8 Obscure Background Movie Clues That Explained Everything

4. The Truth Behind The Bond Codename Theory: Revealed - Skyfall

The James Bond franchise has a notoriously flippant approach to continuity. It bounds from one movie to the next only caring about what came before if the predecessor was particularly successful and refusing to acknowledge any plot holes that arise even within a single actor's tenure. And yet through various castings of M and Q you can trace the modern, Daniel Craig iteration all the way back to Dr. No, even though each new actor is pretty much taken as a restart of the series. It's a headache for those looking for the wonderful consistency of many other lengthy franchises.

The solution to all this? Well, some fans dreamt up that James Bond, like the digits 007, is a codename given to a certain set of MI6 secret agents. It started as a jokey suggestion, but as the franchise went on and on, especially after Daniel Craig's iteration was introduced as a newly minted double-0, it really took hold. Although it's never been directly addressed by the films, Skyfall threw out a background clue that passively disproves it.

While at the eponymous childhood home of James Bond, we see a tombstone for Andrew and Monique Delacroix Bond, his parents, proving once and for all that it's his real name (unless it's a really, really unlucky coincidence). Not everyone spotted it, and not all those who did bought into it, coming up with complex theories of how it's all part of some big MI6 brainwashing game. But now with Spectre, which has a plot even more seeped in Bond's past, there's no really avoiding that James Bond is his real name. And that the 007 series just doesn't have any continuity.