Film quiz: Name the movie or TV reference other than Bond, mashed up with the spy franchise plus the bonus question.
When a 007 Bond dies, their number and name goes to another agent. Thus, originally, the first Bond movie already opened with a Bond's death: That of played by Barry Nelson in 1954 on TV.
The reason, this Bond is less than vaguely known, even though he heroicly saved Earth, besides that the producers decided to cut this scene, lies in the cause of death: the tangent universe. It makes most people forget what happened in a time loop.
How did this villain kill Bond less than a second later than in this image?