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2[[caption-width-right:350:Before you bet on the motorbikes getting him, remember that the guy skiing is ''James Bond''.]]
3* The opening scene, where Bond finally gets rid of [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Blofeld]] and avenges [[Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService Tracy's murder]] ''by dropping him down a factory smokestack''. And the buildup, where he responds to Blofeld taking remote control of the helicopter by climbing along the outside to the pilot's seat.
4* The ATAC tech, ''chained to his station in a sinking ship,'' spends his last seconds of life trying his best to do his duty and pull that destruct lever.
5* The elaborate car chase fleeing Gonzalez's compound. Starting with Bond's CoolCar ''self-destructing'', preventing him from using all sorts of gadgets to help escape. He's stuck driving with Melina's beat-up used [[TheAllegedCar Citroën 2CV car]], which he still manages to use to evade the Mooks and force them into trees and other obstacles. That [=2CV=] had a total of ''twenty-nine'' horsepower new, and engines wear out and lose power over time. It takes some skill to evade two other cars, each putting out three times the engine output at the minimum. [[note]]The car the stunt teams of Creator/RemyJulienne used was souped-up, naturally.[[/note]]
6* The ski chase, certainly the craziest of the whole series. It starts on a ski jumping ramp. Bond is chased all the way down a mountain (including through a bobsleigh track) by Kriegler and another mook on ''bikes''. What's even better? Bond loses his sticks (one gets destroyed by Kriegler, and he uses the other to get rid of the unnamed bike mook), and successfully evades with ''only his boots and boards''. Kriegler becoming so utterly furious after crashing his bike and his rifle rendered disabled, he straight up ''lifts the bike and throws'' it at Bond with it coming very close despite Bond being a good distance away.
7* Columbo's goons showing up with spearguns to chase off Locque and kill his companion before they can kill a trapped Bond.
8* Columbo's second meeting with Bond, where he smoothly reveals his LovableRogue status, shows how well he's been spying on Bond, and gives Bond his gun back without even being sure that Bond is convinced by his story and won't kill him.
9* Bond [[KarmicDeath kicks Locque's car]] over a cliff. It's the most vicious Bond ever gets with a [[TheDragon villain's lackey]] during Creator/RogerMoore's tenure, but considering all the deaths Locque has caused, Bond had every reason to do it. This is also very awesome for those who didn't get along with the otherwise LighterAndSofter Moore, because even despite Moore's typical take on Bond, the scene just ''works''. Mostly just as an example of OOCIsSeriousBusiness, but still...
10* The assault on an impressively positioned hideout atop a ''freestanding mountain pillar'' by Bond, Melina and Columbo's smugglers.
11* Melina Havelock pulling off a successful cross-bow in the back of Gonzalez diving into his swimming pool. And putting one in the chest of one of Bond's pursuers when the camera shot made it appear as though she was going to kill ''him''.
12* Columbo taking out Kristatos with a knife to the back.
13* Bond knocking Kriegler out of a stained glass window using a candelabra.
14* Bond destroying the ATAC rather than give it to the Soviets. Even General Gogol is amused, despite having wasted his journey.
15-->"That's detente, comrade. You don't have it, I don't have it".

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