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6	'''[[center: [- [[Characters/JamesBond Main Character Index]] -]]]'''
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8	Character sheet for the Film/JamesBond film ''Film/DieAnotherDay''.
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10	[[foldercontrol]]
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12	!![=MI6=]
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14	* [[Characters/JamesBondTheCharacter James Bond]]
15	* [[Characters/JamesBondMajorRecurringCharacters M]]
16	* [[Characters/JamesBondMajorRecurringCharacters Moneypenny]]
17	* [[Characters/JamesBondMajorRecurringCharacters Q]]
18	* [[Characters/JamesBondRecurringCharacters Charles Robinson]]
19
20	!!Bond's Allies
21
22	[[folder: Jinx]]
23	!!Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson
24	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jinx_die_another_day.jpg]]
25	[[caption-width-right:300:''"World peace, unconditional love, and our little friend with the expensive acne."'']]
26	->'''Played by:''' Creator/HalleBerry\
27	'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/MaikDarah (European French)
28
29	A UsefulNotes/{{NSA}} agent who joins Bond to fight Gustav Graves.
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31	* ActionGirl: She kicks ass without much effort when needed.
32	* BadassInDistress: Gets caught twice by the enemy, and at one point she's strapped to a table and would've been killed with lasers ''Goldfinger''-style if not for Bond's intervention.
33	* BondOneLiner: She says to Bond, "I might have broken her heart," when the latter happens to [[spoiler:find Frost dead]].
34	* CoolCar: She drives a red 007 Ford Thunderbird.
35	* DistaffCounterpart: For Bond, like [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe Anya Amasova]], [[Film/LicenceToKill Pam Bouvier]], and [[Film/TomorrowNeverDies Wai Lin]]. It's ''she'' who pulls a NotStayingForBreakfast on Bond.
36	* FauxActionGirl: Her proficiency seems to switch scene to scene.
37	* GirlOfTheWeek: The main Bond girl of the film.
38	* InSeriesNickname: She's nicknamed "Jinx" for having been born on a Friday the 13th.
39	* MeaningfulName: Gets caught twice by the enemy. Talk about being jinxed.
40	* MsFanservice: Topping Honey Ryder is no small task, but Halle Berry sure looks good [[SexySurfacingShot getting out of the water]] in that bikini.
41	* PrecisionFStrike: [[https://youtu.be/0jJTVuTLHV4?t=91To Miranda during their fateful sword duel;]]
42	-->'''Miranda:''' I can read your every move!\
43	'''Jinx:''' ''(Stabs her in the heart with a knife, with The Art of War impaled on the blade)'' Read ''this''! ...'''Bitch'''!
44	* ShoutOut: Her first shot was based on Honey Ryder emerging from the sea in ''Film/DrNo''.
45	* SpyCatsuit: She wears a catsuit as her outfit for infiltration missions.
46	* YourMom: Uses "Yo mama!" as a comeback.
47	[[/folder]]
48
49	!!Villains
50
51	[[folder:Colonel Moon / Gustav Graves]]
52	!!Colonel Tan-Sun Moon / "Gustav Graves"
53	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gw372h306.jpeg]]
54	[[caption-width-right:300:''"It's pathetic that you British still think you have the right to police the world... but you will not live to see the day all Korea is ruled by the North."'']]
55	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gustav_graves.jpg]]
56	[[caption-width-right:300:''"Let's do this the old-fashioned way - first blood drawn from the torso!"'']]
57	->'''Played by:''' Creator/WillYunLee (as Colonel Moon), Creator/TobyStephens (as Gustav Graves)\
58	'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/JeanPierreMichael (Colonel Moon, European French), Creator/EricHersonMacarel (Gustav Graves, European French)
59
60	A North Korean colonel with an elaborate plot to usurp control of North Korea, then conquer South Korea and Japan. Later, after faking his death, he undergoes a DNA transplant to transform himself into Gustav Graves, with his persona being that of a billionaire diamond magnate who seems to be interested in alleviating world hunger with his new solar satellite.
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62	* AffablyEvil: He has an obvious personal loathing for Bond, but still stresses to be polite with him. Slips into FauxAffablyEvil as the film progresses.
63	* AlliterativeName: '''G'''ustav '''G'''raves
64	* AntagonisticOffspring: [[spoiler:He kills his own father after the General shows disgust at what he has done.]]
65	* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's a Colonel and unlike the majority of Bond masterminds he knows his way around assault weaponry and can hold his own in a hand-to-hand fight.
66	* AwesomeButImpractical: He fights Bond with a flurry of Taekwondo kicks, which are certainly impressive looking but might not be the most tactically sound move while standing on the roof of a speeding hovercraft. Sure enough he has trouble maintaining his footing due to using so many kicks, and Bond is able to grab him by the shirt and toss him. [[spoiler: In both of his rematches against Bond as Gustav Graves, he sticks to GoodOldFisticuffs instead]].
67	* BadassLongcoat: His [=KPA=] Colonel's uniform includes one.
68	* BigBad: He initially appears to be nothing more than a StarterVillain who is killed by Bond during the film's pre-title sequence. [[spoiler: He's later revealed as the main antagonist of the film, having undergone gene therapy to adopt a new identity after faking his death.]]
69	* BigFancyHouse: His mansion in Iceland is a Big Fancy IcePalace.
70	* ButNotTooForeign: He is Argentinian-English as Graves.
71	* CaptainErsatz: He is very much based on Hugo Drax from the novel ''Literature/{{Moonraker}}'', from building a huge space project to supposedly solve the world's problems, being a media darling, building his fortune on mining and having an extravagant lifestyle, [[spoiler:to actually being a military officer of a totalitarian government (Nazi Germany for Drax in the novel, North Korea for Graves in the film) who took the opportunity of being declared dead to create a new identity for himself]].
72	* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: He has the control system for Icarus converted into an armored telemetry suit that doubles as electrified body armor and lets him [[ShockAndAwe shoot lightning from his hands]].
73	* ColonelKilgore: He eagerly looks forward to the idea to go to war with South Korea and Japan.
74	* CoolCar: He's got a nice collection of sports cars.
75	* CutLexLuthorACheck: His philanthropy and eccentricities made him a British superstar and earned him a knighthood, and he presents Icarus as a second sun capable of defying world hunger. [[spoiler:But as his aghast father argues, its practical application -- geopolitical tyranny for the glory of North Korea -- will only provoke the north's doom.]]
76	* DeadpanSnarker: Moon has no shortage of barbs to trade. For just one example, he's the {{Trope Namer\|s}} for MajoredInWesternHypocrisy. He keeps it up as Graves, since his Graves persona is modeled on the impression he had of Bond.
77	-->'''Gustav Graves:''' ''[in regards of receiving a knighthood]'' What a wonderful day to become a knight.
78	* DiabolicalMastermind: His EvilPlan involves building a fortune on diamond mining from arms dealing to fund a space laser that will take out the land mines along the border between the Koreas.
79	* DisappointedInYou: Said nearly word-for-word to General Moon [[BilingualBonus in Korean]] before [[spoiler:killing him]].
80	* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Moon fakes his death at the end of his chase with Bond after falling into a waterfall. Or at least it ''seems'' so...]]
81	* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: When his father tells him that, if the north invades the south, the Americans will launch nuclear weapons at them, Moon simply says that Icarus will destroy them. Given how sluggishly Icarus moves and positions itself, it doesn't occur to Moon that it won't be able to destroy ''all'' of them. His father is pointing out that his war will ''annihilate'' Korea, not reunify it, and it goes completely over Moon's head.
82	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He might be a borderline sociopath but he still wants to [[WellDoneSonGuy make his father proud]], he seems genuinely fond of Miranda, and despite being Zao's boss and superior, the two of them are really good friends.
83	* EvilBrit: Graves presents himself as half-English.
84	* EvilCounterpart: To Bond, invoked and lampshaded by Graves himself:
85	-->'''Gustav Graves:''' We only met briefly, but you left a lasting impression. You see, when your intervention forced me to present the world with a new face, I chose to model the disgusting Gustav Graves on you. Oh, just in the details. That unjustifiable swagger, the crass quips, the self-defense mechanism concealing such inadequacy...
86	* EvilIsHammy: Graves is prone to grandiose showboating. {{Justified}} in that he's putting on a facade (inspired by Bond, no less).
87	* EvilRedhead: [[spoiler:Besides becoming Caucasian, the gene alteration surgery also made him a redhead.]]
88	* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: He uses the opportunity of his apparent death to hide and reinvent himself as Gustav Graves.]]
89	* FarEastAsianTerrorists: He and his faction in the Korean People's Army turn into pro-North Korean unification terrorists.
90	* Fiction500: Graves has built a wealth in diamonds that's almost impossible to quantify. [[spoiler:Illegal blood diamonds, that is.]]
91	* FinalBoss: He's Bond's final adversary in the entirety of the original EON continuity. In fact, unlike most of Bond's previous {{Big Bad}}s, Gustav has the skills to challenge Bond in direct combat, and on top of that, he has an electric suit that makes him even more dangerous.
92	* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Before Graves is revealed to be Colonel Moon under a new identity]], you notice that his sword duel with Bond is extremely vicious and rife with obvious personal loathing towards Bond on Graves's part. [[spoiler:It's a clue that they've crossed paths once before.]]
93	* TheGadfly: "[[SarcasmMode Oh look, parachutes for the both of us!]]"
94	* GloryHound: He's out to win glory in a war of Korean unification, regardless of the cost.
95	* GoingNative: Inverted. He, a quintessential white guy and avatar of British smarminess, [[spoiler:enters the final battle garbed in the military outfit of North Korea... the nation of his birth and to whom he owes his true allegiance.]]
96	* HairTriggerTemper: His idea of disagreeing with his anger management therapist is to stuff him in a punching bag and beat the hell out of him. Later, he can barely stand in the same room as Bond before lashing out.
97	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Bond manages to defeat him by hitting a switch on the suit that shocks him before using the parachute Gustav had just put on himself to suck him into a turbine outside the plane.]]
98	* {{Hypocrite}}:
99	** He sees Western culture as being beneath him, when he has a [[MajoredInWesternHypocrisy Western education]], a large collection of European sports cars, extensive training in classical fencing, a Western ally in the form of [[spoiler:Miranda Frost]], and [[spoiler:changes his whole appearance to a Caucasian magnate]] to further his EvilPlan. Also the {{Trope Namer\|s}} for MajoredInWesternHypocrisy.
100	** He tells his father that he has always found it difficult to accept him. It never seems to occur to him that, since he's a petulant warmonger with a hair-trigger temper who engages in Western indulgences and flouts the rules of both the military and society he's a part of, maybe he deserves it.
101	* IncomingHam: Graves enters the movie parachuting in front of Buckingham Palace saying "What a wonderful day to become a knight!"
102	* IrrationalHatred: Subverted. His willingness to maim or kill Bond during their escalating duel, not ten minutes after meeting the man, makes more sense when you consider [[spoiler:his true identity, which gives him a ''very'' good reason to loathe the guy who necessitated his fabricated persona.]]
103	* ItsAllAboutMe: He seems to look out for the Korean unification less because of whatever benefit it will grant North Korea, but to become immortalized in history. His [[spoiler:near death experience and changing his identity]] doesn't do anything to temper his ego.
104	* {{Jerkass}}: He's one massive douche, [[MajoredInWesternHypocrisy as he claims to despise the West for dividing Korea, yet is Western-educated and has a personal collection of sports cars]], [[spoiler:and when his father realizes that Gustav Graves is actually his son in disguise, he promptly offs him.]]
105	* KillSat: He's building Icarus to destroy any targets he wants from orbit, including incoming missiles against the satellite.
106	* KingpinInHisGym:
107	** He trains his taekwondo kicks on a punching bag. In which he's stuffed his anger management therapist.
108	** As Graves, he loves fencing with Miranda Frost, and has a rather vicious duel with Bond.
109	* MagicPlasticSurgery: Currently provides the page image. Upon faking his death, he submits himself to gene surgery to alter his entire ethnicity from North Korean to British.
110	* MajoredInWesternHypocrisy: {{Trope Namer\|s}}. He was Western-educated and claims to despise the West for dividing Korea, but he blatantly abuses foreign aid to finance a personal collection of sports cars, has allies in the West like [[spoiler:Miranda Frost]], and is extremely corrupt and dictatorial.
111	* ManOfWealthAndTaste: He keeps a modest collection of sports cars, and also takes up other high-class activities as Graves.
112	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: With the last name ''Graves'', it's pretty obvious that he's the bad guy.
113	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: It's believed that the Graves persona was inspired by Richard Branson. Col. Moon was based on UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein's son Uday.
114	* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:He apparently died after falling into a waterfall in the opening sequence of the film, but he actually survived, turned into a Caucasian, and is in another part of the globe.]]
115	* NotSoDifferentRemark: Gustav Graves uses it as a taunt to Bond.
116	* NouveauRiche: By the time Bond catches up to him as Graves, he's just become a multi-billionaire from a diamond mine he set up in Iceland. [[spoiler:In reality, his massive fortune was really built by using the "mine" as a front for laundering blood diamonds from Sierra Leone]].
117	* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: Graves is notable as the only Bond BigBad to be explicitly younger than James himself. This also is true meta-wise: At the time of filming, [[spoiler:Creator/WillYunLee and Creator/TobyStephens, the actors who portray him as Colonel Moon and as Graves respectively, were 30 and 32 years old, facing off against a 48 year old Pierce Brosnan.]]
118	* {{Patricide}}: [[spoiler:Kills his father when he tried to stop him.]]
119	-->[[spoiler:'''Graves:''' ''(in Korean)'' Father... [[DisappointedInYou you disappoint me]].]]
120	* PsychopathicManchild: He's introduced beating a punching bag that has his anger management therapist stuffed inside it (it's heavily implied that the therapist said something Moon didn't like and suffered the consequences), and after he blows up the helicopter carrying Bond's men, he gets word that his father, Gen. Moon, is coming, and orders his men to hide the evidence that he's illegally trading conflict diamonds, in the same way a teenager would tell his friends clean up after [[WildTeenParty their party]]. His quest for conquering South Korea and Japan is done with the knowledge that he has [[KillSat a super weapon]], and only has the shortsightedness to think that he only has to face the armies of Japan and South Korea, as well as U.S. troops stationed there, and not the brunt of the whole U.S. military, other nearby allied nations, and Communist China, which considering that Zao killed several of their high ranking intelligence officials during an international cooperation summit, may not exactly be on friendly terms with North Korea either.
121	* RagsToRiches: His Gustav Graves persona has the backstory of a penniless orphan in Argentina who got rich when he discovered a diamond mine.
122	* RenegadeRussian: North Korean actually, but he fits the archetype exactly: high military leader of a post-Cold War regime who stages a coup against the current government to pursue his own plans for conquest.
123	* ShadowArchetype: Moon modeled Graves after Bond and even invokes it in his NotSoDifferentRemark.
124	* ShoutOut: His full name is a reference to Literature/ColonelSun, the main villain of the fifteenth ''Literature/JamesBond'' novel.
125	* ShockAndAwe: Wears a protective electric suit in the climax of the movie which also doubles as (in his words) an ergonomical way to control the Icarus.
126	* TheSleepless: A side effect of the plastic surgery that turned him from Colonel Moon into Gustav Graves is that he's been left with permanent insomnia, and thus must spend one hour of each day in an REM machine to keep himself sane.
127	* StarterVillain: The North Korean Colonel Moon initially appears during the pre-title sequence and apparently dies after going over a cliff into a waterfall, leaving the British Gustav Graves to take the stage as the film's main antagonist. [[spoiler:It's later averted when it turns out they're the same person, having undergone a DNA transplant after faking his death at the beginning of the film.]]
128	* SuddenlyEthnicity: The gene surgery allows him to go from North Korean to British in a matter of months.
129	* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:Inverted. General Moon, horrified with what his son has become, says that his son died when he fell into the waterfall.]]
130	* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: During their sword duel, Graves tosses his sword in an attempt to kill Bond.
131	* TooDumbToLive: Though he would have probably died either way, it wasn't helped by the fact that his Icarus-shock suit was built with a function to electrocute HIMSELF as well as enemies. Lampshaded by FilmBrain's Mathew Buck.
132	* TurbineBlender: He dies by getting sucked into [[spoiler:one of his plane's turbines after Bond kicks him out of it.]]
133	* VillainousFriendship: He's best friends with Zao, his second-in-command. When they see each other again after a lengthy period of time, they waste no time in trading friendly barbs over each other's new looks.
134	* VillainWithGoodPublicity: As Graves, he schmoozes with the tabloid press, and he's introduced with the mention that he's due to be granted a knighthood.
135	* WellDoneSonGuy: Wants his father's approval. [[spoiler:At first anyway.]]
136	* WellIntentionedExtremist: Downplayed, but he's in the minority of ''Bond'' villains not motivated by power or wealth or glory; rather, those three things are key components in realising his true goal, [[spoiler:making his beloved nation of North Korea the dominant eastern power.]]
137	* WickedCultured: You can't get more than naming your solar-based weapon "Icarus", though it's also a great case of TemptingFate, because Icarus flew too close to the sun and burned his wings.
138	[[/folder]]
139
140	[[folder:Miranda Frost]]
141	!!Miranda Frost
142	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/miranda_frost_9.jpg]]
143	[[caption-width-right:300:''"I know all about you -- sex for dinner, death for breakfast."'']]
144	->'''Played by:''' Creator/RosamundPike
145
146	A [=MI6=] operative working on the Gustav Graves case with Bond. She was also an Olympic fencer.
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148	* AlasPoorVillain: Bond takes the time to [[spoiler:mourn her death after Jinx kills her]].
149	* BondVillainStupidity: [[spoiler:Takes Jinx at sword-point, but rather than cut her throat then and there Miranda walks her foe into the battle room, taunting her all the while. Maybe she didn't want to get blood all over the cockpit, but still.]]
150	* CoDragons: [[spoiler:With Zao, to Graves/Moon.]]
151	* DarkActionGirl: [[spoiler:After being revealed as being one of the villains, Frost is not ashamed to fight. In fact the climactic swordfight between her and Jinx is noticeably more elaborate than the much simpler punch-out between Bond and Graves occurring at the same time.]]
152	* DefrostingIceQueen: She is introduced with a cold demeanour, but eventually spends a night together with Bond. [[spoiler:Well, the defrosting part is a subversion. She was faking it to get Bond's trust.]]
153	* DoubleAgent: [[spoiler:She's an [=MI6=] agent sent to investigate Graves, but turns out to be working for the North Koreans.]]
154	* DudeMagnet: According to M's assessment of Miranda, she's attracted several men within MI-6, but spurned all of their advances. [[spoiler: It helps that she already had a North Korean boyfriend with whom she was in cahoots.]]
155	* EvilBrit: [[spoiler:A British secret agent who turns out to be one of the villains.]]
156	* EvilIsPetty: [[spoiler: Seriously, selling out your country...just because you came in second at the Olympics. Wow, just '''''wow'''''.]]
157	* HateSink: She becomes this once you realize she's the one responsible for Bond's fourteen-month imprisonment in North Korea, and becomes noticeably more ruthless once this has been revealed.
158	* IceQueen: Lampshaded perfectly by Bond upon their rendezvous at the film's most notable set piece.
159	-->'''Bond:''' A [[IcePalace palace of ice]]. You must feel right at home.
160	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:How Jinx kills her, stabbing her in the the midsection through a ''The Art of War'' book and kicking the knife into her as the final blow. Doubly funny that their clash was a sword fight and when you remember that Frost did come in at second place in the Olympics.]]
161	* KarmicDeath: After having betrayed [=MI6=] and selling out Bond to North Korea, she totally had it coming when Jinx stabbed her to death at the end of their sword duel.
162	* [[MasterSwordsman Master Swordswoman]]: She's a former gold medal (by default) Olympic fencer and [[spoiler: fights with a sword when fighting Jinx at the end of the film.]]
163	* MeaningfulName: An IceQueen called Frost.
164	* TheMole: [[spoiler:Is revealed to have been Colonel Moon[=/=]Gustav Grave's mole inside MI-6, which is how Moon was able to identify Bond and break his cover in the prologue.]]
165	* MsFanservice: Wears particularly revealing clothes throughout the film, including the climax, when she fights against Jinx.
166	* PimpedOutDress: Her ice blue dress, with icicles-like tassels.
167	* PrettyInMink: Has a fur scarf, a fur-trimmed coat, and her white fur wrap [[spoiler:Would be FurAndLoathing, except she wears a few furs before the reveal, and they seem to be fake anyway.]]
168	* RuleOfSymbolism: Her name, and the style of her ice dress.
169	* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: She got a silver medal for fencing, but was awarded gold after the previous winner OD'ed on steroids [[spoiler:which was planted by Graves's people, thus effectively buying Miranda's loyalty. Thus this trope comes into play, in that she would turn on her country rather than accept second place.]]
170	* SelfMadeOrphan: The {{novelization}} reveals that she hated her father, who forced her to play both the role of daughter and wife, so at age 14 she captured bees, which she then placed in her father's car. Being allergic to bees, he had a car "accident" where he was killed.
171	* StatuesqueStunner: A beautiful woman who clocks 5'9".
172	* SoreLoser: She got a silver medal in fencing, but felt SecondPlaceIsForLosers. So what did she do? [[spoiler:Have the gold winner OD on steroids, which was planted by Graves's people, effectively buying her loyalty. She is the kind of person who would never accept second place]].
173	* VillainousFriendship: She and Moon studied at Harvard together and were both on the University's fencing team.
174	[[/folder]]
175
176	[[folder:Zao]]
177	!!Zao
178	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vlcsnap_2020_09_08_12h56m58s683.png]]
179	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zaoupdated.jpg]]
180	[[caption-width-right:300:''"How's that for a punchline?"'']]
181	->'''Played by:''' Rick Yune
182
183	Serves as Colonel Moon's / Gustav Graves' right-hand man.
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185	* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Zao isn't a Korean surname. While the novel says he's actually an ex-Chinese mercenary, it's not a Chinese surname either.
186	* BadassLongcoat: Seems to favour one, much like his boss.
187	* BaldOfEvil: After the botched operation, he's left bald.
188	* BondOneLiner: Inverted, he gives Bond himself one of these!
189	-->'''Zao:''' (Gut punches Bond) How's that for a punchline?
190	* CoolCar: Jaguar XKR, with enough gadgets to rival Bond's Aston Martin Vanquish.
191	* CreepyBlueEyes: Post-botched surgery, he gets abnormally blue eyes.
192	* TheDragon: Is incredibly loyal to Colonel Moon, [[spoiler: even after he undergoes gene surgery and becomes Graves. To Graves, he [[CoDragons shares the role]] with Miranda.]]
193	* EvilCounterpart: Seems to see himself as this to Bond. Bond is entirely unimpressed, and unlike, say, Red Grant or Scaramanga, he never really does enough to earn the distinction.
194	* FallingChandelierOfDoom: Dies after a chandelier falls on him at the ice palace courtesy of Bond.
195	* GoodScarsEvilScars: The nasty result to his face of the exploding diamond briefcase serves as a RedRightHand.
196	* KarmicDeath: The chandelier Bond kills him with was made of diamonds.
197	* MagicPlasticSurgery: Was going through one before Bond intervened. As a result of the interrupted surgery, he spends the rest of the movie pale, hairless and deformed.
198	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Zao means "evil" in Serbo-Croatian, and also in Hokkien "run".
199	* OhCrap: He realizes his fate the moment the ice chandelier falls on him.
200	* OnlyOneName: Just "Zao" and nothing more. It's possible "Zao" isn't even his real name and is just a nickname, or perhaps a codename given that Zao is, after all, a secret agent/terrorist.
201	* RedRightHand: First, the diamonds encrusted on his face and secondly, his Ulook after the botched gene alteration process.
202	* TheScream: Zao screams when Bond drops the ice chandelier on him.
203	* VillainousFriendship: With Colonel Moon [[spoiler:even after he becomes Graves.]]
204	[[/folder]]
205
206	[[folder:Vlad]]
207	!!Vladimir Popov
208	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vlad_mikhail_gorevoy_profile.png]]
209	[[caption-width-right:300:''"Hey boss, he beat your time."'']]
210	->'''Played by:''' Mikhail Gorevoy
211
212	A Russian scientist and henchman of Gustav Graves. He created Icarus and the power suit that Gustav Graves uses to control it.
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214	* DisneyVillainDeath: He's sucked out of the hole in the plane at the end.
215	* GadgeteerGenius: When Gustav Graves asks him for something more "ergonomic" with which to control the Icarus (until then he was using a device contained in a briefcase), Vlad creates a PoweredArmor suit.
216	[[/folder]]
217
218	[[folder:Mr. Kil]]
219	!!Mr. Kil
220	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kil.png]]
221	[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm Mr. Kil."'']]
222	->'''Played by:''' Lawrence Makoare
223
224	A henchman of Gustav Graves. He attempts to kill Jinx using lasers in a secret diamond cutting room, but Bond manages to save her in time.
225	----
226	* BondVillainStupidity: After Jinx is captured but refuses to give any information even when tortured by Zao, he hands Kil a sidearm in order to kill her. While this would have eliminated her quickly, Kil insists on using a laser which edges towards her slowly (in a similar fashion to the laser scene in Goldfinger). This gives Bond time to not only reach Jinx and to stop the laser but once Kil is too busy fighting Bond (in which he is able to overpower him and also kill him with his hairpin), Jinx is able to get the laser controls and quickly shoots the laser through his head. Had he just followed Zao's suggestion, he would have killed Jinx and may have even killed Bond.
227	* TheBrute: He might be beefier than Graves' two CoDragons, but Kil is cruel for cruelty's sake and not particularly bright.
228	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Just as Kil is about to stab Bond, Jinx grabs the remote to the laser machine and fires a beam through the back of his head and out his mouth, killing him.
229	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The way the laser beam hits him (through the back of his head and out his mouth) looks like he got impaled with a rod.
230	* MeaningfulName: Mr. Kil is obviously a killer.
231	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: To the point where it's actually funny instead of scary. His real, given name is apparently '''Kil'''. Wryly lampshaded by Bond during his intro.
232	-->'''Mr. Kil:''' I'm Mr. Kil.\
233	'''Bond:''' That's a name to die for.
234	* PunnyName: Kil and "kill" are not exactly lightyears apart.
235	* TortureTechnician: His function as Gustav's henchman.
236	[[/folder]]
237
238	!!Other Characters
239
240	[[folder:General Moon]]
241	!!General Moon
242	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/general_moon_profile.jpg]]
243	->'''Played by:''' Kenneth Tsang
244
245	The father of Colonel Tan-Sun Moon and a general in the North Korean army.
246	----
247	* EveryoneHasStandards:
248	** He admits to Bond that he does not approve of the Scorpion Guard and her torture methods, but his own superiors do so his hands are tied.
249	** He certainly has no time for his son's more hardline faction and is horrified [[spoiler: by Graves's plan to use Icarus to facilitate the military reunification of Korea]].
250	* IHaveNoSon: [[spoiler:Ashamed and horrified with the monster his son has become, General Moon says that his son truly died when he fell into the waterfall.]]
251	-->'''Gustave Graves:''' You would kill your own son?\
252	'''General Moon:''' The son I knew died long ago.
253	* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: He is the total opposite of his SpoiledBrat son.
254	* PapaWolf: When Bond seemingly assassinates Colonel Moon, the general has him imprisoned and tortured for more than a year.
255	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In stark contrast to his own son, General Moon sent him to study in the West so he could help bridge the gap between the two Koreas, refused to condone the torture DPRK soldiers inflicted on Bond, resisted attempts by hardliners to launch an open invasion to the South, and [[spoiler:finally, tries to kill his own son when he realizes what a monster he has become.]]
256	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:Bond himself, who had no cause to feel pity for the man who allowed him to be tortured for fourteen long months, is so infuriated by General Moon's death that he wastes no time going in to finish off the traitorous former colonel.]]
257	* TranquilFury: [[spoiler:When Graves forces his father to watch as he unleashes Icarus upon the DMZ, a move that Moon is certain will trigger a destructive war that will ruin North Korea. After having spent the past year pining over his son's betrayal and supposed death, Moon takes up arms against his own son, telling that he is dead to him.]]
258	[[/folder]]
259
260	[[folder:Mr. Chang]]
261	!!Mr. Chang
262	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mrchang.png]]
263	->'''Played by:''' Ho Yi
264
265	The manager of the Royal Rubyeon Hotel in Hong Kong, who also works for the Chinese secret services.
266	----
267	* CovertGroupWithMundaneFront: He's a Chinese secret agent whose cover is that of a hotel manager.
268	* {{Deconstruction}}: Of how everyone from hotel managers to spies knows who Bond is. Well, you would if you were both a spy and a hotel manager!
269	* EnemyMine: He agrees to help Bond after Bond promises to kill Zao for him (the Chinese Secret Service want Zao dead for killing three of their people when he tried to blow up a peace summit between China and South Korea).
270	* HospitalityForHeroes: When Bond walks into the Royal Rubyeon Hotel in his wet pajamas, with long hair and a beard and without any money, the receptionist doesn't take him seriously. Then Chang recognizes him and offers him a room and new clothes immediately (although it's initially to spy on him through a HoneyTrap with Peaceful Fountains of Desire).
271	* MistakenForSpies: Played with. The presence of a British agent in what Chang states as "our turf" is fishy to him. Then Bond explains to him he's just after Zao and enlists Chang's help to get him to Cuba.
272	[[/folder]]
273
274	[[folder:Peaceful Fountains of Desire]]
275	!!Peaceful Fountains of Desire
276	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/peaceful_fountains_of_desire.png]]
277	[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm not that kind of masseuse..."'']]
278	->'''Played by:''' Rachel Grant
279
280	A masseuse who is sent to Bond's room when he is staying at a hotel in Hong Kong. When she arrives to his room, it seems at first that Bond tries to seduce her, only to be revealed by him that she's actually a Chinese agent posing as a masseuse to probe Bond for information.
281	----
282	* FanserviceExtra: She appears for a few minutes and to give the movie a little extra titillation.
283	* HappyEndingMassage: Discussed. When she comes to Bond's room claiming to be his masseuse and he seemingly starts to seduce her, she claims to be an aversion of this, saying that she's "not that kind of masseuse," before Bond tells her that he's "not that kind of customer," and proceeds to demonstrate that her superiors seemed to actually try to go for that route.
284	* HiddenWeapons: She has a gun in a holster around her thigh.
285	* HoneyTrap: She was sent by Mr. Chang to obtain information from Bond. Presumably they were hoping that Bond would let something slip while trying to chat her up (which is why she resists when he seems to be going straight to sex). Chang's men have a video camera but the gun between her legs implies she wasn't going to let him get that far, so they weren't thinking about blackmail (which is a waste of time given Bond's reputation anyway).
286	* LegFocus: There's a close-up on her thighs when Bond finds her hidden gun.
287	* MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow: Subverted. At first it seems like Bond tries to seduce her when she's sent to his room. Then he takes her gun and reveals her as a Chinese secret service operative.
288	* MsFanservice: There's a [[LegFocus close shot of her legs]] when Bond finds the gun [[VictoriasSecretCompartment in her thigh holster]].
289	* NameThatUnfoldsLikeLotusBlossom: Peaceful Fountains of Desire is a mellow woman who inspires desire. Subverted in that it's most likely an alias for her masseuse cover, which also denotes that the "desire" part is enforced, since she's a HoneyTrap.
290	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Assuming that "Peaceful Fountains of Desire" was just an alias for her masseuse cover.
291	* OverlyLongName: "Peaceful Fountains of Desire" seems quite like a mouthful. The end credits seem to agree, as she's only credited in them as "Peaceful."
292	* PunnyName: It wouldn't be a Bond movie without a sexually suggestive name. "Fountains of Desire" can be taken either way.
293	[[/folder]]
294
295	[[folder:Raoul]]
296	!!Raoul
297	[[quoteright:360:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1000005023.png]]
298	->'''Played by:''' Emilio Echevarría
299
300	A British sleeper agent in Havana. Bond seeks him out for assistance in tracking down Zao.
301	----
302	* CoolCar: Provides Bond with a very nice 1957 Ford Fairlane in his mission to catch Zao.
303	* CovertGroupWithMundaneFront: He's a British sleeper agent who owns a cigar factory in Havana.
304	* NiceGuy: Raoul is a friendly guy who proves vital in helping Bond track down Zao, providing him with a gun, a car and Zao's location.
305	* SleeperAgent: He's a British-aligned agent embedded in Havana, where he poses as a cigar manufacturer.
306	* SpySpeak: Bond makes contact with him by requesting a specific type of cigar that hasn't been produced in his factory for decades.
307	[[/folder]]
308
309	[[folder:Verity]]
310	!!Verity
311	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/madonna_bond_5219.jpg]]
312	[[caption-width-right:250:''"I see you handle your weapon well."'']]
313	->'''Played by:''' Music/{{Madonna}}
314
315	A fencing teacher. She introduces Bond to Miranda Frost and Gustav Graves.
316	----
317	* AmbiguouslyBi: She flirts with Bond and clearly has the hots for Miranda (which was originally much more explicit). Being played by Madonna certaintly helps.
318	* TheCameo: A cameo for Madonna, who composed the movie's theme.
319	* HellBentForLeather: Befitting of modern Madonna (who has a thing for leather), Verity is clad in black leather.
320	* OnlyOneName: Just Verity.
321	* ZipMeUp: The first thing Verity does when she appears is ask Bond to help lace up her corset.
322	[[/folder]]
323
324	[[folder:Scorpion Guard]]
325	!!Scorpion Guard
326	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dad_scorpionguard2.png]]
327	->'''Played by:''' Sarllya
328
329	A North Korean soldier who oversees Bond's torture.
330	----
331	* TheBaroness: Although she receives little characterization due to her short screentime, it's probably intentional that the North Koreans chose a woman to torment Bond, knowing [[SpiesAreLecherous his reputation]].
332	* NoNameGiven: Her name isn't given on screen; she is credited as "Korean Scorpion Guard".
333	* ScaryScorpions: She comes up with the idea of injecting Bond with scorpion venom repeatedly.
334	* TortureTechnician: She runs a torture unit that is somewhat independent of General Moon.
335	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Isn't seen again after Bond is exchanged for Zao, leaving it ambiguous whether she took part in Colonel Moon's coup.
336	[[/folder]]
337
338	[[folder:Dr. Alvarez]]
339	!!Dr. Alvarez
340	[[quoteright:800:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1000005024.png]]
341	->'''Played by:''' Simón Andreu
342
343	The director of a private clinic in Cuba that specialises in creating new identities via illegal gene therapy.
344	----
345	* DeadArtistsAreBetter: He likes to think of his work with gene therapy as a form of art and himself as the artist. Jinx tells him that most artists are only truly celebrated after they're dead, then proceeds to kill him.
346	* MadDoctor: He's only on screen for around a minute, but we learn very quickly that he takes great pride in his extremely unethical work, and doesn't care that the DNA used in his procedures is harvested from orphaned children.
347	* MagicPlasticSurgery: Not himself, but his private clinic provides those that can afford it with a DNA transplant that effectively turns the patient into a completely different person. The procedure is said to be extremely painful and anyone who undergoes it is left with permanent insomnia.
348	* OrganTheft: His clinic sources it's DNA from the bone marrow of kidnapped orphans and runaway children. In his own words, they choose them specifically because nobody will go looking for them.
349	* SmallRoleBigImpact: While he's a very minor character in the story, his clinic is able to provide [[spoiler:Colonel Moon with his new identity as Gustav Graves, allowing him to slip under the radar for well over a year while he accumulates the power and wealth needed to build the Icarus satellite.]]
350	[[/folder]]

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