History WhatAnIdiot / JamesBond

'''You'd Expect''': That M would listen to Bond and permanently shelf the project as there is no reason to develop such a dangerous weapon that could be so easily exploited. Plus, given the fact that he barely planned on using it, there's really no reason to develop it in the first place.\\

* ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'': Bond accidentally drops one of his target's bodyguards off a roof of an opera house. He survives, but is then shot dead by one of [[BigBad Dominic Greene's]] henchmen. [=MI6=] is notified of this.\\

* ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'': Bond accidentally drops one of his target's bodyguards off a roof of an opera house. He survives, but is then shot dead by one of [[BigBad Dominic Greene's]] henchmen. MI6 is notified of this.\\

'''The Result:''' MI6 goes after Bond and he is forced to go rogue for the remainder of the movie.

* ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'': Bond accidentally drops one of his target's bodyguards off a roof of an opera house. He survives, but is then shot dead by one of [[BigBad Dominic Greene's]] henchmen. MI6 is notified of this.
'''You'd Expect:''' That they'd check up the ballistics and realize that Bond didn't kill him.
'''Instead:''' They assume that Bond shot him, and M demands Bond come in for questioning.
'''To Make Matters Worse:''' Bond doesn't so much as say "I didn't shoot him," and only quips that he tried his hardest not to kill him.

'''Instead''': Not only does he develop the weapon, not only does he keep it off the books, [[UpToEleven but]] he hires [[MadScientist Valdo Obruchev]], an insane scientist with genocidal ambitions to design it.\\

** All of MI6 gets it bad during the climax. Upon infiltrating Safin's base, Bond and Nomi discover Safin arranged for cargo ships to distribute Heracles.
'''You'd Expect''': That Bond and Nomi would just find Madeline and Mathilde, arrest Obruchev, and leave. M could then call the Royal Navy, explain the situation, and then order them to destroy Safin's fleet. The navy would have more than enough firepower to do it, meaning Safin's "unstoppable plan" is dead on arrival.
'''Instead''': ''Nobody'' even thinks of that and they conclude that the only way to stop Safin is to blow up his island and potentially provoke a war in the process.

** The film reveals that in the past, [[spoiler:M had pondered the idea of making a bioweapon known as Heracles that kills people based on similarities their DNA structure with the justification of only using such a weapon marginally. Not only that, but Bond had called him out on how dangerous a weapon of this caliber would be, and demanded he shut the operation down.]]\\
'''You'd Expect''': [[spoiler:That M would listen to Bond and permanently shelf the project as there is no reason to develop such a dangerous weapon that could be so easily exploited. Plus, given the fact that he barely planned on using it, there's really no reason to develop it in the first place.]]\\
'''Instead''': [[spoiler:Not only does he develop the weapon, not only does he keep it off the books, [[UpToEleven but]] he hires [[MadScientist Valdo Obruchev]], an insane scientist with genocidal ambitions to design it.]]\\
'''Predictably''': [[spoiler:Valdo becomes disappointed with M's plans for Heracles and secretly teams up with [[BigBad Safin]] in order to see Heracles used for mass murder.]]

** The film reveals that in the past, [[spoiler:M had pondered the idea of making a bioweapon known as Heracles that kills people based on similarities their DNA structure with the justification of only using such a weapon marginally. Not only that, but Bond had called him out on how dangerous a weapon of this caliber would be, and demanded he shut the operation down.]]
'''You'd Expect''': [[spoiler:That M would listen to Bond and permanently shelf the project as there is no reason to develop such a dangerous weapon that could be so easily exploited. Plus, given the fact that he barely planned on using it, there's really no reason to develop it in the first place.]]
'''Instead''': [[spoiler:Not only does he develop the weapon, not only does he keep it off the books, [[UpToEleven but]] he hires [[MadScientist Valdo Obruchev]], an insane scientist with genocidal ambitions to design it.]]

* ''Film/NoTimeToDie'': In the climax, Obruchev has been captured by Nomi, who intends to bring him in alive but is growing visibly irritated by his presence.\\

As the TropeNamer for BondVillainStupidity, and a franchise that's been working for over 50 years, it is obvious that the ''James Bond'' movies have this all the time. But even Bond himself [[WhatAnIdiot can make such decisions that would make you]] wonder if he did them after taking his martini stirred, not shaken.

** [[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.\\

As the TropeNamer for BondVillainStupidity, and a franchise that's been working for over 50 years, it is obvious that the ''James Bond'' movies have this all the time. But even 007 himself [[WhatAnIdiot can make such decisions that would make you]] wonder if he did them after taking his martini stirred, not shaken.

** SPECTRE agents, lead by [[BigBad Obenhauser]] have kidnapped James Bond, and strapped him in a torture machine.\\

** Bond and Madeleine have just attacked SPECTRE's base, and gone back to London.\\
'''You'd expect:''' Bond and Madeleine to stay together or for Madeleine to leave to a safe house. Just because the base is destroyed, doesn't mean that there aren't any agents left.\\
'''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.

* ''Film/NoTimeToDie'': In the climax, Obruchev has been captured by Nomi.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Obruchev to make sure not to anything to provoke the extremely dangerous and competent secret agent with a license to kill.\\

'''You'd expect''' ...and pulls out one of the many submachine guns in two racks on the walls. Even if he misses with one, he can still use another set until he either kills Bond and Stacey or runs out of ammo.\\
'''Instead''' ...and pulls out a roll of dynamite. Which he then lights, ''and pauses halfway out of the blimp to '''pose maniacally for several seconds''', giving Stacey enough time to warn Bond about it''. Unsurprisingly, he gets blown to bits for his troubles.

'''You'd expect''' him not making it worse for himself and surrender to Bond and turn himself to the authorities.\\
'''Instead''' He tries to bribe Bond with the BloodMoney he was bribed to spring Sanchez out of custody, which resulted having Bond's friend mauled by the shark and having his wife raped and murdered.\\
'''Results''' in a [[TranquilFury pissed Bond]] throwing the briefcase containing the BloodMoney on him and making him shark food. To be fair, given how the whole movie is a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, Bond would probably have killed Killifer anyway.\\
'''Even Worse''' when Bond throws the briefcase at him, Killifer ''actually lets go of the rigging he's holding on to in order to grab it''! Greed kills, indeed.

'''You'd Expect''': the mook to go as fast as he can, and steer to the left as he approaches the gap so, even if he doesn't clear the gap, he won't land directly in the path of the snowblower.\\
'''Instead''': he not only takes the jump directly in front of the snowblower, but he also appears to ''slow down'' before he gets there.\\
'''End Result''': the mook is [[TurbineBlender shredded to pieces by the snowblower]].\\

'''Instead:''' He has them tied to a rig[[note]](which almost certainly inspired the "Unnecessarily Slow-Moving Dipping Mechanism" with which Dr. Evil attempts to kill Film/AustinPowers in his first film)[[/note]] which is very slowly and gently lowered into the water. Kananga's mook Whisper actually proves somewhat wiser 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.

'''You'd expect''' ...and pulls out one of the many submachine guns in two racks on the walls. Even if he misses with one, he can still use another set until he either kills Bond and the GirlOfTheWeek or runs out of ammo.\\

'''Instead:''' He says that it's "not (his) money", which earns the obvious response from Sanchez ("You're right, amigo. It is mine!"). While Krest was looking guilty as sin to begin with, his weak defense didn't exactly help his case (not helping is the fact that Krest had been drinking and was nervous being questioned by Sanchez to begin with).\\

'''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.\\

** Blofeld and his goons are chasing Bond and Tracy through the Swiss alps on skis. At one point, they end up at a road that is being cleared via a snowblower. Both Bond and his fiancé jump the road and make it to the other side, leaving Blofeld and the rest of his mooks to do the same. The first mook approaches the gap.\\

'''Instead:''' [[SkewedPriorites Oddjob goes to retrieve his hat]], and Bond then uses a cut wire to electrocute the bars, along with Oddjob's hat, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard leading to Oddjob getting electrocuted to death]].

'''Results''' in a [[TranquilFury pissed Bond]] throwing the briefcase containing the BloodMoney on him and making him shark food. To be fair, given how the whole movie is a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, Bond would probably have killed Killifer anyway.

'''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 wiser 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''' he tries to bribe Bond with the BloodMoney he was bribed to spring Sanchez out of custody, which resulted having Bond's friend mauled by the shark and having his wife raped and murdered.\\

'''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.\\

** Bond and MI6 have just apprehended Raoul Silva, and watch him act smarmy and at ease in the interrogation room he's been placed in. Bond goes to check up on Q, who has plugged in Silva's computer into the MI6 network and is blithely trying to crack the code. Bond realizes that the password to the system is an easily-guessed name for a subway station.\\

'''Instead:''' They don't. Silva's computer releases a virus that takes down all of MI6's internal security, and Bond is forced to go on a long foot chase after Silva.

'''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 the local police in that region.\\
'''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 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]].