History Film / Moonraker

* RoyalRapier: During Bond’s fight with Chang in Venice, Bond briefly uses a rapier to cut Chang’s shinai in half.

* WoodenKatanasAreEvenBetter: Subverted James Bond and Chang engage in a fight in Venice that eventually leads them into a glass shop (which Bond had toured earlier looking for his contact). Initially, his opponent (an apparent master of Kendo) had the advantage with the Shinai, until Bond picked up a glass-handled Rapier and sliced it in half. This wasn't what won the battle, though, as he soon lost the weapon himself.

* CutLexLuthorACheque: Drax has succeeded in not just planning but ''building'' a fully-functioning space station with a built-in radar-jamming cloaking device which renders it undetectable from Earth. Were he not a psychopath intent on wiping out humanity and creating his own master race out of the people on the space station, he could've made a fortune from the cloaking device alone by selling it to NASA (for whom he ''makes space shuttles'', so he already has legitimate and doubtless lucrative business links with them).

* CoolGuns:
** Jaws is seen firing an Ingram MAC-10 with a barrel-extension rather than the standard silencer, as he chases James Bond in a speedboat.
** The laser gun props were based on a plastic toy Uzi.

** The "ideal humans" vanish from the narrative once Bond reaches the space station. Whether any actually survive is never revealed. This is actually noticeable as the film takes pains to focus on the fact that the women among them are the same ones Bond sees earlier at Drax' estate and in the glass factory in Venice, yet we never learn their fate and the only people being seen killed on screen are Drax' male troops.

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* ArtisticLicenceBiology: Drax designs a chemical that will kill humans but not animals or plants. Humans actually ''are'' animals and a ''huge'' chunk of animals roaming the world have similar respiratory systems, meaning that they'd be killed too. The only way a chemical like that would only harm humans would be if it was gene-based (like the weapon from ''Film/NoTimeToDie''), but ''Moonraker'' has no indication that it is.

** Drax himself receives ''three'' from Bond:

* CuteMute: Dolly doesn't seem to talk any more than Jaws does.

* EstablishingCharacterMusic: Drax is introduced playing Music/FredericChopin's Prelude no. 15 in D-flat major (op. 28), "Raindrop") on the piano.

* GoKartingWithBowser: Frederick Grey mentions that he plays bridge with Drax, a nod to the card-playing sequence in [[Literature/{{Moonraker}} the original novel]].

* MadeOfIron: Continuing the trend started in the previous movie, Jaws survives a fall from an airplane in the cold-open (he falls through a circus tent and lands in the trapeze artists' safety net, which would still have killed him). Then, he emerges unscathed from a cable car that crashes through a wall (and shortly before that, he bites through a thick cable, the story ignoring the fact that the inside of his mouth is made from soft skin that would not like the jagged bits of metal fraying as he bit), falls over Iguazu Falls without suffering any injury, and, in the climactic scene, [[spoiler:the dialogue implies that he and his girlfriend survive [[SerialEscalation falling from low-Earth orbit]] in a part of the space station that breaks off and is shown zooming away]]. By the end, Bond acknowledges Jaws' invulnerability, [[LampshadeHanging reassuring]] Dr. Goodhead that "[[spoiler:it's only a hundred miles to Earth]]" and therefore Jaws will be fine [[spoiler:(though he actually survives by hitching a ride with the Marines in their shuttle)]].

* MeetTheNewBoss: Drax is very similar to Stromberg from ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. There are a few differences, and he's arguably a lot more sinister and dangerous. Stromberg is more or less an OrcusOnHisThrone, mostly just sitting around ''Atlantis'' all day, pressing buttons when he wants something done (or someone killed), and leaving Bond's fate mostly up to his minions. Drax does a lot more globetrotting, comes up with [[ItAmusedMe amusing]] deaths for Bond and others who have displeased him. Plus his plan is more evil, since at least Stromberg didn't try and select which members of the human race he was going to spare. Drax is far more egomanical, ruthless and controlling, a much more evil bastard.

* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Drax is explaining his master plan, which involves exterminating everyone on earth who isn't "perfect" - including his own less than perfect employees once he no longer needs them. Jaws overhears this, and is worried since he is a giant with metal teeth (and it's implied he isn't exactly firing on all eight cylinders intellectually), while his girlfriend is short, weak, and wearing glasses. So, while on the station, Jaws helps Bond escape a sticky situation and gets physical with some of his former allies.

* MookCarryover: Jaws somehow survives being dropped into a shark tank in the middle of the ocean at the end of the last film. When Chang is killed, Jaws is hired as his replacement. Justified by the vague implication he was a freelance Professional Killer rather than a loyal minion of Stromberg's.

* TalkingYourWayOut: Bond uses Hugo Drax's speech to inspire a HeelFaceTurn in Jaws, who takes notice of how much he and his short, bespectacled, braces-wearing girlfriend stick out amongst Drax's future "Master Race".