History Fridge / Spectre

* When Bond and Madeline are waiting in the desert, Blofeld sends a car to pick them up, which Bond immediately recognises as a 1948 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith. Bond is probably a gearhead who would be able to identify the car regardless, but he says it with such resignation that it's likely Blofeld chose the exact car his parents used to drive only to mess with Bond's head.

* When Bond and Madeline are waiting in the desert, Blofeld sends a car to pick them up, which Bond immediately recognises as a 1948 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith. Bond is probably a gearhead who would be able to identify the car regardless, but he says it with such resignation that it's likely Blofeld chose the exact car his parents used to drive only to mess with Bond's head.

* One of SPECTRE'S major businesses is human trafficking/sex slavery. Their former employee/contractor Raoul Silva's mistress Severine was a former sex slave in her backstory which perhaps suggests that he found her in Macau side of the business SPECTRE was running.

* The reason Bond recovers so effortlessly from the drill torture is that the drills actually corrected his miswired brain after the extreme physical turmoil he experienced at the beginning of Skyfall.
* Oberhauser mentions that he and Madeline met when she was a child, but she doesn't remember him. What is the one story from Madeline's childhood that the audience knows at this point? The one where she had to shoot an assassin sent to kill her father. Considering his malice towards her seems to go beyond simply tormenting Bond, it's likely Oberhauser WAS the assassin that Madeline shot and that, just like with Bond, he's still carrying a grudge towards her over it even years later.

* In Film/QuantumOfSolace, M' s bodyguard tries to shoot her. It would appear that Spectre/Oberhauser/Silva/Quantum has indeed been trying to kill M for some time before finally succeeding in Film/{{Skyfall}}.

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* Mr. White claims that he got on SPECTRE's shit list due to his objections to the organization's dealings with "women and children"... despite White having been introduced in ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' brokering a deal between Le Chiffre and the Lord's Resistance Army, a terrorist organization that makes heavy use of ChildSoldiers and child sex slavery. No wonder Bond immediately called BS.
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* Mr. White claims that he got on SPECTRE's shit list due to his objections to the organization's dealings with "women and children"... despite White having been introduced in ''Film/CasinoRoyale'' brokering a deal between Le Chiffre and the Lord's Resistance Army, a terrorist organization that makes heavy use of ChildSoldiers and child sex slavery. No wonder Bond immediately called BS.

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* One of SPECTRE'S major businesses is human trafficking/sex slavery. Their former employee/contractor Raoul Silva's mistress Severine was a former sex slave in her backstory which perhaps suggests that he found her in operation SPECTRE was running.

* SPECTRE's tactics make complete sense going off of the idea that SPECTRE is an evolution/remnant of Quantum (the film offers equal amounts of evidence to this and Quantum being a part of SPECTRE). Quantum was a network of roughly equal-in-power CorruptCorporateExecutives and moderately high-ranking politicians. They were out to gain power and influence through manipulation and infiltration. Bond doesn't bring them down, but does expose most of their leadership, which met secretly in a public space all speaking English. After that, it seems Quantum became DarkerAndEdgier, becoming SPECTRE. Instead of semi-public figures of influence, its ranking members all appear to be career criminals (the kind of people of people who ''worked'' for the leaders of Quantum). Instead of semi-public meetings where everyone knows the same language, it's a heavily guarded secret meeting with translators and one figure above the others (perhaps one of the remaining Quantum higher ups). Instead of manipulating conflict and economies for gain, it's into human trafficking and indiscriminate killings. And instead of infiltrating and cutting (biased to one side) deals with people in power, it's [[spoiler: trying to force world powers to unintentionally give them information.]] It does seem that the WMG that SPECTRE is Quantum's remnant and that the name is a MeaningfulRename seems true.

* SPECTRE's tactics make complete sense going off of the idea that SPECTRE is an evolution/remnant of Quantum (the film offers equal amounts of evidence to this and Quantum being a part of SPECTRE). Quantum was a network of roughly equal-in-power CorruptCorporateExecutives and moderately high-ranking politicians. They were out to gain power and influence through manipulation and infiltration. Bond doesn't bring them down, but does expose most of their leadership, which met secretly in a public space all speaking English. After that, it seems Quantum became DarkerAndEdgier, becoming SPECTRE. Instead of semi-public figures of influence, its ranking members all appear to be career criminals (the kind of people of people who ''worked'' for the leaders of Quantum). Instead of semi-public meetings where everyone knows the same language, it's a heavily guarded secret meeting with translators and one figure above the others (perhaps one of the remaining Quantum higher ups). It does seem that the WMG that SPECTRE is Quantum's remnant and that the name is a MeaningfulRename seems true.

The name "Madeleine Swann" is a reference to Proust's saga "Remembrance of Things Past". A "madeleine" is a pastry that figures prominently in the novels, and there is also a character named Swann. What is this movie about? It's about Bond solving a mystery by remembering his past.