10 Times James Bond Turned Into A Complete Psychopath

8. That Time He Toyed With Professor Dent - Dr. No

Sean Connery always made for one of the harsher Bonds - his original just seemed really into the job, drinking, bonking and killing not simply because he was paid to do it, but because he wanted to. In the first outing for both Bond and Connery, Shir Sean's 007 starts as he means to go on by treating his first proper henchman, Professor Dent, like an ant under a magnifying glass. As Dent comes to Bond's room to assassinate him, he puts six rounds into the bed, into what appears to be Bond's sleeping torso. Bond was in reality sat behind Dent all along, his own pistol trained on him - he orders Dent to drop his weapon, then watches as Dent slowly reaches to get it back, Bond knowing all along Dent has already used his six shots up. It's the apparent glee with which Connery's Bond toys with Professor Dent, before he puts him out of his misery, that chills the blood here. Bond doesn't do anything particularly harsh in the scene (it's only the same fate Dent would have had in store for him), but Connery beams with the smugness of a man secretly thinking, "Hah, can you believe how dumb this guy is?", as though he's just outwitted an opponent at Battleship.