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** Tiffany also gets credit for not only saving Bond and helping burn down Specterville, but ''dragging Bond through the desert'' to the highway for help.

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** Tiffany also gets credit for not only saving Bond and helping burn down Specterville, but ''dragging Bond through the desert'' to the highway for help.help.
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* Bond giving the Las Vegas police chasing him the runaround in a red Ford Mustang around the Vegas strip and getting it to tip on one side to drive through a narrow alleyway.

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* Bond giving the Las Vegas police chasing him the runaround in a red Ford Mustang around the Vegas strip and getting it to [[CarSkiing tip on one side side]] to drive through a narrow alleyway.
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** Moral of the story? [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Don't. Fuck. With. James. Bond.]]

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** Moral of the story? [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Don't. Fuck. With. James. Bond.]]]]
** Tiffany also gets credit for not only saving Bond and helping burn down Specterville, but ''dragging Bond through the desert'' to the highway for help.
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* Bond discovers that [[spoiler:he actually killed Blofeld's double at the start of the movie. He's in a room with the real Blofeld and another double, but he doesn't know which is which. So he scares the cat and shoots the one it runs to with his last projectile]]. Turns out Blofeld [[spoiler:even made a double of his ''cat'' (or, you know, bought another one)]]. Well played.

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* Bond discovers that [[spoiler:he he actually killed Blofeld's double at the start of the movie. He's in a room with the real Blofeld and another double, but he doesn't know which is which. So he scares the cat and shoots the one it runs to with his last projectile]]. projectile. Turns out Blofeld [[spoiler:even even made a double of his ''cat'' (or, you know, bought another one)]].one). Well played.
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* Bond hunting down and taking out the terrorist leader responsible for the death of his wife in a sequence of four quick scenes amassing about 5 minutes ''before the opening credits start''. Pointless considering the rest of the film? Yup. But awesome as a stand-alone moment? Indeed.

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* Bond hunting down and taking out the terrorist leader responsible for the death of his wife in a sequence of four quick scenes amassing about 5 minutes ''before the opening credits start''.start'' as he repeatedly asks one question, "''WHERE IS BLOFELD!?'''". Pointless considering the rest of the film? Yup. But awesome as a stand-alone moment? Indeed.
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* Either the Bond who just saw his wife murdered in the last film or an obviously sympathetic replacement hunting down and taking out the responsible terrorist leader in a sequence of four quick scenes amassing about 5 minutes ''before the opening credits start''. Pointless considering the rest of the film? Yup. But awesome as a stand-alone moment? Indeed.

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* Either the Bond who just saw his wife murdered in the last film or an obviously sympathetic replacement hunting down and taking out the responsible terrorist leader responsible for the death of his wife in a sequence of four quick scenes amassing about 5 minutes ''before the opening credits start''. Pointless considering the rest of the film? Yup. But awesome as a stand-alone moment? Indeed.
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* Bond using his knowledge of wine & spirits, INeverSaidItWasPoison and good ol' deductive reasoning to smoke out Wint & Kidd during their final attempt at killing him.
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** ''"Welcome to hell, Blofeld"''

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** ''"Welcome to hell, Blofeld"''Blofeld."''
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[[AC: The Novel:]]!!The Novel
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** With Serraffimo dead and the Cannonball wrecked, Bond and Tiffany watch as the blazing locomotive leaps off the rails and ''drives down a mountain'', before crashing through a mine entrance, smashing through everything in its way, hitting the very bottom of the mine and exploding. While ''still'' inside the mine.

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** With Serraffimo dead and the Cannonball wrecked, Bond and Tiffany watch as the blazing locomotive leaps off the rails and ''drives down a mountain'', before crashing through a mine entrance, smashing through everything in its way, hitting the very bottom of the mine and exploding. While ''still'' still inside the mine.
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** As the Cannonball smashes into the gap ''and'' catches fire at the same time, Bond gets ready to fire. Then, the door of the locomotive rips off and as Serraffimo comes into view, struggling to control the train. Without hesitating, Bond empties his entire magazine into Serraffimo, all 4 rounds hitting the gangster as ''the entire train explodes behind him.''
** With Serraffimo dead and the Cannonball wrecked, Bond and Tiffany watch as the blazing locomotive leaps off the rails and ''drives down a mountain'', before crashing through a mine entrance, smashing through everything in its way, hitting the very bottom of the mine and finally exploding.
** Moral of the story? '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Don't. Fuck. With. James. Bond.]]'''

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** As the Cannonball smashes into the gap ''and'' catches fire at the same time, Bond gets ready to fire. Then, the door of the locomotive rips off and as Serraffimo comes into view, struggling to control the train. Without hesitating, Bond empties his entire magazine into Serraffimo, with all 4 rounds hitting the gangster as ''the entire train explodes behind him.''
** With Serraffimo dead and the Cannonball wrecked, Bond and Tiffany watch as the blazing locomotive leaps off the rails and ''drives down a mountain'', before crashing through a mine entrance, smashing through everything in its way, hitting the very bottom of the mine and finally exploding.
exploding. While ''still'' inside the mine.
** Moral of the story? '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Don't. Fuck. With. James. Bond.]]''']]

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** As the Cannonball smashes into the gap ''and'' catches fire at the same time, Bond gets ready to fire. Then, the door of the locomotive rips off and as Serraffimo comes into view, struggling to control the train. Without hesitating, Bond empties his entire magazine into Serraffimo, each .25 round hitting the gangster as ''the entire train explodes behind him.''
** With Serraffimo dead, Bond and Tiffany watch as the train turns into a

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** As the Cannonball smashes into the gap ''and'' catches fire at the same time, Bond gets ready to fire. Then, the door of the locomotive rips off and as Serraffimo comes into view, struggling to control the train. Without hesitating, Bond empties his entire magazine into Serraffimo, each .25 round all 4 rounds hitting the gangster as ''the entire train explodes behind him.''
** With Serraffimo dead, dead and the Cannonball wrecked, Bond and Tiffany watch as the train turns into ablazing locomotive leaps off the rails and ''drives down a mountain'', before crashing through a mine entrance, smashing through everything in its way, hitting the very bottom of the mine and finally exploding.
** Moral of the story? '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Don't. Fuck. With. James. Bond.]]'''

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** First, Bond has just endured an hour of "[[ColdBloodedTorture Brooklyn]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Stomping]]" from Wynt and Kidd. When they're done, he's severely injured and in truly serious pain. But he's pissed off enough to stand up and plan his revenge, with Tiffany's help.

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** First, Bond has just endured an hour of "[[ColdBloodedTorture Brooklyn]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Stomping]]" from Wynt and Kidd. When they're done, he's severely injured injured, bleeding out and in truly serious pain. But he's pissed off enough to stand up and plan his revenge, with Tiffany's help.



** Then, while the whole town is on fire, [[OhCrap Bond hears Seraffimo's train chasing them]]. With only minutes to spare, he and Tiffany try

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** Then, while As the whole town is on fire, starts to burn, [[OhCrap Bond hears Seraffimo's train chasing them]]. With only minutes to spare, he He and Tiffany trytry to drive off, but they find that the handcar's out of gas. Using all their remaining strength, the two push the car to a safe corner before switching the tracks to derail the Cannonball. This leaves a nice big gap in the rails for the Cannonball to run smack into, and a long trail of petrol across the track.
** Ordering Tiffany to take cover behind the car, Bond [[ViolationOfCommonSense heads towards the oncoming train]] and draws his Beretta 418, with four rounds left. Distracted, Serraffimo opens fire at him as he drives the train. Running for cover, Bond hides as the Cannonball approaches the fatal gap.
** As the Cannonball smashes into the gap ''and'' catches fire at the same time, Bond gets ready to fire. Then, the door of the locomotive rips off and as Serraffimo comes into view, struggling to control the train. Without hesitating, Bond empties his entire magazine into Serraffimo, each .25 round hitting the gangster as ''the entire train explodes behind him.''
** With Serraffimo dead, Bond and Tiffany watch as the train turns into a

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* How Bond gets rid of Seraffimo Spang in the novel is considered to be one of the most utterly epic moments in the character's history:

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* How Bond gets rid of revenge on Seraffimo Spang in the novel is considered to be one of the most utterly epic moments in the character's history:



** Next, Bond and Tiffany dump six cans of petrol over a wooden house nearby, before getting into a nearby railroad handcar. But before they drive off, Bond

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** Next, Bond and Tiffany dump six cans of petrol over a wooden house nearby, before getting Tiffany gets into a nearby railroad handcar. But before they drive off, Bondhe joins her, Bond sets a humble newspaper on fire and proceeds to use it as an ''improvised Molotov'', throwing himself into the handcar and speeding off [[UnflinchingWalk as the house explodes behind them.]]
** Then, while the whole town is on fire, [[OhCrap Bond hears Seraffimo's train chasing them]]. With only minutes to spare, he and Tiffany try
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* Bond giving the Las Vegas police chasing him the runaround in a red Ford Mustang around the Vegas strip and getting it to tip on one side to drive through a narrow alleyway.

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* Bond giving the Las Vegas police chasing him the runaround in a red Ford Mustang around the Vegas strip and getting it to tip on one side to drive through a narrow alleyway.alleyway.

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* How Bond gets rid of Seraffimo Spang in the novel is considered to be one of the most utterly epic moments in the character's history:
** First, Bond has just endured an hour of "[[ColdBloodedTorture Brooklyn]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Stomping]]" from Wynt and Kidd. When they're done, he's severely injured and in truly serious pain. But he's pissed off enough to stand up and plan his revenge, with Tiffany's help.
** Next, Bond and Tiffany dump six cans of petrol over a wooden house nearby, before getting into a nearby railroad handcar. But before they drive off, Bond
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* Bond discovers that [[spoiler:he actually killed Blofeld's double at the start of the movie. He's in a room with the real Blofeld and another double, but he doesn't know which is which. So he scares the cat and shoots the one it runs to with his last projectile]]. Turns out Blofeld [[spoiler:even made a double of his ''cat'']]. Well played.

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* Bond discovers that [[spoiler:he actually killed Blofeld's double at the start of the movie. He's in a room with the real Blofeld and another double, but he doesn't know which is which. So he scares the cat and shoots the one it runs to with his last projectile]]. Turns out Blofeld [[spoiler:even made a double of his ''cat'']].''cat'' (or, you know, bought another one)]]. Well played.
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* Bond giving the Las Vegas police chasing him the runaround in a red Ford Mustang around the Vegas strip and getting it on one side to drive through a narrow alleyway.

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* Bond giving the Las Vegas police chasing him the runaround in a red Ford Mustang around the Vegas strip and getting it to tip on one side to drive through a narrow alleyway.
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* Bond's fight with Peter Franks in the elevator, a brutal and suspenseful scene that even the movie's detractors tend to applaud.

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* Bond's fight with Peter Franks in the elevator, a brutal and suspenseful scene that even the movie's detractors tend to applaud.applaud.
* Bond giving the Las Vegas police chasing him the runaround in a red Ford Mustang around the Vegas strip and getting it on one side to drive through a narrow alleyway.
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* Bond's fight with Peter Franks in the elevator, a brutal and suspenseful scene that even the movie's detractors tend to applaud.

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