10 Movie Villains Who Became Heroes In The Sequel

Roger Moore's third James Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me, introduced audiences to the instantly iconic henchman Jaws (Richard Kiel), fondly remembered for his hulking frame and sharp steel teeth.

Though Jaws' boss Karl Stromberg (Curd Jürgens) is killed at film's end, Jaws lives to fight another day and return in the next film, Moonraker. Jaws is now aligned with evil industrialist Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale), though undergoes a change of heart later in the story.

The seeds are sewn when Jaws, who is presented as far more of a comic relief character this time around, falls in love with a petite bespectacled woman by the name of Dolly (Blanche Ravalec).

And so, after learning that neither he nor Dolly will be spared from Drax's plot to exterminate most of the human race, he's persuaded to help Bond take him out. 

The last time we see Jaws, he's made it back to Earth safely with Dolly, and while the pair were originally going to marry in For Your Eyes Only, this subplot was ultimately cut - along with Jaws' entire role - in an attempt to rein in the silliness of the Moore era.

According to director Lewis Gilbert, the decision to change Jaws from a villain into a hero was motivated by scores of fan mail from young children asking why Jaws had to be a "baddie."

The whole Jaws face-turn is goofy as all hell, but in a movie as fundamentally ridiculous as Moonraker, it doesn't feel too out of place.