20 James Bond References You Might Have Missed In Die Another Day
9. Bad Guy In A Wheelchair
One of the most bizarre Bond pre-credits sequences features in For Your Eyes Only (1981) in which Roger Moore's James Bond is menaced by a wheelchair-bound bald villain stroking a white Persian cat (even though it could not be said for legal reasons, the character is clearly meant to be Bond's classic foe, Ernst Stavro Blofeld).
This was the only time that Moore's Bond came face-to-face with the evildoer and it does not disappoint. Bond is collected from the rural cemetery in which Tracy Bond is buried and transported in a Universal Exports helicopter to London. His adversary electrocutes the pilot and remotely takes control of the stricken aircraft, guiding the helicopter into the disused Beckton Gasworks in an effort to terrify James Bond before fatally crashing the aircraft.
However, the unflappable Double-0 Seven gets into the cockpit and breaks his foe's control before guiding the helicopter out of the gasworks. Scooping his adversary up, wheelchair and all (but sans cat), Bond takes him on his own frightful flight before dumping him down an industrial chimney to his supposed doom.
In Die Another Day, Pierce Brosnan's James Bond encounters Mr Krug (Ian Pirie, credited as "Creep") in Cuba. Knocking Krug out at the Hotel De Los Organos, Bond places the sadistic thug in a wheelchair and uses him as his cover to access the offshore La Clinica Alvarez where North Korean terrorist, Zao is undergoing treatment. When he reaches a restricted area, Bond shoves Krug to the floor, distracting the guards and allowing him to gain access to Zao.