Complete Monster/James Bond

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In the *James Bond* films, most villains avoid falling into this trope due to redeeming qualities ... but not all of them.

* Auric Goldfinger is such a memorable and witty villain that you almost forget that he's a criminally insane maniac. His plan involves poisoning an army barracks and the surrounding town - 60,000 people (he shrugs this off with A Million Is a Statistic) - and then detonating a nuclear device in Fort Knox to trigger a major economic crisis for his own profit, and considers such a scheme potentially one of the greatest achievements in human endeavor, up there with scaling Everest and splitting the Atom. He punishes his assistant, who becomes a Bond girl and costs him a rigged card game, by having her murdered with golden paint; he tries to have James Bond *sawn in half with a laser*, and he gives an Evil Speech of Evil to his mob partners even though he always planned on killing them (and does) - he just wanted to let them know how brilliant a criminal mastermind he was. Bond panders to his ego because he sees just how dangerously mad he is.
* Hugo Drax in *Moonraker*. He has the most monstrous plan of any Bond villain to date - the *extermination of the human race*, intending to repopulate the Earth with his own specially chosen perfect specimens. He has a massive ego to the point where he talks about how "I alone" created his giant space station and has a French *chateau* imported brick by brick to California to be his house. He is one of the few villains to try and justify Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? by saying he wanted to give Bond an "amusing death", and when the first two fail, he still manages to give his assistant, whom Bond had seduced, a gruesome death - he has her *chased down and mauled by his dogs!*
* Max Zorin in *A View to a Kill* really qualifies big time. Besides his main plan to cause a flood that would kill many innocents by triggering an earthquake, he drops a businessman to his death when he disagrees with his plan, kills the mayor and gets Bond blamed for it, murders the subway workers in a gleeful manner, and while doing this, betrays May Day, his main henchwoman.
* Franz Sanchez from *Licence to Kill*. Although in some scenes he's Affably Evil and charming, he's also uncommonly brutal and ruthless in dealing with his enemies or those he perceives as disloyal to him - he brutally whips his mistress, Lupe Lamora, with a stingray-tail whip as a punishment for infidelity. It is also implied that under his orders, his top henchman Dario removed the heart of the man she has slept with. He feeds Bond's best friend, Felix Leiter, to a shark (he had his newlywed wife raped and killed right before), and he kills one of his collaborators, locking him in a decompression chamber, believing he stole his money. Towards the climax, he also decides to start "cutting overhead" and shoots his financial advisor.
* Xenia Onatopp from *Goldeneye* has the dubious honor of being the most depraved Femme Fatale Bond has ever come across. Initially seen as a charming, elegant woman, Xenia reveals her true nature when in bed with her target, she kills him by crushing him between her thighs to suffocate him, getting clear sexual ecstasy from the murder. She steals his security clearance and murders several innocent sailors before eluding Bond. Later, when Xenia arrives in a Russian facility, she massacres all the techs with machine gun fire, getting very visibly aroused by the killings. Even her partner for the mission looks a bit stunned at it. Xenia has one of the largest bodycounts for a Dragon in the franchise, and unlike the majority of her male counterparts, Xenia is in it for money and thrills. She has no issue helping to use the Goldeneye satellite to plunge England into the dark ages as long as she gets rich from it. The fact that her job gives her the ability to express her sexualized love for killing is just another perk.
* Elliot Carver of *Tomorrow Never Dies*. In addition to the whole plan of killing a city full of people and quite possibly instigating World War III, there's what he planned to do to 007 and Wai Lin. Carver orders them tortured, telling them of the techniques Mr. Stamper will use and explaining that these methods (including mutilating the genitals) are designed to inflict the maximum amount of agony while keeping the victim alive as long as possible. To say nothing of Carver ordering the murder of his own wife when she becomes too close to James Bond.
* General Medrano of *Quantum of Solace*, who raped and killed Camille's family in front of her, and burnt down the house. He conspires with Dominic Greene of the organization Quantum, deliberately engineering a nationwide drought in Bolivia to get allow Quantum to get its hands on his nation's water supply and having the gall to frame the government for selling off its rainforests. Medrano is willing to plunge his nation into drought and famine, dooming multiple innocent people, just so he can have an excuse to seize power. When Greene informs Medrano how expendable he truly is to Quantum, Medrano buckles under pressure and acquiesces to Greene's demands before trying to rape his maid out of frustration. When Camille intervenes, Medrano tries to rape and murder her as well, mocking her about her mother and sister.
* Finally, *SPECTRE* gives us Franz Oberhauser, real name Ernst Stavro Blofeld. He was once a sociopathic boy who murdered his own father for loving a young, orphaned James Bond the Oberhauser family took in. Faking his own death and adopting his new name, Oberhauser built up the criminal organization SPECTRE, which finances and facilitates terrorism around the globe, allies with interested parties to topple governments, prolong civil wars, horde natural resources, and eventually involves itself in the sex trade where hundreds of thousands of women and children are trafficked to feed SPECTRE's accounts. Oberhauser gleefully reveals himself as the architect of James's pain, having arranged events to result in the deaths of Bond's friends and loved ones. He was even the one behind Raoul Silva in *Skyfall*, having wanted M herself to die to hurt Bond. With Bond himself, Oberhauser has small needles drilled into his head to torture him and even threatens to steal his ability to recognize faces by drilling in the right place. When this fails, Oberhauser holds Bond's Love Interest in a rigged chamber (also forcing her to watch the footage of her father committing suicide) so Bond must either try to save her and die in an explosion, or abandon her to save himself and live with the shame of it. Obsessed with destroying his stepbrother and devoted only to his own massive megalomania and eagerness to condemn the world to chaos or tyranny if it suits his purposes, Oberhauser is the ultimate villain of the rebooted chronology to date and the most evil version of Blofeld in the entire franchise.

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