#Hugo Drax

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Roger Moore's James Bond Villain Twister Party by Jim'll Paint It

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Moonraker (1979)

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Michael, Roger and Richard along with an assortment of facial hair.

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At the end of The Spy Who Loved Me, after the credits, it said that "James Bond will return in For Your Eyes Only". When Star Wars: A New Hope became a blockbuster, EON productions switched gears and on June 29, 1979, Moonraker was released in theaters. EON invested more money than any of their previous Bond adventures by a significant amount. The movie had the bad guy's laire being a space station, the abduction of space shuttles (something still in the testing stages during production), and the climatic battle being fought in open space with lasers. It also marked Bernard Lee's last appearance as M. It was also noteworthy for being one of the few times where the Henchman (in this case Jaws) appeared in more than one movie. ("Moonraker" flm, event)

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Bond Villain fancast

Fun fancast where I fancast iconic Bond villains for the modern day or if they were apart of the Craig era/next Bond's era

BD Wong as Dr Julius No

Michelle Gomez as Rosa Klebb

Alexander Skarsgard as Red Grant

Brendan Gleeson as Auric Goldfinger

Benedict Wong as Oddjob

Kyle MacLachlan as Emilio Largo

Christoph Waltz, Pedro Pascal and Mark Gatiss as Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Jason Schwartzman as Mr. Wint

Jesse Plemons as Mr. Kidd

Daniel Kaluuya as Dr Kananga/Mr Big

Rory McCann as Jaws

Chiwetel Ejiofor as Francisco Scaramanga

Stellan Skarsgard as Karl Stromberg

Peter Dinklage as Hugo Drax

Mark Strong as Aris Kristatos

Oded Fehr as Kamal Khan

John Malkovich as General Orlov

Jade Cargill as May Day

Benicio del Toro as Franz Sanchez

Timothy Granaderos as Dario

Jean Dujardin as Georgi Koskov

Georges St-Pierre as Necros

Dean Norris as Brad Whittaker

Ewan McGregor as Alec Trevelyan

Jodie Comer as Xenia Onatopp

Jeremy Irons as Elliot Carver

Daniel Radcliffe as Renard

Daisy Ridley as Elektra King

James Norton as Gustav Graves

Andrew Koji as Zao

Florence Pugh as Miranda Frost

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I’m back with a second WIP Wednesday on the trot, with another grown-up Mathilde snippet. Except this time it's from a fic where she goes off to uni and encounters a Bondian scheme by one of her professors bc I grew up the Young Bond novels and I just think they're neat. Will I ever complete it? Probably not but I’m having fun writing it.

‘Spare me the patronising tone, Miss Bond. Turing used his incredible brain to aid the war effort, there are no clean hands.’

‘His work saved millions of lives. The war would’ve dragged on for years longer had he not cracked Enigma.’ 

Irritation bubbled over in Claiborne’s eyes, ‘It was the Poles who cracked Enigma. You really should’ve paid more attention in my lectures, Bond.’ 

Mathilde grimly noted the use of the past tense. This must have been what had happened to Nathan Richards. He must have found out about the zero day attack too and Claiborne had him murdered for it. Now it looked like Mathilde would suffer the same fate. ‘Turing did refine the decryption, I’ll admit that. But what about Babbage and his Difference Engine?’

‘What about it?’ She said with equal frustration as she fruitlessly struggled against the restraints pinning her wrists to the chair. ‘He never got a chance to make it.’ 

‘Imagine that he had. He intended it to be used to calculate the financial assets of the British Empire. Its conquests, its wars, its plunder. At least tell me you know where the word computer comes from?’

If Claiborne was affording her the chance to play the smart Alec she decided she might as well take it, she didn’t want to show how frightened she really was. ‘From Latin, via the French. To determine together through reason.’

‘By jove, she does know something. You see Miss Bond, I reason all this technological advancement, all this progress in the end it has always been used to do what humans have always done. This is power as its most pure. I’m just staking my claim.’ 

‘That’s it? The miracle of technology and it all comes down to making algorithms to decide who to kill and how to do it most efficiently? And make yourself a little more rich in the process? You’re a monster, sir.’

If Claiborne was wounded by her words he didn’t show it save for the brusqueness with which he spoke his next utterance. ‘I do believe this tutorial is at an end, Miss Bond. I truly am sorry it has to end this way, you really were a very promising student.’ 

It's doubly fun to write a villain 😁 I'm imagining Claiborne as Samuel West because he did such a marvellous job as Sir Hugo Drax in the radio play of Moonraker and he is delightfully devilish as Peter Judd in the Slow Horses tv series.

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ficsmells of 2023

(a sequel to the long-bygone ficsmells of 2017)

pete campbell in "santa, buddy": pomade, laundry soap

mozart in "divertimento": wig powder, orange-flower water, sweat, ink

billy hargrove in "somebody's sins but not mine": cigarettes, Drakkar Noir

eddie munson in "we like it louder": sweat, woodsmoke, Old Spice, grime

eddie munson in "give you what you need": sweat, weed, Old Spice, body odor (look at him and tell me i'm wrong)

al shaw in "all the things you boys lie about": sweat, specifically Marlboro cigarettes

vecna tentacle monster in "alive after death": chlorine, semen, rotting meat

daimler in "no language but a cry": rosemary and clove pomatum

julian fromme in "the days of september that rise": swimming pool chlorine, skin/sweat

orson krennic in "the dose makes the poison": sweat, uniform wool, "light and woody" cologne

phil burbank in "coffin tack": this man STINKS + wet wool/leather

bob benson in "(the first time ever) i saw your face": 'Binaca and fine cologne'

henry drax in "the heidelburgh tun": sweat, body odor, wet wool, blood

cirk baufort in "false taste of paradise": sweat, clean cotton tee shirt, semen

father paul hill in "and all the senses rise against": semen, soap, salt, skin, trace cologne

noemí taboada in "lactarius indigo": typewriter ribbons, dusty card catalogs

boris lermontov in "adoration of the earth": carnation, glove leather, hair tonic (spice/herbal notes)

g. joubert in "til every taste is on the tongue": leather, carnation, rosewood, cedar

primo nizzuto in "sticky fingers": bergamot, orange oil

cornelius hickey in "the men will be good, but when?": picked rope, tar

brother matteo in "horologion": wool, wax

dr. stanley in "a progressive vice": camphor

cleopatra in "sykon": myrrh, balsam

james noel holland in "a pathless comet, and a curse": vetiver, neroli

julius caesar in "leopard" and "intempesta nox": calamus, sweet clover, marjoram

stewy hosseini in "the gatecrasher": rosemary, hinoki (I think I had a real cologne or combination of products in mind when I wrote this description but idk which)

stewy hosseini in "buy more stock in roses": cedarwood

marc antony in "nonae" and in "this battalion of lovers": olive oil, herbal water

henry iv in "much ado with red and white": clove-pinks, blood

prince hal in "surfeited with honey": rose, civet

shiv roy in "in the sanatorium": hair serum, expensive shampoo

kendall roy in "in the sanatorium": Tom Ford cologne

henry viii in "serpentello": civet, lavender, bay

samuel masham in "a trick of state": sandalwood, civet

hugo barrett and tony theservant1963 in "close my mouth": Russian birch, leather -- super common fragrance notes for men's fragrance of the era, I might have been thinking Creed Cuir de Russie, for reasons that have everything to do with the comedy value of Creed's pretentious branding

evelyn mulwray in "speak low": 'wet earth and salt water and magnolia flower, like a cloud of perfume staining the wrist of a pair of white leather glove'

colonel ives in "and the burden and the lesson": pomade, bay leaf, clove

noho hank in "yes, and": 'expensive stores at the mall' which 100% means he's wearing a cologne barry doesn't recognize

sal romano in "at last, something beautiful": this dude smells NICE in ways ginsberg cannot articulate

marcus isaacson in "something unreck'd": rose and petitgrain

jay gatsby in "a ruby in the vine": BLOOD AND MONEY

debbie mitford in "soft targets": jasmine, cigarette smoke

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Favorite Villain defeats?

Okay, this is gonna be quite a long list…

Thanos and his forces getting snapped out of existence by an Infinity Gem-wielding Tony Stark in Avengers Endgame; karmic considering that's exactly what Thanos did to half the universe's population in the original timeline

Two from Dragon Ball Z: first was Freeza’s invasion of earth ending with him getting chopped to bits and blasted away by Future Trunks, second was Cell being vaporized after his prolonged Kamehameha duel with Gohan. Granted, there were a lot of great villain defeats in that anime, but those two are the most noteworthy due to these two all-powerful, sadistic mass murderers being annihilated by foes they arrogantly underestimated

Theo Galavan suffering brutal revenge at the hands of James Gordon and The Penguin in Gotham. Up to that point, Theo had been a smug, high-and-mighty manipulator who got away with any number of horrible things with the public lauding him as a hero, so seeing him reduced to fruitlessly begging for mercy while the two men whose lives he ruined the most put aside their differences to put him down for good was immensely satisfying

From The Princess Bride — Inigo Montoya bouncing back from certain defeat during his sword fight with Count Rugen, overpowering the man who tormented him throughout his life before slashing him through his black heart with one last sword stroke preceded with ten words: "I want my father back, YOU SON OF A BITCH!"

Dr. Facilier being dragged into the underworld by his "Friends on the Other Side" in The Princess and the Frog. Suffice it to say, he wasn't ready.

Adolf Hitler getting blown up by American suicide bombers while the rest of the Nazi high command are trapped in a burning movie theater in Inglorious Basterds

The abusive orphanage guy getting run over by Dopinder in Deadpool 2

Miles Bron's mansion getting burned down with the Mona Lisa in it in Glass Onion

Many examples from Saints Row:

The Boss beating Maero's monster truck ambush before capping Maero personally when the latter is pinned beneath the flaming wreckage of his rig

The Boss and Johnny Gat burying Shogo Akuji alive after Shogo had Gat's wife killed and crashed her funeral

The Boss seemingly losing to Shogo's yakuza father Kazuo in a sword fight before "cheating" by shooting him, running him through with his own sword, and leaving him pinned to the deck of an exploding boat

The Boss shooting corrupt CEO Dane Vogel out the window of the top floor of his skyscraper

The Boss donning power armor to challenge the alien overlord Zinyak to a one-on-one fight, concluding with The Boss dethroning the all-powerful extraterrestrial invader by ripping his head off

A lot of examples from James Bond:

Bond tricking Auric Goldfinger into shooting out an airplane window, causing him to get sucked out to his doom in Goldfinger ("Where's Goldfinger?" "Playing his golden harp")

Bond making Dr. Kananga inflate like a balloon until he exploded in Live and Let Die ("He always did have an inflated opinion of himself")

Bond using Scaramanga's own tricks against him during their pistol duel in the funhouse in The Man with the Golden Gun

Bond shooting Karl Stromberg twice below the belt in The Spy Who Loved Me

Bond shunting Hugo Drax out an airlock and launching him into space in Moonraker ("Where's Drax?" "Oh, he had to fly")

Max Zorin plummeting to his doom from atop the Golden Gate Bridge, laughing all the while, in A View to a Kill

Bond setting drug lord Franz Sanchez on fire with the lighter Felix gave him in License to Kill

Bond dropping his evil former partner Alec Trevelyn to the bottom of a ravine where he's left barely clinging to life before the entire satellite building collapses on top of him in GoldenEye ("For England, James?" "No, for me!")

Bond turning Elliot Carver's drill machine against him in Tomorrow Never Dies ("YOU FORGOT THE FIRST RULE OF MASS MEDIA, ELLIOT! GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT!")

Bond ending Silva's rampage with a stab to the back in SkyFall ("Last rat standing")

So many examples from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:

Kars getting launched into space after becoming immortal

Polnareff avenging his sister's death by turning her killer, J. Geil, into a human pincushion

The brutal beatdown Jotaro gave smug bully Steely Dan after putting up with his tricks for too long

Jotaro beating Daniel D'arby in poker by bluffing so brazenly that Dan had a mental breakdown

The shorter but still impactful beatdown Jotaro gave Terence D'arby after the latter cheated in a game to take their souls

Jotaro finally putting a stop to DIO's reign of terror by exploding his head after a massive battle across Egypt

Josuke forcibly fusing serial killer Angelo Katagiri into a rock for all eternity

Rohan tricking the obnoxious Cheap Trick into looking back at the Haunted Alley, causing the ghosts to drag him into oblivion (with Rohan even writing "I will go to Hell" on Cheap Trick just to make sure he wouldn't escape punishment)

Yoshikage Kira getting run over by an ambulance before his soul is ripped to pieces by the vengeful spirits of his many victims

Giorno giving the mass-murdering Cioccolata the longest and most brutal beating in the history of the show

Unhinged mafia don Diavolo being cursed to die over and over again in increasingly horrific ways for all eternity

There are many more, but these are all the ones I could think of at the moment

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Moonraker (1979)

Starring:

Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel, Corinne Cléry, Geoffrey Keen

Directed By:

Lewis Gilbert

Genre:

Action/Sci-fi

Rating:

PG

Run Time:

2 Hours 6 Minutes

Release Date:

26 June 1979 (United Kingdom)

29 June 1979 (United States)

10 October 1979 (France)

Synopsis:

Agent 007 (Roger Moore) blasts into orbit in this action-packed adventure that takes him to Venice, Rio De Janeiro and outer space. When Bond investigates the hijacking of an American space shuttle, he and beautiful CIA agent Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles) are soon locked in a life-or-death struggle against Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale), a power-mad industrialist whose horrific scheme may destroy all human life on earth!

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- Where's Drax? - He had to fly.

Moonraker (1979) directed by Lewis Gilbert

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My personal ranking of each main villain from every 007 movie, I'm going to be including each incarnation of Blofeld as seperate for the purpose of this list due to how different they all are in execution and presentation:

25. Brad Whittaker (The Living Daylights)

24. Dominic Greene (Quantum of Solace)

23. Blofeld (Spectre)

22. Aristotle Kristatos (For Your Eyes Only)

21. Gustave Graves (Die Another Day)

20. Karl Stromberg (The Spy Who loved Me)

19. Blofeld (Diamonds Are Forever)

18. Lyutsifer Safin (No Time To Die)

17. Emilio Largo (Thunderball)

16. Hugo Drax (Moonraker)

15. Kamal Khan (Octopussy)

14. Blofeld (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)

13. Dr Kananga (Live and Let Die)

12. Elliot Carver (Tommorow Never Dies)

11. Dr Julius No (Dr No)

10. Elektra King (The World Is Not Enough)

9. Blofeld (You Only Live Twice)

8. Alec Trevelyan (Goldeneye)

7. Max Zorin (A View To A Kill)

6. Auric Goldfinger (Goldfinger)

5. Franz Sanchez (License To Kill)

4. Francisco Scaramanga (The Man With The Golden Gun)

3. Red Grant (From Russia With Love)

2. Le Chiffre (Casino Royale)

1. Raoul Silva (Skyfall)

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Scavenger hunt 75

Create a themed reclist of your teammates' works (new or old.)

AKA short little ficlets

All Access Pass | G | Mr. Hinx/Hugo Drax | by Castillon02

Summary: Drax just wants his new bodyguard to be able to go with him everywhere.

This is a silly and cute little ficlet, with a ship that I never expected to enjoy as much as I did.

Mantra | G | Jaws/Dolly | by Anyawen

Summary: He repeats the words over and over, to convince himself. It doesn't work, and that's okay. It's probably better this way.

This is a short little introspective ficlet. Jaws is a great character, and he’s really well written here, so I really enjoyed reading it.

Paper Cranes | G | by KittenKin

Summary: Therapeutic origami.

This is a character study of Q, really well written and definitely worth a read.

the grief martini | T+ | 00Q | by thestalwartheart

Summary: A double drabble in which Q deals with the anniversary of Bond's death.

A surprisingly sweet (in a bittersweet way) little ficlet about Q’s grief.

Identification | G | by oldestcharm

Summary: James has priorities. Sometimes they are way off.

A silly, funny little ficlet that made me laugh.

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Moonraker (Hugo Drax)

Actual Politics Revealed ("CHET", David Michael Charlebois, "DC85", "NASH"):

Supported:

CIA Analytics.

NSA Game Theory.

World Bank Hungary.

Diner's Association.

Sinn Fein.

British Labour Party.

Lucas Arts.

Korean East Asia Friendship Association (Korean Yakuza).

Chinese Communist Party.

John Warren Freemasonic Temple.

Hanoi Secret Intelligence Services.

Van Meter Specialists.

United Kingdom.

British Commonwealth.

Australian Parliament.

Berkshire Hathaway.

FBI DC Comics.

House of Saud.

Opposed:

Confederate Southern Army.

Chinese Tong.

Japanese Diet.

Nikkei Farm Average.

Hse-Sang Exchange.

Goldman-Sachs.

Iranian Worker's Rally.

Students Revolution Iran.

Ba'ath Party Judaism.

Israeli Likud.

United Nations Mossad.

Paul Revere Lodge.

Irish Pride Boston.

Law Professor's Union (al-Qaeda).

Marvel Comics.

GI Joe Magazine.

United States Marine Corps.

Los Angeles Water Department.

German Sheriffs.

Canadian Freemasons.

Hell's Angels.

Insane Clown Posse.

Russian Mafia.

CIA Russian Federalist.

Irish Republican Army.

OPEC Jordan.

Ghost Shadows Triads.

British Conservative Party.

Gueveran Labor Services.

Cuban Intelligence Services.

Chi Omega.

Phi Beta Kappa.

KGB Ukraine.