History Film / TheWorldIsNotEnough

* AluminiumChristmasTrees: The helicopter-suspended buzzsaws are in fact used for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxtNo-rk0uw trimming trees]] in real life. And it is possible to [[http://www.boreme.com/posting.php?id=35820 fly a snowmobile with a paraglider]], as seen with the film's parahawks.

* ShesGotLegs: When [[spoiler:Elektra King]] is torturing Bond, her skirt reveals her legs in tights.

* ChronicallyCrashedCar[=/=]DoomedUpgrade: Sure, he gets to drive around in it a bit and fire a missile at a helicopter, but it barely lasts a minute on screen. And BMW reacted with StunnedSilence when the filmmakers declared their intention [[DestroyTheProductPlacement to saw the vehicle in half...]]

** ChronicallyCrashedCar[=/=]DoomedUpgrade: Sure, he gets to drive around in it a bit and fire a missile at a helicopter, but it barely lasts a minute on screen. And BMW reacted with StunnedSilence when the filmmakers declared their intention [[DestroyTheProductPlacement to saw the vehicle in half...]]
---> '''Bond''': [[LampshadeHanging Q's not going to like this...]]

* MachoMasochism: Renard holds a scalding hot rock -- except he can't feel pain, so it doesn't matter to him. However, at the same time he [[DiscussedTrope tells of legends of fanatical monks who would hold those same rocks to prove their devotion to God]].

* TheNameIsBondJamesBond: Yes, Brosnan gets to say it twice in this movie. Valentin Zukovsky also [[ComicallyMissingThePoint addresses 007 as "Bondjamesbond."]]

*** Adding on to this, he wouldn't get stronger or be able to push himself harder, at least for very long, we have natural "limiters" on how much we use our bodies for a reason, we would tear our bodies apart if we went over them, unless Renard is carefully controlling exactly how hard he is pushing himself, which being that he is practically suicidal makes that doubtful, Renard would collapse simply due to accumulating too much damage.

* HateSink: [[RichJerk Sir Robert King]] is an [[CorruptCorporateExecutive amoral oil baron]], [[BigBad Elektra King's]] lousy excuse of [[ArchnemesisDad a father]], and [[FreudianExcuse the man who made Elektra's life miserable]]. Robert used his British citizenship to con his immigrant wife out of her own company, emotionally and financially abused her and Elektra, bulldozed centuries-old landmarks to make room for oil pipelines, badly mistreated the locals who protested his actions, and abandoned his daughter to be kidnapped and raped as a teen rather than pay a ransom. Elektra assassinates him with a booby-trapped briefcase full of money, meaning Sir Robert dies [[DeathByIrony showered in the only thing he ever cared about]].

'''Elektra''': Foolish sentiment.\\

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Christmas Jones runs a background check on the scientist Bond is posing as and figures out he is a fake. She then proceeds to unwittingly expose him to the bad guys, although in fairness she wasn’t in possession of all the facts at the time.

-->[[spoiler: '''Bond''': The world is not enough.]]\\
[[spoiler: '''Elektra''': Foolish sentiment.]]\\
[[spoiler: '''Bond''': [''with a distinct "ThisIsGonnaSuck but what else can you do?" tone''] [[BadassFamily Family motto]].]]

** Bond attempts one earlier, remarking "See you back at the lodge" after tricking a pursuing Parahawk into driving off a cliff - but it turns out to be premature, as the pilot deploys a spare chute, and flies back into the action. Could also count as a CallBack to the pre-titles sequence in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', where it's Bond who uses that trick.

-->-- '''Elektra King''' [[spoiler:(and '''Renard''')]]

* SatchelCharge: The film has an exploding package weapon simply called, well, a satchel charge, which James Bond can throw at a target, back off, and detonate when he's a distance away.

* CunningLinguist: PlayedStraight when Bond masquerades as a Russian physicist, complete with heavily but believably Russian-accented English. However, when asked, in Russian, about his good (for a Russian) English, he answers in Russian that he studied at Oxford, in Russian apparently fluent enough to pass without comment.

** Apart from Bond's classic Walther PPK, we also have the uniquely-shaped P90 submachine gun, Steyr TMP machine pistol, and G36 with laser sight making appearances. Not to mention Zukovsky's cane gun.

* ClosestThingWeGot: While Bond is out doing his thing, M claims that he is the best agent they have, adding: "though I'd never tell him".

* InopportuneVoiceCracking: After Bond and Jones are spotted in bed together by MI6 satellites, M's voice cracks when she says "007!".

* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:Valentin Zuckovsky from ''Film/GoldenEye='' returns and is killed by Elektra in the climax. He was supposed to survive in one draft]].

* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: Bond and Elektra do this.
-->'''Elektra''': Tell me, Mr. Bond, have you ever lost a loved one?\\

-->'''Bond''': But [Renard] used your exact words.\\

*** This also goes meta when you remember that Pierce Brosnan was a widower himself, having lost his wife, former Bond Girl Cassandra Harris[[note]]Countess Lisl von Schlaf from ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''[[/note]], to ovarian cancer in 1990.

* TheChampion: Elektra sees herself as this for her Azeri mother, her maternal side of the family and her Azeri heritage. Elektra is resentful of the effects of British colonialism, which allowed Sir Robert (a British man) to financially abuse his foreign wife.
-->'''Elektra''': My father was nothing! His kingdom he stole from my mother. The kingdom I will rightly take back!

-->'''Elektra''': It is ''my'' oil! Mine! And my family's! It runs through my veins, thicker than blood! I'm going to redraw the map, and when I'm through, the whole world will know my name, my grandfather's name, the glory of my people!

-->Expecting Davidov? He caught a bullet instead of a plane.

-->'''Valentin''': Can't you just say "Hello" like a normal person?

* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:Valentin Zuckovsky from ''Goldeneye'' returns and is killed by Elektra in the climax. He was supposed to survive in one draft]].