W.O.O.H.P. is not a secret intelligence agency, it's a unified world government. It's been established that they have an office complex in at least most major cities, and they're physically connected to nearly every building (as seen each time Jerry summons the girls). It is evident that the girls do not practice espionage, as they have never been strictly required to disguise their identities; they're more like a body of crisis control or SpecOps that battles crimes too specific, grand-scale, or technologically-inclined for the regular police.
The crime comes about due to the easy availability of sophisticated technology. Education seems much more widespread and there doesn't seem to be a soul in the world beneath upper-middle-class, a time-honored trait of Sci-Fi utopias; high-tech devices like robots and hovering vehicles seem relatively common, as no one bats an eye at them, the space program is decades beyond our time, there is a heavy emphasis on cleanliness and environmental protection ("Even the dirt is clean!"), there are no overweight people, implying more health awareness and / or better health care, and a recent episode revealed that the animals at Malibu Zoo have been replaced with robotic replicas, indicating a leap in animal rights. To say nothing of the surprising Type One portrayal of Eagleland, in a French production no less.
Of course, the dominoes are all set for a totalitarian government to usurp W.O.O.H.P.. Given the organization's resources (if it has wires or runs on electricity, W.O.O.H.P. has bugged it in some way), it'd be incredibly easy for a despot to monitor every aspect of the citizens' lives and turn the technology against its users. Jerry's utter inability to judge a person's moral compass, given the amount of transparently evil persons who have fooled him into trusting them, this seems eerily likely.
This subtext is all a hair away from text, though. To dive a little deeper…
It's no secret that the girls have a special gene that makes them more adept agents for W.O.O.H.P. than the average person. But, if you'll notice, none of their gadgets seem substantially more advanced, technologically speaking, than the kind of consumer products you can buy (or even build) here. You'll also notice that few, if any, of the villains the "spies" are sent to defeat have political aspirations in mind; all of them are following some wild, nonsensical pipe dream for little more than personal fulfillment. Exhibit #3 is the apparent obsolescence of war. James Bond always had to defuse evil schemes that would result in explosive international incidents. The girls have never needed to bother with such consequences.
Now here is the juicy bit…
We can deduce, then, that the series is set long in the aftermath of an attempted War to End All Wars, using super soldiers. It was discovered, however, that although these soldiers were incredibly adept at strategic thinking and handling tech and weaponry, a large percentage of them were prone to long bouts of insanity and extremely skewed prioritizing (how else do you explain a maniac who wants to physically destroy the Earth because his pants fell off in public once, or one who wants to brainwash the entire world because they don't appreciate his performance art enough?). In light of the huge threat entire armies of these people represented, all world governments had to unite into a World Order of Human Protection, WOOHP, to keep the people safe.
Decades later, their goal is to isolate all descendants of the super soldiers who carried the defective gene from the rest of the citizenry… with the aid of those who turned out right.
This also explains why Sam, Alex, and Clover required no training, and why everyone they ever fight can hold their own against them, at least for a while.
The reason why all of the villains didn't appear after they were captured is because Light has killed them with his Death Note. An example is when Shirley, the spies' evil yoga teacher in Power Yoga Much, is arrested by W.O.O.H.P. and never appears in the next episode. Why? Because he killed her by putting her name in the note, giving her a heart attack.
With this, the spies are able to have a peaceful world without knowing that Light has killed the villains they locked up.
- Or, you know, it could just be because they're still in prison/awaiting trial. After all, assuming the episodes take place a week or two apart, most of the villains would still be in jail, and by the time they get out, most viewers would've forgotten about the ones that aren't reoccurring.
- I think Light Imagay is a fan of WOOHP so he killed Ariel for them (she’s the woman who wanted to make warrior women). Ariel is the one villain who got away from the girls (and the one villain who never returns). Light killed her for his favorite spy agency. Jerry would have no idea because he doesn’t keep track (and thus the girls wouldn’t know either, because she can’t return). He’d kill more villans for WOOHP but the girls would get suspicious.
Really! Listen to them laugh!
- The fanservice is obviously intentional, but the actual Wild Mass Guess here is asinine. There could not possibly be more evidence to the contrary.
- Agreed on how this WMG is asinine. Also, this WMG is disrespectful to the original canon. Still, I respect other people's opinions, nonetheless.
- More likely is that they're bi.
- The fanservice is obviously intentional, but the actual Wild Mass Guess here is asinine. There could not possibly be more evidence to the contrary.
- The episode when they go into the future the three of them are still living together
- Polyamorous gay marriage confirmed for the future.
- Alex's reason being that she's Ambiguously Brown, and she can easily sympathize with gay people because she had to deal with racism in the past, similar to how some gay people have to deal with homophobia.
- Clover starts off as having selfish reasons such as wanting a token gay friend, but later learns to actually care about gay people as people and NOT props.
- Sam's first reason is that she had to intervene and stop a corrupt cop from shooting an unarmed gay man, and her second reason is that, being Irish-American, she can easily relate to gay people enduring homophobia because Sam's family had to deal with anti-Irish racism as a major obstacle in the past.
- The girls do show attraction to guys outside of their looks, but also have a lot of moments between them.
- This would explain how he always knows exactly what gadgets to give them...
- It also explains why Clover's kidnapped so frequently: she's relaying information to the trainers.
- That means each one of the few times Jerry let the girls on the fact the trouble they faced was a simulation set up to test them was a Revealing Cover Up so Sam and Alex would think he'd have told them if anything else was another test.
- Um, you do know that Phil Coulson is dead, don't you? Add to that Jerry is British, so it should be enough to joss this theory!
- He's not dead - he's coming back in the SHIELD TV series. And plus, wouldn't you think SHIELD would teach their agents to readily disguise themselves if they need to go undercover? They are very thorough.
- Jossed, as season six has already aired.
- A seventh season is in production, the crossover could happen then.
- She goes all Naruto like in the Halloween episode, she HAS to save Mandy, like Naruto HAS to save (his crush) Sasuke.
- Sam is Max Ray
- Both are smart, most mature, and wear green battle uniforms
- Clover is "Ace" McCloud
- Both are blue eyed, dimwitted charmers, trying to make out with members of the opposite sex
- Alex is Jake Rockwell
- Both appear to be typical sports buffs in yellow battle uniforms
- This is why every gadget the spies need on their missions they get in advance. They can't die, the villains are always sympathetically evil instead of malicious, and W.O.O.H.P. always knows when to get involved and when to let the spies get out of danger on their own. Everyone takes this reality as natural - only Jerry knows he's an omnipotent deity in the fabric of a Charlie's Angels cartoon.
- The parents might have got plastic surgery during a brief mid life crisis. In Season Six despite Clover’s mom despite still looking a lot like Clover she looks old enough to be her mother again.
- She is extremely jealous of Brittany a girl both Sam and Clover like.
- It’s also possible Sam and Clover are both on to finding out about her feelings and will be supportive. If they don’t want to date her themselves they will try to hook her up with Brittany. (Also Clover for her part seems into Alex in Season Six)
- They are both boy crazy (Clover more than Nagisa, who is Rei-chan crazy) and they both like to swim (though Clover quit). They are also both cute flirty blonds, though Nagisa was the one who went all the way with a boy.
