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- First appearance of Pierce Brosnan as James Bond
- First appearance of Judi Dench as M
- First appearance of Samantha Bond as Ms. Moneypenny
- First time the villain is a former Double-O
- First time Bond was explicitly stated as working for MI6 and not Universal Exports
- First appearance of Jack Wade (Joe Don Baker of TLD)
- First time Bond goes to Russia and there is no Cold War
- First time Bond drives a tank
- First time that a film was named after one of Fleming’s homes.
- First 007 film in which Q Branch uses a German car instead of a British manufactured vehicle (BMW)
- GoldenEye is the first Bond movie that was filmed in the former Soviet Union.
- First re-appearance of the Aston Martin DB5
- First appearance of computer hackers in a Bond film
- First time e-mail is used
- First Bond film to relate to the Information Age
- First mention of the Internet
- First appearance of the Russian Mafia
- First mention of a cable television network (CNN)
- First reference to the Persian Gulf War
- First time a former deceased villain comes back to play an ally (Joe Don Baker of TLD)
- First time 007 serves under a female commander (M)
- First time that MI6 is headed by a woman
- First appearance of a woman as a high-ranking official
- First Bond filmed at Leavesdon studios Hertfordshire.
- First mention of Bond’s family history
