History Characters / GoldenEye

* GoodIsOldFashioned: Mocks 007 for being "Her Majesty's loyal terrier," his status as TheCasanova, and adhering to old-fashioned espionage tactics. Of course, Bond makes a cutting NotSoDifferent remark of his own, stating that "mad little" Alec himself is stuck in the past, as part of his grudge against England involves settling an old score.

* NotSoDifferent: He chastises Bond for being England's "loyal terrier" who clings to outdated ideals, yet he ''himself'' is just as chained to the past than Bond is. As Bond later surmises, "mad little" Alec is trying to settle an old grudge against England.

* {{Tsundere}}: Type A. She only warms up to Bond after he saves her life, although this is with good reason; while clearly viewing him as something of a lecherous pig, she was clearly friends with Boris and shocked by his betrayal; she also has no idea who Bond is and what side he's on.

A computer programmer at Severnaya, she survives the massacre of her colleagues and the subsequent EMP attack on the facility. She then starts searching for the other survivor, Boris Grishenko, and meets Bond along the way. Possibly the craftiest Bond Girl in the entire film series, she is often shown thinking on her feet to stay ahead of the villains.

* FatalFlaw: His extreme anger.

** He gives Bond shit for supposedly being more loyal to the mission and to 'queen and country' than he was to Alec, his friend. This overlooks the fact Alec himself was a FalseFriend to James, and was more than happy to sell him out and watch him die if it meant he could get petty revenge and some money.

* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: He gets a bit unwelcome-touchy-and-kissy with Natalya when they're on his train. Her response is to give him a smack ([[InterplayOfSexAndViolence though he rather seems to like it]]).

* WhatMeasureIsAMook: He [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] this to Bond when he asks Bond "if [[TheAlcoholic all those]] [[TrademarkFavoriteFood vodka martinis]] silence the [[ShellShockedVeteran screams of all the men you've killed,]]" implying that Bond does actually feel guilt about killing {{mooks}}.

-->'''Xenia Onatopp:''' '''''BULIATCH!'''''

A Georgian former Soviet fighter pilot and ex-[[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre KGB]] operative, she is one of Trevelyan's more dangerous subordinates. She enjoys sexual pleasure from murder, whether from brutally gunning people down, or by crushing them to death between her MurderousThighs during sex. [[spoiler:She manages to meet her match in Bond, who bests her twice, the second time through shooting the pilot of her helicopter, which gets her crushed against a tree.]]

* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: Neither "Xenia" nor "Onatopp" are names from UsefulNotes/{{Georgia|Europe}}.

* SensualSlavs: The resident MsFanservice and a slavic woman.

* BeyondRedemption: When Trevelyan outs himself as Janus, Bond's reaction changed to shock and tried reasoning with him. Trevelyan even laces his BreakingSpeech to 007 with derision, mocking his outdated loyalties to England and whether he has any qualms killing people. Having realized what a monster his friend has become, Bond [[TranquilFury pays]] Trevelyan's treachery by ''deliberately'' dumping him down to his death, but not before making it clear ItsPersonal.

* AntiVillain: Trevelyan sets up his elaborate scheme in order to [[spoiler:get revenge against the British government for his parents' death.]]

%%* DiabolicalMastermind: A massively powerful criminal and renegade.

* GenreSavvy: On the other hand, he's quite unruffled when it turns out one of Xenia's victims survives just long enough to alert a nearby airbase. Being a general, he knows any scrambled [=MiGs=] from that base won't arrive in time to stop them.

** Subverted. He has another EyeTake when Bond tells him that Trevelyan is a Lienz Cossack, and therefore the child of a traitor. [[HypocriticalHumor It's interesting that this shakes Ouromov]], as he already knows Trevelyan is a traitor to a former employer, and had planned to kill one of his colleagues while enacting his exit strategy. Not to mention Ourumov himself being a heinous traitor to his own government, and party to the massacre of his own subordinates.

** Subverted. He has another EyeTake when Bond tells him that Trevelyan is a Lienz Cossack, and therefore the child of a traitor. [[HypocriticalHumor It's interesting that this shakes Ouromov]], as he already knows Trevelyan is a traitor to a former employer, and had planned to kill one of his colleagues while enacting his exit strategy.

* ClassicVillain: Alec is motivated by Greed and Wrath, as he plans to steal from the Bank of England by using the titular KillSat and plunge the world economy into chaos in revenge for the British government betraying his family, who were Lienz Cossacks sent back to Stalin. He also has some shades of Envy, as he [[TheResenter resents]] Bond for having the luxury of losing his parents to natural causes, while Trevelyan's own parents killed themselves out of survivor's guilt.

'''Boris''': Don't ever do that again!\\

* CharacterTic: Boris' habit of spinning pens and clicking them while he's working. This becomes a ChekhovsGun when he gets his hands on Bond's pen grenade, which has to be clicked three times to arm it, and has to be clicked another three times to disarm it.

* KillItWithIce: While he does survive the destrucion of Trevelyan's base, several liquid nitrogen tanks above him blow up and he gets bathed in it, becoming an ice statue when the gas clears.

* SmugSnake: This is his FatalFlaw, as he is not nearly as smart, charming or cunning as he thinks he is. This leads to his VillainousBreakdown when he realizes his former colleague Natalya had one-upped him by reprogramming the [=GoldenEye=] satellite to burn up in orbit AND changed the access codes to inhibit Boris's chance of correcting that program. It only gets worse when Bond sabotages the antenna to make it impossible to catch [=GoldenEye=] after he DOES break Natalya's code.

* SinisterSuffocation: Her favourite means of ending a victim, combined with cracking their ribs during sex; we see her carry this out three times during the film, with Bond her target twice. She enjoys 'every' second.

* CoolTrain: His missile train base.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Averted. While he considered [[WeCanRuleTogether asking Bond to join his scheme]], 006 knew that 007 will refuse and [[JustFollowingOrders prioritize the mission]] over his friends.

** Alec Trevelyan's motive for terrorism - his parents were sold out by the British government. Although Bond later suggests that Alec is merely using that as a thinly-veiled excuse to be a thief.

* MotiveRant: Gives one after Bond presses his BerserkButton by deriding his EvilPlan.
-->'''Bond''': Interesting setup, Alec. You break into the Bank of England via computer and then transfer the money electronically...just seconds before you set off the [=GoldenEye=], which erases any record of the transactions. Ingenious.
-->'''Trevelyan''': Thank you, James.
-->'''Bond''': But it still boils down to petty theft. [[RantInducingSlight In the end, you're just a bank robber. Nothing more than a common thief]]. ''([[DeathGlare Trevelyan glowers at him]])''
-->'''Trevelyan''': You ''always'' did have a small mind, James. It's not just erasing bank records, it's everything on every computer in Greater London. Tax records, stock market, credit ratings, land registries, criminal records. In 16 minutes and 43...oh, ''42'' seconds, the United Kingdom will re-enter the Stone Age!
-->'''Bond''': [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse A worldwide financial meltdown... and all so mad little Alec can settle a score with the world 50 years on.]]
* NeverMyFault: He holds part of his grudge at Bond for scarring his face, because Bond set the bombs planted in the chemical factory for three minutes instead of six. He omits the important detail that by the time Bond did that, he had faked his death, which is what made Bond shorten the timer. It's implied he was really hoping that Bond would keep the timer the same no matter what apparently happened, and that in his perspective, cutting the timer in half [[DisappointedInYou had confirmed his suspicions that Bond cares more about getting the job done]].

* NotSoDifferent: He chastises Bond for being "Her Majesty's loyal terrier" who clings to outdated ideals, yet he ''himself'' is just as chained to the past than Bond is. As Bond later surmises, "mad little" Alec is trying to settle an old grudge against England.
* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Played with, [[spoiler:Trevelyan survives the fall from the antenna, but it crushes him a minute later, killing him before the audience knows if the fall was fatal.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Hands out to Bond like candy, mocking him for his FatalFlaw for women, prioritizing his missions over his friends, and his so-called "loyalty" to England.

* ShadowArchetype: [[EvilCounterpart Despite sharing many of 007's qualities]], Trevelyan basically shows what Bond could easily become if he held on to old scores. 006 even points this out several times over the course of the film, [[FlawExploitation mocking]] Bond about his outdated values, womanizing nature, and his loyalty to duty over his friends. Having long sunk into bitterness, Alec's personality shows the dangers of being stuck with grudges, as he hates England for their (perceived) past transgressions.

-->We're both orphans, James. But where your parents had the luxury of dying in a climbing accident, mine survived the British betrayal and Stalin's execution squads... but my father couldn't let himself or my mother live with the shame of it. MI-6 figured I was too young to remember... and in one of life's little ironies, the son went to work for the government whose betrayal caused the father to kill himself and his wife.

'''Alec Trevelyan:''' ''[laughs]'' Hilarious question, particularly from you. Did you ever ask why? Why we toppled all those dictators? Undermined all those regimes? Only to come home. 'Good job. Well done. But, sorry, old boy, [[DudeWheresMyReward everything you risked your life and limb for has changed!]]'

-->'''Bond''': A worldwide financial meltdown... and all so mad little Alec can settle a score with the world 50 years on.
-->'''Trevelyan''': Oh please James, spare me the Freud! I might as well ask if all those vodka martinis silenced the screams of all the men you've killed... or if you find solace in the arms of those willing women, for all the dead ones you failed to protect.

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* AdaptationalSkimpiness: In the {{novelization}}, she's completely naked when Bond meets her in the steam room.