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* TreacheryCoverUp: Claims the GoldenEye attack was the work of Siberian separatists. [[BlatantLies Sure it was.]]



* TreacheryCoverUp: Claims the GoldenEye attack was the work of Siberian separatists. [[BlatantLies Sure it was.]]



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* GaslampCoverUp: Claims the GoldenEye attack was the work of Siberian separatists. [[BlatantLies Sure it was.]]

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* GaslampCoverUp: TreacheryCoverUp: Claims the GoldenEye attack was the work of Siberian separatists. [[BlatantLies Sure it was.]]

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* BadassDamsel: She's the only one to actually witness a satellite strike from the GoldenEye, and survive it. She then manages to make her way back to St. Petersburg from [[DeathWorld Siberia]] with a dogsled and almost hide successfully from a RenegadeRussian general. When she meets Boris again after his betrayal, she ''beats the crap'' out of him, and his to be restrained by a group of mooks. She also programs the second GoldenEye satellite to destroy itself, and then rescues Bond from the dish cradle by holding a helicopter pilot at gunpoint. Not bad for a simple techie, or the first Bond girl of the 90s.

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* BadassDamsel: She's the only one to actually witness a satellite strike from the GoldenEye, and survive it. She then manages to make her way back to St. Petersburg from [[DeathWorld Siberia]] with a dogsled and almost hide successfully from a RenegadeRussian general. When she meets Boris again after his betrayal, she ''beats the crap'' out of him, and his has to be restrained by a group of mooks. She also programs the second GoldenEye satellite to destroy itself, and then rescues Bond from the dish cradle by holding a helicopter pilot at gunpoint. Not bad for a simple techie, or the first Bond girl of the 90s.



* HollywoodHomely: One of the only Bond girls never to be an explicit MsFanservice. Despite being played by a model, she spends most of the film wearing frumpy office clothing.

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* HollywoodHomely: One of the only Bond girls never to be an explicit MsFanservice. Despite being For a character played by a model, she spends most a lot of the film wearing frumpy time in frumpier office clothing.clothes to contrast her with Xenia.



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* {{Lzherusskie}}LivingMacGuffin: For the villains, she is a target, as she witnessed Ourumov's betrayal. Bond knows about her as well, but she isn't his primary target.
* {{Lzherusskie}}: Scorupco is Polish.
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* TheBaroness: Sexpot variant, natch.




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* GaslampCoverUp: Claims the GoldenEye attack was the work of Siberian separatists. [[BlatantLies Sure it was.]]
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* BadassDamsel: She's the only one to actually witness a satellite strike from the GoldenEye, and survive it. She then manages to make her way back to St. Petersburg from [[DeathWorld Siberia]] with a dogsled and almost hide successfully from a RenegadeRussian general. When she meets Boris again after his betrayal, she ''beats the crap'' out of him, and his to be restrained by a group of mooks. She also programs the second GoldenEye satellite to destroy itself, and then rescues Bond from the dish cradle by holding a helicopter pilot at gunpoint. Not bad for a simple techie, or the first Bond girl of the 90s.
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* {{Deuteragonist}}: She has her own sub-plot which runs parallel to Bond's until they meet in the helicopter.

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* [[GirlOfTheWeek Girl of the Movie]]Movie]]: But not a TokenRomance. Her character is given more focus than most, and she has her own sub-plot up until she meets Bond.


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* HollywoodHomely: One of the only Bond girls never to be an explicit MsFanservice. Despite being played by a model, she spends most of the film wearing frumpy office clothing.
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!Jack Wade [-(Joe Don Baker)-]

A veteran CIA agent working the same case who is Bond's initial contact in Russia.

* AllAmericansAreCowboys
* TheCavalryArrivesLate: He arrives with the Marines after Bond has everything taken care of. James even says "This is no time for a rescue."
* EmbarrassingTattoo: Used to verify his identity, much to his chagrin.
* {{Expy}}: He's pretty much Brosnan's version of Felix Leiter
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: In sheer contrast with Bond's sexual encounters of the past, this is deliberately played with and averted; Onatopp's treatment of Bond in the sauna basically implies rape with her forcing sexual stimulation from an unwilling Bond in a very violent situation, but it's treated as something Bond has to fight back against, and then it's totally played for laughs a scene or two later.



* RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: In sheer contrast with Bond's sexual encounters of the past, this is deliberately played with and averted; Onatopp's treatment of Bond in the sauna basically implies rape with her forcing sexual stimulation from an unwilling Bond in a very violent situation, but it's treated as something Bond has to fight back against, and then it's totally played for laughs a scene or two later.

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* RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: In sheer contrast with Bond's sexual encounters of the past, this is deliberately played with and averted; Onatopp's treatment of Bond in the sauna basically implies rape with her forcing sexual stimulation from an unwilling Bond in a very violent situation, but it's treated as something Bond has to fight back against, and then it's totally played for laughs a scene or two later.
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* MoscowCentre: Valentin was once a KGB agent.

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* MoscowCentre: Valentin was once a KGB agent.agent.
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* RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: In sheer contrast with Bond's sexual encounters of the past, this is deliberately played with and averted; Onatopp's treatment of Bond in the sauna basically implies rape with her forcing sexual stimulation from an unwilling Bond in a very violent situation, but it's treated as something Bond has to fight back against, and then it's totally played for laughs a scene or two later.



* MoscowCentre: Valentin was once a KGB agent.

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* MoscowCentre: Valentin was once a KGB agent.
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* {{Expy}}: Onatopp is a nod directly to classic Bond villainess Fiona Volpe of Thunderball fame, but there are also elements of other bad Bond Girls, including Mayday, Naomi, Miss Taro and the unofficial bad Bond Girl of NeverSayNeverAgain.

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* {{Expy}}: Onatopp is a nod directly to classic Bond villainess Fiona Volpe of Thunderball fame, but there are also elements of other bad Bond Girls, including Mayday, Naomi, Miss Taro and the unofficial bad Bond Girl of NeverSayNeverAgain.''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''.
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* PutDownYourGunAndStepAway: Tried with Natalya.

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* PutDownYourGunAndStepAway: Tried Twice, once with Natalya.Trevelyan, and again with Natalya
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** On the masochist side, she loves Bond hitting her in the sauna scene.
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!Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky [-(RobbieColtrane)]-]

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* PlayfulHacker: A particularly villainous one. Natalya calls him on treating people's lives like a game during their confrontation.

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* PlayfulHacker: A particularly villainous one. Natalya calls him on treating people's lives like a game during their confrontation.confrontation.
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!Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky [-(RobbieColtrane)]-]

An ex-KGB agent turned Russian mafioso. Bond has to go to him for info about Janus, which is complicated by the history he has with Valentin -- the reason he has the limp in his right leg is because Bond shot him in the knee, and Bond also stole his car and his girl, giving Valentin plenty of reason to be pissed off. Valentin makes a return appearance in ''The World Is Not Enough'', where [[spoiler:he sacrifices himself to save Bond from Elektra King]].

* ClickHello: Used by Bond on him in their first meeting:
-->'''Valentin:''' Walther PPK. 7.65mm. Only three men I know use such a gun. I believe I've killed two of them.
-->'''Bond:''' Lucky me.
-->[''another PPK is pointed at Bond's head'']
-->'''Valentin:''' I think not.
* TheMafiya: Valentin's current line of work.
* MoscowCentre: Valentin was once a KGB agent.
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!Alec Trevelyan, 006 [-(Sean Bean)-]

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!Alec Trevelyan, 006 [-(Sean Bean)-]
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* Expy: Onatopp is a nod directly to classic Bond villainess Fiona Volpe of Thunderball fame, but there are also elements of other bad Bond Girls, including Mayday, Naomi, Miss Taro and the unofficial bad Bond Girl of NeverSayNeverAgain.

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* Expy: {{Expy}}: Onatopp is a nod directly to classic Bond villainess Fiona Volpe of Thunderball fame, but there are also elements of other bad Bond Girls, including Mayday, Naomi, Miss Taro and the unofficial bad Bond Girl of NeverSayNeverAgain.
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* FakeGunshot: Delivered to Trevelyan in the opening scene.


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* StagedShooting: Delivered to Trevelyan in the opening scene.
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* HumanPopsicle: His ultimate fate.

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* HumanPopsicle: KillItWithIce: His ultimate final fate.
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* MadeOfIron: Somehow, some way, he was not killed by [[spoiler: being inside a chemical weapons plant when it exploded while he was right next to the gas tanks with the explosives on them]], then he surives [[spoiler: a very, very, very long fall onto concrete. He wasn't in great shape, might have been dying, but was still alive. Of course, then the antenna fell on top of him, so we'll never know.]]

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* MadeOfIron: Somehow, some way, he was not killed by [[spoiler: being inside a chemical weapons plant when it exploded while he was right next to the gas tanks with the explosives on them]], then he surives survives [[spoiler: a very, very, very long fall onto concrete. He wasn't in great shape, might have been dying, but was still alive. Of course, then the antenna fell on top of him, so we'll never know.]]



!General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov

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!Boris Grishenko [-(AlanCumming)-]

A masterful hacker who used to work at the Severnaya facility along with Natalya. He is the only other survivor of the massacre, and was spared only by his agreement to work with Trevelyan and Ourumov. He is put in charge of the technical aspects of Trevelyan's plans for the Goldeneye.

* CatchPhrase: "I am invincible!"
** ...which leads immediately to his death the final time he says it, after [[spoiler:he survives the destruction of the Janus base]].
* CharacterTic: Boris' habit of spinning pens and clicking them while he's working. This becomes a ChekhovsGun when he gets his hands on Bond's pen grenade, which has to be clicked three times to arm it, and has to be clicked another three times to disarm it.
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* HollywoodHacking: Boris' "spike" is pretty classic HollywoodHacking, including an ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation. It ultimately gets used against him when Natalya spikes him in order to locate the Janus base just three minutes before the train she and Bond are on is set to blow.
* HumanPopsicle: His ultimate fate.
* PlayfulHacker: A particularly villainous one. Natalya calls him on treating people's lives like a game during their confrontation.

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!Natalya Simonova [-(Izabella Scorupco)-]

A techie at Severnaya, she survives the massacre of her co-workers and the subsequent EMP attack on the facility. She then starts searching for the other survivor, Boris, and meets Bond along the way.

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!Natalya Fyodorovna Simonova [-(Izabella Scorupco)-]

A techie at Severnaya, she survives the massacre of her co-workers and the subsequent EMP attack on the facility. She then starts searching for the other survivor, Boris, Boris Grishenko, and meets Bond along the way.
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!Xenia Onatopp [-(FamkeJanssen)-]

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!Xenia Zaragevna Onatopp [-(FamkeJanssen)-]



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* DarkActionGirlCombatSadomasochist: Xenia literally gets off on murdering people, as shown during the Severnaya massacre. It's enough to get an EyeTake from Ourumov himself.
* DarkActionGirl: In spades.



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* TheDragonTheDragon: For Ourumov and later Trevelyan.



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* TwoFaced: A mild example. After the opening scene in ''Film/GoldenEye'',the right side of his face is scarred, but it's much less exaggerated than most uses of the trope.

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* TwoFaced: A mild example. After the opening scene in ''Film/GoldenEye'',the ''Film/GoldenEye'', the right side of his face is scarred, but it's much less exaggerated than most uses of the trope.




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!General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov

A Soviet colonel who Bond and Trevelyan face off with during their mission to blow up the Arkangel Chemical Weapons facility, Ourumov is now a general and the head of Russia's new Space Division. One of Trevelyan's two henchmen (the other being Xenia), he is the one who stole the control keys for the Goldeneye satellite and detonated the first of them over Severnaya. He meets his end when he murders Defense Minister Dmitri Mishkin and kidnaps Natalya, leading to Bond gunning him down on board a missile train.

* TheDragon: One of two that Trevelyan has.
* EyeTake: When Xenia gets off on massacring the Severnaya workers.
* FakeGunshot: Delivered to Trevelyan in the opening scene.
* PutDownYourGunAndStepAway: Tried with Natalya.
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* Expy: Onatopp is a nod directly to classic Bond villainess Fiona Volpe of Thunderball fame, but there are also elements of other bad Bond Girls, including Mayday, Naomi, Miss Taro and the unofficial bad Bond Girl of NeverSayNeverAgain.
** Xenia also has her own expy in the form of the buff SIE of AlphaProtocol fame, who shares Onatopp's tendencies toward rough sex and violence.
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