List of James Bond villains

The James Bond novels and films are notable for their memorably despicable villains and henchmen. From Le Chiffre's encounter with Bond in the original Casino Royale novel of 1953 to the agent's tangles with terrorist mastermind Dominic Greene and his ally General Medrano in Quantum of Solace (2008), Bond's foes have been one of the most important reasons for the book and film series' continued popularity.

Main villains

Novel villains

Ian Fleming

Novel	Villain	Objective	Objective Failed	Fate
Casino Royale	Le Chiffre	Escape bankruptcy by playing Baccarat.	Bond beat Le Chiffre at the Baccarat tournament.	Shot in the head by a SMERSH hitman.
Live and Let Die	Mr. Big	Smuggle and sell ancient gold coins in order to finance SMERSH operations.	Bond destroys the coins and kills Big.	Eaten by a swarm of barracuda and sharks.
Moonraker	Hugo Drax	Destroy London with a nuclear missile, the eponymous Moonraker.	Bond redirected rocket target.	Killed by own rocket after Bond alters the guidance system.
Diamonds Are Forever	Jack Spang	Smuggle Diamonds from Africa to America.	Pipeline dismantled.	Killed when his helicopter is shot down by Bond.
	Seraffimo Spang			Shot in the leg by Bond while Spang drives his train, causing Spang to accidentally de-rail the train and make it crash.
From Russia with Love	Rosa Klebb	Kill James Bond in a humiliating sex scandal, kill MI6 cryptanalysts with boobytrapped cypher machine.	Grant failed to kill Bond, so did Klebb.	Captured by the Deuxieme Bureau. Later died.
	General Grubozaboyschikov			Survived.
Dr. No	Dr. Julius No	Disrupt U.S. guided missile tests.	Dr. No killed, project dismantled.	Buried under a heap of guano by Bond.
Goldfinger	Auric Goldfinger	Rob Fort Knox.	U.S. authorities alerted by Bond.	Bond is pushed too far by Goldfinger's taunting and strangles him to death.
"From a View to a Kill" (short story)	Krimmler, the Soviet sniper	Kill dispatch-riders of SHAPE to steal information from the British secret service.	Riders killed but information recovered by Bond.	Shot through the throat by Bond.
"For Your Eyes Only" (short story)	Colonel Von Hammerstein	Acquire the Havelock Estate in Jamaica to use as an HQ for a drug running operation.	He obtains the estate but he and his henchmen are later killed.	Killed by Judy Havelock with arrow.
"Quantum of Solace" (short story)	No villain
"Risico" (short story)	Aristotle Kristatos	Smuggle drugs, aid Soviet missile development, and mislead Bond into killing rival.	Bond discovered the truth.	Shot by Bond while driving his car; car drove off into fog.
"The Hildebrand Rarity" (short story)	Milton Krest	Catch the Hildebrand Rarity and abuse wife.	Succeeds, but dies.	Choked to death on the rare fish, Bond threw the body overboard.
Thunderball	Emilio Largo	Blackmail the western world with two stolen atomic bombs.	Bond discovered the location of the bombs.	Shot with a speargun in the neck by his mistress, Domino.
	Ernst Stavro Blofeld			Survived.
The Spy Who Loved Me	Mr. Sanguinetti	Have his motel burnt down and have Vivienne Michel assassinated in order to claim property and life insurances.	His assassins failed to kill Vivienne and set the place on fire.	Survived.
	Sol "Horror" Horowitz and "Sluggsy" Morant	Assassinate Vivienne Michel under orders of Mr. Sanguinetti and torch the motel Sanguinetti owned.	They fail to kill Vivienne and are killed themselves.	Both are shot to death by Bond.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	Develop deadly virus to destroy British livestock and cereals.	Virus and HQ destroyed by Bond and MI6 Agents.	Survived.
You Only Live Twice	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	Entice depressed Japanese to suicide to inherit castle to use as HQ, and trillion dollar fortune to finance terrorist plots.	Japanese man is saved by Bond and the castle is destroyed.	Strangled by Bond.
The Man with the Golden Gun	Francisco (Paco) "Pistols" Scaramanga	Expand his international crime organization to the Caribbean.	His allies are killed in the explosion of his mansion and he is killed by Bond.	Shot by Bond, ultimately through the heart.
"Octopussy" (short story)	Major Dexter Smythe	Live off looted Nazi gold.	Discovered and killed by Bond.	Stung by poisonous fish and suffocated by an octopus. Bond registers his death as suicide.
"The Property of a Lady" (short story)	Maria Freudenstein and her Soviet contact	Receive secret payment for double agent services.	Succeeded.	Survived.
"The Living Daylights" (short story)	Trigger, NKVD assassin.	Assassinate defector.	Gun shot out of hand before she can kill the defector.	Wounded by Bond, but she survived and escaped.
"007 In New York" (short story)	No villain.

Robert Markham (a.k.a. Kingsley Amis)

• Colonel Sun - Col. Sun Liang-tan

John Gardner

Novel	Villain	Objective	Objective Failed	Fate
Licence Renewed	Dr. Anton Murik	Hold nuclear plants hostage in exchange for the $50 billion to build a safe reactor.	Bond gave the abort order to henchmen.	Shot by Bond with Gyrojet pistol.
For Special Services	SPECTRE — Nena Bismaquer	Use Bond to take control of NORAD.	Nena's husband, Markus, breaks her hypnotic spell on Bond before the plan succeeds.	Crushed by own pythons.
Icebreaker	Count Konrad von Glöda a.k.a. Aarne Tudeer	Bring back fascism by wiping out Communists.	Bond and his army defeat him.	Shot by Bond
Role of Honour	SPECTRE — Tamil Rahani, Jay Autem Holy	Disarm U.S. and Russian nuclear weaponry through a computerized scheme using Bond	Bond's "defection" to SPECTRE is actually a fake, and he ruins them.	Holy: Killed by Rahani; Rahani: Escapes
Nobody Lives For Ever	Tamil Rahani	Have Bond assassinated by putting a large bounty on his head.	Bond kills him.	Blown up by bed bomb, courtesy of Bond.
No Deals, Mr. Bond	General Konstantin Nikolaevich Chernov (aka "Blackfriar")	Kill all participants in defunct espionage operation.	Bond saves them.	Arrested.
Scorpius	Vladimir Scorpius a.k.a. Father Valentine	Conduct assassinations with a cult of suicide bombers; ultimately kill U.S. President and British Prime Minister.	Cult raided and disbanded; President and Prime Minister saved.	Bitten by water moccasins.
Win, Lose or Die	BAST — Bassam Baradj	Capture aircraft carrier with U.S., U.K., and U.S.S.R. leaders on board, hold them for ransom.	Bond overtook the ship.	Shot by Bond's ally.
Licence to Kill (novelization)	Franz Sanchez	Smuggle Drugs	Bond destroys factory.	Set on fire by Bond.
Brokenclaw	"Brokenclaw" Lee Fu-Chu	Make illegal chemicals and sell them on the black market.	Lab blown to bits.	Shot by Bond with bow and arrow.
The Man from Barbarossa	General Yevgeny Yuskovich	Sabotage KGB missile launch and frame the American government.	Bond re-programs missile target.	Blown up when missile hits army base.
Death is Forever	Wolfgang Weisen
Never Send Flowers	David Dragonpol	Impregnate Queen Elizabeth II	Bond gets to her first.	Kills himself in rage.
SeaFire	David Dragonpol	Sir Max Tarn
GoldenEye Adaption	Alec Trevelyan (006)	Ruin London's economy.	Base destroyed.	Crushed by falling debris.
COLD	General Samantha Clay	Override MI6 missile database.	Bond destroyed the missiles in mid air.	Raped and then stabbed by Bond

Raymond Benson

• "Blast from the Past" (short story) - Irma Bunt
• Zero Minus Ten - Guy Thackeray
• The Facts of Death - The Decada
• "Midsummer Night's Doom" (short story) - Anton Redenius
• High Time to Kill - Roland Marquis, Le Gerant, The Union
• "Live at Five" (short story) - KGB
• Doubleshot - Le Gerant, Domingo Espada, The Union
• Never Dream of Dying - Le Gerant, The Union
• The Man with the Red Tattoo - Goro Yoshida

Charlie Higson

Novel	Villain	Objective	Fate
SilverFin	Lord Randolph Hellebore	Create a new breed of soldiers, made from eels and humans.	Drowned by his mutated twin brother Algar, and torn apart by eels.
Blood Fever	Count Ugo Carnifex	Revive the Millenaria, and steal priceless works of art.	Hit by his sea plane that was swept away by a wave of water.
Double or Die	Irina Sedova AKA 'Babushka'.	Build Russia a new decoder device.	Survives.
Hurricane Gold	Mrs. Glass	Sell important American documents to the Japanese.	Survives.
By Royal Command	Dr. Perseus Friend	Help the Nazi cause by masterminding the assassination of King George, get revenge on James for destroying his work in Silverfin	Shot through the face by Colonel Sedova.

Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care-Dr. Julius Gorner

Film villains

EON villains

Film	Villain	Portrayed by	Objective	Objective Failed	Fate
Dr. No	Dr. Julius No	Joseph Wiseman	Sabotage American missile tests.	Bond overloads the nuclear reactor in No's base causing the toppling device used to sabotage the tests to overload and disable	Lowered into his own reactor coolant and boiled to death. Unable to escape due to metal hands.
From Russia With Love	Rosa Klebb	Lotte Lenya	Acquire Russian decoding device and assassinate James Bond by sending Red Grant to kill Bond.	Bond acquires the device for MI6 and England and survives the assassination plot after Red Grant failed to kill Bond.	Shot in the chest by Tatiana Romanova.
	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	Anthony Dawson (body), Eric Pohlmann (voice)			Survives
Goldfinger	Auric Goldfinger	Gert Fröbe	Detonate an atomic bomb in Fort Knox destroying all American gold to make his own gold more valuable.	Bond disables the bomb before it goes off inside Fort Knox.	Sucked out of a depressurizing plane through a shattered window.
Thunderball	Emilio Largo	Adolfo Celi	Use stolen nuclear missiles to extort money out of the UK.	Missiles destroyed by Bond and the U.S. coast guard before the ransom money was delivered.	Shot in the back with a harpoon from a speargun by his mistress, Domino.
	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	Anthony Dawson (body), Eric Pohlmann (voice)			Survives
You Only Live Twice	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	Donald Pleasence	Capture US & Soviet spacecraft from orbit in order to provoke war between the superpowers on behalf of Japan.	Bond uses a self-destruct button in Blofeld's lair to destroy the Bird 1 spacecraft which catches other spacecraft.	Survives.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	Telly Savalas	Extort the world with viruses that destroy crops and livestock.	Bond with the help of Marc Ange Draco destroys the laboratory where the viruses are being developed before they can be released.	Survives.
Diamonds Are Forever	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	Charles Gray	Create death-ray satellite capable of destroying targets anywhere on Earth.	Bond smashes his Mini-Sub multiple times as a wrecking ball against the control room of Blofeld's lair disabling the satellite.	Survives. (This is not revealed until the opening scene of For Your Eyes Only, where he is disfigured and in a wheelchair.)
Live and Let Die	Dr. Kananga / Mr. Big	Yaphet Kotto	Distribute heroin free of charge on the market, which will drive all the other drug cartels out of business, increasing the number of addicts, and give Kananga a monopoly of the heroin market	Quarrel Jr. destroys his poppy fields.	Forced to swallow shark gun bullet by Bond, then he inflates and explodes.
The Man with the Golden Gun	Francisco Scaramanga	Christopher Lee	Acquire the Solex Agitator, a vital component for a solar power plant, and sell it to the highest bidder; also, to kill Bond, the one man he thinks is his equal.	Bond kills him and steals the Agitator for MI6.	Shot in the heart by Bond in the Hall of Mirrors.
The Spy Who Loved Me	Karl Stromberg	Curd Jürgens	Destroy the world, starting by using hijacked US and Soviet submarines to fire nuclear missiles that destroy New York and Moscow (which would trick the world's governments into a nuclear holocaust); rebuild civilization under the sea.	Bond redirects the missiles' coordinates so that the missile fired by each sub hits the other.	Shot four times through tube under his dining table and above table by Bond.
Moonraker	Hugo Drax	Michael Lonsdale	Destroy all human life on Earth by using a poisonous gas infused into specially designed globes, rebuild humanity from carefully chosen breeding stock.	The space station containing the poisonous globes was destroyed by US Marines, and the three globes that were launched were destroyed by Bond and Holly Goodhead before they did any damage.	Shot with poison dart gun and forced into outer space by Bond.
For Your Eyes Only	Aris Kristatos	Julian Glover	Acquire the ATAC device, which would enable hijacking of British Polaris missiles.	Bond destroys the ATAC by throwing it off a cliff.	Stabbed in the back with throwing knife by Milos Columbo.
	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	John Hollis (body) Robert Rietty (voice)	To kill Bond in revenge for him ruining all of his schemes and dismantling SPECTRE (by controlling his helicopter and making it crash).	Bond disconnects the wire Blofeld is using to control the helicopter and kills Blofeld.	Gets dropped down a chimney by Bond.
Octopussy	Kamal Khan	Louis Jourdan	To aid General Orlov in his plan and thus get stolen Kremlin jewels.	Bond disarms the bomb.	Dies in fiery plane crash into a mountain thanks to Bond.
	General Orlov	Steven Berkoff	Detonate a U.S. nuclear bomb in a U.S. army base during a circus performance, which Orlov hopes will lead Europe to demand nuclear disarmament, allowing General Orlov's power-hungry plans to invade and take over Western Europe to come to fruition.		While attempting to jump on top of Octopussy's circus train, he knocks down three border guards, leading them to shoot him repeatedly in the back with machine guns.
A View to a Kill	Max Zorin	Christopher Walken	Cause massive earthquake destroying Silicon Valley to monopolize the microchip market.	His former henchman and lover, May Day, switches sides and removes a bomb necessary for Zorin's plan to succeed; she dies in the explosion which causes no other damage because of her efforts.	Plummets from top of Golden Gate Bridge.
The Living Daylights	General Georgi Koskov	Jeroen Krabbe	To engage in a triangle deal with Whitaker and Feyador where Koskov will get enough arms to, after Pushkin's assassinaton, take over the KGB.	The opium getting delivered to Whitaker gets destroyed throwing the whole deal into disorder	Arrested; awaiting execution.
	Brad Whitaker	Joe Don Baker	To engage in a triangle deal with Feyador and Koskov where Whitaker will get valuable opium.		Bond activates a bomb disguised as a key chain, dropping a bust of Wellington on Whitaker, crushing him.
Licence to Kill	Franz Sanchez	Robert Davi	Create an international drug cartel from South America to Asia.	Bond kills him and destroys his drugs.	Gasoline-soaked body set aflame by Bond, then blown up.
GoldenEye	Alec Trevelyan (006)	Sean Bean	Take over GoldenEye EMP satellite and use for profit and revenge.	Bond destroys the GoldenEye by sabotaging the ground transmitter, causing the GoldenEye to burn up on re-entry.	Dropped by Bond down from radar dish, framework drops on top of him after.
Tomorrow Never Dies	Elliot Carver	Jonathan Pryce	Provoke war between the UK and China to generate headlines for news reporting.	Bond destroys Carver's Stealth Ship in a massive explosion, destroying the missile needed to provoke the war.	Forced into path of Sea-Vac remote controlled drill by Bond and shredded into bits.
The World Is Not Enough	Elektra King	Sophie Marceau	Kill her father and seize his oil business, which she sees as rightfully hers.	Succeeds, but is killed by Bond.	Shot by Bond.
	Renard	Robert Carlyle	Destoy Istanbul by detonating a nuclear submarine in the Bosphurus, allowing Elektra to monopolize the oil market.	Bond stops him from blowing up the submarine.	Impaled by a uranium rod shot out of the sub's core at high speed by Bond.
Die Another Day	Gustav Graves (Colonel Moon)	Toby Stephens (Will Yun Lee)	Invade South Korea with the help of a death-ray satellite.	When he is killed, the satellite is rendered harmless due to the fact that the suit Graves was wearing at the time was its control system.	Bond pulls the cord on his parachute, sucking him (and his suit) into a plane engine and shredding him to bits.
Casino Royale	Le Chiffre	Mads Mikkelsen	Regain clients' money lost in failed terrorist plot by playing and winning a Texas Hold 'em tournament.	Bond wins the money, and Le Chiffre is consequently killed by Mr. White.	Shot in the head by Mr. White.
	Mr. White	Jesper Christensen	Regain money lost by Le Chiffre	Succeeds, but is captured by Bond.	Shot in below the right leg and arrested, but survives.
Quantum of Solace	Dominic Greene	Mathieu Amalric	Stage a coup d'état in Latin America, to gain control of a piece of land rich in resources.	Camille kills General Medrano (Greene's associate who'll execute the plan), and Bill Tanner, using some hacking, bankrupts Greene, making all of his efforts for naught.	Left by Bond in the middle of the Bolivian desert, shot twice in the back of the head by an unidentified Quantum agent.
	General Medrano	Joaquin Cosio	Aid Dominic Greene in his plan so as to become dictator of Bolivia.	Camille, in revenge for Medrano slaughtering her family, kills him, thus ruining the plan.	Shot in the chest by Camille.
	Mr. White	Jesper Christensen	Escape from MI6 custody.	Succeeds, though his wounded.	Remains at large.

Villains in non-EON Bond films

Film	Villain	Portrayed by
Casino Royale — 1954 TV episode	Le Chiffre	Peter Lorre
Casino Royale — 1967 film	Le Chiffre Dr. Noah/Jimmy Bond	Orson Welles Woody Allen
Never Say Never Again	Maximillian Largo Ernst Stavro Blofeld	Klaus Maria Brandauer Max von Sydow

Game villains

The following is a list of original main villains in James Bond computer and video games.

Game	Villain	Portrayed by	Objective	Objective failed	Fate
GoldenEye 007	Alec Trevelyan	Sean Bean	Use Goldeneye to rob and destroy London	Bond destroys Goldeneye's controls	Killed in gunfight with Bond
Agent Under Fire	Adrian Malprave	Unknown	Kidnap, clone, and kill the G8 and force the clones to give her control of the world	Bond destroys her cloning lab and kills the clones	Dies when headquarters explodes
Nightfire	Rafael Drake	Michael Ensign	Destroy NATO forces in a massive air strike from space	Bond disables the missiles' targeting systems, sending them off course	Shot with a laser by Bond
Everything or Nothing	Nikolai Diavolo	Willem Dafoe	Take over the Russia and the world by using a metal eating nanobot army and also to get revenge on Bond for the death of his mentor Max Zorin.	Bond destroys the nanobots	Falls into a missile silo after Bond shoots the Diavolo's control tower with a rocket launcher.
GoldenEye: Rogue Agent	Auric Goldfinger Dr. Julius No	Gert Frobe Joseph Wiseman	Use the OMEN virus to take over the world	Goldeneye uses it against Goldfinger's forces	Goldfinger was blown up by Goldeneye and Dr. No was electrocuted in his own reactor.
From Russia with Love	OCTOPUS Red Grant Rosa Klebb	Robert Shaw Lotte Lenya	Kill Bond and obtain the Lektor.	Bond survives and gets the Lektor to his MI6.	Rosa Klebb is shot by Tatiana Romanova and then Red Grant is shot by Bond when Bond invades the OCTOPUS base. OCTOPUS is believed to have fallen apart afterwards.
Quantum of Solace	Dominic Greene	Mathieu Amalric	Stage a coup d'état in Latin America, to gain control of a piece of land rich in resources.	Bond attack him in Eco Hotel.	Shot by Bond.

Villainous organisations

• SMERSH — "Death to Spies", Bond's original nemesis in the novels, though only briefly mentioned in the films.
• SPECTRE — Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion, first appeared in the novel Thunderball and replaced SMERSH as Bond's nemesis in the films.
• The Spangled Mob — Bond's enemy in the novel Diamonds Are Forever. They also appear in Goldfinger and The Man with the Golden Gun.
• Drax Corporation - Hugo Drax's company.
• Stromberg Shipping Line- Karl Stromberg's organization.
• Auric Enterprises- Auric Goldfinger's oganization.
• Janus Syndicate — Alec Trevelyan's vehemently anti-British terrorist organisation in the Bond film GoldenEye.
• The Union — Villainous organisation in Raymond Benson's novels High Time to Kill, Doubleshot and Never Dream of Dying.
• OCTOPUS — Replaced SPECTRE in the video game From Russia with Love for copyright reasons.
• Quantum — is the shadowy terrorist organisation seen in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. One of their leading members, Dominic Greene, leads a cover organisation called Greene Planet.

See also

• James Bond film series
• List of James Bond henchmen