History Film / Octopussy

* AdaptationalNameChange: Jim Fanning's equivalent in "The Property of a Lady" was named Dr. Fanshawe.

* CatchAndReturn: The knife-throwing twins this as part of their circus act. Naturally it is later utilized in their fight against James Bond.

** Downplayed later on, when General Orlov and Kamal have snuck a nuclear warhead into an US Air Force base in West Germany and have set it to detonate. After Kamal and Gobinda have left, they see Bond hurriedly driving to the base to try to prevent it from detonating. However, they let him him go since the German police are pursuing him, thus believing he'd fail to make it there in time.

After a replica Fabergé egg is found on an assassinated agent, James Bond is sent to UsefulNotes/{{India}} to infiltrate a gang led by Octopussy (Creator/MaudAdams). 007 soon discovers a connection between the priceless Fabergé egg, shady Afghan prince Kamal Khan (Creator/LouisJourdan), an elaborate smuggling operation and a meeting with a [[RenegadeRussian mad Soviet general]], Orlov (Creator/StevenBerkoff), who plans on detonating a nuclear device at Octopussy's circus as part of his plan to force an [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks American]] withdrawal from their bases in Western Europe, allowing the Soviets to dominate the continent (or, more likely, causing WorldWarIII).

[[JustForFun/TheOneWith The one where Bond]] disguises himself as a clown to disarm a bomb hidden in a circus cannon, thus preventing The Cold War from catching ablaze. ItMakesSenseInContext.

* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: Notoriously erratic in its placement. This is the only mass murder plot in the Bond franchise which is actually plausible (this was during a very tense period of the Cold War when Reagan's military buildup gave NATO the advantage, and Orlov is not a megalomaniac bent on world domination but rather a WellIntentionedExtremist who thinks that what he's doing will legitimately helping his country; as a high ranking official, he would have access to a nuclear warhead and the method in which it is smuggled in makes perfect sense), but most of the time Bond approaches it with the same silliness common of other Moore-era Bond films. Even during the moments when he genuinely seems to take things seriously, such as the scene in which he defuses the bomb, the seriousness is brought down by other factors, in this scene, it's the fact that he's wearing a clown costume (it completely MakesSenseInContext, and was a legitimate disguise for where he was, what was happening and where he needed to go, but it's still ''really'' silly).

** Bond is attempting to stop a train carrying a nuclear bomb. A fight on top of the train with Grishka ends with them both falling off. Bond survives and disposes of Grishka... except he is now miles away from the bomb and alone without recourse to his usual gadgets and vehicles. He has great difficulty hitching a lift, has no way of contacting any authorities (no-one is going to break off their phone conversation to let a mad man raving about a bomb use the public phone) and a botched attempt at carjacking merely brings West German police force down on him.

** Gogol and the Soviet Politburo criticize Orlov for his plan to invade western Europe and weaken NATO, aware that the countries wouldn't go down without a fight, and that Orlov's plan would end up annihilating everyone on both sides and leaving no victors in the end. Gogol also holds Orlov in great contempt, feeling that his thirst for power is dangerous even by itself.

* SupervillainLair: The Soviet Politburo's marble conference room, complete with giant map of the world and rotating table, has to count, even if they themselves are not supervillains.

* TooDumbToLive: The least Gobinda could do, judging by his expression, was to wear a parachute. That is of course, [[IdiotBall if they had one on board...]]

* WickedCultured: Kamal Khan as the MeaningfulName implies, is a Prince and owns a Monsoon Palace.

* RenegadeRussian: It's emphasized that Orlov is acting independent of the Politburo, and that Gogol and the other Soviet leaders are more interested in making peace with the West. The Breshnev {{Expy}} explicitly states that the Soviet nuclear arsenal is purely defensive. During the final third of the plot, Gogol is pursuing Orlov to ''stop'' him, though he isn't aware of the true nature of Orlov's scheme (though he probably would have disapproved of that if he'd known about it).

* HeelFaceTurn: Octopussy and her group were part of Kamal Khan's Fabergé Egg-smuggling plot (and in fact, Octopussy seemed to be his boss), but when he teams up with General Orlov who plans to engineer a nuclear explosion and realises that she, her crew and thousands of innocents would have been caught up in the explosion, they turns against him.

* FakinMacGuffin: The villains create fake Russian national treasures such as a Faberge egg and the Romanov Star to swap out for the real ones they are selling to finance their schemes. After it becomes necessary to reclaim on of the real eggs, Kamal Khan claims it is one of the fakes only to wince in horror as his partner General Orlov smashes it.

* TheFaceless: Octopussy's face is obscured when Kamal Kahn goes to see her early in the movie. Only her hands are shown as she feeds her pet octopus while talking to Kahn. This, plus the way he takes orders from her and the fact that the movie is ''named'' after her made it seem like she would be the BigBad and not him.

* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: During the [[TabletopGame/{{Backgammon}} backgammon]] scene when Bond wins 200,000 Rupees from Kamal Kahn, Khan starts writing him a cheque when Bond tells him quietly "I prefer cash".

* MidairRepair: Bond is clinging to the outside of an airplane. Kamal Kahn sends Gobinda out to kill Bond before he disables both engines and kills them all.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Upon hearing about Orlov's power-hungry plans to invade NATO, the Soviet Politburo immediately react with disgust, knowing that it's tantamount to war and would leave no victors on both sides. Gogol even [[YoureInsane calls him out for this]] by telling that NATO will not take this lightly.

* TheDreaded: Octopussy, who has a fearsome reputation. So much so local assassins are extremely wary of her.

* DirtyCommunists: General Orlov is a full-fledged communist villain seeking to be a hero of Soviet Union, but General Gogol contrasts this by investigating him in unwitting parallel to Bond's mission. The result of that was Gogol attempted to arrest Orlov before the East German border guards shot the renegade general dead and it's fairly obvious that if Gogol had learned Orlov's whole scheme, he would have raced to warn NATO.

* DeathBySex: Octopussy ''thinks'' Bond gets killed after having sex with her (and she looks quite upset about it), but fortunately he survives; this is a much more fortunate outcome the ''last'' time a BondGirl played by Maud Adams lay with Bond in ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''.

** General Orlav smashes a real (in-universe) Fabergé egg, having been inadvertently tricked by James Bond, who switched a real and a fake much earlier in the film. The jewelsmith flinches at the sight, but since Bond had planted a bug in the real one, it's not an entirely unproductive move on Orlov's part.

** [[Film/{{Alien}} One mooks gets Octopussy's pet namesake wrapped around his face]].

* TranslationConvention: The meeting of top Soviet generals appears to be conducted entirely in English.

* DoubleEntentre: A rare (for Bond) non-intercourse one with a Bond comment about one of Q's gadgets. Specifically, a rope lift that broke while being raised.

* AdultFear: Orlov and Khan's willingness to see countless innocents killed by nuking a US military base in West Germany by using Octopussy's circus as a cover. The ''worst'' part? The potential casualties will include ''women'' and '''[[WouldHurtAChild children]]'''.

* FemmeFatalons:

* SimSimSalabim: Partly set in India, and features snake charmers, sword swallowers, fire breathers, fire walkers, beds of nails... the lot.

After a replica Fabergé egg is found on an assassinated agent, James Bond is sent to UsefulNotes/{{India}} to infiltrate a gang led by Octopussy (Creator/MaudAdams). 007 soon discovers a connection between the priceless Fabergé egg, shady Afghan prince Kamal Khan (Creator/LouisJourdan), an elaborate smuggling operation and a meeting with a [[RenegadeRussian mad Soviet general]], Orlov (Creator/StevenBerkoff) who plans on detonating a nuclear device at Octopussy's circus as part of his plan to force an [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks American]] withdrawal from their bases in Western Europe, allowing the Soviets to dominate the continent (or, more likely, causing WorldWarIII).

After a replica Fabergé egg is found on an assassinated agent, James Bond is sent to UsefulNotes/{{India}} to infiltrate a gang led by Octopussy (Creator/MaudAdams). 007 soon discovers a connection between the priceless Fabergé egg, an elaborate smuggling operation and a meeting with a [[RenegadeRussian mad Soviet officer]], General Orlov (Creator/StevenBerkoff) who plans on detonating a nuclear device at Octopussy's circus as part of his plan to force an [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks American]] withdrawal from their bases in Western Europe, allowing the Soviets to dominate the continent (or, more likely, causing WorldWarIII).

After a replica Fabergé egg is found on an assassinated agent, James Bond is sent to UsefulNotes/{{India}} to infiltrate a gang led by Octopussy (Creator/MaudAdams). 007 soon discovers a connection between the priceless Fabergé egg, an elaborate smuggling operation and a meeting with RenegadeRussian General Orlov who plans on detonating a nuclear device at Octopussy's circus as part of his plan to force an [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks American]] withdrawal from their bases in Western Europe, allowing the Soviets to dominate the continent (or, more likely, causing WorldWarIII).

* SimSimSalabim: Snake charmers, sword swallowers, fire breathers, fire walkers, beds of nails... the lot.