Summary

• Bond's lack of remorse for the females in his life is evident throughout the early decades of his movies.
• Bond's tactics of manipulation and deception, such as tricking Solitaire into sleeping with him, highlight his willingness to compromise others for his mission.
• Bond's violent acts, such as dropping Trevelyan to his death and setting Sanchez on fire, demonstrate his willingness to use extreme measures in seeking revenge or eliminating threats.

In addition to saving the world multiple times over, James Bond has done some very dark acts over the course of his 25 movies. From Sean Connery to Daniel Craig and every Bond in between, each iteration of 007 has committed acts that would be considered anywhere from unscrupulous to downright immoral. The character has been on countless missions and numerous dangerous assignments, and many of them have forced James Bond to compromise on his morals in an attempt to protect the monarchy, the country, and the world. Read below for more on the 15 of the darkest things James Bond has done across 61 years of films.

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15 Sean Connery's Bond Leaves A Dead Woman With An Unsuspecting Couple

Thunderball (1965)

After being attacked by Volpe and henchmen at the Kiss Kiss Bang Bang club in Thunderball, Bond's love interest Fiona takes a bullet that is meant for Bond while they are dancing. Bond immediately realizes she has died. Bond knows he needs to track Volpe down but is left holding a dead Fiona. His solution is to set her down next to another couple at the club, and cover up her wounds, asking them, "Okay if my partner sits this one out? She's just dead!" Such lack of remorse for the females in Bond's life would be them throughout the first couple of decades of his movies, but Fiona deserved better than being left at a club table next to strangers.

14 Roger Moore's Bond Tricks Solitaire Into Believing They Are Destined In Live And Let Die

Live And Let Die (1973)

In Live and Let Die, Solitaire is a young tarot card reader who Bond meets because she is under the control of the evil Dr. Kananga. To help her escape, Bond rigs her tarot card deck to make her believe that Solitaire and Bond must be together and that their love must be made official by them sleeping together. Ultimately, Bond wants to do the right thing by rescuing Solitaire from an overlord, but he uses tactics like her youth, her virginity, her immaturity, and her desperation to do it. In addition, the movie implies that Solitaire loses her abilities when she is not a virgin, so Bond ends up taking her means of employment from her as well.

13 Daniel Craig's Bond Leaves Solange To Be Killed By Dimitrios

Casino Royale (2006)

While James Bond is tracking Le Chiffre in Casino Royale, he focuses in on one of his associates in Barbados, Alex Dimitrios. Dimitrios is married to a woman named Solange, who Bond has no problem seducing to get information about where Dimitrios will be heading next. This follows a typical Bond pattern of discarding women after he has the information he needs, but this time he knew that his involvement would get Solange in serious trouble. When MI5 discover her body soon thereafter, it is determined she was tortured and dumped on the beach before she was killed.

12 Pierce Brosnan's Bond Drops Trevelyan To His Death

Goldeneye (1995)

At the beginning of Goldeneye, James Bond is traumatized to learn that his fellow agent, Alec Trevelyan, apparently has died on a mission. Later in the movie, however, Bond learns that Trevelyan is alive and well and has been working with the enemy for quite some time. Bond spends the movie trying to take down Trevelyan, General Ourumov, and the rest of the group trying to commandeer the Goldeneye weapon. In the climactic fight, Bond is holding onto Trevelyan and keeping him from falling to his death. He asks Bond, “For England, James?” Bond chooses not to save his life, and replies, “No, for me,” before dropping Trevelyan to his death. It was a moment where Bond could have saved his former colleague but instead decided to let him perish.

11 Roger Moore's Bond Kicks Locque's Car Off A Cliff

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

In For Your Eyes Only, the villain Locque kills James Bond's love interest, Countess Lisl. Bond pursues him in a car chase and shoots Locque's car, which causes it to spiral out of control and hang over the edge of a cliff. In a Bond scene that Roger Moore originally rejected doing because it was too dark, Bond tips Locque's car over the edge, causing it to crash in the ground below with Locque still inside. The rage-killing was something that bothered Roger Moore, but it was eventually included in the film as a way to show Bond's darker side and how he seeks revenge when those that he loves are taken from him. The scene with Moore's Bond kicking the car off the cliff became one of the most iconic of his Bond run.

10 Sean Connery's Bond Uses Bonita As A Shield From An Attacker

Goldfinger (1964)

In Bond's third film, Goldfinger, Bond's female interest is Bonita, but Bond shows he is not afraid to use her in any way necessary to save his own life. While Bond and Bonita are being intimate, he catches a glimpse of an incoming attacker in her eye. Bond promptly swings her around so that she can be the one to catch the punch coming his way from the attacker. Bonita falls to the ground unconscious while Bond then subdues his attacker. Bonita turned out to be a villain as well, but that was something unknown by Bond when he quickly decided to use her as a human shield.

9 Daniel Craig's Bond Kills His First Man

Casino Royale (2006)

When Daniel Craig's James Bond was just a young agent in Casino Royale, his first kill is shown shortly after Bond received his license to kill. In a harrowing flashback scene, Bond tracks a named Fisher to a cricket match in Pakistan and corners him in a restroom. The brawl that ensues is one of the most violent and vicious in all of James Bond history. The fight that eventually ends with Bond beating Fisher and shooting him to death showed to that new iteration of 007 just what lengths he may have to go now that he would be called upon to kill. Bond has killed many people over 25 movies, but perhaps none quite as violently as when he fought Fisher.

8 Timothy Dalton's Bond Sets Sanchez On Fire

License to Kill (1989)

In License to Kill, James Bond is on a revenge tour, shirking his official responsibilities and going after a drug kingpin, Franz Sanchez for killing his friend's wife. Felix Leiter was a close friend to Bond and he had recently attended their wedding. The death of his friend's wife sends him on a hunt for Sanchez that culminates with a violent ending after the two engage in a hand-to-hand fight. Bond sees that Sanchez has been covered with gasoline during the brawl, so he takes the lighter that Felix gave them at their wedding and lights Sanchez on fire, causing him to burn to death. License to Kill is thought to the darkest Bond film, with the climax being Sanchez's painful death.

7 Sean Connery's Bond Hits Tiffany Case

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

While James Bond has dealth with some very unsavory characters over the course of his movies, his treatment of a common gem smuggler may be one of his worst interactions with any of them. When he is searching for evidence and clues in Diamonds Are Forever, Tiffany Case won't divulge information that Bond needs, instead commenting, "You sound like a cop." Bond did not take kindly to this woman questioning his methods or his authority, so she hits her across the face, completely unprovoked. Some say that the undercover role Bond is playing at the time is why he resorts to that violence, but her shocked look and reaction shows just how unnecessary it all was.

6 Roger Moore's Bond Assaults Scaramanga's Mistress Andrea Anders

The Man With A Golden Gun (1974)

Maud Adams played two women in different movies in Roger Moore's tenure as James Bond. She is most commonly ed as the titular Octopussy from the 1983 movie, but her first role was the mistress to the villainous Francisco Scaramanga in 1974's The Man With a Golden Gun. In this film, James Bond had another romantic relationship with Mary Goodnight, but while the two were together one night, Anders comes to warn Bond of Scaramanga's impending arrival. While Mary Goodnight still sleeps in another room in the boat they are on, Bond disrobes Anders and forces her into bed. Scaramanga would soon discover her deceit and kill her the very next day, all because James Bond decided to step out with her.