Ranking EVERY James Bond Henchman From Worst To Best

Zorin's trusted head scientist and mentor; also worked for Hitler! If that isn't enough to have you believing that Dr Mortner must have been a henchman for the ages, you're right to be so doubtful.

The geriatric geneticist is meant to possess a mind so deplorable it would turn Lex Luthor green with envy, but all we really see is a man whose best days are clearly behind him. In fairness, his backstory is notable, to say the least - he spent his prime years venturing into Nazi concentration camps to carry out heinous experiments on pregnant women.

One of the products of those experiments was none other than Max Zorin, the film's psychotic villain. Zorin doesn't hold a grudge, however; indeed, he seems to hold Mortner with the kind of reverence normally reserved for a wise master of his craft.

Perhaps that's what Mortner is - or was. Perhaps he could have been a staggeringly evil and memorable villain decades prior. As it stands, though, any semblance of Mortner's genius is undone by the sight of him accidentally dropping a stick of dynamite in an airship shortly before it goes ka-boom.

That's letting the wind out of his sails.