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'''Melody Powers''' is a fictional spy character developed by [[Daria Morgendorffer]] and included in stories featured in the episodes "[[Cafe Disaffecto]]" and "[[The Old and the Beautiful]]." The character's stories involving the character appear to be set either during or after the [[wikipedia:Cold War|Cold War]], in which Melody Powers is a [[wikipedia:Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] special agent who uses sex appeal and bloody brutality to fight Communists. What little we know of Daria's writing indicates that her Melody Powers stories are rather over-the-top with death and violence, almost parodying the genre of spy fiction that is akin to the [[wikipedia:James Bond|James Bond]] franchise. Daria displays no antagonism toward Communism or Russians otherwise, leading one to wonder if her Melody Powers tales are a sort of [[metafic]].

In the episode "[[The Old and the Beautiful]]", Daria continues her writing and story building with Melody Powers when she finishes reading a story she wrote to read for [[Mrs. Blaine]] at the Better Days Retirement Home. The story involves three rendezvous, or meetings Melody Powers has with Communists she plans to assassinate. The first is with Team Algiers, which ends in a violent, explosive death. The next is with the character Edouard, who ultimately suffers the same fate. The story ends with the character Misha's death in which the explosives Melody Powers used were... well... too explosive. The transcript of that story is as follows: