re: Next James Bond should be black

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I have no problem with a black Bond if they acknowledge that the name is an alias just like the agent call sign. It acknowledges previous white 007s and this one just happens to be black.

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There would have to be so many coincidences for Bond to simply be an alias:

1. Every Bond has been a card playing, vodka loving, womanzing white male.

2. Every Bond has had the backstory of being an orphan with his parents dying in an accident at a young age.

3. Each Bond takes their martinis the same way, deliver witty one liners, and introduce themselves in the exact same way.

4. Every Bond since Lazenby (save Brosnan and Craig) has acknowledged or hinted at the death of his spouse. Roger Moore's Bond even visited Tracy Bond's grave, thus acknowledging that the George Lazenby Bond and Roger Moore Bond were the same person. That means Connery's Bond also must be the same Bond because On Her Majesty's Secret Service is sandwiched between two Connery films (You Only Live Twice and Diamonds Are Forever). Why would two different men be using the Bond alias within MI6 at the same time?

Dalton's Bond, too, shares a tragic past in regards to losing a wife. In License to Kill it is mentioned by Felix Leiter to his new bride that Bond had been married once and that she had died.

Brosnan's Bond is disliked by the new M because she feels he has outlived his usefulness to the agency. "A relic of the Cold War," she calls him in Goldeneye. This heavily implies that Brosnan's Bond was very active as a spy throughout the contest with the Soviets. Which means, if the alias theory is correct, he would have been running around at the same time as the Moore and Dalton Bonds. Again...why have multiple men within MI6 using the same alias?

And the evidence points to Craig's Bond being the same incarnation as the Bond delivered to us by Sean Connery due to the fact that a) they're both from Scotland b) they both lost their parents in a climbing accident and c) they both drive the same 1964 Aston-Martin (equipped with the same features and everything).

And since I have proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the Connery-Lazenby-Moore-Dalton-Brosnan Bond are all the same man, it stands to reason that Craig should be lumped in with them as well.