Bond 24: 8 Classic Characters That Should Be Reintroduced In Next Movie

7. Tracy Draco

bond girl Until 2006's Casino Royale, the only deceased Bond girl whose memory had haunted Bond and hovered over the history of the franchise was Tracy Draco, the only woman that Bond has ever married. Played by Diana Rigg in 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Tracy is the daughter of Marc-Ange Draco, the head of a European crime syndicate. Draco tells Bond he will give him information on the whereabouts of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of the terrorist organization SPECTRE, if Bond will marry his daughter. At first Bond is uninterested, due to his view of himself as a life long bachelor- but he eventually falls in love with Tracy and marries her. The film ends tragically when, after their wedding, Blofeld kills Tracy in a drive by shooting. Eva Green's Vesper Lynd has, for now, taken the place of Tracy in this new continuity as the woman whose death has shaped Bond in to being the man we know and love. Similar to Ian Fleming's original novels, Vesper was Bond's first heartbreak, even before Tracy. While it's too soon to introduce another tragic love interest in to the franchise, after enough time goes on, reintroducing Tracy could work. Tracy is like Gwen Stacy in that her destiny will always be to die- unless the producers want to go The Thin Man route and have the series be about a spy and his wife, drinking martinis and trading witty banter. Hey, it could work. Whether or not the producers would make a straight remake of On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the big question regarding Tracy's return. I think it'd be cool to develop Tracy over a couple of films, especially if she is to die- which is similar to how they're treating Emma Stone's Gwen Stacy in the Spider-Man franchise. It would make Tracy's death more impactful if she became a recurring character, someone we grow to love as much as Bond.
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