10 James Bond Villains Who Simply Vanished

Jaws (Richard Kiel) is undoubtedly the highest profile Bond villain to simply vanish.

Although an out-and-out villain in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and in most of Moonraker (1979), Jaws turned to the side of right and virtue because of his girlfriend: the diminutive, bespectacled Dolly (Blanche Ravalec).

Joining forces with James Bond (Sir Roger Moore) and CIA agent, Dr. Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles) to defeat his employer, Hugo Drax's (Michael Lonsdale's) plan to exterminate mankind and repopulate Earth with his own master race, Jaws was left stranded aboard Drax's disintegrating space station with Dolly.

Helping Bond and Holly to escape aboard Drax’s personal space shuttle, Moonraker 5, Jaws and Dolly were sent hurtling into space aboard one of the station’s docking bays before being rescued by a team of US Space Marines. They then vanished from the Bond film franchise.

Although Jaws was to have returned in For Your Eyes Only (1981), the decision to make the twelfth Bond film more grounded and realistic left no room for such an outlandish enemy. He was replaced by ruthless East German biathlon champion and KGB agent, Erich Kriegler (John Wyman).

Nevertheless, Jaws is so popular that he has continued to feature prominently in merchandise associated with the Bond franchise, not least in video games, including James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (2003).