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[[File:goldeneye.jpg|framethumb|350px| [[The Other Darrin|No substitutes?]]]]
 
The first ''[[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]]'' film after [[Development Hell|a six-year hiatus]] following ''[[Licence to Kill (Film)|Licence to Kill]]'', the first done after the end of the [[Cold War]] and the first to star [[Pierce Brosnan]]. For many younger people, this was the first James Bond film they've seen in a theater. His Bond Girls included heroine and computer programmer Natalya Simonova (Izabella Scorupco) and villainous assassin Xenia Onatopp ([[Famke Janssen]]).
 
In this film, someone steals the control disc for a pair of [[Kill Sat|satellites that go boom]]. Bond is sent to St. Petersburg to investigate and has to fight a former comrade who was [[Left for Dead]] after a mission to infiltrate and destroy a Soviet military facility went wrong. Particularly memorable for the chase scene where Bond goes after one of the bad guys ''[[Tank Goodness|in a tank]]''.
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Bonus confusion: the fiction film ''GoldenEye'' should not be confused with the documentary film ''Golden Eye'', which is about the aforementioned house in Jamaica. Especially not if you're a British newspaper giving away the latter on DVD bundled with the paper itself, and supporting said offer with a TV advertising campaign, ''Daily Mail''. It tends to get you shouted at by the advertising regulator.
 
[[GoldenGoldenEye Eye007 (1997 (Videovideo Gamegame)|Click here]] for the [[Nintendo 64]] video game adaptation, or [[GoldenGoldenEye Eye Wii007 (Video2010 Gamevideo game)|click here]] for the [[Nintendo Wii]] remake.
 
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* [[Actually Pretty Funny]]: Q can't help but laugh at Bond's "writing's on the wall" joke.
* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: Subverted. Xenia shoots the vent when she sees that the cover has been pushed out of place, but {{spoiler|[[Kansas City Shuffle|Natalya is hidden in a cupboard]].}}
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* [[Always Save the Girl]]: {{spoiler|Bond chooses to save Natalya rather than shoot Janus.}}
* [[Analogy Backfire]]: "Shut the door, Alec. There's a draft."
* [[Anti-Villain]]: Janus/Alec set up his elaborate scheme in order to {{spoiler|get revenge against the British government for his parents' death.}}
** Not really actually, see [[Disproportionate Retribution]] below.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]
{{quote| '''Q''': Need I remind you, 007, that you have a license to kill, ''not'' [[Drives Like Crazy|to break traffic laws]].}}
* [[Artistic Title]]: Cue naked female forms, fire, explosions, strange hammers, gun barrels, pistols, smoke, and stuff about Russia when it was communist for this opening credit.
* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]]: After receiving an epic [[Reason You Suck Speech]], M still says to Bond before he leaves for Russia, "007, [[Try Not to Die|Come back alive]]."
* [[Big Bad]]: Janus
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* [[Bookshelf Dominoes]]: Bond and Natalya push over a row of bookshelves to block a door.
* [[Boring Insult]]: Bond uses this on Janus to describe the villain's grand plan. What makes this especially hilarious is the look Boris gives Janus after the exchange.
{{quote| '''Bond''': You break into the Bank of England via computer, then transfer the money electronically, seconds before you set off the Goldeneye, which erases any record of the transactions. Ingenious.<br />
'''Janus''': Thank you, James.<br />
'''Bond''': But it still boils down to petty theft. In the end, you're just a bank robber. Nothing more than a common thief. }}
* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: Just ''how long'' is Xenia standing there massacring those programmers on a single magazine? And how long can Bond fire an AK-74 before reloading?
** Attempted to be [[Averted Trope]] by showing Bond [[Throw-Away Guns|pick up new AK-74s as he goes.]]
* [[Bowdlerise]]: A small amount of content, mostly fight footage, was cut so the film could be released in British cinemas with [[Media Classifications|a 12 rather than a 15]] following the lackluster commercial success of the 15-rated ''[[Licence to Kill (Film)|Licence to Kill]]'' - an uncut DVD edition was later released.
* [[Brick Joke]]
** There's lines between Xenia and Bond in their encounters about the 'pleasure being all theirs' - first after the Casino, where Bond says it, next after the sauna, in which it's more cynically given to Bond by Xenia - ''despite her actually [[Orgasmic Combat|having an orgasm]] during the sauna scene and [[Combat Sadomasochist|clearly enjoying herself]]'' - and finally in the jungles of Cuba, where she beats on Bond and pretty much demands that the pleasure will be all hers.
** And Boris' Catchphrase 'I am Invincible!', which he deploys toward the film's end after declaring it earlier on. {{spoiler|[[Kill It Withwith Ice|It doesn't end well for him]].}}
* [[Call Back]]: Boris' situation at the end mirrors Natalya's one earlier, as he survives a destruction of a satellite control station and ends up in something cold.
* [[Camping a Crapper]]: Bond knocks out a guard in a men's room.
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** Q explaining how his gadgets work. In particular, when Q explains how the belt grappling hook works, and Bond asks "What if I need additional support?" to which Q replies, "It's tested for one." which becomes prominent later when, while preparing to use it, {{spoiler|he has Natalya with him and can't use it for both of them. Then she falls through the floor and is captured, thus solving that part of the problem.}}
** Valentin explaining Bond about the Lienz Cossacks. {{spoiler|Bond will reveal it (Alec being a Lienz Cossack) to Ourumov during the train scene. Obviously, Alec betrays Ourumov like the Lienz Cossacks did with the Russians in WWII.}}
{{quote| '''Bond''': Ourumov, what has this Cossack promised you? You knew, didn't you? ''He's a Lienz Cossack''.<br />
'''Janus''': It's in the past...<br />
'''Bond''': He'll ''betray'' you! Just like everyone else.<br />
'''Ourumov''': Is this true?<br />
'''Janus''': What's true is that in 48 hours you and I will have [[Blasphemous Boast|more money than God]]... }}
** Wade telling Bond that if he needs help, to get on the horn, and Wade will send in the Marines.
* [[Collapsing Lair]]: Janus's base in Cuba. {{spoiler|First, the pen grenade combined with the oil leak tear the base apart, then it becomes even worse when the antenna falls on the dish, the wreckage perforates the ceiling and it invades the underground base. Complete destruction.}}
* [[CompletelyComically Missing the Point]]: Mishkin pretends to be interrogating Bond, but Natalya Simonova is his real target. Bond even suffers a [[Take That]] one-liner from Mishkin after Simonova spills the beans.
* [[Comic Book Time]]: The first Bond film to really avert this. While previous films in the series had made mention of incidents in other films, this is the first where a serious jump in time occurs with nine years passing in between the pre-title scenes and the rest of the film. Emphasis is placed on the fact that the scenes before the title sequence took place during the [[Cold War]] and that it's over now.
* [[Completely Missing the Point]]: Mishkin pretends to be interrogating Bond, but Natalya Simonova is his real target. Bond even suffers a [[Take That]] one-liner from Mishkin after Simonova spills the beans.
* [[Complexity Addiction]]: This is a [[James Bond]] movie after all. However, unlike most movies in the series this one has a justification.
** Janus puts Bond in a helicopter that's about to blow itself up, which he escapes from. Justified, since Janus's goal in doing this wasn't to kill Bond in the explosion (he was pretty sure Bond would get out of it), but to incriminate him for crimes Janus had committed against the Russians with that very helicopter. When the Russians show up after the explosion and find Bond with the wreckage, they assume the worst and take him into custody.
*** It's played straight when Janus tries to kill Bond in the train car rigged to explode in {{spoiler|"[[Ironic Echo|The same six minutes you gave me]]."}} feeling the need to give Bond a [[Karmic Death]], and of course, it's just enough time for Bond to escape. There was no reason Janus couldn't have set the timers just long enough for his chopper to get clear or have used explosives that could be detonated by remote or simply not told Bond about them.
** This gets a [[Lampshade Hanging]] by Bond when he's being interrogated by Mishkin.
{{quote| '''Mishkin''': So, by what means shall we execute you, Commander?<br />
'''Bond''': What? [[Bond Villain Stupidity|No small talk? No chit chat?]] See, that's the problem with the world these days; nobody takes the time to do a really sinister interrogation anymore. }}
** Bond himself does it. When asked by Valentin why Bond just shot him the leg and didn't kill him, Bond replies, "Call it professional courtesy."
* [[Concert Kiss]]: It's a [[James Bond]] movie after all. {{spoiler|At the end of the film, while making out, and thinking they're alone, Natalya asks, "Suppose someone is watching?" to which Bond replies, "There's no one within 25 miles of here." Then Wade suddenly appears, and Bond and Natalya are a little embarrassed but thinking it's not too bad, Wade suddenly calls out a command, [[Brick Joke|to which dozens of Marines]], right in the area where Bond and Natalya were making out, blended in with the ground by camouflage, suddenly appear.}}
* [[Cool Train]]: Janus's missile train base.
* [[CowboyMedia BebopResearch At His ComputerFailure]]: Part of the St. Petersburg tank chase was filmed on site. They faked all of the relevant statutes and treasures and smashed replicas on a UK Backlot, but that didn't stop a few breathless "They're destroying our art!" newscasts in Russia.
* [[Creepy Cathedral]]: Where Natalya goes to meet Boris and {{spoiler|gets kidnapped by Janus}}.
* [[Cut the Juice]]: The Goldeneye does this by ''destroying everything electronic'' in its blast. It's essentially the [[Kill Sat]] version of an EMP.
* [[Cyberpunk]]: Arguably, seeing as the film was made when the Internet was only young and computing was really beginning to take off. This can be seen in Boris being a wizard '[[Hollywood Hacking|hacker]]' as well as Natalya demanding to use several IBMs with jargon-infused specifications at a computer shop.
* [[Death Byby Looking Up]]
** Subverted by Natalya in Severnaya when the set of computer screens falling from the ceiling stop right above her.
** {{spoiler|Janus, when he lands in the drained reservoir and the cradle falls right on top of him}}.
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* [[Doomed Love Interest]]: Janus asks Bond "if you've found forgiveness in the arms of [[The Casanova|all those willing women]] for all the dead ones you failed to protect."
* [[Double Entendre]]: Boris' passwords. "They're right in front of you, and can open very large doors." {{spoiler|Knockers.}} [[Chekhov's Gun|This becomes a plot point later]], when Natalya is trying to crack one with a string of Double Entendres, but the answer is actually innocuous. "You sit on it, but can't take it with you." {{spoiler|Chair.}}
** And of course it wouldn't be a Bond film without 007 using them.
*** "As you can see, I have no problem with female authority."
*** "Let's drink to your evaluation. A very... thorough evaluation."
* [[Drink Order]]: When Bond and Xenia are in the casino, Bond orders his usual [[Trademark Favorite Food|vodka martini, shaken not stirred]], and Xenia orders the same, resulting in this exchange.
{{quote| '''Bond''': How do you take it?<br />
'''Xenia''': [[Double Entendre|Straight up, with a twist.]] }}
* [[Dueling Hackers]]: Boris' favorite pastime.
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* [[Empty Quiver]]: The entire plot is set off by the theft of the ''Goldeneye'' weapon. (It's a nuclear warhead in orbit, designed to shoot a concentrated EMP at a single target when detonated, rather than making a burst that destroys everything in range of the blast.)
* [[Enemy Mine]]: Bond gets Valentin to help him by using their common enemy in Janus.
{{quote| '''Valentin''': He wants ''me'' to do him a favor!}}
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Xenia's orgasmic massacre of the Severnaya satellite control center's staff shocks even General Ourumov, albeit briefly.
** Ourumov is also taken aback to learn that {{spoiler|Janus is a Lienz Cossack, and therefore a traitor}}.
* [[Every Man Has His Price]]: Wouldn't be Bond without him using money to deal with at least one situation; in this case, getting Valentin to set up a meeting between Bond and Janus.
{{quote| '''Wade''': So let me get this straight. Jimmy; you shot him in the leg, you stole his car, [[The Casanova|you took his girl]], and now you want Valentin Zukovsky to set you up with Janus? What are you gonna do? Appeal to his heart?<br />
'''Bond''': No, his wallet. }}
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Janus, the renegade 00 agent.
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* [["Friend or Idol?" Decision]]: "So, what's the choice James? Two targets; time enough for one shot: the girl or the mission?"
* [[Funny Background Event]]: The airbag-equipped phone booth (twice!) and the car airbag in Q's workshop.
* [[Gallows Humor]]:
** When Q demonstrates the pen-grenade to Bond, by sticking it in a suit-clad dummy's pocket and running. After the explosion:
{{quote| '''Q''': Don't say it...<br />
'''Bond''': ...the writing's on the wall?<br />
'''Q''': Along with all the rest of him! ''(laughs)'' }}
** When Wade is dropping Bond off at Valentin's lounge:
{{quote| '''Bond''': Are you sure you wanna do this? The last guy who dropped in their uninvited went home air freight [[Deadly Euphemism|in very small boxes]].<br />
'''Bond''': Make sure they send me home first class }}
** When Bond is being interrogated by Mishkin.
{{quote| '''Mishkin''': So, by what means shall we execute you, Commander?<br />
'''Bond''': What? [[Bond Villain Stupidity|No small talk? No chit chat?]] See, that's the problem with the world these days; nobody takes the time to do a really sinister interrogation anymore. }}
* [[Gender Flip]]: Judi Dench becomes the first female M in the series.
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** Ouromov isn't concerned when one of the [[Not Quite Dead]] Severnaya programmers hits the alarm, as he knows the best response time in 19 minutes.
** Bond knows there must have been [[The Mole|an insider]] in the Goldeneye theft.
{{quote| '''Bond''': I know the Russian fail safe system. You don't just walk in and ask for the keys to the bomb. You need the access codes."}}
** Janus at a few points. Justified as {{spoiler|1=he's a former MI6 agent}}.
*** He knows that Bond won't shoot him in the statue park when Bond points a gun at him.
{{quote| '''Janus''': Oh, please, James, put it away. It's insulting to think I haven't anticipated your every move.}}
*** When Bond asks him where Natalya is, he replies, "[[The Casanova|Ah, yes, your fatal weakness]]."
*** He asks Bond if "[[The Alcoholic|All those]] [[Trademark Favorite Food|vodka martinis]] [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|silence the screams]] of all the men you've killed, or if you've found forgiveness in the arms of [[The Casanova|all those willing women]] for all the [[Doomed Love Interest|dead ones you failed to protect]]."
*** He knows to check Bond's detonator watch in Cuba in order to deactivate the explosives Bond has planted.
{{quote| '''Janus''': The watch. So, how is old Q? Up to his usual tricks? A new model. Still press here, do I?}}
* [[Girl of the Week]]: Lampshaded. Natalya becomes angry at Bond for treating her like this. ([[Status Quo Is God|Not that it stops it from occurring]]).
** Minor gender inversion; Xenia seems to treat Bond in this way, albeit in her unique fashion.
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* [[Gunship Rescue]]: Janus tries to call one in to get rid of Bond while on top of the transmitter.
* [[Handicapped Badass]]: Played with in the scene in Q branch. Bond encounters Q in a wheelchair with his leg in a cast. However, it's just one of his gadgets; a concealed rocket launcher.
{{quote| '''Bond''': Good morning, Q. Sorry about the leg. Skiing?<br />
'''Q''': (fires a rocket out of the cast and blows up a target) [[Badass Boast|Hunting]]. }}
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Janus to Bond, on multiple occasions.
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* [[High Altitude Battle]]: The final fight between Bond and Janus on top of the transmitter dish.
* [[High Concept]]: In-universe, Bond describes Janus's plan as just "petty theft" and Janus as a "common thief".
* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: Not an entirely straight example, but {{spoiler|Janus being crushed by the transmitter dish certainly counts}}.
* [[Hollywood Hacking]]: Like you wouldn't believe. Still, it was 1995, and some of it can be attributed to [[Technology Marches On]].
* [[Hollywood Tone Deaf]] / [[Irony Asas She Is Cast]]: Irina, Valentin's mistress, played by Minnie Driver, absolutely massacres "Stand By Your Man", which is funny considering Driver is actually a very good vocalist. Then again, it must take talent to sound like you're "strangling a cat", as Bond put it.
* [[Hope Spot]]: After "Cuban Severnaya" explodes, Boris survives and [[Tempting Fate|yells]] "[[Nothing Can Stop Us Now|I AM INVINCIBLE!]]". {{spoiler|Then vats of liquid nitrogen explode and freeze him.}}
* [[Human Shield]]: Ouromov uses Natalya as one.
* [[If I Wanted XIX, I Would Y]]: M putting down Tanner's "Queen of Numbers" quip by saying if she wanted sarcasm she could get it from her children.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]
** Natalya's reaction to Boris's [[Double Entendre|dirty jokes]].
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* [[Ironic Echo]]
** "For England." This line is used by Alec on his and Bond's mission in Archangelesk when they say it to each other. It's first repeated a few minutes later as a [[Meaningful Echo]] right before {{spoiler|Alec is shot by Ourumov}}, but it then becomes an ironic echo twice. The first time is after {{spoiler|Alec reveals himself as Janus}} and {{spoiler|has Bond shot with a knock out dart}}. The second is right before {{spoiler|Bond kills him by dropping him to his death}}. This time Janus asks it to Bond, which enables Bond to {{spoiler|turn it into a [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]}}.
{{quote| '''Janus''': For England, James?<br />
'''Bond''': No. For me. }}
** "Set timers. Six minutes." During the Archangelsk mission Alec tells Bond to set the explosives on the gas tanks for six minutes, but when Alec is captured, Bond changes the timers to three minutes. Later, when Bond and Natalya are trapped on Janus's train base, which he's rigged to explode, he comes over the speaker and says "Good luck with the floor, James. {{spoiler|I set the timers for six minutes. The same six minutes that you gave me}}. [[Karmic Death|It was the least I could do for a friend]]."
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** Janus [[Complexity Addiction|attempts to kill Bond in this manner]] {{spoiler|by [[Ironic Echo|giving Bond the same six minutes that Bond gave to him]].}}
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Ouromov's moment is in the chemical plant when he shoots a Soviet soldier who gets nervous and fires on Bond using chemical tanks as cover after Ouromov orders the soldiers not to.
** Possibly Justified, as Ouromov is worried that the resulting explosion/chemical leak will kill them all.
* [[Kill It Withwith Ice]]: {{spoiler|What happens to Boris}}.
* [[Kill'Em All]]: Xenia at Severnaya.
* [[Kill Sat]]: The weapon GoldenEye itself.
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** [[Alan Cumming]] as Boris "I AM EENVEEEENCEEBULLL" Grishenko
** [[Famke Janssen]] also has great hammy fun as Xenia.
* [[Leaning Onon the Fourth Wall]]: While Natalya and James are making out, Natalya says, "[[Concert Kiss|Suppose someone is watching]]?" Then {{spoiler|Wade, two dozen marines, and three helicopters emerge from cover}}.
* [[Leave No Witnesses]]: After acquiring the Goldeneye key, Ouromov has Xenia kill the Severanya facility's entire staff.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Pierce Brosnan was a considerably less serious Bond, using much more humor than his predecessor, Timothy Dalton.
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* [[Not the Fall That Kills You]]: Played with, Alec survives the fall from the antenna, but it crushes him a minute later, killing him before the audience knows if the fall was fatal.
* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]: Defense Minister Mishkin thinks this is the case with the Goldeneye, but he is oh so wrong.
* [[Obsession Song]] / [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]]: "You'll never know/how I watched you from the shadows as a child..." Tina Turner's [[Thematic Theme Tune]], written by [[U 2U2|Bono and The Edge]], has some pretty stalkerrific lyrics.
* [[Oh Crap]]
** Bond when he sees Alec being held at gunpoint by Ouromov.
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** Ouromov again when he sees the tank crash through the wall. The novelization expands on this and adds the fact that Ouromov is a [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|veteran]] of the Soviet-Afghan War and had a bad experience with a tank.
** Boris after receiving the message on his computer telling him the transmitter dish is malfunctioning.
* [[Old Soldier]]:
** Bond, which is part of M's [[Reason You Suck Speech|verbal beatdown]] of him when she refers to him as "A relic of the [[Cold War]]".
** Valentin is both one himself, being an ex-KGB agent, and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this about Bond when he asks Bond, "So, still working for MI6 or have you finally decided to join the 21st century?"
** Ouromov as well.
* [[Outrun the Fireball]]: Done by Natalya after the Goldeneye fires on Severnaya. Later by Bond and Natalya in Janus's base in Cuba after {{spoiler|Boris unknowingly triggers Q's pen grenade, destroying a ton of the base}}.
* [[Out Withwith a Bang]]: Xenia only feels pleasure when killing people, and does it [[Death Byby Sex|while having sex]]. This results in {{spoiler|a [[Karmic Death]] for her}}. Shooting people is probably Xenia's method of masturbation.
* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]: Valentin's description of the fate of the Lienz-Cossacks, despite the collateral damage, is as "Still, ruthless people. They got what they deserved."
** Janus views his actions with the Goldeneye satellite as this.
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* [[Precocious Crush]]: The film's title song makes mention of this, with the lyrics, "You'll never know how I watched your from the shadows as a child."
* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]: Wouldn't be Bond without them.
{{quote| '''Helicopter Pilot''': I think I've gone to [[Heaven]].<br />
'''Xenia''': [[Analogy Backfire|Not yet]]. (Then shoots the pilots).<br />
 
[[spoiler:'''Janus''': For England, James?<br />
{{spoiler|'''BondJanus''': No. For me.]]England, }}James?
'''Bond''': No. For me.}} }}
* [[Product Placement]]: Bond's BMW. It is a [[James Bond]] movie after all.
** Also, the Perrier truck.
* [[Punny Name]]: This is a [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]] movie after all, so at least one of the girls has one. Xenia definitely likes to be Onatopp. This is the same franchise that brought us [[Goldfinger (Film)|Pussy Galore]], after all.
** This works even better in the German version, where Bond butchers her name into "Ohne Top" (Topless).
* [[Railing Kill]]
* [[Ramming Always Works]]: Janus attempts this when Bond parks his tank on the track that Janus's train base is heading towards. Janus orders the train to go to full speed to ram Bond. It might have worked if {{spoiler|Bond hadn't fired the tank's main gun at the train, derailing it}}. Xenia is, of course, entirely too excited by this turn of events.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]
** Judi Dench's new M verbally dismantles the new Bond in the first third of the movie. As Bond's first female boss in the series, and as a female considerably older than Bond, M takes the [[Broken Base]] [[Audience Surrogate]] [[Up to Eleven]] by telling him exactly what she thinks of him as a "sexist, misogynist dinosaur" and "a relic of the Cold War". This may be exactly what some viewers thought when the movie premiered, because of world events in between this film and the last one, 1989's ''[[Licence to Kill (Film)|Licence to Kill]]''. As in, "this is ANOTHER James Bond movie?"
** Bond also gets one from Janus in the statue park.
* [[Red Scare]]: Subverted. Ourumov looks like he's trying to revive the Soviet Union with himself at the head. However, he's only trying to make money by assisting Janus's real plan.
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* [[Shoe Phone]]: Played straight (explosive pen) and parodied ("Don't touch that! That's my lunch!").
* [[Sociopathic Soldier]]: Xenia fits the soldier part by being an ex-Soviet fighter pilot, and the sociopath part is made very evident throughout the movie.
* [[So, You Were Saying?]]:
** Said by M to Tanner after he describes her as "The Evil Queen of Numbers" as [[Right Behind Me|standing right behind him]].
** When Bond goes to Valentin's lounge and [[Dramatic Gun Cock|hears the click]] of Bond pointing a gun at his head.
{{quote| '''Valentin''': [[Weapon of Choice|Walther PPK. 7.65 mm]]. Only three men I know use such a gun. I believe I've killed two of them.<br />
'''Bond''': Lucky me. (One of Valentin's [[Mook|mooks]] appears and points a gun to Bond's head.<br />
Valentin: I think not. }}
* [[Stay in Thethe Kitchen]]: Addressed by M when she accuses Bond of being "a sexist, misogynist dinosaur."
* [[Stock Foreign Name|Stock Foreign Names]]: Boris and Natalya, almost the same ones used in ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]''.
* [[Super Window Jump]]: This is how the tank chase begins...
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** The [[Big Bad]] is named after a British film censor who didn't like the early Bond films.
** The teaser trailer has Pierce Brosnan swagger into the light until the audience can see his face. He looks at the camera and asks if we were expecting someone else. Possibly a reference to the 4th and previous Bond; Timothy Dalton, who wasn't as well received as his predecessors, and a reassurance that we had nothing to worry about now that the part had been recast.
* [[Tank Goodness]]: So awesome [[Tomorrow Never Dies (Film)|the next movie]] decided to counter with Bond driving a smaller vehicle (a motorcycle).
* [[Technology Marches On]]: The movie came out in 1995. Natalya goes to an IBM office so she can contact Boris via the internet, and gives the sales rep a purchase order as a rather clever lie to use their connection. Computers using 500 megabyte hard drives, with 14.4 kbps modems, [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|seem woefully underpowered today]].
** Bond's digital camera, and the on-board computer in his car, which he used to send a picture of Xenia that [[MI 6]] analyzed on the spot, are within current smartphone or tablet capabilities.
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* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: [[The Reveal]] that the head of the Janus Syndicate is {{spoiler|006 back from the dead}} would have [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|made an intriguing plot twist]], if everything referencing the movie hadn't spoiled it.
* [[Try Not to Die]]: M's last words to Bond before he heads to Russia are, "[[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other|Come back alive]]."
* [[Two -Keyed Lock]]: Needed to operate the Goldeneye satellites
* [[Underwater Base]]: Janus's base in Cuba. Double as an [[Elaborate Underground Base]] after it emerges.
* [[Variable Terminal Velocity]]: Bond ''jumps off a cliff on a motorcycle'' and somehow manages to catch the plane before it crashes. [[Rule of Cool|Yeah.]] What makes it worse is that the plane is doing a nose-dive with the propeller running, meaning its going ''faster'' than if it were merely falling.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]
** Boris, when Natalya has {{spoiler|reprogrammed the Goldeneye satellite, resigning its fate to burn up in the atmosphere}}. Boris tries to reprogram it...but can't break her access codes. He promptly flips his borscht.
{{quote| '''Boris''': GIVE ME THE CODES, NATALYA! ''GIVE THEM TO ME!!!''}}
** Boris again, {{spoiler|losing the connection with the satellite}} while he has a pistol pointed at his head.
{{quote| '''Boris''': ''(violently shaking the monitor)'' SPEAK TO ME!}}
* [[Weaponized Car]]: Bond has a BMW Z3 that is supposedly armed to the teeth but none of its gadgets are actually used in the film. See above under Chekhov's Gun. Despite this, it was still a big sell, and in fact, the limited edition "007 Model" sold out ''within a day of being available to order''.
* [[Weapon Stomp]]: Bond does this to Alec Trevelyan's AK-47 during the train scene.
* [[We Can Rule Together]]: Subverted by Janus towards Bond.
{{quote| '''Janus:''' Oh, by the way, I did think of asking you to join my little scheme, but somehow I knew that 007's loyalty was always to the mission. Never to his friend.}}
* [[What Measure Is a Mook?]]:
** When the Russians have taken Bond into custody, believing him to be responsible for the attack on Severnaya as the result of a frame job by the [[Big Bad]], Bond shoots lots of guards during his escape. Even though they're shooting to kill, the guards are decent guys who are only doing their jobs. The sole reason they are trying to stop Bond is because they've been led to believe he is a terrorist with lots of innocent blood on his hands, {{spoiler|including that of their Defense Minister after Ourumov kills him and blames it on Bond}}, though given the situation, Bond's options are limited.
** Minor [[Lampshade Hanging]] by Janus when he asks Bond ""if [[The Alcoholic|all those]] [[Trademark Favorite Food|vodka martinis]] silence the [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|screams of all the men you've killed]]" implying that Bond does actually feel guilt about killing [[Mook|mooks]].
* [[Why We're Bummed Communism Fell]]: This comes up a few times throughout the movie with characters talking about post-Soviet Russia, how things have changed since the [[Cold War]], and M referring to Bond as "[[Old Soldier|a relic of the Cold War]]." It's also revealed to be Janus's major motivation for his actions.
{{quote| '''Bond''': Why?<br />
'''Janus''': ''(laughs)'' Hilarious question. Particularly from you. Did you ever ask why? Why we toppled all those dictators? Undermined all those regimes? Only to come home. Good job. Well done. But, sorry, old boy. Everything you risked your life and limb for has changed. }}
** It's never outright stated, but this could easily be the reason Ouromov and Xenia betray the Russian government by working with Janus.
* [[Why Won't You Die?]]: Janus to Bond on the train; "Why can't you just be a good boy and die?"
* [[Woman Scorned]]: The narrator of the film's title song; "You'll never know how it feel to get so close and be denied."
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: The first real time in the series this happens. Bond gets into a fight with Xenia in the steam room and is willing to slam her against a wall and throw her onto the steam rocks. He then knocks her out after she drives him to the statue park. Later, when she attacks him again, {{spoiler|he kills her by taking out the helicopter supporting her, making her the first and one of the very few women he has directly killed in the series}}. Then again, she's one of the few women ever to try to directly kill ''him''. Maybe {{spoiler|[[The World Is Not Enough (Film)|Elektra King]]}} should've taken note before [[Tempting Fate]] by saying "[[Like You Would Really Do It|You wouldn't kill me]]" to Bond.
* [[Wound That Will Not Heal]]: Non-fantasy version. Valentin uses a cane to walk because of a limp on his right leg that Bond gave him by shooting him.
* [[You!]]: Not said out loud, but the look on Bond's face definitely says this as {{spoiler|Janus reveals that he is Alec back from the dead}}.
* [[You Look Familiar]]: Joe Don Baker, who plays Jack Wade, earlier played [[Big Bad]], Brad Whitaker, in ''[[The Living Daylights (Film)|The Living Daylights]]''.
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: Wouldn't be a Bond movie without this. "Either you've brought me the perfect gift, General Ouromov, or you've made me a very unhappy man."
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Did we mention this a [[James Bond]] film? Immediately after having the officer in charge of Severnaya bring him the Goldeneye key, Ouromov has Xenia shoot him, [[Leave No Witnesses|along with]] the [[Kill'Em All|entire Severnaya staff]].
* [[You Killed My Father]]: {{spoiler|Janus's motive is revenge against the British government for betraying his parents.}}
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