Ranking EVERY James Bond Henchman From Worst To Best

Ostensibly the personal assistant for Osato Chemicals chieftain Mr Osato, Helga Brandt is also a SPECTRE operative and assassin. Though she holds the lofty title of “Number 11”, it’s genuinely difficult to see how she rose so high in the ranks, given her utter lack of integrity, competence, and accountability.

For starters, though specifically tasked by Osato with killing the deceptive “Mr Fisher” (Bond in disguise), Brandt instead opts to have sex with him following an extremely gentle interrogation. After she uses her charms to coax information out of Bond (as far as she knows, truthful intel), he should’ve been a dead man. Instead, she chooses to wait until the next day to try and murder him. Why? Supposedly, she was simply feeling horny.

If that weren’t enough, the pointlessly elaborate method of execution she chooses has a very high probability of failure - and fail it does as Bond pilots a plane to safety after initially being trapped in place by a wooden plank.

For the cherry on top, when grilled by Blofeld as to why they allowed 007 to get away, Brandt has the gall to blame Osato for failing to kill Bond himself. The cheek! It’s no wonder Blofeld executes her by dropping her into his famed piranha pool - and given what she tried to pull, few deserve it more.