History Film / Moonraker

* SigilSpam: "007" is on the miniature camera Bond uses to photograph documents, with the lens in the middle "O".

* DeathBySex: Drax' secretary Corrine Dufour is seduced by Bond and is tricked into telling him where Drax's safe is. Drax, apparently thinking [[HighHeelFaceTurn she did this deliberately]], sets his dogs on her.

** Space shuttles cannot be crewed and prepared in a moment's notice as is shown onscreen, as such flights took months to prepare on average.

** In the novelization, Bond does his jump (including wresting a parachute from someone in mid-air) based on only a conversation he had with a British army parachute team.

* AbsoluteCleavage: On the SpaceClothes worn by TheBeautifulElite.

[[JustForFun/TheOneWith The One where]] Bond gets launched [-[[RecycledInSpace INTO SPACE]]!-]

** A tram operator was knocked out by being hit on the back of a head with a wrench and two Drax employees are KOed by a punch and a metal container.

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Chang first tries to murder Bond by sabotaging the Zero-G astronaut training he was taking part in (the Bond girl believes something had went wrong with the controls), and later Drax himself tries to have him shot and make it look like a hunting accident. Both attempts take place when Bond was on Drax's property as a guest and, when Bond leaves, later attempts are even more over-the-top but not set-up as accidents.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The "ideal humans" vanish from the narrative once Bond reaches the space station. Whether any actually survive is never revealed. This is actually noticeable as the film takes pains to focus on that the women among them are the same ones Bond sees earlier at Drax' estate and in the glass factory in Venice, yet we never learn their fate and the only people being seen killed on screen are Drax' male troops.

* CoversAlwaysLie: [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XjCAebNf_s0/UQFuXPIXEvI/AAAAAAAAS8Q/pYv914bPpPc/s1600/moonraker_ver2.jpg The film's posters]] [[http://www.the007dossier.com/007dossier/james-bond-007-movie-posters/moonraker/Moonraker-Poster.jpg feature]] [[https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/77/MPW-38698 Bond]] in a white space suit (and so did some [[http://theredlist.com/media/database/muses/icon/cinematic_men/1970/roger-moore/007-roger-moore-theredlist.jpg promotional]] [[http://media.rtl.fr/cache/RhBJgLpjZBrH1xCzKLlEiw/880v587-0/online/image/2017/0523/7788680070_roger-moore-dans-james-bond-moonraker-sorti-en-1979.jpg shots]]). He never wears one such in the film.

* DeathBySex: Drax' secretary Corrine Dufour is seduced by Bond and is tricked into telling him where Drax's safe is. DiabolicalMastermind Drax later uses his dogs to kill her for her treachery.

* ForDoomTheBellTolls: Drax's SexySecretary Corrinne is set upon by his dogs after he discovers her treachery. As they leap on her and knock her to the ground, we hear the solemn tolling of a church bell (though this is technically because the next scene is set in Venice, it is clearly meant to symbolize her death).

* MoodWhiplash: As pointed out in the ''James Bond Encyclopedia'', the scene where Corrine is pursued and attacked by Drax's dobermans is genuinely chilling, and stands out from the outlandishness of the rest of the film.

* RightHandAttackDog: Drax sets his vicious dogs on his assistant Corrine when he discovers that she's been helping James Bond.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Drax fires Corinne when she helps Bond into his safe...and then has her fed to his dobermans.

[[JustForFun/TheOneWith The One where]] Bond gets launched [-[[RecycledInSpace INTO SPACE]]-].

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Although the point of most Bond films is the actions by 007 to avoid death, this film takes this trope UpToEleven. In every locale and virtually every scene something or someone is trying to kill him.

* ActuallyIAmHim:
-->'''Bond''': I'm looking for Dr. Goodhead.
-->'''Holly''': You just found her.

-->'''Drax:''' You missed, Mr. Bond.
-->''[the sniper falls out of the tree, dead]''
-->'''Bond:''' Did I? As you said, such good sport.

'''Bond:''' (''shoots Drax with his dart-launcher'') Heartbroken, Mr. Drax. (''prepares to open the airlock'') Take a giant step for mankind.\\

** A bit earlier, a heavily-coughing smoker sees the coffin floating in front of him and throws away his cigarette, clearly viewing it as an omen.

* AdultFear: Anyone who's afraid of dogs--even if you ''love'' dogs--probably got chills at the fate of poor Corrinne.

** Bond shoots a dart into a painting of UsefulNotes/WilliamIII, who was played by Creator/BernardLee in the 1937 film adaptation of ''Literature/TheBlackTulip''.

** M asks if Bond's back from a mission in Africa. Creator/RogerMoore's previous film was ''Film/TheWildGeese'', which largely took place in South Africa.

* TheAmazon: Bond visits a "Brazilian" rainforest with a waterfall — despite the Amazon River, as any other plains river, being unable to have waterfalls — and a pre-Columbian building.

* InevitableWaterfall: At the end of a boat chase, Jaws falls afoul of one in TheAmazon.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: [[invoked]] Bond's safe-cracking gadget fits in a cigarette case; compare to the one he used in ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''.

* SpotOfTea: Drax indugles in what he thinks is Britain's best contribution to Western Civilization - afternoon tea. He even orders Bond's death while sipping a cup.

* {{Expy}}:
** Drax is basically Stromberg from ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', complete with his own private army and plans for destroying the world and creating a new one from the ashes. Like Stromberg, Drax is also an expy of Blofeld and his game plan involving biological agents is similar in concept to Blofeld's in the original novel ''Literature/OnHerMajestysSecretService''.

* SameLanguageDub: French actress Corinne Clery, known for Just Jaeckin's ''The Story of O'', was dubbed by Nikki Van der Zyl, in what was her last dubbing job for any film, as well as for any Bond film.

* SicEm: "Look after Mr Bond. See that some harm comes to him." Not to mention poor [[StuffedIntoTheFridge Corrine]]...

* StrongerThanTheyLook: After Jaws fails to kill Bond in the cable car scene he is trapped under a very large wheel or gear. He can't lift it off of himself. Who can? _Dolly,_ a five foot nothing girl with big glasses and pigtails.