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* AdaptationNameChange: Elements of the film story were based upon Creator/IanFleming's original novel ''Literature/{{Moonraker}}''. As confirmed by Rosamund Pike in her DVD commentary, Miranda Frost was originally named Gala Brand, which was the name of the Bond girl in the original book. Gustav Graves, meanwhile, is based upon the original novel's version of Sir Hugo Drax.
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* AdaptationNameChange: Elements of the film story were based upon Creator/IanFleming's original novel ''Literature/{{Moonraker}}''. As confirmed by [[WordOfStPaul Rosamund Pike in her DVD commentary, Pike]], Miranda Frost was originally named Gala Brand, which was the name of the Bond girl in the original book. Gustav Graves, meanwhile, is based upon the original novel's version of Sir Hugo Drax.
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* ChekhovsGun: The Aston's InvisibilityCloak. Bond attempts to use it during the car chase/duel with Zao, only for Zao's Gatling guns to disable it. It gets restored later in the scene and allows Bond to defeat Zao when Zao attempts to ram him.
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* OhCrap: Zao when Bond shoots down the chandelier above his head, letting out a scream before it impales him.
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* SecretSecretKeeper: Chang appears to be just a typical hotel manager who sucks up to Bond. When Bond finds him peering into his room with others, he openly asks "do you really think I didn't always know you were Chinese intelligence?"
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** Miranda slashes Jinx across the stomach during their swordfight. There's no sign of the cut during hers and Bond's love scene even though it would never have healed in such a short time.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: Trapped on the crashing Antonov, Jinx declares to Bond, "Looks like we're going down together!", with a rueful smile that indicates that she's determined to invoke this trope.
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* AlasPoorVillain: InUniverse; Bond experiences this [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x39g39v when he sees]] [[spoiler:Miranda Frost's]] corpse even though he had tried to [[spoiler:kill her the instant he had learned that she was the traitor at [=MI6=]]].
* AluminumChristmasTrees: The [[http://www.icehotel.com/ Ice Hotel]].
* AluminumChristmasTrees: The [[http://www.icehotel.com/ Ice Hotel]].
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* AlasPoorVillain: InUniverse; Bond experiences this [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x39g39v when he sees]] sees [[spoiler:Miranda Frost's]] corpse even though he had tried to [[spoiler:kill her the instant he had learned that she was the traitor at [=MI6=]]].
* AluminumChristmasTrees: The[[http://www.icehotel.com/ Ice Hotel]].Hotel.
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* ChivalrousPervert: Bond's [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x390eac sheer panic (and later relief)]] when he attempts to resuscitate Jinx proves that she's not just a notch on his bedpost.
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* ChivalrousPervert: Bond's [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x390eac sheer panic (and later relief)]] relief) when he attempts to resuscitate Jinx proves that she's not just a notch on his bedpost.
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*** Q also notes that Bond's watch is his twentieth, and implores him to actually return this one.
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Invoked. Mr Kil seems to really enjoy that laser.
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* TheCameo: Madonna cameos as Verity, Miranda Frost and Gustav Graves'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.
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* TheCameo: Madonna Music/{{Madonna}} cameos as Verity, Miranda Frost and Gustav Graves'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.
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The film holds many vignettes to previous Bond outings, such as Brosnan playing the 'loose cannon' in the tropics (''Film/LicenceToKill''), Halle Berry exiting the water in slow-mo (''Film/DrNo''), a diamond-encrusted sky laser (''Film/DiamondsAreForever''), and action scenes bordering on self-parody (''Film/{{Moonraker}}'').
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The film holds many vignettes to previous Bond outings, such as Brosnan playing the 'loose cannon' in the tropics (''Film/LicenceToKill''), Halle Berry exiting the water in slow-mo (''Film/DrNo''), a diamond-encrusted sky laser (''Film/DiamondsAreForever''), and action scenes bordering on self-parody (''Film/{{Moonraker}}'').(''Film/{{Moonraker}}'') and many, ''many'' more {{Mythology Gag}}s for [[MilestoneCelebration the franchise's 40th anniversary]].
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* CatFight: Jinx and Miranda's swordfight on the Antonov. While overall very realistically done, each is still conveniently clad in a tank top to provide some sex appeal.
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Following Zao's trail leads him to Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens), a wunderkind entrepreneur who's made a fortune in blood diamonds and is building some kind of space-based sunlight reflector [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial which in no way resembles a]] [[KillSat death ray]].
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Following Zao's trail leads him to Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens), (Creator/TobyStephens), a wunderkind entrepreneur who's made a fortune in blood diamonds and is building some kind of space-based sunlight reflector [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial which in no way resembles a]] [[KillSat death ray]].
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* EndOfAnAge: In many ways, this is the last Bond film to feature Creator/PierceBrosnan as the titular character and the last film in the original franchise that started with ''Dr. No''.
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* EndOfAnAge: In many ways, this is the last Bond film to feature Creator/PierceBrosnan as the titular character and the last film in the original franchise that started with ''Dr. No''. It was also the last of the films with a pre-WarOnTerror vibe, which the DarkerAndEdgier DanielCraig films reflected.
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* 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 by the hardliners before the invasion, presumably to avoid implicating the entire country as [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Villains]].
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* 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 by the hardliners before the invasion, presumably to avoid implicating the entire country as [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Villains]]. Downplayed/averted during the Cuba scenes, even though FidelCastro was still in charge at the time.
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* EndOfAnAge: In many ways, this is the last Bond film to feature Creator/PierceBrosnan as the titular character and the last film in the original franchise that started with ''Dr. No''.
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* JustPlaneWrong: Graves' plane undergoes an explosive decompression that sucks everyone minus Bond, Graves, Miranda and Jinx from the aircraft, and none of then undergo the potentially fatal effects of hypoxia at the plane's sustained altitude. Plus, most planes today are designed so that bullets alone cannot trigger such a catastrophic event.
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* JustPlaneWrong: Graves' plane undergoes an explosive decompression that sucks everyone minus Bond, Graves, Miranda and Jinx from the aircraft, and none of then them undergo the potentially fatal effects of hypoxia at the plane's sustained altitude. Plus, most planes today are designed so that bullets alone cannot trigger such a catastrophic event.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The intro, bordering on NightmareFuel. For the first time, the intro is used to advance the film's story rather than just hint at it's theme. We get various scenes of Bond's torture, which includes waterboarding and beatings, and those customary silhouettes of nubile women aren't titillating Bond, they're either participating in the torture, soothing him, or might just be hallucinations that he's having.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The intro, bordering on NightmareFuel. For the first time, the intro is used to advance the film's story rather than just hint at it's its theme. We get various scenes of Bond's torture, which includes waterboarding and beatings, and those customary silhouettes of nubile women aren't titillating Bond, they're either participating in the torture, soothing him, or might just be hallucinations that he's having.
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Following Zao's trail leads him to Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens), a wunderkind entrepreneur who's made a fortune in blood diamonds and is building some kind of space-based sunlight reflector [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial which in no way resembles a [[KillSat death ray]]]].
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Following Zao's trail leads him to Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens), a wunderkind entrepreneur who's made a fortune in blood diamonds and is building some kind of space-based sunlight reflector [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial which in no way resembles a a]] [[KillSat death ray]]]].
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* {{Nepotism}}: It's pretty obvious that the main reason why Colonel Moon even holds such a high rank in the North Korean military, a position that he then abuses for his own gain, is because his father is a General.
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** Colonel Moon wants this from his father.
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** Colonel Moon wants this from his father. At least until [[spoiler:he becomes Gustav Graves]].
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* BloodlessCarnage: Miranda gets stabbed through the ''heart'' by Jinx, and yet we don't see any blood emerge from the wound.
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** Bond of all people is hit by this after sleeping with Miranda, not noticing until she reveals her true colors before Graves that she had emptied his pistol while they slept. A particularly careless move for the world's best 00 Agent.
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''Die Another Day'' is the 20th ''Film/JamesBond'' film and stars Creator/PierceBrosnan in his fourth and last appearance as 007. It is also the final film set in the original series before getting a ContinuityReboot in ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006''.
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''Die Another Day'' is the 20th ''Film/JamesBond'' film and stars Creator/PierceBrosnan in his fourth and last appearance as 007. It is also the final film set in the original series before getting a ContinuityReboot in ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006''.
''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}''.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The intro, bordering on NightmareFuel. For the first time, the intro is used to advance the film's story rather than just hint at it's theme. We get various scenes of Bond's torture, which includes waterboarding and beatings, and those customary silhouettes of nubile women aren't titillating Bond, they're either participating in the torture, soothing him, or might just be hallucinations that he's having.
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* GoOutWithASmile: Jinx is clearly determined to FaceDeathWithDignity, given her cheerful declaration of "Looks like we're going down together!"
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''Die Another Day'' is the 20th ''Film/JamesBond'' film and stars Creator/PierceBrosnan in his fourth and last appearance as 007.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: Vladimir is sucked out of the plane when the side of it explodes.
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** Bond's [[UnwinnableTrainingSimulation Virtual Reality mission]] is based on the stage "King's Ransom" in the Nintendo64 game ''The World Is Not Enough''.
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** Bond's [[UnwinnableTrainingSimulation Virtual Reality mission]] is based on the stage "King's Ransom" in the Nintendo64 UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 game ''The World Is Not Enough''.
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* 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]].
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When Graves invites the fencing instructor to bet on his duel with Bond, she says sarcastically, "I'm not into cock fights." This could be understood as refering to the blood sport between roosters, or her outright calling it a dick-measuring contest.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When Graves invites the fencing instructor to bet on his duel with Bond, she says sarcastically, "I'm not into cock fights." This could be understood as refering referring to the blood sport between roosters, or her outright calling it a dick-measuring contest.contest.
* HappyEndingMassage: At the Chinese hotel, a masseuse is sent to Bond, compliments of the management. Bond starts making the moves on her, causing her to remark that she "isn't that kind of masseuse." Bond replies that he "isn't that kind of customer," [[SubvertedTrope then reaches down and grabs the gun strapped to her thigh]]. She's actually been sent to spy on him by the management, who are hiding behind a mirror in the room.
* HappyEndingMassage: At the Chinese hotel, a masseuse is sent to Bond, compliments of the management. Bond starts making the moves on her, causing her to remark that she "isn't that kind of masseuse." Bond replies that he "isn't that kind of customer," [[SubvertedTrope then reaches down and grabs the gun strapped to her thigh]]. She's actually been sent to spy on him by the management, who are hiding behind a mirror in the room.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: At the end of the film, [[spoiler:Graves' electric suit only works against him, as Bond uses a button on the suit to somehow electrocute him, causing him to lose his grip on the door frame and fly into the engine.]]
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: At the end of the film, [[spoiler:Graves' electric suit only works is turned against him, as him after he's hanging out of a hole in the plane. When Bond uses a button on triggers the suit to somehow electrocute him, causing him to lose electrocution, the no-longer-grounded Graves is shocked and loses his grip on the door frame and fly grip, getting dragged into the engine.]]
