History Film / LicenceToKill

* CoolGuns:
** The FIM-92 Stinger is a key point of the plot, as well as the focus of a stunt involving an 18-wheeler going up on 9 wheels.
** Pam Bouvier brings a Mosberg 500 Cruiser with her to meet James Bond at a bar. During the ensuing bar brawl, she fires the weapon to blow a hole in the wall for the two of them to escape.
** Sanchez's gun of choice is the Micro-Uzi.
** Q provides Bond with a SniperRifle that's [[ScaramangaSpecial disguised as a camera]] and has a palm print reader, meaning that only Bond can use it.

* ItsPersonal: Sanchez, throws Felix Leiter to the sharks. Bond is naturally pissed, and subsequently blows up windows, laboratories and trailer trucks to get to Sanchez.
** As bad as almost killing Felix by shark is, the real MoralEventHorizon was that the gang also raped and killed Felix's wife... ''on the night of their honeymoon!''

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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The film was made when The War on Drugs was in full swing.

** Killifer ends up dangling above the same SharkPool Felix had been lowered into and desperately offers to split his payoff with Bond. Bond, however, answers "You want it? You keep it, ''old buddy''.", and throws it at him, making him fall in and get eaten.

* ManOnFire: [[spoiler:Sanchez]] starts out this way, followed by StuffBlowingUp.

* FrameUp: Bond manages to frame one of Sanchez's minions, Milton Krest, of plotting against him, knowing Sanchez would furiously murder him in response. Bond tried to assassinate Sanchez on his own before he was interrupted by rival agents, but circumstances lead Sanchez to believe that the people who captured Bond were responsible for the attempt on his life. Bond then plants several clues for Sanchez to conclude that Krest betrayed him, such as claiming that the "hitmen" were paid by a man who fits Krest's description, and stashing money Bond had previously seized from Sanchez's operation inside Krest's ship for him to find. Not helping Krest either is the unbelievable nature of Bond's prior escape [[YouHaveToBelieveMe making him sound like a desperate liar]], and Pam impersonating a harbor master to crash his ship just to make him look outrageously incompetent on top of being a thief.

* FrameUp: Bond manages to frame one of Sanchez's minions, Milton Krest, of plotting against him, knowing Sanchez would furiously murder him in response. Bond tried to assassinate Sanchez on his own before he was interrupted by rival agents, but circumstances lead Sanchez to believe that the people who captured Bond were responsible for the attempt on his life. Bond then plants several clues for Sanchez to conclude that Krest betrayed him, such as claiming that the "hitmen" were paid by a man who fits Krest's description, and stashing money Bond had previously seized from Sanchez's operation inside Krest's ship for him to find. Not helping Krest either is the unbelievable nature of Bond's prior escape [[YouHaveToBelieveMe making him sound like a desperate liar]].

* WhipItGood: Franz Sanchez has a whip made from a strigray's tail which he uses to [[ATasteOfTheLash discipline his mistress]].

* TakeTheWheel: In a diversion to let Bond sneak onto the Wavekrest yacht, Pam Bouvier poses as a harbor pilot and starts pulling the ship into the dock. When the captain anxiously observes how fast she's going, she snaps back "You want to do the driving? Take the wheel!", throws the throttle on full, and sneaks off the bridge in the confusion as it crashes into the pier.

** Justified -- Bond is able to infiltrate Sanchez's operation as himself, [[RogueAgent having just been kicked out of MI6]]. Given Sanchez already has ex-CIA members like Colonel Heller working for him, this is nothing unusual in Isthmus and there's nothing there to make Sanchez be suspicious of Bond's background.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Sanchez's murder of Krest by putting him in a decompression airlock.