"Die Another Day" celebrates Bond's cinematic 40th Anniversary with a nod and a wink to all of the previous films...

"Die Another Day" Homage List
17th December 2002

Jinx emerges out of the sea with a bikini and knife belt in the style of Honey Ryder.

The radio beeps from the title sequence is present in the DAD soundtrack when Bond jumps from the MI6 field office in Hong Kong.

Rosa Klebb's shoe with the poisen-tipped flick blade is in Q's laboratory.

The original attaché case is in Q's laboratory.

Agents secretly film Bond from behind a two-way mirror in a hotel room.

A gadget concealed within a briefcase stuns the enemy allowing Bond to evade his captors.

Bond says "My friends call me James Bond".

Jinx is strapped to a table and nearly sliced by a powerful laser beam.

Bond's Aston Martin is equipped with an ejector seat.

Q says to bond "I never joke about my work, 007"

Bond ups the stakes of a sporting match with the villain, using the prize to irritate his opponent.

Bond is almost sucked out of a de-pressurising plane.

Bond emerges from the surf to reveal civilian clothes underneath his wetsuit, much like the tuxedo he worse under the wetsuit in GF.

The Bond Girl struggles to pilot an out of control aircraft in the final climax.

A window of a plane is shot out causing violent depressurisation

The jet pack is present in Q's laboratory.

Bond uses a mini re-breather to swim underwater.

Bond grabs a couple of grapes from a fruit bowl before exiting a room.

The players cigarette sailor poster in the underground station is a reference from the novel.

Little Nellie is present in Q's laboratory.

Jinx descends into the cavernous biodomes in the style of a ninja in the volcano in YOLT.

Bond is on HMS Tenby.

OHMSS is written on a CD on Moneypenny's office desk.

Hypnotic voices instruct patients who are undergoing treatment.

Bond sits in his office at MI6 HQ.

Graves in Blades Club "Well, diamonds are for everyone".

A large space satellite uses diamonds to focus an intense light beam on to earth.

A magazine article Bond reads onboard the BA 747 reads "Diamonds Are Forever".

The villains undergo surgery to change their appearance.

Bond and the villains smuggles diamonds in and out of different countries.

Scorpions feature in the pretitles sequence.

The explosions of the minefield in the DMZ is almost identical to those of the poppy fields in LALD.

Bond uses the same revolver.

Bond enjoys a few cigars.

The MI6 field office is onboard a ship.

Bond retrieves a valuable trinket from the naval of a girl.

The sonic-agitator ring is a spin-off of the solex-agitator unit.

Solar power is peaceful energy used by the villain which has a dual purpose as a weapon.

The Ice Palace echoes the design style of Stromberg's Atlantis.

A Union Jack parachute is used.

Bond rides back to the villain's lair in the same style - DAD on a skidoo, TSWLM on a jet-ski.

A villain plunges over the edge of a waterfall.

A character named Chang.

Bond has a sword fight with a villain, smashing many pieces of furniture and glass cases.

Bond and a villain fight with a parachute.

Bond stays in the presidential suite of a hotel.

Bond trips a motorcyclist off his mount.

The Acro Star mini-jet is present in Q's laboratory.

The crocodile submarine is present in Q's laboratory.

The climbing Indian rope is present under a table in Q's laboratory.

Bond is a doppelganger for his target who he impersonates in the teaser sequence.

Bond pulls the ripcord of someone else's parachute.

The robot surveillance dog is present in Q's laboratory.

Bond uses a piece of a vehicle to ski and surf.

The villain overlooks the area he is about to destroy from the air.

The cello is present in Q's laboratory.

Vehicles exit from the rear of a cargo plane mid-flight.

Bond's Aston Martin has retractable spikes in the tyres activated by a button labelled "traction".

The outriggers on a vehicle are lopped off by pine trees.

A bust of the villain is displayed in his headquarters.

Bond is not a 00 agent, licensed to kill, during the film.

Bond escapes a debriefing by M and turns rogue.

A female agent conceals a small pistol in a "weeping eye" holster, which Bond grabs.

Bond's Omega watch laser is used to cut a hole.

A plastic explosive bomb timer is set to three minutes.

Bond is betrayed by a fellow agent.

A villain is facially disfigured by an explosion set by Bond.

A gas canister from the Archangel chemical weapons facility in the GE teaser sequence is onboard Graves' plane next to the super cars.

A knife is thrown into a bad guys neck as he comes through a door.

A cable is used to walk down a steep surface.

MI6 creates a fake news headline to explain events.

Bond spins a vehicle around 180 degrees firing missiles in the pretitles sequence.

Bond picks up the same glass ashtray and smashes it.

Bond performs mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on the bond girl.

Villains hold huge press parties for public relations as they launch their schemes.

A missile is launched from a royal navy ship.

The love scene toys with an edible object.

Bond clutches his shoulder injured during TWINE after he para-surfs in Iceland.

The Bond girl is stuck in a room that is fast filling with water.

Bond runs around in corridors while sprinklers are going off.