History Literature / Goldfinger

* [[ArtisticLicenseMartialArts Artistic Licence - Martial Arts]]: Branching into InterchangeableAsianCultures, karate, a Japanese martial art, is described to be "a branch of judo" with Chinese origins, and how [[spoiler:Oddjob]] is "one of the three in the world who have achieved the Black Belt" in the discipline.

* RapeAsBackstory: Galore was molested as a child by her uncle, which [[RapeAndSwitch created her preference for women]] over men.

* TechnicolourEyes: Pussy Galore apparently has the only violet eyes Bond has ever seen. (No doubt Fleming based this on the popular perception that Liz Taylor's eyes were violet - in reality they were just a deep blue that appeared a beautiful violet on old film stock.)

* TakeThat: Fleming named Goldfinger after the architecht [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ern%C5%91_Goldfinger Ernő Goldfinger]], whom he hated. He had been among the objectors to the pre-war demolition of the cottages in Hampstead that were removed to make way for Goldfinger's house at 2 Willow Road. When he threatened to sue, Fleming considered renaming him Goldprick.

* TakingOverTheTown: Goldfinger's plan to loot Fort Knox involves killing everyone in the town next to it by [[WaterSourceTampering poisoning its water supply]].

* TheNameIsBondJamesBond: Bond introduces himself this way to Jill Masterton after surprising her in Goldfinger's suite.

* {{Tuckerization}}: Creator/IanFleming named Goldfinger after his neighbour.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Common cats for Oddjob, who acquired the taste for them during a time of famine in his home country Korea.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Jill Masterson suffocates to death after being completely covered in gold paint, leaving her skin unable to breathe. As anyone who has been scuba diving in a wetsuit knows, that's not how human respiration works. While having one's skin completely painted would be really uncomfortable and could produce ill-effects such as poisoning from the paint itself or overheating from being unable to sweat, it couldn't, by itself, asphyxiate someone, as humans don't obtain oxygen through their skin. "Letting your skin breathe" is just a figure of speech.
* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: Branching into InterchangeableAsianCultures, karate, a Japanese martial art, is described to be "a branch of judo" with Chinese origins, and how [[spoiler:Oddjob]] is "one of the three in the world who have achieved the Black Belt" in the discipline.

* RapePortrayedAsRedemption: As opposed to the film's QuestionableConsent, Bond literally rapes Pussy out of her lesbianism.

* AmazonBrigade: Pussy Galore's entire criminal organization was enlisted from female acrobats, whom Galore then transitioned into cat-burglars.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Jill Masterson suffocates to death after being completely covered in gold paint, leaving her skin unable to breathe. As anyone who has been scuba diving in a wetsuit knows, that's not how human respiration works. While having one's skin completely painted would be really uncomfortable and could produce ill-effects such as poisoning from the paint itself or overheating from being unable to sweat, it couldn't, by itself, asphyxiate someone, as humans don't obtain a significant amount of oxygen through their skin.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Jill Masterson suffocates to death after being completely covered in gold paint, leaving her skin unable to breathe. Yeah... that's not how human respiration works. While having one's skin completely coated could produce ill-effects such as poisoning from the paint itself or overheating from being unable to sweat, humans don't obtain a significant amount of oxygen through their skin.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Jill Masterson suffocates to death after being completely covered in gold paint, leaving her skin unable to breathe. While having one's skin completely coated could produce ill effects, such as poisoning from the paint itself or overheating from being unable to sweat, humans don't obtain a significant amount of oxygen through their skin.

Returning to London following a rather unpleasant mission of destroying a drug business in Mexico, Bond finds himself stuck in Miami for a day due to a cancelled flight. By chance, he meets an old acquitance named Junius Du Pont, and through him he also meets Auric Goldfinger, the richest man in England. When he eventually returns back home, he learns that Goldfinger is on [[DirtyCommunists SMERSH]]'s payroll and is tasked to get him arrested and his gold confiscated.

* AmazonBrigade: Pussy Galore's entire criminal organization was enlisted from female acrobats, which Galore then transitioned into cat-burglars.

* BookSafe: Bond hides his Walther PPK inside a hollowed out copy of ''The Bible Designed to Be Read as Literature'' during his Mexico assignment.
* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Tilly Masterton is revealed to be lesbian, and becomes sexually obsessed with Pussy Galore. She later dies during Operation Grand Slam because her devotion to her. Pussy herself survives the book because she [[CureYourGays isn't really gay, just mistreated]] ]].

* LovesOnlyGold: Goldfinger is obsessed with gold, going so far as to have yellow-bound erotic photographs, and have his lovers painted head to toe in gold so that he can make love to gold. He plots Operation: Grand Slam; a scheme to rob the US Bullion Depository at Fort Knox.

-->"Colonel Smithers looked exactly like a man named Colonel Smithers."

* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: Branching into InterchangeableAsianCultures, karate, a Japanese martial art, is described to be "a branch of judo" with Chinese origins, and how there are "only three practitioners with Black Belt" in the world.
* BookSafe: Bond hides his Walther PPK inside a hollowed out copy of ''The Bible Designed to Be Read as Literature'' during his Mexico assignment.

* TheNapoleon: When Bond takes note on Goldfinger's short stature, he wonders if his money hoarding is a case of Napoleon Complex, and continues the train of the thought with note that "smallest men cause the worst problems".

* ContrivedCoincidence: The man Bond is assigned to follow on his new case is the same man -- Goldfinger -- who he'd just been involved with in Miami. Bond himself lampshades this by bursting out laughing when M mentions Goldfinger's name. It's even the basis of the three-part structure of the novel, based on the aphorism "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action." Goldfinger encounters Bond, naturally, three times.

* InformedAttribute: During the golf game, Goldfinger is said to be "''obsequious, talkative man called Foulks whom Bond had never liked''"; however, he has no listed dialogue. (In the movie, his role is played by [[TheSpeechless Oddjob]].)

* ContrivedCoincidence: The man Bond is assigned to follow on his new case is the same man -- Goldfinger -- who he'd just been involved with in Miami. Bond himself lampshades this by bursting out laughing when M mentions Goldfinger's name. It's even the basis of the three-part structure of the novel, based on the aphorism "Once is chance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action." Goldfinger encounters Bond, naturally, three times.

* DastardlyDapperDerby: Worn by Oddjob, which has a leadlined brim, making it a lethal throwing weapon. Using it for that purpose however damages the felt around it, forcing him to always repair it afterwards.

* TheDragon: Oddjob, Goldfinger's chaffeur and main enforcer.

* KickTheDog: Goldfinger disposes the ConvenientDecoyCat Bond used to get out of trouble by giving it to Oddjob, and telling him that he may eat it.

* OnlySaneMan: Bond is the only person in Goldfinger's team that thinks Operation Grand Slam will fail. Tilly is too busy adoring Pussy Galore to care about it too much, and the other gangsters (except for Helmut Springer) were convinced well enough by Goldfinger.

* RapeAsBackstory: Galore was molested as a child by her uncle, which [[RapeAndSwitch created her preferance for women]] over men.

** Goldfinger is very short in height (four feet and eleven inches), has [[EvilRedhead fiery red hair]], very pale skin which he tries to hide with a tan, and has features that are described in narration like "he had been put together with bits of other people's bodies."
** Oddjob's rigorous training has left the skin on his hands and legs extremely hardened (and former is described to be without nails), he has a cleft that makes his talking [[TheUnintelligible hard to understand]] to everyone except his master and lastly, all his teeth are blackened.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Tilly Masterton interrupts Bond's mission to recon Goldfinger by trying to assassinate him, which leads both of them getting caught.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Common cats for Oddjob, who acquired the taste for them during a time of famine in his homecountry Korea.

-->'''Goldfinger:''' Mr. Bond, we are going to empty Fort Knox.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Poor Jill Masterson slowly suffocates to death in a hospital after being completely painted over by Oddjob, and nothing can be done to save her.

* MoeGreeneSpecial: As Goldfinger has Bond on the gunpoint while he tells him what is his plan for him, he notes that while he rarely has to use the thing, he never misses and usually shoots in the right eye.
* TheNapoleon: When Bond takes note on Goldfinger's short stature, he wonders if his moneyhoarding is a case of Napoleon Complex, and continues the train of the thought with note that "smallest men cause the worst problems".

* OnlySaneMan: Bond is the only person in Goldfinger's team that thinks Operation Grand Slam will fail. Tilly is too busy adoring Pussy Galore to care about it too much, and the other gangsters were convinced well enough by Goldfinger.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: It is noted that Goldinger has gotten out many a jam by throwing money at it.

* TheNameIsBondJamesBond: Bond introduces himself this way to Jill Masterson after surprising her in Goldfinger's suite.

* RapeAsBackstory: Galore was molested as a child by her uncle, which created her preferance for women over men.

* ContrivedCoincidence: The man Bond is assigned to follow on his new case is the same man -- Goldfinger -- who he'd just been involved with in Miami. Bond himself lampshades this by bursting out laughing when M mentions Goldfinger's name.

The novel became the basis for the [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} third]] ''Film/JamesBond'' film.

* WealthsInAName: Goldfingerhas, unsurprisingly, a substantial hoard of gold. His EvilPlan aims to irradiate the gold in Fort Knox with a nuclear bomb, rendering the US gold reserve inutile, and causing his own stash to dectuple in value.