10 Movie Villains Who Won AFTER They Died

In Casino Royale (2006), Daniel Craig's James Bond is tasked with bankrupting mysterious financier, Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) at a high stakes poker game in which the villain aims to recover his terrorist clients' funds, which he lost in betting against the stock market.

Although Bond and Le Chiffre go head-on across the gaming table, Bond secretly protects Le Chiffre from his deadly clients, not that Le Chiffre is grateful; he bankrupts Bond once, before Double-0 Seven is backed by CIA agent, Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright), and even attempts to poison Bond, to no avail.

The British agent finally bests Le Chiffre, but the cardsharp makes a desperate final bid to get the money, kidnapping Bond and his Treasury liaison, Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), and torturing them to try and save his own skin. Taunting Bond that MI6 and the CIA would still welcome him with open arms, Le Chiffre is confronted by Mr. White (Jesper Christensen), who represents the shadowy organisation that introduces the banker to his clients. Le Chiffre promises that he will recover the money, but White shoots him dead, noting that "Money isn't as important to our organisation as knowing who to trust".

Nevertheless, the organisation blackmails Vesper into providing the winnings to White's go-between, Adolph Gettler (Richard Sammel) in Venice.

Although Bond kills Gettler and Vesper commits suicide, White recovers the winnings and presumably returns them to Le Chiffre's clients, meaning that the British and American governments have directly financed terrorism.