YMMV / Colonel Sun

• Complete Monster:
  • Colonel Sun Liang-tan himself is the most sadistic foe James Bond has ever come across. The most refined Torture Technician the People's Liberation Army has ever produced, Colonel Sun sees James Bond as his opportunity for a masterpiece of human suffering. In league with Nazi war criminal von Richter, Colonel Sun plans to bomb a conference being held in the Soviet Union—which itself will lead to a "considerable" loss of life—and plans to frame Great Britain for the deed with Bond's corpse and thus trigger World War III. In preparation, Sun plans to torture Bond to death. An avid follower of the Marquis de Sade, Sun plans to torture Bond to death over the course of days, hoping to achieve "superhuman awareness" through the intimacy of the atrocity. During the most sadistic torture sequence in the history of the franchise, Sun forces his own allies to watch and even makes one of his captive girls, Luisa, strip and sexually humiliate herself in front of Bond to taunt him with the female form he will never know again.
  • Hauptmann Ludwig von Richter is the right hand of Colonel Sun. A renegade Nazi war criminal, von Richter was responsible for numerous atrocities during the second World War. Invading villages, von Richter would gather civilians in buildings and set them on fire, with machine gunners ready to kill any who tried to escape. As Sun's associate, von Richter is in charge of the mortar attack on a Soviet conference, which he gloats will be a "considerable" massacre.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Colonel Sun talks at great length about how the West and Soviet Union's relationship will continue to thaw while the Red Chinese will only grow as a threat. As anyone with a knowledge of modern history will know, the opposite happened - the United States allied with China economically and continued to work against the Soviet Union until its fall in 1992.
• Nightmare Fuel: The infamous torture scene, which is described in far more graphic detail than Bond's previous outings. It was so dark that Spectre adapted much of it, including the creepy monologue preceding it.
• Values Dissonance: Colonel Sun is a Yellow Peril Inscrutable Oriental Dirty Communist who menaces our very Caucasian heroes.