History Film / GoldenEye

* WouldHitAGirl: Bond gets into a fight with Xenia in the steam room and is willing to slam her against a wall and throw her onto the steam rocks. He then knocks her out after she drives him to the statue park. Later, when she attacks him again, [[spoiler:he kills her by taking out the helicopter supporting her, making her one of the very few women he has directly executed in the series]]. Then again, Xenia is one of the few women who has tried to directly murder ''him''. Maybe [[spoiler:[[Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough Elektra King]]]] should've been taking notes before {{tempting fate}} by saying "You wouldn't kill me" to Bond.

*** Another clue that it's all a setup is the response time of the Soviet soldiers. Once intruders in the base are discovered, you would expect soldiers to start sweeping the base level by level. But less than 10 seconds elapse between the alarm being sounded and first Soviet soldiers arriving on the scene. More, Ourumov and additional reinforcements head directly for the Gas Room and ignore the rest of the base; they 'knew ''exactly'' where Bond and Trevelyan were.

** When M and Bond are reviewing the satellite footage of the now-destroyed Severnaya, M asks if the [=GoldenEye=] firing ''could'' have been a terrible accident (a cover story which Moscow ironically uses afterwards). Bond instantly disagrees, pointing out the Eurocopter Tiger presence at the scene ''proves'' it wasn't. The satellite was clearly fired to cover up the theft of the [=GoldenEye=] access keys; the Tiger – having been engineered to withstand radiation exposure -- was thus the ''perfect'' getaway vehicle for this specific kind of heist.

** This is how Bond gets Zukovsky help him despite the latter's grudge for crippling his knee during the Cold War. Bond provides intel on a rigged crime deal going down this afternoon -- a deal which, with this information, will net Zukovsky a tidy profit from the sting operation. In exchange, Zukovsky will set up a meeting with Janus for Bond -- which will settle the debts between them and leave Janus owing Zukovsky a favor.

** When M and Bond are reviewing the satellite footage of the now-destroyed Severnaya, M asks if the [=GoldenEye=] firing ''could'' have been a terrible accident. Bond instantly disagrees, pointing out the Eurocopter Tiger presence at the scene ''proves'' it wasn't. The satellite was clearly fired to cover up the theft of the [=GoldenEye=] access keys; the Tiger – having been engineered to withstand radiation exposure -- was thus the ''perfect'' getaway vehicle for this specific kind of heist.

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Bond and Natalya are strapped down in the Tiger helicopter, and the missiles are set to fire and then return back at them. They escape before the explosion, but the Russian authorities show up immediately, and the Minister of Defence accuses them of being involved in both. Presumably, they were supposed to find only the bodies and assume that the two of them were the criminals they were after, and write the whole thing off as a weapon malfunction.

* EndOfAnAge: It was with this film that Bond truly said goodbye to the UsefulNotes/ColdWar. Nothing says it as much as the statues of UsefulNotes/VladimirLenin and other Communist symbols being toppled/smashed in the TitleSequence and the "cemetery" of Lenin statues.

* NoodleIncident: Between [[RememberTheNewGuy Alec Trevelyan, Valentin Zukovsky,]] and [[NebulousEvilOrganisation the Janus syndicate,]] it feels like the audience has missed a film or two.

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