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6	'''[[center: [- [[Characters/JamesBond Main Character Index]] -]]]'''
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8	Character sheet for [[Literature/{{Moonraker}} the novel]] and Film/JamesBond film ''Film/{{Moonraker}}''.
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10	[[foldercontrol]]
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12	!The Novel
13	[[folder:Gala Brand]]
14	!!Galatea "Gala" Brand
15	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gala_brand_literary_profile.png]]
16	[[caption-width-right:300:Artist depiction on the 2003 American Penguin paperback edition of ''Moonraker'']]
17	A UsefulNotes/ScotlandYard agent stationed in Drax's rocket base, posing as his secretary.
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19	* AdaptedOut: To date, she is the only lead female character of a conventional Fleming novel not to have appeared as a character in a James Bond film,[[note]]The only other lead female character from a Fleming novel to not have been adapted is Vivienne Michel from ''Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', but the literary ''TSWLM'' is a departure from previous Bond novels in that it is told in first-person perspective by Vivienne, and James Bond actually doesn't appear until two-thirds of the way through the book.[[/note]] [[Film/{{Moonraker}} the movie version]] of the novel being an almost total rewrite of the book.[[note]]Creator/RosamundPike, in the DVD commentary for ''Film/DieAnotherDay'', states that her character, Miranda Frost, was originally to have been named Gala Brand, but that this was changed at the last minute, probably because in the film, [[spoiler:Frost is revealed to have been a mole for the main villain in [=MI6=], and the producers didn't want to associate a heroic literary Bond Girl with a villainous one.]][[/note]]
20	* BrainyBrunette: She is described as a brunette, and very good with figures and a competent secretary to Drax.
21	* DefrostingIceQueen: She starts off as cold and professional towards Bond, but warms up to him eventually and is friends with him by the end.
22	* DidNotGetTheGirl: Bond runs into a case of this with her at the end, where it's revealed that she's engaged. Bond playfully dismisses to her any serious romantic interest he might have shown for her, but it's clear that he's actually hurt by the revelation.
23	* EmbarrassingFirstName: Her father named her after a ship he had served on in the Royal Navy, leading to no end of teasing as she grew up. She was only too glad to shorten it once she started taking undercover assignments in the Special Branch.
24	* TheMole: She infiltrates Drax's operation by posing as his secretary.
25	[[/folder]]
26
27	[[folder:Willy Krebs]]
28	!!William "Willy" Krebs
29	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/krebs.jpg]]
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31	Drax's right-hand man and enforcer.
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33	* TheDragon: He's Drax's right-hand man.
34	* InSeriesNickname: He's nicknamed "The Persuader" by Drax due to [[TortureTechnician his effectiveness in getting information from prisoners through torture.]]
35	* {{Sadist}}: Krebs is implied to be a sexual sadist. As he approaches Gala intending to torture her with a blowtorch, the narrative notes that his mouth is hanging open and he's breathing funny.
36	* TextualCelebrityResemblance: He is described as looking like a young Creator/PeterLorre.
37	* ThoseWackyNazis: Krebs served in Drax's Werwolf unit during World War II.
38	* TortureTechnician: Nicknamed "The Persuader" by Drax due to his effectiveness in getting information from prisoners through interrogation and torture.
39	[[/folder]]
40
41	[[folder:Hugo Drax]]
42	!!Sir Hugo Drax / Graf Hugo von der Drache
43	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hugo_drax.jpg]]
44
45	A Prussian officer who served in one of the legendary Werwolf units, which specialized on infiltration and sabotage during WWII. One mission left him in the middle of an exploding Allied base and he was taken to England, mistaken for a Liverpudlian soldier named Hugo Drax. After settling into his new identity, he cornered the market on a rare metal and became a multimillionaire. A hero to England and beloved in Liverpool for his charity work, Drax is actually using his finances and the Moonraker project for his true plan: Revenge on England.
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47	* BeardnessProtectionProgram:
48	** Drax has his underlings shave their heads and grow mustaches, meaning they can later disguise themselves by shaving off their mustaches and letting their hair grow out.
49	** Also played straight, as the scientists working on Drax's rocket are all former Nazis. Drax even mentions that with their heads shaved and with the mustaches in place, no one recognizes them.
50	* BondVillainStupidity: Instead of killing Bond and Gala when he has the chance, he leaves them to be killed by the WeaponizedExhaust, giving them the opportunity to escape and turn the tables on him.
51	* BrokenPedestal: Bond saw him as a famed British war hero and admired him until finding out about his Nazi past and scheme to destroy England, as well as murdering a young driver just for passing his car.
52	* CharacterTics: Tends to bite his fingernails when he gets nervous. Bond notes during the bridge game at Blades that all of them have been gnawed down to the quick.
53	* CheatersNeverProsper: He wins thousands of pounds at the Blades Club by cheating at bridge. Bond stops him by cheating in his own way, switching in a stacked deck.
54	* CommieNazis: Drax turns out to be in league with the Soviets, more out of convenience than ideology however. Why on earth the Soviets would trust a former Nazi with a nuclear weapon is not explained.
55	** For a chance to entirely discredit the idea of Western nukes based out of Europe at that time, they'd trust a ''monkey'' with a nuke, though it is noticeable that the Russians provided his head scientist was (although German) to him, and Dr. Walter was the person in charge of designing and setting the Moonraker's guidance system. Given he worked for a country that despised both the Soviets and the British, and is said to hold Russophobic feelings deep in his heart, [[DidntThinkThisThrough what's to stop Drax from aiming it at Moscow instead?]]
56	* ComplexityAddiction: His entire plan of assembling an all-German team of scientists, using them to construct a highly experimental rocket missile and aiming it at London without arousing suspicion falls into this, especially considering the rocket could easily have malfunctioned and either exploded mid-air or landed off-course. Simply having a nuclear bomb smuggled into his Belgravia flat would have been less hassle. Justified however as Drax is trying to create an epic masterpiece in humiliating Britain and simply letting off a nuke out of nowhere wouldn't be nearly as satisfying.
57	* ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory: Hugo Drax adopted the identity of one of the countless British servicemen missing in action in the aftermath of a large battle in WWII. The identity he assumes was that of an orphan with no close friends, who by sheer coincidence happened to have a name that was remarkably close to his real one (Graf Hugo von der Drache).
58	* CoolCar: He drives a Mercedes 300 S, which Bond describes as "ruthless and majestic".
59	** Also an automotive example of a NationalWeapon. Drax drives in a German Mercedes, while 007 drives a British Bentley.
60	* DeepCoverAgent: Drax, in reality a former Nazi soldier, has masqueraded as a proud, distinguishable Briton for the past several years after he was "rescued" in his British military disguise, stole the identity of a missing British soldier, and faked amnesia to justify not remembering his pre-World War II life.
61	* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: Bond and M both note that Drax is so wealthy that he'd have absolutely no reason to cheat at cards. Bond theorizes that he suffers from an inferiority complex since childhood and feels a need to dominate others even in needless circumstances.
62	* DrivesLikeCrazy: Becomes apparent when Bond has to chase him on a road.
63	* EvilGloating: Apart from peppering his MotiveRant with this, Drax also tells Bond he has left a detailed account of his real life with a Scottish law firm, intending it to be revealed to the British public the day after his nuclear attack on London.
64	* EvilIsPetty:
65	** The first sign that he is a bad'un is when he cheats at cards even though the amounts involved are trivial to a man of his wealth. To him, the amounts are immaterial beside the fact that [[SoreLoser he just plain hates to be beaten]].
66	** TO show how evil he is, he casually rams a passing Alfa Romeo off the road when it passes his car, with Bond watching in horror as the driver met a grisly end. Even worse, the driver was a ''19-year-old'' RAF pilot who took out his customized car for a ride.
67	* EvilRedhead: He has red hair and is one of the main villains.
68	* FixingTheGame: He cheats at bridge by using the reflection on his cigarette case to sneak a look at the cards he deals to the other players. With the assent of the club's management, who want Drax put on notice without the embarrassment of a public accusation, Bond beats him with a stacked deck, carefully arranged so that the cards Drax will be able to see will mislead him as to their respective chances.
69	* FreudianExcuse: He is an ex-Nazi saboteur who wants to destroy England for the wartime defeat of his fatherland and the social slights he suffered as a youth growing up in an English boarding school before the war. Due to this, he developed an inferiority complex that drives him to dominate others even in unnecessary situations, but Bond [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse points out]] that it has made him a mental case due to his delusions.
70	* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: After cornering 007, Bond gives a ReasonYouSuckSpeech to recount Drax's life, specifically noting how being bullied because he [[StillSucksThumb sucked his thumb]] as a child, on top of the Nazi fanaticism he still adheres to, drove him to develop delusions of jealousy and revenge. Bond concludes with how it [[YoureInsane made him a paranoid monster]].
71	* GoodScarsEvilScars: Half of his face is badly scarred from a German attack during WWII. Plastic surgery has rectified it somewhat, but the scar is still noticeable.
72	* TheHeavy: While he is the BigBad of the book, the Soviets are secretly backing him, albeit more out of convenience. Given he's an ex-Nazi saboteur, who's to say he wouldn't betray SMERSH for his personal gain?
73	* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
74	** He cheats at bridge using a shiny cigarette case as a mirror, so he can see who gets which cards when he deals. Bond turns the tables on him by sneaking in a stacked deck, causing him to lose 15,000 pounds in the final game.
75	** Big time, [[spoiler:as the rocket he planned to destroy London with is reprogrammed to strike the area that his escorting submarine is going through]].
76	** This is how he ended up where he is in the first place. After sending his Werwolf unit to bomb an Allied base, he ended up getting strafed by a German plane (due to wearing a British uniform), and while unconscious he was found by British soldiers who, thinking he was one of their own, took him to the hospital wing of the very base his men were just about to bomb.
77	* HopeCrusher: He made himself into a national hero and Britain's most popular philanthropist so he could destroy the collective spirit of England when his nuke lands on London.
78	* ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: He's actually a Nazi saboteur who masquerades as a VillainWithGoodPublicity after he was "rescued" in his British military disguise, stole the identity of a missing soldier, and [[FakingAmnesia faked amnesia to]] [[FakeMemories justify not remembering his pre-war life]]. By ''sheer coincidence'', the "Hugo Drax" name he adopted happens to be very close to his real one. The only things known about the real Hugo Drax was that he was an orphan with no friends or relatives, and was MIA during WWII.
79	* {{Jerkass}}: Bond describes him as a "bullying, boorish, and loud-mouthed vulgarian" who makes an ostentatious display of wealth and lacks refinement.
80	** His attempts to cheat at the card game at the Blades Club is one blatant example, though Bond one-ups him by switching in a stacked deck.
81	** To prove how evil he is, he casually rams a passing car off the road, with Bond watching in horror as the driver gets killed. Even worse, the other driver was a young pilot who was only taking his customized car out for a ride.
82	* MadEye: The surgery around his left eye was a disaster, as the missing skin make it seem larger in appearance and perpetually bloodshot. Bond wonders if he can properly close it, and in an official audiobook, read by Creator/BillNighy, there's a constant stress to his voice even when he seems to be having a good time.
83	* MotiveRant: Drax gives Bond an epic one when he has him tied up and defenseless. Bond responds by taunting Drax into a VillainousBreakdown, which gives him the opportunity he needs to free himself and Gala.
84	* NaziNobleman: Was one of these (a ''Graf'', or Count) prior to assuming his current identity.
85	* NewEraSpeech: Drax gives one near the end before leaving the confused audience.
86	-->"Your majesty, men and women of England", the voice was a velvet snarl. "I am about to change the course of England's history." A pause. "In a few minutes' time the lives of all of you will be altered, in some cases, ahem, drastically, by the, er, impact of the Moonraker. I am very proud and pleased that fate has singled me out, from amongst all my fellow countrymen, to fire this great arrow of vengeance into the skies and thus to proclaim for all time, and for all the world to witness, the might of my fatherland. I hope this occasion will be forever a warning that the fate of my country's enemies will be written in dust, in ashes, in tears and", a pause, "in blood. And now thank you all for listening and I sincerely hope that those of you who are able will repeat my words to your children, if you have any, tonight".
87	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: JustifiedTrope. [[ThoseWackyNazis Being that he's a Nazi]], he's naturally going to be anti-Semitic, as seen in how he fondly remembers beating a Jewish banker to death after the war and bullying his partner, Meyer, during the poker game with Bond. He also throws a huge tirade against England to Bond and Gala when they've been captured.
88	-->I loathe and despise you all. You swine! Useless, idle, decadent, fools, hiding behind your bloody white cliffs while other people fight your battles. Too weak to defend your colonies, toadying to America with your hats in your hands. Stinking snobs who'll do anything for money. Hah!
89	* RedRightHand: Aside from the singled out ones, he also has unnaturally long thumbs and badly splayed front teeth, the latter believed to be due to childhood thumb-sucking.
90	* SelfMadeMan: Managed to go from a discharged soldier with no possessions or social connections to a multi-millionaire in the space of 5 years after the end of the war (quite impressive, considering even Blofeld was "only" making 50,000 quid per year as head of SPECTRE prior to Operation Thunderball). Accomplished this by using the business knowledge from his secret NaziNobleman past, along with some seed money he got from secretly robbing and murdering a Jewish banker in London.
91	* ThoseWackyNazis: He served in one of the Werwolf sabotage and infiltration units established by the Nazis during WWII to slow down the Allied forces in Germany.
92	* TwoFaced: Left side of his face burned during the war. Plastic surgery managed to fix it somewhat, but it still has some noticeable puckering. Also a metaphorical reference to his [[VillainWithGoodPublicity true status]] as a Nazi who seeks revenge against Britain for the destruction of his country by masquerading himself as an English gentleman.
93	* VillainWithGoodPublicity: His rags-to-riches story and generous philanthropy has earned him the acclaim of the British populace. Even Bond admires him before learning that he's a Nazi saboteur seeking revenge against England for the destruction of the Third Reich.
94	* TheVonTropeFamily: His real name is Graf Hugo '''von''' der Drache.
95	* YoureInsane: Drax has Bond tied up at the base of his rocket [[WeaponizedExhaust to be incinerated during its launch]]. Bond takes the opportunity to recount Drax's life as he's gathered the info, in all its ugly, humiliating detail, to conclude how it's made him such a mental case. Bond's intent is to enrage Drax enough to overlook what Bond needs to escape (a blowtorch and cigarette lighter). [[VillainousBreakdown It works.]]
96	[[/folder]]
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98	!The Film
99
100	!![=MI6=]
101
102	* [[Characters/JamesBondTheCharacter James Bond]]
103	* [[Characters/JamesBondMajorRecurringCharacters M]]
104	* [[Characters/JamesBondMajorRecurringCharacters Moneypenny]]
105	* [[Characters/JamesBondMajorRecurringCharacters Q]]
106	* [[Characters/JamesBondRecurringCharacters Sir Frederick Gray]]
107
108	!!Bond's Allies
109
110	[[folder:Holly Goodhead]]
111	!!Dr. Holly Goodhead
112	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/holly_goodhead.jpg]]
113	[[caption-width-right:300:''"Your powers of observation do you credit, Mr. Bond."'']]
114	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/LoisChiles
115
116	A UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} agent who works undercover as a scientist in Drax Industries. She joins Bond and flies with him to Drax's space station.
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118	* AcePilot: She knows how to pilot ''a space shuttle'' like it's no biggie.
119	* ActionGirl: Although she ends up getting captured by Drax in Brazil, she manages to hold her own in all of her other scenes.
120	* BrainyBrunette: She's a scientist and is a brunette.
121	* DistaffCounterpart: A second attempt at giving Roger Moore's Bond a real female alter-ego after [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe Anya Amasova]].
122	* GirlOfTheWeek: The main Bond Girl of this film.
123	* MeaningfulName: [[DoubleEntendre No, not in that way]], but Goodhead is indeed very intelligent.
124	* TheMole: At Drax Industries.
125	* NotThatKindOfDoctor: She's a doctor in astrophysics.
126	* PunnyName: ''Holly Goodhead?'' Come on, just... ''come on''.
127	** One could easily make the case that it relates to her having a ''good head'' on her shoulders, as noted above.
128	* TheSmartGuy: She constantly gives {{exposition}} about the details surrounding the steps of Drax's EvilPlan. Justified, as she was TheMole in his company.
129	* ZeroGSpot: She and Bond end up having sex in Zero-G space.
130	[[/folder]]
131
132	[[folder:Manuela]]
133	!!Manuela
134	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/manuela.jpg]]
135	[[caption-width-right:300:''"Tonight? I think you may find that a little difficult."'']]
136	!!!'''Played by:''' Emily Bolton
137
138	A [=MI6=] intelligence operative of the "VH" station, stationed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She follows Bond after he arrives to the city and when he arrives at his hotel suite, Manuela is already there, where she presents herself as his Brazilian contact. She helps him investigate a large distribution company in Rio, subsidiary of Drax Industries.
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140	* KidnappedByAnAlly: A variation; Manuela does not kidnap Bond, but she does follow him after he arrives to Rio, and Bond suspects something wrong once he notices it, before she presents herself at his suite as his Brazilian contact.
141	* MsFanservice: She's a beautiful woman who wears a translucient open dress. Needless to say, Bond decides to kill some hours in Rio with her.
142	* PunnyName: In some Latin American countries, "doing a Manuela" is an euphemism for masturbation. It might be just a coincidence, but in a movie where another woman is named Holly Goodhead, it being intentional doesn't sound too far-fetched.
143	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The last time she's seen is after Bond saves her from Jaws and says that she should go somewhere safe, but there's no confirmation for it.
144	[[/folder]]
145
146	[[folder:Scott]]
147	!!Colonel Scott
148	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/f90f2e22_c458_4621_a8ea_3fca2224c9ab.png]]
149	[[caption-width-right:300:''"Number one platoon, EVA."'']]
150	!!!'''Played by:''' Mike Marshall
151
152	A USAF officer at NASA who leads a group of marines to investigate Drax's space station.
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154	* ColonelBadass: Once the shuttle docks, he's the first one onto the station and leads the charge into the command center.
155	** If you look closely at his medals, you'll see that he has decorations from both the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
156	* NotMeThisTime: When NASA detects the space station, Scott is on the phone with General Gogol to assure him that it's not an American installation, and is told that it's not Russian either.
157	* SpaceMarine: The leader of an entire company of them.
158	[[/folder]]
159
160	!!Drax Industries
161
162	[[folder:Hugo Drax]]
163	!!Hugo Drax
164	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hugo_drax_michael_lonsdale_profile.png]]
165	[[caption-width-right:300: ''"James Bond. You appear with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season."'']]
166	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelLonsdale
167
168	A billionaire aerospace magnate who intends to exterminate mankind via DeadlyGas so that he can restart human civilization in space. And in that sounds familiar to you, it's because it's basically a RecycledScript of ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''... [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]
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170	* AdaptationDyeJob: Red-haired in the book, black-haired here.
171	* AdaptationNameChange: In the novel, his real name was Hugo von der Drache and "Hugo Drax" was a stolen name (that just happens to be similar to his real name). Here, he is genuinely called by the latter name.
172	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the book, he's described as having facial scars as a result of being burnt. In the film, he has a normal appearance.
173	* AdaptationalNationality: In the book, he's a former Nazi masquerading as an Englishman. In the film, no mention is made of his nationality.
174	* AdaptationalVillainy: Well, his literary counterpart at least didn't try to '''KillAllHumans'''.
175	* AMFMCharacterization: Like his predecessor, he enjoys ClassicalMusic, as he's introduced playing Music/FredericChopin on the piano.
176	* AnimalAssassin: He sets his dogs on Corinne after discovering that she's been helping Bond and later uses a snake to try and kill Bond.
177	* ApocalypseHow: He wants to use a DepopulationBomb -- lethal spores that will eliminate all human beings on Earth -- to repopulate it with a select group of people under his leadership.
178	* TheArk: He created his space station to hold the humans who would repopulate the Earth after the deadly spores killed everyone on the surface. When the two leads see that their space shuttle is carrying a cargo of men and women:
179	-->'''James Bond:''' The animals went in two by two.\
180	'''Holly Goodhead:''' What do you mean by that?\
181	'''James Bond:''' Noah's Ark. This operation.
182	* BeardOfEvil: Has a solid goatee.
183	* BigBad: The main antagonist of the film.
184	* BondVillainStupidity: He willingly invokes this by going out of his way to try and eliminate Bond in the most impractical means from their very first meeting. "Stupidity" in the sense that, originally, Bond wasn't even there to investigate Drax and all the murder attempts [[RevealingCoverup just made him suspicious.]] The first couple of attempts were suitably convoluted. Afterwards, he had no problem sending entire kill squads to assassinate Bond in public - which are just as doomed to fail, of course. His explicit justification for not simply having Bond shot is ForTheEvulz; he wanted Bond's death to be "amusing". Most people he has murdered in the movie actually die quite nasty deaths, especially Corrine, so this is pretty in-character.
185	* BullyingADragon: He brags about his plan to create a master race where all people are physically perfect right in front of Jaws (who is freakishly tall, and in love with a short girl with glasses), and then snaps at him.
186	* ClaspYourHandsIfYouDeceive: Does this a lot.
187	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He owns Drax Industries, which constructs space shuttles.
188	* CreepyMonotone: Only raises his even voice once.
189	* DeadpanSnarker: Drax has a rather droll sense of humour.
190	* DiabolicalMastermind: His evil plan reeks of the ANaziByAnyOtherName flavor of TheSocialDarwinist trope, capped off with his intention of repopulate the world with only the human beings he chose as "superior beings."
191	* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the novel, he's blown up in his own submarine. In the novel, Bond shoots him with a dart and blows him into space.
192	* EqualOpportunityEvil: He might be an OmnicidalManiac but his new, "superior" human race includes a diverse sampling of every ethnic group on Earth, which is on the opposite of the beliefs of a Nazi like his book counterpart.
193	* ExactWords: His words to Goodhead.
194	-->'''Hugo Drax''': And you, Dr Goodhead, your desire to become America's first woman in space will shortly be [[ThrownOutTheAirlock fulfilled]].
195	* {{Expy}}: Of [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe Karl Stromberg]]. [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]] This is even more amusing when one takes into account that Stromberg was an expy of Blofeld and [[Film/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea Captain]] [[Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea Nemo]].
196	* FatalFlaw: His tendency to gloat.
197	* FauxAffablyEvil: For all of his talk of wanting Bond's death to be [[ItAmusedMe "amusing"]], he's probably the grimmest villain of the Roger Moore's Bond era.
198	* {{Fiction 500}}: Best shown when Bond is flown to Drax's base in California and lands on a castle, where Drax's personal assistant Corinne tells him that Drax "ordered it to be brought from France" (it was an actual French castle in real life, but the shots were filmed in France, of course). When Bond jokes that Drax could've bought and shipped the Eiffel Tower, Corinne says that Drax ''did'' buy it, but couldn't have it shipped from France because they wouldn't issue him an export permit.
199	* AGodAmI: It's clear from his plan and his speech below that Drax sees himself in these terms.
200	* ItAmusedMe: He wants Bond's death to amuse him.
201	* JustBetweenYouAndMe: He lampshades this trope, and then says he's not going to follow it. But when Bond and the BondGirl follow Drax up to his space station and see [[StoryboardingTheApocalypse most of what's happening anyway]], Drax helpfully provides the remaining details before ordering them ThrownOutTheAirlock.
202	* KingpinInHisGym: Sort of. At some point, he is seen practicing his favorite sport: quail hunting.
203	* ANaziByAnyOtherName: He plans to kill the Earth's population with nerve gas and re-populate it with his own race of "perfect" people (which, while ethnically diverse, seems to consist disproportionately of attractive blondes).
204	* NewEraSpeech: He gives one once all of his henchmen and super-race people are gathered on his space station.
205	-->''"First there was a dream. Now there is reality. Here in the untainted cradle of the heavens will be created a new super-race, a race of perfect physical specimens. You have been selected as its progenitors - like gods. Your offspring will return to Earth and shape it in their image. You have all served in humble capacities in my terrestrial empire. Your seed, like yourselves, will pay deference to the ultimate dynasty which I alone have created. From their first day on Earth they will be able to look up and know that there is law and order in the heavens."''
206	* NoahsStoryArc: He created his space station to hold the humans who would repopulate the Earth after the deadly spores killed everyone on the surface. Bond lampshades the story by quoting "And the animals came in two by two." and specifically mentioning Noah's Ark when the two leads see that their space shuttle is carrying a cargo of men and women.
207	* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Before he is revealed as a villain, he invites Bond to tea.
208	* OmnicidalManiac: Planned to use a nerve gas to kill all the people on Earth while Drax and the people he chose to rebuild civilization reside safely in a space station until it was safe to return.
209	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Inverted in the film adaptation, as Drax is an EqualOpportunityEvil villain with henchmen of many nationalities and both genders unlike his literary counterpart, who's an ex-Nazi saboteur who beat up a Jewish banker to death and stole his wealth.
210	* SoftSpokenSadist: He usually speaks in a CreepyMonotone. The only time [[VillainousBreakdown he loses his temper and raises his voice]] was when [[spoiler:Jaws refuses to follow his orders, joining Bond's side.]]
211	* SpaceStation: His main lair at the end. It rotates to provide simulated gravity, even though it seems to be more of a star shape rather than the traditional wheel.
212	* TheStoic: Very droll, dry and understated. The only time he ever loses his cool is when Jaws turns on him.
213	* StoryboardingTheApocalypse: When Bond and Goodhead follow him up to his space station and see most of what's happening, he helpfully provides the remaining details.
214	* SuperBreedingProgram: He plans to do some omnicide, and repopulate the planet Noah’s Ark style with pairs of men and women he has determined to be the best specimens of the human race.
215	* SupervillainLair: A pyramid in the middle of the Amazonian forest and a SpaceStation.
216	* TeaIsClassy: Invites Bond to afternoon tea, calling it Britain's "contribution to western civilization".
217	* ThrownOutTheAirlock: [[spoiler:Bond does this to Drax after shooting him with a poison wrist-dart. Just take a look at the current page image. Surely, he does take a giant step for mankind.]] And when Dr. Holly Goodhead asks where Drax went, he simply said:
218	-->'''Bond:''' [[BondOneliner Oh, he had to fly]].
219	* VileVillainSaccharineShow: One of the campiest James Bond movies has one of the darkest and most sinister villains to ever grace the franchise.
220	* VillainWithGoodPublicity: As a respected businessman, Sir Frederick Gray can't believe that he's behind what Bond accused him of (in fairness to Gray, Drax managed to pull a ItWasHereISwear on Bond). M nonetheless pre-emptively sends Bond to investigate Drax further, on the guise of a "vacation" for Bond.
221	* VillainousBreakdown: Happens to him after Bond and Dr. Goodhead are captured in the space station when Bond explains the implications of Drax's master race. Jaws begins his MookFaceTurn when he realizes he and Dolly won't fit in with Drax's perfect people.
222	-->'''Drax:''' ''[angrily]'' JAWS! You obey me! EXPEL THEM!
223	* WickedCultured: He's introduced playing a recital of Chopin's "Raindrop" Prelude in D-flat major (op. 28) on a grand piano (which he plays in the key of D), quotes Creator/OscarWilde and lives in a fancy chateau.
224	* YouHaveFailedMe: He fires Corinne when she helps Bond into his safe...and then has her fed to his dobermans.
225	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: He fully intends to kill all his employees who fail to meet his standards of perfection once his plans are realized.
226	[[/folder]]
227
228	[[folder:Chang]]
229	!!Chang
230	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chang1.jpg]]
231	!!!'''Played by:''' Toshiro Suga [[labelnote:Other Languages]] Creator/MedHondo (European French)[[/labelnote]]
232
233	Drax's Chinese henchman. He is shortly killed off in Venice when Bond throws him out of a building, much like Sandor in the previous film.
234	----
235	* ChainPain: Uses a chain in the second half of his fight with Bond in the clock tower after losing his ''Shinai''.
236	* DestinationDefenestration: Bond throws him through the ornate glass of the clock tower's dial, causing him to plunge to his DisneyVillainDeath by impaling a piano with a loud clang.
237	* DisneyVillainDeath: Dies after he is thrown through a clock face, landing headfirst through a busker's piano.
238	* TheDragon: He's Drax's first one. He attempts to kill Bond twice, first in a centrifuge, then in a museum/clock tower. The second time sees him take a nose dive into a concert piano from the top of the building, prompting Drax to call Jaws in as a replacement.
239	* {{Expy}}: Minus the lack of WeaponizedHeadgear, he has quite a few qualities in common with [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Oddjob]].
240	* ImprobableWeaponUser: He uses a wooden ''Shinai'' against Bond. Not the best way to kill him honestly. Would have been better off with a [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]].
241	* PornStache: Well, this movie is from the '70s, after all.
242	* TheQuietOne: He only gets one line in the film, telling Dr. Goodhead that she has a call from Drax.
243	* ScreamingWarrior: He screams some {{Kiai}} during his fight with Bond in Venice.
244	* WouldHitAGirl: Kills Corrine Dufour by setting Drax's dogs on her.
245	[[/folder]]
246
247	* [[Characters/JamesBondRecurringCharacters Jaws]]
248
249	[[folder:Drax's Girls]]
250	!!Drax's Girls
251	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/draxs_girls.jpg]]
252	!!!'''Played by:''' Françoise Gayat (Lady Victoria Devon), Catherine Serre (Countess Labinsky), Béatrice Libert (Mademoiselle Deladier), Chichinou Kaeppler (Signorina de Mateo), Anne Lonnberg (Museum Guide), Irka Bochenko (receptionist at Venini Glass), Christina Hui, Nicaise Jean-Louis, Melinda Maxwell
253
254	A group of [[MasterRace "perfect" women]] who are tasked by Drax with repopulating the human race after he destroys all human life on Earth.
255	----
256	* TheBeautifulElite: They fit the bill, being incredibly beautiful (played by models) and some of them seemingly having titles (Lady Victoria Devon and Countess Labinsky), but also, Drax' plan is to enforce this by destroying all human life on Earth so it can be repopulated it with only genetically perfect specimens that he selected.
257	* ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts: Enforced. Drax and the girls go to his space station to survive while humanity on Earth is wiped out with a nerve gas.
258	* ChekhovsGunman: They appear as part of the people shown working out at Drax's estate at the beginning of the film, Lady Victoria Devon and Countess Labinsky appear when Hugo Drax meets Bond in his château for the first time, Mademoiselle Deladier and Signorina de Mateo during the pheasant hunt, and another two as a museum guide and the receptionist at the glass factory in Venice, all before all of them were revealed to be the same people intended by Drax to seed his "master race".
259	* DissonantSerenity: They watch Bond in a life-and-death struggle with a python with eerie calm, some of them with smiles on their faces.
260	* EqualOpportunityEvil: Say what you want about Drax's genocidal project, but his group of "perfect people" doesn't discriminate by race or ethnicity. The fact that he has at least [[https://screenmusings.org/movie/dvd/Moonraker/images/Moonraker-631.jpg one black, one Asian,]] and one AmbiguouslyBrown woman among them is impressive, especially for 1979.
261	* FanserviceExtra: In a film with some quite exotic Bond Girls (such as Corinne and Manuela), Drax's women put out some extra eye candy; but for once, they also become [[ChekhovsGunman Chekhov's Gunwomen]].
262	* MasterRace: They tick all the boxes except for the part that they don't proclaim neither that they're superior nor that they have interest in conquering the world, but that's because that's Drax's part.
263	* NavelDeepNeckline: Their dresses are cut down to the top half of their stomachs.
264	* NoahsStoryArc: When Bond and Goodhead see that their space shuttle is carrying a cargo of women (and their male partners) who would repopulate the Earth after Drax's deadly spores killed everyone on the surface, Bond lampshades the similarities with the story of Noah, with the space station as the ark.
265	* NoNameGiven: Unlike the other Drax Girls the film focuses up, the museum guide and the receptionist at Venini Glass are not named. (Not to mention the other Drax Girls that only appear on the background.)
266	* OutOfFocus: There are many of them (as Drax's plan to repopulate the world would require), but the only ones the film (and even promotional materials for the film) focuses on are the ones to make appearances through the film before the reveal of their purpose (the two who appear at Drax's château, the two who appear during Drax's pheasant hunt, and the two who appear as a museum guide and a receptionist at Venini Glass). There's also the fact that it is revealed that each one of them has a male partner with which to reproduce, but [[MaleGaze for obvious reasons]], the film focuses on the females.
267	* TraitorShot: As Bond leaves Venini Glass, the camera lingers on the receptionist, and she has a devious look on her face.
268	* TheVoiceless: Out of all of them, the only ones heard speaking are the museum guide and the receptionist at the glass factory.
269	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: They vanish from the narrative just before the attack on the space station. Whether any actually survive is never revealed, as the audience never learns their fate.
270	[[/folder]]
271
272	!!Other Characters
273
274	* [[Characters/JamesBondRecurringCharacters General Gogol]]
275
276	[[folder:Dolly]]
277	!!Dolly
278	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dolly_blanche_ravalec_profile.jpg]]
279	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/BlancheRavalec
280
281	A blonde and nerdy young woman (probably a tourist) who helps Jaws to get out of the cable-car wreckage in Rio. [[LoveAtFirstSight They instantly fall in love]] and she is allowed to follow him onto the space station. When Drax makes his OneWorldOrder speech, Jaws realises that Dolly is the sort of person who will not have a place in Drax's new world, and he immediately wants nothing more to do with Drax.
282	----
283	* BeastAndBeauty: [[spoiler:The beauty to Jaws' beast.]] Although, she ''is'' rather plain compared to the series' usual fare.
284	* EveryoneLovesBlondes: [[spoiler:Well, Jaws did, enough to help save the day]].
285	* GirlNextDoor: By all appearances, she's an ordinary, nerdy young woman.
286	* GirlishPigtails: She wears her hair in two quite long braids.
287	* HeroicBystander: Her first thought when seeing Jaws' cable-car crash is to rush over and try to help.
288	* HollywoodHomely: Downplayed, she's plain in comparison to the rest of the female cast (and most of it is composed by the supermodel-level women that make up the female half of Drax's group to repopulate the world), but still quite pretty. [[spoiler:This also seems to be invoked in Jaws' HeelFaceTurn scene.]]
289	* HugeGuyTinyGirl: [[spoiler:The Tiny Girl to Jaws' Huge Guy.]]
290	* LoveAtFirstSight: She has an archetypical scene of this with Jaws, musical note and all.
291	* LoveRedeems: She is the key element in [[spoiler:Jaws' HeelFaceTurn against Drax.]]
292	* PintSizedPowerhouse: Despite her short stature, she lifts the wreckage she finds Jaws pinned under like it was made of balsa wood.
293	* RescueRomance: Gender-flipped. She [[spoiler:helps Jaws out of the wreckage of a cable-car when she first meets him. They fall in love with the first shared smile]].
294	* TheVoiceless: She's never heard speaking, though we see her whispering to Jaws [[spoiler:persuading him to help Bond and Holly undock their shuttle from the station]].
295	[[/folder]]
296
297	[[folder:Corinne Dufour]]
298	!!Corinne Dufour
299	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/corinne_dufour_profile.png]]
300	[[caption-width-right:300: ''"The Drax residence. Every stone brought from France. Cute, isn't it?"'']]
301	!!!'''Played by:''' Corinne Cléry
302
303	Drax's personal pilot and assistant.
304	----
305	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Getting torn apart by Drax's Rottweilers is a nasty way to go, especially in such a campy lightheaded movie.
306	* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Her accent does certainly add to her charm.
307	* FedToTheBeast: [[spoiler:Drax orders his hunting dogs to attack her.]]
308	%%* PunnyName
309	* SexySecretary: She's Drax's personal assistant.
310	* TooDumbToLive: What does she do when the hounds are about to be sicced on her instead of getting back in the golf cart she arrived in and driving away? Tries to outrun the hounds on foot by fleeing into a forest, to predictable results.
311	* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:The audience gets to know little about her before her death.]]
312	* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:Drax accuses her of showing Bond his safe (which she only did by accident) and sics his hunting dogs on her.]]
313	* YouJustToldMe: Bond asks if there's a safe in the room, and when Corinne instinctively glances in the direction of the concealed safe he knows where to look for it.
314	[[/folder]]
315
316	!!Minor Antagonists
317	[[folder:Apollo Air Hostess]]
318	!!Apollo Air Hostess
319	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/apollo_air_hostess_profile.jpg]]
320	!!!'''Played by:''' Leila Shenna
321
322	An unnamed assassin who attempted to kill James Bond aboard an Apollo Airways airliner alongside Jaws and the Apollo Pilot in the film's pre-title sequence. After kissing Bond, the hostess produces a pistol and holds him at gunpoint. The Apollo Pilot emerges from the cockpit and takes the gun from her, and after shooting out the aircraft's controls, Bond kicks the weapon from his hand and the two brawl until the assassin ends up being knocked out of the plane - shortly followed by a parachute-less Bond, who was pushed by Jaws, after which her fate is unknown.
323	----
324	* HoneyTrap: She's introduced making out with Bond, but this is soon revealed to be part of a trap set up against him.
325	* NoNameGiven: Her name is never mentioned onscreen. She's only credited as "Apollo Air Hostess".
326	* UncertainDoom: She is last seen inside the plane after Bond and the Apollo Pilot start fighting, which considering that she and the Apollo Pilot planned to crash the plane to kill Bond (and the Apollo Pilot even shot at the controls to ensure that it couldn't be commandered), doesn't make her chances of survival look any good. The only thing implying that she could have survived was that the Apollo Pilot was shown handing her a parachute, which she put on.
327	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She completely disappears from the picture after Bond and the Apollo Pilot start fighting inside the plane.
328	[[/folder]]
329
330	[[folder:Apollo Pilot]]
331	!!Apollo Pilot
332	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/apollo_jet_pilot_profile.jpg]]
333	!!!'''Played by:''' Jean-Pierre Castaldi
334
335	An unnamed assassin who attempted to kill James Bond aboard an Apollo Airways airliner alongside Jaws and the Apollo Air Hostess in the film's pre-title sequence. He and Bond brawl until the assassin ends up being knocked out of the plane - shortly followed by a parachute-less Bond, shoved out of the aircraft by Jaws. Bond skydives after the pilot, and the pair struggle in mid-air before Bond steals his parachute, and is last seen hurtling towards the ground.
336	----
337	* ChuteSabotage: Of a sort. He most likely dies after his parachute gets ''stolen'' by Bond after Bond was pushed out of the plane by Jaws.
338	* DisneyVillainDeath: He most likely dies after he jumps from the plane with a parachute and Bond (who was shoved out of the plane by Jaws) goes after him and steals his parachute, leaving him in free fall.
339	* NoNameGiven: His name is never mentioned onscreen. He's only credited as "Apollo Pilot".
340	* SinisterShades: He spends his entire screentime wearing sunglasses, to highlight his status as a hitman.
341	[[/folder]]

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