History Film / Octopussy

* GroinAttack. Narrowly averted -- Bond is sliding down a stairway railing, blazing away at mooks with a captured AK-47. He then quickly uses the rest of the magazine to shoot off the knob at the end of the railing. Prior to that however Bond - dressed as a clown - kicked a security guard at the circus while trying to get to the bomb.

* GroinAttack. Narrowly averted -- Bond is sliding down a stairway railing, blazing away at mooks with a captured AK-47. He then quickly uses the rest of the magazine to shoot off the knob at the end of the railing.

* DoubleTake: an ''animal'' no less. Common in the Moore-era films. This time it's a camel who does one after Bond and Vijay jump their minicab over its head.

* IronicEcho[=/=]DarkReprise: Vijay's "No problem!", uttered by Bond [[spoiler: after Vijay's corpse is found.]]

* MayDecemberRomance: [[DownplayedTrope More like May-September]]. While still much younger than him, Octopussy is one of the few Bond girls too old to be his daughter (she's only 18 years his junior, as opposed to the whopping ''30'' that Carole Bouquet was in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''), especially in the Moore-era.

* OohMeAccentsSlippin: The security guard at the US Air Base is assumedly African-American, but if you listen closely it's obvious he's Caribbean or African in background.

* OhMeAccentsSlippin: The security guard at the US Air Base is assumedly African-American, but if you listen closely it's obvious he's Caribbean or African in background.

* DuelingMovies: With Sean Connery's ''NeverSayNeverAgain''. Neither film really wowed critics or topped the box office.

--> '''James Bond:''' (Throws his own knife and impales him) And that's for 009!

* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Khamal and his mooks' hunt for Bond after he escapes the Monsoon Palace.

* AmazonBrigade: Octopussy's henchwomen.

** Note that this was because the original actor had died, which actually happened before ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''. M was absent entirely from that one, stated to be on leave, but here they had to get a new actor. And if it is Hargreaves then he's been demoted; he was a Vice Admiral in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', but is stated to be a Rear Admiral in ''TheLivingDaylights''.

* ImNotHungry: Bond finds his sheep head little too exotic.

* CutlassBetweenTheTeeth: Done briefly by Gobinda when goes after him on Khamal's plane.

-->'''Q:''' Double-0 seven on an island populated exclusively by women? We won't see him till dawn!

** There's also the theory that the new M is really Admiral Hargreaves, actor Robert Brown's character from ''TheSpyWhoLovedMe''.

* MayDecemberRomance: [[SubvertedTrope More like May-September]]. While still much younger than him, Octopussy is one of the few Bond girls too old to be his daughter (she's only 18 years his junior, as opposed to the whopping ''30'' that Carole Bouquet was in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''), especially in the Moore-era.

The 13th ''[[{{Film/JamesBond}} James Bond]]'' film, starring Roger Moore. After a replica Fabergé egg is found on an assassinated agent, Bond is sent to {{India}} to infiltrate a circus gang led by Octopussy (Maud Adams, the only Bond girl actress to make a second leading appearance).

** It helps that the actress had already played a Bond girl opposite Moore eight years earlier in ''{{The Man With The Golden Gun}}''.

** Note that this was because the original actor had died, which actually happened before ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''. M was absent entirely from that one, stated to be on leave, but here they had to get a new actor. And if it is Hargreaves then he's been demoted; he was a Vice Admiral in ''TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', but is stated to be a Rear Admiral in ''TheLivingDaylights''.