9 Bond references you missed in the Spectre teaser trailer

The first trailer for Spectre is finally here and it shows Bond facing his toughest mission yet: sorting through his loft, getting startled by two birds and then attending a board meeting. But look closer and you'll also see some cleverly hidden Easter eggs referencing Bond films of the past. Even the shit ones!

That's right, I went through the new trailer frame by frame with a magnifying glass that only highly professional spies use, and I have noticed a whole bunch of 007 references that have been uncovered for my eyes only. And now yours! Because that's how reading works.


While you were focusing on the still-damaged MI6 building in the distance, you probably didn't spot the shark rising out of the Thames for a brief second, in what is a loving homage to the now-late actor Richard Kiel who played highly-plausible Bond villain Jaws.

Hardcore Bond fans will recognise that this is the same shark as used in the terrifying Largo's pool sequence in Thunderball. Director Sam Mendes said that it was a "pleasure to include this cameo of such a favourite Bond character, but my first choice for the shark was the one from the end of Live And Let Die".


In this scene, which comes just after one where Bond's book shelf collapses, we finally get a closer look at his flat. But what's that on the wall behind him? Why, only a Duran Duran poster! A neat reference to the pop band's involvement in the Bond franchise, singing the best Bond theme of all time, A View To A Kill.


Thanks to a clever trick of the light employed by cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, Mendes was able to make this particular close-up look as though Daniel Craig's Bond had an actual gold finger! Should have used thicker toilet paper, eh James?


As Bond approaches this mysterious house, you can just make out to the right the invisible car from Die Another Day. At this point it is unclear whether or not Bond knows it is there, or even if Pierce Brosnan knew where he left it in the first place.


Look very carefully at this solemn funeral scene and you might just be able to make out a clever nod to previous Bond films with a witty piece of pillar graffiti that reads "Dr. No has Thunderballz".


Proving that Daniel Craig's Bond is a modern-day spy, who uses the parlance of our internet age, he can be seen here bombing around town in a car that boasts a personalised number plate reading 'YOLT'.


In this shot, you can see Bond giving the now-beardy Mr White a ring, but what you probably didn't notice, and you can see if you look really closely, is that the ring has a symbol on it that looks like an octopus. I have conducted a lot of research into this symbol and cross-referenced it against the history of James Bond, and I can exclusively reveal that this is probably a reference to Octopussy, a Bond film that no one really remembers.


Christoph Waltz's mysterious villain may be kept in the shadows in this teaser trailer, but the cat bowl to the left of the frame is probably the best clue we have yet that he is definitely playing Blofeld. My bet is that, when we finally see his face, he will have a bald head, a scar down his eye and he will look like Donald Pleasance.


It's the screen of the trailer that no one really bothers to look at, but in a nice nod to the innuendo-laden endings of the Moore-era Bond films, you'll see that the studio has chosen to end this trailer in much the same way. Saucy!
And that's just in the teaser trailer! Imagine how many more references there will be in the actual film. Maybe will someone will have a golden gun? Or maybe Daniel Craig will bend over and we'll see someone rake his arse?