Every James Bond Death (Before No Time To Die)
Every James Bond Death (Before No Time To Die)
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No Time To Die ends with a historic first for James Bond but the franchise has many past instances of 007 ‘dying’ in various ways that were fakeouts.
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Warning: SPOILERS for No Time To Die.
James Bond (Daniel Craig) died at the end of No Time To Die but there have been a few other instances throughout the franchise when 007 also ‘died’ in different ways. With No Time To Die, Daniel Craig completed the fifth and final film of his incredibly popular and successful run as James Bond. Craig’s 007 exists in a separate universe and his movie cycle, from Casino Royale to No Time To Die, tells a complete, serialized story that ends with the British secret agent’s noble death.
Before Daniel Craig’s reinvention of 007, James Bond’s invincibility was baked into the character. Bond always won in the end, no matter what manner of death trap the megalomaniacal villains he faces could conjure. In the original James Bond movie continuity, which spans from Sean Connery in 1962’s Dr. No to Pierce Brosnan in 2002’s Die Another Day, 007 was never beaten and he certainly never really died. And yet, in some of the Bond movies, circumstances were contrived where James Bond was either believed to be killed or his death was faked as part of a scheme by the British Secret Service. Interestingly, the idea of 007 dying cropped up early in the franchise and was a running theme throughout Sean Connery’s run as James Bond. The original James Bond actor had a love/hate relationship with the role that made him a global superstar and Connery’s movies had the most instances of James Bond ‘dying’ than any other actor, which seemed to be a catharsis for Connery until he finally left the role after 1971’s Diamonds Are Forever.
After Roger Moore took over the role, followed by Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan, James Bond wasn’t placed in a circumstance again where he was alleged to have died from most of the 1970s until the end of Brosnan’s run in the early 2000s. Of course, this changed when Daniel Craig rebooted James Bond to be more flawed and more human starting in 2006’s origin story, Casino Royale. Craig’s 007 was a marked departure from his predecessors in many ways and his changes to the secret agent culminate in James Bond’s death in No Time To Die. While 007 didn’t really ‘die’ in the original James Bond canon like Craig’s does, here are all the times the Bond movies ‘killed’ o07 and why.
From Russia With Love (1963)
From Russia With Love literally begins with James Bond’s ‘death’ and it was the first depiction of 007 dying on-screen, although it was soon revealed to be a fakeout. From Russia With Love begins with 007 and one of the film’s villains, Red Grant (Robert Shaw), hunting each other through a hedge maze. Grant gets the drop on Bond and garrotes him to death but the British secret agent is quickly revealed to be an imposter when Grant removes his victim’s James Bond mask. The entire scenario was a training exercise set on SPECTRE Island and it was Grant’s successful ‘audition’ for the job of assassinating James Bond as SPECTRE’s revenge for the death of Dr. No (Joseph Wiseman). Sean Connery portrayed the false James Bond in the scene until he’s killed by Grant.
You Only Live Twice (1967)
You Only Live Twice’s title literally alludes to how James Bond is ‘killed’ at the start of the film when 007 is in Hong Kong making love to a woman who immediately betrays him. Bond is plunged into a trap where the bed he’s laying in springs into a wall as men with machine guns burst into the room. Bond is pinned in the wall as he’s ‘killed’ by the machine gunfire. James’ death is publicized with a front-page newspaper obituary before 007 is buried at sea. But Bond’s corpse is retrieved by MI6 and he’s revealed to be alive and well.
Bond’s ‘death’ was merely a ruse meant to fool his enemies so 007 can begin his mission in Japan investigating the disappearance of space capsules. It’s notable that James Bond is identified as a British Naval Commander in his obituary, which makes sense since MI6 would not publicize him as a Double-0 agent with a license to kill. But You Only Live Twice was the first instance acknowledging that James Bond is ‘famous,’ as opposed to a secret agent whose identity is closely guarded.
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Diamonds Are Forever, Sean Connery’s sixth and final canonical appearance as James Bond (before he played 007 once more in 1983’s Never Say Never Again) featured more jokes about 007 ‘dying.’ In pursuit of a diamond smuggling ring, Bond poses as Peter Franks (Joe Robinson) and makes contact with his supplier, Tiffany Case (Jill St. John). When the real Franks arrives, Bond has to fight and kill him, but he also places his wallet in Franks’ pocket to maintain his cover. After Tiffany searches for the dead man’s identification, she gasps, “You’ve just killed James Bond!” 007 retorts, “Is that who that was? It just goes to show no one is invincible.” This joke also continues the idea that James Bond is a famous spy. Later in Diamonds Are Forever, there’s another in-joke about James Bond’s death when 007 is placed in a coffin and sent into a cremation oven, which he survives.
Die Another Day (2002)
Although James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) doesn’t die in Die Another Day, he is disavowed and left for dead by MI6 at the start of the film. 007 is captured by the North Korean Army and imprisoned for fourteen months before Bond is released as part of a prisoner exchange. Although Bond was alive, he was tortured and abused in prison by the North Korean soldiers. Bond was unable to escape while M (Judi Dench) and MI6 believed 007 leaked information under duress. Bond’s imprisonment by the North Koreans could possibly have led to his death had he not been freed, and the title Die Another Day alludes to how Bond was lucky to escape certain death. Still, imprisonment in North Korea was the direst predicament James Bond faced in any of Pierce Brosnan’s 007 movies.
Skyfall (2012)
James Bond (Daniel Craig) is ‘killed’ by friendly fire at the start of Skyfall. During a mission in Turkey, M (Judi Dench) orders Eve Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) to shoot at Bond while he fought an enemy agent despite Moneypenny not having a clear shot. Moneypenny misses the villain and hits Bond, who falls from the roof of a train into the river below. Bond is posted as “missing and presumed killed.” Though James survived, he lived off the grid for three months as he healed and Bond considered himself retired from MI6. 007 only returned to London when he learned of the cyber attacks by Silva (Javier Bardem), but Bond was also a shell of himself physically since his ‘death’ and he failed his initial exams to return to active duty.
No Time To Die (2021)
In No Time To Die, James Bond finally died. Bond and Nomi (Lashana Lynch) infiltrated the secret island headquarters of Safin (Rami Malek), who planned to use a nanobot bioweapon called Project Heracles to murder millions. Bond ordered missiles to destroy the island but before 007 could escape, Safin shot Bond and injected him with a virus specifically targeted to the DNA of Bond’s lover, Dr. Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux), and their four-year-old daughter, Mathilde (Lisa-Dorah Sonnet). Bond chose to remain on the island as it was annihilated by missiles rather than escape and risk infecting Madeleine and Mathilde, which would cause their immediate death. In the first and only time 007 actually died on-screen, James Bond sacrificed his life to protect the woman he loved and his only daughter at the end of No Time To Die.
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