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- ...Oberhauser.
- Because Christoph Waltz ain't nobody's run-of-the-mill Bond villain.
- And his collarless jacket is a dead give away considering it resembles Blofeld's nehru jackets.
- Confirmed.
- ...Mr. White.
- It's so obvious and expected that people essentially WON'T expect it.
- Jossed with the power of a bullet through the base of the mouth.
- It's so obvious and expected that people essentially WON'T expect it.
- ...Denbigh.
- Andrew Scott's character isn't featured much at all in promotional material, maybe to hide his true colours?
- There has been speculation it is Scott, not Waltz, saying the line "You've come across me so many times yet you never saw me" in the 2nd trailer. If this is true, it's nigh-incontrovertible evidence that Denbigh is the film's Blofeld.
- Jossed with a fall from a great height.
- Andrew Scott's character isn't featured much at all in promotional material, maybe to hide his true colours?
- ...Bond.
- No one would expect it, so why not?
- ...someone of no apparent importance.
- Throughout the movie there will be a man present in various scenes, a Recurring Extra. He otherwise seems to have little involvement in the plot. At the end of the film he will be sitting at a desk, discuss on a telephone the events of the film, and ask if anyone learned who the REAL head of Spectre was. That's when a familiar cat jumps on his desk and he starts petting it...
- This theory can't see the forest for the trees, as that's almost exactly how it happens in the film.
- Throughout the movie there will be a man present in various scenes, a Recurring Extra. He otherwise seems to have little involvement in the plot. At the end of the film he will be sitting at a desk, discuss on a telephone the events of the film, and ask if anyone learned who the REAL head of Spectre was. That's when a familiar cat jumps on his desk and he starts petting it...
- ...Lucia Sciarra.
- A female Blofeld, and right under Bond's nose.
Blofeld being a Legacy Character would be a subtle nod at the spurious "Bond is a codename" theory, with not Bond but (the Comte de?) Blofeld being the inherited title, with Oberhauser merely being the latest holder of the position/title.
- Furthermore, Mr White will assume the title of Blofeld at the end of the film, after Oberhauser's death at Bond's hand, and become the Big Bad of future films and the classic Blofeld. White will probably help Bond in his battle with Spectre just so he can make this power play, and it'll set up Bond's particular hate-on for the villain.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Partly confirmed - Bond is Franz's adopted brother and names himself Blofeld; however they never worked together annd Franz murdered his father as James had far more love and attention. There's no explicit mention of an affair but Franz names himself Blofeld from his mother's bloodline so it's not completely improbable.
- Partly confirmed. Oberhauser/Blofeld implies that Green (and White) were working for him, but White's dialogue suggests that Spectre is Quantum after the leadership disruption in Quantum of Solace and after significant mission drift (notably, moving into human trafficking). Word of God says Quantum was indeed intended to replace Spectre, as TPTB didn't have the right to use Spectre's name. Ergo, Spectre would have shown up as early as the second Craig film had they had the rights, meaning that Spectre/Quantum is indeed "the author of all of James' pain
- Confirmed.
- It was a Turkish Angora not Persian.
- One way or another, confirmed.
- See lack of Blofeld's face in Thunderball
- Jossed.
- If they ever go down that route, it will have to wait, since Daniel Craig is stated to return for Bond 25.
- Jossed. The 00 section is essentially dead though.
- The latest trailer has Scott's Denbigh and M fighting over a pistol, this appears likely.
- Confirmed.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Eh, I see him more as an Oddjob kind of figure.
- Averted. He does however, sport metal fingernails on his thumbs in his opening scene, which he uses to great effect.
- Oberhauser caused the accident that killed his own father, not James parents.
Spectre uses Quantum for relatively minor stuff. It also makes for a nice bit of misdirection, should anyone familiar with Quantum be captured. White was their direct contact point, overseeing their Quantum interests. So White's "We have people everywhere" line was as much about Spectre as Quantum.
Not only that, because White was a Spectre operative, the agents activated to retrieve him from MI6 custody were Spectre agents, not Quantum ones.
- Partly averted. Oberhauser's dialogue implies that Quantum (or at least Quantum agents) worked for him, but Mr. White's dialogue implies that Quantum suffered mission drift and became Spectre. No farm league type element comes up.
As he mentioned in the trailers, he is the author of all of Bond's suffering. Fleming has broken down the Fourth Wall and is challenging Bond directly now rather than merely toying with his universe.
He'd turn out to be Craig's era's version of Emilio Largo or Number Two, and is essentially the real Blofeld's most trusted underling. Oberhauser, being very loyal, agreed to be his decoy, providing fake information to Bond (except maybe their shared background, which may or may not be real) to keep him off his boss's tail. And even if he got captured, Spectre is far from being eliminated. If he comes back for the next film, he would have the iconic eyepatch over his scarred eye similar to the one Largo wears in Thunderball.
He just fell off the train with a bunch of barrels around his neck and he's already survived being thrown through a windshield. Anyway, in Octopussy, Bond and a henchman survived being thrown off a train and they were much higher off the ground than Hinx was.
Thus extending the cuckoo motif. Hannes Oberhauser was sufficiently close to Bond's parents to receive guardianship of their son in the event of their death. So at the very least he must have been known to Monique. Bond was conceived earlier (perhaps during a sporting trip) and Oberhauser Sr.'s attention toward the boy was based at least in part in his own grief and sense of obligation. Either Franz knew and resented it, perhaps strengthening his affinity for his mother's side of the family, or he had no idea.
- Jossed as per No Time to Die; in fact, the narrative made it impossible to work, as Bond gets infected with a virus that will kill Blofeld and anyone related to him by blood, which (as Q states directly) would kill him outright if he really is Franz's blood brother.
Both of them are slightly-built, neatly-dressed, technologically-minded cat owners. Coincidence? Impossible. (Though this is at the very least improbable, though not impossible, depending on characters' ages vs. their actors'. Maybe Blofeld was a precocious teen.)
I just read an article about Spectre at EW dot com. The author suggests that the entire third act after Bond is tortured is a Dying Dream, just like Taxi Driver. Makes sense.
- Not to mention it ends with Bond leaving Blofeld alive, complete with his trademark scar. It's pretty clear that Blofeld's being set up as a recurring villain. He might have been captured, but even if their big super-surveilance program fell through, Spectre still has plenty of agents around and were riding pretty high even before it was supposed to go online. So, despite Bond's actions, they're probably still going fairly strong. Of course, given Blofeld's tendency towards It's Personal approaches to screwing with Bond, it also likely means that poor Dr. Swann is not long for this world.
- Confirmed with No Time to Die, where a chain of events results in Bond and Madeleine going their separate ways for five years, along with that film also ending with Bond dying.
- It would make more sense to me if he was doing Spectre's work before he was sold out, since his plots during Skyfall appeared to be his personal vendetta against M. It wasn't stated clearly in the film how he was connected to Spectre.
- She will end up falling in love with Bond and end up marrying him (or coming close to) and then Blofeld will go after them again in an attempt at revenge.
- Jossed, with a twist. Despite hints to the contrary (up to and including the usage of "we have all the time in the world"), she survives No Time to Die, although she lost Bond (for five years and then for good).
- He lied to Madeleine when she asked if he recognized her by her face, but from her voice and clothes, he remembered who she was.
- During the firefight, he paused to look at her, probably matching up her clothes with his memory of her and make sure it was her that he was protecting. Later when he's in the Vauxhall Cross building, Oberhauser placed photos of people that Bond knows he should know, but they just look like a bunch of strangers to him. What better way to taunt someone than by placing photos of his loved ones, but then him not being able to recognize them?
- He still seemed to recognize his colleagues in MI6, though, namely M, Q, Tanner and Moneypenny. Or maybe It's just selective memory loss?
- It's still plausible he waited for M to say something that indicated who he was, and so on and so forth.
- He still seemed to recognize his colleagues in MI6, though, namely M, Q, Tanner and Moneypenny. Or maybe It's just selective memory loss?
- Confirmed. Madeleine survives the events of the next film.
- As of the film's end, he is being held by MI6, who will almost certainly seek to get whatever info they can out of him, on Spectre. He's spend his time toying with them, of course, Hannibal-Lector-style. Bond will be called out of retirement because he's the only one Blofeld will talk to...resulting in an inevitable Hannibal Lecture.
- Meanwhile, Spectre is engaging in its latest evil plot, which is why MI6 is so desperate to get the info from Blofeld. Alas... Blofeld's mind games will culminate in his inevitable escape.
- Semi-jossed. Blofeld does appear in prison in No Time to Die... for about five minutes; due to a series of events, he ends up dead by the end of it.
- Jossed; No Time to Die's opening sequence shows the incident in full detail, and it's someone else (who happens to have a vendetta against Blofeld, in fact).
Scenario 2: Bond 26: After the funeral of Madeleine Swann, who was killed by a Spectre agent by the name of Irma Bunt, Bond proceeds to avenge his wife's death by tracking down Blofeld. Along the way, he meets a Japanese woman named Kissy Suzuki. He later learns his archnemesis resides in Japan inside a castle off the coastline, where the two have their final showdown. After an intense battle, Bond grabs Blofeld by the throat, but not before the villain impales the agent with a poisonous dagger, yet it wasn't enough to prevent Bond from strangling his enemy to death. Bond later succumbs to his wounds. Suzuki then rushes to Bond only for him to tell her it's too late for him. They share one final kiss as Bond dies in her arms and later dies next to his foster brother. Weeks after the final showdown between Blofeld and Bond, MI6 decides to use James Bond's name as an alias to any agent given the 007 title, honoring the memory of England's greatest secret agent.
- CONFIRMED only on Bond dying in the 25th film; he dies under an entirely different series of events, spanning five years.