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    Teen Spy Campaigns

    There is a subgrnee of stories (mostly on television, many animated) in which teenagers are recruited into international espionage work and prove to be extraodinarily good at it. I don;t have Dark Champions yet, but since that seems to be the de fact source material for espeionage campaigns of all sorts, can the teen-spy camaign be handled well and how well would ti work.

    Aside from which, I'm wondering what people would rather see their camapigns inspired by: Kim Possible or Totally Spies!?
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    I would also be very curious to see this. I have been a big fan of Teen Champions and I think the sub-genres would share a lot of feel.

    I would lean more towards Totaly Spies but surely there are more options.

    How about a young James Bond? The Teen from U.N.C.L.E.?

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    Re: Teen Spy Campaigns

    Don't forget Spy Kids. But for my money, I'd pick Spyboy.

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    Re: Teen Spy Campaigns

    There were also the two Frankie Muniz movies, 'Agent Cody Banks'.

    I haven't watched any of the teen-spy shows or movies, so don't know the differences. From the few shots I have seen of Totally Spies it looks like they tend to add supertech powers to ordinary gadgets.
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    Re: Teen Spy Campaigns

    Section One's Farm Team comes to mind if someone wanted to run a more dark and serious game. After basic training, the Farm Team is assigned Abeyance (suicide) Missions until Section is satisfied with their performance.



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    Re: Teen Spy Campaigns

    Quote Originally Posted by CourtFool
    I would also be very curious to see this. I have been a big fan of Teen Champions and I think the sub-genres would share a lot of feel.

    I would lean more towards Totaly Spies but surely there are more options.

    How about a young James Bond? The Teen from U.N.C.L.E.?
    There actually was an animated series called James Bond Jr. about 007's teenage cousin (who also happened to be named James Bond) and the adventures he got into. he even had his own nemeses.

    Totally Spies! has inspired more dirty fanfiction, by the way, than any other show in the genre.
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    Re: Teen Spy Campaigns

    Quote Originally Posted by Michael Hopcroft
    Totally Spies! has inspired more dirty fanfiction, by the way, than any other show in the genre.
    A show about three girls running around in skintight catsuit that occasionally do martial arts....

    You kind of had to see that coming.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nexus
    A show about three girls running around in skintight catsuit that occasionally do martial arts....

    You kind of had to see that coming.
    The strange thing is, the girls are all boy-crazy, yet all the fanfic is yuri. Is it overcompensation, or just the male fantasy that all hot chicks are bi?

    (A fantasy that the only hot chicks I ever knew in my life would find, frankly, rather insulting.)
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    Question Re: Teen Spy Campaigns

    Quote Originally Posted by Michael Hopcroft
    The strange thing is, the girls are all boy-crazy, yet all the fanfic is yuri. Is it overcompensation, or just the male fantasy that all hot chicks are bi?

    (A fantasy that the only hot chicks I ever knew in my life would find, frankly, rather insulting.)
    Star Trek slash-fic is all gay. Coincidence?

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    Re: Teen Spy Campaigns

    Quote Originally Posted by Michael Hopcroft
    The strange thing is, the girls are all boy-crazy, yet all the fanfic is yuri. Is it overcompensation, or just the male fantasy that all hot chicks are bi?

    (A fantasy that the only hot chicks I ever knew in my life would find, frankly, rather insulting.)
    You know, I've never gotten that either.

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    Re: Teen Spy Campaigns

    Quote Originally Posted by CourtFool
    Star Trek slash-fic is all gay. Coincidence?
    Original series, but some of the newer stuff has m/f and f/f. To be honest, in the original series there weren't allot of strong female characters to write about. Not saying that explains it just pointing it out.

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    Re: Teen Spy Campaigns

    Original Star Trek Must follow rules

    If you had a red shirt and you went down to the planet - you are dead meat

    if you are a female alien Captain Kirk will shag you

    all planets have unconvincing paper machi boulders as land scapes.

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    Re: Teen Spy Campaigns

    Mind you, if JB, Jr. had been the original's nephew, the correct suffix would have been James Bond the Second. So there may have been some hanky-panky going on.

    Fox's first season had a show about a teen spy named Oliver Beene. From what little I remember of it, it was more like Cody Banks than some of the others mentioned so far.

    Totally Spies seems like the best template for a player character group; most of the others have one star and his/her supporting characters.

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    Re: Teen Spy Campaigns

    Quote Originally Posted by CourtFool
    [font=Comic Sans MS]How about a young James Bond? The Teen from U.N.C.L.E.?
    Humm...wasen't there a TV cartoon called James Bond Jr.? Which reminds me, how can he be a Jr. when he is named after his infamous (in some curcles) uncle?

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    Re: Teen Spy Campaigns

    Quote Originally Posted by Michael Hopcroft
    There actually was an animated series called James Bond Jr. about 007's teenage cousin (who also happened to be named James Bond) and the adventures he got into. he even had his own nemeses.
    That woulden't happen to be Goldie, Goldfinger's daughter? In fact, she is proably the only real original charater in the series I know of. All the rest are old Bond movie villlians which look difrent so as not to step on copyrights.

    And I don't think he has ever faced Blowfield in the series (but then again, who would he want to face an overweight, lazy mastermind who's only indentfiable marks are his bauld head, and his cat).

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