History Awesome / JamesBond

%%* ''Awesome/TomorrowNeverDies''

*** He was upstaged ''by his own car'' in ''Tomorrow Never Dies'' though. Even if he was driving it by remote control ...

** Wai Lin, the kung fu BadAss chick from ''Tomorrow Never Dies'' gets a moment where a bunch of {{Mooks}} follow her to her safehouse... and she wipes the floor with them. Enhanced immediately afterwards, when Bond is making a minor idiot of himself setting off her disguised gadgets by accident, a recovering {{Mook}} gets up behind him -- and Wai Lin nonchalantly KO's him with a spring-loaded baby carriage. Awesome.

* M's use of a clock and a GPS locator card in ''TheWorldIsNotEnough''. ''TomorrowNeverDies'', telling Admiral Roebuck that although she may not have testicles, she does not require them to think.

%%* ''Awesome/AViewToAKill''

%%* ''Awesome/{{Octopussy}}''

** Despite having the most overblown movies, Moore managed to dress in a clown suit in ''{{Octopussy}}'', say "I am deadly serious," and actually make us believe it. The fact that he was trying to stop a nuclear bomb was likely helping that.

** orchestrating an assault on the BigBad's palace involving a hot-air balloon and several dozen bikini-clad jewel-thief circus contortionists (''Octopussy''),

*** Arguably topped by this scene in ''{{Octopussy}}''
-->'''Bond''': "You can't be inviting a nuclear war. What happens when the US retaliates?"
-->'''General Orlov''': "Against whom?"

%%* ''Awesome/ForYourEyesOnly''

*** Also, kicking a car with assassin trapped inside over the edge of the cliff in ''ForYourEyesOnly''. This moment stands out, in that Bond kills somebody in cold blood. It is one of the most serious moments in a Bond film ever. It is done by Roger Moore, famous for doing a more humorous Bond. Here he is dead serious, no BondOneLiner or anything. He just kicks it in silence.

** Melina Havelock pulling off a successful cross-bow shot against a guy diving into a swimming pool in ''ForYourEyesOnly''.

* The opening scene of ''ForYourEyesOnly'', where Bond finally gets rid of [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Blofeld]] ''by dropping him down a factory smokestack''.

%%* ''Awesome/{{Moonraker}}''

**** And in {{Moonraker}}, he manages to survive getting thrown out of a plane without a parachute by fighting the villain in mid-air and stealing his.

%%* ''Awesome/LiveAndLetDie''

* No mention of the sweet boat chase in ''Live and Let Die''?

* In ''LiveAndLetDie'', after dispatching [[TheDragon Tee-Hee]] on the train with surprising ease, Bond cozies up to Solitaire in their compartment. However, the camera reveals [[spoiler: Baron Samedi]] sitting on the front-end of the engine, bellowing a deep booming laugh. Close-up on his face, as the theme song kicks back on for the end credits.

%%* ''Awesome/DiamondsAreForever''

* In ''DiamondsAreForever'', [[spoiler:Bond discovers that he actually killed Blofield's double at the start of the movie. He's in a room with the real Blofield another double, but he doesn't know which is which. So he scares the cat and shoots the one it runs to with his last projectile. Turns out Blofield even made a double of his friggin' ''cat''. Well played.]]

%%* ''[[Awesome/{{ptitlenaugwvhn}} On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]''

** [[OnHerMajestysSecretService Lazenby]] finding himself in an allergy clinic/ski resort filled with beautiful women [[ReallyGetsAround and seducing every last one of them.]]
*** Also, the nerve-shredding safecracking sequence. It's BadAss to begin with, but gets elevated to awesome status when Bond not only swipes the documents he was looking for, but also steals the poor guy's ''[[PornStash stash of Playboys]].''
*** Bond's big fight with Blofeld atop a speeding dogsled was pretty damn awesome. Lazenby doesn't get as much love as he should.

** And picking just ''one'' moment for [[FallenPrincess Fallen Princesses]] [[OnHerMajestysSecretService Tracy]] and [[TheWorldIsNotEnough Elektra]]? Cannot be done. For added fun, multiply Elektra's awesome quotient by ten simply for being more awesome than [[ShallowLoveInterest Christmas Jones]]. If we had to pick... there's Tracy's fight with TheDragon, ending with her ''chucking him down the stairs'' and ''impaling him on a wall decoration''. And for Elektra, she ''slapped JamesBond'' after he ([[spoiler:correctly, it turns out]]) diagnosed her as having StockholmSyndrome.

*** Tracy's true moment of awesome is during the car chase scene. For the entire sequence, racing along icy mountain roads with a car load of mooks shooting at her, then ending up in a race/demolition derby with cars flying all over the place...and people ''still'' shooting at her, she's got an expression on her face that she's having the time of her life.
**** The best bit of that car chase is when one car makes a 180 degree flip...and the driver makes a ''slightly annoyed'' expression at Bond and Tracy.
***** "Thy dawn, O Master of the World, thy dawn …" Nope. Tracy quoting James Ellroy Flecker to distract Blofeld's attention from Draco's fast-approaching helicopters is her TRUE Moment Of Awesome. She judges his egotism perfectly (he even joins in!), outsmarting him with nothing more than poetry. THAT's cool.

%%* ''Awesome/YouOnlyLiveTwice''

*** In the otherwise dull ''YouOnlyLiveTwice'', Bond gets one when he takes on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c7hzHwETyk twenty times his number of thugs]]. Would've been better if he had ''won'', though......
**** 'Otherwise dull'? It has '''ninjas. Attacking a giant volcano'''. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome If that's not awesome, what is?]]
*** Tanaka gets one by proxy, as well, for calling in the [[GunshipRescue helicopter]] to take out the carful of {{Mooks}} chasing Bond. Electromagnets are involved. That is all.

%%* ''Awesome/{{Thunderball}}''

*** The final battle on the Disco Volante in ''{{Thunderball}}''. How awesome is it? [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B20JnEhfyk&NR=1 This awesome.]]

** Domino shooting Largo in {{Thunderball}}.

** Also from ''{{Thunderball}}'': nasty girl [[EvilRedhead Fiona]] {{Lampshading}} and gleefully mocking the SexFaceTurn:
--->'''Fiona:''' But of course, I forgot your ego, Mr. BondJamesBond, who only has to make love to a woman, and she starts to hear heavenly choirs singing. [[HighHeelFaceTurn She repents, and turns to the side of right and virtue]]...
--->[she steps on Bond's foot]
--->'''Fiona:''' ... but not this one!

%%* ''Awesome/{{Goldfinger}}''

** Connery using his wits to defeat Oddjob in ''Goldfinger'', rather than brute force.
*** Blow that, Oddjob himself is a complete CrowningMomentOfAwesome. And Connery hardly uses his wits until that final, desperate improvisation. What really makes it so awesome is that Connery's Bond is clearly scared shitless by Oddjob's apparent invulnerability, every blow proceeding through fists to wooden clubs to ''freakin' bars of solid gold'' doing nothing. It's rare to see Bond scared, and almost always awesome when he is.
*** From the same movie's pre-title sequence, Bond emerges from the water in a diving suit (with a duck on the top), takes the suit off- and reveals a perfect tux underneath.

** [[{{Goldfinger}} "I never joke about my work, 007."]]

* Bond isn't the only one who gets to be awesome in the movies. The villains, especially the various [[BigBad Big Bads]], have plenty of their own moments. To wit:
--->Bond: Do you expect me to talk?
--->Goldfinger: ''(laughing)'' No, Mister Bond, I expect you to die!
** And then Goldfinger stays there to watch Bond die. No assuming it will go as planned and that the hero is dead for good old Auric. He's going to be sure he's dead.
** Oddjob showing off his razor-rimmed hat in ''Goldfinger'' is pretty awesome, too. If busted by ''{{Mythbusters}}''.
** Oddjob's "[[IncrediblyLamePun pressing enagement]]".
** Goldfinger's spectacular air attack against Fort Knox definitely qualifies. It even comes with a villainous ThemeMusicPowerUp!
** "Who said anything about removing it?" Followed by a very subtle OhCrap moment from Sean Connery.

** Goldfinger (the person, not the movie) was a CMOA for the simple reason that he was smarter than most Bond villains. For example, in one part Bond escapes by tricking the lone guard, but is recaptured later. Next scene shows Bond sitting on his bed in the cell. The camera pans to show the same guard now armed and sitting in a chair a few feet away, and then the camera pans some more to show another six or so guards in the cell with him. Bond survived because of his intelligence, not the villain's stupidity for once.

%%* ''Awesome/FromRussiaWithLove''

*** ''FromRussiaWithLove'' - Bond manages to kill the [[BloodKnight totally brutal]] Red Grant with his own wristwatch-garotte. He then retrieves his money and incriminating film from Grant's pockets, growling "You won't be needing this...'old man'." Yeah.

** Red Grant's cool professionalism all throughout ''FromRussiaWithLove'' is a beauty to behold. He stalks Bond through the ''whole'' movie, even saving his life once, with Bond none the wiser. Then, he has the balls to kill Bond's contact, replace him to fool Bond. And Bond is ''totally fooled'' until Grant reveals himself as SPECTRE.

** Domino shooting Largo in {{Thunderball}}. And arguably Tania doing the same to Klebb in FromRussiaWithLove.

%%* ''Awesome/DrNo''

*** "You've already had your six" from ''DrNo'' is a defining moment for the entire character.

** coming to a BananaRepublic in order to aid 007 in ''Licence to Kill'' and chucking an invention away once he'd done with it,

** Pam Bouvier's ShowSomeLeg on a cult leader in ''LicenceToKill'' where she pulls a pistol from her thigh holster on him.

*** ''TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' has three:
**** Skiing ''off a cliff'', holding the audience in suspense for several seconds, then opening the parachute. In the colours of the Union Jack. There are records of audiences applauding at that. Stuntman Rick Sylvester deserves special mention, since he was the guy who actually traveled to Baffin Island and skied off the mountain.
**** Fighting a henchman, who nearly falls off a building to his death but manages to keep his balance by grabbing onto Bond's tie. The henchman reaches out for help, Bond grills him for information. The henchman tells him everything. Then Bond slaps the tie out of his hand and he falls to his death. Bond walks nonchalantly away, saying "What a helpful chap."
**** And last, but not least, the car/motorcycle/helicopter/submarine chase, with the CoolCar to end all {{CoolCar}}s. Slightly less serious, but still awesome.
** Timothy Dalton having a fistfight with TheDragon while hanging out the back of a cargo plane in midflight. ''While a time bomb is counting down.'' [[{{HSQ}} Yikes.]]
*** He gets a second one in ''LicenceToKill'' when he, underwater, harpoons the pontoon of a seaplane, rises to the surface, skis until he's alongside it, climbs into it when it's in the air, and throws the pilot out. All this and escaping with the laundered cash in it.
*** Also awesome is what he does to Sanchez after the [[CarChase crazy truck chase]]. [[spoiler: They've crashed, they're tired, Sanchez is two seconds away from blowing 007's head off when he asks "Don't you want to know why?" And he holds up the lighter given to him by his friends who suffered because of Sanchez's thugs, and the gasoline-soaked scumbag goes up in flames.]] This troper almost cried when she saw it because it just seemed so... right.
** James replying to the [[BigBad villain's]], "For England, James?" with, "No. For me," was the best moment for Brosnan in ''{{GoldenEye}}''.
**** Wait, so him chasing Ourumov and Natalia through the streets ''[[TankGoodness in a tank]]'' doesn't count?
**** Or escaping from the chemical weapons plant on a motorcycle, which he then rode off a cliff and caught up with a plane?
*** For this troper, the scene from ''GoldenEye'' when Pierce Brosnan ''became'' Bond was when he and [[HeroesWantRedheads Natalya]] were facing the Russian official who threatened to execute them;
---->'''James Bond''': What, no small talk? No ... chit-chat? That's the trouble with the world these days, nobody takes the time to perform a really sinister interrogation. It's a lost art.
*** Brosnan topped it in ''The World Is Not Enough'' with the "I never miss" line.

** In ''QuantumOfSolace'', Bond's night out at the opera is made of win.
*** "Can I offer an opinion? I really think you people should find a better place to meet."
*** And the [[spoiler:dogfight sequence. And the initial car chase. And Fields ''tripping'' TheDragon. And the bit at the harbor in Haiti. And the scene with Vesper's boyfriend.]] Heck, even Quantum itself gets one with the "We have people...''everywhere''." line. [[spoiler:As in ''the same room''.]]

** [[TheSpyWhoLovedMe "I want that ready for Akbar's tea party"]],

** in ''GoldenEye'': "Don't touch that! ''[Bond backs away as if it bites]'' That's my lunch!".

** TheDragon in ''TheLivingDaylights'' successfully infiltrates an [=MI5=] safehouse by dressing up as a milkman. He proceeds to have a '''brutal''' fight with an [=MI5=] RedShirt, then uses a radio handset, adjusting his voice subtly, to warn everybody outside of a (false) gas leak. With the help of milk bottle grenades, he effortlessly kidnaps the target and escapes in plain sight by slightly changing his outfit to resemble a paramedic. Magnificent. While his theme music triumphantly blares in the background.
*** Made even better by the fact that it's only one part of one of the best [[XanatosGambit Xanatos Gambits]] in Bond movie history.
**** That RedShirt himself is a Crowning Moment Of Awesome. A somewhat unimposing-looking, skinny middle-aged chap (presumably played by a veteran stuntman) who nonetheless almost succeeds in fighting the much younger, bigger and stronger TheDragon to a standstill. Give that guy his own movie series!

* M's use of a clock and a GPS locator card in ''TheWorldIsNotEnough''. In ''{{GoldenEye}}'', telling Bond he is a sexist misogynistic dinosaur. ''TomorrowNeverDies'', telling Admiral Roebuck that although she may not have testicles, she does not require them to think.

** From ''Quantum of Solace'', 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."

** In QuantumOfSolace, he 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 JerkAss 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 that film.

* Another one, from the ''GoldenEye'' video game: At the end of the trainyard mission, Bond steps onto Alec's train, and two guards appear on either side of him. He guns down the one on the left, whips around to kill the one on the right, and then pauses, turns, and adjusts his tie right as the doors slide shut. ''Classic'' Bond.

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*** Blow that, Oddjob HIMSELF is a complete CrowningMomentOfAwesome. And Connery hardly uses his wits until that final, desperate improvisation. What really makes it so awesome is that Connery Bond is clearly scared shitless by Oddjob's apparent invulnerability, every blow proceeding through fists to wooden clubs to freakin' BARS OF SOLID GOLD doing nothing. It's rare to see Bond scared, and almost always awesome when he is.

**** 'Otherwise dull'? It has NINJAS. ATTACKING A GIANT VOLCANO. If that's not awesome, what is?

*** ''FromRussiaWithLove'' - Bond manages to kill the totally brutal Red Grant with his own wristwatch-garotte! He then retrieves his money and incriminating film from Grant's pockets, growling "You won't be needing this...'old man'." Yeah.
** [[OnHerMajestysSecretService Lazenby]] finding himself in an allergy clinic-slash-ski resort filled with beautiful women. And seducing every last one of them.
*** Also, the nerve-shredding safecracking sequence. It's BadAss to begin with, but gets elevated to awesome-status when Bond not only swipes the documents he was looking for, but also steals the poor guy's ''[[PornStash stash of Playboys]].''

** James replying to the [[BigBad villain's]], "For England, James?" with, "No, Alec, for me," was the best moment for Brosnan in ''{{GoldenEye}}''.
**** Wait, so him chasing Orumov and Natalia through the streets ''[[TankGoodness in a tank]]'' doesn't count?
*** For this troper, the scene from ''GoldenEye'' when Pierce Brosnan ''became'' Bond was when he and Simonova were facing the Russian official who threatened to execute them;
---->'''James Bond''': What, no small talk? No...chit-chat? That's the trouble with the world these days, nobody takes the time to perform a really sinister interrogation. It's a lost art.

*** He was upstaged ''by his own car'' in ''Tomorrow Never Dies'' though. Even if he was driving it by remote control...

*** And, least we forget: "Aaagh!! Yeah! Yeah, yeah. Yes, yes, yes, yes. [sobs then laughs] Now the whole world's gonna know you died scratching my balls."

** And then Goldfinger stays there to watch Bond die. No assuming it will go as planed and that the hero is dead for good old Auric. He's going to be sure he's dead.

**** That RedShirt himself is a Crowning Moment Of Awesome. A somewhat unimposing-looking, skinny middle-aged chap (presumably played by a veteran stuntman) who nonetheless almost succeeds in fighting the much younger, bigger and stronger TheDragon to a standstill. Give that guy his OWN movie series!
** And let us not forget Xenia Onatopp's preferred method of assassination. OutWithABang indeed!

** And picking just ''one'' moment for [[FallenPrincess Fallen Pricesses]] [[OnHerMajestysSecretService Tracy]] and [[TheWorldIsNotEnough Elektra]]? Cannot be done. For added fun, multiply Elektra's awesome quotient by ten simply for being more awesome than [[ShallowLoveInterest Christmas Jones]]. If we had to pick... there's Tracy's fight with TheDragon, ending with her ''chucking him down the stairs'' and ''impaling him on a wall decoration''. And for Elektra, she ''slapped JamesBond'' after he ([[spoiler:correctly, it turns out]]) diagnosed her as having StockholmSyndrome.

* Timothy Dalton having a fistfight with TheDragon while hanging out the back of a cargo plane in midflight. ''While a time bomb is counting down.'' [[{{HSQ}} Yikes.]]

*** And last, but not least, the car/motorcycle/helicopter/submarine chase, with the CoolCar to end all {{CoolCar}}s. Slightly less serious, but still awesome.

*** Blow that, Oddjob HIMSELF is a complete CrowningMomentOfAwesome. And Connery hardly uses his wits until that dinal, desperate improvisation. What really makes it so awesome is that Connery Bond is clearly scared shitless by Oddjob's apparent invulnerability, every blow proceeding through fists to wooden clubs to freakin' BARS OF SOLID GOLD doing nothing. It's rare to see Bond scared, and almost always awesome when he is.

*** Tanaka gets one by proxy, as well, for calling in the [[BigDamnGunship helicopter]] to take out the carful of {{Mooks}} chasing Bond. Electromagnets are involved. That is all.