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* AuthorAppeal: Fleming had a lifelong interest in pirates, from the books he read as a child to films like ''Film/CaptainBlood''. From his Goldeneye, Fleming had visited Port Royal in Jamaica, which was once the home port of Sir Henry Morgan.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: Fleming named Bond's alias Ivar Bryce after a friend of his, while Strangways was named after [=MI6=]'s station chief in Jamaica.
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* AMFMCharacterization: Felix is a {{jazz}} fan. So much that when he was younger, he wrote a few pieces on Dixieland jazz for the ''New York Amsterdam News''.
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* ShoutOut: At one point, Bond reads Patrick Leigh Fermor's Caribbean travelogue ''The Traveller's Tree''. A friend of Ian Fleming's, Patrick Leigh Fermor was one of several men whose wartime exploits have led to suggestions that he was the inspiration (or rather, one of the inspirations) for James Bond.
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-->'THE HEART OF THIS CLOCK HAS STOPPED TICKING,' they read. 'THE BEATS OF YOUR OWN HEART ARE NUMBERED, I KNOW THAT NUMBER AND I HAVE STARTED TO COUNT.'
-->'THE HEART OF THIS CLOCK HAS STOPPED TICKING,' they read. 'THE BEATS OF YOUR OWN HEART ARE NUMBERED, I KNOW THAT NUMBER AND I HAVE STARTED TO COUNT.'
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* LivingLieDetector: Mr. Big uses Solitaire like this, and apparently she really can detect lies. She believes it's due to her PsychicPowers, but we never learn whether she's right or not.
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* LivingLieDetector: Mr. Big uses Solitaire like this, and apparently she really can detect lies.lies (though she doesn't always tell the truth to Mr. Big about what she senses, preferring to spare those she believes are decent people). She believes it's due to her PsychicPowers, but we never learn whether she's right or not.
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* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: An octopus grabs Bond's legs, forcing him to take action against it. This in turn reveals his location to Mr. Big's men and he's caught shortly after.
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* TentacledTerror: An octopus grabs Bond's legs, forcing him to take action against it. This in turn reveals his location to Mr. Big's men and he's caught shortly after.
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Felix Leiter]] literally loses his arm and a leg when he is lowered to a {{shark pool}}.
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Felix Leiter]] literally loses his arm and a leg one of each when he is lowered to the Robber drops him into a {{shark pool}}.SharkPool.
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* FunWithAcronyms: Mr Big is not only physically very big, large, and the "big man" of Harlem crime, making it a MeaningfulName but his real name is '''B'''uonapart '''B'''uonaparte '''I'''gnace '''G'''allia.'''G'''allia. Other kids nicknamed him "Big Boy" when he was young.
* HandicappedBadass: A mild example. Bond spends much of the novel this way once Tee-Hee breaks his left little finger on Mr. Big's orders. Even after a doctor sets the break, it still gives Bond trouble now and then.
* HandicappedBadass: A mild example. Bond spends much of the novel this way once Tee-Hee breaks his left little finger on Mr. Big's orders. Even after a doctor sets the break, it still gives Bond trouble now and then.
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* LiteralAsskicking: When Bond frees himself from Tee-Hee's grip, he bashes his head with his [[PistolWhipping empty pistol]], hits him [[GroinAttack in the groin]] and gives boot to plants a foot in the seat of his behind, sending pants to send him down a staircase to his deathdeath.
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* FunWithAcronyms: Mr Big is not only physically very big, and the "big man" of Harlem crime, making it a MeaningfulName but his real name is '''B'''uonapart '''I'''gnace '''G'''allia.
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* ArtisticLicenceLaw: Strictly speaking, Felix Leiter would be outside his jurisdiction for much of the Mr Big case, since the CIA cannot operate inside the US.
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* BondOneLiner: Not from Bond himself (still far from the quipping-and-killing machine the movies would make him), but the villains make a pithy little commentary on the shark-mangled Felix:
-->"He disagreed with something that ate him."
-->"He disagreed with something that ate him."
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* WhatADrag: Mr. Big ultimately plans to kill Bond and Solitaire by ''keelhauling'' them. Through coral. And [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill shark-and-barracuda-infested waters]]. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted, as the mine Bond had planed on Mr. Big's yacht goes off before our heroes actually hit the coral]].
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* WhatADrag: Mr. Big ultimately plans to kill Bond and Solitaire by ''keelhauling'' them. Through coral. And [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill shark-and-barracuda-infested waters]]. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted, as the mine Bond had planed planted on Mr. Big's yacht goes off before our heroes actually hit the coral]].
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* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Played with; Bond internally monologues about his plan to invade Mr. Big's island, and the most important part goes off without a hitch, but there ''are'' a number of unexpected setbacks.
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* {{Bowdlerization}}: As discussed [[http://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/james-bond-novels-that-were-edited.html here]], several of Fleming's less-sensitive moments were changed or deleted outright when this book first hit the United States.
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* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: A core theme of the book, and one of the key differences between the white Bond and the black antagonists. That said, Bond does admit that understands the power Voodoo can have on an individual's mind, and Solitaire, a white woman who grew up in that environment, is a lot less dismissive of it.
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* ContemplateOurNavels: An ''extremely'' bizarre version happens about three-quarters through the book, when Bond's Caribbean flight is caught in a storm and Bond ponders the cruelty of the Universe and just how long he's got left to live. Commercial flight was fairly new and scary back in the 1950s, but it's still {{Padding}} of the first order.
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* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Part of why Bond swims on to Mr. Big's island even after [[spoiler:he's planted the mine on Mr. Big's yacht]]. Though it's debatable whether this really made any difference, since by that point the bad guys had already spotted him.
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* LargeAndInCharge: Mr. Big, even moreso than his film counterpart.
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* ScoobyDooHoax: Mr. Big's operations are dosed with a bit of HollywoodVoodoo and he encourage rumours that he is really a zombie or even Baron Samedi himself.
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* ActionizedSequel: While ''Casino Royale'' is far from violence-free, Bond really only gets into one "fight" (which he loses). Here, both the good and bad guys are a ''lot'' more willing to resort to violence to solve their problems, and that's not getting into all the hostile wildlife Bond has to deal with.
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* ActionizedSequel: While ''Casino Royale'' is far from violence-free, Bond really only gets into one "fight" (which he loses). Here, both the good and bad guys are have a ''lot'' more willing chances to resort to violence to solve their problems, violence, and that's not getting into all the hostile wildlife Bond has to deal with.
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* WhatADrag: Mr. Big ultimately plans to kill Bond and Solitaire by ''keelhauling'' them. Through coral. And [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill shark-and-barracuda-infested waters]]. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted, as the mine Bond had planed on Mr. Big's yacht goes off before our heroes actually hit the coral]].
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* ActionizedSequel: While ''Casino Royale'' is far from violence-free, Bond only really only gets into one "fight" (which he loses). Here, both the good and bad guys are a ''lot'' more willing to resort to violence to solve their problems, and that's not getting into all the hostile wildlife Bond has to deal with.
* BadToTheLastDrop: At once point, Bond and Solitaire are forced to recoup at a local GreasySpoon, which serves them this alongside an equally terrible breakfast.
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* VillainsWantMercy: When the Robber winds up dangling above the SharkPool he'd intended to throw Bond into, he immediately starts begging for mercy and swears to tell Bond everything he knows. Averted with Mr. Big, whose eyes "held no appeal for help" even when [[spoiler:he's half-dead from the mine Bond planted on his yacht and a pack of sharks are the local wildlife is about to finish the job]].
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