History Literature / OnHerMajestysSecretService

The novel was adapted into the sixth ''Film/JamesBond'' [[Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService film]].

** [[FridgeBrilliance After all, the world is not enough.]]

** Blofeld has one of his guards thrown down a bobsled run and into a shed at the end at full velocity for sexually harassing one of his patients.

* SkeletonKeyCard: Bond sneaks a strip of plastic from the Piz Gloria ski shop to defeat the room locks while spying at night. Part of why he gets caught and has to escape is the SPECTRE agent running the shop actually having good enough inventory records and paying enough attention to notice a strip is missing after "Sir Hilary Bray" leaves and calling it in.

* BaseOnWheels: Due to his prefession, Marc-Ange Draco has to be constantly on the move, and his offices reside in a trailer pulled by a truck.

* RapeAsBackStory/ValuesDissonance: Draco tells Bond that Tracy's mother came to Corsica looking to be raped and that Draco obliged. In a repeat of Kerim Bey's backstory in Literature/FromRussiaWithLove, she later fell in love with him. Fleming does not have Bond react let alone object to this.

* NotQuiteDead: Irma Bunt is apparently killed when the Union Course storm Piz Gloria near the end of the book, since she is only seen out of the resort when she is meeting up with Bond at the airport. However, it turns out she was elsewhere at the time, as she joins Blofeld for a sneak attack on Bond and his new wife in Germany.

* RoadSignReversal: Bond reverses a sign to trick a bunch mooks who are chasing him and Tracy to drive on to a decrepit bridge, and they plummet to their deaths.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Bond has a slice of Christmas pudding with trinkets baked into it at a party, and his slice has the bachelor's button in it, [[spoiler:implying that he won't be married for very long]].

** Blofeld has one of his guards thrown down a bobsleigh run for harassing one of his patients.

* MythologyGag: Bond is revealed to have Scottish heritage as a nod to Creator/SeanConnery, who had just played him in ''Film/DrNo''. Also, Creator/UrsulaAndress, who played that film's [[GirlOfTheWeek Bond girl]], is mentioned as a guest at Blofeld's ski resort.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Or rather, sexual harassment is something that even Blofeld won't tolerate, as he has a guard killed by throwing him down a bobsled run.

* StormingTheCastle: In order to capture Blofeld, Bond attacks his base with the help from Union Corse.

* TapOnTheHead: Averted; Bond kills a guard with one good punch to the head, albeit using a metal Rolex as an improvised knuckleduster. This trope is played straight on Bond himself in the film version.

** [[FridgeBrilliance After all, the world is not enough. ]]

* YouHaveFailedMe: One of the workers in Piz Gloria dies when he slides down a mile-long bobsled track, and crashes into a hut below. Bond overhears that the guy had harassed one of the Blofeld's allergy treatment patients, and comes to a conclusion that the "accident" had been a typical SPECTRE execution for disobedience.

* RidiculousFutureInflation: Bond likes to think of the money in his pocket in old francs because that makes him feel richer, while counting his expenses in new francs to make them seem smaller.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Just when it seems that this time Bond [[DidNotGetTheGirl gets the girl after all]] by marrying Tracy, she is killed by Bunt and Blofeld. Notable for being the only James Bond film other than Casino Royale without at least a BittersweetEnding]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Marc-Ange Draco admits that he is a criminal with lots of shady businesses, but even he thinks that Blofeld is a horrible person.

-->Bond watched the message go, the end of another chapter of his duties, as Marc-Ange had put it, 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'.