Every Bond Girl Ranked - Worst To Best

One of the definitive airheads of the franchise, Britt Eklund’s Goodnight manages to characterise some of the worst qualities of Bond girls. She’s clumsy, she’s self-described as weak, and her general incompetence is consistently exaggerated for comedic effect. She also suffers the indignity of being shut in a closet while Bond romances Miss Anders, a secondary character who arguably plays a more important role in the story than herself.

Goodnight is supposed to be a field agent and assistant to Bond but struggles to assist him in almost every way - with most of her assists being wholly accidental. She even manages to get herself kidnapped while stealthily placing a homing device in the back of Scaramanga’s car in broad daylight - along with her own car keys, making her rescue by Bond all the more difficult.

Moore’s second outing as 007 has no qualms whatsoever about portraying Goodnight’s physical gifts as her finest and most important qualities - she accidentally knocks the off switch to a dangerous laser with her shapely derriere. “What a bimbo!”, the film openly invites you to declare.

And as a minor quibble, what’s up with her giggling response to Bond talking about a green Rolls Royce?

Best moment: Goodnight stuns the world as she gets the drop on Scaramanga’s solitary lab assistant Kra by walloping him in the back, causing him to fall into a volatile temperature control vat. This move is so surprising that Bond can scarcely believe it. Unfortunately, it also causes the imminent destruction of Scaramanga’s lair, from which they must hastily escape.

Worst moment: Goodnight relents on her strong declaration that she has no interest in being one of Bond’s passing romantic fancies within about two minutes, her explanation simply being “I’m weak”. Pussy Galore this girl certainly ain’t.