History WMG / Spectre

[[spoiler: 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 has the iconic eyepatch over his scarred eye similar to the one Largo wears in Thunderball.]]

* Confirmed with ''No Time to Die'', where [[spoiler:a chain of events result in Bond and Madeleine going their separate ways for five years, along with that film also ending with Bond dying.]]

** [[spoiler:Semi-jossed. Blofeld appears in prison for about five minutes, but due to a series of events, he ends up dead by the end of it.]]

** [[spoiler: 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 ItsPersonal approaches to screwing with Bond, it also likely means that poor Dr. Swann is not long for this world.]]

** 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...

[[WMG: "Blofeld" is an inherited title, SPECTRE is a fraternity associated with the Blofeld "estate", and Oberhauser has usurped both.]]
This explains how Oberhauser retains his name while appearing to be in charge of SPECTRE, which Mr. White appears to be familiar with. SPECTRE might be a "cabal within a cabal" with influence even within Quantum, which explains Mr. White's warning to Bond that he's dealing with forces far beyond his control. Quantum's dissolution, spurred by Bond's work at Tosca and exemplified by Mr. White's reduced lot in life, seems to have only strengthened SPECTRE.

* 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 BigBad 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.

[[WMG: Bond's family was murdered by SPECTRE.]]
One (or both) of James Bond's parents was investigating SPECTRE and discovered something important, so they were murdered by the organisation. James was temporarily adopted by Oberhauser so he could learn more about the family's connection and what they'd learned.

Through his late family, James Bond is somehow connected to SPECTRE and to its current leader Oberhauser, who was (or is related to) James' foster parent not long after his real family's death. Perhaps his father was covertly the organisation's leader and Oberhauser took over after the senior Bond's death.

* [[spoiler: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). WordOfGod 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]]

What would the SPECTRE be without one?

[[WMG: The parts of the British Government that still want to shut down [=MI6=] are connected to SPECTRE]]

[[WMG: [[WeCanRuleTogether Someone at SPECTRE will ask Bond to join them]]]]

[[WMG: Bond's parents were in SPECTRE]]

With all the MythologyGags and the return of SPECTRE, and it would make perfect sense for Jaws to return. Mr.Hinx will have his teeth knocked out by Bond, and will receive steel dentures so that he can get some payback in the sequel.

[[WMG: QUANTUM is like a farm league to SPECTRE.]]

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.
* [[spoiler: 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.]]

[[spoiler: 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 has the iconic eyepatch over his scarred eye similar to the one Largo wears in Thunderball.]]

[[spoiler:Sure, his character is played by Moriarty and his actions are furthering SPECTRE's goals, but he's actually just an UnwittingPawn. He genuinely believes that what he's doing will serve the greater good. At worst he's a WellIntentionedExtremist.]]

** [[spoiler: 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 ItsPersonal approaches to screwing with Bond, it also likely means that poor Dr. Swann is not long for this world.]]

[[spoiler: SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome follows after the end of the film, Dr. Swann would eventually parts away with Bond for good because of the constant life on the run from SPECTRE. She then grew to despise Bond, secret agents and the espionage world in general for ruining her whole life, then later uses what she've learned from her father to become a ProfessionalKiller herself and also changing her name, both to protect herself from SPECTRE and create a new life. Unfortunately, she [[FaceHeelTurn grew to become merciless and began to cut deals with dangerous people herself]], [[ForegoneConclusion and we all knew how that ends when she crossed paths with Ethan Hunt.]]]]

[[WMG: Silva was doing work for [=SPECTRE =], and his work led to him being sold out.]]
* It would make more sense to me if he was doing [=SPECTRE=]'s work before he was sold out, since his plots during {{Film/Skyfall}} appeared to be his personal vendetta against M. It wasn't stated clearly in the film how he was connected to [=SPECTRE=].

* As of the film's end, [[spoiler: 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 [[spoiler: will be called out of retirement]] because [[spoiler: he's the only one Blofeld will talk to]]...resulting in an inevitable HannibalLecture.
** Meanwhile, SPECTRE is engaging in its latest evil plot, which is why [=MI6=] [[spoiler: is so desperate to get the info from Blofeld.]] Alas...[[spoiler: Blofeld's mind games will culminate in his inevitable escape.]]

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.

[[spoiler: RealityEnsues after the end of the film, Dr. Swann would eventually parts away with Bond for good because of the constant life on the run from SPECTRE. She then grew to despise Bond, secret agents and the espionage world in general for ruining her whole life, then later uses what she've learned from her father to become a ProfessionalKiller herself and also changing her name, both to protect herself from SPECTRE and create a new life. Unfortunately, she [[FaceHeelTurn grew to become merciless and began to cut deals with dangerous people herself]], [[ForegoneConclusion and we all knew how that ends when she crossed paths with Ethan Hunt.]]]]

Oberhauser is the son of Hannes, guardian to James in the previous film; but he is also James half brother from Hannes' affair with James' mother, and he beholds a grudge to James because they began their spy careers for an evil organization before James turning good and going to work with MI6, thus becoming his nemesis. Eventually he will be revealed to be Blofeld.

Bond clearly gave MI6 all the info they needed to start taking Quantum apart, but Silva's attack on M gave the organization's remaining lieutenants enough breathing space to shear off part of the group and go underground. Thus, Spectre is a MeaningfulRename: they're the ghost of an organization returned to haunt Bond.

[[WMG: The parts of the British Government that still want to shut down MI6 are connected to SPECTRE]]

Not only that, because White was a SPECTRE operative, the agents activated to retrieve him from MI6 custody were SPECTRE agents, not QUANTUM ones.

[[spoiler: The film ends with Bond seemingly leaving MI6 with Madeleine for a new future. [[Film/TheBourneIdentity Jason Bourne]], who partially helped inspire the direction of the Craig films, did that at the end of his first movie, and it didn't exactly last.]]

** He still seemed to recognize his colleagues in MI6, though, namely M, Q, Tanner and Moneypenny. Or maybe It's just selective memory loss?

* As of the film's end, [[spoiler: 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 [[spoiler: will be called out of retirement]] because [[spoiler: he's the only one Blofeld will talk to]]...resulting in an inevitable HannibalLecture.
** Meanwhile, SPECTRE is engaging in its latest evil plot, which is why MI6 [[spoiler: is so desperate to get the info from Blofeld.]] Alas...[[spoiler: Blofeld's mind games will culminate in his inevitable escape.]]

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.

I propose that, as in the novels, Hannes Oberhauser was a (remorseful?) former agent of the Nazis (or whatever more recent government or terror cell would work better as a SettingUpdate) who ended the war with a cache of NaziGold. Eventually, a corrupt British secret service agent got wind of this, and basically extorted Hannes into guiding him to it... then stole the gold and killed Hannes. Franz feels some guilt over being unable to prevent this, but projects it onto MI6, Britain, and by extension Bond for joining them; this makes him a reboot of Alec Trevelyan as much as Blofeld.