History Film / TheSpyWhoLovedMe

* WeaponOfChoice: PlayedWith. Jaws is so obviously strong and bulky that he would probably not even need his empowered teeth to be an unbeatable match for almost every human opponent. Ironically, being fixated with biting people to death, and even having these teeth in the first place, is what allow Bond to beat him more than once. However, Jaws ends up making good use of his weapon when he is put against a shark.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The Light Show at the Pyramids of Giza is not something created for the film, but an actual [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbgtSwt7kgk attraction at Giza]] dating back to 1972, with virtually the same narration still being used.

* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: Earlier in the film, Anya tells Bond that she will kill him when the mission's over to avenge her lover. At the end, [[spoiler: Anya has Bond at gunpoint, but all she shoots is the cork off a bottle of Bollinger that he had in his hand.]]

* BikerBabe: Naomi flies a helicopter wearing a shirt and a bikini.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Averted. On Sardinia, when Bond and XXX pick up the Lotus from Q, she greets him with his true name, Major Boothroyd. Meanwhile, Golgol refers to M by his given name, Miles, becoming the only character in the original film series to do so. Even M gets into the act; this is one of the only times on screen that he refers to Bond by his first name rather than as 007 or Bond.

* CoolCar: The Lotus Esprit submarine, nicknamed "Wet Nellie" by fans. After the film came out, demand grew so much that customers were put on a three-year waiting list.

* HellishCopter: The underwater Lotus to Naomi's chopper.

* PantyShot: Stromberg's treacherous assistant, on her way down the tubes.

* DisconnectedByDeath: Max Kalbar is killed by Jaws in a phone booth.

* VillainousValor[=/=]VillainExitStageLeft: Jaws' sheer persistence in trying to finish his mission ended up making audiences pretty sympathetic to him. Richard Kiel has mentioned seeing entire theaters cheer when he was revealed to have survived at the end and swimming away into the ocean.

* InstantSedation: While Anya and Bond are sailing down the Nile, Anya knocks out Bond with sleep dust blown out of a cigarette.

* TableSpace: Stromberg has Bond sit down at one of these in the climax. Of course, there's a lethal surprise underneath in store for Bond that he narrowly avoids.

* {{Tuckerization}}:

-->'''XXX:''' [[CatchPhrase Shaken, but not stirred.]]

* SameLanguageDub: Barbara Jefford provided the voice for Caroline Munro's character, Naomi.

* ArtisticLicenseShips: The Soviet submarine is missing its fairwater planes.

* RedShirtArmy: The British, American and Soviet submarine crews Bond frees onboard the ''Liparus'', who then raid the ship's armory and battle Stromberg's army. Ironically, it's Stromberg's {{mooks}} who wears literal red shirts.

* RedShirtArmy: The British, American and Soviet submarine crews Bond frees onboard the ''Liparus'', who then raid the ship's armory and battle Stromberg's army.

* BaitAndSwitch: Our introduction to Anya. We see the Russian bigwigs discussing the need to call in Agent XXX, then a post-coital couple cuddling in bed. A message comes in, ordering XXX to report for duty. The man and woman sigh sadly, knowing that their romantic interlude is over... then the man gets up and the ''woman'' answers the call, revealing that ''she's'' the secret agent, rather than the man as the audience was no doubt expecting, especially given how identical the scene is to the way Bond is typically introduced to the audience.

--->'''Bond''': Sorry. Something came up.

* AdaptationalVillainy: In the novelisation the KGB is depicted in the [[DirtyCommunists manner of the Ian Fleming novels]]--Bond is subjected to ElectricTorture and they murder a young girl during the initial assassination attempt and plant the body in Bond's cabin to frame him. General Gogol makes a lewd advance on Agent XXX right after informing her that her lover has been killed (fortunately she's able to convince him his office is bugged).

The film's storyline involves a pair of nuclear missile submarines that go missing. Independently, Bond and a Soviet agent, Anya Amasova (Creator/BarbaraBach), are assigned to find them and team up to do so. Thing is, the former (Bond) just shot the latter's (Anya) boyfriend dead.

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* TheOneWith: The one with the underwater SupervillainLair.

* RecursiveAdaptation: The movie has a {{Novelization}} written by screenwriter Christopher Wood, despite already being based on one of Fleming's novels. This was for two reasons. Firstly, because the plot differed so dang much from the source material that it was felt it was necessary to have a novel that was closer to the film, and secondly, because ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' (the original Fleming novel) wasn't very popular, even with its original author.