10 James Bond Villains With The Most Sinister Plans

Underwater cities/kingdoms are bewitching coruscating vistas. From The Little Mermaid's Atlantica, Star Wars' Gungan City (minus Jar Jar), Aquaman's Kingdom of Atlantis, to Bikini Bottom. If only 007 hadn't been savvy enough to avoid the elevator trapdoor that led to the shark tank, Karl Stromberg could've grown a luxuriant beard like King Triton and lorded it over his very own version of Atlantis.

Stromberg was already a lord of all he surveys in a way: the owner of a very successful shipping company making him one of the world's richest people. He could've, actually, peacefully gone about his plans in building an underwater city, but where's the fun in that?

Pretty much following the You Only Live Twice blueprint, Stromberg's million-ton tanker of terror (the Liparus) has a monorail (hello old faithful) and a small army decked out in brightly-coloured jumpsuits. Together with a submarine tracking system, the Liparus shows its engineering pièce de résistance by swallowing up a trio of British, Russian and American nuclear submarines. The webbed-fingered menace uses the former two submarines to prepare a simultaneously launch of nuclear missiles at New York and Moscow, obliterating them, followed by global destruction and eventual creation of "a new and beautiful world beneath the sea".

Unfortunately for Stromberg, the persistence of Bond and Major Amasova eventually pays off. It's devastatingly ironic that his beloved marine life bore the cataclysmic brunt of his plans instead of those damnable land dwellers!