10 James Bond Fates Worse Than Death

10. Imprisonment In A Lobster Pot - Nick Nack (The Man With The Golden Gun)

Francisco Scaramanga's diminutive butler-cum-enforcer Nick Nack leads a miserable existence, doesn't he? With his role in Scaramanga's antics involving such humiliations as posing as a tiny statue and being sprayed with champagne for the petty amusement of his boss, it's no wonder that as the sole heir to Scaramanga's vast fortune and estate, he spends the film lining up assassins to take out his three-nippled employer.

As the film culminates, Bond outsmarts Scaramanga in his own funhouse, killing him and seemingly leaving Nick Nack with the inheritance he so craves. However, a string of absurd goofs at the hands of least-believable-MI6-officer-ever Mary Goodnight results in the destruction of the island and presumably the majority of Nick Nack's fortune.

Escaping on Scaramanga's luxury junk, Bond and Goodnight are predictably interrupted mid-coitus by an aggrieved and vengeful Nick Nack, who Bond then engages in one of the franchise's most embarrassing, laughable fight scenes. Trapping Nick Nack in a suitcase, Bond drags him to the upper decks as he yells such high-calibre lines as "I may be small but I never forget!" and "Let me go, you big bully!"

The last we see of Nick Nack, he is trapped in a lobster pot atop the junk as it sails towards the mainland. Being prosecuted for his crimes is one thing, but the sneering laughs of the officer who inevitably processed him is entirely another.