History Film / OnHerMajestysSecretService

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Bond is falling in love with Tracy throughout the film, but this does not stop him from sleeping with multiple women, one after the other, [[WhatTheHellHero when he knows they are being experimented upon and brainwashed]]. Admitedly, he doesn't actually have his LoveEpiphany for Tracy until after that, and he doesn't ''really'' know they are being brainwashed, though obviously he's suspicious of the (voluntary) hypnotism, which he only finds out about after he starts sleeping with them (and even then, the hypnotism might not have affected that part of their personality). [[ReallyGetsAround And being Bond, it was obviously too late by then.]] One other explanation is that Bond sleeping with Ruby is just him trying to get into a patient's room at a time where no officials can hear them so that he could ask questions such as how she got there, what the clinic is doing, etc, and him spending the rest of the night with Nancy was to distract her from the book she wanted to see, which he'd left in Ruby's room Him scheduling more meetings with them afterwards is to keep up the act he'd established and nothing else. With Tracy, he's clearly in love.

* IntimatePsychotherapy: Invoked by Draco, who thinks his daughter just needs a [[WomenPreferStrongMen strong man to dominate her]] and [[YouNeedToGetLaid make love to her]]. Bond correctly points out she needs a doctor instead.

* GanglandDriveBy: After Tracy rescues Bond, he has her drive him to the nearest payphone so he can alert London about Blofeld's EvilPlan. Unfortunately, a carload of mooks led by Irma Blunt drives up and opens fire on him before he can make the call. [[spoiler:This foreshadows Blofeld and Irma attempting to kill Bond with a drive-by shooting at the end of the movie; this time Bond is in the car with Tracy (whom he'd just married) and the burst kills her instead.]]

* ImpostorForgotOneDetail: Bond impersonates Sir Hilary Bray. The bad guys expose him when he is caught in his usual antics of seducing women. Apparently, the real Bray was gay or asexual, or at least not such a womanizer. Also, the Bleuchamp family crypt was located in St. Anna's Kirche, not in the Habsburg cathedral -- which, as Blofeld notes, Sir Hilary should have known. Bond also gets too eager to get Blofeld away from Switzerland (which would allow him to be arrested), suggesting they visit an archive that, as Blofeld points out during this discussion, would be closed over Christmas.

* NaughtyUnderTheTable: Ruby secretly writes her room number on Bond's leg while everyone is eating dinner. When he is asked if he is all right, he replies, "[[DoubleEntendre Just a slight stiffness coming on]]... [[ADateWithRosiePalms In the shoulder]]."

* TakenOffTheCase: M relieves Bond from Operation Bedlam due to not having made any progress finding Blofeld in two years. Bond promptly tenders his resignation, which Moneypenny alters to a request for two weeks' leave. Bond uses his free time to persue the case.

* SuddenDownerEnding: The only Bond film to end on a complete downer note until ''Film/NoTimeToDie''. Even ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'' is more upbeat. Bond's defeated Blofeld's evil scheme and got the girl - in fact, for the first time in the 007 series, he's married her. It doesn't last. In the final scene, [[spoiler: Bond is driving away from the wedding with Tracy when Blofeld drives by and shoots her dead, and Blofeld and Irma Bunt [[KarmaHoudini get off scot-free]], with the exception of Blofeld's neck injury]]. For the first and only time in the whole series, the last thing we see in the whole movie is James Bond looking completely and utterly ''heartbroken'']].

* SexEqualsLove: [[invoked]]. [[ValuesDissonance Draco encourages Bond to seduce his daughter because he feels that she needs love and a husband]]. [[EveryoneHasStandards Even Bond is rather taken aback by this mindset]].

* ImpostorForgotOneDetail: Bond impersonates Sir Hilary Bray. The bad guys expose him when he is caught in his usual antics of seducing women. Apparently, the real Bray was gay or asexual, or at least not such a womanizer. Also, the Bleuchamp family crypt was located in St. Anna's Kirche, not in the Habsburg cathedral -- which, as Blofeld notes, Sir Hilary should have known. Bond also gets too eager to get Blofeld away from Switzerland (which would allow him to be arrested}, suggesting they visit an archive that, as Blofeld points out during this discussion, would be closed over Christmas.

* JustPlaneWrong: During Bond and Draco's trip to Piz Gloria via helicopter, Draco covers the microphone of his headset to prevent the air traffic cotnroller from hearing him when he talks to Bond. This action is not only unnecessary but also counterproductive. Air traffic controllers cannot hear those in a helicopter unless the radio transmission button is held down. In a noisy helicopter environment, blocking the microphone would only prevent the addressee from hearing what Draco is saying.

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With the cares of the world far behind us...]]'']]

* NoPronunciationGuide: Piz Gloria's name is pronounced differently every time its name is said. First, Irma Bunt pronounces it as "Pizz Gloria", then Blofeld says "Peetz Gloria" and afterwards, Bond calls it "Pizz Gloria" and later "Pitz Gloria".

JustForFun/TheOneWith James Bond getting married, and fighting Series/{{Kojak}}.[[note]]Creator/TellySavalas did not play the role of Kojak until after this movie was made, in 1973.[[/note]]

* ImpostorForgotOneDetail: Bond impersonates Sir Hilary Bray. The bad guys expose him when he is caught in his usual antics of seducing women. Apparently, the real Bray was gay or asexual, or at least not such a womanizer. Also, the Bleuchamp family crypt was located in St. Anna's Kirche, not in the Habsburg cathedral -- which, as Blofeld notes, Sir Hilary should have known.
** Bond also gets too eager to get Blofeld away from his stronghold, suggesting they visit an archive that, as Blofeld points out, would be closed over Christmas.

[[caption-width-right:300: ''[[Music/LouisArmstrong Every step of the way will find us...]]'']]

* EasilyForgiven: Bond commits a court martial offence in going against orders to attack Blofeld's base at the end and yet no one seems to care. All's well that end's well appears to be the hand wave here, even though Bond was playing with the ''extinction of all life on Earth.''

* FeetFirstIntroduction: Used for Tracy's BigDamnHeroes moment. Bond is trapped in an ice-skating rink while SPECTRE mooks search through the crowd. Bond is in despair, expecting to be captured again; he sits at a table with his collar up and his head down, hoping to blend in with the other tourists. Suddenly one of the ice skaters comes to a halt right in front of him. Bond looks up from the ice skates past well formed legs to...a smiling Tracy. And who has an ice-modified fast car to get him out of there.

* GanglandDriveBy: [[spoiler:Tracy]] is killed by Blofeld and Fraulein Bunt in a drive-by shooting. A precursor happens when Bond ducks into a payphone to call London, only for Irma and a carload of mooks to turn up and start shooting at him.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Tracy defeats Grunther by pushing him into a spike ornament on the elevator wall.

* InertialImpalement: Tracy kicks Grunther down the stairs, impaling him on wall decoration.

** Bond accepts Draco's suggestion that he continue to romance his daughter with, "I'll sleep on it." The two exchange a knowing chuckle.

** A janitor whistles "Goldfinger".

** Draco and M are shown treating each other as WorthyOpponents due to that "bullion job in 1964". M mentions that Draco's men "got away with quite a chunk of the haul", so he can't be referring to the events of ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' where none of the gold was stolen, but it's likely a MythologyGag to the [[Literature/{{Goldfinger}} original novel]] as well as the movie which came out in 1964.

* IntimatePsychotherapy: Invoked by Draco, who thinks his daughter just needs a [[WomenPreferStrongMen strong man]] to dominate her and make love to her. Bond correctly points out she needs a doctor instead.

-->'''Ernst Stavro Blofeld:''' It takes more than a few props to turn 007 into a Herald. ''[breaks Bond's glasses]''
-->'''James Bond:''' It'll take more than cutting off your earlobes, Blofeld, to turn you into a Count.

* DrugsAreBad: Marc-Ange Draco, head of the Unione Corse, the biggest European crime syndicate, commits murder, extortion, theft, sexual slavery, and many, many other crimes. But he's a good guy because he doesn't sell drugs. For the record, the Unione Corse are the ones who set up Film/TheFrenchConnection to smuggle heroin into the United States.

* TheAtoner: Draco has shades of this.

* TheBaroness: Irma Bunt

* BrickJoke: The film opens with Q indicating that miniaturization is the way to go with their agent's equipment, using an (actually very practical) piece of radioactive lint as an example. Later in the film Bond has to crack a safe and in order to do so he needs to use a large and cumbersome piece of equipment the size of a big suitcase. PlayedWith in that the safecracker also contains a portable photocopier, which is needed to make copies of documents found within the safe.
* BrokenBird: Tracy is a DeathSeeker with an empty life among the European jet-set, a gangster father who spent little time with her while growing up, and a husband who died in a car crash with his mistress.

** The cheerful "Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown" reappears during Bond's CableCarActionSequence as a more suspenseful tune, see below.

** Tracy drives a red Mercury Cougar XR7 convertible.

* DarkReprise: Of "We Have All The Time in the World" and "Bond Arrives in Piz Gloria".

* RedundantRescue: She still needs help to get out of the complex, but when the BigDamnHeroes arrive at the end, Tracy has killed the man set on her and just needs a ride home at that point.

* BrokenBird: Tracy is barely recovering from a traumatic divorce (and her ex husband's death), drug addiction, ''and'' her child's death. And once she and Bond are HappilyMarried, she's shot to death.

* FireBreathingWeapon: A flamethrower is featured in the attack on Piz Gloria fortress.

* BadBoss: During the second ski chase, when Bond and Tracy enter an avalanche-risk area, Blofeld causes an avalanche in order to trap them, but he also sends three of his men after them to prevent his targets getting away should that not work. As a result, the avalanche ends up burying his men under several feet of snow after he sent into danger for no reason.
* TheBadGuyWins: In a minor way. While Blofeld's main plan is an utter failure, he takes perhaps the most horrific revenge possible on Bond.

* CarChase: With stock cars!

** Draco lost a few of his henchmen in [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Fort Knox.]] (Only a noodle incident to viewers unfamiliar with the events of ''Goldfinger''.)

* RescueRomance: Subverted at first; after Bond stops her committing suicide, then bails her out at the casino for the tune of 20,000 francs, she gives him RescueSex but it's presented like another form of her self-destructive behavior. However she does eventually fall for him, but [[TheCassanova it's not certain if Bond returns her feelings]] until after Tracy pulls her own rescue in Switzerland. Then Bond puts his career on the line to rescue her again, just to seal matters.