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Why the hell didn't Bond kill Nick nack


After killing Andrea and being such a little pain in the butt..I would have taken that damn suitcase and thrown it overboard without a second thought.

Putting him in that little cage on the boat may have made him suffer and given him a nice suntan. But I would have gone with instant death.

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I think it would have made Bond seem overly brutal, like a bully. Sure, Nick Nack may have been a villain, but he was a charming and cute villain, and against Bond, anyway, he quite harmless. Killing the little guy would have been a very unbecoming thing for Bond to do and quite excessive. Besides, I like the final image of Nick Nack all wrapped up in those ropes. And I for one am glad he did not die. I like Nick Nack.

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There was no reason to. And killing an unarmed, already restrained midget would have made Bond look quite excessively cruel.



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that little guy was cool.



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After killing Andrea and being such a little ...
Nick Nack didn't kill her, though I'm sure he was an accessory to the fact. Scaramanga does and boasts to Bond about making the "difficult shot".๐Ÿญ

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Really?. All these years I was sure it was Nick nack cause andrea had what looked like an exit wound on her chest...and Nick nack was behind her.

OKay..maybe death would be a tad bit harsh for the little twerp. I'm sure he suffered good in that cage. And probably did jail time. Its all good

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... had what looked like an exit wound on her chest ...
I agree, but it's definitely Scaramanga who kills her and boasts about it to Bond. Nick Nack was just hanging around waiting to be of service to his master.๐Ÿญ

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If this movie was with Sean Connery as Bond he WOULD have thrown the little $h!t overboard and then made one of his dry wisecracks;
"Nik-nak, you've been paddy-whacked!

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Awe man! That would have been the perfect ending! Nice one :}

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Ni think had Sean been playing bond, I could see him throwing nick back overboard,

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Yeah i finally found someone who watches a movie and gets it. It seems the rest didn't pay attn. to the movie.

Nick Nack didn't kill her, though I'm sure he was an accessory to the fact. Scaramanga does and boasts to Bond about making the "difficult shot".
Thanks spookyrat1

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In the Directors Cut, in a final scene that was edited, you actually see Nick Nack getting pecked to death by Falcons. You can find it on Youtube.




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I think because he's a dwarf it would have seemed too mean - they weren't evenly matched enough. it would almost be like killing a child.

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BOND and SCARAMANGA talked about BOND's license to kill. SCARAMANGA tried to convince him that he was as much of a killer as him, but BOND insisted that he wasn't because he only killed under certain circumstances. Therefore, showing him killing someone where there was no need (he was already trapped) would've contradicted this.

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Despite what the retards say here, the Sean Connery Bond would not have killed Knick Knack, because this was a "job", not a game. Knick Knack, besides being relatively harmless, was always the best one to bring back to British Intelligence for questioning. He was the only living source of needed information.

He may have lied, or never talked, but that wouldn't have been the fault of 007. He did his part in his "job", and Bond may play, but he also liked to do his job well.



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