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* [[Eye Scream]]: In the final gunfight, {{spoiler|Bond shoots the head of the thugs in the eye with a nailgun. Ironically, the exact eye that is punctured by the nail was already blind (indicated by the opaque lense of his glasses), if not gone altogether.}}
** {{spoiler|He might not have been actually blind. Some marksmen close one eye while shooting (or, in this case, have one of their lenses blacked out) to cut down on depth perception and improve their aim.}}
* [[Fake-Out Make-Out]]
* [[Five-Bad Band]]:
** [[The Big Bad]]: Le Chiffre
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** [[Bigger Bad]]: Mr. White
* [[Finger-Suck Healing]]: Bond sucks on Vesper's fingers when she is going into shock.
* [[Freeze-Frame Bonus]]
* [[Grenade Tag]]
* [[Groin Attack]]: What Le Chiffre does with a knotted rope.
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** In the book, it's stated that the inhaler is benzedrine. It might not necessarily be for asthma, though; perhaps he's using it as a stimulant.
*** Benzedrine is an older name for dextroamphetamine.
* [[Hostage Situation]]
* [[Image Song]]
* [[Informed Attractiveness]]
{{quote|'''Vesper:''' Hello.
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* [[Le Parkour]]: The original creator of parkour plays a bomber running away from Bond. The bomber uses parkour, whereas Bond [[Dungeon Bypass|takes somewhat more of a ''direct'' route...]]
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: Alex Dimitrios to the parkour bomber, then Le Chiffre to Dimitrios and Mr. White to Le Chiffre. Continues on into ''[[Quantum of Solace]]'', where more men behind Mr. White are revealed.
* [[Fan Service|Manservice]]
** For the more traditional fanservice: Why is that woman in a bathing suit riding a horse on a beach?
* [[Meaningful Echo]]
* [[Misplaced Wildlife]]
* [[Mobstacle Course]]: The [[Le Parkour]] villain does this when he wants to be a jerk.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: During the exceptionally brutal torture scene, Bond informs Le Chiffre that he has an itch "down there". The villain takes another whack at the poor man's family jewels while Bonds screams: "No, no! To the right! To the right!" before breaking down into hysterical laughter/tears and exclaiming: "Now the whole world's gonna know you died scratching my balls!"
* [[Mythology Gag]]
** And on their way to the Casino, Bond jokingly tells Vesper her alias is "Stephanie Broadchest", referencing the naming style of Bond girls like [[Goldfinger|Pussy Galore]], [[Dr. No|Honey Ryder]] and [[You Only Live Twice|Kissy Suzuki]].
** When M chastises Bond early in the movie, she mentions "Christ, I miss the [[Cold War]]," a callback to her character's introduction in ''[[Goldeneye]]'', where she chastises Bond (played by Pierce Brosnan) for being a "relic of the Cold War."
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** Can anyone say "Two measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lilet, shaken well over ice until chilled, and served with a thin slice of lemon"?
* [[Nail'Em]]: Gettler attacks bond with a nail gun in the climax. It appears to have rapid fire function.
* [[The Name Is Bond, James Bond]]
* [[Never Bring a Knife to A Fist Fight]]: Bond can handle the guy with a machete.
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]
* [[Parking Payback]]
* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]
* [[Product Placement]]
** Also, Vesper brings up James's watch when evaluating his personality, which he corrects her Rolex guess to Omega. The marketing for the film also included Omega ads involving Bond.
* [[Race Lift]]
* [[Railing Kill]]: Bond throws a bodyguard over a stairwell railing before fighting Obanno.
* [[Rated "M" for Manly]]
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* [[Rewind, Replay, Repeat]]: Bond checks the security tapes at the Ocean Club.
* [[Road Trip Across the Street]]
* [[Rule of Cool]]
** Nearly mathematically impossible, yes, but ask any card player about their worst bad beat, and it'll sound [[Reality Is Unrealistic|almost exactly like Le Chiffre's]]. The odds of quad aces losing a hand are effectively zero, and yet it happens.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: [[California Doubling|Southern Europe]] is ''gorgeous''.
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* [[Shirtless Scene]]: [[Stupid Sexy Flanders|Oh, yeah.]]
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: It sure took a long time for Bond and Vesper to go to Italy just for {{spoiler|her to betray him and die.}}
* [[Shower of Angst]]
* [[Show Some Leg]]
* [[Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb]]
* [[Staggered Zoom]]
* [[Tampering with Food and Drink]]: {{spoiler|Bond gets poisoned and has to defib himself. Ouch.}}
▲* [[The Stoic]] - James Bond, as mentioned above.
* [[Theme Music Withholding]]: Done so very well.
* [[These Hands Have Killed]]: Vesper goes through this during her [[Shower of Angst]], after she's involved with Bond's confrontation with the African warlords.
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* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: Not really, but [[Invoked Trope|invoked]] by Bond as part of being [[Defiant to the End]]. He asks Le Chiffre to scratch an itch for him.
{{quote|''[[Groin Attack|*thump*]] "Yeaaaaaargh!'' [[Casual Danger Dialogue|No! No! A little more to the right."]]}}
* [[To the Pain]]
** This also may be a [[Take That]] [[Mythology Gag]] referring to the fairly elaborate torture scenes from prior Bond movies, most notably the laser cutting table in ''[[Goldfinger]]''.
*** But that wasn't a torture scene in Goldfinger. He didn't expect him to talk, he expected him to DIE!
* [[Tragic Hero]]
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: The trailers for the film include ''the very last shot of the film'', with Bond in the [[Badass in a Nice Suit|very nice suit and vest]] while carrying a silenced submachine gun. They do leave out the context and the line that makes that scene so awesome though.
* [[Try and Follow]]
* [[Two Decades Behind]]: ''Definitely'' an example of [[Pandering to the Base]]. The recipe for the martini variant Bond names after Vesper Lynd is taken word-for-word from the novel. The problem is, Lillet stopped making one of its ingredients, Kina Lillet, in 1986, replacing it with a reformulated Lillet (''sans'' the quinine that gave it the "Kina" part of the name) called Lillet Blanc. But the film is set in the present-day, and mentions Kina Lillet by name. (This also shows up in ''[[Quantum of Solace]]''.)
* [[Viewers are Morons]]: Baccarat is changed to the more popular Texas Hold 'Em, which was enjoying a surge of popularity in mid-decade.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]
* [[Watch the Paint Job]]
** On the DVD extra featurette about how they performed the stunt, they felt it necessary to include a disclaimer noting the car was specially reinforced and [[Do Not Try This At Home]]. As if the average person who buys an Aston Martin's first impulse is to see how many times you can roll it . . . .
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?|What Happened to Felix Leiter Stepping In To Bring In Le Chiffre?]]
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Subverted. M gives Bond a severe chewing out for shooting the unarmed bombmaker and blowing up an embassy, but her main complaint is that he got caught on videotape doing it.
* [[Why We're Bummed Communism Fell]]
** It's also a [[Mythology Gag]]. When Judi Dench was first cast in the Bond universe, while chastising Brosnan!Bond about his trigger-happy nature, she refers to him as a "relic from the Cold War."
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]
* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]
* [[You Look Familiar]]
* [[You're Not My Type]]: In an exchange between Bond and Vesper.
{{quote|'''Bond:''' "Don't worry, you're not my type."
'''Vesper:''' "Smart?"
'''Bond:''' "Single." }}
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]
** {{spoiler|Again from the original novel, although the money isn't stolen there and Vesper's suicide is far more sudden.}}
== The 1967 film ==
* [[Americans Are Cowboys]]
* [[And Starring]]
* [[Anyone Can Die]]
* [[Backwards-Firing Gun]]
* [[Bizarritecture]]
* [[BLAM Episode]]
* [[Bonnie Scotland]]
* [[Cast as a Mask]]
* [[Celibate Hero]]
* [[Cover Drop]]
* [[Death by Adaptation]]
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]] / [[McLeaned]]
* [[Egocentric Team Naming]]: Once Sir James Bond becomes head of [[MI 6]] after the previous M gets offed, the very first thing he does is rename ALL his agents, male AND female, James Bond 007 as a ploy to confuse the enemy.
* [[Everyone Join the Party]]: In the finale, all Hell breaks loose when the [[Big Bad]]'s casino is invaded by Ransome and an army of secret agents (apparently) sent to assist James Bond, consisting of {{spoiler|a French-Foreign Legionnaire, George Raft playing himself, sterotypical Cowboys and Indians, chimpanzees, and even seals}}. And then everyone else in the casino joins in on the action. No one is safe, {{spoiler|especially when the whole casino explodes at the end, [[Kill Them All|killing everyone inside]]}}.
* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]
* [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]] and [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]]
** "Six of them went to a heavenly spot, the seventh one is going to a place where it's terribly hot."
* [[Follow That Car!]]
* [[Gainax Ending]]
* [[I Am Spartacus]]
* [[Instrument of Murder]]
* [[Karma Houdini]]
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* [[Mood Whiplash]]
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]
* [[Rule of Funny]]
* [[Take That]]
** Peter Sellers was fired midway through the shoot due to chronic absence and miscellaneous poor behavior, so the filmmakers making up for this by having his character {{spoiler|[[Dropped a Bridge on Him|shot to death]] [[Face Heel Turn|by the suddenly turncoat Vesper]]}} can be seen as this as well.
* [[Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup]]: 5 directors working on it wouldn't lead into good results.
* [[Villainous Rescue]]
* [[Who's Laughing Now?]]
* [[Your Makeup Is Running]]
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* [[Pretty in Mink]]
* {{spoiler|[[Spared by the Adaptation]]: Vesper and, possibly, Le Chiffre}}
* [[The Un-Reveal]]
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