In the CW's new reboot of Nikita, Maggie Q is equal parts slinky spy and steely resolve. She'll lure you in with fire-engine red, barely-there swimwear — and then she'll snap your neck before you can wipe up your drool. Her Nikita is back with a vengeance. How will she compare with the rest of our Favorite TV and Movie spies? Only time will tell. For now, click ahead to check out the rest of our rankers.

Tortured and reticent, Bourne is not as flashy as, say, his fellow J.B.-initialed agent, but he proves you don't need gadgets and guns in this tech-savvy age. He can take you down with his two biggest weapons: his left and right hand.

The consummate, prototype suave spy, Bond, James Bond had plenty of gadgets and a facility with the ladies that made legions of men and boys want to be him. Connery virtually invented the role. With apologies to Roger Moore, Brosnan brought moviegoers back to the franchise. And Craig has created a brooding, emotionally damaged Bond in an origins-style reboot.

While most spies keep it super serious, the bumbling Agent 86 took the lighter approach, spoofing the entire genre. The only thing more potent than his ineptitude was his complete inability to recognize his idiocy. Maybe if he'd stayed off that shoe phone...

One of the top female spies in the game, grad student-turned-double agent Syd endured a warped family (teeming with daddy issues), multiple globe-trotting and year-jumping missions, all the while disguising herself in sultry get-ups... and crazy wigs.

The blonde is sweet day to day, but can morph into a ruthless agent at the drop of a dime. Between her various espionage covers, proficiency in multiple languages and totally awesome knife-throwing skills, we'd want her protecting us, too.

Unlike the Jason Bournes of the secret agent world, MacGyver preferred brains to brawn. Armed with his scientific knowledge and his trusty Swiss Army knife, he had the ability to turn almost anything into a weapon or a tool to get him out of the toughest spots.

After being cut off (or "burned") from his covert circles, Westen becomes a bit of an everyman's spy. One part Jim Rockford and one part MacGyver, Westen takes on cases for the locals in Miami while he tries to solve the mystery of who ousted him

Picking up where Maxwell Smart left off, Powers' biggest achievement wasn't foiling Dr. Evil's plans or landing the impossibly good-looking girl. Rather it was infecting the world with a bundle of catch phrases that wouldn't die.

True, his day-to-day (or hour-to-hour) work on the series is all about counterterrorism, but his CIA upbringing went a long way in making him CTU's best agent. Though his interrogation techniques have been endlessly debated, his "anything for the cause" approach has also made the character a hero in a post-9/11 TV landscape.

The tables are turned on aspiring spy/writer Harriet when her friends get on her case after finding her top-secret notebook filled with observations.

Despite being trailed by explosive messages wherever he goes, the gadget-wielding Hunt is the epitome of calm and cool — especially when he precariously hung from a wire as he infiltrated a touch-sensitive room.

The life of a teen is so hard: homework, chores, getting grounded... and going undercover for the CIA. Banks saved the world twice (once in London!) and showed off his Bond-esque womanizing ways, romancing both Hilary Duff and Hannah Spearritt.

Created by Ian Fleming as a small-screen answer to James Bond, Solo teamed with Russian spy Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) at an international espionage organization. The more laid-back and charming of the two, Solo was a serial womanizer who eventually tangled with a femme fatale from bad-guy organization T.H.R.U.S.H. What is it with spies and these acronyms, anyway?

Kelly Robinson and Alexander Scott (Robert Culp and Bill Cosby), I Spy The duo posed as "tennis bums," but they were actually top agents for the Pentagon, meaning they chased bad guys — and beautiful women — in sometimes exotic venues. The pairing of Culp and Cosby made TV history, since Cosby became the first black co-lead of a network prime-time drama.