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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]] -: Fails when a guard spots Bond's earpiece.
* [[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]] -: When Dryden is shot, there's a brief shot of him with his family, emphasizing the fact that no matter how you paint him, Bond is a killer.
* [[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]] -: Somewhat reversed, in that the hero is the one taking the hostage. Subverted ''again'' in that {{spoiler|when the eye-patched villain tries to take Vesper hostage, Bond doesn't care what happens to her, because he thinks she's a double agent.}}
* [[Image Song]] -: Chris Cornell's "You Know My Name", which also has cues in the score to act as the [[Leitmotif]] before the final scene.
* [[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]] -: Bond climbing out of the ocean. Many jaws dropped.
** For the more traditional fanservice: Why is that woman in a bathing suit riding a horse on a beach?
* [[Meaningful Echo]] -: "Money isn't as important as knowing who to trust": What Le Chiffre says to Dimitiros when he reminds him what's important in their organization {{spoiler|and also the last sentence he hears before a SMERSH/QUANTUM agent kills him.}}
* [[Misplaced Wildlife]] -: An early scene has people watching a fight between a mongoose and a cobra... except the mongoose is actually a ferret.
* [[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]] -: Vesper's introduction to Bond references Miss Moneypenny, who does not appear in the film. Later in the film, a bartender asks him whether he prefers his martini shaken or stirred, but Bond is too frustrated at the moment to care and snaps, "Do I look like I give a damn?"
** 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]] -: Avoided until the last scene. Complete with the [[Leitmotif]].
* [[Never Bring a Knife to A Fist Fight]]: Bond can handle the guy with a machete.
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]] -: You see Bond kissing Vesper in the sea in the poster up there? The scene, which also appears in the trailer, is not in the movie.
* [[Parking Payback]] -: Bond is mistaken for a member of the resort staff and ordered by a guest (with extreme condescension) to park his car. He does so -- by backing it forcefully into a parking barrier, setting off many car alarms. This is not just for kicks and giggles; it's a handy distraction as well so Bond can get a good look at the hotel's security footage. Gets a [[Brick Joke]] when the guest spots Bond later that night, double-taking in surprise.
* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]] -: While obviously more well-known and popular, Texas Hold-Em is also far more of a psychological warfare game than Baccarat.
* [[Product Placement]] -: Lots, especially for Sony. The most bizarre one has to be the hotel that stores its surveillance camera footage on Blu-ray discs...
** 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]] -: Felix Leiter (a blond Texan in the novels) is black in this movie and in ''[[Quantum of Solace]]'' (played by Jeffrey Wright). Incidentally, before Wright the actor playing Leiter had [[The Other Darrin|changed with every film]]; only one actor (David Hedison) had ever reprised the role, and his two appearances were non-consecutive and 16 years apart. (There was a black Leiter prior to Wright: Bernie Casey in the non-canonical ''[[Never Say Never Again]]''.)
* [[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]] -: {{spoiler|Bond wins the card game, against master poker players, not by outplaying them or by some great strategy, but because he gets a straight flush at the exact right moment in the ideal situation, where everyone else stays in because they all happen to have hands that are near impossible to beat (as opposed to folding when they realize Bond probably has a good hand, which would be the typical outcome), which has even more ridiculous odds. The only reason the audience does not question what is nearly mathematically impossible is that Bond getting a straight flush is flippin' 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]] -: [[Heroic BSOD|Vesper takes one fully clothed]] while Bond tries to comfort her.
* [[Show Some Leg]] -: To give Bond an advantage in the poker game, he gets Vesper a very low-cut dress. It backfires somewhat - Bond ends up [[Distracted by the Sexy|just as distracted]], especially since Vesper intentionally ignores his instruction to walk up behind him and instead approaches from the other side of the table so that he can see her coming.
* [[Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb]]
* [[Staggered Zoom]] -: At the start of the airport chase sequence.
* [[The Stoic]] -: James Bond, as mentioned above.▼
* [[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]] -: "You know, I never understood all these elaborate tortures. It's the simplest thing... to cause more pain than a man can possibly endure." (then comes the Groin Attack mentioned above)
** 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]] -: The novel is written basically as a tragedy, showing Bond's downward spiral of failure and futility. As a spy, he's clearly in over his head and only succeeds in a technical sense through sheer luck and outside intervention. It's only after he loses everything, including Vesper, that he embraces his profession as a super-spy.
* [[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]] -: Bond chasing after the bomber.
* [[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]] -: Le Chiffre's "''You!'' Are '''SO''' ''WRONG!!''"
* [[Watch the Paint Job]] -: The effects crew managed to rotate Bond's Aston Martin ''7 times'' for the scene where it's totaled. Makes any car fan weep, and it set a world record in the process.
** 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]] -: "Christ, I miss the [[Cold War]]." (Consider too that this is the first Bond film explicitly set after 9/11 and world politics in [[Hollywood History]] terms is much more complex.)
** 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]] -: Things take a sharp turn for the confusing after Bond and Vesper are rescued following the card game.
* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]] -: {{spoiler|Bond, [[Happily Married]]? A beautiful dream, not gonna happen. Especially since it ended badly [[On Her Majesty's Secret Service|the last time it happened]].}}
* [[You Look Familiar]] -: Poker game participant Madame Wu is played by Tsai Chin, who also played the Chinese girl Bond bedded at the beginning of ''[[You Only Live Twice]]''.
* [[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]] -: [[The Big Bad]] has been defeated, Vesper and Bond do it, all is good... {{spoiler|Vesper suddenly steals 120 million dollars to pay for her fiancé's ransom. And dies.}}
** {{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]] -: The American army is apparently composed of cowboys and Indians.
* [[And Starring]] -: Terence Cooper and Barbara Bouchet are credited as co-stars, but right before them, George Raft and Jean Paul Belmondo are featured in the secondary cast with no special words around their names despite making a very minor appearance at the climax.
* [[Anyone Can Die]] -: It's the only movie where James Bond dies. {{spoiler|All eight of them. Many at the same time.}}
* [[Backwards-Firing Gun]]
* [[Bizarritecture]]-: East Berlin
* [[BLAM Episode]]-: If there was one film that could be called a Big Lipped Alligator movie this is it
* [[Bonnie Scotland]] -: Much of the film's first section takes place here.
* [[Cast as a Mask]] -: Dr. Noah is pretty much a spoof of this trope.
* [[Celibate Hero]] -: Niven's Bond, following having to double-cross the love of his life, Mata Hari (yes, ''that'' Mata Hari), and have her executed. And then he kisses Moneypenny's daughter. Yeah.
* [[Cover Drop]] -: During the opening credits, you may have noticed the images of explosions and several characters as angels. These will make sense at the very end.
* [[Death by Adaptation]] -: {{spoiler|James Bond himself!}}
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]] / [[McLeaned]] -: {{spoiler|Evelyn Tremble's death, because Peter Sellers quit/was fired from the film.}}
* [[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]] -: {{spoiler|A chimp shows up in the big fight climax.}}
* [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]] and [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]] -: Spoofed in the final scene.
** "Six of them went to a heavenly spot, the seventh one is going to a place where it's terribly hot."
* [[Follow That Car!]] -: Spoofed.
* [[Gainax Ending]]
* [[I Am Spartacus]]-: The original Bond gives orders that all agents are to be James Bond, 007.
* [[Instrument of Murder]] -: Ursula Andress uses the old machine-gun-in-the-bagpipes trick.
* [[Karma Houdini]] -: {{spoiler|Vesper Lynd betrayed [[MI 6]] in the end but, unlike Jimmy Bond, actually makes it to Heaven with the other James Bonds ''and stays there.''}}
* {{spoiler|[[Kill'Em All]]: Played for laughs.}}
* [[Mood Whiplash]] -: When Vesper Lynd recruits Evelyn Tremble, the film suddenly becomes considerably less wacky, though still heavy on comic [[Double Entendre]]; it's where "The Look of Love" comes in - after 40+ minutes of slapstick. Indeed, most of [[Peter Sellers]]' scenes come as this compared to the rest of the film, in part because he plays his role mostly straight.
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]] -: The increasingly zany nature of the film and its production was largely compensating for Sellers being fired before all his material was shot. How zany did things get? In the end, each segment of the movie was filmed by a different director, making it seem absurdly disjointed.
* [[Rule of Funny]] -: About the only reason for all the stuff that happens in the climactic fight.
* [[Take That]] -: Niven's Bond calls [[Sean Connery]]'s Bond a sex maniac who dragged the James Bond name through the dirt, and takes his fellow spies to task for relying on gadgets.
** 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]]-: {{spoiler|Mr. White interrupting Bond's torture to kill Le Chiffre.}}
* [[Who's Laughing Now?]] - : {{spoiler|Jimmy Bond is the [[Big Bad]], intending to conquer the world as revenge against his famous, and infinitely more stylish and sophisticated, uncle.}}
* [[Your Makeup Is Running]]
 
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* [[Pretty in Mink]]
* {{spoiler|[[Spared by the Adaptation]]: Vesper and, possibly, Le Chiffre}}
* [[The Un-Reveal]] -: Chiffre is shown groping for his hat -- then the show ends. It had previously been mentioned that he kept a razor hidden there.
 
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