WI Tracey Bond or other female Bond?

Somebody suggested a female Bond in the Bond BDWI. It is a interesting idea. The best time for this to happen, at least in the early days, is On Her Majesty's Secret Service where Bond married but his wife where killed. What if they let her live and let Bond and tracy become a husband and wife team?

So what if we get a early female action hero?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Bond
 
I'm not entirely against the idea of a female 00 agent, but Tracy Bond doesn't fit the role by a longshot. She isn't scary enough or clever enough--indeed, she's suicidal when she meets Bond in the first place. All the wrong answers on this one.

Bond plays with women like a deck of cards--and given that his long term survival is always speculation, there is nothing stopping him from doing this--Bond lives for today and that's the long and short of it.

Bond might conceivably romance another female double 0 agent; perhaps it leads to problems instead of benefits. But Bond just can't do long term commitment in his line of work--it's one of those things that Bond will never be able to do, because he's very likely to die tomorrow.
 

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If a female Bond behaved like the male Bond, she'd be branded as a slag. Double standards, certainly.
It would work if it was the same kind of Bond as the novels, where we're not really supposed to sympathise with him.

Actually, this is true of Sharpe as well - his womanising was cut back for the films so he becomes a more sympathetic character.
 
It would work if it was the same kind of Bond as the novels, where we're not really supposed to sympathise with him.

So, a vodka-ridden middle-aged woman on 60 cigarettes a day?

Sounds like Pat Butcher.

Actually, this is true of Sharpe as well - his womanising was cut back for the films so he becomes a more sympathetic character.

And much of his cold-blooded murdering; such as when he returned to London to murder the old workhouse master to steal his money.
 

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And much of his cold-blooded murdering; such as when he returned to London to murder the old workhouse master to steal his money.
That as well.

And he killed James Bond and they gave him Gene Hunt as a brother. Weird watching it now, with all those actors you recognise in...
 

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And the names of Ms 007's male conquests?

007: Please to meet you, Ivan...

Ivan: Actually, its Ivan Enormousnob. Miss ...

007: Bond. Jane Bond.

etc etc
 
That as well.

And he killed James Bond and they gave him Gene Hunt as a brother. Weird watching it now, with all those actors you recognise in...

That was quite unusual, although I suppose some of those series are 15 years old now so it's unsurprising.

You know that guy who plays Hagman (the old poacher), John Tamm, is actually a distinguished English folk musician?
 

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And the names of Ms 007's male conquests?

007: Please to meet you, Ivan...

Ivan: Actually, its Ivan Enormousnob. Miss ...

007: Bond. Jane Bond.

etc etc
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You know that guy who plays Hagman (the old poacher), John Tamm, is actually a distinguished English folk musician?
I didn't, but that does make sense.

In a crime against humanity, TV Tropes didn't have a proper page for Sharpe, so I made one.
 
My personal teory about Bond's womenizing is that he can't settle down. And that is for story reasons, he need to travel the world having cool adventures. He could stay away from woman alltogether but then he would be like Biggles and he is pretty wierd to. But a married Bond could travel the world with his wife still having cool adventures.
 
Tracy Bond as an agent just wouldn't fit at all with the James Bond character, the somewhat soulless but very charming agent.

Then, let's not forget that her dad is Mafia. That alone will cause a few issues in itself, particularly with MI6.

I was more thinking Tracy survives Blofeld's attack, and starting from Diamonds Are Forever or Live And Let Die, have her show up as his backup. Virtually every Bond movie has a person who assists Bond:

Casino Royale - Vesper Lynd (Eva Green)
Die Another Day - Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson (Halle Berry)
The World is Not Enough - Dr. Christmas Jones (Denise Richards)
Tommorrow Never Dies - Colonel Wei Lin (Michelle Yeoh)
Goldeneye - Natalya Simonova (Isabella Scorupco)

And you could easily have Tracey show up as a regular helper, with some special talents (she did well driving in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, perhaps she is a good helicopter pilot or some forth) and of course making sure her husband doesn't go gallivanting off all the time.
 
I once had an idea for a James Bond story focused on a slightly different end to On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Instead of being shot Tracy Bond is "killed" at the wedding when a small bomb, planted by spectre, goes off. Bond then recieves a phone call from Blofeld, so we know who was behind the deed. Something like "Did you like your wedding present, Mr. Bond?" But not as cheesy. Years later, there seems to be a series of murders, of people close to Bond, it appears that someone has a vendetta against him, Bond of course, believes that person to be the new head of SPECTRE, bent on avenging Blofeld's death. When he finds this person, it is revealed that in fact, he is not the man behind the war at all. Someone else is pulling the strings, slowly, a wheelchair is wheeled into the room. "Remember me, Jame?" Tracy had spent years in a hospital, though her husband had thought her dead, she had been saved somehow, and finally, she snapped when she heard of her husbands affairs, and in consequence decides to destroy him.

so instead of a female James Bond, we see Tracy Bond as a villain. She has the connections, the knowledge of Bond's life, and the motive to do so, if she somehow survives OHMS without Bond's knowledge.
 
I figure a criminal background is a more likely way to learn a woman the skills needed in those days. The military didn't have as any cool positions as it does today (even if it's still limited). But on the other hand, the SOE did recruite women from the military so that would be more realistic.
 
If a female Bond behaved like the male Bond, she'd be branded as a slag. Double standards, certainly.

It definitely wouldn't have worked in the '60s. Might work better now, although it probably wouldn't be too believable unless it was perhaps in the context of seducing men in order to get what she wants out of them, and maybe have the one "love interest"; otherwise, she'd look like a nymphomaniac.
 
It definitely wouldn't have worked in the '60s. Might work better now, although it probably wouldn't be too believable unless it was perhaps in the context of seducing men in order to get what she wants out of them, and maybe have the one "love interest"; otherwise, she'd look like a nymphomaniac.

If it was today, female Bond would be a lesbian Draka.
 
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