Who's your favourite Bond villain ?

Jim Bob Scratcher

Mine would have to be Oddjob. Anyone know where i can get one of those hats ? :pac:

steddyeddy

A combination of Blofelt and Oddjob.

Oddfelt you dirty bast*rds.

RiderOnTheStorm

Jaws..... The only villain to appear twice.

pangbang

Capt'n Midnight

Auric Goldfinger.

Armchair Andy

The lad who fed the crocs only for Moore to use them as stepping stones.

Teehee Johnson.

Jim Bob Scratcher

pangbang wrote: »

Are his parents Donald Trump and Geert Wilders ? :pac:

Zorin was quality :cool:

Beyondgone

The names Bond.
Uni Bond.
I'm here to fill your crack.

Exeggcute

Xenia Onatopp

Fiskar

Scaramanga

The Backwards Man

Timothy Dalton

SEPT 23 1989

The big fella with the teeth

Fiskar

Exeggcute wrote: »

Xenia Onatopp

http://i.imgur.com/6F57Y5C.mp4

Pussy Galore

Fiskar

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

The big fella with the teeth

Jaws

Beyondgone

Fiskar wrote: »

Jaws

Marty Morrisey surely?

Tigger

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

Jaws..... The only villain to appear twice.

Do you even 007

Rikand

Walken

Fiskar

Beyondgone wrote: »

Marty Morrisey surely?

That F***er won't get an audition, too cheerful

castletownman

None of them.

Has to be the most over-rated movie franchise in history. Even the "classic" Bond movies have dated terribly. Cheese fest galore.

Give me Spy Kids any day of the week

bazz26

Fat Ba$tard

washiskin

Kamal Kahn


General Orlov


Franz Sanchez


Alec Trevelyan

prinzeugen

Zorin... Prototype for Putin..

Have always said Putin wasa KGB experiment gone wrong.

Heisenberg1

Grant in From Russia with love.

rossie1977

Baron Samedi from live and let die

Persephone kindness

Christopher Lee obv.


Although i have never seen either film.

Persephone kindness

Also the guy with the cat. Blofeld?

Jim Bob Scratcher

Exeggcute wrote: »

Xenia Onatopp

He's going to derail us

Capt'n Midnight

Naomi.

The helicopter pilot in The Spy Who Loved Me.

LionelNashe

Telly Savalas as Blofeld, but the best line came from Mr. Big / Katanga - "Names is for tombstones, baby, now take this honky out and waste him."

mzungu

Red Grant - From Russia with Love
Max Zorin - A View to a Kill
Blofeld - All of them
Largo - Thunderball

mzungu

LionelNashe wrote: »

Telly Savalas as Blofeld, but the best line came from Mr. Big / Katanga - "Names is for tombstones, baby, now take this honky out and waste him."

Top notch.

greencap

Xania Onatop.

Not particularly interesting as a character, but when goldeneye came out I was in my teens.

Thus Xania is etched in the old bank. The secret gadget was used.

BuilderPlumber

There are so many class ones to think of. I am discounting characters such as Mr White, Jaws, Magda and MayDay from things as they ultimately became good. Other characters such as Pussy Galore, Octopussy and Tiffany Case may have been initially on the side of the bad guys who were not telling them they were bad guys but are clearly Bond girls. Here's my top 10 Bond villains in no particular order as I think they all are equally vicious in different ways (not including henchmen):

1- Max Zorin: insane, cruel, unloyal, egotistical, greedy and devious are just some of the words to describe Zorin. As with so many villains in the series, he hides behind respectability and friends in high places.
2. Ernst Stavro Blofeld: as seen in You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Diamonds Are Forever. Global terrorist and archrival of Bond. He was directly involved in these 3 mentioned films as the main baddie but he was also the power behind such villains as Red Grant, Dr No and Emilio Largo too. Blofeld could unleash a tonne of villains.
3. Franz Sanchez: definitely, the most violent and sadistic villain, Sanchez was an evil drug dealer, terrorist and extortionist. His aims were realistic too and his attempt to use terrorism to extort money or amnesty from a government is exactly what ISIS, etc. do. Definitely the most realistic villain.
4. Auric Goldfinger: While on one hand, he can be the most humorous of villains and can be quite charming but he is ruthless, mean, greedy and was the template for a lot of future Bond villains. No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die is an immortal (forgive the pun!) line.
5. Kamal Khan: definitely, one of the more sophisticated villains but don't be fooled. He is very devious, does not care for others' lives including his supposed friends and has a powerful dissident Russian ally to do a lot of his dirty work.
6. Hugo Drax: like Kamal Khan, do not be fooled by his sophisticated ways such as playing Chopin on the piano. Drax is a Max Zorin who hides it and like Zorin has fooled governments for years. He may well have the most evil plot of all.
7. Karl Stromberg: As for Drax. Similar guy.
8. Emilio Largo: The Italian Mafia of course were a major part of Ian Fleming's original description of the composition of global terror group SPECTRE. Largo is of course proof of that. Like all mafia types, he is charming one minute but would show no mercy the next.
9. Dr Kananga/Mr Big: dictator of the fictional Afro-Caribbean country San Monique and American drug dealer are one and the same. He has good lines like Names is for tombstones and shows the viciousness of Largo when it comes to using sharks. He is the only head of state to be a Bond villain unless one considers SPECTRE a country.
10. Brad Whitaker: I'm sure if you were to pay him a visit, he would be the nicest man one could meet. He comes across as a man who likes to live well and is chatty and brash. He also is obsessed with war and makes his money from it. He probably has killed more people than any other villain with what he sells and what he aids.

Notable mentions also to Alec Trevelyan (the best of the Bond allies that become enemies), Elliot Carver (as bonkers as Zorin in his own way), Red Grant (almost like a secret agent mirror image working against Bond), Dr No (the first film Bond villaiin who sets the persona in motion) and Electra King (the victim who became the villain). Last but not least, Blofeld's girlfriend Irma Bunt deserves mention as the person who killed Bond's wife and caused him most pain.

LordSutch

Fatima Blush.

Yamanoto

Scorpion toting gay lads & the little fella

pumpkin4life

Alec Trevelyn.

Most Bond bad lads are over the top cartoonish evil, so having a bad guy that was a doppelganger of Bond himself; like if something bad happened to Bond himself which made him go nuts kind of thing, was a great idea. Same kind of concept for The Man with the Golden Gun and Spectre as well, but those two movies were kind of bum to be fair.

Goldeneye is bloody class out though.

AMKC

Jaws.

annascott

May Day - A view to a kill
The voodoo guy from Live and Let Die

LordSutch

Mr Wint and Mr Kidd.

http://image.wikifoundry.com/image/3/2eceae888fb1ddfbd1f88239ace98aba/GW300H300

maudgonner

Heisenberg1 wrote: »

Grant in From Russia with love.

AKA Quint from Jaws, or Robert Shaw.

He was actually quite friendly with Richard Kiel, Jaws in the Bond movies, which is kinda nicely ironic

Pherekydes

maudgonner wrote: »

AKA Quint from Jaws, or Robert Shaw.

He was actually quite friendly with Richard Kiel, Jaws in the Bond movies, which is kinda nicely ironic

...and Jaws ate him in the end, which is doubly ironic. :pac:

maudgonner

Pherekydes wrote: »

...and Jaws ate him in the end, which is doubly ironic. :pac:

That's kinda what I meant

But actually Shaw saved Kiel's life in a way. They used to be drinking buddies, both had issues with alcohol. But when Shaw died prematurely (in Co Mayo, where he lived) it was the wakeup call that made Kiel give up the boozing.

So Jaws killed Quint, but Quint saved Jaws :pac:

valoren

Hank Scorpio.

He'll sting you with his dreams of power and wealth....beware of....Scorpio!

BuilderPlumber

pumpkin4life wrote: »

Alec Trevelyn.

Most Bond bad lads are over the top cartoonish evil, so having a bad guy that was a doppelganger of Bond himself; like if something bad happened to Bond himself which made him go nuts kind of thing, was a great idea. Same kind of concept for The Man with the Golden Gun and Spectre as well, but those two movies were kind of bum to be fair.

Goldeneye is bloody class out though.

Alec Trevelyan aka Yanus aka 006 is a great Bond villain. He is initially Bond's friend and secret service ally. We first see he and Bond in A View To A Kill-style snowy shootout pretitle in Russia set in 1986 pitting them against Ouromov and his men. Ouromov is a typical hardline Soviet and later Russian general who disagrees with official Russian policy akin to Octopussy's Orlov and The Living Daylights' Koskov. As with Blofeld in the Diamonds Are Forever pretitle, we are left to presume Trevelyan/006 is dead. Little is known of what happens him during the the 1986-1995 period but he and Ouromov are friends and allies. We don't know if Trevelyan was always working for and with Ouromov but he clearly has aligned himself with him by 1995 and is also Yanus, the leader of a Russian mafia type outfit allied to Ouromov.

It was the first time Bond had to deal with an ex-British secret service agent gone bad. Of course, the concept was copied for Skyfall. Goldeneye, which I am actually going to watch this weekend, is a great film and Martin Campbell is a great director who also did another great film in Casino Royale.

unknownlegend

Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre gets my vote.

buried

Dr. No.

"East, West, just points on a compass, each as stupid as the other"

Hector Savage

Max Zorin - he had the right amount of psychotic/sociopathic tendencies mixed with charm.

He was like a negative Roger Moore - perfect for this film.

branie2

Blofeld

Sleepy

Another vote for Alec Trevelyan. Their verbal spars are some of the best insights we get into Bond's personality behind the cool, calm exterior.

Hande hoche!

Sleepy wrote: »

Another vote for Alec Trevelyan. Their verbal spars are some of the best insights we get into Bond's personality behind the cool, calm exterior.

+1. Even the physical combat was close to an even match. Quite a jarring difference, to say the evil French man in Quantum of Solace.

BuilderPlumber

Hande hoche! wrote: »

+1. Even the physical combat was close to an even match. Quite a jarring difference, to say the evil French man in Quantum of Solace.

Was watching Goldeneye with a bottle of wine last night as an alternative to going down to the pub. It is a great film and Alec Trevelyan is a great villain and the perfect rogue agent type. The Skyfall guy was a copy of him but was not a patch on Tevelyan.

While I love the Daniel Craig films, I think the bad guys in them are not memorable and don't stand out. Dominic Greene from Quantum of Solace is an example. If it was a Mad Max film, this plot to hoard water would be ideal but it does not work in a Bond film. Apart from the plot, these villains were rather forgettable and nothing out of the ordinary. I feel a Bond villain has to be crazy or eccentric in some way and also have an interesting backstory. The likes of the original Blofeld, Zorin, Trevelyan and Carver are examples of crazed, determined bad guys who tend to be remembered. The 1960s-1990s era from Dr No to Elliot Carver produced the best Bond villains.