Team Agents

Team Agents is a reoccuring Team in The King of Fighters series.

Description
As the name implies, this team consists of characters who are secret agents, whose main objective is to investigate the events that take place in the KOF tournaments, both within and outside. This team appear for the first time in The King of Fighters 2002 (a Dream Match game), with the agents Vanessa, Seth and Ramón as a part of a Special Team. The three appear for the first time as playable characters in The King of Fighters 2000 (Ramón and Vanessa in Team K' and Seth in Team Benimaru), and appear together in a team (along with Iori Yagami in his namesake team) during The King of Fighters 2001. Vanessa and Seth appears firstly in The King of Fighters '99 Evolution, as striker characters.



The team would make its first cannonical appearance after the NESTS Saga in The King of Fighters XI, with Seth as a non-combatant (and cameo character) and Blue Mary as its newest member, replacing him. Although the team would not participate in the following tournament as playable fighters, the story mode for The King of Fighters XIII's console version showed its members working behind the scenes to investigate the tournament.

In both of these appearances, the agents worked as independent contractors for Heidern (Ikari Squad Commander) or for Ling, a mercenary leader killed during The King of Fighters 2000 (and replaced by Zero, a NESTS employee who was physically similar to him). The team would later appear in The King of Fighters XV, now under the name Team Secret Agents. In this new team formation, the mysterious Luong replaces Ramón, and works together with the butler Hein.

Leader

 * Vanessa - Leader of Team Agents.

Members

 * Seth - Member of Team Agents. Left after 2002/UM.
 * Ramón - Member of Team Agents. Left after XI.

Member

 * Blue Mary - Member of Team Agents. Left after XI, and rejoined in XV.

Member

 * Luong - Member of Team Agents in XV.

Trivia

 * With the exception of Blue Mary (a character who debut in the Fatal Fury series), the other characters on this team are exclusively created for the KOF series.


 * In all formations, Vanessa always appears as part of the team, canonically or not.


 * In The King of Fighters 2002, this team was called "KOF 2000 Team", with its members representing The King of Fighters 2000 (the canonical game which both debuted as playable characters). However, in the remake of the reffered game, the team returns to their original name.


 * The original formation of this team appears as stage cameo characters in The King of Fighters XIII (Paris Stage).


 * The new and current formation of this team in The King of Fighters XV (Vanessa, Mary & Luong) is the fourth canonical variant of the Women Fighters Team, and the fifth mainline formation (if counting the NESTS Team and the Pretty Girls Fighters Team in The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match, the High School Girls in The King of Fighters 2003 and the Another World Team in The King of Fighters XIV).


 * This new and current formation also resembles the 2000-2003 formation of Charlie's Angels film series, in which the protagonists are also secret agents:
 * Vanessa resembles the agent Dylan Sanders (portrayed by former actress and talk show host Drew Barrymore);
 * Mary resembles the agent Natalie Cook (portrayed by former actress Cameron Diaz);
 * Luong resembles the agent Alex Munday (portrayed by actress Lucy Liu).


 * This team, Team Masters, Team Ikari Warriors, Team Yagami, Team K', Team NESTS, Team Kim, Team Ikari Warriors, Team Rivals and Team Isla are the only teams of the series which one or more members have unknown nationality.


 * This team, Team Fatal Fury, Team Yagami, Team Outlaw, Team Art of Fighting, Team Hero, Team South America, Team Rivals, Team Japan, Team Kyo, Team Sacred Treasures, Team K', Team Benimaru, Team Asian Triple Alliance, Team Ikari Warriors, Team Ash, Team Elisabeth, Team Shun'ei, Team Mexico, Team G.A.W. and Team East Asia are the only in the series which one or more members win a KOF tournament.


 * This team and Team Ikari Warriors are the only in the series that enter the tournament for investigative purposes.


 * This team, Team K', Team Outlaw (and its variants), Team Ash, Team Hero, Team Ikari Warriors, Team Rivals, Team Women Fighters, Team Fatal Fury (and its variant), Team Japan, Team Kyo, Team Yagami and Team Sacred Treasures are the only in the series which one or more members are/was DLC characters.