History Film / Moonraker

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Although the point of most Bond films is the action by 007 to avoid death, this film takes this trope to a whole new level. In every locale and virtually every scene something or someone is trying to kill him.

* BondVillianStupidity: Mostly averted. Drax goes out of his way to try an eliminate Bond virtually from the very first meeting.

* EverythingtryingToKillYou: Although the point of most Bond films is the action by 007 to avoid death, this film takes this trope to a whole new level. In every locale and virtually every scene something or someone is trying to kill him.

* ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts: The whole point of Drax's plot.

* TheCapitalOfBrazilIsBuenosAires: Just for starters, making the Amazon river end in a waterfall (not only it ends straight in the ocean, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iguazu_Falls the location of said falls]] is really far).

* TheDanza: Corrine Clery as Corrine Dufour.

* JustPlaneWrong: The entire sequence in which the Space Shuttle blasts off from the carrier aircraft; it's never carried with fuel or live batteries, and needs the external tank and {{SRBs}} to achieve orbit.

* RecycledInSpace: ''Literally''. [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe In the previous movie]], James Bond works with a female foreign secret agent to stop a CorruptCorporateExecutive from destroying the world and creating a new empire in the ocean. In this movie, James Bond works with a female foreign secret agent to stop a CorruptCorporateExecutive from destroying the world and creating a new empire in space. Yes, Moonraker in plot is blatantly copied from ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''.

** And annoyingly enough, both steal from ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', where James Bond works with a female foreign secret agent (Japan, this time) to stop Ernst Stavro Blofeld from causing World War III (i.e. destroying the world) so that another global power can take over. All three plots involve stealing exotic government vehicles of some kind. All three were directed by the same dude, Lewis Gilbert[[hottip:*:Though ''You Only Live Twice'' had a different screenwriter, namely RoaldDahl, whereas this and the previous film were written by Christopher Wood]]. All three end with Bond and the girl being "interrupted" by their superiors as well.

* SequelEscalation: How can you top a [[BigBad madman]] stealing [=SSBNs=] to start WorldWarThree? A genocidal madman [-IN SPACE!-]

* SongsInTheKeyOfLock: The famous ''CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' theme, nevertheless.

** And annoyingly enough, both steal from ''YouOnlyLiveTwice'', where James Bond works with a female foreign secret agent (Japan, this time) to stop Ernst Stavro Blofeld from causing World War III (i.e. destroying the world) so that another global power can take over. All three plots involve stealing exotic government vehicles of some kind. All three were directed by the same dude, Lewis Gilbert[[hottip:*:Though ''You Only Live Twice'' had a different screenwriter, namely RoaldDahl, whereas this and the previous film were written by Christopher Wood]]. All three end with Bond and the girl being "interrupted" by their superiors as well.

The 11th Film/JamesBond film, starring Roger Moore. Bond is sent to investigate Drax industries after one of their shuttles is hijacked in mid-transit, which turns out to be part of an EvilPlan to exterminate the world population and replace it with "ideal" specimens.

The movie was blatantly made to cash in on the science fiction craze that ''StarWars'' had started[[hottip:*: How blatantly? The end credits of the older Bond movies always announced the title of the next one in the series. The previous movie, ''TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' said "James Bond will return in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''." ''Moonraker'' was made instead.]]. Jaws returns as the only henchman to make a second appearance in the series, but [[VillainDecay his role was changed from "vicious killer" to]] "WesternAnimation/{{Wile E Coyote|and the Roadrunner}}".

** As well as naming a character '''[[PunnyName Holly Goodhead]]'''. Somewhere between [[{{Goldfinger}} Pussy Galore]] and [[TheManWithTheGoldenGun Mary Goodnight]] in the [[PunnyName perverted name]] category.

* MeetTheNewBoss: Drax is very similar to Stromberg from ''TheSpyWhoLovedMe''.

* RecycledInSpace: ''Literally''. [[TheSpyWhoLovedMe In the previous movie]], James Bond works with a female foreign secret agent to stop a CorruptCorporateExecutive from destroying the world and creating a new empire in the ocean. In this movie, James Bond works with a female foreign secret agent to stop a CorruptCorporateExecutive from destroying the world and creating a new empire in space. Yes, Moonraker in plot is blatantly copied from ''TheSpyWhoLovedMe''.

The 11th Film/JamesBond film, starring Roger Moore. Bond is sent to investigate Drax industries after one of their shuttles is hijacked in mid-transit, which turns out to be part of an evil plot to exterminate the world population and replace it with "ideal" specimens.

* GroinAttack: Bond does one to Jaws in the space station. [[spoiler:He has [[BeyondTheImpossible balls of STEEL!]]. Which is a little worrying, seeing as he gets hitched.]]

* DirtyCommunists: General Gogol

* AnimalAssassin: Drax sets his dogs on Corinne after dsicovering that she's been helping Bond.

The movie was blatantly made to cash in on the science fiction craze that ''StarWars'' had started[[hottip:*: How blatantly? The end credits of the older Bond movies always announced the title of the next one in the series. The previous movie, ''TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' said "James Bond will return in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''." ''Moonraker'' was made instead.]]. Jaws returns as the only henchman to make a second appearance in the series, but [[VillainDecay his role was changed from "vicious killer" to]] "WileECoyote".

* ChekhovsGunman: The people shown working out at Drax's estate at the beginning of the film are later revealed to be the same people used by Drax to seed his "master race".

* TheBeautifulPeople: Drax' whole plan is to destroy all human life on Earth so it can be repopulated it with only genetically perfect specimens that he selected.

* AirVentEscape

* [[OutrunTheFireball Outcrawl the Fireball]]: through an [[AirVentEscape air vent]].

* SharkPool: only this one contains an anaconda.
** Actually it is a reticulated python (''Python reticulatus'').

Still, that laser and its InfiniteAmmo can come in handy when you unlock it as a cheat in the N64 game ''Game/GoldenEye''.

** And annoyingly enough, both steal from ''YouOnlyLiveTwice'', where James Bond works with a female foreign secret agent (Japan, this time) to stop Ernst Stavro Blofeld from causing World War III (i.e. destroying the world) so that another global power can take over. All three plots involve stealing exotic government vehicles of some kind. All three were directed by the same dude, Lewis Gilbert[[hottip:*:Though ''You Only Live Twice'' had a different screenwriter, namely RoaldDahl, whereas this and the previous film were written by Christopher Wood]]. All three end with Bond and the girl being "[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean interrupted]]" by their superiors as well.

The 11th JamesBond film, starring Roger Moore. Bond is sent to investigate Drax industries after one of their shuttles is hijacked in mid-transit, which turns out to be part of an evil plot to exterminate the world population and replace it with "ideal" specimens.

The movie was blatantly made to cash in on the science fiction craze that StarWars had started[[hottip:*: How blatant? The end credits of the older Bond movies always announced the title of the next one in the series. The previous movie, ''TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' said "James Bond will return in ''ForYourEyesOnly''." ''Moonraker'' was made instead.]]. Jaws returns as the only henchman to make a second appearance in the series, but [[VillainDecay his role was changed from "vicious killer" to "Wile E. Coyote"]].

* GonnaNeedABiggerWarrant: Disappearance of a space shuttle -> a plot to kill all humans on Earth.

** As well as naming a character '''[[PunnyName Holly Goodhead]]'''. Somewhere between [[{{Goldfinger}} Pussy Galore]] and [[TheManWithTheGoldenGun Mary Goodnight]] in the [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar perverted name]] category.

* [[OutrunTheFireball Out]][[strike: [[OutrunTheFireball run]]]][[OutrunTheFireball crawl the Fireball]]: through an [[AirVentEscape air vent]].