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| 4 | '''[[center: [- [[Characters/JamesBond Main Character Index]] -]]]''' |
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| 6 | Characters sheet for the Film/JamesBond film ''Film/{{GoldenEye}}''. |
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| 8 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 10 | !![=MI6=] |
| 11 | |
| 12 | * [[Characters/JamesBondTheCharacter James Bond]] |
| 13 | * [[Characters/JamesBondMajorRecurringCharacters M]] |
| 14 | * [[Characters/JamesBondMajorRecurringCharacters Moneypenny]] |
| 15 | * [[Characters/JamesBondMajorRecurringCharacters Q]] |
| 16 | * [[Characters/JamesBondRecurringCharacters Bill Tanner]] |
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| 18 | !!Bond's Allies |
| 19 | |
| 20 | [[folder:Natalya Simonova]] |
| 21 | !!Natalya Fyodorovna Simonova |
| 22 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/izabella_scorupco_2938.jpg]] |
| 23 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Oh, stop it, both of you! Stop it! You're like boys with toys!"'']] |
| 24 | !!!'''Played by:''' Creator/IzabellaScorupco |
| 25 | |
| 26 | A computer programmer at Severnaya, she survives the massacre of her colleagues and the subsequent EMP attack on the facility. She then starts searching for the other survivor, Boris Grishenko, and meets Bond along the way. Possibly the most clever Bond Girl in the entire film series, she is often shown thinking on her feet to stay ahead of the villains. |
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| 28 | * ActionSurvivor: After meeting Bond, she's present through pretty much all of his action scenes and hangs on pretty well, given that she doesn't do any fighting. She does, at least, have working knowledge of pistols and uses one to hold up a helicopter pilot. |
| 29 | * AlmightyJanitor: [[spoiler:She's only a second-level programmer that worked on the guidance system, and that is ''exactly'' what she sabotages. While she can't remote-command the second [=GoldenEye=] satellite to self-destruct or to cancel the countdown, she does command it to de-orbit and burn up in re-entry. It is her sabotage that saves the day; Bond's actions are more to prevent Trevelyan and Boris from countermanding her deorbit order to the killsat.]] |
| 30 | * BadLiar: |
| 31 | ** She tells Bond that she's never been to Severnaya, let alone knows anything about the incident. Bond doesn't believe her for a minute, his hunch confirmed when he looks at her watch, which is frozen as a result of the blast. |
| 32 | ** Otherwise downplayed; she astutely misdirects her way through the annals of Russian politics and is actually making headway to finding the truth behind Severnaya before she puts her trust in the wrong person. |
| 33 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "Boys with toys!", said not long after she encounters a man who's not exactly very serious and creates a conflict. Which happens a lot. |
| 34 | * DeadpanSnarker: Yup. After her day from Hell, where she narrowly avoids being gunned down like her coworkers, killed by a KillSat, blown up by a missile, shot by Russian troops, kidnapped by Ouromov, and blown up by a bomb, she has quite a very sarcastic barbs about [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou everything trying to kill her and Bond.]] |
| 35 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: She has her own sub-plot which runs parallel to Bond's until they meet in the stolen helicopter. |
| 36 | * FieryRedhead: A redhead who takes no crap from Bond or Trevelyan. |
| 37 | * GirlOfTheWeek: The main Bond Girl of the film, but not in a TokenRomance. Her character is given more focus than most, and she has her own sub-plot up until she meets Bond. |
| 38 | * InopportuneVoiceCracking: Natalya's voice cracks as she yells at Bond to wake up when they find themselves trapped inside the helicopter that's about to shoot itself with its own missiles. |
| 39 | * TheLancer: To Bond. As said above, she has her own sub-plot prior to meeting Bond. |
| 40 | * LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The Light to Xenia's Dark. Her sensuality is the more subdued between the two, and she's the heroic Bond girl of the picture. |
| 41 | * LivingMacGuffin: For the villains, she is a target, as she witnessed Ourumov's betrayal. Bond knows about her as well, but she isn't his primary target. |
| 42 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: She gives Boris one hell of a beating and a brutal piece of her mind when she encounters him again. |
| 43 | -->'''Natalya:''' This is not one of your games, Boris! Real people will ''die'', you pathetic little worm! |
| 44 | * RightManInTheWrongPlace: She was a thoroughly unremarkable (if pretty) computer programmer at a Russian military installation until [[TheGeneralissimo Ourumov]] and [[PsychoForHire Xenia]] conduct their lethal "drill" at Severnaya, and it forges her into what she is. |
| 45 | * SensualSlavs: Downplayed; while she's undeniably an attractive woman, she initially dresses and carries herself in a slightly dowdy fashion, as her pre-Bond scenes are at work and in chilly St. Petersburg. It's only once she starts hanging out with Bond in Cuba that her more sensual side comes out. |
| 46 | * SerendipitousSurvival: She only survives the Severnaya massacre because she happened to leave the main room for a quick coffee break right before General Ourumov showed up. |
| 47 | * SoleSurvivor: Of the Severnaya Massacre that wiped out all the staff at the base except Boris, who turns out to have been TheMole for the syndicate. She survives by a mixture of luck and misdirection and has just enough time to take in the scope of the massacre before the literal roof falls in. |
| 48 | * SheKnowsTooMuch: The villains' whole reason for wanting to kill her: she's the only one (other than Boris, who's [[TheMole really on their side]]) who knows what ''really'' happened at the outpost, thus they want to ensure she can't spill the beans. |
| 49 | * TraumaCongaLine: The whole Severnaya sequence can essentially be summed up as the universe playing a game of "let's see how many ways we can traumatise Natalya Simonova while narrowly avoiding killing her". |
| 50 | * {{Tsundere}}: Type A. She only warms up to Bond after he saves her life, although this is with good reason; while she thought Boris was a lecherous pig, he was still her friend and she was shocked by his betrayal; she also has no idea who Bond is or what side he's on. |
| 51 | [[/folder]] |
| 52 | |
| 53 | * [[Characters/JamesBondRecurringCharacters Jack Wade]] |
| 54 | |
| 55 | !!Villains |
| 56 | |
| 57 | [[folder:Alec Trevelyan]] |
| 58 | !!Alec Trevelyan / Janus (formerly Agent 006) |
| 59 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alec_trevelyan.jpg]] |
| 60 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Why can't you just be a good boy and die?"'']] |
| 61 | !!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SeanBean |
| 62 | |
| 63 | A renegade 00 agent and the main villain of the film. Having come from a family of Lienz Cossacks who were betrayed by the British when attempting to defect from the USSR in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Alec seeks revenge on all of the United Kingdom. Quite possibly Bond's most personal enemy in any of the films, having been his friend while serving in the [[UsefulNotes/SecretIntelligenceService MI6]]. |
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| 65 | * ActuallyPrettyFunny: He seems genuinely amused while watching Natalya [[PayEvilUntoEvil beating the crap out of Boris]]. |
| 66 | * AntiVillain: Subverted. His revenge scheme falls flat when Bond brands him a petty thief, which does aggravate Trevelyan a little too much for it to be inaccurate. |
| 67 | * ArmourPiercingQuestion: Hands out to Bond left and right, mocking him on his preference to duty over friends, his FatalFlaw for women, and how [[FailureHero he frequently loses allies while on missions]]. |
| 68 | * BadBoss: Orders one of his men to kill Boris if he fails to fix the satellite uplink. |
| 69 | * BerserkButton: Downplayed. While he doesn't explode in anger, 006 certainly looks pissed off when Bond deconstructs his FreudianExcuse and tells him his plan amounts to nothing but petty theft. |
| 70 | * BestServedCold: Waited at least a decade to carry out his vengeful master plan against the British government, though granted he might not have known about (or had access to) the [=GoldenEye=] satellite until after faking his death. |
| 71 | * BeyondRedemption: When Trevelyan outs himself as Janus, Bond hopelessly tries reasoning with him, but Trevelyan even laces his BreakingSpeech to 007 with derision, mocking his outdated loyalties to England and whether he regrets killing people. At the end, Bond [[TranquilFury pays]] Trevelyan's treachery by ''deliberately'' dumping him down to his death, but not before making it clear ItsPersonal. |
| 72 | * BigBad: The main antagonist of the movie, planning to get revenge on the British government using a KillSat. |
| 73 | * BigBadFriend: Trevelyan was once Bond's partner and best friend, but after faking his death, becomes the villain of the film. |
| 74 | * BlasphemousBoast: In a minor example, Trevelyan tells Ouromov "...in 48 hours, you and I will have more money than God." |
| 75 | * BondVillainStupidity: |
| 76 | ** Bond is captured by Trevelyan's henchman in Cuba, and [[IWantThemAlive Trevelyan insists on talking to him rather than just killing him]]. However, a few minutes later when Natalya is captured, it's revealed that she [[spoiler:reprogrammed the [=GoldenEye=] satellite to descend and burn up in the atmosphere]]. Trevelyan then holds Bond at gunpoint to make her fix it. |
| 77 | ** The worst case is during the climax, where Trevelyan manages to start overpowering Bond during their final showdown and succeeds in grabbing Bond's gun, training it over him. Instead of just firing immediately, Trevelyan holds it on him for several seconds and then starts to smirk as he begins to gloat, which gives Bond the chance to notice that he's directly over the antenna platform and kick the ladder to it out, sliding down it to the platform while Trevelyan wastes the gun's remaining ammo trying to shoot at the space Bond had previously just been standing at. |
| 78 | * BreakingSpeech: Has a tendency to give these to Bond, pointing out his hard-drinking, womanizing nature, that he had killed many people, and has seen in turn people close to him die. |
| 79 | * BrokenPedestal: Bond once considered him his best friend, but once he's revealed to be the BigBad, 007 now holds nothing but contempt. |
| 80 | * CanonForeigner: Like the majority of Bond villains post the Roger Moore era, he did not exist in any of the books. He ''might'' be partially based on Hugo Drax of ''Literature/{{Moonraker}}'', who was also TwoFaced and wanted to blow up London to settle a grudge dating back to World War II. |
| 81 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "For England, James?" Which starts to veer in a ArmourPiercingQuestion as the movie goes by. |
| 82 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: He betrayed England, his best friend 007, and even has Ourumov killed off when the Russian general is unnerved that Trevelyan is a descendant of the Cossacks who allied with the Nazis. |
| 83 | * ClassicVillain: He is motivated by Greed and Wrath, planning to steal from the Bank of England by using the titular KillSat and plunge the world economy into chaos in revenge for the British government betraying his people, who were Lienz Cossacks sent back to Stalin. He also [[TheResenter envies]] Bond for having the luxury of losing his parents to natural causes, while Trevelyan's own parents killed themselves out of survivor's guilt. |
| 84 | * ComplexityAddiction: |
| 85 | ** Trevelyan puts Bond in a helicopter that's about to blow itself up, which he escapes from. This one has a justification, since Trevelyan was ''not'' trying to kill Bond (he was pretty sure Bond would get out of it), but intending to incriminate him for crimes Trevelyan has committed or had carried with his "Janus" cover against the Russians with that very helicopter (namely, the shootings at Severnaya and the subsequent cover-up with the explosion). When the Russians show up after the explosion and find Bond with the wreckage, they assume the worst and take him into custody. |
| 86 | ** It's played straight when Trevelyan tries to kill Bond in the train car rigged to explode in [[spoiler:"[[IronicEcho the same six minutes you gave me]].",]] feeling the need to give Bond a KarmicDeath, and of course, it's just enough time for Bond to escape. There was no reason Trevelyan couldn't have set the timers just long enough for his chopper to get clear or have used explosives that could be detonated by remote or simply not told Bond about them. |
| 87 | * DeadpanSnarker: As per the running motif of him being a EvilCounterpart to Bond, he indulges in similar sardonic wit. |
| 88 | * DeathByLookingUp: [[spoiler:He barely survives a DisneyVillainDeath just to get crushed by the antenna. To be fair, since he was very likely crippled by the hundred foot fall, it was a miracle he was able to "look up" at all.]] |
| 89 | * DeathGlare: Gives a splendid one of these, followed by an extensive tirade when Bond deconstructs his FreudianExcuse. |
| 90 | * DiabolicalMastermind: A massively powerful criminal and renegade who masterminds the plot to steal the Goldeneye so he can get revenge on Britain. |
| 91 | * DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:When Bond is able to defeat him, he gets dropped off the cradle and onto the concrete lakebed of his satellite. Then the antenna explodes and falls on him to make sure he's dead.]] |
| 92 | * DisproportionateRetribution: In the words of Bond himself, 006's EvilPlan consists of "a worldwide financial meltdown so he can settle a grudge with the British Government fifty years on." |
| 93 | * EtTuBrute: Bond was visibly shocked and betrayed that not only did 006 survive the Arkhangelsk explosion, but is also the real villain. |
| 94 | * EvilBrit: He is a Brit descended from Lienz Cossacks. |
| 95 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: Averted. He knows that 007 [[WeCanRuleTogether won't join his scheme]] and [[JustFollowingOrders would prioritize the mission]] over his friends. |
| 96 | * EvilCounterpart: To Bond of course, and probably the most out of anyone in the series. Alec's character is the most similar to Bond, being a former 00 agent and matches him in physique, skill and spycraft. Out of all the villains in the series he's one of the few {{Big Bad}}s to match James Bond blow-for-blow, as shown in their brutal close quarters fight atop the dish array. Unlike Bond's loyalty to queen and country, his loyalty is only to himself. While both Bond and Trevelyan kill in cold blood, Bond usually kills only when necessary, but Alec is a straight up villain and will kill whomever he pleases. Sean Bean works so well because he's almost as perfect as James Bond as he is as James Bond's enemy. Along with Creator/PierceBrosnan, Bean was in fact one of the actors initially considered to replace Creator/RogerMoore before Creator/TimothyDalton took the role. |
| 97 | * EvilFormerFriend: Bond reflexively catches him before a fatal fall at one point, seemingly on sheer reflex because of their friendship. [[spoiler:And then [[TranquilFury coldly drops him,]] but not before making it clear ItsPersonal.]] |
| 98 | * EvilGloating: Following an intense fist fight, Trevelyan is armed, 007 is at gunpoint... and he stops to breathe and then say "You know, James? I was always better," before shooting - and he misses, [[IdiotBall because his pause gave]] Bond a chance to kick open a trapdoor and go down a staircase. |
| 99 | * EvilIsPetty: He's willing to cause the collapse of Western civilization to settle a score with the British government (even though the individuals who actually indirectly wronged him are too old or dead) and make himself rich. He is also genuinely pissed off that Bond is trying to stop him and for giving him the scars even though [[MoralMyopia he keeps trying to kill Bond himself]] (and he kills tons of other people as well) ''and'' it was [[NeverMyFault his fault for being a dangerous criminal in the first place!]] |
| 100 | ** The scar deserves a special mention. He specifically blames Bond for shortening the timer on the bombs from six minutes to three, apparently not caring Bond didn't think to give him enough time to escape, [[FakingTheDead because he had just seen him get shot in the head.]] |
| 101 | * EvilPlan: He seeks revenge against the British government for betraying his family, who were Lienz Cossacks sent back to Stalin, by detonating the [=GoldenEye=] over London. Furthermore, he planned to steal billions of pounds from the Bank of England — as well as all sorts of data like credit ratings, land registers and criminal records — and the records of the transactions will be zapped, leaving him very rich and leaving the British — and indeed, the world — economy in shambles. |
| 102 | * EvilWearsBlack: He mostly wears all black clothes. |
| 103 | * FaceHeelTurn: Subverted in that while appearing a loyal [=MI6=] agent on the outside before his supposed death, he was seemingly planning his EvilPlan for who knows how long. |
| 104 | * FacialHorror: Half of his face is disfigured from the Arkhangelsk explosion. |
| 105 | * FakingTheDead: Fakes his death in an operation gone awry in 1986 and maintained it for nine years straight. |
| 106 | * TheFarmerAndTheViper: Bond once considered Alec his best friend and comrade-in-arms, and even mourned his death. But when Trevelyan reveals that he not only survived the Arkhangelsk explosion, but is also the true villain, Bond's [[EtTuBrute reaction]] changes to anger and shock. Trevelyan even laces his BreakingSpeech to 007 [[HiddenDisdainReveal with derision]], pointing out his FatalFlaw for women, whether he has any qualms killing people, his loyalty to England, and even his skills as an agent. Near the end, Trevelyan even tries to kill Bond near the climax. Bond [[SaveTheVillain seemingly catches]] 006 before a fatal fall from the satellite antenna seemingly on sheer reflex because of their past friendship, but then [[TranquilFury pays]] Trevelyan's treachery back by ''deliberately'' dumping him down, but not before 007 makes it clear ItsPersonal. |
| 107 | * FauxAffablyEvil: After outing himself as the BigBad, Trevelyan's HiddenDisdainReveal of Bond is laced with derision. Near the end, he even tries to kill Bond. |
| 108 | * FinalExchange: Between him and Bond. |
| 109 | -->'''Alec:''' For England, James?\ |
| 110 | '''Bond:''' No. [[ItsPersonal For me.]]\ |
| 111 | ''[Bond drops him off a giant satellite dish]'' |
| 112 | * FirstNameBasis: Always refers to Bond as James. |
| 113 | * FlawExploitation: A master of psychological warfare, he exploits 007's CartwrightCurse by delivering a nasty remark about Bond's deceased wife Teresa. It was particularly effective as very few people have such knowledge of Bond's personal life and coming from a man Bond once considered a close friend, [[BreakThemByTalking it allowed it to cut deep]]. Bond's attitude throughout the later films (specifically his [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x390eac desperate attempt to resuscitate Jinx]]) clearly indicates that this statement has rankled him. |
| 114 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: |
| 115 | ** Our first glimpse of him is when he is concealed in the shadows, pointing a gun at Bond's head and shouting at him in Russian. |
| 116 | ** Some of the theme song's lyrics foreshadow his immense hatred of the UK for their past transgressions and a personal grudge with Bond for changing the bomb's timers during the Arkhangelsk mission (the other reason being that he hated 007's loyalty to Her Majesty, skills, and constant womanizing to cover up for their deaths). |
| 117 | * FreudianExcuse: He despises England for the betrayal of the Lienz Cossacks, most of whom were promptly executed by Stalin. While Alec's parents survived, the [[SurvivorsGuilt trauma]] of surviving Stalin's death squads [[DrivenToSuicide drove them to suicide]]. [=MI6=] was aware that the events took place in Alec's youth and thought that he'll eventually forget about it, but they were unaware of the raw anger the man harbored against Britain. |
| 118 | ** Likewise, he also has a personal grudge against Bond over his facial disfigurement, as Bond shortened the timer on the bombs they set and therefore didn't give Alec enough time to escape the blast unscathed. This despite the Bond believing they were both about to be taken prisoner, and as he then watched what he thought was his friend being executed, had every reason to believe that Alec was already dead. |
| 119 | * FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: He claims a hatred for both Bond and his government based on their (perceived) past transgressions. Backstory and motivations aside, 007 claims that "mad little" Alec's excuse doesn't justify his crimes. It provokes Trevelyan to give a ShutUpKirk speech to Bond, [[VillainHasAPoint pointing out his weaknesses]]. |
| 120 | * FriendOrIdolDecision: When Bond gets on the train, Trevelyan has Ourumov holding a pistol to her head, while he and Xenia stand on the other side of the car, giving Bond a sadistic choice: "So, what's the choice James? Two targets; time enough for one shot: the girl or the mission?" |
| 121 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: His right cheek has the type that is decidedly evil. It's similar to Drax's physical description from the original ''Literature/{{Moonraker}}'' novel, and is also visibly similar to Blofeld's scar. |
| 122 | * GoodIsOldFashioned: Mocks 007 for being "Her Majesty's loyal terrier," his status as TheCasanova, and adhering to old-fashioned espionage tactics. Of course, Bond makes a NotSoDifferentRemark of his own, stating that "mad little" Alec himself is stuck in the past as his grudge against England involves settling an old score. |
| 123 | * GunshipRescue: Trevelyan tries to call one in to get rid of Bond while on top of the transmitter. |
| 124 | * {{Greed}}: He intends not only to dick over the UK, but steal an exorbitant sum of money from the country in the process. Bond almost seems [[DisappointedByTheMotive disappointed by how idiotic Alec's motivations truly are.]] |
| 125 | * HandStomp: As Bond dangles from the ladder off of the satellite dish, Trevelyan steps on his hand, presses down, and finally stomps on it, causing him to fall. (But of course, his hand [[MadeOfIron remains unbroken]]) |
| 126 | * HannibalLecture: In response to Bond's KirkSummation, he mocks 007 for his outdated values and FatalFlaw for losing women on missions. |
| 127 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: Deconstructed. Part of his grudge against England is because his parents, who were part of the Lienz Cossacks who worked with the Nazis against the Russians during WWII, tried to defect back to the Allies near the end of the war, but were instead sent back to Stalin, who promptly executed them for treason. Trevelyan is obviously pissed about this and seeks to make England pay, as these events caused his parents to kill themselves out of survivor's guilt. Also, [[NeverMyFault he blames Bond for scarring his face because 007 changed the bomb's timers to three minutes instead of six.]] Once Bond learns of his motives however, he simply calls Alec out, claiming that most of the innocents he's going to kill have nothing to do with it. |
| 128 | * HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Janus. Prior to Bond meeting him, it's mentioned that he hasn't been seen by anyone outside of his syndicate. This keeps people from finding out that he's actually Alec Trevelyan. |
| 129 | * HiddenDisdainReveal: When it turns out that Alec is in fact alive and the villain of the film, his longstanding contempt for Bond is revealed in practically everything he says — his loyalty to England and [=MI6=], his womanizing (in particular, that it's partly a cover to hide his grief over [[TheLostLenore Tracy's]] death), and even his skills as an agent. |
| 130 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: Not an entirely straight example, but [[spoiler:Trevelyan being crushed by the transmitter dish certainly counts]]. |
| 131 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 132 | ** Despite mocking Bond on his outdated values, he himself is stuck in the past for trying to settle an old grudge against England. |
| 133 | ** He gives Bond shit for supposedly being more loyal to the mission and to 'queen and country' than he was to Alec, his friend. Ironically, Alec himself was a FalseFriend to James and was more than happy to sell him out if it meant he could get his petty revenge and some money. |
| 134 | ** When Bond tries driving a wedge between Alec and Ouromov by outing Alec as a Lienz Cossack, Alec snarls "It's in the past," conveniently ignoring that his grudge against England is also over something "in the past." |
| 135 | * IHaveYouNowMyPretty: He gets a bit unwelcome-touchy with Natalya after she's been captured and they're on the train, eventually forcing a kiss on her. She responds by giving him a smack on the face. |
| 136 | -->'''Trevelyan:''' You know, James and I shared everything. Absolutely everything. To the victor go the spoils. You'll like it where we're going. You'll even learn to like me. |
| 137 | * IdiotBall: |
| 138 | ** Despite remembering how Q's gadgets work, he still lets Boris to play with Bond's confiscated pen. |
| 139 | ** Neither he nor Bond nor grab any magazines for their assault rifles during their final confrontation. |
| 140 | ** Following an intense fist fight, he holds 007 at gunpoint, but not before gloating about "being the best," but his pause before shooting at Bond gave him a chance to kick open a trapdoor and go down a staircase. |
| 141 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: He has a giant satellite dish slam into him from above. |
| 142 | * InsaneTrollLogic: A little, since he blames James for his scarred up face because he shortened the timer on the bombs they had set together. Alec had already sold James out to the Russians by that point, and James ''barely'' escaped with his life, but all Alec can think about is what James ''accidentally'' did to ''[[ItsAllAboutMe him. And as far as James knew, Alec was already dead anyway.]]'' |
| 143 | * InsecureProtagonistArrogantAntagonist: He verbally belittles Bond by mocking his abilities, asking whether he has qualms killing people, his weakness for women, and whether he can [[WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell accept the post-Cold War reality]]. This becomes a major focus point in later Bond films, questioning the relevance of field spies like 007. |
| 144 | * IronButtMonkey: Count the number of times he lives through something that should kill him. Before the opening credits, he's already been supposedly shot in the head (which was likely staged) and caught in an explosion. He later survives a great fall, and only dies because a satellite system drops on him. |
| 145 | * IronicEcho: |
| 146 | ** "For England." This line is used by Alec on his and Bond's mission in Archangelesk when they say it to each other. It's first repeated a few minutes later as a MeaningfulEcho right before [[spoiler:Alec is "shot" by Ourumov]], but it then becomes an ironic echo twice. The first time is after [[spoiler:Alec reveals himself as Janus]] and [[spoiler:has Bond shot with a knock out dart]]. The second is right before [[spoiler:Bond kills him by dropping him to his death]]. This time Alec asks it to Bond, which enables Bond to [[spoiler:turn it into a PreMortemOneLiner]]. |
| 147 | --->'''Alec Trevelyan:''' For England, James?\ |
| 148 | '''Bond:''' No. For me. |
| 149 | ** "Set timers. Six minutes." During the Archangelsk mission Alec tells Bond to set the explosives on the gas tanks for six minutes, but when Alec is captured, Bond changes the timers to three minutes. Later, when Bond and Natalya are trapped on Trevelyan's train base, which he's rigged to explode, he comes over the speaker and says "Good luck with the floor, James. [[spoiler:I set the timers for six minutes. The same six minutes that you gave me]]. [[KarmicDeath It was the least I could do for a friend]]." Which leads Bond to know that Trevelyan means "three minutes". |
| 150 | * {{Irony}}: |
| 151 | ** It's ironic for him to mock 007 for being [=MI6=]'s "loyal terrier" when "mad little" Alec himself is still stuck in the past, as his vendetta against England involves settling a grudge that drove his parents to suicide out of the guilt of surviving Stalin's death squads at the end of WWII. |
| 152 | ** On a larger note, 006 ended up working for the country who betrayed his people to Stalin. Although [=MI6=] was aware of it, they thought that since these events occurred so early in 006's life, he wouldn't be affected by them, [[CreateYourOwnVillain unaware of the raw hatred and anger the man held against Britain.]] |
| 153 | ** Underlined by his willingness to defect to [[DirtyCommies the country that ACTUALLY was ruled by Stalin, drove his people a desperate alliance with the Nazis, then massacred them after recapturing them.]] While it doesn't last long due to the USSR's collapse and "Janus" does good business for himself as a lawless criminal and international terrorist, it indicates how Trevelyan is not one to talk about betraying people to the Soviets. |
| 154 | * ItsPersonal: One of the only villains to approach Blofeld for the raw anger and contempt Bond feels towards him. |
| 155 | ** His motive for terrorism - his people were sold out by the British government. Although Bond later suggests that Alec is merely using that as a thinly-veiled excuse to be a thief. |
| 156 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Bond suggests this is Trevelyan's real reason to destroy the UK economy. 006's revenge scheme will have global consequences for tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people who have nothing to do with his parents being dead, but Alec doesn't care as long as he gets to settle his grudge and make some payday while he's at it. |
| 157 | * {{Jerkass}}: Given how 006 turned out to be, it's safe to say he's one. Besides mocking 007's tendency to lose allies and clinging on to outdated values, Trevelyan even exploits his FatalFlaw for women and makes a very harsh jab about 007's dead wife. |
| 158 | * JustFollowingOrders: He mocks Bond's true loyalty being "always to the mission, never to his friend." |
| 159 | * KarmicDeath: He [[ComplexityAddiction attempts to kill Bond in this manner]] [[spoiler:by [[IronicEcho giving Bond the same six minutes that Bond gave to him]]]]. |
| 160 | * MadeOfIron: Trevelyan can take a pretty ridiculous amount of punishment. Somehow, some way, he was not killed by being inside a chemical weapons plant when it exploded while he was right next to the gas tanks with the explosives on them, then he survives [[spoiler:a very, very, very long fall onto concrete. He wasn't in great shape, might have been dying, but was still alive. Of course, then the antenna fell on top of him, so we'll never know.]] |
| 161 | * MeaningfulName: "Janus" was a two-faced Roman deity. Lampshaded by Bond, considering that Janus is usually depicted as being two-faced. |
| 162 | * MotiveRant: Gives one after Bond presses his BerserkButton by deriding his EvilPlan. Bond [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse counteracts]] this by pointing out it still doesn't justify his crimes. |
| 163 | * NeverMyFault: He blames Bond for scarring his face because 007 set the bombs planted in the chemical factory for three minutes instead of six. He omits the important detail that by the time Bond did that, he had faked his death, which is what made Bond shorten the timer. It's implied he thought that Bond would keep the timer the same no matter what apparently happened, and that in his perspective, cutting the timer in half [[DisappointedInYou had confirmed his suspicions that Bond cares more about getting the job done]]. This despite him telling Bond to "blow it all to hell." |
| 164 | -->'''Bond:''' [[LampshadeHanging Am I supposed to feel sorry for you?]]\ |
| 165 | '''Trevelyan:''' No, you were supposed to die for me. ''({{Beat}})'' And, by the way, I did think about asking you to join my little scheme but somehow I knew, 007's loyalty was always to the mission, never to his friend. |
| 166 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: If Trevelyan hadn't shot down Bond's plane, 007 never would have found the secret base. Bond was even saying how he was about ready to give up just as the missile hit. |
| 167 | * NoOneCouldSurviveThat: In the opening scene, [[StagedShooting Trevelyan pretended to get his head blown off by General Ourumov]], then Bond blows up the chemical plant, which Bond naturally assumes burned Trevelyan's body. The only damage Trevelyan takes is a permanently scarred right cheek, something which he blames Bond for, when it was obviously his own fault. |
| 168 | * NotSoAboveItAll: He smirks at Boris getting a beatdown from Natalya. |
| 169 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: He chastises Bond for being England's "loyal terrier" who clings to outdated ideals, yet he ''himself'' is just as chained to the past than Bond is. As Bond later surmises, "mad little" Alec is trying to settle an old grudge against England. |
| 170 | * NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Played with. [[spoiler:He survives the fall from the antenna, but it crushes him a minute later, killing him before the audience knows if the fall was fatal]]. |
| 171 | * OhCrap: He has this reaction [[spoiler:when the [=GoldenEye=] antenna comes crashing down on him after Bond sabotaged it, killing him for good.]] |
| 172 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: He views his actions with the [=GoldenEye=] satellite as this, trying to score an old grudge against England. |
| 173 | * PreMortemOneLiner: After arming and directing the [=GoldenEye=] satellite to detonate over London, as the satellite begins moving towards its target, Trevelyan sarcastically quips "God save the Queen." |
| 174 | * RammingAlwaysWorks: Trevelyan attempts this when Bond parks his tank on the track that his train base is heading towards, ordering the train engineer to go to full speed to ram Bond. This does succeed in destroying the tank, but Bond fires the tank's main gun at the locomotive first, causing it to derail when it hits the tank. Xenia is, of course, entirely too excited by this turn of events. |
| 175 | * RankScalesWithAsskicking: Trevelyan stands out among main Bond villains for being just as much a physical threat to Bond as an intellectual one. |
| 176 | * RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:Trevelyan gets one of the most brutal deaths in a Bond film ''ever'', starting with Bond beating him up in a fist fight, then dropping him about a hundred feet from a satellite dish (leaving him severely crippled but alive), ''then'' for said satellite dish to explode in a fiery inferno and for the whole thing to come ''crashing down in his FACE''.]] |
| 177 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Hands out to Bond like candy, mocking his FatalFlaw for women, prioritizing missions over allies, and being "Her Majesty's loyal terrier." |
| 178 | * RedRightHand: The explosion in the pre-credits sequence visibly scarred the right half of his face. |
| 179 | * ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Trevelyan nicknamed himself "Janus" as his right cheek is heavily scarred from the explosion, but the left side of his face does not have matching scars. It also alludes to his two-timing and treacherous nature. |
| 180 | * RememberTheNewGuy: {{Averted|Trope}}. Although Trevelyan never appeared or was mentioned in another Bond film before this one, yet here everyone is familiar with Bond's "old friend"[[note]]That said, veteran bit-part actor Peter Roy plays an unnamed "006" in ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''. With liberal application of ComicbookTime, one could claim that's him...[[/note]], this is {{Justified|Trope}} since other the Double-0 agents were rarely ever shown on-screen in the first place except in small roles or alluded to by the other characters. |
| 181 | * TheResenter: While he and Bond are both orphans, he hates that 007's parents died in a climbing accident while his own killed themselves out of SurvivorsGuilt. |
| 182 | * TheReveal: [[spoiler:He reveals himself to be both still alive and Janus]], which the movie's [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil trailer gave away]]. |
| 183 | * {{Revenge}}: Deconstructed. He seeks revenge against Britain for the betrayal of the Lienz Cossacks, who were executed by Stalin for supporting the Nazis. These events caused his parents kill themselves out of SurvivorsGuilt. However, Bond thinks Alec is only after the money with his FreudianExcuse being a lousy cover for the theft and that most of the people he plans to kill have nothing to do with it. Which does makes sense: 006 appears to have faithfully served England for years before faking his death. |
| 184 | * RevengeBeforeReason: Bond points out that Trevelyan's scheme would create massive economic chaos, all to get revenge on the British government [[SinsOfOurFathers of fifty years ago]]. |
| 185 | * RewatchBonus: Bond and Trevelyan having zero difficulty breaching the facility, as well as Ouromov allowing Bond to escape [[spoiler:makes perfect sense when you realize the whole thing was a cover for Trevelyan's defection]]. |
| 186 | * RogueAgent: Former British Intelligence, Agent 006. Current terrorist who wants to ruin England's economy. |
| 187 | * SacrificialLamb: Subverted. He's introduced as an ally of James who is killed off during the opening scene. Then it turns out he's actually the BigBad. |
| 188 | * SadisticChoice: "So what's the choice, James? Two targets. Time enough for one shot? The girl, or the mission?" |
| 189 | * SaveTheVillain: [[spoiler:Subverted. Bond saves him from falling... and then lets him drop after a brief verbal exchange.]] |
| 190 | * SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: After outing himself as the villain, he holds a cynical belief of queen and country, even asking Bond if he had any qualms killing people. In fact, he's held this grudge against England ever since he witnessed his parents kill themselves out of shame for surviving Stalin's death squads after the Lienz Cossacks were repatriated at the end of WWII. |
| 191 | * SinsOfOurFathers: He seeks to punish England for something that happened a long time ago, but most of the people he's going to kill have nothing to do with it, to which Bond chews him out on. |
| 192 | * ShadowArchetype: [[EvilCounterpart Despite sharing many of 007's qualities]], Trevelyan represents a Bond who clung to old scores and never moved on. 006 even points this out several times by [[FlawExploitation mocking]] Bond's womanizing nature and preference to duty over his friends. Having long sunk into bitterness, Alec's personality shows the dangers of being stuck with grudges, as he hates England for its perceived transgressions. |
| 193 | * ShutUpKirk: Bond mocks his obsessive revenge scheme as idiotic and crazy, prompting this response. |
| 194 | -->'''Trevelyan:''' Oh ''please'' James, spare me the Freud! I might as well ask if all those vodka martinis silenced the screams of all the men you've killed... [[TheCasanova or if you find solace in the arms of those willing women]] [[CartwrightCurse for all the dead ones you failed to protect.]] |
| 195 | * StartOfDarkness: He describes how his parents' suicide out of SurvivorGuilt over the British betrayal and Stalin's death squads after WWII became the moment he decided he'll get his revenge against England. Bond points out that most of the people he's going to kill have nothing to do with it. |
| 196 | -->'''Trevelyan:''' We're both orphans, James. But where your parents had the luxury of dying in a climbing accident, mine survived the British betrayal and Stalin's execution squads, but my father couldn't let himself or my mother live with the shame of it. [=MI6=] figured I was too young to remember... and in one of life's little ironies, the son went to work for the government whose betrayal caused the father to kill himself and his wife. |
| 197 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: Visibly dislikes Boris and doesn't trust him, nor does he lift a finger when Natalya starts beating him up. |
| 198 | * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:What happens to Trevelyan. Bond drops him from the bottom point of a high and extremely large satellite dish. Trevelyan survives that... but the actions of Bond and Natalya dump the entire goddamn thing on him, on fire and all, complete with a splendid explosion. Given the kind of person he turned out to be, Trevelyan [[KarmicDeath had it coming]].]] |
| 199 | * TragicVillain: He wants revenge on the British government after it betrayed his parents, Lienz Cossacks, and sent them back to the USSR where UsefulNotes/JosephStalin had them all executed. Though Trevelyan and his family manage to escape the execution, Trevelyan's father was ashamed to have liven his life as a Lienz Cossack, and he purposely killed Trevelyan's mother and himself out of survivor's guilt. |
| 200 | * TranquilFury: Although Trevelyan manages to brush it off, Bond clearly hits a nerve when he presses 006's BerserkButton by calling his plan as nothing but 'petty theft' and Trevelyan himself as 'a common thief'. |
| 201 | * TwoFaced: A mild example. After the opening scene in, his right cheek is scarred, but it's much less exaggerated than most uses of the trope. He is also metaphorically two-faced since he is a traitor with a bad case of ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, and his alias of Janus - the two-faced Roman god - indicates that he is fully aware of this. |
| 202 | * UnderwaterBase: Trevelyan's base in Cuba. Doubles as an ElaborateUndergroundBase after it emerges. |
| 203 | * VillainHasAPoint: |
| 204 | ** When Bond calls him out on his EvilPlan, Trevelyan points out his weakness for women[[note]]suggesting that 007 constantly womanizes to hide the grief of losing the only woman he truly loved (Tracy di Vicenzo)[[/note]], a FailureHero tendency to lose allies on missions, and [[ItGetsEasier whether he has qualms killing men.]] |
| 205 | ** Earlier on when Alec first reveals himself, he makes a point to James that he is an expendable asset to a government that doesn't particularly appreciate him and to a society that doesn't particularly understand him. James dealing with this reality becomes a major theme in later Bond films. |
| 206 | * VillainousBreakdown: Trevelyan does look infuriated when Bond mocks his obsessive revenge scheme as [[EvilIsPetty childish and crazy]]. His self-control finally dissolves when his plans are foiled by Bond and Natalya, and he reacts violently to Boris, going so far as to ruthlessly demand a soldier to kill him if he tried to escape. Also, he showed anger when participating in his shootout with Bond. This is possibly an element in his massive final fistfight with Bond, as both of them were on equal levels of anger and revenge, but Trevelyan still prevailed over pure skill and the will to betray his old friend one last time. |
| 207 | * WalkingSpoiler: Well, at one point, before ItWasHisSled kicked in. |
| 208 | * WeCanRuleTogether: In addition to mocking Bond's womanizing nature and loyalty to England, Trevelyan even states that he thought of adding 007 to his scheme but did not, aware that Bond would prioritize the mission over friendship. |
| 209 | -->'''Alec Trevelyan:''' Oh, by the way, I did think of asking you to join my little scheme, but somehow I knew that 007's loyalty was always to the mission. Never to his friend. |
| 210 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: With Bond. Once partners and best friends, become enemies at the time of the film. |
| 211 | * WhamLine: In-universe, although not so much out of it. We hear, "Hello, James," and Bond just about goes into shock as Trevelyan steps out of the shadows and reveals himself to be the BigBad. |
| 212 | * WhatMeasureIsAMook: He lampshades this to Bond when he asks him "if [[TheAlcoholic all those]] [[TrademarkFavoriteFood vodka martinis]] silence the [[ShellShockedVeteran screams of all the men you've killed,]]" implying that Bond does actually feel guilt about killing {{mooks}}. |
| 213 | * WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell: A major motivation for his schemes apart from his grudge against England. |
| 214 | -->'''Bond:''' Why?\ |
| 215 | '''Trevelyan:''' ''[laughs]'' Hilarious question, particularly from you. Did you ever ask why? Why we toppled all those dictators? Undermined all those regimes? Only to come home. 'Good job. Well done. But, sorry, old boy, [[DudeWheresMyReward everything you risked your life and limb for has changed!]]' |
| 216 | * WhyWontYouDie: Trevelyan to Bond on the train; "Why can't you just be a good boy and die?" Bond gives an appropriate response. |
| 217 | -->'''Bond:''' You first. ''[gestures to Xenia]'' You, second. |
| 218 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: He wants revenge on Britain for driving his parents to suicide. |
| 219 | * YouHaveFailedMe: Wouldn't be a Bond movie without this, in Trevelyan's response when Ourumov delivers Natalya to him: |
| 220 | -->'''Alec Trevelyan:''' Either you've brought me the perfect gift, General Ouromov, or you've made me a very unhappy man.\ |
| 221 | '''Arkady Ouromov:''' Mishkin got to them before I could.\ |
| 222 | '''Trevelyan:''' Bond is alive?!\ |
| 223 | '''Ouromov:''' He escaped.\ |
| 224 | '''Trevelyan:''' (angrily) Good for Bond... bad for you! |
| 225 | * YouKilledMyFather: Deconstructed. Trevelyan's motive is {{revenge}} against the British for betraying his people to the Soviets. Bond calls him out on using this as a justification for his EvilPlan. |
| 226 | * YouTasteDelicious: Trevelyan licks the cheek of his hostage, Natalya, and says she "tastes like strawberries." |
| 227 | * YoureInsane: He receives a KirkSummation from Bond on his plot to ruin the world, though 006 chews him out on his FailureHero tendency to lose allies on missions, his FatalFlaw for women, and clinging on to outdated ideals. |
| 228 | -->'''Bond:''' A worldwide financial meltdown... and all so mad little Alec can settle a score with the world 50 years on.\ |
| 229 | '''Trevelyan:''' Oh please James, spare me the Freud! I might as well ask if all those vodka martinis silenced the screams of all the men you've killed... or if you find solace in the arms of those willing women, for all the dead ones you failed to protect. |
| 230 | [[/folder]] |
| 231 | |
| 232 | [[folder:Xenia Onatopp]] |
| 233 | !!Xenia Sergeyevna Onatopp |
| 234 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xenia_onatopp.jpg]] |
| 235 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"This time, Mr. Bond, the pleasure will be all mine!"'']] |
| 236 | !!!'''Played by:''' Creator/FamkeJanssen |
| 237 | |
| 238 | A former Soviet fighter pilot and ex-[[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre KGB]] operative, she is one of Trevelyan's more dangerous subordinates. She enjoys sexual pleasure from murder, whether from brutally gunning people down, or by crushing them to death between her MurderousThighs during sex. [[spoiler:She manages to meet her match in Bond, who bests her twice, the second time through shooting the pilot of her helicopter, which gets her crushed against a tree.]] |
| 239 | ---- |
| 240 | * AcePilot: She's a skilled pilot, being a former fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force, before the collapse of the USSR. |
| 241 | * AdaptationalSkimpiness: |
| 242 | ** In the {{novelization}}, she's [[NakedFirstImpression completely naked]] when Bond meets her in the steam room. Both her and Bond's nakedness are the subject of a joke from her after her defeat, Xenia asking if James would like to meet Janus ''with clothes on''. |
| 243 | ** This was also the case in the shooting script, and also carries over to the unpublished comic adaptation; the composition of the second issue's cover hints at her exposed breasts, while the interior page covering the steam room encounter has her robe hanging off her shoulders upon entering the scene, before she presses Bond into her chest while squeezing him. |
| 244 | * ArtisticLicenceLinguistics: Neither "Xenia" nor "Onatopp" are names from UsefulNotes/{{Georgia|Europe}}, where Bond's remark on her accent suggests she's from. |
| 245 | * AttemptedRape: Due to her [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence nature of combining a beatdown with her personal pleasure]], Onatopp crushing Bond between her thighs in the sauna has shades of this, as detailed below. |
| 246 | * AxCrazy: She is a PsychoForHire for the Janus Syndicate who actually derives ''sexual pleasure'' from the act of killing. Her favourite murder method is asphyxiating men between her MurderousThighs while [[OutWithABang having sex]], and she [[SexIsViolence practically orgasms when gunning down unarmed technicians]] at the Severnaya facility. |
| 247 | %%* TheBaroness: Sexpot variant. |
| 248 | * BeautyIsBad: She's as hot as she is evil. |
| 249 | * BerserkButton: While she gets off on killing people with her MurderousThighs and does enjoy it more when they try to fight back, she hates losing. |
| 250 | -->'''Xenia Onatopp:''' '''''BLYATCH!'''''[[labelnote:Translation]][[PrecisionFStrike FUCK!]][[/labelnote]] |
| 251 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: She does a good job of seeming harmless and fun-loving during the opening car race. This carries across to later scenes; in the casino she's quite pleasant - albeit smug - with Bond as she's winning, but [[SoreLoser quickly turns to cussing upon losing]]. Her mood also sours quickly when Bond brings up her car's counterfeit plates in the midst of flirting. Appearing later in the spa, she presents herself as somewhat innocent and merely interested in sex with Bond, but is soon biting him, kicking him around and crushing the air from his lungs. |
| 252 | * BloodKnight: She absolutely ''loves'' fighting and killing, deriving literal sexual pleasure from both. |
| 253 | * BondOneLiner: Attempts to have her own line of them, the chief one being ''"I had to ventilate someone,"'' when working alongside Ouromov. She's later the subject of one by Bond himself. |
| 254 | * BondageIsBad: She is really into S&M. And [[MurderousThighs crushing men's chests with her thighs]]. |
| 255 | * BottomlessMagazines: Exactly ''how long'' is she standing there machine-gunning the programmers on a single magazine? How long can Bond fire an AK-74 before reloading? |
| 256 | * TheBrute: She serves as Ourumov and Janus' main hatchet woman, being personally responsible for the Severnaya massacre and several assassinations in their name. |
| 257 | * ButtMonkey: Nothing goes right for her. |
| 258 | * ChekhovsGunman: First appears in a scene where she challenges Bond to a downhill race. |
| 259 | * ChekhovsSkill: The profile Moneypenny pulls up reveals that she's a former Red Air Force fighter pilot. Her ability to navigate a helicopter cockpit soon becomes important. |
| 260 | * CombatSadomasochist: Xenia [[SexIsViolence literally gets off on murdering people]], as shown during the Severnaya massacre. It's enough to get an EyeTake from Ourumov himself. On the masochist side, she loves Bond hitting her in the sauna scene. She also seems rather excited by the idea that Bond is going to derail the train she's on. |
| 261 | * CovertPervert: A '''very''' dark example. She's seemingly just fun-loving girl at first, but she's not only a dangerous agent, but is hiding some sadistic sexual desires. |
| 262 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: She's violently pulled against a tree as her helicopter goes down and is crushed, screaming in agony all the while. Given her behavior up to that point, it's hard to say she didn't deserve it. Although in light of her enjoyment of Bond throwing her around in the spa, it's also possible she was ''enjoying'' her own death. |
| 263 | * CrucifiedHeroShot: Curiously, she ends up dying stuck in a tree in this manner. Though the heroes' reaction quickly destroys any thought of comparison. |
| 264 | * DarkActionGirl: Is quite skilled, and certainly evil. |
| 265 | * DeadpanSnarker: |
| 266 | ** Typically when she loses out to Bond, the key one being her refusal to let him have the last word after their confrontation in the sauna. |
| 267 | ** Additional dialogue in the {{novelisation}} has her offer up a few more lines, covering her defeat in the spa with a quip about Bond meeting Janus naked, and later joking about Bond having an interest in bondage after he binds her limbs in his hotel room. |
| 268 | * DeathByIrony: She has a penchant for killing people (or attempting to kill them) by crushing them between her legs. While in Cuba, Bond shoots down a helicopter that she's harnessed to, causing her to be whip-lashed backwards and crushed against a tree by her harness. This is lampshaded by Bond as well. |
| 269 | -->'''Bond:''' She always did enjoy a good squeeze. |
| 270 | * DeathGlare: She looks appropriately furious having lost to Bond in the sauna, bared teeth and all as she stares up at him from being tossed to the floor; it's an inversion of her entrance in the scene, where she grins alluringly at Bond before inviting him to a tryst. |
| 271 | -->'''Xenia:''' ''[to Natalya]'' Wait for your turn! |
| 272 | * DepravedBisexual: When Trevelyan taunts Bond about how Natalya "tastes like strawberries," Xenia moans and licks her lips. In her final battle with Bond, when Natalya tries to help him, Xenia seizes her by the throat and snarls "Wait your turn!" in a sexualised manner. |
| 273 | * DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: In sheer contrast with Bond's sexual encounters of the past, this is deliberately PlayedWith and {{averted|Trope}}. Onatopp's treatment of Bond in the sauna basically implies rape with her [[ForcedOrgasm forcing sexual stimulation from an unwilling Bond]] in a very violent situation, and it's even treated as something Bond has to fight back against, and then it's totally PlayedForLaughs a scene or two later. |
| 274 | * TheDragon: She's the main enforcer for Ourumov and Trevelyan. |
| 275 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: Xenia is a competent but pretty reckless driver. During her race with Bond, she takes a shortcut by driving off-road down a hill, and repeatedly goes into the wrong lane on turns. Once she's nearly hit by a truck, having to swerve off-road, with her car spinning around wildly for a bit before she expertly regains control, and later she stays on a path that could make her hit a bunch of bicyclists for a lot longer than is comfortable. |
| 276 | * DroppedABridgeOnHer: {{Downplayed|Trope}} but, [[spoiler:for all of her prominence in the movie, Xenia is yanked to her death less than a minute into her final fight with Bond, right as she seemed to have the upper hand.]] |
| 277 | * EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: A lesser example, but she's distinctly pale compared to the other Bond Girls, and her actions and unnerving attitude could certainly qualify her as 'eerie'. |
| 278 | * EroticAsphyxiation: Part of Xenia's MO. She wraps her thighs around the ribcages of her lovers and victims and squeezes, depriving them of air and thoroughly enjoying the situation herself. Most prominently employed in the InterplayOfSexAndViolence scene that is the sauna. |
| 279 | * EvilCounterpart: |
| 280 | ** Much like Trevelyan is meant to be a dark mirror image of Bond himself, Xenia can easily be read as a psychotic perversion of the traditional sultry Bond Girl. |
| 281 | ** She arguably also serves as one to Bond directly, reflecting elements of his character and habits he used to maintain taken to an extreme; she smokes cigars and shares the same favoured drink; her physical skill and ability also reflect Bond, and her violent sexuality - bordering on rape - reflects the prior characterisation of Bond as being more forceful and coercive - even cruel and physically violent - to some of his Bond Girls. |
| 282 | * {{Expy}}: Onatopp is a nod directly to classic Bond villainess Fiona Volpe of ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' fame, but there are also elements of other bad Bond Girls, including [[Film/DiamondsAreForever Bambi and Thumper]], [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe Naomi]], [[Film/AViewToAkill May Day]] and even the unofficial bad Bond Girl of ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain'', Fatima Blush, who is herself a redo of Fiona Volpe. Xenia also has her own expy in the form of the buff SIE of ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'' fame, who shares Onatopp's tendencies toward rough sex and violence. |
| 283 | * FastRoping: Xenia rappels down from a helicopter in her final confrontation with James Bond. This ultimately gets her killed when Bond commandeers her AK-47 and blows away the pilot of the helicopter, and she gets yanked off him by her own rope and strangled to death against a tree. |
| 284 | * FatalFlaw: Her sadism — murdering people turns her on, as shown during the Severnaya massacre, enough to get an EyeTake from Ourumov. It ultimately backfires on her, as while trying to torture Bond with her thighs rather than simply kill him right away, Bond is able to connect the rope she rappelled down to her safety harness, grab her AK-74 rifle, and shoot down a helicopter with her rifle. The harness yanks her off Bond and sends her flying, screaming, into the crotch of a tree, with her safety harness ironically crushing her to death. |
| 285 | -->'''Bond:''' [[BondOneLiner She always did enjoy a good squeeze.]] |
| 286 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Xenia may have exquisite tastes and seems to enjoy flirty jousting with Bond (and is the subject of a Moneypenny double entendre) but she's a straight up killer Bond's not about to be able to sway. Or even safely interact with, really. |
| 287 | * FemmeFatale: Brutally deconstructed, and fittingly for TheBaroness. She works as an assassin for Janus, using her sex appeal to her advantage and even seems to have a preference for killing her victims [[OutWithABang while in sexual situations]]. However, she reveals just what a listless, dark, byronic woman with [[FormerRegimePersonnel a certain set of skills]] could and would like doing without a moral compass and her love for bloodshed rapidly drowns out most of what appeal she has. |
| 288 | * ForcefulKiss: Onatopp assaults Bond with several of these; an initial one in the sauna ends in her biting Bond's lip hard enough to draw blood before she's shoved into a wall; the second is one she plants on Bond after he runs the pair of them into a another wall trying to free himself from her [[MurderousThighs grasp]], in this instance grasping his face and outright throwing an arm around him to lock him in, refusing to let go despite him bucking against her; given her sadomasochistic nature, it's unclear if she's somehow rewarding or punishing Bond for hurting her, or simply trying to suffocate him further. She later delivers a long lick up a disoriented Bond's face after declaring her intent in the Cuban jungles. |
| 289 | * ForeignCussWord: She bellows something extremely impolite in Russian after Bond takes the victory in the sauna fight; she practically snarls the same word earlier, having lost to Bond at cards. |
| 290 | * FormerRegimePersonnel: According to Moneypenny, she was a fighter pilot for the Soviet Union back in the day. This is a HandWave as to how she's able to pilot the Tiger prototype. Well, sort of, since fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft are entire different beasts. The novelization also hints at links to the KGB, which perhaps explains her fairly broad set of skills and her killing method. |
| 291 | * FromCamouflageToCriminal: A former Soviet fighter pilot turned assassin working for an arms dealer. |
| 292 | * GoSeduceMyArchnemesis: Employed by Janus to do this to Bond in the sauna scene, seemingly. |
| 293 | * GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: She smokes cigars. By contrast, the good guys are much less likely to be seen lighting up than in earlier films of the series. |
| 294 | * HoneyTrap: For the Admiral she seduces and violently murders early in the film, and for Bond in the sauna scene. |
| 295 | * TheImmodestOrgasm: Onatopp vocally expresses her sexual satisfaction to an insane degree. Depending on who you believe he is, it's arguably her enjoyment of squeezing Bond in the spa that alerts a man to intervene. |
| 296 | * InterplayOfSexAndViolence: A thoroughly disturbing example, and one of the most popular. |
| 297 | * IronicEcho: After Bond beats Xenia at cards and introduces himself to her, Bond uses the line "The pleasure, I'm sure, was all mine." Later, after he survives her MurderousThighs, Bond forces her to take him to Janus. After doing so, she says "Well, once again, the pleasure was all yours." Xenia then attempts to make this an ironic echo later when she attacks Bond in Cuba, saying, "This time, Mr. Bond, the pleasure will be all mine." [[spoiler:right before her KarmicDeath]]. |
| 298 | * LargeHam: She is delightfully over the top. |
| 299 | * LeaveNoWitnesses: She and Ourumov massacre the staff of the Bunker to ensure none of them could accuse the former of stealing the second eponymous satellite. The exceptions are Boris Grishenko- who is already part of their EvilPlan-, and Natalya, who knew how to survive it. |
| 300 | * LeanAndMean: She just about scrapes six foot tall, is slim and is especially mean under the surface; Famke Janssen's appearance when attending casting was described as 'tall, lanky and unusual' by Martin Campbell. |
| 301 | * LegFocus: The camera focuses on her legs when she uses them to ''kill''. |
| 302 | * LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The Dark to Natalya's Light. Not only is she sheer evil, but she's outright ''sexual'' evil, and gets off on anything by shooting it until it ''can't'' move any longer. |
| 303 | * MeaningfulName: "Xenia" means roughly "stranger" in Greek, and she certainly is strange. |
| 304 | * MessyHair: In the sauna, where her hair is tied back messily. In the rest of the film, Onatopp is dressed and styled in a manner befitting someone higher up on the payroll of a criminal organisation, and actually appears quite classy, if obviously a villain. |
| 305 | * ModestyTowel: Xenia {{Invoke|dTrope}}s this in the sauna with a robe in place, despite the nature of the scene; in the original script and novelization of the scene, she actually has the towel, but [[DressHitsFloor loses it early on]]. |
| 306 | * MoreDespicableMinion: Trevelyan at least has a FreudianExcuse for his actions, but Onatopp is a depraved sadist with no redeeming qualities. Even Ourumov - a despicable, corrupt, ruthless traitor in his own right - is disturbed by her. |
| 307 | * MsFanservice: Big time, with her theme of InterplayOfSexAndViolence. Notably, she plays up her sex appeal during the sauna scene where she tries to seduce Bond, but so she can actually kill him via EroticAsphyxiation. In the original script and novelization of the scene, she actually has a ModestyTowel on, but [[DressHitsFloor loses it early on]]. |
| 308 | * MurderousThighs: A notorious example and probably the most prominent one in mainstream film. This results in [[spoiler:a KarmicDeath for her]]. |
| 309 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: Xenia gives Bond the lead to Trevelyan. By insisting on her [[OutWithABang usual]] {{m|urderousThighs}}ethods in order to achieve {{orgasm|icCombat}} during her fight with Bond, she gives him the chance to disable her. She could have just brought a gun to the steam room fight, straddled him and then shot him. But then it wouldn't be enjoyable for Xenia. |
| 310 | ** Arguably Bond's fast track to the entire plot comes from her challenging him to a pointless race. Whether or not she was shadowing him on behalf of Janus or it was a pure coincidence, she attracts Bond's attention. While he can't stop the helicopter theft, he does identify her as one of the conspirators just before the Severnaya attack. |
| 311 | * OrgasmicCombat: During the Severnaya massacre, she acts like her gun is a sex toy. She even ''looks'' like she had an orgasm after she's done, enough to get an EyeTake from Ourumov. Further invoked in the sauna, where Bond's efforts to free himself only contribute to her pleasure. |
| 312 | * OutWithABang: She murders a Canadian naval officer by strangling him with her legs during the act. 007 later finds the officer's corpse still wearing a ''[[WorthIt huge]]'' smile on its face. To quote [[http://www.empireonline.com/features/movie-finishing-moves/default.asp?m=12 Empire Magazine]]: |
| 313 | -->"There can't be too many gentlemen of a heterosexual persuasion who, if asked how they'd want to die, wouldn't tick the box marked 'crushed to death between Creator/FamkeJanssen's thighs'." |
| 314 | * PreMortemOneLiner: |
| 315 | -->'''Helicopter Pilot:''' I think I've gone to {{heaven}}.\ |
| 316 | '''Xenia:''' [[AnalogyBackfire Not yet.]] ''[shoots both pilots and steals their uniforms]'' |
| 317 | * ProfessionalKiller: Murder seems to be her day job. Though for her it's probably less about the money and more about [[ForTheEvulz pleasure of killing]]. |
| 318 | * PsychoForHire: After seeing Xenia act sexually aroused during her machine-gunning of the Severnaya staff, Ourumov momentarily has a look of "What the hell is wrong with you?!" directed at Xenia. |
| 319 | * PsychopathicWomanchild: Her sadomasochistic sexual proclivities, coupled with her overall lack of conscience and childish glee in killing innocents, would seem to qualify her as an insane psychopath. |
| 320 | * PunnyName: ''Xenia Onatopp'', pronounce it out loud. |
| 321 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: She's introduced rocking this aesthetic; although while it's immediately obvious that she's a bad girl, it's not yet clear that she's a [[TheBrute bad]] [[TheDragon guy]]. This was seemingly the intent from director Martin Campbell, in that the viewer was to be unsure of her up to a point; the casino scene treats her like she could be Brosnan's equivalent of Sylvia Trench - equals at cards meeting at the table, and it's only when Bond begins questioning her vehicle of choice that she's shown to be duplicitous at the very least. |
| 322 | * RightUnderTheirNoses: She and an accomplice steal the Tiger helicopter by shooting the real pilots, [[MuggedForDisguise taking their uniforms]], and taking off during a demonstration. |
| 323 | * RumpRoast: The [[{{Pun}} climax]] of the sauna room fight occurs when she gets her buns steamed by a hot radiator. [[TooKinkyToTorture Unusually for her]], she seems upset by it, though whether this is a reaction to the pain or simply to having lost the fight is unclear. |
| 324 | * {{Sadist}}: Derives ''literal'' sexual gratification from brutally murdering others. Unlike a lot of examples, however, she ''also'' thoroughly enjoys her ''own'' pain. |
| 325 | * SensualSlavs: The resident MsFanservice and a seemingly slavic woman, if Bond's remark on her accent is accurate - her reaction suggests he is. |
| 326 | * SexGoddess: The novelization actually describes her as a very satisfying lover and having enough stamina to have sex multiple times with Admiral Farrel, before she [[OutWithABang decided to kill him]]. For his part, Bond knows how dangerous she is, having found what the novelisation has him desribe as the Admiral's 'broken body', but is unable to resist her as she practically forces herself on him in the spa and couples with her before she attempts to kill him; prior to this, he describes her naked as 'every man's fantasy of the perfect woman'. |
| 327 | * SexIsViolence: Again, one of the most prominent examples; she enjoys mowing down innocents with a machine gun just as much as having Bond at the mercy of her thighs. |
| 328 | * ShowSomeLeg: She distracts both an admiral and Bond with her sex appeal whilst actively trying (and succeeding, in the former) to break their ribs with her thighs. |
| 329 | * SinisterSuffocation: Her favourite means of ending a victim, combined with cracking their ribs during sex; we see her carry this out three times during the film, with Bond her target twice. She enjoys ''every'' second. |
| 330 | * TheSociopath: [[OrgasmicCombat Her]] [[SexIsViolence sadomasochistic]] [[CombatSadomasochist sexual]] proclivities, coupled with her overall lack of conscience and murderous glee in killing innocents, would seem to qualify her as an insane psychopath. |
| 331 | ** Even before her true nature is revealed, her hobbies indicate extreme thrill seeking and sensationalism. She challenges Bond to a random, informal race, is found smoking and gambling in Monaco, engages in the interplay of sex and violence, and is established as a former Fighter Pilot. All sensational, exciting, quick experiences that appeal to the Psychopath's desire for another metaphorical high. |
| 332 | * SociopathicSoldier: She fits the soldier part by being an ex-Soviet fighter pilot, and the sociopath part is made very evident throughout the movie. |
| 333 | * SoreLoser: She really doesn't like being beaten by Bond, either in combat, cards of car racing. Even when she was dying, she screamed in agony and furious that Bond bested her one last time. She died without getting her kill and unable to beat Bond. |
| 334 | * StatuesqueStunner: She's played by Famke Janssen who is both very tall, standing at six feet (just below Pierce Brosnan and a little above Sean Bean), and drop dead gorgeous. |
| 335 | * SweetPollyOliver: Briefly poses as [[KillAndReplace a male pilot she's assassinated]] to steal the Eurocopter Tiger. Fortunately for her, she's tall enough to sell it and the onlooking crowd is a ways off. |
| 336 | * TooKinkyToTorture: She seems to enjoy getting beaten up almost as much as killing people. Her fight scenes with Bond indicate that she wasn't going to stop fighting simply out of pain. Up until he burns her ass on a hot radiator... guess she was only into SOME types of pain, which is rather TruthInTelevision. |
| 337 | * VillainsOutShopping: Xenia is a merciless assassin, but her first two scenes show her while she's off the job. Specifically, she's driving her Ferrari and trading flirtatious looks with a handsome motorist opposite her (Bond) and playing baccarat in a casino. |
| 338 | * VillainessesWantHeroes: Invoked particularly in the sauna where Xenia could easily kill Bond while she has him at her mercy, but doesn't because she wants to subject him to her take on [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence combining sex and violence]], and she continues to kiss him even as he reacts to the embrace of her thighs. The two also have pretty strong chemistry throughout the film. |
| 339 | * VillainousBreakdown: A mild one, but she clearly loses her composure at the end of the sauna fight with Bond, angrily bellowing at him; she's recovered somewhat by the time she takes Bond to the statue graveyard, where her insistence on having the last word seemingly causes ''him'' to lose his cool and knock her out. |
| 340 | [[/folder]] |
| 341 | |
| 342 | [[folder:General Ourumov]] |
| 343 | !!General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov |
| 344 | [[quoteright:196:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Ourumov1_9829.jpg]] |
| 345 | [[caption-width-right:196:''"Do you know even who the enemy is, Dimitri? DO YOU?!"'']] |
| 346 | !!!'''Played by:''' Creator/GottfriedJohn |
| 347 | |
| 348 | A Soviet colonel who Bond and Trevelyan face off with during their mission to blow up the Arkangel Chemical Weapons facility. Truth is, Ourumov is in league with Trevelyan, and works his way up to be the head of Russia's new Space Division after helping stage Trevelyan's defection. One of Trevelyan's two henchmen (the other being Xenia), he is the one who stole the control keys for the [=GoldenEye=] satellite and detonated the first of them over Severnaya. He meets his end when he murders Defence Minister Dmitri Mishkin and kidnaps Natalya, leading to Bond gunning him down on board a missile train. |
| 349 | ---- |
| 350 | * ArtisticLicenceMilitary: A few relatively subtle examples. The branch of the armed forces of the Russian Federation Ourumov is the nominal head is probably the Missile and Space Defence Troops (''Войска ракетно-космической обороны''), or PKO, formed by a merger of more clandestine services of the Soviet Military Air Forces inherited by Independent Russia--as such, all of its heads wore air force uniforms (unlike Ourumov, who very clearly wears army uniforms). More obviously, Ourumov is a proper colonel in 1986, but after the demotion from his failure at the hands of Bond and return to service ("rehabilitation" by no less than Mikhail Gorbachev), is a colonel general ("three-star general" in American parlance)--effectively a three-rank promotion, something you wouldn't see even for a successful career officer in less than a decade, much less a formerly disgraced one. Publicity photos show him wearing a lieutenant general's uniform (with two stars on his rank insignia), suggesting this is a wardrobe issue as much as anything. Also can be somewhat justified: the end of the Soviet Union saw a massive amount of chaos as political purges and infighting led to forced retirements for people like the supporters of the hardline coup in 1991, and to staff from the outlying Soviet Republics going their own way. Ourumov's promotion track would still be atypical but it is quite possible for a government that desperately needs someone who is Russian, Competent, and (seemingly) Loyal. |
| 351 | * BadBoss: He has no qualms about expending dozens of his own soldiers in the name of helping Trevelyan fake his death. At one point, he shoots one of his own men after said soldier shoots a trolley Bond is using as a shield, as he previously told his men not to shoot at it because of the explosive barrels in it that could kill all of them. Then at Severnaya, he has Xenia gun down an entire base of his own subordinates. Ourumov might well be one of the absolute ''worst'' people to work for in any Bond film all things considered. |
| 352 | * BigBadWannabe: He views himself as "the next Iron Man of Russia" in M's words and is implied to be collaborating with Trevelyan to further his political ambitions. In practice, he's at best Trevelyan's NumberTwo and at worst a glorified (and expendable) henchman. |
| 353 | * CoDragons: One of two that Trevelyan has. |
| 354 | * CommissarCap: Naturally, as befits a Russian officer. |
| 355 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: Drives the plot for most of the first act, and is killed at the halfway point of the film. |
| 356 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: His EyeTake reaction at Xenia after she looks like she [[CombatSadomasochist got off on massacring]] the Severnaya staff looks like he's thinking "What kind of ''insane psychopath'' did Trevelyan hire?" |
| 357 | * TheHeavy: He drives the plot for most of the first act. |
| 358 | * {{Hypocrite}}: He has an Eye Take when Bond tells him that Trevelyan is a Lienz Cossack, and therefore the child of a traitor. This is despite that Ouromov already knows Trevelyan is a traitor to a former employer, and had planned to kill one of his colleagues while enacting his exit strategy. Not to mention Ourumov himself being a heinous traitor to his own government, and party to the massacre of his own subordinates. Perhaps he's still a Soviet at heart, and judges himself and others [[MoralMyopia based on that]] rather than some uniform standard of loyalty. |
| 359 | * IndyPloy: The cover story he came up with when he shot Defence Minister Dimitri Mishkin with Bond's gun when the former realized Ourumov's treachery. |
| 360 | -->'''General Ourumov:''' Defence Minister Dimitri Mishkin... murdered by British agent James Bond.... himself shot while... trying to escape. Guards! |
| 361 | * INeedAFreakingDrink: When being chased by a tank through the streets of St. Petersburg, he whips out a flask and starts downing it. |
| 362 | * MoleInCharge: He's the head of Russia's Space Division, a position he uses both to further the Janus Syndicate's scheme and to cover his tracks as the head of the investigation on the attack on the Severnaya facility. |
| 363 | * NotWhatISignedOnFor: He briefly gets second thoughts as Bond informs him that Trevelyan is a Lienz Cossack, but doesn't switch sides. Not that he'd have the time to do so, as Bond guns him down soon after. |
| 364 | * PutDownYourGunAndStepAway: Twice, once with Trevelyan, and again with Natalya. |
| 365 | * RankUp: In the nine years between TheTeaser and the main plot, he goes from Colonel to General. |
| 366 | * RenegadeRussian: Is working against the Russian government, but unusually for this trope, isn't actually trying to start a war (unlike [[Film/TheLivingDaylights General Koskov]], [[Film/{{Octopussy}} General Orlov]] or [[Film/FromRussiaWithLove Rosa Klebb]]). |
| 367 | * SanitySlippage: Develops into a half-drunken, nervous wreck when his involvement with Trevelyan started to catch up with him, leading to him killing the Minister of Defence and a guard, then frame Bond for it. |
| 368 | * StagedShooting: Delivered to Trevelyan in the opening scene. |
| 369 | * StarterVillain: Bond fights him in the PTS and is directly responsible for the attack on Severnaya, but is revealed to be working for Trevelyan, of course. |
| 370 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: According to the {{novelization}}, during his time as a soldier, his T55 tank was attacked by another tank. He was the only survivor and the accident left him with a fear of tanks. |
| 371 | [[/folder]] |
| 372 | |
| 373 | [[folder:Boris Grishenko]] |
| 374 | !!Boris Grishenko |
| 375 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/boris_grishenko_alan_cumming___profile.jpg]] |
| 376 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Better luck next time, SLUGHEADS!"'']] |
| 377 | !!!'''Played by:''' Creator/AlanCumming |
| 378 | |
| 379 | A masterful hacker who used to work at the Severnaya facility along with Natalya. He is the only other survivor of the massacre, and was spared only by his agreement to work with Trevelyan and Ourumov. He is put in charge of the technical aspects of Trevelyan's plans for the [=GoldenEye=]. |
| 380 | ---- |
| 381 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: The video game seems to focus less on his {{Jerkass}} tendencies and more on him being the PluckyComicRelief who poses no real threat, implying he really was forced to work for Trevelyan as he claims, and Natalya is against killing him. His only DirtyCoward moment is to try and pull out a gun on Bond, only to drop it and surrender. After letting him go, he runs away while happily exclaiming his catchphrase. |
| 382 | * BerserkButton: He hates when people he considers lower than him beat him at his own game. |
| 383 | -->'''Boris:''' GIVE ME THE CODES NATALYA!!! GIVE THEM TO ME!!! |
| 384 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Once his BerserkButton sends him to a quite unsettling VillainousBreakdown, the laughs instantly screeches to a halt. |
| 385 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Good enough at what he does that Natalya and the rest of his co-workers are willing to overlook his sexism, his love of online douchebaggery, his awful fashion sense, and in the case of Natalya, his repeated attempts at flirtation. Underlined in full during the climax: he's the one in control of Goldeneye and it quickly becomes evident just how dangerous this egotistical pervert is. [[spoiler:It takes Natalya reprogramming the guidance system ''and'' Bond destroying the satellite's hardware to prevent him from fixing the satellite's course and carrying on with the end of the world order.]] |
| 386 | * CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Not said, but heavily implied on Trevelyan's part when it comes to Boris. In every scene they share, Trevelyan clearly finds Boris deeply infuriating and appears to have to suppress an urge to break his neck every time they speak. He's also not shy about veiled threats about the misfortunes that will befall Boris should anything go wrong, and when everything starts going a bit wrong makes a point of assigning a guard to stand over Boris pointing a gun at his head with orders to shoot him if he moves. |
| 387 | * CatchphraseInsult: "Slugheads!" |
| 388 | * CharacterCatchphrase: '''"I AM INVINCIBLE!"''' ...which [[TemptingFate leads immediately]] to his death the final time he says it, after he survives the destruction of Trevelyan's base, only to be frozen solid by bursting liquid nitrogen tanks. |
| 389 | * CharacterTic: His habit of spinning pens and clicking them while he's working. This becomes a ChekhovsGun when he gets his hands on Bond's pen grenade, which has to be clicked three times to arm it, and has to be clicked another three times to disarm it. |
| 390 | * CheatedDeathDiedAnyway: Boris survives the destruction of Janos' base in Cuba, despite multiple explosions and debris flying everywhere. Amazed at his good fortune, Boris stands up and shouts '''"I AM INVINCIBLE!"''' only to be frozen solid by an exploding nitrogen tank moments after he celebrates. |
| 391 | * ChewingTheScenery: When ''isn't'' he? He's constantly yelling gleefully at the top of his lungs. |
| 392 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Downplayed in terms of his cyberwarfare. Physically, he's a corrupt slimeball and pervert who can't manage in combat. Psychologically, he's a condescending, better-than-thou egotist. But he is every bit the brilliant computer whiz he thinks he is. |
| 393 | * TheCracker: An evil hacker whose job is to crack codes for the main villain. |
| 394 | * DeadpanSnarker: Albeit with less emphasis on the "deadpan", but Boris loves to quip. |
| 395 | * DirtyCoward: Sides with the bad guys and is solidly a [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Bad Guy]]. |
| 396 | * DragonTheirFeet: He outlives Trevelyan by a minute or so, surviving the destruction of the Janus base and proudly proclaiming his invincibility right before being frozen to death. |
| 397 | * DyingSmirk: [[spoiler:Boris uses his catchphrase and smiles as he is frozen by nitrogen tanks. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that he was frozen and killed so fast that he probably didn't even realise what was going on.]] |
| 398 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: He gets giddy when he reunites with Natalya in Cuba, but is genuinely ignorant of how his betrayal has soured her opinion of him. |
| 399 | * EvilCounterpart: To Natalya. Both of them are world-class computer programmers, but he works for Janus. |
| 400 | * EvilGenius: He runs the technical side of Trevelyan's plan. |
| 401 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He's got Creator/AlanCumming's sly grin and is very theatrical and goofy but he's still very much a bad guy who left his colleagues to be murdered in cold blood and is playing a major role in a scheme that will cause widespread destruction and chaos. |
| 402 | * FourEyesZeroSoul: He always wears glasses on the edge of his nose and is one of Trevelyan's minions. |
| 403 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Even before the reveal that he is EvilAllAlong, Severnaya's staff are clearly fed up with his douchebaggery (although Natalya, if no one else, takes some droll amusement in his antics). He's not much more popular in Janus-- Trevelyan visibly smiles when Natalya beats the shit out of him and generally has little issue with threatening him and bossing him around. |
| 404 | * HollywoodHacking: Boris' "spike" is pretty classic HollywoodHacking, including an ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation. It ultimately gets used against him when Natalya spikes him in order to locate the Janus base just three minutes before the train she and Bond are on is set to blow. |
| 405 | * IFightForTheStrongestSide: Considering the bad guys won't hesitate to kill him and almost did in the first place, he might as well help them succeed in their plans if he at least gets to live. |
| 406 | * InsufferableGenius: He's a computer genius with terrible people skills. Even Alec thinks he's annoying. |
| 407 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Initially seems like just the average workplace douchebag at Severnaya, but turns out to be a truly nasty little prick working for Janus all along. |
| 408 | * LackOfEmpathy: Boris was already a workplace creep, but then betrays his colleagues at Severnaya to agonizing death with apparently not a second thought and shows absolutely no remorse about upending the global economy and causing untold death and destruction so long as he gets paid and has a chance to demonstrate his brilliance. Natalya calls him out for it. |
| 409 | -->'''Natalya:''' This is ''not'' one of your games, [[{{Manchild}} Boris]]. [[InferredHolocaust Real people will die]], you pathetic little worm! |
| 410 | * KillItWithIce: While he does survive the destruction of Trevelyan's base, several liquid nitrogen tanks above him blow up and he gets bathed in it, becoming an ice statue when the gas clears. |
| 411 | * LargeHam: "YES! I AM INVINCIBLE!" and "GIVE ME THE CODES, NATALYA!!! GIVE THEM TO ME!!!". Then again, he's a Bond villain played by Creator/AlanCumming. It'd be weird if he wasn't hammy. |
| 412 | * LaughablyEvil: Due to him being the sole PluckyComicRelief character in the film. |
| 413 | * {{Manchild}}: He comes across as an adolescent who sees his hacking as mere games with no grasp of how it affects people. Natalya even calls him out on this. |
| 414 | * NerdGlasses: Which he always wears on the edge of his nose, somewhat defeating their purpose. |
| 415 | * NotSoAboveItAll: He cracks a smile when Bond taunts Trevelyan over his EvilPlan. |
| 416 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: He's a crackpot NonActionGuy who pales in comparison to the accomplished killers that make up the rest of Janus, but he's the one in direct control of Goldeneye and the climax shows exactly why he was the one chosen. [[spoiler:In spite of operating under profound stress and under a time shortage, he overcomes Natalya's reprogramming and is only stopped by Bond literally destroying the machinery in the satellite.]] |
| 417 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: His VillainousBreakdown when he shouts "GIVE ME THE CODES, NATALYA!!! GIVE THEM TO ME!!!" is nothing to laugh at. |
| 418 | * PetTheDog: For what it's worth, he's initially genuinely glad to reunite with Natalya in the control room, right until she kicks the shit out of him. |
| 419 | * PlayfulHacker: A particularly villainous one. Natalya calls him on treating people's lives like a game during their confrontation. |
| 420 | * PluckyComicRelief: Much like the characters before him, Sheriff J. W. Pepper in ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'' and ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' and Professor Joe Butcher in ''Film/LicenceToKill''. He is played by Creator/AlanCumming, after all. |
| 421 | * PsychopathicManchild: He's very immature, carrying himself more like an online troll than a serious professional, and has little regard for how his actions may hurt others, seeing it all as a game. |
| 422 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Downplayed evil example. Boris mostly comes across as a pervy, slimy co-worker who doubled down to evil by betraying his co-workers to work for a terrorist to destroy the global economy. What tends to be ignored is that he is EXACTLY as much of a computer genius as he thinks he is, it's underestimating others that causes him problems. [[spoiler:And even then, he was correct that he could break Natalya's codes even when interrupted by a massive explosion. Were it not for outside interference, he would have won.]] |
| 423 | * SmugSnake: He is not nearly as smart, charming, or cunning as he thinks he is. This leads to his VillainousBreakdown when he realizes Natalya one-upped him by reprogramming the [=GoldenEye=] satellite to burn up in orbit AND deliberately changed the access codes to stymie his chance of fixing it. It only gets worse when Bond ''manually'' sabotages the antenna to make it impossible to catch [=GoldenEye=] after he DOES break Natalya's code. |
| 424 | * SoreLoser: Realizing that a "second-level programmer" like Natalya changed the [=GoldenEye=] access codes so it'll blow up in space, this InsufferableGenius explodes in anger. When he DOES break the code, he even angrily shakes the computer monitor when Bond manually sabotages the antenna so he can't reprogram [=GoldenEye=]. |
| 425 | * TemptingFate: After surviving the destruction of the base, he boasts once again that he's invincible right before the liquid nitrogen tanks burst. |
| 426 | * ThinkingTic: Boris has a tendency to fidget with his pen and click it when mulling something over. This turns out to be a ChekhovsGun later when he has 007's pen [[spoiler:which is actually a mini-grenade]] in hand while thinking. |
| 427 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: He dismisses any notion that Natalya could override his programing, [[InstantlyProvenWrong only for alarms to start going off]] as [=GoldenEye=] begins re-entering Earth's atmosphere thanks to her sabotage. |
| 428 | -->'''Trevelyan:''' [[ProperlyParanoid She was in the mainframe, check the computer!]]\ |
| 429 | '''Boris:''' She's a moron, a second level programmer! ''[mocking]'' She works on the guidance system, she doesn't even have access to the firing codes. |
| 430 | * VillainousBreakdown: |
| 431 | ** "GIVE ME THE CODES, NATALYA! GIVE THEM TO ME!". It's somewhat frightening to see an otherwise goofy LaughablyEvil character crack like that. Then the error message appears when Bond physically sabotages the antenna... |
| 432 | ** And again, when the satellite is starting to burn up in the atmosphere: "SPEAK TO MEEEEEEE!" |
| 433 | * WouldHitAGirl: When Natalya calls him a pathetic little worm, he attempts to punch her before Trevelyan reminds him there are more pressing matters at hand. |
| 434 | * YouMonster: Natalya calls him out for aiding Trevelyan's scheme to bankrupt the global economy for greed. |
| 435 | -->'''Boris:''' Don't ever do that again!\ |
| 436 | '''Natalya:''' This is ''not'' one of your games, [[ManChild Boris]]. Real people will die, you pathetic little worm! |
| 437 | [[/folder]] |
| 438 | |
| 439 | !!Other Characters |
| 440 | |
| 441 | * [[Characters/JamesBondRecurringCharacters Valentin Zukovsky]] |
| 442 | |
| 443 | [[folder:Dmitri Mishkin]] |
| 444 | !!Minister of Defence Dmitri Mishkin |
| 445 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dmitri_mishkin_tchky_karyo___profile.jpg]] |
| 446 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 447 | !!!'''Played by:''' Creator/TchekyKaryo |
| 448 | |
| 449 | The Russian Minister of Defence sometime after the fall of the Soviet Union, and General Ourumov's superior. |
| 450 | ---- |
| 451 | * HeKnowsTooMuch: Ourumov takes Bond's gun and shoots him dead right after Bond and Natalya Simonova make some revelations about Ourumov's activities then intends to blame Bond and Natalya for it. |
| 452 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Despite Ourumov's BlatantLies all this time, he doesn't realize that Ourumov is a renegade in cahoots with JANUS to steal the [=GoldenEye=] until it's too late. |
| 453 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He doesn't accept Ourumov's quick conclusions (rather, lies) about what happened in Severnaya and insists on talking to Bond and Natalya before they are trialed, whereas Ourumov insists on executing them as fast as possible. Unfortunately, he realizes too late what kind of guy Ourumov is. |
| 454 | [[/folder]] |
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