History Characters / SkyFall

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: He's not mentioned at all in ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', which follows the event of ''Skyfall''. Given that Skyfall Manor was blown up, he's out of a job and with Finney's passing, it's unlikely he'll ever be seen again.

** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] since Kincade was unaware of James being a world-class spy. He is visibly shocked on seeing James' ace shooting when practicing with guns.

* ParentalSubstitute: There are hints he served as a paternal figure for James after the death of the Bonds. Also compliments James having M as a maternal figure.

--> '''Kincade:''' What did you say you did for a living?

--> '''Silva:''' [[spoiler:You're hurt. You're hurt! What have they done to you? What have they done to you? ''[puts his gun in her hand]'' Free us both. With the same bullet. Only you can do it. Do it! Do it!]]

--->'''Computer Screen''': Think on your sins.

--->'''M:''' Your name is on the memorial wall of the very building you attacked. I will have it struck off. Soon, your past will be as non-existent as your future.

--> '''Bond:''' You put on a good show, but ever since we sat down, you haven't stopped looking at your bodyguards.

* CoolGuns: His custom-built sniper rifle. Not to mention his Glock 18 [[MoreDakka with a 100-round Beta C-Mag]] that fires depleted uranium rounds.

* MeaningfulName: His real first name, [[spoiler:Tiago]], is the Portuguese form of [[spoiler:[[ShadowArchetype James]]]]. His last name, "Rodriguez" means "Rich in worth" which makes sense given his brilliant abilities and the fact that M herself acknowledges that he was "a brilliant agent." His codename, Raoul Silva, is also an anagram of "[[EvilCounterpart Rival Soul]]."

* BatmanGambit: His EvilPlan exploits various MI-6 protocols to further itself. [[spoiler:Silva knows that [=MI6=] will eventually identify and arrest him, so he spends years planning around his inevitable capture; come the day of his escape, he counter-hacks [=MI6=] and abuses M's overconfidence to close in and assassinate her.]]

* ItsPersonal: He goes out of his way to humiliate MI-6 and M especially before trying to eliminate them.

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

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

->'''Played by:''' Ola Rapace

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

* StepfordSmiler: Has an uneasy smile when she meets Bond in Macau, tries seem amicable and serene, but Bond sees through it.

* SexSlave: She was MadeASlave at a young age and apparently [[DamselInDistress looked to Silva to save her]], only to discover that [[OutOfTheFryingPan Silvia is much more terrifying]] and she is his virtual prisoner.

* SmokingIsGlamorous: A rare tribute to the earlier films and the novels, where almost everyone smoked.
* StepfordSmiler: When she meets Bond in Macau, she tries seem amicable and serene, though Bond sees through it with ease.

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Silva was sold out to the Chinese and left for dead by [=MI6=], which triggers his wish to destroy them. However, M points out if he hadn't gone rogue, she wouldn't have ''had'' to sell him out. Silva may come off as a TragicVillain, but he is also a psychotic monster who is the victim of his own behavior who irrationally engineers a terrorist campaign solely out of petty revenge against one person, and the OffstageVillainy he alludes to is implied to be even worse, funding a decadent lifestyle via crashing financial markets, orchestrating terrorist attacks or causing and faking disasters.

* SocialDarwinist: He relates a childhood story to a captive James Bond, describing how he spent time with his grandmother on an island, where she taught him how to rid the island of its rat infestation by capturing them in oil drums. He utilizes the image of the trapped rats turning to cannibalism as a metaphor for what the life of a spy does to its participants - namely himself.

!!Séverine

* ColdSniper: Conducts a sniper kill shortly before his death. [[spoiler:It's possible just a set up to attract the attention of Bond]].

* MadeASlave: She was made a SexSlave at a young age.

* SexSlave: She was made one at a young age and apparently [[DamselInDistress looked to Silva to save her]], only to discover that [[OutOfTheFryingPan Silvia is much more terrifying]] and she is his virtual prisoner.

* StepfordSmiler: When she meets Bond in Macau. Though Bond sees through it with ease.

* BoringButPractical: He specializes in hacking elaborate computer networks, and rigs ''London itself'' into a deathtrap to escape Bond and reach M's hearing

* UncannyValley: An {{Invoked|Trope}} and JustifiedTrope. His smile seems... off, and then we learn [[spoiler:that he tried to poison himself with cyanide, so [[RedRightHand those aren't even his real teeth and that the top left portion of his face is sunken in to give a skeletal appearance]].]]

* AmbiguousDisorder: Silva displays a lot of traits of Borderline personality disorder. He's prone to volatile mood swings, suicide attempts and vacillates wildly between periods of idealisation and devaluation specifically with regards to M. Although he hates her and wants to kill her, he's still in love with her, hesitates to kill her when given the chance and is hurt upon seeing that she has been wounded. He has a fear of abandonment as demonstrated by the fact that he didn't attempt suicide because he couldn't stand being tortured anymore, but because he realised that M had abandoned him. He manages to sexualise nearly every conversation and situation and even before his FaceHeelTurn engaged in reckless, potentially self-destructive behaviour, as shown by him taking on the Chinese despite being advised not to. All of these traits give him an undeniable similarity to another Hollywood hero-turned-villain diagnosed with BPD, namely Darth Vader.

* CoolGuns: His custom-built sniper rifle. Not to mention his [[CoolGuns/MachinePistols Glock 18]] [[MoreDakka with a 100-round Beta C-Mag]] that fires depleted uranium rounds.