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* ArtificialLimbs: Kurjak not only makes state of the art prosthetic limbs, he requires them himself for his missing left limbs. His security chief Dharma Reach as well; she lost both forearms cooking up an IED to [[UnfriendlyFire kill her USMC superiors for investigating her cruelty to POWs]]. Felix Leiter shows up in ''Eidolon'' wearing Kurjak models, for the hand and leg lost to a shark attack in ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie''.
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* ArtificialLimbs: Kurjak not only makes state of the art prosthetic limbs, he requires them himself for his missing left limbs.appendages. His security chief Dharma Reach as well; she lost both forearms cooking up an IED to [[UnfriendlyFire kill her USMC superiors for investigating her cruelty to POWs]]. Felix Leiter shows up in ''Eidolon'' wearing Kurjak models, for the hand and leg lost to a shark attack in ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie''.
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* LeaveBehindAPistol: The climax of the second story arc has Bond convincing [[spoiler:Hawkwood]] to kill himself before authorities arrive, handing over a small pocket knife for the purpose.
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* GiantMook: A huge musclebound woman previously seen lifting weights accosts Bond at the climax of "Vargyr."
* LeaveBehindAPistol: The climax of the second story arc has Bond convincing [[spoiler:Hawkwood]] to kill himself before authorities arrive, handing overa his small pocket knife for the purpose.
* LeaveBehindAPistol: The climax of the second story arc has Bond convincing [[spoiler:Hawkwood]] to kill himself before authorities arrive, handing over
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* PsychopathicManchild: Bryan Masters is an escaped psychiatric patient and seems very childish and immature; when he kills everyone at the Berlin SIS station he realizes Bond isn't there. He panics, desperately asking one of the bodies with their brains splattered on the walls why Bond wasn't there and where to find him. He also has a curiously limited vocabulary.
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* PsychopathicManchild: Bryan Masters is an escaped psychiatric patient and seems very childish and immature; when immature. When he kills everyone at the Berlin SIS station he realizes too late that Bond isn't there. He panics, desperately asking one of the bodies with their brains splattered on the walls why Bond wasn't there and where to find him. He also has a curiously limited vocabulary.
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* ArtificialLimbs: Kurjak not only makes state of the art prosthetic limbs, he requires them himself. His security chief Dharma Reach as well; she lost both forearms cooking up an IED to [[UnfriendlyFire kill her USMC superiors for investigating her cruelty to POWs]]. Felix Leiter shows up in ''Eidolon'' wearing Kurjak models, for the hand and leg lost to a shark attack in ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie''.
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* ArtificialLimbs: Kurjak not only makes state of the art prosthetic limbs, he requires them himself.himself for his missing left limbs. His security chief Dharma Reach as well; she lost both forearms cooking up an IED to [[UnfriendlyFire kill her USMC superiors for investigating her cruelty to POWs]]. Felix Leiter shows up in ''Eidolon'' wearing Kurjak models, for the hand and leg lost to a shark attack in ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie''.
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* ArtificialLimbs: Kurjak not only makes state of the art prosthetic limbs, he requires them himself. His security chief Dharma Reach as well; she lost both forearms cooking up an IED to [[UnfriendlyFire kill her USMC superiors for investigating her cruelty to POWs]].
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* ArtificialLimbs: Kurjak not only makes state of the art prosthetic limbs, he requires them himself. His security chief Dharma Reach as well; she lost both forearms cooking up an IED to [[UnfriendlyFire kill her USMC superiors for investigating her cruelty to POWs]]. Felix Leiter shows up in ''Eidolon'' wearing Kurjak models, for the hand and leg lost to a shark attack in ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie''.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Two rogue CIA agents taken out by Bond in ''Eidolon'' are clearly modeled after Wrestling/JohnCena and Wrestling/TheRock (specifically Rocky circa 2000 before he first shaved his head).
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* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight: "The Hard Rule", which prevents [=MI6=] agents from carrying firearms within the United Kingdom, is extended to the 00 program [[spoiler:by the traitorous head of [=MI5=], who doesn't want to face any armed response to his plans.]] Bond is thus only allowed a small folding knife.
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* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight: "The Hard Rule", which prevents [=MI6=] agents from carrying firearms within the United Kingdom, is extended to the 00 program [[spoiler:by the traitorous head of [=MI5=], who doesn't want to face any armed response to his plans.]] plans]]. Bond is thus only allowed a small folding knife.knife, with his Walther shipped ahead of him in a diplomatic pouch when he goes abroad.
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* TrickBullet: To compensate for the lacking stopping power of Bond's Walther, Q devises bullets that fragment into smaller projectiles on impact -- one entrance wound, ''seven'' exit wounds. They're said to bounce off body armor but any hit on a soft target will render the enemy "unable to respond", to put it lightly.
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* DudeWheresMyRespect: Beckett Hawkwood's motivation for turning traitor; half his face was burned beyond repair while serving his country, and not once was his photo in the papers. Appealing to his desire for recognition is how Bond ultimately neutralizes him, [[spoiler:convincing Hawkwood that the game is up and the only way to salvage his reputation and be remembered as a hero is to kill himself.]]
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* LeaveBehindAPistol: The climax of the second story arc has Bond convincing [[spoiler:Hawkwood]] to kill himself before authorities arrive, as it’s the only way to salvage his reputation — to be a hero.
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* LeaveBehindAPistol: The climax of the second story arc has Bond convincing [[spoiler:Hawkwood]] to kill himself before authorities arrive, as it’s handing over a small pocket knife for the only way to salvage his reputation — to be a hero.purpose.
* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight: "The Hard Rule", which prevents [=MI6=] agents from carrying firearms within the United Kingdom, is extended to the 00 program [[spoiler:by the traitorous head of [=MI5=], who doesn't want to face any armed response to his plans.]] Bond is thus only allowed a small folding knife.
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* TwoFaced: Hawkwood is hideously scarred on the left side of his face, a grim souvenir from his last tour of duty in the SAS. [[spoiler: Bitterness over feeling his sacrifice went unrewarded drove him to fall in with SPECTRE, forming Eidolon]].
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Bond can’t quite place Dharma Reach’s accent; she claims her family moved from Bristol to Vermont when she was young, but Bond later seems to speculate this was just a cover for having an unconvincing accent.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Bond can’t quite place Dharma Reach’s accent; she claims her family moved from Bristol to Vermont when she was young, but Bond later seems to speculate this was just a cover for having an unconvincing accent.
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* TwoFaced: Hawkwood is hideously scarred on the left side of his face, a grim souvenir from his last tour of duty in the SAS. He jokes that he was surprised that [=MI5=] recruited him; standing out in a crowd as he does, he doesn't fit the profile of a "security service spook." [[spoiler: Bitterness over feeling his sacrifice went unrewarded drove him to fall in with SPECTRE, forming Eidolon]].
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Bond can’t quite place Dharma Reach’s accent; she claims her family moved from Bristol to Vermont when she was young, but Bondlater seems to speculate this think she was just a cover born American covering for having an unconvincing a poor accent.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Bond can’t quite place Dharma Reach’s accent; she claims her family moved from Bristol to Vermont when she was young, but Bond
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* FallenHero: Hawkwood was a decorated war hero who felt his work wasn’t adequately appreciated, rewarded.
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* LeaveBehindAPistol: The climax of the second story arc has Bond convincing [[spoiler:Hawkwood]] to kill himself before authorities arrive, as it’s the only way to salvage his reputation — to be a hero.
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* DaChief: M is a very British variant, making sideways references to potentially shutting down the 00 program and making snide, cutting remarks about Bond's performance.
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* RogueAgent: Beckett Hawkwood, the villain of the second volume, is the ringleader of a rogue [=MI5 cell=]
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* TwoFaced: Hawkwood is hideously scarred on the left side of his face, a grim souvenir from his last tour of duty in the SAS. [[spoiler: Bitterness over feeling his sacrifice went unrewarded drove him to fall in with SPECTRE, forming Eidolon]].
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* ArtificialLimbs: Kurjak not only makes state of the art prosthetic limbs, he requires them himself. His security chief Dharma Reach as well; she lost both forearms cooking up an IED to [[UnfriendlyFire kill her USMC superiors for investigating her cruelty to POWs]].
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* ExactWords: While acting as Bond's informant in Berlin, Slaven Kurjak tells Bond that he lost his left arm and leg "in the Serbian concentration camps in the 1990s"; it's explained later that he wasn't imprisoned there, he was a young member of the staff who liked to watch disease spread among the prisoners from their contaminated water source.
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* DaChief: M is a very British variant, making sideways references to potentially shutting down the 00 program and making snide, cutting remarks about Bond's performance.
* ExactWords: While acting as Bond's informant in Berlin, Slaven Kurjak tells Bond that he lost his left arm and leg "in the Serbian concentration camps in the 1990s"; it's explained later that he wasn't imprisoned there, he was a young member of the staff who liked to watch disease spread among the prisoners from their contaminated water source. [[NoodleIncident How specifically he lost the limbs goes unelaborated on either way.]]
* ExactWords: While acting as Bond's informant in Berlin, Slaven Kurjak tells Bond that he lost his left arm and leg "in the Serbian concentration camps in the 1990s"; it's explained later that he wasn't imprisoned there, he was a young member of the staff who liked to watch disease spread among the prisoners from their contaminated water source. [[NoodleIncident How specifically he lost the limbs goes unelaborated on either way.]]
* LittleUselessGun: In ''Vargr'', just about everyone Bond comes across gets a comment in about his Walther being too small for the job. It's suggested that Bond doesn't opt for a bigger caliber (or a hard leather holster) because he doesn't want his piece to [[TheDandy spoil the silhouette of his suit.]]
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* RunningGag: In the original series, everyone gets their shots in at Bond's Walther being a LittleUselessGun.
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* RunningGag: In the original series, everyone gets their shots in at Bond's Walther being a LittleUselessGun.Walther.
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* OvertOperative: The first thing Dharma Reach does when Bond gets in the car with her is tell him her real name and try to explain why she doesn’t sound very English for an SIS agent.
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Bond sees through Dharma Reach right away because he "can't quite place" her accent; the claim that her father was English and the family moved to Vermont doesn't satisfy him.
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Bond sees through can’t quite place Dharma Reach right away because he "can't quite place" her Reach’s accent; the claim that she claims her father was English and the family moved from Bristol to Vermont doesn't satisfy him.
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* TheParanoiac: In ''Vargr'', Bond notes that Kurjak was so paranoid about being exposed he blew his own operation anyway.
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* ExactWords: While acting as Bond's informant in Berlin, Slaven Kurjak tells Bond that he lost his left arm and leg "in the Serbian concentration camps in the 1990s"; it's explained later that he wasn't imprisoned there, he was a Mengele-like MadDoctor young member of the staff who conducted cruel unethical experiments on liked to watch disease spread among the prisoners.prisoners from their contaminated water source.
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* BallsOfSteel: Bryan Masters doesn't react to a GroinAttack from Bond.
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* FeelNoPain: Inverted; Bryan Masters suffers from anhedonia, an inability to process ''pleasure''. It's not even that he's numb to pleasurable sensation, it actually ''hurts'' him. Kurjak promises he can cure him if he kills James Bond.
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* FeelNoPain: Inverted; inverted; Bryan Masters suffers from anhedonia, an inability to process ''pleasure''. It's not even that he's numb to pleasurable sensation, it actually ''hurts'' him. Kurjak promises he can cure him if he kills James Bond. He ''also'' seems highly resistant to physical pain -- among other things, he grabs a large shard of glass to use as a knife, paying no heed to his hand heavily bleeding from gripping it too tightly. Gouging his eyes got his attention at one point, though.
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* FeelNoPain: Inverted; Bryan Masters suffers from anhedonia, an inability to process ''pleasure''. It's not even that he's numb to pleasurable sensation, it actually ''hurts'' him. Kurjak promises he can cure him if he kills James Bond.
* PsychopathicManchild: Bryan Masters is an escaped psychiatric patient and seems very childish and immature; when he kills everyone at the Berlin SIS station he realizes Bond isn't there. He panics, desperately asking one of the bodies with their brains splattered on the walls why Bond wasn't there and where to find him. He also has a curiously limited vocabulary.
* PsychopathicManchild: Bryan Masters is an escaped psychiatric patient and seems very childish and immature; when he kills everyone at the Berlin SIS station he realizes Bond isn't there. He panics, desperately asking one of the bodies with their brains splattered on the walls why Bond wasn't there and where to find him. He also has a curiously limited vocabulary.
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* ExactWords: While acting as Bond's informant in Berlin, Slaven Kurjak tells Bond that he lost his left arm and leg "in the Serbian concentration camps in the 1990s"; it's explained later that he wasn't imprisoned there, he was a Mengele-like MadDoctor who conducted cruel unethical experiments on the prisoners.
* RaceLift: M is portrayed as a black man for the first time.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The story was about 11 years old at the time of publication, but Dharma Reach's backstory as a guard at a POW camp in Iraq who subjected the prisoners to torture is based on accounts of gross mistreatment and torture at Abu Ghraib, the most visible perpetrator of which was a woman named Lynndie England.
* RaceLift: M is portrayed as a black man for the first time.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The story was about 11 years old at the time of publication, but Dharma Reach's backstory as a guard at a POW camp in Iraq who subjected the prisoners to torture is based on accounts of gross mistreatment and torture at Abu Ghraib, the most visible perpetrator of which was a woman named Lynndie England.
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* ''James Bond: Hammerhead'' (2016) - Bond investigates a mysterious anti-capitalist called Kraken who threatens Britains nuclear arsenal.
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''James Bond'' is a line of spy action thriller comic books published by Creator/DynamiteEntertainment based on the famous super spy, ''Franchise/JamesBond''.
Comics include:
* ''James Bond'' (2015-2016)
* ''James Bond: Hammerhead'' (2016) - Bond investigates a mysterious anti-capitalist called Kraken who threatens Britains nuclear arsenal.
* ''James Bond: Felix Leiter'' (2017)
* ''James Bond: Black Box'' (2017)
* ''James Bond: Service'' (2017)
* ''James Bond: Kill Chain'' (2017)
* ''James Bond: Moneypenny'' (2017)
* ''James Bond: Solstice'' (2017)
* ''James Bond: The Body'' (2018)
* ''James Bond: M'' (2018)
* ''James Bond: Casino Royale'' (2017) - Adaptation of ''Literature/CasinoRoyale''
* ''James Bond Origin'' (2018-2019) - An origins series about a teen Bond set during UsefulNotes/{{WW2}}
* ''James Bond 007'' (2018-2019)
* ''James Bond'' (2019-2020)
* ''James Bond: Live and Let Die'' (2020) - Adaptation of ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie''
* ''James Bond: Reflections of Death'' (2020)
* ''James Bond: Agent of SPECTRE'' (2021)
* ''James Bond: Himeros'' (2021)
* ''James Bond 007'' (2022)
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!!General tropes include:
* SettingUpdate: With the exception of ''Origin'' and the adaptations, the series have a contemporary setting with few pieces of advanced tech rather then the UsefulNotes/ColdWar setting of the novels.
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!!Tropes in ''Hammerhead'' include:
* ArmsDealer: Hunt Engineering is Britain's leading arms manufacturer, making billions by selling to British and Middle Eastern governments, including replacing the Trident nuclear missiles.
* ExplodingFishTanks: The Hunt Gala that Bond attends to guard the Hunts is held at a an aquarium, giving two examples:
** When Kraken mercenaries snipe at Bernard Hunt, they shoot out a glass wall, drenching the attendees in water.
** Bond and Victoria is confronted by one of the mercenaries in a shark tunnel, Bond shoots out the glass to surprise the mercenary with a torrent of killer shark filled water.
* ExplosiveLeash: The hacker working for Kraken has a collar that explodes when he about give information about his employer.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In a double example, Bond is able to [[spoiler:use to the chip implanted in Bond's car by Kraken to turn Kraken's own Hammerhead cannon back on them.]]
* MagneticWeapons: The Hammerhead is a giant rail-gun that can fire a projectile at a target 2000 miles away and be adapted to carry a nuclear payload.
* MurderByRemoteControlVehicle: After Bond finds out information about Kraken's operations in Yemen, his spy car's autopilot is hijacked and tries to kill Bond with the various spy gadgets and driving off a cliff.
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!!Tropes in ''Himeros'' include:
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The series starts with a billionaire financier dying in his cell after being arrested for trafficking underage children to an island similarly to Jeffrey Epstein's death after being arrested for the same thing.
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Comics include:
* ''James Bond'' (2015-2016)
* ''James Bond: Hammerhead'' (2016) - Bond investigates a mysterious anti-capitalist called Kraken who threatens Britains nuclear arsenal.
* ''James Bond: Felix Leiter'' (2017)
* ''James Bond: Black Box'' (2017)
* ''James Bond: Service'' (2017)
* ''James Bond: Kill Chain'' (2017)
* ''James Bond: Moneypenny'' (2017)
* ''James Bond: Solstice'' (2017)
* ''James Bond: The Body'' (2018)
* ''James Bond: M'' (2018)
* ''James Bond: Casino Royale'' (2017) - Adaptation of ''Literature/CasinoRoyale''
* ''James Bond Origin'' (2018-2019) - An origins series about a teen Bond set during UsefulNotes/{{WW2}}
* ''James Bond 007'' (2018-2019)
* ''James Bond'' (2019-2020)
* ''James Bond: Live and Let Die'' (2020) - Adaptation of ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie''
* ''James Bond: Reflections of Death'' (2020)
* ''James Bond: Agent of SPECTRE'' (2021)
* ''James Bond: Himeros'' (2021)
* ''James Bond 007'' (2022)
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!!General tropes include:
* SettingUpdate: With the exception of ''Origin'' and the adaptations, the series have a contemporary setting with few pieces of advanced tech rather then the UsefulNotes/ColdWar setting of the novels.
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!!Tropes in ''Hammerhead'' include:
* ArmsDealer: Hunt Engineering is Britain's leading arms manufacturer, making billions by selling to British and Middle Eastern governments, including replacing the Trident nuclear missiles.
* ExplodingFishTanks: The Hunt Gala that Bond attends to guard the Hunts is held at a an aquarium, giving two examples:
** When Kraken mercenaries snipe at Bernard Hunt, they shoot out a glass wall, drenching the attendees in water.
** Bond and Victoria is confronted by one of the mercenaries in a shark tunnel, Bond shoots out the glass to surprise the mercenary with a torrent of killer shark filled water.
* ExplosiveLeash: The hacker working for Kraken has a collar that explodes when he about give information about his employer.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In a double example, Bond is able to [[spoiler:use to the chip implanted in Bond's car by Kraken to turn Kraken's own Hammerhead cannon back on them.]]
* MagneticWeapons: The Hammerhead is a giant rail-gun that can fire a projectile at a target 2000 miles away and be adapted to carry a nuclear payload.
* MurderByRemoteControlVehicle: After Bond finds out information about Kraken's operations in Yemen, his spy car's autopilot is hijacked and tries to kill Bond with the various spy gadgets and driving off a cliff.
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!!Tropes in ''Himeros'' include:
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The series starts with a billionaire financier dying in his cell after being arrested for trafficking underage children to an island similarly to Jeffrey Epstein's death after being arrested for the same thing.
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