History Film / TheManWithTheGoldenGun

[[caption-width-right:300:''No one can catch him\\
No hitman can match him...'']]

->'''Bond:''' Charming trinket. Even has my number on it.
->'''M:''' Precisely.
->'''Bond:''' Well, obviously it's useless as a bullet. I mean, sir, who would pay a million dollars to have me killed?
->'''M:''' Jealous husbands, outraged chefs, humiliated tailors. The list is endless!

-->'''M:''' So if I understand it, Scaramanga got away

* LighterAndSofter: Easily one of the most jarring examples of this in the series, with the film's over-reliance on comedy regularly earning it scorn from many longtime Bond fans.

* TheMillstone: Mary Goodnight, especially while Bond is trying to retrieve the Solex Agitator in Scaramanga's lair. She accidentally hits the giant, candy-like button with her ASS, almost setting off the doomsday thingy while Bond is inside it trying to disable it. Holy crow, maybe not the dumbest Bond girl ever, but a contender.

* NearMissGroinAttack [[InvokedTrope Invoked.]] Lazar says his custom-made rifle (see CoolGuns above) will fire one inch too low for anyone who has all his fingers. Bond threatens him with said rifle (see FreudianThreat, also above), but when Lazar doesn't talk, Bond fires -- between the man's legs.

** Bond successfully retrieves the Solex agitator and gives it to Lieutenant Hip, who gives it to Mary Goodnight. Instead of focusing on getting the Solex to M, Goodnight decides to plant a bug on Scaramanga's car. She succeeds...only to have Scaramanga toss her into the trunk. Worse still, Goodnight still has the Solex with her. Scaramanga had no intention of killing Bond, he was just after the Solex. Had Goodnight just taken the Solex, he'd have nothing.

* NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: Scaramanga's justification for why he [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim doesn't just shoot Bond]]; it'd be too ''easy'', and Scaramanga, considering Bond his rival (if not equal) in skill, he wants an actual duel between them to make Bond's death personally satisfying.

* AvengingTheVillain: PlayedWith when, after the inevitable defeat of Scaramanga, Nick Nack hides on James' escape ship - only to be quickly overcome and serve as a makeshift figurehead for the ship.

[[caption-width-right:300:''No one can catch him, no hitman can match him...'']]

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The Bangkok police actually used left hand drive AMC Matadors when the film was made.
** Also, the former ocean liner ''Queen Elizabeth'' had been wrecked in Hong Kong harbour after catching fire in January 1972; the wreck was largely dismantled for scrap between 1974 and 1975.

* AntagonistTitle: Scaramanga of course, whose WeaponOfChoice is a "multipurpose" golden pistol.

* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:Andrea Anders has sex with Bond to help convince him to kill her boyfriend, only to be murdered by Scaramanga when he finds out.]]

* MacGuffin: The Solex Agitator.

* ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination: After stealing the Solex Agitator from Scaramanga, Andrea Anders arranges to hand it over to Bond at a Thai boxing match, no doubt thinking her boyfriend would be [[OvertRendezvous reluctant to kill her in front of a thousand witnesses]]. Bond sits down next to Anders and starts talking to her, only to see a neat bullethole over her heart. Scaramanga then casually sits down next to him, saying it was "a difficult shot, [[YouHaveFailedMe but most gratifying."]] Presumably he'd have to inflict spinal damage as well if she DiedStandingUp with [[DiesWideOpen her eyes open]].

* BrickJoke: The kid trying to hawk the wooden elephant to Mrs. Pepper, who's not paying any attention. When she gets off the boat, she rushes off to buy one.

* CoolGuns: Scaramanga's "Golden Gun", that can be [[ScaramangaSpecial assembled from simple parts]] and used for assassinations. It's been a staple weapon in many ''007'' video games such as ''[[VideoGame/{{Goldeneye1997}} Goldeneye 007]]'' and ''VideoGame/{{Nightfire}}'' as a [[OneHitKill one shot, one kill]] weapon. It's a complicated story what it is, details [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/(James_Bond_007)_-_Golden_Gun here]].

* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:Andrea Anders gets killed in public - with no one noticing - after having sex with Bond]].

* PunchClockVillain: Scaramanga only goes after Bond when he tries to interfere with his plans, which Bond had only uncovered because he assumed Scaramanga had been hired to take out a contract on him.

* OnlyALighter: Inversion: the titular gun is a working cigarette lighter as well as an actual gun when not being used to shoot.

* AdaptationalNationality: Scaramanga is of Catalonian origin in the novel, while he is British-born in the movie who lived in Brazil.

* DeathRay: One of the few supervillain tropes in this movie.
-->'''Scaramanga:''' Now that's what I call solar power.
-->'''Bond:''' That's what I call trouble.

-->'''J.W.''': "You're not thinkin' of--"
-->'''Bond''': ''(in a Southern accent)'' "Ah shore am, boy!" ''(normal)'' "Ever heard of UsefulNotes/EvelKnievel?"

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange:
** In the book, Scaramanga was an unpleasant, one-dimensional thug. In the film, he's still a villain, but much more charismatic and charming to the point of being a dark reflection of Bond.
** This film is easily the grumpiest that Roger Moore's Bond ''ever'' gets, right down to threatening to shoot a man's testicles (and missing by mere inches even when he agrees to talk!) when there's numerous other ways he could get the information he needed and mistreating both Andrea Anders and Mary Goodnight. Out-of-universe it was to distinguish 007 from Moore's jovial screen persona, in-universe Bond probably thinks this entire affair's a massive waste of time due to one assassin being bored and jealous.

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the book, Scaramanga was an unpleasant, one-dimensional thug. In the film, he's still a villain, but much more charismatic and charming to the point of being a dark reflection of Bond.

->'''Bond:''' Who would want to put a contract out on me?

* RedChina: China is implied to be the BiggerBad to the main villains... in fact the evil lair is located in Red Chinese waters.

** Nick Nack hires various assassins to kill Scaramanga to keep him on the edge. Subverted in that unlike most other examples, Scarmanaga not only knows about it all, but has specifically made it Nick Nack's job in order to constantly test him - if he ever succeeds, Nick Nack inherits his boss' money.

** Notably, this is the first of only three Bond movies (the others being ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' and ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'') where Bond dispatches a BigBad by gunshot.

** 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.

* GoodIsDumb: Mary Goodnight.