Joel Owens asked:


Superman might have larger than life powers to protect the Earth. Daredevil might have superhuman senses to defeat the Kingpin of Crime. Spider-man might be flexible enough to get out of any sticky situation. But then again, when an evil villain is out to cause mayhem on Earth via nuclear bombing or sophisticated biological weapons, only one fictional character sans the superpowers can salvage us from utter destruction: Secret Agent Bond—James Bond.

James Bond, unlike these superheroes, doesn’t have supernatural powers or wasn’t bitten by a genetically enhanced spider of sorts for him to be called a hero. Known to have the strength, wit, intelligence, charms, seamless gadgets, and of course, his natural appeal to women, he is an unstoppable brute. Agent 007, as he is commonly called, is a human weapon, ready to stop any atomic bomb, morally bankrupt villain or some unnamed armaments to save the world.

The Villain Who Made the Most Movies

The hardest task for the creators of the James Bond franchise must have been the conceptualization nemeses that would be worthy and fit to be up against the most popular secret agent in Hollywood. They must have been in a heated James Bond Villain quiz discussion in order to reincarnate evil at its best to be eradicated by our suave hero in the end.

Ernst Stravo Blofeld is arguably one of the most hated villains to be fought by 007. As an evil mastermind of SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion), he aims to take over the world and get truckloads of money in the process of doing so. He appears in 7 major James Bond movies and definitely continues to earn a lot of fans for his pure rashness. This bald, cat-totting and murderous villain is never adamant in annihilating James Bond. Blofeld, with his trademark accent and evil deeds, will be a staple character in any James Bond villain quiz no matter how many other villains might be baked in the oven of the screenplay writer’s imagination.

More Villains: A James Bond Villain Quiz

Villains might be abhorred, but no one can deny that we love them for what they do best—being EVIL. Let’s see how well you know James Bond’s nemeses. Take this James Bond Villain quiz and find out.

1. He has a penchant for sharks, crocodiles and killing, among others. This villain appears in Live and Let Die and was portrayed by Yaphet Kotto.

a. Elliot Carver

b. Mr. Big

c. Mr. Bullion

2. He tried to kill Bond by blowing him up with an atomic bomb to no avail. He is famous for the line, “Better than letting a handful of old men in Moscow bargain away our advantage in disarmament talks!”

a. Mr. Big

b. Kamal Khan

c. Octopussy

3. It is Soviet counter-intelligence agency portrayed in the early James Bond novels based on the real-life agency of the same name. In the novels, it was one of 007′s greatest nemeses.

a. SPECTRE

b. SMERSH

c. KRYPTONITE

4. He wants to disarm world powers and have world peace by destroying missile silos and military bases around the world using the diamond satellite laser weapon he created. He appears in Diamonds are Forever.

a. Kamal Khan

b. Nick Nack

c. Professor Dr. Metz

5. He attempts to execute Bond in Korea, and drives a Jaguar XKR while chasing him across a flat plain in Iceland. He appeared in Die Another Day.

a. Zao

b. Gustav

c. Kanami

Answers:

1. b. Mr. Big

2. c. Octopussy

3. b. SMERSH

4. c. Professor Dr. Metz

5. a. Zao

Villains Make Bond, THE James Bond

Villains can give the needed oomph to make someone a hero. In the case of our favorite fictional secret agent, James Bond would have never reached this pinnacle of popularity without these murderous minds out to cause considerable damages to the world. Sure enough, the quality of a James Bond film is contingent upon how evil, downright mean and callous his enemies could get. The more ruthless these villains become the more smashing and appealing James Bond becomes to the box office.

tony fox asked:


Aston Martin cars, just like their most famous driver James Bond are considered to be quintessentially English.They are Like Basil Fawlty and overcast Sunday afternoons: you just can’t separate them from the notion of Englishness.

When I found out that Aston Martin had been put up for sale by it’s owner, the Ford Premier Automitive Group, I couldn’t help but wonder if the day may come when we see James Bond driving, say, a French car.

Bond in a Citroen? I ask you!

Yes I know, it’s a shocking thought and I’m almost ashamed for having let it cross my mind, but anything is possible. Of course it would be wrong to assume that 007 only ever drove English (or British) cars. In 1995 the release of GoldenEye saw Bond using a BMW Z3 as his primary means of transport – the first non-British production car to feature in such a role.

We live in an age when borders are vanishing, cultures merging and notions of identity are changing day by day. Once upon a time it would have been unthinkable for a non-British man to become the manager of a Premiership football team. Now we have loads of them. The next taboo (having a foreign-born manager of the national football team) was broken many years ago.

Our sense of identity is what tells us who we are. Similarly it can give us a sense of pride. Britains love James Bond, not only because he is suave, cool and sophisticated, but because he is British. Most people have a favourite ‘Bond’. Similarly most hardcore Bond fans have a favourite ‘Bond Car’. For most people that favourite Bond Car has to be the Aston Martin DB5 which was first featured in the 1964 film Goldfinger. But why is the DB5 so revered? Is it because of the passenger ejector seat or the telescoping tire slashers? Or could it have something to do with the bulletproof front and rear panels, the oil slick, or the rotating licence plates?

Maybe we do love the idea of having a car with a smoke screen and machine guns built in, but do we love the DB5 so much because of those things, because it simply is a great car, or perhaps because we know it is British?

We see Bond driving an Aston Martin DB5 and we think: That’s quality. We built that. It gives us a sense of pride and a sense of positive identity.

For many Bond purists the decision to switch to BMW for GoldenEye was not well received – not because it didn’t have all the usual refinements (it did, and it was a damn fine car) – but because we didn’t make it.

Friday 31st October 2008 sees the release of the 22nd Bond film ‘Quantum of Solace’ the last 007 movie and the second with Daniel Craig, has given fresh impetus to supporters of Aston Martin to issue a rallying cry and try to ensure that this most famous of British sports cars continues to be made in Britain.

If production of Aston Martin cars such as the Vantage, the DB9 and the limited edition DBS does one day move abroad, we may well see some foreign influences in the design of future 007 vehicles. Or perhaps James Bond may have to switch cars – how about Bond in a Fiat Uno? No, I didn’t think so!

Or maybe by the time the next 007 movie is released, Bond will have had to bow to the pressures of climate change and go green. Perhaps one day we will see our most beloved spy on a bicycle, although admittedly there wouldn’t be quite so much room for the gadgets!