History Film / TheSpyWhoLovedMe

** Bond introduces himself as Robert Sterling and Anya as his wife when going to meet Stromberg, but it's later revealed Stromberg knows exactly who they are anyway.

* CollapsingLair: When Stromberg's lair ''Atlantis'' is torpedoed. The ''Liparus'' also doubles as a secondary example.

* AmphibiousAutomobile: Bond's [[CoolCar Lotus Esprit]] can become a sub.
* TheAnticipator: Bond goes to rescue Anya Amasova before ''Atlantis'' is blown up. Bond's entrance is noticed by Stromberg on his CCTV cameras. He says, "Good evening, Mr. Bond. I've been expecting you" and [[SchmuckBait sends his private elevator down to bring Bond right to him.]]

** Jaws attempts to kill Bond and Anya on the train, but is dealt with. Later, Stromberg sends Naomi, Jaws and a team of henchmen after them, but Bond's aquatic Lotus ensures their survival.
* AuctionOfEvil: Max Kalba sets up an auction between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. over plans for a system that can track submarines underwater.

** ''(Bond sees the beauties surrounding his contact in Egypt)'' "When one is in Egypt, one should delve deeply into its treasures."

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Averted. On Sardinia, when Bond and XXX pick up the Lotus from Q, she greets him with his true name, Major Boothroyd. ([[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Q takes this completely in stride]].) 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.

* IKEAWeaponry: A little broken-down jetski is assembled from a duffel bag.

* DisconnectedByDeath: Jaws lures Kalba away from his meeting with Bond and Anya by disguising himself as a telephone linesman and placing a call to Kalba from an adjourning telephone booth. Once he takes the call Jaws barges into the Kalba's booth, intimidates him into handing over the microfilm and murders him. Bond of course provides the obligatory BondOneLiner.

* DirtyOldMan: Stromberg to Anya, while she's strapped to a couch.
* DisconnectedByDeath: Max Kalba is killed by Jaws in a phone booth.

* HammerspaceParachute: James skiis off the edge of a cliff, only to deploy a parachute with a large Union Flag on it.

* HighAltitudeInterrogation: Bond does this to Sandor and then lets him plummet to his death when he hears everything he needs.
* HighlyConspicuousUniform: Stomberg's mooks wear orange, as contrast to the British, Soviet and US sailors with proper colouring though these mooks aren't proper soldiers, but rather workers and builders with guns for defence. And such workers (like aboard oil rigs) occasionally wear orange, so they could be spotted easily during rescue missions.

** Stromberg tries to shoot Bond with a harpoon gun under his dining table. After dodging, Bond shoots back through the pipeline.

* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: After Stromberg has taken Anya to ''Atlantis'' (his headquarters), he has her dressed in a revealing outfit and tied up in his study to caress her.

* YourFavourite: Bond and Anya show they know enough about each other by both asking the barman for the other's favourite drink.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After Dr. Bechmann and Professor Markovitz complete the submarine tracking system for Stromberg, he blows up the helicopter they're in, killing them.

* CoolGuns: Stromberg's henchmen use Sterlings. Bond and the escaped submarine crews later arm themselves with them during the final battle.

** Although they've never met before, Bond and Anya both know who their counterpart is, their real name and even their preferred drink order. Justified as [=MI6=] and the KGB would have detailed files on "The Opposition".
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: Stromberg hires Jaws and Sandor to "eliminate" (read: kill) anyone who had contact with the microfilm.

* EnhanceButton: [[OlderThanTheyThink Back before]] it [[Series/{{CSI}} was cool]].

* OvertOperative: How about Bond's Union Jack parachute? Way to maintain deniability, unless you're going for the double bluff: "Well, obviously a ''real'' British agent wouldn't advertise his allegiance like that!"

* AlmostDeadGuy: Just before dying, the captain of the ''Liparus'' tells Bond that the submarines are on station and the missiles will be launched in four minutes.

* TheAnticipator: Bond goes to ''Atlantis'' to rescue Anya Amasova before ''Atlantis'' is blown up. Bond's entrance is noticed by Stromberg, who says "Good evening, Mr. Bond. I've been expecting you."

* ArtifactTitle: The FirstPerson perspective in the title was how the original story, the one Fleming wouldn't let them use was told by the woman in the story; there's no hint of that in the finished film except for Music/CarlySimon's lyrics to "Nobody Does it Better."

** A female undercover KGB agent sends a message via radio and ends with the phrase "Over and out" while awaiting a response. The male agent she's calling responds and also ends his message with "Over and out". In real life, "out" is used to end a message transmission while the phrase or word used mid-transmission would be simply "over".
** The sailors Bond ally with during the climax all sport typical mid 70s haircuts completely unacceptable in Navy regulation.

** Jaws attempts to kill Bond and Anya on the train, but is dealt with. Later, Stromberg sends him and a few others after them, but Bond's aquatic Lotus ensures their survival.

* BaitTheDog: The scientists working for Stromberg are understandably nervous about getting into the elevator after seeing the TrapDoor used to off Stromberg's secretary, but he lets them leaves unmolested. Then he blows up their helicopter by remote control. Either he wanted to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident or figured his shark was no longer hungry after eating the secretary.
* TheBaroness: Anya is a goody who starts off as the Sexpot type, but rapidly defrosts.

* AdaptationalBadass: Jaws is loosely based on the villain Sol "Horror" Horowitz from the novel, who is a thug with a metal-capped teeth whose villainy is limited to terrorizing a helpless woman. He later gets unceremoniously killed by Bond as he tries to make a getaway on a car (and is outlived by his partner, who became Sandor). Jaws, however, is a man who ''just won't die'', and is one of the most remembered aspects of the film, and its subsequent sequel.
* AdaptationalLocationChange: The book took place exclusively in the Adirondacks, in upstate New York. The film visits the Austrian Alps, London, Egypt and Italy, but never New York State.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the novelisation the KGB is depicted in the [[DirtyCommunists manner of the Ian Fleming novels]]. SMERSH is brought back and they murder a young girl during the initial assassination attempt and plant the body in Bond's cabin to frame him. General Gogol is replaced by the thoroughly unpleasant General Nitkin, who makes a lewd advance on Anya right after informing her that her lover has been killed (fortunately she's able to convince him his office is bugged). Bond is subjected to ElectricTorture.
* AgentsDating: A possible TropeCodifier. Bond and Soviet agent XXX ([[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No, not]] [[Film/{{XXX}} that one]]) flip flop between working together and working against each other before they finally hookup at the end:
-->'''James Bond''': [[DoubleEntendre Just keeping the British end up, sir.]]
* AgonyOfTheFeet: Jaws drops a boulder on his foot. His grimace is priceless.

* HandshakeRefusal: Bond is told before meeting Stromberg that he's germophobic and won't shake hands. Bond holds out his hand to Stromberg anyway and is predictably rebuffed.

* FedToTheBeast: Stromberg drops his treacherous secretary into a SharkPool to be eaten.

** The novelisation by Christopher Wood is written InTheStyleOf an Ian Fleming novel, so most of the movie zaniness ({{Bond One Liner}}s, [[ShoePhone spy gadgets]]--except the submarine car, {{Fanservice Extra}}s) have been removed and the action is played seriously. In the ActionPrologue for instance, Bond discovers the corpse of a dead girl in the mountain chalet, the idea being to frame Bond for her murder. There's also a scene where he's subject to ElectricTorture by SMERSH agents.

* EvilPlan: Stromberg wants to start World War III by hijacking nuclear submarines and launching them at New York and Moscow respectively, as in ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' framing both countries a perpetrators of the others' plan. He will then build and rule an underwater city as a paradise for the survivors to rebuild civilization. Yes, he is insane.

** While auctioning the submarine tracker, Fekesh quips that Bond will find [[MsFanservice Anya's figure]] hard to match.

* OneHitPolykill: During the breakout from the Liparus, Bond managed to get his hands on a HarpoonGun Stromberg's mooks left randomly lying around, and launch a single harpoon, killing two mooks pursuing him in one shot.

* YouKnowTooMuch: Stromberg is very specific about the instructions he gives to Jaws and Chandor when he sends them to plug the security leak.

* BigGuyLittleGuy: Played for effect when Stromberg summons his henchmen to deal with the security leak. First the heavyset Chandor lumbers into the room. Then Jaws enters and we get a sense of just how big he is from the way he towers over Chandor.

* TrapDoor: Stromberg uses one in his elevator to drop his treacherous secretary into the SharkPool. He later tries to use it on Bond, who of course sees it coming.

** Jaws attempts to kill Bond and Anya on the train, but is dealt with. Later, Stromberg sends him and a few others after them, but Bond's Lotus ensures their survival.

* BadVibrations: In the HMS ''Ranger'''s mess, coffee cups start shaking before being taken over by the ''Liparus''.

*** The Alpine ski chase in TheTeaser recalls the multiple skiing sequences in this film. The climax with Bond skiing off a cliff and opening an Union Jack was even an idea Creator/GeorgeLazenby suggested for OHMSS.

* StarterVillain: Per the norm for ''Bond'' films, the cold open sets up part of the main plot, with the leader of the Soviet hit team being the lover of Major Amasova, the Russian agent Bond works with during the film. She's not happy to find out James killed him.