In “Quantum of Solace,” the most maligned entry in the Daniel Craig-as-Bond canon, Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) seeks to engineer a coup in Bolivia to gain control of that country’s water supply.īut the award for the most outlandish plan must go to two villains in the Roger Moore years: Karl Stromberg in “The Spy Who Loved Me” and Hugo Drax in “Moonraker.” Both men seek to kill off pretty much everyone on Earth - Stromberg ( Curd Jürgens) by nuclear war and Drax ( Michael Lonsdale, above) by instantly fatal nerve gas - and then recreate civilization with hand-chosen survivors. Some just don’t register very high on the malevolence meter.Įlliot Carver, the media baron played by Jonathan Pryce in “Tomorrow Never Dies,” orchestrates a war to replace the Chinese government with one more receptive to his desire for exclusive broadcast rights there. But not all diabolical plans are created equal.
Bond villains often try to set off World War III or some other cataclysmic catastrophe.
