Ranking EVERY James Bond Henchman From Worst To Best

Where 1987's The Living Daylights features a villain with pretensions of military might - 1989's Licence to Kill gives us the real deal.

Colonel Heller makes the most of his position as subordinate to drug baron Franz Sanchez by leading Isthmian soldiers in an assault on the Hong Kong Narcotics Agency - and liberating Bond in the process. It's a sequence that almost belongs in another cheesy 80s action blockbuster, sure, but as a way of allowing a Bond henchman to show his mettle, it works.

He also earns some additional style points for betraying his boss - Heller forsakes the touching affection that Franz Sanchez has for his allies in pursuit of immunity from the law.

In between commanding military squadrons and running background checks on suspicious Brits, you see, Heller has struck an ongoing deal with the CIA. By safely returning a supply of Stinger missiles, originally stolen by Sanchez, Heller can earn himself a blank slate back in the US of A.

Of course, he should have known that his dreams of walking off into the sunset were surely heading for a "dead end" - he finds himself impaled on a forklift truck as a result of his plotting.

What's really holding Heller back is his generic main role as yet another Head of Security - how many have there been on this list already? Too many by far.