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{{quote|'''[[James Bond]]''': Do you have any commandos here?
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Connery sleepwalks his way through the movie, having already stated he was sick of playing the role prior. Many of the most widely known and celebrated Bond tropes come from this movie.
A genre-defining performance from [[Donald Pleasence]] as Blofeld (complete with [[Right-Hand-Cat|fluffy white cat to stroke]]) - many people are surprised to be told this is actually the only one he's in. This Blofeld was specifically parodied as Doctor Evil in [[Austin Powers]].
Notably, this was the first film to deviate significantly from the source novel, which has Bond, still reeling from the tragic events of ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]'', being sent by M on an extremely tricky diplomatic mission to Japan in an attempt to shake him out of his [[Heroic BSOD]]. Apart from the Japanese setting, the basic characters of Tiger Tanaka and Dikko Henderson (both of whom were portrayed completely differently in the film), and Blofeld as the villain, it has little in common with its film adaptation.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Aki the Japanese spy is actually a pretty good example of the trope, since she's a [[Waif Fu]] practitioner with downright ''mean'' driving skills. {{spoiler|Too bad she bit it.}}
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The producers tried to do as in the book and use a castle by the sea. However, they found out there's no such thing in Japan (they are built well into land because of typhoons). The solution they found? [[Rule of Cool|A volcano base!]]
* [[All There in the Script]]: Kissy Suzuki is not called or mentioned by name at all during the actual movie.
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* [[Big Bad]]: Ernst Stavro Blofeld
* [[Big Red Button]]: Twice - {{spoiler|one pushed by Bond to destroy the SPECTRE space ship, one used by Blofeld to activate his base's [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]].}}
* [[Blofeld Ploy]]: Done ''twice'' in this one, by you-know-who. First he uses it to kill {{spoiler|Helga, who is a simple pawn, instead of Osato}}, and then later {{spoiler|he hilariously points a gun at Bond and shoots Osato, only to attempt to kill Bond again mere seconds later in another location where he's conveniently subdued by one of Tiger's shurikens.}} Ironically, the worst death was endured by the female underling (Helga with piranhas), whereas Osato is « only » shot.
* [[Bond One-Liner]]: "Bon appetit!" after Hans falls in the [[Shark Pool|piranha pool]].
* [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]: Blofeld actually calls his underlings out on this. When he captures Bond himself, he ''does'' make a mistake that allows Bond to escape ({{spoiler|he shoots Osato first}}), but that doesn't seem to be an example of this as Bond was saved by events out of Blofeld's control.
** Helga Brandt, a young and sexy SPECTRE underling, also proves to be very stupid when she decides to have sex with Bond instead of killing him. She then tries to kill him again post-coitus, and obviously fails.
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Hans.
* [[Coitus Ensues]]: Kissy emphatically insists her fake marriage is strictly business and will not be consummated for their "honeymoon." This being a Bond movie, they still do it, almost during ''a mission'' at that!
* [[Collapsing Lair]]: After Blofeld activates a [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]].
* [[Complete Monster]]: Blofeld, as always. In this movie in particular he plans to start WWIII so that the SPECTRE will rule the world once England and URSS would have destroyed each other. He's also the cruelest [[Bad Boss]] ever existed, as he feeds Helga Brandt to piranhas after she failed to kill Bond.
* [[Conservation of Ninjutsu]]: Both played straight and averted. The massive army of ninja towards the end is slaughtered when it initially attacks Blofeld's lair, but incredibly effective once Bond takes a hand and helps out.
** They're slaughtered at the beginning because Blofeld's base has automated defenses, and later they can only come in a few at a time when Bond manages to open the crater hatch. To their credit, they then blow a hole in it so SPECTRE can't simply close it again.
* [[Cool Plane]]: "Little Nellie"; actually a gyrocopter
* [[Death by Sex]]:
** {{spoiler|Poor Aki}}.
** Helga Brandt is also painfully killed by piranhas as a punishment for having sex with Bond when she was ordered to kill him.
* [[Died Standing Up]]: {{spoiler|Poor Henderson.}}
* [[Double Take]]: Osato when he sees Bond in the SPECTRE control room.
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* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: A surprisingly early allegory on cigarettes.
{{quote|'''Blofeld''': It won't be the nicotine that kills you, Mr. Bond.}}
** Inverted with the rocket bullet cigarettes.
{{quote|'''Tanaka:''' "These cigarettes may save your life."}}
* [[Dueling Scar]]: This version of Blofeld has one.
* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]: The SPECTRE launch facility. Entirely apart from all the side tunnels, [[media:Yolt3.jpg|the main set]] is ''staggeringly'' huge.
* [[Epic Tracking Shot]]: Bond fights his way across the bad guys' port, filmed by a helicopter very high above the action so it looks like a bunch of ants fighting. Combined with the jazzy instrumental of the theme song playing, it is ''awesome''.
* [[Faking the Dead]]: Bond in the beginning, complete with through-and-through bullet holes and fake blood.
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* [[Mugged for Disguise]]: How Bond and the cosmonauts got their SPECTRE uniforms.
* [[Neck Snap]]: Bond uses it to kill the assassin who killed Henderson.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Osato acts that way after he sees Blofeld's killing of his young female underling (Helga) after she failed him. Before he was calmly walking away, but after
* [[One Last Smoke]]
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: After he reveals himself to Bond, Blofeld is only in a couple of scenes, yet he manages to be one of the most memorable villains in any Bond film.
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* [[Overt Rendezvous]]: Bond meets with his Japanese Secret Service contact at a sumo match.
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] - "Japanese Bond". It's a nod to the novel, where Bond really manages to look Japanese...somehow. He even fools Blofeld for a while after being captured.
* [[Piranha Problem]]: Blofeld kept a piranha pond in his underground lair - handy for getting rid of failed and incompetent employees
* [[Playing Both Sides]]: SPECTRE is stealing American and Soviet spacecrafts to provoke a war.
* [[Railing Kill]]: Happens a lot during the big battle at the end.
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* [[Sentry Gun]]: The crater guns Blofeld used against Tanaka's ninja army.
* [[Shark Pool]] - Instead of sharks, there are piranha.
* [[Sic Em]]: Osato tells Number 11 "Kill him!
* [[The Speechless]] - Hans.
* [[Storming the Castle]]: the [[Ninja]] attack on the volcanic hideout.
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** In the book, it's part of a haiku Bond composes.
* [[Tokyo Tower]]: can be seen in a background shot when the helicopter picks up the car full of [[Evil Minions]].
* [[Trap Door]] - Blofeld has a bridge that collapses on command, dropping whatever is on it into the piranha-infested water. He uses it to execute Number 11 Helga Brandt. Also subverted when Japanese Secret Service chief Tiger Tanaka uses one of these (plus a slide) on Bond.
* [[War for Fun and Profit]]: Blofeld is being paid to start [[World War Three]] between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., apparently by agents of [[Red China]].
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Say, did those American and Soviet astronauts ever make it back home?
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]
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=== The 1964 novel contains examples of: ===
* [[Awesome Aussie]]: Dikko Henderson, though his awesomeness largely revolves around consuming grossly large quantities of alcohol.
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* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Bond is going through one at the novel's start as a result of the [[On Her Majesty's Secret Service|previous book's events]].
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: Bond's obituary makes reference to a series of "[[Take That Me|sensationalistic novels]]" written about Bond's life.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Partially averted. Bond initially has no interest in tracking down Blofeld until he discovers he's behind the Garden of Death, after which he quickly makes his death his number one priority.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Blofeld has suffered one of these; his ego has bloated to [[Beyond the Impossible]] levels and his formerly calm speech has been replaced by a [[No Indoor Voice|Hitleresque bark]].
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