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6	'''[[center: [- [[Characters/JamesBond Main Character Index]] -]]]'''
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8	Character sheet for the Film/JamesBond film ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''.
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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 Eve]]
17	* [[Characters/JamesBondMajorRecurringCharacters Q]]
18	* [[Characters/JamesBondMajorRecurringCharacters Gareth Mallory]]
19	* [[Characters/JamesBondRecurringCharacters Bill Tanner]]
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21	!!Bond's Allies
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23	[[folder:Kincade]]
24	!!Kincade
25	[[quoteright:322:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_mecldhWbOQ1rumca6o1_500_6258.jpg]]
26	[[caption-width-right:322:''"Welcome to Scotland!"'']]
27	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/AlbertFinney
28	->''"They sold the place when they thought you were dead. It seems they were wrong."''
29	An old gamekeeper who still keeps up Skyfall, the Bond family estate in Scotland.
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31	* BraveScot:
32	-->'''Kincade:''' ''[shoots a {{mook\|s}}]'' Welcome to Scotland!
33	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: He's not mentioned at all in ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', which follows the event of ''Skyfall''. Given that Skyfall Manor was blown up, he's out of a job and, with Finney's passing, is unlikely he'll ever be seen again.
34	* CoolOldGuy: He's like Batman's Alfred but with more [[PrecisionFStrike cursing]].
35	* NoHeroToHisValet: Bond might be one of Britain's best professional killers who has saved the country (if not the world) single-handedly many times, but he's still a "jumped-up little shit" if he thinks he can tell Kincade what to do.
36	** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] since Kincade was unaware of James being a world-class spy. He is visibly shocked upon witnessing Bond's ace shooting when practicing with guns.
37	--->'''Kincade:''' What did you say you did for a living?
38	* OldRetainer: For Skyfall Manor.
39	* OnlyOneName: Just Kincade.
40	* ParentalSubstitute: There are hints he served as a paternal figure for James after the death of the Bonds. He also compliments James having M as a maternal figure.
41	* SawedOffShotgun: He is seen cutting down the barrels.
42	* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: He primarily relies on hunting shotguns.
43	[[/folder]]
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45	!!Villains
46
47	[[folder:Raoul Silva]]
48	!!Raoul Silva (born Tiago Rodriguez)
49	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_mfnbnd4dit1r5gchbo1_r17_500_7848.jpg]]
50	[[caption-width-right:350:''"The two survivors. This is what she made us."'']]
51	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JavierBardem
52	->''"You see, we are the last two rats. We can either eat each other, or eat everyone else."''
53	The main antagonist, a former [=MI6=] agent turned mad cyber-criminal who wants to discredit and kill M. When M found out about his unauthorized hacking of the Chinese, she sold him out to them and he took a cyanide pill but survived, leaving him with oral injuries.
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55	* AgentPeacock: He has some seriously flamboyant mannerisms, but is still one of the deadliest Bond villains.
56	* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:His last scenes are really tragic. After he learnt one of his men had shot her with a stray bullet and is mortally wounded, he practically begs M to kill him and herself.]]
57	-->'''Silva:''' [[spoiler:You're hurt. You're hurt! What have they done to you? What have they done to you? ''[puts his gun in her hand]'' Free us both. With the same bullet. Only you can do it. Do it! Do it!]]
58	* AllThereInTheScript: His first name is never used in the movie itself. Even the credits list him simply as "Silva."
59	* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: After his agent steals the encrypted hard drive in the prologue, he blows up [=MI6=] headquarters remotely to further humiliate M.
60	* AMFMCharacterization: He plays "Boom Boom Boom" by Music/TheAnimals from his helicopter during the raid on Skyfall and "Boum" by Charles Trenet plays on his island.
61	* AmbiguouslyBi: Uses FauxYay to get under people's skin, regardless of sex.
62	-->'''Silva:''' Ooh! See what she's done to you?\
63	'''Bond:''' Well, she never tied me to a chair.\
64	'''Silva:''' Her loss.
65	* AnimalMetaphor: Describes himself and Bond as the "last two rats standing." Metaphorically, Silva means the world is full of rats who can "eat each other" (betray others) on a whim.
66	* AnimalMotifs: He compares himself and Bond to a couple of rats. Adding to this, [=MI6=]'s new location is in the sewers below London.
67	* AxCrazy: Very much so. So much that he is stated by WordOfGod[[invoked]] to be based on Creator/HeathLedger's [[Film/TheDarkKnight interpretation of]] ComicBook/TheJoker.
68	* BadBoss: Enters the courtroom with two henchmen. One gets shot by Mallory. He shoots the other in frustration after Bond helps M escape the scene before leaving. This is after he shoots Sévérine earlier in the film as well.
69	* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Posthumously. M dies from her wounds inflicted by his men]]. In fact, he's the ''only'' Bond villain in franchise history to squarely win by the end of the film. [[spoiler:Even though he died, he still brought the entire intelligence community to its knees and had M killed. His death does little to mitigate his victory, since he clearly had no intention of living through the ordeal anyway]].
70	* BadassBookworm: A highly skilled cyber-terrorist who hacks [=MI6=] just to humiliate them, crashes a Tube train as a distraction and flies military helicopters into the middle of Scotland.
71	* BadassLongcoat: On the posters, he is seen wearing one that in the film he uses in the final battle.
72	* BatmanGambit: His EvilPlan exploits various [=MI6=] protocols to further itself. [[spoiler:Silva knows that [=MI6=] will eventually identify and arrest him, so he spends years planning around his inevitable capture; come the day of his escape, he counter-hacks [=MI6=] and abuses M's overconfidence to close in and assassinate her.]]
73	* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: He was captured and tortured for months on end, but he refused to give up any information, [[spoiler:until he realized M sold him out and he subsequently tried to commit suicide. Instead of dying he ended up horribly disfigured. Still clinging to life, he realized vengeance against M is now all he has left]].
74	-->'''Silva:''' Life clung to me like a disease. And then I understood why I had survived. I needed to look in your eyes one last time.
75	* BerserkButton: Anything involving M, but especially when she refuses to use his real name.
76	* BewareTheSillyOnes: He's a PsychopathicManchild and LargeHam, but at the same time is ''extremely'' competent and a HeroKiller. As the film moves on, his 'silly' traits begin to make him more and more creepy instead of funny.
77	* BigBad: The main villain of the film. Though ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' reveals that [[spoiler:SPECTRE and [[GreaterScopeVillain Franz Oberhauser/Ernst Stavro Blofeld]] were behind Silva's schemes]].
78	* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:He removes a dental prosthesis to show M the after-effects of his suicide attempt -- ruined upper teeth and nerve/muscle damage to one side of his face, leaving him with a sunken eye and a skeletal appearance that's as unnerving as it sounds.]]
79	* BunnyEarsLawyer: This man is weird, overly dramatic, flighty, and just ''a little bit weird''. Yet it's downright ''frightening'' just how dangerous, efficient, and all-around ''good at everything'' he is.
80	* ButNotTooForeign: A British national of Spanish origin.
81	* BreakThemByTalking: What he attempts to do Bond when they meet with his 'last two rats' speech.
82	* CapturedOnPurpose: He let himself get captured to begin the first stage in his insanely long plan of revenge.
83	* CarFu: He manages to do this with a train of all things, by blowing out a side tunnel and letting momentum and the London Underground do the rest for him.
84	* TheChessmaster: Everything you've planned for, he's already three steps ahead of you because he knows all of your protocols and/or hacked your computer.
85	* ClassicVillain: Wrath motivates him, as he wants revenge against M for [[spoiler:selling him out to the Chinese. However, M points out that he [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse brought all the misery he suffered upon himself]] because he hacked into the Chinese spy agencies without clearing it with his bosses]].
86	* ComplexityAddiction: His plans, befitting a Bond villain, are far more complicated than they need to be, but wouldn't be nearly as fun to watch otherwise. For example, he has a sniper shoot his way to the top of an office building to assassinate a man in the building opposite, even though the target is already ''surrounded'' by Silva's own men. [[spoiler:[[FridgeBrilliance This is actually all part of his plan]]: he ''wants'' to get captured so that he can utterly humiliate M before killing her.]]
87	* CompositeCharacter: Silva combines elements of [[Film/GoldenEye Alec Trevelyan]] (a former [=MI6=] agent), [[Film/GoldenEye Boris Grishenko]] (a genius-level hacker), and [[Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough Elektra King]] (emotionally damaged after M, whom she views as a quasi-maternal figure, leaves her at the mercy of her captors, and wants to [[spoiler:humiliate and murder M in revenge, using Bond as the tool to reach the older woman]]).
88	* TheCracker: He moves forward with a lot of his plans by hacking into a massive number of networks including [=MI6=].
89	* CrazyPrepared: He has a ridiculous amount of back-up schemes to fight [=MI6=].
90	* CuttingTheKnot: [[spoiler:After all his fancy misdirection and techno-tricks fail to kill M, Silva just sends a bunch of men with guns. [[SubvertedTrope Which turn out to be just softening them up for his attack copter]] and more men with guns. Ironically, the first group actually succeeded; she took a mortal wound and just hadn't died yet]].
91	* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:As revealed in the end, he wants to die along with M.]]
92	* DepravedBisexual: He invokes this to screw with Bond. Bond just [[DeadpanSnarker snarks]] back, leading Silva to give up and move on to a sadistic WilliamTelling contest instead.
93	-->'''Silva:''' First time for everything, yes?\
94	'''Bond:''' What makes you think this is my first time?\
95	'''Silva:''' Oh, Mr. Bond. All the physical stuff - so dull.
96	* DiabolicalMastermind: A big name in the criminal underworld.
97	* DissonantSerenity: He acts very civil and easygoing, which makes his actions and his extremities to do so more terrifying than most villains in the franchise. Plus, his smile is really unnerving [[spoiler:and it turns out to be a prosthesis to hide the sunken and almost skull-like left side of his face. [[NightmareFace The result is very disturbing]]]].
98	* DoubleEntendre:
99	** He slings one at Bond when challenging him to the WilliamTelling shooting contest:
100	--->'''Silva:''' Let's see who ends up on top.
101	** As well as his line about how "we can eat each other... hmm?" which he says while touching Bond suggestively.
102	* TheDreaded: When Bond mentions that he wanted to see Silva, Séverine begins shaking in terror.
103	* DressingAsTheEnemy: A variation. He and his men dress as police constables to attack M.
104	* DrivenToSuicide: In his backstory, he tried this with a {{cyanide pill}}, but [[BungledSuicide survived]].
105	* EscapeArtist: Silva masterminds an ingenious get-out-of-jail free plan that involves remotely hacking the auxiliary [=MI6=] computer systems so that his cell opens, during which he takes out both guards, then escapes through tunnels leading into an Underground station, where he then slips out dressed as a police officer.
106	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Just prior to Silva's on-camera appearance, Bond's taken to an open-air server network in a dusty, deserted city. Such an environment would make the computers degrade quickly -- essentially, hardware that'd self-dispose about when Silva presumably no longer needs it. Indeed, [[spoiler:Silva's planning to be caught shortly after this encounter, and he is]].
107	* EtTuBrute: He felt this way upon realizing that [[spoiler:M sold him out to the Chinese]].
108	* EvilCounterpart: Compares himself and Bond to 'rats' of the same litter. He used to be an [=MI6=] agent who was close to M, as Bond is, and serves to remind Bond of what he could be if he didn't forgive or trust M for the things she put him through. Being captured and tortured by the Chinese whilst being sold out by M is exactly what happened to Bond with the North Koreans in ''Film/DieAnotherDay'', but Bond didn't take it personally or allow it to embitter or corrupt him in that film continuity. Their similarities are emphasized by the fact that Silva's real first name, "Tiago" [[MeaningfulName is Spanish for James]] whilst his codename, "Raoul Silva" is an anagram of "[[ShadowArchetype A Rival Soul]]," making him a darker version of Bond.
109	* EvilGenius: An expert hacker, giving a [[EvilCounterpart comparison]] to Q.
110	* EvilPlan: Humiliate and kill M [[spoiler:because she sold him out to save six other agents when he looked up to her as a mother figure.]] Also, possibly destroying the entire [=MI6=].
111	* EvilSoundsDeep: Javier Bardem can sound very deep when he's not being a SissyVillain.
112	* {{Expy}}: The filmmakers specifically said they based him off of the Creator/HeathLedger [[Film/TheDarkKnight interpretation]] of ComicBook/TheJoker, as well as [[Film/InglouriousBasterds Hans Landa]]. He's also one to [[Film/GoldenEye Alec Trevelyan]], being a former [=MI6=] agent out for revenge against his former employer, but his case is much more sympathetic and plotted out; [[spoiler:he only wants M and then himself dead for her selling him out,]] whereas Trevelyan was [[OnlyInItForTheMoney financially interested in destroying [=MI6=] and England]]. And he's an Expy of [[Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough Victor "Renard" Zokas]] [[spoiler:due to having a major head injury and being a DeathSeeker after he kills M, who Renard has kidnapped (with the exact same actress, too)]].
113	* ExactWords: The shooting contest was to ''knock'' the glass off of Sévérine's head. [[spoiler:He accomplishes that by shooting her in the head, not the glass]].
114	* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: With a bomb and a train.
115	-->'''Bond:''' I do hope that wasn't for me.\
116	'''Silva:''' [''Laughs''] No... But that one is.
117	* FacialHorror: Concealed by a prosthesis, but Silva's real mouth is missing many of his teeth and the left side of his face is sunken [[spoiler:due to his BungledSuicide by CyanidePill]]. It's ignored completely after he shows it to M. The overall effect is enhanced by Bardem's undeniably amphibious features.
118	* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Prior to the movie he became a terrorist after he was betrayed by [=MI6=]; this also somehow got him converted to Quantum/SPECTRE, which isn't even mentioned until the next [[Film/{{Spectre}} Bond movie.]]]] In terms of mannerisms and personality, he's also very similar to Jim Moriarty.
119	* FallenHero: [[spoiler:He is an [=ex-MI6=] agent.]]
120	* FauxAffablyEvil: He sounds remarkably civil when torturing captives and offing minions.
121	* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Silva was sold out to the Chinese and left for dead by [=MI6=], which triggers his wish to destroy them. However, M points out if he hadn't gone rogue, she wouldn't have ''had'' to sell him out. Silva may come off as a TragicVillain, but he is also a psychotic monster who is the victim of his own behavior and irrationally engineers a terrorist campaign solely out of petty revenge against one person. The OffstageVillainy he alludes to is implied to be even worse, funding a decadent lifestyle via crashing financial markets, orchestrating terrorist attacks or causing and faking disasters.
122	* {{Foil}}: To Bond mostly, though he has elements of Q and M as well. He's an evil field agent who uses multiple gadgets, opposed to Bond. He is an expert hacker, opposed to Q. He makes very dark decisions and leads his organization, opposed to M.
123	* ForTheEvulz: Aside from hacking [=MI6=] [[spoiler:in revenge for being sold out to the Chinese]], he's also pulled off several cyber-terrorist attacks just for the sake of it, including but not limited to destabilizing companies by manipulating their stock price, hijacking a spy satellite that was over Kabul, and hacking elections in Uganda.
124	* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:He went from being a normal [=MI6=] agent to freelance cyber terrorist, killing five [=MI6=] agents in the process.]]
125	* GhostTown: His island. He faked a chemical leak [[InvokedTrope to make everyone evacuate]].
126	* HackedByAPirate: He does this with a stylized skull and "God save the Queen" playing in the message.
127	* HeroKiller: Five agents killed because of him. [[spoiler:And M.]]
128	* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler:His desire for revenge on M stems from her selling him out (for admittedly criminal actions he committed). He gets his revenge by doing the same thing to at least five completely innocent secret agents, and planning to do it to many more.]]
129	* HollywoodHacking: He can turn on the gas main in [=MI6=] via computer, somehow, though this ''is'' technically possible. [[note]]In real life, the CIA did something similar to a Siberian pipeline in the 1980s albeit with a pre-planted "logic bomb." Plus it is theoretically possible to remotely disrupt utility infrastructure by interfering with SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems built into the utility pipeline by having someone physically interfere with the offline device and set it to cause the effects required, triggered by remote. But this requires a ''lot'' of work.[[/note]]
130	* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:He wants revenge against [=MI6=] for selling him out. One of the first things he does to facilitate this is sell out several British deep cover agents who had absolutely nothing to do with it]].
131	* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: He and a couple of henchmen dress as Metropolitan Police officers when they try to shoot M at the inquiry hearing.
132	* InTheBack: [[spoiler:A knife is thrown into his back as the killing blow]].
133	* IronicEcho: He turns Bond's radio crack against him.
134	* ItsPersonal: He goes out of his way to humiliate [=MI6=] and M especially before trying to eliminate them.
135	* JustYouAndMeAndMyGuards: He pulls this to a degree; at first, it seems like Silva is going to come after M and Bond by himself, or at least with a couple of henchmen. He ends up bringing ''dozens'' of his own men to the showdown at Skyfall manor, and even Bond is surprised not to find Silva among the first wave of men before he sees the [[DeathFromAbove helicopter approaching]].
136	* KickTheDog:
137	** He [[spoiler:kills Sévérine]] in front of Bond after deciding he no longer needs her.
138	** Out of frustration, he pointlessly kills an unarmed civilian in his way out of a failed assault.
139	** Finally, he has [[spoiler:Bond's CoolCar]] blown up, even though at this point it posed no threat. [[FridgeBrilliance Although it's very likely he did this to prevent Bond and M using it as a means of escape.]]
140	* LargeHam: He loves hearing himself talk and doing grand gestures.
141	-->'''Bond:''' He loves to make an entrance.
142	* LeaveHimToMe: He orders his men not to kill M, as he wants to deal with her himself. Bond, on the other hand, is fair game.
143	* LightIsNotGood: Wears white, has blond hair, and is very Not Good. The motif even acts as a contrast to James's DarkIsNotEvil motif.
144	* LimpAndLivid: [[spoiler:After he gets a limp after Skyfall manor blows up, he gets annoyed]].
145	* LostInACrowd: He is pursued by Bond in the overcrowded London underground and is disguised as a policeman. Eventually "Constable Silva" stumbles into a lobby full of bobbies on patrol and is amused to realize that his cover is unassailable. Bond is able to follow his trail anyway.
146	* ManipulativeBastard: He runs rings around Bond and M, and plays the whole of [=MI6=] like a fiddle.
147	* MeaningfulName: His real first name, [[spoiler:Tiago]], is the Portuguese form of [[spoiler:[[ShadowArchetype James]]]]. His last name, "Rodriguez" means "Rich in worth" which makes sense given his brilliant abilities and the fact that M herself acknowledges that he was "a brilliant agent." His codename, Raoul Silva, is also an anagram of "[[EvilCounterpart A Rival Soul]]."
148	* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: He was sacrificed for the greater good by M, leading him to endure a FaceHeelTurn.
149	* MommyIssues: Though M isn't actually his mother, he treats it like she is, and her reactions to her agents does mirror one.
150	-->'''Silva:''' Mommy has been very bad.
151	* MoralMyopia: There's no doubt he's suffered unimaginable agonies being tortured for months and has more than a FreudianExcuse. Later it's revealed that [[spoiler:he had engaged in unauthorized hacking of the Chinese, besides causing the death of innocent secret agents and shooting Sévérine in front of Bond after she betrayed him]].
152	* MrSmith: "Silva" is one of the most common Portuguese surnames, and he likely chose it for exactly that reason.
153	* NeverMyFault: He blames M and the British intelligence service for selling him out to the Chinese. [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse M points out if he hadn't gone rogue, she wouldn't have had to sell him out.]]
154	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: A blond man that exposes the covers of undercover intelligence operatives? Sounds and looks similar to Julian Assange.
155	* NotSoDifferentRemark: In his [[AnimalMetaphor 'last two rats' speech]], he even compares himself and Bond to 'rats' of the same litter.
156	* ObfuscatingStupidity: Once captured he pretends to be out of tricks.
157	* OffstageVillainy: He alludes to having committed evil acts even before his revenge scheme against [=MI6=] funding a decadent lifestyle via crashing financial markets, orchestrating terrorist attacks or triggering phony disasters ForTheEvulz.
158	-->'''Silva:''' If you wanted, you could pick your own secret missions as I do. Name it, name it. Destabilize a multinational corporation by manipulating stocks? Easy. Interrupt transmissions from a spy satellite over Kabul? Done. Rig an election in Uganda? All to the highest bidder.
159	* OhCrap: He gets a moment of his own when one of the traps Bond sets at the manor causes Silva's helicopter to crash.
160	* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: The younger villain to M's older heroine.
161	* OutsideGenreFoe: He is what happens when an outlandish "Dr. No"-style villain invades what was until then a relatively subdued and mostly-realistic spy thriller. The animation he sends M just comes off as ''deranged'' rather than funny or wacky due to how serious everything else is (incidentally, Dr. No was jarringly hospitable back in his heyday, so this could be considered the series returning to form).
162	* OrcusOnHisThrone: While Silva can go toe-to-toe with Bond in terms of combat, he finds action exhausting and prefers to delegate it to his minions. Noticeable in that he's the only BigBad in the Craig era to have on-screen kills.
163	* ParentalBetrayal: [[spoiler:The realization that M abandoned him to be tortured for months is what prompted his FaceHeelTurn and RoaringRampageOfRevenge]].
164	* PlayAlongPrisoner: Bond captures Silva and puts him in a cell in [=MI6=] headquarters three-quarters of the way through the film. Silva promptly escapes.
165	* PlayfulHacker: Kind of a deconstruction, really: the taunting image collages he festoons [=MI6's=] computer database with are in stark contrast to the typical seriousness of the rest of the movie, just making him look more deranged than funny.
166	* PleaseKeepYourHatOn: Those are some pearly whites, Raoul! click ... [[NightmareFace oh]].
167	* ThePowerOfHate: He suggests this as the explanation for his surviving cyanide poisoning.
168	* PracticallyJoker: His bleached hair, fine clothing, sadistic theatricality, and unsettling grin invoke the Clown Prince of Crime.
169	* PsychopathicManchild: Probably best exemplified at the end when [[spoiler:he turns into a crying, scared little boy when he realizes M's death was not going to be a swiftly-painless affair, and proceeds to lovingly embrace her like a mother while begging for her forgiveness]].
170	* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: According to M, he was one of her best agents.
171	* RageAgainstTheMentor: His entire plan is also about making M suffer for her past transgressions.
172	-->'''Computer Screen:''' Think on your sins.
173	* RedRightHand: Like many Bond villains, he has a hidden deformity: In this case, [[spoiler:half of his face is sunken, and his teeth are reduced to rotten nubs]].
174	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: His actions throughout the entire movie are him enacting one of these on M.
175	* RogueAgent: [[spoiler:[=Ex-MI6=] agent. Even before his FaceHeelTurn, he'd gone this way, having hacked into the Chinese security systems without permission]].
176	* SayMyName: While imprisoned by [=MI6=], he [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this by demanding M say his real name. M, however, [[DefiedTrope has none of it]].
177	-->'''M:''' Your name is on the memorial wall of the very building you attacked. I will have it struck off. Soon, your past will be as non-existent as your future.
178	** Of course, a cut later, M turns to Bond and tells him Silva's real name, [[spoiler:Tiago Rodriguez]].
179	* ShadowArchetype: He's what Bond ''could'' be if he didn't forgive or trust M for the things she puts him through. His "last two rats standing" speech even exemplifies his role as Bond's shadow, and the other characters aren't arguing with him, especially given that M leaving Silva for dead in China has echoes of her risking Bond's life at the beginning of the movie. Bond even subtly acknowledges he could become exactly like Silva if he lost his moral compass.
180	* SissyVillain: Particularly in his first talk with Bond, where he becomes very effeminate.
181	* SlasherSmile: When his AffablyEvil nature drops. It's also part of his facial features, stemming from [[spoiler:a BungledSuicide by CyanidePill, which disfigured his face and jaw, causing him to use an oral retainer to keep it from sagging]].
182	* TheSocialDarwinist: He relates a childhood story to a captive 007, describing how he spent time with his grandmother on an island, where she taught him how to rid the island of its rat infestation by capturing them in oil drums. He utilizes the image of the trapped rats turning to cannibalism as a metaphor for what the life of a spy does to its participants - namely himself.
183	* SoftSpokenSadist: Is very civil and tranquil as he goes about destroying London.
184	* StalkerWithACrush: WordOfSaintPaul (Javier Bardem) has it that Silva used to be, and perhaps still is, in love with M.
185	* TailorMadePrison: He is imprisoned in one in [=MI6=]'s headquarters.
186	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill:
187	** His solution to James Bond pursuing him as [[spoiler:he escapes from [=MI6's=] underground HQ? Drop a freaking train on him]].
188	** Not the only example either. Bond is hiding out in a run-down manor with little-to-no weapons, with his only support being an old woman and a Scotsman. Silva's strategy? Why, bring an entire army with him! [[MoreDakka And a fully loaded gunship to boot.]]
189	* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:Sold out by [[ParentalSubstitute M]], tortured for five months, and tried to commit suicide via cyanide capsule only to end up horribly disfigured, his only goal now is destroy M and die with her.]]
190	* {{Troll}}: He loves to mess around with [=MI6=] ForTheEvulz.
191	** He seems to do things just to mess with Bond from time to time, like his attempted flirting when they first meet.
192	** Silva enjoyed showing M [[spoiler:his deformity]], he started laughing after seeing M's reaction to [[spoiler:his sunken face]].
193	** He sends a message when Q tries to open his computer and winds up hacking [=MI6=]. "Not such a clever boy."
194	** When he assaults Skyfall manor with his mooks and gunship, he plays The Animals on the loudspeakers, [[LargeHam just to make a stylish entrance and annoy Bond.]]
195	* TrojanPrisoner: Part of his gambit to get close to M - he gets himself caught by Bond, gets interrogated, then tricks Q into accidentally disabling the security systems so he can escape.
196	* {{Unperson}}: M tells Silva she intends to have his real name struck off the [=MI6=] memorial wall, likely the only place his service was ever officially acknowledged. He looks appropriately appalled at the thought.
197	* VerbalTic: His is "Bip. Oof" to his sentences.
198	* VillainHasAPoint: Whatever else he is, he is completely right to call out M for sending Bond back to the field despite Bond flunking out all his tests, and Bond for keeping his faith on M despite her decision to do so. This point is further reinforced when M proceeds with her hearing at the Parliament despite HQ's warning that Silva and his commando crew are on their way there.
199	* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:First when Bond foils his initial plot to kill M. Later, he has another after Bond blows up the Skyfall manor]].
200	* VillainousCheekbones: [[spoiler:Without his dental prosthetic, his face sags]].
201	* WalkingSpoiler: Of a sort. You would think he is just a normal BigBad of the Bondverse, however comes TheReveal later in the movie... and those white spaces are because of that.
202	* WeCanRuleTogether: He tries to get Bond to join him.
203	-->'''Silva:''' You see, we are the last two rats. We can either eat each other... mmm... or eat everyone else.
204	* WellDoneSonGuy: [[spoiler:Even though he wants to M to be punished for what she did to him, Silva still loved her enough as a mother to want to "make-peace" with her through sharing a dignified and painless death]].
205	* WealthyYachtOwner: Bond is taken to his hideout aboard a sailing yacht.
206	* WellIntentionedExtremist: Initially, according to M, he started going rogue not by selling out [=MI6=] or Britain, but by executing unauthorized missions against the Chinese.
207	* WickedCultured: He seemed to have an appreciation for classical music, notably ''Boum'' by Charles Trenet. During his attack on Skyfall Lodge, he had outfitted his assault helicopter with nearly a dozen loudspeakers - solely for playing rock music during the attack (namely ''Boom Boom'', by The Animals). And as lampshaded by Bond, he "always [had] to make an entrance."
208	* WilliamTelling: He forces Bond to play a game with him where they have to shoot a glass of whiskey off Sévérine's head using old Percussion Cap pistols. [[spoiler:Bond misses and Silva "wins" by shooting her in the head]].
209	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Although the "woobie" part is left ambiguous. M declares he was always a "slippery one."
210	[[/folder]]
211
212	[[folder:Patrice]]
213	!!Patrice
214	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/63_4182.jpg]]
215	!!!'''Played by:''' Ola Rapace
216
217	A mercenary of unknown nationality with a French name. He works for Silva, and is responsible for setting the events of the movie in action, by stealing the list of UsefulNotes/{{NATO}} field agents' true identities. Is [[DiscOneFinalBoss the first of Silva's mooks to die]] and notable for being the only named one.
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219	* AllThereInTheManual: Ola Rapace has described him as a man of few words, [[BloodKnight who loves violence]].
220	* AwesomeButImpractical: His depleted uranium bullets, which allow Bond to track down and kill him. [[spoiler:However, considering how much of a Chessmaster Silva is, it is possible that he planned for [[BatmanGambit Bond to track down Patrice, kill him, and lead him to Sévérine in the Macau casino, to set his plans in motion.]] [[WeHaveReserves After all, it seems he is dependent on this to happen.]]]]
221	* ColdSniper: Conducts a sniper kill shortly before his death. [[spoiler:It's possibly just a set up to attract the attention of Bond]].
222	* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:He dies at the end of his fight with Bond by falling to his death]].
223	* TheDragon: Averted. He's the most developed of Silva's mooks but given that his death is before the first appearance of Silva, and the lack of contact between them, he's clearly not the guy's NumberTwo.
224	* HighAltitudeInterrogation: After his FightScene with Patrice, Bond tries this. [[spoiler:Patrice remains silent until he falls to his death. Perhaps Patrice had seen what happened to Sandor in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''?]]
225	* OnlyOneName: Only called Patrice through the film.
226	* ProfessionalKiller: Explicitly his employment, although it is shown he does other jobs, namely retrieving {{MacGuffin}}s.
227	* TraintopBattle: Has a very tough fight scene with Bond in the beginning of the movie.
228	* TheVoiceless: He never talks; not even when Bond interrogates him.
229	[[/folder]]
230
231	!!Other Characters
232
233	[[folder:Sévérine]]
234	!!Sévérine
235	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/james-bond-skyfall-brnice-marlohe-severine-swarovski-dress-3_5363.jpg]]
236	[[caption-width-right:350:''"Be careful what you wish for."'']]
237	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/BereniceMarlohe
238	->''"One can never be too careful when handsome men in tuxedos carry Walthers."''
239	Silva's mistress. Following a clue left by Patrice, Bond finds Sévérine in Macau, where he asks to meet her employer. She promises to help Bond if he will kill her employer.
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241	* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:How Silva kills her]].
242	* BrokenBird: Due to her past, she has little reason to smile.
243	* CartwrightCurse: [[spoiler:Killed after a night with Bond]].
244	* DecoyProtagonist: At first she was built up to be the main Bond Girl of the movie, since she does have a dark past with Silva and there are a lot of important scenes focusing on her and the fact she has a love session with Bond and like every past Bond Girls even accompanies him in the villain's lair. [[spoiler:And then she gets shockingly killed by Silva, making it the first Bond movie to not even have a main Bond Girl at all]].
245	* DisposableWoman: [[spoiler:Bond doesn't seem to think much about her murder, and neither does Silva]].
246	* TheDragon: Depressingly subverted. She very much looks the part (to the point where her actress drew inspiration from Xenia Onatopp, TheBaroness from ''Film/{{GoldenEye}}''), but is actually a terrified non-combatant former SexSlave who tries a HeelFaceTurn to get away from Silva [[spoiler:and ends up with a bullet hole in the face for her trouble]].
247	* DragonLady: Subverted. She appears this way at first in everything from her clothing and makeup to her racial features (her actress is of mixed French, Chinese and Cambodian descent), but is soon revealed to be desperate to get away from Silva and utterly helpless in her predicament.
248	* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Her name is French.
249	* {{Expy}}: She's all but identical to Andrea Anders of ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''--the SexSlave of the villain, (who's Bond's EvilCounterpart) who hates her lover and wants Bond to kill him so as to free her, only for she to be the one who dies at his hand.
250	* FauxActionGirl: She points a gun [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou at the viewer]] in the title sequence, and Bond notices she's carrying a Beretta 70, but we never see her use it.
251	* FemmeFatalons: She has long, filed nails, which helps with the DragonLady look, even if she ends up actually not being one.
252	* ForeignFanservice: Apparently in-universe as well, where her foreign nature is used as a compliment.
253	* GirlOfTheWeek: Almost literally so, considering her short lifespan.
254	* MsFanservice: Has a nice figure and a bathing scene.
255	* OnlyOneName: Or at least, we don't know what her other part of her name is, if there is any.
256	* RecruitedFromTheGutter: Silva recruited her when she was a SexSlave.
257	* SacrificialLamb: Her death is a display of how sadistic Silva is.
258	* SexSlave: She was MadeASlave at a young age and apparently [[DamselInDistress looked to Silva to save her]], only to discover that [[OutOfTheFryingPan Silva is much more terrifying]] and she is his virtual prisoner.
259	* ShowerOfLove: She makes out with Bond in her shower.
260	* SmokingIsGlamorous: A rare tribute to the earlier films and the novels, where almost everyone smoked. Doubles as a CigaretteOfAnxiety, especially when she takes a long drag after Bond questions who her employer is.
261	* StepfordSmiler: Has an uneasy smile when she meets Bond in Macau and tries seem amicable and serene, but Bond sees through it.
262	-->'''Bond:''' You put on a good show, but ever since we sat down, you haven't stopped looking at your bodyguards.
263	* WeHardlyKnewYe: After Silva [[BoomHeadshot shoots the glass off her head]], neither he nor Bond think of Sévérine as important for the remainder of the movie.
264	[[/folder]]

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