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I remember watching James Bond movies as a kid. There was always this scene where Q gave 007 a handful of cool gadgets, and would you know it, by the end of the movie he had used them all! I always thought "WTF man, he literally gave him exactly what he needed for the movie, not a single one that went unused! What were the odds!?"

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Yea, but if Bond didn't use a cool gadget we might have left the theater a bit dissapointed?

For sure. It's just this weird balance between "real life realism" and not disappointing the public. I absolutely would have been pissed if he had not used the tiny air tank or the gas bomb in his suit case and all :-)

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