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6'''[[center: [- [[Characters/JamesBond Main Character Index]] -]]]'''
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8Character sheet for the Film/JamesBond film ''Film/AViewToAKill''.
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10[[foldercontrol]]
11
12!![=MI6=]
13
14* [[Characters/JamesBondTheCharacter James Bond]]
15* [[Characters/JamesBondMajorRecurringCharacters M]]
16* [[Characters/JamesBondMajorRecurringCharacters Moneypenny]]
17* [[Characters/JamesBondMajorRecurringCharacters Q]]
18* [[Characters/JamesBondRecurringCharacters Sir Frederick Gray]]
19
20[[folder:Sir Godfrey Tibbett]]
21!!Sir Godfrey Tibbett
22[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/10867-20613_6116.jpg]]
23[[caption-width-right:300:''"We're on a mission!"'']]
24!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/PatrickMacnee
25
26An [=MI6=] field operative and horse specialist with a knighthood, who helps Bond when he infiltrates Zorin's villa and stable.
27----
28* BeleagueredAssistant: He pretends to be "James St. John-Smythe's" put-upon valet.
29* CastingGag: Producer Creator/AlbertRBroccoli had previously cast both Creator/HonorBlackman (in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'') and Creator/DianaRigg (in ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'') after they gained fame in ''Series/{{The Avengers|1960s}}''. Now it was the turn of the series' male lead, Macnee.
30* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration: He disguises himself as Bond's chauffeur.
31* SacrificialLion: He proves to be a competent ally of Bond, but he's killed by May Day almost at the same time Zorin reveals to Bond that he knows about their investigation, to show how dangerous they are.
32[[/folder]]
33
34[[folder:Kimberly Jones]]
35!!Kimberly Jones
36[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kimberley_jones_mary_stavin_profile.jpg]]
37[[caption-width-right:300:''"Oh, Commander Bond..."'']]
38!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MaryStavin
39
40A [=MI6=] agent who is sent into the field to assist Bond during his mission in Siberia during the pre-credits sequence.
41----
42* MsFanservice: The fur coat that Kimberly wears highlights her curves.
43* FanserviceExtra: She's only in the movie for the pre-credits sequence, and while she assists Bond by picking him up after completing his mission during said sequence, it's clear that her main purpose is fanservice.
44* PrettyInMink: A gorgeous woman in fur-trimmed winter gear.
45* YouLookFamiliar: [[invoked]] Creator/MaryStavin also appeared two years earlier in ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'' as one of Octopussy's girls.
46[[/folder]]
47
48!!Bond's Allies
49
50[[folder:Stacey Sutton]]
51!!Stacey Sutton
52[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stacy_sutton_profile.png]]
53[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'd sell everything and live in a tent before I give up."'']]
54!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/TanyaRoberts
55
56A geologist for the State of California whose family's possessions are being squeezed by Zorin.
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58* EightiesHair: The only Bond girl of the 80s to truly show this.
59* ActionSurvivor: On one hand, Sutton despairs 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, take out Scarpine out of nowhere, ''intentionally'' distract Zorin during the fight at the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, and threaten intruders with a shotgun (loaded with rock salt). And the fact that she survived all this is already worthy of applause.
60* AgeGapRomance: Roger Moore was 22 years older than Tanya Roberts. Lampshaded out-of-universe by Moore himself, who admits in interviews that he realized he should've retired as Bond after realizing he's older than Tanya Roberts' ''mother''.
61* 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).
62* AlliterativeName: '''S'''tacey '''S'''utton.
63* 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 saves Stacey from Zorin.
64* AnkleDrag: May Day grabs Stacey by her ankle when the former tries to climb out of Zorin's mine shaft. Stacey escapes via GivingThemTheStrip.
65* BadassAdorable: On the one hand, Stacey is adorable. On the other hand, she isn't much of an ActionGirl, but she still points a rock salt gun at her enemies and fights Zorin long enough to distract him.
66* BattleCouple: Well, Stacey is by no means a super competent warrior, but the fact is that she and Bond face the villains together in the second half of the film and on more than one occasion she manages to be useful.
67* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Stacey is gorgeous, a wonderful person, and very lovely.
68* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Stacey remains beautiful throughout the final action scene, no matter what happens.
69* BettyAndVeronica: Stacey Sutton is Betty and May Day is Veronica. Stacey is the sweet, reliable NiceGirl, while May Day is the exotic IceQueen... and also a killer. Stacey dresses more modestly (but still looks gorgeous), while May Day is the MsFanservice in all her glory. Stacey is blonde, May Day is brunette.
70* ClothingDamage: It happens quickly with Stacey at the climax when May Day tries to grab her and rips her disguise and part of her dress, showing her legs.
71* CoitusUninterruptus: The final scene is of Bond and Stacey in the shower together when a robot with a remote camera on it piloted by Q homes in on them. Q makes a face and reports back to M that Bond is alive; Bond turns and sees the robot, throws a towel over it, and then turns back to Stacey as if nothing happened.
72* ComfortingComforter: Bond covers Stacy Sutton after she fell asleep on her bed.
73* CuteButCacophonic: She's gorgeous, but her screams are eardrum-shattering.
74* DamselInDistress: Stacey is kidnapped by the Zorin at the end and must be rescued by Bond. 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.
75* DeadpanSnarker: Her screams seem to make fans forget that she gets to have those moments with Bond himself.
76-->'''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.]]\
77'''Stacey:''' I never would have guessed.
78* DefrostingIceQueen: Downplayed. In the first half of the movie, she appears to be cold and cynical when Bond flirts with her at Zorin's mansion, but in the second half of the movie, after discovering that Bond is an ally, she becomes one of the most sympathetic Bond girls in the franchise, always smiling.
79* DesignatedGirlFight: Subverted. At the climax, May Day tries to grab Stacey to stop her from running away, giving the impression that there will be a fight between them. Instead, May Day only manages to rip off a piece of clothing from Stacey, who then manages to escape. May Day then fights Bond.
80* DoesntLikeGuns: Subverted. Stacey uses a gun to try to intimidate Bond when he breaks into her house, but it is soon revealed that the ammunition is rock salt.
81* FailedASpotCheck: The infamous scene where Stacey doesn't notice a blimp approaching her, even when Bond yells at her to look out.
82* FireForgedFriends: She is hostile to Bond at first, but they both soon realize that they can trust each other.
83* GirlOfTheWeek: She's Bond's main love interest in the film.
84* GivingThemTheStrip: Stacey sheds her coveralls to escape from May Day while climbing out of Zorin's mine shaft.
85* GladToBeAliveSex: Bond and Stacey at the end of the film.
86* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She's blonde haired and firmly on the good side.
87* ImpoverishedPatrician: Sutton is the granddaughter of an oil tycoon in California, but the company was taken over by Max Zorin. She filed a lawsuit against him in court, which forced her to sell most of her assets (which is TruthInTelevision) and become a geologist for the state of California.
88* InterruptedBath: Bond and Stacey are making love in the shower at the end of the movie when they are interrupted by one of Q's inventions, that was looking for him. Bond quickly dumps the device and kisses Stacey again.
89* KindheartedCatLover: She's good-natured and owns a cat named, appropriately enough, Pussy.
90* MsFanservice: Stacey wears beautiful dresses. At one point in the movie, she goes to sleep wearing a short robe that shows off her legs.
91* NiceGirl: Screams aside, she's one of the most friendly and lovable women in the series.
92* ScreamingWoman: She screams a ''lot'' at an incredible high pitch. Even a short fall onto some sand has her belt out a shriek.
93-->'''Sutton:''' [[SayMyName Jaaaaames!]] Help meeeeeeee!
94* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: But since she's too nice to actually kill people, she loads hers with rock salt instead of 12-gauge.
95* ShowerOfLove: She makes out with Bond in her shower at the end.
96* TokenRomance: Roger Moore is 28 years older than the film's lead actress Tanya Roberts, something that had already occurred to him and Creator/CaroleBouquet in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''. And just like in that movie, the hero and the lead Bond Girl, Stacey, have almost no romantic moments before having sex in their final scene, except for a brief flirt that comes between them when they dine at her house. Their relationship seems more like father and daughter, and it doesn't help that in their first scene at Zorin's mansion, Stacey rejects all of his brazen flirtations, looking like she thinks he's a creepy old man.
97* TwoPersonPoolParty: Bond and Sutton make out in a shower at the end of the film.
98[[/folder]]
99
100[[folder:Chuck Lee]]
101!!Chuck Lee
102[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chuck_lee_profile.png]]
103[[caption-width-right:300:''"It's a pleasure working with 007."'']]
104!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/DavidYip
105
106A CIA agent posing as a fish salesman who acts as Bond's contact in San Francisco.
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108* AscendedFanboy: As the above quote indicates, he's thrilled at the prospect of partnering up with Bond.
109* MrExposition: Provides Bond with the histories of Conley and Mortner, which in turn allows Bond to realize Zorin is one of the latter's test subjects.
110* TemporarySubstitute: His role was supposed to go to Felix Leiter, until the filmmakers decided to take advantage of San Francisco's Chinatown.
111[[/folder]]
112
113!!Villains
114
115[[folder:Max Zorin]]
116!!Max Zorin
117[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/max_zorin_3.png]]
118[[caption-width-right:350:''"Dead! That's rather neat, don't you think?"'']]
119!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/ChristopherWalken
120
121The surviving result of a Nazi eugenics experiment turned microchip tycoon and later recruited by the KGB. He has gone rogue and now pursues his own interests.
122----
123* ApocalypseHow: Class 0, with the destruction of Silicon Valley and the death of millions [[CorruptCorporateExecutive just so he can corner the microchip market.]] All ForTheEvulz.
124* AxCrazy: ''Extremely'' so, to the point where [[spoiler:he literally wields a fire axe during his final fight with Bond. It also doubles as his FatalFlaw that brings him down.]] Justified as he is the end result of a Nazi eugenics experiment to create the ideal SuperSoldier GoneHorriblyRight.
125* AmazonChaser: His [[TheDragon dragoness]], sparring partner, and lover is a tall, powerfully built woman.
126* BadBoss: Remarkably bad even by Bond villain standards. He personally guns down his own minions while cackling maniacally the moment he no longer needs them, and even betrays May Day, not even for the usual YouHaveFailedMe but simply ForTheEvulz.
127* BigBad: He's the main villain of this film, and a truly terrifying one at that.
128* BigFancyHouse: A Renaissance château in France (Chantilly), no less.
129* BloodKnight: Upon seeing Bond's "Licence to Kill" designation on his computer, he makes an excited little chuckle.
130* BondOneLiner: He gets in on the action when he [[ThrownFromTheZeppelin has a guy thrown out of a zeppelin]]:
131-->'''Zorin:''' So, does anyone else want to drop out?
132* BondVillainStupidity:
133** Zorin decides to kill Bond by rolling his car into a lake. One could guess he wanted to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident, but once awake it was probably Bond's easiest escape ever.
134** The car case actually downplays this as Zorin does try to get it done while James is still unconscious and even stays at the lake long enough to make sure James didn't survive (James managed to survive by spotting that Zorin was watching and using the air from the tire to stay underwater until Zorin left).
135** Later Zorin has Bond at his mercy but decides to kill him by locking him in an elevator and setting it on fire. In this case at least he has the excuse that he wants to frame Bond for the murder of someone else and make it look like he failed to escape after setting the building on fire himself.
136* CheatersNeverProsper: During a horse race, he uses remote-controlled obstacles to trip up Bond's horse, then has thugs jump onto the track and attack Bond. Bond fights them off and ''still'' pulls ahead. However, when Bond decides he's had enough and abandons the race, Zorin declares himself the winner.
137* 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]].
138* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He wants to [[spoiler:flood Silicon Valley]], causing the death of millions just so he can [[spoiler:monopolize the microchip market]].
139* CoolAirship: 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.
140* CunningLinguist: It's mentioned he speaks five languages flawlessly, presumably one of the perks of being the product of 1940s genetic engineering.
141* DesignerBabies: Deconstructed. He's the end result of a SuperBreedingProgram that attempted to create {{Super Soldier}}s for the Nazis. While most of the pregnancies failed due to the pregnant mothers being overdosed with steroids, the surviving babies became gifted later in life — [[FreudianExcuse but also mentally unstable beneath that charm]]. Zorin killing his minions while cackling like a madman is one disturbing example of how the steroids have corroded his mind.
142* DeusAxMachina: He grabs a fire ax on board of his zeppelin in the climax.
143* DiabolicalMastermind: He has genius-level intelligence and hatches a scheme to murder millions of people for profit.
144* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:He falls off the Golden Gate Bridge.]]
145* 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.]]
146* EvilCounterpart: To Bond. Both have a startling line/connection between sex and violence and are highly skilled. The key difference? While Bond remains loyal to MI-6, Zorin is a rogue KGB agent who even goes so far to betray May Day and ''kill his own mooks out of pure, bat-shit sadism''.
147* EvilGenius: He has genius-level intelligence but is also completely AxCrazy. He hatches a scheme to murder millions of people for profit.
148* EvilIsHammy: It's [[Series/SaturdayNightLive "More Cowbell"]] Creator/ChristopherWalken, what did you expect?
149* EvilIsNotAToy: The Soviets really had no idea what they were dealing with — Zorin is an incredibly insane [[TheSociopath psychopath]] and [[AxCrazy homicidal maniac]] to begin with, and [[TheStarscream he chose to screw them over once he became successful and no longer needed them]].
150* EvilLaugh: Often breaks out into evil laughter, even when it seems wholly inappropriate for the situation. For example, he cackles like ''an insane megalomaniac'' while gunning down several of his workers. He'd rival ComicBook/TheJoker in that department.
151* EvilMentor: The video game ''VideoGame/EverythingOrNothing'' revealed that [[spoiler:he was the mentor of [[DragonAscendant Nikolai Diavolo]], who wanted to [[AvengingTheVillain avenge his death]].]]
152* EvilPlan: His ultimate plan is to detonate explosives along the Hayward and San Andreas Faults, causing them to flood. The other major bomb was set to destroy a "geological lock" that's in place to prevent the two faults from moving, causing a double earthquake that would destroy Silicon Valley, leaving his microchip company with a monopoly.
153* FatalFlaw: Zorin's AxCrazy [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] behavior, coupled with his ChronicBackstabbingDisorder 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.]]
154* FauxAffablyEvil: He's very cheerful in public. Likewise when he [[spoiler:plans to have millions killed and mows down his own workers]].
155* FreudianExcuse: The reason why he's a {{sociopath}} 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 — but also totally [[LackOfEmpathy devoid of empathy]] as the Nazis used massive doses of steroids, which corroded their brains.
156* GreaterScopeVillain: While he's long dead by the time the video game ''VideoGame/EverythingOrNothing'' takes place, [[spoiler:ex-KGB operative Nikolai Diavolo [[AvengingTheVillain wants revenge against 007 for the death of his mentor]].]]
157* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His disloyalty towards his own girlfriend comes at a cost, as she was all too eager to help Bond foil his plans when he left her to die along with everyone else in the mine.
158* IllTakeThatAsACompliment: His smugness always disappears whenever someone reminds him of his DesignerBabies nature. However when Bond gives the page quote, he's apparently enough of a WellDoneSonGuy to agree with it.
159* InformedAttribute: M claims that he speaks five languages with "no accent", a claim that is... tenuous.
160* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: For how cruel and psychotic he is, most of the film implies that he is genuinely in love with May Day. Only it turns out he doesn't even care about her either, and not only that but he willingly leaves her to die once she's no longer of use to him.
161* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He falls in the water from a great height, similar to the investor he had killed earlier.]]
162* KingpinInHisGym: We are treated to a scene of Zorin sparring with May Day.
163* KnightOfCerebus: Probably one of Bond's most dangerous foes since [[Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun Francisco Scaramanga]] or [[Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice Ernst Stavro Blofeld]].
164* LackOfEmpathy: He wants to corner the microchip market by triggering a megaquake in the San Francisco Bay Area ''with casualties running in the millions''. He's also a BadBoss, gleefully mowing down his henchmen and casually tries to kill May Day without remorse.
165* LargeHam: As you could expect from Christopher Walken playing a villain of a James Bond film.
166* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Zorin, playing a bit of XanatosSpeedChess, takes advantage of a break-in by Bond and Stacey into City Hall. Zorin kills her ex-boss and forces the pair into an elevator before setting the building on fire, making it look like they were responsible but were killed by the flames trying to escape.
167* MolotovCocktail: He sets fire to the San Francisco City Hall by using molotov cocktails everywhere.
168* MonumentalDamage: A rare instance in the series, as he attempts to murder Bond and Stacy by setting fire to ''San Francisco City Hall''.
169* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Subverted. He hooks up with May Day.
170* OhCrap: Just as he's about to [[spoiler:fall 700 feet off the Golden Gate Bridge]].
171* OmnicidalManiac: From the way he acts, it seems he wants to destroy Silicon Valley just to watch it go BOOM. His whole microchip price gouging scheme seems more like a fringe benefit.
172* PreemptiveDeclaration: He informs a corrupt official on his payroll how he intends to fake Bond and Sutton's deaths. They murdered him and started a fire to destroy the evidence, only to die after being trapped in the elevator.
173-->'''Howe:''' But that means... I would have to be...\
174'''Zorin:''' Dead! ''[shoots him in heart]''
175* PsychopathicManchild: He's extremely impulsive and a mentally unstable brute. Part of this is because he is the end result of a Nazi eugenics program — while the surviving babies were intelligent, they grew up to become psychopathic. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything General Gogol criticizing Zorin over (seemingly) killing Bond almost plays like a parent scolding a young child.]]
176* PsychoSerum: The steroid concentrate that created him makes him highly intelligent, but also mentally unstable.
177* PsychoticSmirk: He flashes a lot of these during the film. He even smiles and laughs right before he [[spoiler:falls to his death.]]
178* PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: He [[BadBoss murders his minions]] while cackling psychotically like a homicidal maniac. He would rival ComicBook/TheJoker in that department.
179* RecklessGunUsage: He taps his temple with a loaded pistol.
180* RenegadeRussian: Not a literal example of this trope, but in the same spirit — he is a KGB agent who ditches his employers to carry out his mad scheme for world domination [[spoiler:of the silicon chip industry]].
181* TheRichWantToBeRicher: His EvilPlan is very similar to Goldfinger's scheme — but with ''more collateral damage'' involved. He wants to corner the microchip market and wipe out his competition by triggering a super-earthquake in the Bay Area, which would kill millions.
182* RogueAgent: He used to work for the KGB, but now he follows his own agenda.
183* {{Sadist}}: He cackles like a homicidal maniac while peppering his own henchmen with bullets ''out of pure sadism''. All because [[ItAmusedMe it amused him.]]
184* SanitySlippage: While he was already an insane psychopath to begin with, Zorin slowly loses his grip on sanity as the film progresses. [[spoiler:By the end, he's completely batshit AxCrazy to the point of wielding a fire axe against Bond after entering VillainousBreakdown mode.]]
185* ShadowArchetype: While both Zorin and Bond have a startling line/connection between sex and violence and are highly skilled, the key difference between the two is that while Bond remains loyal to [=MI6=], [[AxCrazy Zorin]] is a [[RogueAgent rogue KGB agent]] who even goes so far as to betray his [[TheDragon Dragon]] May Day and ''[[BadBoss kill his own mooks out of pure, bat-shit sadism]]''. In short, he is essentially Bond without any moral compass or restraint.
186* TheSociopath: Zorin fits the bill of one: LackOfEmpathy, FauxAffablyEvil, TriggerHappy, AxCrazy, PutTheLaughterInSlaughter, and ForTheEvulz. [[FreudianExcuse Part of this is because he's the product of a Nazi eugenics program]], in which pregnant women were injected with steroids in an attempt to create "super-children" for the Nazis. The few babies that survived became totally insane psychopaths, partly because of the drugs administered to create these "super-babies".
187* TheStarscream: He's a product of Nazi eugenics experiments that the KGB raised, trained, and sent to the West as a deep cover agent. Once he becomes successful enough, he decides to screw them over and take a shot at global financial domination himself.
188* SuperBreedingProgram: He's the end result of an eugenics program in which pregnant women were loaded up with steroids in an attempt to create DesignerBabies for the Nazis. While most of the pregnancies failed, the few babies that survived became extraordinarily intelligent later in life — [[GoneHorriblyRight but also totally psychopathic]].
189* TykeBomb: He's the end result of a SuperBreedingProgram in an attempt to create {{Super Soldier}}s for the Nazi regime. After WWII, he and his mentor were whisked away to the Soviet Union, where they became deep-cover KGB agents.
190* TriggerHappy: As shown when he massacres [[spoiler:''his own mine workers'']], laughing all the way.
191* TheUnfettered: He'll do ''anything'' that pushes himself forward.
192* UpperClassEquestrian: Zorin, a wealthy CorruptCorporateExecutive, owns a horse ranch where he routinely breeds and sells quarter horses. It is at this ranch that Bond notices a private deal between Zorin and Bond Girl Stacey Sutton.
193* VillainWithGoodPublicity: He's seen as a respectable businessman, but is in fact a [[AxCrazy total]] [[TheSociopath psychopathic monster]] and [[OmnicidalManiac a mass murderer.]]
194* VillainousBreakdown: While he was already an insane psychopath to begin with, Zorin slowly loses his grip on sanity as the film progresses. Arguably, May Day taking revenge on him and screwing over his plan is what pushes him over into full-blown insanity. By the end of the film, [[spoiler:he becomes so AxCrazy to the point of wielding a fire axe during his final fight with Bond.]]
195* YoungerThanTheyLook: The script says Max Zorin is in his late thirties. Christopher Walken was 42 at the time of the film's release.
196* YoureInsane: He is called a "psychopath" by Bond. Zorin harshly chuckles.
197[[/folder]]
198
199[[folder:May Day]]
200!!May Day
201[[quoteright:297:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Mayday_3861.JPG]]
202[[caption-width-right:297:''"Someone will take care of you."'']]
203!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/GraceJones
204
205Max Zorin's main enforcer, bodyguard and lover.
206----
207* EightiesHair: Her hair and makeup just screams 80s.
208* ActionGirl: The Brute to Zorin and gender-flipped variation of Scary Black Man, a tall and tough Amazonian Beauty who can lift a man clean over her head and set up as a woman who could take Bond himself to the cleaners. Unfortunately, she doesn't make it to the end.
209* AgeGapRomance: Roger Moore was 21 years older than Grace Jones.
210* AlasPoorVillain: As brutal and ruthless as she is, it is still pretty sad to see her enraged and heartbroken reaction when a man she thought loved her ends up betraying her and leaving her for dead, and mercilessly kills her colleagues. Even Bond shows sympathy for her.
211* AllThereInTheManual: The script reveals that she is 28 years old.
212* AmazonianBeauty: She's tough and certainly looks it, but that doesn't stop her from being attractive.
213* AmbiguouslyBi: She seems very attached to her henchwomen, Jenny in particular. Nothing is confirmed, though.
214* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: May Day look beautiful throughout the final action scene, no matter what happens. She gets completely soaked, yet her hair and makeup remain immaculate.
215* BettyAndVeronica: Stacey Sutton is Betty and May Day is Veronica. Stacey is the sweet, reliable NiceGirl, while May Day is the exotic IceQueen... and also a killer. Stacey dresses more modestly (but still looks gorgeous), while May Day is the MsFanservice in all her glory. Stacey is blonde, May Day is brunette.
216* BewareTheQuietOnes: She rarely talks. She doesn't need to.
217* BodyguardBabes: May Day and her henchwoman.
218* TheBrute: She's the muscle in Zorin's operations and she rarely talks.
219* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: She can lift a man over her head effortlessly.
220* CoversAlwaysLie: See that poster that features Bond and May Day having the same height? Grace Jones is just 2 1/2 inches - 6 cm - shorter than Roger Moore. The fact that she's wearing high heels makes it more unrealistic. The poster does convey Jones' long legs, however. However, this is because "May Day" on that poster was actually modeled on another, somewhat more muscular (if that holds up to willing suspension of disbelief) woman than Grace Jones.
221* DangerTakesABackseat: [[spoiler:She murders Sir Godfrey and Chuck Lee by hiding in the back of their cars.]]
222* DarkActionGirl: As the enforcer for Zorin.
223* DeadpanSnarker: As you might expect from Creator/GraceJones.
224-->'''Bond:''' May Day, where have you been? I've been waiting for you... to take care of me, personally.\
225''[May Day enters the room quietly and stands naked before Bond.]''\
226'''Bond:''' I see you're a woman of very few words.\
227'''May Day:''' What's there to say?
228* DeathGlare: This is basically her default facial expression for most of the movie..
229* DefrostingIceQueen: Averted. She remains cold, reserved and cruel from start to finish, and even the night of love with Bond has no influence on her. It's Zorin's betrayal that makes her turn to Bond's side in the end.
230* DesignatedGirlFight: Subverted. At the climax, May Day tries to grab Stacey to stop her from running away, giving the impression that there will be a fight between them. Instead, May Day only manages to rip off a piece of clothing from Stacey, who then manages to escape. May Day then fights Bond, but [[spoiler:the flood caused by Zorin's betrayal brings them together.]]
231* DevilishHairHorns: One of May Day's many, ''many styles'' is a red outfit and hairdo shaped like devil horns. Subtle.
232* {{Determinator}}: She manages to get away from Bond after a really steadfast chase through the streets of Paris.
233* TheDragon: Subverted; she seems this way at first, but it transpires that Zorin's most valued henchman is actually Scarpine, who even joins in Zorin's attempt to murder May Day and other minions.
234* 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.]]
235* EffortlessAmazonianLift: When Zorin tells General Gogol he's going to go ahead with his EvilPlan instead of working for the Soviets, a KGB mook pulls a gun and is promptly lifted up in the air by May Day.
236* EnigmaticMinion: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Bond.
237-->'''Bond:''' I see you're a woman of very few words.\
238'''May Day:''' What is there to say?
239* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She doesn't take kindly to Zorin turning on her and her AmazonBrigade. Her incensed reaction to Zorin's betrayal would indicate that she had genuinely loved him too.
240* EvenEvilHasStandards: May Day is devastated at the death of her friends and the realization that Zorin left her to die [[spoiler:is what makes her turn on him]].
241* EvilLaugh: She lets out a fabulous cackle as she and Zorin escape by boat after she's killed Auebergiene.
242* HeadTiltinglyKinky: Her sex scene with Bond.
243* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:At the climax, May Day helps Bond to stop Zorin's plans... but not because she fell in love with Bond, but because Zorin betrayed her and killed her friends, in addition to trying to kill May Day herself.]]
244* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She helps Bond remove the bomb from the mine, putting the device onto a handcar and pushing it out of the mine, where it explodes, killing her.]]
245* HighHeelFaceTurn: Actually averted! Her motivation isn't Bond (though she ''did'' sleep with him), but [[spoiler:{{revenge}} against BadBoss Zorin.]]
246* HoneyTrap: Downplayed. At one point in the movie, Bond, still in disguise and investigating Zorin's mansion, fails to return to his room before the villain, who suspects him. Bond then decides to pretend he has been in May Day's room all this time waiting for her, and invites her to spend the night with him. May Day is initially surprised and she and Zorin realize Bond's plan, but she, with Zorin's approval, decides to spend the night with Bond anyway to fool him.
247* IconicOutfit: The loose, flowy hoods she always wears.
248* LadyInRed: May Day is introduced in the film wearing a red dress.
249* LargeHam: Creator/GraceJones devours all her scenes.
250* LoveRedeems: Averted. [[spoiler:May Day has sex with Bond halfway through the movie, but that moment is never commented on for the rest of the plot, and May Day only helps Bond defeat Zorin at the climax because Zorin betrayed her and tried to kill her.]]
251* MeaningfulName: "Mayday" is a radio distress signal that has been used by aircraft and ships.
252* MirthlessLaughter: May Day laughs harshly [[spoiler:when she leaves the mine with the bomb, but when she locks eyes with Max, it becomes pure snarl.]]
253* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler:May Day stays loyal to Max until he decides he doesn't need her any more and leaves her to die with the rest of his minions who have outlived their usefulness. After that, she's out for revenge.]]
254* MookFaceTurn: Zorin goes ahead and floods the mines fully aware that the workers and May Day are down there. May Day and Bond survive. Upon discovering she was betrayed, and seeing her dead friends as well, she helps Bond remove the bomb and sacrifices herself, taking it out when it explodes.
255* MsFanservice: As you might expect from a character played by Grace Jones. May Day wears beautiful dresses, and in the sex scene with Bond, the camera focuses on her naked back.
256* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Subverted by Bond and Zorin, who both hook up with her. In fact, it's her who seems a bit reluctant of them.
257* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: She's ''supposed'' to be American, but Grace Jones plays her with her usual Jamaican accent.
258* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: Unless it's actually her name.
259* PunnyName: Indeed, you can say that you'll need to shout "Mayday!" if you ever meet May Day.
260* ReadyForLovemaking: After snooping around Zorin's estate, Bond is unable to get back to his bedroom before they check if he's there (blowing his cover as just another rich idiot guest). So, he uses this ploy to explain his absence: when May Day returns to her room she finds Bond naked in her bed. She ends up going along with it in order to not blow ''her'' cover (the fact that she and Zorin are on to him).
261* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Subverted in the sense that her motivation isn't redemption, but [[spoiler:revenge against Zorin]].
262* RhymingNames: Assuming that May Day is her actual name.
263* SayMyName: She pulls this [[spoiler:when she sees her companion Jenny Flex dead in the flooded mine tunnel.]]
264* ScaryBlackWoman: You do ''not'' want her after you.
265* SexFaceTurn: Subverted. Bond does sleep with Zorin's main henchwoman (and lover) May Day, but when she eventually turns against her boss, it's because Zorin knowingly left her to her death, not because she's smitten with Bond's manly ways. In fact, May Day could be said to be [[AmazonianBeauty manlier than Bond himself]].
266* SexSignalsDeath: 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.
267* StatuesqueStunner: Much like Grace Jones herself. One poster even put her side by side with Bond, and they seemingly had the same height (in real life, Grace Jones and Roger Moore were a few inches apart in height).
268* TakingYouWithMe: Not with a person but [[spoiler:the mine Zorin was going to detonate upon the TNT, as the brakes on the cart they used jammed.]]
269* ToplessnessFromTheBack: May Day when she takes off her robe and throws it on the floor, and then lies in bed to make love with Bond.
270* ThisIsUnforgivable: Her HighHeelFaceTurn is motivated by [[spoiler:Zorin killing her AmazonBrigade and leaving her for dead]].
271* VasquezAlwaysDies: She's the toughest, more aggressive and less feminine character in the film, [[spoiler:and dies at the end]].
272* WomanScorned: When Zorin leaves her and his henchmen to die, an outraged May Day tells Bond "And I thought that ''creep'' loved me!"
273* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The reason by which May Day helps Bond to defeat Zorin at the climax.
274* YoungerThanSheLooks: The script says May Day is 28 years old. Grace Jones was 37 years old and this is apparent in the film.
275[[/folder]]
276
277[[folder:Carl Mortner]]
278!!Dr. Carl Mortner/Hans Glaub
279[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mortner_3959.jpg]]
280[[caption-width-right:300:''"Selective breeding is important, ja. But more important is conditioning and desire!"'']]
281!!!'''Played by:''' Willoughby Gray
282
283An old Nazi scientist whose experiments on pregnant deportees during World War II resulted in the creation of Max Zorin. He now designs Zorin's microchips for carrying horse-doping drugs.
284----
285* BaldOfEvil: He has little hair on his head and is working for Zorin, the BigBad.
286* DyingSmirk: He is clearly seen grinning as he and Scarpine fumble over the lit roll of dynamite that seals their fate.
287* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Mortner came to love Zorin as a son, given his horrified reaction when the latter is about to fall to his death.
288* EvilOldFolks: An old man responsible for conducting horrific experiments in WWII and is helping with Zorin's plan.
289* 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" SuperSoldier. Instead, he ended up creating a generation of incredibly intelligent psychopaths, Zorin being one of them.
290* 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.
291* HighClassGlass: He wears a monocle at all times. He can't see without it.
292* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Literally. [[spoiler:He's blown up with his own dynamite.]]
293* MadDoctor: It doesn't get any more mad than a Nazi doctor. His experiments with pregnant women in concentration camps seems to make him an stand-in for Josef Mengele.
294* MadScientist: He experimented on concentration camp inmates to breed perfect humans, creating a generation of incredibly intelligent psychopaths.
295* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Well yes, he's a Nazi doctor.
296* NaziGrandpa: If the above mentioned tropes didn't tip you enough; yes, he was a Nazi scientist.
297* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: He is based on Josef Mengele, who experimented with pregnant women on concentration camps in World War II.
298* NoSwastikas: In the German dub of the film, he is a Polish communist.
299* PiggybackingOnHitler: More like Piggybacking on Brezhnev: He utilized Soviet resources as long as their agendas aligned, and dumped them once he was able to pursue his own goals.
300* RapidFireNo: He says "Nein" rapidly before [[spoiler:the dynamite blows up the airship, taking Scarpine with him]].
301* TheSocialDarwinist: He's a Mengele expy who partook in a Nazi SuperBreedingProgram to create DesignerBabies. His quote about selective breeding reeks of Social Darwinism, commenting on how such principles can be also applied to create the "ideal" human.
302* ThoseWackyNazis: He's a scientist who experimented on pregnant women in an attempt to create the ideal soldier for the Nazis. While most of his projects failed, Zorin was one of the lucky few that survived.
303* TooDumbToLive: It's not very wise to light the fuse of a dynamite stick that soon. For that matter, there was a row of submachine guns he could have used ''instead'' of dynamite.
304[[/folder]]
305
306[[folder:Scarpine]]
307!!Scarpine
308[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/scarpine_patrick_bauchau.jpg]]
309!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/PatrickBauchau
310
311Zorin's chief of security and right-hand man.
312----
313* TheDragon: Shares this position with May Day to Zorin. [[spoiler:Turns out Zorin thought of Scarpine as his only worthy Dragon, leaving May Day to die at the mine.]]
314* DuelingScar: He has a facial scar that makes him noticeably more intimidating. It even resembles a ''literal'' dueling scar: a downward curve on the left cheek.
315* MeaningfulName: '''Scar'''pine has a large distinctive scar on the left side of his face.
316* OhCrap: When ordered by Zorin to pursue Bond out atop the Golden Gate Bridge.
317[[/folder]]
318
319[[folder:Bob Conley]]
320!!Bob Conley
321[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/14407-20613_9076.jpg]]
322!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/ManningRedwood
323
324Zorin's chief mining engineer who handles Zorin's oil interests in California.
325----
326* AssholeVictim: EvenEvilHasStandards on the side, he was complicit in Zorin's goal to flood the fault, killing millions.
327* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He's head of one of Zorin's subsidiaries and is every bit the typical slimy oilman stereotype. His background check states that he ran a illegal mine in Africa that collapsed and killed many miners.
328* EvenEvilHasStandards:
329** He gives Zorin a "WTF dude!?" look when Zorin has the Russian spy shoved into the turbine.
330** He tries to stop Zorin from having all the miners killed, to no avail.
331--->'''Bob:''' ''[upon realizing that Zorin is going to detonate the explosives early]'' But Mayday... ''and my men!''\
332'''Zorin:''' Yeah. A convenient coincidence!\
333'''Bob:''' ''[DeathGlare]'' Mr. Zorin, those men are loyal to you!
334* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:He is the first of Zorin's associates to be murdered by him.]]
335[[/folder]]
336
337[[folder:Jenny Flex and Pan Ho]]
338!!Jenny Flex and Pan Ho
339[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jenny_flex_and_pan_ho.jpg]]
340[[caption-width-right:250:Jenny Flex (left) and Pan Ho (right)]]
341!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/AlisonDoody (Jenny Flex), Papillon Soo Soo (Pan Ho)
342----
343* AllGirlsLikePonies: Jenny and Pan Ho are seen in equestrian outfits at Zorin's stable.
344* TheDividual: The Syndividual. They usually appear together and receive little independent characterization.
345* TheQuietOne: They only speak in their first scene, and Pan Ho only has a single line of dialogue.
346* VillainousFriendship: The two women are accomplices to multiple murders but seem to be genuinely close with May Day and each other. In fact, Zorin having no compunction in having the two women among the casualties when he floods the mine leaves May Day distraught enough for her to pull her HeelFaceTurn.
347* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Zorin floods the mine despite knowing that Jenny and Pan Ho are inside, chasing Bond and Stacey. Both women are caught in the flood. Jenny's drowned corpse floats past Bond and May Day while Pan Ho presumably dies as well.
348[[/folder]]
349
350!!KGB
351
352* [[Characters/JamesBondRecurringCharacters General Gogol]]
353
354[[folder:Pola Ivanova]]
355!!Pola Ivanova
356[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pola_ivanova.jpg]]
357[[caption-width-right:300:''"James, you haven't changed!"'']]
358!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/FionaFullerton
359
360A KGB agent sent by General Gogol to spy on Zorin. Bond seduces her in a spa and steals her recording of Zorin's conversation about his operation.
361----
362* AgeGapRomance: Roger Moore was 29 years older than Fiona Fullerton.
363* FriendlyEnemy: With Bond. When they first met in the movie, they recognize each other from what was apparently a previous mission in which they were on opposing sides. Soon enough, they're frolicking in a hot tub at a spa.
364* FuroScene: Ivanova and Bond share a bath together at an oriental bathhouse.
365* HeroAntagonist: She's not even really a villain, just a rival to Bond, and the two of them are working towards the same goal.
366* MsFanservice: She spends most of her on-screen time in that hot tub.
367* SensualSlavs: A sensual KGB agent.
368* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Of Major Anya Amasova from ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''; a female KGB agent who's friendly with Bond and knows him from a previous mission.
369* WhenHarryMetSvetlana: Subverted. She and Bond seem to agree to work together since she's been taping an incriminating conversation between Zorin and his oil company chief, Bob Conley; and have a romantic interlude together. However, after Pola hurriedly absconds to pass the tape of Zorin's conversation to General Gogol, they discover that Bond has swapped the tape with a cassette of Japanese music which had been playing in the spa they were in.
370[[/folder]]
371
372!!Other Characters
373
374[[folder:Achille Aubergine]]
375!!Achille Aubergine
376[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/achille_aubergine_profile.png]]
377[[caption-width-right:300:''"But the key to this mystery is there. And I, Achille Aubergine, intend to find it!"'']]
378!!!'''Played by:''' Jean Rougerie
379
380A French private detective who meets Bond in a restaurant atop the Eiffel Tower to give him some secret informations about Zorin.
381----
382* AlliterativeName: '''A'''chille '''A'''ubergine.
383* {{Expy}}: Of Literature/HerculePoirot. A Francophone detective (he is French, Poirot is Belgian) with a distinctively-shaped mustache. Both have first names after a powerful demigod from Myth/ClassicalMythology, and surnames from a plant ("aubergine" means "eggplant", "poirot" means "leek".)
384* FriendOnTheForce: He's a PrivateDetective who gives valuable information to Bond [[spoiler:before he's assassinated by May Day.]]
385* GentlemanDetective: His dress and comportment hint that he belongs to the upper classes, and has access to information that the formal intelligence services don't.
386* PrivateDetective: His job. [[spoiler:It ends getting him killed.]]
387* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:He is quickly killed by May Day with a poisoned fake butterfly.]]
388[[/folder]]
389
390[[folder:W. G. Howe]]
391!!W. G. Howe
392[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wg_howe_profile.png]]
393%%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]]
394!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/DanielBenzali
395
396A San Francisco city official who is in charge of the city's oil and mining interests, and Stacey Sutton's employer. He is also a collaborator of Max Zorin, covering up for his illegal activities in California.
397----
398* AffablyEvil: Seems like a perfectly reasonable man in casual conversation, but in truth is covering for Zorin even while unaware of the man's true intent.
399* AssholeVictim: He's clearly out of his depth protecting Zorin and Bond and Stacey are genuinely horrified when he is shot dead; that said, he still did absolutely nothing to stop the man from triggering a major cataclysm outside of the city.
400* BadBoss: He fires Stacey when she confronts him with evidence of Zorin's activities.
401* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He blindly believes that Zorin is beneficial to California, even firing Stacey when she tries to report his unethical activities. His devotion to Zorin only gets him killed.
402* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Attempts to keep Bond and Stacey from snooping too much into Zorin's illegal oil drilling, which is actually pumping seawater into an active faultline.
403* TooDumbToLive: His association with a dangerous (and highly psychopathic) industrialist ultimately proves fatal for him in the end, and for everyone else in Silicon Valley if not for Bond's intervention.
404* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Clearly has no clue just how dangerous Zorin truly is and is presumably unaware of Zorin's intent to destroy Silicon Valley outright.
405* UnwittingPawn: Bond pretty much spells this out to him right to his face, moments before Zorin has him murdered in order to frame Bond.
406* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Zorin shoots him dead in order to frame Bond and Stacey for the murder, intending for them to die only minutes after the fact.
407[[/folder]]

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