10 Movies Where The Good Guy & Bad Guy BOTH Lose

8. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

The Departed
MGM

If No Time to Die recently served up an example of a movie where the hero and villain both manage to succeed in their operating goals, the criminally underappreciated On Her Majesty's Secret Service does quite the opposite.

As expected for any Bond film, 007 (George Lazenby) manages to eventually foil Blofeld's (Telly Savalas) plan to hold the world's food supplies to ransom, destroying his luxurious lair. A pretty clear loss for Blofeld, right?

But in one of the series' most shocking moments, the epilogue offers up a nasty final sting, as after Bond marries Tracy (Diana Rigg), Blofeld and Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat) drive past and riddle her with bullets, killing her.

It's unquestionably the most jarringly melancholic ending to any Bond film, ensuring that while Blofeld's plan was stopped, he got the consolation prize of completely ruining Bond's happy ending.

We've never seen 007 look this lost and defeated before, not even when he was looking at a barrage of incoming missiles at the end of No Time to Die.

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