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6	[[caption-width-right:325:''"It's time for you to meet the real agent Argylle."'']]
7	->'''Elly:''' Who are these people?\
8	'''Aidan:''' Real life spies.\
9	'''Elly:''' Why would they care about me?\
10	'''Aidan:''' Because you're a goddamn fortune teller, Elly. What you wrote in your new book actually happened and you kicked a hornet's nest you didn't even know existed.
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12	''Argylle'' is a 2024 American-British spy/romantic comedy/action film written by Jason Fuchs (''Film/{{Wonder Woman\|2017}}'') and directed by Creator/MatthewVaughn. It stars Creator/HenryCavill, Creator/BryceDallasHoward, Creator/SamRockwell, Creator/BryanCranston, Creator/CatherineOHara, Music/DuaLipa, Creator/ArianaDeBose, Creator/JohnCena, Creator/SamuelLJackson, Creator/SofiaBoutella, and Chip the Cat.
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14	Elly Conway (Howard) is the reclusive (preferring the company of her cat Alfie) and mild-mannered author of a wildly popular series of novels about a [[TuxedoAndMartini dashing super-spy]] named Argylle (Cavill). When the events in her novels start mirroring real things, Elly's world gets turned upside down and she has to go on the run with the help of real-life spy Aidan Wilde (Rockwell), while a rogue organisation led by Director Ritter (Cranston) is determined to figure out what else Elly knows.
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16	The film released in theaters February 2, 2024.
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18	'''Previews:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTbSAkMi-jo Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mgu9mNZ8Hk Trailer]]
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20	!!''Argylle'' contains examples of:
21	* EleventhHourRanger: [[spoiler:Keira, an agent Elly worked with during her time as a spy, was initially presumed "killed in action" but turns out to be NotQuiteDead and appears just in time to save Elly and Aidan in the climax.]]
22	* AcousticLicense: [[spoiler:Elly turns ManchurianAgent so long as she hears a specific music box tune playing]]. Given they were on top of the deck of an oil tanker in the middle of the ocean, the wind that would be present pretty much guarantees there's no way anyone would be able to hear it at any distance.
23	* AdvertisingByAssociation: The teaser declares that the film is "From the twisted mind of Matthew Vaughn, director of ''Film/{{Kingsman}}'' and ''Film/KickAss''".
24	* AmbiguousSituation: The last scene [[spoiler:has Elly performing a public reading of the last ''Argylle'' novel, then members of the audience can ask her questions; one of them has the same face as Argylle (he's also played by Henry Cavill) and Elly is baffled once she notices him. Cue end credits. Is Elly having another of those Argylle hallucinations (though the man didn't have the distinctive Argylle's suit and haircut)? Is he just a random stranger who happened to uncannily look like how Elly imagined Argylle? Is he another enemy secret agent? Is he the actor playing Argylle in the film adaptation of Elly's book revealed in TheStinger? Or is Agent Argylle real after all?]]
25	* AmnesiacDissonance:
26	** [[spoiler:In contrast to her real identity of Rachel Kylle, an ActionGirl who was "the best of the best" in the CIA and Division, as amnesiac Elly Conway, she reacts exactly the way you'd expect any normal person with no combat experience to respond when a bunch of assassins come after her and Aidan brutally kills them in front of her: lots of screaming, cowering, trying to run away, and reluctance to get involved in violence herself. Just compare this to when Rachel gets her memories back and mows down scores of mooks with ease.]]
27	** [[spoiler:On a less serious note, Elly's closest and dearest companion is her cat, Alfie. Aidan, who's allergic to them, complains to her after TheReveal of her real identity that Rachel didn't even like cats and was "a dog person." Even after Rachel's memories are restored, she keeps the trait of liking cats, or at least Alfie, and is still doting and protective over him, while Aidan accepts that Alfie's not going anywhere and has begun taking medication by the ending to manage the allergy.]]
28	* AmnesiacResonance: In spite of the above, [[spoiler:even after Elly's memories of her previous life as Rachel were suppressed by her brainwashing, they bubble to the surface in the form of "creative ideas" and "characters" that she brings to life in her ''Argylle'' book series. The adventures that Agent Argylle, Wyatt, and Keira have in her books come from the real adventures that Rachel, Aidan, and Keira had. She also instinctively reacts to Aidan trying to punch her and pins him to the ground without even thinking about it, which is what convinces her that he and (human) Alfie are telling the truth about her identity.]]
29	* AnachronisticSoundtrack: "Now and Then" by Music/TheBeatles is part of one character's returning memories from at least 5 years in the past, yet the song had only been released in November 2023 and the film in 2024 (with no indication that the movie takes place in the near future or any time besides the present day).
30	* AndStarring: Creator/JohnCena and Creator/SamuelLJackson get the "with" and "and" billing on the teaser’s cast list.
31	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Right before a gunfight, Aidan explains Elly she'll have to make sure the mooks are dead by stomping their head and crushing their skull, stating that the skull is "surprisingly brittle." In real life, the human skull is quite sturdy, and the danger of head blows comes primarily from the brain banging against the cranium.
32	* ArtisticLicensePhysics: [[spoiler:Elly realizes she can take out a bunch of mooks by attaching knives to her boots and skating along the oil-covered floor, letting her move much more gracefully while they can only slip and skid, based on her memories as an ice skater. In real life, this wouldn't happen, as ice skates are designed specifically for, well, ice, not metal surfaces covered in oil. If it were played with any realism, she'd have fallen flat on her face the instant she tried to skate. [[RuleOfCool Still pretty cool though.]]]]
33	* BattleCouple: [[spoiler:Rachel/Elly and Aidan were this before she was amnesiac and brainwashed, and become this again once her memories return.]]
34	* BigNo: Elly's reaction to Alfie (her cat) being dropped off a building in the teaser is an echoing "NO!"
35	* BookedFullOfMooks: Two shown in the trailer.
36	** When Agent Argylle meets [=LaGrange=] in a nightclub, they dance until she reveals she knows exactly who he is. Everyone in the club, including the [[SilkHidingSteel women]], pull guns out and point them at him.
37	** When Elly is taking a train to see her mother, Aidan sits down across from her. After taking time to chat, one man walks up and attempts to stick her with a hidden needle. When he fails, everyone else in the car attacks Aidan, with more coming from other cars.
38	* ChekhovsGun: One of the most literal versions ''ever''. We're introduced to "Clementine," Ritter's shotgun, which he literally has on the mantle of the fireplace in his office, early in the film when he loads it and kills an underling with it, showing that it's there, functional, and Ritter as ammunition and the will to use it. In the third act, he takes the gun off the mantle [[spoiler:when he goes to deal with Elly and Aidan personally.]]
39	* ChekhovsGunman: The fan who sent Elly a suggestion regarding how Argylle's ally Kiera could have survived being shot [[spoiler:is actually Keira herself; she sent the suggestion after surviving her real-life shot to the heart in the exact same way, and after never hearing back from Elly about it, realized she genuinely didn't remember the truth]].
40	* ChekhovsSkill: Elly's skating experience [[spoiler:plays a part in the final battle when she is able to use improvised skates to move over an oil-covered floor and mow down nearly a dozen knife-wielding {{Mooks}}]].
41	* CoversAlwaysLie: [[https://comicbook.com/movies/news/argylle-movie-poster-henry-cavill-matthew-vaughn-dua-lipa/ One of the posters]] features all the characters standing in a V shape. The central character is Agent Argylle cradling Alfie (the cat), despite Argylle being an in-universe fictional character without much onscreen presence [[spoiler:(though the in-universe ''Argylle'' franchise is integral to the plot)]] and Alfie being just the heroine's pet. Immediately next to Argylle are [=LaGrange=] (another in-universe fictional character, with ''very short'' onscreen presence) and Alfred Solomon (a real person with an important role in-story, but still without much scenes). Elly and Aidan, the ''actual'' main characters, are standing farther away and not in the central position. Wyatt, another fiction-only character, is closer to the center than the actual BigBad (whose identity as such isn't even a mystery).
42	* DanceBattler: Nobody would have thought it possible to fight GunsAkimbo while doing the Whirleybird before the protagonists went and did it.
43	* DanceOfRomance: Between Elly and Aidan. In the middle of a gunfight. With multicolored smoke bombs being set off and thrown all over the place. Proving both of them are {{Dance Battler}}s to the max.
44	* DentedIron: By the time of the climax, [[spoiler:Aidan]] has received a severe beating and a non-fatal shot to the chest but is still able to patch his wounds up and give a good account of himself in the final battle.
45	* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler:Elly/Rachel's plan to send the master file to Alfie fails because she didn't know the Division updated their cybersecurity protocols in the five years she had been gone]].
46	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Creator/ArianaDeBose (Keira) performed in two songs of the soundtrack, a {{disco}} duet with Boy George in "Electric Energy" and solo in "Get Up And Start Again".
47	* DroppingTheBombshell: When telling Elly how spies shouldn't [[OvertOperative stick out]] like her Agent Argylle clearly does, Adrian remarks they should look like "everyone else in this car", revealing that everyone in the train car is a spy.
48	* EvilBrit: [[spoiler:Margaret Vogler, who is posing as Elly/Rachel's mother Ruth, starts speaking with a British accent once her true nature is revealed.]]
49	* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Alfie attacks Ritter by delivering serious scratches to his face, which apparently damaged Ritter's eyes]].
50	* FakeDefector: [[spoiler:After learning that she was the one who murdered Bakunin, as well her myriad crimes detailed in the master file, Rachel seemingly abandons all her scruples and joins up with the Division for real. She tells Ritter to dispose of her cat because she remembers she hates cats, and then coldly guns down Aidan during his interrogation, convincing everyone that she really was EvilAllAlong and has remembered her true self. This is all a ploy to make the Division let down their guard while she secretly sends the master file to Alfie under the guise of helping them track him down. If it wasn't for additional cybersecurity protocols she hadn't anticipated, her plan would have gone off without a hitch.]]
51	* FakeRealTurn: [[spoiler:Elly's literary career began just as a means for Division to extract the location of the Master File from her subconscious. However, she turns out to actually be a talented writer and she becomes a widely popular and famous author on her own right. The ending shows that, even after she's remembered her real identity of Rachel, she still used her "Elly" persona to write the final Argylle book based on the film's adventures, which is a smash hit just like all the previous ones.]]
52	* FemmeFataleSpy: [=LaGrange=], introduced in the beginning of the movie, is a deadly and seductive female spy targeted by Agent Argylle and Wyatt in one of Elly's books.
53	* FiveSecondForeshadowing: The shootout in the Division's base in the climax has a scene where they burst several pipes, all of which begin leaking crude oil. A few minutes later, it's revealed the Division has a mobile base in the form of an oil tanker in the middle of the ocean.
54	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
55	** Elly manages to put out her fifth book in what's implied to be incredibly short time after her fourth is published yet can't manage to even write half a scene past what she initially wrote when her mother insists on another chapter. Because what she's attempting to write didn't happen and everything she has written was based entirely off [[spoiler:her repressed memories]] of actual events.
56	** Ruth is remarkably upset that Elly ended her last book on a {{Cliffhanger}}, calling it a cop out and trying to insist she write just one more chapter to reveal if Argylle actually got the master file he was after. [[spoiler:She works for the Division, which the Directorate is based on, and they want to know where the master file is]].
57	** Aidan remarking that Elly got basically everything right except Argylle's appearance, remarking how much someone like that would draw attention hints that [[spoiler:she is the real Argylle]].
58	** Elly is shown speaking to a mental construct of Argylle multiple times, this hints at the fact that [[spoiler:Elly herself is the real Agent Argylle.]]
59	** Ruth looks thrown to hear Elly is on a train which makes sense as [[spoiler:she wasn't expecting her to be traveling and likely isn't at their "home" in Chicago.]]
60	** Carlos ([[spoiler:the bearded Hispanic man who spoke at Elly's book reading]]) noticeably says to Elly and Aidan after cornering them in the train "Don't make me kill both of you." [[spoiler:Because the Division, contrary to Aidan's belief, weren't going to kill her, they wanted to bring her back into the fold.]]
61	** Checking out Bakunin's apartment, Elly finds odd burns marks under the wallpaper in a strange pattern. It turns out to be [[spoiler:where the explosives went off when Rachel killing Bakunin set off his bombs.]]
62	** Several times, Aidan gets upset or annoyed with Elly for not being helpful during fights, reacting realistically to everything that happens, and in the most extreme case, not ''stomping on and crushing the mooks' skulls'' to make sure they're dead. It seems quite unreasonable and harsh to expect an ordinary civilian to quickly pick up on and adjust to seeing people die and brutally killing them herself, [[spoiler:but makes far more sense after learning that Elly is really ActionGirl Rachel, and that she and Aidan were lovers. It hurts him to see the badass woman he fell in love with, whom he ''knows'' could kick these guys' asses into next week without batting an eyelid, being so helpless and defenseless in a fight.]]
63	** Argylle is an unquestionably heroic character in Elly's books, opposing the villainous Directorate. [[spoiler: Since he's her subconscious projection of the real Rachel, of course it turns out that she isn't really evil, despite what her more ruthless actions may suggest.]]
64	** When Aidan and Ellie first work together to decipher Bakunin's clues, in Elly's mental projection Aidan actually takes Wyatt's role rather than Argylle's [[spoiler: because he actually is Elly's partner and she is the real Argylle.]]
65	* GenreThrowback: Creator/MatthewVaughn has described ''Argylle'' as his ode to classic action films from the [[TheEighties 1980s]], such as ''Film/DieHard'' and ''Film/LethalWeapon1987''. According to some, Creator/SamRockwell's character Aidan Wilde evokes the character of Jack T. Colton (Creator/MichaelDouglas) from ''Film/RomancingTheStone''.
66	* HollywoodDensity: Argylle pays for information on the Master File with three gold bars in a suit case, which would weigh ninety kilograms (or just under two hundred pounds) but apparently carried it to his information exchange with no problem.
67	* HollywoodHealing: [[spoiler:Aidan]] takes a wound that looks instantly lethal but is theoretically survivable given treatment, and then manages to be fit to fight given a few minutes of self-applied first aid.
68	* HomageShot: The shot of the Division {{mooks}} standing outside the armory waiting for Elly and Aidan to come out of it and getting smoke bombs thrown at them by the two heroes is staged the very same way as Richmond Valentine's mooks doing the same against Eggsy in ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService''. Moreover, the bright colors of the smoke bombs recall the bright colored explosions of heads in the same film.
69	* HopeSpot: Ritter offers one to his Deputy Director in his opening scene. At first he appears like he's going to [[YouHaveFailedMe shoot the man with Clementine]], but puts the gun over his should and laughs it off, only to turn around and shoot the man anyway.
70	* ICallHerVera: Ritter has a rifle in his office that he refers to as "Clementine", and he prepares to use it against Elly and Aidan near the end.
71	* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler:Ruth activates Elly’s [[ManchurianAgent brainwashing trigger]] and forces her to fight Aidan, he tries to get through to her and eventually refuses to fight back altogether.]]
72	* ImprobableAimingSkills: Is it possible for someone to be shot center mass in such a way that the bullet does not damage any major veins, arteries or organs? Probably. It's unlikely that someone would be able to make that shot on purpose, [[spoiler:especially given that Elly hadn't handled a gun in years]]. Aidan himself actually [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this in the third act of the movie.
73	* IronicEcho: Fairly early in the movie, Aidan gives Elly advice on how to stomp on a man's skull properly, likening it to dancing as he tells her to "twist and crush". In the FinalBattle, he once more gives the same advice but much more somberly [[spoiler:to Elly/Rachel when she's in ManchurianAgent mode and about to kill him because he can't bear to fight back against her.]]
74	* LetsDuet: "Electric Energy" from the soundtrack, with [[Music/CultureClub Boy George]] and Creator/ArianaDeBose at the singing and [[Music/{{Chic}} Nile Rodgers]] at the instrumentals.
75	* LighterAndSofter: As a TuxedoAndMartini spy film by Matthew Vaughn, there's less blood, gore, sex talk and swearing than in his ''Film/{{Kingsman}}'' films (to the point it's rated PG-13 instead of R).
76	* LiteralMetaphor: While writing the final chapter of book 5, Elly has Argylle's narration say that information on the Master File is worth its weight in gold… while the action on-screen shows that he is paying for it with a suitcase containing three enormous gold bars.
77	* LogoJoke: In the main trailer, the Universal, Apple, and MARV logos are rendered in gold.
78	* LoopholeAbuse: Guns are not permitted within the Keeper of Secrets' home, but [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink putting sleeping pills in tea]] is.
79	* MacGuffinSuperPerson: As laid on in the trailer, Elly ''somehow'' predicted several real world spy missions in her book, and now a group led by Ritter wants her for her ability. [[spoiler:Until it's revealed that the real-world missions in question happened five years ago, she's actually ''remembering'' them, and what they really want is a debrief of what happened at the end of "Argylle's" last mission]].
80	* ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler:The brainwashing Rachel/Elly was subjected to also included trigger words and a trigger music box's tune to control her, which Ruth uses in the climax to try having Rachel kill Aidan.]]
81	* MetaTwist: [[spoiler:Henry Cavill having top-billing on the posters, and the movie being named after his character implies that, somehow, Agent Argylle is a real person. The plot twist is that Argylle is an unconscious expy of Elly prior her amnesia and brainwashing. His name is in the title because ''the in-universe novels named after him'' are central to the film's plot and the big reveal.]]
82	* MistakenForJunkie: As Elly describes what she just lived through with Aidan to her mother, her mom asks if she's been experimenting with drugs.
83	* NegatedMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Rachel has just revealed to Ritter that she is actually against the Division and has just sent Alfie everything he needs to bring them down... and then it turns out that the Division have added security protocols that prevented Rachel sending everything to Alfie as she intended, so she's just exposed her true agenda in the heart of enemy territory]].
84	* NoEscapeButDown: After finding Bakunin's notebook, Aidan and Elly have no choice but to escape by jumping from the roof of the building onto a barge. To demonstrate the safety of the jump, Aidan throws poor Alfie first.
85	* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Aidan in the climax due to Elly intentionally missing shooting him in the heart by a few centimetres, also Keira who gave her the idea in the first place.]]
86	* OneManArmy: Both Aidan and later [[spoiler:Elly/Rachel Kylle]] are shown to be more than capable of singlehandedly carving their way through dozens of enemies.
87	* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Elly overhears Aidan state that "Elly Conway needs a bullet to the head" and assumes the worst. [[spoiler:He actually means he hates her fake personality as he was in love with her real self, Rachel Kylle]].
88	* PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo: Attempted. When [[spoiler:Vogler]] pours Aidan and Elly some tea in Arabia, Aidan pointedly swaps cups with her then insists she drink first. Unfortunately, all three cups are drugged.
89	* PoorCommunicationKills: When they are at the London motel, Elly accidentally hears Aidan telling someone on the phone that he's irritated with Elly and even wishes he could shoot her down. Elly naturally takes it as a threat and leaves - not knowing that Aidan was simply expressing his frustration [[spoiler:because he's in love with Rachel, Elly's real identity, and dislikes how Elly is so different from her]].
90	* RewatchBonus:
91	** The fade-cut transition from Argylle's lips to Elly's lips as she's reading from her latest book serves as the first transition into the real world. [[spoiler:It takes on a different light when you know that she's actually Argylle. She's not just reading a book, she's narrating her own life.]]
92	** During the first combat scene, Elly keeps hallucinating Aidan as Argylle. Throughout the whole scene, the pattern of these hallucinations is Argylle's performance in the fight is better than Aidan, who doesn't lose but the bad guys get a few hits in while they never do with Argylle. [[spoiler:This is because Elly's suppressed memories as Rachel Kylle, who Aidan admits is a better fighter than he is, are resurfacing, and she's remembering the way she would likely have fought.]]
93	* RuleOfCool: Pretty much the only reason [[spoiler:Rachel can ice-skate on a floor covered in crude oil by stabbing knives into her boots, tackle several much larger mercenaries without losing any momentum, and then shoot all the survivors without the hot shell casings igniting the oil covered floor]]. Absolutely none of it would work in real life but it looks ''awesome''.
94	* SarcasticConfession: Aidan admits to being a spy when he first meets Elly, something she doesn't believe at first.
95	* SecretTestOfCharacter: Ritter offers one [[spoiler:to Rachel near the end, offering to give her back her cat if he helps her find Alfie the human. She tells him to do whatever he wants with the cat, insisting she hates them, which convinces Ritter that she really is back to being Rachel]].
96	* SharedUniverse: From TheStinger, [[spoiler:the [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe movie]] ''Argylle: Book One'' appears to share a universe with the ''Film/{{Kingsman}}'' franchise. What this means for the "real" ''Argylle'' universe is unclear, though there's a clue implying there may be a connection as well (the [[Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle Stateman brand of alcohol]] exists).]]
97	* ShoePhone: The first enemy spy who comes for Elly passes as a fan of her books and has a shiv springing out of a pen. He's quickly neutralized by Aidan.
98	* ShoutOut:
99	** Bakunin mentions [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] is like Literature/MaryPoppins when compared to the Division.
100	** When Aidan urges Elly to write the next chapter to her novel, he says it does not have to be long like ''Literature/WarAndPeace''.
101	** Self-referential for Matthew Vaughn. During their visit to Hyde Park, Elly and Aidan are seen with a can of [[Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle "Statesman"]] brand beer. [[spoiler:TheStinger takes place in a pub named "Film/TheKingsMan", complete with the Film/{{Kingsman}} symbol.]]
102	* ShowWithinAShow: The film is about the ''Argylle'' novels, which inexplicably parallel real secret agent operations, which draws the attention of real spies. The protagonist Elly is the novels' author, and the film features a few sequences which are scenes from the books (in context, either because Elly is writing them, making a public reading or hallucinating).
103	* SlipperySkid: A gunfight in a pumping station results in an oil slick covering the entire floor, ensuring that nobody on either side has good footing. [[spoiler:Elly attaches knives to her boots and somehow manages to "ice" skate on the crude oil, allowing her to keep fighting while everyone else can barely stand up.]]
104	* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Elly convinces Ritter that [[spoiler:she's back to being the Rachel Kylle who worked for him by dismissively saying he could "do whatever he wants" with her cat when he holds it hostage. As Rachel was known for hating cats unlike KindheartedCatLover Elly, he's fully convinced]]. It's later revealed she was bluffing.
105	* StealthPun: The first of the film's many plot twists happens almost immediately after the cat is quite literally taken out of its bag for the first time since the film started.
106	* TheStinger: [[spoiler:The mid-credits scene sees a young Argylle (played by Louis Partridge) in a teaser for a prequel film based on the first Argylle novel, titled "''Argylle: Book One''".]]
107	* TickTockTune: A quick-paced ticking can be heard in the score to the trailer.
108	* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:"Elly Conway" isn't real. She's a brainwashed former agent whose real name is '''R'''achel '''Kylle''', and the ''Argylle'' books are based on her subconscious memories of being a real super-spy.]]
109	* VillainRespect: One Division agent tells off another for disparaging Aidan, insisting the man was a legend.
110	* VisualPun: Elly's cat Alfie in the cat bagpack she put him in. The expression "Don't let the cat out of the bag" (means "don't reveal secrets carelessly or by mistake") has been used aplenty in the marketing.
111	* WalkingSpoiler: Most of the cast arguably qualifies as this, due to the sheer number of plot twists occurring one after another. This especially applies for the protagonist Elly Conway however - The film's first act reveal that her fictional books predicts future events in real life barely scratches the surface of the actual plot.
112	* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Turns out Elly named her cat "Alfie" after [[spoiler:her former leader from before she lost her memory]].
113	* WhamShot:
114	** While meeting her parents at the hotel, Elly fears that whoever is knocking at the door is an enemy spy. The door opens to reveal [[spoiler:the Director of the Division, whom she greets as her father]].
115	** The reveal of "the real Agent Argylle" happening when [[spoiler:Solomon shows Elly a computer file containing her image along with the name "Rachel Kylle", with the abbreviation (Agent R. Kylle) being used along with her old memories of her espionage work to create the Argylle character and his stories.]]
116	** When Elly [[spoiler:reviews the contents of the master file, she's horrified to find that ''her own crimes'' are listed there. She's then cornered by Ruth and forced to remember that she'd actually [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness murdered the hacker after he'd given her the master file's coordinates]], leading to her injury when he activated a DeadMansSwitch. Her ruthlessness also made Ruth and Ritter believe that she truly ''was'' a loyal Division agent, and they actually planned to reinstate her instead of [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness dispose of her]] as Aidan believed.]]
117	** The reveal of the ''real'' real [[spoiler:Agent Argylle]] who appears at the book signing for the final Argylle novel. [[spoiler: played by Henry Cavill with a strong accent and different silly hair]]
118	--> '''[[spoiler:Argylle]]''': I don't actually have a question, but I thought you might have some for me.
119	* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler:Elly is asked this about her characters after reading the final Argylle novel, and she answers it about their real counterparts: Alfie got his professional reputation back and a commendation, Keira started making and selling gadgets for the civilian market, and wherever Argylle and Wyatt are, they're together.]]
120	* WillfullyWeak: During his [[spoiler:IKnowYoureInThereSomewhere fight with Elly, Aidan]] pulls his punches and eventually refuses to fight back altogether.
121	* WinkDing: The teaser ends with the cat, safe in its carrier, winking at the viewer with an audible ding.
122	* WishFulfillment: Not explicitly stated, but in a similar vein to Matthew Vaughn's ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', the movie plays out like a cat-lady's fantasy dream from start to end: A single woman in a not-so-exciting life was suddenly dragged into a completely new situation by the actions of a [[spoiler:new badass love interest, who told her she's capable of being much more than she thought of herself. When finally acknowledging her true calling, she TookALevelInBadass and start accomplishing amazing feats she previously did not believe she could accomplish]].
123	* WouldntHitAGirl: Aidan puts the two female mooks on the train into sleeper holds rather than kill them, unlike all the other mooks.
124	* YourMakeupIsRunning: In the aftermath of [[spoiler:discovering her parents aren't as innocent as she thought]], Elly cries so much her mascara is seen running.
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