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Main Character Index

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Character sheet for the James Bond film No Time to Die.

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MI6

• James Bond
• M
• Moneypenny
• Q
• Bill Tanner

Nomi

M. Nomi / Agent 007

"The world’s moved on since you retired, Commander Bond."

Played by: Lashana Lynch

Dubbed by: Mitsuki Saiga (Japanese)

"By the way, I'm not just any old Double-0. I'm 007. You probably thought they'd retire it."

An MI-6 agent who is assigned the 007 codename after Bond's retirement.

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• Action Girl: Stated to be as lethal as Bond is by M - comes with the territory of being a Double-O. She proves the statement more than right when she has work in the field, being formidable in combat.
• Affirmative-Action Legacy: In contrast to her predecessor who was a white male, Nomi is a black woman.
• By-the-Book Cop: She's more deferential than Bond was in the role of 007, requesting permission before acting and obeying orders to the letter in contrast to Bond's more maverick approach.
• Cool Car: She drives an Aston Martin DBS Superleggera, which happens to be a more advanced version of the same model that Bond drove in Casino Royale.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Downplayed. She snarks a bit at Bond early on in the film and there are some minor ribs later on, but it doesn't last and she comes to respect him. She ends up asking Mallory to give the 007 designation back to Bond.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: She has long braided hair when posing as a civilian. After getting Bond alone, she reveals that she was wearing a wig and actually has Boyish Short Hair. Then she tells him she's a 00 agent.
• Good Is Not Soft: She's a 00 agent working for MI6 in a similar capacity to Bond and thus one of the good guys, but 00 agents need to have killed at least two people to get that status. In the climax, when Dr. Obruchev threatens to wipe out her entire race with the Heracles nanobots, she responds by kicking him off a catwalk into a pool full of them and this is after seeing the corpse of a guard she shot be melted when it fell in.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Some snarking aside, she is actually a pretty nice person and a trusted ally of Bond.
• Last-Name Basis: The Q-Dar screen indicates that Nomi is actually her surname, but she's only ever referred to by that name or as 007.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: She hits Obruchev for annoying her in the climax, breaking his nose, and then kicks him into a pool of acid after one too many nasty remarks.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: To Obruchev.
  Nomi: "Do you know what time it is? Time to die."
  (kicks him right into a corrosive pool of nanobots)
• Rule of Symbolism: When she picks up Bond later on in the film, she does so in an Aston Martin DBS Superleggera, which is an upgraded model of the car Bond used in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. Fitting for a much younger 007.
• Slapstick: When she's escaping from the Spectre meeting with Obruchev in tow, Bond disengages her zipline. She ends up slamming into the building below along with her escort.
• Taking Up the Mantle: She was the new "007" for two years whilst Bond was retired, but request that it be given back to him when he returns to MI6.
• Tranquil Fury: When Obruchev makes a racist and genocidal remark towards her, she tells him it's time to die in a tone that chills to the bone before offing him.

Bond's Allies

• Madeleine Swann
• Felix Leiter

Paloma

Paloma

Played by: Ana de Armas

Dubbed by: Nana Mizuki (Japanese)

"I forget things when I get nervous. This is the biggest job I’ve ever had."

A CIA agent assigned by Leiter to help Bond in Cuba in his mission to capture Dr. Obruchev at a Spectre meeting.

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• Action Girl: Handles guns like a seasoned pro, knows her martial arts and can kill scores of bad guys after seemingly just three weeks of training (though she might have exaggerated on that part).
• Advertised Extra: Despite having her own poster◊ and being named in the opening credits, Ana de Armas only appears for one sequence with roughly ten minutes of screentime, which explains why she was only featured wearing that one party dress in marketing.
• Badass Adorable: Has a kind, friendly, sweet-natured disposition, as well as a cute-and-cuddly appearance more befitting a fresh out of highschool Girl Next Door, and yet is hands-down the deadliest lady in the James Bond film series since perhaps Wai Lin all the way back in Tomorrow Never Dies, if not deadlier.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Has a very sweet, almost nerdy disposition and is overall exceptionally charming and likeable. She's also a trained agent who effortlessly disarms and kills professional assassins.
• Combat Pragmatist: When Paloma's guns run out of ammo, she just clocks her opponents with them, and she averts Waif-Fu by flinging herself at her enemies feet-first, knocking them over, and then shooting them dead.
• Consummate Liar: She does a brilliant impersonation of a bubbly ditz when she first meets Bond, telling him that she's had only three weeks of training, and then as soon as stuff starts to go down she becomes a killing machine. After the fight, Bond pours them both a drink and says, "Three weeks training? Really?" "More or less", she replies. This too is perhaps why, when they part, he says admiringly, "You were excellent!"
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Possibly. It's never made clear whether her sloppy fieldwork, forgetfulness, and lack of composure are genuine or a result of Obfuscating Stupidity, but as soon as she picks up a gun, she's an unstoppable Lady of War.
• Drink-Based Characterization: She is first seen drinking a soft drink with a straw and later gulps down a vodka martini quickly and is clearly taken aback by how strong it was, both showing she's not the typical effortlessly suave and elegant Bond girl she appears to be at first.
• Final Girl: Of the supporting Bond Girl variety. While many of the supporting ones before her (Solange, Fields and Severine) died, that too after having sex with Bond, and Lucia's fate is unknown right now, Paloma is that one girl who comes out alive, alongside the lead female characters Nomi and Madeleine. It's also very fitting that she has one of the traits of that trope back in the early years: being a Celibate Hero.
• Gangsta Style: At one point she shoots in this fashion after the ambush by Nomi.
• Genki Girl: She's quite energetic and is clearly delighted at the prospect of working alongside a legend like Bond.
• Girl Next Door: Her kind and personable disposition and cuddly appearance gives off this vibe.
• Gratuitous Spanish: When Bond is spotlighted during the Spectre meeting, she lets out a "coño!" ("Shit!").
• Guns Akimbo: During the Spectre meeting shootout she dual-wields a pistol and a submachine gun for a few seconds before ditching her pistol when it runs out of ammo.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: She downs an entire vodka martini in a few gulps. Though it was more likely a ruse to impress Bond, as she visibly winces from clearly not being used to how strong the drink is.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: She goes Guns Akimbo during a shootout and fly-kicks a mook, all while wearing a gorgeous party dress.
• Lady of War: Whenever a fight starts, she stops being (or appearing to be) a bumbling ditz and starts being a terrifyingly graceful and efficient killing machine who can mow down entire squads of goons in a skimpy cocktail dress and make it look effortless.
• Meaningful Name: "Paloma" is Spanish for "dove". She's an unambiguously positive character, pure & wholesome as a dove.
• Ms. Fanservice: Looks absolutely stunning in her party dress, which has a open back, extremely low neckline and shows off her legs. Also she's played by Ana de Armas, making her this by default.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: Her party dress has a neckline that stops just short of her navel.
• Naïve Newcomer: Although apparently a rookie, she actually averts this trope by being incredibly competent, not to mention surviving.
• Nice Girl: Astoundingly still has the kind, sweet and almost innocent personality of a schoolgirl in spite of being such a badass.
• One-Woman Army: She tears through a dozen Cuban Spectre agents like a hot knife through butter with apparently just three weeks of combat training (she probably lied about that).
• Overt Operative: Much like Bond himself, she doesn't seem particularly good at keeping things quiet and clean like a real-world spy, but when things get loud and messy, she's in her element.
• Plucky Girl: Very friendly, very enthusiastic, very deadly.
• Sexy Backless Outfit: Her party dress prominently shows off her back.

Villains

Safin's Organization

Safin

Lyutsifer Safin

"We both eradicate people to make the world a better place. I just want to be a little... tidier."

Played by: Rami Malek

Dubbed by: Alexis Tomassian (European French), Kazuya Nakai (Japanese)

"Only your skills die with your body. Mine will survive long after I'm gone. And life is all about leaving something behind. Isn't it?"

A mysterious man with a huge grudge against Spectre — they killed his whole family, who worked as poisoners for them. After Spectre stole the bio-technological weapon known as Heracles, Safin made sure to hijack it, turned it against them and planned to mass produce it for use on a global scale. He also has a personal connection to Madeleine Swann, having tried to kill her in her childhood.

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• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: It's Lyutsifer Safin who rids the world of SPECTRE by sabotaging a party of them that was intended to be for Bond's death, turning the nanomachines-based virus they stole against themselves.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Zigzagged. Safin succeeds in dismantling SPECTRE by murdering all of its members (including Blofeld) with the nanobots in revenge for his family's demise. Even when Bond kills Safin and foils his endgame in using the nanobots to take over the world, Safin's actions were more than enough to cause Bond's death in return, making Safin the only villain in the 007 series ever to successfully do so. However, it's clear that killing Bond was not Safin's primary objective, merely a last act of spite against him for ruining his endgame.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Despite the facial scars, he nevertheless still looks really gorgeous and seductive.
• Big Bad: Of No Time to Die.
• Big Bad Ensemble: For the first half of the film, Safin and Blofeld are both after Heracles while in opposition to both Bond and each other. After Safin arranges for Spectre's total annihilation and Blofeld's death, he takes over as the sole Big Bad.
• Bond Villain Stupidity: Though Safin averts most pitfalls of past Bond villains, he still makes some critical mistakes. He has a habit of getting close to his victims before he shoots them, whether because he wants to see them die up close or simply because he wants to be certain of his shot. This allows Madeline to survive long enough in the intro for him to change his mind about gunning her down. In the finale, he walks within arm's length of Bond after shooting him from across the room, giving our hero the chance to disarm and kill him. That said, walking that close also enabled him to infect him with nanobots containing Madeleine and Mathilde's DNA when he was being overwhelmed by a superior and-to-hand opponent, having secured them on his person as a backup plan for dealing with James. Despite Safin's death, his last act was more than enough to cause Bond's death in return, as Bond himself refuses to endanger both Madeleine and Mathilde's lives.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He appears a bit loopy, sporting a perennial zen-like calm reflected in his obsession with Japanese aesthetics. He's also one of the most efficient and ruthless Bond villains ever, actually managing to cause the death of James Bond.
• Complexity Addiction: In contrast to SPECTRE's elaborate but long-winded plan to kill Bond, Safin's scheme averts this. He wants to subjugate the world with the same nanomachines SPECTRE tries to use, but how and why are never really explored.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Blofeld, though they are both present in the movie. Not only Safin is the young to Blofeld's old, but his more practical and pragmatic approach to villainy averts the Bond Villain Stupidity of the previous antagonist (and all other bad guys that came before him). Furthermore, Safin genuinely cared deeply for his family, particularly his parents, and acts in revenge for their deaths whereas Blofeld cared only for himself and killed his parents for believing he was The Un-Favourite. While Blofeld was motivated by nothing but sheer jealousy and petulance, Safin was driven by a legitimate desire for revenge and believes he's making the world a better place in his own twisted way. Blofeld is all but stated to have been a sociopath from birth who was always on track to becoming rotten while Safin was once an innocent kid whose life was destroyed by Blofeld and was pushed into villainy and likely would have lived a normal life otherwise. Last, but not least, Blofeld is a Non-Action Big Bad who relies on his minions all the time whereas Safin is more than capable of killing people by himself. And while Blofeld was a central figure from Bond's past and his arch enemy who devoted his life to making Bond suffer, he and Safin had no prior connection and only meet through Bond's connection to Blofeld and Madeline and he has no personal animosity towards Bond.
• Creepy Monotone: He always speaks in a calm and serene, yet unsettling tone. The only time he raises his voice is when screaming in pain when Bond breaks his arm at the climax. Though he reverts to his low tone in his final speech.
• Death Seeker: Implied, as he opines that all humans secretly want to die, himself included, and many of his actions throughout the film put himself in life-threatening danger. At the end, he takes zero issue with his impending death at Bond's hands, and uses his final moments to calmly pull a Taking You with Me.
• Decomposite Character:
  • Though Blofeld exists in the continuity of the Craig films and is directly connected to Safin's story, several elements of Blofeld's Dr. Shatterhand persona from the novels, such as fondness for the Japanese aesthetic and his garden of poisonous plants, are given to Safin.
  • He also takes a little bit from Dr. No in his dress, demeanour, appearance and use of an island to launch his scheme as well as his dynamic with Bond. Both he and Dr. No are also called out by Bond for their God complexes. A few fans even speculated that Rami Malek was actually playing Dr. No when the first trailers dropped.
• The Dog Bites Back: Safin kills Blofeld indirectly for the murder of his family. Mind you, he and his family were needlessly dragged in Blofeld's petty revenge against Bond. So it's very fitting for Safin to give him the taste of his own medicine, literally.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He speaks glowingly about his parents and his whole vendetta against Spectre is to avenge his murdered family. He has succeeded in this. However, it is still no excuse for his grand plot of wiping out millions of people and establish a new world order under his thumbs.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Downplayed. He did rescue Madeline as a child; and despite his threats, he lets Mathilde run free, implying that personally killing children is a line he isn't comfortable crossing. However, he is not above in infecting Bond with nanobots equipped with both Madeline and Mathilde's DNA that would kill them both, all just to spitefully and permanently deny Bond any chance of having a peaceful life with them.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He uses the "Not So Different" Remark trope on Bond but is ignorant of how his plans will kill innocents and he has killed at least one unarmed woman, whereas Bond targets murderers and never resorts to terrorism.
• Evil Counterpart: He's an evil version of Bond. While both lost their parents at a young age and harbor vendettas against Blofeld, what sets them apart is that Safin wallowed in the past. Believing innocence to be a laughable concept and consumed by the loss of his family, Safin thinks he must control everybody's fate in order to save the world. On the flip side, no matter how much he loses, 007 has accepted the losses in his life and fights for the greater good, believing innocence is something worth fighting for.
• Evil Genius: He built up a small criminal empire out of nothing and is knowledgeable enough of science, chemistry and botany to create a deadly super virus and was even able to outsmart Blofeld by exploiting his biggest flaws.
• Evil Sounds Deep: A weird example. His voice is not inherently deep, but it has a very booming effect that fills the room.
• Evil Versus Evil: He wants to kill millions of people, Spectre above all.
• The Evils of Free Will: The closest he ever comes to explaining his true plan is to state that people ultimately wish to be told what to do by someone else, hinting at his own desire to play a vengeful God that forces obedience and punishes dissent.
• Face Death with Dignity: He is completely calm when Bond is about to shoot him dead and doesn't try to run, fight back or beg for his life, as he knows fully well that his last act on Bond is enough to cause the latter's death.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Despite looking really youthful and beautiful, he is still an Omnicidal Maniac who isn't afraid to take down those who wronged him.
• Facial Horror: The scars on his face are a result of a poisonous experience in his youth orchestrated by Blofeld.
• Fate Worse than Death: He turns up at Mr. White's home knowing he's not there, because the deaths of his family will hurt him more. Likewise he infects Bond not with a deadly poison, but with the Hercules nanobots, ensuring Bond can never go near Madeleine and their child again.
• Faux Affably Evil: He's always composed and polite, even when he's threatening to destroy you.
• Final Solution: He seeks to wipe out a vast portion of humanity so he can rule over the rest in a terrorist-free utopia.
• Flaw Exploitation: Ever since his family was murdered on Blofeld's orders, Safin is aware that Blofeld is an egotistical sadist who enjoys making people suffer for his own amusement and enjoys psychologically abusing them, especially Bond. He takes advantage of Blofeld's arrogance by changing the nanobots' targets from Bond to the entire SPECTRE and even has him killed by Heracles infected by Bond, because he knew how Blofeld is so much into torturing him or Madeleine mentally.
• Foil: He easily serves as one against Bond and Blofeld.
  • Towards Bond: both lost their parents in a very short age, have personal vendettas against Blofeld, and are professional killers. What sets them apart is that while Bond didn't wallow in his past and actively worked to stop ruthless villains, Safin allowed his past to consume him to the point he is an Omnicidal Maniac. He even gives a "Not So Different" Remark to Bond, which the latter dismisses as nonsense.
  • Towards Blofeld: Safin uses Pragmatic Villainy by averting the Bond Villain Stupidity flaw that previous Bond villains fell to via their Evil Gloating. Furthermore, Safin genuinely cared about his family and acts in revenge for their deaths, but Blofeld cared only for himself and killed his father for believing he was The Un-Favourite. Also, while Blofeld is a Non-Action Big Bad, Safin is more than capable of killing people physically^note though in Blofeld's case, it's implied he did kill people personally, but as he accumulated wealth and power over time, he let his proxies do the job. And while Blofeld was a central figure from Bond's past and devoted his life to making Bond suffer, Safin has no personal animosity towards Bond. Posthumously, Safin did the one thing that Blofeld failed to do: kill James Bond.
• Freudian Excuse: His grudge against Blofeld stems from the latter being responsible for his family's death by Mr. White. In retaliation, Safin kills off Mr. White's ex-wife. He has all members of Spectre killed and gets his revenge against Blofeld by proxy by tricking 007 into infecting the man with nanobots.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: During his encounter with Bond in person, Safin explains his "Not So Different" Remark by pointing out that both he and Bond suffered so much pain and losses in their lifetimes at the hands of Blofeld and Spectre. Though Bond concurs that Safin's tragic backstory may be enough to justify his successful plot in murdering Blofeld and dismantling Spectre, it still doesn't justify Safin's grand plot of taking over the world.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: He is the main villain of the movie, powerful enough to throw a wrench in Spectre's plans and ultimately destroy them in retaliation for being the sole survivor from an unremarkable family who got poisoned to death by Blofeld via his Number Two Mr. White.
• Final Boss: He's the final main villain of the Craig continuity.
• A God Am I: Likens himself to an "invisible god" who crawls under the skin of humanity, controlling their lives through the Heracles virus.
• Get Out!: He tells Mathilde this after the latter bites his hand.
• Hero Killer: Even in death, he manages to accomplish (albeit indirectly) what no other villain has done before: killing James Bond.
• He Who Fights Monsters: His core goal is to destroy Spectre for killing his family - and then take over the world to ensure it never is reformed.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: It's unknown what Safin wants to do with the nanobots. This ties into him averting the Bond Villain Stupidity, Stupid Evil, and Villain Ball tropes — why would he gloat about it to a man he plans to defeat as said man can later use it against him?
• Hypocrite: He chastises Madeleine for her love for Bond—"a killer!"— when he himself is a murderer—Bond at least kills for the greater good—who desires that same love.
• If I Can't Have You…: Variation: "If I can't have her, you can't either." With his plan falling apart around him, Safin and Bond engage in one final grapple, and during the scuffle, Safin breaks the "insurance" cannister with the Heracles nanobots tailored to Madeline's and Mathilde's DNA in it (from the hair Safin was toying with before he reentered Madeline's life). If Bond so much as touches either of them, they will be killed by Bond's Heracles nanobots. Bond chooses to let himself be killed by the naval missile strike so as to eradicate the bots and prevent their deaths.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Like mentioned above, at first he wanted to get revenge on the entire SPECTRE and Blofeld for murdering his family (and that too for no reason). But after he succeeded his vengeance, he wanted to spread the nanobots around the world to ensure it would never be reformed.
• Karmic Death: After 007 gets the upper hand and renders him helpless by breaking his arm, Safin dies when Bond uses the man's discarded Beretta to shoot him dead.
• Kneel Before Zod: Subverted. It seems that Safin has done this, getting Bond get to pathetically fall on his knees, but it was merely Bond tricking him and using the position to draw his gun.
• Knight of Cerebus: He tops Blofeld in this, as he kicks off the movie murdering Madeleine Swann's mother when she was a child, and years later, has developed a mutagenic weapon threatening the world, and he does the one thing no other Bond villain did: he kills Bond himself.
• Lean and Mean: He has Rami Malek's skinny frame and is the main villain.
• Louis Cypher: His given name is the Russian translation for "Lucifer"^note Russian: Люцифер, while his surname sounds similar to "Satan". Fitting for the movie's Big Bad, who has a God complex.
• Malevolent Masked Men: In the prologue, he wears a broken white Noh theatre-like mask to conceal his facial deformities (or for psychological effect on his targets), which gets damaged when young Madeleine shoots at him in self-defence. He actually goes maskless for the rest of the film, though he brings Madeleine a box containing the damaged mask when visiting her again and it appears for a split-second on some video screens in his base as he talks to Bond.
• Meaningful Name: A man who wants to kill millions has a name based on the devil? Subtle. His surname is also only one letter different from "sarin", a notoriously deadly nerve gas, which is also fitting given his method of murder (though dioxin is his poison of choice).
• The Mentally Disturbed: The loss of his family and permanent scarring have clearly taken their toll on Safin's mental state, as he has devolved into a delusional madman with a god complex, bent on wiping out millions in a misguided attempt to put in an end to monsters like Blofeld forever. His conversation with Bond shows that he legitimately believes everything he's saying, further cementing how psychologically broken he is.
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Is briefly addressed as "Doctor" by one of his subordinates.
• Moral Myopia: He tells Madeline she is in debt to him because her father, working for Spectre, killed his family. Regardless of the fact that neither Madeline or her mother were involved and he killed her mother and attempted to kill Madeline who was a child at the time, in revenge.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: His name is unsubtly the Russified equivalent of "Lucifer Satan", which raises questions of what the hell his parents were thinking.
• Non-Action Big Bad: Zigzagged. He mostly avoids fighting and leaves it to his henchmen but he is at least somewhat capable and experienced and knows how to use a gun as evidenced by the opening where he guns down Madeline's mother and finale where he shoots Bond and injects him with the virus.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: What marks Safin apart from other Bond villains is his sheer focus on results over any form of flashy demise of grandiose schemes. He wants Spectre dead, so he hijacks Blofeld's own grandiose use for the targeted weapon Heracles as a means of killing James in the midst of his birthday party, having Obruchev working for Blofeld as a Trojan horse so he can then gain access to the DNA of the Spectre members and turn the weapon on them, basically wiping out the organisation in one fell move at what they through would be the height of their revenge on Bond. He wants Blofeld dead, so he merely has Madeleine expose herself to a Heracles targeted for Blofeld. Though she changes her mind before going through with it, she accidentally spreads the nanomachines to others who then contact Blofeld instead, resulting in the mastermind dying without ever knowing who or what killed him in the end. When he confronts Bond at the climax, he just shoots him from his blind angle without announcing himself, severely wounding Bond and leaving him at his mercy until he gets too close. And even before he's overpowered in hand-to-hand combat and shot to death by James, he smashes a vial of Heracles targeted for both Madeleine and Mathilde on James, which will basically render him and anybody else he gets into contact with walking vectors that will eventually kill them. This last move, more than anything, is what ultimately drives Bond to enact a Heroic Sacrifice, staying behind on the island rather than running for cover as a means of ensuring the deadly disease doesn't reach either of them, making Safin the only Bond villain so far to actually succeed in killing James Bond.
• "Not So Different" Remark:
  Safin: James Bond. A history of violence. Licence to kill. Vendetta with Ernst Blofeld. In love with Madeleine Swann. I could be speaking to my own reflection.
• Not So Similar: Though he rebukes most of Safin's arguments for their supposed similarities, Bond admits that they do have something in common: knowing the pain of loss, considering that Blofeld had his parents killed off via Mr. White and scarred his face. Still, it is made clear that their ways of handling it differ them a lot.
• Occidental Otaku: He displays affinities for Japanese culture, possibly due to the proximity of his Island Base with Japan since it is part of the Kuril Islands that are disputed between Russia and Japan.
• Older Than They Look: His exact age is never specified but, given that flashbacks show he was an adult when Madeline was a child, he's presumably in his late forties/early fifties at the very least by the time of the film. Rami Malek was thirty-eight when the film was made and looks even younger.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: His M.O. He has the entire SPECTRE and Blofeld killed by poisoning them with Heracles for killing his family for no reason.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Although he originally intends to murder Mr. White's family in revenge for the death of his own, he can't bring himself to watch a child die a slow death from drowning under the ice and pulls Madeleine to safety.
  • He also lets Mathilde go near the end of the movie when he has no further use for her. However, this is considered pragmatic as Safin only needed their genetic codes on several Heracles nanobots that he infected on Bond in order to permanently deny him any chance of having a peaceful life with Madeleine and Mathilde.
• Posthumous Villain Victory: Zig-Zagged with him. On one hand, his genocidal Evil Plan to unleash the Heracles nanomachines on the world and unveiling it for other nations to capture and use is thwarted by Bond. On the other, his last, desperate goal of killing James Bond ultimately succeeds, with Bond mortally wounded and now infected with a strain of Heracles capable of killing his wife and daughter with a single touch. Bond himself is forced to stay on Safin's island and help destroy the virus for good, dying from the missile strike launched by the Royal Navy he himself had called in. This all happens just minutes after Bond shoots Safin thrice in the head.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Safin makes a point of avoiding all the usual pitfalls of Bond villains. He is focused only on his goal and isn't caught up in trying to be dramatic or stopping to gloat. He shows just how terrifying a villain like him can be when they aren't overcome with ego or petulance like Blofeld.
• Psychological Projection: He tells Bond that humanity secretly craves oblivion, and most people simply refuse to admit as such. In reality, this seems to be Safin's way of pushing his own suicidal tendencies onto the rest of the world in an attempt to justify his master plan.
• Red Right Hand: His face is twisted from scars due to a poisonous experience in his youth orchestrated by Blofeld.
• Revenge: And one for thing, he makes good on this intent: Blofeld was responsible for his family's death by Madeleine's father, so Safin killed Madeleine's mother and all of the remaining Spectre leaders. He also tricked Bond into killing Blofeld by infecting him with nanobots. Even after being shot down to death by Bond, his actions were enough to cause Bond's death in return.
• Revenge by Proxy: The exact manner in which Safin enacts his revenge on Mr. White is this. For having killed his family, he takes away his loved ones in return, murdering his wife and attempting to kill his daughter. Though he ends up sparing Madeleine.
• Revenge Myopia: Safin's family was assassinated by Madeleine’s father Mr White under orders from Spectre, he thinks that somehow gives him the right to murder Madeleine and her mother even though they had no involvement in the death of his family.
• Revision: It's revealed that he is the assassin Madeleine referenced in Spectre as having killed her mother and been shot by Madeleine. It was implied in Spectre that the assassin was killed, but No Time to Die shows Safin survived and the encounter continued from there.
• Satanic Archetype: With a given name of "Lucifer" and a surname sounding similar to "Satan", Safin like the Satan of Paradise Lost, has a god complex and is actively driven by revenge against Blofeld for murdering his parents. He also has the classic Red Right Hand scars on his face due to a poisonous experience in his youth orchestrated by Blofeld.
• Self-Serving Memory: He is under the delusion that Madeleine owes him for saving her life when she fell into the frozen lake, he conveniently overlooks the fact that the only reason she was in that position in the first place was because he was pursuing her while trying to murder her.
• Shadow Archetype: Safin shows what could happen if Bond allowed his past to define and control him instead of the other way around. Like Bond, Safin lost his family, but they were murdered by Mr. White on behalf of Blofeld, something which also scarred him physically and mentally. As a result, Safin blamed his tragedy on society as a whole, finding innocence to be a laughable concept. Safin also openly gives a "Not So Different" Remark to Bond in that both are professional killers wanting to cleanse the world, but while Bond agrees that Safin's backstory may justify murdering Blofeld in revenge, his Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse for his own crimes.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: He has a soft voice and some sadistic plans in store.
• Spanner in the Works: By keeping a low profile, he is able to hijack Spectre's plans to kill Bond by using their weapon against them and then secure it for his own purposes. Spectre never accounted for Safin's interference.
• Straw Nihilist: He believes that all of humanity secretly craves death, and that the only way they can exist happily is if the choice to live or die is taken away permanently.
• Taking You with Me: He has a vial of nanobots designed to specifically kill Madeleine and Mathilde, and in his last breath, he smashes the vial on Bond's head, ensuring that Bond will have to kill himself to protect his family from the virus. Surprisingly, he succeeds on this.
• Tragic Villain: As evil as he is, it's hard not to sympathize with his backstory, having lost his entire family due to Blofeld's machinations and being left for dead, having nothing to motivate him but revenge. He was a victim of Blofeld's sociopathy just as much as Bond.
• Truth in Television: The heavy, acne like scarring on his face is a symptom of dioxin poisoning, probably what was used to poison you.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Implied. Bond comes across pictures of Safin and his family. The villain is shown as a smiling little boy. Also, he reminisces over his parents' jobs as chemists in a way that suggests a more carefree and innocent past.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: Safin believes in creating a world where people can live without free of despotic threats like terrorists and warlords. If he has to exterminate most of the human race to do do, then so be it.
• Vader Breath: His respiration under his Noh mask in the prologue makes him even more sinister.
• Vague Age: We know Spectre killed his family as he was a child, and subsequently he killed Madeleine's mother as revenge. How much time passed between those events isn't clear - and even if Safin was a teenager, he's still much older than Madeleine, while Rami Malek and Léa Seydoux are only four years apart.
• Vagueness Is Coming: Everyone's in the dark about what his Evil Plan really is. We know that he is plotting a mass genocide, but it is never properly explained why he is doing this or who the targets are. This ties into Safin being an overall aversion of the usual Bond villain tropes — why would he explain everything about his Evil Plan to a man he plans to defeat, especially whilst they're still underway?
• Villain Killer: He has a reputation of hunting down and killing members of Spectre, the franchise's ultimate evil so secret that none of the world's government agencies (including MI6 and the CIA), not even Bond or Leiter themselves, have been able to shut them down after decades of trying. Safin wipes the entire group out, including Blofeld.
• Villain Opening Scene: The very first scene in the movie shows him murdering Madeleine's drunken mother.
• Villainous Crush: He brings up being in love with Madeleine as something he and Bond have in common. He even compliments her on being a beautiful psychotherapist. Though he spared Madeleine's life as a child and lets Mathilde go when he has no further use to her, the fact he threatened to kill them in the first place- even having a vial of Heracles meant for them as a last resort against Bond- makes his affection ring hollow.
• Villainous Rescue: When Bond is cornered by Spectre's remaining members in Cuba, he gets close to dying via the Heracles virus. However, Safin had previously repurposed it to kill the organization's goons as part of his revenge against Blofeld, essentially saving Bond's life in the process.
• Villain Respect: He genuinely respects Bond's talents and sense of honor, and considers him a kindred spirit due to their shared trauma at the hands of SPECTRE and Blofeld.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Safin is implied to be this. Given his targeting of Madeleine and her mother years ago just to get to Mr. White for killing his own family and his saying that he believes what he's doing is what's right for the world, Safin—given he also wipes out SPECTRE in its entirety and doesn't have a penchant for cruelty when he later has Madeleine and Mathilde hostage—seems to genuinely believe in his rhetoric and that the ends justify the means of how he'll achieve them.
• White Mask of Doom: He wears a Kabuki mask while killing Madeleine's mother. He later reveals his identity to her by giving her a box containing the same mask.
• Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: Safin does a variant of this to Bond in the finale, breaking a vial of Heracles against Bond's neck that's programmed to target Madeleine and Mathilde, then saying that he made him do it so they can both die of heartbreak.
• Wicked Cultured: A dangerous terrorist he may be, but Safin has a lot of knowledge of chemistry and poisonous plants due to his upbringing. He also displays some affinity for Japanese culture, given the outfits and interior designs of his base.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: While he was willing to kill millions and caused the death of James Bond, Safin's life was also irreparably destroyed by Blofeld for something he and his family had nothing to do with.
• Would Hit a Girl: He murdered Madeleine's mother in the past - an innocent, unarmed woman. Though he did spare Madeleine and Mathilde, he has a vial of Heracles meant for them and uses it on Bond - fully expecting them to die at his hands out of spite against Bond for ruining his plans. To say nothing of how many women would have been killed had he managed to spread the virus all over the world...
• Would Hurt a Child: Zigzagged. In the beginning he attempted to kill Madeline alongside her mother she when was a child in revenge for his family’s murder at her fathers hands but saved her when she fell in a frozen lake. He is more than willing to use James and Madeleine's daughter Mathilde, as a human shield. On the other hand, he is also willing to let her go when it's clear she serves no tactical purpose. However, he has no qualms in reprogramming several nanobots that would kill Mathilde as a final resort against Bond, plus his ultimate plan would have resulted in countless children being killed by the Heracles virus.
• Worthy Opponent: Considers Bond to be this, to the point that he'd rather sit down and have a polite discussion with him than simply kill him outright.
• You Killed My Father: Has a bitter grudge against Spectre for the death of his family.

Dr. Obruchev

Dr. Valdo Obruchev

"You know, I do not need laboratory to exterminate your entire race from the face of the Earth."

Played by: David Dencik

Dubbed by: Yohei Tadano (Japanese)

"One day I will put Ebola in your tea. And then I will watch as your faces sweat blood... and I will be laughing."

A Russian scientist who worked for MI6. He conceived the deadly nanomachines-based weapon known as "Heracles".

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• Asshole Victim: As the film progresses, it's clear he's willing to use his weapon on a larger scale. He even suggests programming the nanobots to target anyone of West African descent to Nomi, thereby "wiping them from the face of the Earth". This results in Nomi kicking him into a pool filled with the nanobots, killing him.
• Bald of Evil: Downplayed since he still has hair on the sides, but he's still a genocidal Mad Scientist who created a deadly virus for nefarious purposes.
• Big "NO!": The last thing he says as Nomi kicks him into the nanobot pool.
• Bullying a Dragon: He taunts Nomi's African heritage right in her face. What does she do? She kicks him into the nanobot-laced pool.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Boris Grishenko from the much earlier GoldenEye. Both are Russian scientists working for their films' respective Big Bads, are Politically Incorrect Villains, and are killed by the superweapons they were working on, albeit indirectly in Boris' case. Boris, however, is mostly treated as an annoyance who is only kept alive by Trevelyan because he needs Grishenko to complete his plans, and overall comes off as a Plucky Comic Relief character due to vastly overestimating his skills. Valdo, however, is a genuinely competent villain who willingly serves Safin and, based off the warning Safin gives Valdo about the incoming Spectre goons at the beginning of the film, it appears that Safin genuinely values Valdo as an asset, with Valdo in turn never doing anything to piss off Safin and repeatedly proving his competence throughout the film. Additionally, Boris is a Smug Snake who works for Trevelyan both to survive and to show off his genius, while Valdo clearly wants to see Heracles in action and is genuinely evil in his own right.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Being kicked into an acidic pool of nanobots is not a nice way to go. Not that the bastard didn't deserve it.
• Death by Racism: Nomi is trying to keep him alive as a prisoner while a gunfight is happening over a toxic pond, but is sorely tempted to put a bullet in his head because he is a hateful and murderous bastard. Obruchev crosses the line by stupidly threatening to wipe out her entire race, so she kicks him right into that toxic pool.
• Dirty Coward: A snivelling weasel who sides with anyone who can help and protect him.
• Disney Villain Death: Well sort of but, he meets his end solely from dissolving in that acidic water. Still, Nomi kicks him off a ledge, which causes him to fall approximately 30 feet down. Someone could argue that even if the the acid pool wasn't there, falling from a height like that and hitting the ground could still be fatal.
• Evil Genius: A scientific genius who put his major invention to nefarious uses.
• Faux Affably Evil: He sometimes comes across as a sheepish and dorky nerd, which contrasts with his destructive goals.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears glasses, but he's a Mad Scientist with genocidal thoughts.
• Hate Sink: Turns out he's in bed with Safin, hoping to use the nanites for nefarious purposes. He becomes even more loathsome when he taunts Nomi's African heritage and claims that he can reprogram the nanobots into wiping out her race right in front of her face. Nomi reacts by dumping him down the toxic nanobot pool.
• Herr Doktor: "Valdo" is a German name, it's possible that he's Russo-German.
• Jerkass: When he isn't geeking out over his own achievements, he instead treats others with a condescending contempt and is eventually revealed to be quite racist on top of that.
• Kidnapped Scientist: Subverted; he's kidnapped by Spectre agents, but warned about it in advance by Safin, and is far from the usual passive MacGuffin waiting for Bond to rescue him.
• Laughably Evil: Despite how evil he is, his cowardly demeanor and tendency to panic at the first sign of any danger can be amusing sometimes.
• Mad Scientist: It takes something to create the most unholy mix between The Plague and Nanomachines and being so giddy about it.
• More Despicable Minion: Unlike Safin, who claims to be a Well-Intentioned Extremist who wants to use Heracles to make the world a better place, and at least partially backs up this claim by using it to eradicate Spectre, it's clear that Obruchev's only interest in the weapon is the power it gives him to commit mass murder, and he even suggests to use Heracles to wipe out Nomi's entire race.
• Pet the Dog: Subverted, while at first it seemed like he did this when he used Heracles to kill the remaining agents of Spectre by extension saving James Bond, it quickly becomes clear his intentions were far from noble.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He taunted Nomi's African heritage and claiming that he can reprogram the nanobots into killing Africans worldwide. Nomi kicks him right over a nanobot-laced acidic pool.
• Pornstache: Sports a thick moustache that would make Tobias Fünke proud.
• Smug Snake: He outright threatens genocide of Nomi's race with the Heracles nanobots right in her face. Poor choice of words, Doctor.
• The Sociopath: He has no problem with wiping out millions to satisfy his scientific curiosity and takes great pleasure in seeing his nanobots in action.
• Suicidal Overconfidence: A scientist apparently smart enough to create an apocalyptic superweapon plague is still stupid enough to threaten genocide of the race of the woman holding him at gunpoint while standing over vats of his lethal said-superweapon. Enjoy your Death by Racism swim, Doctor.
• Too Dumb to Live: He suggests to program Heracles to kill entire ethnicities, African especially, in the presence of Nomi, who is of African heritage, despite A) Nomi being a secret agent proficient enough to have been given the 007 codename from James Bond himself ("00" indicates "licence to kill"), and B) Both of them standing over an Acid Pool. What else could go wrong?
• Very Punchable Man: He gets thrown around like a rag doll by both Bond and Nomi. Given that he's a genocidal Mad Scientist, he deserves every bit of it.

Primo / "Cyclops"

Primo / "Cyclops"

"No games."

Played by: Dali Benssalah

Dubbed by: Hiroki Yasumoto (Japanese)

"Blofeld sends his regards."

A one-eyed mercenary working for Spectre.

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• Cyborg: He has a bionic eye.
• Determinator: Seriously, this guy won't go down and keep coming.
• The Dragon: Becomes this to Safin following the deaths of Blofeld and the members of Spectre.
• Eye Scream: Madeleine throws hot tea in his good eye. Later, Bond kills him by using his EMP watch to blow up his bionic eye while it's still inside his head.
• Eye Spy: He has an electronic eye capable of recording and transmitting video. The same eye is used by Blofeld to watch a Spectre gathering in Cuba, through his own bionic eye.
• Handicapped Badass: As per his nickname, he's got an artificial eye and can go toe to toe with Bond.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: Switches from serving Spectre to Safin after the latter has every member of the former killed, but remains a villain throughout.
• The Heavy: Is the muscle for most of the movie big events. He kidnaps Obruchev from the lab in London, chase Bond through Matera, and sets unwillingly off the events in Santiago de Cuba. He must have been relieved that Safin was willing to take him in after he killed the whole Spectre leadership unknowingly. Then he confronts Bond in the bunker at the end.
• I Fight for the Strongest Side!: He starts out working for Spectre, but he doesn't seem to have any real loyalty to them. Safin doesn't include him in his list of targets when he eliminates Spectre, and later recruits him after he has Blofeld assassinated, while Primo has no problem working for the man who killed his old boss.
• In-Series Nickname: Bond nicknames him "Cyclops".
• Meaningful Name: Both his names reference him only having one eye.^note "Primo" being Italian for "first".
• Mook Carryover: Finds employment in Safin's group after the demise of Spectre.
• Named After the Injury: Bond nicknames Primo 'Cyclops' because of his artifical eye.
• Red Right Hand: As common of Bond villainous henchmen, he has one, a cybernetic eye implant in his case.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: When all of Spectre starts dying in Santiago de Cuba, he grabs his eye and leaves.

Logan Ash

Logan Ash

Played by: Billy Magnussen

Dubbed by: Daisuke Namikawa (Japanese)

"Logan Ash, State Department. It's really nice to meet you. I've heard a lot about you. I mean, I'm a huge fan."

A CIA agent who accompanies Felix Leiter to Jamaica to help convince Bond to find Obruchev.

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• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: His final moments are spent trying to appeal to Bond's humanity by asking for help while wounded, even calling him "brother". Unsurprisingly, Bond kills him.
• Ascended Fanboy: He's a huge fan of James Bond, having heard all of the stories Felix Leiter has told of their adventures together, and is very excited to get the chance to work with him. This doesn't stop him from betraying and trying to murder him.
• Asshole Victim: Considering he was directly responsible for Felix's death, it's hard to feel any sorry for him.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He looks and acts silly with his constant smiles to the point Bond nicknames him "Book of Mormon" but behind that facade, he's a dangerous traitor in league with Safin.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He appears to be a classic overeager rookie before turning out to be a double agent that works for Safin.
• Bond One-Liner: "I was such a big fan of his" after blowing a hole in the ship to sink Bond and Leiter. Presumably in reference to the trope namer Bond himself, as he describes himself as a huge fan when they're first introduced.
• Composite Character: Of CIA Agent Ed Killifer and SPECTRE Agent Red Grant; the former parts being a CIA agent who betrays Felix Leiter and with the excessively friendly demeanour and suspiciously polite speech patterns of the latter that allows Bond to instantly smell him as a rat.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: He betrays Felix and Bond and then offers to betray Safin to Bond for his life. The latter doesn't work.
• Dirty Coward: This sniveling prick has the gall to ask Bond for help when at risk of being crushed by a car, despite the fact he murdered Felix and tried to kill James as well. Bond drops the car on him instead.
• Evil Counterpart: To Paloma. Both come across as very charming in a nerdy kind of way and eager to work with Bond and are unskilled at deception. However, while Paloma's likable personality and respect for Bond are entirely sincere and her only attempts at lying are to downplay her immense skill in combat and Bond seems to genuinely like her, Ash's charm is a complete facade, his lack of skill at lying only show what a reprehensible traitor he is and Bond can barely stand him even before he's revealed as a traitor. And while Paloma proves herself to be an extremely brave and effective combatant and earns Bond's respect, Ash is a coward and an opportunist who pleads for mercy and offers to betray his secret employers when injured and trapped, only for Bond to brutally kill him in revenge for Felix instead.
• Faux Affably Evil: He's all smiles and overbearing charm when we first meet him, eagerly telling Bond how much he admires him, but it's just a bad attempt to cover for the backstabbing coward he really is.
• Hate Sink: Given his actions and his personality, it's actually far easier to hate this creep and root for his demise when compared to even the Big Bad, Safin.
• Hero Killer: Mortally wounds Felix Leiter before escaping with Obruchev.
• Spear Counterpart: He appears to be this to Paloma—an overeager rookie—before turning out to be a traitor.
• Villains Want Mercy: He cries uncle by appealing to Bond's mercy. It doesn't work.

Spectre

• Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Others

Madeleine's Mother

Mrs. Swann

"I'm thirsty, my angel."

Played by: Mathilde Bourbin

"Is that who you love? Murderers?"

The French ex-wife of Mr. White and the mother of Madeleine Swann. She was killed by Lyutsifer Safin in Norway in The '90s.

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• The Alcoholic: Her "medicine" is wine, probably to cope with the fact that her ex-husband is a killer working for a Nebulous Evil Organization and that her and her daughter's lives are endangered as a result (which is tragically demonstrated by Safin finding them and coming at them).
• Alcoholic Parent: She even asks her own daughter to bring her wine, and it's said daughter who cleans when she drops it on the floor.
• Death by Origin Story: Her death by Safin's hand is an important part of Madeleine's Dark and Troubled Past.
• In Vino Veritas: Probably under the effects of the alcohol, she reveals to her daughter that her father is not a doctor as she believed, rather a Professional Killer.
• No Name Given: Her name is never specified.
• Parental Neglect: For the duration of the few screentime she has, she seems to be a terrible parent, starting with being an alcoholic.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: She has about three minutes of screentime before Safin guns her down as revenge for his own family being killed by her husband who was working for Spectre at that time.

Mathilde (SPOILERS)

Mathilde Swann

"Mama. Do mosquitoes have friends?"

Played by: Lisa-Dorah Sonnet

"Madeleine... You have made... The most beautiful thing I have ever seen. She's perfect. Because she came from you."

— James Bond

James Bond and Madeleine Swann's young daughter.

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• Adaptation Expansion: While Bond fathering a child originates in the Ian Fleming novel You Only Live Twice, the plotline was never followed up due to Fleming's death. Here Bond's child is named Mathilde and serves as an integral part of the film's third act.
• Children Are Innocent: Mathilde is relatively unaffected by the chaos going on around her. Particularly highlighted when her parents are frantically driving her away from assassins who have come to kill or capture them all, and Mathilde is blissfully unaware of the danger while she ponders on a mosquito bite she's just received and asks her mother whether or not mosquitoes have friends. Even when she bites Safin's hand to get away from him, it's because she wants to find her lost stuffed animal.
• Child of Two Worlds: Mathilde, the daughter of French psychiatrist Madeleine Swann, herself the daughter of Quantum and Spectre agent Mr. White, and James Bond, English MI6 agent and Mr. White's former nemesis.
• Defiant Captive: She bites Safin's hand to get him to put her down, then calls his bluff by running away when he threatens her.
• Family Eye Resemblance: It's brought up more than once that Mathilde has Bond's blue eyes.
• Gender Flip: Raymond Benson follows up on Kissy's pregnancy decades later, but the child in question is a boy, whereas Mathilde is a girl.
• Hide Your Children: Major aversion. She's only the second child Bond has ever talked to in almost sixty years worth of movies, the first being a young Thai boy all the way back in The Man with the Golden Gun. And she's the third child to have any screentime at all in the series after said Thai boy and her own mother in the opening.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: She's a completely innocent child and has vibrant blue eyes inherited from her father.
• Little Miss Badass: She bites Safin to get away from him, then hides until Bond and Madeleine find her, doing exactly as we heard her mother instruct her earlier (though it helps that Safin lets her go without caring further).
• Man Bites Man: Near the end, she escapes from Safin's grip by biting his hand. Surprisingly, Safin doesn't care and allows her to run away if she wants to.
• Moment Killer: She hilariously interrupts Bond's Anguished Declaration of Love to Madeleine when they reunite after five years by suddenly appearing to his shock at the top of the stairs and very slowly rolling a slinky down them.
• Walking Spoiler: Her very existence is a huge spoiler.

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