History Film / DieAnotherDay

** The jetpack from ''Film/Thunderball'' is seen in Q's laboratory. Bond also employs a small rebreather like he did in that film.

** Bond's laser watch from ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' returns in this film. Also, Jinx sets the bomb timer to three minutes just like Bond did in the chemical weapons stockpile in ''Goldfinger''.

* MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow: 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 that was sent to his room. Then he takes her gun and reveals her as a Chinese operative.

** The shoe with the poison-tipped blade is seen in Q's laboratory. Also, the briefcase contains a hidden knife.

* CallBack: Jinx emerges from the water in the same manner -- and bikini -- as Honey Ryder from ''Film/DrNo''.
** The film is full of these to the previous films. Given that this was released for the 40th anniversary of James Bond, it's likely this was intentional.

** According to the movie's [=IMDb=] page, this film -- in honour of the franchise's 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.

* PrettyInMink: The ice palace patrons, and a white fur wrap Miranda wears (the furs were fake, but still counts more as this).

* 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.

{{The one with}} the invisible car.

* 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 [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus silly walk]].
** In the training sim, Bond refers to the virtual M's seemingly fatal wounding as [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "just a flesh wound"]] to [[Creator/JohnCleese Q]].
** Bond's heavy beard echoes Pierce Brosnan's TV-movie adaptation of ''RobinsonCrusoe''.

* {{Irony}}: One of the soldiers torturing Bond is a beautiful Korean female officer. Take ''that'' you decadent Western womanizser!

* {{Jerkass}}: Mr Krug, the obnoxious man in Cuba who unintentionally provides Bond with a way into the gene therapy clinic. He's a womaniser, loud and boorish, and threatens to shoot a poor waiter's testicles off if he doesn't do exactly what he says.

* TheCameo: Madonna as Frost's fencing instructor. Thus far she's the only theme song singer to make an appearance in the film, unless you count Sheena Easton singing the ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' theme on screen.

* InformedAbility: Frost. Said to be a gold medal standard fencer, in her one battle she swings wildly with minimal effect and is killed for her trouble.

* {{Irony}}: Bond being tortured by a beautiful Korean female officer. Take ''that'' you decadent Western womanizser!

** 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.

* ShoutOut: When John Cleese walks behind the invisible car, the light refraction makes him appear for a quick second like he's doing a [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Silly Walk]].

** During the climax on the plane when Graves throws out one of the parachutes is very similar to the climax in ''Film/AirForceOne'' when Egor Korshunov throws out the last parachute out the plane before fighting Marshall. If only Bond said, "Get off this plane," it would be cooler.

* WholePlotReference: While the villain's motivations are different, the scheme itself is taken wholesale from ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'': From using diamonds to build a giant space laser KillSat for neutralising ground-based military defences to the villain impersonating a respected industrialist.

* {{Pun}}:
-->'''Q:''' Aston Martin call it the [[CoolCar "Vanquish"]] -- ''we'' call it the [[InvisibilityCloak "Vanish".]]

* 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]].

* ShoutOut: When John Cleese walks behind the invisible car, the light refraction makes him appear to be performing a [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Silly Walk]].

** During the climax on the plane when Graves throws out one of the parachutes is very similar to the climax in ''Film/AirForceOne'' when Korshunov throws out the last parachute out the plane before fighting Marshall.
** Bond's [[UnwinnableTrainingSimulation Virtual Reality mission]] is based on the stage "King's Ransom" in the Nintendo 64 game ''The World Is Not Enough''.

** Though oddly enough, this causes a plot hole. [[spoiler:How did no one notice this man never existed until a few months ago? And how did he accomplish enough to warrant a knighthood in that period?]]

* PoorCommunicationKills: Colonel Moon's plot would never have got off the ground had the CIA not withheld vital information about his time outside North Korea. [[spoiler:The CIA knew of Frost's association with Moon through the Harvard fencing team, but kept it from MI6 because they feared there was a mole in their organisation, thereby preventing them from fingering her as the very mole the CIA feared.]]

As per usual for 007, the film opens with a botched mission in which Bond is betrayed and beaten up; This time, the North Koreans get the honor. Freed after 14 months of torture via a prisoner exchange, Bond is aghast to learn his freedom was purchased at the cost of his adversary, a war criminal named Zao, walking off scot free. Discharged by [=MI-6=] and receiving a predictably chilly reception from M ("Why didn't you take your cyanide?"), Bond becomes a rogue agent and resumes hunting for his quarry.

* 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 horrific territory with the implication that this is what Bond is hallucinating during the torture.

* BeamSpam: Bond fights Mr. Kil in a room full of out-of-control laser beams.

* BorrowedBiometricBypass: After Mr. Kil meets his end by way of laser, Bond tries to drag his corpse over to a hand scanner. Jinx decides to cut out the middle man and laser off his hand.

* TheCameo: Madonna as Frost's fencing instructor. Thus far she's the only theme song singer to make an appearance in the film, unless you count Sheena Easton singing the ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' theme onscreen.

** Bond pretends to be an ornithologist, a nod to his origins as he was named after an ornithologist named James Bond.
*** Fleming took the name off a book he had, rather than any particular shout-out. The book he picks up in the office of his Cuban contact may well be that book - if you freeze frame you will notice the author's name has been defaced.
** According to the movie's [=IMDb=] page, this film--in honor of the franchise's 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.

* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Graves' parachute is sucked into the turbine of his own plane. Though he manages to hold on, Bond electrocutes Graves with his own gauntlet, sending him into the rotary blades.]]

* 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.

** TheBrute: Mr. Kil

* 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]].

* 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.
* InformedAbility: Frost. Said to be a gold medal standard fencer, in her one battle she swings wildly with minimal effect and is murdered for her trouble.

* {{Irony}}: Bond being tortured by a beautiful Korean female officer. Take ''that'' you decadent Western womanizer!

* 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 longswords for the final duel.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: "New watch - this'll be your twentieth, I believe?" This joke works on two levels, as Bond is glib about returning all of Q's hardware in pieces.
* 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."

** The KillSat is called ''Icarus'' of all things.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Colonel Moon's plot would have never gotten off the ground had the CIA not withheld vital information about his time outside North Korea. [[spoiler:The CIA knew of Frost's association with Moon through the Harvard fencing team, but kept it from MI6 because they feared there was a mole in their organization, thereby preventing them from fingering her as the very mole the CIA feared.]]

-->'''Bond:''' Give me the old firing range anyday, Quartermaster.

* WholePlotReference: While the villain's motivations are different, the scheme itself is taken wholesale from ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'': From using diamonds to build a giant space laser KillSat for neutralizing ground-based military defenses, to the villain impersonating a respected industrialist.

* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Said almost verbatim by Bond's Cuban contact, but promptly defied by Bond: "Zao has no interest in other people's freedom."

** BigBad: Gustav Graves [[spoiler:/Colonel Moon]]

* DeathByIrony: Graves' parachute is sucked into the turbine of his own plane. Though he manages to hold on, Bond electrocutes Graves with his own gauntlet, sending him into the rotary blades.

* TheCameo: Madonna as Frost's fencing instructor. Thus far she's the only theme song singer to make an appearance in the film, unless you count Sheena Easton singing the ''{{For Your Eyes Only}}'' theme onscreen.

* 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.]]

** Though oddly enough, this causes a plot hole. [[spoiler:How did no one notice this man never existed until a few months ago?]]