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* BattleButler: Oddjob.



* CutsceneBoss: Defeating [[spoiler:Goldfinger]] is presented as a major objective; the confrontation plays out entirely in a cutscene.

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* CutsceneBoss: Defeating [[spoiler:Goldfinger]] is presented as a major objective; the confrontation plays out entirely in a cutscene. (Then again, he doesn't know that you've just hijacked the OMEN...)



* NoNameGiven: As the ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' rights imbroglio hadn't been solved, SPECTRE appears (the octopus logo is even in the cover) but is not referenced.

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* NoNameGiven: As the ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' rights imbroglio hadn't been solved, SPECTRE appears (the octopus logo is even in the cover) but is not referenced. Likewise, "Number One" is, for all intents and purposes, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.


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** The game's logo is a more stylized version of SPECTRE's octopus insignia from ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''.
* SociopathicSoldier: Where 007 is detached and clinical, his erstwhile colleague is sadistic and vicious--exactly the qualities MI-6 does ''not'' want. He was probably a menace even ''before'' the good doctor captured him--in fact, it's implied that this is what got him into trouble in the first place.


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* TryToCatchMeFightingDirty: The game is built upon underhanded combat, from the weapons (rail-gun; explosive goo-gun; etc.), scoring (the "kill" score is far more in-depth than on a traditional Bond game), and gadgetry ("zap" the other guy's weapon before you kill him). Of course, you ''can'' get a taste of your own medicine on later levels...
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Dr. No's insignia is reminiscent of the "biohazard" pictogram.


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* MoeGreeneSpecial: Dr. No's actions are ''identical'' to Goldfinger's threat in the original book.
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TheOneWith the plot following ''[[Film/{{Moonraker}}.''

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TheOneWith you playing the plot following ''[[Film/{{Moonraker}}.''
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TheOneWith the plot following ''[[Film/{{Moonraker}}.''
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* ElectronicEyes: The Goldeneye

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* ElectronicEyes: The GoldeneyeGoldeneye.



* ShoutOut: The most easily-found pistol is called the "[[DayOfTheJackal Jackal]]."

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* ShoutOut: The most easily-found pistol is called the "[[DayOfTheJackal "[[Literature/TheDayOfTheJackal Jackal]]."



* UnwinnableTrainingSimulation: the first mission is one of these. Afterward, the titular agent is fired from MI6 for allowing Bond to be "killed" during the simulated mission at Fort Knox.

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* UnwinnableTrainingSimulation: the The first mission is one of these. Afterward, the titular agent is fired from MI6 for allowing Bond to be "killed" during the simulated mission at Fort Knox.

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*** The training-sim is likely an MI-6 evaluation tool. Goldeneye had already been behaving badly out in the field, and the simulator was the last straw. Fort Knox went bye-bye because Goldeneye hot-dogged it and then ''wasted time'' out in the field killing {{Mooks}}, taking hostages, and causing mayhem.

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*** The training-sim is likely an MI-6 evaluation tool. Goldeneye had already been behaving badly out in the field, and the simulator was the last straw. Fort Knox and much of the surrounding area went bye-bye because Goldeneye hot-dogged it and then ''wasted time'' out in the field killing {{Mooks}}, taking hostages, and causing mayhem.



* NotSoDifferent: The only difference between Bond and Goldeneye is whose side they're fighting on. They're both "blunt instruments" (to quote Ian Fleming himself) in the service of their masters.



* YouHaveFailedMe: What happens after your first mission: you get kicked out of [=MI6=] for reckless behavior.

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* YouHaveFailedMe: What happens after your first mission: you get kicked out of [=MI6=] for reckless behavior.behavior and for disobeying direct orders.
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* GatlingGood: The Predator MG, a two-handed, portable aircraft weapon.
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** While it's never explicitly said in-game, Oddjob ''really'' doesn't like Goldeneye's attempts at horning in on his territory.


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* ShoutOut: The most easily-found pistol is called the "[[DayOfTheJackal Jackal]]."
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* PoisonIsEvil: The venom guns cause instant but brief (about 3 seconds) paralysis. Used primarily in assassinations and abductions (per the manual), the venom-gun is a little more sadistic than James Bond's usual dart guns, which cause unconsciousness.

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*** The training-sim is likely an MI-6 evaluation tool. Goldeneye had already been behaving badly out in the field, and the simulator was the last straw. Fort Knox went bye-bye because Goldeneye hot-dogged it and then ''wasted time'' out in the field killing {{Mooks}}, taking hostages, and causing mayhem.



* MightyGlacier: The Predator MG and the Harpoon RL. they both slow down your movement and the predator actually takes a second to start shooting after you pull the trigger, but man do they clear house fast

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* MightyGlacier: The Predator MG and the Harpoon RL. they both slow down your movement and the predator actually takes a second to start shooting after you pull the trigger, but man do they clear house fastfast.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Oddjob falls off the Hoover Dam whilst trying to kill you for no reason.
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**Worse, this wasn't even a real mission! It was a [[UnwinnableTrainingSimulation simulation]], which means nobody actually died during it!
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Evil Eye is disambiguation page not a trope. see the page for actual tropes.


* EvilEye: Again The Goldeneye
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* YouHaveFailedMe: What happens after your first mission: you get kicked out of [=MI6=] for ruthless behavior.

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* YouHaveFailedMe: What happens after your first mission: you get kicked out of [=MI6=] for ruthless behavior.
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* BigDamPlot: Dr. No has a base at Hoover Dam, from which he stages an assault on Goldfinger's Las Vegas casino, the ''Midas''.
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* TheCameo: [[spoiler:Ernst Stavro Blofeld]] himself makes an appearance in the ending.
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* EnemyChatter: The Mooks' in-game communication is a little more advanced than in previous games. For example, the guards will sometimes figure out that you're in the adjacent room and relay this to their allies.
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* SequelHook: [[spoiler:[=GoldenEye=] defeats both Dr. No and Goldfinger and rides off with Pussy Galore into the sunset. Cue Scaramanga and ''Blofeld'' discussing what to do with them...]]

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* SequelHook: [[spoiler:[=GoldenEye=] defeats both Dr. No and Goldfinger and rides off with Pussy Galore into the sunset. Cue Scaramanga and ''Blofeld'' discussing what deciding to do with keep an eye on them...]]
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* SequelHook: [[spoiler:[=GoldenEye=] defeats both Dr. No and Goldfinger and rides off with Pussy Galore into the sunset...cue Scaramanga and ''Blofeld'' discussing what to do with them...]]

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* SequelHook: [[spoiler:[=GoldenEye=] defeats both Dr. No and Goldfinger and rides off with Pussy Galore into the sunset...cue sunset. Cue Scaramanga and ''Blofeld'' discussing what to do with them...]]
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* SequelHook: [[spoiler:[=GoldenEye=] defeats both Dr. No and Goldfinger and rides off with Pussy Galore into the sunset...cue Scaramanga and ''Blofeld'' discussing what to do with them...]]
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[[HeroicMime You play]] as a freelance agent who was fired from MI6 for [[TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty your ruthless and evil methods of getting the job done.]] You are soon recruited by Film/{{Goldfinger}} who is tangled in a turf war with Film/DrNo, but soon lose one of your eyes. It is replaced with an electronic eye made out of gold, which is capable of projecting force fields and magnetic fields to protect yourself while continuing your mercenary work.

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[[HeroicMime You play]] as a freelance agent who was fired from MI6 for [[TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty your ruthless and evil methods of getting the job done.]] You are soon recruited by Film/{{Goldfinger}} who is tangled in a turf war with Film/DrNo, but soon lose who happened to have shot one of your eyes.eyes out during a mission a few years previously. It is replaced with an electronic eye made out of gold, which is capable of projecting force fields and magnetic fields to protect yourself while continuing your mercenary work.
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[[HeroicMime You play]] as a freelance agent who was fired from MI6 for [[TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty your ruthless and evil methods of getting the job done.]] You are soon recruited into a turf war between Film/DrNo and Film/{{Goldfinger}}, but soon lose one of your eyes. It is replaced with an electronic eye made out of gold, which is capable of projecting force fields and magnetic fields to protect yourself while continuing your mercenary work.

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[[HeroicMime You play]] as a freelance agent who was fired from MI6 for [[TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty your ruthless and evil methods of getting the job done.]] You are soon recruited into by Film/{{Goldfinger}} who is tangled in a turf war between Film/DrNo and Film/{{Goldfinger}}, with Film/DrNo, but soon lose one of your eyes. It is replaced with an electronic eye made out of gold, which is capable of projecting force fields and magnetic fields to protect yourself while continuing your mercenary work.



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* DisintegratorRay: The OMEN. Weaponized as the OMEN X-R.



* EyeScream

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* EyeScreamEyeScream: " ''It could easily have been more than your eye...'' "
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trope was misused - its supposed to be for things that aren\'t serious being treated as serious whereas this was serious things being rewarded


* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: You can get unlocks by earning "rogue bonuses" which are awarded for particularly "evil" actions. Said actions are things like headshots, taking human shields, shooting ExplodingBarrels, hacking enemy turrets, etc... all things that are present in many other FPS and which an experienced player will already be doing by this point. Apparently we were evil all this time. Who knew?
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Eyes Of Gold has been renamed to Supernatural Gold Eyes as per this thread, because the trope is for characters with supernatural origins that have gold eyes. It\'s not for anyone who just happens to have them. So, anything that doesn\'t fit the definition or Zero Context Examples will be removed. If the example fits, please put it back with more context.


* EyesOfGold: They had to justify the title, after all.
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* [[EMP]]: One of the Goldeneye's functions allows players to hack into electronic equipment and render their foes' guns inoperable.

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* [[EMP]]: {{EMP}}: One of the Goldeneye's functions allows players to hack into electronic equipment and render their foes' guns inoperable.

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* AllJustADream: Variation - the first level (Fort Knox) is actually a simulation. [[FridgeLogic Given the game's premise]], this could easily qualify as a MurderSimulators.

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* AllJustADream: Variation - the first level (Fort Knox) is actually a simulation. [[FridgeLogic Given the game's premise]], this could easily qualify as a MurderSimulators.MurderSimulator.



* [[EMP]]: One of the Goldeneye's functions allows players to hack into electronic equipment and render their foes' guns inoperable.



* EvilCounterpart: Goldfinger is this to M (sort of), and Scaramanga is this to Q.



* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The opening cutscenes establish that Goldeneye lost his organic eye in a skirmish with Dr. No a few years previously.



* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: The octopus level has Goldeneye running around a black market showroom of high-tech and extremely expensive goodies for villains to buy and use against the peoples of the free world, including things like nuclear submarines. As an agent of Goldfinger, Goldeneye has access to a virtually unlimited line of credit and can use it to buy several of these wicked toys, though Goldfinger will eventually call up and complain that he's going to go broke if the spending spree continues.
* XRayVision: The M.R.I. vision

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* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: The octopus Octopus level has Goldeneye running around a black market showroom of high-tech and extremely expensive goodies for villains to buy and use against the peoples of the free world, including things like nuclear submarines. As an agent of Goldfinger, Goldeneye has access to a virtually unlimited line of credit and can use it to buy several of these wicked toys, though Goldfinger will eventually call up and complain that he's going to go broke if the spending spree continues.
* XRayVision: The M.R.I. visionvision.

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A World Wide Punomenon cleanup. Incredibly Lame Pun is the pothole magnet; World Of Pun is for worlds that use many puns


* PunnyName: The Eye Powers' names.



* AWorldwidePunomenon: The Eye Powers' names.
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'''''[=GoldenEye=]: Rogue Agent''''' is a video game released in 2004. ElectronicArts has the JamesBond license and based on their previous efforts, they decided to use the name of [[VideoGame/GoldenEye1997 GoldenEye]] for their next game. They wound up creating an InNameOnly game that takes place in a non canonical world.

[[HeroicMime You play]] as a freelance agent who was fired from MI6 for [[TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty your ruthless and evil methods of getting the job done.]] You are soon recruited into a turf war between Film/DrNo and Film/{{Goldfinger}}, but soon lose one of your eyes. It is replaced with an electronic eye made out of gold, which is capable of projecting force fields and magnetic fields to protect yourself while continuing your mercenary work.

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* AllJustADream: Variation - the first level (Fort Knox) is actually a simulation. [[FridgeLogic Given the game's premise]], this could easily qualify as a MurderSimulators.
* CutsceneBoss: Defeating [[spoiler:Goldfinger]] is presented as a major objective; the confrontation plays out entirely in a cutscene.
* DualWielding: You can wield almost any two weapons at the same time.
* ElectronicEyes: The Goldeneye
* EmergencyWeapon
* EyeScream
* EyesOfGold: They had to justify the title, after all.
* EvilEye: Again The Goldeneye
* EvilVersusEvil: It's Dr. No vs. Goldfinger.
* GoodIsDumb: [=MI6=] fires Goldeneye because he 'killed' James Bond. In reality, the helicopter was shot down and crashed through the roof of Fort Knox. Bond was barely hanging from the hanging chopper, and Goldeneye was too far to reach out to him. He had no choice but to let the craft fall on Bond. Not to mention that getting fired caused the agent to turn evil in the first place.
* InNameOnly: It's unrelated to the N64 game... and borderline with James Bond (007 only appears in [[UnwinnableTrainingSimulation the first mission]]!)
* MightyGlacier: The Predator MG and the Harpoon RL. they both slow down your movement and the predator actually takes a second to start shooting after you pull the trigger, but man do they clear house fast
* NGOSuperpower
* NoNameGiven: As the ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' rights imbroglio hadn't been solved, SPECTRE appears (the octopus logo is even in the cover) but is not referenced.
* RogueAgent
* RoleCalled: In this case, [=GoldenEye=] is the nickname given to our main character.
* StillbornFranchise: EA wanted a sequel, but since the game bombed it vanished.
* UnwinnableTrainingSimulation: the first mission is one of these. Afterward, the titular agent is fired from MI6 for allowing Bond to be "killed" during the simulated mission at Fort Knox.
* WeCanRebuildHim: Or at least the eye you lost during the second mission.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: You can get unlocks by earning "rogue bonuses" which are awarded for particularly "evil" actions. Said actions are things like headshots, taking human shields, shooting ExplodingBarrels, hacking enemy turrets, etc... all things that are present in many other FPS and which an experienced player will already be doing by this point. Apparently we were evil all this time. Who knew?
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: The octopus level has Goldeneye running around a black market showroom of high-tech and extremely expensive goodies for villains to buy and use against the peoples of the free world, including things like nuclear submarines. As an agent of Goldfinger, Goldeneye has access to a virtually unlimited line of credit and can use it to buy several of these wicked toys, though Goldfinger will eventually call up and complain that he's going to go broke if the spending spree continues.
* AWorldwidePunomenon: The Eye Powers' names.
* XRayVision: The M.R.I. vision
* YouHaveFailedMe: What happens after your first mission: you get kicked out of [=MI6=] for ruthless behavior.

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