2. Elliot Carver - Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
What happens when Rupert Murdoch gets cast in a James Bond film...enter Elliot Carver, a 1997 social commentary on the state of the media in the U.K. 'Tomorrow Never Dies' gives News International a giant middle finger courtesy of MGM. He offs his wife (a post 'Desperate Housewives' Terri Hatcher) early on in the film and hatches a plan to start a war between China and Britain. Why I hear you ask? To create a new Chinese government that is more supportive of his rights to exclusive broadcast, ooooh scary! Played by Jonathan Price, Carver has too much of a stiff upper lip to be any sort of memorable Bond villain, slipping somewhere into the gaps between Karl Stromberg and Maximillian Largo. After Carver's death aboard his stealth boat M uses a cover story, claiming that he died in mysterious circumstances on his yacht; this story bears a striking resemblance to the death of media mogul Robert Maxwell.