History Characters / JamesBondMoneypenny

The first Moneypenny. She appeared in all of the early movies from 1963 to 1985, during the entirety of Creator/SeanConnery's, Creator/GeorgeLazenby's and Creator/RogerMoore's tenures (fourteen movies in total).

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: She ends up shooting Bond by mistake while he struggled with Patrice atop a train, allowing Patrice to get away with the hard drive containing the identities of underconver NATO agents. Bond doesn't hold any grudge afterwards, as he perfectly knows she did it by mistake with a moving target and in a highly stressful situation.

* RaceLift: Her counterparts in previous movies were all Caucasian. Now she's played by Naomie Harris, who's of mixed (predominantly Afro-Caribbean) ancestry.

* AdaptationalBadass: Easily the most action-capable version of Moneypenny.

* CanonCharacterAllAlong: She's only known as Agent Eve for most of ''Skyfall'', but reveals her last name at the end when she becomes M's secretary.
* DidTheyOrDidntThey: ''Skyfall'' leaves it ambiguous over whether she had sex with Bond.

* GivenNameReveal: In ''Skyfall'', she's first known as simply "Eve" for most of the film, until her full name is revealed at the end. She's the first Moneypenny to be given a first name in 50 years.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: She ends up shooting Bond by mistake while he struggled with Patrice atop a train, allowing Patrice to get away with the drive containing the identities of underconver NATO agents. Bond doesn't hold any grudge afterwards, as he perfectly knows she did it by mistake with a moving target and in a highly stressful situation.

* RaceLift: Her counterparts in previous movies were all Caucasian.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: She ends up shooting Bond while he struggled with Patrice atop a train, allowing Patrice to get away with the drive containing the identities of underconver NATO agents. Bond doesn't hold any grudge afterwards, as he perfectly knows she did it by mistake.

* [[invoked]]NeverLiveItDown: After accidentally 'killing' Bond she's taken off fieldwork, likely forever.

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: According to WordOfSaintPaul, at least, she and Bond ''did;'' Maxwell said she and Sean Connery discussed a backstory where their characters dated years in the past when "Bond was a tea-boy [at [=MI6=]] and Miss Moneypenny was in the typing pool", complete with a romantic country weekend. They gave each other up to put work first, but it's very evident [[OldFlame in the chemistry and intimacy she has]] with Connery.

* NeverLiveItDown: After accidentally 'killing' Bond she's taken off fieldwork, likely forever.

* ActionGirl: This Moneypenny starts as an [=MI6=] field agent who worked along side Bond before she decided to take a desk job as Gareth Mallory's secretary. Before leaving the field work, she proved that she is a trained sniper, drives like a stuntwoman, took out two mooks with her heels and a metal suitcase and went on to shoot a few more before eventually deciding that fieldwork isn't for her.
** This is undoubtedly because of (or largely influenced by) her accidentally shooting Bond in Istanbul.

* KissMeImVirtual: She is the first Moneypenny ever to have kissed Bond on screen in the series[[note]]she did in the non-Eon film ''Film/{{Casino Royale|1967}}''[[/note]]... but it was only virtual, as she used Q's AugmentedReality goggles to satisfy her wildest thoughts in ''Die Another Day''.

* AscendedExtra: This Moneypenny has a bigger role in the plots of both the movies she's been in than all of the previous ones. She's introduced as an ActionGirl and actively participates in the Istanbul and Macau missions in ''Skyfall''. In ''Spectre'', she provides some help to Bond (bringing him clues from the burned ruins of Skyfall Lodge and helping him identify Oberhauser) and M (being one of his very few loyalists in the climax).

* MrsRobinson: With George Lazenby's Bond; Maxwell was 12 years older than him.

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: According to WordOfSaintPaul, at least, she and Bond ''did;'' Maxwell said she and Sean Connery discussed a backstory where their characters dated years in the past when "Bond was a tea-boy [at MI6] and Miss Moneypenny was in the typing pool", complete with a romantic country weekend. They gave each other up to put work first, but it's very evident [[OldFlame in the chemistry and intimacy she has]] with Connery.

* ActionGirl: This Moneypenny starts as an MI6 field agent who worked along side Bond before she decided to take a desk job as Gareth Mallory's secretary. Before leaving the field work, she proved that she is a trained sniper, drives like a stuntwoman, took out two mooks with her heels and a metal suitcase and went on to shoot a few more before eventually deciding that fieldwork isn't for her.

!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' | ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' | ''No Time To Die''

!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' | ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' | ''Bond 25''

* LastNameBasis: Fleming never revealed the first name of the novels' Moneypenny nor any of her background. Samantha Weinberg's ''Moneypenny Diaries'' series, set in the novels' continuity, went with "Jane", and gave her a backstory. ''Skyfall'' gave her a first name -- Eve.

* LastNameBasis: Fleming never revealed the first name of the novels' Moneypenny nor any of her background. Samantha Weinberg's ''Moneypenny Diaries'' series, set in the novels' continuity, went with "Jane", and gave her a backstory.

!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' | ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' | '' Film/Bond25''

* CharacterAgedWithTheActor: Lois Maxwell played Moneypenny all the way from ''Dr. No'' to ''A View to a Kill'', in 14 movies over 23 years, and it showed. In ''Octopussy'', she notes that she's getting older when she begins training in an assistant, Miss Penelope Smallbone, whom Roger Moore naturally tries to flirt with as soon as he enters the office.

M's secretary. She is generally portrayed as flirting with Bond, having a not-so-secret crush on him that [[UnresolvedSexualTension never gets resolved]].

M's secretary. She is generally portrayed as has having a not-so-secret crush on James Bond that [[UnresolvedSexualTension never gets resolved]].

!!! '''Played by:''' Creator/LoisMaxwell (1962 – 1985)

!!! '''Played by:''' Caroline Bliss (1987 – 1989)

!!! '''Played by:''' Samantha Bond (1995 – 2002)

!!! '''Played by:''' Creator/NaomieHarris (2012 – )

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The first Moneypenny. She appeared in all of the first fourteen movies, during the entirety of Creator/SeanConnery's, Creator/GeorgeLazenby's and Creator/RogerMoore's tenures.

The first Moneypenny and easily the best known, as she appeared in all of the first fourteen movies, during the entirety of Creator/SeanConnery's, Creator/GeorgeLazenby's and Creator/RogerMoore's tenures.

!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' | ''Film/{{Spectre}}''

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M's secretary. She is generally portrayed as has having a not-so-secret crush on James Bond that [[UnresolvedSexualTension never gets resolved]].

* KissMeImVirtual: She is the first Moneyepenny ever to have kissed Bond on screen in the series[[note]]she did in the non-Eon film ''Film/{{Casino Royale|1967}}''[[/note]]... but it was only virtual, as she used Q's AugmentedReality goggles to satisfy her wildest thoughts in ''Die Another Day''.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In ''[=GoldenEye=]'', Moneypenny is introduced as going to work after a date, with a traditionally feminine appereance, but at the same time eschewing the usual UnresolvedSexualTension with Bond, and stating that [[WereStillRelevantDammit she can sue Bond for sexual harassment]]. In the rest of her appereances, she has a BoyishShortHair, and switches towards more familiar teasing.