Line #101 Film/Octopussy


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: ''♫ We're an all time high\
3	We'll change all that's gone before... ♫'']]
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5	->''"Mr Bond is indeed of a very rare breed… soon to be made extinct."''
6	-->-- '''Kamal Khan'''
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12	''Octopussy'' is the thirteenth ''Film/JamesBond'' film in the Creator/EonProductions series, the second to be directed by Creator/JohnGlen and the sixth to star Creator/RogerMoore, coming out on June 6, 1983. The TitleThemeTune, "All Time High", was performed by Rita Coolidge.
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14	After a replica Fabergé egg is found on an assassinated agent, James Bond is sent to UsefulNotes/{{India}} to infiltrate a gang led by Octopussy (Creator/MaudAdams). 007 soon discovers a connection between the priceless Fabergé egg, shady Afghan prince Kamal Khan (Creator/LouisJourdan), an elaborate smuggling operation and a meeting with a [[RenegadeRussian mad Soviet general]], Orlov (Creator/StevenBerkoff), who plans on detonating a nuclear device at Octopussy's circus as part of his plan to, he thinks, force an [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks American]] withdrawal from their bases in Western Europe, allowing the Soviets to dominate the continent (or, more likely, causing WorldWarIII).
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16	The non-Eon Bond film ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain'', with Creator/SeanConnery, [[DuelingWorks came out the same year]], though there hasn't been a Bond film from any company other than Eon since.
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18	Despite the title, it has surprisingly little to do with [[NaughtyTentacles a popular subject of Japanese pornography]].
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20	Preceded by ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' and followed by ''Film/AViewToAKill''.
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22	!!This film contains examples of:
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24	* ActionGirl: Octopussy and Magda; both come to face the villains together with Bond at the climax.
25	* ActionPrologue: The movie's opening has Bond on a mission in an unnamed South American nation. This is, to date, the last time that the prologue is independent of the main plot, as every subsequent opening has some sort of link to the plot.
26	* ActorAllusion: Vijay plays tennis on his spare time and fights off some goons with a tennis racquet. He's played by a tennis player. This leads to a VisualPun of an Indian crowd watching Vijay fighting with the tennis racket as if they were watching a tennis match. He also notes as part of his infiltration, he posed as a tennis instructor.
27	-->'''Vijay:''' I tailed him all the way to the tennis club this afternoon.\
28	'''Bond:''' Did you learn anything?\
29	'''Vijay:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint My backhand's improved.]]
30	* AdaptationNameChange: Jim Fanning's equivalent in "The Property of a Lady" was named Dr. Fanshawe.
31	* AdaptationAmalgamation: Octopussy's backstory is directly taken from the titular short story, while the scene at Sotheby's and the Faberge Egg is taken from the short story "Property of a Lady", which gets name-checked. Also, the backgammon game was taken from the bridge game in ''Literature/{{Moonraker}}'', with Khan's warning to Bond being the same as Drax's.
32	* AdaptationExpansion:
33	** The film is actually designed as a sequel to the short story (which is completely explained by the title character, so viewers wouldn't need to do homework).
34	** The part with the auction of the Faberge eggs is taken from another short story, "[[Literature/OctopussyAndTheLivingDaylights The Property of a Lady]]".
35	* AffablyEvil: Kamal, especially when discussing Bond's torture.
36	-->'''Bond:''' Well, supposing, for argument's sake, l don't feel like talking?\
37	'''Kamal:''' Don't worry, you will.\
38	'''Bond:''' Let me guess. Thumbscrews and hot coals?\
39	'''Kamal:''' ''(insulted)'' ''Hardly.'' We're much more sophisticated than that.\
40	'''Bond:''' Sodium Pentothal?\
41	'''Kamal:''' A bit crude. Very unreliable. We prefer curare with an effective psychedelic compound. Guaranteed results.\
42	'''Bond:''' But with permanent brain damage.\
43	'''Kamal:''' An unfortunate side effect.
44	* AfterActionPatchUp: After the final action set-piece, Bond is seen recuperating from his wounds in a large rowboat, and Octopussy comes along to check up on him, where it's revealed he isn't ''that'' badly injured...
45	* AgeGapRomance: Octopussy is not much younger than Bond, and one of the few Bond girls too old to be his daughter, especially in the Moore-Era. She's only 18 years his junior, as opposed to the whopping ''30'' that Creator/CaroleBouquet was in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'', or what Creator/TanyaRoberts would be in ''Film/AViewToAKill''. It also helps that the actress Creator/MaudAdams had already played a Bond girl opposite Moore eight years earlier in ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''. Octopussy is also rare in that she's mature not just in years. She's been through a lot, unlike most Bond girls who are innocent and/or naive. She's a smuggler who is able to control a powerful man (Kamal), and has enough foresight to also branch out into legitimate operations, making her a successful businesswoman as well.
46	* AllPartOfTheShow: Bond disguises himself as a clown to escape pursuit, but then struggles to convince circus goers that there really is a nuclear weapon about to detonate unless he can get to it.
47	* AmazonBrigade: Octopussy's circus troupe.
48	* AndThisIsFor: Doubled.
49	--> '''Mishka:''' And this ''[prepares to throw knife at Bond]'' is for my brother! ''[throws knife at Bond, but misses]''\
50	'''James Bond:''' ''[throws the knife back and impales him]'' And that's for 009!
51	* AnimalReactionShot: A camel does one after Bond and Vijay jump their minicab over its head.
52	* TheAnticipator:
53	** [[OvertOperative Bond introduces himself]] at the reception of an Indian hotel and is told, "We've been expecting you," which is, fortunately for James Bond, more positive than the other appearances of this trope in the other Bond films.
54	** More appropriate for this trope, Octopussy observes Bond sneaking into her lair on her CCTV cameras, right up to the moment he enters her boudoir. It turns out [[YouKilledMyFather she has her own personal reasons for knowing who Bond is.]]
55	--->'''Octopussy:''' Good evening. ''(FaceRevealingTurn)'' I wondered when you might arrive.
56	--->'''Bond:''' So you are the mysterious Octopussy.
57	--->'''Octopussy:''' And you are James Bond, 007, licensed to kill.
58	* ArmourPiercingQuestion: After Bond confronts Orlov about his plan and asserting [[spoiler: the detonation of a nuclear warhead on an American base]] will simply lead to the Americans and NATO retaliating, Orlov smiles and asks "Against whom?" Thinking about the answer leads to Bond's OhCrap realization.
59	* AristocratsAreEvil: Kamal Khan is an exiled Afghan prince living in India, but is in cahoots with General Orlov, who wants to trigger a nuclear war in Western Europe. To finance their Evil Plan, the duo hatch a scheme to generate funds by stealing jewellery from the Kremlin's state armoury and selling them on the black market, while replacing them with fakes. Using Octopussy's circus troupe as a cover, they then plan to smuggle a bomb into a US military base in West Germany and detonate it, hoping that NATO would be disbanded and that this would enable the Warsaw Pact to invade and conquer Western Europe without fear of retaliation. In turn, Kamal Khan, who is getting paid from the sale of the jewellery, hopes to kill Octopussy in the process and take over her organization afterwards.
60	* AscendedExtra: Q plays a much larger role than usual. Besides appearing in the obligatory gadget giving scene, he also acts as a field agent supporting Vijay during a stakeout of Octopussy's island and pulls off a heroic rescue in the final action sequence. Of all Desmond Llewelyn's appearances in the Bond series this is second only to ''Licence to Kill'' in screen time.
61	* {{Auction}}: Bond attends an auction at Sotheby's for a Faberge egg. Besides driving up the price to see how badly Khan wants it, he also manages to palm the thing and substitute a fake. This section of the film is based on the short story "The Property of a Lady", which has a somewhat different outcome.
62	* AwardBaitSong: "All Time High", sung by Rita Coolidge.
63	* BananaRepublic: TheTeaser takes place during a Bond mission to destroy an experimental fighter jet in an unnamed South American country. Given the movie came out the year after UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar, it's probably meant to be a NoCommunitiesWereHarmed Argentina.
64	* BanisterSlide: Bond slides down a banister while firing a Kalashnikov rifle, sees the newel post at the end, and blows it off just in time to avoid a ballistic groin impairment.
65	* BatmanGambit: Orlov's plan; [[spoiler: explode a nuke at an American base, and the public, assuming it was an accident with an American weapon, will pressure the US to withdraw from continental Europe.]]
66	* BedlahBabe: Some of Octopussy's female minions dress like this during the infiltration/attack against an enemy stronghold. Somewhat justified in that they're circus performers wearing their costumes, but it doesn't explain why they're dressed that way for a surprise attack on the villain's base, although a few of them use it as a ShowSomeLeg gambit to distract the guards.
67	* BedsheetLadder: Magda uses a variation of this to escape from Bond: she ties one end of the sari she's wearing to a balustrade and jumps off the balcony, "riding" the garment down to safety as it unravels.
68	* BigBadDuumvirate: General Orlov and Kamal Khan.
69	* BlandNameProduct: The fictional US Air Base is in the fictional German city of Feldstadt which is the literal German translation for Field City. Feld and Stadt are common suffixes for city names (Bielefeld, Darmstadt, etc.)
70	* BlatantLies: [[spoiler: When an enraged Octopussy confronts Khan after he leaves her to be blown up by a nuclear bomb, he blames Orlov and says he betrayed them both, that he knew nothing about the bomb, and that he was coming to get her so they could flee.]]
71	* BodyBagTrick: Bond pulls this off to sneak out of Kamal Khan's palace. He scares the ''crap'' out of the people carting the supposed corpse off.
72	* BondVillainStupidity: Zig-zagged.
73	** Averted earlier in the film: After learning Bond has escaped from his palace, Kamal Khan goes on a literal manhunt after him, and he almost succeeds before Bond gets away with some tourists that happened to be passing by.
74	** Downplayed later on, when General Orlov and Kamal have snuck a nuclear warhead into an US Air Force base in West Germany and have set it to detonate. After Kamal and Gobinda have left, they see Bond hurriedly driving to the base to try to prevent it from detonating. However, they let him him go since the German police are pursuing him, thus believing he'd fail to make it there in time. And considering what they need to get away from, they're completely justified in wanting to run for it no matter what.
75	* BookEnds: The film starts with 009 in a clown costume and winds up with 007 in a clown costume.
76	** Also, the film begins with James Bond piloting a mini-jet and ends with him ''hanging on to the outside of a plane in flight.''
77	* BoomHeadshot: Bond scores three headshots on Orlov's soldiers.
78	* BreakTheFake:
79	** General Orlov smashes a real (in-universe) Fabergé egg, having been inadvertently tricked by James Bond, who switched a real and a fake much earlier in the film. The jewelsmith flinches at the sight, but since Bond had planted a bug in the real one, it's not an entirely unproductive move on Orlov's part.
80	** A Russian jewellery expert shatters a replica of the Romanov Star during his audit after discovering that it is a forgery.
81	* {{Brownface}}: Kamal Khan, an exiled Afghan Prince, was played by the white Frenchman Creator/LouisJourdan; we are told that he is an Afghan, and thats it, no Brownface, no Ethnic Dress, no accent even.
82	* CallBack:
83	** Bond running on top of burning coals looks similar to how he ran on top of crocodiles at Kananga's farm in ''Film/LiveAndLetDie''.
84	** Bond disarming the nuclear warhead by removing the detonator is identical to what he did to the nuclear warhead onboard Stromberg's tanker in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''.
85	* CaptainObvious: 'It's not really in the wrist, you know...'
86	* CarloadOfCoolKids: Bond encounters some of these. They drive off when he needs a ride to the circus [[spoiler: where an atomic bomb is about to be detonated]]. [[note]]Rumor has it that one of the extras is a young Gary Russell, former editor of ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine''.[[/note]]
87	* CarSkiing: Bond does this while chasing the train, using the car's underside to block bullets fired at him.
88	* CarsWithoutTyresAreTrains: This happens after Bond drives across some "severe tyre damage" spikes on the Russian/Eastern bloc border. He then drives the car along the tracks to chase Octopussy's circus train. He manages to jump from the car to the train just before the car is struck by a train coming the other direction.
89	* CassandraTruth: When Bond tries to warn a US general about a nuclear bomb hidden in a circus cannon. Then again, being disguised as a clown probably didn't help matters either. It's a good thing Octopussy believed him.
90	* CatchAndReturn: The knife-throwing twins use this as part of their circus act. Naturally it is later utilized in their fight against James Bond.
91	* CensoredTitle: The movie was sometimes advertised as "Octocat".
92	* CheatersNeverProsper: Bond subtly reveals Kamal Khan's attempts at cheating in backgammon, beating him with his own loaded dice.
93	* CheckpointCharlie: The film partially takes place around the border sections near Karl-Marx-stadt (Chemnitz). 009 and General Orlov get killed trying to cross it.
94	* ChekhovsGun: The cash Bond wins ends up saving his life, both when a henchman tries to stab him, and later when he tosses it at the people, enabling him to escape.
95	* ChekhovsSkill: Those circus skills come in useful for StormingTheCastle.
96	* ChewingTheScenery: Points have to be given to Creator/StevenBerkoff as General Orlov through combining this with the speech patterns of Creator/WilliamShatner and a ludicrously [[JustAStupidAccent over-the-top Russian accent]] to turn a simple military briefing into a gloriously hammy [[CharacterFilibuster rant against Western decadence and spinelessness]], not to mention [[CallingTheOldManOut calling out his top colleague as a coward]] for not following his [[EvilPlan maniacal plan]].
97	** This is actually fairly standard for Berkoff. His whole idea of theatre is that it has to be overstated, over the top acting.
98	* CircusOfFear: Octopussy uses a circus as a cover for her criminal activities as well as using circus acrobats and aerialists to commit crimes for her, while General Orlov plants a nuke in her circus. Not necessarily evil, but initially misguided.
99	* ClothingCombat: Magda uses the sari as a weapon against Kamal's goons.
100	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Bond's ally Vijay (played by real-life Indian tennis star Vijay Amritraj) reports that he's gotten a job at the BigBad's sports club.
101	-->'''Bond:''' Have you learned anything?\
102	'''Vijay:''' Well, my backhand's improved...[[note]]The actor was a ranked tennis player. We should hope so![[/note]]\
103	''(Bond grins.)''
104	* ConfrontingYourImposter: In the opening teaser, Bond impersonates Colonel Luis Toro, only to be captured and brought to the real Toro.
105	-->'''Bond:''' ''(unfazed)'' Well, it's a small world. You're a Toro, ''too''.
106	* CoolCar: The Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV Bond steals to reach the airbase stands out as one in a film where none of Bond's more iconic rides are present. Impressively, it manages to stay well ahead of the pursuing West German police as Bond races against the clock.
107	* CoolPlane: Bond's miniature jet (a BD-5 Acrostar) in the prologue. And yes, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bede_BD-5 Bede BD-5]] is quite real.
108	* CoolTrain: Octopussy's circus train. The locomotives used are a Danish DSB S Class 2-6-4T tank engine No.740, which was renumbered 62 015 for filming, Swedish SJ B Class 4-6-0 No.1697, disguised as 38 243 which collides with the Mercedes, and Swedish SJ S Class 2-6-2T No.1178. Justfied, as the East German railways (Deutsche Reichsbahn) used steam locomotives on line service until 1988. The rolling stock are former LMS wagons painted in circus scheme.
109	* CreatorCameo: Producer Michael G. Wilson appears as a member of the Soviet Politburo at the beginning of the film. He is also on the tour boat that Bond escapes to in that scene (he's the one with the camera).
110	* CutlassBetweenTheTeeth: Done briefly by Gobinda when he goes after Bond on Kamal's plane.
111	* DeadlyEuphemism: Orlov asks Khan if a pair of servants can be trusted, to which Khan reassures him that their silence will be guaranteed. Bond later finds their bodies hanging on meathooks.
112	* DeathGlare: Gobinda seems to be a master of quiet menace.
113	* DiabolicalMastermind: The main villains are a Russian general, and an Afghan smuggler and prince living in India, respectively.
114	* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: Vijay introduces himself by playing a bar of the James Bond theme on a snake charmer's pipe.
115	* DirtyCommunists: General Orlov is a full-fledged communist villain seeking to be a hero of the Soviet Union, but General Gogol contrasts this by investigating him in unwitting parallel to Bond's mission. The result of that was Gogol attempted to arrest Orlov before the East German border guards shot the renegade general dead and it's fairly obvious that if Gogol had learned Orlov's whole scheme, he would have raced to warn NATO.
116	* DisneyVillainDeath: Gobinda gets a airplane antenna in the face courtesy of 007, causing him to lose his grip and fall off the top of the plane.
117	* DisproportionateRetribution: Played with. Bond tries to avert a nuclear attack, but a woman hogs the only phone booth. Bond promptly steals her car, instead.
118	* DoubleEntendre: Bond watches Q trying to mimic the famous Indian rope trick, but the rope just keels over when climbed.
119	-->'''Q:''' Blast!\
120	'''Bond:''' Having problems keeping it up, Q?
121	* TheDragon: Gobinda to Kamal Khan, Magda to Octopussy.
122	* DramaticChaseOpening: Following the opening credits, we cut to 009 on the run from the knife-throwing twins.
123	* TheDreaded: Octopussy, who has a fearsome reputation. So much so that local assassins are extremely wary of her. [[InformedAttribute Though this contradicts]] her organizations' reluctance to kill anyone, knocking out mooks with tranquilizer darts or clubs.
124	-->'''Assassin:''' We don't want to make enemies with the Woman.
125	* EasyComeEasyGo: Bond wins a lot of money beating Kamal Khan at backgammon, but then loses it all during a car chase. In the first instance, an enormous wad of rupees in his jacket pocket protected him from a large dagger, and in the second, he had to throw the winnings at a throng of people to make them crowd and block his pursuers' path. He quotes the trope name verbatim.
126	* EggMacGuffin: The forged (and real) Fabergé egg in the first half.
127	* EiffelTowerEffect: There is a shot of Bond's helicopter flying in front of the Taj Mahal, although Agra is not on the way to his destination (Udaipur, where the film is set and was filmed, is over 600 kilometers South-West from Agra). The director felt that he needed to insert a shot of the Taj Mahal because it was so beautiful, and they were in India anyway.
128	* EscalatingWar: Orlov's plan to invade Western Europe is villified by the Politburo. Gogol and another official state that the Soviet military is for defending the Motherland.
129	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Gobinda shows just how much of a silent menace he is by ''crushing ivory dice'' with his ''fist'' while giving a wordless DeathGlare to Bond.
130	* EveryoneHasStandards: Upon hearing about Orlov's power-hungry plans to invade NATO, the Soviet Politburo immediately react with disgust, knowing that it's tantamount to war and would leave no victors on either side. Gogol even [[YoureInsane calls him out for this]] by telling that NATO will not take this lightly.
131	* EvilIsPetty: Kamal Khan likes to supplement his wildly lucrative villainy by cheating at [[TabletopGame/{{Backgammon}} backgammon]].
132	* EvilPlan: General Orlov wants to detonate a nuclear warhead on an American base (making it seem like an American accident), forcing the US to pull out of Europe and leaving it vulnerable to Soviet conquest. He is in a BigBadDuumvirate with Kamal Khan who is getting paid for it, and hopes to kill Octopussy in the process and take over her organization afterwards.
133	* ExcuseMeComingThrough: {{Subverted}} when James Bond cleverly throws money to the crowd so that they block the people chasing him.
134	* ExplodingFishTanks: Octopussy is shown feeding her poisonous blue-ring octopus early in the film. Later, the aquarium is destroyed when James Bond rams an assassin's head into it (and said assassin ends up with the octopus wrapped around his face).
135	* {{Expy}}: The "Property of a Lady" egg is based on the real [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Coronation_Egg Imperial Coronation Egg]].
136	* TheFaceless: Octopussy's face is obscured when Kamal Khan goes to see her early in the movie. Only her hands are shown as she feeds her pet octopus while talking to Khan. This, plus the way he takes orders from her and the fact that the movie is ''named'' after her made it seem like she would be the BigBad and not him.
137	* FakeFood: According to Creator/RogerMoore, the sheep's eye that Kamal eats was actually made of marzipan.
138	* FakinMacGuffin: The villains create fake Russian national treasures such as a Faberge egg and the Romanov Star to swap out for the real ones they are selling to finance their schemes. After it becomes necessary to reclaim one of the real eggs, Kamal Khan claims it is one of the fakes only to wince in horror as his partner General Orlov smashes it.
139	* FalseFlagOperation: General Orlov attempts to smuggle in and detonate a nuclear bomb on a US military base in West Germany. Since there will be no detected missile launch, he hopes it will be assumed the explosion was an accident and that the European powers will respond by demanding removal/disarming of all stockpiled nuclear weapons. Once they are gone, Orlov plans to launch a massive land-based invasion of Western Europe, confident that without nukes, NATO will be powerless to stop him.
140	* FatalFlaw: General Orlov's HairTriggerTemper causes him to snap at people while arguing with them, seen most prominently in his confrontations with both General Gogol and James Bond. And he was also an insane psychopath, not caring that millions would die in the ensuing mayhem due to his plan to invade Western Europe, and had a manic fixation of the Warsaw Pact gaining full control of Europe and isolating the United States. Add in the fact that he clearly doesn't understand that the United States would retaliate equally, resulting in World War III, which would basically leave no winners.
141	* FixingTheGame: Bond notices Kamal Khan taking a British gent for all he's worth in backgammon. He quickly figures out that Khan is using loaded dice that always come up double sixes (how nobody else caught on is a mystery). He offers to play him for double-or-nothing. Khan agrees. Bond invokes the "player's privilege" and uses Khan's dice to win. Instead of letting his Sikh dragon beat up Bond (and cause a scene), Khan pays Bond but warns him to spend the money quickly.
142	* FlungClothing: Magda whips off her sari to use as a [[ClothingCombat weapon]] against Kamal's goons. She doesn't put it back on, thereby keeping the fetish appeal burning.
143	* FollowThatCar: A Soviet military driver is rather disconcerted to be told to follow Bond's car ''along a railway line''.
144	* ForeignQueasine: Sheep's eye, anyone? Bond actually manages to get in a good DoubleEntendre, when he complains that he loses his appetite when he's being watched (both the meal and Gobinda, who is intently watching him.)
145	* ForWantOfANail: When Bond eavesdrops on Orlov and Khan plotting, he can't hear a crucial part of their plan because of the noise from Magda's hairdryer next door.
146	* GeneralRipper: Orlov. An unprovoked peacetime nuking of West Germany is just ''step one'' of his grandiose plan.
147	* GivingThemTheStrip: Magda uses a combination of this with Bedsheet Ladder to escape from Bond: she ties one end of the sari she's wearing to a balustrade and jumps off the balcony, "riding" the garment down to safety as it unravels.
148	* AGlassInTheHand: Not quite a glass but the same general idea: Gobinda crushes dice in his hand.
149	* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Orlov smiles and states with a huge sense of pride that tomorrow he will be a hero of the Soviet Union as he passes away]]
150	* GreaterScopeVillain: Initially it is Octopussy, who gives orders to the films BigBad (Khan) from behind the scenes, never even showing her face. She eventually fully enters the plot and becomes an AntiHero after being betrayed by her associates.
151	* GrievousBottleyHarm: Octopussy comes to Bond's aid by knocking out one of the assassins with a bottle.
152	* GroinAttack. Narrowly averted -- Bond is sliding down a stairway railing, blazing away at mooks with a captured AK-47. He then quickly uses the rest of the magazine to shoot off the knob at the end of the railing. Prior to that however Bond - dressed as a clown - kicked a security guard at the circus in the groin while trying to get to the bomb. Also during the raid Octopussy and her girls stage on Kamal's stronghold at least one, maybe two, of his thugs get kicked in the groin.
153	* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Kamal doesn't mind that his guards are DistractedByTheSexy because it gives him and Gobinda a chance to sneak away without being noticed. Unfortunately the dancing girls are part of Octopussy's AmazonBrigade, currently sneaking into his palace. Another guard is drinking on duty, and has a No More for Me moment as he looks over the wall and sees a female circus acrobat standing on the head of an elephant.
154	* HamToHamCombat: Gogol vs. Orlov in the briefing room.
155	-->'''Gogol:''' NATO WILL COUNTERATTACK with ''nuclear weapons''!\
156	'''Orlov:''' NEVER! The West is DECADENT and divided! It doesn't have the stomach to risk our ''atomic reprisals''!
157	* HeelFaceTurn: Octopussy and her group were part of Kamal Khan's Fabergé Egg-smuggling plot (and in fact, Octopussy seemed to be his boss), but when he teams up with General Orlov who plans to engineer a nuclear explosion and Octopussy realises that she, her crew and thousands of innocents would have been blown up, they turn against him.
158	* HeroStoleMyBike: Bond steals the car of a woman in a phone booth in order to get to an American airbase in Germany in time to stop a warhead from detonating. He was hoping to call the base, but the woman beat him to the booth. This actually backfires on him rather badly, as by the time he actually reaches the airbase there's an APB out for him. The MP guarding the gate was already less than impressed with 007's frantic demands to see the commander, and the arrival of several German police cars didn't help his credibility.
159	* HeyCatch: Bond does this to distract a henchman during the marketplace chase sequence before then punching him out.
160	* HighAltitudeBattle: Bond against Gobinda on top of a plane.
161	* HighHeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Octopussy turns against Khan after she realises that she, her crew and thousands of innocents would have been killed in Orlov's plotted nuclear accident.]]
162	* HighSpeedMissileDodge: 007 is in a small jet in hostile territory and the enemy launches a surface to air missile at him. With the missile chasing him, Bond heads for the hangar where he was caught trying to destroy a plane. The commander realizes what he is about to attempt and orders the hangar doors closed. But it's too late, Bond successfully flies through the hangar just in time while the pursuing missile collides with the interior and destroys the hangar.
163	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Colonel Toro and his radar prototype get blown up by the [[HomingProjectile guided missile]] that Toro's base launched after Bond, due to Bond maneuvering his Acrostar minijet right into the base and getting out of it on time.
164	* HomeByChristmas: General Orlov tells the Politburo that, according to his computer simulations, the Red Army can defeat NATO in a conventional war within five days.
165	* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Kamal and his mooks' hunt for tiger on elephants after Bond escapes the Monsoon Palace. Bond is the tiger of course.
166	-->'''Kamal:''' Let the sport ''commence''!
167	* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin: The plot kicks off when 009, clutching a priceless Faberge egg, bursts into the British embassy in UsefulNotes/EastGermany with a throwing knife stuck in his back.
168	* ImNotHungry: Bond finds his sheep's head a little too exotic.
169	* ImproperlyPlacedFirearms: The East German guards have AK's, but for some reason Orlov's personal bodyguard are carrying Austrian Steyr AUG's.
170	* InNameOnly: The short story shares no plot with the film, but does provide the backstory to the title character, as revealed in a somewhat shoehorned-in dialogue sequence.
171	* InconvenientParachuteDeployment: Bond is captured and sitting in the back of a truck being guarded by two soldiers wearing parachutes. As the truck is driving, Bond's accomplice drives alongside the truck and performs a ShowSomeLeg. While the guards are Distracted by the Sexy, Bond reaches out and yanks the ripcords on the soldiers' chutes. The chutes deploy and the soldiers go flying off the back of the truck.
172	* InstantLeechJustFallInWater: Happens to James Bond, among several other animal encounters. He uses a cigarette lighter to make it let go.
173	* IronicEcho[=/=]DarkReprise: Vijay's "No problem!", uttered by Bond [[spoiler: after Vijay's corpse is found.]] Later, when another character randomly uses the same phrase, Bond clearly winces, reminded of his friend.
174	* JurisdictionFriction:
175	** Implied when Orlov chases the train as it crosses the inner-German border. He apparently thinks that, as a Soviet General, the GDR border guards would let him through. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome They shoot him.]]
176	** Averted when the German policemen chase Bond into the American military base, then assist the military policemen in searching the compound.
177	* JustPlaneWrong: Those Franco-Soviet Alouette helicopters.
178	* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Octopussy and her minions do not appear to get any consequences for their smuggling operation which unintentionally nearly led to a US Air Base and the surrounding German city being obliterated by a nuclear bomb.]]
179	* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: During the [[TabletopGame/{{Backgammon}} backgammon]] scene when Bond wins 200,000 Rupees from Kamal Khan, Khan starts writing him a cheque when Bond tells him quietly "I prefer cash".
180	* KillerYoyo: James Bond is attacked by a bunch of Indian mooks. One of them wields a yo-yo buzzsaw.
181	* KnifeOutline: Not quite an outline, but James Bond ends up pinned to a door thanks to a couple of thrown knives in Octopussy. In fairness though, Grishka was a circus knife-thrower. However the trope backfires when Bond pulls one of the knives free (seeing as it's handily stuck in the door next to him) and uses it to kill him.
182	* KnifeThrowingAct: Mishka's and Grishka's part in Octopussy's Circus.
183	* LampshadedDoubleEntendre:
184	-->'''Q:''' 007 on an island populated exclusively by women? We won't see him till dawn!
185	* LargeHam: General Orlov. His ChewingTheScenery briefing scene near the beginning of the movie combines the speech patterns of Creator/WilliamShatner, the volume levels of BRIAN BLESSED, and a truly awful accent to form the essence of Ham. This was ''awesome''.
186	** "Yes, but tomorrow I shall be a Hero of the Soviet Union!"
187	* LeaveBehindAPistol: What happened to Octopussy's father, Major Dexter Smythe. Octopussy is grateful to Bond for leaving him that option, rather than be disgraced by a court martial.
188	* LeaveNoWitnesses: Khan has Gobinda murder a pair of assistants who carry the jewels to Orlov's helicopter to assure their silence.
189	* LemmingCops: Played with. The West German Police tend to spin out a lot while chasing Bond, but up until the absolute end of the chase, they also manage to recover without crashing into anything.
190	* LethalJokeItem: A yo-yo. However, said yo-yo is a ''circular saw''.
191	* LighterAndSofter: After the dark tone of ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'', yes.
192	** The first two acts feature a lot of the silliness and narm that defined the Roger Moore era. [[spoiler: However the third act becomes very serious when Bond realizes that a nuclear bomb is about to detonate on a US Air Base in Germany.]]
193	* MagicCountdown: Used on a detonator instead of an entire bomb (and since ScienceMarchesOn, the counter is digital). Bond disarms it right as the timer reaches zero.
194	* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: A nuclear accident is the key part of General Orlov's grand plan.
195	* MaleGaze: Bond uses one of Q's gadgets to zoom in on a girl's cleavage. Q is not amused, [[ActuallyPrettyFunny although Vijay is]].
196	* MayDecemberRomance: Creator/MaudAdams was 18 years younger than Roger Moore, but her mature personality and demeanour, coupled with the fact that the couple has several romantic scenes throughout the film, hide this fact. Very different from what happened with Creator/CaroleBouquet in Film/ForYourEyesOnly and Creator/TanyaRoberts in Film/AViewToAKill, where Bond's relationship with them seemed more of father and daughter, with the only sex scene in both cases occurring at the end of the movie.
197	* MidSeasonUpgrade: Bond's PPK is replaced with the Walther [=P5=] in this movie as part of [[ProductPlacement a deal with Walther]]. Most people didn't notice, because not only do they look similar, but also Bond refers to having "mislaid my PPK" in spite of using a [=P5=] for the entirety of the film.
198	* MidairRepair: Bond is clinging to the outside of an airplane. Kamal Khan sends Gobinda out to kill Bond before he disables both engines and kills them all.
199	* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Smuggling stolen Faberge Eggs and murdering a British agent → nuclear sabotage, wiping out an American military base along with nearby cities and WW 3.
200	* MoneyToThrowAway: After a wad of cash saves Bond from a dagger during a ChaseScene, he tosses the damaged dough aside, where it lands in a beggar's bowl. He finally evades his pursuers by throwing the rest of his gambling wins up in the air, causing the crowd to block the road.
201	-->'''Bond:''' ''(to Vijay)'' Easy come, easy go! ''(both grin)''
202	* MoodWhiplash: The movie bounces between the campier elements of Moore's tenure (uncovering a smuggling ring run by circus people and an all-girl army) with the [[DarkerAndEdgier darker tone]] created by the previous film, ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' (a mad Soviet general wants to start WorldWarIII).
203	* MotiveMisidentification:
204	** Octopussy reveals that her father had been a British major who stole a sum of gold and vanished. Bond tracked him down, gave him 24 hours to settle his affairs and prepare to be arrested, but the man killed himself. Bond assumes Octopussy wants to avenge his death. Instead, she reveals that she wanted to thank Bond for letting her father die with honour rather than suffer the disgrace of a public trial.
205	** Gogol thinks Orlov is just a corrupt officer involved in smuggling Soviet national treasures.
206	--->'''Gogol:''' A common thief. A disgrace to the uniform!
207	--->'''Orlov:''' ''(GoOutWithASmile)'' Yes, but tomorrow, I shall be a hero of the Soviet Union.
208	* MsFanservice: Madga, played by Kristina Wayborn - ''especially'' the way she escapes Bond.
209	* MultiTrackDrifting: {{Inverted}} with a Mercedes-Benz sans its tyres, which have been shot to pieces. Bond has to catch up with a circus train. Cue train approaching from the opposite direction. He, naturally, makes the jump before the inevitable collision. Mercedes-Benzes are not frequently made in track gauges, so the special effects crew had to improvise one.
210	* MyCarHatesMe: Played with. When Kamal is leaving the Circus at the US army base to escape the bomb blast, he's visibly worried when Gobinda can't get the car started. To their mutual relief the second try is more successful.
211	* MysticalIndia: Partly set in India, and features snake charmers, sword swallowers, fire breathers, fire walkers, beds of nails... the lot.
212	* MythologyGag:
213	** Bond encounters a snake charmer (Vijay) using a flute to play none other than the James Bond Theme. This may actually be a meta gag -- composer Monty Norman says he recycled the tune from an earlier piece of his in a Hindu-themed musical. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6EuzGhIyRQ Hear it here.]]
214	** Kamal notes that Bond is fond of eggs. In the books, Bond's TrademarkFavouriteFood is eggs.
215	* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Bond has a vehicle with an appearance of a crocodile. Later one, when his fight with the yoyo mook moves to water, a crocodile appears to the dispatch the villain.
216	* NiceKitty: Bond commands a tiger to "Sit!" (in Barbara Woodhouse's distinctive tone). And it does.
217	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The Soviet chairman at the beginning of the film is obviously supposed to be Leonid Brezhnev (who actually died before the film was released).[[note]](Even more eerie, the actor who played the Chairman died shortly after the film released, with this being his final film role.)[[/note]]
218	* NoMoreForMe: A guard looks over the wall and sees a couple of elephants and some female circus acrobats forming a human ladder. He looks at the bottle in his hand in confusion, before Octopussy knocks him out with some hurled bolas.
219	* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Kamal serves a dinner to Bond when he is imprisoned in the Monsoon Palace.
220	* NonViolentInitialConfrontation: The auction scene and backgammon game between Bond and Khan.
221	* NoOneSeesTheBoss: Used for a BaitAndSwitch; at first the unseen 'Lady' is presented as Blofeld-type supervillain. When Bond finally meets her face-to-face, Octopussy is merely a jewel smuggler who has no interest in harming Bond.
222	* NothingCanStopUsNow: While driving away from the base, Khan and Gobinda happen to spot Bond driving in the other direction. Khan says to keep going, boasting that they'll soon be rid of him anyway when the bomb goes off.
223	* NotSoDifferentRemark: Octopussy argues they are "two of a kind" (after all, it's in the title song) when trying to recruit Bond for her own organisation. Bond doesn't take offense this time and even agrees with her--admittedly, Octopussy is hardly the amoral world-threatening supervillain who usually makes this remark. Plus he's trying to get into her pants.
224	* {{Oktoberfest}}: The portly German couple Bond hitches a ride with tries to stuff him with Bratwurst and Beer.
225	* OminousMultipleScreens: As Bond infiltrates Octopussy's mansion, she watches his progress through multiple security cameras.
226	* OhCrap:
227	** The mooks driving the truck that Bond was held prisoner in are delighted when the female agent drives alongside and smiles at them. Then she drives forward a bit more to reveal Bond, also with a big smile and holding an assault rifle...
228	** Fanning when Bond bids on the Faberge Egg.
229	** Bond's dawning realization that Orlov's plan isn't insane but will ''work''.
230	** Kamal and Gobinda have panicked looks on their faces for a moment when their getaway car meant to escape [[spoiler: the nuclear detonation]] doesn't start on the first try.
231	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Once Bond realizes Orlov's plot is very sound, his tone changes completely. Gone is the lighthearted Roger Moore Bond and he spends the rest of the movie desperately trying to get to the base to prevent the explosion.
232	* OohMeAccentsSlipping: The security guard at the US Air Base is presumably African-American, but if you listen closely it's obvious he's Caribbean or African in background.
233	* OutWithABang: Octopussy ''thinks'' Bond gets killed after having sex with her (and she looks quite upset about it), but fortunately he survives; this is a much more fortunate outcome than the ''last'' time a BondGirl played by Maud Adams lay with Bond in ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''.
234	* OperationBlank: The plan to discover what is happening to the stolen Faberge artifacts is codenamed "Operation: Trove".
235	* OutsideRide: Bond chases after Khan on a horse and then leaps on to the outside of his plane as it takes off.
236	* PerformerGuise: Bond disguises himself as a clown so he can infiltrate Octopussy's circus and warn her about the nuclear bomb that is about to destroy the Air Force base where her circus is performing.
237	* PinnedToTheWall: Grishka pins Bond by his clothes to a wall and prepares to throw the final knife to Bonds's heart. Bond being Bond, this does not end well for the knife thrower.
238	* PlotTriggeringDeath: 009 is murdered in East Berlin. MI-6, suspecting Soviet involvement, calls in 007.
239	* PocketProtector: Bond is stabbed in the chest, but is unharmed thanks to a sheaf of bills in his chest pocket.
240	-->'''Bond:''' Thank God for [[{{Pun}} hard currency]].
241	* PopTheTyres: In the pre-credits sequence, Bond shoots a jeep's tyres, causing it go into a ditch. Later, he drives Orlov's car over spikes, leading him to drive it on the railway.
242	* POVBoyPosterGirl: This is the only movie in the series named after the Bond Girl rather than the villain, a motto, the MacGuffin, or an offhand line of dialogue.
243	* PowerPerversionPotential: Bond uses the sophisticated camera in Q's lab to zoom in on a woman's cleavage. Vijay snickers; Q gets annoyed and orders him to quit fooling around.
244	* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Occurs when Bond shoots a Russian soldier dead, complete with surprised expression on the guard's face.
245	* PreventTheWar: Or rather prevent a plan to cause nuclear disarmament which will lead to a war.
246	* PunnyName:
247	** Octo''pussy''. Yeah, no shit.
248	** Penelope Smallbone. As if that name wasn't bad enough, at one point, Creator/LoisMaxwell (Moneypenny) flubbed it and called her Penelope Small''bush''. Naturally, Roger Moore wasted no time jumping on that one. [[RealJokeName This is actually the name of a real person:]] She's named after one of the models in the opening credits of ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''.
249	** Bond isn't impressed with impersonating a guy called Toro, saying the name sounds like a load of bull (Toro is Spanish for bull).
250	* PursuedProtagonist: 009, in a clown costume, is pursued by Mischka and Grishka, before dying in the British Embassy with the Faberge Egg in his hand.
251	* RaceAgainstTheClock: Bond has to get from UsefulNotes/EastGermany to an American air base in UsefulNotes/WestGermany to stop a warhead from exploding at 3:45 pm.
252	* RacingTheTrain: The film does this with a twist: Bond's tyres have just been shot out, so he drives his car ''onto'' the rails.
253	* RailroadTracksOfDoom: Bond is chasing Khan escaping by train when all the tyres of his Mercedes are shot off. He's in luck since the car's wheels are the exact same gauge of the track the train he is chasing is on; so he proceeds to move the car on to the track and drive on the set of rails next to the escaping train's. Some skidding later, he's making good progress when another train is rushing right at him, so he wisely hops off whilst the Merc gets ploughed right through by the train.
254	* {{Ramprovisation}}: Done in the market chase.
255	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The high ranking Soviets all recognize the madness of Orlov’s plan and are desperately trying to stop him. The US Base commander and other high ranking individuals immediately recognize the seriousness of the situation and allow Bond to proceed.
256	* RecycledPremise: It's still a debate how this film's plot is derived from ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. A pre-title sequence set in an unnamed South American country; Bond bets an item the wealthy BigBad has an interest in, ''then'' one-ups the BigBad at his own game; a female henchwoman with her own AmazonBrigade falls to Bond's charms; a plot to bomb an American military base; and a climactic fight in an airplane mid-flight where a villain gets thrown out.
257	* RenegadeRussian: It's emphasized that Orlov is acting independent of the Politburo, and that Gogol and the other Soviet leaders are more interested in making peace with the West. The Brezhnev {{Expy}} explicitly states that the Soviet nuclear arsenal is purely defensive. During the final third of the plot, Gogol is pursuing Orlov to ''stop'' him, though he isn't aware of the true nature of Orlov's scheme (though he probably would have disapproved of that if he'd known about it).
258	* ReplacedWithReplica: James Bond manages to abscond with a genuine Faberge egg by swapping it with a fake, [[RefugeInAudacity right in the middle of a Sotheby's auction]].
259	* RevealingReflection
260	** Bond sees in the mirror that Magda is stealing the Faberge egg but pretends not to notice as it's AllAccordingToPlan.
261	** Bond sneaks up on Mischka as the latter is examining a stash of smuggled jewelry, but Mischka sees movement reflected in the facets of the jewel he's holding.
262	* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The jewelry smuggling plot was inspired by a scandal in the Soviet Union involving General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev's son Yuri Brezhnev manipulating the Moscow State Circus to smuggle jewellery.
263	* RunForTheBorder: Early in the film, 009 tries to flee across the border from East Berlin into West Berlin, pursued by assassins, in order to deliver a Fabergé egg. [[spoiler: He is mortally wounded, but manages to get across the border to deliver the egg before succumbing to his wounds]].
264	* SafetyInMuggles: Bond only escapes Kamal's manhunt when he joins a tourist group which was passing by.
265	-->'''Tourist:''' Are you with our group?
266	-->'''Bond:''' [[SarcasmMode No, ma'am, I'm with the economy tour]].
267	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: When his plans are ruined Khan makes a hasty retreat back to India where he plans to destroy all the evidence linking him to the plot, swipe everything of value in his palace, and hightail it out of there with Gobinda in the middle of the night while the rest of his men are distracted. He gets caught by Octopussy and Bond before he can make it.]]
268	* SecondaryCharacterTitle: While several Bond movies have a title in connection to the main villain, this one has the distinction of being the only one named after the Bond Girl.
269	* {{Sexophone}}: The opening notes to "All Time High" as well as one of the Leitmotifs (probably Octopussy's).
270	* ShellGame: After showing Octopussy the container full of smuggled jewelry that's welded into the HumanCannonball cannon, the carriage holding it is backed into a tunnel where the Soviets swap it with an identical carriage holding the nuclear bomb.
271	* ShootOutTheLock: While Bond is struggling with the guards to get to the bomb and deactivate it, Octopussy grabs one of the guards' guns and shoots the lock off the bomb's case so that Bond can get to it and disarm it.
272	* ShootTheDog: Poor Vijay.
273	* ShoutOut:
274	** [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk Bond bursting through spider's webs]].
275	** [[Film/TheAfricanQueen Bond gets covered with leeches]].
276	** [[Film/{{Alien}} One mook gets Octopussy's pet namesake wrapped around his face]].
277	** Orlov's death was an {{Homage}} to the ending of ''Film/VonRyansExpress''.
278	** When Bond appears in her bedroom pointing a gun at her, Octopussy quips, "Am I to be your [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_for_Tonight target for tonight]]?"
279	* ShowSomeLeg:
280	** Bond encourages the two parachutists holding him prisoner in the back of a truck to check out the beautiful woman driving up beside them and pulling up her skirt. The woman is a fellow [=MI6=] agent and Bond seizes the opportunity to pull the rip cords of the guard's parachutes while they're DistractedByTheSexy, causing them to get yanked off the back of the trunk.
281	** Octopussy's AmazonBrigade dress up as {{Bedlah Babe}}s and dance for Kamal's guards so they won't notice their colleagues entering elsewhere. Ironically Kamal's not bothered by his guards being distracted because it gives him a chance to slip out of his palace unnoticed. At the right moment the dancing girls knock out the guards and join the others in StormingTheCastle.
282	* ShutUpHannibal: Though he later engages in HamToHamCombat, Gogol literally rolls his eyes when Orlov is describing his invasion plan.
283	* SideBoob: The opening segment's BondGirl gives a healthy amount of this during her DistractedByTheSexy.
284	* SkinnyDipping: When Bond first arrives on Octopussy's island, he's able to see her swimming in her pool in the nude.
285	* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: Notoriously erratic in its placement. This is the only mass murder plot in the Bond franchise which is actually plausible (this was during a very tense period of the Cold War when Reagan's military buildup gave NATO the advantage, and Orlov is not a megalomaniac bent on world domination but rather a WellIntentionedExtremist who thinks that what he's doing will legitimately help his country; as a high-ranking official of the Soviet military, he would have access to a nuclear warhead and the method in which it is smuggled in makes perfect sense), but most of the time Bond approaches it with the same silliness common of other Moore-era Bond films. Even during the moments when he genuinely seems to take things seriously, such as the scene in which he defuses the bomb, the seriousness is brought down by other factors; in this scene, it's the fact that he's wearing a clown costume (it completely MakesSenseInContext, and was a legitimate disguise for where he was, what was happening and where he needed to go, but it's still ''really'' silly).
286	* SmoochOfVictory: Q gets showered with kisses when he drops his balloon on a mook about to shoot the AmazonBrigade.
287	* SmugSnake: Kamal Khan actually doesn't seem to realize he's just a henchman.
288	* SnakeCharmer: Bond's contact Vijay is posing as a snake charmer in the marketplace. He then comments that it is a really bad cover, as [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes he hates snakes]].
289	* TheSociopath: An unhinged brute and maniac to boot, General Orlov isn't bothered by the fact that his intended bombing of a US base will kill thousands of civilians and trigger World War III.
290	* SomethingElseAlsoRises: There is a scene where Bond is in bed with a broken leg, which is suspended in the air in a sling. As he and Octopussy kiss, the camera cuts to a shot of his leg slowly rising.
291	* SpreadingDisasterMapGraphic: General Orlov uses a computer display to show how quickly Soviet forces will be able to overwhelm western Europe if he is allowed to implement his invasion plans. Of course, from Orlov's perspective, this is not a disaster but a triumph, but the rest of the military council thinks he is insane.
292	* StabThePicture: When Kamal Khan hires some thugs to murder Bond, he gives them a photo of Bond, and a thug with [[KillerYoyo a yoyo-buzzsaw]] shreds the picture with the saw.
293	* SteamNeverDies: Octopussy's circus train is pulled by a steam locomotive. The train's origin in UsefulNotes/EastGermany justifies it as the Deutsche Reichsbahn still used steam until 1988, five years after the film's release.
294	* StockScream:
295	** Heard in the Moore-era films. When Bond and Gobinda are fighting outside the plane and uses the antennae to knock him off. This same scream is heard both in ''Film/AViewToAKill'' and ''{{Film/Moonraker}}''.
296	** Another butchered WilhelmScream can be heard near the end when Kamal's plane is about to crash.
297	* StopOrIWillShoot: {{Subverted}}. When General Orlov chases the train over the inner-German border on foot, one of the GDR border guards orders him to stop via megaphone. When he doesn't comply, another guard with an AK-47 immediately shoots him (before being motioned to stop by Gogol). This policy was infamously Truth in Television, by the way; the border was called the 'death strip' for a reason.
298	* StormingTheCastle: With the AmazonBrigade.
299	* StukaScream: The BD-5 Acrostar in the opening scene and Kamal's plane at the end.
300	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
301	** Bond is attempting to stop a train carrying a nuclear bomb. A fight on top of the train with Grishka ends with them both falling off. Bond survives and disposes of Grishka... except he is now miles away from the bomb and alone without recourse to his usual gadgets and vehicles. He has great difficulty hitching a lift, has no way of contacting any authorities (no-one is going to break off their phone conversation to let a madman raving about a bomb use the public phone) and a botched attempt at carjacking merely brings the West German police force down on him.
302	** Orlov chases the train as it crosses the inner-German border. He apparently thought that as a Soviet general, the East German border guards would easily let him through, but they instead mistake him for a defector and kill him.
303	** Gogol and the Soviet Politburo criticize Orlov for his plan to invade Western Europe and weaken NATO, aware that NATO wouldn't go down without a fight, and that Orlov's plan would end up annihilating everyone on both sides and leaving no victors in the end. Gogol also holds Orlov in great contempt, feeling that his thirst for power is dangerous even by itself.
304	* SuspectIsHatless: When Bond speeds through the Air Base's security checkpoint:
305	-->'''Security guard:''' Captain, some nut went through here in a stolen car! Wants the base commander, and he's wearing a red shirt!
306	** That's likely an ArsonMurderAndJaywalking joke, with the red shirt implying that he's a DirtyCommunist.
307	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: A new M apparently makes his debut in this story. No-one mentions what happened to the previous one, and no line of dialogue even acknowledges that this M is a different person, which has caused many to claim that this is actually a case of TheOtherDarrin, and that it's still the original M but with a different actor playing him. There's also the theory that the new M is really Admiral Hargreaves, actor Robert Brown's character from ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. Note that this was because Creator/BernardLee had died of cancer; his illness had precluded him from appearing in the previous film ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''. M was absent entirely from that one, stated to be on leave, but here they had to get a new actor.
308	* SupervillainLair: The Soviet Politburo's marble conference room, complete with a giant map of the world and rotating table, has to count, even if they themselves are not supervillains.
309	* TapOnTheHead: Averted. [[spoiler: Bond dropping the human cannonball’s cannon onto Mischka’s head proves fatal.]]
310	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The American general in the circus tent when the lock is shot off and the nuclear warhead revealed with only 14 seconds left, showing that the madman in a clown outfit was right all along. His expression and demeanour when he orders his men to let Bond try to disarm it shows that he considers himself and everyone around him to already be dead.
311	* ThrillerOnTheExpress: Bond tries to get to Octopussy, but he gets chased by Kamal Khan's right-hand man, Gobinda.
312	* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Bond, at the very end of the film, when he shows Octopussy that his leg has already healed in his own, Bond-like fashion.
313	* TimeBomb: The nuclear warhead, which has a timer attached to it. When Octopussy shoots the lock of the casing off and reveals it to everyone present, the timer has only 14 seconds left.
314	* TitleDrop:
315	** Well, the main BondGirl's nickname is Octopussy, but the first instance:
316	-->'''Bond:''' ''[looking at Magda's tattoo, on the small of her back]'' What is that?\
317	'''Magda:''' That's my little Octopussy.
318	** The title of the other short story [[AdaptationExpansion this film is adapted from]] is also dropped: "[[Literature/OctopussyAndTheLivingDaylights The Property of a Lady]]".
319	** Averted with the theme song. The song is titled "All Time High", and the word "Octopussy" cannot be found in the lyrics at all. (Music/ChrisCornell, who wrote a [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 later Bond theme]], has declared that "Nobody wrote a song called ‘Octopussy’ but [[IntentionallyAwkwardTitle I think that was a mistake]]! They had a great opportunity and they squandered it." Of course, ''his'' Bond title theme, "You Know My Name", did not have the title (''[[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 Casino Royale]]'') in it either.)
320	*** The song isn't completely out of place for the movie, however. At one point, Bond mentions to Octopussy that they're "two of a kind"; one of the song's lyrics echos this.
321	* TooDumbToLive: The least Gobinda could do, judging by his expression, was to wear a parachute. That is, of course, [[IdiotBall if they had one on board...]]
322	* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Kamal Khan, eater of sheep's eyes.
323	* TraintopBattle:
324	** Bond has to fight Gobinda and Grishka on top of Octopussy's circus train.
325	** While Kamal Khan attempts to flee with Octopussy in a prop airplane, he sends Gobinda outside the airborne craft to dispose of Bond, who is clinging to the outer fuselage in a rescue effort. Gobinda and Bond face off while belly-crawling atop the fuselage.
326	* TranquillizerDart: Used by Octopussy's mooks. After all, they're thieves, not hardened killers.
327	* TranslationConvention: The meeting of the Soviet Politburo appears to be conducted entirely in English.
328	* UnconventionalVehicleChase: Bond rides an auto rickshaw through a bazaar in Delhi, chased by Kamal Khan's thugs in a jeep and an auto rickshaw of their own.
329	* {{Understatement}}:
330	** How do you tell the audience of a circus that they were barely seconds from being in the epicentre of a nuclear detonation? "Ladies and Gentlemen, we had an emergency..."
331	** Meanwhile, Kamal and Gobinda are advised that it would be a good idea to be at least 20 miles away from the blast. The looks on their faces basically are "No shit, Sherlock".
332	* UseTheirOwnWeaponAgainstThem: Grishka pins Bond down to the wooden door with precise knife throws. When he's about to throw the fatal blade, Bond opens the door, Mishka stumbles and falls, and Bond throws one of his knives at him.
333	* VillainBall: Bond finds himself trapped in a KnifeOutline by Grishka, the remaining half of a pair of knife-throwing twins, whose brother Mishka had been killed by Bond earlier. Grishka has one knife remaining, so what does he do? He tells Bond "And this for my brother!", and charges towards Bond! Bond manages to take one of the knives out of the outline and throws it at Grishka, adding "And that's for 009!"
334	* AVillainNamedKhan: The BigBad is the WickedCultured Kamal Khan.
335	* VineSwing: Bond infamously does this while being pursued by Kamal Khan and his hunting party through the jungle in India, complete with the Creator/JohnnyWeissmuller Tarzan yell.
336	* TheWarRoom: We get a rare look at the [[http://www.bondmovies.com/stills/octopussy/11.jpg Soviet War Room]].
337	* WeaponRunningTime: During the BondOpeningSequence, Bond uses the fact that his jet is almost as fast as the pursuing missile to extend the missile's flight time long enough to guide it into the hangar where the radar unit he was sent to destroy is located. The explosion of the missile accomplishes his mission.
338	* WellIntentionedExtremist: Orlov thinks of himself as a patriot doing what must be done to give his country a major strategic advantage over the West. With his dying words he claims that he will soon be thought of as a Hero of the Soviet Union.
339	* WeveGotCompany:
340	-->'''Bond''': Vijay, we've got company.
341	-->'''Vijay''': No problem, this is a company car!
342	-->''([[WhatAPieceOfJunk auto rickshaw does a wheelie and roars off at speed]])''
343	* WhamLine: During the confrontation between Orlov and Bond after Bond states there will be a retaliatory nuclear attack for detonating a warhead on an American base in West Germany:
344	-->'''Orlov''': Against ''whom?''
345	* WhyWontYouDie: When Kamal encounters Bond at Octopussy's base.
346	-->'''Kamal:''' You have a nasty habit of surviving.
347	-->'''Bond:''' Well, you know what they say about the fittest.
348	* WickedCultured: Kamal Khan as the MeaningfulName implies, is a prince and owns a Monsoon Palace.
349	* WouldHurtAChild: Orlov and Khan's willingness to see countless innocents killed by nuking a US military base in West Germany by using Octopussy's circus as a cover. The ''worst'' part? The potential casualties will include ''women'' and '''children'''.
350	* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Gobinda's reaction, though not uttered literally, to Kamal telling him to go ''outside'' the plane to fight Bond while 30,000 feet up.
351	-->'''Gobinda:''' Out ''there''?!
352	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Kamal and General Orlov have no intention of telling Octopussy or her girls they'll be ground zero of a nuke they planted.
353	* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Bond is trying to convince the general of the US airbase that he's a British agent and there's a nuclear bomb hidden in the base of the cannon. The fact that he's dressed as a clown and ran the checkpoint at the airbase entrance is [[NotHelpingYourCase not helping]], and he's assumed to be a nutcase. Meanwhile Magda is whispering in Octopussy's ear that Bond is trying to expose their smuggling operation. [[spoiler:Bond is in the process of being dragged away by base security when Octopussy grabs a gun from one of them and proceeds to ShootOutTheLock on the cannon's base. The doors fly open, and everyone gasps in horror [[IncrediblyObviousBomb at the sight of a digital timer counting down]].]]
354	* YouKilledMyFather: Subverted. Octopussy is actually grateful to Bond for allowing her father to commit suicide, as it saved her father the shame of a court martial (Bond was tasked with arresting him, and was giving him 24 hours to clear up his affairs -- he might not have known he'd kill himself, but [[LeaveBehindAPistol it would have been implied]]).
355	* YoureInsane: When General Orlov discusses his plan to invade Western Europe to his bosses, General Gogol and the Politburo immediately call him out, knowing it'll trigger World War III and that Orlov is only doing it for the sake of personal glory.

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