History Film / JamesBond

* ''{{Archer}}''

* ''DangerMan''/''Secret Agent''
* ''DangerMouse''

* ''{{Golgo 13}}''

* ''JamesBondJr''

* ''KimPossible''
* ''LupinIII'' (one of the parents, anyway)

* ''MissionImpossible''

* ''TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' (1974) -- ChristopherLee tries to hold the world to ransom during the energy crisis. One of the greatest stunts in Bond history is ruined by a sound effect.

* ''AViewToAKill'' (1985) -- Duran Duran and the Eiffel Tower. ChristopherWalken, GraceJones and an exploding blimp above the Golden Gate Bridge. 007 has wrinkles. Oh, and SanFrancisco's City Hall ends up on fire.

* ''OnHerMajestysSecretService'' (1969) -- Blofeld [[TheOtherDarrin looks different]], but so does 007. 007 gets married, again. 007 gets widowed. As it turns out, they [[SoHappyTogether don't have all the time in the world]]. Oh and the awesome Diana Rigg is in it.

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'''Roger Moore''': Moore tended to play his Bond [[LighterAndSofter more for comedy]], but he did do it pretty serious at times, as in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''. He probably hung around too long, and was older than Connery when he took over the role, and is tied with Connery for the number of Bond movies made. He's perhaps the most [[BaseBreaker polarizing]] actor on this list, since two of his movies--''TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' and ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''--are among the most well-received Bond flicks, while ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' and ''AViewToAKill'' are considered the worst.
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* ''AViewToAKill'' (1985) -- ChristopherWalken, GraceJones and an exploding blimp. Duran Duran and the Eiffel Tower. 007 has wrinkles. Oh, and SanFrancisco's City Hall ends up on fire.

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There are also at least three Bond films outside of the accepted canon:

* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Probably better named "Before I Kill You, Mister Bond..."
* KillSat

* LatexPerfection

** In ''TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' he blows up that helicopter pilot; ''Thunderball'' should count even if it wasn't him who pulled the trigger; he also ''tried'' to kill Rosa Klebb in ''FromRussiaWithLove'' but the Bond girl shot her instead; he savagely averts this trope in a more general sense too - while Bond is rarely overtly cruel with woman he has no problem fighting them, threating to break their arm (''TheManWithTheGoldenGun''), strangling them for info {''DiamondsAreForever'') and, in one case, actually threatened to slit ones ''throat'' [''LicenceToKill''). So yeah, Bond ain't this trope.

* BodyCountCompetition: Bond probably has the highest on-screen body count of any film character ever, counting all 22 official movies. Unsurprisingly for an action hero/government assassin, he kills at least one person in every film, and more commonly ''a lot'' of people.

* EigenPlot: Gadget variation.

'''DanielCraig''': When [[{{BaseBreaker}} Daniel Craig]] was cast as 007, he got a [[RuinedFOREVER lot]] [[TaintedByThePreview of]] [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks flak]] from the press. He was blond. He was short. He wore a life jacket on a speedboat ride to the announcement. A "Craig Not Bond" movement started up. Then ''Casino Royale'' came out. [[{{BrokenBase}} Now there seems to be a divide between fans who love Craig's Bond vs. fans who absolutely detest this version]].

* ''OnHerMajestysSecretService'' (1969) -- Blofeld [[TheOtherDarrin looks different]], but so does 007. 007 gets married, again. For real this time. 007 gets widowed. As it turns out, they don't have all the time in the world. Oh and the awesome Diana Rigg is in it.

'''Roger Moore''': Moore tended to play his Bond more for comedy, but he did do it pretty serious at times, as in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''. He probably hung around too long, and was older than Connery when he took over the role, and is tied with Connery for the number of Bond movies made. He's perhaps the most polarizing actor on this list, since two of his movies--''TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' and ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''--are among the most well-received Bond flicks, while ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' and ''AViewToAKill'' are considered the worst.

** The theme of ''GoldenEye'' is about how a woman [[StalkerWithACrush always admired her lover from afar.]] Her lover? A Russian KillSat.

** "Gold" (such as "Goldfinger", "Man with the Golden Gun" and "GoldenEye")

* TokenRomance: Most of the series' films. ''OnHerMajestysSecretService'', ''TheLivingDaylights'', ''LicenceToKill'', ''{{Goldeneye}}'', ''CasinoRoyale'', and ''QuantumOfSolace'' avert this. The first one and the last two especially, as ''OnHerMajestysSecretService'' and ''CasinoRoyale'' dedicate great amounts of time to develop their story's romances, while ''QuantumOfSolace'' averts it entirely as Bond doesn't get together with the girl in the end.

* TrustPassword: Being spies, James has a number of signs and countersigns for when he meets friendlies (in ''GoldenEye'', for example, he refused to even speak to Jack Wade until Wade showed him the EmbarrassingTattoo on his hip).

* WouldntHitAGirl: In fifty years, the number of women Bond has directly killed can be counted on three fingers, and two of those happened in the relatively recent Brosnan era: Fatima Blush (''Never Say Never Again'', 1983), Xenia (''Goldeneye'', 1995), and Electra (''TheWorldIsNotEnough, 1999'').

* The Bond Girls. Usually at least two of them in one movie. You could write a book on the different girls Bond has bedded over the years - in fact, Maryam D'Abo and John Cork did. The former played Kara Milovy in ''The Living Daylights'', so she knows what she's talking about. Although it goes back to Thunderball, the Bad Bond Girl has become something of a feature recently with all of the last three movies featuring one.

* Every Bond film (at least pre-''Casino'', which includes three of the four) includes ''at least one'' of the following

** Even if they're not on a dinghy, they're probably on a boat: See ''FromRussiaWithLove, Thunderball, DiamondsAreForever, TheManWithTheGoldenGun,'' ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' (for certain definitions of "[[RecycledInSpace boat]]"), ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' and ''Octopussy.''
** Heavily averted in ''OnHerMajestysSecretService'' (which is more [[spoiler:Bond And A Corpse In A Car]]) and the Craig films ([[spoiler:in which he's ''sans'' babe]]).

* OldShame: Ian Fleming hated ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' to the point of only selling the title to the producers.
* TheOtherDarrin: Bond, obviously. But also other recurring characters such as M, Moneypenny, Blofeld, Felix (especially) and even Q between ''Dr No'' and ''From Russia With Love''.

* ThePeteBest: Sort of, Peter Burton played a character named Major Boothroyd in ''DrNo'' that is similar to Q in the films afterward and it has been suggested that they are the same character.
** They are. Q is actually called Major Boothroyd at a few points in the series by some characters, though at times you have to pay a bit of attention to hear it.

* ProductPlacement: A lot, especially in recent films. It has been joked that Bond has a License To Shill.

* StarMakingRole: For Connery, Moore, Dalton, and Craig. Brosnan, already famous for ''Series/RemingtonSteele'', was brought out of mediocrity by being offered and accepting Bond for the second time in 1995.
** Averted with George Lazenby.
** Although Moore was already famous, to a certain degree, for playing TheSaint.

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim?: Every single movie, though if you look closely they sometimes have varying degrees of justifications, even if often that is simply ForTheEvulz. To be fair, if they weren't AxCrazy enough to be so sadistic, they probably wouldn't be supervillains in the first place.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: One of the essays in ''James Bond in the 21st Century'' has sci-fi author Mark W. Tiedemann [[http://books.google.com/books?id=zpI5RbRwnd4C&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q&f=false imagining a world]] where [[AlternateHistory Sean Connery wasn't Bond]] in ''DrNo'', putting a quick end to the Bond Franchise and opening the field for films, TV shows and even musicals based on the character.
** StevenSpielberg always wanted to direct a James Bond movie, but Albert R. Broccoli rejected him twice. The first time, early in Spielberg's career, Broccoli turned him down because he was young, inexperienced, and unknown. He approached Broccoli again after directing ''{{Jaws}}'', but Broccoli wouldn't hire him because he was afraid he'd demand too much money.
** The Climax! TV special adaptation of ''Casino Royale'' lead to Ian Fleming being offered a hand in developing a Bond TV series. Fleming wrote a series of outlines for the show but negotiations fell through and it didn't get made. However, Fleming salvaged the outlines and used them to create the eighth Bond novel, ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''.
** ''Thunderball'' began its life as a screenplay written by Kevin Mcclory, Jack Whittingham and Ian Fleming (copyright dictates in that order). When the movie wasn't getting made, Fleming turned it into a book which lead Mcclory to sue. As a result of the lawsuit, EON couldn't make ''Thunderball'' as the first Bond movie, so instead they went with ''Dr No''.
** Both Pierce Brosnan and Timothy Dalton were offered Bond at least ten years before they were able to take it. CaryGrant was also offered Dr No and Howard Hawks reportedly wanted to make a Casino Royale movie starring him, in the former case EON decided he was too old (Grant was in his late fifties at this point) and went with Sean Connery instead, and in the latter Hawks lost interest.
** The biggest what could have been of them all: George Lazenby was originally going to be signed to do seven films, not just one, but his agent convinced him that Bond was a dated character that wouldn't last, and thus Lazenby decided to leave after ''OHMSS''. Lazenby fired his agent soon after, and till this day, freely admits he made a mistake.
*** In a similar vein, the reason that Sean Connery got so pissed off with the Bond people ultimately had to do with working on You Only Live Twice. Ironically he later said that he would've much preferred to do a Bond film like ''OHMSS''.

* LegacyCharacter (or TheNthDoctor): {{Fanon}} explains the differences in the various Bond personas by saying the name "James Bond" is an alias that passes to each agent who gets the 007 code number. It explains how Bond can be an ruthless killer in the Dalton years, a suave cultured chap in Brosnan's time, and then a newly minted agent in Casino Royale under "apparently" the same M.
** This gets some outside support from TheRock, of all places. Connery's character is described as a former British secret agent who was disavowed by his government around the same time Roger Moore took over the role of Bond.
** The director of ''DieAnotherDay'' was a proponent of this, but it was evident that [[{{DidNotDoTheResearch}} he didn't think it through]] because when asked about it an interviewer was able to poke holes in his theory by stating (correctly) that they all mourn over the same dead wife.

* AffectionateParody[=/=]ForgottenParody: IanFleming is said to have written the books as a ''parody'' of the spy thrillers of the time. Which means that ''{{Help}}!'', ''GetSmart'' and ''AustinPowers'' are each a parody of a parody -- and {{the Simpsons}} CouchGag which sends up ''GetSmart'' is [[YourHeadASplode a parody of a parody of a parody]].

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: For every movie you see, you can bet that you will never see the Bond girl in the next movie again. They will never even be mentioned.

** Somewhat averted in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' (one of the later Moore films, anyway), where he's seen laying flowers at his wife's grave. Also gets a reference early on in ''LicenceToKill'' and a veiled reference in ''TheWorldIsNotEnough''.
** Arguably averted in ''TheManWithTheGoldenGun''. The ''actress'' who plays the secondary Bond girl returned to play the primary Bond girl in ''{{Octopussy}}'', and came back again for a bit role in ''AViewToAKill''. However, each time she was playing a different character.
** Finally really averted in ''QuantumOfSolace'', mostly because it picks up directly where ''CasinoRoyale'' leaves off.
** Mostly averted in the books. The previous adventure and in at least some cases the previous love interest is always referred to in passing. The writers of the films have, at various points, tried to do this in the movies but it was mostly vetoed until Daniel Craig's Bond films.

* FoodPorn In the books.

** Novel-wise, Ian Fleming does not continue SMERSH storyline after ''From Russia With Love''.

*** Slightly averted in the fact that, while much of the more racial elements could be tied back to Fleming's traditionally "red-blooded Englishman" political standard, most of the misogynistic elements were presented as implicit aspects of Bond's character. Most of the women in any of Fleming's installments, beside perhaps Solitaire, are as real and well-rounded as any of his characters, and this reveals an astonishing thread - whenever Bond seems to mistake a woman for being too innocent or naive, they always manage to get one over on him. And, whenever he does actually legitimately fall for a woman, such as Vesper or Tracy di Vicenzo, all of that misogyny seems to disappear. In the former example, the turnaround is what has left him with this cold and sexist attitude, which is referenced all the time in the books. The films are arguably more misogynistic by [[{{Flanderization}} flanderising]] many of Bond's women into mere sex objects and turning them into [[RedShirt cannon fodder]] when this was done considerably less in the books.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Besides ''DrNo'', ''LicenseToKill'' and the DanielCraig films (honorable mention to ''DieAnotherDay''), Bond will never look awful.

'''George Lazenby''': Lazenby was an obscure actor and an obscure Bond. He only appeared in one movie, ''OnHerMajestysSecretService''. However, it is well liked among hardcore Bond fans and casual viewers alike. The film is widely ''assumed'' to be bad, since if it had been good, Lazenby would have made more, right? Well, not really. Lazenby's problems were primarily behind the scenes, and the fact that he was replacing Connery made it a no-win situation with some critics, but most of that criticism has faded with time. The film is well regarded these days among those who have seen it. Lazenby says that he didn't return because he was given advice not to. Apparently his agent told him that the Bond franchise was on it's way out, but [[CashCowFranchise boy was that wrong]]. Lazenby fired his agent soon afterwards.

A lengthy series of {{film}}s based on Ian Fleming's [[Literature/JamesBond literature]] about a British secret agent, code-named 007, which have also inspired many TV series. The 22 official movies thus far are:

** Even if they're not on a dinghy, they're probably on a boat: See ''FromRussiaWithLove, Thunderball, DiamondsAreForever, TheManWithTheGoldenGun,'' and ''Octopussy.''

* ''DangerMan''/''SecretAgent''

* ''Film/GoldenEye'' (1995) -- [[MonumentalDamage A tank chase through St. Petersburg]]. A record-breaking bungee jump. [[MurderousThighs Famke Janssen's killer thighs]]. And more [[{{Lzherusskie}} fake Russians]] than you can shake a stick at. Made for [[Game/GoldenEye a great video game]] too.

** Novel-wise, Ian Fleming does not continue SMERSH storyline after From Russia With Love.
** Movie-wise, it has been announced that Skyfall will not follow the Quantum storyline in Daniel Craig era.

** Camille Montes from QuantumofSolace is also a genuine ActionGirl, requiring little to no saving and kicking serious butt when given the chance.

** Also there is a good deal more racism/sexism (especially heterosexism) in the books than in the movies. Not really surprising, given that the books were written in TheFifties.

* AffectionateParody: IanFleming is said to have written the books as a ''parody'' of the spy thrillers of the time. Which means that ''{{Help}}!'', ''GetSmart'' and ''AustinPowers'' are each a parody of a parody -- and {{the Simpsons}} CouchGag which sends up ''GetSmart'' is [[YourHeadASplode a parody of a parody of a parody]].

** Averted with the first-ever movie Bond Girl Sylvia Trench - after DrNo, she's there again early in FromRussiaWithLove. She never shows up after, though.
** Somewhat averted in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' (one of the later Moore films, anyway), where he's seen laying flowers at his wife's grave. Also gets a reference early on in LicenceToKill and a veiled reference in TheWorldIsNotEnough.

** Finally really averted in QuantumOfSolace, mostly because it picks up directly where CasinoRoyale leaves off.
** Mostly averted in the books. The previous adventure and in at least some cases the previous love interest is always refered to in passing. The writers of the films have, at various points, tried to do this in the movies but it was mostly vetoed until Daniel Craig's Bond films.

* IncrediblyLongNote: The title themes tend to end in a suitably epic fashion.
** And of course, Tom Jones fainted on the last note of "Thunderball".

** The director of DieAnotherDay was a proponent of this, but it was evident that [[{{DidNotDoTheResearch}} he didn't think it through]] because when asked about it an interviewer was able to poke holes in his theory by stating (correctly) that they all mourn over the same dead wife.

* MeaningfulName: KGB-Chef is called Gogol. His second's name is Pushkin. For anyone with a degree in literature, they might as well have an AwesomeMcCoolName.

* TheOtherDarrin: Bond, obviously. But also other recurring characters such as M, Moneypenny, Blofeld, Felix (especially) and even Q between Dr No and From Russia With Love.

* RecurringExtra: In the Roger Moore films ''TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', ''{{Moonraker}}'' and ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'', the man who keeps seeing Bond do crazy stuff in Italy, probably without ever realising it is the same man (emerging from the sea in his car-sub; driving around the streets of Venice in his land-gondola; and escaping from armed assassins on skis in the Italian alps, respectively). In each case he is drinking and in the first two, finds what he's seeing so bizarre that he seems to wonder if he's been drinking too much (though not enough to ''stop'', evidently). Played by Victor Tourjansky, who was the assistant director for these Italy-set scenes in all three films.

** Averted with George Lazenby

** On''TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' DVD commentary around the time Bond and XXX are brought before Stromberg aboard his supertanker, there's a funny exchange between screenwriter Christopher Wood and director Lewis Gilbert. Wood wonders how anybody could build these great villains lairs without anyone noticing. Gilbert asks what about the huge staff and army the bad guy always seems to have. Does anybody write the next of kin whenever one of them gets killed? (The latter is lampshaded in the first AustinPowers movie.)
*** It was also lampshaded in a SaturdayNightLive sketch where an interviewer talked with Blofeld, Goldfinger and Largo. For example, they mention how contractors tended to jack up the price of gadgets (like electric chairs) when they find out a Bond villain is the customer.

* WouldntHitAGirl: In fifty years, the number of women Bond has directly killed can be counted on three fingers, and two of those happened in the relatively recent Brosnan era: Fatima Blush (Never Say Never Again, 1983), Xenia (Goldeneye, 1995), and Electra (TheWorldIsNotEnough, 1999).
** In ''TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' he blows up that helicopter pilot; ''Thunderball'' should count even if it wasn't him who pulled the trigger; he also ''tried'' to kill Rosa Klebb in ''FromRussiaWithLove'' but the Bond girl shot her instead; he savagely averts this trope in a more general sense too- while Bond is rarely overtly cruel with woman he has no problem fighting them, threating to break their arm (''TheManWithTheGoldenGun''), strangling them for info {''DiamondsAreForever'') and, in one case, actually threatened to slit ones ''throat'' [''LicenceToKill''). So yeah, Bond ain't this trope.

** The Climax! TV special adaptation of Casino Royale lead to Ian Fleming being offered a hand in developing a Bond TV series. Fleming wrote a series of outlines for the show but negotiations fell through and it didn't get made. However, Fleming salvaged the outlines and used them to create the eighth Bond novel, ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''.
** Thunderball began its life as a screenplay written by Kevin Mcclory, Jack Whittingham and Ian Fleming (copyright dictates in that order). When the movie wasn't getting made, Fleming turned it into a book which lead Mcclory to sue. As a result of the lawsuit, EON couldn't make Thunderball as the first Bond movie, so instead they went with Dr No.

** The biggest what could have been of them all: George Lazenby was originally going to be signed to do seven films, not just one, but his agent convinced him that Bond was a dated character that wouldn't last, and thus Lazenby decided to leave after OHMSS. Lazenby fired his agent soon after, and till this day, freely admits he made a mistake.
*** In a similar vein, the reason that Sean Connery got so pissed off with the Bond people ultimately had to do with working on You Only Live Twice. Ironically he later said that he would've much preferred to do a Bond film like OHMSS.

* Literature/AlexRider
* Series/{{Alias}}
* {{Archer}}
* AustinPowers
* Series/TheAvengers
* TheBourneSeries
* {{Cars}} 2
* DangerMan/SecretAgent
* DangerMouse
* FurFighters
* GetSmart
* {{Golgo 13}}
* TheIncredibles (the music and Syndrome's island base)
* ISpy
* JamesBondJr
* JohnnyEnglish
* The works of JohnLeCarre, not stylistically but Bond's popularity lead Le Carre to write his novels as a deconstruction of Bond and a depiction of what real spy work is like.
* [[TheLaundrySeries The Jennifer Morgue]]
* KimPossible
* LupinIII (one of the parents, anyway)
* TheManFromUNCLE
* MetalGearSolid, particularly the third
* MissionImpossible
* NoOneLivesForever
* PerfectDark
* SecretHistories
* SpaceAdventureCobra (partially)
* SpyFox
* YoungBond

* AlexRider

The cultural impact of 007 is, in a word, immense. The tuxedo has become associated with James Bond. The series has spawned [[FollowTheLeader legions of imitators]] and is pretty much ''the'' [[SmallReferencePools definitive spy fiction]]. Legions of media have also tried to "de-glamorise" espionage, such as the works of LenDeighton (the Stale Beer Approach To SpyFiction, although it in fact predates Bond). He is also the definitive ActionHero, and many elements of many an action film can be traced directly to Bond, or at least were popularised by him, such as the hero saying something cool [[PreMortemOneLiner before]] or [[BondOneLiner after]] offing the villain.