Francisco Scaramanga cannot whistle has homosexual tendencies. As with Blofeld, the name is believed to have come from a schoolmate of Fleming's, George Ambrosios (Ambrose) Scaramanga. In the film "The Man with the Golden Gun", Francisco is a high-priced assassin, supposedly the best in the world, charging one million dollars per kill. He is best known for being "The man with the golden gun", for using only bullets made of gold in a (fictional) 4.2 mm cartridge with a disassemblable golden handgun made of a gold cigarette case, gold cigarette lighter, gold fountain pen and gold cufflink as the gun's trigger. All
Motifs in the James Bond film series took delight in embarrassing interviewers by repeatedly mentioning her character's name. Other double entendre names included Holly Goodhead from "Moonraker", Mary Goodnight and Chew Mee from "The Man with the Golden Gun", Honey Ryder from "Dr. No", Plenty O'Toole from "Diamonds Are Forever", Xenia Onatopp from "GoldenEye", and Christmas Jones from "The World Is Not Enough". One of the elements used throughout the Bond series is humour, particularly 'one-liners', delivered by Bond, either when killing an enemy, or at the end of the film when with a woman. The humour was present in the first film in the series, "Dr.