History Main / TuxedoAndMartini

[[AC: Film]]

* In ''TrueLies'', the major hook is that ArnoldSchwarzenegger plays a secret agent who keeps the nature of his work secret from his wife. We are given a contrast between his work and home life by transitioning from a TuxedoAndMartini opening to a home where his daughter disrespects him and his wife [[TheGlassesGottaGo wears glasses]].
* The movie ''{{xXx}}'' was essentially one big TakeThat against this trope, and opened with one such agent being easily tracked down and killed because his tux stood out in the heavy metal concert he tried to escape through.
** Then used again where Darius had to dress up as a waiter at a party. The disguise works well enough to hide him amongst a lot of other guys when they were on to him.
* Even the JamesBond films occasionally have their fun with this. Take ''{{Goldfinger}}'', where after Bond has snuck in to a drug factory in a [[strike:wetsuit]] drysuit and blown it up. He comes out of the water, removes the drysuit- and reveals a neat tuxedo.
** From CasinoRoyale.

** A similar scene (drysuit to tux) is used in ''TrueLies'' and ''NationalTreasure 2''.

[[AC: Comic Books]]

[[AC: {{Literature}}]]

* The subject of both AffectionateParody and TakeThat in the CharlesStross novel ''[[TheLaundrySeries The Jennifer Morgue]]''. Because of the TheoryOfNarrativeCausality, the protagonist [[spoiler: and his girlfriend]] starts acting out JamesBond tropes, commenting how much he differs from Bond. In regard to Bond's signature drink, every time it's ordered in the novel, there are comments on how awful it tastes.

[[AC: LiveActionTelevision]]

* ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. Bashir likes to run a holosuite program that enables him to basically BE the film James Bond. "Bashir, Julian Bashir." He also specifies his martinis "stirred, not shaken" to invert Bond's usual drink order.
** {{Lampshaded|Trope}} all the way by Garak's constant snarking about it, when he was along for one run of the program ([[HolodeckMalfunction When something weird happened, of course]]). Despite the presence of an honest to goodness secret agent in the program, Bashir ignores him because he's playing James Bond, and is not in an actual covert operation, and the two play by different rules.

* Sidney Reilly, in the 1983 MiniSeries ''[[ReillyAceOfSpies Reilly - Ace Of Spies]]''. Considering that Reilly, a man shrouded in mystery, was possibly a RealLife inspiration for Bond, this makes it a bit of TruthInTelevision. Consider also that he was played by Sam Neill, who was screen-tested for the role of JamesBond in ''TheLivingDaylights''.
* Played with a lot in ''{{Chuck}}''. Chuck Bartowski is the furthest thing from James Bond you can find.
** But he still tries, because he's FunctionalGenreSavvy. When he evolves from TheWoobie to IronWoobie, he makes it work.


[[AC: VideoGames]]

* The Spy in ''TeamFortress2''. Impeccable two-piece suit, upper-class speech patterns ("[[MemeticMutation GENTLEMEN]]") and haughty mannerisms, wears a fancy wristwatch with a built-in [[InvisibilityCloak cloaking device]]. Promise not to get blood on his suit and he'll kill you quickly.
* Playing ''[[MetalGearSolid Snake Eater]]'' while wearing the Tuxedo nets Naked Snake a [[CrowningMomentOfFunny very funny]], and annoyed lecture from [[TheAce The Boss]] about how impractical it is. There's also a conversation about James Bond with the other characters (specifically the Major, who is a complete JamesBond fanboy) suggesting silly things (like a gun shaped like a snake) that he could use.
** If one plays ''[[MetalGearSolid MGS1]]'' enough times, Snake will do this with a Tuxedo instead of his trademark {{Spy Catsuit}}. And damn he does look fiiiine in a Tux.
* The Spy in [[CommandAndConquer Command and Conquer: Red Alert]] appears, at least to the Allies, as a man in a dapper (if combat-inappropriate) tuxedo-and-bowtie; selecting him or giving him an order causes him to reply in a Connery-ish voice. Of course, to opponents (i.e., the Soviets) he looks like one of their own units, unless discovered by a [[EvilDetectingDog guard dog]].

[[AC: WebComics]]

* Good Hitler in the webcomic ''{{Goats}}'', e.g. [[http://www.goats.com/archive/080826.html here]]. Note tuxedo, martini; the "last, first last" introduction may not have been included, though.
** In fact there's an entire Good Hitler franchise in the Goats verse, replacing not only Bond flicks ("Die and Die Again", "Death Never Lives Twice", "Quantum of Hitlers"), but almost every other known movie ("Good Hitler vs. Space Hitler", "The Search for Good Hitler").
* In December of 2001, SluggyFreelance did a James Bond parody called [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20011218 Snowfinger]]. After Santa Claus is mutated into an alien hybrid, [[KillerRabbit Bun-bun]] is recruited by the Christmas elves to stop Santa from distributing presents laced with alien mutagenic spores.

[[AC: WesternAnimation]]

* ''{{Archer}}'', a total JerkAss secret agent with massive mother issues, lives the trope - notably, he puts off defusing a bomb to change from his tuxedo to a black turtleneck.
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[[StarTrekDeepSpaceNine http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Bashir_champagne_gun.jpg]]
[[caption-width:283:[[BondOneLiner A lot of kick for a '45 Dom.]]]]

-->--President Bartlet of '''TheWestWing''' has forgotten that James orders ''vodka'' martinis

* In ''True Lies'', the major hook is that ArnoldSchwarzenegger plays a secret agent who keeps the nature of his work secret from his wife. We are given a contrast between his work and home life by transitioning from a TuxedoAndMartini opening to a home where his daughter disrespects him and his wife [[TheGlassesGottaGo wears glasses]].

--> ''Bond: I'll have a martini''
-->''Bartender: Shaken or stirred?''
-->''Bond: Do I look like I give a damn?''

* In ''Planetary,'' the character of John Stone is a clearly a JamesBond Expy. In issue #11, he employs fantastic gadgets and tosses out one BondOneLiner after another while facing a villainess who has just shot his assistant - who was an Expy of NickFury!

* In The LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen: Black Dossier, has this guy. Apparently Bond himself with the serials scratched off, he's an attempted rapist who gets the crap kicked out of him after some jokes about a woman's stage name being Oodles O'Quim. He's kind of an ass even beforehand, so this is very satisfying. Unfortunately, we see him walk off with the girl in the end, [[spoiler:after he murders her adoptive uncle, who had exposed him as a traitor.]] Alan Quatermain even mocks how sorry the British adventure hero had become.

** But he still tries, because he's FunctionalGenreSavvy. When he evolves from TheWobbie to IronWobbie, he makes it work.

As so many of these characters could be seen as placeholders for James Bond, this whole page could be considered his character-specific subtrope of FountainOfExpies.

-->--President Bartlet of '''TheWestWing''' has forgotten than James orders ''vodka'' martinis

Everyone knows this character. He wears a black tuxedo with a small [[BowtiesAreCool Bowtie (which Is Cool)]], a martini in one hand ([[DrinkOrder shaken, not stirred]], naturally) and a Walther PPK in the other. Announcing himself as "[[SurnameFirstNameSurname Surname... Forename Surname]]", he engages in witty DoubleEntendre speak with busty high society women that leads into the bedroom. And just in case he finds himself in a particularly hopeless situation, he'll have a gadget hidden in his cuff links that will allow him to defeat the {{mook}}s ([[BondOneLiner with a bad pun or two thrown in posthumously]]) and save the day.

->--President Bartlet of '''TheWestWing''' has forgotten than James orders ''vodka'' martinis

** Lampshaded by Garrak who was along for one run of the program (When it malfunctioned, of course). Despite the presence of an honest to goodness secret agent in the program, Bashir ignores him because he's playing James Bond, and is not in an actual covert operation, and the two play by different rules.

* The Spy in ''TeamFortress2''. Impeccable two-piece suit, upper-class speech patterns ("[[MemeticMutation GENTLEMEN]]") and haughty mannerisms, wears a fancy wristwatch with a built-in [[InvisibilityCloak cloaking device]].

* ''Secret Agent Clank'', the character that Clank plays on television as his day job in later RatchetAndClank games, is an obvious James Bond parody.

-->''"Shaken, not stirred, will get you cold water with a dash of [[DidNotDoTheResearch gin]] and dry vermouth. The reason you stir it with a special spoon is so not to chip the ice. [[JamesBond James]] is ordering a weak martini and being snooty about it."''
-->--President Bartlet of ''TheWestWing''.

** If one plays ''[[MetalGearSolid MGS1]]'' enough times, Snake will do this with a Tuxedo instead of his trademark {{Spy Catsuit}}. And damn he does look fiiiine in a Tux.

Everyone knows this character. He wears a black tuxedo with a small [[BowtiesAreCool Bow Tie (which Is Cool)]], a martini in one hand ([[DrinkOrder shaken, not stirred]], naturally) and a Walther PPK in the other. Announcing himself as "[[SurnameFirstNameSurname Surname... Forename Surname]]", he engages in witty DoubleEntendre speak with busty high society women that leads into the bedroom. And just in case he finds himself in a particularly hopeless situation, he'll have a gadget hidden in his cuff links that will allow him to defeat the {{mook}}s ([[BondOneLiner with a bad pun or two thrown in posthumously]]) and save the day.

Everyone knows this character. He wears a black tuxedo with a small [[BowtiesAreCool bow tie]], a martini in one hand ([[DrinkOrder shaken, not stirred]], naturally) and a Walther PPK in the other. Announcing himself as "[[SurnameFirstNameSurname Surname... Forename Surname]]", he engages in witty DoubleEntendre speak with busty high society women that leads into the bedroom. And just in case he finds himself in a particularly hopeless situation, he'll have a gadget hidden in his cuff links that will allow him to defeat the {{mook}}s ([[BondOneLiner with a bad pun or two thrown in posthumously]]) and save the day.

The character that should have immediately come to mind with that description is, of course, JamesBond. However, while Bond has definitely popularized many of these aspects, most [[ShallowParody Shallow Parodies]] out there can't seem to find anything beyond the above paragraph to make fun of (They also seem to miss that Bond typically wore appropriate attire during field work). [[hottip:* :One annoyingly common mistake is for the parody character to get a ''gin'' martini instead of a ''vodka'' martini (as the otherwise-valid opening quote shows: it's a potentially-legitimate concern with a gin martini, but with a vodka martini using vodka made from potatoes, the shaking gets rid of some nasty-looking oils on top. TheMoreYouKnow!).]] It's also interesting to note that [[WeirdAlEffect most of these tropes were NOT in the Ian Fleming books]]. For example, the films inverted his usual stirred-not-shaken DrinkOrder. Nevertheless, this is how JamesBond is viewed by and large.

Everyone knows this character. He wears a black tuxedo with a small bow tie, a martini in one hand ([[DrinkOrder shaken, not stirred]], naturally) and a Walther PPK in the other. Announcing himself as "[[SurnameFirstNameSurname Surname... Forename Surname]]", he engages in witty DoubleEntendre speak with busty high society women that leads into the bedroom. And just in case he finds himself in a particularly hopeless situation, he'll have a gadget hidden in his cuff links that will allow him to defeat the {{mook}}s ([[BondOneLiner with a bad pun or two thrown in posthumously]]) and save the day.

The character that should have immediately come to mind with that description is, of course, JamesBond. However, while Bond has definitely popularized many of these aspects, most [[ShallowParody Shallow Parodies]] out there can't seem to find anything beyond the above paragraph to make fun of (They also seem to miss that Bond typically wore appropriate attire during field work). [[hottip:* :One annoyingly common mistake is for the parody character to get a ''gin'' martini instead of a ''vodka'' martini (as the otherwise-valid opening quote shows: it's a potentially-legitimate concern with a gin martini, but with a vodka martini using vodka made from potatoes, the shaking gets rid of some nasty-looking oils on top. TheMoreYouKnow!).]] It's also interesting to note that [[WeirdAlEffect most of these tropes were NOT in the IanFleming books]]. For example, the films inverted his usual stirred-not-shaken DrinkOrder. Nevertheless, this is how JamesBond is viewed by and large.

*Clive Owens cameoed in the SteveMartin version of ThePinkPanther.

[[AC: Music]]

* From BobDylan's ''Masters Of War'', about armchair generals and war profiteers:
-->But there's one thing I know
-->Though I'm younger than you
-->That even Jesus would never
-->Forgive what you do.

* Sidney Reilly, in the 1983 MiniSeries ''[[ReillyAceOfSpies Reilly - Ace Of Spies]]''. Considering that Reilly, a man shrouded in mystery, was possibly a RealLife inspiration for Bond, this makes it a bit of TruthInTelevision. Consider also that he was played by Sam Neill, who was screen-tested for the role of JamesBond in ''TheLivingDaylights''.

* ''ChipAndDaleRescueRangers'' example: "Double 'O Dale." Both Dale and his role model Dirk Suave are depicted in TuxedoAndMartini style all the time when they were doing secret agent work.