James Bond - Television Tropes & Idioms

James Bond is a Time Lord.

Chiefly, it explains how he's been in action for so many years while remaining young, and why his appearance constantly changes. Also, why he's The Ace. And hey, he is British. (Obviously, as a Time Lord, he refers to himself as The Bachelor. Which means we now have The Doctor, The Master, The Monk, The Professor The Master's human form, and The Bachelor.

And, of course, Blofeld is also a time lord (plastic surgery? Regeneration, more likely). Perhaps even the Master, or, barring that, the War Chief, if those two really are different persons at all...

"James Bond" is simply a name picked at random (the author of a book on West Indian birds, in fact) that is adopted by every agent to hold the post of 007

Sort of like The Dread Pirate Roberts. Note that Bond tends to give it out freely, and is almost never referred to by his code number. This is supported by the original film version of Casino Royale, where the first James Bond -- now retired and tending to his roses -- complains to a government official about the "homicidal sex maniac" running around Europe using his name. In fact, this was what the director for Die Another Day wanted to do, in order to get both Pierce Brosnan and Sean Connery (the then latest and first Bonds, respectively) in the movie together, but Executive Meddling prevented it. And for good cause.

This theory doesn't hold water because pretty much all the Bonds have links to each other:
- Lazenby is seen fiddling with Connery-era gadgets like Grant's watch.
- Roger Moore visits the grave of the Lazenby Bond's wife, Tracy Bond.
- Timothy Dalton's Bond is known by Felix Leiter to have had an abrupt marriage.
- Brosnan's Bond noticeably refrences this in The World Is Not Enough.
- Although it's not impossible to retcon these into the theory; Lazenby received Connery's watch as part of his cover (in order to pass down certain objects between the agents to keep up the impression that they're one guy). Moore could have visited Tracy's grave as a mark of respect to his short-lived predecessor. Perhaps the man who became known as Dalton's Bond, like the man who became Lazenby's Bond, was also married at some point. As could have been Brosnan's.
- Lazenby actually refers to "the other fellow" (albeit in a Fourth Wall-breaking moment).

Furthermore, Connery's Bond later shows up in The Rock.
Also, take the example of the new Casino Royale: Craig's Bond is explicitly new on the job, but M is the same as she was for Brosnan's.
- Problem with that, though, is he's referred to as "James Bond" before he's officially made a Double-0, if I remember correctly.

The stories are sexed up accounts to justify Bond's outrageous expense reports.

"M" has to justify James Bond blowing millions of pounds at casinos in the Caribbean. She says "Well, he stopped a... a.. death ray. Mr. Prime Minister, let me have my tech guy "Q" explain it to you. It's very complex."

Except for Bond being a ridiculously good gambler who always walks away with more money than he started with, I can totally buy that.
- In her stories he's a great gambler. In real life he could be awful.
They also have to justify the property damage he commits.

There is a real 00 project. In Real Life.

The whole series of books and films exists to distract people. The 00s really exist. They are no where near as fantastical, highly sexed or suave as depicted (that is added for entertainment value) but they are real. The reason they have remained hidden is because anyone who comes across evidence of them thinks he has just stumbled across a film script/book exert/fan material.

This theory sounds an awful lot like this troper's theory in Grand Unifying Guesses, except that the original theory extended to ALL works of "fiction".

The movies and books are a government-sponsored simulation

In the movie and book universes, in the 20th century, there was a 00 agent named James Bond who did have all the adventures of the books and the movies. Now, in a futuristic cyberpunk age, a totalitarian government is putting new agents on an elaborate Virtual Reality training to make an army of "James Bonds", that's why Bond looks different in the movies, each actor is one of those new agents training in Virtual Reality to "be" Bond.

The Central American Nation in Octopussy is one and the same as Isthmus in Licence To Kill

James Bond could have been part of a British false flag operation to cripple the country's military so that Western-backed revolutionaries could take over the country, maybe even with Sanchez's help. However, this all goes wrong by Licence To Kill, where we see that the dictator for life has been replaced by another dictator for life, backed by the drug overlord Sanchez.

At some point Blofeld & Oddjob will return.

Furthermore, one will have his brain transplanted into the other's body. Given the terrible pun names we've already been subjected to, this isn't too far fetched.

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