List of James Bond villains

The James Bond novels and film series feature a number of villainous characters who serve as primary antagonists. Each story normally features a main villain bent on world domination or destruction who seeks to defeat or kill Bond, often with the assistance of secondary characters. Bond typically confronts the villain during the story's climax and exposes the evil plot.

Main villains

Novel villains by author

Ian Fleming

Novel	Villain	Objective	Outcome	Fate
Casino Royale	Le Chiffre	Pay off his embarrassing debts to his SMERSH masters by winning the money at Casino Royale's baccarat table.	Bond beats Le Chiffre at baccarat.	Shot between the eyes by a SMERSH hitman.
Live and Let Die	Mr. Big (Buonaparte Ignace Gallia)	Smuggle and sell ancient gold coins to finance SMERSH operations.	Bond kills Mr Big.	Eaten by sharks and barracuda after he falls into the water when Bond blows up his boat.
Moonraker	Sir Hugo Drax (Graf Hugo von der Drache)	Destroy London with a nuclear missile, the eponymous Moonraker.	Bond alters the rocket's target coordinates.	Rocket crashes into the water directly in the path of Drax's submarine, the blast killing Drax and all of his men.
Diamonds Are Forever	Jack Spang	Smuggle a large cache of diamonds worth millions of dollars from Africa to America to fund organisation.	Smuggling operation is dismantled when all operatives are assassinated.	Killed when Bond shoots down his helicopter.
	Seraffimo Spang			Bond shoots him in the leg while he is driving the train, causing the train to derail and crash.
From Russia, with Love	Rosa Klebb	Kill Bond in a humiliating sex scandal, kill MI6 cryptanalysts with a boobytrapped cipher machine.	KGB killer Grant fails to kill Bond, as does Klebb.	Captured by the Deuxieme Bureau and later dies.
	General Grubozaboyschikov			Survives.
Dr. No	Dr. Julius No	Disrupt U.S.-guided missile tests.	Dr. No is killed and the project is dismantled.	Buried under a pile of guano by Bond.
Goldfinger	Auric Goldfinger	Steal the U.S. gold supply from Fort Knox to finance SMERSH.	U.S. authorities are alerted by Bond.	Strangled by Bond after hijacking an aeroplane.
"From a View to a Kill" (short story)	GRU agents	Kill dispatch-riders of SHAPE to steal information from the British Secret Service.	The riders are killed but the information is recovered by Bond.	Shot by Bond and Mary Ann Russell.
"For Your Eyes Only" (short story)	Colonel von Hammerstein	Acquire the Havelock Estate in Jamaica to use as a headquarters for a drug running operation.	Obtains the estate, but both are later killed.	Killed by Judy Havelock with an arrow.
	Hector Gonzales			Shot by Bond in firefight.
"Risico" (short story)	Aristotle Kristatos	Smuggle drugs, aid Soviet missile development, and trick Bond into killing rival.	Bond discovers the truth.	Shot by Bond while driving his car, and the car rolls off into the fog.
"The Hildebrand Rarity" (short story)	Milton Krest	Catch the Hildebrand Rarity by any means necessary.	Succeeds, but dies.	Chokes to death on the rare fish, possibly murdered by his battered wife. Bond throws the body overboard.
Thunderball	Emilio Largo	Blackmail the western world with two stolen atomic bombs.	Bond discovers the location of the bombs.	Shot in the neck with a speargun by his mistress, Domino.
	Ernst Stavro Blofeld			Survives.
The Spy Who Loved Me	Mr. Sanguinetti	Have his motel burnt down, and have Vivienne Michel assassinated to claim the property and life insurances.	His assassins fail to kill Vivienne and set the place on fire.	Arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol.
	Sol "Horror" Horowitz and "Sluggsy" Morant	Assassinate Vivienne Michel under orders of Mr. Sanguinetti and torch the motel owned by Sanguinetti.	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 a deadly virus to destroy British livestock and cereals.	The virus and their headquarters are destroyed by Bond and Draco's Union Corse.	Survives.
You Only Live Twice	Ernst Stavro Blofeld (a.k.a. Dr. Guntram Shatterhand)	He creates a "garden of death" and entices depressed Japanese to suicide. He charges for the suicides to refinance the SPECTRE organisation.	His lair is destroyed and his henchmen killed by Bond.	Strangled by Bond.
The Man with the Golden Gun	Francisco (Paco) "Pistols" Scaramanga	Expand his international crime organisation into the Caribbean and organise smuggling operations to finance.	His allies are killed in the explosion of his mansion and he is killed by Bond.	Shot through the heart by Bond.
"Octopussy" (short story)	Major Dexter Smythe	Live off looted Nazi gold.	Discovered by Bond, he is faced with the choice between prosecution and suicide.	Accidentally stung by scorpionfish, then partially eaten by an octopus.
"The Property of a Lady" (short story)	Maria Freudenstein and her Soviet contact	Receive secret payment for double agent services.	Succeeds.	Survives, but her contact is deported.
"The Living Daylights" (short story)	Trigger, KGB assassin.	Assassinate defector.	Her gun is shot out of her hand before she can kill the defector.	Wounded by Bond, she survives and escapes.
"007 in New York" (short story)	KGB double-agent	Blackmail MI6 using a female employee.	Employee is tipped off by Bond.	Arrested by the CIA.

Kingsley Amis (writing as Robert Markham)

Novel	Villain	Objective	Outcome	Fate
Colonel Sun	Colonel Sun Liang-tan	Sabotage USSR summit conference, frame Great Britain.	Operatives are killed, and summit conference members are alerted.	Stabbed in the back and heart by Bond.

Christopher Wood

Novel	Villain	Objective	Outcome	Fate
James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me	Karl Stromberg	Use stolen submarines to provoke a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviets, then rebuild humanity under the ocean.	Bond destroys his base and blows up the submarines.	Shot twice in the groin and twice in the chest by Bond.
James Bond and Moonraker	Hugo Drax	Fire a nerve agent from space to kill the entire population of earth, then create a new civilisation in space.	Bond destroys his space station and, with it, the globes containing the nerve agent.	Shot with a poison dart by Bond before being pushed out of an airlock and blown into the vacuum of space.

John Gardner

Novel	Villain	Objective	Outcome	Fate
Licence Renewed	Dr. Anton Murik	Hold nuclear power plants hostage in exchange for $50 billion to build a safe reactor.	Bond gives the abort order to the henchmen.	Shot by Bond with Gyrojet pistol.
For Special Services	SPECTRE — Nena Bismaquer (Blofeld)	Use Bond to take control of NORAD.	Nena's husband, Markus, breaks her hypnotic spell on Bond before the plan succeeds.	Crushed by her own pythons.
Icebreaker	Count Konrad von Glöda (also known as "Aarne Tudeer")	Bring back Nazism by wiping out Communists.	Bond defeats him with the aid of a Mossad agent and a member of the CIA.	Shot by Bond.
Role of Honour	Jay Autem Holy	Disarm U.S. and Soviet nuclear weaponry through a computerised scheme to create world peace.	Bond's "defection" to SPECTRE is actually a ruse, and he ruins them.	Shot and killed by Rahani.
	Tamil Rahani (SPECTRE)	Disarm the U.S. nuclear weaponry to give the USSR an advantage in the Cold War.		Escapes.
Nobody Lives for Ever	Tamil Rahani (SPECTRE)	Put a large bounty on Bond's head to have him assassinated.	Bond kills him.	Blown up by bed bomb, courtesy of Bond.
No Deals, Mr. Bond	General Konstantin Nikolaevich Chernov (also known as "Blackfriar")	Kill all participants in a defunct espionage operation.	Bond saves them.	Arrested.
Scorpius	Vladimir Scorpius (also known as "Father Valentine")	Carry out assassinations with a cult of suicide bombers, ultimately kill the U.S. president and British prime minister.	The cult is raided and disbanded, and the president and prime minister are saved.	Bitten by water moccasins.
Win, Lose or Die	BAST–Bassam Baradj	Capture aircraft carrier with US, UK, and USSR leaders on board and hold them for ransom.	Bond overtakes the ship.	Shot by Bond's ally.
Licence to Kill (Novelization)	Franz Sanchez	Smuggle drugs.	Bond destroys the factory.	Set on fire by Bond.
Brokenclaw	"Brokenclaw" Lee Fu-Chu	Sell secret plans for underwater defence system to Red China, and crash the world stock market with a computerised scheme.	Chinese agents captured and impersonated by Bond and ally, and their base is blown up.	Shot by Bond with bow and arrow.
The Man from Barbarossa	General Yevgeny Yuskovich	Supply Iraq with nuclear weapons.	Battleship with nuclear weapons destroyed.	Dies when his ship is blown up.
Death is Forever	Wolfgang Weisen	Assassinate all members of British-American CABAL, and destabilise Western Europe by blowing up train containing several world leaders.	Train remotely stopped before it can reach its destination.	Electrocuted on train railing.
Never Send Flowers	David Dragonpol	Assassinate Princess Diana and her sons at Euro Disney.	The Royal Family is prevented from arriving at Euro Disney.	Blown up by his own bomb.
SeaFire	Sir Maxwell Tarn	Start oil spill fire during demonstration with U-boat.	Bond destroys the submarine.	Burns to death when Bond shoots him with a flare.
GoldenEye (Novelization)	Alec Trevelyan	Ruin London's economy.	His base is destroyed.	Crushed by falling debris.
COLD	General Brutus Clay	Replace government with Puritan society.	Bond discovers his plan and notifies his superiors to bomb the base.	Bond shoots him off a boat and he drowns in the water.

Raymond Benson

Novel	Villain	Objective	Outcome	Fate
"Blast from the Past" (short story)	Irma Bunt	Kill James Bond by shaving him with a razor soaked in Japanese fish poison and "accidentally" nicking him.	Bond is rescued by his girlfriend.	Shot by Bond.
Zero Minus Ten	Guy Thackeray	Destroy Hong Kong with a nuclear bomb.	The location of the bomb is discovered, and the bomb is neutralised.	Drowned by Bond.
Tomorrow Never Dies (Novelization)	Elliot Carver	Initiate a war between the United Kingdom and China by destroying Beijing to boost ratings.	Bond and Wai-Lin destroy the bomb and Carver's base.	Forced into the path of the Sea-Vac drill, controlled by Bond, and killed.
The Facts of Death	Konstantine Romanos	Instigate war between Greece and Turkey by firing nuclear missile into Turkey.	Killed by fellow Decada member Hera Volopoulos.	Killed by Hera.
	Hera Volopoulos	Release virus onto the world and profit from treatment.	Stopped with assistance from Greek military.	Blown up, then drowned by Bond.
"Midsummer Night's Doom" (short story)	Anton Redenius (a likely reference to Doug Redenius of the Ian Fleming Foundation)	Sell Ministry of Defence secrets to Russian mafia.	After being identified as the culprit, the microfilm is retrieved by Bond.	Arrested.
High Time to Kill	Roland Marquis	Retrieve Skin 17 microdot from corpse on Kangchenjunga mountain before Bond does and sell it to the Russian mafia.	Marquis gives Bond the microdot in exchange for oxygen.	Chased by Bond to the mountain's peak and dies of oxygen deprivation.
	Le Gérant, The Union	Retrieve the microdot and sell it to the Chinese government.		Survives.
The World Is Not Enough (Novelization)	Elektra King	Kill her father to take over his oil business and then destroy Istanbul to monopolise the oil market.	Renard's submarine is sunk by Bond.	Shot in the chest by Bond.
	Renard	Assassinate Elektra's father and then use a nuclear submarine to blow up İstanbul so that Elektra can take over the oil industry.	Bond kills him and sinks the submarine.	Impaled by his own plutonium rod shot out of the reactor by Bond.
"Live at Five" (short story)	KGB (Natalia's coach)	Prevent Russian ice skater Natalia Lustokov's defection to the West.	Bond helps the skater defect on live television.	The KGB is embarrassed in public.
Doubleshot	Domingo Espada	Overthrow Gibraltar's government with a series of assassinations, then frame James Bond by using a lookalike as assassin and install Espada as the new governor.	Bond kills his double and takes his place, foiling the coup.	Shot through cheek by Bond and chokes to death on his own blood.
	Le Gérant, The Union			Survives.
Never Dream of Dying	Le Gérant, The Union	Make a political statement about Western decadence by blowing up the Cannes Film Festival with CL-20 explosives.	Bond discovers the location of the bomb, prevents remote detonation by telephone call, and informs the authorities.	Blown up in an escape helicopter by Bond's grenade launcher.
	Goro Yoshida			Survives.
The Man with the Red Tattoo	Goro Yoshida	Release a deadly mutant strain of the West Nile virus via mosquitoes on the Western world.	The virus is destroyed.	Commits seppuku before he can be captured by Bond.
Die Another Day (Novelization)	Colonel Moon/Gustav Graves	Smuggle diamonds and use the Icarus satellite to attack South Korea before invading it.	Bond dismantles the diamond smuggling operation and the Icarus controls are destroyed.	His escape vehicle is driven over a cliff, then his parachute is opened by Bond next to the torn fuselage, sucking him out into the plane engine.

Sebastian Faulks

Novel	Villain	Objective	Outcome	Fate
Devil May Care	Dr. Julius Gorner	Import opium into Britain, and force Bond to pilot an airliner into Soviet territory and bomb it, making it appear to be the UK's doing.	Bond gains control of the airliner and crashes it into a mountainside.	Shot by Bond, he jumps into a river to escape, where he is torn apart by a boat's paddles.

Jeffery Deaver

Novel	Villain	Objective	Outcome	Fate
Carte Blanche	Severan Hydt	Use a prototype Serbian weapon known as a "Cutter" to destroy a university in York, killing a cancer researcher who could ruin his employer, a pharmaceutical corporation.	Bond is able to warn British authorities about the Cutter before it detonates.	Shot by an associate, Niall Dunne.
	Felicity Willing	Uses her position as head of the International Organisation Against Hunger to strategically distribute food aid across northern Africa, giving the government of the Sudan a pretext to go to war with the south.	She is tricked into confessing to the scheme by Bond and Bheka Jordaan.	Extradited to a secret location after evidence is planted to suggest she was embezzling money from her Chinese backers.
	Niall Dunne	He assists Hydt in his operation, then betrays and kills him while working for Felicity Willing.	Bond captures Felicity and kills Dunne.	Shot by Bond and Bheka Jordaan.

William Boyd

Novel	Villain	Objective	Outcome	Fate
Solo	Kobus Breed	Use Dahumni children as drug mules to smuggle raw heroin into the States.	Bond tracks him down to Washington DC.	Shot and left for dead by Bond.

Anthony Horowitz

Novel	Villain	Objective	Outcome	Fate
Trigger Mortis	Jason Sin	Sabotage US rocket test launch. Blow up Empire State Building with train bomb and make it appear to be the rocket's doing by spreading debris of duplicate rocket around bomb site. Use public outcry to give USSR advantage in the Space Race	Bomb neutralized and train derailed en route to Empire State Building.	Electrocuted by train railing.

Young Bond series

Charlie Higson

Novel	Villain	Objective	Outcome	Fate
SilverFin	Lord Randolph Hellebore	Create a serum that manipulates the endocrine system and hormones in a human, giving them increased strength, and use his new army of modified soldiers to conquer the world.	Bond and George Hellebore wreck his laboratory by smashing the serum tubes and igniting the paperwork.	Algar pushes him and Randolph into the loch, where eels savagely devour them.
Blood Fever	Count Ugo Carnifex	Revive the secret society Millenaria and steal priceless works of art.	His benefactor floods his palace for his failure.	Hit by his seaplane after it is swept away by a wave of water.
Double or Die	Irina Sedova "Babushka"	Construct a brand-new and modified decoding machine for the Russians, that is promised to think a thousand times faster than any human is capable.	Bond destroys the machine.	Bond threatens to shoot her, but then decides to spare her life.
Hurricane Gold	Mrs. Glass	Sell important American documents to the Japanese.	She succeeds.	Imprisoned on Huracán's island.
	El Huracán	Punish all guests on his island who break his rules.	Bond beats his obstacle course and escapes.	Spared by Bond.
By Royal Command	Dr. Perseus Friend	Help the Nazi cause by masterminding the assassination of King George, and get revenge on Bond for destroying his work in Silverfin.	Bond saves the king, destroys Friend's operation and forces Sedova to kill Friend.	Shot in the face by Colonel Sedova.
	Irina Sedova "Babushka"	Find and kill Friend after King George is dead.		Shot by Bond, but survives because of her bulletproof jacket.
"A Hard Man to Kill" (Short story)	Emil Lefebrve	Help General Caiboche escape.	Succeeds.
	Caiboche	Escape from custody.	Succeeds.	Survives.

Film villains by production

Eon Productions films

Film	Villain	Portrayed by	Objective	Outcome	Fate
Dr. No	Dr. Julius No	Joseph Wiseman	Disrupt American missile launches by toppling the nuclear transmission and interfering with the guidance systems.	Bond overloads the nuclear reactor in No's base causing the toppling device used to sabotage the tests to overload and disable	Boiled to death in heavy water. Failed to escape due to his metal hands.
From Russia With Love	Colonel Rosa Klebb	Lotte Lenya	Steal a Soviet decoder, sell it to the highest bidder and take revenge for the death of Dr. No by having Bond killed in a humiliating sex scandal.	Bond acquires the device for MI6 and evades SPECTRE's attempts on his life.	Shot in the chest by Tatiana Romanova.
	Morzeny	Walter Gotell			Set aflame by several explosions set off by Bond.
	Kronsteen	Vladek Sheybal			Stabbed in the leg with a poison-coated shoe blade by Morzeny for his failure to kill Bond.
	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	Anthony Dawson (body), Eric Pohlmann (voice)			Survives (No contact between him and Bond)
Goldfinger	Auric Goldfinger	Gert Fröbe (body), Michael Collins (voice)	Detonate a bomb within Fort Knox, contaminating the gold reserves and causing a financial meltdown in the United States, increasing the value of Goldfinger's own gold in the process.	An American technician disables the bomb before it can detonate.	Sucked out of the shattered window of a depressurizing plane.
Thunderball	Emilio Largo	Adolfo Celi	Use stolen nuclear warheads to hold a major American or British city for ransom.	Missiles destroyed by Bond and the U.S. Coast Guard.	Shot in the back with a harpoon, by his mistress, Domino.
	Fiona Volpe	Luciana Paluzzi			Bond tricks one of her henchmen into shooting her in the back.
	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	Anthony Dawson (body), Eric Pohlmann (voice)			Survives (No contact between him and Bond)
You Only Live Twice	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	Donald Pleasence	Capture American and Soviet spacecrafts with the 'Bird-1' satellite and triggering a war between the United States and the Soviet Union on behalf of an undisclosed Asian country.	Bond uses a self-destruct button in Blofeld's lair to destroy the "Bird-1" spacecraft used to capture manned space capsules from orbit.	Survives, although wounded.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	Telly Savalas	Abduct beautiful women from around the world and use them as pawns to spread a dangerous virus that is capable of destroying 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. Assassinates Tracy di Vicenzo, Bond's newly married wife on their honeymoon.
Diamonds Are Forever	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	Charles Gray	Target nuclear stockpiles with the help of a space weapons platform, attached to a satellite and magnified by diamonds. The nuclear stockpiles will be of countries that refuse to pay him.	Bond smashes Blofeld's Mini-Sub multiple times like a wrecking ball against the control room of his lair, disabling the satellite.	Presumed to have died in the fiery demolition of the control room. (Unofficially returns in the opening of For Your Eyes Only where an unidentified wheelchair villain is dropped down a smokestack.)
Live and Let Die	Dr. Kananga / Mr.Big	Yaphet Kotto	Cause a heroin monopoly by distributing heroin internationally free-of-charge, forcing the other dealers into bankruptcy. Once this is done, he will go back to charging for his heroin.	Quarrel Jr. destroys Kananga's poppy fields with a series of explosives.	Compressed gas pellet forced down his throat, causing his body to rapidly inflate and explode.
The Man with the Golden Gun	Francisco Scaramanga	Christopher Lee	Accquire a device called the Solex Agitator, which is capable of controlling solar energy, and sell it to the highest bidder, and kill James Bond: the one man he considers his equal.	Bond retrieves the Agitator for MI6 and defeats Scaramanga in mortal combat.	Shot in the heart by Bond.
	Hai Fat	Richard Loo	To obtain the Solex Agitator.	Scaramanga steals the Solex Agitator for himself.	Shot by Scaramanga.
The Spy Who Loved Me	Karl Stromberg	Curt Jürgens	Capture a British submarine and a Soviet submarine and fire a nuclear warhead from both, luring Britain and the Soviet Union into a nuclear war and rebuild human civilizations underwater once the war is finished.	Bond redirects the British and Soviet nuclear missiles' coordinates so that the missile fired by each sub hits the other, destroying both.	Shot repeatedly by Bond.
Moonraker	Hugo Drax	Michael Lonsdale	Fire a nerve agent from space, poisoning Earth and killing the population. Rebuild humanity in space.	The space station containing the poisonous globes is destroyed by US Marines, and the three globes that were launched were destroyed by Bond and Holly Goodhead before they could release their payload.	Shot with a poisonous dart by Bond, and ejected into outer space.
For Your Eyes Only	Aristotle Kristatos	Julian Glover	Retrieve an ATAC device that is capable of controlling missiles for the Soviets; misinform Bond into killing Milos Columbo.	Bond joins forces with Columbo, and the pair infiltrate Kristatos' mountain hideout in Greece. Bond throws the ATAC device off a cliff and destroys it.	Stabbed in the back with throwing knife by Columbo.
	General Gogol	Walter Gotell	To acquire the ATAC device from Kristatos for the KGB.		Survives.
Octopussy	Prince Kamal Khan	Louis Jourdan	To aid General Orlov in his plan in exchange for being paid in jewels stolen from the Kremlin.	The jewels are recovered by the KGB.	Attempts to escape in plane, but Bond disables one of the rudders on the plane, causing Khan to crash it into a mountain.
	General Orlov	Steven Berkoff	Smuggle a bomb into a U.S Air Force Base in West Germany and detonate it, tricking Western powers into disarmament and allowing the Warsaw Pact to invade and conquer Western Europe without fear of retaliation.	Bond disarms the bomb.	While attempting to jump on Octopussy's circus train, he is shot and killed by East German border guards mistakenly believing he is trying to defect.
A View to a Kill	Max Zorin	Christopher Walken	Develop a bomb and activate it under Silicon Valley triggering an earthquake in California and monopolising the microchip market.	Zorin leaves May Day to die in the bomb blast. Enraged at his betrayal, she smuggles the bomb out of the blast radius, ensuring that no other damage is caused.	Falls to his death from the Golden Gate Bridge.
The Living Daylights	General Georgi Koskov	Jeroen Krabbé	Supply the Soviets with weapons for their continuing invasion of Afghanistan and misinform MI6 into killing General Pushkin.	Bond and Pushkin fake the latter's assassination and destroys the shipment of opium that Koskov was going to use to buy weapons from Brad Whitaker.	Arrested; implied to be executed by Pushkin's government offscreen.
	Brad Whitaker	Joe Don Baker	Engage in a triangle deal with Koskov and the Mujahadeen where Whitaker will get valuable opium to finance operations.	Bond destroys the shipment of opium, ruining the deal.	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	Smuggle cocaine.	Bond destroys his drug supply.	Bond uses the Leiters' cigarette lighter to set a petrol-soaked Sanchez alight; he stumbles into the trucks of petrol causing them and him to explode.
GoldenEye	Alec Trevelyan	Sean Bean	Hijack the GoldenEye satellite, rob the Bank of England before emitting an electro-magnetic pulse on London, covering up the theft of the money and causing a financial crisis in Britain.	Bond destroys the GoldenEye by sabotaging the ground transmitter, causing the GoldenEye to burn up on re-entry.	Dropped by Bond onto the floor of the satellite dish, somehow surviving but with a broken spine. Crushed a short time later by the falling antenna.
Tomorrow Never Dies	Elliot Carver	Jonathan Pryce	Fire a missile from a sunken British warship onto Beijing and arrange a broadcasting deal with the new government.	Bond destroys Carver's stealth boat in a massive explosion, destroying the missile needed to provoke the war.	Bond throws him in front of his own Sea-Vac drill, tearing him to shreds.
The World Is Not Enough	Elektra King	Sophie Marceau	Assassinate her father Robert King to take over his oil business; later expand her pipelines and monopolise the market due to Renard's submarine act.	Succeeds in killing her father, but is killed by Bond before Renard's plan can be fulfilled.	Bond shoots her in the chest.
	Renard	Robert Carlyle	Detonate a nuclear submarine in the waters of Istanbul destroying the city and allowing Elektra to develop her pipeline.	Bond prevents him from blowing up the submarine by blowing it up himself before Renard can fulfil his plan.	Impaled by a plutonium rod, shot out of the sub's reactor core at high speed, by Bond.
Die Another Day	Gustav Graves/Colonel Moon	Toby Stephens (Will Yun Lee)	Create a solar energy platform called Icarus to attack South Korea, then Japan, and eventually the rest of the world.	Icarus is rendered harmless when Bond destroys the control device.	Bond pulls the cord on his parachute, sucking him into his plane's engine.
Casino Royale	Le Chiffre	Mads Mikkelsen	Receive a sum of money from airline stock shares by destroying a prototype jetliner to give to his clients. Regain his clients' lost money by winning the money on the poker table at the Casino Royale.	Bond prevents the terrorist plot from being carried out by killing the bomber before he can destroy the jetliner. He then bankrupts Le Chiffre in an attempt to convince him to surrender to MI6 custody.	Shot in the forehead by Mr. White.
	Mr. White	Jesper Christensen	Act as the middleman in the distribution of funds between Le Chiffre and Steven Obanno.	Retrieves the money but gets captured by Bond.	Arrested by Bond.
	Steven Obanno	Isaach de Bankole	To hire Le Chiffre to make him money so as to help finance the Lord's Resistance Army.	Le Chiffre loses the money first in his failure to play the stock market and again when Bond bankrupts Le Chiffre in a game of poker.	Strangled to death by Bond.
Quantum of Solace	Dominic Greene	Mathieu Amalric	Contaminate and drought Bolivia's water supplies as part of a coup to rapidly inflate prices of water. The money will be used to finance new Quantum projects.	Bond intercepts Greene before he can carry out the coup.	Bond abandons him in the middle of the Bolivian desert, with nothing but a can of motor oil. He is later reported to have been shot by an anonymous assassin.
	General Medrano	Joaquin Cosio	To return to power in Bolivia with Quantum's help in exchange for supplying Quantum with resources.	Gets killed before he can return to power.	Shot in the chest by Camille.
	Gregg Beam	David Harbour	To capture Bond for the CIA in exchange for a deal being made with Quantum.	Bond evades capture.	Fired
	Mr. White	Jesper Christensen	To escape MI6 custody.	Succeeds.	Survives. Returns in Spectre where he shoots himself in the head after growing disillusioned with the organization.
Skyfall	Raoul Silva	Javier Bardem	Hack into MI6 and leak photos of agents onto YouTube, causing a major scandal and forcing M to resign, before murdering her as revenge for betraying him several years prior.	Indirectly succeeds. M is shot by Silva's henchman, but Silva himself dies before she succumbs to her wounds.	Bond throws a knife into his back, killing him.
Spectre	Ernst Stavro Blofeld/Franz Oberhauser	Christoph Waltz	Gain political power by bringing the world's intelligence agencies under his control through the "Nine Eyes" program; also kill Bond for supposedly stealing his father's love and for ruining several of his previous plans.	Q disables the "Nine Eyes" program before it can be activated. Bond survives being tortured by Blofeld, and blows up his data center by shooting at a gas pipe.	Captured by MI6.
	Max Denbigh/C	Andrew Scott	Gain political power by bring the world's intelligence agencies under his control through the "Nine Eyes" program.	Q disables the "Nine Eyes" program before it can be activated.	Knocked off of a balcony during a struggle with M and falls to his death.

Non-Eon works

Film	Villain	Portrayed by	Objective	Outcome	Fate
Casino Royale (1954 TV episode)	Le Chiffre	Peter Lorre	Escape bankruptcy with baccarat game.	Loses to Bond.	Shot by Bond.
Casino Royale (1967 film)	Dr. Noah/Jimmy Bond	Woody Allen	Use biological warfare to make all women beautiful, then wipe out all men bigger than him to make him get the girls.	Poisoned by The Detainer with his own atomic pill.	Blown up by pill.
	Le Chiffre	Orson Welles	Recover embezzled SMERSH funds in baccarat game.	Loses game to Evelyn Tremble.	Shot by SMERSH agents.
Never Say Never Again	Maximillian Largo	Klaus Maria Brandauer	Hold world powers for ransom with nuclear weapons.	The weapons are retrieved by Bond.	Shot in the back with harpoon by Domino.
	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	Max von Sydow			Survives. No contact with Bond.

Video game villains

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

Game	Villain	Portrayed by	Objective	Outcome	Fate
GoldenEye 007	Alec Trevelyan	Sean Bean (likeness)	Use Goldeneye to rob and destroy London.	Bond destroys Goldeneye's controls.	Falls to his death after Bond shoots him.
Tomorrow Never Dies	Elliot Carver	Jonathan Pryce (likeness) Andrew Burt (voice)	Fire a nuclear missile at Beijing, eliminating the current Chinese government in favour of politicians who will grant him exclusive broadcasting rights in China.	Bond aborts the missile launch.	Shot and killed by Bond. sky fall - shot at the back of the head by bond
James Bond 007	General Golgov	N/A	Use a nuclear holocaust to emerge as the ruler of the world.	Bond destroys Golgov's robot with a bazooka.	Dies in the explosion.
The World is Not Enough	Elektra King	Sophie Marceau (likeness) Sumalee Montano (voice)	Kill her father to take over his oil business, and then destroy İstanbul in a nuclear explosion to monopolise the oil market.	Succeeds in killing her father; however, Bond escapes captivity at Maiden's Tower and boards the nuclear submarine.	Shot and killed by Bond.
	Renard	Robert Carlyle (likeness) David Robb (voice)	Overload the reactor of a nuclear submarine to generate a nuclear explosion, destroying İstanbul and increasing the value of Elektra's oil.	Bond stops Renard from blowing up the nuclear submarine.	Impaled by a plutonium rod shot out of the sub's core at high speed by Bond.
007 Racing	Dr. Hammond Litte	Tim Bentinck	Smuggle stolen NATO warheads to terrorists via his automobile line, then later commit genocide using a deadly virus.	His smuggling operation is dissolved by Bond, and the plane carrying the virus is destroyed.	Presumably killed when Bond blows up his plane.
Agent Under Fire	Adrian Malprave	Corina Harmon	Kidnap the World Trade Leaders, create clones, kill the G8, then 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 Russia and the world by using a metal-eating nanobot army, then get revenge on Bond for the death of his mentor Max Zorin.	Bond destroys the nanobots.	Falls into a missile silo after Bond shoots Diavolo's control tower with a rocket launcher.
	Dr. Katya Nadanova	Heidi Klum	Supply Diavolo with her nanobots which are then engineered to eat through all metals except platinum, and work with her lover (Diavolo) to invade Russia using their nanobots.	Bond deactivates their nanotech weapons and destroys a helicopter containing Diavolo and Nadanova.	Dies in the explosion (Diavolo survives).
GoldenEye: Rogue Agent	Auric Goldfinger	Gert Fröbe (likeness) Enn Reitel (voice).	Use the OMEN virus to take over the world.	Goldeneye uses the virus against Goldfinger's forces.	Destroyed by OMEN virus set off by Goldeneye.
	Dr. Julius No	Joseph Wiseman (likeness) Carlos Alazraqui (voice).			Electrocuted in his own reactor.
	Number 1	Donald Pleasence (likeness) Gideon Emery (voice).	Manipulate Goldeneye into killing off his two liabilites, Dr. No and Goldfinger.	Succeeds.	Survives, no contact with Goldeneye.
From Russia with Love	Rosa Klebb	Lotte Lenya (likeness) Karly Rothenberg (voice)	Kill Bond and obtain the Lektor.	Bond survives and gets the Lektor to MI6.	Shot in the chest by Tatiana Romanova.
	Red Grant	Robert Shaw (likeness) Brian McCole (voice)			Bond shoots him with a Wright Magnum. OCTOPUS is believed to have fallen apart afterwards.
Quantum of Solace	Dominic Greene	Mathieu Amalric	Stage a coup d'état in Bolivia, to gain control of a piece of land rich in resources.	Camille kills General Medrano (Greene's associate who will execute the plan), and Bill Tanner, using hacking, bankrupts Greene, nullifying all of his efforts.	Killed in the gunfight by Bond.
GoldenEye 007 (2010 Remake)	Alec Trevelyan	Elliot Cowan	Use Goldeneye to rob and destroy London.	Bond destroys Goldeneye's controls.	Falls to his death after Bond shoots him.
Blood Stone	Stefan Pomerov	Laurentio Passa	Weaponise an antidote for smallpox and anthrax then release it upon the world.	Bond blows up his factory, then prevents his plane from releasing the toxin.	Blown out of his plane after Bond shoots the door open.
	Rak	James Goode	Aid in the kidnapping of scientists and sell their research.	Killed by Bond.	Shot by Bond, causing him to fire a rocket at his plane, which thus explodes, killing him.
	Nicole Hunter	Joss Stone	Organise the kidnapping of scientists.	Bond discovers her connection with the kidnapping plot and chases after her.	Shot by an unmanned drone controlled by her "boss".
007: Legends	Auric Goldfinger	Gert Fröbe (likeness) Timothy Watson (voice)	Irradiate the gold supply of Fort Knox with a bomb.	The bomb is disabled.	Blown out of plane window.
	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	Glenn Wrage	Blackmail the UN with the threat of a deadly virus that will wipe out all livestock and cereals.	The base is destroyed by Bond.	Thrown out of cable car by Bond and presumed dead. Later fires at James Bond and his wife, Tracey Bond, in an act of revenge, killing the latter.
	Franz Sanchez	Robert Davi (likeness) Robert Davi (voice)	Smuggle drugs.	The shipment is attacked by Bond.	Set on fire by Bond and burns to death.
	Gustav Graves	Toby Stephens	Invade South Korea using the Icarus.	Icarus is disabled.	Sucked into plane engine.
	Hugo Drax	Michael Lonsdale	Kill the entire human race, then rebuild in outer space.	The space station is destroyed by Bond.	Blown out of airlock and suffocated.
	Patrice	Ola Rapace	Kill MI6 agents in İstanbul, and assassinate a man in Shanghai.	Succeeds, but is killed by Bond.	Dropped off of a skyscraper by Bond.

Villainous organisations

• SMERSH – SMiERt SHpionam, "Death to Spies," Bond's original nemesis in the novels, though only taking an active role in the 1967 film Casino Royale and only briefly mentioned in the others (apparently disbanded 20 years before the events of The Living Daylights). The Soviet agency is in charge of assassination, loosely based on the real-life SMERSH.
• 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 independent terrorist organisation is headed by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. In the 2015 film, Spectre, 007 digs deep into the organisation and tries to get payback for his beloved M (Judi Dench), the organisation is headed by Franz Oberhauser.
• The Spangled Mob – Bond's enemy in the novel Diamonds Are Forever, which also appears in Goldfinger and The Man with the Golden Gun. The mob is an American Mafia family based in Las Vegas.
• Drax Metals – Hugo Drax's company.
• Stromberg Shipping Line – Karl Stromberg's organisation.
• Zorin Enterprises – Max Zorin's industrial conglomerate.
• Entreprises Auric A.G. – Auric Goldfinger's organisation.
• KGB – Soviet intelligence agency.
• Janus Syndicate – Alec Trevelyan's vehemently anti-British terrorist organisation in GoldenEye.
• CMGN – Carver Media Group Network, Elliot Carver's self-made media empire in Tomorrow Never Dies.
• The Scales of Justice – A movement in John Gardner's The Man from Barbarossa.
• Yakuza – Japanese crime gang in the novel The Man with the Red Tattoo.
• COLD – The Children of Last Days, a terrorist organisation that Bond faces in the novel COLD.
• The Union – A villainous organisation in Raymond Benson's novels High Time to Kill, Doubleshot, and Never Dream of Dying.
• OCTOPUS – Replaces SPECTRE in the video game adaptation of From Russia with Love for copyright reasons.
• BAST – Brotherhood of Anarchy and Secret Terrorism, featured in the novel Win, Lose or Die.
• Quantum – A shadowy criminal organisation seen in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. The organisation is strictly apolitical—but with considerable political influence of their own—and will deal with anyone whose interests converge with their own. Known members of the organisation include an extensive network of current and former politicians, business people and intelligence agents. One of their leading members, Dominic Greene, leads a cover organisation called Greene Planet. In Spectre (2015), the organisation is revealed as a division within SPECTRE rather than an independent group.
• SCUM – Stands for "Saboteurs and Criminals United in Mayhem," the main villainous organisation in the James Bond Jr. series.
• TAROT – Technological Accession, Revenge and Organized Terror, the replacement for SPECTRE in the James Bond Roleplaying Game produced by Victory Games from 1983-1987.

Henchmen

Main article: List of James Bond henchmen

See also

• Outline of James Bond