Real life Bond villans.

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  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,449MI6 Agent
    Although Robert Maxwell is the obvious one for Elliot Carver, I see current media baron Rupert Murdoch as a better comparison, especially if you look at his appearance in the 1970s, compared to Jonathan Pryce's appearance in the film.
    I have a soft spot for TND, it was released while I was half way though my time at college studying media, so the type of baddie and his media obsessions resonates with me.

    Mind you, it resonates now with the blatant over-Tory biased bilge that the BBC and papers are spewing at the moment. too!

    Well it must be the first time that the BBC has ever had a Tory bias! :o

    Don't believe a word of it!
    :)) I was thinking the same thing. I hope the BBC get taken to task over supplying hard line lefties for every political debate audience.
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  • Le SamouraiLe Samourai Honolulu, HIPosts: 573MI6 Agent
    Here a few off the top of my head. To keep things simple, I skipped heads of state and villains who are already dead.

    Peter Thiel: Anti-women’s suffrage, anti-democracy hi-tech plutocrat. Created troubling mass-surveillance-software technology. Currently trying to build floating cities to house his vision of a new society. Hopes to prolong his life with infusions of fresh blood from young people. Working on developing potentially humanity-destroying AI.

    Erik Prince: Millionaire, professional mercenary, founder of the notorious Blackwater. Linked with massacres of civilians in the past, currently works with some very bad people in Africa and elsewhere.

    Luis Posada Carriles: CIA-backed terrorist linked to a campaign of bombings in Cuba in 1997, the bombing of Cubana Flight 455 in 1976, as well as attempts to overthrow the Guatemalan government in 1965. Also suspected of drug trafficking and plotting to assassinate Henry Kissinger. Currently enjoying retirement in Miami.
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  • PPK 7.65mmPPK 7.65mm Saratoga Springs NY USAPosts: 1,227MI6 Agent
    edited August 2017
    Another person who defiantly belongs on this list is Pablo Escobar, the inspiration for Franz Sanchez in Licence To Kill.

    His cartel was estimated to have supplied 80% of the Cocaine smuggled into the United States at the height of his career, this earned him over $ 21.9 billion in personal income. After becoming wealthy, Escobar created or bought numerous residences and safe houses, with the Hacienda Nápoles gaining significant notoriety. The luxury house contained a colonial house, a sculpture park, and a complete zoo with animals from various continents, including elephants, exotic birds, giraffes, and hippopotamuses.Escobar also owned a home in the US under his own name: a 6500 square foot, pink, waterfront mansion situated at 5860 North Bay Road in Miami Beach, Florida. The four-bedroom estate, built in 1948 on Biscayne Bay, was seized by the government in the 1980s. Escobar also owned a massive Caribbean getaway on Isla Grande, the largest of the cluster of the 27 coral cluster islands comprising Islas del Rosario, located approximately 22 miles from Cartagena. The compound, now half-demolished and overtaken by vegetation and wild animals, featured a mansion, apartments, courtyards, a large swimming pool, a helicopter landing pad, reinforced windows, tiled floors, and a large, unfinished building to the side of the mansion.

    In addition to his wealth, he was known to bribe judges and other government officials as well as murder law enforcement personnel who attempted to interfere with his cartel. In fact the phrase plata o plomo (Latin for sliver or lead) was coined by him, and mentioned by Felix Leiter in the film.
  • canoe2canoe2 Posts: 2,007MI6 Agent
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Trump pulling out of the Paris Accord on Climate Change. That puts him in the same league as Stromberg and Drax.
    Actually, he might not believe in climate change because he already has an "Atlantis" set up and ready to go (aka Miami).

    I can just see a big glass dome coming out of the ground to cover Mar a Largo as the oceans come rushing in ...
  • Matt SMatt S Oh Cult Voodoo ShopPosts: 6,596MI6 Agent
    canoe2 wrote:
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Trump pulling out of the Paris Accord on Climate Change. That puts him in the same league as Stromberg and Drax.
    Actually, he might not believe in climate change because he already has an "Atlantis" set up and ready to go (aka Miami).

    I can just see a big glass dome coming out of the ground to cover Mar a Largo as the oceans come rushing in ...

    That will be one of the first places to go. It probably won't go under during his lifetime, but he doesn't care about whether or not his children will have it. There's a true villain. He doesn't even care about his children.
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    Trump contemptuously quoting London's Mayor out of context, denouncing him as "pathetic" for rising above the smear, arguing that 'mainstream media' is covering for Sadiq Khan and implying (let's face it) that the fact Sadiq's a Muslim is somehow an issue.

    All that makes Trump more sleazy than Elliot Carver.
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,704MI6 Agent
    Matt S wrote:
    canoe2 wrote:
    Actually, he might not believe in climate change because he already has an "Atlantis" set up and ready to go (aka Miami).

    I can just see a big glass dome coming out of the ground to cover Mar a Largo as the oceans come rushing in ...

    That will be one of the first places to go. It probably won't go under during his lifetime, but he doesn't care about whether or not his children will have it. There's a true villain. He doesn't even care about his children.

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  • Dirty PunkerDirty Punker ...Your Eyes Only, darling."Posts: 2,587MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    Matt S wrote:
    canoe2 wrote:

    I can just see a big glass dome coming out of the ground to cover Mar a Largo as the oceans come rushing in ...

    That will be one of the first places to go. It probably won't go under during his lifetime, but he doesn't care about whether or not his children will have it. There's a true villain. He doesn't even care about his children.

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    It's obviously a decoy. Classic misdirection.
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  • SFPROPSSFPROPS USAPosts: 380MI6 Agent
    George Soros. Billionaire giving money to organizations causing chaos, which he then profits from. If there was ever a real-life Bond villian, it would be him. In a lot of ways it seems to echo the new take on Blofeld.

    Living in the US, and not being as familar with Maxwell, I always assumed that Carver was based on Murdoch.
  • Le SamouraiLe Samourai Honolulu, HIPosts: 573MI6 Agent
    SFPROPS wrote:
    George Soros. Billionaire giving money to organizations causing chaos, which he then profits from. If there was ever a real-life Bond villian, it would be him. In a lot of ways it seems to echo the new take on Blofeld.

    Living in the US, and not being as familar with Maxwell, I always assumed that Carver was based on Murdoch.

    What "organizations causing chaos" are you referring to? To the best of my knowledge, most of the organizations Soros funds support democracy, freedom of information, and drug policy reform.
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,704MI6 Agent
    I think we should be careful not to make this thread political. And the warning comes from me of all people :o
  • Gassy ManGassy Man USAPosts: 2,972MI6 Agent
    Putin could easily fit.

    But I think we could look at more subtle forms, too. Anyone who is power hungry and hopes to control people for his or her benefit has the essentials of a Bond villain, even though we might consider them "captains of industry." Today's despot is less likely to be some political leader and more likely to be a corporate CEO who hopes to dominate a marketplace at the expense of customers and national borders, monopolizing business, destroying competition, and skirting or perverting laws.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,061MI6 Agent
    Trump couldn't be a Bond villain. He's clearly a 60's Batman villain.
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  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 SwitzerlandPosts: 870MI6 Agent
    chrisisall wrote:
    Trump couldn't be a Bond villain. He's clearly a 60's Batman villain.


    I'd kind of agree on that....but....haven't you noticed that Silva looks quite a bit like a younger Trump :)) :)) and what about Max Zorin ?
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  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,061MI6 Agent
    chrisisall wrote:
    Trump couldn't be a Bond villain. He's clearly a 60's Batman villain.


    I'd kind of agree on that....but....haven't you noticed that Silva looks quite a bit like a younger Trump :)) :)) and what about Max Zorin ?
    They were at least grown-ups.
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  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 SwitzerlandPosts: 870MI6 Agent
    chrisisall wrote:
    chrisisall wrote:
    Trump couldn't be a Bond villain. He's clearly a 60's Batman villain.


    I'd kind of agree on that....but....haven't you noticed that Silva looks quite a bit like a younger Trump :)) :)) and what about Max Zorin ?
    They were at least grown-ups.


    yes and as insane as Mr. T. :p
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  • eric7064eric7064 USAPosts: 343MI6 Agent
    Putin just has the look of a Bond villain to me
  • Dirty PunkerDirty Punker ...Your Eyes Only, darling."Posts: 2,587MI6 Agent
    eric7064 wrote:
    Putin just has the look of a Bond villain to me
    Now that you brought up Putin, he sort of reminds me of Kronsteen from "From Russia With Love".
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  • BruceMurdockBruceMurdock OhioPosts: 133MI6 Agent
    Thomas Newman. :))
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  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 SwitzerlandPosts: 870MI6 Agent
    Thomas Newman. :))



    :)) :)) :)) best one I heard so far! -{ -{ :D
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  • Cam008Cam008 Posts: 45MI6 Agent
    I'm going with the N-Korean f***wit and his forebears, but they don't qualify as nearly smart enough.
  • GrindelwaldGrindelwald Posts: 1,294MI6 Agent
    "There's a true villain. He doesn't even care about his children"

    Getting off topic but you wanna know who's a jerk ?

    Elton John (his poor brother lives in a shed in Wales , even worse Elton didn't even bother to turn up to his fathers funeral)
  • Mr SnowMr Snow Station "J" JamaicaPosts: 1,736MI6 Agent
    "There's a true villain. He doesn't even care about his children"

    Getting off topic but you wanna know who's a jerk ?

    Elton John (his poor brother lives in a shed in Wales , even worse Elton didn't even bother to turn up to his fathers funeral)

    From what I gather Elton John was an only child. As for not attending his father's funeral that surely is his choice. I think they had a very strained relationship at best and it really is his call.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    edited September 2018
    Agreed, I don't know much about Sir Elton, apart from his talent. -{ but many families have
    long lasting arguments and vendettas. So without knowing the full facts it would be wrong to
    blame one person. ( Just my opinion ) In my own life, I have two older Brothers who I have
    not spoken to in years, or rather they have cut off contact with me. They have never come to
    see my children, etc. So I will attend their funerals but I won't be going to any meal etc afterwards
    as that would be hypocrisy, and I don't count myself as a villain, ………… ………………...
    ...…. although I'd love to be a Bond villain. ;)
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,704MI6 Agent
    edited September 2018
    Oskar Dirlewanger: Child molester, psycopath and leader of one of the worst Waffen-SS units in WWII, a penal unit. This was a truely despicable human being.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Dirlewanger


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  • GrindelwaldGrindelwald Posts: 1,294MI6 Agent
    Agreed, I don't know much about Sir Elton, apart from his talent. -{ but many families have
    long lasting arguments and vendettas. So without knowing the full facts it would be wrong to
    blame one person. ( Just my opinion ) In my own life, I have two older Brothers who I have
    not spoken to in years, or rather they have cut off contact with me. They have never come to
    see my children, etc. So I will attend their funerals but I won't be going to any meal etc afterwards
    as that would be hypocrisy, and I don't count myself as a villain, ………… ………………...
    ...…. although I'd love to be a Bond villain. ;)

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1335561/Sad-lonely-Elton-secret-brother-hates-music-spoken-star-20-years.html
  • dr. evan-gelistdr. evan-gelist SheffieldPosts: 398MI6 Agent
    Alexander Litvenjenko ( forgive the spelling)
    Sepp Blatter
    Vladimir Putin (gen gogol type)
    Arafat
    Fidel Castro (octopussy pre credits)
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