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* StopHelpingMe: Goodnight blocks Bond's taxi, gets kidnapped uselessly trying to plant an unnecessary tracking bug while carrying the mission critical PlotCoupon, MacGuffin, causes a chain reaction by knocking out the man keeping watch on her, and triggers the solar beam where Bond is working.
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* StopHelpingMe: Goodnight blocks Bond's taxi, causes a chain reaction by knocking out the man keeping watch on her, and triggers the solar beam where Bond is working.
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* NobodyHereButUsStatues: Rather convenient for Scaramanga to keep a statue of James Bond in his funhouse of death.
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* NobodyHereButUsStatues: Rather convenient for Scaramanga to keep a statue of James Bond in his funhouse of death. And that his statue looked like Roger Moore rather than Sean Connery or George Lazenby.
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* GoGoEnslavement: Scaramanga forces Mary Goodnight to wear a bikini so she can't have concealed weapons.
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-->'''Chew Me:'''"Neither Neither do I."
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-->'''Bond''': [[AmericanAccents "Ah shore am, boy!"boy!"]]
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** Mary Goodnight.
** Sheriff J.W. Pepper. Unfortunately, he does.
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** Sheriff J.W. Pepper.Unfortunately, he does.Likewise.
** Sheriff J.W. Pepper.
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* TookALevelInDumbass: Mary Goodnight, compared to her literary incarnation.
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** It "realistically" fires an ''invisible'' laser beam, but this only occurred because the special effects team didn't have the money to make the "golden beam of laser light" the script called for.
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* EvilPaysBetter: This is part of Scaramanga's NotSoDifferent speech to Bond, to illustrate the one difference between the two men as Scaramanga sees it. He can afford to live on an island paradise because he gets paid a million (dollars?) per assassination contract, while Bond, as Scaramanga puts it, "works for peanuts; a hearty 'well done' from the Queen and a pittance of a pension".
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* EvilPaysBetter: This is part of Scaramanga's NotSoDifferent speech to Bond, to illustrate the one difference between the two men as Scaramanga sees it. He can afford to live on an island paradise because he gets paid a million (dollars?) dollars per assassination contract, while Bond, as Scaramanga puts it, "works for peanuts; a hearty 'well done' from the Queen and a pittance of a pension".
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* [[{{Ptitletlfjs3m6}} Can't Bathe Without A Weapon]]: Andrea pulls a gun on Bond when he walks in on her in the shower.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Sheriff J.W. Pepper, despite being a hick from the [[LiveAndLetDie backwaters of Louisiana]], [[FanDisservice for some odd reason]] turns up on vacation in...of all places, Thailand! When he gets back to the States, apparently he takes over as sheriff in [[SupermanII East Houston, Idaho.]]
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** Keep in mind though that in this one, he also has a target on his back from the beginning, so like most other people who are being threatened, he's understandably willing to go to extreme lengths to save his hide. Of course, it still doesn't justify everything he does, but it's got to play a part in some of his actions.
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* JerkAss: [[EnforcedTrope Inflicted upon Bond by the studio, in an effort to counteract Roger Moore's natural urbanity.]] Bond is infamously a total ''asshole'' throughout this film, threatening to break a woman's arm, threatening to blow off a guy's testicles, and later pushing a kid salesman ("''bloody tourist!''") into a rapid stream during a boat chase. Having sex with Anders while Goodnight, ''who he was just about to have sex with'', is hiding in the closet. [[WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack And then she still has sex with Bond at the end!]] This could be viewed as reversing the changes of previous movies, as the Bond of the books is a much more ruthless, cold-blooded JerkAss than is generally portrayed (at least up until the second ''CasinoRoyale''. Or ''LicenceToKill'', anyway) Plus the undeniable fact that this is ''exactly'' how a real life agent would behave - you don't get to save the world without, at the very least, ''threatening'' violence.
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* JerkAss: [[EnforcedTrope Inflicted upon Bond by the studio, in an effort to counteract Roger Moore's natural urbanity.]] Bond is infamously a total ''asshole'' throughout this film, threatening to break a woman's arm, threatening to blow off a guy's testicles, and later pushing a kid salesman ("''bloody tourist!''") into a rapid stream during a boat chase. Having sex with Anders while Goodnight, ''who he was just about to have sex with'', is hiding in the closet. [[WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack And then she still has sex with Bond at the end!]] This could be viewed as reversing the changes of previous movies, as the Bond of the books is a much more ruthless, cold-blooded JerkAss than is generally portrayed (at least up until the second ''CasinoRoyale''. ''Film/CasinoRoyale''. Or ''LicenceToKill'', ''Film/LicenceToKill'', anyway) Plus the undeniable fact that this is ''exactly'' how a real life agent would behave - you don't get to save the world without, at the very least, ''threatening'' violence.
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* SequelEscalation: Averted. A refreshingly down-to-earth plot (no world domination plots, egomaniac villians etc) especially before ''TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' and ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' played this trope straight.
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* TemptingFate: Hai Fat building his own mausoleum. And an InUniverse example -- Scaramanga has left Nick Nack all his money in his will. Nick Nack in return arranges for various {{Career Killer}}s to murder his boss, which helps the Scaramanga cope with his ennui. Nick Nack could of course simply poison his champagne, but he's actually quite loyal, and genuinely angry when Bond kills Scaramanga.
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-->'''Bond:''' Who would want to put a contract out on me?
-->'''M:''' Jealous husbands, humiliated tailors, outraged chefs. The list is endless!
The 9th JamesBond film. Francisco Scaramanga (played by ChristopherLee), the most dangerous assassin in the world, has a contract out on Bond, who sets out to find out why. Oh, there's also a missing solar power device to find. It's also the last film that Harry Saltzman worked on.
This was the first Bond movie allowed to be screened in the Soviet Union. Possibly because there is not even one mention of them in the entire movie (RedChina, on the other hand....).
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!!This film contains examples of:
* ActionGirl: In a delightful subversion of the FauxActionGirl trope, two karate-kicking schoolgirls save Bond from a gang of mooks while he looks on in appreciation.
* AffablyEvil: Scaramanga.
* AntagonistTitle: Scaramanga of course.
* AuctionOfEvil: Though only if you consider multinational power companies evil. Scaramanga intends to sell the secret of the Solex Agitator to the highest bidder, granting them a monopoly. Or he'll take money from the Arab oil companies to keep solar power off the market.
* BallisticDiscount: Bond questions a gunsmith about a custom bullet he made by, in part, threatening to shoot him with a rifle the man is making for a customer who has lost 2 fingers on his right hand and needs something custom balanced. Apparently, the rifle fires 2 inches below the target for people with 5 fingers. Bond proves this by shooting at, and missing, the gunsmith's wedding tackle.
-->'''Bond:''' So talk now...[[PreMortemOneLiner or forever hold your piece]].
* {{Beirut}}: With obligatory belly-dancer.
* BifurcatedWeapon: Scaramanga's gun
* BlingBlingBang: The eponymous Golden Gun.
* BondVillainStupidity:
** Bond takes up Hai Fat's invitation to join him for dinner in his mansion while pretending to be Scaramanga, not knowing that the ''real'' Scaramanga had already gotten in touch with the guy. When he arrives there late at night, he's incapacitated by some guards in an ambush. As they're about to kill him, Hai Fat forbids them from doing so because he doesn't want Bond killed in his home. They'll just take him somewhere else to finish him off right? Nope. Hai Fat has Bond placed in a krabi krabong school to... get beaten up? Maybe?
** Justifiably invoked by Scaramanga late in the film; he freely admits that he could have used his solar-powered laser to blow up Bond's plane before he even landed on the island, but chose not to do so because of how unsatisfying it would be.
* ButtMonkey: Sheriff J.W. Pepper.
* [[{{Ptitletlfjs3m6}} Can't Bathe Without A Weapon]]: Andrea pulls a gun on Bond when he walks in on her in the shower.
-->'''Bond''': [[IncrediblyLamePun A water pistol?]]
* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Dummy]]: The mannequin of Bond seen in Scaramanga's funhouse during the cold opening comes in handy during the final confrontation.
* ClosetShuffle: Bond forces Goodnight to hide in a closet when he is visited by Andrea.
* CollapsingLair: Scaramanga's hideout, when the helium's temperature rises too high.
* CombatPragmatist: Bond in the dojo. Bond and Nick Nack [[DragonTheirFeet on the junk]].
* CompensatingForSomething: Scaramanga only makes love before he kills, and it's clear from one scene with Anders that the gun is a penis substitute (he's caressing Anders with it suggestively as they lie in bed).
** All together now: ''[[{{Zardoz}} "The gun is good...the PENIS is EVIL!"]]''
** UpToEleven in the novel, where an MI6 [[FreudWasRight psychiatric report goes on about]] how Scaramanga uses a HandCannon to compensate for his being AmbiguouslyGay. No wonder Bond just had a Beretta .25!
* ConvectionShmonvection: We're told that the beam of concentrated sunlight, which goes through open air with no isolation from the machine's operator, heats up to 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit. Bond later has it lit up a few centimeters from his face.
* CoolPlane: The Republic RC-3 [=SeaBee=] seaplane which Bond uses to fly to the SupervillainLair, donated by a wealthy American JamesBond fan (though only on the condition he fly it himself. Which he did, all the way from the United States to Thailand).
* DeathCourse: Scaramanga's funhouse
* DeathRay: One of the few supervillain tropes in this movie.
-->'''Scaramanga:''' Now that's why I call solar power.
-->'''Bond:''' That's what I call trouble.
* {{Defictionalisation}}: The Bottoms Up strip club kept the same interior used in the film until it closed in 2004. The island which is Scaramanga's hideout (Ko Tapu or Nail Island) was virtually unknown to outsiders -- it's now called James Bond Island and is an overcrowded tourist attraction (much to the annoyance of Christopher Lee when he took his wife there). Longtail boats are also referred to as "James Bond boats" in Thai tourist advertisements.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: J.W. Pepper, upon being re-united with Bond.
--> '''J.W.:''' I know you! You're that secret agent! That English secret agent from England!
* DepravedDwarf: Downplayed with Nick Nack. He's AffablyEvil at all times, but he does work for a renowned contract killer, and does not hesitate to try and kill others when he feels like it.
* DoABarrelRoll: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzCIbhLUUA0&feature=related Bond jumping with a car on a destroyed bridge.]] (yes, it was real; and yes, the producers had the guts to add a {{Narm}}y comedy sound effect!)
* DoubleMeaningTitle: Scaramanga points out that in addition to having [[BlingBlingBang a weapon made of gold]], after the solar-powered beam is shot "You must admit I am now undeniably [[TitleDrop the Man with the Golden Gun.]]"
* DragonInChief: Scaramanga. Hai Fat refers to him as his "junior partner", and Fat is the one who is actually after the MacGuffin, has most of the {{Mooks}}, and his company paid for and built Scaramanga's evil lair. But there's a reason he's not the title character.
* DragonTheirFeet: Nick Nack.
* DuelToTheDeath: between Bond and Scaramanga
* DumbBlonde: Mary Goodnight, the most blatant example in the whole Bond series.
* EvilCounterpart: Scaramanga is essentially Bond if he were a freelance killer with fewer scruples.
* EvilPaysBetter: This is part of Scaramanga's NotSoDifferent speech to Bond, to illustrate the one difference between the two men as Scaramanga sees it. He can afford to live on an island paradise because he gets paid a million (dollars?) per assassination contract, while Bond, as Scaramanga puts it, "works for peanuts; a hearty 'well done' from the Queen and a pittance of a pension".
* FanDisservice: Sheriff J.W. Pepper. And Scaramanga showing his TripleNipple.
* FanService: The scene where Mary Goodnight's bikini-clad butt keeps knocking against the BigRedButton activating the killer laser. Sure, it's a Crowning Moment Of Stupid, but who's going to argue with a tight close-up of Britt Ekland's booty?
* FollowTheLeader: Why else would Bond be at [[EnterTheDragon a martial arts school being forced to fight]]?
* FlyingCar: A TruthInTelevision example (though apparently without the range cited in the movie)
* GoingCommando: Bond encounters Chew Me, a beautiful Thai girl swimming in Hai Fats' pool, who invites him to join her.
-->'''Bond:''' "I don't have any swimming trunks."
-->'''Chew Me:''' "Neither do I."
* GoGoEnslavement: Scaramanga forces Mary Goodnight to wear a bikini so she can't have concealed weapons.
* GroinAttack: Bond stops a sumo wrestler's BearHug of Death by tightening his jockstrap.
* HallOfMirrors: Scaramanga's funhouse.
* [[HolidayInCambodia Holiday in]] UsefulNotes/{{Thailand}}: A third or more of the movie takes place here.
* HollywoodSilencer: Notably averted in the opening scene, where the ganger assassin's silenced weapon is still quite loud.
* IKEAWeaponry: Scaramanga keeps his gun disassembled to pass it safely through customs.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Bond wards off Fat's mooks with the prop of a longtail boat.
* JerkAss: [[EnforcedTrope Inflicted upon Bond by the studio, in an effort to counteract Roger Moore's natural urbanity.]] Bond is infamously a total ''asshole'' throughout this film, threatening to break a woman's arm, threatening to blow off a guy's testicles, and later pushing a kid salesman ("''bloody tourist!''") into a rapid stream during a boat chase. Having sex with Anders while Goodnight, ''who he was just about to have sex with'', is hiding in the closet. [[WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack And then she still has sex with Bond at the end!]] This could be viewed as reversing the changes of previous movies, as the Bond of the books is a much more ruthless, cold-blooded JerkAss than is generally portrayed (at least up until the second ''CasinoRoyale''. Or ''LicenceToKill'', anyway) Plus the undeniable fact that this is ''exactly'' how a real life agent would behave - you don't get to save the world without, at the very least, ''threatening'' violence.
* JobTitle: ''The Man with the Golden Gun''.
* KidnappedByAnAlly: Bond doesn't find out that Hip is an ally until well after being arrested by him.
* KingpinInHisGym: Scaramanga has a warped relationship with his diminuative manservant Nick-Nack; in the event of his death, Nick-Nack inherits everything...in return for Nick-Nack actually ''trying'' to kill him by hiring the best assassins in the world for Scaramanga to pit his skills against.
* LandOfDragons: Two different locales, actually, none of them the mainland. The first is HongKong, the second is Scaramanga's island lair, somewhere in the Chinese-controlled part of the South China Sea.
* LegendaryInTheSequel: Scaramanga wishes to fight James Bond because of his reputation as the best.
* LoadBearingBoss: Averted. Scaramanga's death has no impact on the collapse of his lair, which was the result of Goodnight shoving Scaramanga's technician into a liquid helium vat, which destabilized the power station.
* MacGuffin: The Solex Agitator.
* MarkedBullet: The gold bullet sent to Bond has his number on it.
* TheMillstone: Mary Goodnight.
* MissingTrailerScene: The original theatrical trailer contained scenes from the showdown on the beach between Bond and Scaramanga that were cut from the final release.
* {{Mooks}}: Averted. As opposed to several other Bond films, Scaramanga's hideout is staffed by only two henchmen. [[spoiler: Both of them live longer than their boss does, and one even makes it all the way through!]]
** Played straight with Hai Fat, who has several armed guards at his home and an entire school of homicidal martial artists.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The movie could have ended about 40 minutes earlier if Goodnight hadn't tried to put a tracer in Scaramanga's car. She had the solex and Scaramanga wasn't particularly interested in hunting down Bond at this point. They could have just walked away and let him be.
** Also, the CollapsingLair is due to Goodnight pushing a mook into a liquid helium tank.
* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Before starting the duel, Scaramanga shows Bond around his island and has lunch with him.
** Superbly parodied [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aMmtNpHqzs here]].
* NobodyHereButUsStatues: Rather convenient for Scaramanga to keep a statue of James Bond in his funhouse of death.
** Nick Nack and the sumo wrestlers pull the same trick in Hai Fat's house to ambush Bond.
* NotSoDifferent: Scaramanga and Bond (though the latter disagrees).
* OhCrap: Bond [[PlummetPerspective drops his gun]] [[spoiler:while under the funhouse, and has to clamber down and get it. Or maybe his dummy had a real gun with bullets -- it's not quite clear.]]
* OvertRendezvous: Bond is scheduled to meet with Andrea Anders at a boxing venue so she can give him the Solex Agitator. When he gets there he finds her dead - murdered by Scaramanga.
* {{Padding}}: The film is prolonged by pointless meandering in a few cases, for example,why Bond had to get the bullet in Beirut when he had the one sent to him, the Kung Fu scene and its following canal chase etc.
* ProductPlacement: Tabasco Sauce. And AMC Motors, which is why Bond isn't booting around in an [[CoolCar Aston Martin or BMW]] in this one. Also an early example of the series' long-standing love affair with Sony.
* RedRightHand: Scaramanga has three nipples.
* ScaramangaSpecial: The GoldenGun itself. Scaramanga combines specially designed parts disguised as a pen, a cigarette lighter, a cigarette box and a cuff link. The [[{{TropeNamers/Film}} Trope Namer]] and [[TropeMakers Trope Maker]].
* SequelEscalation: Averted. A refreshingly down-to-earth plot (no world domination plots, egomaniac villians etc) especially before ''TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' and ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' played this trope straight.
* ShootingGallery: Scaramanga's funhouse.
* ShutUpHannibal: Bond's response to Scaramanga's assertion that, bar the paycheck, he and Bond are the same:
-->There's a useful 4 letter word. [[PrecisionFStrike And you're full of it.]]
* SightedGunsAreLowTech: Scaramanga is a good enough of a marksman that he doesn't need gun sights on his eponymous gun.
-->Arguably not, as the pen clip is in the correct position for a sight (although he only aims obviously with it once.)
* TheStarscream: "Mr Fat has just resigned. I'm the new Chairman of the Board."
* StopHelpingMe: Goodnight blocks Bond's taxi, causes a chain reaction by knocking out the man keeping watch on her, and triggers the solar beam where Bond is working.
* StormingTheCastle: Bond in a plane.
* SurpriseSlideStaircase: Scaramanga has one in his funhouse.
* SuspectIsHatless: As Bond talks to Miss Anders about Scaramanga.
-->'''Bond:''' How will I recognize him?
-->'''Anders:''' Tall, slim and dark.
-->'''Bond:''' So's my aunt.
-->'''Anders:''' Yes, but how can I tell you? He's not like other men. [gestures toward her chest] He has three...
-->'''Bond:''' Fascinating anatomical tidbit. But probably the most useless piece of information I've ever heard. Unless, of course, the "Bottoms Up" is a strip club and Scaramanga is performing.
** It actually ''is'' a strip club, but Scaramanga doesn't perform.
* TapOnTheHead: Nick Nack knocks Bond out with a trident.
* TemptingFate: Hai Fat building his own mausoleum. And an InUniverse example -- Scaramanga has left Nick Nack all his money in his will. Nick Nack in return arranges for various {{Career Killer}}s to murder his boss, which helps the Scaramanga cope with his ennui. Nick Nack could of course simply poison his champagne, but he's actually quite loyal, and genuinely angry when Bond kills Scaramanga.
** Well, he's probably more mad that Bond (or rather, Goodnight) blew up his inheritance than anything else. As for poison Scaramanga's will might just be that specific- Nick Nack only gets it if he, Scaramanga, is murdered by another gunman.
* TenPacesAndTurn: Subverted. Scaramanga disappears while Bond's back is turned, leading to a hunt.
* ThemeTuneCameo: A piano version and a jazz version plays in Scaramanga's funhouse.
* TitleDrop:
-->[after presenting Bond his solar-powered laser weapon]
-->'''Scaramanga:''' You must admit I am now undeniably the Man with the Golden Gun.
* TooDumbToLive:
** Mary Goodnight.
** Sheriff J.W. Pepper. Unfortunately, he does.
* TripleNipple: Scaramanga is not like other men.
* UnwinnableTrainingSimulation: Scaramanga vs. the gangster, except that Scaramanga could have died.
* TheVillainSucksSong: The innuendo-laden Lulu song. "He has a powerful weapon", apparently. "Who will he bang? We shall see..."
* WackyWaysideTribe: The gangster Scaramanga uses to test his abilities.
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-->'''Bond:''' Who would want to put a contract out on me?
-->'''M:''' Jealous husbands, humiliated tailors, outraged chefs. The list is endless!
The 9th JamesBond film. Francisco Scaramanga (played by ChristopherLee), the most dangerous assassin in the world, has a contract out on Bond, who sets out to find out why. Oh, there's also a missing solar power device to find. It's also the last film that Harry Saltzman worked on.
This was the first Bond movie allowed to be screened in the Soviet Union. Possibly because there is not even one mention of them in the entire movie (RedChina, on the other hand....).
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!!This film contains examples of:
* ActionGirl: In a delightful subversion of the FauxActionGirl trope, two karate-kicking schoolgirls save Bond from a gang of mooks while he looks on in appreciation.
* AffablyEvil: Scaramanga.
* AntagonistTitle: Scaramanga of course.
* AuctionOfEvil: Though only if you consider multinational power companies evil. Scaramanga intends to sell the secret of the Solex Agitator to the highest bidder, granting them a monopoly. Or he'll take money from the Arab oil companies to keep solar power off the market.
* BallisticDiscount: Bond questions a gunsmith about a custom bullet he made by, in part, threatening to shoot him with a rifle the man is making for a customer who has lost 2 fingers on his right hand and needs something custom balanced. Apparently, the rifle fires 2 inches below the target for people with 5 fingers. Bond proves this by shooting at, and missing, the gunsmith's wedding tackle.
-->'''Bond:''' So talk now...[[PreMortemOneLiner or forever hold your piece]].
* {{Beirut}}: With obligatory belly-dancer.
* BifurcatedWeapon: Scaramanga's gun
* BlingBlingBang: The eponymous Golden Gun.
* BondVillainStupidity:
** Bond takes up Hai Fat's invitation to join him for dinner in his mansion while pretending to be Scaramanga, not knowing that the ''real'' Scaramanga had already gotten in touch with the guy. When he arrives there late at night, he's incapacitated by some guards in an ambush. As they're about to kill him, Hai Fat forbids them from doing so because he doesn't want Bond killed in his home. They'll just take him somewhere else to finish him off right? Nope. Hai Fat has Bond placed in a krabi krabong school to... get beaten up? Maybe?
** Justifiably invoked by Scaramanga late in the film; he freely admits that he could have used his solar-powered laser to blow up Bond's plane before he even landed on the island, but chose not to do so because of how unsatisfying it would be.
* ButtMonkey: Sheriff J.W. Pepper.
* [[{{Ptitletlfjs3m6}} Can't Bathe Without A Weapon]]: Andrea pulls a gun on Bond when he walks in on her in the shower.
-->'''Bond''': [[IncrediblyLamePun A water pistol?]]
* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Dummy]]: The mannequin of Bond seen in Scaramanga's funhouse during the cold opening comes in handy during the final confrontation.
* ClosetShuffle: Bond forces Goodnight to hide in a closet when he is visited by Andrea.
* CollapsingLair: Scaramanga's hideout, when the helium's temperature rises too high.
* CombatPragmatist: Bond in the dojo. Bond and Nick Nack [[DragonTheirFeet on the junk]].
* CompensatingForSomething: Scaramanga only makes love before he kills, and it's clear from one scene with Anders that the gun is a penis substitute (he's caressing Anders with it suggestively as they lie in bed).
** All together now: ''[[{{Zardoz}} "The gun is good...the PENIS is EVIL!"]]''
** UpToEleven in the novel, where an MI6 [[FreudWasRight psychiatric report goes on about]] how Scaramanga uses a HandCannon to compensate for his being AmbiguouslyGay. No wonder Bond just had a Beretta .25!
* ConvectionShmonvection: We're told that the beam of concentrated sunlight, which goes through open air with no isolation from the machine's operator, heats up to 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit. Bond later has it lit up a few centimeters from his face.
* CoolPlane: The Republic RC-3 [=SeaBee=] seaplane which Bond uses to fly to the SupervillainLair, donated by a wealthy American JamesBond fan (though only on the condition he fly it himself. Which he did, all the way from the United States to Thailand).
* DeathCourse: Scaramanga's funhouse
* DeathRay: One of the few supervillain tropes in this movie.
-->'''Scaramanga:''' Now that's why I call solar power.
-->'''Bond:''' That's what I call trouble.
* {{Defictionalisation}}: The Bottoms Up strip club kept the same interior used in the film until it closed in 2004. The island which is Scaramanga's hideout (Ko Tapu or Nail Island) was virtually unknown to outsiders -- it's now called James Bond Island and is an overcrowded tourist attraction (much to the annoyance of Christopher Lee when he took his wife there). Longtail boats are also referred to as "James Bond boats" in Thai tourist advertisements.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: J.W. Pepper, upon being re-united with Bond.
--> '''J.W.:''' I know you! You're that secret agent! That English secret agent from England!
* DepravedDwarf: Downplayed with Nick Nack. He's AffablyEvil at all times, but he does work for a renowned contract killer, and does not hesitate to try and kill others when he feels like it.
* DoABarrelRoll: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzCIbhLUUA0&feature=related Bond jumping with a car on a destroyed bridge.]] (yes, it was real; and yes, the producers had the guts to add a {{Narm}}y comedy sound effect!)
* DoubleMeaningTitle: Scaramanga points out that in addition to having [[BlingBlingBang a weapon made of gold]], after the solar-powered beam is shot "You must admit I am now undeniably [[TitleDrop the Man with the Golden Gun.]]"
* DragonInChief: Scaramanga. Hai Fat refers to him as his "junior partner", and Fat is the one who is actually after the MacGuffin, has most of the {{Mooks}}, and his company paid for and built Scaramanga's evil lair. But there's a reason he's not the title character.
* DragonTheirFeet: Nick Nack.
* DuelToTheDeath: between Bond and Scaramanga
* DumbBlonde: Mary Goodnight, the most blatant example in the whole Bond series.
* EvilCounterpart: Scaramanga is essentially Bond if he were a freelance killer with fewer scruples.
* EvilPaysBetter: This is part of Scaramanga's NotSoDifferent speech to Bond, to illustrate the one difference between the two men as Scaramanga sees it. He can afford to live on an island paradise because he gets paid a million (dollars?) per assassination contract, while Bond, as Scaramanga puts it, "works for peanuts; a hearty 'well done' from the Queen and a pittance of a pension".
* FanDisservice: Sheriff J.W. Pepper. And Scaramanga showing his TripleNipple.
* FanService: The scene where Mary Goodnight's bikini-clad butt keeps knocking against the BigRedButton activating the killer laser. Sure, it's a Crowning Moment Of Stupid, but who's going to argue with a tight close-up of Britt Ekland's booty?
* FollowTheLeader: Why else would Bond be at [[EnterTheDragon a martial arts school being forced to fight]]?
* FlyingCar: A TruthInTelevision example (though apparently without the range cited in the movie)
* GoingCommando: Bond encounters Chew Me, a beautiful Thai girl swimming in Hai Fats' pool, who invites him to join her.
-->'''Bond:''' "I don't have any swimming trunks."
-->'''Chew Me:''' "Neither do I."
* GoGoEnslavement: Scaramanga forces Mary Goodnight to wear a bikini so she can't have concealed weapons.
* GroinAttack: Bond stops a sumo wrestler's BearHug of Death by tightening his jockstrap.
* HallOfMirrors: Scaramanga's funhouse.
* [[HolidayInCambodia Holiday in]] UsefulNotes/{{Thailand}}: A third or more of the movie takes place here.
* HollywoodSilencer: Notably averted in the opening scene, where the ganger assassin's silenced weapon is still quite loud.
* IKEAWeaponry: Scaramanga keeps his gun disassembled to pass it safely through customs.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Bond wards off Fat's mooks with the prop of a longtail boat.
* JerkAss: [[EnforcedTrope Inflicted upon Bond by the studio, in an effort to counteract Roger Moore's natural urbanity.]] Bond is infamously a total ''asshole'' throughout this film, threatening to break a woman's arm, threatening to blow off a guy's testicles, and later pushing a kid salesman ("''bloody tourist!''") into a rapid stream during a boat chase. Having sex with Anders while Goodnight, ''who he was just about to have sex with'', is hiding in the closet. [[WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack And then she still has sex with Bond at the end!]] This could be viewed as reversing the changes of previous movies, as the Bond of the books is a much more ruthless, cold-blooded JerkAss than is generally portrayed (at least up until the second ''CasinoRoyale''. Or ''LicenceToKill'', anyway) Plus the undeniable fact that this is ''exactly'' how a real life agent would behave - you don't get to save the world without, at the very least, ''threatening'' violence.
* JobTitle: ''The Man with the Golden Gun''.
* KidnappedByAnAlly: Bond doesn't find out that Hip is an ally until well after being arrested by him.
* KingpinInHisGym: Scaramanga has a warped relationship with his diminuative manservant Nick-Nack; in the event of his death, Nick-Nack inherits everything...in return for Nick-Nack actually ''trying'' to kill him by hiring the best assassins in the world for Scaramanga to pit his skills against.
* LandOfDragons: Two different locales, actually, none of them the mainland. The first is HongKong, the second is Scaramanga's island lair, somewhere in the Chinese-controlled part of the South China Sea.
* LegendaryInTheSequel: Scaramanga wishes to fight James Bond because of his reputation as the best.
* LoadBearingBoss: Averted. Scaramanga's death has no impact on the collapse of his lair, which was the result of Goodnight shoving Scaramanga's technician into a liquid helium vat, which destabilized the power station.
* MacGuffin: The Solex Agitator.
* MarkedBullet: The gold bullet sent to Bond has his number on it.
* TheMillstone: Mary Goodnight.
* MissingTrailerScene: The original theatrical trailer contained scenes from the showdown on the beach between Bond and Scaramanga that were cut from the final release.
* {{Mooks}}: Averted. As opposed to several other Bond films, Scaramanga's hideout is staffed by only two henchmen. [[spoiler: Both of them live longer than their boss does, and one even makes it all the way through!]]
** Played straight with Hai Fat, who has several armed guards at his home and an entire school of homicidal martial artists.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The movie could have ended about 40 minutes earlier if Goodnight hadn't tried to put a tracer in Scaramanga's car. She had the solex and Scaramanga wasn't particularly interested in hunting down Bond at this point. They could have just walked away and let him be.
** Also, the CollapsingLair is due to Goodnight pushing a mook into a liquid helium tank.
* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Before starting the duel, Scaramanga shows Bond around his island and has lunch with him.
** Superbly parodied [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aMmtNpHqzs here]].
* NobodyHereButUsStatues: Rather convenient for Scaramanga to keep a statue of James Bond in his funhouse of death.
** Nick Nack and the sumo wrestlers pull the same trick in Hai Fat's house to ambush Bond.
* NotSoDifferent: Scaramanga and Bond (though the latter disagrees).
* OhCrap: Bond [[PlummetPerspective drops his gun]] [[spoiler:while under the funhouse, and has to clamber down and get it. Or maybe his dummy had a real gun with bullets -- it's not quite clear.]]
* OvertRendezvous: Bond is scheduled to meet with Andrea Anders at a boxing venue so she can give him the Solex Agitator. When he gets there he finds her dead - murdered by Scaramanga.
* {{Padding}}: The film is prolonged by pointless meandering in a few cases, for example,why Bond had to get the bullet in Beirut when he had the one sent to him, the Kung Fu scene and its following canal chase etc.
* ProductPlacement: Tabasco Sauce. And AMC Motors, which is why Bond isn't booting around in an [[CoolCar Aston Martin or BMW]] in this one. Also an early example of the series' long-standing love affair with Sony.
* RedRightHand: Scaramanga has three nipples.
* ScaramangaSpecial: The GoldenGun itself. Scaramanga combines specially designed parts disguised as a pen, a cigarette lighter, a cigarette box and a cuff link. The [[{{TropeNamers/Film}} Trope Namer]] and [[TropeMakers Trope Maker]].
* SequelEscalation: Averted. A refreshingly down-to-earth plot (no world domination plots, egomaniac villians etc) especially before ''TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' and ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' played this trope straight.
* ShootingGallery: Scaramanga's funhouse.
* ShutUpHannibal: Bond's response to Scaramanga's assertion that, bar the paycheck, he and Bond are the same:
-->There's a useful 4 letter word. [[PrecisionFStrike And you're full of it.]]
* SightedGunsAreLowTech: Scaramanga is a good enough of a marksman that he doesn't need gun sights on his eponymous gun.
-->Arguably not, as the pen clip is in the correct position for a sight (although he only aims obviously with it once.)
* TheStarscream: "Mr Fat has just resigned. I'm the new Chairman of the Board."
* StopHelpingMe: Goodnight blocks Bond's taxi, causes a chain reaction by knocking out the man keeping watch on her, and triggers the solar beam where Bond is working.
* StormingTheCastle: Bond in a plane.
* SurpriseSlideStaircase: Scaramanga has one in his funhouse.
* SuspectIsHatless: As Bond talks to Miss Anders about Scaramanga.
-->'''Bond:''' How will I recognize him?
-->'''Anders:''' Tall, slim and dark.
-->'''Bond:''' So's my aunt.
-->'''Anders:''' Yes, but how can I tell you? He's not like other men. [gestures toward her chest] He has three...
-->'''Bond:''' Fascinating anatomical tidbit. But probably the most useless piece of information I've ever heard. Unless, of course, the "Bottoms Up" is a strip club and Scaramanga is performing.
** It actually ''is'' a strip club, but Scaramanga doesn't perform.
* TapOnTheHead: Nick Nack knocks Bond out with a trident.
* TemptingFate: Hai Fat building his own mausoleum. And an InUniverse example -- Scaramanga has left Nick Nack all his money in his will. Nick Nack in return arranges for various {{Career Killer}}s to murder his boss, which helps the Scaramanga cope with his ennui. Nick Nack could of course simply poison his champagne, but he's actually quite loyal, and genuinely angry when Bond kills Scaramanga.
** Well, he's probably more mad that Bond (or rather, Goodnight) blew up his inheritance than anything else. As for poison Scaramanga's will might just be that specific- Nick Nack only gets it if he, Scaramanga, is murdered by another gunman.
* TenPacesAndTurn: Subverted. Scaramanga disappears while Bond's back is turned, leading to a hunt.
* ThemeTuneCameo: A piano version and a jazz version plays in Scaramanga's funhouse.
* TitleDrop:
-->[after presenting Bond his solar-powered laser weapon]
-->'''Scaramanga:''' You must admit I am now undeniably the Man with the Golden Gun.
* TooDumbToLive:
** Mary Goodnight.
** Sheriff J.W. Pepper. Unfortunately, he does.
* TripleNipple: Scaramanga is not like other men.
* UnwinnableTrainingSimulation: Scaramanga vs. the gangster, except that Scaramanga could have died.
* TheVillainSucksSong: The innuendo-laden Lulu song. "He has a powerful weapon", apparently. "Who will he bang? We shall see..."
* WackyWaysideTribe: The gangster Scaramanga uses to test his abilities.
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