20 Things You Didn't Know About SPECTRE (2015)

7. The Tentacles Of SPECTRE

Spectre Drill Torture
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As in the original Bond films, key SPECTRE agents wear a ring bearing an octopus logo.

The film’s teaser poster featured a bullet hole resembling the organisation’s logo in a sheet of glass, leading to speculation that the 24th Bond film might be a remake of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), which ended with a shot of a bullet hole in the windshield of James Bond’s (George Lazenby’s) Aston Martin DBS.

That did not happen, but the SPECTRE octopus logo does spiderweb out from a bullet hole in the finished film.

Prowling through the bowels of the MI6 Building that Raoul Silva bombed in SkyFall, Double-0 Seven finds Ernst Stavro Blofeld waiting for him at the end of a corridor. Opening fire on him, Bond learns that they are separated by a sheet of bulletproof glass; his wasted rounds create the SPECTRE symbol from the teaser poster in the glass.

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