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* DirtyCommunists: One of Scaramanga's guests is a man named Hendrikson, a KGB agent whom he converses about their plans for Jamaica.
* DirtyCommunists: One of Scaramanga's guests is a man named Hendrikson, a KGB agent whom he converses about their plans for Jamaica.
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kids]]). (Though Bond remembers her last name as "Wilder," possibly due to an error by Fleming.)
* DirtyCommunists: One of Scaramanga's guests is a man namedHendrikson, Hendriks, a KGB agent with whom he converses about their discusses his plans for Jamaica.
* DirtyCommunists: One of Scaramanga's guests is a man named
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* ISurrenderSuckers: As Bond finally has Scaramanga at his mercy, he pleads him to let him have his last prayers, [[HonorBeforeReason which Bond does]]. Once he finishes, he pulls out a Derringer and shoots Bond with it. Bond wastes Scaramanga with his shot, but has to be hospitalized.
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* ISurrenderSuckers: As Bond finally has Scaramanga at his mercy, he pleads him to let him have his last prayers, [[HonorBeforeReason which Bond does]]. Once he finishes, he pulls out a Derringer and shoots Bond with it. Bond wastes Scaramanga with his shot, quickly kills Scaramanga, but has to be hospitalized.the shot puts him in the hospital.
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* {{Kneecapping}}: It is mentioned that Scaramanga shot the knees of agent 098, and forced him to kiss his foot.
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* SilverBullet: Scaramanga loads his golden gun with silver dum dum bullets with gold filling.
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* SilverBullet: Scaramanga loads his golden gun revolver with silver dum dum dum-dum bullets with having a gold filling.
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* TakeThat: Francisco Scaramanga was named after George Scaramanga, toward whom Fleming hadanimosity towards to a strong dislike during his years in Eton.
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* TakeThatAudience: Pulp adventure novels like the ''James Bond'' stories had (and have) a strong appeal to veterans and gun owners. The psychological profile of Scaramanga basically says, "If you're a gun enthusiast, even a target shooter, you've got a penis problem."
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* VillainousCrush: Kingsley Amis felt that Scaramanga implausibly hiring Bond might make more sense if he was attracted to him, but it was not the sort of thing Fleming would have written. It does introduce an interesting psychosexual element to their relationship if read with that in mind, though, especially since the intimations of DepravedBisexual are never really followed-up on otherwise.
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* BondVillainStupidity: M who gets this treatment from Soviet Union's newest assassin, James Bond. He wastes time spouting the propaganda installed to his head.
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* BondVillainStupidity: M who gets this treatment from the Soviet Union's newest assassin, James Bond. He wastes time spouting the propaganda installed to his head.
* ChekhovsGun: A funny example in that it's a gun that ''shouldn't'' fire, but does. In one chapter, Bond sneaks into Scaramanga's room and removes the round from the second cylinder of his golden revolver, in order to give him a moment's edge later. In the next chapter, Scaramanga fires six times in quick succession with no mention of reloading or misfiring, and the ruse is never mentioned again. William Boyd, in his introduction, put it down to Fleming's failing health and attention, and Amis or the copy editor failing to notice the discrepancy.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Kingsley Amis felt Bond's running into Scaramanga at Tiffy's brothel was contrived even by Fleming's standards, along with Scaramanga hiring him as a security man when he doesn't know him and, it transpires, doesn't need him either. Some put it down to the "first draft" nature of the manuscript, as with the ChekhovsGun mentioned above.
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* KnightFever: Bond is offered a knighthood at the end of the novel -- he declines.
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Bond returns to England after his disappearance in the ending of [[Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice the last book]]. Unfortunately, he has been [[{{Brainwashed}} brainwashed]] to be an assassin for the Soviet Union, and he tries to kill M. This fails, and after his recovery, Bond must prove his worth for the Secret Service by being tasked to take down one Francisco Scaramanga, a ProfessionalKiller whose responsible for deaths of many Bond's fellow agents.
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Bond returns to England after his disappearance in the ending of [[Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice the last book]]. Unfortunately, he has been [[{{Brainwashed}} brainwashed]] to be an assassin for the Soviet Union, and he tries to kill M. This fails, and after his recovery, Bond must prove his worth for the Secret Service by being tasked to take down one Francisco Scaramanga, a ProfessionalKiller whose who is responsible for deaths of many Bond's fellow agents.
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* EscapedAnimalRampage: In the novel version Scaramanga killed his first man in his backstory as a Circus Brat when he shot the policeman who shot his elephant friend who had went into an amok run.
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* EscapedAnimalRampage: In the novel version When Scaramanga was still a circus brat, his elephant friend went on an amok run, and was shot by a policeman. Scaramanga then killed his first man in his backstory as a Circus Brat when he shot by shooting the policeman who shot his elephant friend who had went into an amok run. policeman.
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* TheNameIsBondJamesBond: Bond, while working for Scaramanga under an assumed name, introduces himself as "Hazard. Mark Hazard."
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* ShoutOut: Felix Leiter refers to blowing up a railroad bridge as "re-enactment of ''Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai''".
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* TheInfiltration: Thanks to finding a letter addressed to Scaramanga at the airport, Bond is able to meet him in a brothel and he ends up being hired to be his assistant to a meeting between him and some gangsters in a hotel unde construction.
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* PoisonedWeapons: The bullet in Scaramanga's golden derringer is coated with snake venom.
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* RedRightHand: Scaramanga has a [[TripleNipple third nipple]]. The condition's mythic relation to sexual virility is brought up in a file on him, and he lives up to it.
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* AntagonistTitle: The Man With the Golden Gun is one of the nicknames that Scaramanga has accumulated over the years.
* BlingBlingBang: Scaramanga got one one of his nicknames from the gold plated .45 revolver that he carries. He also has a gilded derringer hidden on him.
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years, and he introduces himself as such to Bond, who feigns ignorance.
* BigBad: Francisco Scaramanga.
* BlingBlingBang: Scaramanga gotone one of his nicknames from the gold plated .45 Peacemaker revolver that he carries. He also has a gilded derringer hidden on him.
* BigBad: Francisco Scaramanga.
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* WilliamTelling: Scaramanga orders Bond to liven up the festivities after the criminal meeting. Bond then asks to borrow his golden gun, and shows off his aiming skills by shooting a pineapple worn by a singer on her head.
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The story became the basis for the ninth ''Film/JamesBond'' [[Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun film]].
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* AntagonistTitle: The Man With the Golden Gun is one of the nicknames that Scaramanga has accumulated over the years.
* BlingBlingBang: Scaramanga got one one of his nicknames from the gold plated .45 revolver that he carries. He also has a gilded derringer hidden on him.
* BondVillainStupidity: M who gets this treatment from Soviet Union's newest assassin, James Bond.
* ChainedToARailway: During Scaramanga's joyride for his guests in the railway, he tricks Bond into action by pointing out a doll on a railway, and claiming that it is Mary Goodnight.
* CircusBrat: Scaramanga's parents were circus performers, and he worked both as a trick shot and an animal caretaker as a kid. His StartOfDarkness happened when he shot a policeman for killing his favorite elephant when it went on a rampage.
* CompensatingForSomething: M reads a psychiatric report on Scaramanga speculating that he uses [[PhallicWeapon a big gun]] because of his [[AmbiguouslyGay ambiguous sexuality]].
* ContinuityNod: After he arrives into UsefuleNotes/{{Jamaica}}, Bond reminisciences about his adventure in ''Literature/DrNo'', and wonders what happened to Honeychile Ryder.
* DirtyCommunists: One of Scaramanga's guests is a man named Hendrikson, a KGB agent whom he converses about their plans for Jamaica.
* ElectricTorture: Bond gets electroshock therapy as a deprogramming method for his brainwashing. Ultimately subverted by the addition of sodium pentothal, which allowed Bond to sleep through the process. Bond implies that this was added only fairly recently.
* TheGunslinger: Scaramanga occasionally shows off by shooting birds and [[GunTwirling twirling his gun]].
* ISurrenderSuckers: As Bond finally has Scaramanga at his mercy, he pleads him to let him have his last prayers, [[HonorBeforeReason which Bond does]]. Once he finishes, he pulls out a Derringer and shoots Bond with it. Bond wastes Scaramanga with his shot, but has to be hospitalized.
* KnightFever: Bond is offered a knighthood at the end of the novel -- he declines.
* ObstacleExposition: After Bond makes his presence known in England, the novel then starts detailing the inner workings of how MI-6 deals with people claiming to be James Bond.
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