6. Francisco Scaramanga (The Man With The Golden Gun)
MGMChristopher Lee is certainly enjoyable as the urbane Scaramanga hes Christopher Lee, after all. Scaramanga is the eponymous character in The Man With The Golden Gun. With his beautiful lair on an island just off China this is one Bond villain with style. An assassin so good he can command exorbitant fees for his crimes, Scaramanga manages to obtain his own solar energy cannon which he decides to sell to the highest bidder and use to lure Bond to his island for a duel.
Why Hes So Stupid Beneath the cool, calm and witty exterior there lies a gigantic idiot. Firstly theres his habit of only carrying one bullet around in his gun, which is, to put it frankly, a bit cocky. Then there's the fact that he invites Bond on to his private island for a duel in a hall of mirrors. Scaramanga is too clever by half.
Dumbest moment Freely admits that he could have used his solar-powered laser to blow up Bond's plane before he even landed on the island, but decided not to because it would be an unsatisfying way to kill a worthy opponent. Boy, did he regret that decision.