History Awesome / QuantumOfSolace

* M helping Bond escape the hit squad in the hotel, then telling Tanner "I don't give a shit about the CIA or their trumped up evidence. He's my agent."

-->'''Bond:''' "[[AndThisisFor You and I]] [[PreMortemOneLiner had a mutual friend]]!" ([[BoomHeadShot shoots him]])

** The whole scene leading up to this, complete with its [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music of Awesome]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvvVr5CzXfI "Night At The Opera"]]. It's one of the few moments of the film where the camera work chills out, and oozes with atmosphere and intrigue.

* [[DeadpanSnarker Mr. White]] gets two: the "we have people... ''[[WeAreEverywhere everywhere]]''" scene, and "Well, ''Theatre/{{Tosca}}'s'' not for everyone".

* [[DeadpanSnarker Mr. White]] gets two: the "we have people... ''[[WeAreEverywhere everywhere]]'' scene, and "Well, ''Theatre/{{Tosca}}'s'' not for everyone".

** Even more so in hindsight. As of ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', Greene is the only Craig-era BigBad to actually fight Bond in melee. Not only that, he holds his own, despite (unlike the other Big Bads), not being much of a physical threat. He's aided by the [[InterestingSituationDuel hotel exploding]] but even with that he manages to disarm Bond before the explosions reach them and keep him entirely on the defensive until the causeway collapses.

** The whole scene leading up to this, complete with its [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music of Awesome]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvvVr5CzXfI Night At The Opera]]. It's one of the few moments of the film where the camera work chills out, and oozes with atmosphere and intrigue.

* [[DeadpanSnarker Mr. White]] gets two: the "we have people... ''[[WeAreEverywhere everywhere]]'' scene, and "Well, ''Theatre/{{Tosca}}'s'' not for everyone". Please, ''please'' [[CharacterDevelopment develop]] this guy into a MagnificentBastard? Pretty please?

* Fields [[spoiler:''tripping'' TheDragon]].

** What's awesome about this chase is that unlike most of his previous rides, Bond's Aston Martin DBS V12 doesn't have [[WeaponizedVehicle guns, missiles, smokescreens,]] or [[Film/GoldenEye champagne compartments]], only bulletproof glass and an armored cassis (and even with that, the car gets pretty chewed up). Bond only makes it out alive by being a BadassDriver and with a little help from an Heckler & Koch UMP-9 he used in the last film.

* Felix Leiter openly defies the JerkAss who is his boss and goes into a bar, has a brief InfoDump conversation with 007, then tells him he has 30 seconds to move his ass away from the CIA kill squad coming after him. He then proceeds to nonchalantly down his beer as the CIA busts in guns ablaze. He ''deserves'' that FieldPromotion at the end of the film.

%% ** What's awesome about this is that Bond's Aston Martin DBS V12 doesn't have guns, missiles, smokescreens, champagne compartments, or anything else but bulletproof glass and an armored cassis (and even with that, the car gets pretty chewed up)

[[caption-width-right:350:Greene might not look threatening, but this scene reminds us ''[[AnAxToGrind why]]'' he's the [[BigBad bad guy]].]]

* Greene managing to fight Bond into a stalemate also counts. This dude is a complete civilian and yet he survives fighting against world's best assassin.
** Even more so in hindsight. As of ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', Greene is the only Craig-era BigBad to actually fight Bond. Not only that, he holds his own, despite (unlike the other Big Bads), not being much of a physical threat. He's aided by the [[InterestingSituationDuel hotel exploding]] but even with that he manages to disarm Bond before the explosions reach them and keep him entirely on the defensive until the causeway collapses.

* The final scene with [[spoiler:Vesper's boyfriend]].

[[caption-width-right:350:Despite [[TheScrappy the hate]] that Greene gets, this scene reminds us ''[[AnAxToGrind why]]'' he's the [[BigBad bad guy]].]]

[[caption-width-right:350:As [[TheScrappy much hate]] that Greene gets, this scene reminds us ''[[AnAxToGrind why]]'' he's the [[BigBad bad guy]].]]

* "One shot, make it count." (blows a hole in the wall by shooting a gas tanks)

** The whole scene leading up to this, complete with its [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music of Awesome]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvvVr5CzXfI Night At The Opera]]. It's one of the few well-directed moments of the film, and oozes with atmosphere and intrigue.

* The scene with [[spoiler:Vesper's boyfriend]].

* Greene's managing to fight Bond into a stalemate also counts. This dude is a complete civilian and yet he survives fighting against world's best assassin.
** Even more so in hindsight. As of ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', Greene is the only Craig-era BigBad to actually fight Bond. Not only that, he holds his own, despite (unlike the other big bads), not being much of a physical threat. He's aided by the [[InterestingSituationDuel hotel exploding]] but even with that he manages to disarm Bond before the explosions reach them and keep him entirely on the defensive until the causeway collapses.

** Made even better with a dash of FridgeBrilliance. Craig!Bond's main pre-[=MI6=] spec ops experience is with the Special Boat Service (SBS). The kill team are none other than the CIA's ''Special Activities Division'' (SAD) their elite-among-elites paramilitary special forces group which are deployed on the blackest of black ops missions. One might expect the SBS to get the floor wiped by them courtesy of SAD operators (as SAD recruits from American SBS-comparable units like Delta Force and DEVGRU and is even more selective; again, it's the elite unit among most of the special forces community!) and especially so for one lone British operative. But no, with some nifty ConservationOfNinjitsu, CombatPragmatist chops (''crack'' goes Bond's elbow into the guy's face!) and amazing sprinting skills, Bond evades capture and basically makes the kill squad look clumsy!

** Made even better with a dash of FridgeBrilliance. Craig!Bond's main pre-MI6 spec ops experience is with the Special Boat Service (SBS). The kill team are none other than the CIA's ''Special Activities Division'' (SAD) their elite-among-elites paramilitary special forces group which are deployed on the blackest of black ops missions. One might expect the SBS to get the floor wiped by them courtesy of SAD operators (as SAD recruits from American SBS-comparable units like Delta Force and DEVGRU and is even more selective; again, it's the elite unit among most of the special forces community!) and especially so for one lone British operative. But no, with some nifty ConservationOfNinjitsu, CombatPragmatist chops (''crack'' goes Bond's elbow into the guy's face!) and amazing sprinting skills, Bond evades capture and basically makes the kill squad look clumsy!

-->'''Bond:''' "You and I had a mutual friend!" (shoots him)

* The Chase scene when Bond and Mitchell fall through a glass ceiling, and fight, clinging onto the construction platforms, trying to reach for the guns that were dropped as they fell, when Mitchell grabs a gun, Bond swing around on the overhanging ropes and shoots him first.