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*** Which is the same logic behind the Ferraris in ''MiamiVice''. Works better for Bond, in fact - in ''MiamiVice'' one might have thought that the baddies would have noticed they were being ''tailed'' or staked out by people in a white Testarossa, even if it makes sense for Crockett to drive one to meets...
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*** Which is the same logic behind the Ferraris in ''MiamiVice''. ''Series/MiamiVice''. Works better for Bond, in fact - in ''MiamiVice'' ''Series/MiamiVice'' one might have thought that the baddies would have noticed they were being ''tailed'' or staked out by people in a white Testarossa, even if it makes sense for Crockett to drive one to meets...
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*** [[Film/{{Spectre}} Nope.]] Ironically, it's [[HilariousInHindsight exactly the opposite way around]]! But you're sort of [[Series/{{Futurama]] techically correct. The best kind of correct!]]
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*** [[Film/{{Spectre}} Nope.]] Ironically, it's [[HilariousInHindsight exactly the opposite way around]]! But you're sort of [[Series/{{Futurama]] [[Series/{{Futurama}} techically correct. The best kind of correct!]]
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** I believe Thunderball has shots of all the double 00 agents together who are ordered to follow up different lines of enquiry, Bond just so happens to have stumbled on clues that leads him on the correct path. Also, there is another double o agent mentioned in The Living Daylights as ready to take over the mission should Bond be unwilling to do it. But the bottom line is, as you note, the series is called 'James Bond' not 'Agents of MI6' and therefore concentrates on Bond...if it helps just pretend the other 00 agents are off having their own missions at the time.
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*** [[Film/{{Spectre}} Nope.]] Ironically, it's [[HilariousInHindsight exactly the opposite way around]]! So But you're [[Series/{{Futurama sort of [[Series/{{Futurama]] techically correct. The best kind of correct!]]
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* Okay, I know that there ''are'' other 00 agents that shown up in previous films, but all of them are either glorified RedShirts or turned traitor (006 and Raoul Silva, who's possibly a former 00 agent) they might as well dropped the whole 00 branch altogether, considering 007 seems to be the ''only'' agent who get things done. I mean, what's the point of 00 branch if 007 is the only competent agent, especially when it's implied by 006 in ''GoldenEye'' that every 00 agents are supposed to be equal in skill, yet every time they showed up (aside from occasional meetings) and didn't turn evil, they dropped like flies. Now, I realize that the series is called 'James Bond' so 007 is supposed to be the main character who gets to advance the plot, but most of the time he seems to be the only field agent MI6 has at disposal. Don't James Bond get support from time to time in his missions? He did get 006's help at the beginning of ''GoldenEye'' (even if he was planning to go rogue anyway) When SPECTRE was a threat, Bond seems to be the only one going up agaisnt them. Where are the other agents? When Raoul Silva bombed MI6 and other agents are recalled, none of them are present at their new secret underground base or even be M's bodyguards at the public inquiry? I could go on.
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** In addition to the above, creating a cover id is actually an incredibly difficult business if its to be done to make the ID in anyway convincing. Does the ID have documentation, tax records, appropriate social security/national insurance records for the country? Do they have a credit history? Do they have appropriate birth/marriage records? Records of relatives? If the cover ID is an academic or writer, do they have a history of publications? Constructing such an ID is a painstaking business and its generally only done for intelligence officers likely to be operating in one place for a long period of time. Now Bond isn't such an officer, his mission are generally 'get in, find the bad guy, kill 'em and get out again', as such its not going to be worthwhile going to the effort of constructing such a fake ID, instead they give him an ID that will pass cursory examination but nothing deeper...and equip him with gadgets to protect him when the cover is inevitably blown.
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** James Bond ''does'' hold the rank of Commander with the Royal Navy (like Fleming, he joined Naval Intelligence during the war, though due to the FloatingTimeline of the movies, that's not necessarily World War II). From Naval Intelligence he was recruited by MI6; the official story is that after leaving the Navy he took up a job with Universal Exports. The newspaper shown in ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' obviously decided that "British Naval Commander Murdered" was a better headline than "Salesman murdered" even if it is slightly misleading.
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* what bothers me is the fact that MI-6 put effort into giving him a false ID, cover story and the like but every single time, he introduces himself by his real name, to the big bad, im pretty sure its established somewhere that alot of the criminal circles at least share info when they aren't being paranoiacs, so i'm pretty sure when they start seeing info that is basically 'cause of death: James Bond' start repeating itself, people would of gotten wise by now, did'nt MI-6 at least try to give him a false name?
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* what What bothers me is the fact that MI-6 put effort into giving him a false ID, cover story and the like but every single time, he introduces himself by his real name, to the big bad, im pretty sure its established somewhere that alot of the criminal circles at least share info when they aren't being paranoiacs, so i'm pretty sure when they start seeing info that is basically 'cause of death: James Bond' start repeating itself, people would of gotten wise by now, did'nt MI-6 at least try to give him a false name?
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* An above headscratcher brought up that James Bond has a go-to cover story as just a man working for Universal Exports. That's cute, but how does that fit with the ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' headlines referring to him, in a half-truth, as a navy officer instead? What, couldn't [=MI6=] keep their stories straight?
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** Whew, that's a long sentence! I'll go bit-by-bit. Only occasionally does he get a cover ID in the films, and the only time he blatantly doesn't use it is in ''Casino Royale'', because it's a deliberate attempt to mess with Le Chiffre's head by openly announcing his presence. Under his real name he technically has a full cover anyway - [[CovertGroupWithMundaneFront officially James Bond works for Universal Exports]]. In any of the stories involving SMERSH/SPECTRE they know who he is already because they're powerful enough to find out after his first encounter with them. Outside of the SMERSH/SPECTRE stories, I don't think anyone does ever recognise him - they might do some digging and discover his cover's false, or capture him so he confesses the truth, but that's a part of the story. They don't just know because their buddies told them "look out for a guy named James Bond!" offscreen.
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** Pretty sure Film/HarryPalmer and [[Literature/TheQuestForKarla George Smiley]] do indeed drive Morris Minors or similar, and rarely leave England (or at least Europe). Bond's not a "realistic" character though, he's a fantasy character.
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** Pretty sure Film/HarryPalmer and [[Literature/TheQuestForKarla George Smiley]] do indeed drive Morris Minors or similar, and rarely leave England (or at least Europe). Bond's not a "realistic" character though, he's a fantasy character. And to be honest, he's not "playing" high profile characters, in a very real way he is one. Intelligence for Fleming was an upper-middle to upper-class job, an Old Boys' Club where the Chief of the Service takes Bond as a bridge partner to his exclusive club, and he hobnobs with millionaires. Bond smokes handmade cigarettes, wears tailored suits, goes to good restaurants and drives Aston Martins and classic Bentley racers. Cover identities should be close to the truth, so even when he's working under an alias, he's still usually playing a well-off car lover. And when he isn't, he usually drives relatively inconspicuous cars.
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** I found my own answer. The series Wiki says there were female 00 agents in some of the novels.
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** As pointed out above, it seems that there wasn't much of Spectre left after Blofeld failed for the first time. No matter who you are, volcano bases, custom spaceships and hundreds of soldiers don't come cheap. After YOLT, most of the people who could have challenged Blofeld for leadership probably pulled a ScrewThisI'mOuttaHere before they lost what little they had left and/or were arrested in their weakened state. All his following failed schemes, the last of which resulted in his death, were increasingly low key, involving less and less potential competitors.
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* Say what you will about it's ValuesDissonance, competent female secret agents have been common in the series as long as it's been on film, so why, whenever another 00 agent is seen or mentioned, are they never female? A 00's jobs seems to be a combination of universal infiltration (they can go in without a cover story), and elite commando. Whatever disadvantage the average woman might have in a fist fight with the average man could easily be made up for with Mi6's extensive training and arsenals, and seeing how much globe-trotting 00 agents do, wouldn't it be smart to have a more diverse set for different situations? We've never seen any black or asian 00's either.
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** Well, we only see him outfit double-0 agents because the series happens to be ''about'' a double-0 agent, remember. He's probably dealing with all kinds of things in between snarking at Bond to return his gadgets.
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** Actually, most spies probably aren't (officially) allowed to kill people. Spies are usually in the business of learning, collecting and transmitting information, and killing people tends to get in the way of that; it creates unnecessary attention. The license to kill means that Bond is authorised to and is to be particularly assigned missions in which killing people is likely. In other words, it means that Bond is also an assassin on top of being a secret agent.
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** ''Literature/CasinoRoyale'' (the book) mentions that Bond's Bentley is "his only hobby", though he presumably does other things when he's ''really'' got spare time.
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** MsFanservice mixed with RuleOfCool. Bond films would lose a lot of their appeal with Bond romancing plain-looking women.
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* what bothers me is the fact that MI-6 put effort into giving him a false ID, cover story and the like but every single time, he introduces himself by his real name, to the big bad, im pretty sure its established somewhere that alot of the criminal circles at least share info when they aren't being paranoiacs, so i'm pretty sure when they start seeing info that is basically 'cause of death: James Bond' start repeating itself, people would of gotten wise by now, did'nt MI-6 at least try to give him a false name?
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** But there ''are'' some older women. Take Number 2 in ''From Russia with Love'', for instance. Bond simply doesn't try to seduce those, he just fights them.
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** Surprisingly, the reboot continuity is cuter about this than the old continuity: the old films never ''quite'' named Bernard Lee's M (''The Spy Who Loves Me'' has General Gogol refer to M (played by Bernard Lee) as 'Miles', and M's name in the novels was revealed to be Sir Miles Messervy); Robert Brown's M would be Admiral '''H'''argreaves (if indeed they are the same character and not simply recasting Bernard Lee's M); and Judi Dench's M was never named. Whereas the new films are two for two, with ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' explicitly naming Judi Dench's character Olivia '''M'''ansfield, and her successor Gareth '''M'''allory.
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** Surprisingly, the reboot continuity is cuter about this than the old continuity: the old films never ''quite'' named Bernard Lee's M (''The Spy Who Loves Me'' has General Gogol refer to M (played by Bernard Lee) as 'Miles', 'Miles' - [[FriendlyEnemy they're on first-name terms]] - and M's name in the novels was revealed to be Sir Miles Messervy); Robert Brown's M would be Admiral '''H'''argreaves (if indeed they are the same character and not simply recasting Bernard Lee's M); and Judi Dench's M was never named. Whereas the new films are two for two, with ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' explicitly naming Judi Dench's character Olivia '''M'''ansfield, and her successor Gareth '''M'''allory.
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** Surprisingly, the reboot continuity is cuter about this than the old continuity: the old films never ''quite'' named Bernard Lee's M (''The Spy Who Loves Me'' has General Gogol refer to M (played by Bernard Lee) as 'Miles', and M's name in the novels was revealed to be Sir Miles Messervy); Robert Brown's M would be Admiral '''H'''argreaves (if indeed they are the same character and not simply recasting Bernard Lee's M); and Judi Dench's M was never named. Whereas the new films are two for two, with ''Film/Skyfall'' explicitly naming Judi Dench's character Olivia '''M'''ansfield, and her successor Gareth '''M'''allory.
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** Surprisingly, the reboot continuity is cuter about this than the old continuity: the old films never ''quite'' named Bernard Lee's M (''The Spy Who Loves Me'' has General Gogol refer to M (played by Bernard Lee) as 'Miles', and M's name in the novels was revealed to be Sir Miles Messervy); Robert Brown's M would be Admiral '''H'''argreaves (if indeed they are the same character and not simply recasting Bernard Lee's M); and Judi Dench's M was never named. Whereas the new films are two for two, with ''Film/Skyfall'' ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' explicitly naming Judi Dench's character Olivia '''M'''ansfield, and her successor Gareth '''M'''allory.
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** Of course, the real, Doylist answer is simple - EON don't care about continuity like that. Bond simply has "met" these people, and was once married and widowed shortly thereafter.
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*** Also, the "Bond is a code name" theory goes against the logic of code names. Your alias is no damn good if everyone knows to look out for the same name on a guest-list, even if the face is different. Whereas Johnny Mook is unlikely to recognise a face without a good photograph beforehand. And if it were true, it means they're also (counting only canon films only up to ''Die Another Day'') giving these "codenames" to Q (two actors - Peter Burton in ''Dr No'' is also "Major Boothroyd"), Moneypenny (three actors), Bill Tanner (three actors) and possibly M (if they intended Robert Brown to be the same M and not his successor). The CIA have ''six'' Felix Leiters. Which stretches plausibility a bit.
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*** Also, the "Bond is a code name" theory goes against the logic of code names. Your alias is no damn good if everyone knows to look out for the same name on a guest-list, even if the face is different. Whereas Johnny Mook is unlikely to recognise a face without a good photograph beforehand. And if it were true, it means they're also (counting only canon films only up to ''Die Another Day'') giving these "codenames" to Q (two actors - Peter Burton in ''Dr No'' is also "Major Boothroyd"), Moneypenny (three actors), Bill Tanner (three actors) and possibly M M/Miles Messervy (if they intended Robert Brown to be the same M and not his successor). The CIA have ''six'' Felix Leiters. Which stretches plausibility a bit.
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