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Bond's Allies

     Jinx 

Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson

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"World peace, unconditional love, and our little friend with the expensive acne."
Played by: Halle Berry
Dubbed by: Maïk Darah (European French)

A NSA agent who joins Bond to fight Gustav Graves.


Villains

    Colonel Moon / Gustav Graves 

Colonel Tan-Sun Moon / "Gustav Graves"

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"It's pathetic that you British still think you have the right to police the world... but you will not live to see the day all Korea is ruled by the North."
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"Let's do this the old-fashioned way - first blood drawn from the torso!"
Played by: Will Yun Lee (as Colonel Moon), Toby Stephens (as Gustav Graves)
Dubbed by: Jean-Pierre Michaël (Colonel Moon, European French), Éric Herson-Macarel (Gustav Graves, European French)

A North Korean colonel with an elaborate plot to usurp control of North Korea, then conquer South Korea and Japan. Later, after faking his death, he undergoes a DNA transplant to transform himself into Gustav Graves, with his persona being that of a billionaire diamond magnate who seems to be interested in alleviating world hunger with his new solar satellite.


  • Affably Evil: He has an obvious personal loathing for Bond, but still stresses to be polite with him. Slips into Faux Affably Evil as the film progresses.
  • Alliterative Name: Gustav Graves
  • Antagonistic Offspring: He kills his own father after the General shows disgust at what he has done.
  • Authority Equals Asskicking: He's a Colonel and unlike the majority of Bond masterminds he knows his way around assault weaponry and can hold his own in a hand-to-hand fight.
  • Awesome, but Impractical: He fights Bond with a flurry of Taekwondo kicks, which are certainly impressive looking but might not be the most tactically sound move while standing on the roof of a speeding hovercraft. Sure enough he has trouble maintaining his footing due to using so many kicks, and Bond is able to grab him by the shirt and toss him. In both of his rematches against Bond as Gustav Graves, he sticks to Good Old Fisticuffs instead.
  • Badass Longcoat: His KPA Colonel's uniform includes one.
  • Big Bad: He initially appears to be nothing more than a Starter Villain who is killed by Bond during the film's pre-title sequence. He's later revealed as the main antagonist of the film, having undergone gene therapy to adopt a new identity after faking his death.
  • Big Fancy House: His mansion in Iceland is a Big Fancy Ice Palace.
  • But Not Too Foreign: He is Argentinian-English as Graves.
  • Captain Ersatz: He is very much based on Hugo Drax from the novel Moonraker, from building a huge space project to supposedly solve the world's problems, being a media darling, building his fortune on mining and having an extravagant lifestyle, to actually being a military officer of a totalitarian government (Nazi Germany for Drax in the novel, North Korea for Graves in the film) who took the opportunity of being declared dead to create a new identity for himself.
  • Clothes Make the Superman: He has the control system for Icarus converted into an armored telemetry suit that doubles as electrified body armor and lets him shoot lightning from his hands.
  • Colonel Kilgore: He eagerly looks forward to the idea to go to war with South Korea and Japan.
  • Cool Car: He's got a nice collection of sports cars.
  • Cut Lex Luthor a Check: His philanthropy and eccentricities made him a British superstar and earned him a knighthood, and he presents Icarus as a second sun capable of defying world hunger. But as his aghast father argues, its practical application — geopolitical tyranny for the glory of North Korea — will only provoke the north's doom.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Moon has no shortage of barbs to trade. For just one example, he's the Trope Namer for Majored in Western Hypocrisy. He keeps it up as Graves, since his Graves persona is modeled on the impression he had of Bond.
    Gustav Graves: [in regards of receiving a knighthood] What a wonderful day to become a knight.
  • Diabolical Mastermind: His Evil Plan involves building a fortune on diamond mining from arms dealing to fund a space laser that will take out the land mines along the border between the Koreas.
  • Disappointed in You: Said nearly word-for-word to General Moon in Korean before killing him.
  • Disney Villain Death: Moon fakes his death at the end of his chase with Bond after falling into a waterfall. Or at least it seems so...
  • Dramatically Missing the Point: When his father tells him that, if the north invades the south, the Americans will launch nuclear weapons at them, Moon simply says that Icarus will destroy them. Given how sluggishly Icarus moves and positions itself, it doesn't occur to Moon that it won't be able to destroy all of them. His father is pointing out that his war will annihilate Korea, not reunify it, and it goes completely over Moon's head.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He might be a borderline sociopath but he still wants to make his father proud, he seems genuinely fond of Miranda, and despite being Zao's boss and superior, the two of them are really good friends.
  • Evil Brit: Graves presents himself as half-English.
  • Evil Counterpart: To Bond, invoked and lampshaded by Graves himself:
    Gustav Graves: We only met briefly, but you left a lasting impression. You see, when your intervention forced me to present the world with a new face, I chose to model the disgusting Gustav Graves on you. Oh, just in the details. That unjustifiable swagger, the crass quips, the self-defense mechanism concealing such inadequacy...
  • Evil Is Hammy: Graves is prone to grandiose showboating. Justified in that he's putting on a facade (inspired by Bond, no less).
  • Evil Redhead: Besides becoming Caucasian, the gene alteration surgery also made him a redhead.
  • Faking the Dead: He uses the opportunity of his apparent death to hide and reinvent himself as Gustav Graves.
  • Far East Asian Terrorists: He and his faction in the Korean People's Army turn into pro-North Korean unification terrorists.
  • Fiction 500: Graves has built a wealth in diamonds that's almost impossible to quantify. Illegal blood diamonds, that is.
  • Final Boss: He's Bond's final adversary in the entirety of the original EON continuity. In fact, unlike most of Bond's previous Big Bads, Gustav has the skills to challenge Bond in direct combat, and on top of that, he has an electric suit that makes him even more dangerous.
  • Foreshadowing: Before Graves is revealed to be Colonel Moon under a new identity, you notice that his sword duel with Bond is extremely vicious and rife with obvious personal loathing towards Bond on Graves's part. It's a clue that they've crossed paths once before.
  • The Gadfly: "Oh look, parachutes for the both of us!"
  • Glory Hound: He's out to win glory in a war of Korean unification, regardless of the cost.
  • Going Native: Inverted. He, a quintessential white guy and avatar of British smarminess, enters the final battle garbed in the military outfit of North Korea... the nation of his birth and to whom he owes his true allegiance.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: His idea of disagreeing with his anger management therapist is to stuff him in a punching bag and beat the hell out of him. Later, he can barely stand in the same room as Bond before lashing out.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Bond manages to defeat him by hitting a switch on the suit that shocks him before using the parachute Gustav had just put on himself to suck him into a turbine outside the plane.
  • Hypocrite:
    • He sees Western culture as being beneath him, when he has a Western education, a large collection of European sports cars, a Western ally in the form of Miranda Frost, and changes his whole appearance to a Caucasian magnate to further his Evil Plan. Also the Trope Namer for Majored in Western Hypocrisy.
    • He tells his father that he has always found it difficult to accept him. It never seems to occur to him that, since he's a petulant warmonger with a hair-trigger temper who engages in Western indulgences and flouts the rules of both the military and society he's a part of, maybe he deserves it.
  • Incoming Ham: Graves enters the movie parachuting in front of Buckingham Palace saying "What a wonderful day to become a knight!"
  • Irrational Hatred: Subverted. His willingness to maim or kill Bond during their escalating duel, not ten minutes after meeting the man, makes more sense when you consider his true identity, which gives him a very good reason to loathe the guy who necessitated his fabricated persona.
  • It's All About Me: He seems to look out for the Korean unification less because of whatever benefit it will grant North Korea, but to become immortalized in history. His near death experience and changing his identity doesn't do anything to temper his ego.
  • Jerkass: He's one massive douche, as he claims to despise the West for dividing Korea, yet is Western-educated and has a personal collection of sports cars, and when his father realizes that Gustav Graves is actually his son in disguise, he promptly offs him.
  • Kill Sat: He's building Icarus to destroy any targets he wants from orbit, including incoming missiles against the satellite.
  • Kingpin in His Gym:
    • He trains his taekwondo kicks on a punching bag. In which he's stuffed his anger management therapist.
    • As Graves, he loves fencing with Miranda Frost, and has a rather vicious duel with Bond.
  • Magic Plastic Surgery: Currently provides the page image. Upon faking his death, he submits himself to gene surgery to alter his entire ethnicity from North Korean to British.
  • Majored in Western Hypocrisy: Trope Namer. He was Western-educated and claims to despise the West for dividing Korea, but he blatantly abuses foreign aid to finance a personal collection of sports cars, has allies in the West like Miranda Frost, and is extremely corrupt and dictatorial.
  • Man of Wealth and Taste: He keeps a modest collection of sports cars, and also takes up other high-class activities as Graves.
  • Names to Run Away from Really Fast: With the last name Graves, it's pretty obvious that he's the bad guy.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: It's believed that the Graves persona was inspired by Richard Branson. Col. Moon was based on Saddam Hussein's son Uday.
  • Not Quite Dead: He apparently died after falling into a waterfall in the opening sequence of the film, but he actually survived, turned into a Caucasian, and is in another part of the globe.
  • "Not So Different" Remark: Gustav Graves uses it as a taunt to Bond.
  • Nouveau Riche: By the time Bond catches up to him as Graves, he's just become a multi-billionaire from a diamond mine he set up in Iceland. In reality, his massive fortune was really built by using the "mine" as a front for laundering blood diamonds from Sierra Leone.
  • Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: Graves is notable as the only Bond Big Bad to be explicitly younger than James himself. This also is true meta-wise: At the time of filming, Will Yun Lee and Toby Stephens, the actors who portray him as Colonel Moon and as Graves respectively, were 30 and 32 years old, facing off against a 48 year old Pierce Brosnan.
  • Patricide: Kills his father when he tried to stop him.
    Graves: (in Korean) Father... you disappoint me.
  • Psychopathic Manchild: He's introduced beating a punching bag that has his anger management therapist stuffed inside it (it's heavily implied that the therapist said something Moon didn't like and suffered the consequences), and after he blows up the helicopter carrying Bond's men, he gets word that his father, Gen. Moon, is coming, and orders his men to hide the evidence that he's illegally trading conflict diamonds, in the same way a teenager would tell his friends clean up after their party. His quest for conquering South Korea and Japan is done with the knowledge that he has a super weapon, and only has the shortsightedness to think that he only has to face the armies of Japan and South Korea, as well as U.S. troops stationed there, and not the brunt of the whole U.S. military, other nearby allied nations, and Communist China, which considering that Zao killed several of their high ranking intelligence officials during an international cooperation summit, may not exactly be on friendly terms with North Korea either.
  • Rags to Riches: His Gustav Graves persona has the backstory of a penniless orphan in Argentina who got rich when he discovered a diamond mine.
  • Renegade Russian: North Korean actually, but he fits the archetype exactly: high military leader of a post-Cold War regime who stages a coup against the current government to pursue his own plans for conquest.
  • Shadow Archetype: Moon modeled Graves after Bond and even invokes it in his "Not So Different" Remark.
  • Shout-Out: His full name is a reference to Colonel Sun, the main villain of the fifteenth James Bond novel.
  • Shock and Awe: Wears a protective electric suit in the climax of the movie which also doubles as (in his words) an ergonomical way to control the Icarus.
  • The Sleepless: A side effect of the plastic surgery that turned him from Colonel Moon into Gustav Graves is that he's been left with permanent insomnia, and thus must spend one hour of each day in an REM machine to keep himself sane.
  • Starter Villain: The North Korean Colonel Moon initially appears during the pre-title sequence and apparently dies after going over a cliff into a waterfall, leaving the British Gustav Graves to take the stage as the film's main antagonist. It's later averted when it turns out they're the same person, having undergone a DNA transplant after faking his death at the beginning of the film.
  • Suddenly Ethnicity: The gene surgery allows him to go from North Korean to British in a matter of months.
  • That Man Is Dead: Inverted. General Moon, horrified with what his son has become, says that his son died when he fell into the waterfall.
  • Throwing Your Sword Always Works: During their sword duel, Graves tosses his sword in an attempt to kill Bond.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Though he would have probably died either way, it wasn't helped by the fact that his Icarus-shock suit was built with a function to electrocute HIMSELF as well as enemies. Lampshaded by Film Brain's Mathew Buck.
  • Turbine Blender: He dies by getting sucked into one of his plane's turbines after Bond kicks him out of it.
  • Villainous Friendship: He's best friends with Zao, his second-in-command. When they see each other again after a lengthy period of time, they waste no time in trading friendly barbs over each other's new looks.
  • Villain with Good Publicity: As Graves, he schmoozes with the tabloid press, and he's introduced with the mention that he's due to be granted a knighthood.
  • "Well Done, Son" Guy: Wants his father's approval. At first anyway.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Downplayed, but he's in the minority of Bond villains not motivated by power or wealth or glory; rather, those three things are key components in realising his true goal, making his beloved nation of North Korea the dominant eastern power.
  • Wicked Cultured: You can't get more than naming your solar-based weapon "Icarus", though it's also a great case of Tempting Fate, because Icarus flew too close to the sun and burned his wings.

    Miranda Frost 

Miranda Frost

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"I know all about you — sex for dinner, death for breakfast."
Played by: Rosamund Pike

A MI6 operative working on the Gustav Graves case with Bond. She was also an Olympic fencer.


  • Alas, Poor Villain: Bond takes the time to mourn her death after Jinx kills her.
  • Bond Villain Stupidity: Takes Jinx at sword-point, but rather than cut her throat then and there Miranda walks her foe into the battle room, taunting her all the while. Maybe she didn't want to get blood all over the cockpit, but still.
  • Co-Dragons: With Zao, to Graves/Moon.
  • Dark Action Girl: After being revealed as being one of the villains, Frost is not ashamed to fight. In fact the climactic swordfight between her and Jinx is noticeably more elaborate than the much simpler punch-out between Bond and Graves occurring at the same time.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: She is introduced with a cold demeanour, but eventually spends a night together with Bond. Well, the defrosting part is a subversion. She was faking it to get Bond's trust.
  • Double Agent: She's an MI6 agent sent to investigate Graves, but turns out to be working for the North Koreans.
  • Dude Magnet: According to M's assessment of Miranda, she's attracted several men within MI-6, but spurned all of their advances. It helps that she already had a North Korean boyfriend with whom she was in cahoots.
  • Evil Brit: A British secret agent who turns out to be one of the villains.
  • Evil Is Petty: Seriously, selling out your country...just because you came in second at the Olympics. Wow, just wow.
  • Hate Sink: She becomes this once you realize she's the one responsible for Bond's fourteen-month imprisonment in North Korea, and becomes noticeably more ruthless once this has been revealed.
  • Ice Queen: Lampshaded perfectly by Bond upon their rendezvous at the film's most notable set piece.
    Bond: A palace of ice. You must feel right at home.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: How Jinx kills her, stabbing her in the the midsection through a The Art of War book and kicking the knife into her as the final blow. Doubly funny that their clash was a sword fight and when you remember that Frost did come in at second place in the Olympics.
  • Karmic Death: After having betrayed MI6 and selling out Bond to North Korea, she totally had it coming when Jinx stabbed her to death at the end of their sword duel.
  • Master Swordswoman: She's a former gold medal (by default) Olympic fencer and fights with a sword when fighting Jinx at the end of the film.
  • Meaningful Name: An Ice Queen called Frost.
  • The Mole: Is revealed to have been Colonel Moon/Gustav Grave's mole inside MI-6, which is how Moon was able to identify Bond and break his cover in the prologue.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Wears particularly revealing clothes throughout the film, including the climax, when she fights against Jinx.
  • Pimped-Out Dress: Her ice blue dress, with icicles-like tassels.
  • Pretty in Mink: Has a fur scarf, a fur-trimmed coat, and her white fur wrap Would be Fur and Loathing, except she wears a few furs before the reveal, and they seem to be fake anyway.
  • Rule of Symbolism: Her name, and the style of her ice dress.
  • Second Place Is for Losers: She got a silver medal for fencing, but was awarded gold after the previous winner OD'ed on steroids which was planted by Graves's people, thus effectively buying Miranda's loyalty. Thus this trope comes into play, in that she would turn on her country rather than accept second place.
  • Self-Made Orphan: The novelization reveals that she hated her father, who forced her to play both the role of daughter and wife, so at age 14 she captured bees, which she then placed in her father's car. Being allergic to bees, he had a car "accident" where he was killed.
  • Statuesque Stunner: A beautiful woman who clocks 5'9".
  • Sore Loser: She got a silver medal in fencing, but felt Second Place Is for Losers. So what did she do? Have the gold winner OD on steroids, which was planted by Graves's people, effectively buying her loyalty. She is the kind of person who would never accept second place.
  • Villainous Friendship: She and Moon studied at Harvard together and were both on the University's fencing team.

    Zao 

Zao

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"How's that for a punchline?"
Played by: Rick Yune

Serves as Colonel Moon's / Gustav Graves' right-hand man.


  • As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Zao isn't a Korean surname. While the novel says he's actually an ex-Chinese mercenary, it's not a Chinese surname either.
  • Badass Longcoat: Seems to favour one, much like his boss.
  • Bald of Evil: After the botched operation, he's left bald.
  • Bond One-Liner: Inverted, he gives Bond himself one of these!
    Zao: (Gut punches Bond) How's that for a punchline?
  • Cool Car: Jaguar XKR, with enough gadgets to rival Bond's Aston Martin Vanquish.
  • Creepy Blue Eyes: Post-botched surgery, he gets abnormally blue eyes.
  • The Dragon: Is incredibly loyal to Colonel Moon, even after he undergoes gene surgery and becomes Graves. To Graves, he shares the role with Miranda.
  • Evil Counterpart: Seems to see himself as this to Bond. Bond is entirely unimpressed, and unlike, say, Red Grant or Scaramanga, he never really does enough to earn the distinction.
  • Falling Chandelier of Doom: Dies after a chandelier falls on him at the ice palace courtesy of Bond.
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars: The nasty result to his face of the exploding diamond briefcase serves as a Red Right Hand.
  • Karmic Death: The chandelier Bond kills him with was made of diamonds.
  • Magic Plastic Surgery: Was going through one before Bond intervened. As a result of the interrupted surgery, he spends the rest of the movie pale, hairless and deformed.
  • Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Zao means "evil" in Serbo-Croatian, and also in Hokkien "run".
  • Oh, Crap!: He realizes his fate the moment the ice chandelier falls on him.
  • Only One Name: Just "Zao" and nothing more. It's possible "Zao" isn't even his real name and is just a nickname, or perhaps a codename given that Zao is, after all, a secret agent/terrorist.
  • Red Right Hand: First, the diamonds encrusted on his face and secondly, his Ulook after the botched gene alteration process.
  • The Scream: Zao screams when Bond drops the ice chandelier on him.
  • Villainous Friendship: With Colonel Moon even after he becomes Graves.

    Vlad 

Vladimir Popov

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"Hey boss, he beat your time."
Played by: Mikhail Gorevoy

A Russian scientist and henchman of Gustav Graves. He created Icarus and the power suit that Gustav Graves uses to control it.


  • Disney Villain Death: He's sucked out of the hole in the plane at the end.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: When Gustav Graves asks him for something more "ergonomic" with which to control the Icarus (until then he was using a device contained in a briefcase), Vlad creates a Powered Armor suit.

    Mr. Kil 

Mr. Kil

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"I'm Mr. Kil."
Played by: Lawrence Makoare

A henchman of Gustav Graves. He attempts to kill Jinx using lasers in a secret diamond cutting room, but Bond manages to save her in time.


  • Bond Villain Stupidity: After Jinx is captured but refuses to give any information even when tortured by Zao, he hands Kil a sidearm in order to kill her. While this would have eliminated her quickly, Kil insists on using a laser which edges towards her slowly (in a similar fashion to the laser scene in Goldfinger). This gives Bond time to not only reach Jinx and to stop the laser but once Kil is too busy fighting Bond (in which he is able to overpower him and also kill him with his hairpin), Jinx is able to get the laser controls and quickly shoots the laser through his head. Had he just followed Zao's suggestion, he would have killed Jinx and may have even killed Bond.
  • The Brute: He might be beefier than Graves' two Co-Dragons, but Kil is cruel for cruelty's sake and not particularly bright.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Just as Kil is about to stab Bond, Jinx grabs the remote to the laser machine and fires a beam through the back of his head and out his mouth, killing him.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The way the laser beam hits him (through the back of his head and out his mouth) looks like he got impaled with a rod.
  • Meaningful Name: Mr. Kil is obviously a killer.
  • Names to Run Away from Really Fast: To the point where it's actually funny instead of scary. His real, given name is apparently Kil. Wryly lampshaded by Bond during his intro.
    Mr. Kil: I'm Mr. Kil.
    Bond: That's a name to die for.
  • Punny Name: Kil and "kill" are not exactly lightyears apart.
  • Torture Technician: His function as Gustav's henchman.

Other Characters

    General Moon 

General Moon

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Played by: Kenneth Tsang

The father of Colonel Tan-Sun Moon and a general in the North Korean army.


  • Everyone Has Standards:
    • He admits to Bond that he does not approve of the Scorpion Guard and her torture methods, but his own superiors do so his hands are tied.
    • He certainly has no time for his son's more hardline faction and is horrified by Graves's plan to use Icarus to facilitate the military reunification of Korea.
  • I Have No Son!: Ashamed and horrified with the monster his son has become, General Moon says that his son truly died when he fell into the waterfall.
    Gustave Graves: You would kill your own son?
    General Moon: The son I knew died long ago.
  • Like Father, Unlike Son: He is the total opposite of his Spoiled Brat son.
  • Papa Wolf: When Bond seemingly assassinates Colonel Moon, the general has him imprisoned and tortured for more than a year.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: In stark contrast to his own son, General Moon sent him to study in the West so he could help bridge the gap between the two Koreas, refused to condone the torture DPRK soldiers inflicted on Bond, resisted attempts by hardliners to launch an open invasion to the South, and finally, tries to kill his own son when he realizes what a monster he has become.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Bond himself, who had no cause to feel pity for the man who allowed him to be tortured for fourteen long months, is so infuriated by General Moon's death that he wastes no time going in to finish off the traitorous former colonel.
  • Tranquil Fury: When Graves forces his father to watch as he unleashes Icarus upon the DMZ, a move that Moon is certain will trigger a destructive war that will ruin North Korea. After having spent the past year pining over his son's betrayal and supposed death, Moon takes up arms against his own son, telling that he is dead to him.

    Mr. Chang 

Mr. Chang

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Played by: Ho Yi

The manager of the Royal Rubyeon Hotel in Hong Kong, who also works for the Chinese secret services.


  • Covert Group with Mundane Front: He's a Chinese secret agent whose cover is that of a hotel manager.
  • Deconstruction: Of how everyone from hotel managers to spies knows who Bond is. Well, you would if you were both a spy and a hotel manager!
  • Enemy Mine: He agrees to help Bond after Bond promises to kill Zao for him (the Chinese Secret Service want Zao dead for killing three of their people when he tried to blow up a peace summit between China and South Korea).
  • Hospitality for Heroes: When Bond walks into the Royal Rubyeon Hotel in his wet pajamas, with long hair and a beard and without any money, the receptionist doesn't take him seriously. Then Chang recognizes him and offers him a room and new clothes immediately (although it's initially to spy on him through a Honey Trap with Peaceful Fountains of Desire).
  • Mistaken for Spies: Played with. The presence of a British agent in what Chang states as "our turf" is fishy to him. Then Bond explains to him he's just after Zao and enlists Chang's help to get him to Cuba.

    Peaceful Fountains of Desire 

Peaceful Fountains of Desire

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"I'm not that kind of masseuse..."
Played by: Rachel Grant

A masseuse who is sent to Bond's room when he is staying at a hotel in Hong Kong. When she arrives to his room, it seems at first that Bond tries to seduce her, only to be revealed by him that she's actually a Chinese agent posing as a masseuse to probe Bond for information.


  • Fanservice Extra: She appears for a few minutes and to give the movie a little extra titillation.
  • Happy-Ending Massage: Discussed. When she comes to Bond's room claiming to be his masseuse and he seemingly starts to seduce her, she claims to be an aversion of this, saying that she's "not that kind of masseuse," before Bond tells her that he's "not that kind of customer," and proceeds to demonstrate that her superiors seemed to actually try to go for that route.
  • Hidden Weapons: She has a gun in a holster around her thigh.
  • Honey Trap: She was sent by Mr. Chang to obtain information from Bond. Presumably they were hoping that Bond would let something slip while trying to chat her up (which is why she resists when he seems to be going straight to sex). Chang's men have a video camera but the gun between her legs implies she wasn't going to let him get that far, so they weren't thinking about blackmail (which is a waste of time given Bond's reputation anyway).
  • Leg Focus: There's a close-up on her thighs when Bond finds her hidden gun.
  • Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow: Subverted. At first it seems like Bond tries to seduce her when she's sent to his room. Then he takes her gun and reveals her as a Chinese secret service operative.
  • Ms. Fanservice: There's a close shot of her legs when Bond finds the gun in her thigh holster.
  • Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom: Peaceful Fountains of Desire is a mellow woman who inspires desire. Subverted in that it's most likely an alias for her masseuse cover, which also denotes that the "desire" part is enforced, since she's a Honey Trap.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Assuming that "Peaceful Fountains of Desire" was just an alias for her masseuse cover.
  • Overly Long Name: "Peaceful Fountains of Desire" seems quite like a mouthful. The end credits seem to agree, as she's only credited in them as "Peaceful."
  • Punny Name: It wouldn't be a Bond movie without a sexually suggestive name. "Fountains of Desire" can be taken either way.

    Raoul 

Raoul

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Played by: Emilio Echevarría

A British sleeper agent in Havana. Bond seeks him out for assistance in tracking down Zao.


  • Cool Car: Provides Bond with a very nice 1957 Ford Fairlane in his mission to catch Zao.
  • Covert Group with Mundane Front: He's a British sleeper agent who owns a cigar factory in Havana.
  • Nice Guy: Raoul is a friendly guy who proves vital in helping Bond track down Zao, providing him with a gun, a car and Zao's location.
  • Sleeper Agent: He's a British-aligned agent embedded in Havana, where he poses as a cigar manufacturer.
  • Spy Speak: Bond makes contact with him by requesting a specific type of cigar that hasn't been produced in his factory for decades.

    Verity 

Verity

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"I see you handle your weapon well."
Played by: Madonna

A fencing teacher. She introduces Bond to Miranda Frost and Gustav Graves.


  • Ambiguously Bi: She flirts with Bond and clearly has the hots for Miranda (which was originally much more explicit). Being played by Madonna certaintly helps.
  • The Cameo: A cameo for Madonna, who composed the movie's theme.
  • Hell-Bent for Leather: Befitting of modern Madonna (who has a thing for leather), Verity is clad in black leather.
  • Only One Name: Just Verity.
  • Zip Me Up: The first thing Verity does when she appears is ask Bond to help lace up her corset.

    Scorpion Guard 

Scorpion Guard

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Played by: Sarllya

A North Korean soldier who oversees Bond's torture.


  • The Baroness: Although she receives little characterization due to her short screentime, it's probably intentional that the North Koreans chose a woman to torment Bond, knowing his reputation.
  • No Name Given: Her name isn't given on screen; she is credited as "Korean Scorpion Guard".
  • Scary Scorpions: She comes up with the idea of injecting Bond with scorpion venom repeatedly.
  • Torture Technician: She runs a torture unit that is somewhat independent of General Moon.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Isn't seen again after Bond is exchanged for Zao, leaving it ambiguous whether she took part in Colonel Moon's coup.

    Dr. Alvarez 

Dr. Alvarez

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Played by: Simón Andreu

The director of a private clinic in Cuba that specialises in creating new identities via illegal gene therapy.


  • Dead Artists Are Better: He likes to think of his work with gene therapy as a form of art and himself as the artist. Jinx tells him that most artists are only truly celebrated after they're dead, then proceeds to kill him.
  • Mad Doctor: He's only on screen for around a minute, but we learn very quickly that he takes great pride in his extremely unethical work, and doesn't care that the DNA used in his procedures is harvested from orphaned children.
  • Magic Plastic Surgery: Not himself, but his private clinic provides those that can afford it with a DNA transplant that effectively turns the patient into a completely different person. The procedure is said to be extremely painful and anyone who undergoes it is left with permanent insomnia.
  • Organ Theft: His clinic sources it's DNA from the bone marrow of kidnapped orphans and runaway children. In his own words, they choose them specifically because nobody will go looking for them.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: While he's a very minor character in the story, his clinic is able to provide Colonel Moon with his new identity as Gustav Graves, allowing him to slip under the radar for well over a year while he accumulates the power and wealth needed to build the Icarus satellite.

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