10 Insane Rules Movies Weren't Allowed To Break

10. Blofeld Couldn't Be Named Or Have His Face Shown - For Your Eyes Only

1981's Roger Moore-starring Bond film For Your Eyes Only kicks off with a pre-titles sequence in which 007 dispatches a bald-headed, wheelchair-bound, white cat-owning antagonist by dropping him down a chimney.

The villain is credited as "Bald-Headed Man with White Cat," yet obviously bears an uncanny resemblance to iconic Bond baddie Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

However, due to an ongoing legal dispute between Thunderball producer Kevin McClory and Eon Productions over the rights to Thunderball, and by extension Blofeld, he could only be included in the film as a Blofeld-adjacent facsimile.

Even though it's hilariously obvious to any fan watching that this is a Blofeld stand-in, the production had to ensure not to show the character's face or mention him by name for fear of triggering a massive lawsuit from McClory.

And so, that pre-titles sequence is infamous for its awkward not-depiction of the character, which is all the more bizarre given that there wasn't really any urgent need to put Blofeld in the movie at all.