4. Alec Trevelyan (GoldenEye)
Let's be honest, who doesn't love Sean Bean? And who'd deny that MI6 agent 006-turned-scarred-face villain Janus is one of his best roles? It was about time the series pitted Bond against a renegade agent and Trevelyan uses his insider knowledge to good effect, knowing only too well which button to press on his former friend's watch to disarm his bomb. Their eventual hand-to-hand combat is not only excitingly brutal, but also highly gripping on account of their personal history and innate competitiveness with one another. Who seriously didn't fear for Bond's life when Trevelyan nearly succeeded in kicking him clean off the ladder beneath the satellite dish? Ultimately it seems to be the distraction of Natalya commandeering the nearby helicopter that allows Bond to gain the upper hand, kicking Trevelyan off the tiny platform of the antenna stalk only to grab his boot at the last moment to leave him dangling precariously over the concrete basin below. Defiant to the end, the former agent mockingly questions 007's motivations for his actions, referencing the resolution during their last mission nine years earlier: For England James? No, for me comes the cold, steely reply this time, and Bond lets go. Tough guy that he is, the fall alone does not kill Trevelyan; it takes the entire burning satellite dish collapsing on him to finish him off completely.