History WMG / JamesBond

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic, for a more lighthearted entry (bonus points if he does a CallBack to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7KMMxAQp8I Spy Hard]])

More specifically, Bond is captured in Korea but doesn't escape from the torture. He's abandoned by British intelligence, who make the right decision to give him up rather than trade him for Zao - something Bond himself points out is MI5's standard operating procedure. He DOES break, but rather than spew information, he goes into a dream world of his own creation, explaining why ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' is so over-the-top in comparison to other films. The references to previous films are his memories, both of himself and of the Bonds before him, working their way into his dreams.

** It's worth noting that, in all likelihood, the men inducted into Skyfall were already promising members of MI5 or the British military proper. Dedicated soldiers open to risk-taking would more readily volunteer for a mysterious "program" upon invitation from their superiors, even without full knowledge of what would be involved. It's also possible that at some point some person or persons within the American intelligence system got the bright idea to attempt to copy the success of this procedure with their own reprogrammed agents. Whereas Felix Leiter was merely a code name passed down, Jason Bourne was a fully realized identity.

Sometime prior to Dr No (around 1950), Bond fathered a child with one of his flings. This child was named James Bond, after his father, and raised by his mother and a step-father until their death in a climbing accident. MI6 intervene to help fund his education. James Bond II grows up to be similar to his birth father, even experiencing a similar heartbreak when his wife dies, although the tragedies of his past haunt him and he is more prone to insubordination. As an adult (played by Dalton and Brosnan), he is recruited by MI6 to train as a spy, bonding with fellow orphan Alec Trevelyan, and eventually takes over his father's 007 codename in 1986, not long before the mission at Arkhangelsk. He works alongside Admiral Hargreeves and Major Boothroyd as his father did; Hargreeves, meanwhile, takes on a new assistant who is also given the Moneypenny name. Hargreeves later retires and is succeeded by Barbara Mawdlsey, while Boothroyd is eventually succeeded by the so-called 'R' (played by John Cleese).

* Either this or the ''Franchise/MetalGear'' and ''Film/JamesBond'' universes are one and the same.

In the movie and book universes, in the 20th century, there was a 00 agent named James Bond who did have all the adventures of the books and the movies. Now, in a futuristic cyberpunk age, a totalitarian government is putting new agents on an elaborate VirtualReality training to make an army of "James Bonds". That's why Bond looks different in different movies: each actor is one of those new agents training in Virtual Reality to "be" Bond.

* Judging from the last two films, hiding the true names of MI-6 personnel may be standard practice for the agency. ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' portrays Judi Dench's M as being quite upset that Bond has discovered her name and home address. ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', meanwhile, reveals that "Rene Mathis" is only a cover name for that character, though he apparently continued to use it after his "retirement" from MI-6.