10 Times James Bond Turned Into A Complete Psychopath
2. That Time He Shot A Woman And Quipped "I Never Miss" - The World Is Not Enough
Taking the misogyny of the character to new heights, Pierce Brosnan's Bond doesn't even try to disguise the hatred he feels for the woman he shoots at the end of The World Is Not Enough. Even though that woman, Elektra King (Sophie Marceau), is the same damaged target Bond had originally been hired to protect, and who he'd had in his bed, gazing upon her like he'd finally found 'the one', only days before. After it turns out Elektra has been secretly working for the enemy all along, Bond chases his lover down and confronts her with both gun and ultra-threatening glare. "You wouldn't kill me, you'd miss me", she says, just before he straight up kills her with a well-placed shot to the chest, and the pun-tastic line, "I never miss". Perhaps even worse than this act of aggression is the fact that Bond later taunts Elektra's villainous boyfriend, Renard (Robert Carlyle), with her death, in order to get him stirred up for a fight. Dude.
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