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2[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Music/{{Garbage}} ♫ I know when to talk, and I know when to touch\
3No one ever died from wanting too much... ♫]]'']]
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5->''"There's no point in living if you can't feel alive."''
6-->-- '''Elektra King'''
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12''The World Is Not Enough'' is the nineteenth Creator/EonProductions ''Film/JamesBond'' film, the last of the 20th century and the third starring Creator/PierceBrosnan, as well as the first one to be released by Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer. It was directed by Creator/MichaelApted and was released on November 26, 1999. Music/{{Garbage}} performed the TitleThemeTune.
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14Bond is assigned to watch over a once-kidnapped daughter of a {{Ruritania}}n oil baron after he dies securing money for her release. "Renard the Anarchist" is quickly deduced to be the likely culprit. [[UsefulNotes/SecretIntelligenceService MI6]] tried to assassinate him before, but you can't keep a good terrorist down: it only resulted in lodging a bullet in Renard's brain, which is slowly killing him as it moves inwards but is also destroying all of his senses. Renard can't smell or taste anything and, crucially, he can't feel pain.
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16Meanwhile, four rival oil pipelines are being built across Eurasia. The mogul's daughter, Elektra King, owns the British pipeline and is everyone's favourite heiress, meaning that Bond needs to protect her, even though something [[BitchInSheepsClothing just doesn't add up with her plans]].
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18Features:
19* Bond jumping out of a window using a window shade cord.
20* Bond driving a speedboat out of the [=MI6=] building.
21* The old Q (Creator/DesmondLlewelyn) retires after 36 years of service [[note]]Creator/DesmondLlewelyn sadly died in a car accident in East Sussex, England, barely a month after the film's release.[[/note]]
22* A ski chase with paragliding snowmobiles as pursuers.
23* M [[AscendedExtra playing an integral part in the plot]], a first for the series.
24* The movies' first (and so far only) female BigBad. Rosa Klebb from ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'' was the film's adversary, but she was [[TheBaroness second fiddle]] to SPECTRE's Number One. The title character of ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'' is initially implied to be the main villain before she turns out to be an ally. Adrian Malprave was the lead villain in the ''VideoGame/AgentUnderFire'' video game, which came out a couple years after this movie.
25* Bond executes a woman in cold blood; a rarity.
26* A groan-inducing {{pun}} at the end involving a grouchy scientist's [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude cheery name]].
27
28Preceded by ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'' and followed by ''Film/DieAnotherDay''.
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30!!This film contains examples of:
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32* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: This is the most character-driven entry of the Brosnan era; there is a lot of personal conflict between Bond, Elektra, M and Renard.
33* ActionInsuranceGag:
34** Dr. Arkov complains to Renard about how the parahawks used by Renard's men for the ski chase were rented and meant to be returned, not blown up.
35** After his caviar factory is destroyed during a fight between Bond and some villains, Valentin Zukovsky laments "The insurance company is never going to believe this!"
36* ActuallyPrettyFunny:
37** When Dr. Christmas Jones gives Bond her name, she says "Don't make any jokes, I've heard them all". Bond replies with "I don't know any 'doctor' jokes." While Jones doesn't actually laugh, she looks up at him in a way that suggests that she hasn't heard ''that'' one before, and is at least slightly impressed by his quick and original wit.
38** Bond also gets a soft chuckle from Q with his response to "R" fumbling around in an inflatable jacket.
39--->'''Bond:''' He seems well-suited for the job.
40* AdaptationExpansion: While characters are often expanded upon in film novelizations, Raymond Benson's novelization devotes ''an entire chapter'' towards the end of the book to delve into the psyches of Renard and Elektra. In the novelization, the money was never the original reason for kidnapping Elektra; rather, his detached mental state due to his condition had made him sexually awkward, and had caused him to begin fixating from afar on attractive celebrities and public figures, one of whom being Elektra. Also, [[spoiler:whereas Elektra is played off in the film as a dispassionate narcissist who uses emotion purely as a tool for manipulation, she is genuinely distraught enough in the novel at the thought of Renard dying that she has to stop herself from trying to convince him not to board the submarine]].
41* AllThereInTheScript: In the script, it is explained that Sir Robert King inherited the oil fortune from his wife's family. Her father had no male heirs so he left the property to his son-in-law.
42* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-dL6WfOwSk "Sweetest Coma Again"]] by Music/LunaSea is the ending theme in the Japanese version.
43* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: As Bond is chasing [[spoiler:Elektra]], an imprisoned M (who fears that she may soon die in a nuclear meltdown if Renard has his way) yells out Bond's name as he passes by her cell. 007 then uses the ShootOutTheLock method to free his boss before he continues his pursuit. When Bond later boards Renard's submarine, the first thing he does is finding a henchman to show him where Christmas Jones is kept captive so he can free her. And when Christmas is trapped on the wrong side of a flooding submarine door, Bond puts his battle with Renard on hold to rescue her.
44* ArcWords: "There's no point in living if you can't feel alive." [[spoiler:Hearing Renard say this at gunpoint is the clue Bond needs to realise he and Elektra (who told him the same thing earlier, verbatim) are working together.]]
45* ArmorPiercingQuestion: M receives one from Bond.
46-->'''M:''' Don't make this personal.\
47'''Bond:''' I'm not; are you?
48* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "R" concludes his run-down of the features of Bond's car with "six beverage cup holders".
49* ArtisticLicenceBiology:
50** Even if the bullet in Renard's head could suppress his ability to feel pain (more than likely he'd be comatose), that does not simply grant him immunity from any damage. When he picks up the burning rock, his hand would still have had the skin burned off, just like Davidov (while Davidov's hand is totally bandaged in his next scene, Renard's hand remains unmarked for the rest of the film).
51** Adding on to the above, Renard wouldn't get stronger or be able to push himself harder, at least not for very long. We have natural "limiters" on how much we use our bodies for a reason, as we would tear our bodies apart if we went over them. Unless Renard is carefully controlling exactly how hard he is pushing himself, which being that he is practically suicidal makes that doubtful, Renard would collapse simply due to accumulating too much damage.
52** The bullet is said to be moving through the medulla oblongata of Renard's brain, even though the hologram shows it moving through his frontal lobe. Moreover, the medulla is the stalk that connects the brain to the spinal column, and it controls the heart and lungs. If it was penetrated, Renard would be dead instantly.
53** Bond and Jones launching themselves from the bottom of the Black Sea to the surface via a torpedo tube would have given both of them a horrifically painful and potentially lethal case of the bends.
54%%* ArtisticLicenceGeography: The London boat chase is full of this.
55* ArtisticLicenceNuclearPhysics:
56** Renard gets hold of the plutonium sphere from a bomb, forms it into a rod, and tries to insert it into the reactor of a submarine and cause a meltdown. Among the reasons this would never work: weapons-grade plutonium is less radioactive than reactor-grade plutonium.
57** Bond and Renard handle the plutonium bar with their bare hands. A rod of Pu that size would weigh at least 50 pounds, which is big enough to be a critical mass. It would be exceptionally hot to the touch, and also would be emitting lots of neutron radiation. Canadian physicist [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin Louis Slotin]] was killed handling a much smaller critical mass of plutonium in a 1946 experimental accident; Slotin received a fatal dose in less than one second, and died of radiation sickness nine days later. The fact that Bond straddles the rod briefly may be a very subtle kind of LampshadeHanging on why, in spite of his proclivities, James Bond never gets any Father's Day cards.
58** The reactor of the 1967-vintage nuclear sub had fuel assemblies (that plutonium rod) which could be manually inserted and removed. That's not how a Russian sub reactor is designed (though it is closer to certain heavy water power reactors). To refuel the sub, they first need to shut down the reactor for 90 days so the fuel is not too hot from a radioactive and thermal standpoint. Then they cut open part of the sub's outside hull to remove the fuel assemblies. Big job, needed once every 5 to 10 years. The bullet stuck in Renard's brain would have killed him by then and the audience would be quite bored.
59* ArtisticLicencePolitics: The protestors at King's pipeline headquarters - in Azerbaijan - are waving the flag of Hungary.
60* AsYouKnow: Bond explains to Jones that [[spoiler:since the reactor room is flooded, they needn't worry about the imminent reactor explosion destroying Istanbul. Bond and Jones only need to escape the explosion itself to survive.]] This is obviously not something that needs be explained to a nuclear physicist, so the line was put in there for the audience's sake.
61* AssholeVictim:
62** Sir Robert King turned out to be kind of a jackass, all things considered. He was willing to [[spoiler:destroy an ancient church in Azerbaijan--his wife's homeland, no less--for his oil pipeline (which caused the local villagers to riot), and he stole his wife's inheritance]] to further his own ambition and greed. [[UnreliableNarrator Assuming you trust Elektra King]] [[spoiler:in spite of her being shown to be a remorseless liar and manipulator]]. [[spoiler:It is confirmed he was willing to destroy ancient landmarks and use the military to quell opposition, but all the other actions are up in the air.]]
63** On a less spoilery note, [[MorallyBankruptBanker Mr. Lachaise]] qualifies, too.
64* AttackTheInjury: Bond suffers a shoulder injury in the film's opening, and it becomes an issue several times afterward. The [=MI6=] doctor deliberately pokes him in the injured shoulder to make a point, and even that light contact causes Bond to wince in pain. Later, Renard tortures Bond by attacking the same shoulder, but the fact that Renard even knows about the injury ahead of time tips Bond off that Renard has an inside connection feeding him information about Bond.
65* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:Valentin Zuckovsky from ''Film/GoldenEye'' returns and is killed by Elektra in the climax. He was supposed to survive in one draft]].
66* BadassBoast:
67-->'''Bond:''' What do I need to disarm a nuclear bomb?\
68'''Dr. Jones:''' Me.
69* BadBoss: Renard, like many villains has no qualms about killing his own henchmen and allies if their incompetence or failures interfere with his plans. At least some of his minions even regard him as TheDreaded.
70-->'''Bond:''' Just tell me who's behind this! Who are you working for?\
71''The Cigar Girl points her gun towards a gas canister''\
72'''Bond:''' [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled Don't do it! Don't blow us up]]! I can protect you! Do you understand, I can protect you!\
73'''Cigar Girl:''' Not from ''him!''
74* BaldOfEvil: Renard, and, apparently, almost ''every'' member of his terrorist ring.
75* BallsOfSteel: Bond makes Renard fall groin first onto a pipe, but since Renard feels no pain, it doesn't affect him. He just looks down in surprise, then gets up.
76* BatmanColdOpen: The opening plays with this as its ColdOpen is almost fifteen minutes long and ties directly into the main plot without even a time jump between the two. The whole thing causes a bizarre sort of ColdOpen [[EndingFatigue Fatigue]] that makes you question why, save for tradition, there needed to be one at all.
77** The opening originally ended after the sequence in Spain, but audiences felt that it was too short. Proof that Administrivia/TropesAreTools.
78* BavarianFireDrill: The bad guys have kidnapped and killed an elderly official from Russia's Atomic Energy Authority, planning to replace him to aid their theft of plutonium. Bond kills and replaces their replacement (fooling the bad guys into getting him transport), and successfully bluffs his way into the nuclear disarmament site that is going to be robbed. The subversion comes from the fact that Dr. Christmas Jones saw straight through it and let Bond through while she grabbed security. She arrives just as Bond is trying to foil Renard's real theft.
79* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Heavily implied with Elektra, whether she was corrupted by Renard, or seduced him into her evil plot because she was so incensed at her father's refusal to rescue her.]]
80* BeneathTheMask: While Bond is out doing his thing, M claims that he is the best agent they have, adding: "though I'd never tell him".
81* BerserkButton: It was bad enough that [[spoiler:Elektra betrayed James.]] But they made the mistake of [[spoiler:kidnapping M]].
82* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: The "Cigar Girl" kills herself rather than face Renard's wrath for her failure.
83* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:Elektra]] and Renard. It is hotly disputed whether Renard is TheDragon to [[spoiler:Elektra]] or if she is Renard's puppet. Though, it is obvious both consider themselves to be the superior of the relationship. It seems as though [[spoiler:Elektra]] is the one who orchestrates most of the schemes, while Renard is the one who does most of the work.
84* BigDamnHeroes: As Bond is about to be killed by the BigBad, Zukovsky arrives with backup and gives him a chance to escape.
85-->'''Zukovsky:''' [[IncomingHam I'm looking for a submarine. It's big and black and the driver is a very good friend of mine.]]
86* BilingualBackfire: Bond is impersonating a Russian nuclear expert, Mikhail Arkov. Dr. Christmas Jones suspects something wrong with "Dr. Arkov" and tests him:
87-->'''Dr. Christmas Jones:''' By the way, ''[in Russian]'' your English is very good for a Russian.\
88'''James Bond:''' ''[in Russian]'' I studied at Oxford.
89* BlatantLies: Bond telling Elektra, "You meant nothing to me." After [[spoiler:she dies]], he permits himself only a short moment to [[spoiler:mourn her passing]] by caressing her hair.
90* BleedEmAndWeep: After shooting dead [[spoiler:Elektra King]], Bond leans over her body and strokes her hair, clearly shaken by what he's done. Pretty significant for a trained assassin.
91* BlofeldPloy: Done by Renard to Davidov and Dr. Arkov. With one of Renard's mooks holding a gun to his head, Renard himself makes Davidov hold a scalding hot rock [[spoiler:before ordering the mook to shooting Arkov.]]
92* BodyguardBabes: Bond enters the casino wearing his X-Ray specs which reveals the lingerie of the casino girls...and the fact that they're carrying guns under their dresses.
93* BombDisposal: Disarming a nuke is a lot easier when your GirlOfTheWeek is a nuclear physicist. Disarming a nuke [[spoiler:as its speeding inside an oil pipe line however, is a new experience]].
94* BombThrowingAnarchists: Renard is also known as "Renard the Anarchist", but he espouses no anarchist philosophy. Instead, his career as a terrorist has been spent [[TerroristsWithoutACause blowing things up]] ForTheEvulz. [[spoiler:And by the time of the movie, for love. Awww....]]
95* BondOneLiner:
96** [[spoiler:Bond shoots Elektra after she tells him "You wouldn't kill me. You'd miss me." His response:]] "I never miss."
97** Bond kills Davidov and throws him into the nearest dumpster before taking his place. Upon being asked where Davidov is by one of Renard's men, Bond replies with "He was buried with work".
98** When Bond confronts Renard at gunpoint in Kazakhstan: "Expecting Davidov? He caught a bullet instead of the plane."
99** Bond provides ''his own'' epitaph in the torture chair. "[[DefiantToTheEnd One last screw?]]", indeed.
100** Uniquely, Renard gets a one-liner of his own: tipped off on Bond's injury, he quips, "I knew you couldn't ''shoulder'' the responsibility" before pushing down on it, causing Bond to shrivel up in agony.
101** And then there's the groan-inducing "I thought Christmas only comes once a year" line?
102* BondVillainStupidity: Classic example. Elektra King drops a loaded pistol for Bond to collect, before she runs up a set of stairs -- unarmed. In her case, she thought she was smart enough to believe that Bond wouldn't shoot a woman. She was wrong. Elektra seems pretty reticent to kill Bond generally; she seems to be waiting for him to give in to his affection for her and become her new Renard -- which is still nonsensical, but no longer this trope (as she doesn't actually want him dead).
103* BoomStick: Zukovsky carries a cane to help his bad leg. However, when he gets injured, it turns out that his cane is also a potent (and accurate) firearm.
104* BreakTheCutie: Before [[spoiler:Elektra was kidnapped, she]] was a good person.
105-->[[spoiler:'''Renard''': When I took her, she was promise itself. And you left her at the mercy of a man like me. You ruined her. For what? To get to me? She's]] worth fifty of me.\
106'''M''': For once, I agree with you.
107* BrickJoke:
108** While talking to the new Q, Bond puts on a pair of blue-ish sunglasses and looks him up and down, smirking slightly but never acknowledging it. Later in the film, we see that those are X-ray glasses that let him see through clothing.
109** The first thing Zukovsky says to Bond is that he fears the latter's presence means he is not carrying enough insurance. After he, Bond, Christmas and Bullion narrowly escape the destruction of the caviar factory much later on, he despairs that "The insurance company is ''never'' going to believe this!"
110* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: Which explodes in Sir Robert's face. Bond later discovers that somebody swapped Robert's lapel pin for a detonator, meaning that they ''wanted'' King to glimpse the cash before dying.
111* BrokenBird: Elektra King. Oddly, also Renard.
112* CallingOutForNotCalling: M refuses to use James Bond for an upcoming mission because he's recovering from a dislocated collarbone. Fortunately the [=MI6=] doctor is one of his conquests, and he's able to convince her to clear him by renewing their affair.
113-->'''Doctor:''' You would have to promise to call me. ''[jabs her fingers into his injured shoulder, making Bond wince]'' This time.
114* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Bond seduces his physician in exchange for "a clean bill of health." M is savvy enough to guess what happened, and Dr. Warmflash lands in hot water.
115* CaptainObvious: As Christmas Jones and Bond are attempting to disarm the pipeline bomb, Bond observes that the screwheads have been stripped. How does Christmas respond?
116-->'''Christmas:''' Someone's tampered with the bomb.
117* TheChampion:
118** Horrifyingly subverted. Elektra sees herself as this for her Azeri mother, her maternal side of the family and her Azeri heritage. Elektra is resentful of the effects of British colonialism, which allowed Sir Robert (a British man) to financially abuse his foreign wife.
119--->'''Elektra:''' My father was nothing! His kingdom he stole from my mother. The kingdom I will rightly take back!
120** And later:
121--->'''Elektra:''' It is ''my'' oil! Mine! And my family's! It runs through my veins, thicker than blood! I'm going to redraw the map, and when I'm through, the whole world will know my name, my grandfather's name, the glory of my people!
122*** Of course, Elektra is [[SelfServingMemory "conveniently" ignoring]] the fact that it was her maternal grandfather's decision to pass the company onto his son-in-law rather than his daughter (as confirmed in the script), making this a case of Azeri parochialism rather than British colonialism. [[spoiler:She also shows absolutely no remorse or hesitation at murdering untold countless Azeri diaspora members and other innocents in the greater Istanbul area as part of her master plan.]]
123* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject:
124** Bond and Elektra do this.
125--->'''Elektra:''' Tell me, Mr. Bond, have you ever lost a loved one?\
126'''Bond:''' ''[pauses]'' M sent me because your life might be in danger.
127** Later:
128--->'''Bond:''' But [Renard] used your exact words.\
129'''Elektra:''' So you knew? You knew all the time that he was out there, that he was coming for me, and you lied.
130* ChekhovsArmory: The helicopter with the giant saw blades that Bond sees cutting down trees for Elektra's pipeline as he first arrives in Azerbijan is later used by Elektra's henchmen to try and kill Bond, Jones and Valentin at Valentin's caviar factory.
131* ChekhovsGun: Bond recovers the nuclear bomb's locator card while escaping from the test site. He later gives it to M, who then puts it in her pocket and forgets about it. After [[spoiler:being kidnapped and imprisoned by Elektra]], she takes it out and connects it to a clock battery to give Bond her GPS location.
132* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Elektra King]], who is an expert manipulator and the mastermind behind the EvilPlan.
133* ChristianityIsCatholic: Subverted. Elektra can be seen crossing herself when she enters the ancient church, but given her ethnicity and the part of the world they're in--Azerbaijan--it's likely that she's Eastern Orthodox, which follows many of the traditions of Catholicism, including the aforementioned crossing gesture.
134* ChronicallyCrashedCar: Sure, Bond gets to drive around in his new car for a bit and fire a missile at a helicopter, but it barely lasts a minute on screen. And BMW reacted with StunnedSilence when the filmmakers declared their intention [[DestroyTheProductPlacement to saw the vehicle in half...]]
135-->'''Bond:''' [[LampshadeHanging Q's not going to like this...]]
136* ClickHello:
137** Bond surprises Renard at the nuclear site.
138--->'''Bond:''' Expecting Davidov? He caught a bullet instead of a plane.
139** Bond ambushes Valentin in his own office.
140--->'''Valentin:''' Can't you just say "Hello" like a normal person?
141* ClimbingClimax: [[spoiler:Elektra]] runs to the top floor of the castle while fleeing Bond. ZigZagged with the Cigar Girl, who flees to a hot air balloon, but blows it up instead of using it to escape.
142* ConsolationBackfire: A caviar factory owned by Bond's [[EnemyMine former enemy turned ally]] Valentin Zukovsky is the site of a lengthy battle between Bond and several {{mooks}}. While surveying the damage done to the factory after the battle ends, Zukovsky comments to his assistant that, "we may not have a roof, but at least, we still have four good walls." Seconds later, all four walls simultaneously collapse.
143-->'''Valentin Zukovsky:''' The insurance company is ''never'' going to believe this!
144* ContinuityNod:
145** Elektra asks Bond if he has ever lost a loved one. The uncomfortable look on his face and the manner in which he changes the subject is a [[Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService dead give-away]] to long-time Bond fans, namely [[spoiler:Bond's wife, Tracy]]. Within the confines of the Brosnan films, it could also refer to Bond's OldFlame Paris Carver being murdered [[Film/TomorrowNeverDies in the previous film]].
146** This also goes meta when you remember that Pierce Brosnan was a widower himself, having lost his wife, former Bond Girl Cassandra Harris[[note]]Countess Lisl von Schlaf from ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''[[/note]], to ovarian cancer in 1990.
147** In the Scottish [[UsefulNotes/SecretIntelligenceService MI6]] headquarters, there is a painting on the wall of Bernard Lee, the original M.
148** The title refers to the Bond family motto, ''Orbis Non Sufficit'', previously mentioned in ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''.
149** To the books. When being questioned by Christmas Jones, Bond claims, in decently fluent Russian, to have studied at Oxford. In the books, Creator/IanFleming states that Bond was an Oxford graduate, and had a First in Oriental Languages. Such might also double as a reference to ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', where this was also noted.
150** Valentin Zukovsky returns as a Bond ally after his first appearance in ''Film/GoldenEye''.
151* CoolBoat: The Q-Boat. Q claims it was never intended for service, and that it's his personal ''fishing'' boat.
152* CoolCar: The BMW Z8, featuring "titanium plating and armour, a multitasking head-up display and six beverage {{cup holders}}". All in all, rather stocked.
153* CorporateConspiracy: [[spoiler:Elektra King]] is willing to nuke Istanbul so that the British pipeline would get more use, thus becoming the sole transporter of Caspian oil to the West.
154* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[spoiler:Elektra King, daughter and heir to her father's Mediterranean oil pipeline, seduced her captor, murdered her father, kidnapped M, and plotted to destroy Istanbul so her pipeline would get more use. She's so much of a twisted villain, she's currently the only Bond Woman 007 himself has killed in cold blood]].
155* CountingToThree: Bond does this while interrogating a man at gunpoint. As the man is a banker, Bond asks sarcastically, "You can do that, can't you?"
156* CoveredInGunge:
157** The oil-covered dancing girls in the opening titles. Somewhat disconcertingly, their actual bodies have been CGI'd out, leaving nothing ''but'' the gunge.
158** Poor Valentin gets dunked into a giant vat of his own caviar during the buzz saw helicopter attack.
159* CradlingYourKill: [[spoiler:Bond comes close to doing this with Elektra King after he shoots her.]]
160* CunningLinguist: PlayedStraight when Bond masquerades as a Russian physicist, complete with heavily but believably Russian-accented English. However, when asked, in Russian, about his good (for a Russian) English, he answers in Russian that he studied at Oxford, in Russian apparently fluent enough to pass without comment [[note]] while fluent, it is far too accented for someone who's supposed to be Russian, so Jones either let it slide to help Bond or the MST3KMantra is at work here. [[/note]]
161* CutLexLuthorACheck: King Oil is doing well and stands to make a lot more money thanks to its pipeline from Azerbaijan even before [[spoiler:Elektra plans to blow up a Russian nuclear submarine in the Bosphorus, crippling the principal rival east-west oil pipeline and giving her one a near-monopoly]].
162* CyanidePill: The Cigar Girl blows herself up rather than face arrest from MI-6, or worse yet, punishment (for failing to kill Bond) from Renard.
163* DamselInDistress: M is imprisoned in the appropriately-named Maiden's Tower, and Bond must rescue his boss from [[spoiler:Elektra]]'s clutches.
164* DamselOutOfDistress: Elektra King [[spoiler:escapes her kidnapper by shooting three men and then proceeds to manipulate her kidnapper into suffering LimaSyndrome and going so far as to die for her EvilPlan]].
165* DarkActionGirl: The "Cigar Girl", for her [[IncrediblyLamePun explosive]] opening sequence.
166* DarkerAndEdgier: While ''Film/GoldenEye'' was serious and sometimes dark. This film however is arguably the darkest of all the Brosnan movies in terms of the storyline. As it deals with Stockholm Syndrome from one of the bond girls. [[spoiler:And later on, she is revealed to be the villain who then got killed by Bond in cold blood.]]
167* DarkSecret: M is so ashamed over how she handled Elektra's kidnapping that she sealed Elektra's file so that no one else can access it. When Bond requests the classified information as an employee, M flatly refuses with a stern warning ("I will not tolerate insubordination, 007"), so he resorts to using their implicit mother-son relationship (the gentle way he asks, "What happened?") before she willingly discloses a painful part of her past.
168* DeathByIrony:
169** King being killed by a face-full of his own money.
170** Zukovsky throws a tantrum at the prospect of drowning in his own caviar. Subverted when Bond fishes him out.
171** Renard is impaled by [[spoiler:his own nuclear rod. Bonus points to the rod looking like a very big bullet with the casing on it]].
172* DeathsHourglass: Both the fatalistic and the jump-to-action version are used.
173** Renard has a bullet lodged in his brain from a previous encounter with [=MI6=] operative 009, but survived the assassination attempt. The bullet is still moving and will eventually kill him, giving him a perpetual reminder that his death is imminent.
174** There's also a jump-to-action version next to Renard's fatalistic one. To get revenge on M, he assures her that she'll die along with everyone else in and around Istanbul after she's been captured, and puts a clock in front of her cell so she can see the hours ticking by to make her experience what he feels like.
175* DecoyDamsel: [[spoiler:Elektra King seeks to cause an oil monopoly by having Renard blow up a Russian competitor's pipeline with a nuclear detonation and thereby substantially increase her own oil holdings. She manipulates Bond, but he ultimately sees beyond her deception and manages to confront her]].
176* DescriptionCut: Upon learning of [[spoiler:Elektra and Renard]]'s plan, Zukovsky exclaims that they must find his nephew his nephew Nikolai, who is working with them. Cut to him greeting Renard.
177* DestroyTheProductPlacement: Just as the filmmakers visited BMW and were shown the Z8 that the company was willing to provide, they were asked what was planned for it... "sawing the car in half" was not what the Germans expected.
178* DestructiveSaviour: Bond, and it's lampshaded in this exchange:
179-->'''Sir Robert King:''' Be careful, M, I might try to steal him from you.\
180'''Bond:''' Construction isn't exactly my speciality.\
181'''M:''' Quite the opposite, in fact.
182* DiabolicalMastermind: Renard is a notorious international terrorist, while [[spoiler:Elektra King was an oil heiress, until she killed her father for revenge and to get rid of the "heiress" part]].
183* DidntSeeThatComing:
184** [[spoiler:Elektra]] didn't in a million years imagine that [[spoiler:James would actually shoot her.]]
185** Dr. Christmas Jones makes clear to Bond when he shows up pretending to be Dr. Arkov that she doesn't want to hear any jokes from him about her name. He counters that he doesn't know any "Doctor" jokes.
186* DigitalBikini: In Israel, the poster was altered to add sleeves to Sophie Marceau's dress and create space between her and Pierce Brosnan.
187* DisabilityImmunity: Renard is highly resistant to pain because of a bullet slowly moving through his brain. [[spoiler:The fact he is dying also means he's willing to engage in TheLastDance in order to further the plans of Elektra]].
188* DisabilitySuperpower: Renard's bullet wound is killing off his senses and will kill him eventually, but in the meantime it's effectively given him superhuman stamina and disproportionate strength for a man his size.
189* DistressedDude: Elektra places Bond into a torture machine that slowly strangles him and will break his neck if pulled far enough.
190* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The girly, childish way [[spoiler:Elektra runs to the door and jumps in Renard's arms]] is almost reminiscent of a young child running to the door to greet her father who's just returned home from work. This may or may not be the result of [[spoiler:her inversed Electra Complex.]]
191* DoubleEntendre: Bond just couldn't resist.
192-->'''Cigar Girl:''' ''[hands Bond a receipt for the money transfer]'' Would you like to check my figures?\
193'''Bond:''' Oh, I'm sure they're perfectly rounded.
194** Bond and his doctor end up exchanging several.
195--->'''Bond:''' Let's skirt the issue, shall we? ''[undoes her skirt]''\
196'''Doctor:''' You'd have to promise to call me. [[CallingOutForNotCalling This time.]]\
197'''Bond:''' Whatever the doctor orders.\
198'''Doctor:''' ''[start snogging]'' I supposed if you stayed in close contact... if you showed sufficient stamina... avoid... ''[pushes him down on bed]''\
199'''Bond:''' Strenuous activity...
200** Her medical report then notes that he "has exceptional stamina".
201--->'''Moneypenny:''' I'm sure she was touched by his dedication. To the job in hand...
202* DoubleTake: Bond takes note of the gorgeous Cigar Girl.
203* TheDragon: Davidov is this for Renard, [[spoiler:who is secretly this for Elektra.]]
204* DragonTheirFeet: The final showdown is with Renard when [[spoiler:Elektra King]] is dispatched at the end of a scene where she tortures Bond, who has to face Renard. Renard is ''not happy'' when Bond tells him she's dead.
205* DramaticShattering: Renard punches clean through a glass table in frustration, showing his utter inability to feel pain.
206* DunkingTheBomb: James Bond and Christmas Jones allow the water flooding into the sinking submarine to flood the reactor chamber before they escape: leaving the sub to explode relatively harmlessly at the bottom of the Bosphorus.
207* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Valentin Zukovsky is shot multiple times in the chest by Elektra King. In his final moments, he shoots the cuffs holding Bond to a chair just to show he is a damn good sport, then dies in a moment of ultimate heroism]].
208* DyingSmirk: [[spoiler:Zukovsky, after being shot by Elektra, uses his LastBreathBullet to shoot the restraints holding Bond, flashing him a smirk before passing.]]
209* EarAche: Elektra reveals to Bond that during her kidnapping they cut off part of her right earlobe. [[spoiler:She actually did it herself and is now in league with Renard.]]
210* EmbarrassingFirstName: Christmas Jones. She warns Bond not to makes any comments; she's heard them all. (Aside from the closing line of dialogue, [[FridgeLogic how many could there be?]])
211* EmptyQuiver: A nuclear weapon is stolen, but instead of being detonated, it's made into a dud. The other half of the plutonium is used to create an improvised bomb by forcing a nuclear submarine to have a meltdown.
212* EroticAsphyxiation: [[spoiler:Elektra King]] mentions that a man being throttled to death will get an erection and straddles Bond's waist as she turns the screws on him.
213* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Renard seems to have fallen in love with Elektra after she initially seduced him when he held her hostage. She had to cut off part of her ear herself because he became reluctant to hurt her and he's enraged when Bond tells him he killed her. Although Renard and Elektra are lovers in the present, the feeling is not quite as mutual as Elektra remains fairly cold towards him throughout the film. Whether she's too emotionally damaged to love anyone, still quite justifiably hates him or is just manipulating Renard is open to interpretation.]]
214* EvenEvilHasStandards: Renard is AxCrazy and ruthless, and he knows it. Which is why he's nevertheless disgusted at [[spoiler:[=MI6=] for flat-out abandoning Elektra to him and consequently causing her StartOfDarkness.]]
215* EveryoneHasStandards: Dr. Jones knows that Bond is an imposter, but is visibly uncomfortable when Renard squeezes his injured shoulder just to cause him pain.
216* EveryoneIsASuspect: In the aftermath of King's murder, Charles Robinson grimly observes this is the big investigatory hurdle facing [=MI6=]. They ''know'' someone close to King swapped out his lapel pin for the disguised detonator, but their only lead -- the Cigar Girl -- committed suicide at the end of the prologue. Without her testimony to help narrow down the field of suspects, the size of King's organization means that it could be anyone anywhere. [[spoiler:Neither Robinson or anyone else in the agency (at least initially) considers the possibility that by that same logic, King's daughter should ''also'' be considered a suspect.]]
217* EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes: Q Labs is shown testing some bagpipes with a machine gun concealed in one of the drones.
218* EvilOverlooker: Renard has this role on most of the posters.
219* EvilPlan: [[spoiler:Elektra King]] and Renard scheme to raise petroleum prices by triggering a nuclear meltdown in the waters of Istanbul, destroying every gas pipeline except for hers and enabling her to corner the European oil market.
220* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: The dying [[spoiler:Valentin Zukovsky]] chooses to shoot [[spoiler:the cuffs holding Bond to a torture device]] rather than try to take a potshot at [[spoiler:Elektra King]]. Fatally for the latter, this shot is mistaken for a subversion by [[spoiler:her. She thinks he'd aimed at Bond and missed, taunting him that the ally must have really hated him. Bond and Valentin had previously been enemies. His shot proves exactly the opposite, however: since Zukovsky had been fatally wounded, if he had chosen to shoot Elektra instead, Bond would have been unable to escape the torture device.]]
221* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Everything from when Bond arrives in Azerbaijan takes place over three days.
222* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Renard smiles right before Bond impales him with a reactor rod.]]
223* FakingTheDead: After Jones removes the plutonium from the bomb in the pipeline, she and Bond allow the triggering charge to detonate so they'll be assumed dead and [[spoiler:Elektra]] will reveal the next stage of the plot.
224* FanserviceExtra: Bond enters a casino and his X-ray glasses make all the random women appear as if they are only wearing their lingerie.
225* FastRoping: Bond rappels out of the banker's window with an elastic cord attached to a mook as a counterweight.
226* FatalFlaw:
227** [[spoiler:Elektra]] attempts to exploit Bond's weakness for women by seducing him, believing that it will make her immune to assassination. [[spoiler:Subverted, as it turns out that she was ''dead'' wrong.]]
228--->[[spoiler:'''Elektra:''']] You should have killed me when you had the chance. But you couldn't. Not me. Not a woman you've loved.
229** Elektra King and her DaddyIssues.
230* {{Fauxreigner}}: Bond impersonates a murdered Russian scientist in order to get close to Renard's nuclear operation. Not even Dr. Jones is fooled by the ruse. Not by his accent or anything though; after conversing in English she addresses him in Russian to test him, but Bond aces it. The scientist in question is simply too old for Bond to convincingly pass for him.
231* FeelNoPain: Renard cannot feel pain due to a bullet in his brain that is slowly working its way through. And this somehow turned into immunity to third-degree burns. Because he couldn't feel the hot rock he was holding, it apparently didn't damage his hand at all.
232* FemmeFatale: [[spoiler:Elektra King. This is important.]]
233* FieryCoverUp: [[spoiler:Elektra King]] steals a nuclear warhead. She then plans to detonate a bomb so the authorities will think she has used all of the plutonium and stop looking for it. However, the explosion will cover-up the fact that she actually removed half the plutonium to use in her real scheme.
234* FingerInTheMail: Renard sent Elektra's mutilated earlobe to her father as a warning. [[spoiler:However, it was Elektra who mutilated it herself, as Renard had already fallen in love with her and refused to physically harm his new captive-turned-girlfriend.]]
235* {{Foil}}: Elektra and M are powerful women who have very different ways of exercising control within a patriarchal system. Elektra overuses her femininity to manipulate the men around her, whereas M suppresses her femininity to maintain her authority over her employees (especially male chauvinists like Bond); when handling Elektra's kidnapping, M even explicitly states that she went against her instincts as a mother.
236* ForcedFriendlyFire: This is how Bond kills a henchman in the very first scene.
237* {{Foreshadowing}}:
238** While showing the pipeline's planned route through the mountains, Bond says "Your father's legacy.", to which Elektra responds "My ''family's'' legacy to the world." This is a sign that Elektra wasn't on good terms with her father [[spoiler:and arranged his death.]]
239** The parahawks that ambush Bond and Elektra on the mountain are only seen chasing after the former, despite the latter being their target. Likewise, when Renard later questions Dr. Arkov and Davidov's failure to put Bond down, Elektra is never once mentioned. [[spoiler: This hints that she was never their target.]]
240* FreezeFrameBonus: When Elektra is working on her laptop, you can see framed photos on her desk of her mother (Elektra clearly inherited her good looks from her mom) and her maternal grandfather, but ''not'' her father. This is a clue to eagle-eyed fans that Elektra [[spoiler:''loathes'' her father]].
241** Near the beginning of the film (right after the Q sequence), Bond reads a press release on Elektra King. [[{{Foreshadowing}} A prominent quote is attributed to her:]]
242--->'''Elektra:''' "I've never really known what direction my life is taking, which I find exciting. My friends are all very game to join in any mad schemes I might suggest so we often end up in really strange places wearing very odd costumes!"
243** The pinups on the walls of Zukovsky's warehouse are of former Bond Girls. Probably why there was such a persistent rumor that as the last Bond film of the 20th century, it would feature cameos from them.
244* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Elektra mostly blames her father for forcing her to sacrifice her humanity in order to survive her kidnapping ordeal.]]
245-->'''Bond:''' So, you killed your [[spoiler:father]].\
246[[spoiler:'''Elektra:''']] He ''killed me''. He killed me the day he refused to pay my [[spoiler:ransom]].
247* FriendlyEnemy: Bond and Zukovsky. Despite disliking each other at their last meeting in ''Film/{{GoldenEye}}'', and still distrustful of each other here, Zukovsky instantly joins forces with Bond when he realises [[spoiler:the extent of Elektra and Renard's depravity, and, in fact, dies saving Bond's life.]]
248* GameBreakingInjury: Bond suffers an injury to his left shoulder after falling from the Cigar Girl's hot air balloon onto the roof of The O2. Renard later uses the injury to incapacitate him (which gives him a clue to who TheMole is).
249* GenreBlind: The theme song by Music/{{Garbage}} includes the line "No one ever died from wanting too much". This is ''precisely'' how every ''Film/JamesBond'' film ends. However, this ends up subverted once you finish watching the film and realize [[spoiler:[[VillainSong the song is from Elektra's perspective]].]]
250* GiveMyRegardsInTheNextWorld: [[spoiler:Before Bond kills Renard, he says, "She's waiting for you!" referring to Renard's lover Elektra, whom Bond had killed earlier.]]
251* GoldDigger: A rare gender inversion with Sir Robert King and his Azeri wife; Robert married her to gain access to oil-rich lands near the Caspian Sea that her family owned. [[UnreliableNarrator According to Elektra,]] her father was nothing before he married her mother. As a British man with a foreign wife, he was able to seize control of the assets which should've rightfully belonged to Elektra's mother, but the sexism and racism which existed at the time meant that she couldn't reclaim what her husband stole.
252** This is contradicted by the script, which indicates that Electra's maternal grandfather (and the man who owned the oil empire) decided to pass the company on to his son-in-law rather than his daughter, making it questionable if the company ever "Rightfully" belonged to Elektra's mother in anything beyond her own impression.
253* GoGoEnslavement: Elektra straps Bond in a torture chair.
254* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: Bond has glasses that allow him to see through clothes. Therefore spotting concealed weapons — and ladies' undergarments.
255* GoingCritical: Renard attempts to turn the reactor in a nuclear sub critical by inserting a rod of weapons grade plutonium. In the bare reactor. With nothing more than a shirt protecting him from hard radiation. Granted, he wasn't expecting to survive the act, but Bond is there with him. This might be slightly forgivable given that the intent was to contaminate the whole area, not necessarily blow it to hell. Of course, nobody except Dr. Jones actually understands how inserting the weapons grade plutonium into the reactor would cause an 'instant, catastrophic meltdown'.
256* GrapplingHookPistol: Part of Bond's GadgetWatch.
257* GroinAttack: Bond drops Renard groin-first onto a pipe at one point, but because Renard can FeelNoPain, it only slows him down for a second.
258* HateSink: [[UnreliableNarrator Elektra King claims]] [[RichJerk Sir Robert King]] is an [[CorruptCorporateExecutive amoral oil baron]], [[BigBad Elektra King's]] lousy excuse of [[ArchnemesisDad a father]], and [[FreudianExcuse the man who made Elektra's life miserable]]. Robert used his British citizenship to con his immigrant wife out of her own company, emotionally and financially abused her and Elektra, bulldozed centuries-old landmarks to make room for oil pipelines, badly mistreated the locals who protested his actions, and abandoned his daughter to be kidnapped and raped as a teen rather than pay a ransom. In fairness to that last one, that was on M's reccomendation, and an agent was tracking her down. Elektra assassinates him with a booby-trapped briefcase full of money, meaning Sir Robert dies [[DeathByIrony showered in the only thing he ever cared about]].
259** Of course, there are several chinks in this narrative when one remembers [[ConsummateLiar Elektra King is colossally manipulative and self-serving.]] Sir Robert was certainly guilty of bulldozing centuries old landmarks and using the military to quell local opposition to his pipeline programs, but everything else is up in the air. It is routine to consult with law enforcement and/or intelligence as to whether to pay a ransom to hostage-takers, because [[MortonsFork paying the ransom will empower the terrorists and give them the resources to take more hostages]] and M was the one that advised against it. Moreover, the script confirms that he was given the oil empire from Elektra's maternal grandfather, who had no [[DeliberateValuesDissonance (male)]] heirs to succeed him, and all reports of financial or emotional abuse against Elektra and her mother [[TheSociopath come from the words of an abusive, exploitative terrorist.]]
260* HelicopterBlender: {{Averted|Trope}}. The helicopter just has several enormous rotary saw blades dangling from a helicopter instead. (It was designed to fly above treetop level and use the rotary saw blades below it to clear branches, and in fact was was seen doing so earlier in the movie.)
261* HellishCopter: Helicopter-mounted circular saws, first seen trimming trees to make way for the pipeline, are utilized in the attack on Zukovsky's caviar factory, and one of them saws Bond's car in half. He takes one heli down with a surface-to-air missile and the other by shooting a gas tank it hovers above.
262* HeroInsurance: Bond seems to have it, but his allies in the Russian underworld do not, even if he is involved. After Zukovsky's caviar factory is demolished by Elektra King's henchmen (who were trying to kill Bond), Zukovsky shouts, "The insurance company is never going to believe this!" Probably because the damage was done by a helicopter equipped with a tree-cutting buzzsaw.
263* HeroOfAnotherStory: It's mentioned that 009 was the one who shot Renard prior to the events of the film.
264** The other "Double O" agents given their orders by M.
265* HoistByHerOwnPetard: Elektra tries to seduce Bond as a means towards furthering her own plans for revenge against [=MI6=]. Although initially successful, Bond catches on pretty early in the film, but even during their final confrontation in Istanbul as he holds her at gunpoint if she fails to stop Renard herself, Elektra still insists that she means too much to Bond for him to bring himself to kill her. [[spoiler:Guess who's proven wrong when she defies him for the last time.]]
266* HollywoodDensity: That plutonium rod should have been a lot heavier than Bond and Renard treated it. As should have the plutonium Dr. Jones very easily picks up from her bag after the pipeline blows up.
267* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Pretty much all the good guys get hit with this trope at least once: Bond and M believe that [[spoiler:Elektra King is the grieving daughter of an old friend of theirs, rather than the mastermind behind her father's death]], Valentin Zukovsky has his bodyguard Mr. Bullion turn out to be in the employ of Renard, and Colonel Akakievich mistakenly believes Bond is behind the plot to steal a bomb from the nuclear test site he's overseeing, allowing Renard to take control of the situation, a move that ultimately costs the Colonel his life.
268* HospitalHottie: M refuses to allow Bond to return to duty after he dislocates his collar bone. Fortunately Dr. Molly Warmflash, the [=MI6=] physician, is a hot redhead who Bond seduces into certifying him as having "[[DoubleEntendre exceptional stamina]]".
269* HostageMacGuffin: Elektra King, the daughter of oil baron Sir Robert King, who was kidnapped five years earlier by Renard. [[spoiler:Let's just say that Stockholm Syndrome may have been involved somewhere]].
270* HospitalHottie: Bond seduces the [=MI6=] doctor (and not for the first time) to get her clear him for duty, provided he stays in close contact and shows sufficient stamina.
271* HugeHolographicHead: Dr. Molly Warmflash cues up a giant hologram of Renard's head. It is later shown with an X-Ray scan to show the bullet inside his brain.
272* HurricaneOfPuns: This movie is especially full of them, even for a Bond film.
273* IDontPayYouToThink:
274-->'''R:''' [''after botching a BondOneLiner and being called on it by Q''] I think—\
275'''Q:''' You're not here to think, you're here to do what I tell you!
276* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Renard gets speared by a steam-propelled reactor rod.
277* ImpersonationGambit: Bond impersonates a nuclear physicist trying to steal a warhead scheduled for decommissioning. When Christmas becomes suspicious of him, he passes a language test, but still gets caught because of the age discrepancy between Bond and the physicist.
278* IncriminatingIndifference: Bond realizes that Zukovsky's nonplussed reaction to Elektra losing a million dollars to his casino means they're in cahoots and that her "loss" was actually a payment she was making to him.
279* InjuredLimbEpisode: Bond injures his left shoulder in the ColdOpen, which comes up throughout the movie.
280* InopportuneVoiceCracking: After Bond and Jones are spotted in bed together by [=MI6=] satellites, M's voice cracks when she says "007!" as the film comes to an end.
281* InstantDeathBullet: While {{Mooks}} and bystanders die this way as a matter of course in the movie, a notable instance is when Bond shoots [[spoiler:Elektra]] in the face. She simply falls back onto a bed, dead.
282* InstrumentOfMurder: A submachine gun/flamethrower bagpipe hybrid is being tested by Q Branch.
283* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Bond is being tortured by [[spoiler:Elektra King]] during the penultimate confrontation. She indulges in kissing and taunting her former lover as she gradually breaks his neck. She then straddles his lap and asks sensually:
284-->'''[[spoiler:Elektra]]:''' Do you know what happens when a man is strangled?
285** Just when it seems like she is about to kill him by turning the wheel of the torture chair, he quips:
286--->'''Bond:''' One last screw.\
287'''[[spoiler:Elektra]]:''' Oh, James...
288* IsNothingSacred: Zukovsky has a variant, "Is nothing in this place straight?", which he asks both on the corruption he has to deal with as a gangster in post-Soviet Russia and on seeing a crooked wall painting.
289* ItsPersonal: Bond accuses M of this as she was a very close friend of Sir Robert.
290-->'''Bond:''' I brought the money in that killed King.\
291'''M:''' Don't make this personal.\
292'''Bond:''' I'm not; are you?
293* JustAStupidAccent: When Bond infiltrates a nuclear silo held by the bad guys, he poses as a Russian nuclear scientist, complete with heavy accent. However, when Dr. Jones comments on his remarkably good English in Russian, he delivers a reasonable reply in Russian that is unaccented enough to pass without comment. Still not enough to stop her from digging deeper, though.
294* KilledMidSentence: This is precisely how the corrupt banker is killed in the opening, and how [[spoiler:Elektra King]] gets it at the end.
295* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Valentin]].
296* KillAndReplace: Renard executes Dr. Arkov and has Davidov impersonate him for the rest of their mission. Then Bond kills Davidov and takes ''his'' place.
297* KillTheOnesYouLove: Bond experiences the tragedy of executing a [[spoiler:woman he loves, namely Elektra.]]
298* KnightInSourArmor: Bond notes that "Cold-blooded murder is a filthy business." As distasteful as it is to him, he'll do whatever it takes to get the job done. Then there's this exchange:
299-->'''Bond:''' The world is not enough.\
300'''[[spoiler:Elektra]]:''' Foolish sentiment.\
301'''Bond:''' [''with a distinct "ThisIsGonnaSuck but what else can you do?" tone''] [[BadassFamily Family motto]].
302* LadyAndKnight: This proves to be the situation: [[spoiler:The Dragon/Black Knight is Renard; the Sorceress archetype is Elektra King.]]
303* LaserSight:
304** A henchman in Bilbao is about to shoot James, when the latter spots a red dot on his chest. [[spoiler:It's Renard who shoots the man so Bond could escape with Sir Robert King's money, which was rigged as an explosive]].
305** After [=MI6=] is bombed and James is looking out of the hole in the building wall, he sees a laser sight just in time to duck out of the way. The cigar girl is located on a boat, about 300-400 meters away, with a G36 equipped with a scope. And she missed.
306* LastBreathBullet: A variation. [[spoiler:Zukovsky]] looks like he's going to play the trope straight by shooting [[spoiler:Elektra]] as he lays dying, but turns his cane-gun on Bond and shoots the restraints holding him to [[spoiler:Elektra's]] torture chair.
307* LaymansTerms: "You wanna put that in English for those of us who don't speak spy?"
308* LeaveNoWitnesses: Renard gets himself a Russian nuclear submarine. He brings along some refreshments for the crew. By the time Bond gets on the sub, the crew are all dead from the poison.
309-->'''Renard:''' [[BondOneLiner Enjoyed your meal, boys?]]
310* LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone: While it wasn't quick enough to prevent M's rage at it, "R" cuts the surveillance footage the moment it becomes obvious that they had found Bond and Christmas Jones having sex at the end of the film.
311-->'''R:''' It must be a premature form of the MillenniumBug.
312* LimaSyndrome: Combined with Stockholm Syndrome in the case of [[spoiler:Elektra King]], and then in reality the hostage was a ManipulativeBastard and seduced their captor, then allied with them to plan and carry out their schemes of revenge and nuclear terrorism. It stands out from most other examples because the Lima Syndrome doesn't make the captor more sympathetic, it reveals the captive was evil and the hostage-taker ends up getting enrolled in even more evil stuff (though, as the captor was already a psychopathic terrorist, that's not really saying much).
313-->[[spoiler:'''Elektra:''' When I realized that my father wouldn't rescue me from the kidnappers]], I knew I had to form another alliance.\
314'''Bond:''' ''You'' turned [[spoiler:Renard]].
315* LivingOnBorrowedTime: Renard is still walking around as a bullet slowly works its way through his brain.
316* TheLoad: Christmas Jones. Aside from the fact that in her first scenes, she nearly gets Bond killed and ends up inadvertently helping Renard (to be fair, she had no idea Bond was the good guy and was following protocol by reporting him), it's painfully obvious she's there just for Bond to have another Bond girl. Though she tries to help in the later action scenes, and as a nuclear scientist, gives 007 some info.
317* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: M is locked in a cell filled with random junk and isn't searched prior to her imprisonment. [[spoiler:She isn't armed, but she has the tracking chip from a stolen nuke, which they surely would have found if they had bothered to search her. Combined with the battery from a clock left outside the cell and a broom in there with her, she's able to activate the chip and alert Bond.]]
318* LoveHurts: Bond only permits himself a brief moment to grieve over the corpse of [[spoiler:Elektra]]. He leans over her and caresses her hair before he must carry on with his mission.
319* LoveInterestTraitor: James Bond receives a nasty surprise over the course of the movie. [[spoiler:Namely that Elektra King, his first LoveInterest, is in fact the BigBad.]]
320* MachoMasochism: Renard holds a scalding hot rock -- except he can't feel pain, so it doesn't matter to him. However, at the same time he [[DiscussedTrope tells of legends of monks who would hold those same rocks to prove their devotion to God]].
321* MadeOfExplodium: Most notably the parahawks, but also other things like a helicopter or two. Averted in some cases like the assassin's boat, which is merely wrecked by appropriately-sized explosions when it's hit by two torpedoes.
322* MadeOfIron: Bond spends the entire movie (save the cold open) with an injured shoulder. This only ever seems to bother him once, when Renard deliberately attacks it. Granted, with the amount of punishment Bond absorbs in one movie alone, let alone in his entire career, that cracked collarbone probably feels like a shaving cut until it's deliberately struck.
323* TheMagicPokerEquation: An interesting subversion of this happens when Elektra King bets a million dollars on a high-card draw at the casino... and loses (though the loss was only by a slim margin; a queen versus an ace). This is after Bond orders that the dealer bury the top three cards in the shoe to prevent tampering, which the dealer gave a silent OhCrap look as if it ''had'' been tampered with. [[spoiler:Turns out this is actually a discreet way for Elektra to pay Zukovsky for the services of his nephew's submarine for a smuggling run, so she had intended to lose it all along -- it was just sheer luck that she lost the un-rigged high-card draw anyway and completed the payment as planned.]]
324* MaleGaze: One of the gadgets from Q-Branch is a pair of x-ray glasses that enable the wearer to see what's underneath other people's clothes. Obviously the intention was to enable agents to spot concealed weapons, but Bond has another use for them. No wonder he's smiling.
325* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Elektra King. Well, the ''Woman'' Behind the Man.]]
326* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:Elektra manipulates Bond into having sex with her and loving her before betraying him and torturing him with a garrote, and revealing her plan to monopolize the oil industry. Unfortunately, somewhere along the line she forgets that Bond has killed women he's slept with before (and she's a genocidal madwoman). Renard screws with Bond earlier by teasing him about his own love for Elektra]].
327-->'''Renard:''' She's beautiful, isn't she? You should have had her before, when she was innocent. How does it feel to know that I broke her in for you?\
328'''[[spoiler:Elektra]]:''' James! You can't kill me! Not in cold blood!\
329'''[[spoiler:Elektra]]:''' You wouldn't kill me. You'd miss me.
330* AMatchMadeInStockholm: [[spoiler:Elektra and Renard]] are a villainous version of this. [[spoiler:He kidnapped her, and she seduced him when her father wouldn't pay the ransom. It is strongly implied that Elektra is ultimately just using Renard to fulfil her own evil agenda, meaning she was a PoisonousCaptive and he a JerkassWoobie; Renard may even realize this, but since he is dying anyway, he'll take what he can get. She quite openly intends to find another man (possibly just as another lovestruck pawn) once Renard has sacrificed himself to carry out her scheme, and she teases Renard (and James Bond himself) that it might even be ''Bond'']].
331* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: "Blowing up a prominent billionaire and part of [=MI6=] headquarters" is hardly a "minor crime", but the plot it reveals - to force a nuclear sub into meltdown, nuke Istanbul, and contaminate 90% of the world's oil supply - is definitely bigger.
332* TheMobBossIsScarier: Renard inspires this early in the film, and the Cigar Girl kills herself instead of accepting Bond's offer of protection.
333-->'''Bond:''' I can protect you!\
334'''Cigar Girl:''' Not from ''him''!
335* ModestyBedsheet:
336** Nearly {{averted|Trope}} with Bond and Elektra; only her arm is (barely) covering her breasts when he says, "Enough ice for one day," and turns her around so that he can kiss her. Creator/PierceBrosnan even stated in an interview that numerous takes were required for that moment because Sophie Marceau's nipples often showed, which is a big no-no if the filmmakers wish to retain a PG-13 rating.
337** Played ''very'' straight with [[spoiler:Renard and Elektra]].
338* TheMole: [[spoiler:Elektra.]] On a lesser note, there's [[spoiler:Bullion]] from within Zukovsky's organization.
339* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: This movie is actually a very conventional Bond film; the only thing which sets it apart from previous outings is Bond's gullibility when it comes to women. (Even in [=GoldenEye=], Bond guessed that Xenia was bad news right away.) Most interestingly, it’s the Cigar Girl (a credit rife with Freudian implications) who ends up being his greatest threat in the teaser, and the movie suggests that Bond ignored her because she was a woman, exchanging little more than a cheesy double entendre.
340* MsFanservice: No less than ''four'' gorgeous Bond Girls, even if two of them are only in brief, minor roles. Notably, even Elektra admires Dr. Jones' looks.
341-->'''Elektra:''' Pretty thing! You've had her too?
342* MyGreatestFailure: M laments on having failed Elektra and her father; when Elektra was kidnapped by Renard, Sir Robert tried to deal with Elektra's kidnapping on his own with no success, so he asked his close friend M for advice. M followed the agency's policy to not negotiate with terrorists, and told him to not pay the ransom demand. [[SenselessSacrifice It doesn't end well]]. Come the time of the movie, this ''really'' comes back to bite everyone in the rear end. [[spoiler:And we're not talking about Renard.]]
343* MythologyGag: The ski scene is very similar to the one in ''OHMSS'', and the design of Elektra's ski suit is very similar to Tracy's. [[spoiler:Which makes perfect sense, as she's initially presented as a Tracy replacement, before turning out to be one for Blofeld]]. There's also Bond's method of dispatching a parahawk's parachute by tearing it with his ski; Rick Sylvester, the stuntman who did the ski-parachute jump in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' actually almost died when one of his discarded skis passed dangerously close to ''his'' parachute.
344* TheNameIsBondJamesBond: Yes, Brosnan gets to say it twice in this movie. Valentin Zukovsky also [[ComicallyMissingThePoint addresses 007 as "Bond Jamesbond."]]
345* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Subverted. Elektra may talk a lot about her father, and becomes the owner of his oil company through heritage, but then it turns out that it was her mother's family that built up his wealth in the first place.
346* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: {{Subverted|Trope}}: Dr. Christmas Jones tells Bond at their first meeting that she doesn't want him to make any jokes about her name, but he mentions that he doesn't "know any doctor jokes."
347* NewscasterCameo: Then BBC newsreader Martyn Lewis appears in an 'archive' report on Elektra King.
348* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Christmas Jones runs a background check on the scientist Bond is posing as and figures out he is a fake. She and security arrive just in time to prevent him from capturing Renard, who then slaughters the guards and escapes with a nuke. Although in fairness, she wasn't in possession of all the facts at the time.
349* NoDelaysForTheWicked: Averted. Renard has only a small band of followers with him, rather than (as usual in Bond films) the well-funded personal army of a megalomaniacal multi-billionaire. At one point, Arkov complains to him about the four parahawks destroyed by Bond in the ski chase scene; they were rented and the rental company is going to be pissed. Creator/RogerEbert even cited this little scene in his review of the movie as proof to how the Bond villains can get mooks with special vehicles so easily and quickly in order to be sent after Bond.
350* NoodleIncident: Valentin tells Bond that the KGB cut Renard loose after an incident in Afgahnistan that made them decide he was too much of a liability.
351* NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow: Renard survived being shot in the head. A partial subversion in that the bullet is slowly killing him as it drills further into his brain. A bad case of ArtisticLicenceBiology as the part of the brain the bullet is in does not control physical sensation. Further, even if it did, try walking with all your limbs numb sometime. You might find it almost impossible to control what you cannot feel.
352* {{Novelization}}: This was the second of three films to be novelised by Raymond Benson. [[https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/The_World_Is_Not_Enough_(novelisation) More details here]].
353* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: This occurs with Bond, Renard and [[spoiler:Elektra]].
354* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Bond typically slays baddies without a second thought, but he's willing to spare [[spoiler:Elektra]]'s life and simply arrest [[spoiler:her]] if [[spoiler:she]] aborts the EvilPlan because he's still [[spoiler:in love with her]]. Bond even gives [[spoiler:Elektra]] not just one, but ''three'' chances to live ("Call him off. I won't ask again; call him off. CALL HIM OFF!!!"), but the BigBad foolishly ignores his threats.
355* OneBulletLeft: Valentin Zukovsky has precisely one bullet in his walking-cane gun, and has to decide between killing Elektra and freeing Bond. [[spoiler:He chooses the latter]].
356* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Sophie Marceau starts sounding very French towards the end of the film, particularly in the line "We might have met again, and become lovers once more."
357* OutrunTheFireball: Bond and Christmas Jones outrun a fireball that shoots up an elevator shaft.
358* POVBoyPosterGirl: Bond is the main character, but the story is really about Elektra King.
359* ParentalSubstitute: As a close friend of Sir Robert King, M is a maternal figure towards his daughter Elektra (whose mother had passed away some years ago before the events of the movie).
360* PassiveRescue: Bond is strapped in a torture device and [[spoiler:Elektra]] is about to break his neck. Zukovsky storms in looking for his (murdered) nephew and [[spoiler:is promptly shot. He then]] reveals he has a cane gun and takes aim at... Bond. Or more specifically, his restraints (probably because Bond being free to act would be much more helpful than a dead [[spoiler:Elektra]] with Bond still restrained and unable to put a stop to [[spoiler:her]] EvilPlan).
361* {{Patricide}}: [[spoiler:Elektra is the one who ordered the assassination of her father.]]
362* PowerGlows: The fuel rods in the submarine reactor briefly glow red, as they are very hot. The plutonium rod glows blue when it's being made in a special machine.
363* PowerPerversionPotential: When 007 is visiting Zukovsky's casino, he momentarily puts on his x-ray glasses, revealing all the women in their underwear. Of course, the glasses reveal that they're all armed, too, so he could just be checking out the opposition. But then, it's Bond.
364* PreMortemOneLiner:
365** Near the end just before Bond delivers the CoupDeGrace:
366-->'''Bond:''' [[spoiler:''[to Renard]'' She's waiting for you.]]
367** Bond attempts one earlier, remarking "See you back at the lodge" after tricking a pursuing Parahawk into driving off a cliff - but it turns out to be premature, as the pilot deploys a spare chute, and flies back into the action. Bond is visibly annoyed that his joke was ruined. Could also count as a CallBack to the pre-titles sequence in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', where it's Bond who uses that trick.
368** Zukovsky also gets one in after he encounters [[spoiler:his traitorous henchman Mr. Bullion who had been bought out by Renard and Elektra]]:
369--->'''[[spoiler:Mr. Bullion]]]:''' [[spoiler:Boss!]] So glad to see you!\
370'''Zukovsky:''' (''smirks'') Me, too. (''shoots him'')
371* ThePreciousPreciousCar: Bond's BMW gets sawed in half by a helicopter-mounted buzzsaw. While Bond usually chuckles when the car gets destroyed, here he actually looks sheepish.
372* PrettyInMink: Elektra's crimson red ski outfit, complete with a giant black fur hat.
373* ProlongedPrologue: To a great degree. The {{Cold Opening}}s are a Bond tradition, but this one is ''14 minutes long'', during which Bond recovers money taken from another 00 agent, the money is returned to Elektra King's father, and then said money is rigged to blow him up, and Bond subsequently engages the cigar woman in a boat chase. The filmmakers originally intended for the "get the money" scene in Bilbao to be the cold opening followed by the dancing oil lady credits, [[{{Irony}} but test audiences thought that scene was too short]].
374* PunnyName: Dr. ''Christmas'' Jones.
375* RecycledPremise: It might not be apparent as the villains' personalities are completely different, but the evil scheme in this film is effectively a modern update of the one in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. Both involve the nuclear destruction of a massive store of a precious resource, with tens of thousands of civilian casualties, in order to massively drive up the price of said resource, allowing the villains, with huge stakes, to become the wealthiest people in the world.
376* RedRightHand: Renard has a big scar on his forehead from a bullet's entry wound, with said bullet still slowly drilling into his brain. Also, [[spoiler:Elektra]]'s right earlobe is missing, [[spoiler:and she covers the mutilation with a large earring. She actually cut it off herself so that Renard, whom she had seduced into working with her by that point, could send it to her father as a warning. Renard had already fallen in love with her at that point, and he refused to hurt her]].
377* RedShirtArmy: Zukovsky's remaining men are all gunned down as soon as they're onscreen when they attack Maiden's Tower, which leaves Zukovsky himself all alone when he goes upstairs to save Bond.
378* RenegadeRussian: Valentin Zukovsky's nephew Nikolai, the captain of a nuclear submarine. They had no clue about the real plan.
379* ReplacedWithReplica: In the second half of the ActionPrologue, Sir Robert King's lapel pin had been switched with a replica containing a radio transmitter that sets off the bomb inside the briefcase retrieved by Bond from Bilbao in the first half that kills him and damages [=MI6=] headquarters. [[spoiler:It was switched by Elektra, who wanted her father to die by the money that he seemed to choose over her when he refused to pay the ransom -- the amount in the retrieved briefcase is exactly the same as what was demanded for her release.]]
380* ReplacementGoldfish: If Bond weren't actively trying to stop [[spoiler:Elektra's EvilPlan, she would've used him as her consort to replace the dying and impotent Renard]].
381-->[[spoiler:'''Elektra''']]: If only you had kept away. We might have met again in a few years and become lovers once more.
382* {{Revenge}}:
383** [[spoiler:Elektra is furious at her father and M for leaving her at the mercy of her kidnappers, so she arranges to have both of them killed, but only succeeds in murdering Sir Robert.]]
384** Renard hates M for sending a 00 agent to execute him; there's now a bullet in his brain which is slowly killing him.
385* RewatchBonus: [[spoiler:Elektra doesn't seem to care about losing a million dollars in one shot in Zukovksy's casino -- sure, she's inherited control of her father's business empire, but that's still a massive amount to bet all at once. In the scene itself she plays it off as her being free-wheeling and simply wanting to live dangerously, bringing up her "There's no point in living if you can't feel alive" CatchPhrase, but it turns out she's discretly paying him off for a smuggling job his nephew did.]] Bond does cotton on to the fact that [[spoiler:Zukovsky doesn't even blink at her dropping a million dollars on a single round of High Card, only hesitating after Bond demanded that the top three cards be buried, as if the whole scene was meant to be a rigged win for the house]]; he uses that hunch to track him down later for leads on what the BigBad is up to after [[spoiler:Elektra tries to kill Bond with the bomb in her own pipeline and he goes FakingTheDead to get her off his scent.]]
386* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The film's story was inspired by a segment in the November 13, 1997 episode of ''ABC News Nightline'', featuring Daniel Yergin. It was seen by Creator/BarbaraBroccoli on a plane in November 1997. The episode reported the last great oil discovery on the planet was in the region of Eastern Europe. It covered pipelines in the area, and discussed the grand reservoirs of oil that exist below the Caspian Sea. It told of the rise of small towns in the region, that have grown into centres of grand affluence, which has included the building of numerous casinos. The episode showed how this oil reserve was now an opportunity for the western world to capitalize, as it was no longer a Russian jurisdiction, and as such, major oil companies now had interests there. Broccoli hypothesized how a James Bond villain might want to create a monopoly by removing all competitors and owning the only pipeline in the region.
387* RisingWaterRisingTension: The final showdown between Bond and Renard takes place in the flooding reactor room of a nuclear sub.
388* RuleOfSymbolism: At the casino, Elektra draws the queen of hearts card during her card game with Zukovsky. [[spoiler:She manipulates men by making them fall in love with her.]]
389* SayMyName: M shouts, "BOND!!!" as she hears him run by her prison cell.
390* ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful: This is Elektra's attitude.
391-->'''Elektra:''' I've always had a power over men. [...] Nobody can resist me.
392* SeeThruSpecs: Bond's tinted lenses gave him quasi-X-Ray vision. He used them to see concealed weapons and lingerie.
393* SenseLossSadness: Part of Renard the Anarchist for being, well, an anarchist is that there is a bullet in his head that removes his ability to feel pain. While it does mean he can push his body further than a normal human, it also means he can't enjoy getting intimate with Elektra.
394* SexForServices: Bond has no problem with seducing an [=MI6=] doctor to get her to clear him medically for his next mission (though they are implied to have had a prior relationship). Her report states that he has exceptional stamina.
395* ShipOutOfWater: In the opening sequence, Bond takes the Q-Boat through the streets of London as he pursues the "Cigar Girl".
396* ShirtlessScene: Bond gets three, one for each woman he beds.
397* ShootOutTheLock: Impressively, Bond manages to do this to the door to [[spoiler:M's cell]] when he's standing outside the room (making it so his gun is parallel to the door) and only briefly pauses because he's in the middle of a chase.
398* ShootTheHostage: Bond grabs a mook as a HumanShield on the sub. The other mooks hesitate, but Renard immediately shoots the guy and his mooks follow suit.
399* SillyBrainDiagram: M details to Bond that an assassin named Renard took a bullet to the head, which is lodged in his brain. A 3-D brain hologram indicates the bullet's resting site as well as the penetration trajectory. Renard still has his senses and motor function, but with a constant adrenaline rush and diminished pain perception: essentially an ongoing speedball high.
400* SinkingShipScenario: The climax takes place aboard a sunken submarine.
401* SkeletonKeyCard: Bond has a Visa credit card with a lockpick inside it. Sliding back the lower portion of the card causes the spring-loaded pick to pop out.
402* SmokingIsNotCool: Bond gives a cigar to Moneypenny as a souvenir from his trip to Bilbao; the first thing she does is toss it in the garbage can.
403* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She's unnamed and her number is not stated, but there's clearly a female Double-0 agent visible at the briefing of Sir Robert's death at the Scottish [=MI6=] headquarters.
404* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Bond vs. Creator/JohnCleese.
405-->'''Bond:''' If you're Q, does this make him R?\
406'''R:''' Ah yes, the [[BondOneLiner legendary 007 wit]]... or at least, half of it.
407* SniperRifle: Used by the assassin in the ActionPrologue who saves Bond's life. [[spoiler:It turns out to be Renard.]]
408-->'''[[spoiler:Renard]]:''' You should show a little gratitude, I did spare your life at the banker's office.
409* SoProudOfYou: A variant. M tells Elektra that Bond is the best agent they have, but adds to never let him know she said that.
410* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: [[spoiler:Renard and Elektra give themselves away as conspirators by using an identical aphorism - 'There's no point in living if you can't feel alive'. A few minutes later, Renard jams his hand into Bond's injured shoulder - something else he could only have learned from Elektra, though when Bond confronts her about this, she points out that Bond has been wearing a sling and any number of Renard's spies could have told him about this]].
411* SpySpeak: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d.
412-->'''Christmas:''' You wanna put that in English for those of us who don't speak spy?
413* StairwellChase: Bond chases [[spoiler:Elektra]] up the stairs of her hideout during the climax.
414* StarterVillain: Bond fights the Cigar Girl during the pre-credits sequence.
415%%* StockholmSyndrome: Elektra King, maybe. Bond is doubting this by the end [[spoiler:and as it turns out, it's a [[LimaSyndrome reversal]] -- Elektra actually seduced her captor Renard, and he's working for her.]]
416* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Zukovsky.]] Downplayed as it doesn't happen until the climax, and he plays a fairly important role in the film until that point.
417* SuicideForOthersHappiness: Renard is willing to die in order to further [[spoiler:Elektra]]'s plan to [[spoiler:irradiate all her competitors' oil by blowing up a nuclear submarine]]. The fact he's slowly dying from a bullet wound to the head probably helps though.
418* SwordCane: Zukovsky has the gun variant. Apparently it's powerful enough to [[spoiler:shatter a manacle without harming the restrained person.]]
419* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Renard kills Captain Nikolai and his crew with poisoned brandy and food.
420-->'''Renard:''' Enjoyed your meal, boys?
421* TarnishingTheirOwnBeauty: [[spoiler:Elektra King]] cut off a piece of her own ear [[spoiler:to make her kidnapping look credible when she had actually seduced her captor, who subsequently felt squeamish about hurting her]]. However, this disfigurement is hidden behind large earrings until she takes them off to show Bond.
422* TemptingFate:
423** After Zukovsky's caviar factory is destroyed by [[spoiler:Elektra King]]'s helicopters, he remarks "We have no roof, but at least we have four good walls". [[ByWallThatIsHoley Guess what happens next?]]
424** Bond is, first and foremost, an agent of [=MI6=] and will do anything for his country -- the man is licensed to kill, after all. [[spoiler:Elektra thought she could get around this by playing on his affections. [[DidntSeeThatComing She was wrong.]]]]
425* TerminallyIllCriminal: Renard is one half of the BigBadDuumvirate and has lived so far with a bullet in his brain that's slowly killing him. Figuring that's he dead soon no matter what, Renard has no qualms about handling a nuclear fuel rod with his bare hands, nor with getting blown up in a reactor meltdown. Even after learning that his partner + lover is dead, Renard continues the EvilPlan, aiming for a DyingMomentOfAwesome.
426* TestOfPain: {{Discussed|Trope}} by Renard when he holds a meeting with his associates at the Devil's Breath, a natural gas fire which blazes continuously around a natural grotto. He talks about how Hindus make pilgrimages to the site to marvel at the eternally burning flames and test their devotion by saying prayers while holding scalding stones in their hands. He then picks up one of the stones to demonstrate his own immunity to pain, and uses it to torture one of his minions [[YouHaveFailedMe who bungled an attempt to assassinate Bond]].
427* ThatLiarLies: Renard does his usual "You cannot kill me because I'm already dead" BadassBoast to James Bond near the end, and Bond retorts (referring to [[spoiler:Elektra]]), "So is she." Renard goes berserk on Bond while screaming that he is a liar.
428* TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain: Renard not only survived a bullet in the brain but actually gained a superpower: [[FeelNoPain he can't feel pain.]] Admittedly it is [[BlessedWithSuck slowly killing him]] [[RuleOfCool but still, pretty cool]]. One can presume he was already badass enough not to injure himself (which is a constant danger in real life for pain-insensitive people). Really it is a case of BlessedWithSuck, since not only is he unable to feel pain, he's unable to feel ''anything'', '''including Elektra'''. [[UsefulNotes/SecretIntelligenceService MI6]] has admitted that they are unsure how it didn't kill him, but he apparently lived long enough to make it to a doctor who did the rest. Presumably, he would have died had he not sought treatment.
429* TitleDrop: It's the Bond family motto. It also got dropped 30 years earlier in ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''.
430* TokenRomance: A nice subversion. Elektra King is strongly hinted to be Bond's token love interest early on but is subsequently [[spoiler:revealed to be the main villain]].
431* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Bond's execution of Elektra King. Bond told her, at gunpoint, to call off the sub. She instead tells Renard to dive. This is after she just spent a few minutes taunting him about how he wouldn't kill her. SmugSnake, GenreBlind and TemptingFate all in one? She ''deserved'' to get shot.]]
432* ToThePain: [[spoiler:Elektra]] gets OFF on this...
433* TrafficWarden: Bond splashes two wardens (played by those featured in ''Clampers'') in a tight turn with the Q-Boat. Many cinema audiences in the UK cheered at this scene. Amusingly, the wardens were ''not'' told just how wet they were going to get (a small reservoir worth of water soaks them).
434* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:Elektra was kidnapped by the terrorist Renard and held for ransom, which her father refused to pay on the advice of M. Embittered by what she saw as her father's betrayal, she participated in Renard's scheme to milk money from her father]].
435* TranslationConvention: Subverted. While Bond is undercover as a Russian nuclear physicist and meets Christmas for the first time, they speak for awhile in English, then she ends the conversation by saying in Russian, "Your English is very good for a Russian". Bond is naturally unfazed and replies (in Russian) that he studied at Oxford.
436* TrespassingToTalk: Christmas is the first thing Zukovsky sees, letting him snark about calling security to congratulate them... then Bond shows up from behind the door with a gun.
437-->'''Zukovsky:''' Who are you, and how did you get in? I'll call security and congratulate them. Drink?
438* UglyGuyHotWife[=/=]UnholyMatrimony: [[spoiler:Renard and Elektra. Once kidnapper and victim, now he's her adoring lapdog willing to do anything for her while she lavishes gratitude on him.]]
439* UnfinishedUntestedUsedAnyway: Q's new "fishing boat" isn't ready yet when Bond hijacks it.
440* TheVamp: [[spoiler:Elektra King. She's really keen on having a relationship with Bond and guilt-tripping him, and the reveal that she's the true BigBad of the film cements her as this, to the point that she thinks that Bond wouldn't shoot her. She's wrong.]]
441* VaporWear: Elektra King's dress in the final act in Istanbul.
442* VerbalSaltInTheWound: Bond receives a shoulder injury in one early scene. Later, he finds himself at the mercy of [[BigBad Renard]], who [[AttackTheInjury grabs Bond by the injured area]] while telling him "I knew you couldn't shoulder the responsibility".
443* VillainSong: The theme tune by Music/{{Garbage}}, once you've seen the film. The lyrics are told from [[spoiler:Elektra]]'s perspective.
444* VillainousBreakdown: When Bond tells Renard [[spoiler:that Elektra is dead, he loses any sanity he had and starts pummeling 007, screaming, "Liar!" And he goes forward with inserting a plutonium rod into the core, which overloads its already radioactive contents]].
445* VillainousPlanInertia: Killing [[spoiler:Elektra]] doesn't interrupt the plan to nuke Istanbul in the least, as Renard is perfectly happy to do so [[spoiler:in her memory]].
446* VitriolicBestBuds: Bond and Q swap puns and join forces in mocking Q's replacement before Q exits with some final parting words of advice.
447-->'''Q:''' Now pay attention, 007; I've always tried to teach you two things. First, [[StiffUpperLip never let them see you bleed]].\
448'''James Bond:''' And the second?\
449'''Q:''' [[CrazyPrepared Always have]] [[TimeForPlanB an escape plan]]. ''[Q activates the lift and [[RuleOfSymbolism descends into the basement]]]''[[note]]Desmond Llewelyn died one month after the film debuted[[/note]]
450* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Elektra King, who was previously kidnapped and held for ransom by Renard. However, it's much later revealed that she is in fact the BigBad and working alongside Renard]].
451* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Renard was shot in the head by 009. The bullet didn't kill him, but it is slowly drifting towards his medulla oblongata which will eventually kill him. Unfortunately for Bond, this somehow also causes him to feel no pain and become stronger.
452* WellDoneSonGuy: M mentions to Elektra that Bond is her best agent, but she'd never tell him that in person.
453* WhamEpisode: One of the better plot twist ideas of the Bond franchise: [[spoiler:what if a Bond Girl was the Big Bad?]]
454* WhatTheHellHero: ''Renard'' of all people delivers this to the captive M, [[spoiler:when she chides him for corrupting Elektra, pointing out that he would never have had the chance to do so if [=MI6=] had rescued her]].
455* WhenHarryMetSvetlana: PlayedWith. A British woman is with the Russian man, both experiencing Stockholm Syndrome and LimaSyndrome respectively. They're an OutlawCouple and the BigBadDuumvirate.
456* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Dr. Christmas Jones warns Bond immediately upon introducing herself not to make any jokes because she's heard them all already. Bond demurs that he doesn't know any doctor jokes (which doesn't stop him from going for the low-hanging fruit anyway at the end of the film).
457** [=MI6=]'s doctor is named Molly Warmflash.
458* WholeCostumeReference: The costume designer said that Christmas Jones' tank top and shorts were intended to make her look like [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]].
459* WouldHitAGirl: Bond, much to the surprise of [[spoiler:Elektra King]] - and absolutely nobody in the audience.
460* XRayOfPain: Agent 009 shoots Viktor Zokas in the head. Rather than killing him, however, the bullet has a numbing effect on Renard's pain threshold, making him combat-effective despite taking damage. This "magic bullet" effect is shown by M to Agent 007 via a hologram.
461* XRayVision: Bond gets a pair of X-ray glasses. He uses them in a casino both to see who is armed and to check out the underwear of the lovely ladies present.
462* YouAreAlreadyDead: Renard has an untreatable bullet wound to the head; the injury will ''eventually'' kill him, but until it does, it makes him stronger and more resistant to pain every day. And he ''knows'' this, giving Bond an enemy that literally has nothing to lose - he is not just losing the ability to feel pain, but the ability to feel ''anything''. In fact, when Bond threatens to kill him in one scene, Renard chuckles and says, "You forget... I'm already dead."
463* YouCanKeepHer: M advised this to Sir Robert, as the UsefulNotes/SecretIntelligenceService does not give in to terrorists. [[spoiler:Elektra later repays M in kind by holding her hostage in a dingy tower prison cell]].
464* YouHaveFailedMe: Renard has Dr. Arkov killed when he suggests abandoning the plan following the failure to kill Bond, citing that he "failed his test of devotion".
465* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Renard obtains a nuclear submarine then murders the captain and crew.
466* YouWouldntShootMe: Almost literally [[spoiler:said by Elektra, as Bond holds her at gunpoint.]] Except he would. [[spoiler:Her mistake was overestimating her charms and underestimating his dedication to his duty.]]
467* YourDaysAreNumbered: Renard is a terrorist who is hopelessly in love with Elektra King and he's got a bullet lodged in his brain that's migrating, preventing him from feeling pain, but it's only a matter of time before it kills him.
468----
469-->''I never miss.''

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