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Bond's Best Kill?

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  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
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    Sanchez in LTK. Because bond really earned that one. The final moment when bond kills him is just so cool.
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
    Posts: 12,506
    There are plenty to choose from but i would have to go for DC's second kill! Section Chief Dryden! Calm, Cool, Ruthless, and brutal! Simply done and brilliantly filmed!
  • 00Beast00Beast
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    thelivingroyale wrote:
    Sanchez in LTK. Because bond really earned that one. The final moment when bond kills him is just so cool.

    Agreed! One of my favorites as well.
  • jackdaggerjackdagger
    Posts: 498
    Sanchez definitely comes to mind. An amazing scene.

    As for the newer movies, the fight with Obanno (I think that's his name?) in CR was pretty brutal, and the choreography of the fight was excellent.
  • LibrarianLibrarian
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    Prof. Dent in Dr. No and Oddjob in Goldfinger.
  • 00Beast00Beast
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    Librarian wrote:
    Prof. Dent in Dr. No and Oddjob in Goldfinger.

    The latter is definitely one of Bond's brilliant kills, where he uses his mind over a Q gadget or a weapon he is currently using.
  • Master_DaharkMaster_Dahark
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    A damn good question. I'll have to give it some thought. Right off the top of my head though was in Casino Royale when Bond slipped that detonator onto the terrorists belt. Bond just had the coolest (and sadistic) smirk on his face, and I vividly remember the audience erupting with laughter and applause when I saw it opening day! That guy got OWNED

    You know, that whole plane scene could have made a great PTS if it wasn't used in CR already! An intense chase and action scene, capped off with a brilliant kill! Camera stops on Bond's smile and BAM- opening credits! :D
  • 00Beast00Beast
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    @Master_Dahark: That's not a bad idea! It would have been more thrilling than CR's current PTS, which is not bad or anything, but is a little too short and lacks energy.
  • echoecho 007 in New York
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    The best nameless character killed is the first skier Bond sends off the cliff in OHMSS.
  • 00Beast00Beast
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    echo wrote:
    The best nameless character killed is the first skier Bond sends off the cliff in OHMSS.

    Now there's a good topic! Bond's best kills of nameless characters! I'm sure we could come up with thousands! One of mine would be the Emile Locque thug who is up in the loft thing in the warehouse, and he keeps shooting at Bond and Colombo, and finally Bond takes him out with one pistol shot from between the barrels the thug was hiding behind. Epic Roger Moore kill!
  • Baltimore_007Baltimore_007
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    00Beast wrote:
    Just watched TSWLM yesterday, and I'd say that Stromberg's death is one of Bond's most ruthless and cold kills. One shot probably would have done it, but Bond thought otherwise! Also, the first two shots were a little too low, if you get my meaning, so that boosts the ruthlessness even more.

    If I stay with it long enough now I may indeed get to that bit but needless to say know all Bond releases back to front and inside out for the most part so know what's going to happen, Moore's about to rescue some captive crew members at the moment and seems immune to bullets and gunfire in his general direction for some reason but the Stromberg killing is yet to come, it's arguably one of Moore's most ruthless 007 moments along with the Locque moment in FYEO, none of the childish ass clowning around in later films, just a harsh reality and cold bloodedness as what you'd tend to expect from James Bond.

    I was thinking reading this that perhaps Connerys best kill was on the tarantula in the hotel room, great piece of action and unintentionally hilarious.

    Most Bond head villains had lame exits, Kananga, Zorin, Kristatos, Kamal Khan etc and their downfalls sometimes were their own doing, but when Bond was involved it didn't have to be cold blooded kills, i.e. I enjoyed the Whitaker death in Daylights, Drax in Moonraker and so on, is there a best Bond kill though?, I suppose they all worked in their own way, I've actually been more impressed with some Bond bad types disposing of threats and enemies than Bond himself actually doing the killing if I'm honest
  • FromCanadaWithLoveFromCanadaWithLove Canada
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    ^ I thought Moore was fantastic when pulling off the cold blooded Bond feel. It's a shame he didn't stand for it as an actor.
  • Goldeneye95Goldeneye95
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    Dr. Julius No in DN
    Donald "Red" Grant in FRWL
    Oddjob in GF
    Vargas in TB
    Hans in YOLT
    Ernest Stavro Blofeld in DAF (Blofeld clone sitting on the couch)
    Dr. Kanaga/Mr. Big in LALD
    Scaramanga in TMWTGG
    Karl Strongberg in TSWLM
    Chang/Hugo Drax in MR
    Locque in FYEO
    Gominda in OP
    Max Zorin in AVTAK
    Brad Whitaker in TLD
    Franz Sanchez in LTK
    006 in GE
    Dr, Kaufman in TND
    Electra King in TWINE
    Sir Gustav Graves/Zoe in DAD
    Carlos in CR
    Elvis in QOS
    Silva in SF
  • Batman23Batman23
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    the death of sanchez and golfinger by far
  • AliAli
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    Goldeneye95 wrote:
    Elvis in QOS

    Does that count? His death was more a consequence of Bond's actions than a direct kill.

  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Ali wrote:
    Goldeneye95 wrote:
    Elvis in QOS

    Does that count? His death was more a consequence of Bond's actions than a direct kill.

    You could say that about a lot of Bond's kills.

    He didn't kill Silva, the knife did.
    He didn't kill Sanchez, the flame and explosion did
    He didn't kill Dr. No, the acid did.
    He didn't kill Goldfinger, the cabin pressure did
    He didn't kill Grant, the garrote did

    And so on. You can find a loophole around everything. It's the old "people don't kill people, guns kill people" argument.
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
    edited March 2013 Posts: 12,837
    Except Bond killed Silva by throwing a knife at him, he killed Sanchez by setting fire to him, he killed Dr No by throwing him into acid, etc.

    With Elvis, Bond caused a fire that Elvis ended up dying in. It probably still counts but it's not as, let's say direct, as some of the others.
  • 00Beast00Beast
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    DN- Professor Dent- shot twice in cold blood
    FRWL- the two SPECTRE helicopter pilots- shot the co-pilot with a sniper rifle, who dropped a live grenade into the cockpit
    GF- Oddjob- electrocuted while trying to recover his own bowler hat
    TB- Vargas- harpooned against a tree
    YOLT- Hans- dropped into a piranha pool
    OHMSS- the scientist with the chemical beaker- machine gunned
    DAF- Blofeld's second double- shot in the head with a piton pistol
    LALD-Dambala- shot with the Magnum
    TMWTGG- Francisco Scaramanga- shot through the heart with the PPK
    TSWLM- Karl Stromberg- shot 4 times with the PPK
    MR- the tree sniper- shot out of the tree with a hunting rifle
    FYEO- Emile Locque- kicked off a cliff while in his car
    OP- Grishka- stabbed in the chest to avenge the death of 009
    AVTAK- Dr. Mortner and Scarpine- blown up with dynamite inside Zorin's airship
    TLD- Necros- dropped off the back of a cargo plane
    LTK- Franz Sanchez- incinerated with a lighter
    GE- Alec Trevelyan- dropped off a satellite dish in cold blood
    TND- Dr. Kaufman- shot through the head in cold blood
    TWINE- Elektra King- shot through the chest in cold blood
    DAD- Gustav Graves- shredded in a plane engine
    CR- Gettler- shot through the eye with a nail gun
    QoS- Craig Mitchell- shot with the PPK
    SF- Raoul Silva- knifed in the back
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    thelivingroyale wrote:
    Except Bond killed Silva by throwing a knife at him, he killed Sanchez by setting fire to him, he killed Dr No by throwing him into acid, etc.

    With Elvis, Bond caused a fire that Elvis ended up dying in. It probably still counts but it's not as, let's say direct, as some of the others.

    You are right. I'm just being difficult. ;)
  • Goldeneye95Goldeneye95
    edited March 2013 Posts: 546
    Ali wrote:
    Goldeneye95 wrote:
    Elvis in QOS

    Does that count? His death was more a consequence of Bond's actions than a direct kill.

    He did die in QOS. So that's why I put him on the list.
  • 007InVT007InVT Classified
    edited April 2013 Posts: 893
    For me:

    DN - Professor Dent

    TB - Vargas

    CR - Section Chief Dryden


    I actually think the reported death of Dominic Greene in QOS was great. If left a lot to the imagination.


    Here's some of the coldest kills:

  • Baltimore_007Baltimore_007
    Posts: 5,634
    Been a while since a last update but top ten greatest right now, would be - in no order of preference

    # Mr Wint / Diamonds are Forever

    # The knife throwing twin (log cabin) / Octopussy

    # Karl Stromberg / The Spy Who Loved Me

    # Necros / The Living Daylights

    # Francisco Scaramanga / The Man with the Golden Gun

    # Leopold Locque - For Your Eyes Only

    # Professor Dent - Dr No

    # Peter Franks / Diamonds are Forever

    # Oddjob / Goldfinger

    # Victor Zokas / The World Is Not Enough
  • SuperheroSithSuperheroSith SE London
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    By 007: Dent
    Not by 007: Tracy Di Vicenzo
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