Ranking EVERY James Bond Henchman From Worst To Best

Well, well; looks like it's not all bad on the hench(wo)man front as far as TWINE goes. She may not be blessed with a proper name, but Cigar Girl quickly shakes off any prior assumptions that she's there simply as the feminine subject of one of 007's jokes. In fact, she's the most threatening and dangerous adversary that Bond faces in the film's lengthy pre-title sequence.

First seen in Bilbao as an apparent number-cruncher (along with her figure, her assets are, as Bond notes, "perfectly rounded") for a crew of anonymous baddies, Cigar Girl wastes no time establishing herself as the smartest in the room.

After assassinating Patrick Malahide's head stooge before he can give up the name of infamous terrorist Renard to Bond, she gets out of dodge rather than suffer the indignity of being killed in the very first scene. She next shows up in London, ready to pick off Bond from afar after a calculated explosion at MI6 headquarters.

When that fails, she leads 007 on a merry boat chase around the Thames - culminating in blowing herself to kingdom come in a hot-air balloon. In all, she's one busy bee - causing more trouble than you'd expect from a minor opening-sequence baddie.