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Dr. No

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Dr. No	comment	The sixth James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, published in 1958.Bond has recovered from the attempt on his life from the end of the previous book, and is given a supposedly-easy assignment in Jamaica, where he has to investigate the disappearance of the local head of operations. He learns that he has been investigating the activities of one Dr. Julius No, who is in fact working for the Soviets to sabotage nearby American missile tests.The novel became the basis for the first James Bond film. It also got a Radio Drama adaptation on BBC Radio 4 in 2008, introducing Toby Stephens as the voice of Bond and with David Suchet (of Poirot fame) as Dr. No.
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Dr. No / int_134a82d5	type	First Law of Resurrection
Dr. No / int_134a82d5	comment	First Law of Resurrection: Invoked in a justifiable manner. Bond wasn't dead at the end of the previous book, he was only dying, and the people who were with him managed to keep him alive long enough for a doctor to be summoned.
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Dr. No / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Dr. No / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: Hoo boy. The previous books were all gritty, grounded spy thrillers set against the backdrop of the Cold War, in appropriate locations with plausible villains, with Bond being a ruthless, anti-heroic hitman throughout, while the women were mostly protected/saved by him. Dr. No, however, reads much more like a traditional adventure/superhero story, being set on a very exotic tropical island with a hidden underground base. Instead of a crime lord, Dr. No is a hammy supervillain with a private army to go along with it and a very unusual physical appearance, compared to the other villains from before. Bond, while still an assassin, is much more polite and kind this time round and pulls off some very traditional heroic acts, such as fighting a giant squid. Honey Ryder is not only capable of kicking ass, she actually escapes without his help and even drags him into bed instead of the other way round.
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Dr. No / int_1c512c6c	type	The Swarm
Dr. No / int_1c512c6c	comment	The Swarm: Honey Rider is tied down on the shoreline ostensibly to be eaten by a swarm of crabs, but more likely to scare her to death. However, she knew her sea life and knew them to be harmless, so she calmly let them march over her.
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Dr. No / int_1f137e42	type	Artificial Limbs
Dr. No / int_1f137e42	comment	Artificial Limbs: Dr. No has two artificial pincer hands because they were cut off by his former Tong employers as a punishment. He uses them for dramatic effect to enhance his ominous nature.
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Dr. No / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
Dr. No / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: Bond receives a basket of fruit that he sends for testing. The telegram he receives in reply says, "Each object contained enough cyanide to kill a horse. Suggest you change your grocer." Dr. No repeats the trick several chapters later, once he's actually captured Bond and Honey. This time it works, mostly because they're too exhausted to worry about tricks (fortunately, the drug isn't lethal this time).
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Dr. No / int_241ca0d8	type	Back for the Dead
Dr. No / int_241ca0d8	comment	Back for the Dead: Strangways and Quarrel, Bond's allies in Live and Let Die, return and are killed off. The former is shot and the latter is burned alive.
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Dr. No / int_25b7257f	type	Red Right Hand
Dr. No / int_25b7257f	comment	Red Right Hand: Dr. No has no eyelashes (he has a pair of contact lenses to protect his eyes), eyebrows or any hair on top of his head. Instead of hands, he has a pair of steel pincers.
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Dr. No / int_2a195285	type	Revolvers Are Just Better
Dr. No / int_2a195285	comment	Revolvers Are Just Better: Zig-zagged. Bond takes both a Smith & Wesson Centennial Airweight revolver (.38 Special) and a Walther PPK semiautomatic (7.65 mm) to Jamaica, but uses only the former gun at Crab Key because it has a longer range. It does fine against Dr. No's mooks, but it can't puncture the tires on the "dragon" swamp buggy. Starting with the next book in the series, Goldfinger, he carries the Walther almost exclusively.
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Dr. No / int_2fd5d26d	type	Dramatic Deadpan
Dr. No / int_2fd5d26d	comment	Bond receives a basket of fruit that he sends for testing. The telegram he receives in reply says, "Each object contained enough cyanide to kill a horse. Suggest you change your grocer."
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Dr. No / int_37d94ed9	type	Agony of the Feet
Dr. No / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: Plus every other part of his body, but Bond's feet certainly aren't spared by Dr. No's death-course. Honey suffers similar injuries escaping her own trap - probably the most serious ones she experiences in the whole book, aside from her broken nose.
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Dr. No / int_3d2249c5	type	Heart in the Wrong Place
Dr. No / int_3d2249c5	comment	Heart in the Wrong Place: Dr. No tells Bond how he survived reprisal from the Tong after embezzling funds - after hours of prison torture, they chopped off his hands and shot him through the heart, or thought they did. As it turned out, he was a rare case with his heart on the right side of his body.
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Dr. No / int_438ed383	type	The Name Is Bond, James Bond
Dr. No / int_438ed383	comment	The Name Is Bond, James Bond: Bond introduces himself this way to Honey.
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Dr. No / int_4e95743e	type	Cutlery Escape Aid
Dr. No / int_4e95743e	comment	Cutlery Escape Aid: Bond steals a steak knife and a lighter while he is having Dinner with Dr No.
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Dr. No / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
Dr. No / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: Honey Rider was raped by the man who oversaw the property where she is currently living. She retaliated by putting a venomous spider in his bed.
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Dr. No / int_52b36340	type	What Measure Is a Mook?
Dr. No / int_52b36340	comment	What Measure Is a Mook?: Averted. Bond has to tell himself that the two nameless security guards he is about kill were almost certainly murderers themselves.
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Dr. No / int_54321e11	type	Innocent Fanservice Girl
Dr. No / int_54321e11	comment	Innocent Fanservice Girl: Played with regarding Honey Rider. She casually mentions her ambition to work in New York as an escort girl, unaware that society would find this idea objectionable.
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Dr. No / int_56352cc6	type	Animal Assassin
Dr. No / int_56352cc6	comment	Animal Assassin: No's agents attempt to kill Bond by releasing a venomous centipede in his room.
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Dr. No / int_5b19cc1b	type	Air-Vent Passageway
Dr. No / int_5b19cc1b	comment	Air-Vent Passageway: Subverted. The air vent system in Bond's cell is purposely designed to allow passage by a man... but as an endurance-course, to see how much pain a man can endure, through mounting physical challenges—which are also psychologically testing Bond, as they get more horrific. It ends with Bond having to fight a Giant Squid.
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Dr. No / int_6156eafa	type	So Last Season
Dr. No / int_6156eafa	comment	So Last Season: After its less-than-stellar performance in From Russia with Love, M. makes Bond trade in his beloved Beretta for more modern guns—a Smith & Wesson revolver and a Walther PPK pistol. Bond hates the idea at first, though he eventually gets over it and carries the Walther almost exclusively in later books.
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Dr. No / int_6820e212	type	Giant Squid
Dr. No / int_6820e212	comment	Giant Squid: The title character puts him through a torture labyrinth ending with an apparent escape only to be attacked by a giant squid. Improbably, Bond wins.
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Dr. No / int_70ed9079	type	Creepy Centipedes
Dr. No / int_70ed9079	comment	Creepy Centipedes: An attempt is made on Bond's life by letting a venomous centipede in his room.
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Dr. No / int_735b3587	type	Naked First Impression
Dr. No / int_735b3587	comment	Naked First Impression: Bond first meets Honey Ryder when she's seashell hunting while wearing only goggles, a snorkel, and a belt for her knife.
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Dr. No / int_7d53bc0b	type	Hollywood Silencer
Dr. No / int_7d53bc0b	comment	Hollywood Silencer: In the opening chapter, the three beggars use revolvers fitted with silencers to kill Strangways.
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Dr. No / int_8cd96e6c	type	Nasal Trauma
Dr. No / int_8cd96e6c	comment	Nasal Trauma: Honey had her nose broken by her rapist, something which she is a bit self-conscious about, choosing to cover her face rather than her breasts in her Naked First Impression.
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Dr. No / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Dr. No / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Dr. No gets crushed by a crane load of guano.
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Dr. No / int_94332264	type	Busman's Holiday
Dr. No / int_94332264	comment	Busman's Holiday: M. originally meant Bond's Jamaican "assignment" as a thinly-veiled vacation (Strangways being assumed to have eloped with his secretary). What ensues may well be the roughest adventure Bond's ever had.
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Dr. No / int_952d21ec	type	Bus Crash
Dr. No / int_952d21ec	comment	Bus Crash: The fate of Rosa Klebb, the Big Bad of the previous novel, is summed up as "She died."
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Dr. No / int_95bca4c9	type	Tuckerization
Dr. No / int_95bca4c9	comment	Tuckerization: Honey was named after Fleming's friend Patricia Wilder, whose nickname was Honey Chile. Fleming named the guano-collecting ship Blanche after his neighbour and lover in Jamaica Blanche Maxwell.
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Dr. No / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Dr. No / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Dr. No.
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Dr. No / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Dr. No / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Apart from references to the immediate fallout of From Russia with Love, there's a brief moment where Bond, upon arriving in Jamaica, wonders what became of Solitaire from Live and Let Die.
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Dr. No / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Dr. No / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: While Dr. No puts Bond through a Death Course, his deathtrap for Honey involves him stringing her up in the way of a seemingly-endless mass of crabs which will very slowly pinch her to death. Except that Honey knows that this particular breed of crab isn't hostile and won't attack unless provoked, so she simply holds still until the crabs disperse. She's not even frightened by them and grows fond of their company as she waits. Once they're gone, she tugs the poles she's tied to out of their cracks and just walks away.
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Dr. No / int_bd79d896	type	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
Dr. No / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Several characters remark on how one of the most extensive and sinister criminal conspiracies in the West only started unravelling because a few people from a birdwatching society had gone missing.
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Dr. No / int_be30e493	type	Undignified Death
Dr. No / int_be30e493	comment	Undignified Death: Being buried under a ton of guano, aka bat shit, was a much worse death than falling into a nuclear reactor cooling tank for Dr. No.
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Dr. No / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Dr. No / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: The title character changes his name to Julius No upon going into business for himself—Julius after his father, and No as a rejection of him and all authority in general (since his parents abandoned him as a baby).
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Dr. No / int_cd809603	type	Tank Goodness
Dr. No / int_cd809603	comment	Tank Goodness: Dr. No's most terrifying weapon is a black-and-gold armored car with a flamethrower that also looks rather like an actual dragon.
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Dr. No / int_cde51255	type	Antagonist Title
Dr. No / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: The titular Dr. No.
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Dr. No / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Dr. No / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Dr. No dies by being Buried Alive in the same guano that was a key component in his operation.
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Dr. No / int_d5a060a8	type	Interchangeable Asian Cultures
Dr. No / int_d5a060a8	comment	Interchangeable Asian Cultures: According to Bond, everyone on Dr. No's island (save the grunts) wear "kimonos" - a Japanese article that a Chinese (especially one who would've been alive to see World War II) would be very unlikely to have anything to do with. That said, Bond is the only one who refers to them as such, so it might just be his go-to word for any vaguely Asian-looking robe.
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Dr. No / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Dr. No / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Honey gets one on Bond after escaping from her captivity and mistaking him for a mook (which puts her quite far above her film counterpart in terms of pro-activeness). It doesn't do much, although she is a slightly-built shell collector and he is a trained secret agent/assassin in his prime.
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Dr. No / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
Dr. No / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: The novel prominently features Doctor No's incredibly elaborate, cozy island lair, which was later immortalized in the film adaptation and set the standard for larger-than-life evil lairs everywhere. However, it also goes into detail about the time, money and resources that would go into constructing such a thing — Dr. No first appears in person as Bond wonders just how he managed to build a window facing out into the ocean into the wall, and how much such an operation would cost. Bond is also well aware of how strange, surreal, and (given that he isn't expected to leave alive) morbid his welcome is. The whole thing exists to serve Dr. No's special brand of megalomania. The movie included the impressive lair, but cut out the details of its construction and the kind of mind that led to its creation, making it seem a good deal less extraordinary.
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Dr. No / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
Dr. No / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: Dr. No torched an entire bird sanctuary and had its staff brutally murdered simply because it was a bit too close to his base. Fortunately it's this act that eventually brings the authorities down on him.
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