List of James Bond villains

Casino Royale

Le Chiffre

Pay off his embarrassing debts to his SMERSH masters by winning the money at Casino Royale's baccarat table.

James Bond beats Le Chiffre at baccarat.

Shot in the head by a SMERSH hitman.

Live and Let Die

Mr. Big (Buonaparte Ignace Gallia)

Smuggle and sell ancient gold coins to finance SMERSH operations.

Bond kills Mr Big.

Eaten by sharks and barracuda after he falls into the water when Bond blows up his boat.

Moonraker

Sir Hugo Drax (Graf Hugo von der Drache)

Destroy London with a nuclear missile, the eponymous Moonraker.

Before the Moonraker is launched, Bond and Gala Brand escape. Gala gives Bond the proper coordinates to reprogram the gyros and send the Moonraker into the sea.

Drax and his men escape to the North Sea in a Soviet submarine, but are killed in the explosion of the Moonraker when it lands in their vicinity.

Diamonds Are Forever

Jack Spang

Smuggle a large cache of diamonds worth millions of dollars from Africa to America to fund organisation.

Smuggling operation is dismantled when all operatives are assassinated.

Killed when Bond shoots down his helicopter.

Seraffimo Spang

Bond shoots him while he is driving a train, causing it to derail and crash.

From Russia, with Love

Rosa Klebb

Kill Bond in a humiliating sex scandal, kill MI6 cryptanalysts with a boobytrapped cipher machine.

Bond kills SMERSH assassin Grant and foils the booby trap plot, but is nearly killed by Klebb with a poisoned shoe blade.

Captured by the Deuxième Bureau and later dies.

Donovan "Red" Grant

Killed by Bond

Dr. No

Dr. Julius No

Disrupt U.S.-guided missile tests.

Dr. No is killed and the project is dismantled.

Buried under a pile of guano by Bond.

Goldfinger

Auric Goldfinger

Steal the U.S. gold supply from Fort Knox to finance SMERSH.

U.S. authorities are alerted by Bond.

Strangled by Bond with his bare hands in a fit of rage after hijacking an aeroplane.

"From a View to a Kill" (short story)

GRU agents

Kill dispatch-riders of SHAPE to steal information from the British Secret Service.

The riders are killed but the information is recovered by Bond.

Shot by Bond and Mary Ann Russell.

"For Your Eyes Only" (short story)

Colonel von Hammerstein

Acquire the Havelock estate in Jamaica to use as a headquarters for a drug running operation.

Obtains the estate, but both are later killed.

Killed by Judy Havelock with an arrow.

Hector Gonzales

Shot by Bond in firefight.

"Risico" (short story)

Aristotle Kristatos

Smuggle drugs, aid Soviet missile development, and trick Bond into killing rival.

Bond discovers the truth.

Shot by Bond while driving his car, and the car rolls off into the fog.

"The Hildebrand Rarity" (short story)

Milton Krest

Catch the Hildebrand Rarity by any means necessary.

Succeeds, but dies.

Chokes to death on the rare fish, possibly murdered by either his battered wife Liz Krest or a guest on his yacht he offended earlier that night. Bond throws the body overboard.

Thunderball

Emilio Largo

Blackmail the western world with two stolen atomic bombs.

Bond discovers the location of the bombs.

Shot in the neck with a speargun by his mistress, Domino Vitali.

Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Survives.

The Spy Who Loved Me

Mr. Sanguinetti

Have his motel burnt down, and have Vivienne Michel assassinated to claim the property and life insurances.

His assassins fail to kill Vivienne and set the place on fire.

Arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol.

Sol "Horror" Horowitz and "Sluggsy" Morant

Assassinate Vivienne Michel under orders of Mr. Sanguinetti and torch the motel owned by Sanguinetti.

They fail to kill Vivienne and are killed themselves.

Both are shot to death by Bond.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Ernst Stavro Blofeld (a.k.a. Comte Balthazar le Bleuville)

Develop a deadly virus to destroy British livestock and cereals.

The virus and their headquarters are destroyed by Bond and Marc-Ange Draco's Union Corse.

Survives.

You Only Live Twice

Ernst Stavro Blofeld (a.k.a. Dr. Guntram Shatterhand)

He creates a "garden of death" and entices depressed Japanese to suicide. He charges for the suicides to refinance SPECTRE.

His lair is destroyed and his henchmen are killed by Bond.

Strangled by Bond with his bare hands in a fit of rage.

The Man with the Golden Gun

Francisco (Paco) "Pistols" Scaramanga

Expand his international crime organisation into the Caribbean and organise smuggling operations to finance.

Kills one associate himself; another is shot by Felix Leiter; the others die in a bridge explosion.

Shot through the heart by Bond.

"Octopussy" (short story)

Major Dexter Smythe

Live off looted Nazi gold.

Discovered by Bond, he is faced with the choice between prosecution and suicide.

Accidentally stung by a scorpionfish, then partially eaten by an octopus.

"The Property of a Lady" (short story)

Maria Freudenstein and her Soviet contact

Receive secret payment for double agent services.

Succeeds.

Survives, but her contact is deported.

"The Living Daylights" (short story)

Trigger, KGB assassin.

Assassinate defector.

Her gun is shot out of her hand before she can kill the defector.

Wounded by Bond, she survives and escapes.

"007 in New York" (short story)

KGB double-agent

Blackmail MI6 using a female employee.

Employee is tipped off by Bond.

Arrested by the CIA.

Colonel Sun

Colonel Sun Liang-tan

Sabotage USSR summit conference, frame Great Britain.

Operatives are killed, and summit conference members are alerted.

Stabbed in the back and heart by Bond.

James Bond, the Spy Who Loved Me

Sigmund Stromberg

Use stolen submarines to provoke a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviets, then rebuild humanity under the ocean.

Bond destroys his base and blows up the submarines.

Shot twice in the groin and twice in the chest by Bond.

James Bond and Moonraker

Hugo Drax

Fire a nerve agent from space to kill the entire population of earth, then create a new civilisation in space.

Bond destroys his space station and, with it, the globes containing the nerve agent.

Shot with a poison dart by Bond before being pushed out of an airlock and blown into the vacuum of space.

Licence Renewed

Dr. Anton Murik

Hold nuclear power plants hostage in exchange for $50 billion to build a safe reactor.

Bond gives the abort order to the henchmen.

Shot by Bond with Gyrojet pistol.

For Special Services

SPECTRE – Nena Bismaquer (née Blofeld)

Use Bond to take control of NORAD.

Nena's husband, Markus Bismaquer, breaks her hypnotic spell on Bond before the plan succeeds.

Crushed by her own pythons.

Icebreaker

Count Konrad von Glöda(also known as "Aarne Tudeer")

Bring back Nazism by wiping out Communists.

Bond defeats him with the aid of Paula Vacker, a Supo agent and Brad Tirpitz, a member of the CIA.

Shot by Bond.

Role of Honour

Jay Autem Holy

Disarm U.S. and Soviet nuclear weaponry through a computerised scheme to create world peace.

Bond's "defection" to SPECTRE is actually a ruse, and he ruins them.

Shot and killed by Rahani.

Tamil Rahani (SPECTRE)

Disarm the U.S. nuclear weaponry to give the USSR an advantage in the Cold War.

Escapes, but injures himself in his parachute landing, contracting cancer in his spinal cord and left terminally ill, with a short time left, between days and four months.

Nobody Lives for Ever

Tamil Rahani (SPECTRE)

Put a large bounty on Bond's head to have him assassinated following his terminal spinal cord diagnosis.

Bond kills him.

Blown up by bed bomb, courtesy of Bond.

No Deals, Mr. Bond

General Konstantin Nikolaevich Chernov(also known as "Blackfriar")

Kill all participants in a defunct espionage operation.

Bond saves them.

Arrested.

Scorpius

Vladimir Scorpius(also known as "Father Valentine")

Carry out assassinations with a cult of suicide bombers, ultimately kill the U.S. president and British prime minister.

The cult is raided and disbanded, and the president and prime minister are saved.

Bitten by cottonmouths.

Win, Lose or Die

BAST–Bassam Baradj

Capture aircraft carrier with US, UK, and USSR leaders on board and hold them for ransom.

Bond overtakes the ship.

Shot by Bond's ally Beatrice Maria da Ricci.

Licence to Kill (novelization)

Franz Sanchez

Smuggle drugs.

Bond destroys the factory.

Set on fire by Bond.

Brokenclaw

"Brokenclaw" Lee Fu-Chu

Sell secret plans for underwater defence system to Red China, and crash the world stock market with a computerised scheme.

Chinese agents captured and impersonated by Bond and ally Sue Chi-Ho, and their base is blown up.

Shot by Bond with bow and arrow.

The Man from Barbarossa

General Yevgeny Yuskovich

Supply Iraq with nuclear weapons.

Battleship with nuclear weapons destroyed.

Dies when his ship is blown up.

Death is Forever

Wolfgang Weisen

Assassinate all members of British-American CABAL, and destabilise Western Europe by blowing up train containing several world leaders.

Train remotely stopped before it can reach its destination.

Electrocuted on train railing.

Never Send Flowers

David Dragonpol

Assassinate Princess Diana and her sons at Euro Disney.

The royal family is prevented from arriving at Euro Disney.

Blown up by his own bomb.

SeaFire

Sir Maxwell Tarn

Start oil spill fire during demonstration with U-boat.

Bond destroys the submarine.

Burns to death when Bond shoots him with a flare.

GoldenEye (novelization)

Alec Trevelyan

Ruin London's economy.

His base is destroyed.

Crushed by falling debris.

COLD

General Brutus Clay

Replace government with Puritan society.

Bond discovers his plan and notifies his superiors to bomb the base.

Bond shoots him off a boat and he drowns in the water.

"Blast from the Past" (short story)

Irma Bunt

Kill James Bond by shaving him with a razor soaked in Japanese pufferfish poison and "accidentally" nicking him.

Bond is rescued by MI6 agent Cheryl Haven.

Shot by Bond.

Zero Minus Ten

Guy Thackeray

Destroy Hong Kong with a nuclear bomb.

The location of the bomb is discovered, and the bomb is neutralised.

Drowned by Bond.

Tomorrow Never Dies (novelization)

Elliot Carver

Initiate a war between the United Kingdom and China by destroying Beijing to boost ratings.

Bond and Wai Lin destroy the bomb and Carver's base.

Forced into the path of the Sea-Vac drill, controlled by Bond, and killed.

The Facts of Death

Konstantine Romanos

Instigate war between Greece and Turkey by firing nuclear missile into Turkey.

Killed by fellow Decada member Hera Volopoulos.

Killed by Hera.

Hera Volopoulos

Release virus onto the world and profit from treatment.

Stopped with assistance from Greek military.

Blown up, then drowned by Bond.

"Midsummer Night's Doom" (short story)

Anton Redenius (a likely reference to Doug Redenius of the Ian Fleming Foundation)

Sell Ministry of Defence secrets to the Russian Mafia.

After being identified as the culprit, the microfilm is retrieved by Bond.

Arrested.

High Time to Kill

Roland Marquis

Retrieve Skin 17 microdot from corpse on Kangchenjunga mountain before Bond does and sell it to the Russian Mafia.

Marquis gives Bond the microdot in exchange for oxygen.

Chased by Bond to the mountain's peak and dies of oxygen deprivation.

Le Gérant, The Union

Retrieve the microdot and sell it to the Chinese government.

Survives.

The World Is Not Enough (novelization)

Elektra King

Kill her father to take over his oil business and destroy Istanbul in order to monopolise the oil market.

Succeeds in killing her father, Sir Robert King, but Bond kills her and Renard's submarine is sunk.

Shot in the chest by Bond.

Victor 'Renard' Zokas

Assassinate Elektra's father and then use a nuclear submarine to destroy Istanbul; allowing him to commit one final act of terror and giving Elektra leverage over the oil industry.

Succeeds in killing Sir Robert King, but Bond kills Elektra, kills him and sinks the submarine.

Impaled by his own plutonium rod shot out of the reactor by Bond.

"Live at Five" (short story)

KGB (Natalia's coach)

Prevent Russian ice skater Natalia Lustokov's defection to the West.

Bond helps Natalia defect on live television.

The KGB is embarrassed in public.

DoubleShot

Domingo Espada

Overthrow Gibraltar's government with a series of assassinations, then frame James Bond by using a lookalike Peredeur Glyn as assassin and install Espada as the new governor.

Bond kills his double Glyn and takes his place, foiling the coup.

Shot through cheek by Bond and chokes to death on his own blood.

Le Gérant, The Union

Survives.

Never Dream of Dying

Le Gérant, The Union

Make a political statement about Western decadence by blowing up the Cannes Film Festival with CL-20 explosives.

Bond discovers the location of the bomb, prevents remote detonation by telephone call, and informs the authorities.

Blown up in an escape helicopter by Bond's grenade launcher. The Union is permanently disbanded soon after.

Goro Yoshida

Survives.

The Man with the Red Tattoo

Goro Yoshida

Release a deadly mutant strain of the West Nile virus via mosquitoes on the Western world.

The virus is destroyed.

Commits seppuku before he can be captured by Bond.

Die Another Day (novelization)

Colonel Moon/Gustav Graves

Smuggle diamonds and use the Icarus satellite to attack South Korea before invading it.

Bond dismantles the diamond smuggling operation and the Icarus controls are destroyed.

His escape vehicle is driven over a cliff, then his parachute is opened by Bond next to the torn fuselage, sucking him out into the plane engine.

The Hook and the Eye (Felix Leiter Novel)

Devil May Care

Dr. Julius Gorner

Import opium into Britain, and force Bond to pilot an airliner into Soviet territory and bomb it, making it appear to be the UK's doing.

Bond gains control of the airliner and crashes it into a mountainside.

Shot by Bond, he jumps into a river to escape, where he is torn apart by a boat's paddles.

Carte Blanche

Severan Hydt

Use a prototype Serbian weapon known as a "Cutter" to destroy a university in York, killing a cancer researcher who could ruin his employer, a pharmaceutical corporation.

Bond is able to warn British authorities about the Cutter before it detonates.

Shot by an associate, Niall Dunne.

Felicity Willing

Uses her position as head of the International Organisation Against Hunger to strategically distribute food aid across northern Africa, giving the government of Sudan a pretext to go to war with the south; set Dunne up in Hydt's organization and put authorities on his trail so they don't interfere.

She is tricked into confessing to the scheme by Bond and Bheka Jordaan.

Extradited to a secret location after evidence is planted to suggest she was embezzling money from her Chinese backers.

Solo

Kobus Breed, Hulbert Linck and Solomon Adeka

Use Dahumni children as drug mules to smuggle raw heroin into the States.

Bond tracks him down to Washington, D.C.

Breed is shot and left for dead by Bond.

Trigger Mortis

Jason Sin

Sabotage US rocket test launch. Blow up the Empire State Building with train bomb and make it appear to be the rocket's doing by spreading debris of duplicate rocket around bomb site. Use public outcry to give USSR advantage in the Space Race.

Bomb neutralized and train derailed en route to the Empire State Building.

Electrocuted by train railing.

Forever and a Day

Irwin Wolfe

Smuggle more than 5,000 pounds of heroin into the United States using his yacht Mirabelle and start a narcotic addiction epidemic. This is intended to force the US government to focus on combating the epidemic rather than engaging in wars abroad, thereby preventing American soldiers from dying in combat as his two sons had.

Mirabelle destroyed by a bomb blast, thus destroying the heroin shipment

Shot by corrupt CIA agent Reade Griffith

Jean-Paul Scipio

Expand his heroin monopoly beyond Corsica and into the United States by assisting with Wolfe's plan.

Drowned on the sinking Mirabelle after becoming stuck in a passageway due to his obese size.

With a Mind to Kill

Stalnaya Ruka (Including General Grubozaboyschikov & Colonel Boris)

Still believing Bond to be brainwashed from the events of The Man With the Golden Gun, Stalnaya Ruka smuggle Bond back to Russia to carry out an assassination on Nikita Khrushchev for his liberal views, wanting him killed by a British agent, so that they can insert a more hardliner communist President.

Bond is not really brainwashed, and instead assassinates Colonel Boris, the man who brainwashed Bond in The Man with the Golden Gun, who is in the same crowd as Khrushchev.

Bond leaves the Soviet Union through forged paperwork, believing the investigation that follows will uncover Stalnaya Ruka's hand in trying to assassinate Khrushchev and result in the members being imprisoned and most likely executed.

On His Majesty's Secret Service

Æthelstan of Wessex

Take over the throne of the United Kingdom by crashing its economy, restoring the country into an Absolute Monarchy.

Bond's military contacts stage their planned assault early at Æthelstan's base after Bond's cover was blown, disrupting the former's plans and forcing him on the run.

Mercy-killed by Bond after being fatally gunned down by his former associate, Ragneiður Radnarsdóttir. Bond also foils an assassination attempt on Charles III by Æthelstan's illegitimate daughter after being tipped off by Ragneiður.

Double or Nothing

Sir Bertram Paradise

Use his Cloud Nine geo-engineering technology in the Sea of Okhotsk to worsen the climate crisis by melting glaciers to open new trade routes for him and his backers.

Joseph Dryden destroys the engine powering Cloud Nine in time to stop the worst effects of Paradise's plan taking effect.

Mauled by his pet tiger before being shot in the head by Joseph Dryden.

Colonel Mora

Use Sir Bertram Paradise's quantum supercomputer, Celestial, to assist in monitoring security agencies and covering up the activities of Rattenfänger, the Private Military Company that Colonel Mora is the head of.

Johanna Harwood and Sid Bashir rescue Celestial's creator Dr Zofia Nowak, kidnapped by Rattenfänger after Sir Bertram Paradise stopped working with them, and secure Celestial for recovery.

Tranquilised by Johanna Harwood and taken away for questioning.

A Spy Like Me

Lisl Baum

Control the secret Janus smuggling ring, and by extension, control Rattenfänger.

Reveals herself to Moneypenny, who she then takes prisoner.

Victor Babič, Friedrich Hyde, and Valentin 'Teddy' Wiltshire

Smuggle diamonds, antiquities, and people, respectively

Shot by Joseph Dryden, Conrad Harthrop-Vane, and Joanna Harwood, respectively

SilverFin

Lord Randolph Hellebore

Achieve world domination with an army of humans made more powerful through the use of a serum that manipulates hormones and the endocrine system.

Bond and George Hellebore wreck his laboratory by smashing the serum tubes and igniting the paperwork.

Eaten alive by eels alongside his mutated brother Algar Hellebore.

Blood Fever

Count Ugo Carnifex

Steal paintings and sculptures from around the world using the aid of a secret band of villains named the Milennaria.

His associate Zoltan floods his palace for his failure.

Dies in the chaos of the flooding fortress when struck by his own seaplane.

Double or Die

Irina Sedova "Babushka"

Create an innovative decoding machine for the Russians called the Nemesis.

Bond destroys the machine.

Spared by Bond. Returns in By Royal Command, where she once again survives.

Hurricane Gold

Mrs. Glass

Sell important American documents to the Japanese.

Succeeds.

Imprisoned on Huracán's island.

El Huracán

Punish all guests on his island who break his rules.

Bond beats his obstacle course and escapes.

Spared by Bond.

By Royal Command

Dr. Perseus Friend

Assist the Nazi cause by making a plan to murder King George, and also stage a personal vendetta against James Bond after he foiled his work at the end of SilverFin.

Bond saves the king, destroys Friend's operation and forces Sedova to kill Friend.

Shot in the face by Colonel Sedova.

Irina Sedova "Babushka"

Find and kill Friend after King George is dead.

Shot by Bond, but survives because of her bulletproof jacket.

"A Hard Man to Kill" (short story)

Emil Lefebrve

Help General Caiboche escape.

Succeeds.

Caiboche

Escape from custody.

Survives.

Shoot to Kill

Anton Kostler

Take control of the media worldwide by filming other people's torturing and killing by him.

Bond foils his plans by exposing him to the British Secret Services then killing him.

Burned alive by the fire on his zeppelin accidentally ignited by him, then impaled on a tree branch through his left eye.

Heads You Die

Audacto 'Scolopendra' Solares

Blackmail Great Britain to become a vassal of the Soviet Union with poisoned money presented in its economy.

All the poisoned banknotes were destroyed in a fire.

Stabbed in the back by his daughter, Jagua Solares.

La Velada

Manipulate Scolopendra to help her achieve her own goals, then kill him.

Survives.

Strike Lightning

Konstantin Grünner

Buy and use the prototype Steel Shadow battlesuits to aid Nazi war efforts.

All battlesuits destroyed.

Incinerated by molten metal.

Red Nemesis

Andrei Karachan

Kill King George V at the Royal Opera House with explosives; then place their mimicking henchman, Mimic, in his place, so they can rule Great Britain.

Bond foils their plans by exposing and killing them.

Killed by Bond and Anya Kalashnikova using the Beretta 418 once belonged to Andrew Bond.

La Velada

Blown up by Bond.

Adam Elmhirst

Falls from a radio tower after getting shot by Bond and gets impaled by an adjacent mast.

The Man with the Golden Gun (10 January 1966 – 9 September 1966)

Francisco Scaramanga

The Living Daylights (12 September 1966 – 12 November 1966)

"Trigger"

Octopussy (14 November 1966 – 27 May 1967)

Maj. Dexter Smythe

The Hildebrand Rarity (29 May 1967 – 16 December 1967)

Milton Krest

The Spy Who Loved Me (18 December 1967 – 3 October 1968)

Horst Uhlmann

Madam Spectra

Mr. Sanguinetti

The Harpies (10 October 1968 – 23 June 1969)

Simon Nero

River of Death (24 June 1969 – 29 November 1969)

Dr. Cat

Colonel Sun (1 December 1969 – 28 August 1970)

Colonel Sun Liang-tan

Stabbed by Bond and eventually succumbs to the wounds

The Golden Ghost (21 August 1970 – 16 January 1971)

Felix Ignace Bruhl

Hold wealthy passengers aboard the Golden Ghost airship for ransom

The Royal Navy rescues the hostages

Falls to his death while charging Bond

Fear Face (18 January 1971 – 20 April 1971)

Ferenc Kress

Double Jeopardy (21 April 1971 – 28 August 1971)

Fritz Kumura

Starfire (30 August 1971 – 24 December 1971)

Luke Quantrill

Trouble Spot (28 December 1971 – 10 June 1972)

Baron Sharck

Isle of Condors (12 June 1972 – 21 October 1972)

Niccolo Uccelli

The League of Vampires (25 October 1972 – 28 February 1973)

Xerxes Xerophanos

Use his vampire cult to eliminate his business rivals and secure monopoly on computer components

Die with My Boots On (1 March 1973 – 18 June 1973)

Benny 'the Barber' Pignelli

The Girl Machine (19 June 1973 – 3 December 1973)

Sheikh Harun El-Adar

Beware of Butterflies (4 December 1973 – 11 May 1974)

Attila

The Nevsky Nude (13 May 1974 – 21 September 1974)

Sir Ulric Herne

The Phoenix Project (23 September 1974 – 18 February 1975)

Kazim

The Black Ruby Caper(19 February 1975 – 15 July 1975)

Herr Rubin

Till Death Do Us Apart (7 July 1975 – 14 October 1975)

Stefan Radomir

The Torch-Time Affair (15 October 1975 – 15 January 1976)

Carmen Perez & Ricardo Auza

Hot-Shot (16 January 1976 – 1 June 1976)

Dr. Julius No (alias Mr. Huliraya)

Use puppet terrorist cell to eliminate competition

Ship scuttled by Bond

Dies with the ship

Nightbird (2 June 1976 – 4 November 1976)

Ferdinand Polgar

Get revenge on those who burned his face by causing a major explosion

Helicopter shot down; Bond and Smoky track him down at his yacht

Knifed by Bond

Ape of Diamonds (5 November 1976 – 22 January 1977)

Hartley Rameses

Ransom the Crown Jewels of England via remote-controlled gorilla attacks

Bond gains control of the murderous ape

Thrown out the window by his pet ape (perhaps captured)

When the Wizard Awakes (30 January 1977 – 22 May 1977)

Attila Toth

Convince the Hungarian government that a fraudulent copy of the Crown of St. Stephen is real, earning a payday; sell Hungarian missile scientists to the Soviet Union, earning an even bigger payday.

Bond lets both sales go forward, then gets the drop on Toth; later he paraglides onto the Russian submarine to get the scientists back.

Shot and/or hit by molten metal.

Sea Dragon (1977)

Magda Mather

Buy into an oil consortium, or failing that, assassinate its leaders; wreck their value by destroying their oil rig with her Sea Dragon submarine, then buy all their shares at a low cost.

Assassinates all three leaders; Bond prevents her sub from escaping and saves the rig.

Survives and is captured.

Death Wing (1977–1978)

Matteo Mortellito

The Xanadu Connection (1978)

Kubla Khan & Tekla Brent

Shark Bait (1978–1979)

Colonel Yurogin

Doomcrack (2 February 1981 – 19 August 1981)

Madam Spectra

The Paradise Plot (20 August 1981 – 4 June 1982 )

Gabriel Starovsky / Father Star

Deathmask (7 June 1982 – 2 February 1983)

Ivor Nyborg

Flittermouse (9 February 1983 – 20 May 1983)

Dr. Cat

Polestar (23 May 1983 – 15 July 1983)

Robert Ayr

The Scent of Danger (1983)

Madam Spectra (as Madam Della Rosa)

Snake Goddess (1983–1984)

Vidyala

Double Eagle (1984)

Wulf Ehrnt

The Golden Triangle (1982)

Timothy Greene

Smuggle opium/heroin, blaming the Russian KGB for it, and avenge his perceived slight against M while masquerading as an ally to England.

Bond is captured and Greene tries to turn him into a heroin junkie, but his henchwoman Mai Ley changes sides.

Knifed in the back by Mai Ley.

Jungle Devils (1982)

Manuel Alves

Become the sole ruler-dictator of a breakaway section of Brazil the size of Europe; capture James Bond to give to SPECTRE.

Bond gets the jump on his 'jungle devils' gang, steals their helicopter and attacks his base.

Crashes in helicopter shot down by Bond and his allies.

The Slave Traders (1983)

Rhys Cogan / Vasily Pensikov

Smuggle slaves from Africa into NATO countries to make a profit. / Publicize existence of said slaves to embarrass NATO countries on behalf of the KGB.

Posing as a mute slave, Bond kills his way through Cogan's pipeline.

Killed in airplane crash on runway. / Flushed out by Bond; lives.

Codename: Nemesis (1983)

Arthur Grimsley / Sir Barnes Marsden

Start the Fourth Reich by poisoning the East German water supply with mind-altering drugs. / Use James Bond and MI6 to eliminate his co-traitors and escape detection.

Bond is assigned to protect Grimsley and Fosberry, but changes plans when he realizes Grimsley's intent. / It transpires that M was aware of Marsden's treachery the whole time.

Shot by Bond. / Captured by police.

Operation: Burma (1983)

Yan Lun Chieng / Lord Omar

Profit off of fighting between the Soviets and British over metal deposits from a meteor. / Rule a small kingdom in the Burmese jungle.

Bond escapes Omar's tiger trap, then escapes Lun Chieng and his pilot Belinda.

Blown up by surface-to-air missile fired by Bond / murdered (offscreen) by unknown assailant.

Liquidate Bond! (1983)

Col. Lev Makar

Manipulate brainwashed 002 agent John Winter to assassinate political enemies and lure Bond into a trap, all to regain power at the Kremlin.

Bond communicates with Russian paratroopers through a hidden transmitter, and calls them in to descend on Makar's base.

Russian troops assassinate Makar and Winter.

The White Death (1983)

Dr. Osvald Dobrowny / Dr. Kurt Hencker (aka Col. Charles Heinke)

Clear land in the Amazon rainforest of native tribes to make way for rich developers.

Bond and ally Rosita Cortez get chased into the jungle, but with the help of tribal leader Yayac destroy Hencker's jungle base.

Both men blown up in their van by Bond's rocket launcher.

Deadly Doubleplay (1984)

Operation Little (1984)

The Mad Emperor (1984)

Operation Juggernaut (1984)

Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Build an army of indestructible lifelike robots (including of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher) that will infiltrate every level of society.

Plot starts to work, until Bond visits the 'realtor to the criminal masterminds' who points him to Blofeld's hiding place.

Escapes.

Operation UFO (1985)

Ilia of Deokas (KGB)

Fake a squadron of UFOs and a moon base in order to kidnap and brainwash scientists into a believe that all nations must bow to the Soviet Union.

Bond notices a pigeon and a rat on the 'moon base', and escapes to go lead an assault on it.

Captured.

Operation Blucher (1985)

Sir Ernest Gotheringham / Erik Blegman

Capture old Nazi documents on the sunken sub Blücher that reveal him as a WWII traitor. / Initiate a Neo-Nazi revolution in England.

Bond foils Blegman's terrorist explosion, then follows him to Brighton.

Shot by Bond / Shot by Gotheringham.

Operation Romeo (1985)

Walter Junghans

Assassinate world leaders using his missile guidance system for a payday from the mafia.

His target and Bond hide in a bunker to avoid the blast.

Blown up by his own missile.

The Green Death (1985)

Dominique de Blom

Use her army of modified, semi-sentient plants to take over the world and install a women-only dictatorship.

Bond uses pills that make him unappetizing to gators to survive her swamp, then stops her attack.

Captured.

Death in Tahiti (1985)

Francois Duchesne / Guy Le Couteau

Stage a pirate takeover of the Veronique Duchesne cruise ship for the insurance money.

Bond removes the bombs and uses them to destroy the pirate ship instead.

Shot by Bond / Blown up by his own bomb.

Bride from the Balkans (1985)

Chinese Puzzle (1985)

Dr. Irun Saviz

Rule the world with his army of indestructible robots.

The Chinese agent Tsu-Chai blows up Saviz's factory.

Thrown off of railing by Tsu-Chai.

Data Terror (1986)

Death in Florence (1986)

Lev Orkin

Pretend a defection to the west so that he could position himself to become a double agent for the KGB against the U.S. military.

Halfway through, his plan goes belly-up when he starts an affair with an Italian actress.

Killed by his wife/secretary, Katya.

Deadly Double (1986)

Greek Fire (1986)

Killing Music (1987)

Spy Traps (1987)

Deadly Sand (1987)

The Thirteenth Judge (1987)

Escape from Vietnam (1987)

The Immortals (1987)

Istanbul Intrigue (1987)

Serpent's Tooth

Indigo

Use nuclear warheads stolen from submarines to detonate them underground and cause continental drifts that will flood the earth and destroy human civilization. Thus, allowing him to "wipe the slate clean" and restart civilization with his genetically engineered creatures.

Bond gets into the control room and sabotages the countdown trigger, causing the bombs not to detonate when it reaches zero.

Bond jumpkicks him, causing him to be pushed into an exhibit of a fallen dinosaur skull and fatally pierced by its teeth.

Light of My Death

Amos (Cerberus)

Shattered Helix

Mister Barclay (Cerberus)

Abduct Professor Boyce and make him lead them to a secret CIA research lab at Antarctica, which contains a deadly mutagen bioweapon

Cerberus reaches the biochemical lab and find two canisters of the mutagen. Both canisters end up ruptured, with Bond setting off the self-destruct of the base, which destroys the mutagen and the research.

Gets caught in the mutagen when Boyce ruptures the first canister to secure James Bond's and Serena Mountjoy's escape.

Minute of Midnight

Lexis

The Quasimodo Gambit

Maximilian Steel (a.k.a. Quasimodo)

Vargr

Slaven Kurjak

Further develop his lethal chemical agent by distributing them as recreational drugs for his experiments.

Bond finds out about the plan and escapes Kurjak's death trap. Bond informs British authorities of Kurjak's plan and subsequently destroys Kurjak's base of operations in Norway.

Intercepted by Bond when Kurjak abandons his hideout and swims to the nearby shore. Kurjak is summarily shot by Bond.

Eidolon

Beckett Hawkwood

Prevent the "Hard Rule" from being repealed, preventing Secret Service agents from carrying weapons on British soil; stockpile money and weapons for a SPECTRE re-emergence.

M exposes him as a SPECTRE agent, discrediting him.

Mortally injured from fighting Bond and in no condition to escape the authorities, Hawkwood kills himself by slitting his throat.

Hammerhead

Victoria Hunt (a.k.a. Kraken)

Restore the British Empire to its former glory by using a remote control to hijack HMS Vengeance to fire a nuclear missile to London. The ensuing devastation allows her to establish her own government and rebuilding the country anew.

Believed to have been killed, Bond gets inside Victoria's base and gains control of the Hammerhead Railgun, which he uses to shoot down the nuclear missile fired from HMS Vengeance.

Bond uses the Hammerhead Railgun to kill Victoria.

Black Box

Saga Genji

Using the data gained from the massive online security breach, now stored in his "black box", Genji aims to use the incriminating information to elevate country of Japan into a global leader.

Bond kills Genji and acquires the Black Box, averting global chaos

Genji's final attempt on Bond's life fails, when the latter uses light from a smartphone to reveal Genji's location and throws a knife into Genji's head, killing him.

Kill Chain

The Old Man

Lead SMERSH to a glorious new revolution via a takeover of Europe, disguised as a Neo-Nazi reawakening.

Pulls strings from afar and does not get personally involved; the operations fail.

Survives and never identified by Bond.

Radkov

Organize the operation to find and kill all enemy spies, including top brass of MI6.

Succeeds in killing agents, but Bond foils the end game.

Throat slit by The Old Man for his failure.

Rika van de Havik

Betray MI6, assassinate the American Director of National Intelligence, M, and set up operations to take over the Baltics.

Succeeds with in killing Gen. Garrett, and takes over British plane, but foiled by Bond.

Kicked out of a moving aircraft by Bond.

The Body

James Bond 007

Auric Goldfinger

Big Things

Mr. Big

James Bond Origin

Agent of SPECTRE

Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Use James Bond to contain the internal coup within SPECTRE, being spearheaded by Titania Jones.

Succeeds in killing Titania Jones and retaining control of SPECTRE. He is unsuccessful in trying to kill Bond and Leiter, and he loses Meraki.

Survives, but scarred from the explosion

Titania Jones / Number 7

Carry out a coup against Blofeld and gain control of the island stronghold "Meraki."

The coup at Meraki fails and Titania is subdued by Bond.

Shot through the head by Blofeld, after Bond had incapacited her power armor and surrendered to him.

Himeros

Anton Banes

Preserve his global arms dealing business by violently erasing his ties to a sex trafficking ring on a secret island.

Destroys most of the pipeline, but word gets out about his activities, and he sets a bomb to destroy the island and himself.

Bond shoots him and escapes.

Felix Leiter

Service

Jack Marshall

Kill United States Secretary of State, Alexander Thomas.

Bond escapes capture and foils the initial assassination plan. Regardless, Marshall is able to acquire a pistol pursue and corner Alexander Thomas. However, Marshall is unable to shoot Thomas due to the pistol being faulty, allowing Bond to prevent the assassination.

Shot by Bond before Marshall regains his aim at Thomas.

Solstice

Anatoly Zima

Use an estranged relative of M, codenamed Solstice, who has become infatuated with Zima, to blackmail M and regain the respect of his former Russian spy masters.

Zima is outmaneuvered by Bond, and brawl in a hotel suite. Bond gains Zima's phone and gives a fraudulent response to make Solstice to break-up on Zima

Zima is unable to overpower Bond and is strangled to death.

Reflections of Death: One Pistol, Three Sliencers

Oscar Ledesma (a.k.a. The Silencer)

Kill Felix Leiter's eldest daughter the night of her prom.

Ledesma gets the drop on Bond, but makes the mistake of challenging him to a duel.

Knifed by Bond.

Reflections of Death: The Hook

Sir Cecil (a.k.a. Architect)

Presumably to shut down the 00 Section, as part of a larger SMERSH operation, using the death of SMERSH assassin Chekhov as a ruse.

Bond waits for him in his apartment, and reveals that Sir Cecil's bodyguard Graves is loyal to MI6.

Shot by Bond.

Reflections of Death: The Rare Dinner

Ivan Turgenev / the Russian Brotherhood

Unknown

Bond systematically eliminates the four gangsters one-by-one in the bathroom, then kitchen, of a 5-star Michelin restaurant.

Knocked out by Agent Craft.

Reflections of Death: The Oddest Job

The Oru organisation

Unknown

Bond and Mr. Lee fight the gang in a karaoke bar.

Eliminated by Bond, Lee and another agent.

Reflections of Death: Men Without a Country

003

Set up a secret prison island base with millions worth of stolen bitcoin as an escape plan from MI6.

Bond escapes the prison without him, believing 003 to be a prisoner; later the prison is raided and Bond realizes his erstwhile ally's plan.

Captured by MI6.

Permission to Die (by Mike Grell)

Dr. Erik Widziadlo

Fire a nuclear warhead from his ram-tube spacecraft launcher to destroy Victoria, British Columbia in hopes of making mankind understand how dangerous nuclear power is.

Edáine Gayla, who is planning to die with Widziadlo, sabotages the warhead and the missile launcher to destroy Widziadlo's base and operations.

Dies in the base explosion while hugging Gayla.

Dr. No

Dr.No

Joseph Wiseman

Use a nuclear radio beam to topple Cape Canaveral's space program.

Bond disables the radio beam by overloading the nuclear reactor.

Slowly boils to death in the reactor's cooling pond after a struggle with Bond.

From Russia With Love

Colonel Rosa Klebb

Lotte Lenya

Trick James Bond and MI6 into stealing a Soviet decoder machine called the Lektor so they can steal it from them, while also destroying Bond's reputation in a humiliating sex scandal and eventually killing him as revenge for the death of Dr. No.

Bond acquires the device for MI6 and evades SPECTRE's attempts on his life.

Shot in the chest by Tatiana Romanova during an attempt to murder Bond after her last plan failed.

Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Anthony Dawson (body), Eric Pohlmann (voice)

Survives (no contact between him and Bond).

Kronsteen

Vladek Sheybal

Murdered by SPECTRE on Blofeld's orders after his plan to ruin Bond failed.

Donald Grant

Robert Shaw

Killed by Bond in fight aboard the Orient Express.

Goldfinger

Auric Goldfinger

Gert Fröbe

Irradiate the gold in Fort Knox with a nuclear weapon to increase the value of his own gold.

An American technician safely disables the bomb.

Sucked out of the shattered window of a depressurizing plane, falling to his death.

Thunderball

Emilio Largo

Adolfo Celi

Steal two atomic bombs and use them to extort money from various world governments.

The bombs are recovered and safely destroyed by Bond and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Shot in the back with a harpoon by his mistress, Domino Derval.

Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Anthony Dawson (body), Eric Pohlmann (voice)

Survives (no contact between him and Bond).

You Only Live Twice

Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Donald Pleasence

Trigger a war between the United States and Soviet Union, on the behalf of China, by capturing their space capsules midflight.

Bond uses a self-destruct button in Blofeld's lair to destroy the Bird One spacecraft.

Survives, although wounded.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Telly Savalas

Distribute an infertility-based viral plague to destroy livestock and cereals, unless issued a pardon by the United Nations and the title of count by the College of Arms.

Bond and Marc-Ange Draco destroy the laboratory and radio station from which commands to distribute the viruses are issued. Agents supposedly neutralised.

Survives, despite neck injury. His henchwoman Irma Bunt assassinates Tracy di Vicenzo, Bond's newly married wife, on their honeymoon.

Diamonds Are Forever

Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Charles Gray

Steal diamonds to fabricate a laser satellite which can remotely detonate nuclear stockpiles, then use said laser to extort the world's nuclear powers.

Bond smashes Blofeld's mini-sub against the control room of his lair, disabling the satellite and causing severe damage to his lair.

Survived the fiery demolition of the control room of his oil rig headquarters as he returns in the opening of For Your Eyes Only, where Bond drops him down an industrial chimney.

Live and Let Die

Dr. Kananga / Mr. Big

Yaphet Kotto

Distribute a large cache of heroin into the United States without cost, driving his competitors out of business and gaining a monopoly.

Quarrel Jr. destroys Kananga's poppy fields with a series of explosives.

Forced by Bond to ingest a compressed gas pellet, causing him to inflate and explode.

The Man with the Golden Gun

Francisco Scaramanga

Christopher Lee

Kill James Bond and sell the Solex Agitator, a device that can harness solar energy for destructive purposes.

Bond retrieves the Agitator for MI6 and defeats Scaramanga in mortal combat.

Shot in the chest by Bond during their duel.

The Spy Who Loved Me

Karl Stromberg

Curd Jürgens

Capture a British submarine and a Soviet submarine and use them to trick Britain and the USSR into starting a nuclear war. Once the world's population has been decimated, repopulate the Earth with a new society under his control formed in secret bases under the ocean.

Bond redirects the British and Soviet nuclear missiles' coordinates so that the missile fired by each sub hits the other, destroying them.

Shot repeatedly by Bond using his own dinner table booby trap.

Moonraker

Hugo Drax

Michael Lonsdale

Fire a nerve agent from space, poisoning Earth's atmosphere and killing off the human population. Rebuild humanity in space with carefully selected humans.

The space station containing the poisonous globes is destroyed by US Marines, and the three globes that were launched are destroyed by Bond and Holly Goodhead.

Shot with a dart by Bond and ejected into outer space.

For Your Eyes Only

Aristotle Kristatos

Julian Glover

Retrieve an ATAC missile command system lost by the British in a shipwreck and sell it to the Soviet Union. Additionally, trick Bond and MI6 into killing his main rival, Milos Columbo.

Bond joins forces with Melina Havelock and Milos Columbo, infiltrating Kristatos's hideout and throwing the device off a cliff.

Stabbed with a knife thrown by Columbo.

Octopussy

Kamal Khan

Louis Jourdan

Execute General Orlov's plan in exchange for being paid in jewels stolen from the Kremlin.

The jewels are recovered by the KGB.

Attempts to escape in his plane, but Bond disables the left engine of the plane, causing Khan to crash it into a mountain, killing him.

General Orlov

Steven Berkoff

Smuggle a nuclear warhead onto a US Air Force Base in West Germany and detonate it to clear a path for the Soviet Bloc to conquer Western Europe.

Bond, with the help of Octopussy, disarms the bomb.

Shot by guards who believe that he is trying to defect.

A View to a Kill

Max Zorin

Christopher Walken

Trigger an earthquake along the San Andreas fault to destroy Silicon Valley, thus wiping out his competitors in the microchip market and giving him a monopoly.

Zorin leaves May Day to die. Enraged, she smuggles the bomb out of the blast radius, sacrificing herself.

Falls from the top of the Golden Gate Bridge during a fight with Bond.

The Living Daylights

General Georgi Koskov

Jeroen Krabbé

Fake a defection and trick MI6 into killing his rival, General Leonid Pushkin, to cover-up his weapon smuggling racket, which Pushkin was investigating.

Bond and Pushkin fake the latter's assassination and Bond destroys the shipment of opium that Koskov was going to use to buy weapons from Whitaker.

Arrested by Pushkin; implied to be executed by the Soviet government, off-screen.

Brad Whitaker

Joe Don Baker

Engage in a triangle deal with Koskov and the Mujahadeen, where Whitaker will get valuable opium in exchange for high-tech weapons.

Bond destroys the shipment of opium, ruining the deal.

Bond activates a bomb disguised as a key chain, dropping a bust of the Duke of Wellington on Whitaker, crushing him.

Licence to Kill

Franz Sanchez

Robert Davi

Smuggle a large shipment of cocaine into Asia by dissolving the substance in petrol.

Bond destroys the refinery used to dissolve the cocaine and later the four tankers that are already filled.

Bond sets Sanchez, who is soaked in gasoline due to a tanker crash, on fire with a lighter gifted by Felix Leiter. Burning Sanchez stumbles into a leaking tank truck, causing the leaked gasoline to catch on fire and make the tanker explode, killing Sanchez.

GoldenEye

Alec Trevelyan / 'Janus'

Sean Bean

Use an EMP weapon called GoldenEye to destroy London's economy in revenge for British repatriation of Lienz Cossacks which led to the murder-suicide of his parents. Also aims to eliminate Severnaya survivor Natalya Simonova, before she becomes too much trouble.

Simonova reprograms the GoldenEye satellite's controls to initiate atmospheric re-entry, thus destroying itself. Bond sabotages the dish's antenna by jamming its gears, rendering Boris Grishenko incapable of undoing Simomova's work.

Bond drops Alec to the bottom of the dish surface, and subsequently ends crushed by the antenna's collapsing beam steering mechanism.

Tomorrow Never Dies

Elliot Carver

Jonathan Pryce

Cause a war between the UK and China by firing a cruise missile from a sunken British warship towards Beijing, both so he can arrange a broadcasting deal with a new Chinese government and so that his media empire will have more news to cover.

Bond destroys Carver's stealth boat in a massive explosion, destroying the missile before it can launch.

Bond incapacitates Carver and leaves him in the path of his own Sea-Vac drill, which shreds him to pieces.

The World Is Not Enough

Elektra King

Sophie Marceau

Gain a monopoly on crude oil in Europe by setting off a nuclear explosion in Istanbul, rendering the Bosporus Strait impassable to tankers carrying oil from competing pipelines. Also murder M in retaliation for ordering her father Sir Robert King to not pay the ransom after her kidnapping.

Bond kills her and then stops the detonation of the submarine.

Shot in the chest by Bond after she refused to order Renard to surrender.

Victor 'Renard' Zokas

Robert Carlyle

Detonate a nuclear submarine in the waters of Istanbul to serve Elektra's plan.

Bond kills him before he can overload the submarine's reactor.

Impaled by a plutonium rod, shot out of the sub's reactor core at high speed, by Bond.

Die Another Day

Gustav Graves / Colonel Tan-Sun Moon

Toby Stephens / Will Yun Lee

Use the sun-enhancing satellite Icarus to cut a path through the Korean Demilitarized Zone, provoking a war between North and South Korea.

Icarus is rendered harmless when Bond destroys the control device.

Bond pulls the cord on his parachute, sucking him out off plane, electrocutes him and finally getting sucked into the plane's engine, ripping him to shreds.

Casino Royale

Le Chiffre

Mads Mikkelsen

Recoup his clients' squandered funds by winning a poker tournament at the Casino Royale.

Bond wins the tournament.

Shot in the forehead by Mr. White.

Mr. White

Jesper Christensen

Assassinate Le Chiffre and steal back the money.

Succeeds.

Arrested by Bond.

Quantum of Solace

Dominic Greene

Mathieu Amalric

Carry out a coup d'état in Bolivia and install his puppet ruler, General Medrano, in exchange for land hiding a massively valuable, undiscovered aquifer. Then sell the new Bolivian government water from the aquifer at massively inflated prices.

Bond intercepts Greene and Medrano before they can carry out the coup.

Bond abandons him in the middle of the Bolivian desert, with nothing but a can of motor oil to drink. He is later reported to have been shot by an anonymous assassin after drinking the oil.

Mr. White

Jesper Christensen

Escape MI6 custody.

Succeeds.

Survives (returns in Spectre where he is dying from thallium poisoning and commits suicide using Bond's Walther PPK).

Skyfall

Raoul Silva

Javier Bardem

Take revenge on M by launching a massive cyberattack on MI6 and then personally carry out her assassination.

Indirectly succeeds. Bond foils his first assassination attempt, but later she is fatally wounded by one of his henchmen. (Although, he does not live to realize this or find the closure he sought.)

Bond throws a hunting knife into his back.

Spectre

Franz Oberhauser / Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Christoph Waltz

Gain control of a global surveillance program called "Nine Eyes".

Bond destroys Blofeld's data center and Q prevents the Nine Eyes program from being activated.

Arrested by M after he survives his escape helicopter being shot down by Bond.

Max Denbigh / C

Andrew Scott

Engages in a fight with M and falls to his death.

No Time to Die

Lyutsifer Safin

Rami Malek

Wipe out SPECTRE after Blofeld ordered Mr. White to assassinate his family. Later take revenge on the world at large by using "Heracles" – a DNA-based bioweapon which SPECTRE stole from MI6.

Succeeds in wiping out SPECTRE but fails to spread Heracles worldwide due to the Royal Navy's and Bond's intervention, which destroys the facility producing it.

Shot by Bond after a brief fistfight.

Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Christoph Waltz

Escape prison, restore SPECTRE, and eliminate Bond using Heracles.

Safin uses Heracles to wipe out SPECTRE in Cuba and later coerces Madeleine Swann into killing Blofeld with it.

Inadvertently infected with Heracles when Bond briefly touches and strangles him—after he touched Swann—during an interrogation and dies as a result.