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Moonraker

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Moonraker	label	Moonraker
Moonraker	page	Moonraker
Moonraker	comment	The third James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, published in 1955.Bond is tasked to teach one Hugo Drax a lesson in a game of Bridge, so he'll stop cheating and avert a possible scandal. Afterwards, he has to investigate strange going-ons in Drax's project to develop a ballistic missile for the British Government.The novel avoids several features of what would come to be regarded as the typical James Bond adventure. Instead of an exotic foreign location, it's set entirely in the Home Counties of England. The course of Bond's relationship with the main female character also doesn't go as one might expect.All of which, along with the fact that the plot is built around a technology that was cutting-edge in 1955 but already behind the times when the film franchise started, goes some way toward explaining why the eleventh James Bond film has very little to do with the book, only sharing its title and the Big Bad's name. Some elements from the book would eventually make its way into the seventeenth film in the series, GoldenEye, and others into the twentieth film, Die Another Day. Speaking of which, Toby Stephens voiced Bond in the Radio Drama adaptation of Moonraker on BBC Radio 4 in 2019.Not to be confused with James Bond and Moonraker, the novelization of the aforementioned film, written by Christopher Wood.
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Moonraker / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Moonraker / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Drax chooses to dispose of Bond and Gala Brand by leaving them to be incinerated by the Moonraker's exhaust on lift-off. Incidentally, this is one of the few bits that made it into the 1979 film.
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Moonraker / int_25b7257f	type	Red Right Hand
Moonraker / int_25b7257f	comment	Red Right Hand: Aside from the singled out ones, Drax also has unnaturally long thumbs and badly splayed front teeth, the latter believed to be due to childhood thumb-sucking.
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Moonraker / int_29d4ec8a	type	British Teeth
Moonraker / int_29d4ec8a	comment	British Teeth: Sir Hugo Drax is often described with very crooked and distended teeth. Part of it is explainable from the war incident that scarred his face. Subverted in that Drax is revealed to be German, not the British Rags to Riches dockworker he claimed to be. Bond speculates that the crooked teeth stem from Drax's childhood thumb-sucking.
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Moonraker / int_344a485d	type	Nonviolent Initial Confrontation
Moonraker / int_344a485d	comment	Non Violent Initial Confrontation: Bond and Drax first meet over a rigged game of bridge.
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Moonraker / int_35fb9016	type	Gratuitous German
Moonraker / int_35fb9016	comment	Gratuitous German: A lot of dubious German is (naturally) used, as ex-Nazi villains play a prominent part. Most memorably, Krebs and Drax's other henchmen will frequently address their boss as "Herr KapitÃ¤n," or "Captain." The problem is that Drax was an infantry captain in the Heer (army), and later Waffen-SS in his glory days, while KapitÃ¤n specifically denotes a naval captain in German. Better researched Nazis would have addressed Drax either as Herr Hauptmann (an army captain) or HauptsturmfÃ¼hrer (an SS captain).
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Moonraker / int_37cb353b	type	Ate His Gun
Moonraker / int_37cb353b	comment	Ate His Gun: Egon Bartsch, the scientist who killed the original chief of security of Drax's base killed himself this way after the deed.
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Moonraker / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Moonraker / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: Bond suspects the landslide he narrowly survives with Gala of being this trope. He spots a puff of smoke from an explosive detonation at the scene, and he later finds that Drax has "forgotten" to set places for him and Gala at dinner.
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Moonraker / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Moonraker / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Hugo Drax's plan is circumvented, but there is still collateral damage in three-digit casualties and they're not all bad guys. James is surprised and disappointed to learn that Gala is already engaged.
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Moonraker / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
Moonraker / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Gala Brand is a notable aversion; she proves to be as important to foiling Drax's plot as Bond (it's actually her that discovers that the rocket is to be fired at London) and while she does get captured, Bond also does shortly afterwards.
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Moonraker / int_461defa0	type	Two-Faced
Moonraker / int_461defa0	comment	Two-Faced: The left side of Drax's face burned during the war. Plastic surgery managed to fix it somewhat, but it still has some noticeable puckering. Also a metaphorical reference to his true status as a Nazi who sought revenge against Britain for the destruction of his country by masquerading himself as an English gentleman.
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Moonraker / int_4cecb933	type	Signs of Disrepair
Moonraker / int_4cecb933	comment	Signs of Disrepair: Bond sees a neon sign from a viewpoint that partially obscures it: SUMMER SHELL IS HERE.
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Moonraker / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
Moonraker / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: Drax gives Bond an epic one when he has him tied up and defenceless. Bond responds by taunting Drax into a Villainous Breakdown, which gives him the opportunity he needs to free himself and Gala.
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Moonraker / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
Moonraker / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: Half of Drax's face is badly scarred from a German attack during WWII. Plastic surgery has rectified it somewhat, but the scar is still noticeable.
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Moonraker / int_50f848cc	type	Technology Porn
Moonraker / int_50f848cc	comment	Technology Porn: The natural conclusion of Fleming's love for detail, combined with fifties Britain's anxiety about maintaining power (especially nuclear power) on the international stage. The Moonraker gets page after page dedicated to explaining how it works, even though The Professor explaining it to Bond promises he'll keep it short because Bond isn't a scientist.
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Moonraker / int_53c47260	type	You Monster!
Moonraker / int_53c47260	comment	You Monster!: Bond concludes his "Reason You Suck" Speech to Drax by calling him a "great hairy-faced lunatic" when Drax ranted about his Freudian Excuse.
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Moonraker / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Moonraker / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Willy Krebs, Drax's right-hand man.
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Moonraker / int_56599505	type	Literal Ass-Kicking
Moonraker / int_56599505	comment	Literal Asskicking: When Bond finds Krebs rummaging through his stuff, he gives a swift kick to the arse.
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Moonraker / int_5a7b4065	type	Bedsheet Ladder
Moonraker / int_5a7b4065	comment	Bedsheet Ladder: Bond fakes one up to cover the fact that he and Gala are still in the base.
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Moonraker / int_5c3206a	type	Ransacked Room
Moonraker / int_5c3206a	comment	Ransacked Room: Both Bond and Gala are victims of Krebs' ransacking during their stay at the Moonraker base, with Gala noting that her mail has been tampered with.
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Moonraker / int_60fb097	type	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat
Moonraker / int_60fb097	comment	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: Bond and M both note that Drax is so wealthy that he'd have absolutely no reason to cheat at cards. Bond theorizes that he suffers from an inferiority complex since childhood and feels a need to dominate others even in needless circumstances.
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Moonraker / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Moonraker / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: This is the only novel to be set entirely inside the United Kingdom; in fact the action never leaves London and Kent.
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Moonraker / int_63a200ae	type	Smoky Gentlemen's Club
Moonraker / int_63a200ae	comment	Smoky Gentlemen's Club: It gets several pages' worth of backstory, lots more Scenery Porn descriptions, and according to M, there are so many varieties of food available that only people who have no imagination bother looking at the menus.
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Moonraker / int_63c1170b	type	Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story
Moonraker / int_63c1170b	comment	Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story: Hugo Drax adopted the identity of one of the countless British servicemen missing in action in the aftermath of a large battle in WWII. The identity he assumes was that of an orphan with no close friends, who by sheer coincidence happened to have a name that was remarkably close to his real one (Graf Hugo von der Drache).
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Moonraker / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Moonraker / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Defied. Bond's initial plan to stop the Moonraker from nuking London is to manually sabotage and blow it up at the launch site, but with Gala's help, he's able to alter its launch coordinates instead.
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Moonraker / int_67792344	type	Grievous Bottley Harm
Moonraker / int_67792344	comment	Bond inflicts this on Krebs with a mineral-water bottle, but Krebs manages to escape before Bond can extract anything useful.
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Moonraker / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
Moonraker / int_697b5232	comment	Those Wacky Nazis: Drax served in one of the Werwolf sabotage and infiltration units established by the Nazis during WWII to slow down the Allied forces in Germany.
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Moonraker / int_69cce3dc	type	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!
Moonraker / int_69cce3dc	comment	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Gala does the internal monologue version of this trope as she does the math and figures out the new coordinates for the Moonraker will drop it in the middle of London.
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Moonraker / int_6a0f3c49	type	Beardness Protection Program
Moonraker / int_6a0f3c49	comment	Beardness Protection Program: Drax has his underlings shave their heads and grow moustaches, meaning they can later disguise themselves by shaving off their moustaches and letting their hair grow out. Also played straight, as the scientists working on Drax's rocket are all German, and former Nazis. Drax even mentions that with their heads shaved and with the mustaches in place, no one recognizes them.
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Moonraker / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Moonraker / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Drax is revealed to be a Nazi working for the Communists, with plans to nuke London.
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Moonraker / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Moonraker / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: M gets Bond to beat Drax at cards as a way of deterring him from further cheating, because Drax is a national hero and such a scandal over petty fraud could ruin him.
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Moonraker / int_6d7cd3e	type	Dead Person Impersonation
Moonraker / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: Sir Hugo Drax was born in Germany as Graf Hugo von der Drache. Because his mother was English, Drax was educated in England until the age of 12. He served as a Skorzeny Werwolf commando in WWII. After the Ardennes offensive he stayed behind Allied lines when their forces crossed the Rhine and started operating in the Low Countries with his commando group. During a mission, he dressed as a British soldier so that he could sabotage and destroy a farmhouse holding a mixed liaison group of American and British servicemen, but he ended up at the same farm after being attacked by his own fighter because he was wearing a British uniform. While he was still conscious, he managed to destroy his motorbike and documents. Later he was found and brought to the farm, so he was caught in the explosion and nearly killed. He was then rescued by the British and nursed back to health, faking amnesia and claiming to be a "missing soldier" by the name of Hugo Drax.
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Moonraker / int_7089d02e	type	All Germans Are Nazis
Moonraker / int_7089d02e	comment	All Germans Are Nazis: A German technician's last actions before he commits suicide are to salute and yell "Heil!" It turns out that Hugo Drax and his men are in fact Nazis who have been hiding under new identities since World War II.
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Moonraker / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Moonraker / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Unsurprisingly for a Nazi, Drax harbors anti-Semitic beliefs, as seen by how he fondly recalls beating a Jewish banker to death after the war and in his bullying of his partner, Meyer, during the poker game with Bond. He also throws a huge tirade against England to Bond and Gala when they've been captured.
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Moonraker / int_72d30083	type	Cheaters Never Prosper
Moonraker / int_72d30083	comment	Cheaters Never Prosper: Drax wins thousands of pounds at the Blades Club by cheating at bridge. Bond stops him by cheating in his own way, switching in a stacked deck.
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Moonraker / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
Moonraker / int_7570a10c	comment	Bond Villain Stupidity: Instead of killing Bond and Gala right away, Drax leaves them to be killed by the blast from the Moonraker, giving them the opportunity to escape and foil his Evil Plan.
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Moonraker / int_762f71cb	type	Unwinnable Training Simulation
Moonraker / int_762f71cb	comment	Unwinnable Training Simulation: The first chapter has Bond in a quick-drawing training. He puts the other "guy" (a cardboard target) in hospital, but is "killed". The whole thing is designed to put the shooter at as much of a disadvantage as possible, using poor lighting and a target that pops up for only a few seconds before "shooting" back.
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Moonraker / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Moonraker / int_7bd44eb9	comment	Smart People Play Chess: M describes a character at Blades who's an absolute killer at the cards — playing against other members of the club — and "used to play chess for England".
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Moonraker / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Moonraker / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Bond saw Drax as a famed British war hero and admired him until finding out about his Nazi past and scheme to destroy England
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Moonraker / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Moonraker / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Drax's rags-to-riches story and generous philanthropy has earned him the acclaim of the British populace. Even Bond admires him before learning that he's a Nazi saboteur seeking revenge against England for the destruction of his people.
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Moonraker / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Moonraker / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Drax drives a Mercedes 300 S, which Bond describes as "ruthless and majestic". 007 himself owns a 1930 Bentley CoupÃ©, in which he chases Drax towards the end of the book. It's also an automotive example of a National Weapon, as Drax drives in a German Mercedes while 007 drives in a British Bentley.
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Moonraker / int_8b442f50	type	Did Not Get the Girl
Moonraker / int_8b442f50	comment	Did Not Get the Girl: Bond runs into a case of this with Gala at the end, where it's revealed that she's engaged. Bond playfully dismisses to her any serious romantic interest he might have shown for her, but it's clear that he's actually hurt by the revelation. This results in a Bittersweet Ending.
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Moonraker / int_8bcfcc7	type	Hope Crusher
Moonraker / int_8bcfcc7	comment	Hope Crusher: Drax made himself into a national hero and Britain's most popular philanthropist so he could destroy the collective spirit of England when his nuke lands on London.
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Moonraker / int_95bca4c9	type	Tuckerization
Moonraker / int_95bca4c9	comment	Tuckerization: Fleming named Drax after his acquaintance Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax.
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Moonraker / int_9ae8eea9	type	Character Tics
Moonraker / int_9ae8eea9	comment	Character Tics: Drax tends to bite his fingernails when he gets nervous. Bond notes during the bridge game at Blades that all of them have been gnawed down to the quick.
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Moonraker / int_9ba53911	type	Stranger in a Familiar Land
Moonraker / int_9ba53911	comment	Stranger in a Familiar Land: While in Blades, Bond ponders whether his job as a Professional Killer makes him somehow different from his fellow countrymen, and feels that the people in the club can somehow sense this about him
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Moonraker / int_9fb8b0ac	type	Textual Celebrity Resemblance
Moonraker / int_9fb8b0ac	comment	Textual Celebrity Resemblance: Bond and Willy Krebs are compared to Hoagy Carmichael and Peter Lorre, respectively.
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Moonraker / int_a95fbce6	type	Mad Eye
Moonraker / int_a95fbce6	comment	Mad Eye: The surgery around Drax's left eye was a disaster, as the missing skin make it seem larger in appearance and perpetually bloodshot. Bond wonders if he can properly close it, and in an official audiobook, read by Bill Nighy, there's a constant stress to his voice even when he seems to be having a good time.
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Moonraker / int_a9de8105	type	Dangerously Loaded Cargo
Moonraker / int_a9de8105	comment	Dangerously Loaded Cargo: Invoked. During a car chase, Drax has his henchman climb onto a lorry and cut its load free, sending it into the path of Bond's car.
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Moonraker / int_ad17a1ac	comment	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Bond gives a recount of Drax's life, specifically noting how being bullied because he sucked his thumb as a child, on top of the Nazi fanaticism he still adheres to, drove him to develop delusions of jealousy and revenge. Bond concludes with how it made him a paranoid monster.
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Moonraker / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Because Bond sees Gala's personnel file during his preparatory briefing, we have a unique clinical description of a Bond Girl's physical appearance. She has auburn hair, blue eyes, is 5'7" tall, weighs 9 stone (126 lb) and her measurements are 38-26-38. Plus, she has a mole on the upper curvature of her right breast. Alas for him, she's engaged to someone else.
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Moonraker / int_bbb6c059	type	I Shall Taunt You
Moonraker / int_bbb6c059	comment	I Shall Taunt You: Bond does this to Hugo Drax in a desperate attempt to make him forget about a cigarette lighter and blowtorch on his desk (the latter intended to be used in torturing Bond and Gala). It works, and Bond uses the items to free himself and Gala.
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Moonraker / int_bd79d896	type	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
Moonraker / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Two such crimes - Drax's cheating at Blades, and the murder of security chief Major Tallon - are the only reasons Bond gets involved with the Moonraker project at all.
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Moonraker / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
Moonraker / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: Apart from peppering his Motive Rant with this, Drax also tells Bond he has left a detailed account of his real life with a Scottish law firm, intending it to be revealed to the British public the day after his nuclear attack on London.
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Moonraker / int_c446f93c	type	Artistic License â€“ Nuclear Physics
Moonraker / int_c446f93c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Nuclear Physics: Subverted with the radiation example (no. 4) of the trope; the nuclear explosion is passed off as a conventional one to cover up Drax's plot. The radiation had blown north.
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Moonraker / int_c4c4004a	type	Treachery Cover-Up
Moonraker / int_c4c4004a	comment	Treachery Cover Up: Bond's unofficial "mission" at Blades, as mentioned, is a small-scale version of this. A full-sized one is later initiated with Hugo Drax's whole identity and plot to nuke London kept out of the press, so to not panic the public.
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Moonraker / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Moonraker / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: There is a scene in which both Bond and Gala are naked. However, it's because their clothes have been ripped off in a cliff explosion that was set by the bad guys in an attempt to kill them, and the first thing that they do when they come around is puke from the shock. They spend the next few minutes washing off the blood and chalk dust, and then get dressed without any sexual contact whatever.
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Moonraker / int_c6b2fdd1	comment	Fixing the Game: Drax cheats at bridge by using the reflection on his cigarette case to sneak a look at the cards he deals to the other players. With the assent of the club's management, who want Drax put on notice without the embarrassment of a public accusation, Bond beats him with a stacked deck, carefully arranged so that the cards Drax will be able to see will mislead him as to their respective chances.
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Moonraker / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Drax is an ex-Nazi saboteur who wants to destroy England for the wartime defeat of his fatherland and the social slights he suffered as a youth growing up in an English boarding school before the war. Due to this, he developed an inferiority complex that drives him to dominate others even in unnecessary situations, but Bond points out that it has made him a mental case due to his delusions.
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Moonraker / int_c9fe8de2	comment	Impersonation-Exclusive Character: Hugo Drax is actually a Nazi saboteur whose real name is Graf Hugo von der Drache and masqueraded as a war hero for the past several years after he was "rescued" in his British military disguise, stole the identity of a missing soldier, and faked amnesia to justify not remembering his pre-WWII life. By sheer coincidence, the "Drax" surname he adopted happens to be surprisingly close to his real one. The only thing known about the real Hugo Drax was that he was an orphan who was MIA during the war.
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Moonraker / int_cedeae6a	type	Wacky Wayside Tribe
Moonraker / int_cedeae6a	comment	Wacky Wayside Tribe: The Blades sequence has no impact on the main rocket missile plot, although it does serve as an extended intro for Sir Hugo Drax, as well as giving M some much-needed characterisation.
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Moonraker / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Moonraker / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Drax cheats at bridge using a shiny cigarette case as a mirror, so he can see who gets which cards when he deals. Bond turns the tables on him by sneaking in a stacked deck, causing him to lose 15,000 pounds in the final game. Big time, as the rocket he planned to destroy London with is reprogrammed to strike the area that his escorting submarine is going through. This is how he ended up where he is in the first place. After sending his Werwolf unit to bomb an Allied base, he ended up getting strafed by a German plane (due to wearing a British uniform), and while unconscious he was found by British soldiers who, thinking he was one of their own, took him to the hospital wing of the very base his men were just about to bomb.
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Moonraker / int_d7ecbd57	type	You're Insane!
Moonraker / int_d7ecbd57	comment	You're Insane!: Drax has Bond tied up at the base of his rocket to be incinerated during its launch. Bond takes the opportunity to recount Drax's life as he's gathered the info, in all its ugly, humiliating detail, to conclude how it's made him such a mental case. Bond's intent is to enrage Drax enough to overlook what Bond needs to escape (a blowtorch and cigarette lighter). It works.
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Moonraker / int_db38d6ca	type	Torture Technician
Moonraker / int_db38d6ca	comment	Torture Technician: Krebs and possibly Dr. Walter, as described by Drax. Fortunately, we never get to see them exercising their talents.
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Moonraker / int_dd45df38	type	Unfortunate Names
Moonraker / int_dd45df38	comment	Unfortunate Names: Gala's father named her after a ship he had served on in the Royal Navy, leading to no end of teasing as she grew up. She was only too glad to shorten it once she started taking undercover assignments in the Special Branch.
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Moonraker / int_e154ff08	type	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Moonraker / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Bond inflicts this on Krebs with a mineral-water bottle, but Krebs manages to escape before Bond can extract anything useful. Later, Drax plans a much nastier version for Bond and Gala, but Bond actually defies it by telling Drax everything he wants to know (this causes Drax to become overconfident and leave them alive for an elaborate Death Trap, instead of just shooting them).
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Moonraker / int_e66e9bfb	comment	New Era Speech: Drax gives one near the end before leaving the confused audience.
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Moonraker / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Moonraker / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: When Drax asks Bond if he's read the files on his staff yet, Bond's response is "Didn't have the key to the filing cabinet" - technically correct, but neglecting to mention that he broke into the cabinet without needing the key. Drax's speech before the launch is a masterpiece of double entendre. It's full of completely sincere patriotic sentiment, but the British listeners never twig that Drax's references to "my country" actually mean Germany.
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Moonraker / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Moonraker / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Bond describes Drax as a "bullying, boorish, and loud-mouthed vulgarian" who makes an ostentatious display of wealth and is lacking in refinement. His attempts to cheat at the card game at the Blades Club is one blatant example, though Bond one-ups him by switching in a stacked deck. To prove how evil he is, he casually rams a passing car off the road, with Bond watching in horror as the driver gets killed. Even worse, the other driver was a young pilot who was only taking his customized car out for a ride.
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Moonraker / int_ec02c97e	type	Defied Trope
Moonraker / int_ec02c97e	comment	Later, Drax plans a much nastier version for Bond and Gala, but Bond actually defies it by telling Drax everything he wants to know (this causes Drax to become overconfident and leave them alive for an elaborate Death Trap, instead of just shooting them).
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Moonraker / int_ed874c14	type	Self-Made Man
Moonraker / int_ed874c14	comment	Self-Made Man: Drax managed to go from a discharged soldier with no possessions or social connections to a multi-millionaire in the space of five years after the end of the war (quite impressive, considering even Blofeld was "only" making 50,000 quid per year as head of SPECTRE prior to Operation Thunderball). He accomplished this by using the business knowledge from his secret Nazi Nobleman past, along with some seed money he got from secretly robbing and murdering a Jewish banker in London.
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Moonraker / int_ee75b5ab	type	Relocating the Explosion
Moonraker / int_ee75b5ab	comment	Relocating the Explosion: Bond and Gala end up programming new co-ordinates into the Moonraker, so it misses its intended target of London and instead detonates over the point in the sea where Drax is rendezvousing with SMERSH.
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Moonraker / int_eed678bf	type	Deep Cover Agent
Moonraker / int_eed678bf	comment	Deep Cover Agent: Drax, in reality a former Nazi soldier, has masqueraded as a proud, distinguishable Briton for the past several years after he was "rescued" in his British military disguise, stole the identity of a missing British soldier, and faked amnesia to justify not remembering his pre-World War II life.
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Moonraker / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
Moonraker / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: Bond and M's dinner at Blades is one of the most mouthwatering meals in all the Bond books. For the record, M has caviar, followed by devilled kidneys and bacon with spring vegetables, and strawberries in kirsch; Bond has smoked salmon, followed by lamb cutlets, asparagus with BÃ©arnaise sauce, and a slice of pineapple.
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Moonraker / int_f2d8e3c2	type	Evil Plan
Moonraker / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Evil Plan: Nuke London.
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Moonraker / int_f6b698ac	comment	Complexity Addiction: Drax's entire plan of assembling an all-German team of scientists, using them to construct a highly experimental rocket missile and aiming it at London without arousing suspicion falls into this, especially considering the rocket could easily have malfunctioned and either exploded mid-air or landed off-course. Simply having a nuclear bomb smuggled into his Belgravia flat would have been less hassle. Justified however as Drax is trying to create an epic masterpiece in humiliating Britain and simply letting off a nuke out of nowhere wouldn't be nearly as satisfying.
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Moonraker / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Moonraker / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: In the final scenes, Bond is covered with bandages. There's no mention of Gala being in an equivalent condition, even though they went through the same ordeal. (Justified, to an extent, as some of the time Bond was intentionally shielding her with his body.)
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Moonraker / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
Moonraker / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: The first sign that Drax is a bad'un is when he cheats at cards even though the amounts involved are trivial to a man of his wealth. To him, the amounts are immaterial beside the fact that he just plain hates to be beaten. TO show how evil he is, he casually rams a passing Alfa Romeo off the road when it passes his car, with Bond watching in horror as the driver met a grisly end. Even worse, the driver was a 19-year-old RAF pilot who was just taking his customized car out for a ride.
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Moonraker / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Moonraker / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Fleming asked his fellow correspondent on The Sunday Times, Anthony Terry, for information on the Second World War German resistance forceâ€”the Werewolvesâ€”and German V-2 rockets. The latter was a subject on which he wrote to Arthur C. Clarke and the British Interplanetary Society. Fleming also visited the Wimpole Street psychiatrist Eric Strauss to discuss the traits of megalomaniacs; Strauss lent him the book Men of Genius, which provided the link between megalomania and childhood thumb-sucking. Fleming used this information to give Drax diastema, a common result of thumb-sucking.
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