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* [[Apocalypse How]]: Class 3a (Engineered Human Extinction): lethal spores that will eliminate all human beings on Earth.
* [[Balls of Steel]]: [[James Bond]] knees Jaws in the groin while fighting him in the space station. There's a "clang" sound when Bond does so, indicating that Jaws has [[Balls of Steel]], just like his teeth.
* [[Beard of Evil]]: Hugo Drax.
* [[The Beautiful Elite]]: Drax' whole plan is to destroy all human life on Earth so it can be repopulated it with only genetically perfect specimens that he selected.
* [[But What About the Astronauts?]]: The whole point of Drax's plot.
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* [[The Capital of Brazil Is Buenos Aires]]: Just for starters, making the Amazon river end in a waterfall (not only it ends straight in the ocean, [[wikipedia:Iguazu Falls|the location of said falls]] is really far).
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: The people shown working out at Drax's estate at the beginning of the film are later revealed to be the same people intended by Drax to seed his "master race".
* [[City of Canals]]: Venice.
* [[Collapsing Lair]]: Drax's space station, due to battle damage.
* [[Depopulation Bomb]]: The devices that will release the spores above.
* [[Dirty Communists]]: General Gogol, though his conversation with an American General counterpart is actually fairly benign.
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Chang, by falling into and impaling a piano.
* [[The Dragon]]: Chang, then Jaws.
* [[Dressing as the Enemy]]: Bond and Dr. Goodhead in yellow jumpsuits.
* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]: Drax's launch facility in the Amazon jungle.
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* [[Evilutionary Biologist]]: Hugo Drax, who altered spores that caused sterility to make them lethal.
* [[Exactly What I Aimed At]]: Bond on the quail hunt.
* [[Failsafe Failure]]:
* [[Faux Action Girl]]: For a CIA agent with proper spy equipment, Dr. Goodhead sure doesn't get a lot of action (pun not quite intended) until the finale. Justified trope, as Lois Chiles was pregnant during shooting.
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]
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* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "I think he's attempting re-entry, sir!"
** As well as naming a character '''[[Punny Name|Holly Goodhead]]'''. Somewhere between [[Goldfinger|Pussy Galore]] and [[The Man with the Golden Gun|Mary Goodnight]] in the [[Punny Name|perverted name]] category.
* [[Giant Mook]]: Jaws.
* [[Good Hair, Evil Hair]]: Hugo Drax's goatee.
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Corrine's death, in which the camera pulls away and pans upward to the sky as Drax's vicious dogs pounce on her.
* [[Groin Attack]]: Bond does one to Jaws in the space station. {{spoiler|He has balls of STEEL!
** [[Crazy Prepared|Or perhaps he anticipated that might happen...]]
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Jaws.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: Bond kills a knife-throwing assassin with one of his own knives.
* [[Hot Scientist]]: Dr. Holly Goodhead, who gets bonus points for being close to Bond's age.
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: Jaws and Dolly.
* [[Improvised Zipline]]: Bond and Holly Goodhead use a chain to slide down a cable car cable.
* [[Inevitable Waterfall]]
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* [[Just Plane Wrong]]: The entire sequence in which the Space Shuttle blasts off from the carrier aircraft; it's never carried with fuel or live batteries, and needs the external tank and [[SR Bs]] to achieve orbit.
* [[Kill Sat]]
* [[Made of Iron]]: Jaws.
* [[Mayincatec]]: Drax's base... in [[The Amazon]], [[You Fail History Forever|where said civilizations never stepped foot.]]
* [[Meet the New Boss]]: Drax is very similar to Stromberg from ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me]]''.
** While true, there are a few differences, and he's arguably a lot more sinister and dangerous. Stromberg is more or less an [[Orcus on His Throne]], mostly just sitting around Atlantis all day, pressing buttons when he wants something done (or someone killed), and leaving Bond's fate mostly up to his minions. Drax does a lot more globetrotting, comes up with [[It Amused Me|amusing]] deaths for Bond and others who have displeased him. Plus his plan is more evil, since at least Stromberg didn't try and select which members of the human race he was going to spare. Drax is far more egomaniacal, ruthless and controlling, a much more evil bastard.
* [[Meganekko]]: Dolly.
* [[Minion Shipping]]: Jaws and Dolly.
* [[Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot]]: Disappearance of a space shuttle -> a plot to kill all humans on Earth.
* [[Mook Face Turn]]: Jaws.
* [[Mugged for Disguise]]: Bond and Dr. Goodhead knock out two of Drax's employees and put on their yellow jumpsuits.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Drax.
* [[New Era Speech]]: Hugo Drax
* [[No Gravity for You]]: How Bond and his allies escape the space station.
* [[No More for Me]]:
* [[No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine]]: Before Drax is revealed as a villain, he invites Bond to tea.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Bond's usual reaction upon seeing that Jaws is after him ''again''.
* [[Outrun the Fireball|Outcrawl the Fireball]]:
* [[Priceless Ming Vase]]: The glass art objects in the fight between Bond and Chang in the museum.
* [[Product Placement]]: Yes, we all know that all James Bond movies have it, but [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1It-YC92MQ this chase scene] is a blatant example. (See it in the second half of the clip!)
* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: One of the most
* [[Recycled in Space]]: ''Literally''. [[The Spy Who Loved Me|In the previous movie]], James Bond works with a female foreign secret agent to stop a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] from destroying the world and creating a new empire in the ocean. In this movie, James Bond works with a female foreign secret agent to stop a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] from destroying the world and creating a new empire in space. Yes, ''Moonraker'' in plot is blatantly copied from ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me]]''.
** Yet the latter film is considered one of the best in the series and of the Moore era, while this one is mostly reviled.
** And annoyingly enough, both steal from ''[[You Only Live Twice]]'', where James Bond works with a female foreign secret agent (Japan, this time) to stop Ernst Stavro Blofeld from causing World War III (i.e. destroying the world) so that another global power can take over. All three plots involve stealing exotic government vehicles of some kind. All three were directed by the same dude, Lewis Gilbert<ref>Though ''You Only Live Twice'' had a different screenwriter, namely [[Roald Dahl]], whereas this and the previous film were written by Christopher Wood.</ref>. All three end with Bond and the girl being "interrupted" by their superiors as well.
*** Gilbert admits this in the "The Spy Who Loved Me" DVD "making of" featurette.
* [[Safecracking]]: Bond opens the safe in Drax's headquarters with an X-ray device.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: In addition to natural beauties/cities, there's the space station.
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** To date, the films never escalate to this scale again.
* [[Sexy Stewardess]]
* [[Shark Pool]]:
* [[Shout-Out]]: Opening an electronic lock creates musical tones from ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]''.
** Also, Bond's gaucho ride is scored by ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]'' theme.
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* [[Thrown Out the Airlock]]: Bond does this to {{spoiler|Drax after shooting him with a wrist-dart}}.
* [[Trapped in Containment]]: Happens to two of Drax's scientists.
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: Drax.
* [[Variable Terminal Velocity]]
* [[The Voiceless]]: Jaws... {{spoiler|until the end: "Well, here's to us."}}
* [[We Need a Distraction]]: Dr. Goodhead pulls this on one of the henchmen in the ambulance.
* [[Why Won't You Die?]]: "Mr. Bond, you ''persist'' in defying my efforts to provide an amusing death for you."
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