10 Most Disturbing Details Implied In Movies

How do you let your audience know that this isn't your grandpa's James Bond villain? Between Blofeld's penchant for sending insubordinates down a chute into shark tanks, and Daniel Craig's enemies talking your ear off with world-ending monologues, there wasn't much diversity left when it came to Bond baddies being downright sons of buggers.

That is until Franz Sanchez popped on the scene in License To Kill, and within ten seconds of meeting him, we know he's a different calibre of evil.

During the film's pre-credits sequence, Sanchez swings by his girlfriend Lupe's apartment and isn't too shocked to find another man in bed with his lady. The bewildered gentleman is beaten, and then taken off-screen by Benicio Del Toro to have his heart literally removed from his chest.

All while this is happening, Sanchez punishes Lupe for her infidelity by bending her over his lap and whipping her with a lizard's tail. The whole scene is jarring; the villains of Bond films were world-conquering madmen or Cold War enthusiasts looking to reshape the globe. Audiences hadn't seen a villain so personal or vindictive as Sanchez before, and while Lupe begs for mercy and forgiveness, there's an eerie sense that this kind of "punishment" isn't a new thing, and maybe Sanchez doles out these kinds of wicked acts all the time.

We tuned in to see a Bond film, not watch a woman get beaten by her boyfriend while we hear another man's last screams of life in the other room.