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* DissonantSerenity:

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* DissonantSerenity: Drax's master race candidates watch Bond in a life-and-death struggle with a python with smiles on their faces.


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* MasterRace: Though Drax doesn't discriminate where race is concerned, just physical perfection.

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* ItsRainingMen: Bond, Jaws and a mook parachute from a plane and fight in mid-air.

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* ItsRainingMen: Bond, Jaws and a mook parachute from a plane and [[HighAltitudeBattle fight in mid-air.mid-air]].

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* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The space marines wear white, while Drax's mooks wear yellow.



* LoadBearingBoss: Justified as all concerned have been shooting the space station up with lasers or abruptly stop/starting the rotation.



* SarcasticConfession: Bond tells Moneypenny he's late because he fell out of an airplane, then gets miffed when she laughs. The next time he meets her, Bond starts to tell how he fell off a mountain in a cable car, then gives up.

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* SarcasticConfession: Bond tells Moneypenny he's late because he fell out of an airplane, then gets miffed when she laughs. The next time he meets her, Bond starts to tell how he fell off a mountain in a cable car, then gives up.up at her "Yeah right!" look.


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* SchmuckBait: A beautiful blonde beckons Bond across a bridge in Drax's Amazon base. No doubt thinking of his experience in ''YouOnlyLiveTwice'', Bond gives her a "Yeah right" look and walks around the side of the pool, only to be flipped into it by a tilting rock.


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* TheSpeechless: Averted; turns out Jaws can talk despite his metal teeth, when he drinks a toast with his girl at the end.
-->'''Jaws:''' Well, here's to us.


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* WarriorMonk: Spoofed with two monks doing martial arts. After flipping his opponent, the winner crosses himself.
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** General Gogol gripes that he can't sleep because of his job. Problems, problems, problems! Then we see there's a beautiful blonde in his bed. Go Gogol!


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* RuleOfThrees: Three globes are ejected and have to be destroyed by Bond and Goodhead in a laser-armed shuttle. Naturally the first two are destroyed easily while the last presents all kinds of problems like the laser malfunctioning

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* AbsoluteCleavage: On the SpaceClothes worn by TheBeautifulElite.



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* AirVentPassagewayAirVentPassageway: Rather implausibly used for an OutrunTheFireball scene.



* HuntingAccident

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* HuntingAccidentHuntingAccident: Drax tries to arrange this for Bond, but the assassin gets shot by Bond instead.



* SexyStewardess

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* SexyStewardessSexyStewardess: Unfortunately she turns out to be a FemmeFatale.



* SpaceIsNoisy

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* SpaceIsNoisySpaceIsNoisy: Averted until everyone starts shooting at each other.
* SpaceIsSlowMotion
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* CaptainObvious: Bond almost falls off the roof of the cable car.
-->'''Goodhead:''' Hang on, James!
-->'''Bond:''' The thought had occurred to me!



** Dr Goodhead smiles at a mook holding the prisoner in the ambulance while Bond slips his bonds.



* IShallTauntYou: Bond does this to Hugo Drax in the novel in a desperate attempt to make him leave behind a blowtorch (intended for torture) that can be used to burn through Bond's ropes. It works.



* NoMoreForMe / JawDrop: while Bond is driving his gondola on the street of Venice.

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* NoMoreForMe / JawDrop: while While Bond is driving his gondola on the street of Venice.


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* WhyWeCantHaveNiceThings: Chang and Bond smash up the entire showroom of valuable glass antiques, including a million dollar vase.

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* ChekhovsGunman: The people shown working out at Drax's estate at the beginning of the film are later revealed to be the same people intended by Drax to seed his "master race".

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* ChekhovsGunman: The people shown working out at Drax's estate at the beginning of the film film, and at the glass factory in Venice, are later revealed to be the same people intended by Drax to seed his "master race".

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* SarcasticConfession: Bond tells Moneypenny he's late because he fell out of an airplane, then gets miffed when she laughs.

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* SarcasticConfession: Bond tells Moneypenny he's late because he fell out of an airplane, then gets miffed when she laughs. The next time he meets her, Bond starts to tell how he fell off a mountain in a cable car, then gives up.
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* FanserviceExtra: For once a ChekhovsGun.

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* DistractedByTheSexy: A couple snogging don't even notice when a speedboat with machine gun-toting mooks cuts their gondula in half.



* NoMoreForMe: while Bond is driving his gondola on the street of Venice.

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* NoMoreForMe: NoMoreForMe / JawDrop: while Bond is driving his gondola on the street of Venice.


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* TechnologyMarchesOn (InUniverse): Bond's safe-cracking gadget fits in a cigarette case; compare to the one he used in ''OnHerMajestysSecretService''.
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* SarcasticConfession: Bond tells Moneypenny he's late because he fell out of an airplane, then gets miffed when she laughs.


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* ShotInTheAss: M gets annoyed when Bond test-fires his wrist dart gun into a picture on his wall, specifically the horses' ass.
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''Moonraker'' is the 11th ''Film/JamesBond'' film, and the third starring Roger Moore. Bond is sent to investigate Drax industries after one of their shuttles is hijacked in mid-transit, which turns out to be part of an EvilPlan to exterminate the world population and replace it with "ideal" specimens.

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''Moonraker'' is the 11th ''Film/JamesBond'' film, and the third fourth starring Roger Moore. Bond is sent to investigate Drax industries after one of their shuttles is hijacked in mid-transit, which turns out to be part of an EvilPlan to exterminate the world population and replace it with "ideal" specimens.
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* CentrifugalFarce: While on a tour of Drax' aerospace facility James Bond was put in such a machine by Holly Goodhead and given a spin. While he was undergoing this Holly was called away and Drax's henchman Chang took over, turning the dial up and subjecting Bond to multiple gravities of force. Just before falling unconscious, Bond used one of his gadgets to shoot the control panel and turn the machine off.
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: A real life one for Richard Kiel, as he suffers from acrophobia and was unable to film any of the cable car fight. Hence the numerous shots of Jaws from behind awkwardly intercut with Kiel's face in front of a bluescreen.
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***It's however never mentioned that the Space Shuttle was going directly into orbit, instead of to one of Drax's "terrestrial" facilities.

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[[TheOneWith The one in]] outer space!


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* TheOneWith: The one in [[RecycledInSpace outer space!]]
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The 11th ''Film/JamesBond'' film, starring Roger Moore. Bond is sent to investigate Drax industries after one of their shuttles is hijacked in mid-transit, which turns out to be part of an EvilPlan to exterminate the world population and replace it with "ideal" specimens.

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[[TheOneWith The one in]] outer space!

''Moonraker'' is the
11th ''Film/JamesBond'' film, and the third starring Roger Moore. Bond is sent to investigate Drax industries after one of their shuttles is hijacked in mid-transit, which turns out to be part of an EvilPlan to exterminate the world population and replace it with "ideal" specimens.
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** Actually, nothing indicates that. It is said that he was picked up by Colonel Scott, which only makes sense if they [[spoiler: were still in space at that time.]]
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* DeadpanSnarker: Drax gets many amusing quips throughout the film. For instance, as Bond attempts to lead M and Gray to Drax's lab as described in ItWasHereISwear:
-->'''Drax:''' You must excuse me, gentlemen. Not being English, I sometimes find your sense of humor rather difficult to follow.
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* InNameOnly: There's really only two things about ''Moonraker'' shares with the novel on which it was based: Its title and the name of the villain.
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** In short, ''Moonraker'' assumed NASA's plans for the (then near-future) space shuttle were accurate. They weren't, but the filmmakers couldn't have know that.
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* LoveRedeems: Even Jaws.
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* XMeetsY: JamesBond meets StarWars, right down to the "shot in a million" ending. It's as cringe-worthy as it sounds.
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Not to be confused with ''{{Moonwalker}}''.

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Not to be confused with ''{{Moonwalker}}''.''Film/{{Moonwalker}}''.
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* SocialDarwinist: Drax

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* SocialDarwinist: TheSocialDarwinist: Drax
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* SocialDarwinist: Drax
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