Elliot Carver: What you are about to witness, Ms. Lin, is not so much a missile attack, but the launch of a new world order. In precisely five minutes after your countrymen have attacked the British fleet, I shall retaliate for dear old England by sending this missile into Beijing, where General Chang has just called an emergency meeting of the Chinese High Command. Unfortunately, General Chang will be delayed in traffic, arriving just after the missile has killed your leaders, and too late to stop the air force from sinking the entire British fleet, but he will be just in time to take over the Government, negotiate a truce, and emerge as a world leader, with the Nobel Peace Prize.
Wai Lin: And what do you get?
Elliot Carver: Me? Oh, nothing. Just exclusive broadcasting rights in China for the next hundred years.
The James Bond franchise features a lot of masterminds and businessmen who have various nefarious intentions. Several of Agent 007's foes go above and beyond to establish their pure malevolence.
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Literature
Ian Fleming's original novels Examples
- Moonraker: Sir Hugo Drax, though his plan is smaller in scale than his eventual film counterpart's, is no less vile. Born "Hugo von der Drache" in Germany and an avid fan of Adolf Hitler, Drax ran undercover missions against Britain for the Reich until he was mistakenly wounded by his own side and nursed back to health by the British. Stealing the identity of a MIA soldier with a similar name and feigning amnesia, Drax murdered the first rich man he could find after leaving the hospital for startup money and began plotting to avenge Nazi Germany's defeat. Using his family's holdings in rare metals, Drax paid out of his own pocket to design the Moonraker, a state-of-the-art nuclear missile meant to defend Britain from the Russians, with Drax's philanthropy elevating him to a national hero. The only problem was, the missile was set to destroy London on its first test-firing with a real atomic bomb. When Drax describes the intended death toll for this catastrophe to him, Bond, a hardened killer himself, is left almost catatonic. Other crimes include running a motorist off the road and over a cliff due to the mere possibility he might've been a spy, and having people tortured for information with welding torches. For Drax, the mere destruction of their greatest city was not enough; he made himself into the British people's greatest hero just so their collective spirits would be crushed when the nuke hit.
- From Russia with Love: Donovan "Red" Grant has been afflicted with a burning urge to kill during the full moon since his youth. Starting with animals, he graduated to vagrants and tramps before becoming a Serial Killer who targeted young woman in his native Ireland. Escaping justice by joining the military, Grant would defect to the Russians after he realized they could offer him the bloodshed he craved. A ruthless, efficient killer, Grant rose to the position of head executioner of the clandestine group SMERSH and was indulged in being allowed to murder with impunity during the full moon. This even extended to Grant being allowed access to prisons with chainsaws during those nights. Bond's chosen executioner, Grant kills his ally Darko Kerim and proceeds to try to murder Bond and his lover, admitting that all he cares about in life is his ability to murder people.
Other novels
Examples
- Colonel Sun:
- Colonel Sun Liang-tan himself is the most sadistic foe James Bond has ever come across. The most refined Torture Technician the People's Liberation Army has ever produced, Colonel Sun sees James Bond as his opportunity for a masterpiece of human suffering. In league with Nazi war criminal von Richter, Colonel Sun plans to bomb a conference being held in the Soviet Union—which itself will lead to a "considerable" loss of life—and plans to frame Great Britain for the deed with Bond's corpse and thus trigger World War III. In preparation, Sun plans to torture Bond to death. An avid follower of the Marquis de Sade, Sun plans to torture Bond to death over the course of days, hoping to achieve "superhuman awareness" through the intimacy of the atrocity. During the most sadistic torture sequence in the history of the franchise, Sun forces his own allies to watch and even makes one of his captive girls, Luisa, strip and sexually humiliate herself in front of Bond to taunt him with the female form he will never know again.
- Hauptmann Ludwig von Richter is the right hand of Colonel Sun. A renegade Nazi war criminal, von Richter was responsible for numerous atrocities during the second World War. Invading villages, von Richter would gather civilians in buildings and set them on fire, with machine gunners ready to kill any who tried to escape. As Sun's associate, von Richter is in charge of the mortar attack on a Soviet conference, which he gloats will be a "considerable" massacre.
- Scorpius: The titular Vladimir Scorpius is a weapons dealer who mostly trades with terrorists, making him indirectly responsible for over a thousand deaths before the book even begins. The main story of the novel concerns of him using the cult he has established—The Meek Ones—to produce generations of suicide bombers for sale, simply for more profit. He declares a "holy war" against mankind, inducing his cultists to commit several terrorist acts to kill hundreds of people in the United Kingdom in particular. He is treated with utter revulsion by those who know the real man beneath his persona as Father Valentine, and Bond even states he is the worst criminal he ever had to deal with.
- Raymond Benson's novels:
- Zero Minus Ten: Guy Thackeray is a British shipping magnate in Hong Kong who is furious about the transfer to the Chinese government on account of losing his company to an obscure clause from his ancestors. Arranging terrorist attacks and many murders, including that of his board of directors, Thackeray intends to destroy Hong Kong with a nuke after fraying the tense peace to the breaking point, With this, Thackeray hopes to kick off a war between Britain and China to punish both countries and sate his spiteful ego.
- DoubleShot: Domingo Espada is a corrupt ex-matador seeking to liberate Gibraltar from the clutches of Britain. With the backing of the Union, a powerful criminal organization, Domingo plans to assassinate both the British PM and the Governor of Gibraltar, then force Gibraltar's succession under threat of assassinating the Spanish PM as well. Aware this may brew a devastating war between Britain and Spain, Domingo is fine dying for his cause as long as his name is engraved forever in history in the process. Domingo also runs a terrifyingly large prostitution operation, buying young girls from Morocco and Spain to mold them into either submissive call girls or into his own personal sex slaves. Domingo's harem lives under constant beatings, rape, and even murder if Domingo gets too testy. When one of his men frees a girl from this awful fate, Domingo has the offending mook murdered, then kills the man tasked to guard the women by making him the subject of a human bullfight.
- Devil May Care: Dr. Julius Gorner is a pharmaceutical mogul who uses his position to mask his massive drug-running enterprise and vitriolic hatred for all of England. Peddling tons of heroin through the streets of London to addict as many youths as he can, Gorner uses his right hand psychopath Chagrin—real name Pham Sinh Quoc—to rip out the tongues of, stab the ears of, or just end the lives of any who cross him. Upon capturing and torturing James Bond, Gorner cheerfully shows off his massive drug factory where he uses drug addicts as slave labor until they drop dead and he quickly replaces them, all while regularly supplying his men with groups of women to gang rape and kill as "entertainment". Having subjected countless women to this horrible fate and threatening the same to Bond's lover Scarlett, Gorner's intended master stroke is to nuke a variety of Soviet cities, killing his own men in the process, and frame it all on England so that the country will be wiped out in a nuclear retaliation, all to sate his inferiority complex and unexplained rage against England.
- Solo: Jakobus "Kobus" Breed is a mercenary brought on by corrupt oil tycoon Hubert Linck to help keep the country of Zanzarim pliable and profitable. To ensure he and Linck have control over the rich oilfields in Zanzarim, Breed murders the brother of dictator Solomon Adeka to have the oil rights revert to Solomon, then hooks the dictator on heroin and breaks him through withdrawal torture to keep Solomon as a slave. That tens of thousands suffer and die in the Civil War he subsequently prolongs is of no consequence; Breed even finds a way to profit off the suffering by using crippled and mutilated children as oblivious drug mules as they're flown out of the country. When his own partner Blessing refuses to kill Bond, Breed cuts her throat and leaves her body as a sick taunt for 007.
Young Bond series
Examples
- SilverFin & By Royal Command: Dr. Perseus Friend is a cold, cruel Nazi biologist infamous for producing biological weapons. Friend helps Randolph Hellebore create a serum which warps the minds and bodies of its users, intending to sell the resultant soldiers to the highest bidders, with Friend even experimenting on and killing a young child. Faking his death, Friend returns and stages a car crash with Graf Otto von Schlick to graft his skin onto himself, but not before having Otto's wife killed. Friend joins up with the Third Reich and participates in a scheme to inspire the workers of Britain to revolt against their leaders with a Communist front, resulting in the assassination of King George V, which would place the Fascism-friendly Edward VIII back on the throne, allying with Hitler's Germany in order to start a deadly war with Russia and convert the entire continent to the cause of Adolf Hitler. When he has Bond and his Love Interest Roan Power captive, Friend decides to repay Bond for their previous encounters by flaying Bond alive while recording it for later viewing and forcing Roan to watch, just for the amusement that he'll gain.
- Heads You Die: Scolopendra is a genius Mad Scientist with a Social Darwinist bent. Born Audacto Solares, Scolopendra clawed his way to found his own industry and believes all of humanity should be shaped the way he wishes. Developing a plague, Scolopendra intends to unleash it to force the submission of the world, with the deaths of millions thanks to contaminated banknotes while all nations beg him for the cure, having it tested on living victims. Even his own daughter Jagua is tormented and tortured by him, Scolopendra even trying to shatter her skull when he decides she's too weak to live.
- Heads You Die & Red Nemesis: La Velada ("The Veil"), Soviet agent, is one of the young Bond's most enduring enemies. Working with and manipulating Cuban industralist Scolopendra, La Velada helps him to experiment on victims with Scolopendra's deadly virus, which she plans to help unleash it upon Great Britain and the entire Western world. La Velada also treats Scolopendra's daughter Jagua awfully having her friend killed out of spite and later trying to sell Jagua herself to slavers. Returning to ally with Adam Elmhirst, La Velada is revealed as an architect of the plot to flood London by collapsing pieces of the city and flooding it with the Thames, potentially killing millions in order to allow Britain to become part of Soviet control.
- Red Nemesis: Adam Elmhirst, in his first appearance, is a seemingly friendly SIS agent. In truth a longstanding traitor for the Soviet Union, Elmhirst is the man who murdered James Bond's parents for stumbling on his plot. Capturing Bond, Elmhirst replays Bond's parents' pleading final moments in order to psychologically mess with Bond's mind, and promises to cripple his current Love Interest if he doesn't get him the information that he needs. Having dug tunnels with explosives, Elmhirst will detonate them and flood London from the Thames, killing countless innocents so he can have the king murdered and surrender the nation to the USSR.
Films
Original series Examples
- Ernst Stavro Blofeld, head of Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion (SPECTRE), is an icy sociopath interested only in what profits him. Running SPECTRE with an iron fist, Blofeld facilitates terrorism around the world, and any underling who fails dies a painful, ignominious end. When he and Bond finally come face to face, Blofeld is attempting to start a nuclear war to have the Soviets and the Americans wipe one another out, allowing SPECTRE to blackmail the newest superpowers. When this fails, Blofeld undergoes plastic surgery and attempts to swindle his way into a pardon and a noble title, with brainwashed women spreading a bacteria to annihilate the world's agricultural supply. When this fails, Blofeld takes revenge by murdering Bond's new wife on their wedding day. Later having plastic surgery again, Blofeld has multiple diamonds stolen to power a satellite with an orbital laser. Blofeld calls an auction between the Soviets, Chinese and Americans: The winner will possess nuclear supremacy in the world. The losers will be wiped out by the satellite.
- Goldfinger: The titular Auric Goldfinger is a man whose wit and politeness only mask the dangerous psychopath that he is. Obsessed with increasing his wealth at any cost, Goldfinger plans on poisoning an army barracks and the surrounding town, which would kill 60,000 people—for which he cares nothing about—and then detonating a nuclear device in Fort Knox to trigger a major economic crisis for his own profit. He punishes his assistant, who becomes a Bond girl and costs him a rigged card game, by having her murdered with golden paint that suffocates her, and later tries to have James Bond sawn in half with a laser. He gloats to his mob partners even though he was always planning on killing them and does— simply to bask in his own ego at his plan. Despite being one of the earliest villains that Bond ever faced, Goldfinger still remains one of the worst.
- Thunderball: Emilio Largo is the sadistic, cruel Number Two of SPECTRE. Plotting to blackmail the world at large, Largo has a pilot murdered to have an agent steal his identity, leaving the man to drown when his usefulness is expended, and stealing two NATO warheads. Largo showcases a willingness to feed failed agents to sharks, and is an enthusiast for torture, with one British agent taking cyanide to avoid that fate. Later torturing his mistress Domino, Largo reveals he plans to nuke Miami when his ransom isn't met.
- Moonraker: Hugo Drax is a cold, snobbish, understated executive who wishes to exterminate the human race except for those he considers "superior beings". To this end, Drax captures men and women whom he sees as physically perfect, planning to keep these people in his giant space station while he covers the Earth in a rare toxin that will kill every human being on Earth. When one of his Moonraker space shuttles is hijacked, Bond is sent to investigate. Fearing that Bond will discover his plans, Drax sends his assassins to kill him, not doing the job himself because he wants Bond's death to amuse him. When he discovers that his personal pilot, Corrine Dufour, helped Bond uncover his plan, he fires her, then sends his dogs out to rip her apart. After he tells Bond his plan, he traps him and one of his scientists, Dr. Holly Goodhead, under one of his rockets, planning on burning the both of them. When he discovers Bond and Goodhead on his space station, he threatens to shoot them both out the airlock. When Bond corners him after his plans are failing, Drax finds a gun and threatens to shoot him, knowing that he'll at least "have the pleasure of putting [Bond] out of my misery". Drax is a chilling, dark villain who stands out in such a campy, silly movie.
- A View to a Kill: Maximilian "Max" Zorin, the former KGB operative in charge of Zorin Industries, presents himself as an affluent and fashionable individual, but is in truth a vicious, greedy psychopath who will do anything to further his own gains. Abandoning the KGB in order to pursue his scheme to submerge Silicon Valley and monopolize the global microchip supply, not caring that his plan will cost millions of lives, Zorin proceeds to involve his investors in his scheme, having a detractor ejected from his airship when the latter refuses to co-operate. When James Bond and Stacey Sutton go to San Francisco city hall to investigate, Zorin kills a city official and a CIA Agent, framing Bond for the murders before setting the building on fire. After placing explosives along the Hayward and San Andreas fault lines, Zorin floods the mines where the explosives were placed, proceeding to gun down any fleeing employees, despite their loyalty, driven by a combination of resource disposal and schadenfreude, and allows his mistress May Day to die in an explosion alongside his remaining employees. When Bond sabotages his plot, Zorin attacks Bond and Sutton atop the Golden Gate Bridge with an axe. Despite his civilized façade, Zorin makes his mark as a particularly vicious individual.
- Licence to Kill: Franz Sanchez can be charming, but he's also uncommonly brutal and ruthless in dealing with his enemies or those he perceives as disloyal to him. He brutally whips his mistress, Lupe Lamora, with a stingray-tail whip as a punishment for infidelity, and also orders his top henchman Dario to remove the heart of the man she has slept with. He feeds Bond's best friend, Felix Leiter, to a shark—after having had his newlywed wife raped and killed right before—and he kills one of his collaborators, locking him in a decompression chamber, believing he stole his money. Towards the climax, he also decides to start "cutting overhead" and shoots his financial advisor. While lacking the body counts of other villains that Bond has faced, Sanchez makes up for it by having a visceral cruelty that is unmatched.
- GoldenEye: Xenia Onatopp, a psychotic Russian assassin working for the Janus Syndicate, has the dubious honor of being the most depraved Femme Fatale that Bond has ever come across. Initially seen as a charming, elegant woman, Xenia reveals her true nature when, in bed with her target, she kills him by crushing him between her thighs to suffocate him, getting clear sexual ecstasy from the murder; she later tries to kill Bond the same way. She steals his security clearance and murders several innocent sailors before eluding Bond. Later, when Xenia arrives in a Russian facility, she massacres all the techs with machine gun fire, getting very visibly aroused by the killings; even her partner for the mission looks a bit stunned at this. Xenia has one of the largest body counts for a Dragon in the franchise, and unlike the majority of her male counterparts, Xenia is in it for money and thrills. She has no issue helping to use the GoldenEye satellite to plunge England into the dark ages as long as she gets rich from it. The fact that this gives her the ability to express her sexualized love for killing is just a bonus.
- Tomorrow Never Dies: Elliot Carver is the head of the Carver Media Group Network who utilizes various unethical practices to enrich himself. Carver sinks a British ship, guns down the survivors, and destroys a Chinese jet in order the escalate tensions between the two countries. Carver then plans to launch a stolen missile into Beijing to destroy the Chinese government and start World War III, all so that he will get exclusive broadcasting rights in China from the new government. When James Bond investigates this, Carver murders his wife Paris when she gets too close to Bond, taunting him with a broadcast that frames it as a murder-suicide committed by Bond. Carver later orders the brutal torture of Bond and Wai Lin by Richard Stamper, and guns down his own associate when he's "outlived [his] contract". Already a wealthy man, Carver is willing to cause millions of deaths just to satisfy his greed.
Reboot series
Examples
- Casino Royale (2006): Le Chiffre—"The Number"—is well-known in the underworld as a banker for terrorist organizations. Financing countless militias and murderers, even those that utilize Child Soldiers, Le Chiffre manipulates the stock market to increase his money by staging terrorist attacks on companies he can bet against. Attempting to bomb a Skyfleet protocol with numerous innocents about, Le Chiffre has the wife of an associate tortured to death for information after when he realizes the money he has lost. Staging a poker tournament to recover his warnings, Le Chiffre apprehends Bond and tortures him with a carpet beater to the groin, gloating at how simple the applications of unbearable agony can be.
- Quantum of Solace:
- Dominic Greene is a slimy, high-ranking member of Quantum, seeking to take control of Bolivia by installing dictator General Medrano, who would be indebted to his whims. A total sociopath who fondly recalls assaulting a childhood crush for insulting him, Greene extends the same treatment to his lover Camille Rivera Montes when he discovers she's using him to avenge her murdered family at the hands of Medrano, handing Camille over to Medrano to be raped and murdered with smug cheer. Reacting to repeated interference by James Bond by having one of the spy's associates drowned in motor oil and shooting one of his close friends, Greene's callousness affects innocents just as much, as he orders a security guard murdered just for seeing Greene in the wrong place. Ultimately planning to control the water supply of Bolivia for a fortune, Greene deliberately plunges the country into a horrible drought that leaves its citizens suffering and dying, and when Medrano tries to refuse cowing to Greene's demands, Greene threatens to simply castrate, kill, and replace him with another figurehead.
- General Medrano raped and killed Camille's family in front of her, and burnt down the house. He conspires with Dominic Greene, deliberately engineering a nationwide drought in Bolivia to allow Quantum to get its hands on his nation's water supply and having the gall to frame the government for selling off its rainforests. Medrano is willing to plunge his nation into drought and famine, dooming multiple innocent people, just so he can have an excuse to seize power. When Greene informs Medrano how expendable he truly is to Quantum, Medrano buckles under pressure and acquiesces to Greene's demands before trying to rape his maid out of frustration. When Camille intervenes, Medrano tries to rape and murder her as well, mocking her about her mother and sister.
- Spectre & No Time to Die: Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the Greater-Scope Villain of this entire continuity and James Bond's foster brother, arranged various events to result in the deaths of Bond's friends and loved ones. Born Franz Oberhauser, he was once a sociopathic boy who murdered his own father for loving a young, orphaned James Bond the Oberhauser family took in. Faking his own death and adopting his new name, Blofeld built up the criminal organization SPECTRE, which finances and facilitates terrorism around the globe, allies with interested parties to topple governments, prolong civil wars, horde natural resources, and eventually involves itself in the sex trade where hundreds of thousands of women and children are trafficked to feed SPECTRE's accounts. With Bond himself, Blofeld drills small needles into the former's head to torture him and even threatens to steal his ability to recognize faces by drilling in the right place. When this fails, Blofeld holds Dr. Madeleine Swann in a rigged chamber—also forcing her to watch the footage of her father committing suicide—so Bond must either try to save her and die in an explosion, or abandon her to save himself and live with the shame of it. To further torment Bond, Blofeld—while imprisoned—arranges to have him targeted and frames it to look like Madeleine helped set Bond up. Blofeld later attempts to take advantage of and steal special nanobots designed to target and infect people through DNA, nearly making Bond his first victim.
Non-canon
Examples
- Never Say Never Again:
- Ernst Stavro Blofeld, ruler of Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion (SPECTRE), commits the organization to murder, terrorism, and more with a mass body count from all the criminal activity. Regularly murdering his own minions, Blofeld is the mastermind of numerous murders to allow Maximilian Largo, his right-hand man in SPECTRE, to obtain nuclear bombs. Blofeld then blackmails the world with the promise that he will wipe entire cities off the map if his ransom isn't met, with full intent to carry out the threat.
- Maximilian Largo is the bombastic millionaire responsible for carrying out Blofeld's global extortion scheme. To acquire the missiles, Largo has his mistress Domino's brother hooked onto heroin to make him subservient and has him launch the missiles, later having him killed for serving his purpose. Largo would also have an ally of Bond drowned and her corpse left for Bond to discover. Witnessing Bond kiss Domino, Largo retaliates by trying to have her auctioned to some lecherous Arabs. During the film's climax, Largo escapes with the last nuke, leaving his men behind to deal with Bond's allies.
Comics
Newspaper Comics Examples
- "River of Death" & "Flittermouse": Dr. Cat, also known as Dr. Onça, is the preeminent Torture Technician for the Red Army, and one of the newspaper strip's few recurring villains. Responsible for a slew of animal-based assassinations, Dr. Cat experiments with lethal pathogens and other methods of biological warfare within a lab he's disguised as a hospital, allowing him to experiment on an endless supply of sickly innocent victims. When he captures James Bond, he opts to torture him to death after injecting him with a serum that will make even a "feather's touch" pure agony, and plans to make his female companion a Sex Slave for him and all his men before remarking he'll feed her to carnivorous fishes when he's stopped being interested in her. Seemingly killed, Dr. Cat returns years later, having even more people killed with a swarm of vampire bats.
- "Deathmask": Ivor Nyborg inherited his corporation, Minos Ltd., by having both of his elder brothers killed. A recluse with aspirations of world domination, Nyborg experiments with a virus that kills its victims by causing elephantiasis in the head. Nyborg has eight people killed to test out the virus, among other murders he orders, to test it out for his ultimate scheme: dispersing it on the world at large to force a Poison and Cure Gambit on all humanity.
- "Polestar": Robert Ayr is the ice-cold CEO of Polestar Petroleum. A Canadian oil tycoon with zero regard for life, Ayr routinely has innocent people stripped naked and frozen to death, all so he can prop up their frozen bodies around his oilfield like macabre scarecrows. His ex-wife, a Cree woman, was a victim of this; when she left him for another man, Ayr had her husband killed and his ex-wife frozen, leaving her daughter Red Doe a vengeful orphan. Ayr wants to blow up Detroit and kill over a million people just to prove he's "playing for keeps" in his goal of taking over North America, risking a larger war with the States that he's fully willing to engage in for the sake of more power.
Comic Books
Examples
- Serpent's Tooth, written by Doug Moench: Indigo is a reptilian-looking madman running a base called New Eden. Abducting women from their families to serve as brainwashed concubines, Indigo experiments on them to eventually make them breeding stock for his new world, also converting innocents into degenerated neanderthal-like brutes to serve as muscle. Indigo plans to detonate nukes upon sea cradles, causing waves that crash down on all coasts, 100 miles inland, wiping out 83 percent of all terrestrial life and leaving a new people he can rule himself.
- James Bond (Dynamite):
- VARGR, written by Warren Ellis: Slaven Kurjak seems to be a respected Serbian inventor, but in actuality is a former worker at concentration camps during the Kosovo War. Longing to replicate the series of contained tortures and experiments on an unprecedented scale, Kurjak starts peddling a flesh-eating drug throughout Britain, resulting in countless lives being agonizingly lost to the drug. Once ousted, Kurjak slaughters all of his own staff, then gloats to Bond as he leaves him to die in a decontamination chamber that his intention is to turn the entire world into a grand system of horrific torture and cruelty, where he and other like-minded sadists can slake their thirst for hurting people with full impunity.
- Hammerhead, written by Andy Diggle: Victoria Hunt intends to usurp her father's company and take the railgun project Hammerhead for her own by having her father murdered. Secretly the underworld mastermind "Kraken", Victoria seduces Bond and arranges a nuke to be delivered to Yemen to be detonated there. When this fails, Victoria opts to nuke London to wipe the city and everyone in it off the map while blackmailing Britain's allies to fall behind her in a resurgent British Empire. Upon seeing the approach of British forces, Victoria has Hammerhead simply begin vaporizing all of them, intending to rule the world from the shadows in a brutal regime.
- James Bond 007 (2018-19), written by Greg Pak: Auric Goldfinger is reimagined in this continuity as the leader of his own criminal syndicate known as ORU. Goldfinger uses ORU as a means to accrue as much wealth as possible, and only spends his vast resources in order to commit mass murder and spread terror For the Evulz; one particular attack that left over 1,000 dead had him specifically wait "until the schools were out". Already responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands, Goldfinger plans to kill tens of thousands more by gassing the artificial city of Olympitech, which would destroy 5% of the world's wealth. To demand absolute loyalty from his mooks, Goldfinger implants chips within them that reward them with addictive endorphins and punish them with agonizing pain, leaving his agents utter slaves to his will as he forces them to murder the innocent to prove themselves. Goldfinger tries to make Bond into one of his brainwashed slaves, specifically ordering him to wipe out a facility full of dozens of innocent workers as a means of breaking whatever willpower he has left.
- Himeros, written by Rodney Barnes: Richard Wilhelm was a wealthy financier with a singular vice: his taste for underage girls. Having roped in Sarah Reynolds as his lover and partner, Wilhelm used her to lure in underage girls to be enslaved and raped. Having raped and trafficked countless girls, Wilhelm also pimped them to friends and allies to gain blackmail material, which ends up resulting in his assassination in prison.
Video Games
Examples
- 007 Racing: Hammond Litte is a supposedly benevolent humanitarian who in reality wants to control the world by the most nefarious means possible. Hammond has a ship carrying a potent strain of anthrax seized and its crew massacred with the intention of dispersing it worldwide. Only a select few who have paid up the nose to be spared will survive; billions more will die, leaving most of humanity dead and the remainder for Hammond to rule. To keep Bond off his tail, Hammond rigs his car with a bomb wired to explode should Bond even once stop driving at full speed—all while Bond is in the middle of Manhattan, forcing Bond to endanger dozens of innocent civilians while trying to find a place to dispose of the bomb.
- NightFire: Rafael/Raphael Drake is a beloved philanthropist who secretly plots to remake the world into a corporate dystopia answerable only to himself. The CEO of the environmentally-friendly corporation Phoenix International, Drake poses as a respected anti-nuclear weapons activist who uses his company's wealth and resources to decommission nukes; in reality, he takes these weapons for himself to be used in a private arsenal against anyone who resists his takeover. Key to his plan is a new space weapons platform developed by the US; James Bond is put on Drake's case after it is discovered the latter has stolen the weapons guidance chip for the satellite. When one of his subordinates tries to turn informant for MI6, he orders not just the man's death, but those of his innocent household servants as well; he later murders his mistress by defenestration, forcing Bond to watch, after she is exposed as a deep-cover French agent. As his plan commences, he rockets into space to commandeer the weapons platform personally, the platform and his private arsenal giving him enough power to wipe any dissenters off the face of the Earth.
- 007 Legends:
- Auric Goldfinger is a gold-loving businessman out to enrich himself by any means necessary. When James Bond begins investigating him, Goldfinger murders his assistant and paints her corpse gold as a warning. Goldfinger plans to fatally gas Fort Knox and the surrounding area, then detonate a nuclear bomb to plunge the US into economic crisis and raise the value of his own gold. When Bond is captured, Goldfinger tries to cut him in half with a laser and later handcuffs him to the bomb so he'll be vaporized when it detonates.
- Ernst Stavro Blofeld is the mysterious leader of SPECTRE, an international criminal organization specializing in terrorism. Blofeld's latest scheme is to threaten to release a deadly virus into several major cities around the world unless he's paid by the UN. Blofeld also kidnaps Bond's love Tracy di Vicenzo, bragging that she won't remember Bond's name after he's done with her and plans to blow up his own base when Bond's allies attack it. After his seeming death, Blofeld returns to make an attempt on Bond's life, killing Tracy in the process.
- Gustav Graves here lacks the redeeming qualities of his original version and is turned into a sociopathic businessman with a god complex. When Bond and his ally Jinx investigate him, Graves captures both of them, torturing Bond with electricity and trying to force him to watch as Jinx is cut in half with a laser. Graves reveals that he plans to use his laser satellite Icarus to destroy the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea so the North can conquer the South. When Bond and Jinx escape, Graves recklessly fires Icarus at him, endangering his own men and killing his second-in-command Zao. When Bond confronts him again, Graves tries to electrocute him to death.
- Hugo Drax is a vile businessman who sees most of humanity as a pestilence to be eradicated. Drax has developed a deadly nerve agent which he intends to release onto the Earth to wipe out all human life while he and his personally chosen "super race" wait in the Moonraker space station to repopulate the Earth. When Bond and CIA Agent Holly Goodhead try to stop him, Drax locks them in the blast chamber beneath his rocket to be incinerated. Later, Drax attempts to have his henchman Jaws kill them, all while planning to eliminate Jaws for not fitting into his perfect world.
Others
Radio Dramas- On Her Majesty's Secret Service & Thunderball: Ernst Stavro Blofeld is the leader of SPECTRE, with ambitions of total power over the globe. Blofeld dispatches his subordinate Emilio Largo to oversee a plot to murder multiple people—including one of Blofeld's own minions as punishment for failure—and steal two nuclear bombs. Blofeld then plans to blackmail the entire world into paying him a ridiculously high ransom lest he use the bombs on highly-populated cities; he ultimately tries to have one set of in Miami just to prove his seriousness. When this plot is foiled by James Bond, Blofeld creates a "clinic" supposedly helping women treat their allergies, but actually hypnotizing them to become carriers of a biological virus that will decimate England's agriculture and initiate a food crisis. Though foiled by Bond yet again, Blofeld gets his revenge by cruelly assassinating Bond's newlywed wife on the day of their wedding, laughing as he does so.
- Goldfinger: Auric Goldfinger is a man whose only love in the world is gold. Connected with the Russian anti-spy organization SMERSH to sell out Western agents for torture and death, Goldfinger shows his vindictive side when he murders his ex-mistress Jill by painting her gold for helping Bond. Abducting Bond to torture and murder, Goldfinger only spares him to break him further and find out more of MI6. Initiating Operation Grand Slam, Goldfinger intends to use a nerve agent around Fort Knox to kill tens of thousands, all to become the richest man who ever lived.
