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The 13th ''[[James Bond (
007 soon discovers a connection between the priceless Fabergé egg, an elaborate smuggling operation and a meeting with a renegade Russian General Orlov who plans on detonating a nuclear device at Octopussy's circus as part of his plan to instigate [[World War III]].
Despite the title, it has surprisingly little to do
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* [[Actor Allusion]]: Vijay plays tennis on his spare time and fights off some goons with a tennis racquet. He's played by a tennis player.
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The movie uses the short story as a [[Backstory]] to Octopussy's origin.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Kamal, especially when discussing Bond's torture.
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'''Kamal:''' Don't worry, you will.
'''Bond:''' Let me guess. Thumbscrews and hot coals?
'''Kamal:''' ''(insulted)'' ''Hardly.'' We're much more sophisticated than that.
'''Bond:''' Sodium Pentothal?
'''Kamal:''' A bit crude. Very unreliable. We prefer curare with an effective psychedelic compound. Guaranteed results.
'''Bond:''' But with permanent brain damage.
'''Kamal:''' An unfortunate side effect. }}
* [[All Part of the Show]]: Bond's antics in the clown makeup is mistaken for being part of the show. Given that he's trying to warn people of a nuclear bomb, this is a problem.
* [[And This Is For]]: Doubled.
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'''James Bond:''' (Throws the knife back and impales him) And that's for 009! }}
* [[Amazon Brigade]]: Octopussy's army.
* [[Artistic Title]]: This title sequence has neon lights, shadow silhouettes, pistols, vapor trails, and colors circling a center, and [[Rita Coolidge]] performing "All Time High."
* [[Auction]]: Bond enters one to seek out the one who is interested in this Fabergé egg business.
* [[Bedsheet Ladder]]: Magda uses a varation of this to escape from Bond: she ties one end of the sari she's wearing to a balustrade and jumps off the balcony, "riding" the garment down to safety as it unravels.
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* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Gobinda
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Played with. Bond tries to avert a nuclear attack. But a woman hogs the only phone booth. Bond promptly steals her car, instead.
* [[Dueling Movies]]: With Sean Connery's ''[[
* [[Exploding Fishtanks]]: This time the fishtanks get their revenge! When the title character is targeted by assassins her pet blue-ringed octopus (who's clearly watched ''[[Alien (
* [[Foreign Queasine]]: Sheep's eye, anyone?
** Bond actually manages to get in a good [[Double Entendre]], when he complains that he loses his appetite when he's being watched (both the meal and Kamal's [[The Dragon|Dragon]], who is intently watching him.)
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "I need refilling." And another rather obvious one, of course.
* [[A Glass in
* [[Glory Hound]]: General Orlov.
* [[Groin Attack]]. Narrowly averted -- Bond is sliding down a stairway railing, blazing away at mooks with a captured AK-47. He then quickly uses the rest of the magazine to shoot off the knob at the end of the railing.
** {{spoiler|For that matter, what kind of Lovecraftian nightmare *is* an Octopussy, anyway? It'd certainly make for a hell of a bed scene, that's for sure...}}
* [[Hero Stole My Bike]]: Bond swipes the car off a woman in a phone booth he wanted to reach.
* [[Hey, Catch!]]: Done to a sword wielding mook at the market chase/fight.
* [[High Altitude Battle]]: Bond against Gobinda on top of a plane.
* [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game]]: Khamal and his mooks' hunt for tiger on elephants after Bond escapes the Monsoon Palace. Bond is the tiger of course.
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* [[I'm Not Hungry]]: Bond finds his sheep head a little too exotic.
* [[Ironic Echo]]/[[Dark Reprise]]: Vijay's "No problem!", uttered by Bond {{spoiler|after Vijay's corpse is found.}}
* [[Knife Outline]]
* [[Knife
* [[Killer Yoyo]]: One of the mercenaries that Khamal hires to kill has one made from a circular saw.
* [[
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* [[Large Ham]]: General Orlov.
* [[Leave Behind a Pistol]]: What happened to Octopussy's father. Octopussy is grateful to Bond for leaving him that option, rather than be disgraced by a court martial.
* [[May
** It helps that the actress had already played a Bond girl opposite Moore eight years earlier in ''[[The Man
* [[Mnogo Nukes]]
* [[Money to Throw Away]]: "Rupees!"
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The movie bounces between the campier elements of Moore's tenure (uncovering a smuggling ring run by circus people and an all-girl army) with the [[Darker and Edgier|darker tone]] created by the previous film, ''[[For Your Eyes Only (
* [[My Car Hates Me]]: Played with. When Khamal is leaving the Circus in US army base to escape the bomb, he is visibly worried when Gobinda can't get the car started. Then the second try is succesful and he is reliefed.
* [[Never Smile At a Crocodile]]: Bond has a vehicle with an appearance of a crocodile. Later one, when his fight with yoyo mook is taken to water, a crocodile appears the dispatch the villain.
* [[No More for Me]]: A drunken guard upon seeing a woman standing on an elephant's head.
* [[No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine]]: Khamal serves a dinner to Bond when he is imprisoned in the Monsoon Palace.
* [[Pocket Protector]]: Bond is stabbed in the chest, but is unharmed thanks to a sheaf of bills in his chest pocket.
* [[Punny Name]]: [[Captain Obvious|Yeah, no shit.]]
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* [[Storming the Castle]]: With the [[Amazon Brigade]].
* [[Suspect Is Hatless]] When Bond speeds through the Air Base's security checkpoint:
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* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: A new M apparently makes his debut in this story. No-one mentions what happened to the previous one, which has caused many to claim that this is actually a case of [[The Other Darrin]], and that it's still the original M but with a different actor playing him.
** There's also the theory that the new M is really Admiral Hargreaves, actor Robert Brown's character from ''[[
** Note that this was because the original actor had died, which actually happened before ''[[For Your Eyes Only (
* [[Technology Marches On]]: If this movie was set in the 21st century one fact remains: the entire last half hour of this film could have been avoided with the use of Bond's ''cellphone''...
** Cellphones existed since the 70s... but Bond would have probably been better off without one of those bulky, expensive, short-accumulator-lived things...
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* [[Time Bomb]]
* [[Title Drop]]: Well, the main [[Bond Girl]]'s nickname is Octopussy, but the first instance:
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'''Magda:''' That's my little Octopussy. }}
* [[Traintop Battle]]: Bond has to fight Gobinda Grishka on top of Octopussy's circus train.
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* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Kamal Khan.
* [[You Killed My Father]]: Subverted. Octopussy is actually grateful to Bond for allowing her father to commit suicide, as it saved her father the shame of a military trial (Bond was tasked with arresting him).
* [[You Look Familiar]]: Maud Adams had previously played Andrea Anders in ''[[The Man
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