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{{quote|''"Be careful of this one, Mr Bond. She will not go to bed with you unless you give her something she really wants... but you make a fine couple- you are both, what is the expression? Damaged goods."''|'''Dominic Greene'''}}
The 22nd ''[[James Bond (
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* [[Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene]]: Various, all pulled off very well.▼
▲* [[Action Film Quiet Drama Scene]]: Various, all pulled off very well.
* [[The Adventure Continues]]
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'''Bond:''' I never left. }}
* [[All There in the Manual]]: Fields' first name is only in the credits of the movie.
* [[Angrish]]: Dominic Greene.
* [[Artistic Title]]
* [[Attempted Rape]]: General Medrano attempts to rape some hotel waitress, before Camille enters the room and proceeds to kick his ass. Especially significant due to what happened to Camille's mother and older sister.
* [[At the Opera Tonight]]: Bond + ''[[Tosca]]'' = ''awesome sauce.''
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* [[Axe Crazy]]: {{spoiler|Dominic Greene becomes one when he fights with Bond. He even has an axe.}}
* [[Badass]]: Bond, of course.
** Mr White as well.
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Bond wears it at the end.
* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Partially averted: {{spoiler|Camille}} does have a nasty burn scar from when she was a kid, but it is on her back and thus concealed by clothing for most of the movie. Of course, an ongoing theme of the film is ''psychological'' scars.
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* [[Bond Girl]]: Averted with Camille, the only Bond girl Bond never actually slept with (which, to a certain extent, would seem to take her out of the category in the first place). Deconstructed with Fields, since she's used to show Bond that his cold manipulation of the people around him can actually ruin {{spoiler|or end}} their lives. The Craig Bond movies have never yet played this trope straight.
* [[Bond Gun Barrel]]: Occurs right at the end of the movie. Originally, it was intended to show Bond gunning down Mr. White, but the idea was tossed out, and the gun barrel scene was left in.
* [[Book Ends]]: A rare inversion. ''[[
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Averted. The boathook!
** In the opening car chase, Bond blasts the bad guys with an SMG that was never seen in the movie prior to his using it... but it ''was'' seen rather prominently in the final moments of ''[[
* [[Collapsing Lair]]: {{spoiler|The hotel}}. It's a Bond movie, what would you expect?
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Bond's SMG from the ending of ''[[
** In ''Royale'', M comments to her aide that "In the old days, if an agent did something that embarrassing, he'd have the good sense to defect," when talking to Bond at the beginning of the film. That same aide ends up doing exactly what she mentioned during Mr. White's interrogation scene.
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: {{spoiler|Bond leaves Dominic Greene stranded in the middle of a desert with nothing to drink but a bottle of oil. This is a fitting punishment due to Dominic inflicting the impoverished Bolivians with an artificial drought, combined with how he murdered Fields by drowning her in oil.}}
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: Present in the climactic battle.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Medrano. He just looks like another fat tyrant from [[Banana Republic]], but he stands his own against Camille.
** Green as well. He looks like a another sleazy con-man, and he stands his own against ''Bond''.
* [[Darkened Building Shootout]]: More than once, including a darkened catacomb.
* [[Death
* [[Deus Ax Machina]]: Dominic Green attacks Bond with a fire axe during the final battle.
* [[Dodgy Toupee]]: Dominic's assistant Elvis wears one.
* [[The Dragon]]: {{spoiler|Subverted entirely when the dragon is, according to form, positioned to cover his boss's escape and is promptly killed by an explosion. [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/Bbrown/Elvis3.jpg Poor man's pants get blown clean off him first.]}}
* [[Dramatic Landfall Shot]]
* [[Drop
* [[Dyeing for Your Art]]: {{spoiler|Fields}}.
* [[Eagle Land]]: The CIA is willing to look the other way for a bit of oil. Guess what flavor it is?
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* [[Foreshadowing]]: {{spoiler|Green}} was found with two bullets in the back of his head. Bond didn't give him a gun. Gasp!
* [[Friendly Address Privileges]]: When Dominic Greene and James Bond meet:
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'''James Bond:''' ''I'm sure they do.'' }}
* [[Fruit Cart]]: A truck containing a lot of cheap coffins crashes during the Haiti chase. In another scene, during a foot chase a small dumbwaiter full of tomatoes is knocked to the ground.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: M knows what the [[Bond One
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*message is relayed to M*
'''M''': Dammit! He killed him! }}
* [[Girl of the Week]]: Deliberately done differently. {{spoiler|It's clear to both Bond, Fields, and the audience that she's just a quick lay, and all Camille gives Bond is a quick peck before (apparently) leaving him forever.}}
* [[Green Aesop]]: The CIA is willing to assist the [[Big Bad]] in attempts to get oil. The same [[Big Bad]] tells Quantum that they must take control of Bolivia because they have the worlds most precious resource. {{spoiler|Which is water, not oil.}}
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Fields.
* [[Hey,
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]
* [[Hollywood Skydiving]]: The DC-3 sequence.
* [[
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'''Felix:''' I'll take that as a compliment, coming from a Brit. }}
* [[In Name Only]]: In the original short story, Bond is at dinner at an island governor's place. After dinner, the governor tells him the story of an airline stewardess' failed marriage. Bond re-learns that drama and tragedy doesn't have to involve master villains or gadgets. The End. Now a Major Motion Picture. The vast majority of Bond films are like this, but particularly in this case as there is a shortage in Fleming titles that haven't been used yet.
* [[Instant Seduction]]: "I can't find the...uhm, the stationary. Come help me look."
* [[Internal Homage]]: A shot where a crate of fruit is knocked down several stories as Bond is chasing a villain is functionally identical to an earlier shot in ''Casino Royale.'' But with girders.
* [[
* [[
* [[Jittercam]]: And how!
* [[Kansas City Shuffle]]: Everyone thinks that the object of Quantum's [[Plan]] is to gain control of the {{spoiler|non-existent oil supply}} in the Bolivian desert. And Quantum is perfectly happy to let them keep thinking that while they get their hands on the {{spoiler|water}} instead.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|Mr. White}}.
* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|Greene}}. He {{spoiler|drank the bottle of oil Bond provided}} before Quantum executed him.
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* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: The Quantum Group to Mr. Greene.
* [[Mercy Kill]]: {{spoiler|Bond prepares to shoot Camille, as they are trapped in the burning hotel with no escape and she is reliving her childhood trauma of having the General burn her house down over her head. Fortunately an escape presents itself before it's too late.}}
* [[Milkman Conspiracy]]: Greene Planet and its dealings with Bolivia.
* [[The Mole]]: M's bodyguard, who reveals himself to be working for Quantum during Mr. White's interrogation. For the rest of the film, M is paranoid about who she trusts with information because of what happened. Later on, Bond comments that the Canadian intelligence agent has a leak in her department before telling her to leave.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Bond drinks his martini shaken. It is explicitly ''not'' described as "[[Catch Phrase|shaken, not stirred]]". This is also a callback to a similar bit in ''[[
** {{spoiler|Fields' death is a homage to that of Jill Masterson in ''[[
** At one point, Mathis muses on the nature of heroes vs. villains, and how the line between the two blurs as one ages -- Bond does something similar in the novel of ''Casino Royale''.
* [[Nebulous Evil Organization]]: Quantum
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* [[Paranoia Fuel]]: In universe; Quantum says they "have people everywhere". {{spoiler|Like, ''in the same room''.}} M is noticeably twitchy and distrustful the rest of the movie, since the traitor in question had been {{spoiler|her personal bodyguard for years.}}
** Taken [[Up to Eleven]] with Greene's speech to Mendrano.
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* [[Pet the Dog]]: Bond spends most of the movie a cold and emotionless bastard. {{spoiler|He is however notably angry when Fields is murdered; and then informs M that Fields showed true bravery and he wants that noted in the report.}}
* [[Playing Against Type]]: Mathieu Amalric is well known for playing whimsical intellectuals in French auteur dramas.
* [[Pun
* [[Rape
* [[Red Right Hand]]: Deliberately averted. The actor playing Greene would have been fine with it, but the director demanded that he should not be given any kind of unusual physical features via makeup. He's screwed up on the inside. [[Not So Different|Just like Bond.]]
* [[Relative Button]]: Camille's family were murdered by Mendrano
* [[Retirony]]: {{spoiler|Mathis,}} in a variation. He would have been fine if he ''stayed'' retired, but agreeing to help Bond on one last job got him killed. Once he left his happy little villa (and hot girlfriend), you knew he wasn't going to get to go back to it.
* [[Ripped
** Interestingly, the evil plot from the movie is less evil than the real-life one, as the intended price hike is less than the one that really happened.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Possibly Bond, for the entire film, not that he'd admit it to anyone (an alternative explanation is that he just repeatedly screws up at capturing people alive).
* [[Sequel Hook]]: Greene tells Bond everything he knows about the Quantum Group before he's {{spoiler|left in the desert with a can of oil}}. He's later found {{spoiler|with two bullets in the back of his head}}.
* [[Shout
** {{spoiler|Field's}} death to ''[[
** [[A View to
* [[Sliding Scale of Cynicism Versus Idealism]]: Way out on the cynical end; both the {{spoiler|British and American governments}} are happy to let the coup take place as long as they get their oil, and Bond and Camille are both motivated to stop Greene for revenge rather than any higher ideals.
* [[Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome]]: Bye, {{spoiler|Mathis.}}
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* [[Theme Tune]]: "Another Way To Die", the first duet in the history of Bond movies, done by Jack White (one half of [[The White Stripes]]) and Alicia Keys. Does not include the word "Quantum" in the lyrics, but does have "solace" and "of" in there.
* [[Torture Always Works]]: {{spoiler|M, although she doesn't get the chance.}} "You will eventually tell us everything about the people you work with, and the longer it takes, the more painful we'll make it."
* [[Tragic Keepsake]]: Vesper's necklace, discarded at the end of the film. This is a touching callback to ''[[
* [[Two Decades Behind]]: See also entry in ''[[
* [[Unfortunate Names]]: Fields. Strawberry Fields.
* [[Unusual User Interface]]: MI6's magical touchscreens. [[Incredibly Lame Pun|One could say that they were running on a Q OS]].
** [[Viewer
*** So intelligent is this interface that when Bond describes Greene's surname as having a 'double-E', the computer inserts a W before he's finished saying it, then replaces it with the two Es. Why such a feature is in place is completely unknown, especially when one factors in that Bond should have been using the phonetic alphabet anyway.
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: {{spoiler|Poor Vesper}}. Her boyfriend was a Quantum agent who was using her to get information, then faked his own kidnapping to force her to betray her country.
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* [[Wasted Song]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg2dXY9TOKA&feature=related This song] was rejected as the movie's main theme. As if the people who hate "Another Way To Die" weren't already upset...
* [[We Are Everywhere]]: Quantum (see [[Paranoia Fuel]] example).
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: M calls Bond out on killing every lead he finds (to the point that he's blamed for the death of a henchman who was killed by [[The Dragon]], not Bond). At the end of the film, Bond finally shows some restraint when he leaves {{spoiler|Vesper's boyfriend}} alive to be interrogated.
** Camille drops this on Bond when he throws {{spoiler|Mathis'}} body into a dumpster, having just cradled him during his dying moments.
** M also calls Bond out on {{spoiler|indirectly killing Fields due to his actions}}, and orders him handcuffed and escorted away by [[MI 6]] agents. [[Determinator|Not that it stops him from escaping, though]].
* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Quantum higher-ups love their ''[[At the Opera Tonight|Tosca]]''.
** Though Mr White is the only one to stick around for the whole thing. Seeing his companions leave in droves (and thus get caught on camera), he quips "''Tosca'' isn't for everyone".
* [[Word Salad Title]]: Subverted. Even though the title seems meaningless, it actually means "A little bit of comfort" (possibly referring to Bond's movie length [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]) as well as making it a [[Pun
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