History Film / DieAnotherDay

* AssholeVictim: The rude guy that Bond knocks out to get himself on the island.

!!''Die Another Day'' provides examples of:
* TheAlbino: Zao for most of the second act

* AdaptationNameChange: Elements of the film story were based upon Fleming's original novel ''Moonraker''. As confirmed by Rosamund Pike in her DVD commentary, her character Miranda Frost was originally named Gala Brand, which was the name of the Bond girl in the original book. Graves, meanwhile, is based upon the original novel's version of Sir Hugo Drax.

* DisqualificationInducedVictory: Miranda Frost got an Olympic silver medal for fencing, but was upgraded to gold when her opponent failed a drug test. [[spoiler:The BigBad, knowing Miranda hated the idea of being second best, rigged the drug test in exchange for Miranda becoming his {{Mole}}.]]

* InvisibilityCloak: Bond's Aston Martin, which even he can't help but compliment without a hint of snark.

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

* 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.]]

* PoorCommunicationKills: Colonel Moon's plot would never have got off the ground had the NSA not withheld vital information about his time outside North Korea. [[spoiler:The NSA 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 NSA feared.]]

''[shotguns fire, confetti rains]''\\

* MilestoneCelebration: Gets a triple: the 50th anniversary of the first novel, the 40th anniversary of the film canon and the 20th 007 movie. As such, the movie is brimming with {{Mythology Gag}}s (see below).

** Bond goes rogue and M rescinds his license to kill just like in ''Film/LicenseToKill''.
** Bond's laser watch from ''Film/{{Goldeneye}}'' returns in this film. Also, Jinx sets the bomb timer to three minutes just like Bond did in the chemical weapons stockpile in ''Goldeneye''.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Subverted when Bond is released by the Koreans looking like he'll shout "[[CastAway WILSON!]]". In truth, it is downplayed in that he's in remarkably good shape for someone who's endured 14 months of imprisonment and torture.

* ImplausibleBoardingSkills: In one of the most derided scenes in the moves, Bond using an improvised surfboard made from the hull of a wrecked ice yacht to para-surf an unconvincing CGI tsunami.

* {{Hypocrite}}: North Korean Colonel Moon sees Western culture as being beneath him. He also loves Western sports cars, [[spoiler:his chief ally is his British girlfriend, and he changed his whole appearance to a Caucasian magnate to further his plot.]]

* [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Backward English Chanting]]: The [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome epic theme]] for [[KillSat Icarus]].

* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Graves[=/=]Colonel Moon shoots dead his own father after he tries to stop his plan]].

* RealityEnsues: Whatever else this film does, it shows us exactly what happens to a spy who gets captured in a hostile territory.

* RedRightHand: [[TheDragon Zao]] has diamonds embedded in his face.

* {{Hypocrite}}: North Korean Colonel Moon sees Western culture as being beneath him. He also loves Western sports cars, [[spoiler:has a Western girlfriend and changed his whole appearance to a Caucasian magnate to further his EvilPlan]].

* TheDragon: Zao.

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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).

** Actually, many special forces operatives are trained on knife fighting in addition to CQC, and Naval officers (as James Bond himself is) are still issued ceremonial sabers with their official uniforms. Knowing how to wield an actual sword with at least some degree of efficiency is probably ''less'' implausible than his skills in,say, Winology (especially some of the older movies). Or his UniversalDriversLicense .

*** It's actually a shout-out to the very similar climax scene in ''Film/TheLivingDaylights''.

** YMMV Bond fencing with the BigBad is very similar to ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena''.

** Bond fencing with the BigBad is very similar to ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena''.

** Actually, many special forces operatives are trained on knife fighting in addition to CQC, and Naval officers (as James Bond himself is) are still issued ceremonial sabers with their official uniforms. Knowing how to wield an actual sword with at least some degree of efficiency is probably ''less'' implausible than his skills in,say, Winology (especially some of the older movies). Or his ''Universal Driver's Licence''

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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 honour. Freed via a prisoner exchange after 14 months of torture, 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, Bond becomes a rogue agent and resumes hunting for his quarry.

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