* HarsherInHindsight: [[spoiler:Creator/BenWhishaw kills Creator/DanielCraig at the end of this movie. In ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', he ends up losing him at the end after Bond asks him to order a missile attack on Safin's island, but Q wasn't aware that Bond would be infected with the virus programmed for his girlfriend's DNA and would end up staying.]]
* HilariousInHindsight: Quite a few relating to the fact that Creator/DanielCraig subsequently went on to become Film/JamesBond...
** The soon-to-be 007 plays a character who hangs around at Stoke Park, which was famously used for the golf scene in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
** Craig's character's name is given as "XXXX" in the credits ... not a million miles from the code-name of the Russian agent that [[Creator/RogerMoore one of his Bond predecessors]] romanced in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''.
** When XXXX is shown Gene's collection of guns, he plays around with it (as stated in the screenplay) "As if he's James Bond". It was this film that convinced producer Creator/BarbaraBroccoli to cast [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 Craig as Bond]].
** Later, XXXX does a bit of SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou after hanging up on Dragan.
** [[Creator/BenWhishaw Sidney]] shoots at the [[Creator/DanielCraig protagonist]] ... and later provides him with a gun in ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''.
** Moving away from Bond, the first time we see [[Creator/TomHardy Clarkie,]] he's wearing a surgical mask. [[Film/TheDarkKnightRises It looks almost familiar now.]]
* MagnificentBastard: Eddie Temple is an English crimelord who has become a feared and renowned figure in the British underworld, establishing himself as a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity legitimate businessman and member of upper society while secretly running a criminal empire behind the scenes]]. Temple's lifelong associate Jimmy Price lost a large sum of money in a bad overseas investment, blaming Temple for it and attempted to have Temple's beloved daughter kidnapped to use her as a hostage. Temple quickly undercuts this scheme by revealing his findings about Jimmy being a police informant to Jimmy's [[SocialClimber young and ambitious]] cocaine manufacturer XXXX during a HighAltitudeInterrogation, who kills him for the betrayal. Temple then cuts a deal with XXXX for a batch of ecstacy pills that were stolen on Jimmy's behalf from a group of Serbian gangsters, only to confiscate the drugs during the rendezvous and offering XXXX exclusive membership to a high-class social club instead. Temple is a ruthless gangster while at the same time being [[AffablyEvil courteous, witty, and polite]], reminding XXXX that it takes years of time and dedication to ascend the layer cake of life.
* RetroactiveRecognition:
** [[Creator/BenWhishaw Q]] as a CrazyJealousGuy.
** [[Creator/MattRyan One of the junkies]] is [[Series/{{Constantine}} John Constantine]].
** [[Creator/SallyHawkins The Duke's girlfriend]] as [[Film/TheShapeOfWater Elisa Esposito]].
** [[Creator/BurnGorman Gazza]] would become a [[Series/GameOfThrones FOCKING LEGEND in Gin Alley]].
* {{Wangst}}: Mr. X himself often likes to make a lot of complaints when things don't go his way.
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