10 Movie Deaths Only Explained Outside Of The Films
2. Irma Bunt - Diamonds Are Forever
MGM
Die hard Bond fans will recognise Irma Bunt as the woman responsible for the murder 007's wife, Tracy Bond. She featured primarily in On Her Majesty's Secret Service - the only film in the Bond franchise to feature Australian George Lazenby in the lead role.
The studio famously brought back Sean Connery for the role in Diamonds are Forever, which would be has last (official) appearance as the character, with the remake of Thunderball, Never Say Never Again, having released away from Bond's traditional home of MGM. Diamonds also brought the character back to basics, ignoring the events of the Lazenby Bond feature and instead opting to portray a more traditional 007 thriller set in the Las Vegas strip.
This meant that Bunt escaped reprisals in the sequels, and with actress who played her - Ilse Steppat - having passed away shortly before filming started anyway, it made sense not to pursue the angle - at least in the films.
Bizarrely, Bunt does actually meet a deadly end in the comics - as she does in the novels - so at least there's some closure there.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
