Every Main James Bond Villain Ranked Worst To Best

21. Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Diamonds Are Forever, 1971)

The third official, fully visible incarnation of Ernst Stavro Blofeld comes in the form of Charles Gray’s ever so prim, proper and supremely unthreatening portrayal. After appearing to be killed in a hot mud in the film’s introductory sequence, a rather lame twist reveals that Blofeld had been experimenting with plastic surgery to create decoy Blofelds, with the real one plotting to auction off a diamond-powered laser satellite to world superpowers, or some such nonsense.

Blofeld had been through many transformations over the series up to this point, and it is here that he least resembles the terrifying man of the shadows that he once was.

Where once upon a time he had fatally punished a penny pinching insubordinate by having the unfortunate underling electrocuted where he sat with the press of a button, Blofeld is now reduced to being bounced around in his escape pod by a chuckling Bond in slapstick fashion and spouting humdingers like “you stupid idiot, you could’ve killed me!”

Best Moment: “Such nice cheeks too; if only they were brains.” The dialogue remains the saving grace of the film and this line is a clear example as Blofeld gets a chance to comment on Tiffany Case’s shapely derrière.

Worst Moment: Blofeld introduces himself to Case as she gets into a car only to find the SPECTRE mastermind wearing a woman’s wig and makeup. A… cunning disguise?