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'''M:''' Jealous husbands, humiliated tailors, outraged chefs. The list is endless! }}
The
This was the first Bond movie allowed to be screened in the Soviet Union. Possibly because there is not even one mention of them in the entire movie ([[Red China]], on the other hand....).
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* [[Action Girl]]: In a delightful subversion of the [[Faux Action Girl]] trope, two karate-kicking schoolgirls save Bond from a gang of mooks while he looks on in appreciation.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Scaramanga.
* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]]: The Bottoms Up Club was, in fact, a real club in Hong Kong (though it closed in 2004) located in Tsim Sha Tsui, on the Kowloon side of Victoria Harbor. In fact, this resulted in a blooper, as Bond is picked up outside the club by British agents posing as police, who tell him he is being taken to a police station on the Kowloon side (of Hong Kong Harbor); he is, in fact, already there.
* [[Antagonist Title]]: Scaramanga of course.
* [[Auction of Evil]]: Though only if you consider multinational power companies evil. Scaramanga intends to sell the secret of the Solex Agitator to the highest bidder, granting them a monopoly. Or he'll take money from the Arab oil companies to keep solar power off the market.
* [[Ballistic Discount]]: Bond questions a gunsmith about a custom bullet he made by, in part, threatening to shoot him with a rifle the man is making for a customer who has lost 2 fingers on his right hand and needs something custom balanced. Apparently, the rifle fires 2 inches below the target for people with 5 fingers. Bond proves this by shooting at, and missing, the gunsmith's wedding tackle.
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* [[Beirut]]: With obligatory belly-dancer.
* [[Bifurcated Weapon]]: Scaramanga's gun
* [[Bling Bling Bang]]: The eponymous Golden Gun.
* [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]:
** Bond takes up Hai Fat's invitation to join him for dinner in his mansion while pretending to be Scaramanga, not knowing that the ''real'' Scaramanga had already gotten in touch with the guy. When he arrives there late at night, he's incapacitated by some guards in an ambush. As they're about to kill him, Hai Fat forbids them from doing so because he doesn't want Bond killed in his home. They'll just take him somewhere else to finish him off right? Nope. Hai Fat has Bond placed in a krabi krabong school to... get beaten up? Maybe?
** Justifiably invoked by Scaramanga late in the film; he freely admits that he could have used his solar-powered laser to blow up Bond's plane before he even landed on the island, but chose not to do so because of how unsatisfying it would be.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Sheriff J.W. Pepper.
* [[Can't Bathe Without a
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* [[Chekhov's Gun|Chekhov's Dummy]]: The mannequin of Bond seen in Scaramanga's funhouse during the cold opening comes in handy during the final confrontation.
* [[Closet Shuffle]]: Bond forces Goodnight to hide in a closet when he is visited by Andrea.
* [[Collapsing Lair]]: Scaramanga's hideout, when the helium's temperature rises too high.
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Bond in the dojo. Bond and Nick Nack [[Dragon Their Feet|on the junk]].
* [[Compensating for Something]]: Scaramanga only makes love before he kills, and it's clear from one scene with Anders that the gun is a penis substitute (he's caressing Anders with it suggestively as they lie in bed).
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* [[Death Course]]: Scaramanga's funhouse
* [[Death Ray]]: One of the few supervillain tropes in this movie.
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'''Bond:''' That's what I call trouble. }}
* [[
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: J.W. Pepper, upon being re-united with Bond.
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* [[Depraved Dwarf]]: Downplayed with Nick Nack. He's [[Affably Evil]] at all times, but he does work for a renowned contract killer, and does not hesitate to try and kill others when he feels like it.
* [[Do a Barrel Roll]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzCIbhLUUA0&feature=related Bond jumping with a car on a destroyed bridge.] (yes, it was real; and yes, the producers had the guts to add a [[Narm|Narmy]] comedy sound effect!)
* [[Double Meaning Title]]: Scaramanga points out that in addition to having [[Bling Bling Bang|a weapon made of gold]], after the solar-powered beam is shot "You must admit I am now undeniably [[Title Drop|the Man with the Golden Gun.]]"
* [[Dragon-in-Chief]]: Scaramanga. Hai Fat refers to him as his "junior partner", and Fat is the one who is actually after the [[MacGuffin]], has most of the [[Mooks]], and his company paid for and built Scaramanga's evil lair. But there's a reason he's not the title character.
* [[Dragon Their Feet]]: Nick Nack.
* [[Duel to
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Mary Goodnight, the most blatant example in the whole Bond series.
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Scaramanga is essentially Bond if he were a freelance killer with fewer scruples.
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* [[Flying Car]]: A [[Truth in Television]] example (though apparently without the range cited in the movie)
* [[Going Commando]]: Bond encounters Chew Me, a beautiful Thai girl swimming in Hai Fats' pool, who invites him to join her.
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'''Chew Me:''' "Neither do I." }}
* [[Go-Go Enslavement]]: Scaramanga forces Mary Goodnight to wear a bikini so she can't have concealed weapons.
* [[Groin Attack]]: Bond stops a sumo wrestler's [[Bear Hug]] of Death by tightening his jockstrap.
* [[Hall of Mirrors]]: Scaramanga's funhouse.
* [[Holiday in Cambodia|Holiday in]] [[
* [[Hollywood Silencer]]: Notably averted in the opening scene, where the ganger assassin's silenced weapon is still quite loud.
* [[IKEA Weaponry]]: Scaramanga keeps his gun disassembled to pass it safely through customs.
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: Bond wards off Fat's mooks with the prop of a longtail boat.
* [[Jerkass]]: [[Enforced Trope|Inflicted upon Bond by the studio, in an effort to counteract Roger Moore's natural urbanity.]] Bond is infamously a total ''asshole'' throughout this film, threatening to break a woman's arm, threatening to blow off a guy's testicles, and later pushing a kid salesman ("''bloody tourist!''") into a rapid stream during a boat chase. Having sex with Anders while Goodnight, ''who he was just about to have sex with'', is hiding in the closet. [[Why Would Anyone Take Him Back?|And then she still has sex with Bond at the end!]] This could be viewed as reversing the changes of previous movies, as the Bond of the books is a much more ruthless, cold-blooded [[Jerkass]] than is generally portrayed (at least up until the second ''[[
* [[Job Title]]: ''The Man with the Golden Gun''.
* [[Kidnapped
* [[Kingpin in His Gym]]: Scaramanga has a warped relationship with his diminuative manservant Nick-Nack; in the event of his death, Nick-Nack inherits everything...in return for Nick-Nack actually ''trying'' to kill him by hiring the best assassins in the world for Scaramanga to pit his skills against.
* [[Land of Dragons]]: Two different locales, actually, none of them the mainland. The first is [[Hong Kong]], the second is Scaramanga's island lair, somewhere in the Chinese-controlled part of the South China Sea.
* [[Legendary in
* [[Load-Bearing Boss]]: Averted. Scaramanga's death has no impact on the collapse of his lair, which was the result of Goodnight shoving Scaramanga's technician into a liquid helium vat, which destabilized the power station.
* [[MacGuffin]]: The Solex Agitator.
* [[Marked Bullet]]: The gold bullet sent to Bond has his number on it.
* [[The Millstone]]: Mary Goodnight.
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* [[Product Placement]]: Tabasco Sauce. And AMC Motors, which is why Bond isn't booting around in an [[Cool Car|Aston Martin or BMW]] in this one. Also an early example of the series' long-standing love affair with Sony.
* [[Red Right Hand]]: Scaramanga has three nipples.
* [[Scaramanga Special]]: The [[Golden Gun]] itself. Scaramanga combines specially designed parts disguised as a pen, a cigarette lighter, a cigarette box and a cuff link. The [[Trope Namers/Film|Trope Namer]] and [[
* [[Sequel Escalation]]: Averted. A refreshingly down-to-earth plot (no world domination plots, egomaniac villians etc) especially before ''[[
* [[Shooting Gallery]]: Scaramanga's funhouse.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Bond's response to Scaramanga's assertion that, bar the paycheck, he and Bond are the same:
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* [[Sighted Guns Are Low Tech]]: Scaramanga is a good enough of a marksman that he doesn't need gun sights on his eponymous gun.
** Arguably not, as the pen clip is in the correct position for a sight (although he only aims obviously with it once.)
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* [[Surprise Slide Staircase]]: Scaramanga has one in his funhouse.
* [[Suspect Is Hatless]]: As Bond talks to Miss Anders about Scaramanga.
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'''Anders:''' Tall, slim and dark.
'''Bond:''' So's my aunt.
'''Anders:''' Yes, but how can I tell you? He's not like other men. [gestures toward her chest] He has three...
'''Bond:''' Fascinating anatomical tidbit. But probably the most useless piece of information I've ever heard. Unless, of course, the "Bottoms Up" is a strip club and Scaramanga is performing. }}
** It actually ''is'' a strip club, but Scaramanga doesn't perform.
* [[Tap
* [[Tempting Fate]]: Hai Fat building his own mausoleum. And an [[In
** Well, he's probably more mad that Bond (or rather, Goodnight) blew up his inheritance than anything else. As for poison Scaramanga's will might just be that specific - Nick Nack only gets it if he, Scaramanga, is murdered by another gunman.
* [[Ten Paces and Turn]]: Subverted. Scaramanga disappears while Bond's back is turned, leading to a hunt.
* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: A piano version and a jazz version plays in Scaramanga's funhouse.
* [[Title Drop]]:
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'''Scaramanga:''' You must admit I am now undeniably the Man with the Golden Gun. }}
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]:
** Mary Goodnight.
** Sheriff J.W. Pepper. Unfortunately, he does.
* [[Triple Nipple]]: Scaramanga is not like other men.
* [[Unwinnable Training Simulation]]: Scaramanga vs. the gangster, except that Scaramanga could have died.
* [["The Villain Sucks" Song]]: The innuendo-laden Lulu song. "He has a powerful weapon", apparently. "Who will he bang? We shall see..."
* [[Wacky Wayside Tribe]]: The gangster Scaramanga uses to test his abilities.
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