Who's your favourite Bond villain ?

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.

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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.

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

Surprised to see Zorin being mention so much, though Walken was great in the film, a lot of people seem to rate it as one of the worst bond films for some reason.

A View To A Kill is one of the many underrated Bond films that exist. A lot of the criticism would be about Roger Moore being 'too old' and also that Roger Moore said it was his least favourite. It is a great film I think with lots of good action, the best pretitle sequence as of then and arguably the best villain of all in Zorin.

Pizzle wrote: »

I've probably seen this more than any other Bond film, but can never quite but my finger on why I like it so much.

I think that a lot of the Bond films of this time like this need to be and are being re-evaluated. For the critics, it is the films like Skyfall that have attracted their praise. While Skyfall is good, not many seem to realise that the villain is a direct copy of Alec Trevelyan and that there is no major world domination plan and the like.

As said, A View To A Kill is entertaining and has good action and a good villain. It has all the elements the people came to expect from a Bond film. I'd like to see a return to this sort of a film with a real villain.

Watched Tomorrow Never Dies last night and it is once again another totally underrated film with a great villain. Like Zorin, Elliot Carver is insane and is arguably the last of the classic Bond villains.