History Characters / NoTimeToDie

* ShadowArchetype: Safin shows what could happen if Bond never let go of the past and allowed it to control him instead of the other way around. Like Bond, Safin [[spoiler:lost his family, but they were murdered by Mr. White on behalf of Blofeld, something which also scarred him physically and mentally]]. As a result, Safin blamed his tragedy on society as a whole, finding innocence to be a laughable concept. Safin also openly gives a NotSoDifferentRemark to Bond in the sense that both are professional killers wanting to cleanse the world, but while Bond agrees that Safin's backstory may justify murdering Blofeld in revenge, his FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse for his own crimes.

* VaguenessIsComing: Everyone's in the dark about what his EvilPlan ''really'' is. We know that he is [[spoiler:planning on killing millions of people]], but it is never properly explained ''why'' he is doing this or who the targets are. This ties into Safin being an overall [[AvertedTrope aversion]] of the usual ''Bond'' villain tropes -- why would he explain ''everything'' about his entire goals and motivations to a man he plans to defeat, especially whilst they're still underway?

* AbsoluteCleavage: Her party dress has a neckline that stops just short of her navel.

* MsFanservice: Looks absolutely stunning in her party dress, which has an extremely low neckline and shows off her legs. Also she's played by Creator/AnaDeArmas, making her this by default.

* AssholeVictim: As the film progresses, it's clear he's willing to use his weapon on a larger scale. [[spoiler:He even suggests programming the nanobots to target anyone of African descent to Nomi, thereby "wiping them from the face of the Earth". This results in Nomi kicking him into a [[AcidPool pool filled with the nanobots, killing him]].]]

* MsFanservice: Looks absolutely stunning in her party dress, which has an extremely low neckline and shows off her legs.

A one-eyed mercenary working for Spectre [[spoiler:and later Safin.]]

->''"Madeleine... you have made... the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. She’s perfect. Because she came from you."''

Madeleine Swann's young daughter, [[spoiler:who is also James Bond's daughter.]]

* AdaptationExpansion: [[spoiler:While Bond fathering a child originates in the Creator/IanFleming novel ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', the plotline was never followed up due to Fleming's death. Here Bond's child is named Mathilde and serves as an integral part of the film's third act.]]

* ChildOfTwoWorlds: Mathilde, the daughter of French psychiatrist Madeleine Swann, herself the daughter of Quantum and Spectre agent Mr. White, and [[spoiler: James Bond, English [=MI6=] agent and Mr. White's former nemesis.]]

* FamilyEyeResemblance: It's brought up more than once that [[spoiler: Mathilde has Bond's blue eyes.]]

* InnocentBlueEyes: She's a completely innocent child and has vibrant blue eyes [[spoiler: inherited from her father.]]

* BerserkButton: Having her ethnicity insulted seems to be hers. [[spoiler: When Obruchev, whom she's reluctantly trying to keep alive to take back to MI6, taunts her that he could engineer a Heracles strain capable of wiping out all people of African descent, including her, she coldly kicks him right into a pool of acid.]]

* AdvertisedExtra: Despite having her own poster and being named in the opening credits, Ana de Armas only appears for one sequence with roughly ten minutes of screentime. She was only featured wearing that party dress in the marketing so it was fairly predictable that she would have limited screentime.

* BondOneLiner: "I was such a big fan of his" [[spoiler:after blowing a hole in the ship to sink Bond and Leiter]]. Ambigously though as who he was a big fan of, Bond? Leiter? Or was he just being sarcastic?

* MeaningfulName: A man who wants to kill millions has a [[LouisCypher name based on the devil]]? Subtle.

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

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

The following bulleted items are friends of James Bond who are described on other character pages:

* [[Characters/JamesBondFelixLeiter Felix Leiter]]

The following bulleted items are villains who are described on other character pages:
* [[Characters/JamesBondFranzOberhauserErnstStavroBlofeld Blofeld]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: He chastises Madeleine for her love for Bond--"a killer!"-- when he's even ''more'' murderous and Bond at least kills for the greater good, unlike himself who's undeniably a villain.

* FreudianExcuse: His grudge against Blofeld stems from [[spoiler:the latter being responsible for his family's death by Mr. White. In retaliation, Safin kills off mother. He has all members of Spectre killed and gets his revenge against Blofeld by proxy by tricking 007 into infecting the man with nanobots]].

* TheBadGuyWins: Zigzagged. [[spoiler:Safin succeeds in dismantling SPECTRE by murdering all of its members (including Blofeld) with the nanobots in revenge for his family's demise. Even when Bond kills Safin and foils his endgame in using the nanobots to take over the world, Safin's actions were more than enough to cause Bond's death in return, making Safin the only villain in the 007 series ever to successfully do so. However, it's clear that killing Bond was not Safin's primary objective, merely a last act of spite against him for ruining his true plan.]]

* BondVillainStupidity: Though Safin averts most pitfalls of past Bond villains, he still makes some critical mistakes. He has a habit of getting close to his victims before he shoots them, whether because he wants to see them die up close or simply because he wants to be certain of his shot. This allows Madeline to survive long enough in the intro for him to change his mind about gunning her down. [[spoiler:In the finale, he walks within arm's length of Bond after shooting him from across the room, giving our hero the chance to disarm and kill him.]]

** He also takes a little bit from Dr. No in his dress, demeanour and use of an island to launch his scheme as well as his dynamic with Bond. Both he and Dr. No are also called out by Bond for their [[AGodAmI God complexes.]] A few fans even speculated that Creator/RamiMalek was actually playing Dr No when the first trailers dropped.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He speaks glowingly about his parents and [[spoiler:his whole vendetta against Spectre is to avenge his murdered family]].

** Towards Blofeld: 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]]. Also, while Blofeld is a NonActionBigBad, Safin is more than capable of killing people physically[[note]]though in Blofeld's case, it's implied he did kill people personally, but as he accumulated wealth and power over time, he let his proxies do the job[[/note]]. 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.

* NoNonsenseNemesis: What marks Safin apart from other Bond villains is his sheer focus on results over any form of flashy demise of grandiose schemes. [[spoiler: He wants Spectre dead, so he hijacks Blofeld's own grandiose use for the targeted weapon Heracles as a means of killing James in the midst of his birthday party, having Obruchev working for Blofeld as a Trojan horse so he can then gain access to the DNA of the Spectre members and turn the weapon on them, basically wiping out the organisation in one fell move at what they through would be the height of their revenge on Bond. He wants Blofeld dead, so he merely has Madeleine expose herself to a Heracles targeted for Blofeld. Though she changes her mind before going through with it, she accidentally spreads the nanomachines to others who then contact Blofeld instead, resulting in the mastermind dying without ever knowing who or what killed him in the end. When he confronts Bond at the climax, he just shoots him from his blind angle without announcing himself, severely wounding Bond and leaving him at his mercy until he gets too close. And even before he's overpowered in hand-to-hand combat and shot to death, he smashes a vial of Heracles targeted for both Madeleine and Mathilde on James, which will basically render him and anybody else he gets into contact with walking vectors that will eventually kill them. This last move, more than anything, is what ultimately drives Bond to enact a HeroicSacrifice, staying behind on the island rather than running for cover as a means of ensuring the deadly disease doesn't reach either of them, making Safin the only Bond villain so far to actually ''succeed'' in killing James Bond]].

* {{Revenge}}: And one for thing, he makes good on this intent: [[spoiler:Blofeld was responsible for his family's death by Madeleine's father, so Safin killed Madeleine's mother and all of the remaining Spectre leaders. He also tricked Bond into killing Blofeld by infecting him with nanobots. Even after being shot down to death by Bond, his machinations were enough to cause Bond's death in return.]]

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:He has a vial of nanobots designed to specifically kill Madeleine and Mathilde, and in his last breath, he smashes the vial on Bond's head, ensuring that Bond will have to kill himself to protect his family from the virus]].

* HideYourChildren: Major aversion. She's only the ''second'' child Bond has ever talked to in almost sixty years worth of movies, the first being a young Thai boy all the way back in ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''.

* LittleMissBadass: She bites Safin to get away from him, then hides until Bond and Madeleine find her, doing exactly as we heard her mother instruct her earlier.
* ManBitesMan: Near the end, she escapes from Safin's grip by biting his hand. Surprisingly, Safin didn't care and allowed her to run away if she wants to.

* HideYourChildren: Major aversion. She's only the ''second'' child Bond has ever talked to in almost sixty years worth of movies, the first being a Thai boy all the way back in ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''.

* TheAlcoholic: Her "medicine" is wine, probably to cope with the fact that her ex-husband is a killer working for a NebulousEvilOrganization and that her and her daughter's lives are endangered as a result (which is demonstrated by Safin finding them and coming at them).

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Mathilde is relatively unaffected by the chaos going on around her. Particularly highlighted when her parents are frantically driving her away from assassins who have come to kill or capture them all, and Mathilde is blissfully unaware of the danger while she ponders on a mosquito bite she's just received and asks her mother whether or not mosquitoes have friends. The only time she gets upset is when she loses her stuffed animal.

* EvilCounterpart: He's an evil version of Bond. While both lost their parents at a young age and harbor vendettas against Blofeld, what sets them apart is that Safin allowed his past to control him. Believing innocence to be a laughable concept and consumed by the loss of his family, Safin thinks everybody's fate must be under his control in order to save the world. On the flip side, no matter how much [[TheDeterminator he]] loses, 007 has accepted the losses in his life and fights for the greater good, believing innocence is something worth fighting for.

* FlawExploitation: [[spoiler: Ever since his family was murdered on Blofeld's orders, Safin is aware that Blofeld is an egotistical sadist who enjoys making people suffer for his own amusement and enjoys psychologically abusing them, especially Bond. He takes advantage of Blofeld's pride and sadism by changing the nannobots targets from Bond to the entire SPECTRE and even has him killed by Heracles infected by Bond, because he knew how Blofeld is so much into torturing him or Madeleine mentally.]]

** Towards Bond: both lost their parents in a very short age, have personal vendettas against Blofeld, and are professional killers. What sets them apart is that while Bond didn't wallow in his past and actively worked to stop ruthless villains, Safin allowed his past to consume him to the point he is an OmnicidalManiac. He even gives a NotSoDifferentRemark to Bond, which the latter dismisses as nonsense.

* SatanicArchetype: With a given name of "Lucifer" and a surname sounding similar to "Satan", Safin like the Satan of ''Paradise Lost'', has a [[AGodAmI god complex]] and is actively driven by revenge [[spoiler:against Blofeld for murdering his parents]]. He also has the classic RedRightHand scars on his face [[spoiler:due to a poisonous experience in his youth orchestrated by Blofeld]].
* ShadowArchetype: Safin shows what could happen if Bond never let go of the past and allowed it to control him instead of the other way around. Like Bond, Safin lost his family, [[spoiler:but they were murdered by Mr. White on behalf of Blofeld, something which also scarred him physically and mentally]]. As a result, Safin blamed his tragedy on society as a whole, finding innocence to be a laughable concept. Safin also openly gives a NotSoDifferentRemark to Bond in the sense that both are professional killers wanting to cleanse the world, but while Bond agrees that Safin's backstory may be enough to justify murdering Blofeld in revenge, his FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse for his crimes.

* HateSink: [[spoiler:Turns out he's in bed with Safin, hoping to use the nanites for nefarious purposes. He becomes even more loathsome when he taunts Nomi's African heritage and claims that he can reprogram the nanobots into wiping out Africans]].
* HerrDoktor: "Valdo" is a German name, it's possible that he's Russian-German.