History Characters / CasinoRoyale2006

** In the book, his [[ReallyGetsAround extreme lust]] is noted to be his AchillesHeel; he embezzled 50 million francs from SMERSH to buy a chain of brothels. This backfired when the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loi_Marthe_Richard Marthe Richard Law]]'' suddenly closed all brothels in France and ruined his investment, putting him in severe debt. In addition, one of his mistresses was working for [=MI6=], and was able to uncover the state of his financials, leading to the operation to bankrupt him.

* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: He flirts with a waitress at the casino and spurns Solange. His wife cheats back at him with Bond and gives away his flight to Miami as part of a terrorist plot.

* ButtMonkey: Not much goes well for him. He loses his car and money in a poker game to Bond, his wife cheats on him, he's baselessly accused of being a traitor by Le Chiffre, and finally stabbed by Bond. Mind you, he deserves all of it.

* GenreBlindness: He assumes that if M wanted him dead, she'd have sent a Double O. Turns out M doesn't seem to consider him quite as important as he does, though she does send him the next best thing- someone about to qualify for the role.

The wife of Alex Dimitrios, she's in an [[AwfulWeddedLife increasingly loveless relationship]] and willingly spends the night with Bond in order to spite her husband. She indirectly helps Bond stop Le Chiffre's criminal scheme but ends up getting tortured to death for this.

* KillTheCutie: She's introduced as a sweet and lovable woman trapped in an unhappy marriage with one of the bad guys, and then gets killed for telling Bond what she knows about her husband's plans.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: He has his girlfriend walk into the room wearing only a skimpy bathing suit whilst he's gambling on his yacht in order to distract his opponent. He gives her a quick admiring look but is NotDistractedByTheSexy. That's why he doesn't fall for it when Bond tries the same trick on him later with Vesper (although he does take a quick glance at Vesper's ass).

* TheGamblingAddict: Loves playing poker so much he's ready to sacrifice his beautiful vintage car. Too bad he plays against ''James Bond'', who's a poker [[TheAce ace]].

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Bond stabs him with his own knife.

* PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo: Le Chiffre prompts her to give Bond a poisoned drink during the card game.

* GirlOfTheWeek: More than that actually. She becomes Bond's true LoveInterest in the Craig era Bond [[spoiler: and her loss is [[TheLostLenore just as influential]] on Craig's Bond as the loss of Tracy was on the other Bonds.]]

-->'''Le Chiffre''': I'll feed you what you seem not to value.

--> "I've never understood all these elaborate tortures. It's the simplest thing, to cause more pain than a man can possibly endure".

* FlatCharacter: She’s Le Chiffre’s girlfriend, other than that we know nothing about her.

--> '''M:''' The man isn't even a true believer; he's a gun for hire.

* HumanShield: [[spoiler: Uses Vesper briefly as this]].

->'''Played by:''' Creator/TobiasMenzies

->'''Played by:''' Creator/JosephMillson

->'''Played by:''' Creator/EvaGreen

->'''Played by:''' Creator/MadsMikkelsen
->'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/GerardoReyero (Latin American Spanish), Creator/DominiqueCollignonMaurin (European French)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/SimonAbkarian

->'''Played by:''' Creator/IvanaMilicevic

->'''Played by:''' Sébastien Foucan

->'''Played by:''' Claudio Santamaria

-> '''Played By:''' Clemons Schick

->'''Played by:''' Creator/RichardSammel

->'''Played by:''' Creator/IsaachDeBankole

->'''Played by:''' Malcolm Sinclair
->'''Dubbed By:''' Creator/FeodorAtkine (European French)

->'''Played by:''' Darwin Shaw

->'''Played by:''' Caterina Murino

->'''Played By:''' Ludger Pistor
->'''Dubbed By:''' Creator/FeodorAtkine (European French)

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Subverted. While Le Chiffre ''does'' have a girlfriend, he doesn't seem to harbor any romantic feelings or general affection for her, with the film presenting her as TheBeard.

* TheBeard: Le Chiffre never shows any affection for (or attraction to) her, or tries to convince Obanno not to cut her hand off. This suggests she may simply be an employee playing a role, rather than a girlfriend.

* ButtMonkey: Not much goes well for him. He loses his car in a poker game to Bond, his wife cheats on him, he's baselessly accused of being a traitor by Le Chiffre, and finally stabbed by Bond. Mind you, he deserves all of it.

* KillTheCutie: She's introduced as a sweet and lovable woman trapped into the bad guys' plans, and then gets killed for telling Bond what she knows about her husband's plans.

* DarkChick: The one woman in Le Chiffre's crew.

* PeekABangs: Her hair covers one of her eyes.

* JackBaurInterrogationTechnique: Desperate to reclaim his funds he lost to Bond in gambling, he conducts an interrogation by torture via whacking his crotch with a knotted rope for the password to his winnings. He also threatens to castrate him and would've done so had Mr. White not intervened and shot him dead.

* GroinAttack: What he does with a knotted rope to torture Bond. He's just about to castrate Bond when [[spoiler:Mr. White shoots Kratt and Valenka offscreen, then walks through the door to shoot Le Chiffre in the head]].

** When he's torturing Bond for the password to the winnings, he tells him that Valenka and one of his henchmen are questioning Vesper. Then, gunshots and a woman's scream are heard in another room, and Le Chiffre assumes that they killed Vesper, and gloats about it to Bond. Just when Le Chiffre is about to kill Bond, Mr. White bursts from said room, revealing that the gunshots heard before came from him and implying that he killed Valenka and the henchman, and shoots Le Chiffre dead.

* KarmicDeath: When he's torturing Bond for the password to the winnings, he tells him that Valenka and one of his henchmen are questioning Vesper. Then, gunshots and a woman's scream are heard in another room, and Le Chiffre assumes that they killed Vesper, and gloats about it to Bond. Just when Le Chiffre is about to kill Bond, Mr. White bursts from said room, revealing that the gunshots heard before came from him and implying that he killed Valenka and the henchman, and shoots Le Chiffre dead.

* MacheteMayhem: His signature weapon is a machete. He uses it to intimidate Valenka while menacing Le Chiffre and when fighting Bond.

* SpottingTheThread: His accomplice notices that Bond (despite skilfully evading notice by making out with Vesper in a spur of the moment fashion) is wearing an earpiece, identifying him as a member of law enforcement or a government agent. Thus, they both violently attack Bond and Vesper, forcing Bond to [[CharacterDeath kill them both]] to contain the situation.

* MirrorCharacter: Much like in the book, he and Bond are set up as mirror images of each other, in certain ways: both a TuxedoAndMartini DeadpanSnarker with a glamorous [[MsFanservice sexily-dressed]] lady serving as their sidekick.

Vesper Lynd is the very first Bond Girl to appear in the novels (defining his later relationships with women in them), and she is arguably the love of Bond's life in the Craig continuity.

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the novel, she runs the emotional gambit throughout. She's upbeat when we first met her, but then after the game, she's down. She's upbeat when she's planning what they're going to do in Bond's hotel room, and then she's down on the way to the seaside getaway. In the film, she remains emotionally stable throughout, except at the end.

* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:She's directly working against Bond and his mission the entire time, but it's clear that it wasn't her choice. The sequel makes her even more sympathetic.]]
* BrainyBrunette: A brunette accountant that works for Her Majesty's Treasury.
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:She has to play along with everything to steal Bond's money and rescue her kidnapped boyfriend.]]
* BuxomBeautyStandard: She's very well-endowed and wears cleavage-heavy outfits to emphasize it. Bond makes reference to this when he gives her the alias "Stephanie ''Broadchest''".

* RavenHairIvorySkin: She has fair skin, dark hair, and is outstandingly attractive. Mathis even remarks how outstandingly attractive she is towards the end of the poker game.

* AllForNothing: Much of the movie was him desperately trying to find a way to pay back his clients less they kill him, only for Mr. White to do just that before Le Chiffre could get the poker winnings out from Bond. To rub salt to the wound, Mr. White implies that Le Chiffre was dead regardless of whether he paid back the money or not because he had betrayed Quantum's trust by embezzling their money in the first place.
* AssholeVictim: He's executed in cold blood by Mr. White for his failure. But considering that Le Chiffre was a psychopath who previously had Solange tortured and murdered on a hunch that she snitched (she didn't), didn't lift a finger when Obanno threatened to cut off his girlfriend's arm, and was just torturing Bond in a cruel and painful way, one can't deny that he had it coming.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Le Chiffre always wears all-black. His tuxedo shirt is also this color.

* BigBadWannabe: He is introduced controlling the money of terrorists world wide. Despite this, a risky bet that causes him to lose the money reveals him as little more than a well paid SmugSnake. He is pretty much powerless when two terrorists threaten him if he fails to get the money back. After he loses to Bond in poker, he's reduced to a desperate state and decides to just torture Bond to get the money, and when Bond proves to be unwavering, he totally loses it and decides to kill him in a fit of anger. Then Mr. White arrives, tired with his failure and shoots him in the head with half an hour of film still left to go.

* FauxAffablyEvil: He's calm, collected, and polite, even when interrogating and torturing Bond for the password to the winnings, but loses it when he realizes that Bond has no intention of giving him said information.
* TheGamblingAddict: Oddly enough, while he does seem to enjoy cards, his ''real'' gambling addiction is the stock market, which he tilts in his favor by sabotaging companies into bankruptcy to plummet their stock.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: He has his girlfriend walk into the room wearing only a skimpy bathing suit whilst he's gambling on his yacht in order to distract his opponent. He gives her a quick admiring look but is NotDistractedByTheSexy. That's why he doesn't fall for it when Bond tries the same trick on him later with Vesper (although he does take a quick glance at Vesper's arse).

* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: Obanno threatens to mutilate his girlfriend Valenka if he doesn't secure his money. Le Chiffre doesn't do much about it, though it's never explicitly stated whether this is because he doesn't care, is just too cowardly, or is calling Obanno's bluff.

* MorallyBankruptBanker: His day job is handling the money of terrorists and other organized crime, which he uses to fund his own terrorist attacks for even more wealth.

* ObviouslyEvil: If the [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience all black tuxedo]] and his bearing and demeanor wasn't enough, he tells his [[TheDragon second-in-command]] to throw the guests he had just beaten in poker overboard if they weren't gone in five minutes. Ironically, he lampshades the fact that he has [[RedRightHand an eye injury]] that makes him weep blood when stressed, saying that it's "[[BlatantLies nothing sinister]]."

* SuppressedRage: His reaction after his latest terrorist plot has failed and he's lost over $100 million--He takes a long drag from his inhaler and remarks "Someone talked" before having Dmitrios' wife interrogated and killed offscreen.

* VillainsWantMercy: One of the interesting things about him is that, despite him being the film's BigBad, the plot largely revolves around him being in financial trouble with some other criminal organizations and desperately trying to save his own ass.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: Once he realizes Bond has the drop on him, he resigns himself to it and doesn't bother begging for his life and even assures Bond that it'll be easy.
* GenreBlindness: He assumes that if M wanted him dead, she'd have sent a Double O. Turns out M doesn't seem to consider him quite as important as he does, though she does send him the next best thing.

Appears in the prologue. Dryden's contact who is first shown in a cricket match in Lahore, Pakistan (this is shown in a deleted scene). Bond follows him into the cricket club's toilets and they start brawling. He is notable as the first man to be killed by Bond in the Craig continuity, and the first of two kills required in order for Bond to qualify for 00-status.

* {{Mooks}}: He's Dryden's contact who Bond mows down, but not after a brutal fight.
* NotQuiteDead: Bond attempts to drown him in a sink. After several seconds of struggling, the man's body goes limp and crumples to the floor. Fisher is [[FakingTheDead feigning his death]] and as Bond turns to retrieve his pistol from the floor, the thug snatches his own weapon and takes aim. With lightening-fast reflexes, Bond turns and shoots first. Silhouetted against the white tiles and shot from the perspective of Fisher's gun barrel, this is shown on screen as a modified version of the traditional BondGunBarrel sequence and leads into the film's opening credits.

Dryden appears in the DeliberatelyMonochrome prologue of the film. He is a corrupt [[UsefulNotes/SecretIntelligenceService MI6]] section chief in Prague, shot by Bond during his last mission before becoming a 00 Agent. Bond's second kill in the Craig continuity.

* MoralMyopia: She's terrified when Obanno attacks her boyfriend and threatens to mutilate her. Later in the film, however, she's shown smug and devoid of pity when Le Chiffre kidnaps Vesper and brutalizes Bond.

* NoHonorAmongThieves: Something Le Chiffre should have remembered. He brutalizes Le Chiffre and threatens to mutilate Valenka unless Le Chiffre secures his money.

* BadassInANiceSuit: When he comes to the Casino Royale to reclaim his money to Le Chiffre.

[[caption-width-right:290:''"If the theatrics are suppose to scare me, you've got the wrong man, Bond."'']]

* AdaptationalSexuality: Le Chiffre in the novel was described as having large sexual appetites, kept multiple mistresses (one of whom was spying on him for [=MI6=]) and invested in a chain of brothels with the benefit of having unlimited women for his personal use (which would indirectly lead to his downfall). Movie Le Chiffre doesn't show much sex drive, even for his supposed girlfriend.

* AllForNothing: Much of the movie was him desperately trying to find a way to pay back his clients less they kill him, only for Mr. White to do just that before Le Chiffre could get its location out from Bond. To rub salt to the wound, Mr. White implies that Le Chiffre was dead regardless of whether he paid back the money or not because he had betrayed Quantum's trust by embezzling their money in the first place.

** Also, he drove companies to bankruptcy to make a profit, and by the end, he is made bankrupt himself.

* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: He sends Bond informations about the plane prototype that Le Chiffre wants to have blown up by Carlos so Bond can act quickly to stop Carlos.

A British field operative who worked alongside James Bond in Madagascar while scouting for bomb maker Mollaka. Carter touching his ear piece leads Mollaka to spot him and run away, forcing Bond to leave his position and run off in pursuit of Mollaka.

* LastNameBasis: He's only refered to as "Carter" in the film. When he reappears in the ''Quantum of Solace'' video game, his first name is given as Brian.

* AfraidOfBlood: She sobs about the blood that's on her while [[ShowerOfAngst sitting in the shower]], clothed, consumed by feelings of guilt after watching Obanno and his {{mooks}} getting killed by Bond.

* DefrostingIceQueen: She starts out as cold towards Bond, before gradually warming out to him. [[spoiler:This becomes much dramatic with the revelation later on (and the possible reason for this) that she had a boyfriend kidnapped by Quantum, which forced her to work for them, only to fall for Bond for real.]]
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the novel, she commits suicide via poison. In the film, she drowns herself.]]

* LoveInterestTraitor: [[spoiler:Bond's love interest who turned out to work for Quantum. She has no choice however, as Quantum coerced her to work for them, and she doesn't want to harm Bond.]]

* MsFanservice: When she walks into the poker room in either dress, but especially the latter; a black dress that lets her cleavage (and there is ''[[https://i.redd.it/m0vomy7tdr651.jpg a lot]]'' of it) on full display. This is shown when she revives Bond via MagicalDefibrillator. Creator/EvaGreen's... erm, ''ample proportions'' are even referenced in-universe when, as they're about to register into a hotel, Bond says that he prepared aliases for both of them and jokes that he gave Vesper "Stephanie ''Broadchest''", which results in him getting an elbow from Vesper.
* MeaningfulName: Vesper Lynd is a {{pun|nyName}} on "West Berlin". Berlin was a city split down the middle during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar. Vesper's loyalties are equally split.

* ShowSomeLeg: She wears a low-cut dress given by Bond to be a distraction during the card game.

* TheTell: His is putting his left hand to his forehead just above his left eye, as if he's pondering his next move

* VillainsWantMercy: One of the interesting things about him is that, despite him being the film's BigBad, the plot largely revolves around he himself being in financial trouble with some other criminal organizations and desperately trying to save his own ass.

* LoveMartyr: Assuming that she actually is Le Chiffre's girlfriend and not just an employee, considering how she stays with him even after he's willing to lt her arm get cut off.