History Characters / NoTimeToDie

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: He mortally wounded Felix with a gunshot to the stomach area, rendering him unable to move on his own, and then blew a hole in the boat they were on, flooding it and ensuring his demise. When James confronts him later, the car he's chasing him with in the midst of a misty forest ends up overturning upon colliding with a collapsed tree, leaving Ash badly wounded and unable to move on his own. The car is left suspended over him atop a ditch with only a small tree keeping it from rolling forwards into him and crushing him, and the tree is rapidly being broken from the weight of the leaning vehicle. Ash begs James to help him, calling him a 'brother']].
-->'''[[spoiler: James:]]''' [[spoiler: "[[AndThisIsFor I had a brother. His name was Felix Leiter]]."]]\\
''[[spoiler: (Grabs the car and pulls it down, tearing it free to roll onto Ash and crush him)]]''

!!!'''Played by:''' Dali Benssalah

* BadassAdorable: Has a kind, friendly, sweet-natured disposition, as well as a cute-and-cuddly appearance more befitting a fresh out of highschool GirlNextDoor, and yet is hands-down the deadliest lady in the Film/JamesBond film series since perhaps Wai Lin all the way back in ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies''.

* BigBadEnsemble: With Blofeld.

* DragonInChief: A more physical foe for Bond compared to Safin.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: She hits Obruchev for annoying her in the climax, breaking his nose, and then [[spoiler: delivers this in a more literal fashion by kicking him into a pool of acid after one too many nasty remarks.]]

!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/DaisukeNamikawa

!!! '''Dubbed by:''' Creator/AlexisTomassian (European French)

* HiddenAgendaVillain: His actions regarding the nanobots are known, but nobody really knows ''why''. This ties into Safin averting the BondVillainStupidity, StupidEvil, and VillainBall tropes -- why would he gloat about it to a man he plans to defeat as said man can later ''use'' it against him?

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Blofeld, though they are both present in the movie. Not only Safin is the young to Blofeld's old, but his more practical and pragmatic approach to villainy averts the BondVillainStupidity of the previous antagonist (and all other bad guys that came before him). Furthermore, [[spoiler: Safin genuinely cared deeply for his family and acts in revenge for their deaths whereas Blofeld cared only for himself and killed his parents for believing he was TheUnfavourite. While Blofeld was motivated by nothing but sheer jealousy and petulance, Safin was driven by a legitimate desire for revenge and believes he's making the world a better place in his own twisted way. Blofeld is all but stated to have been a sociopath from birth who was always on track to becoming rotten while Safin was once an innocent kid whose life was destroyed by Blofeld and was pushed into villainy. Last, but not least, Blofeld is a NonActionBigBad who relies on his minions all the time whereas Safin is more than capable of killing people by himself.]] And while Blofeld was a central figure from Bond's past and his arch enemy who devoted his life to making Bond suffer, he and Safin had no prior connection and only meet through Bond's connection to Blofeld and Madeline and he has no personal animosity towards Bond.

* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Safin kills Blofeld indirectly for the murder of his family. Mind you, he and his family were needlessly dragged in Blofeld's petty revenge against Bond. So it's very fitting for Safin to give him the taste of his own medicine, literally.]]

* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: He is completely calm when Bond is about to shoot him dead and doesn't try to run, fight back or beg for his life, as he knows fully well that his last act on Bond is enough to cause the latter's death.]]

* 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 arrogance by changing the nanobots' 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.]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: No tears were shed when he murdered much of Spectre's leadership and then Blofeld himself.]]

* 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 EvilPlan to a man he plans to defeat, especially whilst they're still underway?

* KnightOfCerebus: He tops Blofeld in this, as he kicks off the movie murdering Madaeleine Swann's mother when she was a child, and years later, has developed a mutagenic weapon threatening the world, and he does the one thing no other Bond villain did: ''[[spoiler:[[HeroKiller he kills Bond himself]].]]''

* KnightOfCerebus: He tops Blofeld in this, as he kicks off the movie murdering Madaeleine Swann's mother when she was a child, and years later, has developed a mutagenic weapon threatening the world, and he does the one thing no other Bond villain did: ''[[spoiler:[[HeroKiller he kills Bond himself.]]]]''

* KnightOfCerebus: He tops Blofeld in this, as he kicks off the movie murdering Madaeleine Swann's mother when she was a child, and years later, has developed a mutagenic weapon threatening the world, and he does the one thing no other Bond villain did: ''[[spoiler:[[HeroKiller he kills Bond himself.]]''

* YeOldeNuclearSilo: His base appears to be a former Soviet military base on the Kuril Islands. The sub pen dates back to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, but the missile launching doors scream UsefulNotes/ColdWar.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Being kicked into an acidic pool of nanobots is not a nice way to go. Not that the bastard didn't deserve it.]]

* FourEyesZeroSoul: He wears glasses, and he's a MadScientist with genocidal thoughts.
* 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 her race]].

* FinalGirl: [[spoiler: Of the supporting Bond Girl variety. While many of the supporting ones before her (Solange, Fields and Severine) died, that too after having [[DeathBySex sex]] with Bond, and Lucia's fate is unknown right now, Paloma is that one girl [[SurprisinglyHappyEnding who comes out alive]], alongside the lead female characters Nomi and Madeleine. It's also very fitting that she has one of the traits of that trope back in the early years: being a CelibateHero.]]

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: When she's escaping from the Spectre meeting with Obruchev in tow, Bond disengages her zipline. She ends up slamming into the building below along with her escort.

* 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. Despite Safin's death, his last act of infecting Bond with nanobots containing Madeleine and Mathilde's DNA was more than enough to cause Bond's death in return, as Bond himself refuses to endanger both Madeleine and Mathilde's lives.]]

* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: He murdered Madeleine's mother in the past - an innocent, unarmed woman. Though he did spare Madeleine and Mathilde, he has a vial of Heracles meant for them and uses it on Bon d- fully expecting them to die at his hands out of spite against Bond for ruining his plans. To say nothing of how many women would have been killed had he managed to spread the virus all over the world...]]

* WeaponOfChoice: Favors the 9mm Beretta [=M9A3=] handgun, the upgraded current generation version of the 92FS pistol. He uses it to [[spoiler:wound 007 mortally]] and is then [[spoiler: shot dead with it in turn by 007 who gets ahold of it.]]

* ShesGotLegs: Her dress shows off her legs, especially when she's kicking ass with them.

* GenderInvertedTrope: He represents the RareMaleExample of the SilkHidingSteel and MoreDeadlyThanTheMale. [[spoiler: Like most vengeful female villains, he also has FreudianExcuse of being nearly murdered and abused by a psychopath (Blofeld) who irreparably damaged his life and goes after him and people like him (SPECTRE). Like the first trope mentioned, he is also shown to be very elegant and graceful but is shown to be capable of putting up a fight and as for the second trope mentioned here, he is even shown to be deadlier, more vicious and more cunning than the previous main villains of the Craig era (Le Chiffre, Dominic Greene, Raoul Silva and Blofeld) and even manages to cause the death of James Bond.]]

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Blofeld, though they are both present in the movie. Not only Safin is the young to Blofeld's old, but his more practical and pragmatic approach to villainy averts the BondVillainStupidity of the previous antagonist (and all other bad guys that came before him). Furthermore, [[spoiler: Safin cared for his family and acts in revenge for their deaths whereas Blofeld cared only for himself and killed his parents for believing he was TheUnfavourite. Last, but not least, Blofeld is a NonActionBigBad who relies on his minions all the time whereas Safin is more than capable of killing people by himself.]] And while Blofeld was a central figure from Bond's past and his arch enemy who devoted his life to making Bond suffer, he and Safin had no prior connection and only meet through Bond's connection to Blofeld and Madeline and he has no personal animosity towards Bond.

** 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.

* GoodIsNotSoft: She's a 00 agent working for MI6 in a similar capacity to Bond and thus one of the good guys, but 00 agents need to have killed at least two people to get that status. [[spoiler: In the climax, when Dr. Obruchev threatens to wipe out her entire race with the Heracles nanobots, she responds by kicking him off a catwalk into a pool full of them and this is after seeing the corpse of a guard she shot be melted when it fell in.]]

* VillainKiller: He has a reputation of hunting down and killing members of Spectre, the franchise's UltimateEvil so secret that none of the world's government agencies (including [=MI6=] and the CIA), not even Bond or Leiter themselves, have been able to shut them down after decades of trying. [[spoiler:Safin wipes the entire group out, including Blofeld.]]

* LouisCypher: His given name is the Russian translation for "Lucifer", while his surname sounds similar to "Satan". Fitting for the movie's BigBad, who has a [[AGodAmI God complex]].