# The most gruesome Bond deaths **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 28, 2003, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542 "2003-07-28T23:18:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/1 "2003-07-28T23:18:03Z")
What are some of the most brutal ways to die by a character in Bond? It can be a good or bad guy / girl, just as long as the death itself was gruesome. Ex: Martin Solo getting crushed in the car in _Goldfinger_ wouldn’t count, since he was already dead by then, having been \ shot in the chest by Oddjob. Deaths that probably have no basis in reality also count. Ex: the guy that was somehow killed by that face-attaching octopus in _Octopussy_. I’m not looking for an absolute winner in this thread, just a handy list of a bunch of creatively awful ones, most of which I have probably forgotten, all in one place for future reference. Spoilers within, of course. I’ll start: • The henchman that stole Billy Bob’s boat in _Live and Let Die_: Bond throws gasoline in his face, then opens the throttle so that the boat careens wildly in circles for a while, then steers it into a barge, where it explodes. • Helga Brandt getting eaten by piranhas in _You Only Live Twice_. Ugh. • Dario (Benicio Del Toro) getting chewed up by the cocaine sifting machine in _License to Kill_. • Kananga exploding with that shark pellet in his mouth in _Live and Let Die_. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/2 "2003-07-28T23:33:18Z")
Doctor No getting boiled in his own nuclear reactor. Elliot Carver and the sea-drill. (But shouldn’t there have been blood all over Bond and everything else?) ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/3 "2003-07-28T23:34:02Z")
[ul] [li]Max Kalba and Aziz Fekkesh from _The Spy Who Loved Me_ - Both bitten to death by Jaws’ metal jaws.[/li][li]Elliot Carver from _Tomorrow Never Dies_ - Shredded by that torpedo drill thing.[/li][li]One of the American astronauts in _You Only Live Twice_ - Air hose severed by the SPECTRE capsule while on an EVA outside his own space craft.[/li][li]The henchman who falls into a snowblower in _On Her Majesty’s Secret Service_ - Again, shredded.[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/4 "2003-07-29T00:46:39Z")
Maybe it was because I first saw it when I was an impressionable youngster, but in _View to a Kill_, the scuba diving CIA guy (I think it was a CIA guy) who Zorin captures and sends down the pipe with the fan at the end still creeps me out when I catch it on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/5 "2003-07-29T00:47:11Z")
Xenia Onatopp - getting pulled up by a helicopter and then squeezed, trapped by a tree, high over the ground. ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/6 "2003-07-29T02:05:52Z")
Here’s another vote for Elliott Carver. And wasn’t there a guy who exploded in some kind of pressure chamber (memory is fuzzy, sorry, I saw that one when I was nine)? ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/7 "2003-07-29T02:12:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kung fu lola \* > And wasn’t there a guy who exploded in some kind of pressure chamber (memory is fuzzy, sorry, I saw that one when I was nine)? That was in _License to Kill_. “What should we do with the money?” “Launder it.” (The actor that played the guy getting blown up was Anthony Zerbe, the bad guy in _The Omega Man_ and more recently the head councilman dude in _Matrix Reloaded_). ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/8 "2003-07-29T02:22:47Z")
Thank you, Dooku. You are now my King. (we used to have the same “location” in our profiles, did you know?) ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/9 "2003-07-29T03:59:54Z")
The hacker kid in _Goldeneye_ (Boris?), getting doused in liquid nitrogen and then shattering. “Yes! I am invincible!” _splash_ _crack_ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/10 "2003-07-29T04:37:29Z")
Falling into the printing press. “I’ve always wanted to be in the papers.” ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/11 "2003-07-29T14:27:25Z")
This doesn’t technically count because he didn’t die, but Felix Leiter’s “he disagreed with something that ate him” bit was pretty gruesome to me. I have a deep and abiding fear of being eaten alive, especially by sharks. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/12 "2003-07-29T14:36:47Z")
_License to Kill_ was the first Bond movie to be rated R for its violence, no doubt for: [ul][li]Talia Soto’s lover being killed off-camera by Robert Davi, who then gave her the lover’s cut-out heart along with a Valentine’s card.[/li][li]Felix Leiter (David Hedison) being shark-munched off camera.[/li][li]Milton Krest being exploded in the compression chamber.[/li][li]Nameless goon being impaled on forklift forks.[/li][li]Del Toro being shredded.[/li][li]Davi being doused in gasoline and burned alive.[/li][/ul] Geez, did Sam Peckinpah direct this one? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/13 "2003-07-29T15:40:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Judith Prietht \* > \*\*This doesn’t technically count because he didn’t die, but Felix Leiter’s “he disagreed with something that ate him” bit was pretty gruesome to me. I have a deep and abiding fear of being eaten alive, especially by sharks. \*\* If you are talking about “Tomorrow Never Dies”, I thought the line was, “Huh, they’ll print anything these days.” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/14 "2003-07-29T16:13:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bryan Ekers \* > **_License to Kill_ was the first Bond movie to be rated R for its violence** Actually, an almost-R. It had to be toned down to a PG-13. ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/15 "2003-07-29T16:47:51Z")
**Mahaloth** , I was referring to _License to Kill_. The phrase was on a note from Sanchez on Leiter’s body. The incident itself was taken from the book **Live and Let Die**. ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/16 "2003-07-29T17:28:41Z")
Getting your wheelchair dropped down an active smokestack to be roasted alive can’t be any fun either. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Reverse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@Reverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reverse)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/17 "2003-07-29T17:37:09Z")
The one where that one guy gets killed by those sharks with laser guns attached to their heads. … no, wait… ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/18 "2003-07-29T18:11:58Z")
Well, you have any number of people free falling from planes sans parachute. The only reason it’s not more gruesome is that we never see them land. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/19 "2003-07-29T18:57:18Z")
Good ones! I had forgotten about Kevin McClory’s - er, I mean, Blofeld’s death down that smokestack. Some more good ones: • Strangways getting sucked into space in _Moonraker_. • Vijay Armitraj getting sliced to death by that sawblade yo-yo thingy in _Octopussy_. • Quarrel getting burned alive by the “dragon” in _Dr. No_. • Onatop squeezing the life out of you while you were busy thinking you were going to have sex with Famke Janssen was probably pretty rough. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/20 "2003-07-29T21:35:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mahaloth \* > \*\*If you are talking about “Tomorrow Never Dies”, I thought the line was, “Huh, they’ll print anything these days.” \*\* Right–but my friend Jack had an even better one: “As my journalism prof told us, ‘If it bleeds, it leads’.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542.md?page=2)