8 Lessons The Bond 24 Villain Must Learn So He Doesn't Fail Miserably

4. Don't Anger James Bond

This one should seem a fairly obvious no-no, but there has been a long-running pattern of Bond villains for some reason taking time out of their busy schedule to mug the spy off intentionally. They go after Bond, try to end him, fail, and subsequently enter a world of pain. Like an unforgiving jungle cat that's just watched a rival step on its turf, once Bond has you in his sights, he'll stop at nothing until one of you is dead. And he never, ever dies. In too many Bond movies has the secret agent been riled up, gone a bit rogue and taken it upon himself to wipe Lead Bad Guy and all his cronies off the map. Blofeld, for instance, had Bond's wife killed in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, so Bond spent the next five movies trying to execute him, until he finally caught up with the wheelchair-bound baddie in For Your Eyes Only, and subsequently dropped him down an industrial chimney. Even in Licence to Kill, in which Bond literally lost his licence to kill, 007 still kept killing, because a cocaine-dealing Scarface-wannabe attacked his best friend. It ended with Bond blowing up a religious temple, putting Benicio del Toro through a shredder and setting the main villain on fire. You'd have to assume MI6 only keeps looking the other way for this psychopath because they're scared of what would happen if he wasn't on their side.