History WhatAnIdiot / JamesBond

** Blofeld locks billionaire Willard Whyte up in one of his penthouses, takes his empire and his identity, and places his super-villain base somewhere in North America, disguised as one of Whyte's many oil rigs.

'''You'd Expect''': Blofeld to put it somewhere in the middle of the country, where it won't stand out.

'''Instead:''' Madeleine goes on her own, and Bond lets her without an objection. As a result, she gets kidnapped by Obenhauser, who survived the destruction of the base.\\

'''Instead''' he tries to bribe Bond with the BloodMoney he was bribed to spring Sanches out of custody, which resulted having Bond's friend mauled by the shark and having his wife murdered and probably raped.\\
'''Results''' in a [[TranquilFury pissed Bond]] throwing the briefcase containing the BloodMoney on him and making him shark food.

* ''Film/LiveAndLetDie''

* ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'': BigBad Kamal Khan has an entire hunting group looking for Bond in the jungle right outside [[SuperVillainLair his home]]. Bond attempts to evade them by swinging on some vines....\\

** [[BondGirl Tilly Masterson]] has learned that [[BigBad Auric Goldfinger]] has [[YouKilledMyFather killed her sister]] Jill (Jill is the victim famously left sprawled dead on a bed, painted in gold) and decides she wants some revenge. To do this, she decides to take him out by stalking him in Switzerland, where he has his base of operations, and shooting him with a rifle.\\

Bond successfully retrieves the Solex agitator and gives it to his ally Hip, who gives it to fellow agent Mary Goodnight.\\

* At the climax of ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'', Dr. Kananga decides to dispose of Bond and Solitaire by feeding them to sharks, which come to feed in a pool in his lair.\\

* In ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'', Bond successfully retrieves the Solex agitator and gives it to his ally Hip, who gives it to fellow agent Mary Goodnight.\\

* ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'': Bond is being all sneaky-like on the eponymous space station when he runs into the GiantMook, Jaws, from the previous film. Jaws is known for toughness and his metal teeth.\\

* ''Film/AViewToAKill'': Max Zorin, the BigBad of the film, has fallen to his death from the Golden Gate Bridge after a climactic fight with Bond. One of his CoDragons and NaziGrandpa Dr. Mortner sees this, and fires his gun at Bond until it runs out of ammunition. Not to be stopped by that, he goes to the weapons stash...\\

* In ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', [[BigBad Le Chiffre]] not only works as a banker for several terrorist organisations, but he also runs a pretty shady criminal operation on the side. In the operation, he buys up company shares, short sells them to other people, and then orchestrates terrorist attacks on the companies' most valuable assets to drive their stocks into bankruptcy, while he earns a swift profit.\\

'''Even Worse:''' When he ultimately loses the tournament, he attempts to torture Bond for the password to the winnings, and then is personally shot dead by Mr. White. Mr. White didn't care about the money, so much as the fact that the whole incident with the Skyfleet plane has proven that Le Chiffre couldn't be trusted. He also implies that Quantum probably would have still had Le Chiffre killed no matter what the outcome of the tournament.
* In ''{{Film/Skyfall}}'':

'''Instead:''' They don't do that. Bond uses his watch as a bomb, helping him to escape.
** Bond and Madeline have just attacked SPECTRE's base, and gone back to London.\\
'''You'd expect:''' Bond and Madeline to stay together or for Madeline to leave to a safe house. Just because the base is destroyed, doesn't mean that there aren't any agents left.\\
'''Instead:''' Madeline goes on her own, and Bond lets her without an objection. As a result, she gets kidnapped by Obenhauser, who survived the destruction of the base.\\

** In the film's climax, Blofeld hides Madeline in [=MI6's=] former headquarters, which was condemned after Silva badly damaged it with an explosion in the previous film, and activates the timer for the demolition charges scattered throughout the building. This gives Bond the SadisticChoice of either escaping to ensure his own survival, or trying to find Madeline and most likely dying when the building is destroyed.\\
'''You'd expect:''' Blofeld to hide Madeline somewhere where Bond wouldn't think of looking. Or hell, keep her somewhere else and just lie to Bond about her being in the building, so that he'll have a few million tons of rubble brought down on him during a fruitless search.\\

* ''Film/{{Goldeneye}} has Alec escape in a helicopter when the train car crashes, leaving Bond and Natalya behind and trapped.\\
'''You'd expect''': Alec would go on his merry way or at least just kill Bond and then leave.\\
'''Instead''': He calls Bond over the radio to taunt him about the bomb and tells him that he is going to give him "the same six minutes that you gave me." Not only does Bond now know about the bomb, but gloating over the six minutes also alerts Bond to the fact that the bomb actually has three minutes on the timer instead of six since it signifies how Bond detonated a bomb much earlier in his past mission with Alec.

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'''Instead:''' He has them tied to a rig[[note]](which almost certainly inspired the "Unnecessarily Slow-Moving Dipping Mechanism that Doctor Evil attempts to kill Film/AustinPowers with in his first film)[[/note]] which is very slowly and gently lowered into the water. Kananga's mook Whisper actually proves somewhat more GenreSavvy than his boss and initially tries to lower them in quickly, presumably so that they'll drown before they can try to escape, but Kananga overrules him on the grounds that he wants them eaten alive. This gives Bond the chance to use the super-powered electromagnet in his watch to escape and foil Kananga once and for all.

'''Instead:''' Madeline goes on her own, and Bond lets her without an objection. As a result, she gets kidnapped by Obenhauser, who survived the destruction of the base.
** When SPECTRE's mooks kidnap Bond again. . .
'''You'd Expect''': Them to tie his hands behind him.

'''Even Worse:''' When he ultimately loses the tournament, he attempts to torture Bond for the password to the winnings, and then is personally shot dead by Mr. White because Quantum no longer can trust Le Chiffre with handling their money. You can take it one step further and assume that Quantum probably would have still had Le Chiffre killed no matter what the outcome of the tournament.

'''Instead:''' Mallory thinks it's a great plan, and seems more concerned with what will happen if the Members of Parliament discover that they've been forging input files. To be fair, this IS [[{{Badass}} James Bond]] they're talking about, and he does manage to kill off Silva and all his men, but with that said, for most of the film Bond had been clearly showing signs of BadassDecay (e.g. not passing MI6's physical exam), which is a major theme in the movie, and in any case, he's unable to prevent [[spoiler:M from being killed]].

* In ''Film/LicenceToKill'', [[DirtyCop Killifer]] is dangling above the shark tank Leiter was lowered into earlier.\\

'''Results''' with a [[TranquilFury pissed Bond]] throwing the briefcase containing the BloodMoney on him and making him fall to his KarmicDeath.
* In ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', [[BigBad Le Chiffre]] not only works as a banker for several terrorist organisations, but he also runs a pretty shady criminal operation on the side: he buys up company shares, short sells them to other people, and then orchestrates terrorist attacks on the companies' most valuable assets to drive their stocks into bankruptcy, while he earns a swift profit.\\

'''Instead:''' He dips into his own clients' money. As a result, when Bond sabotages his scheme to blow up the Skyfleet corporation's prototype airliner, Le Chiffre loses $101.2 million of the terrorists' money, and is [[IdiotPlot forced to set up a poker tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro]] to recover it, and both MI6 and the CIA send agents from their own forces to infiltrate the game with the intention of then bankrupting Le Chiffre to get him to seek asylum with one of them. Things only get worse when Le Chiffre himself ends up getting ''attacked'' by a pissed off client who has found himself out of pocket.\\
'''It Gets Worse:''' When he ultimately loses the tournament, he attempts to torture Bond for the password to the winnings, and then is personally shot dead by Mr. White because Quantum no longer can trust Le Chiffre with handling their money. You can take it one step further and assume that Quantum probably would have still ordered Le Chiffre killed even if he won the tournament.

* ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'': BigBad Kamal Khan has an entire hunting group looking for Bond in the jungle right outside [[SuperVillainLair his home]]. Bond attempts to evade them by swinging on some vines.\\
'''You'd expect''' Bond to do this quietly.\\
'''Instead''' he makes a Tarzan yell for no reason at all, alerting Khan's men.

* In ''Film/LicenceToKill'', DirtyCop Killifer is dangling above the shark tank Leiter was lowered into earlier.\\

'''It Gets Worse:''' When he ultimately loses the tournament, he attempts to torture Bond for the password to the winnings, and then is personally shot dead by Mr. White because Quantum no longer can trust Le Chiffre with handling their money.

'''You'd Expect:''' That, as far as they know, a single agent and a much older woman (who presumably doesn't have combat experience) are on their own against Silva and an entire force of his men), and would either tell some of the MI6 agents in person to go to the estate to provide backup, or at least give them ''some'' support, like the military, or a constabulary in that region.\\

'''Instead''' He makes a Tarzan yell for no reason at all, alerting Khan's men.

'''Instead''' he makes a Tarzan yell, alerting Khan's men.

'''Instead:''' They don't do that. Bond uses his watch as a bomb, helping him to escape.\\

** In the film's climax, [[spoiler:Madeleine parts ways with Bond, telling him that they cannot be together as long as Bond is still living the dangerous secret agent life, and Bond just ''let her go'' on her way despite just telling her earlier to remain at the safe house for her own safety until they finished the job. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero This leads to her capture by Blofeld, who straps her to a bomb inside the Vauxhall Cross building to taunt Bond and distract him long enough to make his escape.]] Yes, Bond has a good reason to believe that [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat Blofeld has perished in his Morocco Base,]] but that doesn't mean SPECTRE is finished, and even if their leader had died, there are still hundreds of loyal agents at large who are ready to strike from anywhere and anytime, so Bond should at least be more concerned about her safety, especially after witnessing firsthand what they are capable of (don't forget, they were responsible for the deaths of M in ''Skyfall'' and Vesper Lynd in ''Casino Royale'', the two most important women in his life). It's like her relevance to the plot stopped after the 2nd act ended and the writers just hastily find a way to keep her in the story until it ends.]]
*** [[spoiler: Don't forget Madeline's decision to leave. She grew up under SPECTRE'S shadow and has just escaped several attempts on her life...and she still decides to walk away on a dark street while they were out there. Granted, she thought she was able to care for herself but still...]]
** When Bond is searching [[spoiler:Mr. White's]] house, he sees a security camera, and he ''doesn't'' deactivate it or delete the file. That is a ''really'' stupid mistake for a supposedly great spy.
** During the Austrian chase scene, Bond potentially could've killed Madeleine (we even see her terrified ReactionShot) when he rams the front of his plane into the back of the SUV, which would completely negate his goal of rescuing her.
*** Not to mention that Bond doesn't make sure that Hinx is dead after the Range Rover crashes, by, say, shooting him.
** After getting the information he needs from Lucia Sciarra (who he has saved from getting assassinated), Bond writes down Felix Leiter's number, tells her he'd keep her safe...and leaves without making sure she's safe from any other assassins from SPECTRE. To be fair, he was in a hurry to catch the meeting, but if Sciarra thinks that people were after her (and with good reason), wouldn't it help to make sure she's safe for the period of time it'll take Felix to get there?
*** Don't forget that after he saves her from the two assassins, she immediately tells him that a lot more would come after her in just a few minutes, and the first thing he does after getting the information is...''making love with her?''. We're talking about a woman whose husband had just died (granted, she didn't love him that much, but still) and knows full well that she's going to be killed next. Sexytimes is the last thing she needs during all of this, so the whole thing gives the vibes that Bond's just taking advantage of her. And after he finishes the deed, he just leaves her Felix's number then leaves her all alone in her undies. She even begs him to stay with her a little longer, but he leaves anyway. Real smooth, 007.
** As mentioned on the main page, when Bond demonstrates to Madeleine how to use a gun, he ''points a loaded gun with his finger on the trigger'' at the wall of their train compartment. He could have shot and killed someone--the bullet could have ricocheted and killed either of them. Madeleine's expression as she unloads the gun and demonstrates that she already knows how to use one--as evidenced by the very fact that she makes absolutely certain that it's completely unloaded before even touching the trigger--indicates that she's wondering how he could do something so careless. Doubly frustrating that as a former Commander in the Royal Navy and one of MI6's top agents, Bond would ''know'' how to properly and safely handle a gun.
** SPECTRE seems to have full knowledge of how the 00 program works, yet they ''fail to take Bond's watch'' when preparing him for his torture session.
*** Speaking of said watch...Q knows that Bond is not supposed to go anywhere (which is why he has to get injected with the smart-blood) and that he's capable of anything...but still gives him the watch anyway.
** [[spoiler: Bond letting Blofeld live at the end. Okay, they do have a history together, there were several people present and it would've undermined M's message of "knowing when to take a life but when to spare one". But Blofeld has proven himself several times throughout the course of not only this film but the other Craig films to be not only a dangerous threat but sneaky and sly enough to figure out how to cause massive amounts of damage to both life and property (he did manage to create an NSA style network without any of the major powers of the world noticing). He's not somebody to be trifled with. And the look he gives to an embracing Bond and Madeleine at the end shows that he will get his revenge.]]

'''Instead''' ...and pulls out a roll of dynamite. Which he then lights, ''and pauses halfway out of the blimp to '''pose''' for several seconds so that Stacey can warn Bond about it''. Unsurprisingly, he gets blown to bits for his troubles.

'''Instead''' ...and pulls out a roll of dynamite. Which he then lights, ''and pauses for several seconds so that Stacey can warn Bond about it''. Unsurprisingly, he gets blown to bits for his troubles.\\

* ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'': BigBad Kamal Khan has an entire hunting group looking for Bond in the jungle right outside [[SuperVillainLair his home]]. Bond attempts to evade them by swinging on vines.\\

* In ''Film/CasinoRoyale'', [[BigBad Le Chiffre]] not only works as a banker for several terrorist organisations, but he also runs a pretty shady criminal operation on the side: he buys up company shares, short sells them to other people, and then orchestrates terrorist attacks on the companies' most valuable assets to drive their stocks into bankruptcy, while he earns a swift profit.\\