# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/21 "2003-07-29T21:50:06Z")
There was the henchman/technician who was pushed into a pool of Liquid Nitrogen in _The Man With the Golden Gun_. Not pleasant. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/22 "2003-07-29T22:05:19Z")
> [@](#): > > Quarrel getting burned alive by the “dragon” in _Dr. No_. Aw, I was going to mention that one! > [@](#): > > 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. I was going to mention this one too. including the bit about him not dying. Oh, well. I’m always late to these things. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/23 "2003-07-29T22:26:19Z")
Nitpick: James Bond does not have a “license to kill”; moreover there were few deaths in this [1984 made-for-TV movie](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0087617) outside of a high school graduate hit by a car. His **licence** to kill was revoked in the movie of the same name.[/annoying nitpick] I always found **Auric Goldfinger** ’s death rather disturbing, because you had this rather corpulent man being sucked out of a 10-inch window of an airplane. Made me very afraid of flying as a kid – I figured it’d only take a tiny hole to pull me out. ---
**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, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/24 "2003-07-29T22:42:41Z")
> [@](#): > > Nitpick: James Bond does not have a “license to kill”; moreover there were few deaths in this 1984 made-for-TV movie outside of a high school graduate hit by a car. His licence to kill was revoked in the movie of the same name.[/annoying nitpick] Take it up with the [US distributors](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0097742): [sub] **Also known as:** [/sub] License to Kill (1989) (USA) 🙂 ---
**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 30, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/25 "2003-07-30T01:40:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dooku \* > \*\*• Strangways getting sucked into space in _Moonraker_. > \*\* That was Drax. Strangways was the guy killed by the three “blind” men at the beginning of _Doctor No_. ---
**Author:** ![Maci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Maci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maci)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/26 "2003-07-30T02:16:59Z")
In “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, a British agent working with Bond gets thrown down a bobsled run. I always thought that a pretty ugly way to go. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/27 "2003-07-30T02:42:12Z")
The helicopter pilot (Corinne Dufour) in _Moonraker_, chased and, presumably, ripped apart by dogs. ---
**Author:** ![And\_that\_s\_the\_bottom\_line](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df788c/32.png) [@And\_that\_s\_the\_bottom\_line](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/And_that_s_the_bottom_line)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/28 "2003-07-30T05:46:40Z")
For some reason the scene in **License to Kill** where the guy’s head explodes in the compression chamber grossed me out the most out of all the grisly deaths in the Bond movies. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/29 "2003-07-30T07:04:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dooku \* > > • Kananga exploding with that shark pellet in his mouth in _Live and Let Die_. \*\* I wouldn’t say that was the most gruesome, but more along the lines of the most comical. At least, the mose unlikely. ---
**Author:** ![Alcibiades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cab0a1/32.png) [@Alcibiades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alcibiades)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/30 "2003-07-30T14:06:47Z")
In the most recent Bond flick, the nasty Korean henchman (the one with, unbelievably, the diamonds stuck in his face) gets sliced, diced and shredded by a falling ice chandelier. Nasty. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/31 "2003-07-30T17:59:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dooku \* > Take it up with the [US distributors](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0097742): > > [sub] **Also known as:** [/sub] > License to Kill (1989) (USA) > > 🙂 Oops. And here I am in the US. Why do I so strongly remember it with the ‘c’ spelling? Is it that way in the credits, too? Maybe I’ll have to rent it now. ---
**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 30, 2003, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/32 "2003-07-30T18:42:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Michael Ellis \* > \*\*That was Drax. Strangways was the guy killed by the three “blind” men at the beginning of _Doctor No_. \*\* That’s what I get for trying to go from memory. :smack: One more: • In _The Spy Who Loved Me_, Stromberg sends someone (Kalba?) into that shark tank, where it appears as though the shark goes straight for his groin. Yikes. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/33 "2003-07-31T02:49:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dooku \* > \*\*• 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. \*\* I don’t know… when they found her victim’s body the next morning he didn’t look like he’d suffered _that_ much. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542/34 "2003-07-31T05:21:02Z")
I couldn’t really complain about a painful death, even if it was only after I’d had the opportunity to _reasonably believe_ I was about to have sex with Famke Janssen. Just being able to think “Dude! I’m gonna get laid! By Famke Janssen!”. Erm. Ahem. Uh, look over there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-gruesome-bond-deaths/191542.md?page=1)