Spectre Ending: 8 Potential Ways It Sets Up Bond 25

5. Blofeld's In MI6 Captivity

Learning an important lesson from Diamonds Are Forever/For Your Eyes Only, Spectre ends by keeping Blofeld alive; in a reversal of Skyfall's ending, Bond is unable to kill his (in this case quite literal) double, instead, leaving Franz Oberhauser to be captured by MI6. And, of course, now we've got a new version of the character (albeit vastly different to before, this time Bond's adoptive brother), he's going to be back for more. Unless the specifics of this ending are thrown out (and there is one rather conceivable way that could happen, which I'll look at in the final point), Bond 25 will probably pick up with him in the possession of the British government, held over his connection to all the horrors his organisation have wreaked globally in the background of the movie. And what next? Well, he's going to get out, right? S.P.E.C.T.R.E. had a guy at the very top of the international secret service, so it'd be rather crude to suggest they don't have a couple more double-agents who can turn up and spring him from whatever prison he's in. Perhaps they'll go against the grain on this and have him in prison for an extended period, maybe going a bit Hannibal Lecter first or otherwise still managing to wreak havoc from behind bars, but the long term goal has to be for him to escape. After all, who's going to feed the cat? One other thing we can bet on with total certainty is that the whole "Franz Oberhauser" name will be totally dropped when we see him next, his self-proclaimed title used consistently - Bond called him Blofeld during their final confrontation, despite having no personal reason to do so.