5 Great James Bond Villains (That Have Never Been Seen On Film)

There’s a lot in a name, isn’t there? Bond villains with exotic names seem to thrive above those who are monikered more ordinarily. Dominic Greene sounds like an accountant, whereas Auric Goldfinger definitely sounds like a megalomaniac by comparison.

Anthony Horowitz chose to give the villain of his debut novel a name that immediately outs him as an antagonist, but it is blunt and to-the-point, much like the character. Jason Sin (Sin Jai-Seong) has a backstory that is intricately linked with the Korean War, which would make a modern-day transposition difficult unless it was repurposed with a North Korean angle, but the fact that the owner of a recruitment agency, of all things, can be painted so menacingly would make it well worth attempting.

Sin’s use of hanafuda, a deck of 48 Japanese ‘flower cards’, is particularly fascinating. With 45 of them having a unique method of death (such as hanging or being buried alive) and the other 3 being blank, he ostensibly uses them to allow those who have wronged him a chance to choose how they will die. It’s exactly the sort of twisted and arrogant game expected of a Bond villain and one that would certainly feel unique to experience.