Honey Ryder entrance in the film, emerging from the ocean in a white bikini with two large seashells, while the sun shines on her wet blonde hair, is considered a classic James Bond moment. In the corresponding scene of the original novel, the character Honeychile Rider does not wear a bikini. As an homage, Halle Berry performed a similar scene in an orange bikini in the 20th James Bond film, "Die Another Day". Andress referred to the "Dr. No" bikini as the "secret of her success". Ursula Andress was later mentioned by name in the novel "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", and
The Girl Who Was Plugged In describe the main character, i.e. the description of P. Burke: “That’s good, because now you can see she’s the ugly of the world. A tall monument to pituitary dystrophy. No surgeon would touch her.”. In the opinion of Scott Bukatman, of Stanford University, Tiptree forms the body into something unclean and decaying through phrases such as "dead daddy", "rotten girl" and "zombie". The crude use of words used for the main character only gets worse as the story progresses to emphasize an unappealing display of female disembodiment. According to Bukatman, the body in "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" is