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3[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Music/AliciaKeys ♫ Another tricky little gun giving solace to the one]] [[Music/JackWhite that'll never see the sun shine... ♫]]'']]
4->''"How much do you know about Bond, Camille? Because he's rather a tragic case... His [=MI6=] file says he's difficult to control - a nice way of saying that everything he touches seems to wither and die."''
5-->--'''Dominic Greene'''
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11''Quantum of Solace'' is the twenty-second ''Film/JamesBond'' film by Creator/EonProductions, the second to star Creator/DanielCraig. It was directed by Creator/MarcForster and released on October 31, 2008. Music/JackWhite and Music/AliciaKeys performed the TitleThemeTune, "Another Way to Die." At one hour and forty-six minutes, it is also the shortest-ever Bond film (beating ''Dr. No'' and ''Goldfinger'', which were both one hour and fifty-one minutes).
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13The story follows on from ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'', making it one of the few {{Sequel Episode}}s in the ''Bond'' movie franchise. Following the death of Vesper Lynd, Bond is out for [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge revenge]] against those responsible: an [[TheIlluminati Illuminati]]-esque [[TheSyndicate crime syndicate]] known as "Quantum." His rampage eventually leads him to [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Dominic Greene]], a Quantum operative out to overthrow the Bolivian government through a [[TheGeneralissimo corrupt general]] named Medrano, and the mysterious Camille, a woman who has unfinished business of her own with the general.
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15The film's title comes from a 1960 short story by Creator/IanFleming contained in the anthology book ''For Your Eyes Only'', and means "a small degree of comfort."
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17Coinciding with the film's release was the video game adaptation, ''007: Quantum of Solace'', notable for A) being the first Bond game published by Creator/{{Activision}}, and B) adapting both this film and ''Casino Royale''.
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19Followed by ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', which went {{standalone|episode}} instead of having close ties to this film.
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21!!''Quantum of Solace'' contains examples of:
22* AbortedArc: The film seemed to set up Quantum as the new organization that Bond and [=MI6=] would have to contend with as a Spectre stand-in, since there were many high ranking people in positions of power within Quantum’s organization. However, ''Skyfall'' would end up being a more personal assignment, and ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' would end up revealing that the titular organization is the true muscle behind Quantum, which ended up merely being one of many Spectre fronts.
23* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: Various; Bond and Mathis, Bond and Leiter at the bar, Camille talking about her past, and Bond getting his eponymous quantum of solace at the end of the film, etc.
24* ActionGirl: Camille shoots two guards then has a brutal fight against General Medrano. [[spoiler:While he has a strength and weight advantage, she wins due to her willingness to fight dirty and use of improvised weapons]].
25* ActionizedSequel: The film is 40 minutes shorter than ''Casino Royale'', but packs more action, including a faster pace and a high octane CarChase right at the start. And most of the action was filmed with JitterCam.
26* AdaptationalNameChange:
27** The film gives Camille the last name Montes but the video game, working from an earlier draft of the script, names her "Rivera." Even more confusingly, the official wiki gives her full name as "[[https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Camille_Montes Camille Montes-Rivero]]."
28** Likewise, the film gives the traitorous [=MI6=] agent Mitchell the first name Craig but the game calls him "Henry."
29* AdaptationExpansion: The film takes one scene from the short story "007 in New York," and no scenes from "Quantum of Solace"!
30* AgentsDating: After Bond seduces agent Fields, they attend a party Dominic Greene holds that night. There, she helps Bond escape by causing Dominic's second in command, Elvis, to fall down the stairs.
31* AgonyOfTheFeet: During the final fight in the burning hotel, Greene accidentally embeds the fire axe in his own foot.
32* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Bond easily seduces Agent Fields and charms an airline booking agent into misdirecting anyone inquiring about him. Averted with Camille, probably because her experience with bad boys has not been good.
33* AllIsWellThatEndsWell: {{Averted}}: Mathis was able to use his treatment after falling under suspicion in ''Casino Royale'' as leverage to get early retirement, apparently with a rather generous package. On top of that, he's not exactly thrilled to see Bond (who pointed the finger at him in the first place) when he shows up asking for help.
34* AllThereInTheScript: Fields' first name is only in the credits of the movie. [[spoiler:It's [[IncrediblyLamePun Strawberry]]]].
35* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: At the climax, Bond is faced with a choice between capturing Greene and saving Camille's life; he goes to rescue Camille. Justified by the amount of build-up it's been given about all the other people he's failed to save.
36* AmericaSavesTheDay: Averted. The official stance of the CIA is to do nothing to stop Medrano and Greene in their attempt to stage a coup of Bolivia, and two of the CIA staff were actually working WITH Greene.
37* AndTheAdventureContinues: At the end of the film, M asks Bond to return to service. He calmly replies that he never left in the first place, before dropping Vesper's necklace in the snow and walking away. This exchange lets us know that Bond is ready for whatever mission comes his way.
38* AndThisIsFor:
39-->'''Bond:''' [[PreMortemOneliner YOU AND I HAD A MUTUAL FRIEND!]]
40** There's also him leaving Greene to die in the middle of the desert with only a can of motor oil to drink, undoubtedly a reference to how Fields' was murdered, thus avenging her death.
41* {{Angrish}}: Dominic Greene, in the climax.
42* ArtificialAtmosphericActions: A hilarious (and heavily parodied) example, where a man standing directly behind Mr. Bond had apparently forgotten how to use a broom. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYGmcTVfSzg Here]], at about 25 seconds in.
43* ArtisticLicenseArt: The montage of the sequences at the opera house alternates between Bond's action scene and scenes from the ''Theatre/{{Tosca}}'''s performance happening in the building at the same time. The latter scenes don't follow the opera's actual chronology but are put together in an anachronistic order intended to reflect the parallel action scene.
44* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The Austrian city of Bregenz doesn't have an airport in RealLife.
45* AttemptedRape: General Medrano attempts to rape some hotel waitress, before Camille enters the room and proceeds to send him to Hell. Especially significant due to what happened to Camille's mother and older sister.
46* AtTheOperaTonight: Bond + ''Theatre/{{Tosca}}'' = ''awesome sauce.''
47* AwesomenessInducedAmnesia: Heavily implied as Bond makes his way out of the opera. The entire scene is in black & white, with awkward cuts, jerky and frequently out-of-focus camera work showing the viewer fragmented bits and pieces of 007 [[MookHorrorShow going through the organization's security force like paper]] with an utterly blank expression on his face the entire time.
48* AxCrazy: Dominic Green becomes this towards the end when James ruins his plans and destroys his entire facility, at which point, he completely snaps and uses an actual axe to try and chop Bond into pieces, all while screaming like a complete lunatic.
49* BadassLongcoat: Bond wears it at the end.
50* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: Subverted when [[spoiler:Camille shoots Medrano]]. The scene makes it obvious who has the gun and who doesn't, but we just hear the gunshot from Bond's perspective, and both him and Greene are convinced that [[spoiler:she]] was the one who was shot.
51-->'''Greene:''' [[spoiler:Looks like you [[CartwrightCurse just lost another one]]!]]
52* BananaRepublic: Averted. The film portrays Haiti and Bolivia as highly unstable and corrupt countries that tend to fall under dictatorships every so often.
53* BattleAmongstTheFlames: The climactic fight between Bond and Greene takes place inside a burning hotel.
54* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Zig-zagged. Camille does have a nasty burn scar from when she was a kid, but it is on her back and thus concealed by clothing for most of the movie. On the other hand, an ongoing theme of the film is ''psychological'' scars.
55* BigBadDuumvirate: Dominic Greene and General Medrano. Subverted when Greene basically tells him that he'll be a puppet once they put him in power, and if he doesn't like it, Greene's partners will simply have him killed and put another guy in his place (maybe even his own bodyguard). Medrano is seriously annoyed, but reluctantly concedes.
56* BigBadWannabe: General Medrano views himself as Dominic Greene's equal partner, but Greene tells Medrano that he'll be nothing more than a figurehead for Quantum once he's put in power as Bolivia's president, and will have him killed if he balks. Medrano has no option but to go along with this, despite his immense frustration.
57* BilingualBonus:
58** Elvis, Dominic's henchman, is first seen [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas speaking to his mother]] on the phone in [[UsefulNotes/GermanDialects Swiss German]], talking about the hot weather in Haiti. The actor playing him and director Marc Forster are both of Swiss descent, and probably thought it quite an amusing in-joke.
59** Mathis repeatedly telling the taxi driver "callate," which is Spanish for "shut up."
60* BittersweetEnding: Bond has saved the day yet again and caught those responsible for Vesper's death. However, he's still brokenhearted and will probably never be the same.
61* BlackTieInfiltration: Bond sneaks in backstage during a performance of ''Theatre/{{Tosca}}'' because a group of NebulousEvilOrganization members are using it as cover for a meeting. He smokes them out by intruding on their radio conversation, letting [=MI6=] identify some of their members due to them panicking and moving to leave.
62* BlatantLies: Gregory Beam tells M that the Americans have no interest in Greene. M immediately identifies Greene as a person of ''extreme'' interest, since [[SpottingTheThread she wouldn't have been instantly transferred to the Section Chief for South America if the CIA weren't tracking him.]]
63* BloodlessCarnage: Downplayed example. Slate and Bond have a brief but brutal fight in Slate's hotel room, and both men sustain minor cuts in the course of the initial brawl. Bond ends the fight by stabbing Slate in the neck ''and'' femoral artery, and while there isn't nearly as much blood as there should be, there are some partially obscured pools of blood spreading from Slate's neck and leg.
64* BodyguardBetrayal: [[spoiler:Mitchell, an [=MI6=] agent and M's personal bodyguard. He is revealed to be a Quantum plant and aids Mr. White in escaping [=MI6=] custody. He kills another two agents, and injures M before Bond takes him down]].
65* BondGunBarrel: Occurs right at the end of the movie. Originally, it was intended to show Bond gunning down Mr. White, but the idea was tossed out, and the gun barrel scene was left in.
66* BondOneLiner: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d:
67-->'''Bond:''' Tell her Slate was a dead end.\
68'''Tanner:''' (to M) Slate was a dead end.\
69'''Radio:''' Connection terminated.\
70'''M:''' ''(immediately reading between the lines)'' Damn him, he killed him!
71* BondVillainStupidity: Not quite averted, as while the villains never really have Bond at their mercy the way they usually do at least once a movie, they do, however, leave the oft-imperiled Camille alive way too many times, and she ends up having as much to do with their downfall as 007 does.
72* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: The medium of exchange the meeting near the end.
73* {{Brownface}}: The very-pale-Slavic Ukrainian actress Olga Kurylenko as very-tan-Hispanic-Slavic Bolivian-Russian Camille.
74* CacophonyCoverUp: After chasing a man into a bell tower, Bond yanks on the bell rope so the noise of the church bell will cover him running up the stairs, preventing the man from plotting his exact position.
75* CarCushion: This happens to some poor goon. He survives it. Then the occupants of the car kill him.
76* ChekhovsGun: A literal one; in the opening car chase, Bond blasts the bad guys with the SMG that he was seen holding rather prominently in the final moments of ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}''.
77* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: The film goes full lengths to show this, to near exaggeration. Might have as well called it ''Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: The Movie''.
78** The car chase sequence in the prologue is to prevent Mr. White from being forced into this.
79** From ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'', Vesper betrayed Bond, and all of [=MI6=] (and the UK) by playing reluctant double-agent. Ironically, this happened because ''she'' was initially betrayed by her very boyfriend whom she betrayed her organisation for. This kicks off the plot for the film.
80** M is injured by her bodyguard Mitchell, after which she discovers that he was an agent working for Quantum (and by extension, [[spoiler:Spectre]]).
81** Camille uses Dominic Greene to get to Medrano.
82*** To do this, she tried to pay off one of his geologists to sell her information, possibly on Medrano's location.
83*** And in an almost karmic way, Greene catches wind of this and kills the geologist, and sends a different geologist/mook to intercept Camille and kill her.
84*** And on top of that, after Camille survives and Medrano shows up to the pier, Greene offers her to Medrano and all but requests him to rape and kill her.
85** M throughout the film accuses Bond of this, from his failure to bring back suspects alive to getting total innocents killed. She even accuses him of killing Guy Haines' bodyguard (which he didn't) to getting Fields killed (though she isn't entirely wrong about this).
86** Guy Haines works as an advisor to the British PM, yet he saw no problem betraying his country just to get in on the action.
87*** His Special Branch bodyguard counts too. He indirectly helps his boss, knowing full well of his affiliations. Too bad Greene doesn't recognise his efforts, or recognise ''him'' for that matter, and [[spoiler:[[HeKnowsTooMuch has him shot for even ''looking'' in his direction.]]]]
88** At the party for the upcoming Tierra Project in Bolivia, Mathis is betrayed by his friend Carlos, (the chief-of-police secretly on Quantum's payroll). At some point after conversing with Fields and some other guests, Carlos lures Mathis to the parking lot and has him beaten near-death by his officers. He then shoves Mathis into the trunk of Bond's car and later has his officers shoot Mathis to death, ''all'' so they can pin his death on Bond.
89** And just to show how even the most insignificant character can be prone to this, it shows Bond and Camille trading in the car to a lone Bolivian farmer for his cargo plane. While in the air, Bond realizes that the car wasn't exactly enough, and anticipates that the farmer will try to earn himself a healthy sum of money by selling out their location to Quantum. Given that three Quantum mooks show up a mere forty seconds later, it's safe to assume that he ''did''.
90* ClickHello: Guy Haines' bodyguard pursues Bond to the rooftop of the opera house, only to be surprised by Bond at the side of the door holding a gun at his head.
91* CloseOnTitle: Happens right after the above-mentioned BondGunBarrel sequence, with said barrel forming the "Q" in the title.
92* CoitusUninterruptus: Bond answers the door naked. Neither he nor Mathis even allude to the fact that he has no trousers on. However in the scene immediately after, it does appear that he has underwear on when going back to Strawberry Fields.
93* ColourfulThemeNaming: Mr. White's employer is a certain Dominic Greene, and one of Greene's subordinates is a Mr. Slate.
94* CollapsingLair: A hotel. It's a Bond movie, what would you expect?
95* ConfusionFu: This is what lets the physically nonthreatening Greene stay alive (temporarily — not a spoiler, it's a Bond film). He flails about so wildly that Bond can't really fight him effectively — that is, until the ''downside'' of wild flailing is illustrated, when Greene performs an inadvertent axe-foot interface that is excruciating to watch.
96* ContinuityNod: Bond's SMG from the ending of ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'' makes an appearance at the end of the pre-credits car chase, Le Chiffre and his operation are namedropped, and Bond drops Vesper's necklace (just like she referenced "letting go" in the previous film) in the snow at the end of the film. As a whole, ''Quantum'' is very dependent on themes and elements of ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'', more so than any other previous Bond film.
97* ConvenientlyEmptyRoads: Averted in the opening scene, as Bond and his pursuers are forced to weave through traffic.
98* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: [[spoiler:Bond leaves Dominic Greene]] stranded in the middle of a desert with nothing to drink but a bottle of oil. This is a fitting punishment due to his inflicting the impoverished Bolivians with an artificial drought, combined with how he murdered [[spoiler:Fields by drowning her in oil]].
99* CopKiller: Bond shoots the crooked cops who shot Mathis. He later kills Carlos, the corrupt Chief of Police who sold Mathis out.
100* CorporateConspiracy: Dominic Greene, the president of Greene Planet, has known links to Quantum and is plotting to seize control of Bolivia's water supply and create an artificial drought by [[TheCoup having its government overthrown]].
101* CosmopolitanCouncil: Quantum's members include corrupt French, Japanese, Russian and Israeli businessmen, a British adviser to the Prime Minister, and other unidentified diverse evil people.
102* CovertGroupWithMundaneFront: Finally lampshaded when Bond mocks Felix Leiter for the CIA's evident inability to do this competently.
103-->You know, you should just answer, 'CIA,' Felix. A taxi driver told me where the office was.
104* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Medrano. He just looks like another fat tyrant from a BananaRepublic, but he stands his own against Camille.
105* CrowdPanic: Happens when an escaping Quantum agent shoots a random girl.
106* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Agent Strawberry Fields drowned in crude oil.
107** Bond leaves Greene in the desert to die what will undoubtedly be an agonising death from exposure, then caps it off by giving him a can of motor oil (getting revenge on Fields' behalf) and taunting him about how long it will be before he's desperate enough to drink it. When his body is found, it turns out that he was shot, but there's still motor oil in his stomach, showing that he did get to that point. Or else it could be that the Quantum operatives who found him force fed the oil.
108* DangerousClifftopRoad: The opening chase finds itself on a sort of cliff (it's a steep but not truly vertical drop, and a road zig-zags down it). Both Bond and his pursuers are skilled enough to navigate the terrain, but the police car following both of them isn't quite as lucky. Bond's pursuers open fire at the cops, and though the officers aren't hit, they duck down for cover. That includes the driver. As a result of this, possibly coupled with damage to the vehicle, the car smashes through the corner of an old building. Cop cars are built to be sturdy (they're probably the only vehicles most people see that are bulletproof), and so the car looks to be in good shape after demolishing part of a building. Unfortunately, still out of control, they go off the cliff. By the time the car tumbles to the road below, it's a wreck.
109* DarkenedBuildingShootout: More than once, including a darkened catacomb.
110* DeathByIrony:
111** [[spoiler:Mathis]] is [[NotQuiteDead apparently killed]] and his body is left in Bond's trunk for the police to "find". In ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'', this same method was used by Mathis to get Le Chiffre's [[TheDragon Dragon]] out of the picture.
112** [[spoiler:Greene deprives people of water and drowns Strawberry Fields in crude oil]], so Bond leaves him in the desert with only a can of oil to drink.
113* DeconstructedTrope: As per tradition, this film's (secondary) Bond girl, Agent Fields, does have a humorous PunnyName--but she [[EmbarrassingFirstName refuses to tell Bond what it is]] because even ''she'' finds it ridiculous. [[spoiler:As we learn in the credits, it's [[Music/TheBeatles "Strawberry."]]]]
114* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: General Medrano has no problem with Quantum engineering a drought in his own country if it means that Medrano will be the next dictator of it. [[spoiler:He is much more annoyed when he finds out that he'll basically be a puppet and will further have to essentially hand over Bolivia's entire water supply to Quantum, but he decides it's worth the price anyway. Granted, the threat of a bullet to the back of his head probably helped there]].
115* DeusAxMachina: Dominic Green attacks Bond with a fire axe during the final battle.
116* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:Mathis]].
117* DigitalBikini: In the Australian film release, a woman is sexually assaulted by General Medrano in the ready-to-blow-up hotel. She is thrown on to a bed, showing her pubic mound/outer genitalia in an upskirt shot. On the Region 4 DVD, the woman's bare genitals were digitally covered with some CGI panties.
118* DirtyCop:
119** Guy Haines' bodyguard. He is a member of Special Branch, but given his actions at the ''Theatre/{{Tosca}}'' performance he seems more than willing to assist his boss (a member of the British government) in his criminal actions with Quantum.
120** The police chief and his officers in Bolivia. The chief is on Quantum's payroll, and several of his officers are responsible for [[spoiler:killing Mathis]].
121* DisposableVehicleSection: The film opens with a chase scene, during which a truck collides with Bond's car, ramming a broken fender through Bond's door. Bond elects to dispose of that door to free himself (unfortunately leaving his bulletproof car open to gunfire).
122* DisposableWoman: Fields is a classic example, but Bond leaving Green in the desert with only a can of oil to drink indicates that he's avenging her somewhat.[[note]]She was drowned in oil.[[/note]]
123* DodgyToupee: Dominic's assistant Elvis wears one.
124* TheDragon: Elvis, nominally, though he barely does anything other than play assistant and die fast.
125** Greene's silent bodyguard fits the physical aspects of TheDragon better, but [[spoiler:he's killed as easily as any mook during the final shootout.]]
126* DropDeadGorgeous: [[spoiler:Fields]] is drowned in oil, and her oil-covered body is laid on Bond's bed, a callback to ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
127* {{Eagleland}}:
128** The CIA is willing to look the other way for a bit of oil. Guess what flavour it is?
129** Felix Leiter is a bit closer to the other flavour, although he doesn't really do anything to respond to what his boss is doing until late in the movie (but you can tell he's pissed).
130** It should be noted that the British government (apart from Bond and M) isn't portrayed much better. [[CrapsackWorld It's that kind of world.]]
131* ElevatorActionSequence: We get to see what happens when an unarmed, beaten-up and handcuffed Bond enters a lift with three elite British agents carrying guns.
132* EmbarrassingFirstName: Fields' first name is [[spoiler:Strawberry]]. She refuses to tell Bond (or the audience) what it is.
133* EveryCarIsAPinto: Averted. During the opening car chase, various vehicles fall or roll down cliffs with nary an explosion in sight. Inverted during the climax. In an effort to get away from Bond, one of the {{mooks}} drives backwards, and ends up hitting a wall. The car itself doesn't explode - however, the wall has hydrogen fuel cells behind it and upon impact, those ''do'' explode, ultimately causing the building to [[CollapsingLair burn down]].
134* EvilIsNotAToy: Quantum turn out to have the backing of the CIA. Felix Leiter is apparently the only agent in the loop about this who realises that it's a terrible idea, and sure enough the company proves to be completely incapable of keeping their deniable pawns from going off-script.
135* EvilPlan: Dominic Greene wants to hold the revolutionary government-to-be of Bolivia over a barrel by controlling the majority of the water and not oil through a system of planned underground demolitions.
136* {{Expy}}: Quantum, along with their colour-designated code names [[BlatantLies are in no way like SPECTRE]] and their respective number-designated code names. Now seems to be {{retcon}}ned into a bit of {{foreshadowing}} of sorts, as of ''Film/{{Spectre}}''.
137* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation: The [=MI6=] facility is equipped with gigantic multitouch screens on every surface, thus enabling it to completely replicate the functionality of... folders, noticeboards and sheets of paper.
138* FanDisservice: Near the end, that poor waitress at the hotel. Yes, we ''do'' get a PantyShot, but you can't really feel good about it since she's just come within a hair's breadth of being brutally raped by General Medrano.
139* {{Fanservice}}: It's a Bond movie. Fanservice starts in the opening credits and goes on from there. It is, however, considerably less than most Bond movies.
140* FatalFlaw: Dominic Greene and his recklessness, alongside his tendency to pick the wrong people to side with.
141* FireWaterJuxtaposition: ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'' ended with Bond fighting to save Vesper Lynd from the bad guys in a collapsing building in Venice, and ultimately ended with her drowning in the canal. Appropriately enough, this film ends with a shoot-out in a burning building, where 007 actually ''does'' manage to save the girl.
142* {{Foreshadowing}}:
143** When M tells Bond that Vesper kept a lock of her lovers' hair in her apartment, Bond seems surprised, saying she didn't strike him as the sentimental type. M replies "Well we never really know anyone, do we?" [[spoiler:Only minutes later, her own bodyguard is revealed to be a Quantum infiltrator, and injures her before leading Bond on a chase through Siena]].
144** Once Dominic Greene is brought into the plot, there are a lot of shots that casually include water in the composition.
145** [[spoiler:Greene]] was found with oil in his stomach and two bullets in the back of his head. Bond gave him a can of oil, but didn't give him a gun. Gasp!
146* FriendlyAddressPrivileges: When Dominic Greene and James Bond meet:
147-->'''Dominic Greene:''' My friends call me Dominic.\
148'''James Bond:''' I'm sure they do.
149* FruitCart: A truck containing a lot of cheap coffins crashes during the Haiti chase. In another scene, during a foot chase, a small dumb-waiter full of tomatoes is knocked to the ground.
150* GirlOfTheWeek: Deliberately done differently. It's clear to Bond, Fields and the audience that she's just a quick lay, and all Camille gives Bond is a quick peck before apparently leaving him forever. Deconstructed with Fields, since she's used to show Bond that his cold manipulation of the people around him can actually ruin [[spoiler:or end]] their lives.
151* GreenAesop: The CIA is willing to assist the BigBad in attempts to get oil. The same BigBad tells Quantum that they must take control of Bolivia because they have the world's most precious resource. [[spoiler:Which is water, not oil.]] Actually a bit of a SubvertedTrope, as Quantum's plot essentially seems to be "faking" the effects of GlobalWarming so [[MeaningfulName Mr. Greene's pseudo-nonprofit, Greene Planet,]] can gain control of the world's water supply.
152* HateSink: General Medrano comes off as one, as he has no qualms having the criminal organisation Quantum engineering a drought in his own country, so he'll be the next dictator of it, and even thinks of himself as Dominic Greene's equal partner, but reluctantly concedes when Greene threatens to have him killed if he doesn't back down. It's no secret why Camille is after him, having raped her mother and sister before killing them, and attempts to rape a hotel waitress in the climax. He even tries to do the same thing to Camille, but she puts a bullet in his head.
153* HeroicBSOD: Bond spends much of the film in the midst of one following the end of ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'', due to [[spoiler:Vesper's death]]. He doesn't really come out of it until the end of the film, and is back to his normal [[BondOneLiner smugly wisecracking]] self in time for ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''.
154* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Subverted at the end, much to M's surprise.
155* HollywoodFire: The climactic fight in a hotel that's burning down. None of the combatants have any trouble breathing, talking, seeing, or fighting. Bond even runs through flames to rescue Camille, who's having a PTSD episode, and then the two of them run through a burning, collapsing wall. No one gets burned.
156* HollywoodSkydiving: The DC-3 sequence. Bond and Camille activate the parachute ''way'' way too close to the ground, but they survive anyway.
157* HypocriticalHumor:
158** The head of the national police takes a briefcase full of cash from Greene to support Medrano's coup and says "The corruption in the current government can no longer be tolerated."
159** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the conversation between Bond and Felix.
160--->'''Bond:''' You know, I was just wondering what South America would look like if nobody gave a damn about coke or communism. It always impressed me the way you boys carved this place up.\
161'''Leiter:''' I'll take that as a compliment, coming from a Brit.
162* IdiotBall: When multiple members of Quantum are [[spoiler:attending a performance of ''Tosca'' Bond taunts them by hacking into their communications]]. So naturally they promptly [[spoiler:get up and leave]], giving [[spoiler:Bond]] a perfect opportunity to [[spoiler:take photos of them. Mr. White is the only one not to fall for it, discreetly pocketing his earpiece and remaining in his seat]].
163* IllTakeThatAsACompliment: After realising that the U.S. are of the boorish flavour of {{Eagleland}} this time around (willing to look the other way for a bit of oil), he makes a quip to Leiter about the U.S.'s interventionism. Leiter responds considering it a compliment, which is a historically well-placed zinger, given Britain's status as a world superpower before the U.S. took its place, and that the end of Britain's role as a superpower was in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis a botched attempt at interventionism for oil.]]
164-->'''Bond:''' You know, I was just wondering what South America would look like if nobody gave a damn about coke or communism. It always impressed me the way you boys would carve this place up.\
165'''Leiter:''' I'll take that as a compliment, coming from a Brit.
166* ImmediateSequel: After the last film ended with Bond tracking down Mr. White, this one opens with him transporting him to M.
167* InNameOnly: In [[Literature/ForYourEyesOnly the original short story]], Bond is at dinner at an island governor's place. After dinner, the governor tells him the story of an airline stewardess' failed marriage. Bond re-learns that drama and tragedy don't have to involve master villains or gadgets. The End. Now a Major Motion Picture. Many of the ''Bond'' films changed major plot and character details from the books, to the point that they sometimes have next-to-nothing to do with their book counterparts at all, but especially in this ''Quantum of Solace'' film which is about as far removed from the short story as possible.
168* InstantSeduction: "I can't find the... um, the stationery. Will you come and help me look?" He might as well have said, "I'm bored. Wanna screw?"
169* InternalHomage: A shot where a crate of fruit is knocked down several stories as Bond is chasing a villain is functionally identical to an earlier shot in ''Casino Royale''. But with girders.
170* InterestingSituationDuel: Bond vs. Greene, inside an exploding hotel that's collapsing under their feet.
171* ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: The chase in Siena takes place during the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palio_di_Siena Palio]].
172* ItsPersonal: Bond's comment to Vesper's ex-boyfriend (while the female intelligence agent he was attempting to compromise and blackmail is watching): "This man and I have some ''unfinished business''."
173* JitterCam: Much more frequent in this movie than in ''Casino Royale'' (or any of the following films).
174* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Greene]]. He drank the bottle of oil Bond provided before Quantum executed him.
175* KillAndReplace: After killing Edmund Slate, Bond takes his place. This leads him to Camille, whom Slate was hired by Greene to kill, though Bond didn't know this.
176* KitchenChase: After the confrontation at the opera.
177* LancerVsDragon: Camille fights General Medrano to avenge her family's murder at his hands while Bond fights Medrano's backer from Quantum, Dominic Greene.
178* LeParkour: The Siena chase.
179* MalevolentArchitecture[=/=]MadeOfExplodium: Whatever engineer thought that placing pressurised hydrogen storage tanks into the parking level and suite walls of a [[CollapsingLair hotel]] was a good idea should probably not be working with volatile substances.
180* TheManBehindTheMan: The Quantum Group to Mr. Greene.
181* MercyKill:
182** [[spoiler:Bond prepares to shoot Camille, as they are trapped in the burning hotel with no escape, and she is reliving her childhood trauma of having the General burn her house down over her head. Fortunately, an escape presents itself before it's too late]].
183** [[spoiler:Quantum's execution of Dominic Greene may have partially been this, along with YouHaveFailedMe]].
184* MobstacleCourse: The chase at the ''Palio'' is this left and right.
185* TheMole:
186** M's bodyguard Craig Mitchell, who reveals himself to be working for Quantum during Mr. White's interrogation. For the rest of the film, M is paranoid about who she trusts with information because of what happened. Later on, Bond comments that the Canadian intelligence agent has a leak in her department before telling her to leave.
187** Guy Haines, a member of Quantum Bond photographs at the ''Theatre/{{Tosca}}'' performance, is revealed to be a special envoy to the British Prime Minister.
188* MissingSecret: The Wii version of the game is missing the collectible phones you could find in the other "next gen" versions.
189* MissingStepsPlan: Greene's associates ask him what his plan is for when the Americans realise he duped them. He doesn't have one, but one of his counterparts says "I'm working on that". Greene ends up being thwarted by Bond before it becomes an issue.
190* MythologyGag:
191** ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'':
192*** Greene introduces himself to Bond by saying "My friends call me Dominic," just as how Bond and Tatiana Romanova did. Bond and Jinx do the same thing in ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' as well.
193** ''{{Film/Goldfinger}}'':
194*** [[spoiler:Fields' death is a homage to that of Jill Masterson]].
195** ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''
196*** A henchman tries to stop falling by grabbing an article of Bond's clothes, like Saundor.
197*** Bond and Camille's trek through the desert in all their finery echoes his and Triple XXX's.
198** ''Film/AViewToAKill''
199*** Ax Crazy French villain attacking Bond with an axe? Check.
200** ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}''
201*** Bond drinks his Martini shaken. It is explicitly ''not'' described as "[[CharacterCatchphrase shaken, not stirred]]." This is also a callback to a similar bit in the previous film. [[note]]Speaking of that, look up TwoDecadesBehind on the ''Casino Royale'' article; it's pretty hard to find Kina Lillet ''or'' high-proof Gordon's Gin to make a Vesper cocktail in the 21st century.[[/note]]
202*** At one point, Mathis muses on the nature of heroes vs. villains, and how the line between the two blurs as one ages -- Bond does something similar in the novel of ''Casino Royale''.
203* NebulousEvilOrganisation: Quantum.
204** NebulousCriminalConspiracy: Individual members of Quantum each have their own corrupt gig going on. BigBad Dominic Greene, for instance, is the head of a ''Greenpeace''-style organisation that is actually in business with a lot of shady corporations and criminals.
205* NeverGetsDrunk: James is so wired that he consumes six Vesper martinis without getting drunk.
206* NoNameGiven:
207** The first name of Fields is only given in the closing credits. [[EmbarrassingFirstName Thank goodness, too]].
208** Mr. White.
209* NotHyperbole: Quantum really ''do'' have people everywhere, as M lampshades in astonishment.
210* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Dominic Greene. He has no fighting training whatsoever, and for the most part of the movie he runs away while his henchmen kill enemies for him. Still, he stands his own against Bond. Few other lead villains in the Daniel Craig era can say that.
211* OffscreenKarma: Bond leaves Greene in the middle of the desert with a can of motor oil. M later tells him that Greene was found dead with oil in his stomach, implying that Quantum caught up with him and killed him for his failure.
212* OhCrap: Bond and M's reaction when Mr. White is being interrogated, and he reveals that M's personal bodyguard is working for Quantum.
213* ParanoiaFuel: In universe; Quantum says they "have people everywhere." [[spoiler:Like, ''in the same room''.]] M is noticeably twitchy and distrustful the rest of the movie, since the traitor in question had been [[spoiler:her personal bodyguard for eight years]]. Exaggerated with Greene's speech to Mendrano:
214-->'''Greene:''' You should know something about me and the people I work with. We deal with the left and the right, dictators or liberators. If the current president had been more agreeable, I wouldn't be talking to you. So if you decide not to sign, you'll wake up with your balls in your mouth and your willing replacement standing over you... if you doubt that, then shoot me, take that money and have a good night's sleep.
215* ParentalSubstitute: Bond tells Camille that (among other things) Greene tried to kill a friend of his -- a woman, "but it's not what you think" (it's M). "Your mother?" "She likes to think so."
216* PetTheDog: Bond spends most of the movie cold and emotionless. [[spoiler:He is, however, notably angry when Fields is murdered, and then informs M that Fields showed true bravery and he wants that noted in the report.]]
217* PoorCommunicationKills: Bond asks a mook at gunpoint who his employers are; the mook tells him to go screw himself. So Bond throws him off a roof. In his subsequent phone call with M, Bond learns [[spoiler:the man he killed was a member of Special Branch (British Metropolitan Police, whose duties include bodyguarding non-royal [=VIPs=]) guarding the special envoy to the Prime Minister, and therefore ''on his side'', or at least according to appearances (the guy was corrupt by dint of working for a Quantum member)]].
218* PunBasedTitle: Applied retroactively (given the InNameOnly nature of the adaptation from the Fleming story) by naming the villainous organisation Quantum.
219* PunkInTheTrunk:
220** Mr. White at the beginning of the movie.
221** [[spoiler:Mathis]] in Bolivia.
222** Greene at the [[BookEnds end of the movie]].
223* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:Camille, although in her case, it's against her family, not her.]]
224* {{Reconstruction}}: On the surface, ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' is much more like a typical Bond film than ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'' (arguably a {{Deconstruction}} as much as an origin story). But this one folds all the elements introduced in ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'' into the formula: few gadgets, the Stale Beer elements, Bond's rough-and-tumble approach, the emphasis on characterisation in the script.
225* {{Realpolitik}}: Both Felix and M's bosses know that Greene is likely a villain, but they're willing to do business with him because he has oil, which they need. They are never portrayed as being wrong for their pragmatism, only for being suckered as Greene doesn't actually have any oil.
226* RedRightHand: Deliberately averted. The actor playing Greene would have been fine with it, but the director demanded that he should not be given any kind of unusual physical features via make-up. He's screwed up on the inside. Just like Bond.
227* RelativeButton: Camille's family were murdered by General Mendrano.
228* {{Retirony}}: [[spoiler:Mathis,]] in a variation. He would have been fine if he ''stayed'' retired, but agreeing to help Bond on one last job got him killed. Once he left his happy little villa (and hot girlfriend), you knew he wasn't going to get to go back to it.
229* RealityIsUnrealistic: The Greene's plot, depriving the Bolivian people of water, and then selling it back to them, seemed silly to some when it was released.
230* RevealingCoverup: Minor example when M contacts the CIA about Dominic Greene. They claim they are not interested in him in any way.
231-->'''M:''' ''[hanging up]'' He's a person of ''extreme'' interest.\
232'''Tanner:''' But he just said that he--\
233'''M:''' Tanner, I asked about the man and [the secretary] transferred me to the section chief of South America. How would she know to do that if they weren't tracking him?
234* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The movie's a pretty clear reference to the "water wars" in Bolivia in 2000, when water rights were sold to a corporation which sharply increased the price beyond the ability of many Bolivians to pay for it, inciting demonstrations that forced the government to reverse the decision. The US agreement in the movie to support a coup in order to get oil also recalls America's swift support for (and possible involvement with) the attempted coup against Chavez in Venezuela in 2002. Interestingly, the evil plot from the movie is [[ButNotTooEvil less evil than]] [[DownplayedTrope the real-life one]], as the intended price hike is less than the one that really happened.
235* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Possibly Bond, for the entire film, not that he'd admit it to anyone (an alternative explanation is that he just repeatedly screws up at capturing people alive, after Mr. White anyway).
236* SequelHook: Greene tells Bond everything he knows about Quantum before he's [[spoiler:left in the desert with a can of oil]]. He's later found [[spoiler:with two bullets in the back of his head]]. After sitting out ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' features the return of Mr. White in order to establish that even ''he'' (and by implication, Quantum) fears the power of SPECTRE.
237* ShoutOut: To Creator/AlfredHitchcock - the opera house sequence is deliberately edited to resemble a similar sequence in ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooMuch'', while Guy Haines was named after one of the main characters in ''Film/StrangersOnATrain''.
238* SinisterSwitchblade: Slate attacks Bond with one of these, only to get stabbed to death with nail scissors.
239* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism:
240** Way out on the cynical end; both the [[spoiler:British and American governments]] are happy to let the coup take place as long as they get their oil, and Bond and Camille are both motivated to stop Greene for revenge rather than any higher ideals.
241** Though it's worth noting that Bond, Felix and Camille all express disgust for what Greene and Medrano have planned for Bolivia, even if they're guided by more pragmatic considerations.
242* SpottingTheThread: M wants to know if the CIA is interested in Dominic Greene, so she calls their head office and asks about it. She's routed to the CIA section chief for South America, who denies having any interests in him. M immediately concludes that he's lying because they automatically knew the part of the world Greene was in, which they would only know if they were tracking him.
243* StayWithMeUntilIDie: [[spoiler:Mathis]] requests this of Bond as he bleeds out in the street. Bond respectfully obliges, exchanging some touching banter with him, and then once he dies Bond discards his body in a dumpster and takes all the money out of his wallet (note that Bond's bank cards have been cancelled by [=MI6=] because at this point in time they believe he's gone rogue, so he certainly needs the cash). 'He wouldn't care'.
244* TheStoic: Bond. Though when White starts talking about Vesper, the camera cuts to Bond and you can see just one muscle working in his cheek. There's also a barely visible SingleTear when [[spoiler:Mathis dies]].
245* StormingTheCastle: Bond and Camille to Greene's mansion.
246* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Mathis (succumbing to a gun's wound)]].
247* SuperCellReception: Bond's phone is able to transmit tons of high-res, multi-angle head-shots from the Austrian Opera theatre to London [=MI6=] almost instantaneously.
248* TheSyndicate: Quantum.
249* ThemeTune: "Another Way To Die," the first duet in the history of Bond movies, done by Jack White (one half of Music/TheWhiteStripes) and Alicia Keys. Does not include the word "Quantum" in the lyrics, but does have "solace" and "of" in there.
250* ThirstyDesert: Bond leaves Greene stranded in the Atacama Desert with only a can of engine oil. Later, M tells Bond that Greene was found dead in the middle of the desert, shot twice and with engine oil in his stomach.
251* TortureAlwaysWorks: [[spoiler:M, although she doesn't get the chance.]] "You ''will'' eventually tell us everything about the people you work with, and the longer it takes, the more painful we'll make it."
252* TragicKeepsake: Vesper's necklace, discarded at the end of the film. This is a touching callback to ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'', where Vesper takes off the necklace because (as she put it) sometimes you have to let the past go.
253* TwoDecadesBehind: See also the entry in ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}''. Lillet stopped making Kina Lillet in 1986, but it is mentioned by name ''yet again'' in this movie as Bond is boozing it up on Vespers in the plane. [[note]]Cocchi Americano makes a nice substitute for Kina Lillet.[[/note]]
254* UnusualUserInterface: [=MI6's=] magical touchscreens. [[{{Pun}} One could say that they were running on a Q OS]].
255** ViewerFriendlyInterface: Sort of. Said touchscreens do nothing that couldn't be accomplished with papers and a regular computer. In the tie-in game, they definitely qualify, running some strange combination of DOS and that weird GUI. So intelligent is this interface that when Bond describes Greene's surname as having a 'double-E', the computer inserts a W before he's finished saying the combined word, then replaces it with the two Es. Why such a feature is in place is completely unknown, especially when one factors in that Bond should have been using the phonetic alphabet anyway.
256* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Poor Vesper]]. Her boyfriend was a Quantum agent who was using her to get information, then faked his own kidnapping to force her to betray her country.
257* VaporWear: We're not shown what, if anything, Fields is wearing under her coat.
258* VillainousBreakdown: Greene at the end.
259* WaifFu: Notably averted with Camille. No jump kicks, just CombatPragmatism.
260* WaterSupplyTampering: [[spoiler:This turns out to be what Dominic Greene is up to in Bolivia, using dynamite to create dams and creating an immense drought in the process.]]
261* WeAreEverywhere: Like M said, "When someone says, 'We've got people everywhere', you expect it to be hyperbole. Lots of people say that, ''florists'' use that expression." [[spoiler:It doesn't mean that they've got somebody working for them ''inside the bloody room,'' like M's bodyguard]].
262* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: M promises Mr. White that they will draw out an interrogation to make him give up more info about Quantum, and that the longer it takes, the more the pain will be forthcoming.
263* WhatTheHellHero:
264** M calls Bond out on killing every lead he finds (to the point that he's blamed for the death of a henchman who was killed by TheDragon, not Bond). At the end of the film, Bond finally shows some restraint when he leaves [[spoiler:Vesper's boyfriend]] alive to be interrogated.
265** Camille drops this on Bond when he throws [[spoiler:Mathis']] body into a dumpster, having just cradled him during his dying moments.
266** M also calls Bond out on [[spoiler:indirectly killing Fields due to his actions]], and orders him handcuffed and escorted away by [=MI6=] agents. [[{{Determinator}} Not that it stops him from escaping, though]].
267* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:After the opera sequence, the film all but drops the larger Quantum plotline, including the fates of Mr. White and Guy Haines, and they're nowhere to be seen or heard come the following movie. It eventually saw some resolution with ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', though Haines' fate is still up in the air.]]
268* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Agent Fields' first same is [[spoiler:Strawberry]]. She's so embarrassed of it, even ''she'' finds it idiotic and never reveals it. Her parents apparently didn't think it through of just how harmful their small joke can be in the long run.
269* WickedCultured: Quantum higher-ups love their [[AtTheOperaTonight opera]]. Though Mr. White appears to be the only one to stick around for the whole thing. Seeing his companions leave in droves (and thus get caught on camera), he quips "''Theatre/{{Tosca}}'' isn't for everyone."
270* WordSaladTitle: Subverted. Even though the title seems meaningless, it actually means "A (very) little bit of comfort" (possibly referring to Bond's movie-length RoaringRampageOfRevenge, followed by his sense of closure at the end) as well as making it a PunBasedTitle.
271* YouMustBeCold: After Bond and Camille crash in the desert.
272----
273->'''M:''' Bond... I need you back.\

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