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The 20th ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]'' film, starring [[Pierce Brosnan]] in his last appearance as the character (second to last if you count the surprisingly good, in-continuity video game ''[[James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing]]'', in which he does the voice-acting)
After Bond is captured during an operation in North Korea and subjected to 14 months of torture, he is exchanged for a high ranking "military official" (a.k.a. terrorist). This sets off a chain of events where Bond goes on a vendetta against said official.
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* [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier]]: Sort of. Graves' [[Cool Plane|modified Antonov An-124]] carries a helicopter aboard which Bond manages to launch out of it in mid-air.
* [[All Just a Dream]]: It's implied that the title sequence is a product of 007's mind as he is being tortured.
* [[Artistic Title]]: An ''extremely'' kinky version in the opening credits, where Bond is being tortured in the background while naked chicks made of ice, fire, and electricity are writhing around in the foreground. It veers into [[Nightmare Fuel]] territory with the implication that this is what Bond is hallucinating during the torture.
** Alternatively, he's focusing on one of his favorite things (the female form) and using the imagery to keep himself sane.
* [[Asshole Victim]]: The rude guy that Bond knocks out to get himself on the island.
* [[Beam Spam]]: Bond fights Mr. Kil in a room full of out-of-control laser beams.
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* [[Composite Character]]: Colonel Moon is a weird fusion of the literary version of Hugo Drax with Colonel Sun. In true ''Bond'' fashion, subtitles on the Region 2 DVD reveal his full name to be Tan-Sun Moon.
* [[Continuity Nod]]
** The gadgets in Q's lab.
*** This becomes [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] when you realize that these infamous Bond gadgets are in the station where MI6 keeps "discarded things". [[Casino Royale|The upcoming reboot]] proceeded to discard Bond's gadget schtick almost entirely.
** Jinx emerges from the water in the same manner -- and bikini -- as Honey Ryder from ''[[Dr. No]]''.
** Bond pretends to be an ornithologist, a nod to his origins as he was named after an ornithologist named James Bond.
** In the training sim, Bond refers to the virtual M's seemingly fatal wounding as "just a flesh wound." He makes this remark to John Cleese who said the same thing in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" after having all his limbs removed by king Arthur.
** According to the movie's IMDb page, this film--in honor of the franchise's fortieth--[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246460/trivia references every single other Bond film at least once] and several tips of the hat to the original novels.
* [[Continuity Snarl]]: Jinx is wounded in a swordfight early in the film, given a cut across the lower torso; in a later scene where she and Bond are starting to get intimate, there's no wound or scar there.
* [[Cool Car]]: ''Two'' of them. [[Vehicular Combat|They also fight]].
* [[Death by Looking Up]]
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* [[Irony]]: Bond being tortured by a beautiful Korean female officer. Take that you decadent Western womanizer!
* [[It's Personal]]: Bond desires very strongly to avenge himself on Zao.
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: In the epic swordfight between Bond and Gustav Graves, at one point Graves gets hold of a katana and promptly chops Bond's sabre in half with a single blow. Curiously, they both pass up katanas in favor of broadswords for the final duel.
* [[Kill Sat]]: The Icarus ([[Tempting Fate]] with that name much?)
* [[Kingpin in His Gym]]:
** Colonel Moon, whom we meet taking his Tae Kwon Do- frustrations out on a punching bag containing his anger therapist- that'll teach him to lecture Moon.
** [[Big Bad]] Gustav Graves also has some fun at a fencing club. {{spoiler|We later find that they're the same person.}}
* [[Kiss Me I Am Virtual]]: At the end of the movie, Moneypenny is caught experimenting with a pair of VR goggles...
* [[Magic Plastic Surgery]]: So magical it even allows you {{spoiler|to switch racial groups}}. Also apparently involves [[Lego Genetics]] as it's mentioned to be some form of "gene therapy."
* [[Majored in Western Hypocrisy]]: Colonel Moon, the [[Trope Namer]].
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* [[Sex Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Inverted -- Frost enjoys her night with Bond, but she's still prepared to shoot him dead the next day.}}
* [[Shoot the Hostage]]: Done by Bond in a virtual training scenario to save M, justifying it as being [[Only a Flesh Wound]].
* [[Snark
{{quote|'''Bond:''' Give me the old firing range anyday, Quartermaster.
'''Q:''' Yes well they call it the Future, so get used to it. ''(takes Bond into a museum of [[Call Back|Call Backs]])''
'''Bond:''' This where they keep the old relics, is it? }}
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: Said by Jinx to {{spoiler|Miranda}} during their fight.
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