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Soundwave on 13 May 2016
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potato_hamster said:
Neodegenerate said:

I haven't watched many Bond movies, but I always took the concept of Bond being more alias than person.  Like, agent 007 is James Bond and that is it.  If that agent dies, another rises to take his place.  If it were a female it would probably just be changed to Jane Bond but still be 007.

Is there anything in the movie continuity that debunks that?

Also, random factoid, when I worked at a Chinese food restaurant when someone wanted chicken fingers the order went through to the kitchen as 007.

Yes. The string of James Bond movies featuring Daniel Craig debunks that. The character who Daniel Craig plays is actually named "James Bond". They go the old Bond family estate named  in "Skyfall" and you on the estate you see a whole lot of pictures and memorbilia of James Bond's white family.

James Bond is a white guy whose family is from Scotland. This has been firmly established.

The Bond "canon" is wildly all over the place that it doesn't really matter that much IMO. What happens if the next Bond isn't a Scottish guy then?

There's so much goofy/silly shit in the Bond movies as a whole, this is a franchise where Bond wore bell bottom suits at one point.

I mean if there was a firm singular Bond identity then the whole series doesn't make sense ... how is he still 30-45 years old in 2006 when he was fight Russians in 1960s Cold War? Does Daniel Craig's Bond know Xenia Onatopp? No, because that's a different Bond. It's obviously a character that is eternally rebooted.