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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Music/PaulMcCartney ♫ Why does it matter to ya\
3	when you got a job to do?]] [[Music/{{Wings\|Band}} You got to do it well... ♫]]'']]
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5	->'''Bond:''' My name is--\
6	'''Mr. Big:''' Names is for tombstones, baby! Y'all take this honky out and waste him. Now!
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9	[[JustForFun/TheOneWith The one where]] Bond is at a [[DrugsAreBad war on drugs]], and gets called a "[[JiveTurkey honky]]".
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12	''Live and Let Die'' is the eighth Creator/EonProductions ''Film/JamesBond'' film, the third in the series to be directed by Creator/GuyHamilton and the first to star Creator/RogerMoore. It came out on June 27, 1973. It features a TitleThemeTune sung by Music/PaulMcCartney and Music/{{Wings\|Band}}.
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14	James Bond is assigned to a case involving a drug lord who leads a huge African-American crime network spanning several cities and a Caribbean island where HollywoodVoodoo is practiced. After rescuing the drug lord's tarot fortune teller from her virginity, it becomes a plot of everybody trying to kill them. It is the first film where Bond deals with both organized crime and the supernatural, and the first film since ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' to not involve SPECTRE, as well as the first one not to have music by Music/JohnBarry. It is noteworthy in that amongst the things it did to try and distance it from the later Creator/SeanConnery films, it didn't include a scene with Q (he's mentioned though). Also includes a boat chase in Louisiana, which resulted in at least a dozen speedboats being written off when they filmed it.
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16	Preceded by ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'' and followed by ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''.
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18	!!This film contains examples of:
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20	* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: Solitaire's real name in the book is Simone Latrelle. Her nickname comes from her apparent exclusion of men from her life.
21	* AdaptationalBadass: In the book, Tee Hee's a perfectly ordinary mook whose only quirk is giggling while torturing people and who dies very early on. The film ups him to second-in-command to Mr. Big.
22	* AdaptationalLocationChange: In the book, Mr. Big's lair is in Jamaica. In the film, he resides on the fictional island of San Monique, which was portrayed by... Jamaica. Also, the film doesn't go to Florida, unlike the book.
23	* AerosolFlamethrower: Bond improvises one to kill the snake released in his bathroom.
24	* AgentsDating:
25	** Bond is introduced having his usual post-mission sex with an Italian agent.
26	** Bond and ''Film/{{Coffy}}'' {{Expy}} Rose Carver pretend to be husband and wife on vacation. When Bond tries to seduce her, she comments that Felix Leiter had warned her that would happen.
27	* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: Mr. Big intends to flood the US with free heroin, driving the Mob out of the market, then cornering it at a highly inflated price to the multitudes of new addicts.
28	* AllBalloonsHaveHelium: [[spoiler:Bond kills Kananga by blowing him up with compressed air so that he floats up to the ceiling before exploding.]]
29	-->'''Bond:''' He always did have an inflated opinion of himself.
30	* AmusingInjuries: Bond pops a compressed air pellet into [[spoiler:Kananga]]'s mouth with alarming and jarring effects: he literally ''swells up like a balloon'' and hovers up into the air, where he continues to expand until he explodes ''with no gore whatsoever''. Such a sudden, cartoonish moment in a movie that has so far been at least vaguely grounded in the laws of physics was a bit hard to stomach for most. It's no surprise that this was Roger Moore's first Bond movie, signifying the beginning of a sillier, more outlandish Bond than before.
31	* AnimalAssassin: A snake, presumably venomous, is let loose in Bond's bathroom. Then later Mr. Big and/or his employees try to feed him to a bunch of crocodiles and then a bunch of sharks.
32	* TheAnticipator:
33	** Happens several times because thanks to Solitaire and his widespread organization, Kananga is able to track Bond at every stage.
34	** Also happens at the climax when Bond and Solitaire go down to the underground base only to find Kananga and his goons expecting him with guns ready, having found Bond's wetsuit.
35	* AristocratsAreEvil: Baron Samedi is ''clearly evil'' in this version, although whether he is truly an incarnation of the real Baron Samedi or simply just another henchman of Mr. Big who knew a lot of convincing parlor tricks is uncertain.
36	* ArtificialLimbs: Tee Hee's right arm is a prosthetic from the shoulder down, ending in a HookHand that's also his RedRightHand.
37	* ArtisticLicencePhysics: In the finale, Bond [[spoiler:shoves a pressured carbon dioxide capsule down Kananga's throat, leading to Kananga inflating rapidly and rising above water and to the ceiling before exploding]]. CO[[subscript:2]] is heavier than air, [[spoiler:Kananga's body should have stopped going up when it reached water surface.]]
38	* AscendedExtra: In Fleming's novel, Tee Hee is one of three minor thugs ordered to dispose of Bond and Leiter, while Whisper appears in one scene as the operator of Mr. Big's communications network. The film expands their roles significantly.
39	* AskAStupidQuestion: At the end of the mission, Felix asks why they're taking the train back. "What the hell can you do on a train for sixteen hours?" Bond and Solitaire just give him a MeaningfulLook.
40	* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The island of San Monique, which is neither French nor Spanish, in addition using the wrong gender for the saint herself. While the saint Monica of Hippo does indeed exist, her name would be "Santa Monica" in Spanish and "Sainte-Monique" in French. "San" refers to a masculine saint in Spanish. This is intentional, as the fictional nation is based on Hispaniola (the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which were colonized by the French and Spanish respectively).
41	* AuthorAppeal: Since director Guy Hamilton was a jazz fan, screenwriter Creator/TomMankiewicz suggested to him to film in New Orleans.
42	* AwkwardSilenceEntrance: When James Bond walks into the Fillet of Soul restaurant in New York the entire crowd slowly goes completely silent. It might be because the Fillet of Soul is in Harlem and everyone in the crowd is black, while Bond is white. Or it might be because all of them [[spoiler:work for Kananga/Mr. Big and the situation is a trap]].
43	* BadassBystander: Sheriff Pepper, actually. He nearly manages to subdue and arrest one of the major henchmen all by himself, and would have even succeeded if Bond wouldn't have, you know, nearly ''dropped a speed boat'' on him ([[ButtMonkey and let another one get neatly sandwiched in his patrol car]]).
44	* BananaRepublic: San Monique, though a pretty specific one based mostly on Haiti. The voodoo heritage and entirely black population would be out of place in most of the Latin America/Caribbean region.
45	* BehavioralConditioning: A classic Pavlovian version; the moment Tee-Hee rips open a tin of meat, all the alligators in the area know it's feeding time. Too bad Bond's the main course.
46	* BigApplesauce: Starts at the UN, and also goes to [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity Harlem]].
47	* TheBigEasy: Bond takes Solitaire to New Orleans after their escape from San Monique, but they're quickly captured by Mr. Big's men.
48	* BlofeldPloy: Inverted. Kananga looks like he's going to test Bond's shark gun on Whisper, but he shoots the couch he's sitting on instead (then again, over the years the couch had surely served him well)
49	* BloodlessCarnage: Kananga pops like a helium balloon, but there's no gore, since that would push the age rating up. Likewise, Kananga dying in the shark tank was probably nixed by the studio.
50	* BluffTheEavesdropper: The CIA has put bugs in Kananga's New York office. The latter knows it, and starts pretending to dictate a StronglyWordedLetter, then activates a recording allowing him, Tee Hee and Solitaire to leave the building through a secret exit and go to Harlem.
51	* BoardToDeath: The British Secret Service agent stationed in the UsefulNotes/UnitedNations building in the teaser is killed when someone unplugs his translator and replaces it with a device that sends a [[BrownNote deadly sound to his head]].
52	* BondOneLiner:
53	** After killing [[spoiler:Kananga]]: "He always did have an ''inflated'' opinion of himself."
54	** "Just being disarming." Bond referring to Tee-Hee [[spoiler:after he's tossed out of a train and loses his prosthetic hook-arm on the way out the window]].
55	** An unintentional one from Solitaire: "That wasn't very funny" referring again to Tee-Hee.
56	* BondVillainStupidity:
57	** Averted pretty early in the movie, when Mr. Big tells his men to "take this honky out and waste him!" within three seconds of meeting Bond. Unfortunately, it's played straight after that.
58	** Bond is left on a small island surrounded by crocodiles without a single guard watching to make sure he dies, after having previously escaped Kananga's traps more than once. Why they don't shoot him ''then'' feed his body to the crocs is a question you're just not supposed to ask. Of course, it's possible they did it ForTheEvulz (being eaten ''alive'' is a pretty scary death) but there's no excuse for not having him watched.
59	** Kananga decides to dispose of Bond and Solitaire by feeding them to sharks, which come to feed in a pool in his lair. Instead of shooting or drugging the two, then throwing them into the water and letting the sharks dispose of their remains, Kananga 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.
60	* BookcasePassage: When Bond enters the Fillet of Soul restaurant, he sits at a table while casing the joint, only for the wall behind him to spin around and send him right to Mr. Big's office. It's subverted later on when 007 enters another Fillet of Soul location and, clearly remembering what happened last time, takes a seat as far away from the back wall as possible… only for a trap door to open beneath him.
61	* BookSafe: The classic gun in a Bible routine.
62	* BoringButPractical: Despite the various over-the-top elements, the movie does take time to dwell on the mundane aspects of espionage.
63	** Bond is shown checking his room for bugs and quickly identifying and investigating a store that's fronting for the villains. He also effectively (however sleazily) seduces and recruits an agent by taking note of her belief in tarot cards and preparing a loaded deck to trick her with.
64	** On the villain side, Kananga has New York and New Orleans blanketed with an absolutely superb network of eyes and ears who work under the most innocuous disguises (shoe shiners, cab drivers) that let him know the minute anything in his territories is out of place. He also uses many simple but effective tricks to throw off CIA surveillance, such as playing a prerecorded speech to make it sound like he's still in the room while slipping out through a hidden door. His tradecraft is good enough to allow him to live a double life as a Caribbean dictator and as an American mob boss (neither of which is exactly a low-profile job) without anyone noticing. Many of the grander Bond villains could have learned a thing or two from him.
65	* BorrowinSamedi: The BigBad uses an EnigmaticMinion who acts the part of Baron Samedi in some kind of festival for tourists in Haiti, played by Creator/GeoffreyHolder. One of the [[RiddleForTheAges bigger mysteries]] in the film is exactly who the guy is, with the [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane implication]] that he may be the Baron himself.
66	* BottomlessMagazines: Averted, Bond uses a revolver at one point and fires exactly six shots before resorting to hand-to-hand combat.
67	* BrownNote: The movie opens with the assassination of the United Kingdom's ambassador to the United Nations, carried out through sound piped through his translation earpiece.
68	* ChekhovsGun: Both utilized and subverted.
69	** Bond is given special "shark pellets" that are capsules full of compressed gas. He never uses them on any sharks, instead using them as a quick way of dispatching Kananga by force feeding him one and making him swell up like a blimp and pop.
70	** Instead of the usual "Q introduces Bond to a new gadget" scene, we have M returning Bond's Q-watch which has already been issued to him. Therefore the audience knows nothing about its abilities (except the magnet) until Bond uses them, notably a miniature buzz-saw blade that he uses to saw through rope.
71	** The watch has another subversion earlier, as it was introduced as a powerful magnet, which Bond tries to use to pull a metal canoe toward him when he's stranded in the middle of a bunch of alligators. After moving a few inches, the canoe is revealed to be securely tied to the shore. This was originally played straight however.
72	* ChekhovsGunman: James Bond [[Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun Will Return]]. Unfortunately so will Sheriff J.W. Pepper.
73	* TheChessmaster: Thanks to Solitaire's abilities, Kananga stands two steps ahead of Bond throughout much of the movie.
74	* ClassyCane: After James Bond's first meeting with Kananga, Baron Samedi has a stylish cane to match his SharpDressedMan style.
75	* ClosetShuffle: Miss Caruso takes refuge in Bond's closet when M drops by unexpectedly. Moneypenny sees her, but helps her stay hidden.
76	* ComeBackToBedHoney: Bond seduces Solitaire for information (citing [[RuleNumberOne Lesson No. 1]]: no secrets between lovers) only to find out she doesn't know much about what's happening on Kananga's island. So Bond is determined to go look for himself, and makes it clear that she's coming with him. "Togetherness is Lesson Number Two.". She asks if there's time for Lesson Number 3 before they go.
77	-->'''Bond:''' Certainly, darling. [[DoubleEntendre There's no point in going off half-cocked.]]
78	* ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination: It would seem that every black person in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, [[TheBigEasy New Orleans]], and the fictional San Monique works for the BigBad, or knows him enough not to be surprised when Bond's table at a restaurant is suddenly lowered into the villain's lair as the singer taunts him. Kananga is the dictator of his island, while the Fillet of Soul restaurants in New York, New Orleans and other places are a cover for Mr. Big's operation, so presumably everyone there works for him or knows to keep their mouth shut. However this doesn't explain the murder of two surveillance agents (one of the [=MI6=] agents in the prologue, and later Strutter) which both take place on the street in broad daylight with a large number of witnesses -- not all of whom are in the funeral procession.
79	* ContinuityNod:
80	** Bond's reaction when the San Monique concierge tells him that "Mrs. Bond" has already checked in would suggest that [[Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService certain events]] still strike a nerve.
81	** Strutter is armed with a Walther PPK. While this is to show he's on the same side as Bond, it also fits with ''Film/DrNo'' where Q said that the CIA had a liking for that pistol.
82	* ConvenientEscapeBoat: After escaping the alligator farm and burning down the drug lab, Bond steals a convenient escape boat to flee the bad guys. This leads to an awesome chase across the bayous as Bond is pursued by the villains and the police.
83	* CoolBoat:
84	** The Glastron GT-150 speedboats used for the bayou chase scene.
85	** Pepper brags that his brother-in-law has a speedboat that's the fastest thing on the river. Adam gets there first and steals it to chase after Bond. Damn shame it gets blown up, cause it's a beauty.
86	* CoversAlwaysLie: The DVD synopsis states Kanaga wants to Take Over the World, when he actually only wants to make a considerable sum of money by flooding the heroin market with his own supply.
87	* CrazyPrepared:
88	** Kananga, whose goons are seemingly ''everywhere'' no matter where Bond turns.
89	** The Fillet of Soul restaurants especially. The first time he's in one, Bond is given a booth, which promptly rotates and leaves him in the villain's lair on the other side of the wall. The second time, Bond intentionally asks for a table in the middle of the restaurant to avoid this fate. The waiter obliges... and the table is quickly lowered by a trapdoor into the basement lair.
90	** Also, as always, [=MI6=]. You just can't ever tell when your agents might find a use for a wristwatch that's also a high-powered magnet ''and'' a buzzsaw.
91	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Kananga when he's inflated by the gas in the shark pellets. The man eventually explodes into gobbets.
92	* CurseCutShort:
93	** When Adam radios the other henchmen to pursue Bond, he screams, "Now ''move'', you mother--".
94	** Doubles as MouthingTheProfanity: When Bond's boat jumps over Sheriff J.W. Pepper, he says "What the" and clearly mouths the word "fuck", but any sound is drowned out by the boat's overrevving motor.
95	* CutLexLuthorACheck: Kananga owns a thriving chain of soul food restaurants, in addition to which he is the president of a small Caribbean island that appears to be enjoying a tourism boom.
96	* DeadFootLeadfoot: Whisper kills Bond's driver not long after his arrival on New York, using a dart with some kind of poison that causes this trope. Bond has to navigate through traffic with the dead guy's foot on the gas.
97	* DeadpanSnarker: Strutter gets a gem on Bond after observing him escape Mr. Big's clutches on his first encounter: Strutter was able to follow Bond into Harlem despite Bond's "clever disguise" being a "white face in Harlem".
98	* DeathOfAThousandCuts: What Bond thinks Kananga was planning to do to him in the climax, before he tried to drop him in the shark pool.
99	* DeathMontage: The movie opens with the murder of three British agents over a 24-hour period--in New York, New Orleans and the Caribbean--[[PlotTriggeringDeath causing M to assign Bond onto the case]]. The murders also serve as an EstablishingCharacterMoment for the scope of the BigBad's organization. The first murder is during a meeting of the United Nations attended by Dr. Kananga, showing he's a VillainWithGoodPublicity. The New Orleans murder is observed by hundreds of witnesses who either do nothing or play along, showing his control over the African American community. And the third is during a HollywoodVoodoo ceremony on the island of San Monique, showing how he maintains that control and foreshadowing where the climax of the movie will take place.
100	* DecompositeCharacter: In the novel, Bond has an ally named Quarrel, who is later killed in ''Literature/DrNo''. Because ''Dr. No'' was the first 007 book to be made into a film, the movie gave Quarrel's role in the plot to Quarrel Jr., the [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Suspiciously Similar Son]] of the original.
101	* DeliciousDistraction: Bond gets stranded in an alligator infested swamp. He finds a bucket of chicken meat and throws them at the approaching gators, but soon runs out and has to escape them.
102	* DescriptionCut:
103	** When Quarrel Jr. worries that Bond is late, Felix says that Bond is tied up somewhere. Obligatory cut to Bond and Solitaire tied to the dipping mechanism.
104	** Solitaire wants so to know how they're going to get out of Kananga's underground base. Bond indicates a nearby monorail. "We take the train, of course." Cut to Bond and Solitaire getting on a full-sized train.
105	* DeusExMachina: Quite unusually, Bond's magnet watch also turns out to have a serrated edge that can cut ropes when the face is spun, which comes out of nowhere in the climax. M most certainly did not mention that when he gave Bond the watch at the beginning, but then, he didn't seem to know about the magnet either until Bond demonstrated it for him.
106	* DiabolicalMastermind: Kananga is an island dictator and [[spoiler:drug lord Mister Big]].
107	* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: A lounge singer gives the title song a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UVTsiNbICQ Motown-style reprise]], and she mocks Bond from the stage as he's captured by the bad guys.
108	* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation:
109	** In the novel, Mr. Big is eaten by various forms of marine-life after his yacht explodes. In the film, [[spoiler:he swells up and explodes after ingesting a compressed air bullet.]]
110	** In the novel, Bond kills Tee Hee by pushing him down a flight of stairs. In the film, he throws him off a train.
111	* TheDragon: Tee Hee and Baron Samedi both serve Mr. Big and Kananga.
112	* DragonTheirFeet: Tee Hee isn't present when Bond kills Kananga and tries to kill Bond later on a train.
113	* DrinkBasedCharacterization: In order to establish Moore's Bond as different from Connery's, he drinks bourbon and water with no ice (despite the fact that "no ice" actually costs ''extra'' as far as the Fillet of Sole bars are concerned) as opposed to vodka martini. Felix orders a couple of Sazeracs and jibes Bond for it. "Where's your sense of adventure? This is New Orleans. Relax!"
114	* DrivingTestSmashers: Bond commandeers a light plane, passing himself off as an instructor to the little old lady student, and causes mayhem taxiing around the runway evading Mr. Big's mooks.
115	* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness: For Creator/RogerMoore's run. Bond's demeanor here is much less humorous, and perhaps even more hard-boiled than Sean Connery's portrayal. The supernatural elements also do not fit well with ''any'' of the other films.
116	* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Dr. Kananga had an underground base near one of his poppy fields in San Monique for processing the poppies' morphine into heroin, through it's less elaborate than past efforts we've seen.
117	* EnemyEatsYourLunch: In the Fillet of Soul, after Bond is sent to Kananga's secret office via BookcasePassage, the waiter drinks Bond's bourbon.
118	* EnigmaticMinion: Baron Samedi is perhaps the most enigmatic villain/henchman the cinematic Bond has ever faced. The character is an ambiguous one, and the audience [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane cannot tell]] if ''he really is'' the Voodoo god Baron Samedi himself, or simply a mortal who has assumed Samedi's identity and can keep up a convincing enough act to make people think he is said Voodoo god. Contributing to the mystery is the fact that Samedi seems to operate as an aide to Dr. Kananga, but is not entirely under his control.
119	* EverybodyOwnsAFord: Or, in this case, Ford's rival, GM's Chevrolet Division, who sponsored the film. Rather JustForFun/{{egregious}}, since practically every (non-taxi or pimp) vehicle in New York seems to be a Chevy.
120	* EveryoneHatesHades: Baron Samedi is portrayed as a Voodoo version of Satan who has numerous zombie servants. In actual Voodoo mythology, Samedi is known for making the dead rot quicker so they can't be turned into zombies and is a personally charming and friendly fellow, fond of rum and cigars.
121	* EvilCripple: Tee Hee lost his right arm to an alligator and replaced it with a mechanical arm and a pincer.
122	* EvilLaugh:
123	** Baron Samedi, who has a single line, but lots of laughter (which even appears in ''[[VideoGame/GoldenEye1997 GoldenEye 007]]''). Likewise with the appropriately named Tee Hee, through he's more of a GigglingVillain.
124	--->'''Bond:''' Funny how the least thing amuses him.
125	** Kananga gives a (dubbed) EvilLaugh when he appears to be going to use the shark gun on Whisper.
126	* EvilPlan: Mr. Big wants to corner the heroin market by flooding the United States with free heroin, driving TheMafia out of the drug business and doubling the number of addicts, to whom he will then sell to once the free heroin runs out.
127	* FatalFlaw: Dr. Kananga's bloated ego brings him down. As quipped by Bond: "He always did have an inflated opinion of himself."
128	* FedToTheBeast: Kananga tries to feed Bond and Solitaire to his pet shark. Tee Hee earlier tried feeding him to ''crocodiles''.
129	* {{Fingore}}:
130	** Dr. Kananga threatens to have Tee Hee cut off Bond's finger, along with some... [[FreudianThreat other]] important parts of his anatomy.
131	** Solitaire is lying in bed with her hand dangling off the side, unaware that Tee Hee has entered the room and is reaching out for her fingers with his claw hand. Fortunately Bond enters the room, giving Tee Hee more important things to worry about.
132	* FishOutOfWater: A fair amount of the humor in the film comes from watching James Bond, the consummate English gentleman, trying to navigate far less refined setting of the {{Blaxploitation}} genre and the DeepSouth.
133	* FlamingSkulls: The opening and ending credits.
134	* FlashedBadgeHijack: Sheriff Pepper commandeers a Louisiana State Police car after a speedboat crashes onto his.
135	* FollowThatCar: {{Subverted\|Trope}} when Bond gets a taxi driver to follow Mr. Big and his entourage into Harlem. As they drive along however, various people on their route warn him via radio that he's being followed. When they finally arrive and Bond enters the building, ''the taxi driver'' then uses his radio to tip off Mr. Big that Bond has arrived.
136	* FortuneTeller: Solitaire has the ability to see the future by reading tarot cards. Possibly also Baron Samedi. When Kananga is raging at Solitaire for losing her virginity to Bond, Samedi calmly sits there drawing tarot cards from the deck and burning them. Each one is perfectly relevant to the situation at hand.
137	* FreezeFrameBonus: In close-up shots of Solitaire's cards, you can see that they have "007" printed on the back of them.
138	* GadgetWatches: Bond's latest watch has magnetic and rotary saw capability. Also notable in that this is his first proper Q-watch in the series; previous watches were either owned by the villains (''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''), or didn't really look that much like a watch at all (''Film/{{Thunderball}}'').
139	* GainaxEnding: The final scene is [[spoiler:Baron Samedi apparently resurrecting himself for real.]]
140	* GenreRefugee: Sheriff J.W. Pepper seems to have been imported from a Creator/BurtReynolds comedy.
141	* GigglingVillain: This is, unsurprisingly, the case with Tee Hee.
142	* GilliganCut:
143	** Earlier Quarrel Jr. says they'll be back any minute as he saw Bond's wetsuit was missing, only to cut to a scene where Kananga says he knew Bond was there because his men found the wetsuit.
144	** While waiting for Bond to return to Quarrel Jr.'s boat, Leiter comments "He must have gotten tied up somewhere", followed by a cut to Bond and Solitaire tied to a death trap.
145	* GroinAttack: Bond may or may not have kicked Tee-Hee in the nuts during their climactic fight, but judging by the way Tee-Hee squeals when Bond gets the advantage it seems a good indicator that he did.
146	** In the novel he definitely does, and with his steel toe capped shoes no less!
147	* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: Bond takes Rose's Smith & Wesson Model 19, then claims the serial numbers were filed off, yet he glances at the right side; the serial number on S&W revolvers is always on the butt plate. Later, when she finds another Model 19 on Quarrel Jr.'s boat, Quarrel tells her the safety was on, despite revolvers generally not having safeties.
148	* HandCannon: Bond spends most of the film with his compact Walther PPK, but come the finale, he trades it out for a shiny .44 revolver to rescue Solitaire; plus an anti-shark pistol with compressed gas bullets that make things inflate, then explode.
149	* AHandfulForAnEye:
150	** Shortly before his death, Adam is [[EyeScream blinded]] when Bond throws paint thinner into his face.
151	** A less deadly version when Bond grabs a pack of playing cards and tosses them in Tee Hee's face as he lunges at Bond.
152	* HandSignals: While Bond and Solitaire are tied to the dipping device Kananga gives a hand gesture to Whisper, commanding him to activate and move it out over the SharkPool.
153	* HighHeelFaceTurn:
154	** Inverted when Bond sleeps with inept CIA agent Rosie Carver... and then pulls a gun on her, revealing he knows she's actually TheMole for BigBad Kananga. He threatens to kill her if she doesn't spill what she knows; when she says he wouldn't do that, they've just made love, he replies:
155	--->'''Bond:''' [[{{Jerkass}} I certainly wouldn't have killed you before.]]
156	** While Kananga's men are loyal to the death, his female FortuneTeller Solitaire is won over by Bond's charms, even going so far as to lose her virginity - and with it [[VirginPower her ability to predict the future!]] - to him. However we're given the impression before this that she's not happy about being kept in Kananga's GildedCage, so is just taking the opportunity offered to escape.
157	* HollywoodVoodoo: Dr. Kananga uses voodoo as means to scare the populace of San Monique to stay away from his poppy fields. The Hollywood aspects are all over, such as an [[EveryoneHatesHades evil Baron Samedi]] raising zombies and a priest with a goat-skull hat that is pilfered from HollywoodSatanism. Though using voodoo as a domination/fear tool has its roots in RealLife too with the dictatorship of François "Papa Doc" Duvalier in UsefulNotes/{{Haiti}}.
158	* HollywoodPoliceDrivingAcademy: Arguably turned up to eleven as several police cars are wrecked during a ''boat'' chase. Not that Mr. Big's mooks do any better -- when chasing Bond (who's in a Cessna aeroplane that's simply taxi-ing around the airfield with ''a little old lady'' at the controls), they somehow manage to wreck their cars even though they should be able to out-manoeuvre the plane.
159	* HookHand: Tee-Hee has a hook hand, but for [[ArtificialLimbs his entire arm]]. He says he lost it to a crocodile at Kananga's croc farm (the croc is still alive, so clearly it was NothingPersonal).
160	* HopeSpot: Kananga suspects Bond slept with Solitaire, so he tests her by calling out the registration number of Bond's watch and asking her if he's reading it truthfully. If she guesses wrong, Tee-Hee will cut off Bond's finger. Solitaire appears to guess the right answer and everyone relaxes. Then Kananga's minions knock out Bond and drag him off to be disposed of, and Kananga reveals that the answer wasn't even remotely close, despite her having a 50/50 chance.
161	* HowUnscientific:
162	** The BigBad's death scene.
163	** Not to mention Baron Samedi surviving his "death", and appearing mysteriously laughing on the back of the train at the end of the movie, leading to a RealAfterAll implication.
164	* TheHyena: Most of the time, Baron Samedi just laughs at things.
165	* ImprovisedWeapon:
166	** Bond is being taken out to be shot in Harlem; seeing him walk suspiciously close to a length of metal lying in a bin, the two mooks order him to keep his hands up. Which makes it easy for Bond to reach up and bring a collapsible fire escape ladder down on their heads.
167	** Bond is smoking a cigar while he's shaving, when a villain lets a venomous snake into the bathroom. Bond notices it, and ever resourceful, kills it by using the cigar and an aerosol can of aftershave to fashion a makeshift flamethrower and spraying it at the reptile.
168	** Caught without his weapon in a confined train compartment, Bond uses everything he can get his hands on to fight Tee Hee.
169	* InLoveWithTheGangstersGirl: Bond with Solitaire, though she has a platonic relationship with Kananga, to preserve her psychic abilities.
170	* IncrediblyObviousTail:
171	** Bond finds that being white, he tends to stand out a bit when tailing Kananga through Harlem. It doesn't help that Kananga's organisation appears to be [[WeAreEverywhere ubiquitous]] and organized enough to track him at every stage.
172	--->'''Strutter:''' You can't miss him. It's like following a cue ball!
173	** Ironically, this is immensely helpful to Strutter, the CIA agent assigned to watch over Bond in New York. Not only is Bond easy to keep track of, but the same villains who're focused on the white British agent coming through their neighborhood completely miss the black American tailing him.
174	** Unfortunately, Strutter later plays this trope straight in New Orleans, as did Hamilton before him. It's hard for the gangster bar not to notice when there's literally only one man standing still just across the street from them, even if he appears to be just casually smoking.
175	* InflatingBodyGag: [[spoiler:Kananga]] dies from getting inflated by the gas in the shark pellets.
176	* InstantConvertible: Done with a bus when the police force of San Monique is chasing Bond, and he drives under a tunnel.
177	* IslandBase: Kananga's island of San Monique, but it isn't really isolated: it has a tourist trade. Too bad - poppy fields, voodoo totems with guns, Baron Samedi, and a SharkPool.
178	* ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: {{Averted\|Trope}}. It's actually not Mardi Gras when Bond visits TheBigEasy. The parades of people dancing on Bourbon Street are [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_funeral funeral processions]].
179	* ItsPersonal: When M tells Bond that Baines is dead, Bond mentions he rather liked him. This explains why he's so cold to Rose Carver after finding out she's TheMole, as she was Baines' contact and likely led him to his death like she was trying to do to Bond.
180	* JokerImmunity: Baron Samedi gets thrown into poisonous snakes, only for the film's last shot to show him laughing on the engine of Bond's train.
181	* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Zigzagged; first Mr. Big has no interest in talking to Bond, ordering his men to take him outside and shoot him. Then [[spoiler:when Mr. Big unmasks himself as Kananga]] it's played straight, with him casually revealing his plan to flood the country with free heroin. Then at the climax of the movie Kananga casually shows off his underground base to Bond, filling him in on the technical details of how he intends to smuggle the heroin into the United States.
182	* KickTheDog: When Kananga slaps Solitaire in the face after she sleeps with Bond and loses her psychic powers.
183	* KidnappedByAnAlly: After Bond knocks out two of Mr. Big's thugs, another black man approaches him with a gun...only to hand Bond an ID card that identifies him as CIA agent Harold Strutter.
184	* KillItWithFire:
185	** Bond kills a snake with an AerosolFlamethrower.
186	** Quarrel Jr. plants incendiary bombs to burn up Kananga's opium field. Kananga is unperturbed, pointing out that the opium poppy is a hardy plant so it's only a temporary setback.
187	* LargeHam:
188	** Dr. Kananga, particularly while showing Bond around his underground lair.
189	** Sheriff J.W. Pepper too, even more when he [[Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun returns in the next film]].
190	** Tee Hee and Baron Samedi are both larger than life. At least Samedi has an excuse as he's a tourist performer, if not the real thing.
191	* LaterInstalmentWeirdness: It's the only James Bond film without a Q scene between 1962 and 2002 (the gadget is instead brought to Bond by M). Creator/DesmondLlewelyn was brought back in the next film.
192	* LatexPerfection: [[spoiler:Dr. Kananga as Mr. Big is a subversion; the LatexPerfection trope usually involves two separate actors, one playing a character, and another playing a character that first character is imitating with a face mask. ''Live and Let Die'' is one of the few films to use the same actor for both the character and the character he's imitating, via Yaphet Kotto and a pretty convincing prosthetic and wig.]]
193	* MacheteMayhem: As he is rescuing Solitaire, Bond shoots a guy who is about hit him with a machete, and later uses it against Baron Samedi in a very brief SwordFight.
194	* TheMafia: Never appears, but important to the plot all the same. Kananga's ultimate goal is to bankrupt them, leaving himself with an effective monopoly on the American underworld and narcotics trade.
195	* MagicalFlutist: One of James Bond's opponents is a man who plays the role of the voodoo loa Baron Samedi. Bond once encounters him while he's playing a flute. After apparently being killed by venomous snakes, at the end he appears riding the front of a train, indicating that he may be the real Baron Samedi.
196	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane:
197	** Baron Samedi and his apparent resurrection powers. He may in fact be '''the''' Baron Samedi.
198	** Solitaire's tarot FortuneTeller powers.
199	* MeaningfulName: Baron Samedi, since he might be the real deal.
200	* MilkmanConspiracy: The Fillet of Soul Jazz Bars all seem to have secret lairs behind the booths or underground. They are part of a massive heroin ring run by drug baron Mr. Big for Caribbean dictator Dr. Kananga [[spoiler:(who are actually the same person)]], through which is employed nearly every black person everywhere.
201	* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Deaths of three British agents → massive heroin smuggling operation.
202	* MisplacedWildlife: Lampshaded and justified. Crocodiles are not native to Louisiana. So Tee Hee explains to Bond, and by extension the audience, the difference between a crocodile and an alligator and explains why they are on the farm. This was because the scene was actually filmed in Jamaica.
203	* TheMole: [[spoiler: Rosie Carver.]]
204	* MoodWhiplash: The funeral starts off with sad mourners and a slow jazz number by the band. Then when the victim is killed and placed inside the trick casket, a trumpet blows and the mourners start [[CheerfulFuneral acting joyful and playing lively jazz music]].
205	-->'''Felix:''' Some send-off!
206	* MouthingTheProfanity: When Bond's boat jumps over him, Sheriff J.W. Pepper says "What the" and mouths the word "fuck" (although it's likely a CurseCutShort with him simply being drowned out by the boat's overrevving motor).
207	* MundaneUtility: Bond uses his watch magnet to unzip Miss Caruso's dress.
208	* MurphysBed: Solitaire is lying on the fold-down bed of a train compartment prior to the obligatory post-mission sex, when Tee Hee sneaks into the room to kill them. He's reaching out to her when Bond comes out of the toilet, so Tee Hee slams the bed shut so she won't interfere during his fight with Bond. After Bond throws Tee Hee out the window he lowers the bed to find an unamused Solitaire, who thinks Bond played a silly practical joke on her.
209	* MusicalNod: If you listen carefully, you'll realize that the song being played during the funeral procession in the opening sequence is "[[Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService We Have All The Time In The World]]".
210	* MutilationInterrogation: A variaton; Tee Hee puts his claw hand around Bond's finger while Kananga threatens to cut it off if Solitaire gives the wrong answer while reading the tarot cards.
211	* MyGodYouAreSerious: Bond asks sarcastically if Mr Big is planning to give away his heroin for free. Turns out that's exactly what he's planning.
212	* NakedPeopleAreFunny: An almost completely naked Miss Caruso (Bond's one night stand) gets caught by Miss Moneypenny while making a dash for the closet in the hopes of not being caught with her pants down.
213	* NatureAbhorsAVirgin: Solitaire only keeps her predictive powers for as long as she remains a virgin. Kananga makes it clear that it's up to him how long she gets to keep her powers, and when the time comes he will take care of them personally. Too bad for him that Bond got there first...
214	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Bond sleeps with Solitaire to get information from her, only to find she loses her psychic abilities if someone sleeps with her, so she can't tell him anything.
215	* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Bond is trapped on a small island in the middle of a pond at a crocodile farm. [[spoiler:He manages to escape by jumping on the backs of the reptiles.]] Tee Hee points out one in particular that tore off his arm before the events of the movie.
216	* NewhartPhoneCall: Felix Leiter with Mr. Bleeker after Bond wrecks his airplane and terrorizes his student.
217	-->'''Felix:''' Mr. Bleeker, any suggestion of that kind should be forwarded in writing to Washington.
218	* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: There was absolutely no mention of Bond's magnet watch having a buzzsaw function until the moment he turned it on to cut the ropes he was bound with. Though the audience is [[GenreSavvy familiar with the Q-gadgets by now]] so it's not a surprise. Also when Bond is given the watch, it's established that this is a gadget watch that's being returned after repairs, rather than a new gadget being issued to Bond.
219	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Kananga is at least partially based on Dr. Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, dictator of Haiti, who used Voodoo as the basis of his personality cult and even claimed that he was Baron Samedi. Inverted with the character's name; Kananga was the RealLife owner of the crocodile farm and the producers decided to use his name for the movie, so the real Kananga became a minor celebrity as a result of this film.
220	* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The island nation of San Monique stands in for UsefulNotes/{{Haiti}} and/or the UsefulNotes/DominicanRepublic.
221	* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: After he captures Bond and Solitaire in his underground lair, Kananga insists that they share a drink with him.
222	* NoodleIncident: The film starts with Bond in bed with "Miss Caruso", an Italian secret agent who was implied to be the Bond girl from a past adventure (and her government is looking for her since she hasn't checked in since finishing it). Who is she, and what did she and Bond do on "the Rome affair" that M congratulates James about? We're never told.
223	* NotMyDriver: Happens to Bond and Solitaire when they get a cab in New Orleans. The driver turns out to be the same guy who drove Bond back in Harlem, who then proceeds to trap them in his car.
224	* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: Rose holds Bond and Quarrel Jr. at gun point, only for Bond to point out that Quarrel Jr. is a friend and Quarrel to point out she has the safety on... [[GunsDoNotWorkThatWay despite the revolver not having a safety.]]
225	* TheNudifier: Bond uses his magnetic watch to strip down his one night stand, the beautiful Italian agent known only as Miss Caruso (billed as "[[FanserviceExtra Beautiful Girl]]" in the end credits).
226	* OhCrap:
227	** Bond when he opens the door to find his boss outside. Then Miss Caruso when Ms. Moneypenny catches her emerging from Bond's bedroom wearing nothing but her frilly blue panties and covering her topless self with his robe. Fortunately for her Ms. Moneypenny is nice enough to stay quiet while she retrieves her clothes and hides in the closet and is then nice enough to keep M from discovering the poor Italian agent.
228	** Rosie Carter gets one when she sees the ScaryScarecrows for the first time.
229	** The old lady getting a flying test gives a literal version when she realises Bond is about to taxi her airplane through the rapidly closing hanger doors.
230	** Tee Hee, when Bond [[spoiler:cuts the cables to his prosthetic arm, locking him in place on a window handle.]]
231	* OlderThanTheyLook: Would you have guessed that Creator/RogerMoore was ''45'' (and three years ''older'' than Creator/SeanConnery) when he first played Bond here?
232	* OutOfGenreExperience: Both within the movie and within the series as a whole. It's a Bond movie, but it largely has the trappings of a {{Blaxploitation}} crime drama. Except for the twenty minute chase in the Louisiana bayou, during which both Bond and the Blaxploitation villains find themselves plunged into a Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit type Southern action comedy.
233	* OutsideContextProblem: Sheriff J.W. Pepper is a typical Southern lawman who suddenly finds himself caught up in the wake of Bond.
234	* OutsideGenreFoe: Up to this point, Bond himself has normally gone up against European and/or Asian villains, who tend to be after [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]] with science on their side- here, he's up against a American-based drug ring led by a Caribbean dictator who has voodoo on his side.
235	* OutsideRide: Baron Samedi is seen riding on the front end of a train locomotive after he was killed by poisonous snakes earlier in the movie. Badass indeed.
236	* ParanormalEpisode: Solitaire's PsychicPowers seem to real. Bond also faces off with a henchmen claimed to be Baron Samedi, who's seemingly killed, but shown alive at the end of the film, hinting he [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane may have been]] the genuine article.
237	* PickACard: Played, a bit unusually, with Tarot cards. Bond manipulates Solitaire into sleeping with him by having her pick "The Lovers" from a stacked deck.
238	* PistolWhipping: Adam, one of Mr. Big's thugs, knocks out Sheriff Pepper's brother-in-law Billy Bob when he steals his boat.
239	* PoliceAreUseless: The Louisiana State Police certainly is, but Sheriff J. W. Pepper takes it to an entirely new level. The San Monique cops who try to apprehend Bond don't cover themselves in glory either.
240	* PopGoesTheHuman: Bond force feeds [[spoiler:Dr. Kananga]] an oxygen bullet, which causes to inflate like a balloon. He rises up like a helium balloon and pops, with nothing but clothing shreds left.
241	* PostClimaxConfrontation: Tee Hee attacks Bond in the train.
242	* PowerPerversionPotential: Proven when Bond uses his magnetic watch to ''unzip'' a woman's dress.
243	* PreMortemOneLiner: This gem when an agent is watching a jazz funeral:
244	-->'''Agent:''' Whose funeral is it?\
245	'''Assassin:''' Yours! ''(stabs agent)''
246	* PrecisionFStrike: The first of ([[Film/AViewToAKill currently]], [[Film/LicenceToKill as]] [[Film/QuantumOfSolace of]] [[Film/{{Skyfall}} 2012]]) five Bond films to use strong profanity. [[SoundEffectBleep However, only one of them gets through.]]
247	* ProphecyTwist:
248	** Solitaire tells Kananga that she looked at Bond's future and saw Death. [[spoiler:Kananga isn't happy when Rosie Carver dies instead, so Solitaire claims it must have been her death she foresaw.]]
249	** Solitaire's cards can't predict if Bond is coming by air or by sea. That's because he's coming via boat-launched hang glider.
250	* PsychoticSmirk: Baron Samedi and Tee Hee Johnson.
251	* QuestionableConsent: When Bond first meets Solitaire, he asks her to draw a tarot card for him and it's The Lovers, hinting at their future relationship. When they cross paths a second time later in the movie, he's dealing the cards and asks her to pick one, and it once again turns out to be The Lovers, so she proceeds to have sex with him. Then he drops the deck behind her back and ''all'' the cards are The Lovers[[note]]Which would suggest that Bond acquired 78 identical decks of tarot cards just to create that rigged deck for the sake of a little nookie[[/note]].
252	* RealAfterAll: The film ends with Baron Samedi appearing at the front of the train Bond is in, laughing as usual, even though he was subjected to a coffin full of (presumably) venomous snakes earlier in the film.
253	* RealityIsUnrealistic: One of the most unbelievable and cartoonish stunts, [[spoiler:Bond jumping on some crocodiles to safety after being left to die on a small island]] was actually an authentic feat by the owner of the crocodile ranch. [[spoiler:Yes, those were real crocodiles (though their feet were tied down).]]
254	* RecordedAudioAlibi: The BigBad Dr. Kananga enters the San Monique consulate in New York and starts dictating a long-winded speech. A short way in, he switches on a tape recorder that continues the speech on from where he left off. He and his entourage change into street clothes and exit thorough a SecretPassage, while the agents monitoring his office continue to listen to the speech; unaware that he has left.
255	* RedRightHand: Tee Hee's [[ArtificialLimbs right arm]].
256	* ReligionIsMagic: Baron Samedi (named after the Loa of the same name). He's called "the man who cannot die", and apparently, he doesn't.
257	* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Dr. Kananga uses snakes to kill adversaries, either releasing one into their hotel room, or using one in an elaborate voodoo ceremony (pulled from a coffin full of snakes). Then there's his crocodile farm/heroin processing centre.
258	* RiddleForTheAges: Who, or what, is Baron Samedi, and how did he survive being thrown in a casket full of snakes? Is he really the Vodou Loa of death from whom he takes his name? If so, why is he working for a mere mortal drug lord?
259	* RightInFrontOfMe: [[spoiler:When Mr. Big demands to know if Bond slept with Solitaire, Bond stalls for time by saying he'll only discuss this with Kananga, not one of his "lackeys". Mr. Big then peels off his latex mask to reveal he's Kananga.]]
260	* RuleOfDrama: Yaphet Kotto's "Mr. Big" is Blofeld in all but name, something the actor is clearly enjoying. There's no real reason for Mr. Big to have a top-secret underground cave-system headquarters, but most Bond villains do, so why not? There's no obligation for him to keep a shark tank in his headquarters, either. In fact, it was this movie which inspired the "Unnecessarily Slow Dipping Mechanism™!" from the first ''Film/AustinPowers'' movie.
261	* ScaryBlackMan:
262	** Baron Samedi (especially scary as it is implied that he cannot be killed, even by Bond - he's the voodoo god of the dead, after all), Tee Hee, Mr. Big and Dr. Kananga and Adam, one of their henchmen, all fit this trope.
263	** Also subverted at least twice. Harold Strutter and Quarrel are both introduced in ways that heavily imply that they're part of Kananga's surveillance network. Both are [[RedHerring Red Herrings]]: Strutter is the CIA officer Felix assigned to keep an eye on Bond, Quarrel is Bond's local contact in San Monique.
264	* ScaryScarecrows: San Monique is littered with scarecrows that have cameras and in one case, a dart gun, hidden in them.
265	* SceneryGorn: The back alley in Harlem where Mr. Big's goons take Bond out to shoot him is probably the most miserable alley in fictional history.
266	* ScoobyDooHoax: As in the novel, Mr. Big uses Voodoo, as his mistress/servant Solitaire, who has "the power of the Obeah" (which supposedly lets her see the future), to maintain an iron grip over his island nation and drug empire. He even has someone pretending to be Baron Samedi on his side, plus a host of traps and tricks. Subverted in that Solitaire seems like she really does have the power to see the future, and the ending has Samedi (who was apparently killed by snakebite earlier) riding the front of a train, laughing, implying he was RealAfterAll. Most of the other stuff really is just an elaborate hoax, like scarecrows promising death to anyone who trespasses on the poppy fields (with hidden cameras and guns in case you don't take the hint), or underground lift platforms to enable Baron Samedi to rise from his grave.
267	* TheSeventies: More blatant here than in the others from this decade. Dig those '70s fashions!
268	* SexSignalsDeath: [[spoiler:Rosie Carver, who's quickly killed by a gun hidden in a scarecrow after Bond outs her as a spy. Averted with Solitaire, who survives the film]].
269	* ShackleSeatTrap: When James Bond sits down inside Mr. Big's headquarters, steel bands in the chair's arms snap shut on his wrists, holding him prisoner.
270	* SharkPool: Mr. Big/Kananga has a shark pool in his ElaborateUndergroundBase. And earlier in his Louisiana lair, Tee Hee strands Bond in a large pond full of crocodiles and/or alligators.
271	* ShoePhone:
272	** As well as Bond's watch, he also has a bug detector and radio in his grooming kit--the latter disguised as a brush.
273	** Strutter has a radio disguised as his car's cigarette lighter, all so Bond can make a pun about a "Felix Lighter" when Felix Leiter calls him on it.
274	* ShoeShineMister: While Bond is trailing Kananga's car in Harlem, he's spotted by a black shoeshine man, who calls Mr. Big on a radio inside his shoeshine kit.
275	* ShoutOut: Bond's all-black turtleneck ensemble towards the end is in homage to ''Film/{{Bullitt}}''. It comes full circle in ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' as the blond Creator/DanielCraig is dressed similarly.
276	* ShownTheirWork: A minor example, but a lot of the things Tee-Hee says regarding crocodilians are accurate, such as their long lifespans, their slow appetites and the methods of telling crocodiles and alligators apart.
277	* SicEm: The DiabolicalMastermind Kananga does it twice with his minions.
278	-->'''Kananga:''' ''(calm)'' If he finds it, kill him.\
279	'''Kananga:''' ''(concerned)'' At any cost - ''any'' - Bond must die.
280	* SmokingIsCool: Bond is smoking while shaving, when a villain lets a venomous snake into the bathroom. Bond notices it, and ever resourceful, kills it by using the cigarette and an aerosol can of aftershave to fashion a makeshift flamethrower and spraying it at the reptile.
281	* SnakePit: Bond knocks Baron Samedi into a coffin full of snakes.
282	* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: A fancy outdoor wedding on the bayou gets to this point in the ceremony, and on cue, James Bond and his pursuers plow through on speedboats cutting across the grounds and obliterating the wedding cake and caterer's tent. The bride is disconcerted.
283	* StandardHollywoodStrafingProcedure: By a helicopter while Bond is hiding under the poppy field net.
284	* StayingAlive: Baron Samedi. He was apparently killed by venomous snakebites, then re-appeared at the end of the movie sitting on the front of a moving train (to be fair, [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane he was very likely]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Samedi a god]].)
285	* StormingTheCastle: A two-man version. Near the end of the film while Quarrel Jr. infiltrates Kananga's poppy fields and blows them up with incendiary bombs. Bond attacks the voodoo village to save Solitaire, then sneaks into Kananga's underground base below the village.
286	* StuffBlowingUp:
287	** Bond disposes of Adam by sending his speedboat up the ramp of a derelict [=WW2=] landing craft, whereupon it explodes.
288	** Quarrel Jr sets [[KillItWithFire incendiary]] {{Time Bomb}}s to blow up the poppy fields. Kananga isn't too bothered, saying the poppy is a hardy plant so it's only a temporary setback.
289	** At the climax, the '''villain''' — rapidly pumped full of high-pressure CO[[subscript:2]] — explodes.
290	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Quarrel Jr., to his father. Which they did to work around the fact that Quarrel first appeared in the book ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie'', but they filmed ''Literature/DrNo'' first, in which Quarrel dies.
291	* TakeTheWheel: Bond's taxi driver is shot by Whisper, leaving him desperately trying to regain control of the car.
292	* TapOnTheHead: Tee Hee to Bond, and Bond to a number of {{mooks}}.
293	* TarotMotifs: One modern deck, often marketed as the Tarot of the Witches, was actually designed for the film. Early versions even had the 007 logo on the back, like in the film.
294	* TarotTroubles:
295	** In her introductory scene, Solitaire reads of [[TravelMontage James Bond's arrival]] in the cards.
296	--->"A man comes... He travels quickly... He has purpose... He comes over water... He travels with others... He will oppose... [[PortentOfDoom He brings violence and destruction!]]"
297	** Bond anonymously receives an upside-down tarot card of the ''Queen of Cups'', warning him of a [[FemmeFataleSpy deceitful woman]]. Fortunately he goes to a tarot store to find out what this means, and takes the warning seriously.
298	** Bond uses a tarot deck consisting of nothing but ''The Lovers'' to seduce Solitaire, through she'd already drawn ''The Lovers'' card twice before, [[YouCantFightFate explaining why she's not upset]] when Bond reveals he stacked the deck.
299	** Baron Samedi draws the ''Queen of Cups'' after Solitaire lies to Kananga, then another card showing the consequences of her betrayal; the ''[[YouHaveFailedMe Death]]'' card.
300	* TemptingFate:
301	** As Bond goes to attack the IslandBase, Felix tells him to watch out for sharks on the way back. Kananga does his best to introduce him to some.
302	** When Tee Hee fuses out the lights in their train cabin prior to attacking, Solitaire thinks that Bond has turned off the lights for the obligatory post-mission sex and tells him to lock the door as well. "You wouldn't want anyone to just walk in on us, would you?" Cut to Tee Hee ''unlocking'' the door latch.
303	** Solitaire is lying in bed, musing to herself that she never expected to escape her old life without leaving something behind. Unknown to her, Tee Hee is about to remove her fingers with his claw. Fortunately, Bond walks in at that point.
304	* TerrifyingPetStoreRat: The pre-credits sequence has a HollywoodVoodoo ritual execution where the victim is bitten by a venomous snake. Except the snake in question is actually a non-venomous emerald tree boa.
305	* ThrillerOnTheExpress: Bond battles Tee Hee on a train before joining Solitaire in bed.
306	* TownWithADarkSecret: Many of Louisiana's citizens are part of Kananga's racket. He apparently has enough people to stage a jazz funeral in order to [[spoiler:dispose of a target's body]].
307	* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Averted. The trailers conceal the fact that Mr. Big and Dr. Kananga are one and the same.
308	* TrapDoor: With [[ObligatoryJoke obligatory]] "Thanks for dropping in" joke.
309	* TrustPassword: The CIA car picking Bond up at the airport has a license plate that matches the luggage ticket on Bond's bag.
310	* {{Tuckerization}}:
311	** Dr. Kananga was named after the guy who owned the crocodile farm seen in the film. [[spoiler:The feet you see running on top of the crocodiles when Bond escapes said farm? Those were Kananga's, and those were real crocodiles.]]
312	** Old Albert, the crocodile that took Tee-Hee's arm, was a joking dig at Creator/AlbertRBroccoli.
313	* TuxedoAndMartini: ''{{Downplayed\|Trope}}'' as much as the producers feasibly could. As a conscious effort of distinguishing him from Creator/SeanConnery's Bond, Creator/RogerMoore's Bond goes tuxedo-free for the entire movie (the second and last instance, after ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''), [[CigarChomper favours cigars]] over cigarettes, and by the third act replaces the classic Walther with a gigantic [[RevolversAreJustBetter S&W Model 29]]. The direction and set elements follow suit, with much heavier emphasis on down-and-dirty location photography (Harlem, New Orleans, etc.) than the glossy SceneryPorn and over-the-top lairs of movies past.
314	* UnconventionalVehicleChase:
315	** While on the island of San Monique, Bond and Solitaire escape in a double-decker bus while the San Monique police pursue on motorcycles and in squad cars.
316	** At the New Orleans airport, Bond steals a Cessna (and the woman getting a flying lesson in it) which he races around the hangers and parked airplanes, losing its wings in the process and somehow making the pursuing vehicles crash.
317	* TheUnintelligible: Whisper. Due to some unspecified condition (in the novel he lost a lung to TB as a child) he's unable to speak above a whisper.
318	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Hamilton and Strutter both being collected by the funeral parade after they are killed, all done in plain view of the entire city of New Orleans. One can only assume the onlookers to any of Kananga's many traps are either working for him or know better than to interfere.
319	* VillainOpeningScene: The film opens with people getting murdered (though the cause only appears after the credits).
320	* VillainousBreakdown: The only time Mr. Big really gets mad is when he lambasts Solitaire for losing her powers.
321	* VirginPower: Solitaire's tarot reading ability depends on her virginity. This causes problems when Bond does his usual trick of sleeping with the BondGirl, only to find the information he's hoping to get isn't there any more. He points out that he stacked the deck, only for Solitaire to reply that it makes no difference as the physical act has already happened.
322	* WeAreEverywhere: Bond tries to tail Kananga into Harlem, but is clocked at every stage by radio-equipped spotters working for the villain, [[FollowThatCar including his own taxi driver]].
323	* WeddingSmashers: A boat chase between James Bond and some thugs "drops by" a wedding, with the mook running over the cake.
324	* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Bond is surprisingly thoughtful in this movie, never killing anyone outside of self-defence. Even when blowing up the heroin lab, Bond gives the workers in there a chance to escape by luring an alligator in the building before he sets it on fire.
325	* WhatTheHellAreYou: Sheriff J.W. Pepper says to Bond:
326	-->What are you?! [[WalkingDisasterArea Some kind of doomsday machine]], boy?!
327	* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: The incendiary bombs that Bond uses to burn Kananga's poppy fields are set to go off at midnight.
328	* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: The black villain Kananga is enraged that Bond has seduced his Caucasian mistress Solitaire, outright stating that ''he'' was to be the one to take her virginity. The racial difference adds some serious unfortunate implications to the typical "Bond rescues the DamselInDistress" situation.
329	* WithinArmsReach: In the last scene, [[DragonTheirFeet Tee Hee attacks Bond in his train room]] and is about to kill him with his hook arm when Bond reaches into his suitcase and pulls out nail clippers which he uses to [[FakeArmDisarm snip the wires controlling the arm, leaving his hook stuck on a window handle]], with Bond throwing him out.
330	* WhyDontYouJustShootHim:
331	** The "Unnecessarily Slow Moving Dipping Mechanism" parodied in the first ''Film/AustinPowers'' film was more than likely inspired by the machine that Kananga uses in his attempt to dispose of Bond and Solitaire near the end of this film. Kananga wanted to give the shark a chance to get the scent of blood; ironically, Whisper ''was'' going to put Bond in fast - Kananga told him to ''slow down'' to, as he put it, "let our diners assemble".
332	** Likewise the "put him in an easily-escapable deathtrap and then just walk away and assume it worked" meme is exemplified when Bond is marooned on a rock in a lake full of hungry crocodiles without even a single {{mook\|s}} left behind to watch him, though to be fair, nobody could have predicted him running across their backs to shore.
333	** Mr. Big completely averts this on his first meeting with Bond -- but it's still the first act, so Bond kung-fus his way out of it.
334	** [[http://theincrediblesuit.blogspot.com/2011/08/blogalongabond-live-and-let-die.html This article]] goes into further detail, counting a whopping 10 moments, including the two earlier mentioned attempts.
335	* WreckedWeapon: Tee Hee bends the barrel of Bond's PPK, rendering it useless, then hands it back to Bond with an EvilLaugh. Bond drops it in the rubbish bin.
336	* YouCantFightFate: Invoked by Bond when he stacks the deck [[GoodIsNotNice so Solitaire will sleep with him]].
337	* YouHaveFailedMe: Rosie Carver fails to lure Bond to his death after he realizes that she's a double agent. Kananga's henchmen have her killed before Bond can force her into telling him what she wants to know.
338	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Shockingly, Bond implies this about Solitaire at one point. Although he says it to Quarrel Jr., not her. Kananga also orders Solitaire's death on realising she's lost her powers, though it's also because [[IfICantHaveYou he views her sleeping with Bond as a personal betrayal]].
339	* YouFool: Solitaire tells Bond to pick a card. It turns out to be THE FOOL. Bond has just gotten captured thanks to his own overconfidence, so it's not like the cards are wrong.
340	-->'''Solitaire:''' You have found yourself.
341	* ZipMeUp: Inverted when Bond uses a magnetic watch to ''unzip'' a woman's dress. Now ''that's'' what we call PowerPerversionPotential.

Context Film / LiveAndLetDie