Spectre Ending: 8 Potential Ways It Sets Up Bond 25

6. S.P.E.C.T.R.E.'s Still Out There

As the biggest foe James Bond's ever come up against, it shouldn't have come as much of a surprise that S.P.E.C.T.R.E. made it out of Spectre with their plan foiled and leadership shifted, but still very much a global power. This is clearly a deliberate choice by the writers/producers to have an overarching super-villain pool and should tell us the style of threat we can expect from the franchise, at least in the next couple of entries. It was retroactively revealed that S.P.E.C.T.R.E. were secretly behind each of the villains of the previous movies; Q.U.A.N.T.U.M. was a subsidiary and it must have been their financing where Silva got all the fans needed to have a room full of computer processors run whisper quiet. This is very similar to the organisation's introduction in the Connery-era - they were explicitly behind each one of his adventures (bar Goldfinger) - and probably speaks of what we can expect in the future. What exactly the plot of Bond 25 will relate to may be totally unknown at this point (probably even to Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli), but you can bet it'll see the octopus once again sneak out of the dark and strike at international government and Bond in particular. You don't fight for decades to reclaim the rights to a franchise's most iconic villain and spend a whole movie setting them up to just drop them straight away. Outside of Mr. Hinx (dead), Mr. White (dead) and Blofeld (captured), however, we know very little about the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. higher-ups, which leaves a lot of room for invention. Which brings us to a key element of Bond 25 you have - their iconic leader...