10 Movie Villains Who Got Disappointingly Lame Deaths
9. Ernst Stavro Blofeld - For Your Eyes Only
There have been many lame Bond villain deaths over the years, yet none quite as embarrassingly ill-conceived as the demise of "Blofeld" in For Your Eyes Only.
The iconic antagonist is killed off in the film's opening sequence, and while that might sound like a bold move on paper, it was ultimately due to a legal dispute between screenwriter Kevin McClory and Eon Productions/United Artists over the copyright to Thunderball and, in turn, Blofeld.
As a result, Blofeld couldn't be formally identified on-screen, with a character bearing an uncanny resemblance to him whose face is never shown - played by John Hollis and credited as "Bald-Headed Man with White Cat" - instead battling 007 (Roger Moore) in the pre-title sequence.
It's not so much the writing around Blofeld that stings, though, as the toe-curlingly goofy manner of his death, where Bond scoops up his wheelchair with a helicopter and promptly dumps him down a giant chimney.
A villain as iconic as Blofeld deserved a much better end than this, and given that the character didn't get another canon appearance in a Bond film until Spectre over 30 years later, it left an especially sour taste.