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* ''Literature/{{Scorpius}}'': The [[AntagonistTitle titular Vladimir Scorpius]] is a [[ArmsDealer weapons dealer]] who mostly trades with terrorists, making him indirectly responsible for over a thousand deaths before the book even begins. The main story of the novel concerns of him using the {{cult}} he has established—The Meek Ones—to produce generations of suicide bombers [[PsychoForHire for sale]], simply for [[{{Greed}} more profit]]. He declares a "holy war" against mankind, inducing his cultists to commit several terrorist acts to kill hundreds of people in the United Kingdom in particular. He is treated with utter revulsion by those who know the real man beneath his persona as Father Valentine, and Bond even states he is the worst criminal he ever had to deal with.

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* ''Literature/{{Scorpius}}'': The [[AntagonistTitle titular Vladimir Scorpius]] is a [[ArmsDealer weapons dealer]] who mostly trades with terrorists, making him indirectly responsible for over a thousand deaths before the book even begins. The main story of the novel concerns of him using the {{cult}} he has established—The established—The Meek Ones—to Ones—to produce generations of suicide bombers [[PsychoForHire for sale]], simply for [[{{Greed}} more profit]]. He declares a "holy war" against mankind, inducing his cultists to commit several terrorist acts to kill hundreds of people in the United Kingdom in particular. He is treated with utter revulsion by those who know the real man beneath his persona as Father Valentine, and Bond even states he is the worst criminal he ever had to deal with.



* ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'': The [[AntagonistTitle titular Auric Goldfinger]] is a man whose [[FauxAffablyEvil wit and politeness]] only mask the dangerous psychopath that he is. Obsessed with [[{{Greed}} increasing his wealth at any cost]], Goldfinger plans on poisoning an army barracks and the surrounding town, which would kill 60,000 people—for which he cares nothing about—and then detonating a nuclear device in Fort Knox to trigger a major economic crisis for his own profit. He punishes his assistant, who becomes a Bond girl and costs him a rigged card game, by having her [[CruelAndUnusualDeath murdered with golden paint that suffocates her]], and later tries to have James Bond [[GroinAttack sawn in half with a laser]]. He gloats to his mob partners even though he was always planning on killing them and does— simply to bask in his own ego at his plan. Despite being one of the earliest villains that Bond ever faced, Goldfinger still remains one of the worst.

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* ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'': The [[AntagonistTitle titular Auric Goldfinger]] is a man whose [[FauxAffablyEvil wit and politeness]] only mask the dangerous psychopath that he is. Obsessed with [[{{Greed}} increasing his wealth at any cost]], Goldfinger plans on poisoning an army barracks and the surrounding town, which would kill 60,000 people—for people—for which he cares nothing about—and then detonating a nuclear device in Fort Knox to trigger a major economic crisis for his own profit. He punishes his assistant, who becomes a Bond girl and costs him a rigged card game, by having her [[CruelAndUnusualDeath murdered with golden paint that suffocates her]], and later tries to have James Bond [[GroinAttack sawn in half with a laser]]. He gloats to his mob partners even though he was always planning on killing them and does— simply to bask in his own ego at his plan. Despite being one of the earliest villains that Bond ever faced, Goldfinger still remains one of the worst.



* ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' & ''Film/NoTimeToDie'': [[Characters/JamesBondFranzOberhauserErnstStavroBlofeld Ernst Stavro Blofeld]], the GreaterScopeVillain of this entire continuity and James Bond's [[CainAndAbel foster brother]], [[TheChessmaster arranged various events]] to result in the deaths of Bond's friends and loved ones. Born Franz Oberhauser, he was once a sociopathic boy who murdered his own father for loving a young, orphaned James Bond the Oberhauser family took in. Faking his own death and adopting his new name, Blofeld built up the criminal organization [[NebulousEvilOrganization SPECTRE]], which finances and facilitates terrorism around the globe, allies with interested parties to topple governments, prolong civil wars, horde natural resources, and eventually involves itself in the sex trade where [[HumanTraffickers hundreds of thousands of women and children are trafficked]] to feed SPECTRE's accounts. With Bond himself, Blofeld drills small needles into the former's head to torture him and even threatens to steal his ability to recognize faces by drilling in the right place. When this fails, Blofeld holds [[LoveInterest Dr. Madeleine Swann]] in a rigged chamber--also forcing her to watch the footage of her father committing suicide--so Bond [[SadisticChoice must either try to save her and die in an explosion, or abandon her to save himself and live with the shame of it]]. To further torment Bond, Blofeld--while imprisoned--arranges to have him targeted and frames it to look like Madeleine helped set Bond up. Blofeld later attempts to take advantage of and steal special nanobots designed to target and infect people through DNA, nearly making Bond his first victim.

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* ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' & ''Film/NoTimeToDie'': [[Characters/JamesBondFranzOberhauserErnstStavroBlofeld [[Characters/JamesBondBlofeld Ernst Stavro Blofeld]], the GreaterScopeVillain of this entire continuity and James Bond's [[CainAndAbel foster brother]], [[TheChessmaster arranged various events]] to result in the deaths of Bond's friends and loved ones. Born Franz Oberhauser, he was once a sociopathic boy who murdered his own father for loving a young, orphaned James Bond the Oberhauser family took in. Faking his own death and adopting his new name, Blofeld built up the criminal organization [[NebulousEvilOrganization SPECTRE]], which finances and facilitates terrorism around the globe, allies with interested parties to topple governments, prolong civil wars, horde natural resources, and eventually involves itself in the sex trade where [[HumanTraffickers hundreds of thousands of women and children are trafficked]] to feed SPECTRE's accounts. With Bond himself, Blofeld drills small needles into the former's head to torture him and even threatens to steal his ability to recognize faces by drilling in the right place. When this fails, Blofeld holds [[LoveInterest Dr. Madeleine Swann]] in a rigged chamber--also forcing her to watch the footage of her father committing suicide--so Bond [[SadisticChoice must either try to save her and die in an explosion, or abandon her to save himself and live with the shame of it]]. To further torment Bond, Blofeld--while imprisoned--arranges to have him targeted and frames it to look like Madeleine helped set Bond up. Blofeld later attempts to take advantage of and steal special nanobots designed to target and infect people through DNA, nearly making Bond his first victim.



* ''VideoGame/{{Nightfire}}'': [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Rafael/Raphael Drake]] is a beloved philanthropist who secretly plots to [[TakeOverTheWorld remake the world into a corporate dystopia answerable only to himself]]. The CEO of the environmentally-friendly corporation Phoenix International, Drake poses as a respected anti-nuclear weapons activist who uses his company's wealth and resources to decommission nukes; in reality, he takes these weapons for himself to be used in a private arsenal against anyone who resists his takeover. Key to his plan is a new [[KillSat space weapons platform]] developed by the US; James Bond is put on Drake's case after it is discovered the latter has stolen the weapons guidance chip for the satellite. When one of his subordinates tries to turn informant for MI6, he orders not just the man's death, but those of his innocent household servants as well; he later murders his mistress by [[DestinationDefenestration defenestration]], [[ForcedToWatch forcing Bond to watch]], after she is exposed as a deep-cover French agent. As his plan commences, he rockets into space to commandeer the weapons platform personally, the platform and his private arsenal giving him enough power to wipe any dissenters off the face of the Earth.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Nightfire}}'': [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Rafael/Raphael Drake]] is a beloved philanthropist who secretly plots to [[TakeOverTheWorld remake the world into a corporate dystopia answerable only to himself]]. The CEO of the environmentally-friendly corporation Phoenix International, Drake poses as a respected anti-nuclear weapons activist who uses his company's wealth and resources to decommission nukes; in reality, he takes these weapons for himself to be used in a private arsenal against anyone who resists his takeover. Key to his plan is a new [[KillSat space weapons platform]] developed by the US; James Bond is put on Drake's case after it is discovered the latter has stolen the weapons guidance chip for the satellite. When one of his subordinates tries to turn informant for MI6, [=MI6=], he orders not just the man's death, but those of his innocent household servants as well; he later murders his mistress by [[DestinationDefenestration defenestration]], [[ForcedToWatch forcing Bond to watch]], after she is exposed as a deep-cover French agent. As his plan commences, he rockets into space to commandeer the weapons platform personally, the platform and his private arsenal giving him enough power to wipe any dissenters off the face of the Earth.

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