Ashton Kutcher and his 4,888,964 Twitter followers will be treated soon (figuratively, not by us) to "Killers," a spy film co-starring the lovely Katherine Heigl. Unbeknownst to Jen (Heigl), her husband Spencer (Kutcher) is a government-hired assassin who becomes the target of a big hit, and Heigl is forced to wield a gun to help defend him.
"Killers" jogged our domes about the spy-couple trope and real-life spies, and so we present you with this roundup of the most reckless spy couples, in real life and cinema.
To clarify, we've narrowed reckless here not to mean carelessness or lacking caution, but boldness and disregard for grave consequences (i.e., risk of imprisonment and fatalities). This compilation will absolutely not include the 2005 remake of "Fun With Dick and Jane" with Jim Carrey, the biggest waste of $8.75 and 90 minutes in the past decade (not bitter).
5. John Smith & Jane Smith -- "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"It should have been a clue to each other -- both calculating, trained assassins -- that their spouse was highly athletic, kind of secretive, and had a plain-vanilla name. Oh yeah, it was a movie. There were a ton of explosions and lots of gunfire and eventually they were both ordered to kill the other.
Maybe the most dangerous element of this film was the sight of Angelina Jolie's legs in that black dress, which made men out of thousands of teenage boys.
4. Walter Kendall Myers and Gwendolyn MyersThe 72-year-old former State Department and his wife were charged for wire fraud and acting as spies for the Cuban government (and later pled guilty). They carried this on for not one, not two, but nearly three decades. That's reckless.
3. Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable -- "Kim Possible"Not only is Kim a superhero (with little help from her ill-equipped boyfriend, Ron), but she's a high school student involved in extracurricular activities, like cheerleading. In high school we were awkward and didn't fight crime.
2. Julius and Ethel RosenbergNo, it really doesn't get much more reckless than American communists revealing secrets about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union, but we figured you stopped taking us seriously at "Kim Possible." The couple were civilians, convicted of treason and executed in 1953.
1. Austin Powers and Vanessa Kensington -- "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery"With a nod to Beyoncé and a half-nod to Heather Graham, Powers did the act best with Vanessa (Elizabeth Hurley) at his side. Powers froze himself for the sake of humanity and didn't spare any gunfire or dumb joke, and he captured our hearts in the process.
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Tuesday 18 May
By AngryWhite Guy
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg may have been wrongly convicted and executed. IIRC, after the fall of the Soviet Union, documents have come to light indicating that the Rosenbergs were not the ultimate source for the A-Bomb secrets that fell into the USSR's hands.
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Tuesday 18 May
By jaguar6cy
Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, wrote of the Rosenbergs in his memoir, published posthumously in 1990. According to the memoir, Khruschchev learned from Stalin and Vyacheslav M. Molotov that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg "had provided very significant help in accelerating the production of our atomic bomb." He further wrote:
“ Let this be a worthy tribute to the memory of those people. Let my words serve as an expression of gratitude to those who sacrificed their lives to a great cause of the Soviet state at a time when the U.S. was using its advantage over our state to blackmail our state and undermine its proletarian cause..."
Only Communist supporters and fans of Joseph Stalin would disagree.
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Tuesday 18 May
By godessathenanike
You guys forgot the Walkers, who did it for the money.
The Rosenbergs didn't do it for money, they were communists. The Walkers, instead of getting jail time, should have been executed. The Rosenbergs should not have been executed, they should have been given jail time.
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Tuesday 18 May
By Ethan
I just would like to know, what happened to the movie True Lies?
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Tuesday 18 May
By Vincent
Stupid list and Killers, sound familiar, it was called True Lies.
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Saturday 29 May
By Mark
What about James Bond and anyone?
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Monday 31 May
By Valz
Mr and Mrs. Smith was a dangerous movie.
Have to agree with the Kim Possible thingy.
Kim and Ron are just too weird but too cool. we found out later Ron was much of a big help. ;)
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Tuesday 01 June
By Nicholas Richardson
Kim/Ron For The Win! The Only TV Show and The Only Cartoon Couple on the list. :)
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Saturday 04 February
By Mike
The only actual Non-Spy couple is actually not real... Did the creator of this list ever watch the Kim Possible show? Bottom line, it doesn't belong here!
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