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Tear Jerker / Licence to Kill

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"Don't let them take you alive..."
  • The death (and strongly-implied rape) of Della and Felix Leiter's own mauling by a shark, all courtesy of Franz Sanchez.
    • It's even worse when Fridge Horror sets in: Bond and Felix have both lost their brides on their wedding day. Leiter's wife died in an even worse way than Bond's, and Leiter will never physically recover from what was done to him, while Bond didn't even get a scratch when Tracy was killed.
      "He was married once. But that was a long time ago."
    • Bond's sheer horror when he finds their bodies in their house. He is overcome with grief at Della's lifeless expression, and by the time he finds Felix, the man has already resigned himself to what is in the body bag left in the man's office. And then Felix starts regaining consciousness. He immediately moves to stabilize his friend and calls for an ambulance.
    • Worse still, even though he survives, Felix is still without a good portion of his leg and nearly lost his arm as well. His CIA days are almost certainly over, and it'll be a long road to recovery for him without his wife by his side. Sharkey in particular reacts as well as anyone would when Bond tells him the severity of Felix's injuries.
  • Sharkey's death; not helped by the fact that he was such a Nice Guy.
  • Loti starts crying by Kwang's side as he's dying. The two of them were shown in a more sympathetic way in that scene, they were just doing their job as Heroes of Another Story, and Bond got in the way, leading to their deaths.
  • Lupe's life might be full of riches since she's very much a Gold Digger and the girlfriend of a drug lord, but it isn't the happiest there is, what with Sanchez's domestic abuse on her and him killing a man she cheated on him with, who could have made her life happier.
    • On top of that, Lupe's tear-filled and horrified expression as Sanchez whips her while her lover is being murdered outside.
    • Later, after the Jeep she's in is stopped by Bond and the DEA, Lupe demonstrates how broken she is after Bond asks her if she wants help by telling him to go away and leave her alone.
  • After giving Sanchez a richly deserved death, and barely escaping the fireball himself, Bond can only sit there broken and crying. He knows he had gotten some measure of revenge - not just for Felix and Delia, but also himself - but crossed a lot of personal lines - and unwittingly killed a number of decent people - to get there.

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