History Film / QuantumOfSolace

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Mathis (succumbing to a gun's wound)]].

* AbortedArc: The film seemed to set up Quantum as the new organization that Bond and MI6 would have to contend with as a Spectre stand-in, since there were many high ranking people in positions of power within Quantum’s organization. However, ''Skyfall'' would end up being a more personal assignment, and ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' would end up revealing that the titular organization is the true muscle behind Quantum, which ended up merely being one of many Spectre fronts.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Bond asks a mook at gunpoint who his employers are; the mook tells him to go screw himself. So Bond throws him off a roof. In his subsequent phone call with M, Bond learns [[spoiler:the man he killed was a member of Special Branch (British Metropolitan Police, whose duties include bodyguarding non-royal VIPs) guarding the special envoy to the Prime Minister, and therefore ''on his side'', or at least according to appearances (the guy was corrupt by dint of working for a Quantum member)]].

! All spoilers for ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'' will be unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!

--> '''Greene:''' [[spoiler:Looks like you [[CartwrightCurse just lost another one]]!]]

* BondOneLiner: {{Lampshaded}}:

* CacophonyCoverUp: After chasing a man into a belltower, Bond yanks on the bell rope so the noise of the church bell will cover him running up the stairs, preventing the man from plotting his exact position.

* ContinuityNod: Bond's SMG from the ending of ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'' makes an appearance at the end of the pre-credits car chase, Le Chiffre and his operation are namedropped, and Bond drops Vesper's necklace (just like she referenced "letting go" in the previous film) in the snow at the end of the film. As a whole, ''Quantum'' is very dependent on themes and elements of ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'', moreso than any other previous Bond film.

** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the conversation between Bond and Felix.

*** Bond drinks his Martini shaken. It is explicitly ''not'' described as "[[CatchPhrase shaken, not stirred]]." This is also a callback to a similar bit in the previous film. [[note]]Speaking of that, look up TwoDecadesBehind on the ''Casino Royale'' article; it's pretty hard to find Kina Lillet ''or'' high-proof Gordon's Gin to make a Vesper cocktail in the 21st century.[[/note]]

* PoorCommunicationKills: Bond asks a mook at gunpoint who his employers are; the mook tells him to go screw himself. So Bond throws him off a roof. In his subsequent phone call with M, Bond learns [[spoiler: the man he killed was a member of Special Branch (British Metropolitan Police, whose duties include bodyguarding non-royal VIPs) guarding the special envoy to the Prime Minister, and therefore ''on his side'', or at least according to appearances (the guy was corrupt by dint of working for a Quantum member)]].

* TwoDecadesBehind: See also the entry in ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}''. Lillet stopped making Kina Lillet in 1986, but it is mentioned by name ''yet again'' in this movie as Bond is boozing it up on Vespers in the plane. [[note]] Cocchi Americano makes a nice substitute for Kina Lillet. [[/note]]
* UnusualUserInterface: [=MI6's=] magical touchscreens. [[IncrediblyLamePun One could say that they were running on a Q OS]].

* AbortedArc: The film seemed to set up Quantum as the new organization that Bond and MI6 would have to contend with as a Spectre stand-in. As there were many high ranking people in positions of power within Quantum’s organization. However Skyfall would end up being a more personal assignment, and Spectre the movie would end up revealing that Spectre is the true muscle behind Quantum, and Quantum ended up merely being one of many Spectre fronts.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Fields fills this role for Bond.

* TwoDecadesBehind: See also the entry in ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}''. Lillet stopped making Kina Lillet in 1986, but it is mentioned by name ''yet again'' in this movie as Bond is boozing it up on "Vespers" in the plane.

* NeverGetsDrunk: James is so wired that he consumes six ''"Vesper"'' vodka Martinis without getting drunk.

* OffscreenKarma: Bond leaves Greene in the middle of the desert with a can of petrol. M later tells him that Greene was found dead with oil in his stomach, implying that Quantum caught up with him and killed him for his failure.

* BloodlessCarnage: A particularly strong example of the trope in action is where Bond murders Edmund Slate by stabbing both his femoral artery ''and'' his neck and letting the man bleed out, yet not a drop is seen on Bond or, even, the floor.

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[[caption-width-right:300:''[[Music/AliciaKeys ♫ Another tricky little gun giving solace to the one]] [[Music/JackWhite that'll never see the sun shine... ♫]]'']]

* BittersweetEnding: Bond has saved the day yet again and caught those responsible for Vesper's death. But he's still brokenhearted and will probably never be the same.

* DisposableWoman: Fields is a classic example, but Bond leaving Green in the desert with only a can of oil to drink indicates that he's avenging her somewhat. [[note]]She was drowned in oil.[[/note]]

* EveryCarIsAPinto: Averted. During the opening car chase, various vehicles fall or roll down cliffs with nary an explosion in sight. Inverted during the climax. In an effort to get away from Bond, one of the {{mook}}s drives backwards, and ends up hitting a wall. The car itself doesn't explode - however, the wall has hydrogen fuel cells behind it and upon impact, those ''do'' explode, ultimately causing the building to [[CollapsingLair burn down]].

* HeroesWantRedheads: Fields.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: For all his cruelty, General Medrano does know how to fight.

* AmericaSavesTheDay: Averted. The official stance of the CIA is to do nothing to stop Medrano and Greene, and two of the CIA staff were actually working WITH Greene

** There's also him leaving Greene to die in the middle of the desert with only a can of motor oil to drink, undoubtedly a reference to how Fields' was murdered, this avenging her death.

* ArtificialAtmosphericActions: A hilarious (and heavily parodied) example, where a man standing directy behind Mr. Bond had apparently forgotten how to use a broom. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYGmcTVfSzg Here]], at about 25 seconds in.

* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: Subverted when [[spoiler:Camille shoots Medrano]]. The scene makes it obvious who has the gun and who doesn't, but we just hear the gunshot from Bond's perspective, and both him and Greene are conviced that [[spoiler:she]] was the one who was shot.

* BigBadWannabe: General Medrano views himself as Dominic Greene's equal partner, but Greene basically tells Medrano that he'll be a puppet ruler once he's put in power as Bolivia's president, and will have him killed if he balks. Medrano is seriously annoyed but reluctantly concedes.

* BlackTieInfiltration: Bond sneaks in backstage during a performance of ''Theatre/{{Tosca}}'' because a group of NebulousEvilOrganization members are using it as cover for a meeting. He smokes them out by intruding on their radio conversation, letting [=MI6=] identify them.

* BloodlessCarnage: A particularly strong example of the trope in action is where Bond murders Edmund Slate by stabbing his femoral artery and letting the man bleed out, yet not a drop is seen on Bond or, even, the floor.

'''Agent:''' (to M) Slate was a dead end.\\

** From ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'', Vesper betrayed Bond, and all of [=MI6=] by playing reluctant double-agent. Ironically, this happened because ''she'' was intially betrayed by her very boyfriend whom she betrayed her organization for. This kicks off the plot for the film.

*** And on top of that, after Camille survives and Medrano shows up to the pier, Greene offers her to Medrano and all but requests him to rape her and kill her.

** Guy Haines works for Special Branch, yet he saw no problem betraying his country just to get in on the action.
*** His bodyguard counts too. He indirectly helps his boss, knowing full well of his affiliations. Too bad Greene doesn't recognize his efforts, or recognize ''him'' for that matter, and [[spoiler:[[HeKnowsTooMuch has him shot for even ''looking'' in his direction.]]]]

* CoitusUninterruptus: Bond answers the door naked. Neither he nor Mathis even allude to the fact that he has no pants.

* CrowdPanic: Happens when an escaping QUANTUM agent shoots a random girl.

** Bond leaves Greene in the desert to die what will undoubtedly be an agonizing death from exposure, then caps it off by giving him a can of motor oil (getting revenge on Fields' behalf) and taunting him about how long it will be before he's desperate enough to drink it. When his body is found, it turns out that he was shot, but there's still motor oil in his stomach, showing that he did get to that point.

** [[spoiler:Mathis]] is [[NotQuiteDead apparently killed]] and his body is left in Bond's trunk for the police to 'find'. In ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'', this same method was used by Mathis to get Le Chiffre's [[TheDragon Dragon]] out of the picture.

** Felix Leiter is a bit closer to the other flavour, although he doesn't really do anything about what his Boss is doing until late in the movie (but you can tell he's pissed).

* ElevatorActionSequence: We get to see what happens when an unarmed, beaten-up Bond enters a lift with three elite British agents carrying guns.

* EvilIsNotAToy: Quantum turn out to have the backing of the CIA. Felix Leiter is apparently the only agent in the loop about this who realises that this is a terrible idea, and sure enough the Company proves to be completely incapable of keeping their deniable pawns from going off-script.

* {{Expy}}: Quantum, along with their colour-designated code names [[BlatantLies are in no way like SPECTRE]] and their respective number designated code names. Now seems to be {{retcon}}ned into a bit of {{foreshadowing}} of sorts, as of ''Film/{{Spectre}}''.
* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation: The [=MI6=] facility is equipped with gigantic multitouch screens on every surface, thus enabling it to completely replicate the functionality of...folders, noticeboards and sheets of paper.

* HateSink: General Medrano comes off as one, as he has no qualms having the criminal organization Quantum engineering a drought in his own country, so he'll be the next dictator of it, and even thinks of himself as Dominic Greene's equal partner, but reluctantly concedes when Greene threatens to have him killed if he doesn't back down. It's no reason why Camille is after him, having raped her mother and sister before killing them, and attempts to rape a hotel waitress in the climax. He even tries to do the same thing to Camille, but she puts a bullet to his head.

* HollywoodSkydiving: The DC-3 sequence.

* IllTakeThatAsACompliment: After realizing that the U.S. are of the boorish flavour of {{Eagleland}} this time around (willing to look the other way for a bit of oil), he makes a quip to Leiter about the U.S.'s interventionism. Leiter responds considering it a compliment, which is a historically well-placed zinger, given Britain's status as a world superpower before the U.S. took its place, and that the end of Britain's role as a superpower was in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis a botched attempt at interventionism for oil.]]

* InNameOnly: In [[Literature/ForYourEyesOnly the original short story]], Bond is at dinner at an island governor's place. After dinner, the governor tells him the story of an airline stewardess' failed marriage. Bond re-learns that drama and tragedy don't have to involve master villains or gadgets. The End. Now a Major Motion Picture. Many of the ''Bond'' films changed major plot and character details from the books, to the point that they sometimes have next-to-nothing to do with their book counterparts at all, but especially in the ''Quantum of Solace'' film which is about as far removed from the short story as possible.

* ItsPersonal: Bond's comment to Vesper's ex-boyfriend (while the female intelligence agent is watching): "This man and I have some ''unfinished business''."

* MalevolentArchitecture[=/=]MadeOfExplodium: Whatever engineer thought that placing pressurized hydrogen storage tanks into the parking level and suite walls of a [[CollapsingLair hotel]] was a good idea should probably not be working with volatile substances.

* MissingSecret: The Wii version of the game is missing the collectable phones you could find in the other "next gen" versions.
* MissingStepsPlan: Greene's associates ask him what his plan is for when the Americans realize he duped them. He doesn't have one. He ends up being thwarted by Bond before it becomes an issue.

*** Bond drinks his Martini shaken. It is explicitly ''not'' described as "[[CatchPhrase shaken, not stirred]]." This is also a callback to a similar bit in the previous film. [[note]]Speaking of that, look up TwoDecadesBehind on ''Casino Royale''; it's pretty hard to find Kina Lillet ''or'' high-proof Gordon's Gin to make a Vesper cocktail in the 21st century.[[/note]]

** NebulousCriminalConspiracy: Individual members of Quantum each have their own corrupt gig going on. BigBad Dominic Greene, for instance, is the head of a ''Greenpeace''-style organization that is actually in business with a lot of shady corporations and criminals.

* NotHyperbole: Quantum really ''do'' have people everywhere.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Dominic Greene. He has no fighting training whatsoever, and for the most part of the movie he runs away while his henchmen kill enemies for him. Still, he stands his own against Bond.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Bond asks a mook at gunpoint who his employers are; the mook tells him to go screw himself. so Bond throws him off a roof. In his subseuquent phone call with M, Bond learns [[spoiler: the man he killed was a member of Special Branch (British Metropolitan Police, whose duties include bodyguarding non-royal VIPs) guarding the special envoy to the Prime Minister, and therefore ''on his side'']].
* PunBasedTitle: Applied retroactively (given the InNameOnly nature of the adaptation from the Fleming story) by naming the villainous organization Quantum.

* {{Reconstruction}}: On the surface, ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' is much more like a typical Bond film than ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'' (arguably a {{Deconstruction}} as much as an origin story). But this one folds all the elements introducted in ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'' into the formula: few gadgets, the Stale Beer elements, Bond's rough-and-tumble approach, the emphasis on characterization in the script.
* {{Realpolitik}}: Both Felix and M's bosses know that Greene is a villain, but they're willing to do business with him because he has oil, which they need. They are never portrayed as being wrong for their pragmatism, only for being suckered as Greene doesn't actually have any oil.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Possibly Bond, for the entire film, not that he'd admit it to anyone (an alternative explanation is that he just repeatedly screws up at capturing people alive).

* StayWithMeUntilIDie: [[spoiler:Mathis]] requests this of Bond as he bleeds out in the street. Bond respectfully obliges, exchanging some touching banter with him, and then once he dies Bond discards his body in a dumpster and takes all the money out of his wallet. 'He wouldn't care'.

* SuperCellReception: Bond's phone is able to transmit tons of high-res, multi-angle head-shots from the Austrian Opera theatre to London [=MI5=] almost instantaneously.

* UnusualUserInterface: [=MI6's=] magical touch-screens. [[IncrediblyLamePun One could say that they were running on a Q OS]].
** ViewerFriendlyInterface: Sort of. Said touch-screens do nothing that couldn't be accomplished with papers and a regular computer. In the tie-in game, they definitely qualify, running some strange combination of DOS and that weird GUI. So intelligent is this interface that when Bond describes Greene's surname as having a 'double-E', the computer inserts a W before he's finished saying it, then replaces it with the two Es. Why such a feature is in place is completely unknown, especially when one factors in that Bond should have been using the phonetic alphabet anyway.

%%* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: See the quote from TortureAlwaysWorks.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:After the opera sequence, the film all but drops the larger Quantum plotline, including the fates of Mr. White and Guy Haines, and they're nowhere to be seen or heard come the sequel. It eventually saw some resolution with ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', though Haines' fate is still up in the air.]]

* WickedCultured: Quantum higher-ups love their [[AtTheOperaTonight opera]]. Though Mr. White is the only one to stick around for the whole thing. Seeing his companions leave in droves (and thus get caught on camera), he quips "''Theatre/{{Tosca}}'' isn't for everyone."
* WordSaladTitle: Subverted. Even though the title seems meaningless, it actually means "A (very) little bit of comfort" (possibly referring to Bond's movie-length RoaringRampageOfRevenge) as well as making it a PunBasedTitle.

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[[caption-width-right:300:''[[Music/AliciaKeys Another tricky little gun giving solace to the one]] [[Music/JackWhite that'll never see the sun shine...]]'']]