...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

Modesty Blaise

934 statements
184 feature instances
117 referencing feature instances

Modesty Blaise	type	TVTItem
Modesty Blaise	label	Modesty Blaise
Modesty Blaise	page	ModestyBlaise
Modesty Blaise	comment	Series of novels and short stories by Peter O'Donnell, spun off from his long-running adventure comic of the same name.Modesty Blaise is an orphan with a Dark and Troubled Past who was head of a criminal syndicate before she was 20, and retired wealthy before she was 30. Willie Garvin is a multi-talented Cockney former street kid who became Modesty's trusted right-hand man and followed her into wealthy retirement. Retirement was boring, so now they fight crime.(Only crime that's unusual enough to attract their interest, though — or nasty or personal enough to attract their anger.)The first novel was published as a tie-in with the 1966 film adaptation, and is based on the screenplay O'Donnell wrote for the film (which was altered substantially by the filmmakers, so the film didn't end up much like the novel). The film was not a success, but the novel was, and more followed.The books are not in continuity with the comic strip: the first novel begins with a significantly different version of the opening sequence of the comic strip, then goes its own way. Incidents and characters from the strip appear in the books revised, tweaked, and in completely different contexts. It's essentially the Ultimate Universe version of Modesty Blaise, only not in the same medium. Despite this, characters from the novels later began to appear in the comic strip, and the strip also adapted several short stories.The short story "I Had a Date with Lady Janet" is narrated in the first person by Willie Garvin, and was once released as an audio book read by John Thaw.The books in the series are: Modesty Blaise (1965) Sabre-Tooth (1966) I, Lucifer (1967) A Taste for Death (1969) The Impossible Virgin (1971) Pieces of Modesty (1972) (6 short stories note A Better Day to Die, The Giggle-wrecker, I Had a Date with Lady Janet, A Perfect Night to Break Your Neck, Salamander Four, The Soo Girl Charity) The Silver Mistress (1973) Last Day in Limbo (1976) Dragon's Claw (1978) The Xanadu Talisman (1981) The Night of Morningstar (1982) Dead Man's Handle (1985) Cobra Trap (1996) (5 short stories note Bellman, The Dark Angels, Old Alex, The Girl With the Black Balloon, Cobra Trap)The last of the short stories, "Cobra Trap", is a Distant Finale.
Modesty Blaise	fetched	2024-04-19T13:46:04Z
Modesty Blaise	parsed	2024-04-19T13:46:05Z
Modesty Blaise	processingComment	Dropped link to ArabOilSheikh: Not a Feature - ITEM
Modesty Blaise	processingComment	Dropped link to BoyOfTheWeek: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
Modesty Blaise	processingComment	Dropped link to DisabilitySuperpower: Not a Feature - IGNORE
Modesty Blaise	processingComment	Dropped link to HumanTrafficking: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
Modesty Blaise	processingUnknown	BoyOfTheWeek
Modesty Blaise	processingUnknown	HumanTrafficking
Modesty Blaise	isPartOf	DBTropes
Modesty Blaise / int_109dbb51	type	Pull the Thread
Modesty Blaise / int_109dbb51	comment	Pull the Thread: In I, Lucifer, Willie suspects that Modesty's new boyfriend, Stephen Collier, is hiding something when he claims to be a metallurgist, so he makes a casual comment about beryllium that any real metallurgist would spot as nonsense; Stephen cuts the conversation short by saying he prefers not to talk shop on holiday, but fails to remark on the deliberate mistake. After Modesty points out the trap he fell into, he admits that he's actually an ESP researcher but doesn't like how the conversation usually goes if he says so in social situations, so when people ask what he does he says he's a metallurgist and that's usually the end of the subject.
Modesty Blaise / int_109dbb51	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_109dbb51	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_109dbb51
Modesty Blaise / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Modesty Blaise / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: In "Sabre-Tooth", Modesty intentionally allows herself to be raped several times by the villains as part of an I Surrender, Suckers ploy. It's made clear that she needs some help recovering from the trauma after the adventure is over, and Willie takes satisfaction in personally killing all the men responsible. A toned-down example in the short story "The Soo Girl Charity" — the inciting incident of the plot is Modesty being sexually groped hard enough to leave bruises on her body by a sadistic and misogynistic villain who didn't know who his random target was.
Modesty Blaise / int_12dd1d4c	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_12dd1d4c	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_12dd1d4c
Modesty Blaise / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Modesty Blaise / int_133f1c12	comment	The Spymaster: Sir Gerald Tarrant, something high up in the British secret service, who occasionally passes jobs to Modesty and Willie that his agents are unable to handle. He's the hidden-heart-of-gold type: soft-hearted enough to feel bad about manipulating people for the greater good, but not so soft-hearted to stop doing it.
Modesty Blaise / int_133f1c12	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_133f1c12	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_133f1c12
Modesty Blaise / int_13dc1beb	type	Serial Killings, Specific Target
Modesty Blaise / int_13dc1beb	comment	Serial Killings, Specific Target: Done on a grand scale in The Night of Morningstar. The Watchmen are a terrorist group with no discernable ideology who have committed a number of attacks for no clear purpose; it turns out that they're being run at arm's length by the Soviet Union and most of their attacks are to confuse things so that it won't be obvious when they commit an attack that advances the Soviet Union's aims.
Modesty Blaise / int_13dc1beb	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_13dc1beb	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_13dc1beb
Modesty Blaise / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Modesty Blaise / int_17a606bd	comment	Master Swordsman: In A Taste for the Death, one of the under-villains, Wenczel, is an egotistical master fencer who spends all his spare time practicing. Modesty goads him into a duel as part of her escape plan, and wins partly because he keeps passing up openings because he wants to show off by killing her with a single thrust through the heart.
Modesty Blaise / int_17a606bd	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_17a606bd	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_17a606bd
Modesty Blaise / int_18ce8f1d	type	Full-Frontal Assault
Modesty Blaise / int_18ce8f1d	comment	Full-Frontal Assault: In The Silver Mistress Modesty fights nude, and greased-up, to keep the much-stronger bad guy from being able to grab her. In addition, one of Modesty's favorite tactics when entering a room full of hostiles is "The Nailer"—she strips to the waist and walks in bare-breasted, counting on the moment of startlement she generates to give her the time she needs to do what she must.
Modesty Blaise / int_18ce8f1d	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_18ce8f1d	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_18ce8f1d
Modesty Blaise / int_18e2980	type	Poirot Speak
Modesty Blaise / int_18e2980	comment	Caspar in "A Perfect Night to Break Your Neck" is a Funny Foreigner everywhere he goes, speaking in an unidentifiable accent with Poirot Speak interjections from multiple languages.
Modesty Blaise / int_18e2980	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_18e2980	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_18e2980
Modesty Blaise / int_191535aa	type	Eiffel Tower Effect
Modesty Blaise / int_191535aa	comment	Eiffel Tower Effect: The early part of I, Lucifer is set in Paris, and Modesty's first scene is not over before somebody has pointed out the Eiffel Tower in the distance. (And then, because he's a native Parisian of the "newfangled abomination" school, jokingly solicited her collaboration on a hypothetical scheme to blow it up and save the eyeballs of future generations.)
Modesty Blaise / int_191535aa	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_191535aa	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_191535aa
Modesty Blaise / int_1b40fc16	type	Extreme Libido
Modesty Blaise / int_1b40fc16	comment	Extreme Libido: In The Night of Morningstar, Earl St. Maur's wife is a woman of "lusty appetites". As her husband is frequently away on business, she's having an affair with a neighbour to keep her appetites fed. Several times a day, apparently.
Modesty Blaise / int_1b40fc16	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_1b40fc16	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_1b40fc16
Modesty Blaise / int_1b65eaf3	type	The Caper
Modesty Blaise / int_1b65eaf3	comment	The Caper: Modesty and Willie habitually refer to any adventure as this, and some of them, especially in the short stories, are light-hearted crime plots.
Modesty Blaise / int_1b65eaf3	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_1b65eaf3	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_1b65eaf3
Modesty Blaise / int_1dd14f5a	type	I Surrender, Suckers
Modesty Blaise / int_1dd14f5a	comment	In "Sabre-Tooth", Modesty intentionally allows herself to be raped several times by the villains as part of an I Surrender, Suckers ploy. It's made clear that she needs some help recovering from the trauma after the adventure is over, and Willie takes satisfaction in personally killing all the men responsible.
Modesty Blaise / int_1dd14f5a	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_1dd14f5a	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_1dd14f5a
Modesty Blaise / int_21f3e32e	type	Chekhov's Boomerang
Modesty Blaise / int_21f3e32e	comment	Chekhov's Boomerang: In I, Lucifer, there is a scene establishing a precaution used to keep sharks from coming near the island where the villains have their base. It pays off later when Modesty and Willie have to swim to safety, Willie with an open wound, and Modesty comments that they'd have had a much more difficult time of it if the sharks hadn't been warded off. Then it comes up again at the climax, in connection with the Karmic Death of one of the villains.
Modesty Blaise / int_21f3e32e	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_21f3e32e	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_21f3e32e
Modesty Blaise / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Modesty Blaise / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: In The Impossible Virgin, there's a part of the story where Dr Pennyfeather is working as a night-shift locum, and it's mentioned several times that most nights he doesn't have much to do other than read the magazines in the waiting room. Much later, he saves his and Modesty's lives with something he remembers reading in one of the magazines.
Modesty Blaise / int_22cf536c	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_22cf536c	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_22cf536c
Modesty Blaise / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
Modesty Blaise / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Willie can supply a quotation from the Book of Psalms to fit any situation. He once spent a year in an Indian prison with nothing to read except a psalter and so has all of the psalms memorised.
Modesty Blaise / int_2439b588	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_2439b588	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_2439b588
Modesty Blaise / int_26a924fb	type	Multitasked Conversation
Modesty Blaise / int_26a924fb	comment	Multitasked Conversation: Near the end of The Night of Morningstar, Modesty is captured by the villains; during the subsequent conversation, several of the things she says double as instructions for Willie, who is lurking just outside.
Modesty Blaise / int_26a924fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_26a924fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_26a924fb
Modesty Blaise / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Modesty Blaise / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: In A Taste for Death, Steve mentions having read something in the Evening Standard, which is the newspaper that originally ran the Modesty Blaise comic strip. In "Cobra Trap", a character remarks how great Modesty looks for her age, a Lampshade Hanging on her lack of apparent aging in the decades the comic strip had been running.
Modesty Blaise / int_26ac510e	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_26ac510e	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_26ac510e
Modesty Blaise / int_27690f66	type	Literary Allusion Title
Modesty Blaise / int_27690f66	comment	Literary Allusion Title: "A Taste for Death" is a quote from a short poem by A. E. Housman, which Delicata quotes in a Title Drop moment.
Modesty Blaise / int_27690f66	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_27690f66	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_27690f66
Modesty Blaise / int_27ae751	type	Swiss Bank Account
Modesty Blaise / int_27ae751	comment	Swiss Bank Account: In The Night of Morningstar, it's mentioned in passing that the terrorist group's members are all being paid into Swiss bank accounts.
Modesty Blaise / int_27ae751	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_27ae751	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_27ae751
Modesty Blaise / int_27f10418	type	Impersonating an Officer
Modesty Blaise / int_27f10418	comment	Impersonating an Officer: In A Taste for Death, two criminals steal a police car and the uniforms of the officers in it, using them to impersonate police and get the drop on Willie. In The Night of Morningstar, when one of the Watchmen is arrested after failing to subdue Modesty, another impersonates an investigator from Special Branch to gain access to the police lockup and kill him before he can tell what he knows.
Modesty Blaise / int_27f10418	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_27f10418	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_27f10418
Modesty Blaise / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Modesty Blaise / int_2a090d00	comment	In "Cobra Trap", a character remarks how great Modesty looks for her age, a Lampshade Hanging on her lack of apparent aging in the decades the comic strip had been running.
Modesty Blaise / int_2a090d00	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_2a090d00	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_2a090d00
Modesty Blaise / int_2ff93c7b	type	I Don't Know Mortal Kombat
Modesty Blaise / int_2ff93c7b	comment	I Don't Know Mortal Kombat: A Taste For Death establishes that although Modesty is extremely dangerous in a real sword-fight, she drives her fencing instructor to distraction because she can't adapt to the sport's Acceptable Breaks from Reality.
Modesty Blaise / int_2ff93c7b	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_2ff93c7b	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_2ff93c7b
Modesty Blaise / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Modesty Blaise / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: While she was running her crime syndicate, Modesty refused to deal in drugs. Or prostitution. Or anything that would require killing innocent people or police. Or even killing other criminals, except in self-defense or defense of another. Although they did a rather large amount of killing re: that last. This continues into the post-Network era. On countless occasions in literature and comic strip, Willie and Modesty make a conscious effort to go for "sleeps, not keeps" whenever possible, but at the same time will make a deliberate decision to kill if they deem it appropriate.
Modesty Blaise / int_319e4a2f	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_319e4a2f	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_319e4a2f
Modesty Blaise / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
Modesty Blaise / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: "Cobra Trap" is set at least a decade, possibly more, after the events of the novels and comic strip.
Modesty Blaise / int_3318a1cb	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_3318a1cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_3318a1cb
Modesty Blaise / int_34e1f2e5	type	Animalistic Abilities
Modesty Blaise / int_34e1f2e5	comment	Animalistic Abilities: In A Taste for Death, Simon Delicata has a body shape like a gorilla's, and comparable extreme strength.
Modesty Blaise / int_34e1f2e5	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_34e1f2e5	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_34e1f2e5
Modesty Blaise / int_34e2157	type	Deliberate Injury Gambit
Modesty Blaise / int_34e2157	comment	Deliberate Injury Gambit: In A Taste For Death. Modesty engineers a fight with a sword master, and realises that the only way she can win is to trap his sword in the shoulder of her sword arm. At which point she drops her sword into the other hand and kills him before he adapts.
Modesty Blaise / int_34e2157	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_34e2157	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_34e2157
Modesty Blaise / int_34e89418	type	A Birthday, Not a Break
Modesty Blaise / int_34e89418	comment	A Birthday, Not a Break: Near the beginning of The Impossible Virgin, Sir Gerald Tarrant is facing the prospect of being given the boot as a scapegoat for a foul-up by an incompetent colleague. The day on which the axe is expected to fall is his birthday, but with everything that's on his mind he doesn't notice until someone points it out. Fortunately, Modesty decides to save his career as a birthday present.
Modesty Blaise / int_34e89418	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_34e89418	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_34e89418
Modesty Blaise / int_369a1bf6	type	Death Faked for You
Modesty Blaise / int_369a1bf6	comment	Death Faked for You: In I, Lucifer, Modesty and Willie help an informant escape from forced labour in Yugoslavia by making it look as if he accidentally drove a bulldozer over a cliff. In The Silver Mistress, the villains kidnap Modesty's usual British intelligence boss Sir Gerald Tarrant, and fake his death in a car accident, so that they can torture secrets out of him. Not for espionage reasons, but so they can use his knowledge of the British establishment's secrets to blackmail people.
Modesty Blaise / int_369a1bf6	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_369a1bf6	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_369a1bf6
Modesty Blaise / int_37d94ed9	type	Agony of the Feet
Modesty Blaise / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: In The Impossible Virgin, the villains use toenail-pulling as one of their interrogation techniques.
Modesty Blaise / int_37d94ed9	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_37d94ed9	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_37d94ed9
Modesty Blaise / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Modesty Blaise / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: In A Taste for Death, Modesty's plan for rescuing everyone from the villains depends at several points on specific villains reacting appropriately. To some extent this involves general predictions about obvious trends like Delicata preferring slow and amusing deaths for his enemies over just killing them outright, but it also involves specific predictions like getting McWhirter to let his guard down in a particular way at a particular moment.
Modesty Blaise / int_38d02d44	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_38d02d44	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_38d02d44
Modesty Blaise / int_3cc3ed1d	type	Abuse Mistake
Modesty Blaise / int_3cc3ed1d	comment	Abuse Mistake: The punchline of "The Soo Girl Charity" - Modesty and Willy decide to inflict some karmic burglary on an unpleasant, sexist millionaire who sexually assaulted Modesty, and end up preventing his wife from killing herself and witnessing her killing him. After seeing various marks of violence on her body they assume that she was a battered wife doing the only things she could imagine that would free herself... until she finally confesses that the marks were from BDSM and the suicide attempt and murder were because he cheated on her and boasted about it. They still end up deciding to help her get away.
Modesty Blaise / int_3cc3ed1d	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_3cc3ed1d	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_3cc3ed1d
Modesty Blaise / int_3e992c7b	type	Adopt-a-Servant
Modesty Blaise / int_3e992c7b	comment	Adopt-a-Servant: In The Impossible Virgin, the villain has an adopted daughter who's actually a servant he bought as a slave and legally adopted as a way of having a socially-acceptable explanation for her presence in his household. He doesn't think of her as a daughter in any way; some of the services he forces her to perform are sexual. At the end of the novel, Modesty points out that the girl is probably going to end up with the villain's fortune (or as much of it as the lawful authorities are aware of), since in the eyes of the law, regardless of how he thought of her, she's a legitimate heir.
Modesty Blaise / int_3e992c7b	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_3e992c7b	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_3e992c7b
Modesty Blaise / int_3e99481a	type	Deadly Distant Finale
Modesty Blaise / int_3e99481a	comment	Deadly Distant Finale: "Cobra Trap", the last of the stories, is set years after the next-last; Modesty and Willie come out of retirement to rescue a group of hostages that includes several of their friends, and the story ends with the death of both of them, in a rear-guard action to ensure the hostages make a clean get-away.
Modesty Blaise / int_3e99481a	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_3e99481a	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_3e99481a
Modesty Blaise / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Modesty Blaise / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: In A Taste for Death, the villains dispose this way of several people who know too much; one drowns in a "boating accident" and another has his neck broken "falling down the stairs". At the end of the novel, Modesty sees to it that the big bad meets with a similar "accident".
Modesty Blaise / int_3f0b2f50	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_3f0b2f50	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_3f0b2f50
Modesty Blaise / int_403f1a36	type	Steal the Surroundings
Modesty Blaise / int_403f1a36	comment	Steal the Surroundings: In The Impossible Virgin, Modesty and Willie have to steal some sensitive documents from a safe in the villain's house. With the villain on the alert, it's considered impossible to get into the house, let alone get enough uninterrupted time to crack the safe (it was originally installed when the house belonged to a jewel merchant, and is a heavy-duty model built directly into a wall) — so they use a crane and demolition ball to smash through the wall, and steal the entire safe.
Modesty Blaise / int_403f1a36	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_403f1a36	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_403f1a36
Modesty Blaise / int_42c8293a	type	Sibling Team
Modesty Blaise / int_42c8293a	comment	Sibling Team: The Polish Twins in The Night of Morningstar, twin brothers who work as a team of killers for hire.
Modesty Blaise / int_42c8293a	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_42c8293a	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_42c8293a
Modesty Blaise / int_434d893c	type	Funny Foreigner
Modesty Blaise / int_434d893c	comment	Funny Foreigner: Sheikh Abu-Tahir in the first novel is an Arab Oil Sheikh who speaks broken English with frequent malapropisms and mixes elements of the wealthy oil magnate lifestyle with elements of the traditional life of his tribe; for instance, when he comes to England to negotiate an oil deal with the British government, he and his retinue take a suite at the Ritz and then set up a traditional encampment inside it, complete with tents and goats. Caspar in "A Perfect Night to Break Your Neck" is a Funny Foreigner everywhere he goes, speaking in an unidentifiable accent with Poirot Speak interjections from multiple languages.
Modesty Blaise / int_434d893c	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_434d893c	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_434d893c
Modesty Blaise / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Modesty Blaise / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Modesty and Willie have their moments of this. In The Night of Morningstar, Willie fights two assassins who are both experts in unarmed combat and although he wins by having the edge in out-of-the-box improvisation, he gets badly injured; afterward, the assassins' target asks if there wasn't a less painful way to have taken them out, and Willie admits that he could have dropped both of them with throwing knives before they even knew he was there, but he isn't the kind of person who kills people without warning when they haven't definitely demonstated hostile intent.
Modesty Blaise / int_44fc28e8	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_44fc28e8	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_44fc28e8
Modesty Blaise / int_450c5a85	type	Alternate Continuity
Modesty Blaise / int_450c5a85	comment	Alternate Continuity: The books are in a separate continuity from the comic strip. This is established straight off; both versions of the series begin with Sir Gerald Tarrant approaching Modesty to request her assistance for the first time, but in the novel the problem requiring assistance is different, as is the favour he does her to secure her help. From there, characters and settings from the comic strip show up in the novels but in different contexts and storylines; often a particularly good action sequence from the comic strip will be reprised in a novel surrounded by a completely different plot.
Modesty Blaise / int_450c5a85	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_450c5a85	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_450c5a85
Modesty Blaise / int_454b2f2b	type	Secretly Dying
Modesty Blaise / int_454b2f2b	comment	Secretly Dying: In the Distant Finale "Cobra Trap", Modesty is killed in action shortly after revealing to Willie that she's already dying, from an inoperable brain tumor.
Modesty Blaise / int_454b2f2b	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_454b2f2b	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_454b2f2b
Modesty Blaise / int_46ec76fb	type	Working the Same Case
Modesty Blaise / int_46ec76fb	comment	Working the Same Case: At the beginning of A Taste for Death, Willie foils a kidnapping he stumbles across while on holiday, and Modesty gets asked by Sir Gerald to look into a problem a friend of his is having. The kidnapping turns out to be part of the same problem.
Modesty Blaise / int_46ec76fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_46ec76fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_46ec76fb
Modesty Blaise / int_481220f9	type	Roadside Surgery
Modesty Blaise / int_481220f9	comment	Roadside Surgery: In The Impossible Virgin, Modesty and Dr Giles Pennyfeather have to perform an emergency appendectomy in a cave where they and the patient are hiding from the villains. Giles has to talk Modesty through the surgery because his hands haven't recovered from being tortured by the villains. Modesty does note that there is one up-side to the situation: Giles got most of his surgical experience as a mission doctor in a remote African village, so he's used to working in primitive conditions.
Modesty Blaise / int_481220f9	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_481220f9	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_481220f9
Modesty Blaise / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
Modesty Blaise / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: Willie Garvin's Cockney accent is rendered with occasional phonetic touches like dropped aitches, but not a full attempt to depict the accent. When Dinah mimics his accent in A Taste for Death, it does get a full on funetik aksent ("thousand" spelled as "thahsend", etc.), either to show that she's overdoing it or perhaps to let the reader know that this is what Willie really 'sounds' like.
Modesty Blaise / int_48d9e12d	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_48d9e12d	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_48d9e12d
Modesty Blaise / int_4c70bdae	type	Terrorists Without a Cause
Modesty Blaise / int_4c70bdae	comment	Terrorists Without a Cause: Discussed in The Night of Morningstar in regard to the Watchmen, a terrorist group who claim a different motivation for each attack and have espoused causes from all over the political spectrum including several that are mutually exclusive. Tarrant tells Modesty that investigations have established that it really is a single group behind all the attacks, and that they're not just a Murder, Inc. whose goals change depending on who's paying them, but nobody knows what they're really out to achieve. It turns out that they're being run at arm's length by the USSR, with the aim that once they've established their legend they'll start carrying out attacks that serve the USSR's purposes disguised among the random ones.
Modesty Blaise / int_4c70bdae	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_4c70bdae	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_4c70bdae
Modesty Blaise / int_4db582d6	type	Defector from Commie Land
Modesty Blaise / int_4db582d6	comment	Defector from Commie Land: The Impossible Virgin begins with a Soviet satellite imagery interpreter deciding to defect, not through idealism but because he's discovered something in one of his satellite images that will make him very rich if he can exploit it before anyone else discovers it. The actual defection is accomplished by the end of the fourth page, because he's a very minor functionary so he can easily jump ship while on holiday and his superiors won't bother chasing him; the plot of the novel is about what happens after that, as a result of him choosing poorly about who to bring in on his secret. In "The Giggle-Wrecker", Modesty and Willie help smuggle a Soviet defector across the Berlin Wall.
Modesty Blaise / int_4db582d6	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_4db582d6	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_4db582d6
Modesty Blaise / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Modesty Blaise / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Not Modesty or Willie, neither of whom feel any guilt about their criminal past. Quinn in The Silver Mistress is a former airline pilot, who is crippled by guilt because his bungled attempt at heroism during a hijacking led to the deaths of three passengers.
Modesty Blaise / int_4ef92d0b	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_4ef92d0b	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_4ef92d0b
Modesty Blaise / int_4f828b45	type	Post-Climax Confrontation
Modesty Blaise / int_4f828b45	comment	Post-Climax Confrontation: In A Taste for Death, the climax is the duel to the death and then the break-out of the hostages from Delicata's gang. There follows a chapter of Modesty recuperating from the injury she got in the duel, which is suddenly interrupted by Delicata showing up again and forcing a final showdown.
Modesty Blaise / int_4f828b45	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_4f828b45	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_4f828b45
Modesty Blaise / int_514d1380	type	Trick-and-Follow Ploy
Modesty Blaise / int_514d1380	comment	Trick-and-Follow Ploy: In "The Giggle-Wrecker", the villains turn out to have been attempting this, setting up a situation where they figured Sir Gerald would have no choice but to activate one of his sleeper agents and in the process reveal their identity to Soviet intelligence. Sir Gerald, without knowing of the plan but instinctively reluctant to expose his sleeper agents if another way exists, puts a spoke in the plan by giving the job to Modesty and Willie instead.
Modesty Blaise / int_514d1380	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_514d1380	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_514d1380
Modesty Blaise / int_52b36340	type	What Measure Is a Mook?
Modesty Blaise / int_52b36340	comment	What Measure Is a Mook?: Averted. Modesty and Willie frequently decide whether to kill or spare enemies based on moral judgements of them as individuals rather than their importance to the plot, often killing depraved Big Bads while sparing minions who might not have been aware of how bad their employer was. Shown off in the French Riviera section of the very first book, where Willie slightly injures and humiliates a mook assigned to spy on him via a comedy Groin Attack, but shortly afterwards Modesty deliberately kills one who had cold-bloodedly murdered a vulnerable young woman for informing.
Modesty Blaise / int_52b36340	featureApplicability	-1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_52b36340	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_52b36340
Modesty Blaise / int_54844c6e	type	From Dress to Dressing
Modesty Blaise / int_54844c6e	comment	From Dress to Dressing: Discussed in The Night of Morningstar. Modesty is attacked and injured while out on the town with her friends Dinah and Stephen. While trying to improvise a dressing for the injury, Stephen remarks that in films this is the point where one of the women present would start tearing strips off her petticoat, and jokes that it was careless of Modesty and Dinah to not have brought a petticoat with them. They make do with Stephen's handkerchief tied in place with Modesty's nylons.
Modesty Blaise / int_54844c6e	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_54844c6e	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_54844c6e
Modesty Blaise / int_54f06874	type	Criminal Craves Legitimacy
Modesty Blaise / int_54f06874	comment	Criminal Craves Legitimacy: Part of Modesty's backstory is that she successfully pulled this off: as head of the Network, her personal goal was specifically to amass enough wealth to live comfortably off for the rest of her life and then pass over the reins and retire. The villain in The Xanadu Talisman is her Evil Counterpart, pursuing the same goal but more erratically and violently.
Modesty Blaise / int_54f06874	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_54f06874	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_54f06874
Modesty Blaise / int_5535bb82	type	Centipede's Dilemma
Modesty Blaise / int_5535bb82	comment	Centipede's Dilemma: In I, Lucifer, Lucifer has no martial training, but is able to defeat Modesty in single combat because he can instinctively see what she's about to do and always has the counter ready. In the rematch, Modesty trips him up by getting him to consciously think about how he's predicting her moves, which stops him doing it effectively.
Modesty Blaise / int_5535bb82	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_5535bb82	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_5535bb82
Modesty Blaise / int_5552929	type	Albinos Are Freaks
Modesty Blaise / int_5552929	comment	Albinos Are Freaks: In The Impossible Virgin, Lisa Brunel, one of the villain's associates, is an albino. It turns out that he has manipulated her from a young age to make her into a useful tool, and encouraged her to think of herself as an unlovable freak as one of his techniques for keeping her socially isolated.
Modesty Blaise / int_5552929	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_5552929	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_5552929
Modesty Blaise / int_556a4863	type	Virtue Is Weakness
Modesty Blaise / int_556a4863	comment	Virtue Is Weakness: Brunel, the villain of The Impossible Virgin, is a cold-blooded criminal mastermind who regards the compassionate virtues as weaknesses that he's glad not to share. He understands how they work well enough to manipulate his opponents with them (including at one point luring Modesty and Willie into a trap), which just makes him more sure that they're a weakness to be avoided. Even loyalty doesn't mean anything to him; he feels no loyalty to anyone, and prefers to rely on fear and greed in controlling his subordinates, which is what gets him killed in the end.
Modesty Blaise / int_556a4863	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_556a4863	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_556a4863
Modesty Blaise / int_56585e87	type	Combat Clairvoyance
Modesty Blaise / int_56585e87	comment	Combat Clairvoyance: In I, Lucifer, Lucifer has no martial training, but is able to defeat Modesty in single combat because he can see what she's about to do and always has the counter ready. In the rematch, Modesty trips him up with a Centipede's Dilemma, getting him to consciously think about how he's predicting her moves, which stops him doing it effectively.
Modesty Blaise / int_56585e87	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_56585e87	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_56585e87
Modesty Blaise / int_58510e2b	type	Sexy Packaging
Modesty Blaise / int_58510e2b	comment	Sexy Packaging: During the 1970s and '80s, most of the books got stuck with covers featuring an array of headless photos of women in stripperiffic black leather outfits decorated with metal studs. Over multiple editions, each more contemptible than the last, and none bearing any connection to the books' actual contents. You know it's bad when a male reader would rather be seen in public with the first novel's original cover, which is bright pink. Also, Modesty never wears that kind of leather Spy Catsuit in the books because of its impracticality - when she's in stealth mode she wears black denim, cotton, or wool.
Modesty Blaise / int_58510e2b	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_58510e2b	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_58510e2b
Modesty Blaise / int_58626d87	type	Genius Ditz
Modesty Blaise / int_58626d87	comment	Genius Ditz: Dr Giles Pennyfeather is effective and reliable when his medical skills are called for but an adorkable bumbler in every other aspect of his life.
Modesty Blaise / int_58626d87	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_58626d87	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_58626d87
Modesty Blaise / int_5937a87c	type	No Honor Among Thieves
Modesty Blaise / int_5937a87c	comment	No Honor Among Thieves: At the climax of The Night of Morningstar, Willie's sabotage results in the sudden catastrophic sinking of the villains' ship, leaving them struggling in open water to find flotsam to support them. The Big Bad is knifed by one of his own mooks in a struggle for a lifejacket, and that mook shortly afterward suffers the same fate at the hands of another.
Modesty Blaise / int_5937a87c	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_5937a87c	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_5937a87c
Modesty Blaise / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Modesty Blaise / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: Many of the novels take the best bits out of several different storylines from the comic strip and rearrange them into a new story.
Modesty Blaise / int_5a40d6a	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_5a40d6a	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_5a40d6a
Modesty Blaise / int_5b07519b	type	Arrowgram
Modesty Blaise / int_5b07519b	comment	Arrowgram: In I, Lucifer, Willie passes a message to a friend in hostile territory by wrapping it around one of his throwing knives and throwing it.
Modesty Blaise / int_5b07519b	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_5b07519b	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_5b07519b
Modesty Blaise / int_5d310fb8	type	Sword Fight
Modesty Blaise / int_5d310fb8	comment	Sword Fight: In A Taste for Death, Modesty's half of the climactic action set pieces is a sword fight to the death with one of the villains.
Modesty Blaise / int_5d310fb8	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_5d310fb8	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_5d310fb8
Modesty Blaise / int_5d6f4033	type	Agonizing Stomach Wound
Modesty Blaise / int_5d6f4033	comment	Agonizing Stomach Wound: Invoked in I, Lucifer. When Modesty and Willie are forced to duel each other to the death, she apparently shoots him in the stomach, and he reacts with horror at the lingering death facing him before throwing himself off the nearby cliff to a quicker death. Actually, he was pretending the injury as an excuse to escape over the cliff, which he knew something the villains didn't about his chances of surviving.
Modesty Blaise / int_5d6f4033	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_5d6f4033	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_5d6f4033
Modesty Blaise / int_5e68bb61	type	Gayngster
Modesty Blaise / int_5e68bb61	comment	Gayngster: In I, Lucifer, one of the hitmen sent after the head of the French secret service wears make-up, frilly clothes, and dressed hair, is described as having feminine mannerisms, and is suggested to be in a relationship with one of the others. It's made clear that he's not in any way less dangerous.
Modesty Blaise / int_5e68bb61	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_5e68bb61	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_5e68bb61
Modesty Blaise / int_61356a74	type	Almost Dead Guy
Modesty Blaise / int_61356a74	comment	Almost Dead Guy: In The Night of Morningstar, CIA agent Ben Christie is shot by the villains but lingers long enough to tell Modesty everything he knows.
Modesty Blaise / int_61356a74	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_61356a74	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_61356a74
Modesty Blaise / int_6156eafa	type	So Last Season
Modesty Blaise / int_6156eafa	comment	So Last Season: The villains of the first novel, Gabriel and McWhirter appear again in A Taste for Death, working with new villain Simon Delicata. It's explicitly stated early on that being defeated by Modesty badly knocked Gabriel's self-confidence, and Delicata kills both of them in a You Have Outlived Your Usefulness mood towards the end of the story.
Modesty Blaise / int_6156eafa	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_6156eafa	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_6156eafa
Modesty Blaise / int_643659d4	type	Spit Take
Modesty Blaise / int_643659d4	comment	Spit Take: In The Impossible Virgin, when Modesty and Willie are discussing what to do about the villain over a glass of wine, and their resolutely non-action-hero friend Giles casually offers to help dispose of the body just as Willie is taking a sip.
Modesty Blaise / int_643659d4	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_643659d4	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_643659d4
Modesty Blaise / int_65331274	type	Flynning
Modesty Blaise / int_65331274	comment	Flynning: Discussed in A Taste for Death, as Steve and Sir Gerald watch Modesty fencing. Steve says that it's not like in the movies, and Sir Gerald explains about the differences and why they exist.
Modesty Blaise / int_65331274	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_65331274	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_65331274
Modesty Blaise / int_672f15c6	type	Mad Lib Thriller Title
Modesty Blaise / int_672f15c6	comment	Mad Lib Thriller Title: The Xanadu Talisman.
Modesty Blaise / int_672f15c6	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_672f15c6	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_672f15c6
Modesty Blaise / int_673999b1	type	Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard
Modesty Blaise / int_673999b1	comment	Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard: In Sabre-Tooth, Modesty and Willie are captured by a villain who wants to see if their reputation for inventiveness is deserved before recruiting them. He locks them in a cell but deliberately leaves a means of escape to see if they will discover it. They do, then decide that is too obvious and must be a trap, and proceed to invent their own means of escape. The bad guy is very impressed.
Modesty Blaise / int_673999b1	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_673999b1	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_673999b1
Modesty Blaise / int_68cf9795	type	Ironic Nickname
Modesty Blaise / int_68cf9795	comment	Ironic Nickname: Her mentor started calling her "Modesty" as a joke (she doesn't know her real name); in the comic panel in which he does so, she's a young teenager nonchalantly changing her top in the open.
Modesty Blaise / int_68cf9795	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_68cf9795	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_68cf9795
Modesty Blaise / int_693cabaf	type	Gladiator Games
Modesty Blaise / int_693cabaf	comment	Gladiator Games: In A Taste for Death, Modesty is forced to take part in a duel to the death in the ruins of a Roman arena for the entertainment of the villains. The narration notes that, as it was a small settlement in a remote part of the empire, the arena probably wasn't used for actual gladiatorial combats back in the day and this might be the first time it's been used for a fight to the death. Modesty is forced to take part in Dead Man's Handle.
Modesty Blaise / int_693cabaf	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_693cabaf	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_693cabaf
Modesty Blaise / int_6cdc784f	type	You No Take Candle
Modesty Blaise / int_6cdc784f	comment	You No Take Candle: In I, Lucifer, the leader of the native islanders speaks like this. "Is right about small boat. We find along shore."
Modesty Blaise / int_6cdc784f	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_6cdc784f	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_6cdc784f
Modesty Blaise / int_6fbe85e6	type	Adaptation Personality Change
Modesty Blaise / int_6fbe85e6	comment	Adaptation Personality Change: One of the characters who appears in both continuities is Major the Earl St. Maur, with versions of the character appearing in the comic strip story "Death of a Jester" and the novel The Night of Morningstar. In both versions, he's a former commando and a cunning strategist. In "Death of a Jester", where he's the Big Bad, he's also got a flamboyant personality and a Complexity Addiction that leads to his downfall; in the The Night of Morningstar, he's The Dragon, and has a more pragmatic personality, becoming the underling who advocates a quick and simple death for the heroes and is ignored by the complexity-addicted Big Bad.
Modesty Blaise / int_6fbe85e6	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_6fbe85e6	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_6fbe85e6
Modesty Blaise / int_723606c4	type	Adaptational Early Appearance
Modesty Blaise / int_723606c4	comment	Adaptational Early Appearance: Jack Fraser, in a sense. His first appearance in the original comic strip was in the very first scene, but the strip ran for two years before it was established that his meek desk jockey persona was just a front for his real and much more capable personality. In the novels, the real Jack Fraser puts in an appearance at the end of the first chapter of the first novel.
Modesty Blaise / int_723606c4	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_723606c4	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_723606c4
Modesty Blaise / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Modesty Blaise / int_7276d0de	comment	A toned-down example in the short story "The Soo Girl Charity" — the inciting incident of the plot is Modesty being sexually groped hard enough to leave bruises on her body by a sadistic and misogynistic villain who didn't know who his random target was.
Modesty Blaise / int_7276d0de	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_7276d0de	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_7276d0de
Modesty Blaise / int_73194909	type	Would Not Shoot a Good Guy
Modesty Blaise / int_73194909	comment	Would Not Shoot a Good Guy: "I Had a Date with Lady Janet" describes a situation dating back to when Modesty was the leader of a criminal gang in which a lucrative robbery job was cancelled due to Modesty being unable to work out a plan that didn't involve police officers being hurt.
Modesty Blaise / int_73194909	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_73194909	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_73194909
Modesty Blaise / int_74b85afd	type	If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!
Modesty Blaise / int_74b85afd	comment	If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: In The Night of Morningstar, the Watchmen have this as a standard part of the testing of new recruits, to make sure that they will be willing to kill when ordered; they call it the "Mohs test" after the Mohs hardness scale. Undercover CIA operative Ben Christie actually goes through with it, because he had just found out that the Watchmen were going to execute a terrorist bombing the next morning killing thousands and he absolutely could not die or blow his cover before he had a chance to warn someone. Then, after he murders an innocent teenaged girl to prove that he's not an infiltrator, the villains laugh at him and inform him that they already knew he was CIA even before the test started, and they just wanted to have fun with him. Ben doesn't really survive the revelation.
Modesty Blaise / int_74b85afd	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_74b85afd	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_74b85afd
Modesty Blaise / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
Modesty Blaise / int_7570a10c	comment	Bond Villain Stupidity: All the time. They often have good reason to, though; they know that if they kill Modesty, Willie will hunt them down and kill them (or vice versa). Because of this, villains tend to want to kill them both at the same time. (This trope is also dominant in the comic strip.) Averted somewhat in The Impossible Virgin. The villain does set Modesty up for a slow gruesome death because he thinks a quick death is too good for her, but having done so he fully intends to stick around and watch the whole thing, and only reluctantly leaves because Willie (who's still on the loose) creates an emergency situation elsewhere in the base that he can't avoid going to deal with.
Modesty Blaise / int_7570a10c	featureApplicability	-1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_7570a10c	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_7570a10c
Modesty Blaise / int_7bc90010	type	Hearing Voices
Modesty Blaise / int_7bc90010	comment	Hearing Voices: In The Impossible Virgin, Lisa Brunel hears mysterious unearthly voices that force her to do what they say, and punish her for disobedience by dinning at her incessantly for hours at a time. Willie finds out that the villain is scamming her using a hidden radio.
Modesty Blaise / int_7bc90010	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_7bc90010	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_7bc90010
Modesty Blaise / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Modesty Blaise / int_7bd44eb9	comment	Smart People Play Chess: Played with in The Night of Morningstar; the Big Bad, Golitsyn, is shown in one scene playing chess while waiting for news on the outcome of a mission — and playing dirty, distracting his opponent with insults because he's not confident of winning fairly and has too much ego to accept losing.
Modesty Blaise / int_7bd44eb9	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_7bd44eb9	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_7bd44eb9
Modesty Blaise / int_83a55c8e	type	Napoleon Delusion
Modesty Blaise / int_83a55c8e	comment	Napoleon Delusion: In I, Lucifer, the title character has a delusion that he's Satan walking the Earth in human form. The psychologist studying him uses the standard Napoleon delusion as an example when explaining his condition to another character.
Modesty Blaise / int_83a55c8e	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_83a55c8e	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_83a55c8e
Modesty Blaise / int_84e06c25	type	Evil Puppeteer
Modesty Blaise / int_84e06c25	comment	Evil Puppeteer: In I, Lucifer, the Big Bad's hobby is constructing hand-made marionettes and putting on creepy puppet shows with his wife. One of his underlings reflects that part of why the puppet shows are so unnerving is that they're a reminder that he has his people dancing to his strings as well.
Modesty Blaise / int_84e06c25	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_84e06c25	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_84e06c25
Modesty Blaise / int_86f4f393	type	Stating the Simple Solution
Modesty Blaise / int_86f4f393	comment	Stating the Simple Solution: In A Taste For Death, the second banana villain—who has been defeated by them before—practically jumps up and down shouting, "Kill them now!" or (later) "They're up to something, kill them now!" But he's overruled. It goes poorly for him. Major the Earl St. Maur, in Night of Morningstar, argues for dropping Modesty & Willie over the side the instant the Watchmen finish determining whether or not our heroes managed to send a message before being captured. (They hadn't.) He is overruled by his superior Colonel Golitsyn, who wishes to keep Modesty & Willie alive for use in an elaborate disinformation plot. Karmically, Golitsyn was one of the first of the Watchmen's senior leaders to die in Modesty & Willie's inevitable escape; St. Maur was the last. Modesty and Willie are occasionally asked this in both the novels and comic strip. In the first novel, Modesty also basically asks Willie this during a fight with a pair of thugs.
Modesty Blaise / int_86f4f393	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_86f4f393	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_86f4f393
Modesty Blaise / int_875f008a	type	Psychometry
Modesty Blaise / int_875f008a	comment	Psychometry: In I, Lucifer, Lucifer can psychically determine things about people from objects associated with them, such as a handwritten note or a hair clipping.
Modesty Blaise / int_875f008a	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_875f008a	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_875f008a
Modesty Blaise / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Modesty Blaise / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: In A Taste for Death, the big bad behind the whole plot turns out to be a famous businessman and philanthropist with no criminal record, who is careful to make sure there's no evidence pointing back to him.
Modesty Blaise / int_87bb6874	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_87bb6874	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_87bb6874
Modesty Blaise / int_8806e0dd	type	Action Dress Rip
Modesty Blaise / int_8806e0dd	comment	Action Dress Rip: Modesty's skirts are designed to tear away, leaving her legs free for action.
Modesty Blaise / int_8806e0dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_8806e0dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_8806e0dd
Modesty Blaise / int_89fcfa0b	type	Cute Clumsy Girl
Modesty Blaise / int_89fcfa0b	comment	Cute Clumsy Girl: Dr Giles Pennyfeather is a male example. He's clumsy and accident-prone, and things tend to get broken in his vicinity, but he makes up for it by being very good-natured. It also helps that when he's in doctor mode, although he's still clumsy, he always somehow instinctively avoids doing any real damage.
Modesty Blaise / int_89fcfa0b	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_89fcfa0b	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_89fcfa0b
Modesty Blaise / int_8c114591	type	Red-Flag Recreation Material
Modesty Blaise / int_8c114591	comment	Red-Flag Recreation Material: In I, Lucifer, the villains Mr. and Mrs. Seff like putting on puppet shows with extremely dark and sexual subject matter (supposedly their profession before they turned Diabolical Mastermind). One of their senior minions muses that the shows are even more creepy because of their tendency to manipulate other people psychologically as they physically manipulate the puppets.
Modesty Blaise / int_8c114591	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_8c114591	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_8c114591
Modesty Blaise / int_8c96ae78	type	No One Could Survive That!
Modesty Blaise / int_8c96ae78	comment	No One Could Survive That!: In The Impossible Virgin, Willie Garvin is thrown out of an aircraft at three thousand feet, tied to a chair. Nobody actually says the standard phrase, but they villains are clearly thinking it, and don't bother to stop or send someone back to confirm the death. Willie shows up again later, alive and well, in the nick of time.
Modesty Blaise / int_8c96ae78	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_8c96ae78	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_8c96ae78
Modesty Blaise / int_8ce68789	type	Rambunctious Italian
Modesty Blaise / int_8ce68789	comment	Rambunctious Italian: In A Taste for Death, Modesty's fencing instructor, Professor Barbi, has a hot and easily-provoked temper.
Modesty Blaise / int_8ce68789	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_8ce68789	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_8ce68789
Modesty Blaise / int_8ee823b6	type	Knife-Throwing Act
Modesty Blaise / int_8ee823b6	comment	Knife-Throwing Act: Willie Garvin occasionally goes and does one of these at a circus somewhere when he feels like a holiday; Modesty sometimes plays the target's role.
Modesty Blaise / int_8ee823b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_8ee823b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_8ee823b6
Modesty Blaise / int_8f00b02a	type	Always Identical Twins
Modesty Blaise / int_8f00b02a	comment	Always Identical Twins: In The Night of Morningstar there is a notorious pair of professional killers known as the Polish Twins. They are identical twins.
Modesty Blaise / int_8f00b02a	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_8f00b02a	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_8f00b02a
Modesty Blaise / int_9080e641	type	Diabolical Mastermind
Modesty Blaise / int_9080e641	comment	Diabolical Mastermind: Gabriel is a criminal mastermind known for elaborate plots with multiple escape routes, and is the only villain in the novels who escapes to clash with the heroes another day.
Modesty Blaise / int_9080e641	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_9080e641	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_9080e641
Modesty Blaise / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Modesty Blaise / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: At the end of I, Lucifer, the male villains are killed in straightforward ways, but Mrs Seff self-disposes. She goes to murder the dolphin trainer who has been working for them, since he's a loose end now the role of the dolphins has been discovered. She comes across him as he's harnessing the dolphins to a tow-rope for their next task, and doesn't notice that she's standing in the coiled far end of the tow-rope. When she shoots the trainer, the dolphins panic and take off, the coil tightens around her foot, and she's dragged into the water and killed.
Modesty Blaise / int_90d44f44	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_90d44f44	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_90d44f44
Modesty Blaise / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Modesty Blaise / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: This happens at least once in almost every novel. Blaise Big Bads don't like sharing their proceeds or leaving loose ends. Near the end of I, Lucifer, when the villains are abandoning their base before the authorities arrive, Big Bad Seff casually shoots his underling Bowker and remarks that his usefulness is ended, since his skills were vital for the scam they were running but they won't be able to do it again, and now he is just a loose end that needs tidying up. In The Silver Mistress, Tarrant's chauffeur is part of the plot to kidnap his employer. The other villains murder him before the end of the first chapter of the novel.
Modesty Blaise / int_928ca2cc	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_928ca2cc	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_928ca2cc
Modesty Blaise / int_92d6110b	type	Grenade Hot Potato
Modesty Blaise / int_92d6110b	comment	Grenade Hot Potato: During the climactic battle of I, Lucifer, the villains throw an improvised grenade up onto the roof where Modesty and her allies are holed up. Modesty quickly scoops it up and throws it back just as the fuse runs down. In "A Better Day to Die" Modesty is attempting to protect a missionary with no combat skills from a gang of bandits. The missionary ends up demonstrating the cricketing skills he had mentioned earlier by making a diving catch of a Mills bomb and throwing it back at the bandits in the manner of a slips fieldsman, with lethal results.
Modesty Blaise / int_92d6110b	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_92d6110b	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_92d6110b
Modesty Blaise / int_9400b3b5	type	Questionable Consent
Modesty Blaise / int_9400b3b5	comment	Questionable Consent: When Modesty sleeps with Lucifer in I, Lucifer. He probably would qualify as competent to consent to sexual intercourse by the standards of modern British law (which concentrates on whether the person understands the nature of the sexual act and its potential biological consequences) but on the other hand, he's completely psychotic and delusional.
Modesty Blaise / int_9400b3b5	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_9400b3b5	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_9400b3b5
Modesty Blaise / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Modesty Blaise / int_970c790a	comment	Near the end of I, Lucifer, when the villains are abandoning their base before the authorities arrive, Big Bad Seff casually shoots his underling Bowker and remarks that his usefulness is ended, since his skills were vital for the scam they were running but they won't be able to do it again, and now he is just a loose end that needs tidying up.
Modesty Blaise / int_970c790a	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_970c790a	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_970c790a
Modesty Blaise / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Modesty Blaise / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: The female crime boss in The Xanadu Talisman has a lot of parallels to Modesty in her own crime boss days, but without any Modesty's code of honour or scruples about getting involved in dirty business like Human Trafficking. Hugh Oberon in The Night of Morningstar is described as being like Willie if he'd gone down a wrong path; they have similar skills, but where Willie has confidence, judgement, and respect for his leader, Oberon has conceit, arrogance, and envy.
Modesty Blaise / int_9b54d536	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_9b54d536	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_9b54d536
Modesty Blaise / int_9ce6492a	type	Taking the Bullet
Modesty Blaise / int_9ce6492a	comment	Taking the Bullet: In a fight scene in The Night of Morningstar, Modesty has to leave her guard down for a moment in order to concentrate on destroying the radio transmitter vital to the villains' plans, and the one mook still standing tries to shoot her in the back. Ben Christie, who was sitting out the fight and ignored by everyone due to his injuries from an earlier conflict, throws himself between Modesty and the bullet.
Modesty Blaise / int_9ce6492a	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_9ce6492a	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_9ce6492a
Modesty Blaise / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Modesty Blaise / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In "I, Lucifer", Modesty and Sir Gerald discuss Willie having seduced a villain's on/off girlfriend in order to get information on him, and Sir Gerald is a bit shocked when she calmly tells him that she'd be willing to have sex with a man if it helped a mission. Later in the book, she does.
Modesty Blaise / int_9d12bbc1	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_9d12bbc1	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_9d12bbc1
Modesty Blaise / int_a00eb8f9	type	Bare-Fisted Monk
Modesty Blaise / int_a00eb8f9	comment	Bare-Fisted Monk: The Polish Twins in The Night of Morningstar are a pair of professional killers who use no weapons, having honed their bodies and their martial arts skills to the point where their bodies are weapons. It means that they need to get close to their targets, but they can kill in moments at a moment's notice, and it's very hard to prove when they're up to something because they're never carrying any suspicious equipment.
Modesty Blaise / int_a00eb8f9	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_a00eb8f9	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_a00eb8f9
Modesty Blaise / int_a042bfb	type	Sexâ€“Face Turn
Modesty Blaise / int_a042bfb	comment	Sexâ€“Face Turn: Played with in I, Lucifer, in that while sleeping with Lucifer helps Modesty suborn him, he was never all that evil.
Modesty Blaise / int_a042bfb	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_a042bfb	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_a042bfb
Modesty Blaise / int_a0b0840c	type	More Expendable Than You
Modesty Blaise / int_a0b0840c	comment	More Expendable Than You: Whenever a caper requires Modesty to put her life on the line, Willie asks if he can't do it instead.
Modesty Blaise / int_a0b0840c	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_a0b0840c	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_a0b0840c
Modesty Blaise / int_a152f6d7	type	Secret Test of Thieving Skill
Modesty Blaise / int_a152f6d7	comment	Secret Test of Thieving Skill: In Sabre-Tooth, Modesty and Willie are captured by a villain who wants to see if their reputation for inventiveness is deserved before recruiting them. He locks them in a cell but deliberately leaves a means of escape to see if they will discover it. They do, then decide that is too obvious and must be a trap, and proceed to invent their own means of escape. The bad guy is very impressed, and makes them an offer they can't refuse.
Modesty Blaise / int_a152f6d7	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_a152f6d7	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_a152f6d7
Modesty Blaise / int_a32dcd7f	type	Desk Jockey
Modesty Blaise / int_a32dcd7f	comment	Jack Fraser, star secret agent wolf in the clothing of a meek and pedantic Desk Jockey. The first sentence of the first novel:
Modesty Blaise / int_a32dcd7f	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_a32dcd7f	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_a32dcd7f
Modesty Blaise / int_a39d6056	type	Nice to the Waiter
Modesty Blaise / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: In a scene in I, Lucifer, Sir Gerald Tarrant gets Willie's help to teach a lesson to two particularly unpleasant men at his gentleman's club. He notes that while most of the other members regard these two with distaste, the real sign is that all the club's staff hate them.
Modesty Blaise / int_a39d6056	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_a39d6056	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_a39d6056
Modesty Blaise / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Modesty Blaise / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The plot of The Impossible Virgin is driven by a classic MacGuffin, in the form of the secret imparted to Dr Giles Pennyfeather by the dying Novikov. The villains will stop at nothing to learn it, which powers the story, but beyond that the precise nature of the secret (the location of a valuable patch of unexploited mineral wealth in a remote part of Africa) has no effect on the plot; the one villain who learns the secret gets to trade on the fact that he has the MacGuffin now, but dies before he has a chance to actually do anything with it, and in the end the heroes decide it's best just to let it lie undisturbed.
Modesty Blaise / int_a6c69bd	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_a6c69bd	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_a6c69bd
Modesty Blaise / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Modesty Blaise / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Jack Fraser, star secret agent wolf in the clothing of a meek and pedantic Desk Jockey. The first sentence of the first novel: Willie often likes to play the "not too bright cockney minder" act with people who haven't previously encountered him and Modesty.
Modesty Blaise / int_a7aef9ff	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_a7aef9ff	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_a7aef9ff
Modesty Blaise / int_aa0b5ae8	type	Covert Distress Code
Modesty Blaise / int_aa0b5ae8	comment	Covert Distress Code: The name "Jacqueline" inserted into any conversation is Modesty & Willie's private signal for 'I'm in trouble and can't talk openly.' In The Impossible Virgin, the villain's security measures include a hand-signal (pretending to adjust their tie) that his men have to do when they return to base to signal that they're not under duress and it's safe to open up and let them in.
Modesty Blaise / int_aa0b5ae8	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_aa0b5ae8	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_aa0b5ae8
Modesty Blaise / int_ab2df806	type	Red Baron
Modesty Blaise / int_ab2df806	comment	Red Baron: In The Night of Morningstar, there is a notorious pair of professional killers known as the Polish Twins. Admittedly, they're called that partly because most people find "the Zdrzalkywicz twins" too much of a mouthful, but it does function as a badass nickname: Willie notes that if you mention "the Polish twins", anybody who's ever encountered them will know exactly who you mean.
Modesty Blaise / int_ab2df806	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_ab2df806	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_ab2df806
Modesty Blaise / int_ab4e7107	type	Tricked-Out Shoes
Modesty Blaise / int_ab4e7107	comment	Tricked-Out Shoes: In several of the stories, Modesty and/or Willie have trick shoes with secret compartments in the heels (or even heels that detach and then can be combined into a useful gadget). In A Taste for Death, Willie has a pair of shoes with lockpicks hidden in the sole, and a pair of combat boots where the soles contain the blade and handle of a knife.
Modesty Blaise / int_ab4e7107	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_ab4e7107	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_ab4e7107
Modesty Blaise / int_ab5ef919	type	Hermit Guru
Modesty Blaise / int_ab5ef919	comment	Hermit Guru: Several stories refer to a hermit guru named Sivaji, whom Modesty studied under in the backstory, and who taught her to be Master of Your Domain.
Modesty Blaise / int_ab5ef919	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_ab5ef919	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_ab5ef919
Modesty Blaise / int_ab8e26e2	type	Slipping a Mickey
Modesty Blaise / int_ab8e26e2	comment	Slipping a Mickey: In Modesty Blaise, Modesty drugs and abandons her Boy of the Week and fellow agent Paul Hagan, because his protective feelings and chauvinism towards her make him a liability. In The Impossible Virgin, the heroes are captured by the villain after drinking coffee that was drugged by a character they'd trusted up to that point.
Modesty Blaise / int_ab8e26e2	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_ab8e26e2	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_ab8e26e2
Modesty Blaise / int_aba02558	type	Doesn't Know Their Own Birthday
Modesty Blaise / int_aba02558	comment	Doesn't Know Their Own Birthday: Modesty, because she was orphaned at a young age. In The Impossible Virgin, she tells Sir Gerald that she uses it as an excuse to celebrate her birthday three times a year.
Modesty Blaise / int_aba02558	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_aba02558	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_aba02558
Modesty Blaise / int_abf75585	type	Checkpoint Charlie
Modesty Blaise / int_abf75585	comment	Checkpoint Charlie: In "The Giggle Wrecker", Modesty and Willie have to sneak a Soviet detector across the Berlin Wall.
Modesty Blaise / int_abf75585	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_abf75585	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_abf75585
Modesty Blaise / int_ac1e30d8	type	Red Scare
Modesty Blaise / int_ac1e30d8	comment	Red Scare: In The Night of Morningstar, the villains' plan turns out to be masterminded by a high-ranking Russian intelligence officer, with the long-term goal of easing the way for the USSR to annex Romania and Yugoslavia. He predicts that with him masterminding things the USSR will have Western Europe, including Britain, sewn up within a decade.
Modesty Blaise / int_ac1e30d8	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_ac1e30d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_ac1e30d8
Modesty Blaise / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Modesty Blaise / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Most of the novels have some variation of the trope: In I, Lucifer, Modesty and Sir Gerald have a conversation while watching Willie participate in a skydiving contest. At the climax of the novel, Modesty and Willie skydive into the villains' base. At the beginning of A Taste for Death, Modesty and Willie are respectively having a fencing lesson (and arguing with the fencing instructor over the differences in tactics required from real sword-fighting) and scuba diving to gather pearls. Later in the book, Modesty has a sword fight to the death (and exploits the fact that her opponent is more used to fencing) and scuba diving is used to collect a different kind of prize. Near the beginning of The Impossible Virgin, Modesty and Willie do a workout with quarterstaves and discuss the fact that they're unlikely ever to have occasion to use them in a real fight. That occasion occurs near the end of the book. In The Night of Morningstar, Modesty demonstrates an ability to control individual muscles with remarkable precision, as a party trick to distract Stephen and Dinah when they're worried about Willie. Later, after being injected with a sedative by the villains, she uses the same muscle control to squeeze the injected fluid back out through the injection puncture.
Modesty Blaise / int_acecb17d	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_acecb17d	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_acecb17d
Modesty Blaise / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Modesty Blaise / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: In The Impossible Virgin, Modesty is being held prisoner by the villain and suffering from self-doubt because she doesn't seem to be able to get her head together and plan an escape. The villain decides to let her have a brief meeting with another prisoner, her friend Dr Pennyfeather, figuring that each will be further demoralised by seeing how badly the other is doing and at worst there will be no change, but "I can't think that it will be to their benefit". What he's not counting on is Dr Pennyfeather's (previously established) ability to diagnose illnesses from very subtle signs, which allows him to recognise that Modesty's mental confusion is a result of being secretly drugged, allowing her to get back in the game and ultimately saving both their lives.
Modesty Blaise / int_acf33d00	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_acf33d00	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_acf33d00
Modesty Blaise / int_ad902899	type	Constructive Body Disposal
Modesty Blaise / int_ad902899	comment	Constructive Body Disposal: In The Night of Morningstar, Willie has a show-down in a construction site with two killers sent by the villains. To keep the villains wondering about what happened to them, he uses a mechanical digger to bury the bodies in a patch of ground that's due to be paved over with concrete the next day.
Modesty Blaise / int_ad902899	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_ad902899	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_ad902899
Modesty Blaise / int_adf2910	type	Human Traffickers
Modesty Blaise / int_adf2910	comment	Human Traffickers: In the prologue of The Night of Morningstar, Modesty and Willie and a group of friends take out a crime boss whose lines of business include trafficking women and female children into sex slavery.
Modesty Blaise / int_adf2910	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_adf2910	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_adf2910
Modesty Blaise / int_aec88ae0	type	Driving into a Truck
Modesty Blaise / int_aec88ae0	comment	Driving into a Truck: In The Impossible Virgin, Modesty and Willie pull off a heist and drive off with the loot in a van. A few minutes later, the van makes a rendezvous in an underpass with an ally driving a large removal truck. The van is driven up into the back of the truck, which then continues innocently on its way.
Modesty Blaise / int_aec88ae0	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_aec88ae0	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_aec88ae0
Modesty Blaise / int_af60024c	type	Dowsing Device
Modesty Blaise / int_af60024c	comment	Dowsing Device: In A Taste for Death, Dinah demonstrates her dowsing ability using the modern form of dowsing device, a pair of bent metal rods held one in each hand.
Modesty Blaise / int_af60024c	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_af60024c	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_af60024c
Modesty Blaise / int_b0692cd9	type	Intro-Only Point of View
Modesty Blaise / int_b0692cd9	comment	Intro-Only Point of View: The Impossible Virgin begins with a man named Mischa Novikov, and follows him until he dies on the fifth page, one paragraph before Modesty enters the story.
Modesty Blaise / int_b0692cd9	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_b0692cd9	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_b0692cd9
Modesty Blaise / int_b0740635	type	Master of Your Domain
Modesty Blaise / int_b0740635	comment	Master of Your Domain: Modesty has learned a variety of techniques from a Hermit Guru that allow her to control bodily processes. She can put herself into a self-imposed coma-like trance, slow down her metabolism in situations like being trapped in icy cold, and other such effects. In The Night of Morningstar, she demonstrates an ability to control individual muscles with remarkable precision, first as a party trick and then after being injected with a sedative by the villains, to squeeze the injected fluid back out through the injeciton puncture.
Modesty Blaise / int_b0740635	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_b0740635	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_b0740635
Modesty Blaise / int_b26cc887	type	Just Between You and Me
Modesty Blaise / int_b26cc887	comment	Just Between You and Me: In The Night of Morningstar, the Big Bad can't resist visiting the captured Modesty and Willie for a little chat, and they nudge him into deciding to tell them his whole plan, which is a great help to them when they inevitably escape and set out to foil it.
Modesty Blaise / int_b26cc887	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_b26cc887	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_b26cc887
Modesty Blaise / int_b35e77ee	type	Fake Defector
Modesty Blaise / int_b35e77ee	comment	Fake Defector: One of the short stories features a Soviet defector who turns out to be actually a Soviet agent pretending to defect as a way of flushing out and identifying the West's undercover assets as they helped him on his way.
Modesty Blaise / int_b35e77ee	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_b35e77ee	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_b35e77ee
Modesty Blaise / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
Modesty Blaise / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: Averted; both protagonists routinely take lovers. Willie more than Modesty, admitted. By the last arcs in the strip, Modesty has several old flames who she routinely cycles between, with all parties involved aware of the others. Willie, on the other hand, has a lot of flings and one-night stands, with Maude Tiller (and in the book version, Lady Janet Gillam) as the recurring love interest.
Modesty Blaise / int_b6cebad3	featureApplicability	-1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_b6cebad3	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_b6cebad3
Modesty Blaise / int_b739f0d2	type	Finger Gun
Modesty Blaise / int_b739f0d2	comment	Finger Gun: In a lighter moment in the first novel, Modesty gets in a finger-gun battle with a pair of small boys.
Modesty Blaise / int_b739f0d2	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_b739f0d2	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_b739f0d2
Modesty Blaise / int_b7475a74	type	Bothering by the Book
Modesty Blaise / int_b7475a74	comment	Bothering by the Book: At the end of The Night of Morningstar, after Modesty and Willie have saved the lives of the British Prime Minister, not to mention several other major world leaders, Sir Gerald visits Modesty and tells her that his boss has ordered him to have her and Willie sign non-disclosure agreements binding them to serious penalties if they tell anyone about what just happened. Modesty, goaded, tells Sir Gerald exactly where his boss can shove the NDAs, and then asks why Sir Gerald didn't just refuse the order, since he knows her well enough to have predicted her response. He explains that he's engaging in malicious compliance: the first chance his boss is going to have to ask if she's signed the NDA will be when they're both reporting to the PM, and his boss has a habit of insisting that conversations be reported to him verbatim. Which means Sir Gerald will have an iron-clad excuse to tell his boss, in front of the PM, exactly where he can shove the NDAs.
Modesty Blaise / int_b7475a74	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_b7475a74	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_b7475a74
Modesty Blaise / int_b892dd2d	type	Girl of the Week
Modesty Blaise / int_b892dd2d	comment	Girl of the Week: Modesty tends to have a specific boyfriend in each individual novel, who may already be a couple with her at the start, or may be a case of Flirting Under Fire. Subverted in Sabre-Tooth, in which Modesty's boyfriend-of-the-book turns out to be one of the bad guys.
Modesty Blaise / int_b892dd2d	featureApplicability	-0.3
Modesty Blaise / int_b892dd2d	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_b892dd2d
Modesty Blaise / int_b949eac	type	Involuntary Battle to the Death
Modesty Blaise / int_b949eac	comment	Involuntary Battle to the Death: In I, Lucifer, Modesty and Willie get captured by the villains and forced to fight each other in a quick draw duel to the death, Modesty's handgun versus Willie's throwing knife. They come up with a way of staging Willie's death so he can get away and send word for help.
Modesty Blaise / int_b949eac	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_b949eac	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_b949eac
Modesty Blaise / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Modesty Blaise / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: In A Taste for Death, Simon Delicata is a huge man with the strength to kill a person with a single blow or to tear steel security shutters right off the wall. But he's not dumb muscle; he's smart enough to be the leader of any group of villains he's involved with.
Modesty Blaise / int_bbf11c0	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_bbf11c0	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_bbf11c0
Modesty Blaise / int_bc1a0bb1	type	The Last Dance
Modesty Blaise / int_bc1a0bb1	comment	The Last Dance: In "Cobra Trap", Modesty reveals to Willie near the end that this has been her last hurrah because she's dying of an inoperable brain tumor.
Modesty Blaise / int_bc1a0bb1	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_bc1a0bb1	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_bc1a0bb1
Modesty Blaise / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Modesty Blaise / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Go ahead and hurt Modesty if you don't mind having Willie Garvin rip you to pieces. The reverse also applies. Lampshaded in one of the books when Willie has a fit after someone disses his favorite singer, Petula Clark.
Modesty Blaise / int_bc74ef27	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_bc74ef27	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_bc74ef27
Modesty Blaise / int_bcac7f63	type	Distant Prologue
Modesty Blaise / int_bcac7f63	comment	Distant Prologue: The Night of Morningstar opens with a prologue set in the closing days of the Network, and describing Modesty's first encounters with two characters who will be significant in the main plot, before jumping forward over a decade to the present day.
Modesty Blaise / int_bcac7f63	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_bcac7f63	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_bcac7f63
Modesty Blaise / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Modesty Blaise / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Willie Garvin is a dead aim with throwing knives, and usually doesn't go into action without his two favourite throwing knives in an underarm sheath.
Modesty Blaise / int_bcd27e37	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_bcd27e37	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_bcd27e37
Modesty Blaise / int_bce728ca	type	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal
Modesty Blaise / int_bce728ca	comment	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Invoked in A Taste for Death; Modesty and Willie get one of the villain's underlings to help them by convincing him that the villain plans to dispose of him when his usefulness is at an end to prevent him giving anything away, though there's actually no evidence that the villain intends anything of the sort.
Modesty Blaise / int_bce728ca	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_bce728ca	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_bce728ca
Modesty Blaise / int_be6f7ae7	type	Brief Accent Imitation
Modesty Blaise / int_be6f7ae7	comment	Brief Accent Imitation: In A Taste for Death, Dinah briefly mimics Willie's cockney accent because she finds it charming. Her imitation is rendered with a thicker Funetik Aksent than his real accent is.
Modesty Blaise / int_be6f7ae7	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_be6f7ae7	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_be6f7ae7
Modesty Blaise / int_bfaff026	type	Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy
Modesty Blaise / int_bfaff026	comment	Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Mr. Sexton in The Silver Mistress is a particularly unpleasant example of this, considering himself to be the greatest fighter in the world (possibly correctly) while being also a Psycho for Hire and Torture Technician. Unfortunately for him, he wasn't as good at swimming.
Modesty Blaise / int_bfaff026	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_bfaff026	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_bfaff026
Modesty Blaise / int_c2ecf3b8	type	Show Some Leg
Modesty Blaise / int_c2ecf3b8	comment	Show Some Leg: Modesty Blaise would occasionally get the drop on the bad guys by stripping prior to a fight, a manoeuvre known as The Nailer. Depending on how easily-distracted the bad guys were, she would sometimes keep her underwear on, and sometimes not.
Modesty Blaise / int_c2ecf3b8	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_c2ecf3b8	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_c2ecf3b8
Modesty Blaise / int_c34d7fd	type	Devil Complex
Modesty Blaise / int_c34d7fd	comment	Devil Complex: The young man known as "Lucifer" in I, Lucifer, is under the delusion that he is Satan. Yes, the Satan. Despite this, he's still the Token Good Teammate among the bad guys, for a very weird version of "good".
Modesty Blaise / int_c34d7fd	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_c34d7fd	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_c34d7fd
Modesty Blaise / int_c35cddcd	type	I Control My Minions Through...
Modesty Blaise / int_c35cddcd	comment	I Control My Minions Through...: Brunel in The Impossible Virgin controls his minions through fear and hatred: they fear him, and hate each other. Most of them hate him, too, but won't do anything about it because if they try to kill him and fail they know what he'll do to them, and if they succeed they know what the others will do to them. Then one of them discovers a way to turn one of Brunel's own plots against him, taking him out without leaving any pointer to who did it, and he doesn't hesitate to use it.
Modesty Blaise / int_c35cddcd	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_c35cddcd	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_c35cddcd
Modesty Blaise / int_c3a7dcab	type	Qurac
Modesty Blaise / int_c3a7dcab	comment	Qurac: The Sheikdom of Malaurak in the first novel, a small Arabian country inhabited by nomadic tribes which has recently become part of the modern world due to the discovery of oil.
Modesty Blaise / int_c3a7dcab	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_c3a7dcab	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_c3a7dcab
Modesty Blaise / int_c601fc37	type	Professional Killer
Modesty Blaise / int_c601fc37	comment	Professional Killer: The Polish Twins in The Night of Morningstar are a pair of hired killers who work as a team. They take full payment upfront and guarantee that once they've been paid for a target they will not give up until the target is dead.
Modesty Blaise / int_c601fc37	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_c601fc37	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_c601fc37
Modesty Blaise / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Modesty Blaise / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In "The Soo Girl Charity", Modesty cautions Willie against engaging in vigilantism for the sake of it by saying that they aren't "the Four Just Men", a reference to the thriller of the same name by Edgar Wallace.
Modesty Blaise / int_c75df49a	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_c75df49a	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_c75df49a
Modesty Blaise / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Modesty Blaise / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Demonstrated both ways in The Night of Morningstar. The villains' Operation Morningstar is described in great detail, and is comprehensively derailed by Modesty and Willie just as it's getting started with the result that none of the planned events occur. Conversely, Modesty's plan for the derailing is conveyed to Willie in two cryptic sentences about a conversation they had with a friend before the book started, and the reader doesn't get a description of what it actually involves until after it's kicked off.
Modesty Blaise / int_c82e751f	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_c82e751f	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_c82e751f
Modesty Blaise / int_c83751cb	type	Description Cut
Modesty Blaise / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: In A Taste for Death, Steve and Modesty idly wonder how Willie is doing on his vacation in America. Modesty notes that it's the middle of the night over there and says he's probably in bed. Cut to Willie, wide awake, in the middle of trying to evade a gang of kidnappers. In The Night of Morningstar, Modesty is attacked and injured while out on the town with her friends Dinah and Stephen. A bit later, there's a scene where Stephen and Modesty discuss the possibility that whoever was behind it will try again, and Stephen anticipates having to put some effort into convincing Dinah that Modesty will be all right. This remark is immediately followed by a cut to Dinah telling Willie that she has confidence that Modesty can handle herself and anticipating that Stephen is going to need reassurance.
Modesty Blaise / int_c83751cb	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_c83751cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_c83751cb
Modesty Blaise / int_c9869c78	type	I Know Madden Kombat
Modesty Blaise / int_c9869c78	comment	I Know Madden Kombat: Cricketing skills allow a missionary to play Grenade Hot Potato in "A Better Day to Die".
Modesty Blaise / int_c9869c78	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_c9869c78	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_c9869c78
Modesty Blaise / int_cbbf302c	type	Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends
Modesty Blaise / int_cbbf302c	comment	Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends: At the start of A Taste for Death, Modesty is in a relationship with Steve Collier, who she hooked up with in the previous novel, and it's going well enough that she's not immediately averse to the idea of marrying him and settling down. Then Willie starts a relationship with Dinah Pilgrim, which seems to be similarly serious. So what happens but that Steve and Dinah end up falling in love with each other and going off together at the end to get married, leaving Modesty and Willie still as the most important people in each other's lives.
Modesty Blaise / int_cbbf302c	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_cbbf302c	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_cbbf302c
Modesty Blaise / int_cccfa535	type	Blindfolded Trip
Modesty Blaise / int_cccfa535	comment	Blindfolded Trip: Modesty occasionally gets the blindfold treatment from abductors — which doesn't help, as she seems to have an unerring sense of location.
Modesty Blaise / int_cccfa535	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_cccfa535	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_cccfa535
Modesty Blaise / int_d25b27c3	type	Criminal Amnesiac
Modesty Blaise / int_d25b27c3	comment	Criminal Amnesiac: In Dead Man's Handle, Willie loses his memory and is recruited by the villains as a weapon against Modesty.
Modesty Blaise / int_d25b27c3	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_d25b27c3	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_d25b27c3
Modesty Blaise / int_d515fe86	type	Pseudo-Crisis
Modesty Blaise / int_d515fe86	comment	Pseudo-Crisis: In A Taste for Death, Modesty arrives in Panama for a time-critical mission and as she is leaving the airport a police officer arrests her on outstanding matters from her last visit and bundles her off without giving her a chance to send a message to anyone. When the narrative returns to Modesty, it turns out the police officer is an old friend and they'd staged it between them so that the bad guys watching for Modesty's arrival would think she was out of action.
Modesty Blaise / int_d515fe86	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_d515fe86	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_d515fe86
Modesty Blaise / int_d5656fbe	type	The Unpronounceable
Modesty Blaise / int_d5656fbe	comment	The Unpronounceable: In The Night of Morningstar, the Polish Twins are a notorious team of professional killers who are identical twin brothers. Everyone calls them "the Polish Twins" because most people find "the Zdrzalkywicz twins" too much of a mouthful.
Modesty Blaise / int_d5656fbe	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_d5656fbe	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_d5656fbe
Modesty Blaise / int_d66cd0e6	type	Training from Hell
Modesty Blaise / int_d66cd0e6	comment	Training from Hell: Modesty's and Willie's regular sparring sessions involve them fighting no-holds-barred and just barely restraining themselves from killing or seriously injuring each other. In Sabre-Tooth the far-from-squeamish Tarrant is disturbed by seeing Willie hit Modesty in the head so hard that she forgets what's happening due to concussion, and then has to be talked down to stop her from killing or maiming him.
Modesty Blaise / int_d66cd0e6	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_d66cd0e6	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_d66cd0e6
Modesty Blaise / int_d9f4972a	type	Recruited from the Gutter
Modesty Blaise / int_d9f4972a	comment	Recruited from the Gutter: When Modesty met Willie, he was living a directionless and violent life, but she recognised his potential and recruited him to her organisation, where he quickly became her right-hand man and best friend.
Modesty Blaise / int_d9f4972a	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_d9f4972a	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_d9f4972a
Modesty Blaise / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Modesty Blaise / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Modesty Blaise is as capable of handling herself in a fight as anyone else in the series, and frequently features in action setpieces.
Modesty Blaise / int_dae5c997	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_dae5c997	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_dae5c997
Modesty Blaise / int_def127cc	type	Leave Behind a Pistol
Modesty Blaise / int_def127cc	comment	Leave Behind a Pistol: Discussed in A Taste for Death. Near the end, Sir Gerald calls on the big bad, a Villain with Good Publicity who has made sure that no evidence points back to him, and they have a civil discussion about the fact that Sir Gerald knows what he did but can't do anything about it. Sir Gerald recalls the "quaint but rather civilised custom" of the discreet withdrawal and the loaded pistol, and suggests that the big bad might wish to avail himself of it, pointing out that Modesty also knows what he did and she doesn't need evidence. The big bad laughs it off, confident he has nothing to fear. He's dead of Modesty by the end of the page.
Modesty Blaise / int_def127cc	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_def127cc	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_def127cc
Modesty Blaise / int_e1d1a88c	type	Disposable Vagrant
Modesty Blaise / int_e1d1a88c	comment	Disposable Vagrant: In The Night of Morningstar, when the Watchmen do their If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten! test, the proposed victim is a random junkie they abducted off the street.
Modesty Blaise / int_e1d1a88c	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_e1d1a88c	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_e1d1a88c
Modesty Blaise / int_e21e21be	type	Red and Black and Evil All Over
Modesty Blaise / int_e21e21be	comment	Red and Black and Evil All Over: In I, Lucifer, Lucifer dresses entirely in red and black as part of his Devil Complex.
Modesty Blaise / int_e21e21be	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_e21e21be	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_e21e21be
Modesty Blaise / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Modesty Blaise / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: In The Night of Morningstar, Earl St. Maur's wife Victoria is an airhead from a noble family who is incapable of maintaining a train of thought on any subject that doesn't involve horses or sex.
Modesty Blaise / int_e2d457	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_e2d457	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_e2d457
Modesty Blaise / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Modesty Blaise / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: The Night of Morningstar begins with a prologue set during the period when Modesty and Willie were wrapping up the Network and preparing for a quiet retirement, with them each privately wondering if they'll be able to make a go of it and how they'll manage without the excitement. This of course comes after ten books of Modesty and Willie in the present day continually interrupting their quiet retirement because they can't manage without some excitement.
Modesty Blaise / int_e3c36782	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_e3c36782	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_e3c36782
Modesty Blaise / int_e3c70df1	type	Mister Big
Modesty Blaise / int_e3c70df1	comment	Mister Big: Brunel, the villain of The Impossible Virgin, is noted for being under five feet tall and not physically imposing. Unlike some versions of the trope, he's not hot-tempered or at all sensitive about his height.
Modesty Blaise / int_e3c70df1	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_e3c70df1	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_e3c70df1
Modesty Blaise / int_e3d06d0c	type	Bash Brothers
Modesty Blaise / int_e3d06d0c	comment	Bash Brothers: Modesty and Willie are close friends who have been working and fighting together for years. In a fight, they always have each other's backs and often pull off co-ordinated moves with the slightest of communication.
Modesty Blaise / int_e3d06d0c	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_e3d06d0c	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_e3d06d0c
Modesty Blaise / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Modesty Blaise / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: The Polish Twins in The Night of Morningstar are a notorious team of hired killers who guarantee that once they've accepted a target they will not give up until the target is dead. It is reported that they once kept after a particularly well-guarded target for months until they found the opportunity they needed.
Modesty Blaise / int_e567510d	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_e567510d	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_e567510d
Modesty Blaise / int_e57c714d	type	Insane Equals Violent
Modesty Blaise / int_e57c714d	comment	Insane Equals Violent: Discussed in I, Lucifer. Stephen says that the villains are insane, and Modesty says that while they might have mental problems that contribute to their eccentric personalities she doesn't believe that has anything to do with their villainy: they're sane enough to know that what they do is wrong and they do it anyway. She points out that in contrast Lucifer, who is definitely insane in the detached-from-reality, paranoid-delusion sense, is a sweetheart who wouldn't have anything to do with the villains' schemes if he were capable of understanding what was really going on.
Modesty Blaise / int_e57c714d	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_e57c714d	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_e57c714d
Modesty Blaise / int_e8eb7d1e	type	Blade Lock
Modesty Blaise / int_e8eb7d1e	comment	Blade Lock: In A Taste of Death, Modesty gets into a sword fight to the death with one of the villains, which includes a moment where this happens.
Modesty Blaise / int_e8eb7d1e	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_e8eb7d1e	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_e8eb7d1e
Modesty Blaise / int_ea28d8ff	type	Death Flight
Modesty Blaise / int_ea28d8ff	comment	Death Flight: In The Impossible Virgin, Modesty and Willie are captured by the villain and loaded onto a private plane to be flown to the villain's base. Mid-flight, over mountainous wilderness, the villain has Willie thrown out, still strapped to a chair. By a great stroke of luck, Willie lands on something soft and survives.
Modesty Blaise / int_ea28d8ff	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_ea28d8ff	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_ea28d8ff
Modesty Blaise / int_ea30a388	type	Carpet-Rolled Corpse
Modesty Blaise / int_ea30a388	comment	Carpet-Rolled Corpse: In The Night of Morningstar, an abduction takes place in which the unconscious victim is carried out of the building wrapped in a carpet, by two men dressed as tradesmen.
Modesty Blaise / int_ea30a388	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_ea30a388	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_ea30a388
Modesty Blaise / int_ea38ddd5	type	Sissy Villain
Modesty Blaise / int_ea38ddd5	comment	Sissy Villain: Distaff Counterpart: Mrs. Fothergill in Modesty Blaise has a lot of Butch Lesbian signifiers, but she doesn't seem to show any sexual interest in anyone, and doesn't enjoy many things other than killing people.
Modesty Blaise / int_ea38ddd5	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_ea38ddd5	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_ea38ddd5
Modesty Blaise / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Modesty Blaise / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: In A Taste for Death, Modesty gets into a duel to the death with one of the villains, an egotistical Master Swordsman. At one point, they get into a Blade Lock, which Modesty breaks by kneeing him in a vulnerable area. It doesn't take him out of the fight entirely, but it does put him off his stroke for a bit.
Modesty Blaise / int_eaf5a1ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_eaf5a1ac	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_eaf5a1ac
Modesty Blaise / int_ee2a3bfc	type	Prefers Going Barefoot
Modesty Blaise / int_ee2a3bfc	comment	Prefers Going Barefoot: Modesty Blaise grew up in Barefoot Poverty, and still often goes barefoot on country walks because having tough feet helps with her fighting style. She will however wear shoes without complaint when it's socially appropriate or practically necessary to do so.
Modesty Blaise / int_ee2a3bfc	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_ee2a3bfc	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_ee2a3bfc
Modesty Blaise / int_eeb2d092	type	Killer Gorilla
Modesty Blaise / int_eeb2d092	comment	Killer Gorilla: In The Impossible Virgin, the villain has a gorilla in a cage at his base in Africa. He keeps it around mainly to make a point about how he, small and physically unimposing as he is, has more power than the hulking beast, but there are also times when people get locked in the cage to be torn to shreds.
Modesty Blaise / int_eeb2d092	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_eeb2d092	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_eeb2d092
Modesty Blaise / int_eedee4d	type	The Starscream
Modesty Blaise / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: Adrian Chance in The Impossible Virgin starts out as a loyal (if secretly resentful) right-hand man to the villain Brunel, but starts plotting against his boss after Brunel decides to try and brainwash Modesty Blaise into his new right-hand person. He does successfully overthrow Brunel after a lucky chance gives him an unexpected advantage, but it's noted that he's not in Brunel's league and if he hadn't been killed by Modesty shortly afterward he probably would have messed things up for himself before too long.
Modesty Blaise / int_eedee4d	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_eedee4d	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_eedee4d
Modesty Blaise / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Modesty Blaise / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Personified by a trick Modesty uses on occasion called "The Nailer" in which she'll strip to the waist and enter a room topless. The momentary distraction caused by seeing a sexy female enter suddenly is often enough for Willie or Modesty to get the upper hand (lampooned in a mid-1970s comic strip when the Nailer is noted as being less effective because men in the 1970s have been exposed to increasingly amounts of sexually explicit films and magazines).
Modesty Blaise / int_f10d3363	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_f10d3363	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_f10d3363
Modesty Blaise / int_f1c860c4	type	Spider-Sense
Modesty Blaise / int_f1c860c4	comment	Spider-Sense: Willie's ears sometimes prickle when something bad is about to go down. It doesn't always happen, but when it does it's never a false alarm.
Modesty Blaise / int_f1c860c4	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_f1c860c4	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_f1c860c4
Modesty Blaise / int_f33ff01c	type	Adaptational Context Change
Modesty Blaise / int_f33ff01c	comment	Adaptational Context Change: Occurs frequently in the novels, which recycle action set-pieces and plot elements from the strips but rearrange them and set them within new plots.
Modesty Blaise / int_f33ff01c	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_f33ff01c	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_f33ff01c
Modesty Blaise / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Modesty Blaise / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: In The Impossible Virgin, one of the first things we're told about the villain, Brunel, is a character recalling having to perform a mercy kill on "the still-living ruins of a man" who had incurred Brunel's displeasure.
Modesty Blaise / int_f3626b09	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_f3626b09	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_f3626b09
Modesty Blaise / int_f627b434	type	Platonic Life-Partners
Modesty Blaise / int_f627b434	comment	Platonic Life-Partners: Modesty and Willie are friends for decades and have a very close rapport, but never have any romantic or sexual interest in each other, to the bemusement of the people around them.
Modesty Blaise / int_f627b434	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_f627b434	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_f627b434
Modesty Blaise / int_f70bcdc3	type	External Combustion
Modesty Blaise / int_f70bcdc3	comment	External Combustion: In I, Lucifer, the villains attempt to kill the head of the French secret service with a car bomb. Willie Garvin sees the culprit leaving the scene after setting the bomb, recognises him as a criminal who specialises in this kind of crime, and intervenes to prevent the bomb going off. His knowledge of the culprit's methods also warns him of a booby trap: in addition to being wired to go off when the engine is started, there's another trigger that will set the bomb off if someone opens the hood to look for a bomb.
Modesty Blaise / int_f70bcdc3	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_f70bcdc3	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_f70bcdc3
Modesty Blaise / int_f7257495	type	Hustling the Mark
Modesty Blaise / int_f7257495	comment	Hustling the Mark: In I, Lucifer, Sir Gerald recruits Willie to teach a lesson to two unpleasant men at his gentlemen's club. They challenge the two to a game of snooker, with a friendly wager to keep it interesting, and Willie pretends to be very bad at pool while goading them into increasing the amount of the bet. At the appropriate moment, Willie reveals his true colours and wins the game by potting every remaining ball in a single uninterrupted streak.
Modesty Blaise / int_f7257495	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_f7257495	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_f7257495
Modesty Blaise / int_f771f23b	type	Battle Strip
Modesty Blaise / int_f771f23b	comment	Battle Strip: Modesty often strips down before fighting. In A Taste for Death, she goes topless to duel the fencer Wenczel, and facing the lethal Mr. Sexton in The Silver Mistress she goes completely naked (and greased up) to avoid presenting him with anything he could get a grip on. She also practices a move she calls The Nailer, where she gains extra time when she has to go through a door into a room full of thugs by walking in topless, guaranteeing that she gets the first move while most or all of the thugs are still looking at her chest.
Modesty Blaise / int_f771f23b	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_f771f23b	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_f771f23b
Modesty Blaise / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Modesty Blaise / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: The series-long running gag of Willie saying that the current circumstances remind him of an improbable thing that happened one time involving one of his many girlfriends.
Modesty Blaise / int_f9f2c33	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_f9f2c33	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_f9f2c33
Modesty Blaise / int_fae64ace	type	Heroic Neutral
Modesty Blaise / int_fae64ace	comment	Heroic Neutral: Modesty and Willie are already retired when the series begins, and have no particular urge to fight evil. They generally get involved only when they've been given a personal stake in the outcome, either because the villain has messed with them personally or because something's happened to one of their friends.
Modesty Blaise / int_fae64ace	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_fae64ace	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_fae64ace
Modesty Blaise / int_name	type	ItemName
Modesty Blaise / int_name	comment
Modesty Blaise / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
Modesty Blaise / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Modesty Blaise / int_name
Modesty Blaise / int_name	itemName	Modesty Blaise

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	A Birthday, Not a Break / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Abridged for Children / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Action Dress Rip / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Adaptation Personality Change / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Adaptational Early Appearance / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Adopt-a-Servant / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Agonizing Stomach Wound / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Albinos Are Freaks / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Almost Dead Guy / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Always Identical Twins / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Bare-Fisted Monk / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Bash Brothers / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Battle Strip / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Blindfolded Trip / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Bothering by the Book / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Brief Accent Imitation / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Call-Forward / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Carpet-Rolled Corpse / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Centipede's Dilemma / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Checkpoint Charlie / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Combat Clairvoyance / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Constructive Body Disposal / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Corporate Samurai / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Covert Distress Code / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Criminal Amnesiac / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Criminal Craves Legitimacy / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Cute Clumsy Girl / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Defector from Commie Land / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Deliberate Injury Gambit / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Description Cut / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Devil Complex / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Disposable Vagrant / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Distant Prologue / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Doesn't Know Their Own Birthday / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Dowsing Device / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Driving into a Truck / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Early Draft Tie-In / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Eiffel Tower Effect / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Evil Puppeteer / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	External Combustion / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Extreme Libido / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Finger Gun / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Flynning / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	From Dress to Dressing / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Full-Frontal Assault / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Funetik Aksent / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Funny Foreigner / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Gayngster / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Genius Ditz / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Gladiator Games / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Grenade Hot Potato / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Hearing Voices / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Hermit Guru / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Heroic Neutral / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Human Traffickers / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	I Control My Minions Through... / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	I Don't Know Mortal Kombat / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	I Know Madden Kombat / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten! / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Impersonating an Officer / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Impossible Mission / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Insane Equals Violent / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Intro-Only Point of View / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Involuntary Battle to the Death / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Just Between You and Me / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Killer Gorilla / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Leave Behind a Pistol / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Literary Allusion Title / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Long-Running Book Series / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Mad Lib Thriller Title / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Make It Look Like an Accident / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Master Swordsman / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Master of Your Domain / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Mister Big / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Multitasked Conversation / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Napoleon Delusion / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	No Honor Among Thieves / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Pin-Pulling Teeth / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Platonic Life-Partners / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Post-Climax Confrontation / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Professional Killer / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Pseudo-Crisis / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Psychometry / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Pull the Thread / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Qurac / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Rambunctious Italian / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Red and Black and Evil All Over / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Red-Flag Recreation Material / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Red Scare / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Roadside Surgery / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Scars Are Forever / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Secret Test of Thieving Skill / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Sibling Team / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Sissy Villain / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Slipping a Mickey / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Smart People Play Chess / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Spider-Sense / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Spit Take / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Steal the Surroundings / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Swiss Bank Account / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Sword Fight / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Terrorists Without a Cause / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	The Ditz / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	The Last Dance / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	The Spymaster / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Trick-and-Follow Ploy / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Tricked-Out Shoes / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Unspoken Plan Guarantee / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Villain with Good Publicity / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Virtue Is Weakness / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Working the Same Case / int_a3d2bcec
Modesty Blaise	hasFeature	Would Not Shoot a Good Guy / int_a3d2bcec

Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.