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-->'''Bond''':[[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents ''(in a Southern accent)'' "Ah shore am, boy!"]]boy!" ''(normal)'' "Ever heard of Evel Knievel?"
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** [[https://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 slide whistle! [[note]] The director stated in the DVD commentary that he added it because he didn't think there was a way the audiences would take such stunt seriously. [[/note]]
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** [[https://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 slide whistle! whistle, of all things! [[note]] The director stated in the DVD commentary that he added it because he didn't think there was a way the audiences would take such stunt seriously. [[/note]]
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** 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.
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** 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. Scaramanga would like nothing better than to engage in a fair DuelToTheDeath with 007 himself.
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This was the first Bond movie allowed to be screened in the Kremlin, where a Russian official told Cubby Broccoli that the KGB clearly didn't train Scaramanga very well. Possibly because there is only one mention of them in the entire movie (RedChina, on the other hand ...). It's also the last film that producer Harry Saltzman worked on.
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This was the first Bond movie allowed to be screened in the Kremlin, where a Russian official told [[Creator/AlbertRBroccoli Cubby Broccoli Broccoli]] that the KGB clearly didn't train Scaramanga very well. Possibly because there is only one mention of them in the entire movie (RedChina, on the other hand ...). It's also the last film that producer Harry Saltzman worked on.
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This was the first Bond movie allowed to be screened in the Kremlin, where a Russian official told Cubby Broccoli that the KGB clearly didn't train Scaramanga very well. Possibly because there is only one mention of them in the entire movie. (RedChina, on the other hand ...) It's also the last film that producer Harry Saltzman worked on.
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This was the first Bond movie allowed to be screened in the Kremlin, where a Russian official told Cubby Broccoli that the KGB clearly didn't train Scaramanga very well. Possibly because there is only one mention of them in the entire movie. movie (RedChina, on the other hand ...) ). It's also the last film that producer Harry Saltzman worked on.
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** Nick Nack's job is to be one, as he hires various assassins to kill Scaramanga to keep him on the edge. If he ever succeeds, Nick Nack inherits his boss' money.
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** Nick Nack's job is to be one, as he hires various assassins to kill Scaramanga to keep him on the edge. If he ever succeeds, Nick Nack inherits his boss' money. Scaramanga actually knows about it.
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* WorthyOpponent: How Scaramanga sees Bond.
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* WorthyOpponent: How Scaramanga sees Bond. Bond begs to differ.
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{{The one with}}...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin erm...uh...yeah.]] Also, Creator/ChristopherLee drives a flying car.
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''The Man with the Golden Gun'' is the ninth spy film in the ''Film/JamesBond'' series and the second to star Creator/RogerMoore as the [[SecretIntelligenceService MI6]] agent James Bond. A loose adaptation of Creator/IanFleming's [[Literature/TheManWithTheGoldenGun novel of same name]], the film has Bond sent after the [[MacGuffin Solex Agitator]], a device that can harness the power of the sun, while facing the assassin Francisco Scaramanga (Creator/ChristopherLee), the "Man with the Golden Gun." The action culminates in a duel between them that settles the fate of the Solex.
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''The Man with the Golden Gun'' is the ninth spy film in the ''Film/JamesBond'' series series, the fourth and last to be directed by Guy Hamilton, and the second to star Creator/RogerMoore as Creator/RogerMoore, coming out in December 1974. Lulu performed the [[SecretIntelligenceService MI6]] agent James Bond. TitleThemeTune.
A loose adaptation of Creator/IanFleming's [[Literature/TheManWithTheGoldenGun novel of same name]], the film has Bond sent after the [[MacGuffin Solex Agitator]], a device that can harness the power of the sun, while facing the assassin Francisco Scaramanga (Creator/ChristopherLee), the "Man with the Golden Gun." The action culminates in a duel between them that settles the fate of the Solex.
A loose adaptation of Creator/IanFleming's [[Literature/TheManWithTheGoldenGun novel of same name]], the film has Bond sent after the [[MacGuffin Solex Agitator]], a device that can harness the power of the sun, while facing the assassin Francisco Scaramanga (Creator/ChristopherLee), the "Man with the Golden Gun." The action culminates in a duel between them that settles the fate of the Solex.
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* ActionPrologue: Par for the course, but this time focused on [[BigBad Scaramanga]] and not Bond himself. Scaramanga is seen duelling with a mafia hitman hired by Knick Knack to keep his skills sharp.
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* ActionPrologue: Par for the course, but this time focused on [[BigBad Scaramanga]] and not Bond himself. Scaramanga is seen duelling with a mafia hitman hired by Knick Nick Knack to keep his skills sharp.sharp.
* ActorAllusion: In the fight in the dancer's dressing-room, Bond sprays one of the villains in the face with an aerosol can of what is clearly Brut-33, a nod to the Fabergé company with which Creator/RogerMoore was associated.
* ActorAllusion: In the fight in the dancer's dressing-room, Bond sprays one of the villains in the face with an aerosol can of what is clearly Brut-33, a nod to the Fabergé company with which Creator/RogerMoore was associated.
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* ThugDojo: The martial arts school where Hai Fat has Bond sent to is a place where students DuelToTheDeath in front of the kru[note]the Thai equivalent of "sensei"[/note], likely what Hai Fat intended for Bond. (Bond cheats against the first student who tries to fight him, the second is far more careful.)
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* ThugDojo: The martial arts school where Hai Fat has Bond sent to is a place where students DuelToTheDeath in front of the kru[note]the kru[[note]]the Thai equivalent of "sensei"[/note], "sensei"[[/note]], likely what Hai Fat intended for Bond. (Bond cheats against the first student who tries to fight him, the second is far more careful.)
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* AllAsiansWearConicalStrawHats: Sheriff J.W. Pepper refers to the people of Thailand as "pointy heads".[[note]]This could be an UnusualEuphemism for the genuine anti-Asian slur "zipperheads", as used in ''Film/GranTorino''[[/note]]
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* AllAsiansWearConicalStrawHats: Sheriff J.W. Pepper refers to the people of Thailand as "pointy heads".[[note]]This could be an UnusualEuphemism for the genuine anti-Asian slur "zipperheads", as used in ''Film/GranTorino''[[/note]]''Film/GranTorino''.[[/note]]
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* AllAsiansWearConicalStrawHats: Sheriff J.W. Pepper refers to the people of Thailand as "pointy heads".
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* AllAsiansWearConicalStrawHats: Sheriff J.W. Pepper refers to the people of Thailand as "pointy heads".[[note]]This could be an UnusualEuphemism for the genuine anti-Asian slur "zipperheads", as used in ''Film/GranTorino''[[/note]]
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* AllAsiansWearConicalHats: Sheriff J.W. Pepper refers to the people of Thailand as "pointy heads".
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* AllAsiansWearConicalHats: AllAsiansWearConicalStrawHats: Sheriff J.W. Pepper refers to the people of Thailand as "pointy heads".
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* FiveBadBand:
** BigBad- Scaramanga
** TheDragon - Nick Nack
** EvilGenius - Hai Fat, who thinks he's the BigBad but in reality just supplies the money and tech. [[spoiler:The real BigBad kills him this time, too]].
** TheDarkChick - Andrea Anders
** TheBrute - Chula
** DarkChick - Kra
** BigBad- Scaramanga
** TheDragon - Nick Nack
** EvilGenius - Hai Fat, who thinks he's the BigBad but in reality just supplies the money and tech. [[spoiler:The real BigBad kills him this time, too]].
** TheDarkChick - Andrea Anders
** TheBrute - Chula
** DarkChick - Kra
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* TheCavalry: Lt. Hip and his [[ActionGirl nieces]], who show up JustInTime to save Bond from Hi Fat's minions. This results in a CrowningMomentOfFunny when they accidentally drive off without him!
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* TheCavalry: Lt. Hip and his [[ActionGirl nieces]], who show up JustInTime to save Bond from Hi Fat's minions. This results in a CrowningMomentOfFunny SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} when they accidentally drive off without him!
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* VillainousFriendship: Scaramanga and Nick Nack, who have a peculiar but affectionate relationship. The former in general is one of the few Bond villains to avert the BadBoss trope, no doubt helped by only having two employees and one of them being his heir.
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* BondOneLiner:
** Scaramanga kills Hai Fat and jovially explains to his dismayed assistant:
-->Mr. Fat has just resigned. I'm the new chairman of the board.
** Goodnight has one after knocking an engineer into a tank of liquid helium:
-->I knocked him out cold.
** Scaramanga kills Hai Fat and jovially explains to his dismayed assistant:
-->Mr. Fat has just resigned. I'm the new chairman of the board.
** Goodnight has one after knocking an engineer into a tank of liquid helium:
-->I knocked him out cold.
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* CombatPragmatist: Bond in the dojo. Bond and Nick Nack [[DragonTheirFeet on the junk]].
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* CombatPragmatist: Bond faces a trained martial artist in a karate match. When the other man bows, Bond kicks him in the dojo. throat. The next opponent comes and bows while keeping a careful eye on Bond and Nick Nack [[DragonTheirFeet on the junk]].to prevent getting sucker kicked himself.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Roger Moore admitted that scenes such as Bond interrogating a woman by nearly breaking her arm felt like they were still writing for Creator/SeanConnery.
* EpicFail: Hip and his nieces rescue James Bond from Hai Fat's dojo. The plan goes well, until Hip drives off without Bond, despite his nieces trying to tell him that the man they were sent to rescue has been left behind.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Scaramanga attempts to invoke the NotSoDifferent card on Bond, sardonically mocking that he only works for "peanuts, a hearty well-done from Her Majesty the Queen, and a pittance of a pension," only for 007 to shut him down by telling that he's full of a certain "four-letter word."
** "Bond doesn't know you're in Bangkok, he's never seen you, but he knows me. That's the problem." Hai Fat, before getting shot by Scaramanga.
** "Ready." Francisco Scaramanga, later shot by Bond.
** "Ready." Francisco Scaramanga, later shot by Bond.
* FiveBadBand:
** BigBad- Scaramanga
** TheDragon - Nick Nack
** EvilGenius - Hai Fat, who thinks he's the BigBad but in reality just supplies the money and tech. [[spoiler:The real BigBad kills him this time, too]].
** TheDarkChick - Andrea Anders
** TheBrute - Chula
** DarkChick - Kra
** BigBad- Scaramanga
** TheDragon - Nick Nack
** EvilGenius - Hai Fat, who thinks he's the BigBad but in reality just supplies the money and tech. [[spoiler:The real BigBad kills him this time, too]].
** TheDarkChick - Andrea Anders
** TheBrute - Chula
** DarkChick - Kra
* GreaterScopeVillain: Scaramanga is revealed to be working for Red China.
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* NotSoDifferent: Scaramanga and Bond (though the latter disagrees).
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* NotSoDifferent: Scaramanga and does this with James Bond. Bond (though tells him that he is full of a certain bodily discharge.
-->There's a useful four letter word. And you're full of it. When I kill, it's on thelatter disagrees).direct orders of my government. And the men I kill are themselves killers.
-->There's a useful four letter word. And you're full of it. When I kill, it's on the
* PaperThinDisguise: {{Subverted}} when James Bond tries to pose as Francisco Scaramanga and gain information from Hai Fat simply by wearing a fake third nipple. (Bond thinks this will work, because nobody knows what Scaramanga looks like, and he has always, up to now, dealt with his clients via intermediaries; the third nipple is his only known distinguishing feature.) Unbeknownst to Bond, Scaramanga has a new goal in mind and ''has'' met with Hai Fat personally this time, so he isn't fooled, but plays along with Bond for now.
* PreMortemOneLiner: When Hai Fat says that Bond's presence in Bangkok has become a problem, Scaramanga, right before killing Hai Fat with the Golden Gun, replies "That's no problem."
* 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.
* RealityEnsues: Hai Fat treats Francisco Scaramanga like a junior partner or subordinate with some disdain, but the assassin proves him spectacularly wrong and quickly pulls off a KlingonPromotion.
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* ThemeTuneCameo: A piano version and a jazz version plays in Scaramanga's funhouse.
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* ThemeTuneCameo: ThemeTuneCameo:
** A piano version and a jazz version of the theme song plays in Scaramanga'sfunhouse.funhouse.
** When Bond passes Sheriff J.W. Pepper in a speedboat, a snippet of the theme from ''Live and Let Die'' plays.
** A piano version and a jazz version of the theme song plays in Scaramanga's
** When Bond passes Sheriff J.W. Pepper in a speedboat, a snippet of the theme from ''Live and Let Die'' plays.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Creator/RogerMoore's Film/JamesBond went from being charming and urbane in ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'' to a ''huge'' asshole in this film. [[EnforcedTrope This was mandated by the studio to counteract Roger Moore's "nice guy" image"]], as we see him 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!]] Fortunately, Moore went back to his previous portrayal for the rest of his tenure.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Bond nearly breaks Andrea Anders' arm interrogating her.
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* AllAsiansWearConicalHats: Sheriff J.W. Pepper refers to the people of Thailand as "pointy heads".
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* AntagonistTitle: Scaramanga of course.
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* AntagonistTitle: Scaramanga of course.course, whose WeaponOfChoice is a "multipurpose" golden pistol.
* AntiClimax: The Bond vs. Nick Nack fight. Of all the PostFinalBoss fights Bond has had, this was, by far, the easiest.
* AntiClimax: The Bond vs. Nick Nack fight. Of all the PostFinalBoss fights Bond has had, this was, by far, the easiest.
* 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.
* BadassBoast: World's greatest assassin Francisco Scaramanga:
-->'''Bond''': Six bullets to your one?
-->'''Scaramanga''': I only need one.
* BadassBoast: World's greatest assassin Francisco Scaramanga:
-->'''Bond''': Six bullets to your one?
-->'''Scaramanga''': I only need one.
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* BavarianFireDrill: Bond attempts to masquerade as the villain, Scaramanga, to a Thai entrepreneur -- by actually ''pasting a third nipple on himself'' and hanging out proudly by the pool. He's gambling on the idea that that the entrepreneur and Scaramanga have never actually met in person, and that the entrepreneur would only know Scaramanga by his identifying physical oddity. The plan actually works [[spoiler:but then Bond gets found out and used for practice by a Thai krabi krabong school. Turns out, Scaramanga was watching the whole time, and the businessman knew perfectly well Bond was a fake.]]
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* BattleButler: Nick Nack. When not cooking, serving drinks or hiring killers to off his boss as a training exercise, he personally goes to the field on Scaramanga's orders.
* BavarianFireDrill: Bond attempts to masquerade as the villain, Scaramanga, toa Thai entrepreneur Hai Fat -- by actually ''pasting a third nipple on himself'' and hanging out proudly by the pool. He's gambling on the idea that that the entrepreneur Fat and Scaramanga have never actually met in person, and that the entrepreneur Fat would only know Scaramanga by his identifying physical oddity. The plan actually works [[spoiler:but then Bond gets found out and used for practice by a Thai krabi krabong school. Turns out, Scaramanga was watching the whole time, and the businessman Hai Fat knew perfectly well Bond was a fake.]]]]
* BedlahBabe: The lover of one of Scaramanga's targets, whom Bond tracks down to find Scaramanga. This one is justified, because she ''is'' a belly dancer.
* BellyDancer: Saida was the lover of Bill Fairbanks, who was killed by Scaramanga, and after he died, started wearing the golden bullet used to kill him in her navel when she performs. Bond needs the bullet as evidence and... Well, suffice to say, getting it from her isn't easy.
* BavarianFireDrill: Bond attempts to masquerade as the villain, Scaramanga, to
* BedlahBabe: The lover of one of Scaramanga's targets, whom Bond tracks down to find Scaramanga. This one is justified, because she ''is'' a belly dancer.
* BellyDancer: Saida was the lover of Bill Fairbanks, who was killed by Scaramanga, and after he died, started wearing the golden bullet used to kill him in her navel when she performs. Bond needs the bullet as evidence and... Well, suffice to say, getting it from her isn't easy.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Hai Fat imagines this with Francisco Scaramanga, but Scaramanga proves him spectacularly wrong.
* BigBadWannabe: Hai Fat imagines that he is in charge or at least part of a BigBadDuumvirate with Francisco Scaramanga in their plot to steal the Solex device, but once the assassin has what he wants he quickly uses his signature weapon to slay Fat and then takes over his company.
* TheBigBoard: There's a plotting board example in a Chinese air defence room.
* BizarreHumanBiology: Aside from using a golden gun and requesting a million dollars for every hit, Scaramanga is distinctively known for having a supernumerary nipple. James Bond uses a prosthetic when posing as him to Hai Fat, who has hired Scaramanga, but never met him.
* BigBadWannabe: Hai Fat imagines that he is in charge or at least part of a BigBadDuumvirate with Francisco Scaramanga in their plot to steal the Solex device, but once the assassin has what he wants he quickly uses his signature weapon to slay Fat and then takes over his company.
* TheBigBoard: There's a plotting board example in a Chinese air defence room.
* BizarreHumanBiology: Aside from using a golden gun and requesting a million dollars for every hit, Scaramanga is distinctively known for having a supernumerary nipple. James Bond uses a prosthetic when posing as him to Hai Fat, who has hired Scaramanga, but never met him.
* BriefAccentImitation: Bond mimics Sherrif Pepper's accent ("I sure am, boy!") just before the bridge jump.
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* ButHeSoundsHandsome: Bond makes a point of complimenting his skills while impersonating Scaramanga.
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* ButHeSoundsHandsome: James Bond makes a point of complimenting impersonates Francisco Scaramanga and talks with Hai Fat. During the talk, Bond warns the man about James Bond and plays up his skills while impersonating Scaramanga.skills.
* ChinaTakesOverTheWorld: A minor example; Scaramanga lives on a luxury island in Chinese waters "rent free" in return for "an occasional favour". His island has been turned into a power plant for a revolutionary solar energy device by a Malaysian conglomerate, but though it's in their territory, the Chinese don't seem to have much involvement in that.
* ConfrontingYourImposter: Bond turns up at Hai Fat's house pretending to be Scaramanga, thinking that he would not have met a contract killer face to face. After Bond leaves, the real Scaramanga puts on an appearance — turns out Scaramanga and Hai Fat are in business together.
* CoolCar: The AMC Hornet [[TheAllegedCar is really pushing it]], but is arguably saved by pulling off an incredible spiral-jump that could only have suceeded with Bond behind the wheel.
* 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]].
* 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]].
* DastardlyDapperDerby: Nick Nack wears a more conventional bowler, albeit smaller.
* DoomedAppointment: 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.
* EatTheEvidence: Bond accidentally swallows Francisco Scaramanga's bullet (in the belly button of a belly dancer) thanks to a heavy-handed thug. Later Bond quips: "You've no idea what that went through to get here."
* EiffelTowerEffect: The film provides a temporary example by depicting the MI-6 Hong Kong office in the burnt out and capsized hulk of RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'', the former ocean liner that had been destroyed by arson in Hong Kong harbour the year before the film was released.
* EverybodyOwnsAFord: Bond drives a Hornet, Scaramanga's driving (and flying) a Matador coupe and the police cars are Matador sedans.
* EiffelTowerEffect: The film provides a temporary example by depicting the MI-6 Hong Kong office in the burnt out and capsized hulk of RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'', the former ocean liner that had been destroyed by arson in Hong Kong harbour the year before the film was released.
* EverybodyOwnsAFord: Bond drives a Hornet, Scaramanga's driving (and flying) a Matador coupe and the police cars are Matador sedans.
* EvilIsBigger: Scaramanga is one of the only main villains in the franchise to be taller than Bond himself.
* EvilPlan: Scaramanga wants to corner the market on solar power during the '73-'74 energy crisis. Bit of an ExcusePlot- the real meat of the story is that Scaramanga has abused his girlfriend one too many times and she has duped Bond into going after him by making it look like Scaramanga has taken a contract on his life.
* FailureHero: Other than killing Scaramanga, Bond doesn't accomplish all that much.
* FatalFlaw:
** Francisco Scaramanga holds 007 in too high of a regard. The novel version is opposite – Scaramanga held a dim view of James Bond and underestimated the threat 007 posed to him.
** Hai Fat's fatal weakness is his smugness, as he thinks that his supposed Dragon Scaramanga is junior to him, but the Man with the Golden Gun proves him wrong in the most painful way.
* FailureHero: Other than killing Scaramanga, Bond doesn't accomplish all that much.
* FatalFlaw:
** Francisco Scaramanga holds 007 in too high of a regard. The novel version is opposite – Scaramanga held a dim view of James Bond and underestimated the threat 007 posed to him.
** Hai Fat's fatal weakness is his smugness, as he thinks that his supposed Dragon Scaramanga is junior to him, but the Man with the Golden Gun proves him wrong in the most painful way.
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* FlyingCar: A TruthInTelevision example (though apparently without the range cited in the movie)
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* FlyingCar: A TruthInTelevision example (though apparently without the range cited in the movie)movie).
* FreudianThreat: Bond interrogates Lazar by pointing a gun at his groin and saying, "Speak now or forever hold your piece."
* GiantMook: Bond had to fight two Sumo wrestlers in one scene. He has barely beaten them, but then Nick-Nack cheats, clocking the agent on the head from behind.
* FreudianThreat: Bond interrogates Lazar by pointing a gun at his groin and saying, "Speak now or forever hold your piece."
* GiantMook: Bond had to fight two Sumo wrestlers in one scene. He has barely beaten them, but then Nick-Nack cheats, clocking the agent on the head from behind.
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* HallOfMirrors: Scaramanga's funhouse.
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* HallOfMirrors: Scaramanga's funhouse.Used in the final confrontation between Bond and Scaramanga, and in The Teaser as well. Scaramanga ends up falling for the mirror thing in the finale.
* HelloAgainOfficer: James Bond had a not-terribly-pleasant encounter with Louisiana Sheriff J.W. Pepper in ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'', and runs into him again while Pepper just happens to be vacationing in Bangkok.
* HeroInsurance: During filming of the chase scene in ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'', they actually had a guy running following the cars with a checkbook to pay for damages.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Bill Fairbanks, 002, was killed before the start of the film.
* HelloAgainOfficer: James Bond had a not-terribly-pleasant encounter with Louisiana Sheriff J.W. Pepper in ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'', and runs into him again while Pepper just happens to be vacationing in Bangkok.
* HeroInsurance: During filming of the chase scene in ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'', they actually had a guy running following the cars with a checkbook to pay for damages.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Bill Fairbanks, 002, was killed before the start of the film.
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* HolidayInCambodia: A third or more of the movie takes place in UsefulNotes/{{Thailand}}.
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* HitmanWithAHeart: Bond himself explains his case when Scaramanga, an assassin that does ''not'' fit this Trope, tries to convince Bond that they are NotSoDifferent. Bond is disgusted by the thought, telling the villain that the people he kills are themselves killers, unlike Scaramanga who enjoys it, which leads to this:
--->'''Scaramanga:''' You do not enjoy it, Mr. Bond?\\
'''Bond:''' I admit that killing ''you'' right now would be ''quite'' enjoyable...
** As you might expect, Scaramanga decides to stop the pleasantries right there and make his official challenge to Bond.
* HolidayInCambodia:A third or more Bond travels to Thailand to question a possible associate of Scaramanga, the movie takes place in UsefulNotes/{{Thailand}}.businessman Hai Fat.
--->'''Scaramanga:''' You do not enjoy it, Mr. Bond?\\
'''Bond:''' I admit that killing ''you'' right now would be ''quite'' enjoyable...
** As you might expect, Scaramanga decides to stop the pleasantries right there and make his official challenge to Bond.
* HolidayInCambodia:
* HollywoodDarkness: The pre-credits scene has an assassin pitted against Scaramanga. He gets the drop on Scaramanga, but Nick-Nack turns the lights off, causing him to miss. We see the room flooded with red light.
* HostileAnimatronics: The cowboy and gangsters (including ''UsefulNotes/AlCapone'', of all people) inside Scaramanga's Fun House shoot at the people Scaramanga lures into it for his training with live targets, but it's only blanks. The real danger comes from Scaramanga himself, when he manages to reach his golden gun.
* HumanLadder: Bond stands on Lt. Hip's shoulders to get a view into Hai Fat's residence. Despite seeing loads of security, Bond hops the wall and lets himself in.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Scaramanga likes to hunt at the beginning and the end of the film.
* HumanLadder: Bond stands on Lt. Hip's shoulders to get a view into Hai Fat's residence. Despite seeing loads of security, Bond hops the wall and lets himself in.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Scaramanga likes to hunt at the beginning and the end of the film.
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* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Scaramanga likes to hunt at the beginning and the end of the film.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Scaramanga's gun fires a 4.2mm bullet. A caliber that small (.165) has no stopping power to speak of unless you hit a point guaranteed to be an instant kill, which he ''always'' does.
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Scaramanga's gun fires a 4.2mm bullet. A caliber that small (.165) has no stopping power to speak of unless you hit a point guaranteed to be an instant kill, which he ''always'' does.
* {{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, slapping said woman, 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 started off as a much more ruthless, cold-blooded and racist JerkAss than is generally portrayed (at least up until the second ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006''. Or ''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. And 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.
* {{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, slapping said woman, 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 started off as a much more ruthless, cold-blooded and racist JerkAss than is generally portrayed (at least up until the second ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006''. Or ''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. And 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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* ImprobableAimingSkills: InstantDeathBullet: Every single person shot by Scramanga dies immediately. This is made more notable by the fact that Scaramanga's gun fires a 4.2mm bullet. A uses custom made bullets of an absurdly low caliber that small (.165) has no stopping power [[note]]4.2mm[[/note]], making them ''less'' likely to speak of kill anyone they hit than bullets fired from a normal gun... unless you hit the man firing it is a point guaranteed to be an instant kill, spectacularly skilled marksman, which he ''always'' does.
it is established that Scaramanga is. There are places on the human body other than the head where a bullet will indeed kill instantly, and presumably Scaramanga would know of them.
* IslandBase: Scaramanga's private island is probably the best example of the trope.
* {{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, slapping said woman, 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 started off as a much more ruthless, cold-blooded and racistJerkAss {{Jerkass}} than is generally portrayed (at least up until the second ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006''. Or ''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. And 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.
* IslandBase: Scaramanga's private island is probably the best example of the trope.
* {{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, slapping said woman, 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 started off as a much more ruthless, cold-blooded and racist
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* 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 diminutive 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.
* KingpinInHisGym: Scaramanga has a warped relationship with his diminutive 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.
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* KidnappedByAnAlly: Bond Lieutenant Hip doesn't find out seem to feel any need to inform Bond that Hip is an ally until well after the reason he's being arrested by him.
and taken out on a police launch to the middle of nowhere ''isn't'' so that they can dispose of him with no witnesses - it's so that he get a mission assignment from his boss, who is cleverly concealed in a shipwreck.
* KingpinInHisGym: Scaramanga has a warped relationship with his diminutive 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.
* KingpinInHisGym: Scaramanga has a warped relationship with his diminutive 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.
* LandmarkingTheHiddenBase: The wreck of RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'' is used as an MI6 base.
* LittleUselessGun: The 4.2mm handgun should be this, but since it's only used by Scaramanga, who has ImprobableAimingSkills, every shot is an instant one-hit kill. Bond-based video games that include the gun continue to make both it and gold-plated variations of whichever Walther pistol Bond swears by for that game an instant kill, regardless of who's using it (or sometimes even what is being shot with it), as a MythologyGag.
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* MarkedBullet: The gold bullet sent to Bond has his number on it.
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* MarkedBullet: The gold Bond is sent a golden bullet sent to Bond has his with the number "007" on it.it, which leads him and MI-6 to believe that the eponymous assassin has marked him for death. He hasn't; Scaramanga's abused lover sent the bullet in the hope that Bond would kill Scaramanga.
* MartialArtsUniform: Bond and his opponents wear them when he fights the students at the martial arts school.
* MartialArtsUniform: Bond and his opponents wear them when he fights the students at the martial arts school.
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* TheMillstone: Mary Goodnight.
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* TheMillstone: Mary Goodnight.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.
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: 007 receives gold-plated bullet → theft of device used for controlling solar energy.
* ModestyTowel: Riffed when James Bond surprises Andrea Anders in the shower. She tells him to hand her a towel, so he does. Only it's a hand towel.
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: 007 receives gold-plated bullet → theft of device used for controlling solar energy.
* ModestyTowel: Riffed when James Bond surprises Andrea Anders in the shower. She tells him to hand her a towel, so he does. Only it's a hand towel.
* NoOSHACompliance: Scaramanga's laser has a maintenance access area mere inches from the path of the beam, which can be switched on if someone so much as bumps the control panel. Additionally, his complex's power source involves uncovered vats of cryogenic liquid, which naturally have catwalks above them from which it is easy to fall. Did we mention the whole thing ''explodes'' if something (like, say, a body) causes the temperature to rise?
* NotSoAbandonedBuilding: The burned and capsized wreck of the RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'' in Hong Kong harbour serves as a base.
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* NudityEqualsHonesty: The reason why Scaramanga forces Mary Goodnight into a bikini.
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* NudityEqualsHonesty: The reason why Scaramanga forces the captive Mary Goodnight into a bikini.bikini for this reason
-->I like a girl in a bikini. No concealed weapons.
-->I like a girl in a bikini. No concealed weapons.
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* TheOneWith: The one where the villain has a [[TripleNipple third nipple]].
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* TheOneWith: The one where OneBulletLeft: Happens with the villain final confrontation between Bond and Scaramanga; the latter only has a [[TripleNipple third nipple]].single-shot weapon, and Nick Nack taunts Bond with the fact that "You have only three bullets left" at one point.
-->'''Bond''': My six bullets against your one?
-->'''Scaramanga''': [[BadassBoast I only need one]].
-->'''Bond''': My six bullets against your one?
-->'''Scaramanga''': [[BadassBoast I only need one]].
* OutdoorBathPeeping: Bond visits Hai Fat's compound, and comes across a young woman skinny-dipping in a fountain. (And amazingly enough, ''she'' flirts with ''him''.)
* PostClimaxConfrontation: Nick-Nack tries to attack Bond on the junk after he's defeated Scaramanga... like he had any chance.
* ProfessionalKiller: Scaramanga is the world's best and highest paid (one million dollars per victim) assassin who uses a gun loaded with gold-plated bullets to make hits. (He has much bigger plans over the course of the film, however.) And he also invokes the NotSoDifferent card on Bond, but 007 shuts him down on this.
* PsychoForHire: Scaramanga is a ProfessionalKiller who doesn't care whom he kills, even those who ''hire'' him.
* PunchPunchUhOh: Minor example when Bond faces two sumo wrestlers. After beating one off, he gets carried by the other, and tries to beat him, to the beat of the soundtrack no less- but the guy doesn't even flinch. Bond has to give the poor wrestler a painful wedgie in order to escape.
* PunkInTheTrunk: While Mary Goodnight is trying to hide a homing device in the trunk of Scaramanga's car, she's shoved into the trunk and the car is driven away. She eventually gets the trunk open, only to find she's hundreds of feet in the air.
* PsychoForHire: Scaramanga is a ProfessionalKiller who doesn't care whom he kills, even those who ''hire'' him.
* PunchPunchUhOh: Minor example when Bond faces two sumo wrestlers. After beating one off, he gets carried by the other, and tries to beat him, to the beat of the soundtrack no less- but the guy doesn't even flinch. Bond has to give the poor wrestler a painful wedgie in order to escape.
* PunkInTheTrunk: While Mary Goodnight is trying to hide a homing device in the trunk of Scaramanga's car, she's shoved into the trunk and the car is driven away. She eventually gets the trunk open, only to find she's hundreds of feet in the air.
* RampJump: There's a visually impressive corkscrew jump across a river, although for some reason they decided that it just ''had'' to be accompanied by a stupid cartoon-style slide whistle sound effect.
** Perhaps on purpose, because the originator of the Jump, who refused to ever reveal how it's done, never wanted anyone else to try it. Thus the addition of the slide-whistle would make it seem simply impossible to do.
* {{Ramprovisation}}: The cool broken-bridge improvised ramp that leads to the car making a 360 degree jump.
* RedChina: China is implied to be the BiggerBad to the main villains... in fact the evil lair is located in Red Chinese waters.
** Perhaps on purpose, because the originator of the Jump, who refused to ever reveal how it's done, never wanted anyone else to try it. Thus the addition of the slide-whistle would make it seem simply impossible to do.
* {{Ramprovisation}}: The cool broken-bridge improvised ramp that leads to the car making a 360 degree jump.
* RedChina: China is implied to be the BiggerBad to the main villains... in fact the evil lair is located in Red Chinese waters.
* ReluctantFanserviceGirl: Mary Goodnight, while being held prisoner on his private island by Scaramanga, is forbidden any clothes other than a bikini; Scaramanga's excuse is that he wants to make sure she has no weapons concealed.
* RunningIntoTheWindow: Bond is trying to navigate Scaramanga's lair and walks into a clear glass wall.
* SealedWithAKiss: Bond disconnects a phone call from M to make out with Mary Goodnight.
* ShouldersUpNudity: PlayedWith. After Mary Goodnight and Bond have a make-out session on Scaramanga's ship, she's shown holding up a sheet covering her body with her shoulders exposed. She drops the sheet and reveals that she's wearing a Modesty Towel.
* SilverBullet: Scaramanga is equipped with a golden gun (assembled from ordinary-looking parts) which is then loaded with custom-caliber, gold bullets engraved with the name of their targets. Averted because the bullets have no supernatural powers - Scaramanga is ''really that good''.
* SniperPistol: Scaramanga uses his golden pistol to shoot Gibson on a sidewalk while hiding on a rooftop across the street.
* StartOfDarkness: Scaramanga tells his to Bond while watching a kickboxing match.
--->'''Scaramanga:''' When I was a boy, I was brought up in a circus. My only real friend was a huge, magnificent, African bull elephant. One day, his handler mistreated him and he went berserk. Bleeding, dying, he came and found me, stood on one leg, his best trick, picked me up and put me on his back. The drunken handler came along and emptied his gun into his eye. I emptied my stage pistol into his! You see, Mr. Bond, I always thought I loved animals. Then I discovered that I enjoyed killing people even more.
--->'''Scaramanga:''' When I was a boy, I was brought up in a circus. My only real friend was a huge, magnificent, African bull elephant. One day, his handler mistreated him and he went berserk. Bleeding, dying, he came and found me, stood on one leg, his best trick, picked me up and put me on his back. The drunken handler came along and emptied his gun into his eye. I emptied my stage pistol into his! You see, Mr. Bond, I always thought I loved animals. Then I discovered that I enjoyed killing people even more.
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* SurpriseSlideStaircase: Scaramanga has one in his funhouse.
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* SumoWrestling: Hai Fat has two statues of them on his manor grounds; when Bond comes at night on a dinner invitation, the statues are replaced with real ones whom he has to deal with.
* SurpriseSlideStaircase: Scaramanga has one of these in hisfunhouse.lair. In the opening segment he uses it to slide down and grab his golden gun to kill an assassin.
* SurpriseSlideStaircase: Scaramanga has one of these in his
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Andrea Anders describes Scaramanga in this way to Bond. Bond remarks that his aunt matches that description, too.
* ATankardOfMooseUrine: Bond is offered a wine with the UnfortunateName of "Phu Yuck". Bond snarkily notes that he approves.
* ATankardOfMooseUrine: Bond is offered a wine with the UnfortunateName of "Phu Yuck". Bond snarkily notes that he approves.
* ThatsWhatICallX:
-->'''Scaramanga''': ''[Destroys Bond's sea plane with a solar-powered weapon]'' Now that's what I call solar power.
-->''Bond''': That's what I call trouble.
-->'''Scaramanga''': ''[Destroys Bond's sea plane with a solar-powered weapon]'' Now that's what I call solar power.
-->''Bond''': That's what I call trouble.
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* UnwantedAssistance: Goodnight blocks Bond's taxi, gets kidnapped uselessly trying to plant an unnecessary tracking bug while carrying the mission critical 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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* UnknownRival: This is the case for the first half of the film. James Bond is tracking down Scaramanga on the basis of the bullet carved with his number which was sent to MI6 and interpreted as a threat. The bullet was actually sent by Scaramanga's assistant Andrea, who wanted Bond to kill him, and Scaramanga even admits when he meets Bond that he has nothing against him.
* UnwantedAssistance: Goodnight blocks Bond's taxi, gets kidnapped uselessly trying to plant an unnecessary tracking bug while carrying themission critical MacGuffin, Solex Agitator, causes a chain reaction by knocking out the man keeping watch on her, and triggers the solar beam where Bond is working.
* UnwantedAssistance: Goodnight blocks Bond's taxi, gets kidnapped uselessly trying to plant an unnecessary tracking bug while carrying the
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Mary Goodnight and Scaramanga use their Compartments.
* VillainOpeningScene: The pre-credits sequence focuses on Scaramanga.
* VillainOpeningScene: The pre-credits sequence focuses on Scaramanga.
* WackySoundEffect: The ''visually'' impressive RampJump car stunt which is accompanied by a silly cartoony slide-whistle sound. Many fans were very upset that one of the most spectacular car stunts in film history was essentially ruined this way, effectively sabotaging the entire chase scene of which the stunt was part. The scene is thus often considered to symbolize everything that many considered wrong about the 1970's Bond films.
* WeDontNeedRoads: Scaramanga has a car that can fly (with an attachable wing and engine).
* WealthyYachtOwner: Scaramanga owns a Chinese junk.
* WealthyYachtOwner: Scaramanga owns a Chinese junk.
* WickedCultured: Scaramanga is rich, played by Christopher Lee, which already makes him suave and dangerous, and he even had an eco-friendly SupervillainLair... located in the Phang Nga Bay.
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* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Bond is pretty displeased by Scaramanga's "compliments" as one ProfessionalKiller to another.
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* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: The Bottom's Up Club is indeed a strip club; making 007's remark earlier coincidentally accurate. The waitress' chest is concealed via GodivaHair.
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Bond ispretty very displeased by Scaramanga's "compliments" [[BigBad Scaramanga]]'s compliments as one ProfessionalKiller to another.another.
-->'''Scaramanga:''' (''raising his glass'') To us, Mr. Bond. We are the best.
-->'''Bond:''' [[ShutUpHannibal There's a useful 4-letter word, and you're full of it]].
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Bond is
-->'''Scaramanga:''' (''raising his glass'') To us, Mr. Bond. We are the best.
-->'''Bond:''' [[ShutUpHannibal There's a useful 4-letter word, and you're full of it]].
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* DueToTheDeath: After murdering Hai Fat, Scaramanga is courteous enough to honour his wishes by having his body placed in the mausoleum he loved.
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* DueToTheDeath: DueToTheDead: After murdering Hai Fat, Scaramanga is courteous enough to honour his wishes by having his body placed in the mausoleum he loved.
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** 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.
** Slightly averted, at least by this trope's usual standards. Bond is clearly shielding his face and in considerable discomfort from being so close to the beam. He really should be ''bursting into flames'' from his proximity to that much heat, but it's notable that he's affected by it as much as he is.
** Slightly averted, at least by this trope's usual standards. Bond is clearly shielding his face and in considerable discomfort from being so close to the beam. He really should be ''bursting into flames'' from his proximity to that much heat, but it's notable that he's affected by it as much as he is.
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** 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 centimetres from his face.
**Slightly averted, at least by this trope's usual standards. Downplayed when Bond is clearly shielding his face and in considerable discomfort from being so close to the beam. He really should be ''bursting into flames'' from his proximity to that much heat, but it's notable that he's affected by it as much as he is.
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** Averted (somewhat) as the bullet is stated to be 20 grams in weight. That would mean either very slow bullet and very high recoil or average speed bullet with absolutely insane recoil. To compare, the 7.62x51, a full size rifle cartridge has a bullet that weighs 10 grams. The 4.6mm, a bottleneck cartridge used by MP7 is only 2 grams.
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* DeliberatelyJumpingTheGun: James Bond is kidnapped by Hai Fat and taken to a martial arts school, where he is forced to fight the students. In a formal combat like this the opponents are supposed to bow to each other first. While Bond's opponent is bowing to him, Bond takes him out with a surprise attack.
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* AdaptationalIntelligence: Inverted. Mary Goodnight goes from a competent assistant to Bond in the novel to a classic DumbBlonde who repeatedly screws things up for him in the movie.
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* AdaptationalIntelligence: Inverted. AdaptationalDumbass: Mary Goodnight goes from a competent assistant to Bond in the novel to a classic DumbBlonde who repeatedly screws things up for him in the movie.
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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 {{Professional Killer}}s to murder his boss, but this is actually ''what Scaramanga wants'', since it helps him test his skills.
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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 {{Professional Killer}}s to murder his boss, but this is actually ''what Scaramanga wants'', since it helps him test keep his skills.skills sharp.
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** Averted (somewhat) as the bullet is stated to be 20 grams in weight. That would mean either very slow bullet and very high recoil or average speed bullet with absolutely insane recoil. To compare, the 7.62x51, a full size rifle cartridge has a bullet that weighs 10 grams. The 4.6mm, a bottleneck cartridge used by MP7 is only 2 grams.
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* InNameOnly: The plot of the book and the film are fairly far off. In the book Bond goes to only one place (Cuba), Scaramanga isn't the BigBad type he is in the film and the Solex Agitator isn't even a part of it.
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* InNameOnly: The plot of the book and the film are fairly far off. In the book Bond goes to only one place (Cuba), (Jamaica), Scaramanga isn't the BigBad type he is in the film and the Solex Agitator isn't even a part of it.
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* EvilCounterpart: Scaramanga is essentially Bond if he were a freelance killer with fewer scruples.
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* EvilCounterpart: Scaramanga is essentially Bond if he were a freelance killer with fewer scruples. Like Bond, he also has his own CoolCar.
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* KlingonPromotion: Scaramanga takes over [[spoiler: Hai Fat's business corporation this way, by shooting him with his Golden Gun and steals the [[McGuffin Solex Agitator]] as well. An assistant to Hai Fat arrives shortly after Scaramanga kills Hai Fat]]. Scaramanga then leaves [[spoiler: Hai Fat's]] office and makes a BondOneLiner of his own:
-->'''Assistant''': What happened?
-->'''Scaramanga''': [[spoiler: Mr. Fat]] has just resigned. I'm the new chairman of the board.
-->''(after exiting the office)''
-->'''Scaramanga''': He always did like that mausoleum. Put him in it!
-->'''Assistant''': What happened?
-->'''Scaramanga''': [[spoiler: Mr. Fat]] has just resigned. I'm the new chairman of the board.
-->''(after exiting the office)''
-->'''Scaramanga''': He always did like that mausoleum. Put him in it!
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** In the fight at the belly dancer's room, [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl a chair]], a spray can, [[GrievousBottleyHarm a bottle]] and lastly a mirror are used to hurt a human being.
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** In the fight at the belly dancer's [[BellyDancer Saida's]] room, [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl a chair]], a spray can, [[GrievousBottleyHarm a bottle]] and lastly a mirror are used to hurt a human being.
