Tomorrow Never Dies: Difference between revisions

* [[Anonymous Ringer]] / [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Elliot Carver is a thinly disguised Rupert Murdoch.

{{quote| "Even if they were looking for me, ''we're on a stealth boat!'' They can't see me. Or you. Or even your friend, the late Commander Bond, who is, I believe, at this moment, on his way to the bottom of the South China Sea. ([[Beat]]) He's my new ''anchorman.''}}

* [[Death Byby Sex]]: Paris Carver.

* [[False-Flag Operation]]: Carver's mechanism to wage [[War for Fun Andand Profit]].

{{quote| '''Q:''' It's the insurance damage waiver for your beautiful new car. Now, will you need collision coverage?<br />

'''James Bond:''' Yes.<br />

'''Q:''' Fire?<br />

'''James Bond:''' Probably.<br />

'''Q:''' Property destruction?<br />

'''James Bond:''' Definitely.<br />

'''Q:''' Personal Injury?<br />

'''James Bond:''' I hope not, but accidents do happen. <br />

* [[Hollywood Silencer]]: Averted on the stealth ship, where Bond's suppressed Walther P99 sounds probably just a little less loud that it would without the suppressor.

* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: You wanted a headline, Carver? You got it, courtesy of [[MI 6]]! {{spoiler|Something about a boating accident...}}

{{quote| '''Bond''': [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner|You forgot the first rule of mass media, Elliot! Give the people what they want!]]}}

* [[Incredibly Long Note]]: [[k.d. lang]]'s [[Crowning Music of Awesome|epic finish]] during the closing credits.

* [[Irrevocable Order]]:The Royal Navy launches a Tomahawk missile to destroy a terrorist arms depot. They quickly find out that there are {{spoiler|nukes}} at the camp. But the missile is already out of radio range, requiring [[James Bond]] to go in and remove the bombs.

* [[Milkman Conspiracy]]: The Carver Media Group blackmails the President, is implied to orchestrate global floods, riots and plane crashes, sells buggy software (to force people to upgrade it for years), sinks a British Destroyer, massacres the survivors, steals one of its cruise missiles, plans to use said missile on Beijing to set up a new Chinese government friendly to its interests (ie. broadcasting rights) after bringing Britain and China to the brink of nuclear war, and employs terrorists, torturers and professional assassins, plus the average Carver Media Group employees, based on the evidence, are [[Always ChaoticExclusively Evil]]. All for the [[Insane Troll Logic|sake of its ratings.]] Carver also faked the Mad Cow disease scare of 1997 because a British beef baron owed him money (from a poker game, a mere £10,000) and refused to pay....then the French paid him to run the stories for another year.

* [[NGO Superpower]]: Carver Media Group Network, which already influences most of the world. But since its led by a megalomaniac, the organization takes the extra step forward of forming a small army, build a stealth ship, and stir up a war between Britain and China.

{{quote| '''Carver''': Mr. Stamper, would you ''please'' kill those bastards!}}

{{quote| '''Carver''': [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|Then it seems you've outlived your contract.]]}}

** Bond also has one, seen in [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]].

* [[Serendipity Writes the Plot]]: The original title was ''Tomorrow Never Lies'', the proposed [[Tagline]] of Carver's newspaper ''Tomorrow''. A misspelled fax lead to the one the filmmakers eventually used.

* [[Super Multi -Purpose Room]]

* "[[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|Then It Seems You Have Outlived Your Contract]]": {{spoiler|Gupta.}}

* [[To the Pain]]: When Carver tells Bond about how Mr. Stamper is going to torture him, although the movie gets more mileage out of the [[Cow Tools]] presented as Mr. Stamper's torture implements than it does out of Carver's little speech.

* [[Unflinching Faith in Thethe Brakes]]: Bond during his short "test drive" of the remote controlled BMW. Doubly [[Badass]] because he'd never driven it before.

* [[War for Fun Andand Profit]]: Carver's primary plan, by way of [[False-Flag Operation|False Flag Operations]].

{{quote| '''Carver''': *scoffs* Pathetic.}}

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