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'''James Bond:''' ''[[Take Over the World|World domination.]] The same old dream. Our asylums are full of people who think they're Napoleon. Or God.'' }}

 

 

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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: Ian Fleming loved the movie so much that he made Bond Half-Scottish in honor of [[Sean Connery]]. He also gave Ursula Andress a cameo in his novel ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service''.

* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: Double-subverted. When Bond tries to escape his cell through the vent, he gets shocked when he touches the grill. However, he tries again by using his shoe to push it out and succeeds in escaping. As a nice touch, he experimentally taps the grill at the other end with his feet to make sure it isn't electrified.

** Also justified in the novel. It's designed to be a part of a [[Deadly Game]].

** And the reason it's so wide? It's not an air vent; it's a ''water'' vent, as Bond learns to his dismay.

* [[Antagonist Title]]

* [[Artificial Limbs]]: Dr. No's [[Robot Hand|Robot Hands]].

* [[Badass Boast]]: Pussfeller gives one when Leiter introduces him to Bond.

* [[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]: Bond's driver.

* [[Big Red Button]]: The large wheel that Bond turns to set the reactor to danger level.

* [[Bond One-Liner]]: "What happened?" "I think they were on their way to a funeral!"

* [[Clipboard of Authority]]: The sheaf of papers Bond picks up while infiltrating the reactor room.

* [[Creepy Centipedes]]: A poisonous centipede is used in an attempt to kill Bond in the novel. [[Did Not Do the Research|Never mind that their poison is almost harmless to humans.]]

* [[Cyanide Pill]]: A henchman uses a suicide cigarette.

** Subverted in the book - she was tied up with the threat of being eaten by a swarm of crabs. She knew the crabs were harmless, and let them swarm over her; her distressed attitude was over what would happen to Bond.

* [[Decontamination Chamber]]: Used to cleanse Bond and Ursula of radiation. Ursula wears a [[Nude-Colored Clothes|flesh-colored towel]] in an [[Special Effects Failure|ineffectual attempt]] to convince the audience [[Fan Service|she is nude]].

* [[The Dragon]]: Professor Dent to Dr. No.

* [[Handy Cuffs]]: When Bond is captured by the crew of Dr. No's "dragon".

* [[Hazmat Suit]]: Dr. No's radiation suit.

* [[Just Between You and Me]]: A not too blatant example, since the US had worked out before the events of the film that their rockets were being toppled; they just didn't know who the culprit was, and Bond works out by himself that Dr. No is responsible. However, Dr. No also freely gives away the existence of SPECTRE, who Bond and, presumably, [[MI 6]] had been totally ignorant of until that point. In fairness, he only told him because he was trying to recruit him, and Russia and China definitely know because they keep doing business with them (No is on a mission for SPECTRE, but it is strongly implied that they were hired by Red China; No even has an army of Chinese henchmen), so its not so bad if half the world knows anyway.

* [[Let's You and Him Fight]]: Bond and Quarrel, who's working with CIA agent Felix Leiter.

* [[Mauve Shirt]]: Quarrel. Killed by a flamethrower tank painted to look like a dragon.

* [[Mexican Standoff]]: With Professor Dent.

** Their explanation differs between book and film. In the book, his hands were cut off by the Tong; in the film, they were damaged in his radiation experiments.

* [[Reed Snorkel]]: Used by Bond, Quarrel and Honey Rider to avoid Dr. No's guards.

* [[Sleeping Dummy]]: Bond uses several pillows under the covers of his bed.

* [[Spiteful Spit]]: Miss Taro to Bond after he has her arrested.

* [[Token Trio]]: Bond, Honey and Quarrel on their journey through Crab Key.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Since it's Bond's first movie, the [[Leitmotif]] is used for everything, including arriving at the airport and driving by the coast.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]] A bit of irony: Bond does this with Honey when she describes how she murdered a man who raped her by putting a black widow spider in his bed, causing him to die over the course of a week. "I wouldn't make a habit of it" he says, shocked. But later, after Bond somewhat unnecessarily stabs one of Dr. No's men to death, Honey acts shocked and asks why he had to kill the man.

* [[Why We Can't Have Nice Things]]: Averted and lampshaded.

* [[Yellow Peril]]: Dr. No, though he's only half-Chinese.

 

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[[Category:Films of the 1960s]]