# Who in real life would make a good Bond villain? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 1, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-real-life-would-make-a-good-bond-villain/530908 "2010-03-01T20:18:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-real-life-would-make-a-good-bond-villain/530908/21 "2010-03-01T21:57:34Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > Richard Branson He can barely fly a hot air balloon. I can’t imagine him in an undersea empire! ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-real-life-would-make-a-good-bond-villain/530908/22 "2010-03-01T22:08:25Z")
Gaddafi. He has the group of female bodyguards. That’s Bondian right there. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-real-life-would-make-a-good-bond-villain/530908/23 "2010-03-01T22:12:25Z")
Simon Cowell Ryan Seacrest Tiger Woods ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-real-life-would-make-a-good-bond-villain/530908/24 "2010-03-01T22:35:03Z")
Joe Lieberman ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-real-life-would-make-a-good-bond-villain/530908/25 "2010-03-01T22:35:50Z")
My first choice was **Arnold**. But he has done the villian thing twice before. **Trump** is a possibility, but just isn’t quite commanding or truly weird enough. **Beck** is a possibility (he definitely satisfies the weird need), but he is so average looking. My suggestion is **O’Reilly** as head bad guy, **Keith Oberman** as his second-in-command and as the two women enforcers, **Rachel Madow** and **Ann Coulter**. Nah, just go with **Sarah Palin**. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-real-life-would-make-a-good-bond-villain/530908/26 "2010-03-01T22:39:56Z")
**Rupert Murdoch**. Heck, there was already a media-magnate villain ( **Tomorrow Never Dies**?) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-real-life-would-make-a-good-bond-villain/530908/27 "2010-03-01T22:43:02Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > Nah, just go with **Sarah Palin**. Wins the thread! ---
**Author:** ![5-HT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/f19dbf/32.png) [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-real-life-would-make-a-good-bond-villain/530908/28 "2010-03-01T23:12:22Z")
definitely Dick Cheney. ---
**Author:** ![Rrose\_Selavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rrose\_Selavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rrose_Selavy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-real-life-would-make-a-good-bond-villain/530908/29 "2010-03-01T23:24:06Z")
[Stephen Hawking](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-real-life-would-make-a-good-bond-villain/530908/30 "2010-03-01T23:29:26Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Lady Gaga. > > No, wait…she’d make a good Batman villain. Or at least a good Batman-from-the-60s villain. Pokerface! Oh, excellent! Although come to think of it, Pokerface sounds more like a Dick Tracy villain. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-real-life-would-make-a-good-bond-villain/530908/31 "2010-03-01T23:32:53Z")
Steven Seagal. ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-real-life-would-make-a-good-bond-villain/530908/32 "2010-03-01T23:47:00Z")
Oh, no doubt in my mind that **Al Gore** would make a fantastic super villain. Here’s how it goes … he gets so concerned about global climate change that he holds the world’s powers hostage with some devastating weapon until the quarreling world powers would come to their senses and alter their policies on energy and the environment. He already has that haughty voice and I can totally see him in a Blofeld-like outfit holding a furry cat. I’ve seen him on 30 Rock and he can act a little. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-real-life-would-make-a-good-bond-villain/530908/33 "2010-03-01T23:50:29Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > From that post, Gaddafi’s already got the requisite Praetorian Guard around him with his female bodyguards. He’s a the leader of a not-so-nice country, so he’s got power and wealth. But as recently as a few years ago he stopped all work on nukes which is something I don’t think a villain would do, unless he’s got some secret stash somewhere.. _ **Gaddafi, his female bodyguards and a scientist are walking down a underground tunnel; soldiers guarding the intersections** _ Gaddafi: “Those fools of the West think that I have given up my ambitions!” _ **They walk into a huge underground chamber, filled with a giant ominous installation of some kind** _ Gaddafi: “But why would I want nuclear weapons, when I can have this?!” ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-real-life-would-make-a-good-bond-villain/530908/34 "2010-03-02T00:01:57Z")
Steve Jobs. Admit it - it makes sense: the genius, the megalomania, the millions of adoring worshipers. He’s well on his way to having his (suspiciously well-designed) technology implanted into every household in the western world, and who knows what’s actually installed in it? One day he’ll issue the order and activate the \*real \*Killer App. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-real-life-would-make-a-good-bond-villain/530908/35 "2010-03-02T00:06:49Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > Dick Cheney is my choice. Give him a white cat, and maybe a monocle and he would fit right in without further embellishment. I could see Kim Jong Il playing Oddjob though. I remember during the Obama inauguration that the wheelchair Dick Cheney was in because of a back injury made him look a little like Dr Strangelove. (Plus he had that mysterious “man-sized” safe in his office and was forever hiding out in an “undisclosed location.”) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-real-life-would-make-a-good-bond-villain/530908/36 "2010-03-02T00:24:31Z")
Courtney Cox. I would do her evil bidding. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-real-life-would-make-a-good-bond-villain/530908.md?page=1)