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Forget the casino. Forget the mountaintop lair. The most reliable pressure cooker in spy fiction is a 24-hour convenience store with sticky floors, suspicious Slurpee customers, and nowhere to hide. Here are seven mini-mart confrontations that prove the aisle is mightier than the exotic locale.
A great spy cold open is less an opening scene than a signed contract: show me the tone, the threat, and the hero’s particular brand of trouble, and I’ll follow you anywhere. These 11 pre-title sequences do exactly that—and a few of them are better than the movies they introduce.
Spy stories keep dragging aging operatives out of retirement for one final job, and 2026's lineup of weary-hero trailers suggests the trick has become a reflex. The problem isn't gray hair — it's fake goodbyes and reheated stakes.
Every spy franchise has a granite-jawed lead, but the movies belong to the people in the background losing grenades and saving the day. We ranked eleven supporting players on competence, comic timing, and whether we'd actually clear a weekend for their spinoff.