14 Facts About Sterling Archer

Sterling Archer was born in Tangier as the only child of Malory Sterling Archer, the retired agent-turned-director of the New York-based International Secret Intelligence Service.

Sterling Archer spent his youth at a boarding school, where he excelled at lacrosse.

Sterling Archer has a fondness for the name Randy and has often gone undercover using the name as part of his disguise.

Sterling Archer becomes an even more sympathetic personality as the series evolves in later seasons, when revelations about his troubled past, fears, affection for animals, and a deep admiration of Burt Reynolds, among others, come to light.

Sterling Archer is introduced in the pilot episode "Mole Hunt", as a special agent for the intelligence agency International Secret Intelligence Service.

Lana's drive to get revenge on Sterling Archer for cheating on her is fairly evident throughout the initial half of the first season, even going as far as to shoot him on multiple occasions.

Much of the second season of Sterling Archer is devoted to the character identifying his real father.

Katya unsuccessfully attempts to kill Barry by jumping off of the roof of Sterling Archer's apartment building, sacrificing herself in the process.

Ultimately, the duo are captured by the pirates and put into a dungeon, where Riley, Noah, and Sterling Archer are being harbored.

Sterling Archer convinces the group that they should start a detective agency in Los Angeles, setting up the events of season seven where they are subjected to the machinations of actress Veronica Deane.

Season nine has Sterling Archer, remaining in a coma-induced dream, imagined as a co-pilot with Pam, who crash land onto the lush and mysterious Pacific island of Mitimotu.

Sterling Archer finally awakens from his coma after the three seasons to find that three years have passed and he now needs a cane to walk.

Sterling Archer read all of the James Bond novels, which were given to him several years previously by an acquaintance.

Alan Sepinwall of HitFix commented that the series shines when the writers "are able to straddle the line between Sterling Archer being an ignorant baby and a witty spy capable of being a hyper-competent badass", as palpable in the first part of the third season installment "Heart of Archness".