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There are numerous similarities between the James Bond franchise and the Alex Rider series. Owing to the nature of the article, this list is ongoing and may not be complete.

Villains[]

  • Gustav Graves from Die Another Day and Damian Cray from Eagle Strike are both strikingly similar. Both characters suffer from constant mood swings, and both are killed by being sucked into a jet engine. This is also how Major Grant from Die Hard 2 is killed.
  • Nile from SCORPIA and Oddjob from Goldfinger both fulfil a similar role. They are the henchmen to the primary antagonist. Both are highly skilled in martial arts, and can throw weapons that kill others. For Nile he uses samurai swords, while Oddjob employs a bowler hat lined with a metal razor disk in the rim.
  • Razim from SCORPIA Rising and Renard from The World is Not Enough: neither show emotions until shortly before their demises.
  • Anthony Sean Howell from Snakehead and Alec Trevelyan from GoldenEye are both double agents (in Ash's case, he is a triple agent).
  • Zeljan Kurst and Ernst Stavro Blofeld both share the role of being criminal masterminds.
  • They have completely different goals, but Desmond McCain and Franz Sanchez (Crocodile Tears and License to Kill) are both killed by being set on fire.
    • Similarly, Julia Rothman and Alec Trevelyan (SCORPIA and Goldeneye) are both killed by being crushed, although their endgames vary.
  • Possible reference: Jacko and Quombi from Snakehead are a pair of henchmen that could be similar to Mr Wint and Mr Kidd from Diamonds are Forever.

Organisations[]

  • SCORPIA is a reference to SPECTRE from the 007 movies.

Vehicles[]

  • The bicycle that Alex uses in Eagle Strike is similar to Bond's Aston Martin V12 Vanquish/ Vanish in Die Another Day. Both machines are equipped with a target-seeking weapon, missile launchers and ejection seat. It also references the Aston Martin DB5 in Goldfinger, having an oil slick and a smokescreen. Lastly, the DB5 in Skyfall similarly has an ejection seat.
  • Eurocopter Tiger gunship, used in an attempt to kill Bond in Goldeneye, is used to destroy Mr White's compound in Nightshade Revenge.

Gun barrel sequence[]

In most if not all the Bond films, the opening scene has Bond walking onto the screen, being tracked by the camera, which is tracking him; he then spins and fires into it. This is repeated in SCORPIA Rising, where Julius Grief tries to shoot Alex Rider, only for the latter to turn and fire first, killing Julius.

In Nightshade Revenge, a variant of this game is played on Alex and Frederick Gray, where they both stand back to back, start walking a distance and stop, turn and fire when they hear music cease. This seems to resemble The Man with the Golden Gun, where Scaramanga challenges Bond to a similar duel.

Gadgets[]

  • The Geiger counter in Dr No is very similar to the DS given by the CIA to Belinda Troy and Tom Turner in Skeleton Key. All these devices are made to track radiation.
  • Similarly, the tracking device given by Smithers to Alex in SCORPIA is like the radio transmitter in Skyfall.
  • The pistol Bond is given in Skyfall can only fire if his specific DNA pattern is scanned on the grip. Anybody else who tries to operate the weapon will be unable to do so. This technology was alsoemployed by the guards who were posted at Mrs Jones' apartment in SCORPIA.

Names[]

  • In Stormbreaker, Sayle's headquarters are in Port Tallon; Tallon is a secret agent who is killed in Moonraker.
  • Felix Lester, Alex's alias in Stormbreaker, is very similar to Felix Leiter, a CIA operative, featured heavily in the Bond books (also seen in The Man with the Golden Gun and No Time to Die)
  • Smithers, the gadgets quartermaster in the series, is a treasury official in Goldfinger.
  • Julius Grief shares his first name with Dr Julius No.
  • Alex's maths teacher is Donovan, referencing the assassin Donovan 'Red' Grant in the novel From Russia With Love.
  • Bernie Lee, the Brookland headmaster, is named after Bernard Lee who was M before Judi Dench replaced him.
  • The music teacher Ms Barry is a reference to John Barry, the latter being responsible for composing the 007 theme.
  • Mr Wiseman, a sports teacher, is similar to the actor who played Dr. No, Joseph Wiseman.
    • The name is also recycled into the name of Alex's dentist in The Man With Eleven Fingers.
  • Tulip Jones' cat, Q, is the main gadget scientist from 007.
  • In Snakehead, Bill Tanner is the corrupt doctor who attempts to use Alex for organ transplanting. 'Bill Tanner' is also an aide to M in Quantum of Solace.
  • General Sarov's island, Skeleton Key, is a call back to Julius No's hideout, Crab Key.
  • The chemical weapons facility that Trevelyan and Bond infiltrate in GoldenEye is called Arkhangelsk; this is similar to the Ark Angel facility.
  • Hugo Grief's first name comes from Hugo Drax.
  • Frederick Grey, the assassin boy in Nightshade, is a reference to Defence Minister Frederick Grey, from the Roger Moore Bond era.
  • ASH from Snakehead is a reference to Logan Ash, a double agent in No Time to Die.
  • Mr Wilbur White in Nightshade Revenge has an identical name to Mr White, who was featured in the Daniel Craig era movies, particularly, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and SPECTRE.

Operations and projects[]

  • Operation Poison Dawn in Crocodile Tears is rather identical to Hugo Drax's scheme in the Moonraker movie. The two involve using a biological weapon to wipe out human life. However, Drax's is more diabolical, in that he intends to kill everybody.
  • Operation Invisible Sword and the Stormbreaker project are both similar to each other; in both, a virus is used to massacre children in England.
  • Operation Ark Angel in Ark Angel is similar to Sanguinetti's project in Ian Fleming's novel The Spy Who Loved Me, since both require the destruction of a hotel in order to claim insurance.
  • The Gemini Project in Point Blanc and Blofeld's scheme in On Her Majesty's Secret Service both involve using brainwashed subjects to rule the world.

Dialogue[]

A comparison can be made between Dr. Kaufman from Tomorrow Never Dies and Mrs Stellenbosch from Point Blanc.

KAUFMAN: "I am just a professional! I was just doing my job."

STELLENBOSCH (before shooting Alex): "And this is what I am paid for."

Others[]

  • In Skyfall, Bond undergoes word association with a psychiatrist. This also happens to Julius Grief in SCORPIA Rising.
  • Alex plays Texas hold 'em with Desmond McCain and his associates in Crocodile Tears. 007 also engages in this with Le Chiffre during Casino Royale.
  • The premise of Point Blanc somewhat follows On Her Majesty's Secret Service, in being set in snowy mountains in continental Europe, at an expensive service, run by a madman seeking to wreak global havoc.
  • The World is Not Enough features a pursuit on snowy mountains, which is what Alex does to evade Grief's men in Point Blanc.
  • In Skyfall, Bond, M and Kincaid rig the lodge with various booby traps. A similar thing happens in SCORPIA Rising, when a squad of men sent to kill Alex and Smithers run into different deterrence mechanisms that the latter set up.
  • In Goldeneye, a Russian colonel 'kills' Alec Trevelyan, but it later turns out that Alec has somehow survived and is the main antagonist of the movie, making him a double agent. A similar concept happens in Nightshade Revenge, where Frederick Grey 'kills' Tom, only to later show how the latter was alive and Grey is a 'double agent' of sorts.

References to other movies[]

Mission Impossible[]

Ethan Hunt is given explosive chewing gum that he uses to first escape from a restaurant and, towards the climax, kill the antagonists by causing a helicopter detonation. Alex is also provided with this gadget and uses it to escape from handcuffs when Sarov attempts to kill him in Skeleton Key.

The Rock[]

VX gas is a major plot point in this movie and also in Nightshade.

Death Race[]

Frankenstein's Ford Mustang is equipped with a smokescreen and oil slick as its 'shields' (defensive weapons); these weapons are also seen on Bond's DB5 in Goldfinger.

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