History Characters / AViewToAKill

* EvilutionaryBiologist: He tells Bond that he thinks his principles in horse breeding could be equally applied to humans. It's later discovered that he did in fact experiment on concentration camp inmates with steroid injections to breed the "perfect" human. Instead, he ended up creating a generation of incredibly intelligent psychopaths, Zorin being one of them.

* TheSocialDarwinist: He's a Mengele expy who partook in a Nazi SuperBreedingProgram to create {{Super Soldier}}s. His quote about selective breeding has shades of Social Darwinism, commenting on how such principles can be also applied to create the "ideal" human.

* FreudianExcuse: The reason why he's sociopathic to begin with is because he's the end result of a Nazi SuperBreedingProgram that attempted to create DesignerBabies near the end of WWII. The few babies who survived became talented later in life -- [[TheSociopath but also totally devoid of any empathy]] as the Nazis used massive doses of steroids, which corroded their brains.

[[folder: Sir Godfrey Tibbett]]

[[folder: Kimberly Jones]]

[[folder: Stacey Sutton]]

-->'''Bond''': Hello. I thought you might like to join the party. By the way, the name is James St. John Smythe. [[IAmVeryBritish I'm English.]]
-->'''Stacey''': I never would have guessed.

[[folder: Chuck Lee]]

[[folder: Max Zorin]]

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He wants to [[spoiler: flood Silicon Valley]], causing the death of millions just so he can [[spoiler: monopolize the microchip market]].

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: He falls off the Golden Gate Bridge.]]
* DyingSmirk: [[spoiler: Max Zorin lets out a small burst of psychotic laughter after realizing he's gonna fall after his confrontation with Bond. Then he does a brief OhCrap face as he falls to his watery death.]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: He's very cheerful in public. Likewise when he [[spoiler: plans to have millions killed and mows down his own workers]].

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: He falls in the water from a great height, similar to the investor he had killed earlier.]]

[[folder: May Day]]

-->'''Bond''': May Day, where have you been? I've been waiting for you... to take care of me, personally.
-->''[May Day enters the room quietly and stands naked before Bond.]''
-->'''Bond''': I see you're a woman of very few words.
-->'''May Day''': What's there to say?
%%* DeathGlare: Very often.

* DyingSmirk: While rolling out of [[spoiler: Zorin's mine on the bomb that's about to explode]], she's laughing, knowing that she's helping [[spoiler:screw over Zorin ''hard'' after what he pulled]]. Though it fades right before [[spoiler:the bomb goes off, as she sees Zorin's blimp and shoots him one last DeathGlare.]]

[[folder: Carl Mortner]]

[[folder: Scarpine]]

[[folder: Bob Conley]]

---> '''Bob:''' ''[upon realizing that Zorin is going to detonate the explosives early]'' But Mayday... ''and my men!''\\

[[folder: Pola Ivanova]]

[[folder: Achille Aubergine]]

* FriendOnTheForce: He's a PrivateDetective who gives valuable information to Bond [[spoiler: before he's assassinated by May Day.]]

* PrivateDetective: His job. [[spoiler: It ends getting him killed.]]

[[folder: W. G. Howe]]

->'''Played by:''' Creator/PatrickMacnee

->'''Played by:''' Creator/MaryStavin

->'''Played by:''' Creator/TanyaRoberts

->'''Played by:''' Creator/DavidYip

->'''Played by:''' Creator/ChristopherWalken

->'''Played by:''' Creator/GraceJones

->'''Played by:''' Willoughby Gray

->'''Played by:''' Creator/PatrickBauchau

->'''Played by:''' Creator/ManningRedwood

-> '''Played by:''' Creator/AlisonDoody (Jenny Flex), Papillon Soo Soo (Pan Ho)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/FionaFullerton

->'''Played by:''' Jean Rougerie

->'''Played by:''' Creator/DanielBenzali

* AllThereInTheManual: According to the script, Stacey is in her early thirties, which matches Tanya Roberts age at the time of the film's release (30 years old).

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: After stopping Zorin's evil plan, Bond sees the villain kidnapping Stacey in an airship. Instead of asking for reinforcements, Bond simply grabs a rope, flying off in the airship by San Francisco, and not giving up until he saved Stacey from Zorin.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Stacey is gorgeous, a wonderful person and very lovely.

A [=MI6=] field operative and horse specialist with a knighthood, who helps Bond when he infiltrates Zorin's villa and stable.

* ActionSurvivor: On one hand, Sutton despair and screams frequently and at one point fails to notice Zorin sneaking up on her ''in a freaking zeppelin''. On the other hand, she does manage to discover Zorin's plan, to take out Scarpine out of nowhere and does ''intentionally'' distract Zorin during the fight at the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, and threatens intruders with a shotgun (loaded with rock salt). And the fact that she survived all this is already worthy of applause.
* AgeGapRomance: Roger Moore was 22 years older than Tanya Roberts. Lampshaded out-of-universe by Moore himself, who admits in interviews that he realize he should've retired as Bond after realizing he's older than the Tanya Roberts' ''mother''.

->'''Played by:''' Manning Redwood

* FatalFlaw: Zorin's AxCrazy [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] behavior proves to be his biggest flaw, [[spoiler:as by the end of the movie his plans have been ruined by May Day, who survived his betrayal, and whatever remaining sanity he had has been completely whittled to the point that he literally wields an ax, trying to hack Bond to death during the climatic final battle at the top of the Golden Gate Bridge.]]

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: He murders the ObstructiveBureaucrat in his pocket to frame Bond for the crime, machine guns his own men to death and blows up and floods the mine they were in to kill anyone else who escapes his massacre, as well as two of his assistants and his own girlfriend. He's supposedly a KGB agent but after they helped set him up as a millionaire industrialist, he abandoned them too, and they hated him so much they gave Bond the Order of Lenin for foiling his scheme and killing him.
** If anything, the only person he has even a semblance of loyalty or genuine affection for is [[spoiler:Dr. Mortner and possibly also his main dragon, Scarpine]].
* CoolAirship[=/=]DreadZeppelin: His airship may look like a boring old blimp, but does yours unfold from a construction shack and come with an integrated deathtrap? Max even gets to make a BondOneLiner.

* DamselInDistress: One of the most remembered parts of the film is her screaming "Jaaaaames!" a ''lot'' at an incredible high pitch. At least she fights back in the climax and even shows determination in fighting back against Zorin beforehand.

* DistressedDamsel: Stacey is kidnapped by the Zorin at the end and must be rescued by Bond.

* HerrDoktor: He's a Mengele-sque Nazi scientist from the war, responsible for experiments on women in concentration camps, resulting with highly intelligent, and psychotic offspring. Zorin is one of them.

* TheSocialDarwinist: He's a Mengele expy who partook in a SuperBreedingProgram to create {{Super Soldier}}s for the Nazi Reich. His quote about selective breeding has shades of Social Darwinism, commenting on how such principles can be also applied to create the "ideal" human.

* DeathBySex: May Day makes sex with Bond in the middle of the film, and after her HeelFaceTurn, she pulls a HeroicSacrifice to take Max Zorin down and avenge the deaths of her workmates, whom he killed when they weren't useful anymore.
* DeathGlare: Very often. See the picture.

* HotScientist: A young, blonde haired geologist.

->'''Played by:''' Daniel Benzali

* AgeGapRomance: Roger Moore was 22 years older than Tanya Roberts.

[[caption-width-right:300:''"It's an honor to work with 007."'']]

* AgeGapRomance: Roger Moore was 28 years older than Tanya Roberts.

* TemporarySubstiute: His role was supposed to go to Felix Leiter, until the filmmakers decided to take advantage of San Francisco's Chinatown.

-> '''Played by:''' Allison Doody and Papillon Soo Soo

* VillainousFriendship: The two women are accomplices to multiple murders but seem to be genuinely close with May Day and each other.

->'''Played by:''' David Yip