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Basic Trope: A woman who charms state secrets out of men in power.

  • Straight: Alice is a beautiful and deadly woman who uses her good looks to ensnare marks and pry information from them.
  • Exaggerated: Alice is an incredibly gorgeous supermodel who has won model contests all over the world, and is also the world's greatest spy who has managed to infiltrate the upper echelons of every major power using her feminine charms alone. And of course, nobody knows or even realizes that Alice the supermodel and Alice the superspy are the exact same person.
  • Downplayed: Alice uses her good looks to make marks lower their guard, but when alone, uses more direct methods to gather information.
  • Justified: Alice has been specifically trained to use her good looks because her marks are otherwise stronger and faster than her and could easily overpower her in a direct confrontation.
  • Subverted: Alice appears to doll herself up in order to seduce a mark, but it's only for herself, and she uses more direct interrogation techniques instead.
  • Double Subverted: Except it doesn't work, and she's forced to play up the Femme Fatale persona nonetheless.
  • Gender Inverted: Bob is a beautiful male spy who uses his good looks to ensnare female diplomats and never uses his strength in combat.
  • Parodied: Alice is a beautiful spy and all she has to do is reveal an ankle and the mark reveals all his information immediately.
  • Averted: Alice never uses her looks to gather information, instead relying entirely on standard interrogation methods.
  • Defied: Alice refuses to become objectified for the spy agency and demonstrates her capability to use normal methods.
  • Zig-Zagged: But on occasion, she uses her good looks to get closer to her mark.
  • Enforced: The spy agency forces Alice to become a Femme Fatale Spy or else she's regulated to a desk job.
  • Lampshaded: "Men are such easy targets to seduce; I only need to show a little skin and they open up immediately."
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???
  • Invoked: The author wants to write an Erotic Thriller and so the female spy protagonist gets naked at almost every opportunity.
  • Exploited: ???
  • Played for Laughs: Alice stands in various ridiculously sexy poses while speaking to her marks. The marks don't find this odd or suspicious at all, and it works every time.
  • Played for Drama: ???
  • Played for Horror: Alice is a succubus who puts her marks under a love trance that last for days. While under the trance, the marks will give up any information she asks for, and have no free will, barely able to feed and take care of themselves unless Alice tells them to. If they're left alive when the trance finally breaks, they're traumatized by the experience.
  • Implied: "Got the intel," says stunningly-dressed Alice as she leaves the room, her mark shirtless and covered in lipstick marks.
  • Unparodied: ???
  • Untwisted: ???
  • Deconstructed: ???
  • Reconstructed: ???

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