Could this be the worst kept secret in cinema history? Initial casting rumours had Waltz's character called Blofeld. The official movie reveal oddly didn't include his character name (likely a hangover of script rewrites). The first trailer showed him as the head of S.P.E.C.T.R.E., traditionally a role for Blofeld. The second had him wearing a jacket akin to Connery-era Blofeld. The third revealed he had a base hidden in a geographical feature, just like Blofeld. All anybody involved could really say about the movie's villain was that he wasn't Blofeld, but that he was interesting in the vaguest possible sense. Heck, you don't have to go beyond the first couple of Google results for "Spectre Ending" to find reports from the Sony email hack that reveal discussions of an earlier version of the script (which included a lesbian henchwoman and Bond killing the villain in cold blood) that referred to Oberhauser as Blofeld (and another, third pseudonym). We here at WhatCulture took to calling his character Not Blofeld because it was so freaking obvious. Even if there hadn't been a constant barrage of evidence over the past year, however, it wouldn't exactly have been shock. If you cast a German-speaking guy and make him the head of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. there's only two ways you can go with it - he is Blofeld or you're going to have a twist later on that he isn't. Spectre (the movie) tried for the double-bluff, but wound up with a none-bluff. But I'm not here to talk about the fact that it was obvious through all the context. I'm here to talk about why it doesn't work as a story point...
