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  • Dr. No
    • "Twenty minutes, and don't try doctoring any hands while I'm away." Strangways
    • "Stand by to transmit. Wait, out." Strangways's Secretary
    • "To Hell with you!" Jones, after biting a cyanide capsule.
    • "You might as well know, as you won't live to use the information. I'm working for-" Professor Dent, before realizing that he's had his six.
    • "Okay, captain. If that ain't a dragon, what is it?" Quarrel, before getting killed by the tank's flamethrower.
    • "Shut it down, you fools, it's running wild! Shut down!" Dr. No, shortly before fighting Bond and drowning in his pool reactor as a result.
  • From Russia with Love
    • "I've lived a long and interesting life. Shall I tell you about it?" Kerim Bey, before Red Grant kills him and the Soviet agent he was guarding and makes it look like a Mutual Kill.
    • "Put your hands back in your pockets! Keep them there." Red Grant, before getting outsmarted by Bond and strangled with his own garrote.
    • "Who is Bond, compared with Kronsteen?" Kronsteen, before execution via poisoned shoe blade.
    • "Quick as you can! Jump! AAAAAHHHHHH!!" Morzeny, before Bond's flare destroys the SPECTRE boats and sets him on fire.
    • "Take this." Rosa Klebb, who then gets shot by Tatiana.
  • Goldfinger
    • "Who needs it?" Jill Masterson, before getting killed offscreen and painted gold.
    • "I didn't! I was shooting at him!" Tilly Masterson, who is killed shortly after by Oddjob's hat
    • "Are you blind or something? You missed the turn!" Mr. Solo, before getting shot by Oddjob.
    • "Don't be a fool! You can be a hero, I'm not! No, nooo!" Kisch, thrown over a railing by Oddjob in Fort Knox.
    • "I will deal with her later. At the moment, she is where she ought to be, at the controls." Auric Goldfinger, who is killed shortly after by being sent sucked out of the plane after he unintentionally shoots a window.
  • Thunderball
    • "Be good... at least until I get back. Ciao!" The real Major Francois Derval, later assassinated by Volpe.
    • "Why don't you come with us quietly?" Fiona Volpe, later accidentally shot in the back by her henchmen.
    • "We got away from them! We've still got one bomb aboard." Emilio Largo, before getting shot by Domino's harpoon gun.
  • You Only Live Twice
    • "My lifeline! It's cu-" Chris the astronaut, before being left to die in space.
    • "Oh it's not Russia, old boy, I'm sure of that. It's not Japan either. Although, a large Japanese industrial concern i-" Mr. Henderson, who gets backstabbed by an assassin.
    • "Osato! NEIIIN!" Helga Brandt, aka Number Eleven, falling into a pool of piranhas.
    • "I'm...I'm...I...I...I'm..." Aki, after getting poisoned in her bed.
    • "Yes, Number One!" Osato
  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    • "The authorities will hear about this!" Shaun Campbell, who is caught scaling Piz Gloria without permission and killed later upon being exposed as an MI6 agent. These are his last words heard in the film, though probably not his actual last words.
    • "Helicopters! We've been attacked!" Grunther, before Bond and Draco's raid of Piz Gloria. He is ordered to deal with Tracy, who throws him onto a walled spike decoration.
    • "First a boy...then a girl!" Countess Teresa/Tracy di Vicenzo, later killed in Blofeld's drive-by attack.
  • Diamonds Are Forever
    • "Tonight!" A fake Blofeld.
    • "Hold it! Keep your hands up!" A SPECTRE mook
    • "Kill him!" A fake Blofeld
    • "No, no, no. Open wide." Dr. Tynan, killed via Wint's scorpion.
    • "Why didn't he come himself?" Joe the helicopter pilot, blown up by Wint's hidden bomb.
    • "That's it for the lesson today, gentlemen." Mrs. Whistler, later drowned in a river by Wint and Kidd.
    • "Critics and material I don't need! I haven't changed my act in forty years!" Shady Tree before getting killed by Wint & Kidd
      • "Come on, fellas! The popping gun and squirting flower routine? You gotta be kidding me..." His actual last words, as revealed in a deleted scene
    • "Three, please." Peter Franks, before getting killed by Bond.
    • "We appreciate your predicament, Mr. Bond." A fake Blofeld
    • "Damn you, damn you! Command centre, come in!" The real Blofeld. Not counting his Lawyer-Friendly Cameo in For Your Eyes Only.
    • "May we begin?" Mr. Kidd, later set on fire by Bond.
    • "Of course. Unfortunately, our cellar is rather poorly stocked with clarets." Mr. Wint, later thrown overboard by Bond with a bomb tied to him.
  • Live and Let Die
    • "Whose, uh, funeral is it?" Agent Hamilton, and the answer was his.
    • "It's not an act! It's..." Rosie Carver, before getting shot by Kananga's scarecrows.
    • "Stop!" Whisper, before getting dropped into an airtight tank for drying heroin.
    • "Slowly, Whisper! Slowly, slowly. Let our diners assemble!" Dr. Kananga. He is later shot with the air pistol, which turns him into a human balloon that bursts when it hits the ceiling.
    • "Mr. Bond. It's good to see you again." Tee Hee, who gets thrown off a train.
  • The Man with the Golden Gun
    • "Bond doesn't know you're in Bangkok, he's never seen you, but he knows me. That's the problem." Hai Fat, before getting shot by Scaramanga.
    • "Ready." Francisco Scaramanga, later shot by Bond.
  • The Spy Who Loved Me
    • "Now!" Sergei Barsov
    • "No! No!" The woman Sandor used as bait for Bond, before getting shot by Sandor.
    • "Pyramids! AAAAH!" Sandor, answering to Bond's question of Fekkesh's whereabouts, thrown off a building by Bond. "What a helpful chap" indeed.
    • "Excuse me, Major. I'll be back in a moment." Aziz Fekkesh, before getting killed by Jaws.
    • "This is Kalba. Hello? Hello?" Max Kalba, who is also killed by Jaws.
    • "You are too late, Mr. Bond. Our submarines are already on station. In four minutes, the missiles will be launched." The Captain of the Liparus, later killed by the freed sailors.
    • "Yours too, Mr. Bond, yours too. And faster than you think." Karl Stromberg, shot four times by Bond.
  • Moonraker
    • "I didn't!" Corinne Dufour, before being hunted to death by Drax.
    • "At least I have the pleasure of putting you out of my misery. Hmph. Desolated, Mr. Bond?" Hugo Drax, which Bond replies: "Heartbroken, Mr. Drax", then throws him out of an airlock.
  • For Your Eyes Only
    • "Mr. Bond! Mr. Bond! We can do a deal! I'll buy you a delicatessen! In stainless steel! Please! Put me down! Put me down! MISTER BOOOOOOOONNNNND!" Ernst Stavro Blofeld, presumably, as he gets tossed down a factory chimney.
    • "Ah yes, I wanted to start work on the temple again. You between jobs?" Timothy Havelock, before he and his wife get gunned down
    • "Why darling, it's beautiful! Thank you." Mrs. Havelock, before she and her husband are gunned down.
    • "The Walther PPK. Standard issue, British secret service. Licence to kill, or be killed. Take him away!" Hector Gonzales, shot in the back via Merina's crossbow.
    • "Right." Luigi Ferrara, who later has his throat slit by Locque.
    • "James!" Countess Lisl Von Schlaf, run over by Locque.
    • "Get in." Claus, before getting a harpoon in the back from Columbo's henchmen.
    • "Only bad weather would delay him." Erich Kriegler, later thrown out of a window by Bond.
    • "Go back to your room!" Aristotle Kristatos, before being knifed by Columbo.
  • Octopussy
    • "Q?" Vijay, who then dies of his wounds after being slashed by Kamal's hitmen.
    • "Yes, but tomorrow, I shall be a hero of the Soviet Union." General Orlov, as Gogol likens him to a common thief after Orlov is shot by border guards.
    • "And this...for my brother!" Grischka, before Bond throws a knife into his gut.
    • "He'll kill us all! Go out and get him! Go!" Kamal Khan, before his plane crashes.
    • "Out there? Yes, excellency." Gobinda, later thrown off the plane by Bond.
  • A View to a Kill
    • "Later this month, Zorin will hold his annual sales at his stud near Paris. Security is formidable, but the key to the mystery is there. And I, Achille Aubergine, intend to find it!" He is later killed by May Day's poisoned butterfly.
    • "But that means I would have to be..." W.G. Howe, being led to think Bond and Stacy were there to kill him, before being shot by Zorin, who says "Dead" in response.
    • "Mr. Zorin, those men are loyal to you!" Bob Conley, before being killed along with hundreds of other workers by Zorin.
    • "Get Zorin for me!" May Day to Bond, before heading out of the mine with Zorin's bomb.
    • "Go get him! Go!" Max Zorin, who later falls off the Golden Gate bridge.
    • "Get back!" Scarpine, killed in the blimp explosion.
    • "Ne-ne-ne-nein!" Dr. Carl Mortner, also killed in the blimp explosion.
  • The Living Daylights
    • "Game's over, mate! You're dead!" Gibraltar guard, unaware he's facing a mole.
    • "NO!" 004, as he falls to his death in Gibraltar.
    • "Good luck." Saunders, later blown up by Necros.
    • "NOOO-!" Colonel Feyador as his petrol truck explodes.
    • "No!" Necros, as he is kicked from the plane or, as Bond puts it, "got the boot".
    • "Should've known you'd take refuge behind that British vulture Wellington. You know that he had to buy German mercenaries to beat Napoleon, don't you?" 'General' Brad Whitaker, who soon gets his thick head crushed by the bust of Wellington.
  • Licence to Kill
    • "There's two million dollars in that suitcase. I'll split it with you." Ed Killifer, before Bond replies "You earned it. You keep it, old buddy." Bond then knocks him into the shark tank.
    • "That's it. Pack her out and sink her." Clive, before Bond shoots him in the stomach with his harpoon gun.
    • "Don't let them take you alive." Kwang, to a fellow Hong Kong narcotics agent, as they lie dying.
    • "Please, Franz, no!" Milton Krest, before violently exploding in the pressure chamber.
    • "SANCHEZ!" Dario, before being crushed in the cocaine grinder.
    • "Of course." Ed Heller, later impaled by a forklift.
    • "Brilliant! Well done, Franz! Another eighty-million dollar write-off!" Truman-Lodge, before getting shot up by Sanchez's Micro Uzi.
    • "You could have had everything." Franz Sanchez, before Bond sets him on fire, but not before Bond asks him "Don't you want to know why?".
  • GoldenEye
    • "I think I've gone to heaven." one of the experimental helicopter pilots, before Xenia shoots them both
    • "Guard!" Defense Minister Dmitri Mishkin, before getting shot by Ourumov.
    • "Is it true?" General Ourumov, later shot by Bond.
    • "Wait for your turn!" Xenia Onatopp, who later gets squeezed to death by her harness.
    • "For England, James?" Alec Trevelyan, before being dropped from above the satellite dish by Bond, who replies: "No. For me." Killed when the satellite dish's exploding pieces fall onto him.
    • "YES! I AM INVINCIBLE!" Boris Grishenko, who right after saying this, gets frozen by liquid nitrogen.
  • Tomorrow Never Dies
    • "This job of yours, it's murder on relationships." Paris Carver, before being murdered offscreen.
    • "Wait! I'm just a professional doing a job!" Dr. Kaufman, to which Bond says "Me, too" before shooting him.
    • "Press the magic button and Beijing disappears." Henry Gupta, before Carver shoots him.
    • "No! No! No! NOOO!" Elliot Carver, before being shredded by the sea drill.
    • "We die together, Mr. Bond." Mr. Stamper, before being blown up by Bond.
  • The World Is Not Enough
    • "Not from him!" "Cigar Girl", refusing Bond's promise that she can be protected and killing herself.
    • "Boss? You're alive! I'm so glad to see you!" Mr. Bullion, before getting machine-gunned by his boss.
    • "Bring it to me!" Valentin Zukovsky, before being shot by King and dying of his wound.
    • "Dive! Bond-" Elektra King, refusing Bond's Heel–Face Turn offer, resulting in Bond shooting her. Bond says "I never miss..." afterwards.
    • "You're lying. NOOO! Liar! LIAR!" Renard, later impaled by the plutonium rod.
  • Die Another Day
    • "I'll use the laser!" Mr. Kil, later killed by said laser.
    • "All units, report! Zao, later impaled by a chandelier.
    • "My son died a long time ago." General Moon
    • "I can read your every move." Miranda Frost. Said before Jinx retorts with "Read this, bitch!" and stabs her to death with a hidden knife.
    • "Time to face destiny...." Gustav Graves/Tan-Sun Moon. Bond replies: "Time to face gravity!"
  • Casino Royale (2006)
    • "Made you feel it, did he? Well, you needn't worry. The second is--" Dryden. Bond replies: "Yes. Considerably."
    • "Not a word of protest. You should find a new boyfriend." Steven Obanno, later strangled by Bond.
    • "I'll get the money. Tell them I'll- I'll get the money." Le Chiffre, to Mr. White. White replies that "Money isn't as important to our organization as knowing who to trust," then shoots Le Chiffre in the forehead.
    • "I'll kill her!" Adolph Gettler, who later gets shot in the eye with a nailgun
    • "I'm sorry, James." Vesper Lynd, who lets herself drown.
  • Quantum of Solace
    • "She would have done anything for you. Forgive her. Forgive yourself." René Mathis, to Bond about Vesper after being fatally shot.
    • "This time, you will burn!" General Luiz Medrano, before Camille shoots him in the head.
  • Skyfall
    • "I'm sorry." Sévérine, who is shot in the head by Silva a couple scenes later.
    • "You going somewhere?" The guy guarding Silva's cell.
    • "Free us both. With the same bullet. Do it. Do it. Only you can do it." Raoul Silva to Judi Dench's M, before his suicide attempt is abruptly halted by Bond.
    • "I did get one thing right." Judi Dench's M, dying from wounds she got during the final sequence.
  • Spectre
    • "You're a kite dancing in a hurricane, Mr. Bond. So long." Mr. White, before killing himself by firing Bond's Walther PPK at his own jaw from point-blank range.
    • "Shit..." Mr. Hinx, saying his only line, right before he is thrown off the train, due to being attached to various steel barrels that fall off.
    • "Why can't you just face it, M? You don't matter anymore." Max Denbigh (aka C); a short scuffle with M later, he falls to his death.
  • No Time to Die
    • "Keep your hair on." Dr. Hardy. Later shot by Primo
    • "Hardy? Hardy! Don't let them. Don't let them... Don't let them— please! Please, please—" Dr. Symes, shot by SPECTRE agents.
    • "James... It’s a good life, isn’t it?" Felix Leiter, who had been mortally wounded by Logan Ash, before letting himself die by drowning so that James can escape the sinking cargo ship they are in. Bond replies that it's "the best."
    • "Cuckoo..." Franz Oberhauser/Ernst Stavro Blofeld, after Bond, who had been unknowingly infected by a strain of Heracles coded to kill Blofeld, briefly strangles him. He dies from the Heracles seconds later.
    • "You won't be able to stop him! So why don't you help me out, brother?" Logan Ash to Bond. Bond responds that "I had a brother. His name was Felix Leiter," before crushing Ash with his own car.
    • "No!" Dr. Valdo Obruchev, after he quite foolishly suggests that he can use the Heracles to wipe out the entire African race; greatly offended, the African-descended Nomi proceeds to kick a screaming Obruchev into a toxic pool of Heracles below them, disintegrating him.
    • "You made me do this, you see? This was your choice." Lyutsifer Safin, referring to the Heracles virus encoded with Madeleine and Mathilde's DNA that he had planted on Bond. Bond silently shoots him in the head for it.
    • "I know... I know." James Bond, responding to Madeleine Swann's confirmation that Mathilde is indeed his daughter, before a missile strike lands upon his position.

    Non-EON Films 
  • Casino Royale (1967)
    • "I don't understand." Smiernov
    • "Sorry... James." M
    • "Jag to Dairy, drop speed now!" Jag
    • "Positive, negative, I never know which is which!" Polo
    • "Give me those films." Frau Hoffner
    • "B-But Le Chiffre... what about me? Wha-what's going to happen to me?" The unnamed operative, before Le Chiffre blows him up.
    • "God bless you." Peter O'Toole, before suffering a Death by Cameo
    • "Thank you." Evelyn Tremble
    • "All I need is twenty-four hours!" Le Chiffre
    • "Good heavens Daddy, I couldn't have enjoyed it more!" Mata Bond
    • "Over there." Terence "Coop" Cooper
    • "Blow up?" The guy at the counter
    • "Back to the office." Vesper Lynd
    • "Geronimo!" An Indian. Yeah...
    • "Ciao." Ransom of the C.I.A.
    • "Ouch." The commander of the French forces
    • "Ah. This way." James Bond
    • "Police!" Unknown man
    • "I've been framed. This gun shoots backwards; I've just killed myself." George Raft
    • "Three... two..." Dr. Noah/Jimmy Bond
  • Never Say Never Again
    • "Heavy, Mr. Bond? Let's try again." Lippe
    • "Yeah?" Jack Petachi
    • "They'll never let you in. I'd better wait for you." Nicole
    • "Right... now." Fatima Blush
    • "The Tears of Allah. Sweet, like money. For centuries, this has been a monument to power, but nothing like what we now possess, eh Kovach?" Maximillian Largo

    Literature 
  • Casino Royale
    • "Yes." Le Chiffre, later killed by a SMERSH hitman.
  • Live and Let Die
    • "Leave the legs free. They'll make appetizing bait." Mr. Big
  • Moonraker
    • "Heil!" Egon Bartsch, before committing suicide via his Luger.
  • From Russia with Love
    • "Sweet dreams, English bastard." Donovan "Red" Grant, later shot repeatedly by his own book gun.
  • Goldfinger
    • "No, No. Stop! I want to stay close to Pussy. I'll be safe with her." Matilda "Tilly" Masterton, before getting killed by Oddjob's hat.
  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    • "There's a red car coming up fast behind. Do you want me to lose him?" Tracy Bond
  • You Only Live Twice
    • "But I can see that we have no contact. I cannot reach what serves you for a mind. For your part, you cannot see further than the simple gratification of your last cigarette. So enough of this idle chatter. You have already kept us from our beds far too long. Do you want to be hacked about in a vulgar brawl, or will you offer your neck in the honourable fashion?" Ernst Stavro Blofeld
  • Colonel Sun
    • "Wait a moment, I'm coming." De Graaf
    • "I told you that you shouldn't worry about him. And you shoudn't worry about me either." Dr. Lohmann
    • "Goodbye, James." Col. Sun-Tang Liang
  • Licence Renewed
    • "This is where we say fare ye weel — for auld lang syne, Bond. Now git ye doon that ramp and practise flying wi'out wings." Caber
  • Icebreaker
    • "Destiny! Destiny! Destiny!" Count Konrad von Glöda
  • Nobody Lives for Ever
    • "See... must see. Raise me up. Raise me up!" Tamil Rahani, just before the explosives planted on his bed are triggered.
  • Win, Lose or Die
    • "No! Sarah! No, it’s—" Clover Pennington
    • "I am sorry about this, but in other ways pleased that the honour of being your executioner falls to me. Goodbye, Captain Bond." Bassad Baradj
  • Death Is Forever
    • "We haven't got much time and I, for one, would like to get clear before I detonate this train." Wolfgang Weisen
    • "Come on, brave Mr. Bond. You were courageous enough to kill my Wolfie. Can you not bear to meet me face to face?" Monika Haardt
  • The Facts of Death
    • "Your hand... your hand...." Alfred Hutchinson
    • "The One... will... become... the Many...." Manville Duncan
    • "Hera, I never meant it that way...." Konstantine Romanos
  • High Time to Kill
    • "You won't take me alive, man." Lawrene Littleby
    • "Please... I need a doctor...." Dr. Thomas Wood
    • "Don't worry about it." Sgt. Poelaert
    • "'Don't worry about it' is at the top of the list of best famous last words." Police van driver
    • "No, sir. I mean yes, sir, it was! I didn't do this! Honest to God I—" Dr. Harding
    • "Ayo Gurkhali!" Chandra Gurung
    • "Both of you, go. Leave me. I’m staying here." Roland Marquis
    • "The Union... will... crush... you!" Paul Baack
  • DoubleShot
    • "I don't know! Maybe my cousin does! Please have mercy!" Michael Clayton
    • "The Union are after you in a big way." Walter van Breeschooten
    • "When you see... your double... it mean you're... going to die...." Peredur Glyn
    • "This isn't about Espada. This is between the Union and your pitiful country." Margareta Piel
  • Never Dream of Dying
    • "Don't shoot! Please! I am unarmed! I was just following orders!" Dr. Gerowitz
    • "You know what they say... never dream of dying. It just might come true." Olivier Cesari a.k.a. Le Gérant
    • "James." Marc-Ange Draco
  • Devil May Care
    • "J. D. Silver. Not what my father called a 'citizen of eternity'." Darius Alizadeh
    • "I won't give you that pleasure, Englishman." Dr. Julius Gorner
  • Trigger Mortis
    • "Is that the best you can do, Mr. Bond?" Jason Sin
    • "This is not for SMERSH. This is for me." Ivan Dimitrov

    Young Bond novels 
  • SilverFin
    • "Algar! Stop!" Lord Randolph Hellebore
    • "James!" Max Bond
  • Blood Fever
    • "I'll see you rot in hell for this." Sir Cathlan Goodenough
    • "Thank you. Thank you, sir." Grace
    • "Mother—" Mauro Benetutti
    • "Haight!" Cooper-ffrench
    • "Save your breath. He doesn't listen." Smiler
    • "No! No!" Count Ugo Carnifex
    • "Anyám. Édesanyám. Hold me. I am scared...." Zoltan the Magyar
  • Double or Die
    • "Let me at him." Wolfgang Smith
    • "I'd love to make this slow, but I don't have time. So, say your prayers quickly, the Apache's going to give you a goodnight kiss." Ludwig Smith
  • Hurricane Gold
    • "What are you talking about, you reptile?" Robert King
    • "Oh Santo Dio!" Alonzo
    • "All of your papers. For this safe. For the kids. You got passports? Huh? You understand? You hear what I am saying?" Mexican officer
    • "Whatzat? Speak up, I can't hear you. I can't see you." Charlie" Whatzat" Moore
    • "It's up to you now. You must be valiente. Look after JJ for me." Garcia
    • "It's a trap, Louis! They tricked us. They was waiting for us. Get away! Oh, damn, but it hurts." Manny
  • By Royal Command
    • "What will be, will be." Cristo Oracabessa
    • "Put it on the table." Gräfin Frieda von Schlick
    • "Snowblind! They are going to kill my cousin Jürgen!" Graf Otto von Schlick
    • "I may have missed the King this time, but you’re next on the list and I'll not miss you." Dandy O'Keefe
    • "Bond." Dr. Perseus Friend
    • "It's so beautiful. So beautiful...." Roan
  • Shoot to Kill
  • Heads You Die
    • "I'll kill you!" Sarila
    • "You're crazy if you think I've got anything to do with-" Chester MacLean
    • "You not run. Never again." El Puño
    • "¡No hice nada!"Translation Ramón
    • "No-" Scolopendra
  • Strike Lightning
  • Red Nemesis

    Video Games 
  • Everything or Nothing
    • "This is where you die." Nikolai Diavolo
  • GoldenEye: Rogue Agent
    • "Don't die yet. I haven't kept my promise." Xenia Onatopp
    • "Th-The O.M.E.N.!" Auric Goldfinger
  • GoldenEye (2010)
    • "Come in, my dear! ...I'll tell you the same thing I told the general — go to the arms fair... in Dubai." Valentin Zukovsky
    • "That chopper could not be in safer hands. ...Incomin-!" Sky Briggs
    • "I thought I was supposed to give it to-" Arkady Ourumov
    • "No. No... NO! No, no, no, no, no- GYAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" Xenia Onatopp
    • "For England, James?" Alec Trevelyan
  • Blood Stone
    • "Please, let me go. I'm no good to you anymore." Bernin
    • "Shoot me, you'll still die!" Stefan Pomerov

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