History Film / NoTimeToDie

* {{Booknds}}:

* AesopAmnesia: Averted by Q, who has evidently learned from his [[IdiotBall mistake]] back in {{Film/Skyfall}} and accesses [[MadScientist Valdo Obruchev's]] flash drive from a virtual sandbox. Played straight by M, who had previously taken firm stances against his predecessor's risky leadership choices and the over-reaching global surveillance that C had proposed in ''Spectre'' ... only for him forget all that, and create a highly risky gene-targetting nanovirus behind the government's back in what turns out to be an insecure facility.

* AgentsDating: Hilariously ''{{averted}}'' twice:

-->'''Bond''': Well, that's not the first thing I thought you'd take off, but, uh...

* AsYouKnow: During the final battle, Bond and Q have a long conversation about how the former has to open the silo doors for the missile strike. There’s no way Bond wouldn’t already know this, so this is clearly for the audience’s benefit. [[spoiler:And so that viewers understand why Bond has to turn back when Safin closes them again.]]

* TheDeterminator: [[spoiler:Despite having been shot multiple times by Safin, Bond is still hell bent on escaping and getting back to his family, as evidenced by him asking Q, "How do I get it (Heracles) off?". Not until Q reminds him that it's permanent does he accept his fate.]]

** The opening BondGunBarrel sequence, instead of blood dripping down the screen, has Bond's silhouette FadeToWhite as it segues into the opening flashback. [[spoiler:Bond's death scene has him disappearing in a flash of white as the missiles hit Safin’s island]].

** [[spoiler:During their final conversation, Madeleine tearfully declares, “There’s no one left to hurt us.” Indeed, they are FINALLY safe from all potential enemies. . . and they STILL can’t be together.]]

* LastKiss: Bond and Madeleine have a BigDamnKiss just before [[spoiler:he sends her and Mathilde to safety, but when he doesn’t make it, it becomes this]].

* VillainsOutShopping: Bond and Paloma infiltrate a [=SPECTRE=] meeting only to find they are holding a birthday party for their boss, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. However, it turns out they knew Bond was coming because the greatest birthday present for Blofeld would be the death of James Bond.

! As the GrandFinale to the ''Franchise/JamesBond'' films starring Creator/DanielCraig, spoilers for all preceding entries, including ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' will be unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!

* ActorAllusion: Bond tells Creator/RamiMalek's Safin that history is not kind to men who play God. One of the first monologues in ''Series/MrRobot'' has [[DoesNotLikeMen Elliot Alderson]], Rami Malek's character, rant about men playing God. [[spoiler: Bonus points for the fact that both this and ''Series/MrRobot'' have tragic scenes in the climax related to fatherhood and both Bond and Elliot sacrificing themselves to save the world, only difference is that while Elliot survived due to KarmicJackpot, Bond unfortunately didn't.]]

* AdaptationalSexuality: [[spoiler: One quick line established that like his actor Creator/BenWhishaw's incarnation of Q is gay (or possibly bisexual), when he mentions that he was having date with another man as Bond and Moneypenny drop in on him.]]

* AllThereInTheManual: Safin's family who were [[spoiler: a powerful pharmaceutical manufacturer from Kazan, Russia actually owned the Kuril Island facility that is Safin's base of operations. His father was the one who used it as his lab and planted the garden of death as a display to impress his clients. After Safin's family was killed, the facility fell into disrepair, only being rebuilt and made operational once more by the events of the movie.]]

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Bond to Madeleine after he finds her in Norway, telling her that he doesn't regret a moment that they spent together and ''does'' regret leaving her. [[spoiler: They exchange even MORE anguished "I love yous" during their final phone call.]]

** The Type 45 Destroyer HMS ''Dragon'' [[spoiler: isn't actually equipped with Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles in real life, but is capable of being armed with them once extensive modifications are made.]]

--> '''Safin:''' I want the world to evolve, yet you want it to stay the same. Let's face it -- I've made you redundant.\\

* AsYouKnow: During the final battle, Bond and Q have a long conversation about how the former has to open the silo doors for the missile strike. There’s no way Bond wouldn’t already know this, so this is clearly for the audience’s benefit. [[spoiler: And so that viewers understand why Bond has to turn back when Safin closes them again.]]

** [[spoiler: Bond himself, in-universe, who gets enticed into coming out of retirement and rejoining MI-6]].

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: Rather than lying there on the floor bleeding to death from the multiple gunshots Safin has inflicted, Bond summons the strength to climb to the roof of the facility and take the missile strike head on. (It’s also a conscious decision to stay behind and die in the blast rather than dying because he failed to escape in time.]]

* BigDamnKiss: Bond and Madeleine when they [[ReunionKiss reunite]], for all of two seconds [[spoiler: before they're interrupted by Mathilde. They get a more typical one before he sends them to safety, which sadly ends up being OneLastKiss.]]

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler: Felix Leiter, though Bond eventually follows suit.]]
* BlatantLies: Madeleine tells Bond [[spoiler: "She's [Mathilde's] not yours." But given that she clearly IS, this is meant to be taken symbolically, not literally.]]

--> '''Bond:''' ''[to Q]'' [[spoiler:I showed someone your watch. It blew his mind.]]
* BookEnds:

** During the cold opener, [[spoiler: Safin gets shot multiple times by a Beretta 92FS fired by Madeline.]] At the end of the movie, [[spoiler: 007 executes Safin with the man's own Beretta [=M9A3=], the updated, current generation version of the 92FS.]]
** At the end of the first act of the movie, Felix Leiter [[spoiler: dies when Logan Ash guns him down with a Beretta [=M9A3=] leading to his death by blood loss]]. At the end of the movie, [[spoiler: Safin ensures Bond's death is all but certain by shooting him with another [=M9A3=].]]

*** Speaking of Felix, Bond and Paloma drink a toast to him [[spoiler: ''before'' he dies, ironically. At the end of the movie, the [=MI-6=] gang drinks a toast to the now equally deceased Bond.]]

*** Similarly, the movie starts with Safin depriving Madeleine of her mother, [[spoiler: and ends with him depriving her daughter of her father.]]

** At the beginning of the movie, Bond visits Vesper's grave and declares "I miss you". [[spoiler: By the end, they could be considered TogetherInDeath]].
** In the title sequence of ''Film/DrNo'', the only graphics shown were dancing, flashing balls. This film's opening sequence starts the same way. As well, Bond and Leiter meet for the first time in ''Dr. No'', [[spoiler: but for the LAST time in this movie]].
** At the beginning of the movie, Madeline teases Bond about "looking over your shoulder", regarding his paranoia about people stalking them (which turns out to be completely justified). By the film's end, she tearfully declares "There's no one left to hurt us!", as Bond has finally eliminated all their enemies, meaning that they can live in peace. [[spoiler: And despite Bond himself being killed, she and Mathilde can do just that.]]

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Creator/DanielCraig looks skyward--[[AsideGlance and directly into the camera]] as Bond speaks [[spoiler: his last words--"I KNOW"-- essentially telling the viewers that he knows he's Mathilde's father.]]

%% (This is incorrect: They WERE supposed to kill him. ** She does go off the rails ''once'' [[spoiler: when she kills Obruchev (who was supposed to be kept prisoner) for being a racist prick.]] %%

* CarFu: Bond runs several of the cars chasing him, Madeleine, and [[spoiler: Mathilde]] off the road, then lures the others into a fatal crash, and caps it off by dropping one on [[spoiler: Logan Ash]].

* CombatPragmatist: Paloma lives by this trope in spades. During the chaos of the Cuba scene, [[spoiler: she speedily kills as many of the Spectre security men she can with speed, overwhelming firepower via GunsAkimbo, a surprise attack where she bludgeons several of the bodyguards with her empty submachine gun, and finally a jump kick where she deliberately incapacitates the surviving hostiles before snatching up one of their pistols and shooting them dead with rapid head shots.]]
** Bond grovels [[spoiler: before Safin but uses the opportunity to sneakily ready his compact Walther PPK which allows him to speedily gun down the henchmen covering him with their assault rifles.]]

* ConsultingAConvictedKiller: [[spoiler: Bond has to go through a huge amount of security precautions to talk to the imprisoned Blofeld. Unlike most examples of this trope Blofeld ends up dying.]]
* ContaminationSituation: [[spoiler: Bond is infected with the nanobots that will kill Madeleine and Mathilde, and so he decides to stay on the island.]]

*** At the conclusion of ''Skyfall'' following the previous M's death, M asks Bond if he's ready to get back to work. At the end of this movie, he gently, but firmly declares "Back to work" [[spoiler: following the crew's toast to the deceased Bond.]]

* CreatorInJoke: Creator/DanielCraig faced some derision over his blue eyes when he was first cast as Bond. [[spoiler: In this, his final film, the first thing he notices about Mathilde are ''her'' blue eyes, leading to his confusion when Madeleine tells him "She's not yours". By the film's end, the last words that they exchange are her confirming "She does have your eyes" and him responding "I know".]]

* CrucifiedHeroShot: [[spoiler: We get something pretty close to this in Bond's final moments as he stands on the roof of the facility, bracing himself for the missile strike.]]

* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler: When Bond dies in the bombardment of the island, we explicitly see his body get consumed in the explosion, just so we don't picture him somehow surviving certain death like so many times before.]]

* DeathByDespair: [[spoiler: A possible alternate interpretation of Bond's actions at the end. Even if he miraculously survived the multiple gunshot wounds he's received, he's been injected with a virus that will be lethal to his love and to their daughter, meaning he can never see them again. It's very likely that his devastation at realizing this is why he positioned himself to take the missile strike.]]

* TheDeterminator: [[spoiler: Despite having been shot multiple times by Safin, Bond is still hell bent on escaping and getting back to his family, as evidenced by him asking Q, "How do I get it (Heracles) off?". Not until Q reminds him that it's permanent does he accept his fate.]]

* DoNotGoGentle: [[spoiler: Despite being mortally wounded by Safin, Bond still finds the strength to get to the silo room and open the blast doors to ensure that Heracles will be destroyed, thus completing his mission. He also asks Q how he can get the Heracles off of himself, clearly intending to keep trying to escape and get back to his family despite how badly he's hurt, and not until Q reminds him that it's permanent does he accept his fate. Even then, he still manages to climb to the roof of the facility and stand tall, rather than than lie there on the floor bleeding out.]]

* EnvironmentalSymbolism: [[spoiler: Madeleine and Mathilde are bathed in beautiful sunlight as they escape the gloomy facility. When we see the scene from Madeleine's point of view, Bond appears much the same way. But whereas Bond's view served to assure us that Madeleine and Mathilde would be safe, it also serves as the first hint that he's not going to make it and that this is the is the last time he'll see them.]]

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Bond calls up Q and M to tell for an update and asks about [[spoiler: Nomi hunting Ash]]. They send him an image of a map with Bond recognizing the area as where he, Madeleine [[spoiler:and Mathilde]] are.

** When Bond, Felix Leiter, Logan Ash bring back the scientist Obruchev to their boat to interrogate him, Ash suddenly becomes frantic for Bond to be dismissed from the interrogation and keeps defiantly shouting over Bond that Obruchev doesn't have to answer any of his questions. Then Bond finally demands to know how Blofeld knew he would be in Cuba, [[spoiler: and that's when he notices Obruchev is glancing directly at Ash...]]

* FondMemoriesThatCouldHaveBeen: [[spoiler: The life he could have had with Madeleine and Mathilde is likely the last thing Bond thinks of before he dies.]]

* FreezeFrameBonus: When Bond and Nomi rescue Madeleine and [[spoiler: Mathilde, he says “they’re my. . .”, then turns around as he either mouths or whispers “family”.]]

* GallowsHumour: Leiter can’t resist a quip at his own expense when he and Bond have been locked in the hold by Logan Ash, who had previously shot Leiter in the gut.
-->'''Leiter:''' I don’t know about you, but I’ve got a feeling in my gut that Ash isn’t on our side.

-->'''M''': It was a gas leak. I'll handle it.

* GenderFlip: [[spoiler: Although author Raymond Benson followed up on Kissy Suzuki's pregnancy, the child in question was a boy, whereas Mathilde is a girl.]]

--> '''Bond:''' You know that history isn't kind to those who play god?
* GodzillaThreshold: The threat of [[spoiler:a factory producing Heracles nanobots targeted to whole ethnicities]] is enough for Bond [[spoiler:to request, ''in no uncertain terms'', that the entire area be levelled in a missile strike]] and the whole affair [[spoiler: with the Heracles be kept a secret regardless of any inquiry from Japan, Russia, and the Americans asking ''what the hell'' a Royal Navy cruiser was doing launching missiles at a ''disputed island'']]. M agrees.

** [[spoiler: Bond, after a conversation with Madeleine in which he affirms his love for her and their daughter Mathilde]].

** Figuratively speaking, in-universe when Bond coldly tells Madeleine that she'll never see him again. She clutches her stomach due to her emotional reaction [[spoiler: and as we later learn, her pregnancy.]]

* HandOnWomb: [[spoiler: Madeleine clutches her stomach just after Bond puts her on a train, essentially telling the viewer that she's pregnant.]]

* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler: Yet again. We see Blofeld hold onto his glory days of torturing Bond by asserting his sadistic dominance over him and Madeleine by ruining their relationship and trying to kill the former after 5 years by spreading the Heracles which he will then use as one of his petty projects in SPECTRE. No wonder even Safin had enough of his over-pettiness and decided to have him killed himself, especially for killing his entire family for something they had nothing to do with in the first place.]]

* HeroicBSOD: Bond goes into this during the opening sequence at the realization of Madeleine’s supposed betrayal (likely the reason he lets the car get bombarded with bullets without reacting) and spends much of the film in and out of it. [[spoiler: It gets even worse at the end when he realizes that Safin has doomed him in several ways, but he still snaps out of it somewhat to make an emotional goodbye speech to Madeleine.]]

* HopeSpot: Having defeated all the henchmen and opened the silo doors so that the missiles can destroy the facility, Bond finds Mathilde's stuffed toy that she dropped and stops to pick it up, smiling as he does so, clearly anticipating giving it back to her and beginning a new life with his family. [[spoiler: It’s precisely at that moment that Safin closes the doors again, forcing Bond to go back-—and giving Safin the opportunity to shoot him.]]

* IdiotBall: M, of all people, takes a firm hold of this [[spoiler: when you realize that he had no contingency plan whatsoever regarding the nanobots -- no antidote, and no means to shut them down if they fell into the wrong hands, which is exactly what happens. He is therefore indirectly responsible for the events of the movie, including Bond's death. This is the same guy who blasted the previous M for a botched mission that resulted in crucial information (the identities of undercover agents) falling into the wrong hands, in addition to which he was firmly against C's global surveillance plans, so it also makes him a {{Hypocrite}} in addition to an extreme case of AesopAmnesia.]]
** Bond [[spoiler: himself at end. He's preparing to leave Safin's facility without fulfilling the mission objective of killing him, meaning that he could still be a threat. Sure enough, Safin re-closes the silo doors so that Bond will have to turn back. And when he does, Bond further compounds his stupidity by rushing into an open area without any means of protecting himself, and of course, is shot almost immediately. That's a glaring error that a rookie would make, not a legendary agent like James Bond.]]

* ImperiledInPregnancy: [[spoiler: What Bond inadvertently did to Madeleine in the opening sequence when he allowed his car to be riddled with bullets.]]

* {{Irony}}: Bond telling Madeleine "We have all the time in the world" when that's exactly what they ''don't'' get--they don't have long together before henchmen are trying to kill them, resulting in them separating, [[spoiler: and they only get a few hours to be a happy family before they're ambushed again, resulting in Madeleine and Mathilde being abducted and Bond eventually being killed.]]
** [[spoiler: During their final conversation, Madeleine tearfully declares, “There’s no one left to hurt us.” Indeed, they are FINALLY safe from all potential enemies. . . and they STILL can’t be together.]]

** Madeline's mother tells her that her father is a killer and tauntingly asks her "Is that who you love? Murderers?" 30 years later, Safin says something very similar when he chastises her for her relationship with Bond--"You love a murderer! [[spoiler: You bore his child!"]]

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler: After ruining Bond and Madeleine's happy life for his own amusement, ''AGAIN!'', Blofeld enjoys the fruits and rewards of his manipulation and plan being a success for 5 years and then goes onto assert his dominance over Bond, ''AGAIN!'', by trying to having him assassinated with the Heracles virus during his own birthday party and then use it on the world to create chaos for fun. Thankfully, Safin ends up getting the upperhand by giving Blofeld a long-awaited karma for his over-pettiness and tendency to torture people for fun, including his entire family, Bond, Madeleine and others by reprogramming the virus to kill all of the SPECTRE agents present and then give him [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine the taste of his own medicine]] by spreading the Heracles to whoever contacts with Blofeld, killing him instantly.]]

* LastKiss: Bond and Madeleine have a BigDamnKiss just before [[spoiler: he sends her and Mathilde to safety, but when he doesn’t make it, it becomes this]].

** Mathilde bites Safin in order to get away from him, then hides until [[spoiler: her parents find her]].

** They take [[spoiler: what turns out to be one as she and Mathilde leave Safin's facility]].
** [[spoiler: At the end of the movie, he figuratively invokes this by looking in the direction of the island Nomi has taken her and Mathilde to.]]

* LuredIntoATrap: [[spoiler: Safin reactivates the silo doors, forcing Bond to go back, thus giving him the perfect opportunity to shoot him. In all likelihood, this is EXACTLY why Safin did this.]]

* MadeOfIron: As always, Bond survives multiple things that would have killed anyone else, like a fall off of a bridge, as well as slamming into a post completely unfazed. [[spoiler: Even at the film's conclusion, despite having been shot multiple times, his only question to Q is "How do I get it (Heracles) off?", showing that he's still determined to escape and get back to his family. When Q reminds him that it's permanent, he resigns himself to his fate, but although mortally wounded and clearly in pain, he still finds the strength to climb out of the silo room so he can get good enough reception to call Madeleine and bid her farewell.]].

* ManlyTears: M, Q, and Tanner [[TryingNotToCry all appear on the verge of these]] at [[spoiler: Bond's death and at the subsequent memorial service.]]

** [[spoiler: Yippee! Bond's defeated all the bad guys, has set the facility to be destroyed in an impending explosion and is smiling as he finds his daughter’s stuffed animal as he’s preparing to escape. It’s at that precise moment that Safin reactivates the silo doors, forcing Bond to go back. . .and giving Safin the chance to shoot him.]]

* MortalWoundReveal: [[spoiler: Even though we've seen him get shot, it's the steadily dripping TrailOfBlood that he leaves behind him that tells you just how badly hurt Bond is.]]
* {{Motif}}: The film loves to explore the idea of "poison". Both literal (EG what killed Safin's family and scarred him), near-literal (EG the nanomachine Macguffin), and metaphorical (EG the words whispered in Bond's ear that prey on his doubts and fears about Madeline and his inherent paranoia). Perhaps fittingly, [[spoiler:Blofeld is killed by the nanomachines, ''and'' the taunting he does to Bond, to make him doubt Madeline again. And we know Safin did it to avenge his family, which makes it kind of poetic.]]

--->'''[[spoiler: Madeleine:]]'''[[spoiler: I'm going to tell you a story. It's about a man. His name was Bond. James Bond.]]

** [[spoiler: The lyrics of the TitleThemeTune--"I'd fallen for a lie", "You were never on my side", etc. and the corresponding [[https://youtu.be/BboMpayJomw music video]] are edited in a manner that makes it seem as though Madeleine had indeed betrayed Bond by leading him into a SPECTRE ambush, as he himself believed to be the case (and indeed this belief is the central motif of the song). In actuality, Madeleine really was innocent; Blofeld set the ambush up to either kill Bond or break his trust on her, and thus their relationship.]]

* NoodleIncident: While trying [[spoiler: to rally the injured Felix]] Bond states "we've been in worse scrapes than this". Obviously, the audience never saw these, so they must have taken place in between the other movies.

* NotNowKiddo: In the opening scene, a young Madeleine tries to alert her mother after seeing an intruder ([[spoiler: Safin]]) outside their house, but her mother is too hungover to care and just tells her to go outside and play.

-->'''Madeleine:''' I understand you're not built to trust people.\\

* PoorCommunicationKills: ''Literally''. [[spoiler: If only Madeline just had the courage to shout "I'm pregnant" during the car chase in the ColdOpen, Bond would have hesitated and ''listened'' enough to give her a second chance, considering even a pathologically paranoid wreck like him still loved her enough to put her on a train rather than put three bullets in her head for her perceived "betrayal" (staged by Blofeld), thereby giving him All The Time In The World with his wife, daughter and future possible children; instead of leading to a chain of tragic events that gave him only less than one day with them and being forced to commit a HeroicSuicide just to keep them safe. Granted, this assumes she was aware of the pregnancy at that point]].
* PosthumousVillainVictory: ZigZaggedTrope regarding [[BigBad Lyutsifer Safin]]. On one hand, his genocidal EvilPlan to unleash the Heracles {{nanomachines}} on the world and unveiling it for other nations to capture and use is thwarted by Bond. On the other, his last, desperate goal of [[spoiler: [[TakingYouWithMe killing James Bond]]]] ultimately succeeds, with [[spoiler:Bond mortally wounded and now infected with a strain of Heracles capable of killing his wife and daughter with a single touch. Bond himself is forced to stay on Safin's island and help destroy the virus for good, dying from the missile strike launched by the Royal Navy he himself had called in]]. This all happens just minutes after Bond [[BoomHeadshot shoots Safin thrice in the head]].
** However, Blofeld certainly gets this [[spoiler: when you realize that his scheme resulted in Bond being separated from his daughter. This is unfortunately, quite fitting considering that Blofeld resented Bond for stealing his father's affection. Plus the sick thrill he likely got from provoking Bond to violence, even if it resulted in his death.]]
* PresentAbsence: [[spoiler: Despite his death, Bond haunts the final scenes of the [=MI6=] crew paying tribute to him and of Madeleine and Mathilde driving along.]]

* ProlongedPrologue: The pre-title portion is the longest in the series so far, clocking at around ''twenty minutes'' (precisely 23 minutes and 47 seconds if you count from the moment the gunbarrel sequence starts to the final frame of the opening credits) and surpassing ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' (which was about fifteen minutes long). The movie begins with a [[TheTeaser literal cold open]] in snowy Norway which focuses on Madeleine's childhood and her encounter with Safin. Action then shifts to Matera, Italy with Bond and Madeleine as adults on a romantic getaway, picking up where the previous film ''Film/{{SPECTRE}}'' left off. Then we ''finally'' get to see Bond in action after SPECTRE operatives attempt to kill him, and - after that epic beginning eventually concludes - the credits and title song.
* PyrrhicVictory: Literally. Bond has defeated all the bad guys and saved the day yet again. . .[[spoiler: and dies in a fiery explosion in order to keep his family safe.]]

* RaceAgainstTheClock: Like in many films before, including its predecessor, Bond has only a few minutes to escape an impending explosion. [[spoiler: Only this time, he doesn't. (Albeit, it's a conscious decision to stay behind rather than simply failing to get out).]]

-->'''M:''' You have no right to speak to me that way. You have no right to make insinuations about my judgment. If you’ve nothing left to give, ''you are irrelevant!'' You've done your bit and we thank you for your service, ''again!'' '''''Goodbye!'''''

* ResolvedNoodleIncident: In ''Film/{{SPECTRE}}'', Madeleine mentions how, as a child, she once used a gun her father had hidden in a cupboard against an assailant. [[spoiler:The DistantPrologue that begins this film depicts this incident, with Safin being revealed as the assailant.]]

* {{Retirony}}: Felix offhandedly tells Bond that he wants to go home to his family and tell them that he saved the world one last time, indicating that he intends to retire after this mission. [[spoiler: True to this trope, he dies.]]
** [[spoiler: Initially inverted with Bond, who gets pulled ''out'' of retirement for one last assignment, but played straight in the end, as he probably could have retired for good afterwards, given that he'd finally eliminated all possible threats to himself and his family, had he not been forced to sacrifice himself to ensure their safety.]]

* RevengeByProxy: In the opening sequence, Safin is seeking to kill Mr. White's family because S.P.E.C.T.R.E. killed ''his'' family.
* RidingIntoTheSunset: Done at the end of the movie, with [[spoiler: Madeleine and Mathilde.]]
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Bond notices that Madeleine is preoccupied with something, and when they're ambushed, cites her "secrets" as the reason why she would double-cross him. He's correct that she's keeping something from him (even aside from [[spoiler: her pregnancy]]), but it--and she--have nothing to do with the attack on them.

* ScyllaAndCharybdis: [[spoiler: Safin offers to let Bond leave with Mathilde, but declares that Madeleine will stay with him. Needless to say, Bond doesn't accept those terms, even if they mean that his daughter will be safe.]]

* SoHappyTogether: Bond and Madeline get hit with this ''twice''. First in the opening sequence, when their blissful interlude is interrupted by an attack, [[spoiler: then five years later, when they have barely anytime together as a family before he's killed.]]
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler: Mathilde, to Bond, for Madeleine, even when he was still alive, as she had no reason to think she'd ever see him again.]]

* StatusQuoIsGod: Averted. Unlike previous films where the previous Bond Girl disappeared without a mention while Bond set off on a new adventure, Madeleine returns from the previous film and Bond actually stays retired rather than returning to [=MI6=] (though he’s drawn back in eventually).

** [[spoiler: Mathilde is a child and she's Bond's daughter. She is literally a "Bond Girl", and the first true one in the franchise's history]].

* TheStoic: Despite facing [[spoiler: death in one of any three ways, Bond calmly contacts Madeleine to reaffirm their love and bid her farewell.]]
* StormingTheCastle: [[spoiler: The final act has Bond and Nomi infiltrate Safin's headquarters in order to kill Obruchev and Safin, rescue Madeleine and Mathilde, and destroy the nanobots.]]

* {{Superweapon}}: The Heracles nanobots are: 100% lethal to those they are coded to target, [[InstantIllness have almost no incubation period]], can be transmitted by {{touch|of death}} and, most crucially, if an individual becomes infected while not being a specific strain's target, they are now a permanent [[TyphoidMary asymptomatic carrier]] of that specific strain - the nanobots do not expire and there is no way to remove them. The moment it becomes clear [[spoiler: that Safin is manufacturing them, with strains that target entire ethnicities]], [[GodzillaThreshold the rules go out the window]], causing M [[spoiler: to order a multiple-missile strike on the factory in defiance of international treaties while fully intending to keep the existence of Heracles a secret from anyone not already in the know, regardless of the fact that he is risking ''wars'' with those actions]].

** Bond should have known better than to [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech verbally chew out Safin]] as he had provoked all his other nemeses, considering the psychopath literally has [[spoiler: his daughter Mathilde]] in his grips accompanied by four heavily armed guards. Thankfully [[spoiler: she]] narrowly avoided having to pay for [[spoiler:her father's]] arrogance [[spoiler:and lives to reunite with her mother Madeleine]].
** Also, [[spoiler: Doctor Obruchev]] somehow thought it was a good idea to suggest to [[spoiler: wipe out the entire African Race]] with his [[spoiler: Nanomachine superweapon]] to the face of [[spoiler: Nomi, the African-descended woman]] holding him at ''gunpoint'' while [[spoiler: standing over a bubbling pool of said superweapon. Enjoy your DeathByRacism swim, doctor]].
* TelevisionGeography[=/=]TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: People frequently travel between various points in what appears to be an impossibly short period of time -- Bond appears to travel from Cuba to London within a day (although this is possible by plane), then apparently ''drives'' between London and Norway overnight (apparently, Madeleine commutes daily over the same distance), and Safin is able to abduct Madeleine and [[spoiler: Mathilde]] from Norway and whisk them off to an island in between Japan and Russia -- with Bond and Nomi quickly following behind--in roughly the same amount of time.
* TemptingFate: Just before he sends her and [[spoiler: Mathilde]] to safety, Bond tells Madeleine, "I'll be just a minute" [[spoiler: Given that this is the immortal James Bond, one can be forgiven for not realizing that a line like that all but guarantees that something bad is going to happen. And sure enough, just like if it had been been any other character making such a statement, he doesn't make it.]]

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler: First, Safin reactivates the silo doors, forcing Bond to turn back and delaying his escape. Then he shoots him several times, also slowing him down and likely leaving him fatally wounded even if he did still manage to get away. Lastly, he poisons him with nanobots meant to target Madeleine and Mathilde, ensuring that even if he survived the other two things, he'd be left dead emotionally from not being able to be with his family.]]

-->'''Nomi:''' [[spoiler:You know what time it is?]]
-->'''Obruchev:''' [[spoiler:...What?]]
-->'''Nomi:''' [[spoiler:Time to die!]]

** [[spoiler: Bond, of all people, who rushes into an open area without any means to protect himself and sure enough, is almost immediately gunned down by Safin.]]
* TooHappyToLive: Bond and Madeleine's blissful life in Matera is soon destroyed by a murder attempt by SPECTRE. The exchange they have just before he puts her on the train--"This is it." "This is it."-- suggests that deep down, they both knew things were too good to last and that they would have inevitably broken up anyway. [[spoiler: It gets worse in the the final third of the movie, where they reconcile, he learns that he's a father, and they only get a few hours of domestic idyll before Safin's gunmen interrupt them again, kicking off the final chain of events that lead to Bond's death]].

* TrailOfBlood: [[spoiler: What Bond leaves behind him as he walks away from Safin's body, making it abundantly clear how badly hurt he is.]]

* TranquilFury: Bond displays this in absolutely bone-chilling fashion during the opening sequence when he stops the car and sits there impassively as it’s bombarded with bullets, completely unmoved by Madeleine’s hysterical screams and pleas for him to do something, so angry at her presumed betrayal that he’d willingly torture her like that.
* TrappedInASinkingCar: Cargo ship, rather. How [[spoiler: Ash abandons Bond and Leiter, succeeding in killing the latter]].

* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: The first part of the film's opening, detailing Madeleine's gun-related trauma from ''Film/{{SPECTRE}}''. Turns out the killer who came for her father and her and got shot at by her was Safin. He took the life of Madeleine's mother, but spared Madeleine's life.

** [[spoiler: Felix Leiter tracks Bond down in Jamaica to ask for his help, resulting in a chain of events that eventually results in both of their deaths.]].
** [[spoiler: Madeleine again when she applies the Heracles virus to herself after Safin threatens her. Bond becomes infected when he grabs her wrist and by the end of the film, Safin further infects him so that he'll be poisonous to her and their daughter, resulting in Bond's decision to commit a HeroicSuicide to keep them safe]].
** [[spoiler: M, who came up with the idea of harnessing the power of the nanobots to kill bad guys, yet inexplicably hasn't been working on an antidote to them or a means to disable them should they fall into the wrong hands, which is EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS. Frankly, this borders on IdiotBall and makes M indirectly responsible for Bond's death.]]
** Even Bond himself. By not shooting Blofeld when he had the chance at the conclusion of the previous film, [[spoiler: he enabled him to set up the ambush that resulted in him leaving Madeleine (no doubt Blofeld knew Bond would react exactly like this).]]

** Bond is in the middle of a poignant visit to Vesper’s grave. Suddenly, there’s an explosion and all hell breaks loose.
** Literally when Felix is [[spoiler: shot by Ash and soon dies]].
** During an interrogation of Blofeld, [[spoiler: Bond, unknowingly infected with Heracles, strangles Blofeld before Tanner restrains him. During a brief argument between the two, we hear a thud and the next shot we see Blofeld, slumped down in his cell, dead and infected.]]

** Also literally when [[spoiler: Safin shoots Bond several times, the first time in the series that we've ever seen him so genuinely and seriously injured. Even without having been poisoned or the impending missile strike, he would likely have died from this anyway.]]

** ''Film/{{SPECTRE}}'' had [=MI6=] and [=MI5=] merge to form the ''Joint Security Service''. The movie inexplicably has [=MI6=] being separate once more.
*** It is likely that within the five year timeskip, with [[spoiler: C dead and SPECTRE's Nine Eyes project exposed as an operation to undermine the global intelligence community, M was able to exploit the power vacuum to retake the control of British Intelligence he had lost under C and get the now-discredited Joint Security Service dissolved back into its original two components.]]

* YankTheDogsChain: Both times that it appears that Bond and Madeleine are going to be blissfully happy together, all hell breaks loose and they're separated --first at the beginning, [[spoiler: then at the end. It's especially cruel considering that Bond has FINALLY defeated or eliminated everyone who was a threat to them, meaning that they could really and truly live in peace, only for him to have to sacrifice himself to ensure hers and Mathilde's safety.]]

** In the prologue, a young Madeleine Swann watched in horror from behind a closet as her mother is killed by Safin. This is also why [[spoiler: she did her best to protect her own daughter from Safin.]]
** Safin himself wanted to destroyed [=SPECTRE=] because his parents were killed by Madeleine's father, Mr. White, under orders from Blofeld.

* DeconstructedTrope: PlotArmor is very rarely in effect here, as the Heroes are no longer MadeOfIron, nor does the InstantDeathBullet exist. Being shot in the torso [[spoiler:like Felix Leiter and Bond]] himself will critically incapacitate even the toughest veterans, leading to an agonizing and undignified demise. Even the villains [[spoiler:such as Blofeld and Safin]] meet unglamorous ends.

* ProlongedPrologue: The pre-title portion is the longest in the series so far, clocking at around ''twenty minutes'' (precisely 23 minutes and 47 seconds if you count from the moment the gunbarrel sequence starts to the final frame of the opening credits) and surpassing ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' (which was about fifteen minutes long). The movie begins with a [[{{Teaser}} literal cold open]] in snowy Norway which focuses on Madeleine's childhood and her encounter with Safin. Action then shifts to Matera, Italy with Bond and Madeleine as adults on a romantic getaway, picking up where the previous film ''Film/{{SPECTRE}}'' left off. Then we ''finally'' get to see Bond in action after SPECTRE operatives attempt to kill him, and - after that epic beginning eventually concludes - the credits and title song.

* ActionPrologue: ProlongedPrologue: The film starts with a {{flashback}} to Madeleine Swann's youth in snowy Norway, when a masked Lyutsifer Safin killed her mother and herself barely escaped death at his hands. Cut to present-day, Bond is enjoying his retirement in the Southern Italian city of Matera with Madeleine and goes to visit Vesper Lynd's grave. He is ambushed by SPECTRE (starting with a bomb in the grave) and a chase on bike and in the Aston Martin [=DB4=] ensues (highlights include the [=DB4=] now being fitted with miniguns). It ends with Bond breaking up with Madeleine and sending her off on a train, believing she had something to do with the attack. Clocking in at twenty minutes, it is the longest prologue in the history of the series.

* ActionPrologue: The film starts with a {{flashback}} to Madeleine Swann's youth in snowy Norway, when a masked Lyutsifer Safin killed her mother and herself barely escaped death at his hands. Cut to present-day, Bond is enjoying his retirement in the Southern Italian city of Matera with Madeleine and goes to visit Vesper Lynd's grave. He is ambushed by SPECTRE (starting with a bomb in the grave) and a chase on bike and in the Aston Martin [=DB4=] ensues (highlights include the [=DB4=] now being fitted with miniguns). It ends with Bond breaking up with Madeleine and sending her off on a train, believing she had something to do with the attack. Clocking in at twenty minutes, it is the longest prologue in the history of the series.

* StealthPun: [[spoiler: Mathilde is a child and she's Bond's daughter. She is literally a "Bond Girl", and the first true one in the franchise's history]].

* TelevisionGeography[=/=]TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: People frequently travel between various points in what appears to be an impossibly short period of time--Bond appears to travel from Cuba to London within a day(although this is possible by plane), then apparently ''drives'' between London and Norway overnight, and Safin is able to abduct Madeleine and [[spoiler: Mathilde]] from Norway and whisk them off to an island in between Japan and Russia--with Bond and Nomi quickly following behind--in roughly the same amount of time.

* IdiotBall: M, of all people, takes a firm hold of this [[spoiler: when you realize that he had no contingency plan whatsoever regarding the nanobots -- no antidote, and no means to shut them down if they fell into the wrong hands, which is exactly what happens. He is therefore indirectly responsible for the events of the movie, but for Bond's death. This is the same guy who blasted the previous M for a botched mission that resulted in crucial information (the identities of undercover agents) falling into the wrong hands, in addition to which he was firmly against C's global surveillance plans, so it also makes him a {{Hypocrite}} in addition to an extreme case of AesopAmnesia.]]

* CoolGuns: Per usual for a Craig Bond movie.
** Safin's personal sidearm is a tricked out [[spoiler: Beretta [=M9A3=] pistol, the heavily upgraded, current generation version of the venerable 92FS handgun. Outfitted with a tactical light, he uses it to mortally wound James Bond and once gaining the upper hand, 007 kills him with it.]]
** In Norway [[spoiler: Bond gets a tricked out Beretta [=ARX160=] assault rifle from one of Safin and Ash's hit squad. Outfitted with an underbarrel grenade launcher, he uses it to ambush and kill off the numerically superior team that has been sent to kill him and kidnap Madeline.]]
** Primo [[spoiler: first appears using a Beretta PMX submachine gun, the successor to the old Beretta M12, in an attempt to shatter the glass of Bond's [=DB5=] in the cold opener. He later utilizes a tricked out [=AK74SU=] carbine, most prominently in the raid on the [=MI6=] London lab where it is equipped with a laser sight, and later in the climax trying to defend Safin from Bond.]]
** Nomi is prominently armed with a Heckler and Koch [=MP7=] PDW during the assault on Safin's base.
** Alongside his usual Walther PPK, Bond also arms himself with [[spoiler: a SIG - Sauer [=P226R=] handgun which he uses prominently in the final gunfight up the stairs leading to the missile silo control room when he runs out of ammo for his rifle.]]

! As the GrandFinale to the ''Franchise/JamesBond'' films to star Creator/DanielCraig, spoilers for all preceding entries, including ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' will be unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!

* AlasPoorVillain: While you can't say at that point that [[spoiler:Safin didn't have it coming,]] that he was so clearly [[spoiler:effected deeply by the immense loss of his loved ones and even showed regret about infecting Bond with the nanites once their fight was over does grant him a somewhat melancholic send-off as both this Bond era's final nemesis and a very strong WorthyOpponent]].

** When Bond coldly tells Madeleine "You'll never see me again" in the film's opening, her gripping her chest in pain implies it borne as much from [[spoiler:the morning sickness caused by his baby now growing inside her]] as it does from grief.

* DoNotGoGentle: [[spoiler: Despite being mortally wounded by Safin, Bond still finds the strength to get to the silo room and open the blast doors to ensure that Heracles will be destroyed, this completing his mission. He also asks Q how he can get the Heracles off of himself, clearly intending to keep trying to escape and get back to his family despite how badly he's hurt, and not until Q reminds him that it's permanent does he accept his fate. Even then, he still manages to climb to the roof of the facility and stand tall, rather than than lie there on the floor bleeding out.]]

* AintTooProudToBeg: Craig's Bond is the ''only'' one in the franchise to ''fall to his knees'' and '''tearfully beg for the villain's forgiveness''', so he can keep Mathilde [[spoiler:,his little girl, from being harmed by Safin... though it is also subverted by the fact that [[WoundedGazelleGambit Bond then pulls out a concealed gun]], showing that the entire manoeuvre was most likely not genuine and just a distraction. Even then, it shows how a parent ''would'' react when their child is being threatened by a madman]].

* BadassAdorable: CIA agent Paloma has a kind, friendly, sweet-natured disposition, as well as a cute-and-cuddly appearance more befitting a fresh out of highschool GirlNextDoor, and yet, when all chips are down, she is hands-down the deadliest lady in the film series since Wai-Ling of ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies.''

* SoHappyTogether: Bond and Madeline get hit with this ''twice''. First in the opening sequence, when their blissful interlude is interrupted by an attack, [[spoiler: then five years, when they have barely anytime together as a family before he's killed.]]

* TelevisionGeography[=/=]TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: People frequently travel between various points in what appears to be an impossibly short period of time--Bond appears to travel from Cuba to London within a day(although this is possible by plane), then apparently ''drives'' between London and Norway overnight, and Safin is able to abduct Madeleine and [[spoiler: Mathilde]] and whisk them off to an island in between Japan and Russia--with Bond and Nomi quickly following behind--in roughly the same amount of time.

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* ManlyTears: M, Q, and Tanner all appear on the verge of these at [[spoiler: Bond's death and at the subsequent memorial service.]]

* BullyingADragon: Being the racist douchebag that he is, Obruchev insults Nomi's African heritage ''right in her face''. What does she do? [[spoiler:She kicks him into a vat of toxic liquid, which kills him in seconds]].

* DeconstructedTrope: PlotArmor is very rarely in effect here, as the Heroes are no longer MadeOfIron, nor does the InstantDeathBullet exist. Being shot in the torso [[spoiler:like Felix Leiter and Bond]] himself will critically incapacitate even the toughest veterans, leading to an agonizing and undignified demise. Even the villains such as Blofeld and Safin meet unglamorous ends.

* NoEndorHolocaust: M makes it very clear that [[spoiler:the missile strikes to destroy Safin's base]] will have serious repercussions from the Russians, Japanese and even the Americans, but the ending glosses over this. This trope could apply to some other films in the series, but is probably at its most egregious here.

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Rather than escape the barrage of tomahawk missiles set to obliterate the villain's island of weaponized nanomachines, which he himself has been infected with a strain ''specifically'' targeted to kill his daughter, her mother Madeleine and their entire-bloodline, Bond calmly climbs to the roof of the lab, radios Madeleine one last time to affirm his love for her and their little girl, and with a warm smile lets the rain of missile fire vaporize him ''head on'' so that his family may live]].

** [[spoiler:And a final one as we see Bond being consumed in the tomahawk missile explosion, ensuring us that this death is ''permanent'']].

* PhoneyCall: When Dr. Obruchev is about to be kidnapped by Spectre along with his invention Heracles, he's contacted by Safin, and tries to make his call seem less suspicious to his collleagues by ending it with this [[BadLiar very convincing line]]:

** When Bond is in Jamaica, there's some {{Reggae}} that can be heard in the steets.

* VillainsOutShopping: Bond and Paloma infiltrate a [=SPECTRE=] meeting only to find they are holding a birthday party for their boss, Ernst Stravo Blofeld. However, it turns out they knew Bond was coming because the greatest birthday present for Blofeld would be the death of James Bond.