Line #41 Film/Thunderball


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Music/TomJones ♫ He looks at this world and wants it all\
3	And he strikes like Thunderball ♫]]'']]
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5	->'''James Bond:''' My dear girl, don't flatter yourself. What I did this evening was for King and country. You don't think it gave me any pleasure, do you?\
6	'''Fiona Volpe:''' But of course, I forgot your ego, Mr. Bond. James Bond, the one where he has to make love to a woman, and she starts to hear heavenly choirs singing. She repents, and turns to the side of right and virtue... but not this one! What a blow it must have been. You, having a failure!\
7	'''James Bond:''' Well, you can't win them all.
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13	The fourth ''Film/JamesBond'' film by Creator/EonProductions, ''Thunderball'' saw the return and last directing gig of Creator/TerenceYoung in the series, and starred Creator/SeanConnery. It came out on December 29, 1965 in the UK. The TitleThemeTune was sung by Music/TomJones.
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15	The SPECTRE organization hijacks two atomic bombs, and holds the major countries of the West to a hefty ransom, threatening to destroy two major cities. James Bond is dispatched to UsefulNotes/{{the Bahamas}} to investigate and stop them.
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17	The storyline was recycled for the non-Creator/EonProductions Bond film ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain'', in which a now much older Connery reprised his role as Bond. Creator/ColumbiaPictures was (at one time) planning to remake ''Thunderball'' again, this time casting Connery as Ernst Stavro Blofield, but a court ruled against them in the matter of the rights to the James Bond character. MGM eventually bought out ''NSNA'' from its producer as leverage in the legal dispute.
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19	Preceded by ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' and followed by ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''.
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21	!!''Thunderball'' provides examples of:
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23	* ActionizedSequel: There was a noticeable attempt to make the action more fast-paced and the fights more nervous and brutal than they were in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
24	* ActorAllusion: As Bond bids farewell to Nurse Fearing, he says "Another time, another place", the name of another movie Creator/SeanConnery had starred early in his career.
25	* AdaptationalContextChange: In the book, Blofeld kills a mook for raping a hostage they took in. Said mook dies the same way in the film, but for stealing from SPECTRE's drug-running operation.
26	* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: In the book, Bond is sent to Shrublands Health Farm to detox as a result of poor fitness reports. The film offers no explanation as to why he's there -- he seems in pretty good shape to begin with. The novel also provides additional details about Shrublands that the movie omits, such as a key aspect of the clinic's regimen being a fad "nature" diet. This can make Moneypenny's quip about Bond being "on yoghurt and lemon juice" seem out of context.
27	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The books' version of Largo has a freakishly large head and hands, along with pointed ears and brown hair. The film's version is Adolfo Celi, a handsome SilverFox with a simpler, more iconic eyepatch.
28	* AdaptationalNiceGuy: SPECTRE, of all things. In the novel, they put a knife through the turned pilot's head as soon as he's played his role with no reason given. In the movie, they make a point of keeping their word and it can be inferred that he only died because -- in a movie-only scene -- the equivalent character tried to take advantage of the situation and demand more money than they had agreed on.
29	* AdaptationalNameChange: Domino's being changed from Italian to French meant that her name went from Dominetta "Domino" Vitali (born Petracchi) became Dominque Derval.
30	* AdaptationalNationality:
31	** Domino, who was Italian in the book (real name Dominetta "Domino" Vitali), is French in the film.
32	** Fiona Volpe was originally an Irishwoman named Fiona Kelly, but in the film is Italian, like her actress. Strangely, her first name was kept intact, even though "Fiona" was much more appropriate to an Irishwoman than an Italian (especially one probably born in the late 1930s if she is of similar age to her actress.)
33	* AdaptationalWimp: Downplayed with Domino. While she still kills the BigBad and saves Bond, in the novel she escaped on her own (rather than a mook doing a HeelFaceTurn and freeing her) and Bond is fighting Largo underwater, so that she both kills Largo and saves Bond from drowning.
34	* AmericaSavesTheDay: The [[UsefulNotes/CoastGuard U.S. Coast Guard]] frogmen parachuting to the rescue to help Bond stop the SPECTRE frogmen with the bomb.
35	* ArtificialGill: The mini-breather. After the movie came out, a naval engineer spoke to the producers, inquiring how they managed to make the mini-breather, since he was trying to develop one himself. He was devastated by their answer: Sean Connery was actually holding his breath and got to surface between takes.
36	* ArtisticLicenceGunSafety: When Bond goes to visit Largo at his home, Largo points a shotgun at his guest (Largo had been shooting skeet). Bond gently pushes it away. Of course, since Largo spends half the movie trying to kill Bond, starting shortly after this scene, [[ImpliedDeathThreat it might not have been accidental...]]
37	* AssholeVictim:
38	** Count Lippe, as well as the fake Major Derval and SPECTRE Number 9, the latter two of whom try unsuccessfully to embezzle money from SPECTRE they were not supposed to take (the fake Derval demands a raise in the middle of the hijacking, and the latter takes money from an offscreen drug scheme) and are killed quickly for disloyalty.
39	** Quist, who after carelessly foiling his own attempt to kill Bond, gets thrown into the shark pool by Largo for his failure.
40	* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: Colonel Jacques Bouvar, at the beginning of the movie. Bond makes sure that he will be attending his own funeral for real. Played with in that the first thing we see is the "JB" on the coffin. The camera then pans up to James Bond watching the funeral.
41	* BadassBiker: Fiona Vulpe, motorcyclist SPECTRE assassin.
42	%%* BadassCrew: Bond and his allies.
43	* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: As Largo is about to shoot Bond, Domino shoots him from behind with a HarpoonGun.
44	* BandagedFace: Angelo Palazzi undergoing the plastic surgery necessary to make him look like Major Derval.
45	* BeenThereShapedHistory: SPECTRE helped plan the Great British Train Robbery (which happened just two years before the movie came out).
46	* BigBad: Emilio Largo, as the mastermind behind SPECTRE's plot to steal nuclear warheads. Although it's made clear he's NumberTwo to [[GreaterScopeVillain Blofeld]].
47	* BigDamnHeroes: The underwater battle between Largo's SPECTRE frogmen and Coast Guard frogmen seems undecisive, until Bond zooms in with a Q-branch back thruster and turns the tide of the battle in favour of the good guys.
48	* BilingualBonus:
49	** Fiona ''Volpe'': Italian for "fox" (the animal), referring to her red hair and cunning as an assassin.
50	** Also Largo's ship: ''Disco Volante'' is Italian for FlyingSaucer, a tip-off of the breakaway hydrofoil front section. In the remake ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain'', it's actually called ''The Flying Saucer''.
51	* BlackmailBackfire: SPECTRE operative Angelo Palazzi tries to blackmail his organization into paying him more money at the last second before his part in the plans to steal several atomic bombs occurs (as he points out, he is the only infiltrator available for the job, with his surgically-changed face and all; and there is no way SPECTRE will get a replacement in such short notice. He also points out that said face is all the evidence he needs to show any agency that some dirty deeds are afoot). SPECTRE agrees, only to kill him rather unceremoniously once he has outlived his usefulness.
52	* BlofeldPloy: Blofeld electrocutes one of the henchmen sitting at his conference table for embezzling money from him (which he really was guilty of), only after interrogating another (and totally innocent) henchman for the reason why their drug trafficking ring had turned in such poor profits, showing that it applies to things other than just failing to kill a "00" Agent.
53	** In the book at least, the purpose of interrogating the innocent henchman was so the guilty one would relax... and therefore be touching the contact plates. And Blofeld then praised the innocent man (who'd totally trusted him to do what was right) for the calm way he'd taken the interrogation.
54	* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Patricia (blonde), Domino (brunette), Fiona (redhead)
55	* BoardToDeath: The iconic SPECTRE briefing scene ends with a zapped subordinate.
56	* BondOneLiner:
57	** "Mind if my friend sits this one out? She's just dead."
58	** "I think he got the point."
59	* BondVillainStupidity:
60	** Fiona Volpe successfully seduces Bond- not that it's especially difficult to do so- and doesn't do a HighHeelFaceTurn, but then monologues about it and generally screws around until Bond escapes, killing her shortly thereafter. Helga Brandt makes almost the exact same mistake a film later, though she's instead killed by her superior for being a moron.
61	** Largo himself provides a classic example. He catches Bond in his pool fighting with one of his men. The mook with him is just about to shoot Bond, while Largo stops him and instead traps Bond in there to be eaten by his sharks. Naturally, Bond uses this to escape - there were no security precautions keeping Bond from swimming to the shark pool and leaving from there apart from the sharks themselves.
62	* BookSafe: Bond uses a sound-activated listening device in a book to determine if someone has sneaked into his room while he's been out.
63	* BulletproofHumanShield: Bond is dancing with villainess Fiona Volpe when one of her henchmen attempts to shoot him in the back. Bond spins her around at the exact right time for the bullet to kill her instead.
64	* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Angelo demands an increase to his payment, smugly pointing out he's the only person who can do his job, which Count Lippe reluctantly agrees to. But when word of his behaviour reaches Blofeld, he orders Largo [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness to eliminate Angelo]] [[YouHaveFailedMe and Lippe]].
65	* TheCartel: Discussed during a SPECTRE board meeting. When Blofeld asks Numbers 9 and 11 on why their drug-running scheme generated less than expected revenues, Number 11 blames competition from Latin American drug cartels. Blofeld is unsatisfied with the response, and determines someone had been stealing money from SPECTRE.
66	* TheCavalry:
67	** The coast guard frogmen who are parachuted right in time to intercept Largo and his men underwater as they are carrying the bomb towards Miami.
68	** Bond himself is this to the coast guard frogmen, as his underwater BigDamnHeroes turns the tide of the battle.
69	* ChairmanOfTheBrawl:
70	** A chair is put to use in the fight between Bond and Bouvar.
71	** Bond chucks a chair at a ''Disco Volante'' goon during the final fight.
72	* CigaretteBurns: Largo uses a combination of a lit cigar and ice cubes to torture Domino for information, when he finds out she's in league with James Bond.
73	* CodenameTitle: Operation Thunderball.
74	* ColdBloodedTorture: When Largo catches Domino snooping around the ''Disco Volante'' with one of Bond's gadgets, he suspects that she's working against him and tortures her with ice cubes and a cigar.
75	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Two armies of divers fight over a bomb lost in the ocean. One side wears shiny black, the other orange.
76	* ColourMotif: In keeping with her namesake, Domino's clothes are black and white - black swimsuit, white dress and black and white bikini.
77	* ConcealingCanvas: Hiding a map of top-secret locations.
78	* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind: As Largo is about to shoot Bond, Domino shoots him from behind with a speargun.
79	* CoolBike: Fiona Volpe's BSA Lightning with the built-in missile launchers.
80	* CoolBoat: The Disco Volante with its [[BifurcatedWeapon breakaway shell]] and hydrofoils.
81	* CoolCar: Bond's Aston Martin [=DB5=] makes a reappearance. The team in Nassau make use of a '65 Ford Mustang for transport.
82	* CoolPlane:
83	** The Avro Vulcan nuclear bomber SPECTRE hijacks.
84	** Special mention goes to the modified B-17 that picks up Bond and Domino at the end -- it belonged to a CIA front company and was used for extraction on at least one RealLife spy operation. It was also used to develop the Fulton STARS sky hook.
85	* CoolShades: The Bahamas being a sunny locale more than one character wears one: Bond, Leiter, Vargas.
86	* CosmopolitanCouncil: The leadership of SPECTRE, which includes an Italian (#2), an Englishman (#5), a Frenchman (#10), a Japanese man (#7), and an American (#11). Though he doesn't speak, an Indian appears on the council as well.
87	* CovertGroupWithMundaneFront: SPECTRE uses the cover of a refugee aid agency — "International Brotherhood for the Assistance of [[TheStateless Stateless Persons]]".
88	* CreepyCrossdresser: In the cold open, SPECTRE agent Jacques Bouvar fakes his death and attends his own funeral disguised as a woman. Bond catches on (thanks to his not letting one of the men around him open a car door for him; it was the '60s) and he has to fight in the dress.
89	* CutHimselfShaving: The film begins with James Bond fighting it out with a bad guy in widow drag wielding a fireplace poker. Later, when a physical therapist (a hot one) is examining him, she comments on a scar on his back:
90	-->'''Bond:''' A poker. In the hand of a widow.\
91	'''Therapist:''' Really -- I thought you'd be just the type for a widow.\
92	'''Bond:''' Not this one, he didn't like me at all.
93	* CyanidePill: Bond's assistant Paula Caplan takes one rather than face interrogation by SPECTRE thugs. In a cruel irony, Bond would have arrived in time to save her if she hadn't.
94	* DamselInDistress:
95	** Bond's fellow agent Paula is kidnapped by Largo's goons and taken to his estate to be interrogated.
96	** Domino also qualifies, especially toward the end of the movie.
97	* DarkActionGirl: SPECTRE assassin [[EvilRedhead Fiona Volpe]].
98	* DeadFootLeadFoot: An aquatic variant as Largo's dead or dying body forces the Disco Voltane to run explosively aground.
99	* DeadlyDodging: What leads to Fiona Volpe's demise (see BulletproofHumanShield).
100	* DeadlyGas: Palazzi kills Derval with a pistol firing a spray of gamma gas, then later plugs a small cannister of the same gas into the oxygen supply of the crew of the Vulcan, after first switching to his own independent oxygen tank.
101	* DeathByMaterialism: Angelo Pallazi, the SPECTRE agent assigned to kill and replace Major Francois Derval, demands an increase in his payment, smugly pointing out he's the only person able to do his job. But when word of his behaviour reaches the top of SPECTRE, Blofeld tells Largo to eliminate Angelo after his job is done. Or perhaps they were going to get rid of him anyway.
102	* DecompositeCharacter: In both the novel and the movie, SPECTRE hires a pilot to steal a pair of atomic bombs. However, the movie changes their agent from Giuseppe Petacchi, a single pilot from World War II who is willing to sell out for a high enough price, and splits him into François Derval, innocent NATO pilot, and the thoroughly-evil Angelo, a SPECTRE agent trained to kill him and take his place.
103	* DefrostingIceQueen: It takes a while but nurse Patricia Fearing eventually warms up to Bond.
104	* DiabolicalMastermind: Emilio Largo designed the EvilPlan. Blofeld is also seen at the beginning of the movie, coordinating the various activities of SPECTRE.
105	* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: Weirdly, a ''rejected'' track: the song playing in the club where Fiona is shot is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oREmbGD84Kw Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang]], the song originally intended for the titles (the producers didn't like a NonAppearingTitle, so one actually titled "Thunderball" was commissioned).
106	* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation:
107	** The book and the film have Domino killing Largo with a speargun, but in different circumstances. In the novel, this happened underwater and she shot him through the neck, while in the film, it happens onboard the ''Disco Volante'' and she shoots him in the back. ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain'' has the novel's climax.
108	** In the book, SPECTRE kills the traitorous pilot via knife to the head. In the film, Largo slices through his airhose and leaves him to drown.
109	* DisabledInTheAdaptation: Largo didn't have an eyepatch in the book.
110	* DisguisedInDrag: The film opens with Colonel Bouvar, an adversary of Bond's, faking his death and dressing as his widow.
111	* DisposableVehicleSection: In the climax, Largo's yacht ''Disco Volante'' jettisons its stern section to confuse and divert the American and British warships closing in. The mooks left aboard the stern section use a variety of guns, from machine guns to a 40mm cannon, to fire on the pursuing warships. Meanwhile, the forward half becomes a hydrofoil, which is far faster than any of the pursuing ships and might have escaped if not for Bond's interference.
112	* DissonantSerenity: While the others are visibly sweating, Largo isn't the slightest bit perturbed by the electrocution of a fellow SPECTRE council member.
113	* DoNotAdjustYourSet: A downplayed version; Blofeld has a taped message of his demands delivered to 10 Downing Street, and the Double 0's listen to it during their MissionBriefing.
114	* TheDogBitesBack: Largo keeps Domino as his mistress, has her brother murdered and tortures her. She kills him with a speargun.
115	* DontTryThisAtHome: That lovely underwater sex scene with Domino? Um yeah, try that in real life and you might float to the surface unexpectedly fast and give yourself and your partner matching embolisms.
116	* TheDragon:
117	** Vargas and Fiona Volpe to Emilio Largo. The latter gets more screentime, but the former is more clearly Largo's enforcer.
118	** Largo himself is this to Blofeld, as SPECTRE NumberTwo.
119	* DressingAsTheEnemy: Bond steals a black wetsuit and hood to masquerade as a SPECTRE diver. Subverted when despite there being only a small part of his face visible through his face mask (and then only when looking almost directly at him), Largo ''still'' recognizes him.
120	* DueToTheDead:
121	** During the SPECTRE meeting, Blofeld delivers a brief, but sincere eulogy for Col. Jacques Bouvar. Played for BlackComedy when Bond grabs some flowers from a vase and chucks them onto Bouvar's corpse before fleeing.
122	** After Bond has removed the bandages from Derval's corpse and discovered his identity, he solemnly covers up the dead man with a blanket.
123	* EmptyQuiver: SPECTRE steals two atomic bombs and uses them to extort a huge amount from the British government.
124	* EnemyMine: When the sharks show up during the big underwater fight at the end, the SPECTRE frogmen and their opponents stop fighting each other and join forces to attack the sharks.
125	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Largo gets two. First when he gives a Gendarme a DeathGlare after being told he can’t park in a certain spot. Then when Number One electrocutes Number 11 he glances over and back to his papers as though he just witnessed someone swatting a fly.
126	* EvenEvilHasStandards: SPECTRE scientist Kutz is so upset to see Largo torturing Domino that he helps her escape.
127	* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: Domino (who is an Italian in [[Literature/{{Thunderball}} the novel]], but Claudine Auger turned her into a Frenchwoman).
128	* EvilPlan: SPECTRE's plan is to steal two atomic bombs and try to get ransom from the U.S. by threatening to launch them.
129	* EvilRedhead: SPECTRE assassin Fiona Volpe — so evil she's even immune to James Bond's legendary bedroom charms!
130	* EvilRunningGood: Emilio Largo is in charge of the International Brotherhood for Assistance of Stateless Persons, a philanthropic organization based in Paris. He is also "Number Two" in SPECTRE. The Brotherhood acts as a front group for SPECTRE.
131	* EyepatchOfPower: Emilio Largo, who wears a prominent eyepatch and oozes authority. It helps that he's one of the most charismatic Bond villains ever.
132	* TheFaceless: Ernst Stavro Blofeld, leader of SPECTRE. As usual.
133	* FailsafeFailure: Count Lippe tries to kill Bond by turning up the setting on a spine-stretching exercise machine he's strapped into. Bond blacks out and is only saved by Pat happening to enter the room just in time. Leaving viewers to wonder why the hell the machine was even designed to be able to go that fast.
134	* FakingEngineTrouble: After Bond rescues Domino from drowning, he fakes engine trouble on his boat so he can ask her to take him to an appointment in her boat (and get to know her better).
135	%%* FakingTheDead: Colonel Jacques Bouver at the beginning of the film.
136	%%* {{Fanservice}}: Even for a Bond film. This film features some of the most gorgeous women in the franchise's history.
137	* FantasyHelmetEnforcement: James Bond dons a helmet before going to fly around in the Bell Rocket Belt. The filmmakers objected to the helmet, but the stunt man refused to fly the rocket without it.
138	* FedToTheBeast: Largo has Quist fed to sharks after he botches an attempt on 007's life.
139	* FlareGun: Used for its intended purpose on this occasion, when Bond uses it to signal his location.
140	* {{Foreshadowing}}: After Bond kills Largo's TheDragon, Vargas with a spear from a speargun, Domino says "It should have been Largo." Guess how Largo is killed in the climax and by who?
141	* FreezeFrameBonus: During the underwater recovery of the bombs, one of the warning labels seen prominently on the side says "Handle like eggs".
142	* FriendOrFoe: Exploited by 007. Finding himself between two groups of the BigBad's men, Bond takes a shot at each, then quickly ducks out of the way when they open fire in each other's direction.
143	-->'''Largo:''' Stop it you fools! He's got you shooting at each other.
144	* GadgetWatches: Bond has a watch containing a geiger counter.
145	* GenderFlip: A passing example, but the novel specifically mentions that anyone who caught a glimpse of SPECTRE would note that even roles normally filled by women in the time period were played by men; the movie has at least one woman ready to courier No. 1's orders.
146	* GoingCommando: When James Bond seduces Pat, she drops her uniform and she's not wearing anything underneath.
147	* GreaterScopeVillain: Ernst Stavro Blofeld and SPECTRE once again lurk in the background, being behind Largo and his EvilPlan this time around. Although with Bond now facing their NumberTwo, it's clear a [[Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice proper confrontation with Blofeld]] isn't far off.
148	* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: When Bond drops his gun off the roof, it fires. It would be very rare for that to happen.
149	* HandSignals: Bond exchanges an "A-Ok" sign with an American frogman who he saves from a SPECTRE henchman.
150	* HarpoonGun: The climactic battle is fought by at least fifty men armed with harpoon guns. The use of a harpoon gun on Vargas leads to the immortal line, "I think he got the point". And Largo is killed this way by Domino.
151	* HawaiianShirtedTourist: Q is dressed like one when he equips Bond in the Bahamas.
152	* HaveAGayOldTime: "Is there any other reason, besides your enthusiasm for watersports?"
153	* HeelFaceTurn:
154	** Dr. Kutze, who throws the bomb fuses overboard and frees Domino.
155	** Subverted however in the case of Fiona Volpe, who mocks Bond's presumption that she'll go over to his side after sleeping with him (probably a CallBack to Pussy Galore's HeelFaceTurn in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.)
156	* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: {{Averted\|Trope}} with great prejudice on the set. Someone said, to the technician who was about to perform the Bell/Textron rocket-belt jump, that James Bond would look cooler if he didn't wear a helmet. The technician said to him, "Nuh-uh!" and kept the helmet on.
157	* HeroOfAnotherStory: Bond's comrade Double-0 agents at the briefing. It's the first time in the franchise we see them all in one place.
158	* HeroicSacrifice: Bond's fellow agent Paula is kidnapped by Largo's goons and taken to his estate to be tortured for information. She takes a CyanidePill and kills herself so she can't be made to betray Bond and the operation.
159	* HighHeelFaceTurn: {{Lampshade\|hanging}}d and {{subverted\|Trope}} with SPECTRE's "Black Widow" Fiona Volpe, who warns Bond not to expect that from her. Bond, probably because he's a bed-hopping bastard, actually shrugs this off with "Well, you can't win them all". Volpe is actually the first Bond girl this doesn't work on, but it turned out he wasn't actually trying it on her in the first place.
160	* HighVoltageDeath: In the first scene after the opening credits, Ernst Stavro Blofeld electrocutes one of the members of SPECTRE's ruling council in his chair, in the middle of a meeting, for embezzling from their drug-dealing operation in the United States.
161	* HistoricalRapSheet: There's a brief mention of SPECTRE taking a £250,000 cut of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Train_Robbery_(1963) Great Train Robbery of 1963]] as a consulting fee.
162	* HonourBeforeReason: When standing behind a car with a woman and being shot at, Bond jogs to her side, opens the door, and then all the way around the front of the car to the opposite door (which she doesn't even reach over to open for him). Apparently being chivalrous is more important than quickly getting to safety. Either that or he knows he has PlotArmour.
163	* INeverToldYouMyName: Domino demands to know how Bond knew that was her name (or rather, her nickname); he says it is on the bracelet on her ankle. It's not clear he hasn't read up on her already, since the reason he is in the Bahamas is following a lead about her recently murdered brother, though it didn't lead to her directly.
164	-->'''Domino:''' My my, what sharp eyes you have.\
165	'''Bond:''' (''as she walks away'') Wait till you get to my teeth.
166	* IdiotBall: It's probably not terribly wise to go around wearing the logo of an international terrorist organization on an oversized ring if you don't want to tip off the secret agent you just picked up that you're working for the enemy. When they got around to making ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160411185643/http://www.007.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SITE_RING_BLACK-1000x778.jpg the designs on the rings are notably much more subdued]].
167	* ImageSong: The title song by Music/TomJones describes Bond perfectly.
168	-->He always runs while others walk\
169	He acts, while other men just talk\
170	He thinks that the fight is worth it all\
171	So he strikes, like {{t\|itleDrop}}hunderball...
172	** Given that "thunderball" originated as a term for a nuclear mushroom cloud, it could also be said to describe [[VillainSong Largo--who is, after all, the one who is actually trying to "strike, like thunderball."]]
173	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Bond offs Vargas with a spear gun and Domino impales Largo with one.
174	* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: {{Averted\|Trope}} just ''once'', when Bond gets shot in the leg trying to lose pursuers in the Junkanoo parade. It's not even a GameBreakingInjury, to add insult to that.
175	* ImposterForgotOneDetail:
176	** Colonel Jacques Bouvar DisguisedInDrag as a rich widow. Bond spots him when he opens his car door himself instead of waiting for the chauffeur to do it.
177	** Downplayed with Palazzi: He says "au revoir" when the real Derval would have said "ciao," but someone calls him on it before he the impersonation goes live. Still, it's interesting that, despite all his study of Derval's voice and accent, he's still tripped up on a point of speech.
178	* ImprobableAimingSkills: A particularly weird one, where one of Largo's henchmen is aiming at Bond as he dances with Fiona. Bond spins around at the last moment so that he hits Fiona instead...right between two of Bond's fingers![[note]]This was likely because a fake blood pack was beneath her clothes, with Connery squeezing it to make it look like she was bleeding.[[/note]]
179	* IncrediblyLongNote: Rumor has it that Tom Jones passed out in the recording booth after holding the TitleThemeTune's final note for too long.
180	-->"Thun-DER-'''BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLL!!!!'''"
181	* InfraredXRayCamera: {{Averted\|Trope}}. The camera Q issues to Bond just lets him take pictures of the ''Disco Volante'''s exterior. Albeit in the dark and underwater.
182	* InopportuneImpersonationFailure: Colonel Bouvar fakes his death and attends the funeral disguised [[DisguisedInDrag as his widow]], face carefully hidden behind a veil. James Bond is almost convinced by this display... up until the "rich widow" opens the door of the car herself instead of waiting for the chauffeur to open it for her - clueing Bond in and prompting his assassination of Bouvar.
183	* InsideJob: {{Subverted\|Trope}}; SPECTRE replaces Major Derval with a double to infiltrate the bomber crew.
184	* ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: The Bahamas Junkanoo festival. Notably, those scenes had to be shot at another time of the year, so the film crew convinced the locals to stage an out-of-season Junkanoo for them.
185	* ItsRainingMen: The Coast Guard frogmen who are sent to intercept the SPECTRE frogmen who carry the nuclear bombs in the waters of Miami are parachuted over the sea.
186	* JetPack:
187	** Bond uses one in the opening to escape from Bouvar's mansion. Bonus points for this ''not being a special effect'', but was an actual flight by a Bell Aerosystems Rocketpack provided for use in the film by the US Air Force.
188	** During the underwater battle, Bond uses a Q-branch back thruster to go faster.
189	* JustPlaneWrong: The film gets a couple things wrong about the Avro Vulcan.
190	** The Vulcan only has a range of 2600 miles. Even assuming the jet was fully fueled for the planned exercises, that puts Fake Derval ditching in the Atlantic 1600 miles short of the Bahamas (where the bombs would have been both unrecoverable due to depth, and well beyond the range of helicopter searches from the Nassau area). The Vulcan famously ''did'' make 4,000 mile round trips several times during the Falklands War about twenty years after this film (traveling from Ascension Island to strike the Argentine-held Port Stanley airfield), but it required midair refueling.
191	** When Bond dives the sunken Vulcan bomber, he enters the cockpit through a small door via the bomb bay. It is not possible to access the bomb bay of a Vulcan from the cockpit due to being separated by bulkheads, the nose gear and a fuel tank.
192	* KillAndReplace: Expecting a car to ferry him to the airbase, Major François Derval opens the door and is astonished to find himself staring back at him. The imposter then shoots DeadlyGas into his face. He's SPECTRE operative Angelo Palazzi who mentions that plastic surgery, voice lessons, and two years of study were necessary to turn him into his target, so he can take Derval's place on the crew of a NATO atomic bomber. The corpse of the real Derval is then given a BandagedFace to look like Palazzi did when he was hiding his surgically-altered face earlier, by posing as recovering accident victim.
193	* KingpinInHisGym: Largo practices his aim with clay shooting in between stages of SPECTRE's plan to detonate stolen atomic bombs
194	* KnowWhenToFoldEm: This is only Bond film in which the villain's henchmen actually surrender after the battle in the climax. If you look closely, you can see them being taken into custody by the Coast Guard while Bond is chasing Largo on the surface.
195	* KungShui: Bond's fight with Jacques Bouvar leaves almost no bit furniture un-demolished.
196	* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The underwater battles are long. A common consensus today is that while in 1965 it was awesome, after aquatic shooting became kinda commonplace, they're really overdrawn.
197	* LegacyCharacter: A new Number 5 is shown at SPECTRE's board meeting, having apparently inherited the title from Kronsteen following his death [[Film/FromRussiaWithLove two films ago]].
198	* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: Done by James Bond of all people.
199	-->My dear girl, don't flatter yourself. What I did this evening was for Queen and country. You don't think it gave me any pleasure, do you?
200	* MagicPlasticSurgery: Used to make Angelo a dead ringer for Major Derval.
201	* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Bond and Lippe try to dispose of each other this way in the health spa.
202	* TheManBehindTheMan: As in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', Blofeld is the real villain, running things from the background.
203	* MeaningfulName: Domino wears a black and white bikini at one point.
204	* MilkmanConspiracy: The "purely philanthtopic" International Brotherhood for the Assistance of Stateless Persons is actually a front for SPECTRE.
205	* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Attempted murder of Bond → Hold the world ransom with two stolen atomic weapons.
206	* MinorMajorCharacter: The unnamed executives of SPECTRE, one of which gets electrocuted by Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
207	* TheMistress: Domino is Largo's mistress when she and Bond meet.
208	* MobstacleCourse: The Junkanoo chase, Bond's speed further impeded by a bullet in his calf.
209	* ModestyTowel: Bond encounters Fiona in the bath, and she asks him to hand her something to wear. Bond hands her a pair of ''high heels''. She eventually uses a face towel.
210	* MomentKiller: Bond and the physiotherapist Patricia are just about to get it on when Bond sees the ambulance bringing the dead pilot back to the health spa and has to go check it out. Patricia is not happy.
211	* MythologyGag: Leiter killing a shark with a speargun could be a nod to him losing an arm and a leg to one in the novel ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie''. Given what happend to him in ''Film/LicenceToKill'', it's grimly ironic.
212	* NeckSnap: Bond does it to Col. Bouvar with a foreplace poker and to two SPECTRE frogmen during the big underwater battle at the end.
213	* NoOneSeesTheBoss: The only movie where this is played straight, with Blofeld's face hidden even from his own criminal executives.
214	* NoOSHACompliance: The health spa at the beginning has a back-stretching machine. The nurse straps Bond into it, turns it on and leaves the room. Somebody else comes in and turns the machine to maximum setting, which nearly kills Bond. There's no reason why that machine should be capable of doing that. (The same could be said for the steam bath Bond tries to parboil Lippe with in return.)
215	* NonViolentInitialConfrontation: The gambling scene between Bond and Emilio Largo.
216	* NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization: After blackmailing Patricia into sleeping with him, Bond is later shown giving her a massage with a mink glove while she purrs in satisfaction. [[ComeBackToBedHoney She gets rather miffed]] when Bond has to leave the room to investigate what Lippe is up to, but as he leaves is shown wanting Bond to write or just call...as the theme song points out, there's not much chance of that happening.
217	* ANuclearError: Well, Atomic, not Nuclear. And considering a recent ''Newsnight'' report, not ANuclearError. It's still hard to believe British air-dropped atomic bombs were protected by ''bicycle locks''.
218	* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The executive in the briefing crew who keeps reminding everybody that if the bomb is not found the ransom payment will have to be delivered. He mentions this [[RuleOfThree three times]] throughout the film, and are his only lines to boot.
219	* ObviousStuntDouble: An obvious stunt double for Sean Connery, clad in a pink swimsuit, swimming in the canal, then emerging up the stairs and alongside the bridge
220	* OfCorpseHesAlive: Fiona dances with Bond while one of her gunmen is aiming at Bond's back. Bond suddenly twirls her around so she takes the bullet. And then he seats her in a chair.
221	-->"Would you mind if my friend sits this one out? She's just dead".
222	* OldSchoolChivalry: It's also a slight plot point in the opening sequence. Bond realizes that the supposedly dead assassin is masquerading as his own widow when the veiled "woman" opens her own car door, rather than waiting for any of the surrounding men to do it.
223	* OnlyAFleshWound: Bond takes a bullet right into his ankle and still manages to run and escape his pursuers, barely limping through the Junkanoo parade. He stops at a bathroom, pulls up his pants and ties a handkerchief around his ankle and he's good as new. Of course, the very next day when he swims out to Largo's island in his swimming shorts, his leg [[HollywoodHealing doesn't even have a scratch on it]].
224	* PinPullingTeeth: While Vargas is dropping hand grenades over the side of Largo's yacht in an attempt to kill a scuba-diving Bond, he pulls out the pins with his teeth.
225	* PlayingBothSides: The SPECTRE meeting shows them distributing Red Chinese narcotics in the US while simultaneously killing an antimatter specialist who defected to the Soviets on behalf of the French Foreign Ministry.
226	* PocketRocketLauncher: At one point of the film, [[FemmeFatale SPECTRE agent Fiona Volpe]] uses a [[CoolBike BSA A65 Lightning motorcycle]] fitted with rockets to assassinate fellow agent Count Lippe [[YouHaveFailedMe because he revealed the plan’s existence to James Bond]] (ironically, she does this [[NiceJobFixingItVillain just as Lippe is in the middle of a car chase and shooting at Bond]]). The rockets, which [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/jamesbond/images/e/e8/BSA_Lightning_-_Rockets.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130130183124 come out of the Lightning’s air intakes]], are approximately the size of a soda can.
227	* PointThatSomewhereElse: James pushes aside a rifle that Largo has casually pointed at him as a veiled threat, before taking the gun to admire it.
228	* PsychoForHire: Vargas is implied to be one of these, but it plays out with such subtlety onscreen that it comes across as more of an InformedAttribute.
229	* RansomDrop: The British Government are forced to pay SPECTRE a diamond ransom. The ransom is to be airdropped on a certain location at a certain time.
230	* RealityIsUnrealistic:
231	** The Bell Rocket Belt Bond uses had its natural sound replaced by a "more realistic" fire-extinguisher sound.
232	** The method Bond uses to escape at the end is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system Fulton Surface to Air Recovery System]], which was dismissed as the fakest Bond gadget yet at the film's release (and was even dismissively "sinned" by ''WebVideo/CinemaSins'' when they did an "Everything Wrong With" video about the film).
233	* RealMenWearPink: Bond has no problem walking around Nassau in a short-sleeved pink shirt.
234	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When Bond tells M and another government official that he discovered Derval's dead body around the same time he was supposedly flying the hijacked bomber the official with M dismisses Bond's story as fantastical, only to be sternly interrupted by M, who explains that if 007 claims to have seen Derval's corpse then that's enough to begin a serious investigation into the matter.
235	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When Fiona Volpe taunts Bond that sleeping with him was insufficient to provoke a SexFaceTurn.
236	* RedHerring: The first shot in the movie is a coffin with the monogram "JB" on it. For a moment viewers might think ''Bond'' is supposed to be dead; the woman Bond is with even lampshades this.
237	* RedRightHand: Largo has an eyepatch.
238	* ReliablyUnreliableGuns: The firing pin design of the Walther PPK should prevent an accidental discharge from dropping the gun, as happens when Bond is climbing onto the roof of Largo's mansion. The trigger has to be pulled all the way back for the gun to discharge.
239	* RevealingCoverup: SPECTRE's attempt to kill Bond, which risked alerting his superiors to their presence. Later, Fiona tries to subvert this, saying that killing Bond would only confirm that the bombs are in Nassau.
240	* RightBehindMe:
241	-->'''Moneypenny:''' Don't pull the wool over my eyes, James. You may be able to fool the old man, but...\
242	'''M:''' (exiting his office) That will be all, Moneypenny. And I'll thank you not to call me "The Old Man".
243	* RightHandCat: Blofeld strokes his pet Persian while overseeing the board meeting.
244	* RippedFromTheHeadlines: In 1963 a gang of robbers [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Train_Robbery_(1963) stopped and looted a Royal Mail train.]] One item reported at the SPECTRE board meeting is a consultancy fee of a quarter-million pounds for the job.
245	* SafetyGearIsCowardly: {{Averted}} with great prejudice when Bond puts on a helmet before a jetpack-powered escape. Apparently, someone told the (professionally-trained) jetpack pilot that Bond was too cool to wear a helmet. The operator pretty much said, ''"I am wearing this helmet, okay?"'' in reply.
246	* SamusIsAGirl: A motorcyclist kills Count Lippe driving a car and rides away. After running the cycle into a ditch, the cyclist takes off the helmet and reveals that she's SPECTRE assassin Fiona Volpe. The stunt double who actually rode the bike for filming ''was'' male.
247	* SaunaOfDeath: Bond locks Count Lippe in a Turkish bath. He is able to get out offscreen, but his bungling with both Bond and Palazzi gets him blown up by Volpe.
248	* SeaHurtchin: Domino steps on an urchin spine – poisonous and painful at the same time. Taking her ashore, Bond bites the spine out.
249	* SexFaceTurn: {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d and mocked spectacularly by [[EvilRedhead Fiona]]:
250	-->'''Fiona:''' But of course, I forgot your ego, Mr. Bond. James Bond, who only has to make love to a woman, and she starts to hear heavenly choirs singing. [[HeelFaceTurn She repents, and turns to the side of right and virtue]]...\
251	[she steps on Bond's foot]\
252	'''Fiona:''' ... but not this one!
253	** Bond {{lampshade\|Hanging}}s it himself immediately before this:
254	--->'''Bond:''' My dear girl, don't flatter yourself. What I did this evening was for King and Country. [[StealthInsult You don't think it gave me any pleasure]], do you?
255	* SexualExtortion: Pat coolly rebuffs Bond's flirtations, and is all business in her dealings with our boy James. But when she leaves Bond alone-- and defenceless-- in some sort of back-stretchy machine [[FiveSecondForeshadowing (that just so happens to be named after a medieval torture device),]] things take a turn for the worse when an enemy comes to kill him by turning the machine on too high. The therapist comes back, apologizing profusely, and begging Bond not to report her for leaving him. Bond tells her he can be convinced to keep this their little secret. In a major case of ValuesDissonance, this is PlayedForLaughs, and is in fact one of the rare cases the film is ''less'' politically correct than the book; in the book he agrees to keep silent without a fuss and they do it perfectly consensually later on.
256	* SexyDiscretionShot:
257	** As Bond and Volpe are about to have sex, it cuts to Junkanoo.
258	** And before that, Bond and Patricia the nurse after he strips her down in the sauna.
259	* SharkPool: On Largo's estate, and the final resting place of the [[YouHaveFailedMe thug who Bond jumps in his hotel room]]. Bond later fights another henchman in it, with predictable results; he stabs the man in the stomach, and the sharks, attracted to the blood, attack the injured henchman, allowing Bond to escape.
260	* ShowerOfLove: Actually a Sauna of Love, between Bond and a nurse at Shrublands.
261	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: It's hard to clearly see her during the briefing, but [=MI6=] agent 003 is a woman. Not until ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' would another female Double-0 agent be visible at such a meeting.
262	* SpySpeak: Fiona Volpe gets a wrong number call for a Mister Angelo, to let her know that the operation to KillAndReplace Major Derval (whom she's in bed with at the time) is about to go ahead.
263	* StarterVillain: Bond has to kill SPECTRE agent Jacques Bouvar before even the opening credits roll.
264	* StartsWithTheirFuneral: {{Subverted\|Trope}}. The film opens with a close-up of a coffin with "JB" on it, leading us to assumed that Bond is dead. It turns out to be the funeral of SPECTRE agent Jacques Bouvar and Bond is there to make sure he's dead.
265	* StealingFromTheTill: At the SPECTRE cabinet meeting in Paris, both Numbers 9 and 11 were involved in a drug-running scheme, but it generated less than expected. When asked why, Eleven insists it was competition from rival cartels that drove prices down and states everything was accounted for. Blofeld isn't satisfied with the response, determines one of the men had stolen from him, and executes the ''real'' culprit for the theft. In fact, Number 9 was a SmugSnake during the entire time, thinking he'll get away with it and that Number 11 will be the fall person. Blofeld [[KarmicDeath proves]] him [[BlofeldPloy spectacularly wrong]]. TruthInTelevision as real-life gangs have killed wayward members who tried to steal from them.
266	-->'''SPECTRE Number 11:''' Distribution of Red China narcotics in the United States: two million three hundred thousand dollars, collected by Number 9 and myself.\
267	'''Blofeld:''' ''Two million three?'' Our expectations were ''considerably'' higher, Number Eleven.\
268	'''SPECTRE Number 11:''' Competition from [[TheCartel Latin America]]. Prices are down.\
269	'''Blofeld:''' I anticipated that factor. Are you quite sure all monies have been ''accounted for'' by yourself and Number Nine?\
270	'''SPECTRE Number 11:''' To the penny, Number One.\
271	'''Blofeld:''' On the contrary. I have satisfied myself that one of you is clearly guilty of embezzlement. SPECTRE is a dedicated fraternity whose strength lies in the absolute integrity of its members. The culprit is known to me. I have decided on the [[DeadlyEuphemism appropriate action]]. ''[turns on switch, SPECTRE Number 9 is electrocuted in his seat. Other SPECTRE members are spooked.]''
272	* SteelEarDrums: {{Averted\|Trope}}, as an exploding grenade, sent after diving Bond, makes him put his hands on his ears due to pain caused by the noise.
273	* StormingTheCastle: U.S. divers vs. SPECTRE frogmen in an undersea battle.
274	* StraightEdgeEvil: Vargas, as Largo explains.
275	-->'''Largo:''' Vargas does not drink. Does not smoke. Does not make love. What do you do, Vargas?
276	* SuddenlyShouting: A mook sent by Largo breaks into Bond's hotel room get he promptly gets ass handed to him by Bond. Unamused by his attempt, Bond ''sternly'' passes a message to him to send back to Largo and tells him to leave. Fearing that he will be shot in the back, Bond hands him back his Pistol (unloaded) and when he further dithers his exit...
277	-->'''Bond:''' '''NOW MOVE!'''
278	* SuperWristGadget: Bond's watch contains a concealed Geiger counter.
279	* SurgicalImpersonation: The crux of SPECTRE's plot, having Angelo Palazzi get plastic surgery to resemble NATO pilot François Derval, who Palazzi then murders and replaces.
280	* TakeThat: To the SexFaceTurn in the previous movie ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' when Fiona mocks the idea that she's going to change her loyalties just because Bond has sex with her.
281	* ThatCameOutWrong: Bond hands M a photograph of Derval and his sister Domino sunbathing in the Bahamas. Bond requests to be sent there to follow up this clue.
282	-->'''M:''' Do you think she's worth going after?
283	-->'''Bond:''' I wouldn't put it quite that way, sir...
284	* ThreateningShark: A random shark happens by the big underwater trouble, and gets speared for it.
285	* ThwartedCoupDeGrace: Largo has James Bond at gunpoint and is about to shoot him when he is killed by a harpoon fired by Domino.
286	* TitleDrop: "Thunderball" is the name of the operation to retrieve the missing atomic bombs.
287	* ToastedBuns: {{Averted\|Trope}} with the jetpack, where the nozzles are well clear of the body. (Though the sound effect was changed because RealityIsUnrealistic).
288	* TooDumbToLive:
289	** What's more stupid? Trying to embezzle money from a man as infamously ruthless as Blofeld or thinking you could actually get away with it?
290	** Angelo deciding it's a brilliant idea to, at the last minute, try to hold out for more money from a group clearly ready to kill anyone to get their way. It's even hinted they were always going to eliminate him once he finished the job and he just gave them a better excuse to do it.
291	* TortureTechnician: Largo claims to be able to do horrible things with just a lit cigar and a bucket of ice. We have no reason to not believe him.
292	* TrailOfBlood: Shot in the ankle, Bond leaves a blood trail that causes mooks to follow him to a nightclub. Bond, ever the ladies man, dances with the female leader of the group, and manages [[spoiler:to get her to take the bullet meant for him]].
293	* TwoPersonPoolParty: Bond and Domino have one in the ocean, underwater (thanks to scuba gear). In RealLife it would probably result in the death or injury of one or both participants.
294	* UnderwaterKiss: Bond and Domino have sex ''entirely underwater'' at one point. Mind you, they had SCUBA gear on.
295	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The SPECTRE members are horrifed when Blofeld executes the treacherous operative - apart from Largo, who's casually going through his papers and treats it as just another day at the office.
296	* VillainBall: Count Lippe's attempt to kill Bond, which endangered SPECTRE's operation as it turned out to be a RevealingCoverup. It could be considered justified because he suspected (rightly) that Bond was suspicious of him, and knowing that Bond was the ArchEnemy of the organization might have firstly incorrectly (but reasonably) assumed that Bond was actually there to investigate him (or worse, their plot), and secondly might be acting on "kill on sight" pre-orders. Had he succeeded there wouldn't be a problem, and Bond was starting to look into him anyway after seeing his tattoo.
297	* VillainousBreakdown: Once his plans go south, Emilio Largo tortures Domino and tries to kill Bond after his plan is completely foiled.
298	* VillainousRescue: Count Lippe is blown up before he can kill Bond; the trope is more overt in the novel. In the movie Bond is about to take out Lippe with his Bond car gadgets when Lippe's car suddenly explodes, destroyed by Fiona Volpe's own WeaponizedCar.
299	* TheVillainSucksSong: The less explicit, but appear to be talking about a man who "looks at the world and wants it all", and "strikes like Thunderball". The whole point of that song was that it could be either about Bond or Largo.
300	* VillainWithGoodPublicity: As in the original novel, SPECTRE operates as a charity aiding refugees with HQ in Paris.
301	* VisibleBoomMic: As Bond goes down the stairs while listening to BBC Overseas Service announcement that Big Ben struck seven times instead of six at 6pm.
302	* TheVoiceless: Vargas is never heard speaking. He only screams when Bond shoots him with a harpoon gun.
303	* WackyWaysideTribe: Bond's killing of Colonel Jacques Bouvar at the start of the movie.
304	* TheWarRoom: Production designer Ken Adam designed two for ''Thunderball''. The cold, metallic and black SPECTRE conference room, and the [=MI6=]'s more classical style conference room with huge windows and tapestries.
305	* WealthyYachtOwner: Largo owns a yacht, the Disco Volante (Flying Saucer). Its front part is a detachable hydrofoil.
306	* WeaponizedCar: The Aston Martin [=DB5=] makes another appearance in the pre-title sequence. Fiona Volpe rides a BSA Lightning motorcycle.
307	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
308	** Bond's hat mysteriously vanishes during his meeting with the Home Secretary. It gets mentioned briefly during an awkward moment, but never comes up again.
309	** For a more serious example, there's Dr. Kutze, whom Bond has dive into the water following his HeelFaceTurn despite not being able to swim, and doesn't appear for the remaining five minutes of film.
310	* WidowsWeeds: {{Subverted\|Trope}}. While James Bond is watching the funeral of SPECTRE agent Colonel Jacques Bouvar, he sees that Bouvar's widow is wearing a black dress, hat and veil. Then he realizes that the widow isn't a woman at all...but a man, baby!
311	* WouldHitAGirl: Bond intentionally forces Fiona to take a bullet meant for him.
312	* YouHaveFailedMe:
313	** Blofeld electrocutes a SPECTRE member for embezzlement after sweating his partner on their drug-smuggling ring. Most of the other members present are stunned.
314	** Largo throws Quist into his shark pool after Bond sends him packing.
315	** Count Lippe tries and fails to kill Bond. He is then killed himself, for failing, because this attempt is what made Bond realize something was up, and for hiring an impersonator who demanded a raise in the middle of SPECTRE's operation and threatened to derail it if they didn't comply (that man is killed himself by Largo). It also introduces Fiona, who is apparently tasked with killing SPECTRE agents who fail.
316	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:
317	** Angelo Palazzi, the impersonator, [[DudeWheresMyRespect demanded a raise immediately]] before his mission of stealing the atomic bombs. He smugly points out that with so much time and effort already spent on the plot, there's no way SPECTRE would walk away from it now, certainly not over a pay dispute. His boss, Emilio Largo, was not pleased and kills him right after he delivers the goods. Whether or not this was always the plan, or only done because he demanded more money is unclear.
318	** A secondary example happens when the Disco Volante jettisons its rear cocoon, leaving the aft crew to fend for themselves in a losing battle against the US Coast Guard.

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