The Spy Who Loved Me/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Non Sequitur Scene: The Light Show at the Pyramids of Giza, with the mystical narration.
  • Complete Monster: Karl Stromberg. He's an ice-cold Misanthrope Supreme who plans to wipe out the majority of humanity in a nuclear holocaust, and will quite gladly inflict a gruesome death on anyone who stands in his way (and even, in the case of Dr. Bechmann and Professor Markovitz, some who don't).
  • Crowning Moment of Awesome: The Teaser.
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: "Nobody Does It Better" is regarded as one of the best, if not the best, of the Bond themes.
  • Ho Yay / Worthy Opponent: M and General Gogol. After British and Soviet forces decide to work together, Gogol calls M "Miles", M calls Gogol "Alexis", and they act overly friendly to each other. Bond and Anya give a WTF look to each other after witnessing this scene.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Jaws, who along with Oddjob is one of the most popular villain henchmen of all time. The guy became so popular that he's so far one of the only two James Bond villains that were allowed to return to a sequel, and then people hear Bond villain, he's likely the one that will be remembered first. I blame the steel-teeth.
  • Memetic Mutation: The X Who Y'ed Me
  • Nightmare Fuel: Jaws attacking Anya on the train. Don't act like you didn't jump when she finds him hiding in her closet.
    • So much so that even Richard Kiel, who played Jaws did it.
    • Bond disarming a nuclear missile is especially nail-biting, even knowing there's no way he's going to actually fail.
  • Recycled Script: It uses some ideas of You Only Live Twice. (and then Moonraker outright employed Recycled in Space with TSWLM)
  • Surprisingly Improved Sequel: A return to form after the tepid The Man with the Golden Gun.
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