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* [[Blasting It Out of Their Hands]]: In the original short story too.
* [[Blood Knight]]: Brad Whitaker is a war fanatic, despite the fact he's called on being grossly incompetent at it by everyone he meets.
* [[Bond One
** "He met his Waterloo".
** "He got the boot."
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* [[Reds With Rockets]]: Churned through
* [[The Schlub Pub Seduction Deduction]]
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: The reason why Bond didn't kill the female sniper (Kara), although Saunders and M think it's [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]].
{{quote| '''Bond:''' Stuff my orders, I only kill professionals. That girl didn't know one end of a rifle from the other.}}
** And if Bond ''had'' killed Kara, she wouldn't have needed to dump the gun, Bond wouldn't have found the blanks, the British (including Bond) would have thought Koskov's defection was real, Bond would have killed Pushkin, and the bad guys would have won. (That, or [[The Great Muppet Caper|it would have been a very short movie.)]]
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** {{spoiler|Other than [[He Knows Too Much|Kara knowing too much and possibly leaking said info?]] }} Oh, well.
** {{spoiler|Remember she knew of Koskov's plan to defect, which would have interfered with Koskov's plan to return saying he'd been on a secret mission for Pushkin. If she'd revealed that under interrogation before Pushkin had been assassinated...}}
* [[Spiked Wheels]]: A high-tech version using [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]. If that wasn't enough, the tyres also have retractable spikes for grip on snow and ice.
* [[Staged Shooting]]
* [[Stocking Filler]]: Pushkin's mistress.
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* [[Waking Up Elsewhere]]: Bond is drugged in Tangier and wakes up on a plane bound for Afghanistan.
* [[Weaponized Car]]: Bond's [[Cool Car|Aston Martin V8 Vantage Volante]].
* [[Whole
** Not a coincidence - director John Glen's first job on a film was on ''[[The Third Man]]'', and he explicitly mentions adding various style and plot references in the DVD commentary.
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