fans, until ''WebVideo/TheWaywardGuideForTheUntrainedEye'' finally came out in 2020.

* EarWorm: Try getting the title song out of your head once you've heard it. Just try.