Ranking EVERY James Bond Henchman From Worst To Best

28. Baron Samedi (Live And Let Die, 1973)

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Where else could an apparently immortal figure rank but up high with the best of the baddies?

A staple of the Bond franchise's first (and only) venture into the supernatural, the enigmatic Baron Samedi survives numerous would-be deadly bouts with 007, always showing up again to die another day.

Injecting eerie voodoo energy wherever he appears, Baron Samedi acts as the most frighteningly aloof of Dr Kananga's retinue - always suggesting that while he's technically on Kananga's side, he ultimately serves a higher power.

When Bond first looks to have shot Baron Samedi dead, another rises from a nearby tombstone in his place. Very well then, 007 thinks - this calls for another tactic. The resulting fight ends with the "real" Samedi falling into a coffin filled with poisonous snakes, and that seems to be the end of it. Until the end of the film, where Samedi appears yet again, laughing into the camera. Due to the nature of Bond's work, death is never far away.

Is there more than one Samedi? Or is he simply immune from the inevitable fate of every other Bond Henchman? We're left only to wonder - with his cackling introducing the film's end-credits sequence.

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