History Literature / DrNo

The novel became the basis for the [[Film/DrNo first]] ''Film/JamesBond'' film.

* AttackOnTheHeart: Dr. No was tortured by the Tongs who wanted their money back. When cutting his hands wouldn't make him talk, they shot him in the heart. The only reason he survived is that he was born with a rare condition where his heart is on the opposite side of his body.

* EvilIsPetty: Dr. No torched an entire bird sanctuary and had its staff brutally murdered ''simply because'' it was a bit too close to his base.

* GroinAttack: Honey gets one on Bond after escaping from her captivity and mistaking him for a mook (which puts her quite far above her film counterpart in terms of pro-activeness). It doesn't do much, although she is a slightly built shell collector and he is a trained secret agent/assassin in his prime.
* HeartInTheWrongPlace: Dr. No tells Bond how he survived reprisal from the Tong after embezzling funds - after hours of prison torture, they chopped off his hands and shot him through the heart, [[OrganDodge or thought they did]]. As it turned out, he was a rare case with his heart on the right side of his body.
* HighClassCallGirl: Honey Rider tells Bond she plans to become one of these, so she can get the money for her operation. Bond, however, points out why it's a bad idea.

* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Played with regarding Honey Rider. She casually mentions her ambition to work in New York as an escort girl, and is unaware that society would find this idea objectionable.

* KickTheDog: Dr. No had an entire bird sanctuary burned to the ground and its staff murdered just because it was a bit too close to his base.

* NakedFirstImpression: When Bond first sees Honey, she's completely naked except for her knife belt and scuba mask.

* NasalTrauma: Honey had her nose broken by her rapist, something which she is a bit self-conscious about. She intends to have it fixed via surgery before she tries to become a call girl.
* OrganDodge: Dr. No tells Bond how he survived reprisal from the Tong after embezzling funds - after hours of prison torture, they chopped off his hands and shot him through the heart, or thought they did. As it turned out, he was a rare case with his heart on the right side of his body.

* SkinnyDipping: Bond first meets Honey Ryder when she's [[SexySurfacingShot seashell hunting while wearing only goggles, a snorkel, and a belt for her knife]].

* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Bond receives a basket of fruit that he sends for testing. The telegram he receives in reply says, "Each object contained enough cyanide to kill a horse. [[DramaticDeadpan Suggest you change your grocer]]."

* CreepyCentipedes: An attempt is made Bond's life by letting a venomous centipede in his room.

* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Played with re Honey Rider. She casually mentions her ambition to work in New York as an escort girl, and is unaware that society would find this idea objectionable.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: According to Bond, everyone on Dr. No's island (save the grunts) wear "kimonos" - a ''Japanese'' article that a Chinese (especially one who would've been alive to see UsefulNotes/WorldWarII) would be very unlikely to have anything to do with. That said, Bond is the only one who refers to them as such, so it might just be his go-to word for any vaguely Asian-looking robe,
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Dr. No falls into a bunch of boiling radioactive water in the movie and gets crushed by a crane load of guano in the book.]]

* SoLastSeason: After its less-than-stellar performance in ''Literature/FromRussiaWithLove'', M. makes Bond trade in his beloved Beretta for more modern guns like the Walther. Bond hates the idea first, though he eventually gets over it.

* FreudianExcuse: Dr. No adopted the name Julius No as a symbol of how his father abandoned him as a child.

* RevolversAreJustBetter: Zig-zagged. Bond's Smith & Wesson Centennial Airweight does fine against Dr. No's mooks. However, it can't fully burst the wheels of the Dragon Tank, which results in Bond and Honey getting captured. By the end of the book, Bond's switched to his signature Walther PPK.

* CharmPoint: Bond sees Honey Ryder's broken nose as this, and secretly hopes that she won't fix it in a surgery as she plans to.

Bond has recovered from the attempt on his life from the end of the [[Literature/FromRussiaWithLove previous book]], and is given a supposedly-easy assignment in UsefulNotes/{{Jamaica}}, where he has to investigate the disappearance of local head of operations. He learns that he has been investigating the activities of one Dr. Julius No, who is in fact working for the [[DirtyCommunists Soviets]] to sabotage nearby American missile tests.

* KarmicDeath: Dr. No falls into a bunch of boiling radioactive water in the movie and gets crushed by a crane load of guano.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: Plus every other part of his body, but Bond's feet certainly aren't spared by Dr. No's death-course. Honey suffers similar injuries escaping her own trap - probably [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished the most serious ones]] she experiences in the whole book, aside from her broken nose.

* SkinnyDipping: Bond [[NakedFirstImpression first meets]] Honey Ryder when she's [[SexySurfacingShot seashell hunting while wearing only goggles, a snorkel, and a belt for her knife]].

* {{Tuckerization}}: Fleming named the guano-collecting ship ''Blanche'' after his neighbour and lover in Jamaica Blanche Maxwell.

* TankGoodness: Dr. No's most terrifying weapon is a black-and-gold armored car with a flamethrower that also looks rather like an actual dragon.

* GroinAttack: Honey gets one on Bond after escaping from her captivity and mistaking him for a mook (which puts her quite far above her film counterpart in terms of pro-activeness). It doesn't do much, although [[RealityEnsues she is a slightly built shell collector and he is a trained secret agent/assassin in his prime.]]

* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Several characters remark on how one of the most extensive and sinister criminal conspiracies in the West only started unraveling because a few people from a ''birdwatching society'' had gone missing.

Bond has recovered from the attempt at his life from the end of [[Literature/FromRussiaWithLove previous book]], and is given a supposedly easy assignment at UsefulNotes/{{Jamaica}}, where he has to investigate the disappearance of local head of operations. He learns that he has been investigating the activities of one Dr. Julius No, who is in fact working for the [[DirtyCommunists Soviets]] to sabotage nearby American missile tests.

The novel became the basis for the [[Film/DrNo very first]] ''Film/JamesBond'' film.

* SkinnyDipping: Bond first [[NakedFirstImpression meets Honey Ryder when she's seashell hunting while wearing only goggles, a snorkel, and a belt for her knife]].

* InterchangeableAsianCultures: According to Bond, everyone on Dr. No's island (save the grunts) wear "kimonos" - a ''Japanese'' article that a Chinese (especially one who would've been alive to see WorldWarII) would be very unlikely to have anything to do with. That said, Bond is the only one who refers to them as such, so it might just be his go-to word for any vaguely Asian-looking robe,

* TheNameIsBondJamesBond: Bond introduces himself this way to Honey.