James Bond

James Bond is a Speed Champions minifigure from the 007 franchise, introduced in 2022.
==Description==
James Bond wears a black tuxedo with a white shirt and a grey bowtie. He has light nougat skin and sand yellow Mini Wig, No. 22 hair, and his head is printed with a serious facial expression. His appearance is modeled after actor Daniel Craig's portrayal of the character from 2006 through 2021.
== Background ==
James Bond was born on April 13, 1968 to parents Andrew and Monique Bond, where he grew up in his family estate in Scotland, Skyfall Lodge. At age 11, James lost his parents in a climbing accident. He was then adopted by Austrian Ski Instructor Hannes Oberhauser, who raised him along with his own son Franz Oberhauser. However, both Oberhausers disappeared, leaving Bond alone. Bond eventually joined the Royal Navy, and later the SIS section MI6. Under the head of MI6, M, Bond was assigned the role of 007.
His first assignment as 007 put him in a high stakes card game against the villainous Le Chiffre at Casino Royale, where the villain planned to finance terrorists by winning the prize money from the game. It was during this mission that Bond fell in love with Vesper Lynd, who ultimately betrayed and sacrificed herself, which haunted Bond.
Bond would later go on many other missions, encountering villains such as the vengeful former MI6 agent Raoul Silva, which led him back to Skyfall and resulted in the death of M. He eventually uncovered a massive conspiracy by the mysterious criminal organization SPECTRE to gain control of world surveillance. In his efforts to stop them, Bond met and fell in love with psychiatrist Dr. Madeline Swann and uncovered that the leader of SPECTRE was Franz Oberhauser (now going by the name Ernst Stavro Blofeld), who had been jealous of Bond as a child and thus killed Hannes Oberhauser and set about his revenge on Bond, orchestrating several tragedies in his life, including the deaths of Vesper and M. Bond eventually stopped the plot and Blofeld was arrested, allowing Bond and Madeline to drive off on their own to begin a new life.
However, this peace would be short lived as, while visiting Italy, Bond and Madeline were attacked by SPECTRE agents under orders from an incarcerated Blofeld. It is seemingly revealed that Madeline was working for SPECTRE and betrayed Bond, resulting in Bond leaving her. Five years pass and Bond is drawn back into action by his friend in the CIA, Felix Leiter, after SPECTRE breaks into a secret MI6 lab and steals a nanobot-based bioweapon, codenamed Heracles, as well as Dr. Valdo Obruchev, the scientist who created it. Bond is tasked to infiltrating a SPECTRE party in Cuba where, under orders from Blofeld, the weapon is unleashed on Bond. However, Obruchev reprograms the nanobots, which kill the SPECTRE agents instead. Bond eventually returns to MI6, where he is reinstated as 007 and goes to see Blofeld in prison. While there he reunites with Madeline Swann. Blofeld reveals to Bond that the attack on Matera and Madeline's betrayal were faked to manipulate Bond. Bond, angered by this, chokes Blofeld, who is subsequently infected with Heracles as well and dies in prison. Bond eventually goes after Madeline, who reveals that Bond has a daughter and that everything in Cuba was orchestrated by Dr. Lyutsifer Safin, who's entire family were killed under orders from Blofeld. Both Madeline and Bond's daughter are kidnapped by Safin, leading Bond to confront Safin on his personal island, the Poison Garden. Bond finds out that Safin, under a delusion of saving the world, plans to unleash Heracles to take control of life and death. Bond gets Madeline and his daughter off the island before going to open the blast doors of the island base so missiles from a Royal Navy vessel can destroy it. However, he is attacked by Safin, who infects him with nanobots programmed to kill Madeline and his daughter. Realizing this, Bond kills Safin before saying goodbye to Madeline and opening the doors, allowing the missiles to destroy the island and sacrifices himself to save his family, and the world.
==Appearances==
* 76911 Aston Martin DB5
==Notes==
* Prior to his debut as a physical minifigure, TT Games created a test animation featuring a James Bond minifigure in 2005, along with Indiana Jones and Lara Croft. Although Activision hoped to produce a LEGO video game adaptation of James Bond (even successfully getting the rights from Barbara Broccoli to do so), the release of Casino Royale dissuaded LEGO from licensing the "dark and gritty" property.LEGO Games that nearly got made (the last one would have been amazing) - YouTube Ironically, James Bond's physical minifigure is modeled after actor Daniel Craig, who made his debut in the aforementioned "gritty-toned" Casino Royale, which was rated PG-13 just like the Bond movies prior to and after it.
* In addition to playing James Bond, Daniel Craig played FN-1824 in Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens.
==Gallery==
LEGOJamesBondConcept.png|James Bond in TT Games' test animation
==See Also==
* 10262 James Bond™ Aston Martin DB5
==References==
Category:Minifigures introduced in 2022
Category:Speed Champions
Category:Exclusive Minifigures