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 NotSoDifferentRemark 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.

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

** Despite remembering how Q Branch operates, he still lets Boris to play with Bond's confiscated pen.

* HollywoodNerd: She's one gorgeous computer programmer.

* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: A meta case. [[spoiler:While she couldn't remote-command the second [=GoldenEye=] satellite to self-destruct or to cancel the countdown, she did command it to de-orbit and burn up in re-entry. She's only a second-level programmer that worked on the guidance system, and that is ''exactly'' what she sabotaged.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Yup. After her day from Hell, where she narrowly avoids being gunned down, killed by a KillSat, blown up by a missile, shot by Russian troops, kidnapped by Ouromov, and blown up by a bomb, she has quite a very sarcastic barbs about [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou everything trying to kill her and Bond.]]

The following bulleted items are agents of [=MI6=] who are described on other character pages:

* [[Characters/JamesBondM M]]
* [[Characters/JamesBondMoneypenny Moneypenny]]
* [[Characters/JamesBondQ Q]]

The following bulleted items are allies of Bond who are described on other character pages:
* [[Characters/JamesBondRecurringCharacters Jack Wade]]

The following bulleted items are miscellaneous characters who are described on other character pages:

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[[caption-width-right:300:''"This time, Mr. Bond, the pleasure will be all mine!"'']]

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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Why can't you just be a good boy and die?"'']]

* DyingSmirk: [[spoiler: Boris uses his catchphrase and smiles as he is frozen by nitrogen tanks.]]

* ArtisticLicenceMilitary: A few relatively subtle examples. The branch of the armed forces of the Russian Federation Ourumov is the nominal head is probably the Missile and Space Defence Troops (''Войска ракетно-космической обороны''), or PKO, formed by a merger of more clandestine services of the Soviet Military Air Forces inherited by Independent Russia--as such, all of its heads wore air force uniforms (unlike Ourumov, who very clearly wears army uniforms). More obviously, Ourumov is a proper colonel in 1986, but after the demotion from his failure at the hands of Bond and return to service ("rehabilitation" by no less than Mikhail Gorbachev), is a colonel general ("three-star general" in American parlance)--effectively a three-rank promotion, something you wouldn't see even for a successful career office in less than a decade, much less a formerly disgraced one. Publicity photos show him wearing a lieutenant general's uniform (with two stars on his rank insignia), suggesting this is a wardrobe issue as much as anything.

* PunnyName: ''Xenia Onatopp'', pronounce it out loud. Ironically, her first victim is killed while she's ''underneath'' them.

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: He claims a hatred for both Bond and his government based on their (perceived) past transgressions. But backstory and motivations aside, 007 claims that "mad little" Alec's excuse doesn't justify his crimes. It provokes Trevelyan to give a ShutUpKirk speech to Bond, [[VillainHasAPoint pointing out his weaknesses]].

* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Janus. Prior to Bond meeting him it's mentioned that he hasn't been seen by anyone outside of his syndicate. This keeps people from finding out that he's actually Alec Trevelyan.
* HiddenDisdainReveal: He and 007 were good friends and colleagues before 006's presumed death during a failed mission. But when it turns out that Alec is in fact alive and the villain of the film, his longstanding contempt for Bond is revealed in practically everything he says — his loyalty to England and [=MI6=], his womanizing (in particular, that it's partly a cover to hide his grief over [[TheLostLenore Tracy's]] death), and even his skills as an agent.

* RammingAlwaysWorks: Trevelyan attempts this when Bond parks his tank on the track that his train base is heading towards. Trevelyan orders the train to go to full speed to ram Bond. This does succeed in destroying the tank, but Bond fires the tank's main gun at the locomotive first, causing it to derail when it hits the tank. Xenia is, of course, entirely too excited by this turn of events.

* TheResenter: While he and Bond are both orphans, he hates the fact that 007's parents "had the luxury" of dying in a climbing accident while his own killed themselves out of SurvivorsGuilt.

* {{Revenge}}: Deconstructed. He seeks revenge against Britain for the betrayal of the Lienz Cossacks, who were executed by Stalin for supporting the Nazis. These events caused his parents kill themselves out of SurvivorsGuilt. However, Bond thinks Alec is only after the money, with his FreudianExcuse being a lousy cover for the theft, and that most of the people he plans to kill have nothing to do with it. Which does makes sense: 006 appears to have faithfully served England for years before faking his death.

* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: After outing himself as the villain, he holds a cynical belief of queen and country, and even asks Bond if he had any qualms killing people. In fact, he's held this grudge against England ever since he witnessed his parents kill themselves out of shame for surviving Stalin's death squads after the Lienz Cossacks were repatriated by the British at the end of WWII.

* DepravedBisexual: It's hinted pretty strongly that Xenia swings both ways when Trevelyan taunts Bond about how Natalya "tastes like strawberries" and Xenia moans and licks her lips, and all but spelled out explicitly when Natalya tries to attack her.

* EvilFormerFriend: [[spoiler:Bond even reflexively catches him before a fatal fall at one point, seemingly on sheer reflex because of their friendship. And then [[TranquilFury coldly drops him,]] but not before making it clear ItsPersonal.]]

* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Bond once considered Alec his best friend and comrade-in-arms, and even mourned his death. But when Trevelyan reveals that he not only survived the Arkhangelsk explosion, but is also the true villain, Bond's [[EtTuBrute reaction]] changes to anger and shock. Trevelyan even laces his {{Breaking Speech}}es to 007 [[HiddenDisdainReveal with derision]], pointing out his FatalFlaw for women, whether he has any qualms killing people, his loyalty to England, and even his skills as an agent. Near the end, Trevelyan even tries to kill Bond near the climax. Bond [[SaveTheVillain seemingly catches]] 006 before a fatal fall from the satellite antenna seemingly on sheer reflex because of their past friendship, but then [[TranquilFury pays]] Trevelyan's treachery back by ''deliberately'' dumping him down, but not before 007 makes it clear ItsPersonal.

* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The Dark to Natalya's Light. Not only is she [[CompleteMonster pure evil]], she's pure ''sexual'' evil, and gets off on AnythingThatMoves by shooting it until it ''can't'' move any longer.

-->'''Xenia Onatopp:''' '''''BULIATCH!'''''[[labelnote:Translation]]FUCK![[/labelnote]]

* FormerRegimePersonnel: According to Moneypenny, she was a fighter pilot for the Soviet Union back in the day. This is a HandWave as to how she's able to pilot the Tiger prototype. Well, sort of, since fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft are entire different beasts. The novelisation also hints at links to the KGB, which perhaps explains her fairly broad set of skils and her killing method.

* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The Dark to Natalya's Light. Not only is she pure evil, she's pure ''sexual'' evil, and gets off on AnythingThatMoves by shooting it until it ''can't'' move any longer.

* HighConcept: In-universe, Bond describes Trevelyan's plan as just "petty theft" and Trevelyan as a "common thief".

* SoreLoser: When Natalya one-ups him by deliberately changing the access codes so the [=GoldenEye=] will blow up in space, he demands that she give the codes to him. He even angrily [[ComputerEqualsMonitor shakes the computer monitor]] when Bond manually sabotages the antenna even after he cracked Natalya's code.

** He ridicules Bond on his outdated values, yet he himself is stuck in the past, as he's trying to settle an old score several decades on in his plan to get payback against England.

--> '''Alec''': For England, James? ''*Bond drops him off a giant satellite dish*''

* BerserkButton: Downplayed. While he didn't explode in anger, 006 certainly looked pissed off when Bond deconstructs his FreudianExcuse.

* ArtisticLicenceMilitary: A few subtle relatively subtle examples. The branch of the armed forces of the Russian Federation Ourumov is the nominal head is probably the Missile and Space Defence Troops (''Войска ракетно-космической обороны''), or PKO, formed by a merger of more clandestine services of the Soviet Military Air Forces inherited by Independent Russia--as such, all of its heads wore air force uniforms (unlike Ourumov, who very clearly wears army uniforms). More obviously, Ourumov is a proper colonel in 1986, but after the demotion from his failure at the hands of Bond and return to service ("rehabilitation" by no less than Mikhail Gorbachev), is a colonel general ("three-star general" in American parlance)--effectively a three-rank promotion, something you wouldn't see even for a successful career office in less than a decade, much less a formerly disgraced one. Publicity photos show him wearing a lieutenant general's uniform (with two stars on his rank insignia), suggesting this is a wardrobe issue as much as anything.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Natalya corrects Bond on pronouncing her name.
-->'''Bond:''' This is Natalya Simonova--
-->'''Natalya:''' Natalya Sim-''yon''-oh-va.
-->'''Bond:''' --[[BlatantLies Russian Minister of Transportation]].

* SoreLoser: When Natalya one-ups him by deliberately changing the access codes soe the [=GoldenEye=] satellite will burn up in space, he demands that she give it to him. He even violently shakes the computer monitor when Bond sabotages the antenna even after he cracked Natalya's code.