History Characters / Skyfall

* DarkSkinnedBlond: A blond Hispanic man.

->''"They sold the place when they thought your were dead. It seems they were wrong."''

* AllThereInTheScript: His first name is never used in the movie itself. Even the credits list him simply as "Silva".

-->'''Silva:''' Ooh! See what she's done to you?
-->'''Bond:''' Well, she never tied me to a chair.
-->'''Silva:''' Her loss.

* BadBoss: Enters the courtroom with two henchmen. One gets shot by Mallory. He shoots the other in frustration after Bond helps M escape the scene before leaving. This is after he shoots Severine earlier in the film as well.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Posthumously. M dies from her wounds inflicted by his men.]] In fact, he's the ''only'' Bond villain in franchise history to squarely win by the end of the film. [[spoiler:Even though he died, he still brought the entire intelligence community to its knees and had M killed. His death does little to mitigate his victory, since he clearly had no intention of living through the ordeal anyway.]]

* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: He was captured and tortured for months on end but he refused to give up any information, [[spoiler:until he realized M sold him out and he subsequently tried to commit suicide. Instead of dying he ended up horribly disfigured. Still clinging to life, he realized vengeance against M is now all he has left]].

* TheCracker: He moves forward with a lot of his plans by hacking into a massive amount of networks including [=MI6=].

* CuttingTheKnot: [[spoiler:After all his fancy misdirection and techno-tricks fail to kill M, Silva just sends a bunch of men with guns. [[SubvertedTrope Which turn out to be just softening them up for his attack copter]] and more men with guns. Ironically, the first group actually succeeded; she took a mortal wound and just hadn't died yet.]]

-->'''Silva:''' First time for everything, yes?
-->'''Bond:''' What makes you think this is my first time?
-->'''Silva:''' Oh, Mr. Bond. All the physical stuff - so dull.

* DissonantSerenity: He acts very civil and easygoing, which makes his actions and his extremities to do so more terrifying than most villains in the franchise. Plus his smile is really unnerving [[spoiler: and it turns out to be an prosthesis to hide the sunken and almost skull-like left side of his face. [[NightmareFace The result is very disturbing]]]].

** As well as his line about how "we can eat each other... hmm?", which he says while touching Bond suggestively.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Just prior to Silva's on-camera appearance, Bond's taken to an open-air server network in a dusty, deserted city. Such an environment would make the computers degrade quickly -- essentially, hardware that'd self-dispose about when Silva presumably no longer needs it. Indeed, [[spoiler:Silva's planning to be caught shortly after this encounter, and he is.]]
* EtTuBrute: He felt this way upon realizing that [[spoiler:M sold him out to the Chinese.]]
* EvilCounterpart: Compares himself and Bond to 'rats' of the same litter. He used to be an [=MI6=] agent who was close to M, as Bond is, and serves to remind Bond of what he could be if he didn't forgive or trust M for the things she puts him through. Being captured and tortured by the Chinese whilst being sold out by M is exactly what happened to Bond with the North Koreans in ''Film/DieAnotherDay'', but Bond didn't take it personally or allow it to embitter or corrupt him in that film continuity. Their similarities are emphasized by the fact that Silva's real first name, "Tiago" [[MeaningfulName is Spanish for James]] whilst his codename, "Raoul Silva" is an anagram of "[[ShadowArchetype A Rival Soul]]," making him a darker version of Bond.

* EvilPlan: Humiliate and kill M [[spoiler: because she sold him out to save six other agents when he looked up to her as a mother figure.]] Also, possibly destroying the entire [=MI6=].

* {{Expy}}: The filmmakers specifically said they based him off of the Creator/HeathLedger [[Film/TheDarkKnight interpretation]] of ComicBook/TheJoker, as well as [[Film/InglouriousBasterds Hans Landa]]. He's also one to [[Film/GoldenEye Alec Trevelyan]], being a former [=MI6=] agent out for revenge against his former employer, but his case is much more sympathetic and plotted out; [[spoiler: he only wants M and then himself dead for her selling him out,]] whereas Trevelyan was [[OnlyInItForTheMoney financially interested in destroying [=MI6=] and England]]. And he's an Expy of [[Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough Victor "Renard" Zokas]] [[spoiler: due to having a major head injury and being a DeathSeeker after he kills M, who Renard has kidnapped (with the exact same actress, too).]]
* ExactWords: The shooting contest was to ''knock'' the glass off of Severene's head. [[spoiler:He accomplishes that by shooting her in the head, not the glass]].

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Prior to the movie he became a terrorist after he was betrayed by [=MI6=]; this also somehow got him converted to Quantum/SPECTRE, which isn't even mentioned until the next [[Film/{{Spectre}} Bond movie.]]]] In terms of mannerisms and personality, he's also very similar to Jim Moriarty.

* HeroKiller: Five agents killed because of him. [[spoiler: And M.]]

* HollywoodHacking: He can turn on the gas main in [=MI6=] via computer, somehow, though this ''is'' technically possible. [[note]]In real life, the CIA did something similar to a Siberian pipeline in the 1980's albeit with a pre planted "logic bomb". Plus it is theoretically possible to remotely disrupt utility infrastructure by interfering with SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems built into the utility pipeline by having someone physically interfere with the offline device and set it to cause the effects required, triggered by remote. But this requires a ''lot'' of work.[[/note]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler: He wants revenge against [=MI6=] for selling him out. One of the first things he does to facilitate this is sell out several British deep cover agents who had absolutely nothing to do with it.]]

* InTheBack: [[spoiler:A knife is thrown into his back as the killing blow.]]

** He [[spoiler:kills Severine]] in front of Bond after deciding he no longer needs her.

* LimpAndLivid: [[spoiler:After he gets a limp after Skyfall manor blows up, he gets annoyed.]]

* 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]]."

* MoralMyopia: There's no doubt he's suffered unimaginable agonies being tortured for months and has more than a FreudianExcuse. Later it's revealed that [[spoiler: he had engaged in unauthorized hacking of the Chinese, besides causing the death of innocent secret agents and shooting Séverine in front of Bond after she betrayed him.]]

* OutsideGenreFoe: He is what happens when an outlandish "Dr. No"-style villain invades what was until then a relatively subdued and mostly-realistic spy thriller. The animation he sends M just comes off as ''deranged'' rather than funny or wacky due to how serious everything else is. (Incidentally, Dr. No was jarringly hospitable back in his heyday, so this could be considered the series returning to form.)
* {{Orcus on His Throne}}: While Silva can go toe-to-toe with Bond in terms of combat, he finds action exhausting and prefers to delegate it to his minions. Noticeable in that he's the only BigBad in the Craig era to have on-screen kills.

* PlayfulHacker: Kind of a deconstruction, really: his taunting image collages he festoons [=MI6's=] computer database are in stark contrast to the typical seriousness of the rest of the movie, just making him look more deranged than funny.

* RedRightHand: Like many Bond villains, he has a hidden deformity: In this case, [[spoiler:half of his face is sunken and his teeth are reduced to rotten nubs]].

* RogueAgent: [[spoiler:[=Ex-MI6=] agent. Even before his FaceHeelTurn, he'd gone this way, having hacked into the Chinese security systems without permission.]]

** His solution to James Bond pursuing him as [[spoiler:he escapes from [=MI6's=] underground HQ? Drop a freaking train on him.]]

** Silva enjoyed showing M his deformity, he started laughing after seeing M's reaction to his sunken face.

* UncannyValley: An InvokedTrope 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]].]]

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:First when Bond foils his initial plot to kill M. Later, he has another after Bond blows up the Skyfall manor.]]
* VillainousCheekbones: Without his dental prosthetic, his face sags.

* WellDoneSonGuy: [[spoiler:Even though he wants to M to be punished for what she did to him, Silva still loved her enough as a mother to want to "make-peace" with her through sharing a dignified and painless death.]]

* WilliamTelling: He forces Bond to play a game with him where they have to shoot a glass of whiskey off Severine's head using old Percussion Cap pistols. [[spoiler:Bond misses and Silva "wins" by shooting her in the head.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Although the "woobie" part is left ambiguous. M declares he was always a "slippery one".

* AwesomeButImpractical: His depleted uranium bullets, which allow Bond to track down and kill him. [[spoiler: However, considering how much of a Chessmaster Silva is, it is possible that he planned for [[BatmanGambit Bond to track down Patrice, kill him, and lead him to Séverine in the Macau casino, to set his plans in motion.]] [[WeHaveReserves After all, it seems he is dependent on this to happen.]]]]
* ColdSniper: Conducts a sniper kill shortly before his death. [[spoiler: It's possible just a set up to attract the attention of Bond.]]

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:He dies at the end of his fight with Bond by falling to his death.]]
* TheDragon: Averted. He's the most developed of Silva's mooks but given that his death is before the first appearance of Silva, and the lack of contact between them, he's clearly not the guy's NumberTwo.

[[folder:Séverine]]

Silva's mistress. Following a clue left by Patrice, Bond finds Séverine in Macau, where he asks to meet her employer. She promises to help Bond if he will kill her employer.

* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:How Silva kills her.]]

* CartwrightCurse: [[spoiler:Killed after a night with Bond.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: At first she was built up to be the main Bond Girl of the movie, since she does have a dark past with Silva and there are a lot of important scenes focusing on her and the fact she has a love session with Bond and like every past Bond Girls even accompanies him in the villain's lair. [[spoiler: And then she gets shockingly killed by Silva, making it the first Bond movie to not even have a main Bond Girl at all.]]
* DisposableWoman: [[spoiler:Bond doesn't seem to think much about her murder, and neither does Silva.]]
* TheDragon: Depressingly subverted. She very much looks the part (to the point where her actress drew inspiration from Xenia Onatopp, TheBaroness from ''Film/{{GoldenEye}}''), but is actually a terrified non-combatant former SexSlave who tries a HeelFaceTurn to get away from Silva [[spoiler:and ends up with a bullet hole in the face for her trouble]].
* DragonLady: Subverted. Severine appears this way at first in everything from her clothing and makeup to her racial features (her actress is of mixed French, Chinese and Cambodian descent), but is soon revealed to be desperate to get away from Silva and utterly helpless in her predicament.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: After Silva [[BoomHeadshot shoots the glass off her head]], neither he nor Bond think of Severine as important for the remainder of the movie.

* AMFMCharacterization: He plays "Boom Boom Boom" by Music/TheAnimals from his helicopter during the raid on Skyfall and "Boum" by Music/CharlesTrenet plays on his island.

** Not the only example either. Bond is hiding out in a run-down manor with little-to-no weapons, with his only support being an old woman and a Scotsman. Silva's strategy? Why, bring an entire army with him! [[MoreDakka And a fully loaded]] [[UpToEleven gunship to boot.]]

The following bulleted items are agents of [=MI6=] who are described on other character pages:

* [[Characters/JamesBondTheCharacter James Bond]]

* [[Characters/JamesBondM M]]
* [[Characters/JamesBondMoneypenny Eve]]
* [[Characters/JamesBondQ Q]]
* [[Characters/JamesBondM Gareth Mallory]]

* CompositeCharacter: Silva combines elements of [[Film/GoldenEye Alec Trevelyan]] (a former [=MI6=] agent), [[Film/GoldenEye Boris Grishenko]] (a genius-level hacker)]], and [[Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough Elektra King]] (emotionally damaged after M, whom she views as a quasi-maternal figure, leaves her at the mercy of her captors, and wants to [[spoiler:humiliate and murder M in revenge, using Bond as the tool to reach the older woman]]).

* CompositeCharacter: Silva combines elements of Alec Trevelyan (a former [=MI6=] agent), Boris Grishenko (a genius-level hacker) and Elektra King (emotionally damaged after M, whom she views as a quasi-maternal figure, leaves her at the mercy of her captors, and wants to [[spoiler:humiliate and murder M in revenge, using Bond as the tool to reach the older woman]]).

* KnightOfCerebus: If you thought Le Chiffre was nasty, he's literally nothing compared to Silva. He edges not just the Craig-era films into darker territory, but he's this for the ''entire franchise as a whole''. Not a single villain remotely had Bond on the ropes quite like Silva did, and he's pretty much the only Bond villain to get everything (or most of what) he wanted at the end of the film.

* BadassBeard: He's to Bond what Alfred is to Batman, and has a majestic beard while at it.

[[folder: James Bond]]
-->See [[Characters/JamesBondTheCharacter here]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: M]]
-->See [[Characters/JamesBondM here]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Eve]]
-->See [[Characters/JamesBondMoneypenny here]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Q]]
-->See [[Characters/JamesBondQ here]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Gareth Mallory]]
-->See [[Characters/JamesBondM here]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Bill Tanner]]
-->See [[Characters/JamesBondRecurringCharacters here]].
[[/folder]]

--> '''Kincade:''' What was it you did again?

* SawedOffShotgun: He is seen cutting down the barrels.

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

'''Silva:''' *Laughs* No... But that one is.

* ForTheEvulz: Aside from hacking [=MI6=] [[spoiler:in revenge for being sold out to the Chinese]], he's also pulled off several cyber-terrorist attacks just for the sake of it, including but not limited to destabilizing companies by manipulating their stock price, hijacking a spy satellite that was over Kabul, and hakcing elections in Uganda.

* PlayAlongPrisoner: Bond captures Silva and puts him in a cell in [=MI6=] headquarters three quarters of the way through the film. Silva promptly escapes.
* PlayfulHacker: Kind of a deconstruction, really: his taunting image collages he festoons [=MI6's=] computer database are in stark constract to the typical seriousness of the rest of the movie, just making him look more deranged than funny.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"One can never be too careful when handsome men in tuxedos carry Walthers."'']]

* {{Expy}}: The character was written for Creator/SeanConnery, the first actor to play Bond, though the production staff apparently decided against asking him to come out of retirement.

* AMFMCharacterisation: He plays "Boom Boom Boom" by Music/TheAnimals from his helicopter during the raid on Skyfall and "Boum" by Music/CharlesTrenet plays on his island.

* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: According to M, he was one of her best agents.

* SlasherSmile: When his AffablyEvil nature drops.

* {{Troll}}:

* {{Troll}}: He loves to mock M and Q with his hacks.

* NotSoDifferent: Lampshaded by him in his [[AnimalMetaphor 'last two rats' speech]]. He even compares himself and Bond to 'rats' of the same litter.

* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:"Free us both. With the same bullet. Do it. Do it. Only you can do it."]]

* AxCrazy: Very much so. So much that he is stated by WordOfGod to be based on Creator/HeathLedger's [[Film/TheDarkKnight interpretation of]] ComicBook/TheJoker.

* AnimalMetaphor: Describes himself and Bond as the "last two rats standing." Metaphorically, Silva means the world is full of rats who can
"eat each other" (betray others) on a whim.

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:His upper teeth are prostheses to hide his melted teeth and the destroyed left side of his face. The result is a sunken eye combined with a skeletal looking appearance that is unnerving as it sounds.]]

* AnimalMetaphor: Describes himself and Bond as the 'last two rats standing'. He utilizes the image of trapped rats turning to cannibalism as a metaphor for what the life of a spy does to its participants - namely himself.

* BigBad: The main villain of the film. Though ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' [[spoiler:reveals that SPECTRE and [[GreaterScopeVillain Franz Oberhauser/Ernst Stavro Blofeld]] were behind Silva's schemes.]]

* ManChild: Some of his mannerisms and behavior cause him to come across as childish, though it may just be an act to mess with Bond and M.

* DragonLady: Subverted. Severine appears this way at first in everything from her clothing and makeup to her racial features (her actress is half-French, half-Chinese/Cambodian), but is soon revealed to be desperate to get away from Silva and utterly helpless in her predicament.

->'''Played by:''' Bérénice Marlohe (credited as Bérénice Lim Marlohe)

* DragonLady: Subverted. Severine appears this way at first in everything from her clothing and makeup to her racial features (her actress is half-French, half-Cambodian), but is soon revealed to be desperate to get away from Silva and utterly helpless in her predicament.