DISQUS

Film School Rejects: The Ten Greatest Fictional Secret Agents of All-Time

  • Nate · 1 year ago
    Kevin, Jack Bauer is not a secret agent. He may be more of a badass than anyone else on the list, and he did do some covert operations when he was in special forces, but he's a regular field agent who just happens to save the country on six separate occasions.
  • JMoney · 1 year ago
    jason Bourne wasn't a spy in the movies, he was an assassin. maybe if you're going by the novels, you might be able to call him a spy but that's a stretch
  • Cole Abaius · 1 year ago
    There's a difference between spies and secret agents. A spy is a secret agent, but a secret agent doesn't have to be a spy.

    I don't know about Jack Bauer, although he has the same initials as James Bond and Jason Bourne, but Bourne is a secret agent in his role as assassin. He's an unidentifiable, NOC agent that's in the field if needed for a kill. Even he doesn't know his real name. That's double-super-secret.

    And I have security clearance, so I ought to know. Alright, I'm headed back into the secret ante-chambers below the Washington Monument now.
  • Manish Pandey · 1 year ago
    Jason Bourne being my favorite. Loved all the parts.
  • Cody · 1 year ago
    Another Honorable mention would be John Steed, played by Patrick Macnee from The Avengers, The original 1960's British show, not that crappy 1998 remake.
  • Michelle Graham · 1 year ago
    Jack Bauer worked plenty of undercover cases, surely that'd qualify him as a secret agent? In season 3 he was a drug addict BECAUSE of being undercover (and still managed to kick ass, even though going through withdrawal)
  • Nate · 1 year ago
    Well, if that's the case then we can call any undercover agent ever in a movie a secret agent. How about Donnie Brasco?

    And if we're not worried about what the exact definition of what a secret agent is, then why not throw Indiana Jones into the mix? That's the kind of character Lucas was going for. Adventurous man called upon the government to go on a special mission to save the world from Nazis?
  • website design · 1 year ago
    Jason Bourne should be higher. He'd crush ANY James Bond.
  • Maggie Van Ostrand · 1 year ago
    Emma Peel.