History Film / Goldeneye

For the [[SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames mega-hit]] UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}} game adaptation, [[VideoGame/GoldenEye1997 see here]]. For that game's [[VideoGameRemake remake]], [[VideoGame/GoldenEye2010 see here]]. For the arcade pinball game from Creator/{{Sega}}, see [[Pinball/GoldenEye here]]. Despite the name, ''VideoGame/GoldenEyeRogueAgent'' is not directly based on this film.

* CoolGuns:
** You know when a firefight will break out whenever James Bond gets a hold of an AK-74. Xenia Onatopp and other Soviet/Russian troops have this rifle too.
** A French sailor is armed with a MAS-49/56.
** Alec Trevelyan's sidearms are both upgrades based on the Browning Hi-Power, primarily the upgraded BDM, but in the opening at Arkhangelsk he's also seen with the BDA in one scene (presumably meant to use it more often for that part, since it was the only one of the two that actually existed in 1986 when that opening is set).
** Q mentions that the BMW Z3 he's giving bond has Stinger missiles behind the headlamps, not that it is actually possible considering that the missiles are half the length of the car and there is nowhere for the backblast to go.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Q can't help but laugh at Bond's "writing's on the wall" joke. Boris is also amused when Bond belittles [[BadBoss Janus's]] scheme.

** Similarly, before Bond discovers that Alec is being held at gunpoint, listen closely. There's no sound of any kind of struggle that might suggest that Alec is being overpowered by soldiers and forced into a hostage position. Because he didn't need to be; the whole thing is a set-up.

* ChekhovsSkill: Boris is quite dismissive of Natalya's programming abilities, sneering that "she works on the guidance system." [[spoiler:The Goldeneye is destroyed when she uses said guidance system to drop it out of orbit.]]

* NothingCanStopUsNow: The best use of "I am invincible!" is delivered by Boris Grishenko, who has it as his CatchPhrase. When he survives the destruction of Trevelyan's base after the second Goldeneye satellite smacked into the atmosphere, he utters the line, and immediately gets frozen to death when some tanks of liquid nitrogen explode right behind him. Also a ChekhovsGun, as the liquid nitrogen tanks obviously been there the whole time. (It serves as coolant for the computers.)

* OneSteveLimit: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] Both the Russian Defence Minister and one of Zukovsky's henchmen are named Dimitri (although Zukovsky's henchman is only a very minor part)

* SherlockScan: An audible variation during Zukovsky's first scene when Bond does his ClickHello. Zukovsky, though he can't see Bond, recognizes the specific gun model just from the cocking sound. From there, Zukovsky quickly deduces it's likely Bond (as only a handful of men he knows personally use Walter PPKs -- and Bond's the only one of them he ''hasn't'' killed yet). His deductions are ultimately confirmed when Bond responds.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Bond and Natalya.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Alec Trevelyan, 006, was apparently killed in the ColdOpen, but actually turned against MI-6 as part of an elaborate revenge scheme.

* FailedASpotCheck: Subverted. After Bond discovers [[spoiler:Janus is Trevelyan, Bond rightly wonders how MI6's screening could've possibly missed that Trevelyan's parents were Lienz Cossacks. Trevelyan reveals their screening ''didn't'' miss it at all: they ''knew'', and still let him into Britian's national security agency anyway. MI6's fatal mistake was believing that Trevelyan was too young to remember his parents' suicide or the British Government's betrayal of Trevelyan's people.]]

* FailedASpotCheck:Subverted. After Bond discovers [[spoiler:Janus is Trevelyan, Bond rightly wonders how MI6's screening could've possibly missed that Trevelyan's parents were Lienz Cossacks. Trevelyan reveals their screening ''didn't'' miss it: they ''knew'', and let him into Britian's national security agency anyway. MI6's mistake was believing that Trevelyan was too young to remember his parents' suicide or the British Government's betrayal of Trevelyan's people.]]

** This is how Bond gets Zukovsky help him despite the latter's grudge for crippling his knee during the Cold War. Bond provides intel on a rigged crime deal going down this afternoon -- a deal which, with this information, will net Zukovsky a tidy profit from the sting operation. In exhcange, Zukovsky will set up a meeting with Janus for Bond -- which will settle the debts between them and leave Janus owing Zukovsky a favor.

* RecycledSoundtrack: Eric Serra reused some of his cues from ''Film/LeonTheProfessional'', including the end credits song "The Experience of Love".

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Boris breaks Natalya's codes, but has no answer to Bond's concurrent physical sabotage of the EvilLair's antenna, which prevents the [=GoldenEye=] satellite from realignment.]]

** Natalya also gives a short but effective one to Boris.

* DiedStandingUp: After the explosion around him, Boris Grishenko comes out of the desk he used as cover unharmed to shout: "YES! I AM INVINCIBLE!!"; failing to notice the tanks of liquid nitrogen [[spoiler:which explodes... [[HumanPopsicle freezing him in his current pose]]]].

** Ourumov is [[EvenEvilHasStandards clearly a little disturbed]] by how much pleasure Xenia has in killing everyone at the facility; a DeletedScene establishes this trope as his dynamic with Boris as well, and what little we see of his relationship with Janus inclines to this too.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Alec and Boris clearly dislike one another; the latter is openly insolent towards the former, and the former has very little patience for the latter's pretensions. They each take some pleasure in the other's misfortune during the climax.
** This is the one Bond movie where the main villains are clearly all just business associates and have no personal relationship with each other at all, they all just happen to have useful skills or connections for their plan. Ourumov is clearly a little disturbed by how much pleasure Xenia has in killing everyone at the facility. It also averts the often used BlofeldPloy and YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness.

* ArcWords: "For England, James".

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Q can't help but laugh at Bond's "writing's on the wall" joke.

'''M:''' ''[[IronicEcho Neither did you]].'' Don't make it personal.

* AxCrazy: Xenia Onatopp is a PsychoForHire for the Janus Syndicate who actually derives ''sexual pleasure'' from the act of killing. Her favourite murder method is asphyxiating men between her MurderousThighs while having sex, and she practically orgasms when gunning down unarmed technicians at the Severnaya facility. It even bothers Ourumov, who is not known for his squeamishness.

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