Ranking EVERY James Bond Henchman From Worst To Best

This rogue isn't all that he seems. Well, he is, insofar as he's an assassin posthumously marked by for death by the late M. He's also, however, the first tentacle we'd seen in many years arising from the murky waters of SPECTRE, back in the fold after a long absence.

Yes, in the aftermath of an intellectual property conflict that had prevented the iconic criminal organisation from appearing in any Bond films going back decades, SPECTRE comes out of the shadows to reveal itself as the sinister presence behind everything else.

Even Quantum, the would-be antagonists of the previous Daniel Craig 007 titles, turn out to be merely a front - a crew of glorified henchmen. It's the most recent (until now) Bond film that reveals it all, right from the off.

What we initially get in Spectre's opening isn't Ernst Stavro Blofeld, but it is a fairly thrilling, high-flying fracas aboard a soaring chopper. Here, 007 takes on and kills a high-ranking SPECTRE chief after snatching his ring, bearing the infamous insignia.

You can almost see the fight as a corrective nod going back to the days when the last remnant of SPECTRE was seen - a comical helicopter sequence played for laughs in 1981's For Your Eyes Only.

So, considering the weight of all that context, Sciarra isn't half bad. Taken by himself, however, he's pretty much just another guy.