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Bond's "Dirty Pair" moments
A bit of explanation for those not familiar with manga and anime : The Lovely Angels, Kei and Yury, are a duo of galactic troubleshooters who, like Bond, confronts various threats to galactic peace. However, in the course of their missions, they sometimes (well, often, in fact) causes more damages than the threat they were sent to stop (including the destruction of inhabited planets), which led to them receiving the not so flattering nickname of "The Dirty Pair" (which the two girls hate, even if it's not exactly undeserved). Well, in the movies, there were cases where Bond could be their inspiration.
Take Dr. No, for example : Bond confronts the titular villain in his own control room, and sends him to his doom by plunging him into his own nuclear reactor, thus causing a meltdown and the explosion of the base on Crab Key. He then goes on a cruise with the lovely Honey. Everything is fine, right ? Except that, if there was something that Chernobyl taught us, it's that a nuclear meltdown has dramatic and far-reaching consequences, and that (contrary to what the French government thought at the time) borders are no protection against radioactive particles. Which means that a good portion of the Caribbeans are now contaminated, and that the rate of cancers is going to grow exponentially. All that to make sure a rocket launch test goes off without a hitch.
I read that in a Cracked article once, and it made me think of the ending of TSWLM. Here, Bond causes two nuclear submarines, full to the brim with nuclear warheads, to send nuclear missiles at each other. Even if there's no land mass near each vessel, maritime trade is certainly going to suffer in the zones each submarine was (remember this : [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daigo_Fukuryū_Maru"]en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daigo_Fukuryū_Maru[/url] ), not to mention fishing. Granted, less victims that if the nukes had reached their intended first target, but still...
And of course, there's the infamous "let's launch a car into a shop from a parking roof over a street in broad daylight" in TND (it's a miracle no one was hurt or killed by that stunt). But are there any others ? Remember, we're looking for moments when Bond did go overboard and caused a lot of destruction himself, not moments where the villains did it (they're villains, it's expected of them).
Take Dr. No, for example : Bond confronts the titular villain in his own control room, and sends him to his doom by plunging him into his own nuclear reactor, thus causing a meltdown and the explosion of the base on Crab Key. He then goes on a cruise with the lovely Honey. Everything is fine, right ? Except that, if there was something that Chernobyl taught us, it's that a nuclear meltdown has dramatic and far-reaching consequences, and that (contrary to what the French government thought at the time) borders are no protection against radioactive particles. Which means that a good portion of the Caribbeans are now contaminated, and that the rate of cancers is going to grow exponentially. All that to make sure a rocket launch test goes off without a hitch.
I read that in a Cracked article once, and it made me think of the ending of TSWLM. Here, Bond causes two nuclear submarines, full to the brim with nuclear warheads, to send nuclear missiles at each other. Even if there's no land mass near each vessel, maritime trade is certainly going to suffer in the zones each submarine was (remember this : [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daigo_Fukuryū_Maru"]en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daigo_Fukuryū_Maru[/url] ), not to mention fishing. Granted, less victims that if the nukes had reached their intended first target, but still...
And of course, there's the infamous "let's launch a car into a shop from a parking roof over a street in broad daylight" in TND (it's a miracle no one was hurt or killed by that stunt). But are there any others ? Remember, we're looking for moments when Bond did go overboard and caused a lot of destruction himself, not moments where the villains did it (they're villains, it's expected of them).
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And he ruined the wedding cake as well!
Moore started and ended his Bond carreer with ruining wedding cakes.
What a unique bookend trait for Roger, hahaha. I hope that wasn't intended from the get-go. :-j
TWINE (pts) - when he runs the Q boat through a densely populated restaurant.. he is lucky that he didn't run over any patrons, who were quietly trying to enjoy their afternoon lunch.
16 years later I am still mad at Bond trashing that plate of delicious looking cookies.
And there might have been some repercussion from that volcano explosion in YOLT (both the novel and the movie).
That said, I cant help but recall the real-world case of blowing up the Disco Volante....and John Stears in the process ended up taking out all of the windows in the town (something like 50 miles away). :)
Of course, in the novelization, John Gardner said that Bond's superiors would not have sent him to blow up this factory if they hadn't know that the chemical weapons were not there, but still...
And to be fair, it´s a well-known fact that radioactivity, much like smoking, only became hazardous in recent decades. In the 60s it simply wasn´t, as you can see from educational films, that it was absolutely enough to hide underneath a table in case of a nuclear attack in order to be safe.
Which leads to another "Fridge Horror, as TV Tropes put it :
So, after Jamaica the Bahamas, James ?