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6	'''[[center: [- [[Characters/JamesBond Main Character Index]] -]]]'''
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8	Character sheet for the Film/JamesBond film ''Film/QuantumOfSolace''.
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10	[[foldercontrol]]
11
12	!![=MI6=]
13
14	* [[Characters/JamesBondTheCharacter James Bond]]
15	* [[Characters/JamesBondMajorRecurringCharacters M]]
16	* [[Characters/JamesBondRecurringCharacters Bill Tanner]]
17
18	[[folder:Fields]]
19	!!Agent Strawberry Fields
20	[[quoteright:207:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/quantumofsolacegemmaarterton_4100.jpg]]
21	[[caption-width-right:207:''"Mr. Bond, these orders come from the highest possible authority."'']]
22	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/GemmaArterton
23
24	Fields is a [=MI6=] agent who works at the British consulate in Bolivia. She is tasked to force Bond to return to the UK immediately; nonetheless, Bond soon seduces her before they attend a party Greene holds that night. There, she helps Bond escape by causing Elvis to fall down the stairs.
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26	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Dies by getting drowned in oil.]]
27	* DisposableWoman: Fits this trope almost to a T. . . except that Bond demands that it be noted that she showed "true bravery", and he leaves Greene to die in the desert with nothing but a can of motor oil to drink, undoubtedly a reference to how she was killed, thus getting a little revenge on her behalf.
28	* DropDeadGorgeous: [[spoiler:She is drowned in oil by Quantum agents, and her oil-covered body is laid on Bond's bed, a callback to Jill Masterson's fate in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.]]
29	* EmbarrassingFirstName: One wouldn't blame someone named "Strawberry Fields" for going on a LastNameBasis.
30	* GirlOfTheWeek: Deconstructed. She shows that Bond's cold manipulation of the people around him can actually ruin or end their lives.
31	* KillTheCutie: She's eager to be out in the field, [[spoiler: which makes her death all the more tragic.]]
32	* MsFanservice: Gets a gratuitous shot of her naked body in one scene.
33	* NoNameGiven: Her first name is only given in the closing credits. [[EmbarrassingFirstName Thank goodness, too]].
34	* PunnyName: Forget what the [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] song might've said, being named "Strawberry Fields" ''is'' something [[WaxingLyrical to get hung about]].
35	* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler: Gets killed after two or three scenes.]]
36	* SexSignalsDeath: [[spoiler: One long scene after having sex with Bond, she's dead.]]
37	[[/folder]]
38
39	!!Bond's Allies
40
41	* [[Characters/JamesBondRecurringCharacters René Mathis]]
42	* [[Characters/JamesBondMajorRecurringCharacters Felix Leiter]]
43
44	[[folder:Camille Montes]]
45	!!Camille Rivera Montes
46	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/camille_montes_olga_kurylenko_-_profile_713.jpg]]
47	[[caption-width-right:300:''"I wish I could set you free, but your prison is in there."'']]
48	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/OlgaKurylenko
49
50	Camille is a Bolivian woman who is seeking revenge for the murder of her family at the hands of General Medrano when she was only a little girl (her father was Medrano's political opponent). She seduced Dominic Greene as a way to get to Medrano, but it didn't work. She first meets Bond in Haiti and at first she clashes with him, but soon begins to realize he is the only one she can trust. They then team up and go after Greene and Medrano.
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52	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Zig-zagged. Camille does have a nasty burn scar from when she was a kid, but it is on her back and thus concealed by clothing for most of the movie. On the other hand, an ongoing theme of the film is psychological scars.
53	* BestServedCold: She has spent several years plotting her revenge against Medrano.
54	* BrokenBird: Her whole family was killed when she was only a little girl, which left her emotionally detached.
55	* {{Brownface}}: Olga Kurylenko, a fair-skinned woman of Ukrainian origin, has a considerable tan while playing the Bolivian Camille, who had a Russian mother, oddly enough. Of course, some Bolivians are as fair skinned as Eastern Europeans.
56	* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: She was orphaned when she was a little girl, which led to her plotting revenge against the man [[YouKilledMyFather who killed her family]] and answering Bond's CallToAdventure.
57	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her backstory is that her whole family was killed when she was only a little girl by Medrano, hence why she's going after him in the present.
58	* FireForgedFriends: She is hostile to Bond at first, but they both soon realize that they can trust each other.
59	* GirlOfTheWeek: Deliberately averted. All Camille gives to Bond is a quick peck before apparently leaving him forever.
60	* MsFanservice: She wears seductive dresses and skirts for much of the film.
61	* 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]].
62	* PrimalFear: Pyrophobia in her case. From her conversation with Bond, we learn that she got the burn mark on her upper back from the fire in her family's household that was caused by Medrano, which is likely the source of her pyrophobia.
63	* RapeAsDrama: Not directly to herself, but Medrano raped her mother and older sister before killing them.
64	* YouKilledMyFather: She looks for revenge against General Medrano for killing Camille's whole family.
65	* TroubledButCute: She is psychologically scarred due to what happened with her family, but that doesn't stop characters in the film from stating that she's beautiful, and she grows close to Bond as they begin to trust each other.
66	[[/folder]]
67
68	!!Villains
69
70	!!!'''Quantum'''
71
72	[[folder:Dominic Greene]]
73	!!Dominic Greene
74	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/quantum-of-solace-20080404020742635-000_9968.jpg]]
75	[[caption-width-right:250:''"You two do make the perfect couple. You are, what's the expression? Damaged goods!"'']]
76	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MathieuAmalric
77
78	Dominic Greene is the main villain of the film, and is part of the [[NebulousEvilOrganization Quantum organisation]]. Greene runs a business conglomerate 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.
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80	* AgonyOfTheFeet: 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).
81	* {{Angrish}}: In the climax, he's reduced to shrieking gibberish as he tries to kill Bond.
82	* AxCrazy: In the climax, he takes on Bond with [[DeusAxMachina an actual axe]] and shrieks with wild despair.
83	* BigBad: While Quantum is still pulling the strings in the background, he's the main antagonist to beat in the film.
84	* BoringButPractical: He says he's after "the world's most valuable resource." At first it's hinted he's after oil or diamonds but it turns out [[spoiler:he's after ''water''.]]
85	* CorneredRattlesnake: He ends up having to directly confront Bond on his own in the climax, with no possibility of escape. He's weaker than Bond, but his ConfusionFu with a fire axe (and the hotel exploding around them) allows him to gain the upper hand on Bond for a little while.
86	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Tries to present himself as an HonestCorporateExecutive with Greene Planet, a supposedly ecological organisation, but it's only a front for his real plans to control resources.
87	* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler: Greene deprives Bolivian people of water and drowns Strawberry Fields in crude oil, so Bond leaves him in the desert with only a can of motor oil to drink.]]
88	* DiabolicalMastermind: As a member of Quantum, he has all the resources, though he's a more toned down version to emphasise the hidden and secret nature of the film's contemporary villains.
89	* FauxAffablyEvil: Acts polite and chummy right up until his plans go south.
90	* FriendlyAddressPrivileges
91	--> '''Greene:''' My friends call me Dominic.\
92	'''Bond:''' I'm sure they do.
93	* GreenwashedVillainy: As far as the public is concerned, Greene is an HonestCorporateExecutive trying to save the environment. In truth, Greene is a member of the criminal syndicate Quantum and his corporation's buying of land is merely to further Quantum's agenda; the film reveals that he is engaged in a plot to create a monopoly over Bolivia's water supply by causing an artificial drought.
94	* TheHeavy: He represents only one branch of Quantum [[spoiler: which is itself a front for SPECTRE]].
95	* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: He drank (or was forcibly fed) the bottle of oil Bond provided before Quantum executed him.]]
96	* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: He's the first main Bond antagonist to die this way. The last time he's seen in the movie is when Bond dumps him in the middle of the Bolivian Desert with a can of motor oil (Bond states that since Greene failed his mission and then ratted out Quantum, they'd be looking for him, but he SHOULD be hard to find out there). At the close of the movie, M informs Bond that Greene was found dead there, with two bullet holes in his head and the oil in his stomach.]]
97	* LackOfEmpathy: For one thing, he mocks how the women who get close to Bond tend to end up dead.
98	* TheManBehindTheMan: For some of the Quantum agents from Casino Royale.
99	* MeaningfulName: Runs an organisation with supposedly ecological goals.
100	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Amalric has said he modelled 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.
101	* NonActionBigBad: He has no fighting skills, and it shows dramatically in the final fight. All he can do against Bond is mere ConfusionFu. While he [[NotSoHarmlessVillain momentarily succeeds to incapacitate Bond]], it ends with a [[AgonyOfTheFeet very painful]] result for him. He is, however, the only BigBad of the Daniel Craig-Bond era to even fight 007. Silva, Oberhauser, even Le Chiffre, might be more physically imposing, but Greene not only is the only one to get into combat, but thanks to the InterestingSituationDuel aspect of the fight, hold his own against Bond.
102	* SissyVillain: He resorts to using an axe to go toe-to-toe with Bond and shrieks wildly as he swings it, especially when he ends up embedding it in his own foot.g
103	%%* SmugSnake
104	* 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, and not a single word between them. His fury gets the better of him when he ''axes himself in the foot''.
105	* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler: He is executed offscreen by Quantum agents.]]
106	[[/folder]]
107
108	* [[Characters/JamesBondRecurringCharacters Mr. White]]
109
110	[[folder:Elvis]]
111	!!Elvis
112	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/elvis_qos_6816.png]]
113	!!!'''Played by:''' Anatole Taubman
114
115	Dominic Greene's friend and second in command.
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117	* DodgyToupee: Wears a very visible toupee.
118	* TheDragon: To Dominic Greene, though he barely does anything other than play assistant.
119	* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Greene, apparently.
120	* RedRightHand: Downplayed with his DodgyToupee and the neckbrace that he has to wear later on after he is tripped down a flight of stairs.
121	* SissyVillain: Spends more time fixing his toupee than being any credible threat.
122	* 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]].
123	[[/folder]]
124
125	[[folder:Craig Mitchell]]
126	!!Craig Mitchell
127	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/70284-28123_7299.jpg]]
128	!!!'''Played by:''' Glenn Foster
129
130	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.
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132	* BodyguardBetrayal: M's personal bodyguard and almost succeeds in killing her.
133	* {{Determinator}}: He puts quite a tough fight against Bond.
134	* {{Irony}}:
135	-->'''Mr. White:''' Well, then, the first thing you should know about us is that we have people everywhere. Am I right?
136	* TheMole: He was a mole within [=MI6=] for Quantum.
137	* RogueAgent: Craig's an [=MI6=] agent working with Quantum.
138	[[/folder]]
139
140	[[folder:Yusef Kabira]]
141	!!Yusef Kabira
142	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yusefqos_9384.jpg]]
143	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SimonKassianides
144
145	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.
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147	* AdaptationalJobChange: In ''Literature/CasinoRoyale'', Vesper's boyfriend was an RAF pilot. This version is a Quantum agent.
148	* 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.
149	* TheCasanova: He seduced many female secret agents to obtain information from them.
150	* 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.
151	* 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.
152	* 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.
153	* GetItOverWith
154	--> '''Yusef:''' ''[to Bond]'' Please. Make it quick!
155	* HoneyTrap: His modus operandi. He seduces female secret agents and obtains informations from them once they're deeply in love with him.
156	* 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.
157	* ManipulativeBastard: Manipulates the emotions of the women he seduces into giving him information.
158	* 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.
159	[[/folder]]
160
161	!!!'''Medrano's Junta'''
162
163	[[folder:General Medrano]]
164	!!General Medrano
165	[[quoteright:315:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/medrano_9065.png]]
166	[[caption-width-right:315:''"My country is not some fly-speck in the middle of the Caribbean."'']]
167	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JoaquinCosio
168
169	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.
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171	* 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.
172	* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: For all his cruelty, General Medrano does know how to fight, as shown in his fight with Camille.
173	* BananaRepublic: He was once in command of one. Now he wants to re-establish it.
174	* 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.
175	* 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.
176	* FauxAffablyEvil: Can come across as quite charming when he wants to but in reality he is an unrepentant murderer and rapist.
177	* TheGeneralissimo: A Bolivian general who seeks to become dictator his country.
178	* 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.
179	* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Raped Camille's mother and sister before killing them, and attempts to rape a hotel waitress in the climax.
180	* KarmicDeath: Died at the hands of the daughter and sister of two of his victims.
181	* 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.
182	* PornStache: Sports a mustache in the classic style. A quite dark example given that he's established to be a rapist.
183	[[/folder]]
184
185	[[folder:Carlos]]
186	!!Carlos
187	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/qoscarlos_5508.png]]
188	!!!'''Played by:''' Fernando Guillén Cuervo
189
190	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.]]
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192	* BeardOfEvil: His goatee makes him look even more of a smug thug that he is.
193	* DirtyCop: To the extreme: the chief of police of Bolivia and in league with a James Bond villain.
194	* SinisterShades: Seen with sunglasses at all times.
195	* 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:
196	-->'''Bond:''' You and I had a mutual friend! ''[Bond shoots him in the head]''
197	* SinisterShades: Seen with sunglasses at all times.
198	* VillainousGoldTooth: He is a DirtyCop who has a gold tooth in his upper jaw.
199	[[/folder]]
200
201	!!!'''Other Villains'''
202
203	[[folder:Gregg Beam]]
204	!!Gregg Beam
205	[[quoteright:259:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gregg_beam.jpg]]
206	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/DavidHarbour
207
208	A corrupt CIA Section Chief for South America in league with Greene.
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210	* TheDragon: Beam takes on the role of Greene's when he agrees to eliminate Bond and sends CIA agents after him.
211	* OffscreenKarma: A throwaway line mentions that he was sacked and arrested for his role in Greene's plot.
212	* 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.
213	[[/folder]]
214
215	!!Other Characters
216
217	[[folder:Corinne Veneau]]
218	!!Corinne Veneau
219	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bondquantum57corinne_2700.jpg]]
220	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/StanaKatic
221
222	A Canadian intelligence operative and Yusef's latest target. Surprising them in Yusef's apartment, Bond holds Yusef at gunpoint. He tells Corinne about Vesper and advises her to alert the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to the leak. She brusquely exits, leaving the two men alone.
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224	* InnocentBystander: She gets snared into the plot by Yusef's ploy.
225	* OhCrap: Just have a look at her face (picture). This is when she realizes the AwfulTruth that she has been made a fool of by Yusef.
226	[[/folder]]
227
228	[[folder:Gemma]]
229	!!Gemma
230	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gemma_qos.jpg]]
231	!!!'''Played by:''' Lucrezia Lante della Rovere
232
233	->''"You know Mathis, I think retirement suits you."''
234	-->-- '''James Bond''', upon seeing Gemma
235
236	The girlfriend of René Mathis, who lives with him on the villa in Italy that the [=MI6=] bought him as compensation after believing that he was a mole for Le Chiffre.
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238	* FanserviceExtra: She's only in the movie for a few moments (less than three minutes), and her main purpose in the film appears to be seeing her look good in a swimsuit.
239	* WalkingSwimsuitScene: She spends her entire screentime (which is very limited) in a swimsuit.
240	* WetBlanketWife: Inverted; she's OK with Mathis's work as a spy. In fact, when Mathis complains to her about how because of Bond the [=MI6=] detained him and accused him of being a mole, she says that because of that the [=MI6=] brought him the villa they live in as compensation later on, so if anything, Mathis should be thankful of Bond.
241	[[/folder]]

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