History Film / Moonraker

** To date, the films never escalate to this scale again.

* MadeOfIron: Continuing the trend started in the previous movie, Jaws survives a fall from an airplane in the cold-open (he falls through a circus tent and lands in the trapeze artists' safety net, which would still have killed him). Then, he emerges unscathed from a cable car that crashes through a wall, falls over Iguazu Falls without suffering any injury, and, in the climactic scene, [[spoiler:the dialogue implies that he and his girlfriend survive [[SerialEscalation falling from low-earth orbit]] in a decaying space station]]. By the end, Bond acknowledges Jaws' invulnerability, [[LampshadeHanging reassuring]] Dr. Goodhead that "[[spoiler:it's only a thousand miles to earth]]" and therefore Jaws will be fine.

* AnimalReactionShot: A pigeon has a double take while Bond is driving his gondola on the street of Venice.

* BallsOfSteel: JamesBond knees Jaws in the groin while fighting him in the space station. There's a "clang" sound when Bond does so, indicating that Jaws has BallsOfSteel, just like his teeth.

* BondVillainStupidity: Mostly averted. Drax goes out of his way to try and eliminate Bond virtually from the very first meeting. Which might count anyway, since originally Bond wasn't even there to investigate Drax and the murder attempts [[CaptainObvious just made him suspicious.]] The first couple of attempts were suitably convoluted, but this is subtle FridgeBrilliance if you realize that Drax was trying to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident while Bond was on his property. Afterwards, he had no problem sending entire kill squads to assassinate Bond in public- which are just as doomed to fail, of course. His explicit justification for not simply having Bond shot is ForTheEvulz; he wanted Bond's death to be "amusing". Most people he has murdered in the movie actually die quite nasty deaths, especially Corrine, so this is pretty in-character.

* [[{{ChekhovsGun/Film}} Chekhovs Gun]]: Three of them. The wrist-activated dart gun Bond uses to escape the gravity trainer and shoot Drax, Dr. Goodhead's "poison pen" Bond takes in Venice and later uses to kill the python in the jungle, and the laser rifle being tested by Q that's later used by the U.S. Marines attacking Drax's orbiting space station.
* CityOfCanals: Venice
* CoolBoat: ''Two'' no less. The tricked-out hydrofoil/gondola/car thingee in Venice, and the awesome speedboat (equipped with torpedoes,mines,bullet shield and hang glider no less) used by Bond to explore the Amazon Basin

* {{Mayincatec}}: Drax's base... in TheAmazon, [[YouFailHistoryForever where said civilizations never stepped foot.]]

* TheBeautifulElite: Drax' whole plan is to destroy all human life on Earth so it can be repopulated it with only genetically perfect specimens that he selected.
* BondVillainStupidity: Mostly averted. Drax goes out of his way to try and eliminate Bond virtually from the very first meeting.
** Which might count anyway, since originally Bond wasn't even there to investigate Drax and the murder attempts [[CaptainObvious just made him suspicious.]] The first couple of attempts were suitably convoluted, but this is subtle FridgeBrilliance if you realize that Drax was trying to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident while Bond was on his property. Afterwards, he had no problem sending entire kill squads to assassinate Bond in public- which are just as doomed to fail, of course. He still never simply has Bond shot, but who does?
** Should be noted, also- his explicit justification for not simply having Bond shot is ForTheEvulz; he wanted Bond's death to be "amusing". Most people he has murdered in the movie actually die quite nasty deaths, especially Corrine, so this is pretty in-character.

* MadeOfIron: Continuing the trend started in the previous movie, Jaws survives a fall from an airplane in the cold-open (he falls through a circus tent and lands in the trapeze artists' safety net, which would still totally have killed him). Then, he emerges unscathed from a cable car that crashes through a wall, falls over Iguazu Falls without suffering any injury, and, in the climactic scene, [[spoiler:the dialogue implies that he and his girlfriend survive [[BeyondTheImpossible falling from low-earth orbit]] in a decaying space station]]. By the end, Bond acknowledges Jaws' invulnerability, [[LampshadeHanging reassuring]] Dr. Goodhead that "[[spoiler:it's only a thousand miles to earth]]" and therefore Jaws will be fine.

* WrongParachuteGag: Jaws, in the pre-credits sequence.

* ProductPlacement: Yes, we all know that all James Bond movies have it, but [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1It-YC92MQ this chase scene]] is a blatant example. (See it in the second half of the clip!)

* MadeOfIron: Jaws

* TheCapitalOfBrazilIsBuenosAires: Just for starters, making the Amazon river end in a waterfall (not only it ends straight in the ocean, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iguazu_Falls the location of said falls]] is really far).

** Which might count anyway, since originally Bond wasn't even there to investigate Drax and the murder attempts [[CaptainObvious just made him suspicious.]] The first couple of attempts were suitably convoluted, but this is subtle FridgeBrilliance if you realize that Draz was trying to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident while Bond was on his property. Afterwards, he had no problem sending entire kill squads to assassinate Bond in public- which are just as doomed to fail, of course. He still never simply has Bond shot, but who does?

* SongsInTheKeyOfLock: The famous ''CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' theme, nevertheless.

* BondVillainStupidity: Mostly averted. Drax goes out of his way to try an eliminate Bond virtually from the very first meeting.

* RearrangedThemeSong: The title song "Moonraker" rolls over the end credits remixed with a upbeat, disco flair.

* [[{{ChekhovsGun/Film}} Chekhovs Gun]]: Three of them. The wrist-activated dart gun Bond uses to escape the gravity trainer, Dr. Goodhead's "poison pen" Bond takes in Venice and later uses to kill the python in the jungle, and the laser rifle being tested by Q that's later used by the U.S. Marines attacking Drax's orbiting space station.

* ChekhovsGun: Three of them. The wrist-activated dart gun Bond uses to escape the gravity trainer, Dr. Goodhead's "poison pen" Bond takes in Venice and later uses to kill the python in the jungle, and the laser rifle being tested by Q that's later used by the U.S. Marines attacking Drax's orbiting space station.

* ChekhovsGun: Two of them. The first is the wrist-activated dart gun Bond uses to escape the gravity trainer. The second is Dr. Goodhead's "poison pen" Bond takes in Venice and later uses to kill the python in the jungle.

*** Also worth noting is all three of the above-mentioned films also feature a [[YouHaveFailedMe female subordinate being eliminated]] and all three feature a SharkPool or some variation thereof.