The 5 Types of Bond Villain

By Laurence Gardner /

4. The Super-Physical

Bond is by no means incapable when it comes to hand-to-hand combat. It€™s slightly more believable in the case of Connery and Craig than Moore and Brosnan, but all the Bonds are equally able to simultaneously dispatch at least five rent-a-goons at once. Who€™s going to step into the ring with him? The answer lies again with physical deformity, of a specific type €“ one which makes the character bizarrely strong. This is accomplished in a number of different ways. Renard, for example, doesn€™t feel pain, while Jaws actor Richard Kiel is approximately the size of Switzerland. Even Oddjob was seemingly immune to Bond€™s blows with a brick in Goldfinger.
The Super-Physical is usually not the primary enemy of their film €“ even Renard had Elektra pulling his strings by the end €“ but is often the most memorable. The image of Jaws has endured far beyond that of either Karl Stromberg or Hugo Drax, who were the respective megalomaniacs behind him in The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker. He€™s also one of the few Bond villains ever allowed the luxury of surviving the final scene, and definitely the first to ever find love during the course of a movie. The Super-Physical provides the most immediate and obvious threat to Bond€™s well-being of any of the Bond villains.
Examples: Renard, Jaws, Oddjob.