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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Kind of subverted when Bond is released by the Koreans looking like he'll shout "[[CastAway WILSON!]]".
** But played straight in that he's in remarkably good shape for someone who's endured 14 months of imprisonment and torture.
** His liver's not too good, though.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Kind of subverted Subverted when Bond is released by the Koreans looking like he'll shout "[[CastAway WILSON!]]".
** But played straightWILSON!]]". In truth it is downplayed in that he's in remarkably good shape for someone who's endured 14 months of imprisonment and torture.
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* ActorAllusion: As Q walks around the back of Bond's new [[CoolCar invisible Aston Martin]], the distortion effect makes him appear to do a very [[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus silly walk]].
** In the training sim, Bond refers to the virtual M's seemingly fatal wounding as [[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "just a flesh wound"]] to [[JohnCleese Q]].
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** As Q walks around the back of Bond's new [[CoolCar invisible Aston Martin]], the distortion effect makes him appear to do a very[[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus silly walk]].
** In the training sim, Bond refers to the virtual M's seemingly fatal wounding as[[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail [[Series/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "just a flesh wound"]] to [[JohnCleese [[Creator/JohnCleese Q]].
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: At the end of the film, [[spoiler:Graves' electric suit only works against him, as Bond uses the button on that suit to electrocute him, thereby resulting in him being killed by the plane engines.]]
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* GatlingGood: Zao's Jaguar has a Minigun mounted on top, complete with the usual inaccurate firing rate.
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* AsianGalWithWhiteGuy: Subverted. After Bond arrives in Hong Kong and has had a proper shave and some new clothes, it seems like he tries to seduce the Asian masseuse sent to his room. Then he takes her gun and reveals her as a Chinese operative.
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* MilestoneCelebration: Gets a double: the 40th anniversary of the film canon and the 20th 007 movie. As such, the movie is brimming with {{Mythology Gag}}s (see below).
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** In the training sim, Bond refers to the virtual M's seemingly fatal wounding as [[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "just a flesh wound." He makes this remark wound"]] to John Cleese who said the same thing in MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail after having all his limbs removed by King Arthur.[[JohnCleese Q]].
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** In the training sim, Bond refers to the virtual M's seemingly fatal wounding as "just a flesh wound." He makes this remark to John Cleese who said the same thing in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" after having all his limbs removed by king Arthur.
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* ShoutOut: In addition to all the others, when Q walks around the back of Bond's new [[CoolCar invisible Aston Martin]], the distortion effect makes him appear to do a very [[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus silly walk]].
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* HotChickWithASword: Miranda Frost.
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* PrettyInMink: The ice palace patrons, and a white fur wrap Miranda wears ([[FurAndLoathing the furs were fake]], but still counts more as this).
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A World Wide Punomenon cleanup. Incredibly Lame Pun is the pothole magnet; World Of Pun is for worlds that use many puns
* {{Pun}}:
-->'''Q:''' Aston Martin call it the [[CoolCar "Vanquish"]] -- ''we'' call it the [[InvisibilityCloak "Vanish".]]
-->'''Q:''' Aston Martin call it the [[CoolCar "Vanquish"]] -- ''we'' call it the [[InvisibilityCloak "Vanish".]]
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-->'''Q:''' Aston Martin call it the [[CoolCar "Vanquish"]] -- ''we'' call it the [[InvisibilityCloak "Vanish".]]
-->'''Q:''' Aston Martin call it the [[CoolCar "Vanquish"]] -- ''we'' call it the [[InvisibilityCloak "Vanish".]]
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'''Jinx:''' Your momma. She wanted me to tell you that she's real dissappointed in you.
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**KingpinInHisGym: Colonel Moon, whom we meet taking his Tae Kwon Do- frustrations Do-frustrations out on a punching bag containing his anger therapist- that'll therapist. That'll teach him to lecture Moon.
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-->''[shotguns fire, confetti rains]''
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The 20th JamesBond film, starring Pierce Brosnan in his last appearance as the character (second to last if you count the surprisingly good, in-continuity video game ''EverythingOrNothing'', in which he does the voice-acting). After Bond is captured during an operation in North Korea and subjected to 14 months of torture, he is exchanged for a high ranking "military official" (a.k.a. terrorist). This sets off a chain of events where Bond goes on a vendetta against said official.
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The 20th JamesBond ''Film/JamesBond'' film, starring Pierce Brosnan PierceBrosnan in his last appearance as the character (second to last if you count the surprisingly good, in-continuity video game ''EverythingOrNothing'', in which he does the voice-acting). After Bond is captured during an operation in North Korea and subjected to 14 months of torture, he is exchanged for a high ranking "military official" (a.k.a. terrorist). This sets off a chain of events where Bond goes on a vendetta against said official.
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** According to the movie's Wikipedia page, this film--in honor of the franchise's fortieth--[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Another_Day#References_to_other_films references every single other Bond film at least once]] and several tips of the hat to the original novels.
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** According to the movie's Wikipedia [=IMDb=] page, this film--in honor of the franchise's fortieth--[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Another_Day#References_to_other_films fortieth--[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246460/trivia references every single other Bond film at least once]] and several tips of the hat to the original novels.
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The 20th JamesBond film, starring Pierce Brosnan in his last appearance as the character (second to last if you count the surprisingly good, in-continuity video game ''EverythingOrNothing'', in which he does the voice-acting). After Bond is captured during an operation in North Korea and subjected to 14 months of torture, he is exchanged for a high ranking "military official" (a.k.a. terrorist). This sets off a chain of events where Bond goes on a vendetta against said official.
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!!''Die Another Day'' provides examples of:
* AirborneAircraftCarrier: Sort of. Graves' [[CoolPlane modified Antonov An-124]] carries a helicopter aboard which Bond manages to launch out of it in mid-air.
* AllJustADream: It's implied that the title sequence is a product of 007's mind as he is being tortured.
* ArtisticTitle: An ''extremely'' kinky version in the opening credits, where Bond is being tortured in the background while naked chicks made of ice, fire, and electricity are writhing around in the foreground. It veers into NightmareFuel territory with the implication that this is what Bond is hallucinating during the torture.
* AssholeVictim: The rude guy that Bond knocks out to get himself on the island.
* BeamSpam: Bond fights Mr. Kil in a room full of out-of-control laser beams.
* BeardOfSorrow: More a Beard of Imprisonment, but hey.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Kind of subverted when Bond is released by the Koreans looking like he'll shout "[[CastAway WILSON!]]".
** But played straight in that he's in remarkably good shape for someone who's endured 14 months of imprisonment and torture.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Suggested that Bond endured one of these in the very trippy opening sequence.
* CollapsingLair: More like melting lair.
* CompositeCharacter: Colonel Moon is a weird fusion of the literary version of Hugo Drax with Colonel Sun. In true ''Bond'' fashion, subtitles on the Region 2 DVD reveal his full name to be Tan-Sun Moon.
* ContinuityNod
** The gadgets in Q's lab.
** Jinx emerges from the water in the same manner -- and bikini -- as Honey Ryder from ''DrNo''.
** Bond pretends to be an ornithologist, a nod to his origins as he was named after an ornithologist named James Bond.
** In the training sim, Bond refers to the virtual M's seemingly fatal wounding as "just a flesh wound." He makes this remark to John Cleese who said the same thing in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" after having all his limbs removed by king Arthur.
** According to the movie's Wikipedia page, this film--in honor of the franchise's fortieth--[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Another_Day#References_to_other_films references every single other Bond film at least once]] and several tips of the hat to the original novels.
* CoolCar: ''Two'' of them. [[VehicularCombat They also fight]].
* DeathByLookingUp
* DeathRay
* DefiantToTheEnd: Noted of Bond when all he has to offer after months of brutal torture is a snarky one-liner.
* DirtyCommunists: North Korea's military eagerly supports the conquest of Japan and South Korea through Colonel Moon's plan. It's stated at least once that there was a coup before the invasion, presumably to avoid implicating the entire country as [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Villains]].
* TheDragon: Zao.
* DressHitsFloor: Miranda, as she prepares to sleep with Bond. Leading to a brief shot of ToplessnessFromTheBack... and then followed by ModestyBedsheet.
* EvilCounterpart: Gustav Graves claims to be one.
* EvilRedHead: Graves.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Bond in the North Korean prison grows a beard, and then promptly shaves it off when he gets out.
* FakeOutMakeOut: Bond and Frost.
* FallingChandelierOfDoom: Zao is killed by one.
* FauxActionGirl: Jinx talks a good game but only manages to defeat a secretary in hand to hand combat. The kind of fencing done in the Olympics is more akin to waving a car antenna around than any sort of combative fighting, so beating an Olympic fencer with real weapons is hardly the pinnacle of achievement.
* FrickinLaserBeams: Bond fights Mr. Kil in a room full of out-of-control lasers slicing everything up. It's pretty insane and even if impractical, it's a pretty [[RuleOfCool good visual]].
* GatlingGood: Zao's Jaguar has a Minigun mounted on top, complete with the usual inaccurate firing rate.
* HotChickWithASword: Miranda Frost.
* HurricaneOfPuns: The amount of innuendo between Bond and Jinx may drive your head into the screen. Even for a Bond movie, it's a ''lot''.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Zao is impaled by an ice chandelier about twice his size]].
* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Yes he's James Bond. No, it's unlikely that either his military or his MI6 training including anything on using several different types of longswords. The same can be said for Gustav Graves, who, despite having a [[KnifeNut fencing instructor]] around, would not have learned anything useful about heavy sabers, katanas, hand-and-a-halfs, etc. As above, what Miranda Frost would actually be good at, Olympic fencing, has very little inherently to do with battle-grade weapons.
* InnocentInnuendo (Somewhat): Though what they're doing is hardly innocent, the end sequence of Bond and Jinx playing with diamonds is made to sound like [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything something else]] from outside.
* {{Irony}}: Bond being tortured by a beautiful Korean female officer. Take that you decadent Western womanizer!
* ItsPersonal: Bond desires very strongly to avenge himself on Zao.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: In the epic swordfight between Bond and Gustav Graves, at one point Graves gets hold of a katana and promptly chops Bond's sabre in half with a single blow. Curiously, they both pass up katanas in favor of broadswords for the final duel.
* KillSat: The Icarus (TemptingFate with that name much?)
* KingpinInHisGym:
** Colonel Moon, whom we meet taking his Tae Kwon Do- frustrations out on a punching bag containing his anger therapist- that'll teach him to lecture Moon.
** BigBad Gustav Graves also has some fun at a fencing club. [[spoiler:We later find that they're the same person.]]
* KissMeIAmVirtual: At the end of the movie, Moneypenny is caught experimenting with a pair of VR goggles...
* MagicPlasticSurgery: So magical it even allows you [[spoiler:to switch racial groups]]. Also apparently involves LegoGenetics as it's mentioned to be some form of "gene therapy."
* MajoredInWesternHypocrisy: Colonel Moon, the TropeNamer.
* MeaningfulName
** Miranda [[DefrostingIceQueen Frost]]
** The KillSat is called ''Icarus'' of all things.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Miranda]]
* TheMothership: Played with hovercrafts.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Twice, with it actually working once.
* MythologyGag: It being [[MilestoneCelebration the 40th anniversary of the franchise]], the film includes references to every previous Bond film. Some are more subtle than others.
** The book James carries around to maintain his cover as an ornithologist is written by a real-life person named James Bond. And the author's name is how Ian Fleming came up with the fictional character's name.
* NewEraSpeech: Graves gives one when he presents the power of Icarus to General Moon.
* NotSoDifferent: Gustav Graves states that his persona is based on James Bond. Ironically, it's made him the toast of England.
* NotStayingForBreakfast: For once, Bond ends up on the ''receiving'' end of this.
* [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Backward English Chanting]]: The [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome epic theme]] for [[KillSat Icarus]].
* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: In addition to being a celebration of the series' fortieth anniversary, the producers wanted ''Die Another Day'' to set up a new series starring Jinx. As it turned out though, the mixed reception of this film combined with the catastrophic reaction to ''{{Film/Catwoman}}'' killed off any chance of the ''Jinx'' series taking off.
* PrettyInMink: The ice palace patrons, and a white fur wrap Miranda wears ([[FurAndLoathing the furs were fake]], but still counts more as this).
* ProductPlacement: It isn't new territory for a Bond film, certainly, but it was so glaringly obvious in this one that many critics nicknamed it "''Buy'' Another Day."
* PreMortemOneLiner: "Time to face destiny!" "Time to face gravity!"
* ReadTheFreakingManual: When Q gives Bond the {{doorstopper}} manual for his latest [[CoolCar gadget car]], Bond tosses it in front of the vehicle's automatic shotguns which promptly blast the manual to shreds.
-->'''Q:''' Here's the manual, should be able to shoot through that in a couple of hours.\\
'''Bond:''' [[BondOneLiner Just took a few seconds]], Q.
* RogueAgent: Bond becomes one, at least in the first part of the movie.
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Graves/Moon shoots dead his own father after he tries to stop his plan]].
* SexFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Inverted -- Frost enjoys her night with Bond, but she's still prepared to shoot him dead the next day.]]
* ShootTheHostage: Done by Bond in a virtual training scenario to save M, justifying it as being OnlyAFleshWound.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Bond and the new Q still don't get along.
-->'''Bond:''' Give me the old firing range anyday, Quartermaster.
-->'''Q:''' Yes well they call it the Future, so get used to it. ''(takes Bond into a museum of {{Call Back}}s)''
-->'''Bond:''' This where they keep the old relics, is it?
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Said by Jinx to [[spoiler:Miranda]] during their fight.
* TitleDrop: "So you live to die another day... Colonel."
* UncannyValley: InUniverse, Gustav Graves couldn't avoid it, [[spoiler:the first clue of his identity]]. Zao may qualify too.
* UnwinnableTrainingSimulation: The Virtual Reality Glasses.
* VillainousBreakdown: Gustav Graves goes absolutely CRAZY during his fight with 007. Possibly justified due to the fact he's in a fight with the man who secretly ruined his life.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Gustav Graves is beloved by England.
* VisibleInvisibility: Bond's Aston Martin emits a distortion effect.
* WatchThePaintJob: Colonel Moon's entire rare car collection rains out of the sky onto the rice paddies of North Korea.
* WeaponizedCar: Bond's Aston Martin Vanquish and Zao's Jaguar XKR duel.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Colonel Moon wants this from his father.
* AWorldWidePunomenon:
-->'''Q:''' Aston Martin call it the [[CoolCar "Vanquish"]] -- ''we'' call it the [[InvisibilityCloak "Vanish".]]
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Bond's reaction when he finds out his latest car has a cloaking device.
-->'''Q:''' As I learned from my predecessor, Bond, I ''never'' joke about my work.
* YourMom:
-->'''Zao:''' Who sent you?\\
'''Jinx:''' Your momma. She wanted me to tell you that she's real dissappointed in you.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Said almost verbatim by Bond's Cuban contact, but promptly defied by Bond: "Zao has no interest in other people's freedom."
* ZipMeUp: Happens with ''Madonna''.
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The 20th JamesBond film, starring Pierce Brosnan in his last appearance as the character (second to last if you count the surprisingly good, in-continuity video game ''EverythingOrNothing'', in which he does the voice-acting). After Bond is captured during an operation in North Korea and subjected to 14 months of torture, he is exchanged for a high ranking "military official" (a.k.a. terrorist). This sets off a chain of events where Bond goes on a vendetta against said official.
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!!''Die Another Day'' provides examples of:
* AirborneAircraftCarrier: Sort of. Graves' [[CoolPlane modified Antonov An-124]] carries a helicopter aboard which Bond manages to launch out of it in mid-air.
* AllJustADream: It's implied that the title sequence is a product of 007's mind as he is being tortured.
* ArtisticTitle: An ''extremely'' kinky version in the opening credits, where Bond is being tortured in the background while naked chicks made of ice, fire, and electricity are writhing around in the foreground. It veers into NightmareFuel territory with the implication that this is what Bond is hallucinating during the torture.
* AssholeVictim: The rude guy that Bond knocks out to get himself on the island.
* BeamSpam: Bond fights Mr. Kil in a room full of out-of-control laser beams.
* BeardOfSorrow: More a Beard of Imprisonment, but hey.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Kind of subverted when Bond is released by the Koreans looking like he'll shout "[[CastAway WILSON!]]".
** But played straight in that he's in remarkably good shape for someone who's endured 14 months of imprisonment and torture.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Suggested that Bond endured one of these in the very trippy opening sequence.
* CollapsingLair: More like melting lair.
* CompositeCharacter: Colonel Moon is a weird fusion of the literary version of Hugo Drax with Colonel Sun. In true ''Bond'' fashion, subtitles on the Region 2 DVD reveal his full name to be Tan-Sun Moon.
* ContinuityNod
** The gadgets in Q's lab.
** Jinx emerges from the water in the same manner -- and bikini -- as Honey Ryder from ''DrNo''.
** Bond pretends to be an ornithologist, a nod to his origins as he was named after an ornithologist named James Bond.
** In the training sim, Bond refers to the virtual M's seemingly fatal wounding as "just a flesh wound." He makes this remark to John Cleese who said the same thing in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" after having all his limbs removed by king Arthur.
** According to the movie's Wikipedia page, this film--in honor of the franchise's fortieth--[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Another_Day#References_to_other_films references every single other Bond film at least once]] and several tips of the hat to the original novels.
* CoolCar: ''Two'' of them. [[VehicularCombat They also fight]].
* DeathByLookingUp
* DeathRay
* DefiantToTheEnd: Noted of Bond when all he has to offer after months of brutal torture is a snarky one-liner.
* DirtyCommunists: North Korea's military eagerly supports the conquest of Japan and South Korea through Colonel Moon's plan. It's stated at least once that there was a coup before the invasion, presumably to avoid implicating the entire country as [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Villains]].
* TheDragon: Zao.
* DressHitsFloor: Miranda, as she prepares to sleep with Bond. Leading to a brief shot of ToplessnessFromTheBack... and then followed by ModestyBedsheet.
* EvilCounterpart: Gustav Graves claims to be one.
* EvilRedHead: Graves.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Bond in the North Korean prison grows a beard, and then promptly shaves it off when he gets out.
* FakeOutMakeOut: Bond and Frost.
* FallingChandelierOfDoom: Zao is killed by one.
* FauxActionGirl: Jinx talks a good game but only manages to defeat a secretary in hand to hand combat. The kind of fencing done in the Olympics is more akin to waving a car antenna around than any sort of combative fighting, so beating an Olympic fencer with real weapons is hardly the pinnacle of achievement.
* FrickinLaserBeams: Bond fights Mr. Kil in a room full of out-of-control lasers slicing everything up. It's pretty insane and even if impractical, it's a pretty [[RuleOfCool good visual]].
* GatlingGood: Zao's Jaguar has a Minigun mounted on top, complete with the usual inaccurate firing rate.
* HotChickWithASword: Miranda Frost.
* HurricaneOfPuns: The amount of innuendo between Bond and Jinx may drive your head into the screen. Even for a Bond movie, it's a ''lot''.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Zao is impaled by an ice chandelier about twice his size]].
* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Yes he's James Bond. No, it's unlikely that either his military or his MI6 training including anything on using several different types of longswords. The same can be said for Gustav Graves, who, despite having a [[KnifeNut fencing instructor]] around, would not have learned anything useful about heavy sabers, katanas, hand-and-a-halfs, etc. As above, what Miranda Frost would actually be good at, Olympic fencing, has very little inherently to do with battle-grade weapons.
* InnocentInnuendo (Somewhat): Though what they're doing is hardly innocent, the end sequence of Bond and Jinx playing with diamonds is made to sound like [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything something else]] from outside.
* {{Irony}}: Bond being tortured by a beautiful Korean female officer. Take that you decadent Western womanizer!
* ItsPersonal: Bond desires very strongly to avenge himself on Zao.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: In the epic swordfight between Bond and Gustav Graves, at one point Graves gets hold of a katana and promptly chops Bond's sabre in half with a single blow. Curiously, they both pass up katanas in favor of broadswords for the final duel.
* KillSat: The Icarus (TemptingFate with that name much?)
* KingpinInHisGym:
** Colonel Moon, whom we meet taking his Tae Kwon Do- frustrations out on a punching bag containing his anger therapist- that'll teach him to lecture Moon.
** BigBad Gustav Graves also has some fun at a fencing club. [[spoiler:We later find that they're the same person.]]
* KissMeIAmVirtual: At the end of the movie, Moneypenny is caught experimenting with a pair of VR goggles...
* MagicPlasticSurgery: So magical it even allows you [[spoiler:to switch racial groups]]. Also apparently involves LegoGenetics as it's mentioned to be some form of "gene therapy."
* MajoredInWesternHypocrisy: Colonel Moon, the TropeNamer.
* MeaningfulName
** Miranda [[DefrostingIceQueen Frost]]
** The KillSat is called ''Icarus'' of all things.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Miranda]]
* TheMothership: Played with hovercrafts.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Twice, with it actually working once.
* MythologyGag: It being [[MilestoneCelebration the 40th anniversary of the franchise]], the film includes references to every previous Bond film. Some are more subtle than others.
** The book James carries around to maintain his cover as an ornithologist is written by a real-life person named James Bond. And the author's name is how Ian Fleming came up with the fictional character's name.
* NewEraSpeech: Graves gives one when he presents the power of Icarus to General Moon.
* NotSoDifferent: Gustav Graves states that his persona is based on James Bond. Ironically, it's made him the toast of England.
* NotStayingForBreakfast: For once, Bond ends up on the ''receiving'' end of this.
* [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Backward English Chanting]]: The [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome epic theme]] for [[KillSat Icarus]].
* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: In addition to being a celebration of the series' fortieth anniversary, the producers wanted ''Die Another Day'' to set up a new series starring Jinx. As it turned out though, the mixed reception of this film combined with the catastrophic reaction to ''{{Film/Catwoman}}'' killed off any chance of the ''Jinx'' series taking off.
* PrettyInMink: The ice palace patrons, and a white fur wrap Miranda wears ([[FurAndLoathing the furs were fake]], but still counts more as this).
* ProductPlacement: It isn't new territory for a Bond film, certainly, but it was so glaringly obvious in this one that many critics nicknamed it "''Buy'' Another Day."
* PreMortemOneLiner: "Time to face destiny!" "Time to face gravity!"
* ReadTheFreakingManual: When Q gives Bond the {{doorstopper}} manual for his latest [[CoolCar gadget car]], Bond tosses it in front of the vehicle's automatic shotguns which promptly blast the manual to shreds.
-->'''Q:''' Here's the manual, should be able to shoot through that in a couple of hours.\\
'''Bond:''' [[BondOneLiner Just took a few seconds]], Q.
* RogueAgent: Bond becomes one, at least in the first part of the movie.
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Graves/Moon shoots dead his own father after he tries to stop his plan]].
* SexFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Inverted -- Frost enjoys her night with Bond, but she's still prepared to shoot him dead the next day.]]
* ShootTheHostage: Done by Bond in a virtual training scenario to save M, justifying it as being OnlyAFleshWound.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Bond and the new Q still don't get along.
-->'''Bond:''' Give me the old firing range anyday, Quartermaster.
-->'''Q:''' Yes well they call it the Future, so get used to it. ''(takes Bond into a museum of {{Call Back}}s)''
-->'''Bond:''' This where they keep the old relics, is it?
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Said by Jinx to [[spoiler:Miranda]] during their fight.
* TitleDrop: "So you live to die another day... Colonel."
* UncannyValley: InUniverse, Gustav Graves couldn't avoid it, [[spoiler:the first clue of his identity]]. Zao may qualify too.
* UnwinnableTrainingSimulation: The Virtual Reality Glasses.
* VillainousBreakdown: Gustav Graves goes absolutely CRAZY during his fight with 007. Possibly justified due to the fact he's in a fight with the man who secretly ruined his life.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Gustav Graves is beloved by England.
* VisibleInvisibility: Bond's Aston Martin emits a distortion effect.
* WatchThePaintJob: Colonel Moon's entire rare car collection rains out of the sky onto the rice paddies of North Korea.
* WeaponizedCar: Bond's Aston Martin Vanquish and Zao's Jaguar XKR duel.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Colonel Moon wants this from his father.
* AWorldWidePunomenon:
-->'''Q:''' Aston Martin call it the [[CoolCar "Vanquish"]] -- ''we'' call it the [[InvisibilityCloak "Vanish".]]
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Bond's reaction when he finds out his latest car has a cloaking device.
-->'''Q:''' As I learned from my predecessor, Bond, I ''never'' joke about my work.
* YourMom:
-->'''Zao:''' Who sent you?\\
'''Jinx:''' Your momma. She wanted me to tell you that she's real dissappointed in you.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Said almost verbatim by Bond's Cuban contact, but promptly defied by Bond: "Zao has no interest in other people's freedom."
* ZipMeUp: Happens with ''Madonna''.
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