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-->See [[Characters/JamesBondFranzOberhauserErnstStavroBlofeld here]].
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[[folder:Max von Sydow]]
!!! '''Played by:''' Creator/MaxVonSydow
!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''
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->''"Now, for the future. SPECTRE's most audacious enterprise of any; next to which our previous ventures are inconsequential. Our esteemed Number One is in complete charge of the entire operation, which will henceforth be called: The Tears of Allah."''
The non-EON Blofeld, he appeared once in a remake of ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''. According to producers, he was personally hand-picked by Creator/SeanConnery to provide some "class" to the role, while maintaining a ColdHam personality. Sydow manages to give a personality to the character, despite a great deal of scenes [[DeletedScene being left on the cutting room floor]].
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[[folder:Max von Sydow]]
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!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''
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->''"Now, for the future. SPECTRE's most audacious enterprise of any; next to which our previous ventures are inconsequential. Our esteemed Number One is in complete charge of the entire operation, which will henceforth be called: The Tears of Allah."''
The non-EON Blofeld, he appeared once in a remake of ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''. According to producers, he was personally hand-picked by Creator/SeanConnery to provide some "class" to the role, while maintaining a ColdHam personality. Sydow manages to give a personality to the character, despite a great deal of scenes [[DeletedScene being left on the cutting room floor]].
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!!! '''Played by:''' Creator/MaxVonSydow
!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''
!!Franz Oberhauser / Ernst Stavro Blofeld
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The non-EON Blofeld, he appeared once in a remake of ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''. According
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/ChristophWaltz
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' | ''Film/NoTimeToDie''
->''"It was all me, James. It's always been me. The author of
Spectre[[note]](named without caps because it is no longer an acronym)[[/note]] and Blofeld have returned after a 44-year absence from the film franchise. Their involvement in the Creator/DanielCraig era is retroactively applied to all of his movies.
The [[CainAndAbel estranged foster brother]] of 007 and the leader of Spectre, he is bent on controlling global surveillance through the "Nine Eyes" programme, alongside a willingness to kill Bond for being
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* AdaptationalVillainy: He is the darkest incarnation of Blofeld so far, being more sadistic and petty than his previous incarnations, who were more along the lines of an icy-cold sociopath. This is shown by his deeds here being more in a DarkerAndEdgier direction compared to his previous incarnations, what with the {{Patricide}}, [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil human slavery]], ColdBloodedTorture, and BigBrotherIsWatching.
* AdaptationNameChange: In contrast to the original novels and the previous films, Blofeld's real name is revealed to be Franz Oberhauser. "Blofeld" is his mother's maiden name, which he uses after symbolically rejecting the name his father gave him.
* AdaptationOriginConnection: Bond and Blofeld are adoptive brothers in this continuity, which they were not before. This makes Bond's feud with his ArchEnemy far more personal, especially since Blofeld killed his own father in response to said adoption.
* AnalogyBackfire: Oberhauser's facility is housed within a crater formed by a meteor, and he had the meteor itself put on display. When Bond and Swann arrive, he launches into a speech about how the meteor had waited up in space, silently biding it's time, before becoming an unstoppable force that changed the face of the Earth. Bond shoots back that the meteor actually did stop, and right where they're standing, in fact. You can see the wind come out of Oberhauser's sails. That's not even counting how outside of the film, the analogy still doesn't really hold up — the meteor, other than being an inanimate object that can't "bide it's time", was in fact ''completely'' at the mercy of the forces (gravity from the sun, planets, and other astronomical bodies) around it.
* AntagonisticOffspring: The fact that his father favoured Bond over him was enough to make [[FreudianExcuse Oberhauser kill him]] and [[DisproportionateRetribution destroy Bond's life.]]
* TheAnticipator: Played for creepy effects with Oberhauser, who always seems to know when Bond will show up, even outfitting rooms in his SupervillainLair with personal photographs for his 'guests'.
* AnimalMotifs:
** Like his previous incarnations, he uses a black octopus as a symbol for Spectre and has a white, fluffy cat.
** He [[TermsOfEndangerment mockingly calls Bond a "cuckoo"]] because the latter was [[ParentalFavoritism favoured by Oberhauser's father]] when both were younger.
* AnimalMetaphor: A vindictive and petty man, he mockingly calls 007 a "cuckoo" for the [[TheResenter resentment]] he felt for Bond as a foster brother.
* ArchEnemy: Is this to Creator/DanielCraig's Bond, without a doubt. He holds an intense grudge against 007 because Oberhauser's father favuored an orphaned Bond over Franz, resulting in Oberhauser killing his own father out of jealousy and faking his own death before going on to create a NebulousEvilOrganization and [[TheChessmaster orchestrating]] many of [[GreaterScopeVillain Bond's tragedies since]] ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}''.
* ArcWelding: Blofeld claims that Spectre was behind the events of ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'', ''Film/{{Quantum|Of Solace}}'', and ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' (supposedly, as it's entirely possible he was just attempting to rattle James). This is a fairly unusual case, because the arc seems to have been unwelded just to weld it back together. Le Chiffre was clearly established as having worked for Quantum (and being killed for being unreliable) in the first two films, but references to those events in this film seem to imply that [=MI6=] thought they were independent villains. One of Mr. White's lines implies that Spectre is Quantum, just after mission drift and a strong change in plans (likely Bond disrupting its leadership), or that Quantum was Dominic Greene's own business (with Greene being a Spectre member nonetheless).
* ArtisticLicenceAnatomy: During the torture scenes, the descriptions of what drilling into specific parts of the brain will do are suspect at best. Higher brain functions like facial recognition are spread out over an area, so whether damaging such a tiny area would give the described result is already questionable. Furthermore, even the general area of the brain is all wrong. In the film this is said to be the result when the drill goes into something at the base of the neck. That area in the human brain controls basic functions like motor functions and autonomous muscles. Facial recognition has been mapped around the temple, which was ironically the ''previous'' location the drill went. Of course, all that talk might just have been to heighten the victim's horror, as the film itself seems to lampshade this as Bond has no problem recognizing people after his torture. However, this also brings the question of Bond somehow not being incapacitated by the procedure itself. Most people wouldn't be able to function for a while after having something drilled into their head, much less go into action.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:No one sheds tears when he dies due to the nanobots that Safin had Madeleine bring in the base, which she transmitted to Bond, who then unwittingly transmitted them to Blofeld, killing him.]]
* AxCrazy: A subdued and downplayed example due to how [[DissonantSerenity creepily]] calm he can be, but it's still there. He also expresses a murderous glee to torture Bond in the most horrific way possible.
* BigBad:
** He is this in ''Spectre'', due to his plot to gain control of all of the world's intelligence and surveillance systems through the Nine Eyes program in order to establish a new world order, all at the cost of making Bond's life so miserable out of spite and jealousy.
** It is also quite clear that he is this to the entire rebooted 007 series (''Casino Royale'', ''Quantum of Solace'', and ''Skyfall'') as he was the one who created Quantum as a figurehead to Spectre, and that other main villains (Le Chiffre, Greene, Mr. White, and Silva) were nothing but pawns who reported to him the entire time. Even his actions in ''No Time to Die'' are more than enough to cause Safin to go down a darker path.
* BigBadEnsemble: With Safin in ''No Time to Die''.
* BigBrotherBully: He and Bond were foster brothers, but Bond was highly favoured by Oberhauser's father. He proclaims to be behind all of Bond's miseries and [[DisproportionateRetribution wants to make his life even more miserable]] in any way possible, whether physically or psychologically. Even after he's imprisoned in ''No Time to Die'', he still refuses to stop tormenting Bond.
* BondVillainStupidity:
** First, when Oberhauser has Bond at his mercy in his secret base, he decided to go all EvilGloating and BreakTheBadass on both Bond and his girl, and then he'd get to killing Bond after the ColdBloodedTorture. This gave Bond time enough to bail out and make his escape with Madeleine. The second time (in the climax), he constructs an elaborate DeathTrap, giving Bond a SadisticChoice: escape now on your own (and [[DespairEventHorizon live with the guilt and shame]] of [[MyGreatestFailure not saving Madeleine in time for the rest of his life]]), or try to rescue her and die together. In the latter case, he was playing on Bond's feelings to get him to fall, but since he was more interested in tormenting Bond rather than killing him, this gave Bond plenty of time to find Madeleine and then escape.
** His henchmen aren't too bright either. While kidnapping Bond, they tie his hands in front of him, with plastic zip ties. Sure enough, Bond is able to grab one of their guns and shoot them both, then break free.
** In ''No Time To Die'', he gets Bond right where he wants him: at Blofeld's birthday party, surrounded by SPECTRE agents. However, rather than [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim just having someone shoot Bond]], he has a scientist who has developed a weapon that can be programmed to instantly kill a specific target kidnapped and forced to set said weapon to target Bond. This probably would have worked if not for the fact that said scientist was already working for another villain, who instead had him program the weapon to target the SPECTRE agents at the gathering. In other words, Blofeld's ComplexityAddiction not only caused his plan to kill Bond to fail, but also wiped out SPECTRE as a group.
* BrokenPedestal: Mr. White once regarded him as a comrade-in-arms. However, when SPECTRE began to expand into [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil sexual slavery]], [[EvenEvilHasStandards White reacts with disgust]], but this causes a major fallout to the point Oberhauser basically declares him a dead man walking and orders his death sometime between ''Quantum of Solace'' and ''Spectre''. Likewise, White could never look at Oberhauser the same way he used to and is forced into hiding.
* BullyingADragon:
** [[spoiler:Blofeld really thought that nearly murdering Safin and killing his entire family was just another day of fun sadistic activity for him to enjoy and that he will never get comeuppance for it because he sees himself as powerful and invincible, let's just say he was [[KarmicDeath ''DEAD'' wrong.]]]]
** In ''No Time to Die'', [[spoiler:he couldn't resist gloating about his scheme to wreck 007's life even from behind bars by trying to create a wedge between James and Madeleine's relationship]]. [[RageBreakingPoint Guess how Bond reacts to this?]]
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: In a sense. [[spoiler:Safin launches a successful scheme to kill Blofeld and dismantle Spectre to avenge his family, but Blofeld never mentions him or even seems aware that it could be one of his ''many'' victims coming after him and dies without ever knowing who was responsible.]]
* CainAndAbel: He is the Cain to Bond's Abel, as the latter was taken in by Oberhauser's father after he was orphaned. Also [[MirroredConfrontationShot played with when Bond and Oberhauser meet with a bulletproof glass pane between them in the climax]]. Oberhauser's reflection is projected almost perfectly over Bond's face, highlighting their visual similarities.
** [[spoiler:The roles are reversed in ''No Time To Die'' where Bond interrogates Blofeld in prison — after losing patience, Bond strangles him momentarily, but relents. In doing so, Bond unwittingly passes on the Heracles virus to Blofeld, which kills him instantly.]]
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: First named "Franz Oberhauser", he is revealed to be Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
* CardCarryingVillain: "Me. It was me, James. It's always been me. The author of all your pain."
* TheChessmaster: His plan is to take control of the world's intelligence services by getting an asset in position to propose and implement a global electronic surveillance system through instigating terrorist incidents. As a result, he even manages to put [=MI6=] and Bond briefly out of business and cause more long-term damage to them than his character's previous incarnations.
** Also proclaims to be behind Bond's miseries since ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}''. On another level, much of Oberhauser's claimed plans relied heavily on Bond joining the 00 program, suggesting he had a hand in that as well.
* ClassicVillain: Besides greed, wrath, and ambition, he comes with the additional vice of envy. In his youth, he committed {{patricide}} simply because he resented his father for adopting and adoring Bond over him.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Tortures Bond by drilling holes into various parts of his brain while explaining what effect this is having on him throughout. He takes it to a disturbing level as he's [[FauxAffablyEvil eerily calm]] while doing this. It doesn't actually faze Bond himself that much, because he's, well, 007, but it unnerves Madeleine, especially when he threatens to take away Bond's ability to recognize faces. [[ForTheEvulz He does it]] out of pure sadism and to get a sick kick at Bond's expense.
* ComplexityAddiction: He spends decades plotting to hurt James Bond through a barrage of very twisted individuals and treasonous infiltrators, and it shows its worst in ''No Time To Die'' where [[spoiler:his whole plan as the DiscOneFinalBoss was just to lead Bond to a party in Cuba where he would die of Hercules surrounded by the entirety of SPECTRE's high command laughing at him.]] Unfortunately, he did not expect [[spoiler:the developer of Hercules had been bribed by Safin to program it to kill SPECTRE agents only, leading to his organization being decapitated.]]
* CompositeCharacter: Although he is Blofeld, he has some similarities with [[Film/GoldenEye Alec Trevelyan]] (as in, he is a non-British associate of Bond who was presumed dead, and who later built himself up as the head of a terrorist organization). He is also this (in a roundabout way) to two characters from the books — [[Literature/OctopussyAndTheLivingDaylights Hannes Oberhauser and Major Smythe]] — being the son of the former, who was Bond's father figure, and like the latter is [[ItsPersonal the man who killed him]]. Finally, his monologue during the torture scene is almost a direct lift from that of the title character in ''Literature/ColonelSun''.
* {{Cyborg}}: By the time of ''No Time to Die'', he has a [[ElectronicEyes cybernetic eye]], which he uses to [[MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll run Spectre behind bars]].
* DarkIsEvil: Wears dark clothing and is a really nasty DiabolicalMastermind. He's also the darkest incarnation of Blofeld.
* DarkerAndEdgier: He lacks many of the cartoonish supervillain trappings of his predecessors, them being replaced by a totally sociopathic monster who relishes in sheer brutality, personal cruelty, and menace never seen before, combined with chillingly realistic crimes. Gone are the days of campiness. The new SPECTRE he heads-up is a properly cut-throat organization dabbling in human slavery, counterfeit pharmaceuticals, and utilizing a massive [[TheMole network of well-equipped agents]] to do its bidding from behind the scenes. What's even worse is that he even [[spoiler:managed to compromise British intelligence via [[TheMole an asset]] who would be able to hand them the crown jewels of the world's spy services on a silver platter, namely the collective intel gathered by all of them, information that they have the capability to act on and utilize regardless of who gets destroyed in the process.]]
** In a way, SPECTRE is this to Quantum. Depending on the interpretation (the film supports both), it's either the warped version of Quantum or its bosses. Either way, Quantum was into PragmaticVillainy, manipulating leaders and natural resources to secure profit and influence for its network. SPECTRE is explicitly involved with bombing cities, human trafficking and other more overt methods. Profit's still in mind, but in a messier, darker way.
* {{Determinator}}:
** He wants to humiliate 007 in any way possible, whether psychological or physical through elaborate revenge schemes and mind games. That's because [[ParentalFavoritism Bond was favoured more by Oberhauser's father]] when the two were younger.
** He's also willing to send goons worldwide to hunt down defectors such as Mr. White just for calling it quits.
* DiabolicalMastermind: Oberhauser seemingly masterminded Bond's miseries since ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'' and wants to screw around with his life in any way possible. He's also the head of a NebulousEvilOrganization and even his subordinates are [[TheDreaded clearly terrified]] of what [[BadBoss he could do]], with the Pale King/Mr. White being a good example.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: He should have known that sooner or later, one of his countless victims will definitely seek their revenge as he sometimes killed ForTheEvulz. [[spoiler:Just as he killed Safin's family via Mr. White, Safin returns the favor via another proxy -- 007]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: His motive for his vendetta on Bond and creating Spectre was because his father, who adopted James after the death of his parents, liked him more than his own son and forced him to act like a big brother, thus causing Oberhauser to murder his father and fake his own death before starting his criminal empire.
* DissonantSerenity: Eerily calm when torturing Bond and during the Spectre meeting he conducts.
* DomesticAbuse: [[spoiler:Of the more step-brothers variety, but he relentlessly commits psychological, emotional and physical abuse towards Bond, both directly and through SPECTRE's actions, all because his father favoured the latter over him. Even worse, making Bond miserable ''forever'' was what made him happy and wasn't willing to give it up no matter what, to the point it was like an addiction for him.]]
* TheDreaded: His subordinates are ''clearly'' terrified of him; even Mr. White warns Bond of the man's vindictiveness. Naturally, only very few can dare challenge him.
* DrivenByEnvy: The reason he hates Bond so much is that he thinks that Bond was favoured by his father over him. [[spoiler:It's implied he also murdered Safin's parents as they adored their son while his own father favored 007. Murdering Safin’s parents ultimately leads to Blofeld’s unlamented murder by Safin]].
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:In ''No Time To Die'', he gets poisoned by James, via a Safin plot and dies with very little fanfare.]]
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Using PsychologicalProjection, Blofeld claims that he and [[spoiler:Max Denbigh/C]] are visionaries, only for Bond to mockingly say that both of them are not "visionaries", but totally insane megalomaniacs. [[YoureInsane "Psychiatric wards are full of them."]]
** Following the FinalBattle, this is his reaction when Bond spares him despite being offered to FinishHim and their CainAndAbel relationship. 007 knows that murdering Blofeld in revenge [[VengeanceFeelsEmpty won't do much]] despite being capable of doing so and instead has him arrested.
* EvilCounterpart: Where [[Film/{{Skyfall}} Silva]] was Bond's, Oberhauser appears to be M's — the head of a secret organization, and an "older brother" figure to Bond instead of a surrogate mother. Ironically, Silva went after M while Oberhauser went after Bond.
** He also plays the NotSoDifferentRemark card with Bond. Also played with when the two have a MirroredConfrontationShot in the climax. Oberhauser's reflection is projected almost perfectly over Bond's face, highlighting their visual similarities. To drive the parallels home, Blofeld metaphorically serves as a warped reflection of 007, lacking all the qualities Bond has.
* EvilGenius: You try creating the most sophisticated and powerful criminal empire yet under the noses of the world's intelligence agencies entirely from scratch. For all his horribleness, there is no denying he is legitimately brilliant.
* EvilPlan: Oberhauser has been funding the Joint Intelligence Service program from behind the scenes while staging terrorist attacks around the world, creating a need for the Nine Eyes program. In return, [[spoiler:[[TheMole C]]]] will give Spectre unlimited access to intelligence gathered by Nine Eyes, allowing them to [[TheAnticipator anticipate]] and counter-act any investigation into their operations.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumour: He cruelly mocks Bond when he offers his SadisticChoice to 007 in the climax.
* EvilIsPetty: It's not just his motivations for antagonizing James that are petty, it's his machinations. One of his desires is to remove Bond's ability to recognize faces so he won't recognize Madeleine's. Blofeld's true motivation for what he does to James is because when his father began to treat [[LikeASonToMe James as a second son]], he immediately became jealous of the relationship 007 had with his father.
** [[spoiler:The rift between James and Madeleine in ''No Time To Die'' was his doing. 5 years of no speaking, a loving relationship ruined, a man never finding out about his daughter until she was in danger....because daddy gave James a bit more attention than Franz. Let that sink in.]]
** It's implied [[spoiler:he also murdered Safin's family out of the envy of seeing Safin being adored by his own family. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard This comes back to bite him when Safin indirectly causes Blofeld’s murder]].]]
* EvilLaugh: Downplayed. He briefly snickers after offering his SadisticChoice to 007.
* EvilWearsBlack: Wears a darker version of Blofeld's (and Dr. No's) Nehru jacket.
* EyeScream: Gets his trademark scar over his right eye after Madeleine throws Bond's explosive watch at him. Blood can be seen flying off his face as he falls. When the scar is seen later, it's clear that Blofeld can no longer see out of that eye. When 007 asks him about it, he simply shrugs as if nothing unusual happened.
* FatalFlaw: Pettiness. His obsessive need to see 007 suffer through elaborate means due to daddy issues proves to be a major problem.
** [[spoiler:This pettiness is ultimately the reason that he's killed in ''No Time To Die''. Madeleine is blackmailed by Safin into spraying herself with Hercules, a bunch of nano machines programmed to inflict lethal damage to a person who has the targeted DNA sequence, and ''only'' them, allowing for precise, indirect assassination. Madeleine ultimately can't go through with knowingly killing Blofeld, but James accidentally gets some of Hercules on his hands when he grabs her wrist as she's leaving. In the ensuring interrogation Blofeld's constant taunting of James, especially the reveal that he orchestrated the attack on James 5 years ago and intentionally framed Madeleine for it just to drive them apart, drives James to start strangling him and begging Blofeld to die. Though James regains his composure shortly afterwards, The Hercules has already done it's work and Blofeld quietly passes away whilst James is arguing with Bill Tanner over his conduct. Since there were severe visiting restrictions set over Blofeld, including separation distance, Blofeld ultimately has nobody but himself to blame for his demise, because he simply would not ''stop'' his constant [[KickTheDog torment]] of James even for a minute]].
* FakingTheDead: Faked his own death in an avalanche after killing his own father out of jealousy for [[ParentalFavoritism favouring an orphaned Bond over him]] when both were younger.
* FalseFlagOperation: Every nation mentioned to have suffered a terrorist incident in the time frame of the film is either a member of or fairly close to a member nation of the council that is voting on the Nine Eyes program. When South Africa vetoes the program, they suffer a terrorist incident that makes them reconsider their position within a matter of days. [[spoiler:This is because Blofeld wants the Nine Eyes system to go live as C is providing them with backdoor access.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: He is eerily calm and pleasant even when he berates and tortures Bond.
* {{Foil}}: To Safin in ''No Time to Die''. Safin uses PragmaticVillainy by averting the BondVillainStupidity flaw that previous Bond villains fell to via their EvilGloating. Furthermore, Safin [[spoiler:genuinely cared about his family and acts in revenge for their deaths, but Blofeld cared only for himself and killed his father for believing he was TheUnfavourite out of sheer jealousy and pettiness]]. Also, while Blofeld is a NonActionBigBad, Safin is more than capable of killing people physically. And while Blofeld was a central figure from Bond's past and devoted his life to making Bond suffer, Safin has no personal animosity towards Bond. Posthumously, Safin has succeeded in the one thing that Blofeld himself failed at: [[spoiler:killing James Bond]].
* ForcedToWatch: Oberhauser forces Madeleine to watch Bond tortured by a MindProbe and before that, shows her the recording of her father's conversation with Bond before shooting himself. Subverted in the latter case, as Bond manages to get her to look at him instead of the screen.
* ForTheEvulz: He made his life's mission to not only [[ItsAllAboutMe orchestrate total chaos]] just for his own benefit, but to wreck Bond's life to further punish him for being favoured more by his father.
** [[spoiler:In ''No Time To Die'', this is also possibly why he had [[BigBad Safin's]] family killed via Mr. White. It's possible he may have done that out of petty jealousy that Safin was adored by his own family while his parents adored Bond instead.]]
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: He's made his life's mission to screw Bond at every turn [[FreudianExcuse because]] his dad paid more attention to Bond than him when they were in their teens, causing him to commit {{patricide}} out of envy. However, it's negated by the fact that he did it out of pure malice and not because of something that drove him to snap. It doesn't change or is even unconnected to the many atrocities he committed all on his own as an adult. His repeated attempts to mock Bond for his past failures in the climax just because he felt neglected really shows how he is nothing more than an irredeemable monster.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Went from being the son of an Austrian ski instructor to the head of a terrifying criminal syndicate.
* GetItOverWith: At the climax, Blofeld tells Bond to kill him when both his plot is foiled and his attempted escape thwarted. Bond hesitates, [[NotWorthKilling but ultimately puts down his gun and lets Blofeld be arrested]], fully aware that stooping to Blofeld's level won't help anything.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: See RedRightHand. Following the destruction of his Moroccan lair, Oberhauser sports a raw version of Donald Pleasance's iconic facial scar.
* GracefulLoser: Subverted. Although he seemed to accept his capture with resignation at the end of ''Spectre'', that [[SoreLoser still didn't stop him]] from wrecking Bond's life even from behind bars in ''No Time To Die''. [[spoiler:This pettiness is what ultimately kills him for good]].
* GreaterScopeVillain: He proclaims to be behind Bond's troubles, and wants to toy around with it in any way possible. All of Bond's enemies ([[spoiler:C/Max Denbigh]], The Pale King/[[spoiler:Mr. White]], Raoul Silva, Dominic Greene and Le Chiffre) were working for him; not only this, he EVEN claims to have orchestrated the deaths of [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 Vesper]] and [[Film/{{Skyfall}} M]].
** This continues into ''No Time To Die'' when it's revealed he [[spoiler:arranged for the murder of [[BigBad Safin]]'s family, and is thus indirectly responsible for Safin's actions in the film, including his own death and that of Bond.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: He became envious of the attention 007 received from his father, causing him to commit {{Patricide}}.
** In ''No Time to Die'', [[spoiler:it's implied the reason why he had Safin's parents murdered was that he felt envious that Safin was adored by his own family while his parents adored Bond instead]].
* HannibalLecture: Gives a harsh one to Bond when they meet in the Saharan facility, where [[CardCarryingVillain he talks about being "the author of 007's pain"]]. His ReasonYouSuckSpeech against Bond in the climax also counts as well.
* HiddenVillain: Claims to be responsible for Bond's miseries since ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'', and even says it word-for-word.
* HijackedByGanon: Blofeld was TheManBehindTheMan for [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 Le Chiffre, Mr. White]], [[Film/{{Quantum|Of Solace}} Dominic Greene]] and [[Film/{{Skyfall}} Raoul Silva]]. Interestingly, this is James Bond's first time facing Spectre in this timeline, making it only a meta-example.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In spades. [[spoiler:He tries to use a poison engineered specifically to kill Bond. But Safin, whose family Blofeld had murdered decades prior, interferes and adjusts it to target Blofeld and Spectre. The poison gets on Bond, who later chokes Blofeld, who couldn't resist revealing how he drove Bond and Madeline apart, causing the poison to kill Blofeld almost instantly. In short, Blofeld was killed with own weapon through a scheme he orchestrated, and largely due to him revealing he simply couldn't resist hurting Bond and taunting him. The poison also ends up destroying his own organization to boot, and all by someone who he set on the path to villainy decades earlier.]]
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Oberhauser's entire plan was ultimately to force this trope on Bond via a TraumaCongaLine. Instead, Bond turns things around by wrecking his primary base of operations, depriving him of his resources and network, leaving him battered and at the mercy of the British government, then refuses to kill him, instead letting him get a view of Bond and Madeleine having [[EarnYourHappyEnding earned their happy ending]]. [[spoiler:It didn't stop this madman from wrecking his foster brother's life even from jail, as shown in ''No Time To Die'']].
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: He developed an IrrationalHatred of 007 just because his father paid more attention to Bond than him when they were in their teens. DrivenByEnvy, he commits {{Patricide}} out of a selfish desire to get more affection than his foster brother.
* InterfaceSpoiler: For ''Spectre'', if you decide to watch it for the first time in Blu-Ray, you had better not activate the English subtitles, because they will refer to Oberhauser as Blofeld as early as his very first scene.
* IrrationalHatred: Oberhauser despises 007 just for being favoured more by his father when both were in their teens. Bond even chews him out for committing {{Patricide}} for this minor reason.
* IronicEcho: To Mr. White's "we have people everywhere" taunt. Oberhauser does it to the extent that it has forced Mr. White into laying low.
* {{Irony}}: In the classic sense. Bond assumed Blofeld is dead after the SPECTRE base explodes, [[FreezeFrameBonus but viewers saw cars fleeing the explosion]] as Bond flew away in the opposite direction.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He murdered his own father out of a selfish desire to get more affection than his foster brother. As an adult, he's even worse, orchestrating massive amounts of wanton violence for his own benefit and inflicting horrible pain on Bond just for being favoured by Oberhauser's father.
* ItsPersonal: When he and Bond finally meet face-to-face, it's quite clear that despite his composure, he really wants Bond dead due to their CainAndAbel situation.
* {{Jerkass}}: It takes a special kind of an asshole to be a BigBrotherBully towards their step-brother as [[ParentalFavoritism said asshole's father favoured Bond over him]]. He even committed {{Patricide}} just because his father favoured his his foster brother.
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Oberhauser sends a vintage luxury car to pick up Bond and Madeleine, gives them exquisite quarters in his lodgings, and serves them drinks. He then reveals that Spectre has been funding the "Joint Intelligence Service" program from behind the scenes while staging terrorist attacks around the world, creating a need for the "Nine Eyes" surveillance system. In return, [[spoiler:C]] will give Spectre unlimited access to intelligence gathered by Nine Eyes, allowing them to [[TheAnticipator anticipate]] and counter-act any investigation into their operations. Oberhauser later reveals that [[TheChessmaster he is the one responsible]] for many of Bond's tragedies.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He had Safin's family killed and his henchman (Mr. White) used a poisonous agent to do it. Safin has Blofeld and his organization killed with poison in return.]]
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* KnightOfCerebus: With Blofeld not only being revealed as the mastermind behind everything since ''Casino Royale'', but also Bond's adopted brother who killed his own father out of jealousy for the time he spent with Bond, drills holes into Bond's head as torture and forces him into a SadisticChoice in which Bond has to save Madeleine from the former [=MI6=] building in three minutes before the demolition explosives go off. Disturbingly enough, [[AdaptationalVillainy he is the darkest version of Blofeld]], as he is far more ruthless than his previous incarnations. As far as SPECTRE is concerned, the rebooted version is more of a CovertGroup lacking the cartoonish supervillain trappings its previous version had, instead focusing in chillingly realistic crimes such as slavery, terrorism, regime change, and utilizing a massive [[TheMole network of well-equipped agents]] to do its bidding from behind the scenes. Arguably, this version of Blofeld is one of the darkest villains in the Bond franchise, as his brutality rivals that of Zorin or Onatopp.
* LackOfEmpathy: Oberhauser didn't show any remorse even when he spitefully killed his own father nor does he during any of his other vile deeds.
* LeanAndMean: While he's quite skinny, he is actually quite the petty sadist who created SPECTRE just to wreck his foster brother's life.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Oberhauser's "It's been a long time. And finally, here we are." is as much about SPECTRE returning to the Bond franchise as 007 and Oberhauser/Blofeld being reunited.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: If we're going by the newspaper article about his father's death, it's shown that Hannes was a NiceGuy towards his neighbors and son, and a stark contrast to Franz, who later became a psychopath.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: In the climax, when Bond asks him about the horrid facial scar he received courtesy of his explosive exit in the Saharan base, Blofeld shrugs it off as if nothing unusual happened.
* MeaningfulRename: He renames himself Blofeld after murdering his own father out of pure envy, despite using his professional name.
* MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll: While he's locked in Belmarsh Prison as of ''No Time to Die'', he still runs Spectre from there, communicating with them via his {{electronic eye|s}}.
* MirroredConfrontationShot: [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/jamesbond/images/3/3c/Spectre_-_007_and_scarred_Blofeld.png/revision/latest?cb=20160307142424 A literal example]] of this occurs in the final showdown between him and 007, showing their facial similarities. Being an EvilCounterpart and ShadowArchetype of 007, it shows.
* MotiveRant: Gives one of these when torturing Bond. It culminates in him reintroducing himself to Bond as [[CanonCharacterAllAlong Ernst Stavro Blofeld]].
-->'''Oberhauser:''' You know what happens when a cuckoo hatches inside another bird's nest?\\
'''Madeleine Swann:''' Yes — it forces the other eggs out.\\
'''Oberhauser:''' Yes. ''[pointing to 007]'' Well, this "cuckoo" made me realize my father's life had to end. In a way, he's responsible for the path I took. ''[turns to Bond]'' So thank you, ''cuckoo''!\\
'''Bond:''' Do you know any other bird calls, Franz? ''[sarcastically chuckles; Blofeld's cat jumps up on his lap]'' Hello, pussy.\\
'''Oberhauser:''' [[ThatManIsDead Franz Oberhauser died twenty years ago]], James, in an avalanche alongside his father. [[WhamLine The man you're talking to now, the man inside your head...]] ''[[CanonCharacterAllAlong is]]'' [[HijackedByGanon Ernst Stavro Blofeld.]] ''[strokes his cat]''
* MythologyGag:
** He is introduced in a similar manner to how he was back during the Sean Connery films, with his face heavily obscured. The SPECTRE meeting runs a little bit deadly for one of its members, just as it did in ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' and ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', the other members are discussing the death of one of their own and the plots being carried out worldwide, and Oberhauser/Blofeld's face not shown.
** He at one point wears a darker version of Blofeld's (and Dr. No's) Nehru jacket, just as he did in ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''. He gets the trademark scar Donald Pleasence's version had, courtesy of Bond's exploding watch, and his SupervillainLair in Morocco is based in a geological crater like the one in YOLT.
* NearVillainVictory: In ''Spectre'', if it weren't for Bond realizing that [[spoiler:[[TheMole C was working for Blofeld]] and relaying this info to M, C would've managed to get the Nine Eyes program implemented]] and Blofeld would have succeeded in taking over all of the world's intelligence systems and further humiliating 007.
** In ''No Time To Die'', Blofeld kidnapped the scientist Obruchev in hopes of using his nanobots program as a means of trapping and murdering Bond at a SPECTRE party in Cuba, free himself from custody, and take over the world. Though he succeeded in trapping Bond at the party, Blofeld never anticipated the fact that Obruchev was actually working for Safin, and that on Safin's orders, Obruchev secretly reprogrammed the nanobots to murder all of the SPECTRE members.
* NeverMyFault: Blames Bond for creating a wedge between him and his father, and the path he chose, when in reality, he himself is responsible for the choices he made.
* [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Nice Job Fixing it, Franz]]: Good job, Blofeld. Pinning Bond's arms behind him on the torture chair gives him the opportunity to rig the explosive alarm on his watch, which he then hands it to Madeline for her to toss at you.
* NomDeMom: "Blofeld" is revealed to be his mother's maiden name.
* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Oberhauser sends a vintage luxury car to pick up Bond and Madeleine, gives them exquisite quarters in his lodgings, and serves them drinks. He's still planning to torture and kill them, as it's a FauxAffablyEvil approach to a mind game, mainly because of his ItsPersonal relationship with Bond.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Bond takes this view of Oberhauser. He refers to him as the "recently deceased leader of Spectre" when talking to M, after the attack on the Morocco base.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: He plays this card with 007.
** Later on, he attempts to goad Bond into killing him when he's cornered, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood wrongly assuming]] it'll make him cross the HeWhoFightsMonsters line, but Bond refuses and has him arrested instead, not wanting to sink to his level.
* ObfuscatingInsanity: While being held captive by [=MI6=] for several years, he hoodwinked everyone into believing he was an insane nutjob rambling to himself, when in reality he was giving orders to Spectre through his bionic eye.
* OhCrap: Blofeld himself when he realizes his helicopter is about to crash near Westminster. It's the only time in ''Spectre'' when his [[VillainousBreakdown calm and collected demeanour slips]].
* {{Patricide}}: He killed his own father out of [[TheResenter resentment]] and [[DrivenByEnvy jealousy]] for favouring Bond over him.
* PersonalEffectsReveal: The reveal about the CainAndAbel relationship between Bond and Oberhauser is foreshadowed by a mysterious photo recovered from the ruins of [[Film/{{Skyfall}} Skyfall]] (Bond's ancestral home), along with a legal order giving a man named "Oberhauser" temporary custody of 12-year-old James.
* PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: He's a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] SoftSpokenSadist compared to Bond, who's more of a {{Revenge}}-seeking KnightInSourArmor.
* PsychopathicManchild: Type C. Despite being a very powerful crime lord, he acts as an immature BigBrotherBully towards Bond when they're reacquainted. [[FreudianExcuse His villainy]] came from Bond supposedly receiving more endearment as his foster brother, something which he still hasn't outgrown from.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives Bond a very harsh one in the climax of ''Spectre'', considering how he was behind all of Bond's miseries since they were in their teens. It nearly causes Bond to cross the DespairEventHorizon, but he gets better.
* RedRightHand:
** Following the destruction of his Moroccan lair, he sports a raw version of Donald Pleasance's iconic facial scar and disfigured face, and is also partially blind as well.
** He has a pretty unsettling empty eye socket as of ''No Time To Die'' when Bond visits him in his prison.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In a huge break from the original canon, he is Bond's older but estranged foster brother.
* TheResenter: The fact that his father loved Bond was enough to make Oberhauser kill him and destroy Bond's life.
* RightHandCat: Just as Blofeld has returned in the films, so has his fluffy white cat.
* RuleOfSymbolism: Several here.
** In his SupervillainLair, when he and Bond talk about the meteorite hitting Earth, they’re really talking about the relationship between the two.
** The CutSong "Spectre" by Radiohead, TheTeaser, and the ArcWords of the film ("The dead are alive") all use the motif of ghosts. Like a specter, Blofeld haunted Bond by orchestrating the numerous tragedies 007 faced over the years. He also cultivates the [[MeaningfulName image of phantoms]] as a way to tilt events to his favour from behind the scenes through his henchmen like his predecessors.
** He mockingly calls Bond a "cuckoo in the nest" for disrupting the happiness of Oberhauser's family life, causing Franz to kill his own father out of resentment.
** Bond finds a photo that features him as a boy with his long-deceased mentor and another boy, [[PlotBasedPhotographObfuscation but the 2nd boy's face is not shown as part of the photo has been charred.]] This not only foreshadows his CainAndAbel relationship with Blofeld, but also the damage to Blofeld's face when the watch blows up. A full copy of the original photo is later seen at Blofeld's base.
* {{Sadist}}: Disturbingly enough, he is the darkest incarnation of Blofeld. He's already given enough abuse on his foster brother, and the fact that he does ColdBloodedTorture on 007 really shows [[KnightOfCerebus his intensely malicious nature.]] While doing this, he remains [[DissonantSerenity eerily calm]] and [[FauxAffablyEvil soft]], trying to weaken 007's morale in any way possible. To twist the knife even further, he even rubs Bond's past failures in his face several times.
** [[spoiler:This gets worse, when it's revealed in ''No Time To Die'' that he was the one to have [[BigBad Safin's]] family killed, implied to be merely to fulfil his sadism out of sheer boredom, implying that ruining lives of innocents is like a favourite hobby for him.]]
* SadisticChoice: After activating a 3-minute time bomb in the climax, he gives Bond the choice of either saving Madeleine and risk dying from the explosion, or saving himself but [[DespairEventHorizon living with the despair]] and [[MyGreatestFailure guilt of not saving Madeleine in time for the rest of his life]]. But Bond being Bond, he TookAThirdOption by not only saving Madeleine in time, but also giving chase to Blofeld on a speedboat he saw earlier. This is just another effort by Blofeld to humiliate 007 mentally.
* SatanicArchetype: This version of Blofeld has shades of this. Just as Satan rebelled against God out of pride, leads an army of demons, and is actively dedicated to oppose God at all costs, Blofeld killed his own father out of pure envy, leads an army of mooks to manipulate events, and wants to spite Bond in any way, be it psychological or physical. He also doesn't see anything wrong in hurting countless innocents in a bid to gain more power or relishing in sadistic torture. Even his lairs in Rome and Morocco are dimly lit to show the true evil in SPECTRE, and obviously have hellish connotations to them as well.
* SequelAdaptationIconicVillain: He's James Bond's ArchEnemy and most well-known villain in both the books and original film series, yet he doesn't show up until the fourth installment in the reboot series.
* ShutUpHannibal: When Oberhauser claims that he and [[spoiler:C]] are "visionaries," Bond sarcastically retorts that they're not visionaries, but totally insane nutjobs.
** Later on, when he subjects Bond to ColdBloodedTorture and gives his MotiveRant, 007 simply tells him to GetItOverWith and has Madeleine toss his explosive watch at Blofeld.
* SkewedPriorities: [[spoiler:After all the members of SPECTRE are killed by the Heracles virus (orchestrated by Safin), Blofeld doesn't care who did it and is more concerned about torturing Bond even more for his own amusement.]]
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: SPECTRE dabbles in slavery. During the meeting, the only presentation that the audience gets to hear in full is a progress report about the success of their SexSlave operations and the ''160,000'' women they have placed so far. Their crimes against humanity is what not only repulsed Bond, [[spoiler:[[EvenEvilHasStandards it also forced Mr. White to quit SPECTRE]].]]
* SlasherSmile: Gives a particularly sadistic PsychoticSmirk when he tortures Bond, and later on, when he offers his SadisticChoice.
* SmugSnake: Doesn't hold Bond in high regards and goes to great lengths to make his life miserable in any way. It costs him dearly, first by losing an eye and scarring his face, and in the chase scene during the climax, fracturing his leg in a helicopter crash.
* TheSocialDarwinist: His [[AnimalMetaphor "cuckoo"]] speech to Madeleine has shades of this, telling how a cuckoo pushes the eggs of other birds out of a nest.
* TheSociopath: Obviously, [[AdaptationalJerkass but he's]] far more evil than his previous versions. He committed {{patricide}} out of pure malice, [[DisproportionateRetribution and wrecked havoc]] on Bond's life since ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' due to his IrrationalHatred, yet he blames 007 for creating a wedge between him and his father (when it was the other way around). But still, he remains [[DissonantSerenity surprisingly but disturbingly calm]] throughout this. This petty obsession to destroy 007 via elaborate mind-games just for being favoured more by his father, combined with running a NebulousEvilOrganization bent on condemning millions to chaos for his own {{Greed}}, shows how he is a textbook psychopathic monster, totally rotten to the core with no empathy for those who get in his way.
* SoftSpokenSadist: As befits [[Creator/ChristophWaltz his actor]] as well as his previous incarnations.
* TheSpymaster: He effectively is an evil version. Blofeld is running assets such as [[spoiler:"C"]] who attempts to help him take control over the intel gathered by the world's intelligence services by implementing a electronic surveillance system that Spectre can access 24/7. With this, Spectre could use it to counteract any investigation into their operations, and they intend to do so via a series of [[FalseFlagOperation false flag terrorist attacks]].
* TheStoic: He has an [[FauxAffablyEvil eerily and disturbingly calm and collected]] demeanour, whether it's torturing his enemies or hosting the Spectre meetings he conducts.
* StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred: After the climatic FinalBattle, he [[GetItOverWith attempts to invoke]] this in an attempt to break 007's morale. But Bond, not wanting to sink to Blofeld's level, simply states [[NotWorthKilling that he's "out of bullets" and tosses his gun away]] so Blofeld can be taken into custody, leaving him [[EvilCannotComprehendGood confused]] at 007's rationale to spare him despite their CainAndAbel relationship.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: The newspaper article about Hannes Oberhauser's death shows Blofeld sharing some of his dad's facial features.
* SupervillainLair: He has two:
** The SPECTRE meeting he hosts in Rome is inside a palace. It's very similar to the one in ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'', with SPECTRE's bigwigs [[CorruptCorporateExecutive describing the profit they're getting from their global illicit operations]], one of their members getting killed for insubordination, [[CovertGroupWithMundaneFront the meeting being held in a prestigious location]], [[HiddenVillain and Blofeld hiding in the shadows]].
** His base in the Saharan desert is a high-tech satellite relay station and server farm that also has an observatory and high-end guest quarters. It's also built inside a crater, reminiscent of the volcano lair in YOLT.
* ThatManIsDead: Oberhauser still uses his birth name professionally despite having faked his death many years earlier, but he considers that man to have actually died. He truly identifies himself as "Ernst Stavro Blofeld".
-->'''Oberhauser:''' Franz Oberhauser died twenty years ago, in an avalanche together with his father. The man you're talking to now, the man inside your head... is Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
* TermsOfEndangerment: He frequently calls Bond a "cuckoo" because the latter was [[ParentalFavoritism favoured by Oberhauser's father]] when they were younger.
* ToThePain: He tortures Bond by drilling holes into various parts of his brain while explaining what effect this is having on him throughout. It doesn't actually faze Bond himself that much, but it greatly disturbs Madeleine, especially when he threatens to take away Bond's ability to recognize faces.
* TortureTechnician: Tortures Bond by [[StrappedToAnOperatingTable strapping him to a high-tech version of a dentist chair]] and drilling holes into various parts of his brain while explaining what effect this is having on him throughout. He's [[FauxAffablyEvil disturbingly calm throughout this]], especially when he threatens to take away Bond's ability to recognize faces.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: He's unfazed even when he's berating and torturing Bond, having one of his henchmen killed off during the Spectre meeting, committing {{patricide}} out of pure malice, or when 007 has him at his mercy.
* VillainousValour: Even after his plans backfire, Oberhauser attempts to goad Bond into shooting him without a shred of fear or remorse.
* WalkingSpoiler: Oberhauser is not only revealed to be Bond's foster brother, but also changed his name to [[CanonCharacterAllAlong Ernst Stavro Blofeld]], SPECTRE's nefarious leader. He chose this route just because his father favoured an orphaned Bond over him, causing him to orchestrate all of the tragedies Bond faced since ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', making him the true villain of the Creator/DanielCraig era.
* WeWillMeetAgain: Gives Bond a menacing look when he's spared, [[SequelHook indicating that he will plan for his revenge]].
* WhamLine: "Me. It was all me, James. It's always been me. [[GreaterScopeVillain The author of all your pain]]!"
** "Franz Oberhauser died twenty years ago, in an avalanche together with his father. The man you're talking to now, the man inside your head... is Ernst Stavro Blofeld." Punctuated even more by the fact that he strokes his pet cat as he says it.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: He [[{{Sadist}} relishes]] in [[EvilIsPetty seeing 007 suffer]], whether by torturing him or by playing mind-games, but this also proves to be [[BondVillainStupidity a big problem.]] He had many opportunities to off Bond, but his tendency to concoct elaborate revenge schemes against 007 due to their CainAndAbel situation proves to be one of his {{Fatal Flaw}}s in ''Spectre'', alongside his [[GreenEyedMonster Envy]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe inflated ego]].
* WickedCultured: Claims to be behind Bond's troubles since ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', yet has a large meteorite called "Kartenhoff" in his possession, and as with all of his previous incarnations, has a fluffy RightHandCat and enormous amounts of wealth from his illegal operations.
* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:Not physically but [[OutGambitted mentally bested]] by Safin, who counters Blofeld's decades of calculated, theatrical plotting to "break" James with a revenge plan of his own that is practical, elegant and diabolically simple -- he infects Madeline with a Heracles virus micro-targeted to Blofeld. Even if she doesn't spread it to him directly, it will still lay dormant and pass to other people who are likely to contact Blofeld, most likely Bond. Sure enough, Bond touches Swann, and then [[BatmanGambit chokes Blofeld because Blofeld couldn't resist twisting the knife in James]]. With one stroke, Safin's enemy is instantly dead, never guessing who killed him or why.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:It's revealed in ''No Time To Die'', he was the one who got Safin's family killed via Mr. White. Safin nearly died from the poison attack which left him disfigured as child, implying that Blofeld didn't care about poisoning a young boy as well. Even worse Safin and his family had ''nothing'' to do with Blofeld's vendetta against Bond, which is even more horrifying.]]
* WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied: Oberhauser shows off Spectre's surveillance abilities by replaying Mr. White's last moments to Madeleine.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Does this to a Spectre member who was supposed to replace Marco Sciarra, and to the Pale King (a.k.a. Mr. White) after he quit the organization and is now fighting for his life.
* YoureInsane: Bond's ShutUpHannibal response is basically this, when he calls out Blofeld for his EvilPlan.
** This quote is virtually similar to the one 007 gave to [[Film/DrNo Dr. No]]: "World domination. Same old dream. Our asylums are full of people who think [[NapoleonDelusion they're Napoleon]]. [[AGodAmI Or God]]."
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!!Non-Eon Productions films
[[folder:Max von Sydow]]
!!! '''Played by:''' Creator/MaxVonSydow
!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"In matters of death, SPECTRE is strictly impartial."'']]
->''"Now, for the future. SPECTRE's most audacious enterprise of any; next to which our previous ventures are inconsequential. Our esteemed Number One is in complete charge of the entire operation, which will henceforth be called: The Tears of Allah."''
The non-EON Blofeld, he appeared once in a remake of ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''. According to producers, he was personally hand-picked by Creator/SeanConnery to provide some "class" to the role, while maintaining a ColdHam personality. Sydow manages to give a personality to the character, despite a great deal of scenes [[DeletedScene being left on the cutting room floor]].
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* AdaptationNameChange: In contrast to the original novels and the previous films, Blofeld's real name is revealed to be Franz Oberhauser. "Blofeld" is his mother's maiden name, which he uses after symbolically rejecting the name his father gave him.
* AdaptationOriginConnection: Bond and Blofeld are adoptive brothers in this continuity, which they were not before. This makes Bond's feud with his ArchEnemy far more personal, especially since Blofeld killed his own father in response to said adoption.
* AnalogyBackfire: Oberhauser's facility is housed within a crater formed by a meteor, and he had the meteor itself put on display. When Bond and Swann arrive, he launches into a speech about how the meteor had waited up in space, silently biding it's time, before becoming an unstoppable force that changed the face of the Earth. Bond shoots back that the meteor actually did stop, and right where they're standing, in fact. You can see the wind come out of Oberhauser's sails. That's not even counting how outside of the film, the analogy still doesn't really hold up — the meteor, other than being an inanimate object that can't "bide it's time", was in fact ''completely'' at the mercy of the forces (gravity from the sun, planets, and other astronomical bodies) around it.
* AntagonisticOffspring: The fact that his father favoured Bond over him was enough to make [[FreudianExcuse Oberhauser kill him]] and [[DisproportionateRetribution destroy Bond's life.]]
* TheAnticipator: Played for creepy effects with Oberhauser, who always seems to know when Bond will show up, even outfitting rooms in his SupervillainLair with personal photographs for his 'guests'.
* AnimalMotifs:
** Like his previous incarnations, he uses a black octopus as a symbol for Spectre and has a white, fluffy cat.
** He [[TermsOfEndangerment mockingly calls Bond a "cuckoo"]] because the latter was [[ParentalFavoritism favoured by Oberhauser's father]] when both were younger.
* AnimalMetaphor: A vindictive and petty man, he mockingly calls 007 a "cuckoo" for the [[TheResenter resentment]] he felt for Bond as a foster brother.
* ArchEnemy: Is this to Creator/DanielCraig's Bond, without a doubt. He holds an intense grudge against 007 because Oberhauser's father favuored an orphaned Bond over Franz, resulting in Oberhauser killing his own father out of jealousy and faking his own death before going on to create a NebulousEvilOrganization and [[TheChessmaster orchestrating]] many of [[GreaterScopeVillain Bond's tragedies since]] ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}''.
* ArcWelding: Blofeld claims that Spectre was behind the events of ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'', ''Film/{{Quantum|Of Solace}}'', and ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' (supposedly, as it's entirely possible he was just attempting to rattle James). This is a fairly unusual case, because the arc seems to have been unwelded just to weld it back together. Le Chiffre was clearly established as having worked for Quantum (and being killed for being unreliable) in the first two films, but references to those events in this film seem to imply that [=MI6=] thought they were independent villains. One of Mr. White's lines implies that Spectre is Quantum, just after mission drift and a strong change in plans (likely Bond disrupting its leadership), or that Quantum was Dominic Greene's own business (with Greene being a Spectre member nonetheless).
* ArtisticLicenceAnatomy: During the torture scenes, the descriptions of what drilling into specific parts of the brain will do are suspect at best. Higher brain functions like facial recognition are spread out over an area, so whether damaging such a tiny area would give the described result is already questionable. Furthermore, even the general area of the brain is all wrong. In the film this is said to be the result when the drill goes into something at the base of the neck. That area in the human brain controls basic functions like motor functions and autonomous muscles. Facial recognition has been mapped around the temple, which was ironically the ''previous'' location the drill went. Of course, all that talk might just have been to heighten the victim's horror, as the film itself seems to lampshade this as Bond has no problem recognizing people after his torture. However, this also brings the question of Bond somehow not being incapacitated by the procedure itself. Most people wouldn't be able to function for a while after having something drilled into their head, much less go into action.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:No one sheds tears when he dies due to the nanobots that Safin had Madeleine bring in the base, which she transmitted to Bond, who then unwittingly transmitted them to Blofeld, killing him.]]
* AxCrazy: A subdued and downplayed example due to how [[DissonantSerenity creepily]] calm he can be, but it's still there. He also expresses a murderous glee to torture Bond in the most horrific way possible.
* BigBad:
** He is this in ''Spectre'', due to his plot to gain control of all of the world's intelligence and surveillance systems through the Nine Eyes program in order to establish a new world order, all at the cost of making Bond's life so miserable out of spite and jealousy.
** It is also quite clear that he is this to the entire rebooted 007 series (''Casino Royale'', ''Quantum of Solace'', and ''Skyfall'') as he was the one who created Quantum as a figurehead to Spectre, and that other main villains (Le Chiffre, Greene, Mr. White, and Silva) were nothing but pawns who reported to him the entire time. Even his actions in ''No Time to Die'' are more than enough to cause Safin to go down a darker path.
* BigBadEnsemble: With Safin in ''No Time to Die''.
* BigBrotherBully: He and Bond were foster brothers, but Bond was highly favoured by Oberhauser's father. He proclaims to be behind all of Bond's miseries and [[DisproportionateRetribution wants to make his life even more miserable]] in any way possible, whether physically or psychologically. Even after he's imprisoned in ''No Time to Die'', he still refuses to stop tormenting Bond.
* BondVillainStupidity:
** First, when Oberhauser has Bond at his mercy in his secret base, he decided to go all EvilGloating and BreakTheBadass on both Bond and his girl, and then he'd get to killing Bond after the ColdBloodedTorture. This gave Bond time enough to bail out and make his escape with Madeleine. The second time (in the climax), he constructs an elaborate DeathTrap, giving Bond a SadisticChoice: escape now on your own (and [[DespairEventHorizon live with the guilt and shame]] of [[MyGreatestFailure not saving Madeleine in time for the rest of his life]]), or try to rescue her and die together. In the latter case, he was playing on Bond's feelings to get him to fall, but since he was more interested in tormenting Bond rather than killing him, this gave Bond plenty of time to find Madeleine and then escape.
** His henchmen aren't too bright either. While kidnapping Bond, they tie his hands in front of him, with plastic zip ties. Sure enough, Bond is able to grab one of their guns and shoot them both, then break free.
** In ''No Time To Die'', he gets Bond right where he wants him: at Blofeld's birthday party, surrounded by SPECTRE agents. However, rather than [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim just having someone shoot Bond]], he has a scientist who has developed a weapon that can be programmed to instantly kill a specific target kidnapped and forced to set said weapon to target Bond. This probably would have worked if not for the fact that said scientist was already working for another villain, who instead had him program the weapon to target the SPECTRE agents at the gathering. In other words, Blofeld's ComplexityAddiction not only caused his plan to kill Bond to fail, but also wiped out SPECTRE as a group.
* BrokenPedestal: Mr. White once regarded him as a comrade-in-arms. However, when SPECTRE began to expand into [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil sexual slavery]], [[EvenEvilHasStandards White reacts with disgust]], but this causes a major fallout to the point Oberhauser basically declares him a dead man walking and orders his death sometime between ''Quantum of Solace'' and ''Spectre''. Likewise, White could never look at Oberhauser the same way he used to and is forced into hiding.
* BullyingADragon:
** [[spoiler:Blofeld really thought that nearly murdering Safin and killing his entire family was just another day of fun sadistic activity for him to enjoy and that he will never get comeuppance for it because he sees himself as powerful and invincible, let's just say he was [[KarmicDeath ''DEAD'' wrong.]]]]
** In ''No Time to Die'', [[spoiler:he couldn't resist gloating about his scheme to wreck 007's life even from behind bars by trying to create a wedge between James and Madeleine's relationship]]. [[RageBreakingPoint Guess how Bond reacts to this?]]
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: In a sense. [[spoiler:Safin launches a successful scheme to kill Blofeld and dismantle Spectre to avenge his family, but Blofeld never mentions him or even seems aware that it could be one of his ''many'' victims coming after him and dies without ever knowing who was responsible.]]
* CainAndAbel: He is the Cain to Bond's Abel, as the latter was taken in by Oberhauser's father after he was orphaned. Also [[MirroredConfrontationShot played with when Bond and Oberhauser meet with a bulletproof glass pane between them in the climax]]. Oberhauser's reflection is projected almost perfectly over Bond's face, highlighting their visual similarities.
** [[spoiler:The roles are reversed in ''No Time To Die'' where Bond interrogates Blofeld in prison — after losing patience, Bond strangles him momentarily, but relents. In doing so, Bond unwittingly passes on the Heracles virus to Blofeld, which kills him instantly.]]
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: First named "Franz Oberhauser", he is revealed to be Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
* CardCarryingVillain: "Me. It was me, James. It's always been me. The author of all your pain."
* TheChessmaster: His plan is to take control of the world's intelligence services by getting an asset in position to propose and implement a global electronic surveillance system through instigating terrorist incidents. As a result, he even manages to put [=MI6=] and Bond briefly out of business and cause more long-term damage to them than his character's previous incarnations.
** Also proclaims to be behind Bond's miseries since ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}''. On another level, much of Oberhauser's claimed plans relied heavily on Bond joining the 00 program, suggesting he had a hand in that as well.
* ClassicVillain: Besides greed, wrath, and ambition, he comes with the additional vice of envy. In his youth, he committed {{patricide}} simply because he resented his father for adopting and adoring Bond over him.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Tortures Bond by drilling holes into various parts of his brain while explaining what effect this is having on him throughout. He takes it to a disturbing level as he's [[FauxAffablyEvil eerily calm]] while doing this. It doesn't actually faze Bond himself that much, because he's, well, 007, but it unnerves Madeleine, especially when he threatens to take away Bond's ability to recognize faces. [[ForTheEvulz He does it]] out of pure sadism and to get a sick kick at Bond's expense.
* ComplexityAddiction: He spends decades plotting to hurt James Bond through a barrage of very twisted individuals and treasonous infiltrators, and it shows its worst in ''No Time To Die'' where [[spoiler:his whole plan as the DiscOneFinalBoss was just to lead Bond to a party in Cuba where he would die of Hercules surrounded by the entirety of SPECTRE's high command laughing at him.]] Unfortunately, he did not expect [[spoiler:the developer of Hercules had been bribed by Safin to program it to kill SPECTRE agents only, leading to his organization being decapitated.]]
* CompositeCharacter: Although he is Blofeld, he has some similarities with [[Film/GoldenEye Alec Trevelyan]] (as in, he is a non-British associate of Bond who was presumed dead, and who later built himself up as the head of a terrorist organization). He is also this (in a roundabout way) to two characters from the books — [[Literature/OctopussyAndTheLivingDaylights Hannes Oberhauser and Major Smythe]] — being the son of the former, who was Bond's father figure, and like the latter is [[ItsPersonal the man who killed him]]. Finally, his monologue during the torture scene is almost a direct lift from that of the title character in ''Literature/ColonelSun''.
* {{Cyborg}}: By the time of ''No Time to Die'', he has a [[ElectronicEyes cybernetic eye]], which he uses to [[MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll run Spectre behind bars]].
* DarkIsEvil: Wears dark clothing and is a really nasty DiabolicalMastermind. He's also the darkest incarnation of Blofeld.
* DarkerAndEdgier: He lacks many of the cartoonish supervillain trappings of his predecessors, them being replaced by a totally sociopathic monster who relishes in sheer brutality, personal cruelty, and menace never seen before, combined with chillingly realistic crimes. Gone are the days of campiness. The new SPECTRE he heads-up is a properly cut-throat organization dabbling in human slavery, counterfeit pharmaceuticals, and utilizing a massive [[TheMole network of well-equipped agents]] to do its bidding from behind the scenes. What's even worse is that he even [[spoiler:managed to compromise British intelligence via [[TheMole an asset]] who would be able to hand them the crown jewels of the world's spy services on a silver platter, namely the collective intel gathered by all of them, information that they have the capability to act on and utilize regardless of who gets destroyed in the process.]]
** In a way, SPECTRE is this to Quantum. Depending on the interpretation (the film supports both), it's either the warped version of Quantum or its bosses. Either way, Quantum was into PragmaticVillainy, manipulating leaders and natural resources to secure profit and influence for its network. SPECTRE is explicitly involved with bombing cities, human trafficking and other more overt methods. Profit's still in mind, but in a messier, darker way.
* {{Determinator}}:
** He wants to humiliate 007 in any way possible, whether psychological or physical through elaborate revenge schemes and mind games. That's because [[ParentalFavoritism Bond was favoured more by Oberhauser's father]] when the two were younger.
** He's also willing to send goons worldwide to hunt down defectors such as Mr. White just for calling it quits.
* DiabolicalMastermind: Oberhauser seemingly masterminded Bond's miseries since ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'' and wants to screw around with his life in any way possible. He's also the head of a NebulousEvilOrganization and even his subordinates are [[TheDreaded clearly terrified]] of what [[BadBoss he could do]], with the Pale King/Mr. White being a good example.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: He should have known that sooner or later, one of his countless victims will definitely seek their revenge as he sometimes killed ForTheEvulz. [[spoiler:Just as he killed Safin's family via Mr. White, Safin returns the favor via another proxy -- 007]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: His motive for his vendetta on Bond and creating Spectre was because his father, who adopted James after the death of his parents, liked him more than his own son and forced him to act like a big brother, thus causing Oberhauser to murder his father and fake his own death before starting his criminal empire.
* DissonantSerenity: Eerily calm when torturing Bond and during the Spectre meeting he conducts.
* DomesticAbuse: [[spoiler:Of the more step-brothers variety, but he relentlessly commits psychological, emotional and physical abuse towards Bond, both directly and through SPECTRE's actions, all because his father favoured the latter over him. Even worse, making Bond miserable ''forever'' was what made him happy and wasn't willing to give it up no matter what, to the point it was like an addiction for him.]]
* TheDreaded: His subordinates are ''clearly'' terrified of him; even Mr. White warns Bond of the man's vindictiveness. Naturally, only very few can dare challenge him.
* DrivenByEnvy: The reason he hates Bond so much is that he thinks that Bond was favoured by his father over him. [[spoiler:It's implied he also murdered Safin's parents as they adored their son while his own father favored 007. Murdering Safin’s parents ultimately leads to Blofeld’s unlamented murder by Safin]].
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:In ''No Time To Die'', he gets poisoned by James, via a Safin plot and dies with very little fanfare.]]
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Using PsychologicalProjection, Blofeld claims that he and [[spoiler:Max Denbigh/C]] are visionaries, only for Bond to mockingly say that both of them are not "visionaries", but totally insane megalomaniacs. [[YoureInsane "Psychiatric wards are full of them."]]
** Following the FinalBattle, this is his reaction when Bond spares him despite being offered to FinishHim and their CainAndAbel relationship. 007 knows that murdering Blofeld in revenge [[VengeanceFeelsEmpty won't do much]] despite being capable of doing so and instead has him arrested.
* EvilCounterpart: Where [[Film/{{Skyfall}} Silva]] was Bond's, Oberhauser appears to be M's — the head of a secret organization, and an "older brother" figure to Bond instead of a surrogate mother. Ironically, Silva went after M while Oberhauser went after Bond.
** He also plays the NotSoDifferentRemark card with Bond. Also played with when the two have a MirroredConfrontationShot in the climax. Oberhauser's reflection is projected almost perfectly over Bond's face, highlighting their visual similarities. To drive the parallels home, Blofeld metaphorically serves as a warped reflection of 007, lacking all the qualities Bond has.
* EvilGenius: You try creating the most sophisticated and powerful criminal empire yet under the noses of the world's intelligence agencies entirely from scratch. For all his horribleness, there is no denying he is legitimately brilliant.
* EvilPlan: Oberhauser has been funding the Joint Intelligence Service program from behind the scenes while staging terrorist attacks around the world, creating a need for the Nine Eyes program. In return, [[spoiler:[[TheMole C]]]] will give Spectre unlimited access to intelligence gathered by Nine Eyes, allowing them to [[TheAnticipator anticipate]] and counter-act any investigation into their operations.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumour: He cruelly mocks Bond when he offers his SadisticChoice to 007 in the climax.
* EvilIsPetty: It's not just his motivations for antagonizing James that are petty, it's his machinations. One of his desires is to remove Bond's ability to recognize faces so he won't recognize Madeleine's. Blofeld's true motivation for what he does to James is because when his father began to treat [[LikeASonToMe James as a second son]], he immediately became jealous of the relationship 007 had with his father.
** [[spoiler:The rift between James and Madeleine in ''No Time To Die'' was his doing. 5 years of no speaking, a loving relationship ruined, a man never finding out about his daughter until she was in danger....because daddy gave James a bit more attention than Franz. Let that sink in.]]
** It's implied [[spoiler:he also murdered Safin's family out of the envy of seeing Safin being adored by his own family. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard This comes back to bite him when Safin indirectly causes Blofeld’s murder]].]]
* EvilLaugh: Downplayed. He briefly snickers after offering his SadisticChoice to 007.
* EvilWearsBlack: Wears a darker version of Blofeld's (and Dr. No's) Nehru jacket.
* EyeScream: Gets his trademark scar over his right eye after Madeleine throws Bond's explosive watch at him. Blood can be seen flying off his face as he falls. When the scar is seen later, it's clear that Blofeld can no longer see out of that eye. When 007 asks him about it, he simply shrugs as if nothing unusual happened.
* FatalFlaw: Pettiness. His obsessive need to see 007 suffer through elaborate means due to daddy issues proves to be a major problem.
** [[spoiler:This pettiness is ultimately the reason that he's killed in ''No Time To Die''. Madeleine is blackmailed by Safin into spraying herself with Hercules, a bunch of nano machines programmed to inflict lethal damage to a person who has the targeted DNA sequence, and ''only'' them, allowing for precise, indirect assassination. Madeleine ultimately can't go through with knowingly killing Blofeld, but James accidentally gets some of Hercules on his hands when he grabs her wrist as she's leaving. In the ensuring interrogation Blofeld's constant taunting of James, especially the reveal that he orchestrated the attack on James 5 years ago and intentionally framed Madeleine for it just to drive them apart, drives James to start strangling him and begging Blofeld to die. Though James regains his composure shortly afterwards, The Hercules has already done it's work and Blofeld quietly passes away whilst James is arguing with Bill Tanner over his conduct. Since there were severe visiting restrictions set over Blofeld, including separation distance, Blofeld ultimately has nobody but himself to blame for his demise, because he simply would not ''stop'' his constant [[KickTheDog torment]] of James even for a minute]].
* FakingTheDead: Faked his own death in an avalanche after killing his own father out of jealousy for [[ParentalFavoritism favouring an orphaned Bond over him]] when both were younger.
* FalseFlagOperation: Every nation mentioned to have suffered a terrorist incident in the time frame of the film is either a member of or fairly close to a member nation of the council that is voting on the Nine Eyes program. When South Africa vetoes the program, they suffer a terrorist incident that makes them reconsider their position within a matter of days. [[spoiler:This is because Blofeld wants the Nine Eyes system to go live as C is providing them with backdoor access.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: He is eerily calm and pleasant even when he berates and tortures Bond.
* {{Foil}}: To Safin in ''No Time to Die''. Safin uses PragmaticVillainy by averting the BondVillainStupidity flaw that previous Bond villains fell to via their EvilGloating. Furthermore, Safin [[spoiler:genuinely cared about his family and acts in revenge for their deaths, but Blofeld cared only for himself and killed his father for believing he was TheUnfavourite out of sheer jealousy and pettiness]]. Also, while Blofeld is a NonActionBigBad, Safin is more than capable of killing people physically. And while Blofeld was a central figure from Bond's past and devoted his life to making Bond suffer, Safin has no personal animosity towards Bond. Posthumously, Safin has succeeded in the one thing that Blofeld himself failed at: [[spoiler:killing James Bond]].
* ForcedToWatch: Oberhauser forces Madeleine to watch Bond tortured by a MindProbe and before that, shows her the recording of her father's conversation with Bond before shooting himself. Subverted in the latter case, as Bond manages to get her to look at him instead of the screen.
* ForTheEvulz: He made his life's mission to not only [[ItsAllAboutMe orchestrate total chaos]] just for his own benefit, but to wreck Bond's life to further punish him for being favoured more by his father.
** [[spoiler:In ''No Time To Die'', this is also possibly why he had [[BigBad Safin's]] family killed via Mr. White. It's possible he may have done that out of petty jealousy that Safin was adored by his own family while his parents adored Bond instead.]]
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: He's made his life's mission to screw Bond at every turn [[FreudianExcuse because]] his dad paid more attention to Bond than him when they were in their teens, causing him to commit {{patricide}} out of envy. However, it's negated by the fact that he did it out of pure malice and not because of something that drove him to snap. It doesn't change or is even unconnected to the many atrocities he committed all on his own as an adult. His repeated attempts to mock Bond for his past failures in the climax just because he felt neglected really shows how he is nothing more than an irredeemable monster.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Went from being the son of an Austrian ski instructor to the head of a terrifying criminal syndicate.
* GetItOverWith: At the climax, Blofeld tells Bond to kill him when both his plot is foiled and his attempted escape thwarted. Bond hesitates, [[NotWorthKilling but ultimately puts down his gun and lets Blofeld be arrested]], fully aware that stooping to Blofeld's level won't help anything.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: See RedRightHand. Following the destruction of his Moroccan lair, Oberhauser sports a raw version of Donald Pleasance's iconic facial scar.
* GracefulLoser: Subverted. Although he seemed to accept his capture with resignation at the end of ''Spectre'', that [[SoreLoser still didn't stop him]] from wrecking Bond's life even from behind bars in ''No Time To Die''. [[spoiler:This pettiness is what ultimately kills him for good]].
* GreaterScopeVillain: He proclaims to be behind Bond's troubles, and wants to toy around with it in any way possible. All of Bond's enemies ([[spoiler:C/Max Denbigh]], The Pale King/[[spoiler:Mr. White]], Raoul Silva, Dominic Greene and Le Chiffre) were working for him; not only this, he EVEN claims to have orchestrated the deaths of [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 Vesper]] and [[Film/{{Skyfall}} M]].
** This continues into ''No Time To Die'' when it's revealed he [[spoiler:arranged for the murder of [[BigBad Safin]]'s family, and is thus indirectly responsible for Safin's actions in the film, including his own death and that of Bond.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: He became envious of the attention 007 received from his father, causing him to commit {{Patricide}}.
** In ''No Time to Die'', [[spoiler:it's implied the reason why he had Safin's parents murdered was that he felt envious that Safin was adored by his own family while his parents adored Bond instead]].
* HannibalLecture: Gives a harsh one to Bond when they meet in the Saharan facility, where [[CardCarryingVillain he talks about being "the author of 007's pain"]]. His ReasonYouSuckSpeech against Bond in the climax also counts as well.
* HiddenVillain: Claims to be responsible for Bond's miseries since ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'', and even says it word-for-word.
* HijackedByGanon: Blofeld was TheManBehindTheMan for [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 Le Chiffre, Mr. White]], [[Film/{{Quantum|Of Solace}} Dominic Greene]] and [[Film/{{Skyfall}} Raoul Silva]]. Interestingly, this is James Bond's first time facing Spectre in this timeline, making it only a meta-example.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In spades. [[spoiler:He tries to use a poison engineered specifically to kill Bond. But Safin, whose family Blofeld had murdered decades prior, interferes and adjusts it to target Blofeld and Spectre. The poison gets on Bond, who later chokes Blofeld, who couldn't resist revealing how he drove Bond and Madeline apart, causing the poison to kill Blofeld almost instantly. In short, Blofeld was killed with own weapon through a scheme he orchestrated, and largely due to him revealing he simply couldn't resist hurting Bond and taunting him. The poison also ends up destroying his own organization to boot, and all by someone who he set on the path to villainy decades earlier.]]
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Oberhauser's entire plan was ultimately to force this trope on Bond via a TraumaCongaLine. Instead, Bond turns things around by wrecking his primary base of operations, depriving him of his resources and network, leaving him battered and at the mercy of the British government, then refuses to kill him, instead letting him get a view of Bond and Madeleine having [[EarnYourHappyEnding earned their happy ending]]. [[spoiler:It didn't stop this madman from wrecking his foster brother's life even from jail, as shown in ''No Time To Die'']].
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: He developed an IrrationalHatred of 007 just because his father paid more attention to Bond than him when they were in their teens. DrivenByEnvy, he commits {{Patricide}} out of a selfish desire to get more affection than his foster brother.
* InterfaceSpoiler: For ''Spectre'', if you decide to watch it for the first time in Blu-Ray, you had better not activate the English subtitles, because they will refer to Oberhauser as Blofeld as early as his very first scene.
* IrrationalHatred: Oberhauser despises 007 just for being favoured more by his father when both were in their teens. Bond even chews him out for committing {{Patricide}} for this minor reason.
* IronicEcho: To Mr. White's "we have people everywhere" taunt. Oberhauser does it to the extent that it has forced Mr. White into laying low.
* {{Irony}}: In the classic sense. Bond assumed Blofeld is dead after the SPECTRE base explodes, [[FreezeFrameBonus but viewers saw cars fleeing the explosion]] as Bond flew away in the opposite direction.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He murdered his own father out of a selfish desire to get more affection than his foster brother. As an adult, he's even worse, orchestrating massive amounts of wanton violence for his own benefit and inflicting horrible pain on Bond just for being favoured by Oberhauser's father.
* ItsPersonal: When he and Bond finally meet face-to-face, it's quite clear that despite his composure, he really wants Bond dead due to their CainAndAbel situation.
* {{Jerkass}}: It takes a special kind of an asshole to be a BigBrotherBully towards their step-brother as [[ParentalFavoritism said asshole's father favoured Bond over him]]. He even committed {{Patricide}} just because his father favoured his his foster brother.
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Oberhauser sends a vintage luxury car to pick up Bond and Madeleine, gives them exquisite quarters in his lodgings, and serves them drinks. He then reveals that Spectre has been funding the "Joint Intelligence Service" program from behind the scenes while staging terrorist attacks around the world, creating a need for the "Nine Eyes" surveillance system. In return, [[spoiler:C]] will give Spectre unlimited access to intelligence gathered by Nine Eyes, allowing them to [[TheAnticipator anticipate]] and counter-act any investigation into their operations. Oberhauser later reveals that [[TheChessmaster he is the one responsible]] for many of Bond's tragedies.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He had Safin's family killed and his henchman (Mr. White) used a poisonous agent to do it. Safin has Blofeld and his organization killed with poison in return.]]
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* KnightOfCerebus: With Blofeld not only being revealed as the mastermind behind everything since ''Casino Royale'', but also Bond's adopted brother who killed his own father out of jealousy for the time he spent with Bond, drills holes into Bond's head as torture and forces him into a SadisticChoice in which Bond has to save Madeleine from the former [=MI6=] building in three minutes before the demolition explosives go off. Disturbingly enough, [[AdaptationalVillainy he is the darkest version of Blofeld]], as he is far more ruthless than his previous incarnations. As far as SPECTRE is concerned, the rebooted version is more of a CovertGroup lacking the cartoonish supervillain trappings its previous version had, instead focusing in chillingly realistic crimes such as slavery, terrorism, regime change, and utilizing a massive [[TheMole network of well-equipped agents]] to do its bidding from behind the scenes. Arguably, this version of Blofeld is one of the darkest villains in the Bond franchise, as his brutality rivals that of Zorin or Onatopp.
* LackOfEmpathy: Oberhauser didn't show any remorse even when he spitefully killed his own father nor does he during any of his other vile deeds.
* LeanAndMean: While he's quite skinny, he is actually quite the petty sadist who created SPECTRE just to wreck his foster brother's life.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Oberhauser's "It's been a long time. And finally, here we are." is as much about SPECTRE returning to the Bond franchise as 007 and Oberhauser/Blofeld being reunited.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: If we're going by the newspaper article about his father's death, it's shown that Hannes was a NiceGuy towards his neighbors and son, and a stark contrast to Franz, who later became a psychopath.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: In the climax, when Bond asks him about the horrid facial scar he received courtesy of his explosive exit in the Saharan base, Blofeld shrugs it off as if nothing unusual happened.
* MeaningfulRename: He renames himself Blofeld after murdering his own father out of pure envy, despite using his professional name.
* MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll: While he's locked in Belmarsh Prison as of ''No Time to Die'', he still runs Spectre from there, communicating with them via his {{electronic eye|s}}.
* MirroredConfrontationShot: [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/jamesbond/images/3/3c/Spectre_-_007_and_scarred_Blofeld.png/revision/latest?cb=20160307142424 A literal example]] of this occurs in the final showdown between him and 007, showing their facial similarities. Being an EvilCounterpart and ShadowArchetype of 007, it shows.
* MotiveRant: Gives one of these when torturing Bond. It culminates in him reintroducing himself to Bond as [[CanonCharacterAllAlong Ernst Stavro Blofeld]].
-->'''Oberhauser:''' You know what happens when a cuckoo hatches inside another bird's nest?\\
'''Madeleine Swann:''' Yes — it forces the other eggs out.\\
'''Oberhauser:''' Yes. ''[pointing to 007]'' Well, this "cuckoo" made me realize my father's life had to end. In a way, he's responsible for the path I took. ''[turns to Bond]'' So thank you, ''cuckoo''!\\
'''Bond:''' Do you know any other bird calls, Franz? ''[sarcastically chuckles; Blofeld's cat jumps up on his lap]'' Hello, pussy.\\
'''Oberhauser:''' [[ThatManIsDead Franz Oberhauser died twenty years ago]], James, in an avalanche alongside his father. [[WhamLine The man you're talking to now, the man inside your head...]] ''[[CanonCharacterAllAlong is]]'' [[HijackedByGanon Ernst Stavro Blofeld.]] ''[strokes his cat]''
* MythologyGag:
** He is introduced in a similar manner to how he was back during the Sean Connery films, with his face heavily obscured. The SPECTRE meeting runs a little bit deadly for one of its members, just as it did in ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' and ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', the other members are discussing the death of one of their own and the plots being carried out worldwide, and Oberhauser/Blofeld's face not shown.
** He at one point wears a darker version of Blofeld's (and Dr. No's) Nehru jacket, just as he did in ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''. He gets the trademark scar Donald Pleasence's version had, courtesy of Bond's exploding watch, and his SupervillainLair in Morocco is based in a geological crater like the one in YOLT.
* NearVillainVictory: In ''Spectre'', if it weren't for Bond realizing that [[spoiler:[[TheMole C was working for Blofeld]] and relaying this info to M, C would've managed to get the Nine Eyes program implemented]] and Blofeld would have succeeded in taking over all of the world's intelligence systems and further humiliating 007.
** In ''No Time To Die'', Blofeld kidnapped the scientist Obruchev in hopes of using his nanobots program as a means of trapping and murdering Bond at a SPECTRE party in Cuba, free himself from custody, and take over the world. Though he succeeded in trapping Bond at the party, Blofeld never anticipated the fact that Obruchev was actually working for Safin, and that on Safin's orders, Obruchev secretly reprogrammed the nanobots to murder all of the SPECTRE members.
* NeverMyFault: Blames Bond for creating a wedge between him and his father, and the path he chose, when in reality, he himself is responsible for the choices he made.
* [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Nice Job Fixing it, Franz]]: Good job, Blofeld. Pinning Bond's arms behind him on the torture chair gives him the opportunity to rig the explosive alarm on his watch, which he then hands it to Madeline for her to toss at you.
* NomDeMom: "Blofeld" is revealed to be his mother's maiden name.
* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Oberhauser sends a vintage luxury car to pick up Bond and Madeleine, gives them exquisite quarters in his lodgings, and serves them drinks. He's still planning to torture and kill them, as it's a FauxAffablyEvil approach to a mind game, mainly because of his ItsPersonal relationship with Bond.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Bond takes this view of Oberhauser. He refers to him as the "recently deceased leader of Spectre" when talking to M, after the attack on the Morocco base.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: He plays this card with 007.
** Later on, he attempts to goad Bond into killing him when he's cornered, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood wrongly assuming]] it'll make him cross the HeWhoFightsMonsters line, but Bond refuses and has him arrested instead, not wanting to sink to his level.
* ObfuscatingInsanity: While being held captive by [=MI6=] for several years, he hoodwinked everyone into believing he was an insane nutjob rambling to himself, when in reality he was giving orders to Spectre through his bionic eye.
* OhCrap: Blofeld himself when he realizes his helicopter is about to crash near Westminster. It's the only time in ''Spectre'' when his [[VillainousBreakdown calm and collected demeanour slips]].
* {{Patricide}}: He killed his own father out of [[TheResenter resentment]] and [[DrivenByEnvy jealousy]] for favouring Bond over him.
* PersonalEffectsReveal: The reveal about the CainAndAbel relationship between Bond and Oberhauser is foreshadowed by a mysterious photo recovered from the ruins of [[Film/{{Skyfall}} Skyfall]] (Bond's ancestral home), along with a legal order giving a man named "Oberhauser" temporary custody of 12-year-old James.
* PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: He's a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] SoftSpokenSadist compared to Bond, who's more of a {{Revenge}}-seeking KnightInSourArmor.
* PsychopathicManchild: Type C. Despite being a very powerful crime lord, he acts as an immature BigBrotherBully towards Bond when they're reacquainted. [[FreudianExcuse His villainy]] came from Bond supposedly receiving more endearment as his foster brother, something which he still hasn't outgrown from.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives Bond a very harsh one in the climax of ''Spectre'', considering how he was behind all of Bond's miseries since they were in their teens. It nearly causes Bond to cross the DespairEventHorizon, but he gets better.
* RedRightHand:
** Following the destruction of his Moroccan lair, he sports a raw version of Donald Pleasance's iconic facial scar and disfigured face, and is also partially blind as well.
** He has a pretty unsettling empty eye socket as of ''No Time To Die'' when Bond visits him in his prison.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In a huge break from the original canon, he is Bond's older but estranged foster brother.
* TheResenter: The fact that his father loved Bond was enough to make Oberhauser kill him and destroy Bond's life.
* RightHandCat: Just as Blofeld has returned in the films, so has his fluffy white cat.
* RuleOfSymbolism: Several here.
** In his SupervillainLair, when he and Bond talk about the meteorite hitting Earth, they’re really talking about the relationship between the two.
** The CutSong "Spectre" by Radiohead, TheTeaser, and the ArcWords of the film ("The dead are alive") all use the motif of ghosts. Like a specter, Blofeld haunted Bond by orchestrating the numerous tragedies 007 faced over the years. He also cultivates the [[MeaningfulName image of phantoms]] as a way to tilt events to his favour from behind the scenes through his henchmen like his predecessors.
** He mockingly calls Bond a "cuckoo in the nest" for disrupting the happiness of Oberhauser's family life, causing Franz to kill his own father out of resentment.
** Bond finds a photo that features him as a boy with his long-deceased mentor and another boy, [[PlotBasedPhotographObfuscation but the 2nd boy's face is not shown as part of the photo has been charred.]] This not only foreshadows his CainAndAbel relationship with Blofeld, but also the damage to Blofeld's face when the watch blows up. A full copy of the original photo is later seen at Blofeld's base.
* {{Sadist}}: Disturbingly enough, he is the darkest incarnation of Blofeld. He's already given enough abuse on his foster brother, and the fact that he does ColdBloodedTorture on 007 really shows [[KnightOfCerebus his intensely malicious nature.]] While doing this, he remains [[DissonantSerenity eerily calm]] and [[FauxAffablyEvil soft]], trying to weaken 007's morale in any way possible. To twist the knife even further, he even rubs Bond's past failures in his face several times.
** [[spoiler:This gets worse, when it's revealed in ''No Time To Die'' that he was the one to have [[BigBad Safin's]] family killed, implied to be merely to fulfil his sadism out of sheer boredom, implying that ruining lives of innocents is like a favourite hobby for him.]]
* SadisticChoice: After activating a 3-minute time bomb in the climax, he gives Bond the choice of either saving Madeleine and risk dying from the explosion, or saving himself but [[DespairEventHorizon living with the despair]] and [[MyGreatestFailure guilt of not saving Madeleine in time for the rest of his life]]. But Bond being Bond, he TookAThirdOption by not only saving Madeleine in time, but also giving chase to Blofeld on a speedboat he saw earlier. This is just another effort by Blofeld to humiliate 007 mentally.
* SatanicArchetype: This version of Blofeld has shades of this. Just as Satan rebelled against God out of pride, leads an army of demons, and is actively dedicated to oppose God at all costs, Blofeld killed his own father out of pure envy, leads an army of mooks to manipulate events, and wants to spite Bond in any way, be it psychological or physical. He also doesn't see anything wrong in hurting countless innocents in a bid to gain more power or relishing in sadistic torture. Even his lairs in Rome and Morocco are dimly lit to show the true evil in SPECTRE, and obviously have hellish connotations to them as well.
* SequelAdaptationIconicVillain: He's James Bond's ArchEnemy and most well-known villain in both the books and original film series, yet he doesn't show up until the fourth installment in the reboot series.
* ShutUpHannibal: When Oberhauser claims that he and [[spoiler:C]] are "visionaries," Bond sarcastically retorts that they're not visionaries, but totally insane nutjobs.
** Later on, when he subjects Bond to ColdBloodedTorture and gives his MotiveRant, 007 simply tells him to GetItOverWith and has Madeleine toss his explosive watch at Blofeld.
* SkewedPriorities: [[spoiler:After all the members of SPECTRE are killed by the Heracles virus (orchestrated by Safin), Blofeld doesn't care who did it and is more concerned about torturing Bond even more for his own amusement.]]
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: SPECTRE dabbles in slavery. During the meeting, the only presentation that the audience gets to hear in full is a progress report about the success of their SexSlave operations and the ''160,000'' women they have placed so far. Their crimes against humanity is what not only repulsed Bond, [[spoiler:[[EvenEvilHasStandards it also forced Mr. White to quit SPECTRE]].]]
* SlasherSmile: Gives a particularly sadistic PsychoticSmirk when he tortures Bond, and later on, when he offers his SadisticChoice.
* SmugSnake: Doesn't hold Bond in high regards and goes to great lengths to make his life miserable in any way. It costs him dearly, first by losing an eye and scarring his face, and in the chase scene during the climax, fracturing his leg in a helicopter crash.
* TheSocialDarwinist: His [[AnimalMetaphor "cuckoo"]] speech to Madeleine has shades of this, telling how a cuckoo pushes the eggs of other birds out of a nest.
* TheSociopath: Obviously, [[AdaptationalJerkass but he's]] far more evil than his previous versions. He committed {{patricide}} out of pure malice, [[DisproportionateRetribution and wrecked havoc]] on Bond's life since ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' due to his IrrationalHatred, yet he blames 007 for creating a wedge between him and his father (when it was the other way around). But still, he remains [[DissonantSerenity surprisingly but disturbingly calm]] throughout this. This petty obsession to destroy 007 via elaborate mind-games just for being favoured more by his father, combined with running a NebulousEvilOrganization bent on condemning millions to chaos for his own {{Greed}}, shows how he is a textbook psychopathic monster, totally rotten to the core with no empathy for those who get in his way.
* SoftSpokenSadist: As befits [[Creator/ChristophWaltz his actor]] as well as his previous incarnations.
* TheSpymaster: He effectively is an evil version. Blofeld is running assets such as [[spoiler:"C"]] who attempts to help him take control over the intel gathered by the world's intelligence services by implementing a electronic surveillance system that Spectre can access 24/7. With this, Spectre could use it to counteract any investigation into their operations, and they intend to do so via a series of [[FalseFlagOperation false flag terrorist attacks]].
* TheStoic: He has an [[FauxAffablyEvil eerily and disturbingly calm and collected]] demeanour, whether it's torturing his enemies or hosting the Spectre meetings he conducts.
* StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred: After the climatic FinalBattle, he [[GetItOverWith attempts to invoke]] this in an attempt to break 007's morale. But Bond, not wanting to sink to Blofeld's level, simply states [[NotWorthKilling that he's "out of bullets" and tosses his gun away]] so Blofeld can be taken into custody, leaving him [[EvilCannotComprehendGood confused]] at 007's rationale to spare him despite their CainAndAbel relationship.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: The newspaper article about Hannes Oberhauser's death shows Blofeld sharing some of his dad's facial features.
* SupervillainLair: He has two:
** The SPECTRE meeting he hosts in Rome is inside a palace. It's very similar to the one in ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'', with SPECTRE's bigwigs [[CorruptCorporateExecutive describing the profit they're getting from their global illicit operations]], one of their members getting killed for insubordination, [[CovertGroupWithMundaneFront the meeting being held in a prestigious location]], [[HiddenVillain and Blofeld hiding in the shadows]].
** His base in the Saharan desert is a high-tech satellite relay station and server farm that also has an observatory and high-end guest quarters. It's also built inside a crater, reminiscent of the volcano lair in YOLT.
* ThatManIsDead: Oberhauser still uses his birth name professionally despite having faked his death many years earlier, but he considers that man to have actually died. He truly identifies himself as "Ernst Stavro Blofeld".
-->'''Oberhauser:''' Franz Oberhauser died twenty years ago, in an avalanche together with his father. The man you're talking to now, the man inside your head... is Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
* TermsOfEndangerment: He frequently calls Bond a "cuckoo" because the latter was [[ParentalFavoritism favoured by Oberhauser's father]] when they were younger.
* ToThePain: He tortures Bond by drilling holes into various parts of his brain while explaining what effect this is having on him throughout. It doesn't actually faze Bond himself that much, but it greatly disturbs Madeleine, especially when he threatens to take away Bond's ability to recognize faces.
* TortureTechnician: Tortures Bond by [[StrappedToAnOperatingTable strapping him to a high-tech version of a dentist chair]] and drilling holes into various parts of his brain while explaining what effect this is having on him throughout. He's [[FauxAffablyEvil disturbingly calm throughout this]], especially when he threatens to take away Bond's ability to recognize faces.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: He's unfazed even when he's berating and torturing Bond, having one of his henchmen killed off during the Spectre meeting, committing {{patricide}} out of pure malice, or when 007 has him at his mercy.
* VillainousValour: Even after his plans backfire, Oberhauser attempts to goad Bond into shooting him without a shred of fear or remorse.
* WalkingSpoiler: Oberhauser is not only revealed to be Bond's foster brother, but also changed his name to [[CanonCharacterAllAlong Ernst Stavro Blofeld]], SPECTRE's nefarious leader. He chose this route just because his father favoured an orphaned Bond over him, causing him to orchestrate all of the tragedies Bond faced since ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', making him the true villain of the Creator/DanielCraig era.
* WeWillMeetAgain: Gives Bond a menacing look when he's spared, [[SequelHook indicating that he will plan for his revenge]].
* WhamLine: "Me. It was all me, James. It's always been me. [[GreaterScopeVillain The author of all your pain]]!"
** "Franz Oberhauser died twenty years ago, in an avalanche together with his father. The man you're talking to now, the man inside your head... is Ernst Stavro Blofeld." Punctuated even more by the fact that he strokes his pet cat as he says it.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: He [[{{Sadist}} relishes]] in [[EvilIsPetty seeing 007 suffer]], whether by torturing him or by playing mind-games, but this also proves to be [[BondVillainStupidity a big problem.]] He had many opportunities to off Bond, but his tendency to concoct elaborate revenge schemes against 007 due to their CainAndAbel situation proves to be one of his {{Fatal Flaw}}s in ''Spectre'', alongside his [[GreenEyedMonster Envy]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe inflated ego]].
* WickedCultured: Claims to be behind Bond's troubles since ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', yet has a large meteorite called "Kartenhoff" in his possession, and as with all of his previous incarnations, has a fluffy RightHandCat and enormous amounts of wealth from his illegal operations.
* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:Not physically but [[OutGambitted mentally bested]] by Safin, who counters Blofeld's decades of calculated, theatrical plotting to "break" James with a revenge plan of his own that is practical, elegant and diabolically simple -- he infects Madeline with a Heracles virus micro-targeted to Blofeld. Even if she doesn't spread it to him directly, it will still lay dormant and pass to other people who are likely to contact Blofeld, most likely Bond. Sure enough, Bond touches Swann, and then [[BatmanGambit chokes Blofeld because Blofeld couldn't resist twisting the knife in James]]. With one stroke, Safin's enemy is instantly dead, never guessing who killed him or why.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:It's revealed in ''No Time To Die'', he was the one who got Safin's family killed via Mr. White. Safin nearly died from the poison attack which left him disfigured as child, implying that Blofeld didn't care about poisoning a young boy as well. Even worse Safin and his family had ''nothing'' to do with Blofeld's vendetta against Bond, which is even more horrifying.]]
* WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied: Oberhauser shows off Spectre's surveillance abilities by replaying Mr. White's last moments to Madeleine.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Does this to a Spectre member who was supposed to replace Marco Sciarra, and to the Pale King (a.k.a. Mr. White) after he quit the organization and is now fighting for his life.
* YoureInsane: Bond's ShutUpHannibal response is basically this, when he calls out Blofeld for his EvilPlan.
** This quote is virtually similar to the one 007 gave to [[Film/DrNo Dr. No]]: "World domination. Same old dream. Our asylums are full of people who think [[NapoleonDelusion they're Napoleon]]. [[AGodAmI Or God]]."
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!!Non-Eon Productions films
[[folder:Max von Sydow]]
!!! '''Played by:''' Creator/MaxVonSydow
!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''
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->''"Now, for the future. SPECTRE's most audacious enterprise of any; next to which our previous ventures are inconsequential. Our esteemed Number One is in complete charge of the entire operation, which will henceforth be called: The Tears of Allah."''
The non-EON Blofeld, he appeared once in a remake of ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''. According to producers, he was personally hand-picked by Creator/SeanConnery to provide some "class" to the role, while maintaining a ColdHam personality. Sydow manages to give a personality to the character, despite a great deal of scenes [[DeletedScene being left on the cutting room floor]].
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* FauxAffablyEvil: He acts very suave and charismatic but he's as always a merciless megalomaniac who has no compunctions in having people killed for his nefarious plans.
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* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: When the two emissaries from the unnamed Asian country balk at Blofeld's demands for more money, Number One bluntly demonstrates who is EvilerThanThou through his BadBoss tendencies, making it crystal clear to the emissaries who is ''truly'' calling the shots. Blackmail may be an ugly word, but its closely related term, extortion, is fine with him. After all, he says upfront, "Extortion is my business."
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* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: When the two emissaries from the unnamed Asian country balk at Blofeld's his demands for more money, Number One bluntly demonstrates who is EvilerThanThou through his BadBoss tendencies, tendencies by making it crystal clear to the emissaries who is ''truly'' calling the shots. Blackmail may be an ugly word, but its closely related term, extortion, is fine with him. After all, he says upfront, "Extortion is my business."
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* TheChessmaster: His EvilPlan involves pitting the US and the USSR against each other by making each think that the other is stealing its spacecrafts to ignite a global nuclear war, on behalf of an unknown third party.
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* BadBoss: During the second ski chase, when Bond and Tracy enter an avalanche-risk area, he sends three of his men after them just in case the next step doesn't work, then deliberately causing an avalanche only moments later that seemingly kills his men who he sent into danger for no reason. Of course, this doesn't make his henchmen respect him any less. In fact, it was one of them who passed him the weapon he used to do the deed.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Downplayed. While Blofeld's EvilPlan is in ruins, [[spoiler:he takes perhaps the most horrific revenge on Bond possible.]]
* BedtimeBrainwashing: Blofeld is using this to brainwash the women at his clinic, so he can use them as couriers for the deadly virus he's developing.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Downplayed. While Blofeld's EvilPlan is in ruins, ruins and his finances and resources have plummeted, [[spoiler:he takes perhaps the most horrific revenge on Bond possible.]]
* BedtimeBrainwashing: Blofeld is using this to brainwash the women at his clinic, so he can use them as couriers for the deadly virus he's developing. Of course, they're all under the impression it's to cure their allergies.
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* GeniusBruiser: Blofeld has a more physical role than usual in ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service'', even having a hint of TheBrute in his fight with Bond in the bobsled chase, where he begins throwing hands after using all his weapons.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: He is this in the early books and especially movies (where he appears in more installments). Of the first seven movies, ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' is the only one where he's not involved somehow.
