History WhatAnIdiot / JamesBond

* ''Film/DrNo'': The titular Dr. No lost the use of his hands prior to the start of the film (it's implied to have been caused by his work in radiation). However, he was able to use his genius to give himself mechanical prothetics.\\

'''You'd Think:''' Oddjob would continue beating up Bond since he's now unarmed and possibly succeed in killing him, or at the very least, prevent the bomb from going off and radiating the gold, accomplishing Goldfinger's plans..\\

** While on the train to the base, Bond decides to teach Madeleine how to use a gun.

'''The Result''': Madeleine manages to unload the gun without (thankfully) shooting anyone. She even [[WhatTheHellHero gives him a look that shows just how stupid he just was.]]

'''Result:''' When Bond sabotages his scheme to blow up the Skyfleet corporation's prototype airliner, Le Chiffre loses $101.2 million of the terrorists' money, and is [[IdiotPlot forced to set up a poker tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro]] to recover it, and both [=MI6=] and the CIA send agents from their own forces to infiltrate the game with the intention of then bankrupting Le Chiffre to get him to seek asylum with one of them.\\

'''The Result''': Safin guns him down, shooting him multiple times, likely fatally injuring him even if he hadn't decided to cap it off by poisoning in him a manner that would ultimately be lethal to his lover and child, forcing Bond to stay on the island after killing Safin and getting blown away to kingdom come by the missile strike on the island, resulting in a "TorchTheFranchsieAndRun" ending for the Craig era.

'''Instead:''' She decides to improve her chances of survival and completing the mission by killing the only person on the ''planet'' who might be able to neutralize or alter the virus.\\

'''The Result''': Safin guns him down, shooting him multiple times, likely fatally injuring him even if he hadn't decided to cap it off by poisoning in him a manner that would ultimately be lethal to his lover and child.

'''Instead:''' While Bond and Goodnight are getting ready to make love, Nick Nack tries to jump the two from above and stab them to death. Not only is Bond a trained secret agent who is literally twice his size, but to add insult to injury, Nick Nack takes so long choosing the right moment to strike that Goodnight sees him and alerts Bond. This leads to easily the most one-sided fight between Bond and a henchman in the entire series, with Nick Nack getting locked up in a suitcase, and doubtless put on trial and imprisoned as Scaramanga's accomplice, meaning he'll very likely never get to enjoy his inheritance.

'''Instead''' He punches Jaws in ''the teeth''. Nice going, James. One connection and a "CLANG" sound, and Bond's hand is in agony.

** BigBad Kamal Khan has an entire hunting group looking for Bond in the jungle right outside [[SuperVillainLair his home]]. Bond attempts to evade them by swinging on some vines....\\

** [[BigBad Le Chiffre]] not only works as a banker for several terrorist organizations, but he also runs a pretty shady criminal operation on the side. In the operation, he buys up company shares, short sells them to other people, and then orchestrates terrorist attacks on the companies' most valuable assets to drive their stocks into bankruptcy, while he earns a swift profit.\\

'''It Gets Worse:''' Le Chiffre himself ends up getting ''attacked'' by a pissed off client who has found himself out of pocket.\\

'''You'd Expect''': That M would listen to Bond and permanently shelve the project as there is no reason to develop such a dangerous weapon that could be so easily exploited. Plus, given the fact that he barely planned on using it, there's really no reason to develop it in the first place.\\

'''The Result:''' Nomi gives him a DeathGlare, says "You know what time it is? ''Time to die.''" Then she kicks him into a nanovat, which kills him painfully.

** The film reveals that in the past, M had pondered the idea of making a bioweapon known as Heracles that kills people based on similarities their DNA structure with the justification of only using such a weapon marginally. Not only that, but Bond had called him out on how dangerous a weapon of this caliber would be, and demanded he shut the operation down.\\

'''Predictably''': Valdo becomes disappointed with M's plans for Heracles and secretly teams up with [[BigBad Safin]] in order to see Heracles used for mass murder.

'''You'd Think:''' Oddjob would continue beating up Bond since he's now unarmed and possibly succeed in killing him, or at the very least, prevent the bomb from going off and radiating the gold, accomploshing Goldfinger's plans..\\

'''You'd Expect''': That a legendary, trained, skilled and experienced agent like Bond would ''carefully'' make his way back to the room, keeping his gun drawn and eyes out for Safin, who is surely lurking around somewhere.

'''Instead:''' He not-so-subtly implies he could use Heracles to wipe out the entire African race.\\
'''The Result:''' "You know what time it is? ''Time to die.''" ''[kicks him into a nanovat and painfully kills him]''

'''Instead:''' She goes berserk about it and kills him by kicking him into the nanovat, effectively destroying the only way to get the virus out of Bond.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' That either Q or Bond would realize something's up (and that a one-word password hidden in plain sight is suspicious), or that Q wouldn't have hooked the villain's computer up to an internal network before trying to open it.\\

'''Instead:''' Mallory thinks it's a great plan, and seems more concerned with what will happen if the Members of Parliament discover that they've been forging input files. To be fair, this IS James Bond they're talking about, and he does manage to kill off Silva and all his men, but with that said, for most of the film Bond had been clearly showing signs of BadassDecay (e.g. not passing [=MI6=]'s physical exam), which is a major theme in the movie, and in any case, he's unable to prevent [[spoiler:M from being killed]].