History Characters / QuantumOfSolace

* HeroesWantRedheads: Bond snaps out of his brooding quite easily (even if briefly) once the redheaded Fields enters the picture.

* HeroesWantRedheads: The girlfriend of Bond's ally Mathis and she's a redhead.

->'''Played by:''' Creator/GemmaArterton

->'''Played by:''' Creator/OlgaKurylenko

->'''Played by:''' Creator/MathieuAmalric

->'''Played by:''' Anatole Taubman

->'''Played by:''' Glenn Foster

->'''Played by:''' Creator/SimonKassianides

->'''Played by:''' Creator/JoaquinCosio

->'''Played by:''' Fernando Guillén Cuervo

->'''Played by:''' Creator/DavidHarbour

->'''Played by:''' Creator/StanaKatic

->'''Played by:''' Lucrezia Lante della Rovere

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Ditches her shoes halfway through the film, and has absolutely no problems walking barefoot through a cold and damp cave, a burning desert with sharp rocks everywhere, and a city street. It's an aspect featured in promotional materials.

* GoldTooth: He's got one gold tooth on his upper jaw.

* TheNotLoveInterest: Despite nominally being a "Bond girl" and a major female ally to Bond throughout the film, in a rare [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] for the series she and Bond neither sleep with each other nor seem to have any overt romantic or sexual tension. though she spends the entire film on an obsessive revenge quest against the man who raped and murdered her family, and Bond himself is clearly not even remotely over his trauma from the death of [[TheLostLenore Vesper Lynd]].

Dominic Greene is the main villain of the film, and is part of the [[NebulousEvilOrganization Quantum organization]]. Greene runs a business organization called Greene Planet, which is supposedly devoted to buying up large sums of land for ecological preservation. This, however, is a front for his real plan, to control various commodities such as oil and water, the latter having to do with his current plot in Bolivia.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Tries to present himself as an HonestCorporateExecutive with Greene Planet, a supposedly ecological organization, but it's only a front for his real plans to control resources.

* DiabolicalMastermind: As a member of Quantum, he has all the resources, though he's a more toned down version to emphasize the hidden and secret nature of the film's contemporary villains.

%%* LackOfEmpathy

* MeaningfulName: Runs an organization with supposedly ecological goals.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Amalric has said he modeled Greene's mannerisms after former British Prime Minister UsefulNotes/TonyBlair and then-French President [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidentsOfFrance Nicolas Sarkozy]]. In the same breath he specified that this is not a commentary on them being real-life villains, but on how much showbusiness modern politics is.

%%* SissyVillain

* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: One long scene after having sex with Bond, she's dead.]]

* AgonyOfTheFeet: [[AnAxeToGrind As he wildly swings his axe]] [[AxCrazy like a raging lunatic]] against Bond in the finale, he unintentionally skewers his own foot with the axe, forcing him to limp for the rest of the film (through a desert).

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

* [[Characters/JamesBondM M]]

The following bulleted items are characters friendly to 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/JamesBondRecurringCharacters Mr. White]]

[[folder:General Medrano]]
!!General Medrano
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[[caption-width-right:315:''"My country is not some fly-speck in the middle of the Caribbean."'']]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/JoaquinCosio

An exiled Bolivian general that Greene is helping to overthrow his government in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of desert. He murdered Camille's family when he was a dictator.

* AttemptedRape: In the climax, Medrano attempts to rape some hotel waitress, before Camille enters the room and proceeds to send him to Hell. Especially significant due to what happened to Camille's mother and older sister.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: For all his cruelty, General Medrano does know how to fight, as shown in his fight with Camille.
* BananaRepublic: He was once in command of one. Now he wants to re-establish it.
* BigBadWannabe: Views himself as Dominic Greene's [[BigBadDuumvirate equal partner]], but Greene basically tells Medrano that he'll be a [[PuppetKing Puppet President]] once they put him in power, and if he doesn't like it, Greene's partners will simply have him killed and put another guy in his place (maybe even his own bodyguard). Medrano is seriously annoyed, but reluctantly concedes.
* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: Medrano has no problem with Quantum engineering a drought in his own country if it means that he will be the next dictator of it. He is much more annoyed when he finds out that he'll basically be a puppet and will further have to essentially hand over Bolivia's entire water supply to Quantum, but he decides its worth the price anyway. Granted, the threat of a bullet to the back of his head probably helped there.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Can come across as quite charming when he wants to but in reality he is an unrepentant murderer and rapist.
* TheGeneralissimo: A Bolivian general who seeks to become dictator his country.
* HateSink: He has no problem with Quantum engineering a drought in his own country as a pretext to seize power and sees himself as Greene's equal, but when he finds out that he'll have to essentially hand over Bolivia's entire water supply to Quantum, he is upset but reluctantly goes ahead with it. It's no reason why BondGirl Camille is after him, having raped her mother and sister before killing them, and attempts to rape Camille and a hotel waitress in the climax, but Camille [[KarmicDeath puts a bullet]] to his head.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Raped Camille's mother and sister before killing them, and attempts to rape a hotel waitress in the climax.
* KarmicDeath: Died at the hands of the daughter and sister of two of his victims.
* MoreDespicableMinion: He may just be TheDragon to Dominic Greene, but he's more ambitious and malevolent than his boss, being a confirmed [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapist]] [[AmbitionIsEvil who's only out to get power.]] Downplayed in regards to the fact that Greene isn't that far behind him in terms of cruelty.
* PornStache: Sports a mustache in the classic style. A quite dark example given that he's established to be a rapist.

[[folder:Elvis]]
!!Elvis
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->'''Played by:''' Anatole Taubman

Dominic Greene's friend and second in command.

* DodgyToupee: Wears a very visible toupee.
* TheDragon: To Dominic Greene, though he barely does anything other than play assistant.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Greene, apparently.
* RedRightHand: Downplayed with his DodgyToupee and the neckbrace that he has to wear later on after he is tripped down a flight of stairs.
* SissyVillain: Spends more time fixing his toupee than being any credible threat.
* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:As his boss is escaping in the climax, Elvis is set up to hold a line against Bond. Instead of a fight, Elvis meets his fate by being engulfed by an explosion that blows off his pants]].

[[folder:Carlos]]
!!Carlos
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->'''Played by:''' Fernando Guillén Cuervo

The Colonel of the Bolivian National Police Corps, the chief of all police forces, and the contact of René Mathis in Bolivia. Mathis doesn't know that Carlos is in league with Medrano. [[spoiler: Carlos has Mathis beaten by his men and places him in his own car trunk, setting a trap for Bond.]]

* BeardOfEvil: His goatee makes him look even more of a smug thug that he is.
* DirtyCop: To the extreme: the chief of police of Bolivia and in league with a James Bond villain.
* SinisterShades: Seen with sunglasses at all times.
* GoldTooth: He's got one gold tooth on his upper jaw.
* KarmicDeath: René Mathis thought that Carlos was his friend and ally, but he didn't know that Carlos was in league with the bad guys, and [[spoiler: Carlos has Mathis beaten and later killed by his men]]. So, during the climatic fight in the parking of the ESO Hotel:
-->'''Bond:''' You and I had a mutual friend! ''[Bond shoots him in the head]''
* SinisterShades: Seen with sunglasses at all times.

[[folder:Gregg Beam]]
!!Gregg Beam
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/DavidHarbour

A corrupt CIA Section Chief for South America in league with Greene.

* TheDragon: Beam takes on the role of Greene's when he agrees to eliminate Bond and sends CIA agents after him.
* OffscreenKarma: A throwaway line mentions that he was sacked and arrested for his role in Greene's plot.
* RogueAgent: He's in league with Dominic Greene in order to secure oil for the United States, ignoring that Greene's goal is to seize the majority of the Bolivian water supply.

[[folder:Craig Mitchell]]
!!Craig Mitchell
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->'''Played by:''' Glenn Foster

A senior [=MI6=] agent and M's personal bodyguard for five years, while secretly working for Quantum. He tries to kill M while she's interrogating Mr. White in Siena, allowing the latter to escape in the confusion. He is shot by Bond after a furious chase in the undergrounds and on the roofs of Siena during the Palio.

* BodyguardBetrayal: M's personal bodyguard and almost succeeds in killing her.
* {{Determinator}}: He puts quite a tough fight against Bond.
* {{Irony}}:
-->'''Mr. White:''' Well, then, the first thing you should know about us is that we have people everywhere. Am I right?
* TheMole: He was a mole within [=MI6=] for Quantum.
* RogueAgent: Craig's an [=MI6=] agent working with Quantum.

[[folder:Yusef Kabira]]
!!Yusef Kabira
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/SimonKassianides

Vesper Lynd's Algerian lover, who secretly works for Quantum. He seduces high-ranking women with valuable connections, getting them to give up government assets as ransom for himself in fake kidnappings where he is supposedly held hostage. He was believed to be dead at the end of ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006''. Bond confronts him in Kazan (Russia) at the end of ''Quantum of Solace'', and opts to capture him alive to be interrogated by the [=MI6=] instead of killing him out of revenge for Vesper's death. His fate is unknown after that point.

* AdaptationalJobChange: In ''Literature/CasinoRoyale'', Vesper's boyfriend was an RAF pilot. This version is a Quantum agent.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In ''Literature/CasinoRoyale'', Vesper's boyfriend was an innocent man captured by SMERSH. This guy is a manipulative sleaze who dupes women (including Vesper) while working for a nefarious organisation.
* TheCasanova: He seduced many female secret agents to obtain information from them.
* EvilAllAlong: He was said to have been kidnapped and killed by Quantum in ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006''. Turns out he faked both and worked for Quantum all along.
* FakedKidnapping: He was said to have been kidnapped by Quantum, the reason why Vesper Lynd was blackmailed by them into betraying Bond in ''Casino Royale''. Turns out Quantum faked it and he worked for them all along.
* FakingTheDead: It seemed at first that Quantum killed him, and a body purported to be his is even found, but at the beginning of the film it's established that it wasn't his, and at the end it's revealed that Quantum faked his death and he worked for them all along.
* GetItOverWith
--> '''Yusef:''' ''[to Bond]'' Please. Make it quick!
* HoneyTrap: His modus operandi. He seduces female secret agents and obtains informations from them once they're deeply in love with him.
* LoveInterestTraitor: It turns out that he seduced women with access to state secrets and used them to obtain and sell said secrets, including poor Vesper Lynd.
* ManipulativeBastard: Manipulates the emotions of the women he seduces into giving him information.
* MementoMacGuffin: The Algerian love knot he offers to all the women he seduces. Bond shows Vesper's to Corrine Veneau (a Canadian agent and Kabira's next prey), which prompts her to exit.

The Colonel of Bolivian Police, the chief of all police forces, and the contact of René Mathis in Bolivia. Mathis doesn't know that Carlos is in league with Medrano. [[spoiler: Carlos has Mathis beaten by his men and places him in his own car trunk, setting a trap for Bond.]]

* DirtyCop: He's in league with Dominic Greene in order to secure oil for the United States, ignoring that Greene's goal is to seize the majority of the Bolivian water supply.

* MoreDespicableMinion: He may just be TheDragon to Dominic Greene, but he's far more ambitious and malevolent than his boss, being a confirmed [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapist]] [[AmbitionIsEvil who's only out to get power.]]

* TheNotLoveInterest: Despite nominally being a "Bond girl" and a major female ally to Bond throughout the film, in a rare [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] for the series she and Bond neither sleep with each other nor seem to have any overt romantic or sexual tension. {{Justified|Trope}} since she spends the entire film on an obsessive revenge quest against the man who raped and murdered her family, and Bond himself is clearly not even remotely over his trauma from the death of [[TheLostLenore Vesper Lynd]].

* VillainousBreakdown: In the final fight his plans [[StuffBlowingUp explode]] around his ears, he goes insane, trying to chop Bond to little pieces [[AxCrazy using an axe]] while making sounds more appropriately shrieked by demonic monkeys. His fury gets the better of him when he ''axes himself in the foot''.

* MixedAncestry: Bolivian father, Russian mother.

* [[Characters/JamesBondTheCharacter James Bond]].

[[folder: James Bond]]
-->See [[Characters/JamesBondTheCharacter here]].
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[[folder: M]]
-->See [[Characters/JamesBondM here]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Bill Tanner]]
-->See [[Characters/JamesBondRecurringCharacters here]].
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[[folder: René Mathis]]
-->See [[Characters/JamesBondRecurringCharacters here]].
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[[folder: Felix Leiter]]
-->See [[Characters/JamesBondFelixLeiter here]].
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[[folder: Mr. White]]
-->See [[Characters/JamesBondRecurringCharacters here]].
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Amalric has said he modeled Greene's mannerisms after UsefulNotes/TonyBlair and UsefulNotes/NicolasSarkozy. In the same breath he specified that this is not a commentary on them being real-life villains, but on how much showbusiness modern politics is.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Amalric has said he modeled Greene's mannerisms after Tony Blair and Nicolas Sarkozy. In the same breath he specified that this is not a commentary on them being real-life villains, but on how much showbusiness modern politics is.

* TheNotLoveInterest: Despite nominally being a "Bond girl" and a major female ally to Bond throughout the film, in a rare [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] for the series she and Bond neither sleep with each other nor seem to have any overt romantic or sexual tension. Which makes sense, since she spends the entire film on an obsessive revenge quest against the man who raped and murdered her family, and Bond himself is clearly not even remotely over his trauma from the death of [[TheLostLenore Vesper Lynd]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I wish I could set you free, but your prison is in there."'']]

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[[caption-width-right:253:''"You two do make the perfect couple. You are, what's the expression? Damaged goods!"'']]

* BigBad: While Quantum is still pulling the strings in the background, he's still the main antagonist to beat in the film.