5 Clues That Pierce Brosnan’s James Bond Dies In Die Another Day

Gustav Graves, the smarmy British playboy with a natural talent for altercation is, by design like Bond looking at himself in the mirror.

But towards the end of the film, we find out rather unbelievably that beneath the quite literal mask is North Korean psychopath Colonel Moon, a sadistic, idealistically alien maniac who is all too typical of the tyrants Bond is assigned to disarm. Colonel Moon's villainous psyche is the perfect juxtapose to Bond's own equally complex mindset, bouncing around in the same vessel in a bid to outwit the other and gain mental superiority.

Put aside the glamour and the girls and this is what Bond is truly about, a bruiser who doesn't know when to stop, battling other less moral bruisers who also don't know when to stop. And all of this is embodied in the form of Graves, and Bond's fight with his own conscience over all the assailants he's managed to kill over the years.