History Characters / LiveandLetDie

->'''Played by:''' Creator/{{Jane Seymour|Actress}}

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

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

->'''Played by:''' Creator/YaphetKotto
->'''Played by:''' Creator/MedHondo (European French)

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

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

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

* TheLoad: She's a rookie agent who's useless to Bond's investigation; however much of this is likely ObfuscatingStupidity.

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

->'''Played by:''' Creator/ArnoldWilliams\\
'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/GerardHernandez (European French)

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

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

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: While "Mr Big" is a character from the book, the "Dr Kananga" side of him is based on notorious UsefulNotes/{{Haiti}}an dictator Francois Duvalier aka "Papa Doc," both using and abusing Voodoo to maintain an iron grip on their subjects (Kananga also has Baron Samedi as an ally / underling, while Duvalier claimed to actually ''be'' Baron Samedi), both possessing doctorates, both being tyrannical rulers of Caribbean island nations etc. The Kananga name itself however comes from Ross Kananga, the real-life owner of the crocodile farm featured in the movie.

* MysteriousBacker: It's implied she send Bond a tarot card warning him that Rosie Carver was leading him to his death.

* OlderThanTheyLook: He apparently knew both Solitaire's mother and grandmother when they were virgins; assuming he's roughly the same age as the grandmother and that both women had their daughters in their twenties, Kananga would have to be at least in his mid-to-late sixties. Like many things in the film, it's [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane deliberately left ambiguous]] whether he's just naturally young-looking of has been preserving his youth through mystical means.

[[folder: Solitaire]]

[[folder: Strutter]]

* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: He is killed by Kananga's henchmen with the funeral procession trick in New Orleans.]]

* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: The audience gets to know little about him before his death.]]

[[folder: Quarrel Jr.]]

[[folder: Dr. Kananga / Mr. Big]]

* PopGoesTheHuman: [[spoiler: Dr. Kananga's demise is certainly the most ridiculously unrealistic of all Bond villains. Bond forces him to swallow a pellet of compressed air. The pellet unloads in Kananga's throat, and causes him to swell up like a balloon and rise up to the air until he explodes. [[BloodlessCarnage With no blood, bones or flesh left]].]] This leaves Bond to quip the following:

[[folder: Tee-Hee]]

[[folder: Baron Samedi]]

A tall and mysterious henchman working for Kananga. He has strange ties to the Voodoo cult on San Monique and plays the role of [[UsefulNotes/{{Voudoun}} Baron Samedi]], the Voodoo loa of cemeteries, in a show for tourists as well as during the {{Human Sacrifice}}s on San Monique. [[spoiler: The final shot of the film suggests [[RealAfterAll he was a lot more than just a tourist attraction.]]]]

* AmbiguouslyHuman:[[spoiler: In a rare case for the James Bond franchise, it's never made clear whether he’s the real Loa or just a charismatic human. The ending heavily implies the former.]]

* EvilLaugh: Geoffrey Holder's trademark laugh. A particularly strange and memorable one. [[spoiler: He even ends the film with it.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: If we are led to believe that he was the real, genuine Baron Samedi, then it can be inferred that he was either merely pretending to be a minion of Kananga, or was never really a minion at all.]]

* KarmaHoudini: Bond beats him up and throws him into a coffin filled with poisonous snakes, seemingly killing him. [[spoiler: He appears on the engine of Bond's train, alive and well, laughing and tipping his hat before the end credits roll.]]

* PaperTiger: Bond dispatches him with ease. [[spoiler: For a certain value of "dispatch."]]

* WhamShot: [[spoiler: The final scene where he is alive, well, and laughing at the front of a speeding train implies that he really ''was'' the ''actual'' Baron Samedi all along.]]

[[folder: Rosie Carver]]

* {{Expy}}: For Film/{{Coffy}}, or almost any woman in a {{Blaxploitation}} movie.

[[folder: Whisper]]

[[folder: Cab Driver]]

->'''Played by:''' Creator/ArnoldWilliams
->'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/GerardHernandez (European French)

[[folder: Adam]]

[[folder: Ms. Caruso]]

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: He masquerades under the guise of only wanting the best for the inhabitants of San Monigue.

* VillainousCrush: It's implied he has one on Solitaire, as evidenced when he rants at her for sleeping with Bond, he says that she knew that ''he'' "would have gave her love when the time was right." Sheesh, you really expect a girl to wait that long, Kananga?

* ButNotTooBlack: Alone among Mr. Big's henchmen, it is implied he may not be completely black. His skin is described as "tan" and his FunetikAksent is a Southern drawl rather than African-American Vernacular.

* ButNotTooBlack: Half-French.

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[[caption-width-right:350: [-''"Your champagne, sir!"''-]]]

[[folder: The Cab Driver]]

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

* VillainousBreakdown: The only time he really gets mad was when he lambastes Solitaire for losing her powers.

* BuxomIsBetter: She's got a very ample cleavage.

* SimpleYetAwesome: His plan. No complex schemes or devices, just a straightforward plan to take over the drug market in the U.S. and it would've worked had Bond not interfered.

* MysteriousBacker: It's implied she send Bond a tarot card warning him that Rose Carver was leading him to his death. Fortunately Bond goes to a tarot store to find out the meaning of the message, and takes it seriously.

* TheLoad: She's a rookie agent who's useless to Bond's investigation; however much of this is likely deliberate.
* TheMole: Secretly working for Kananga to lure Bond into a trap.

%%* ScaryBlackMan: You don't want him after you.

* BadLiar: She turns into this the moment she and Bond step into the island of San Monique.
* CrazyPrepared: Is wise enough to at least have a gun handy when trying to dispose of Bond or when she suspects something's afoot with Quarrel.

* MsFanservice: She has a WalkingSwimsuitScene oin Quarrel Jr.'s boat and ''very'' short white dress [[VaporWear with nothing underneath]] while on the island.
* TheLoad: All around useless in Bond's investigation, though you could handwave this as due to her being TheMole.

* TheLoad: All around useless in Bond's investigation. Unless you're Kananga.

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: His many bizarre methods of assassination and execution seem designed to create some degree of plausible deniability, as well as to sow fear among his enemies. [[AluminiumChristmasTrees Russia and North Korea are known to employ similar methods for the same reasons.]]

%%* EvilSorcerer: Or just a very good performer.

* KnifeNut: At the end of the film he cuts a captive Bond's arm with a knife to draw blood for attracting sharks, then when Bond gets free Kananga comes at him with the knife and shows off both some elaborate knife fighting techniques as well as a gleeful joy at slicing people. Bond manages to disarm him pretty easily though.

%%* SoftSpokenSadist

* NiceHat: Top hats. And the one he wears when he enters in Kananga's hideout under the ''Fillet of Soul'' restaurant.