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84-493: As with another of James Bond's nemeses, Ernst Stavro Blofeld , in 2007 the Daily Mail reported that the inspiration for this fictional character was a classmate of Fleming's, at Eton College in the 1920s, George Ambrosios (Ambrose) Scaramanga. Francisco Scaramanga, of Spanish ( Catalonia ) origin, became a trick shot while a youngster, and he performed in a circus owned by his father Enrico. Francisco also cared for one of

168-416: A Colt Single Action Army to shoot the cork off a bottle of champagne from long range (Scaramanga's golden gun in the novel is a gold-plated Single Action Army), later dismissing it as a toy. Scaramanga lives very well, drawing from the exorbitant sums of money he charges to carry out his assassinations. His home is on his own personal island somewhere off the coast of southeastern China —paying for lease of

252-444: A Golden Gun which would count for an instant kill, this time a customized Colt Python revolver belonging to NSA boss Trent Easton. Francisco Scaramanga returned for the game GoldenEye: Rogue Agent voiced by Christopher Lee. In the game, he is an ally of Auric Goldfinger . He is the manufacturer of the synthetic eye given to the player (GoldenEye) and makes a virus used against Goldfinger's O.M.E.N. device. The game also features

336-516: A Multiplayer "Funhouse" level, including the traps that caused Bond to lose most of his bullets such as Al Capone and Cowboy mannequins and an image of Scaramanga. In addition, the level includes a Bond mannequin, whose gun the player can take and use. Francisco Scaramanga was listed at number five in UGO 's list of the Top 11 Classy Assassins. Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly argues that Scaramanga

420-631: A bald head and a facial dueling scar in You Only Live Twice ; a bald head with no scar or earlobes in On Her Majesty's Secret Service ; and silver-grey hair in Diamonds Are Forever . This metamorphosing matches Fleming's literary portrayal of a master criminal who will go to great lengths to preserve his anonymity, including the use of plastic surgery. He often wears a jacket without lapels , based loosely either on

504-573: A breach of discipline; he had earlier shot one through the heart with a needle fired from a compressed-air gun, and strangled another with a garrote. In the movie Thunderball , Blofeld kills an agent for embezzlement rather than rape. Blofeld is absent from the next novel, The Spy Who Loved Me , though its events take place while Bond is battling SPECTRE in North America. In On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963), Bond learns that Blofeld has altered his appearance radically – he

588-471: A cigarette lighter (breech), cuff-link (trigger), and a cigarette case (the grip), all gold plated . Scaramanga used the Golden Gun in numerous assassinations of officials, political enemies, gangsters, and a 00-agent, Bill Fairbanks (002). Scaramanga later used the Golden Gun to kill British scientist Gibson and Scaramanga's own employer, Hai-Fat. But, when Scaramanga was killed and his island destroyed,

672-444: A close-up of his hands stroking his white, blue-eyed Persian cat . His face is revealed in You Only Live Twice when he introduces himself to Bond for the first time in person. Many of Blofeld's characteristics have become tropes in popular fiction, representing the stock character of the criminal mastermind, with the stroking of his white cat often retained as a parodic allusion to Blofeld's character. This can be seen parodied in

756-526: A habit he adopts whenever he must deliver bad news. A meticulous planner of formidable intellect, he seems to be without conscience but not necessarily insane, and is motivated solely by financial gain. Blofeld's lifestyle is described in one chapter in Thunderball : "For the rest, he didn't smoke or drink and he had never been known to sleep with a member of either sex. He didn't even eat very much." The novel Thunderball indicates that Blofeld wants to be

840-639: A jacket without lapels and has a full head of hair, reminiscent of the Donald Pleasence , Charles Gray , and Telly Savalas versions of the character, respectively. His disfigurement later on the film echoes the scar and blind eye of Pleasence's version. He is also briefly shown with a white Persian cat, strikingly similar to the one from the Sean Connery era films. In the James Bond comic books by Dynamite Entertainment , Blofeld appears as

924-438: A man of honour, or at least pose as one. During a meeting of SPECTRE agents, he refers to the kidnapping of a teenage girl, who was to be returned unharmed once her father paid the ransom. However, he refunded half the money after learning that she had been raped by her abductor, and he kills the agent responsible for this infraction by electrocuting him in his chair. This is the third instance in which Blofeld kills an operative for

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1008-415: A new background. In this continuity, he was born Franz Oberhauser , the son of Hannes Oberhauser (a character from the original short story " Octopussy "), James Bond 's ( Daniel Craig ) legal guardian after being orphaned at the age of 11, making him and Bond adoptive brothers. As a young man, he resented Bond for being his father's favorite, leading him to murder his father, stage his own death, and take on

1092-404: A particularly penurious Bond. That evening's musical guest Sting portrayed a villain called "Goldsting", who wore a Nehru jacket and, like The Big Cheese, carried a stuffed bunny rabbit. Similar to The Powerpuff Girls example, General Viggo (a white Persian cat) is the villain of the video game Fur Fighters , while his pet is a small mutant human named Fifi. One of the two main villains of

1176-464: A pet and with the face unseen by the spectator or the viewpoint character , and the concept of spectacularly executing underlings who fail to defeat the main protagonist. In the film series, Blofeld first appears in From Russia with Love (credited as "Ernst Blofeld", though the name is never heard), then in Thunderball (uncredited). In these two appearances, his name is never spoken, his face

1260-441: A poisoned bullet from his backup weapon, a golden derringer . Bond returns fire with his .32 Walther PPK pistol, killing Scaramanga instantly; soon thereafter, a policeman finds the nearly dead Bond in time to save him. In the novel, British intelligence also has an in-depth psychological profile of Scaramanga, which is printed in the book before the mission begins. He is 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) tall, slim and fit. He

1344-473: A rebooted continuity, which started with Casino Royale (2006). Blofeld also appears in Never Say Never Again (1983), a remake of Thunderball that was not produced by Eon. Blofeld has been played on-screen by Donald Pleasence , Telly Savalas , Charles Gray , Max von Sydow and Christoph Waltz , among others. It was initially a convention of the films not to show Blofeld's face, only

1428-582: A role in two other Bond novels: Diamonds Are Forever (where they were the main foe of Agent 007) and Goldfinger as an accomplice to Auric Goldfinger 's Operation Grandslam. He posed as a pitboy at the casino of Tiara Hotel in Las Vegas , Nevada , while in fact he was executioner of cheats and other transgressors within and outside the gang. In 1958 he was forced to emigrate from the US because of his gun duel with Ramon "The Rod" Rodriguez, his opposite from

1512-471: A shipping billionaire, Blofeld is the leader of the resuscitated SPECTRE global criminal organisation, which had been thought dismantled since the end of the Cold War . Blofeld appears in the end of the 2004 video game GoldenEye: Rogue Agent , with the likeness of Donald Pleasence, voiced by Gideon Emery . Despite the character being clearly him, as chief of an anonymous but powerful crime syndicate, he

1596-401: A solid gold core and a cross-cut tip for additional wounding due to the dum-dum effect . However, in the film, it was a single-shot weapon that fired a custom-made 4.2-millimetre (0.17 in) dum-dum bullet made of 23-carat gold with traces of nickel , which Scaramanga carried on his belt buckle. The movie gun could be disassembled and its components disguised as a fountain pen (the barrel),

1680-419: A tense discussion where Scaramanga told Bond they were "the same", enraging Bond to the point where he admitted to Scaramanga that "killing you would be a pleasure". Once in the funhouse, Bond takes the place of a mannequin "James Bond" and tricks Scaramanga into revealing his position to look for Bond with his pistol drawn. Bond shoots Scaramanga in the heart, killing him, while Goodnight inadvertently sabotages

1764-424: A worldwide terrorist network, later revealed to be Spectre. Bond discovers that Blofeld is trying to take control of Nine Eyes, a global surveillance program, with help from treasonous Joint Intelligence Service agent Max Denbigh ( Andrew Scott ), and staging terrorist attacks in order to justify the program's existence. Bond and Madeleine Swann ( Lea Seydoux ), Mr. White's daughter, confront Blofeld at his hideout in

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1848-492: Is Not Enough for the Nintendo 64 , the gun must be assembled from the pen, lighter, and case before it could be used. In each of the games (except Everything or Nothing ), the golden gun would count for an instant kill, which reflected that Scaramanga never missed, although in the games the player can and because of this, the golden gun is not available in single player mode (except Everything or Nothing ) but golden versions of

1932-430: Is a flat box (commonly made of metal) that opens symmetrically into two halves. Each half stores a row of cigarettes, which are often held in place by a spring or an elastic strap. Some cigarette cases are simply sturdy cases used to store standard cigarette packs . In modern times cigarette cases are also made of plastic. Some cigarette cases come with additional features, such as built-in lighters or ashtrays . Due to

2016-408: Is a playable character in the multiplayer portions of the 2003 game 007: Nightfire and the 2010 game GoldenEye 007 . In the original GoldenEye 007 game , Scaramanga's weapon, the golden gun, was initially added to the "Egyptian" level and multiplayer portion of the game. It is said in the briefing for the "Egyptian" mission that the Golden Gun was stolen from Scaramanga by Baron Samedi. Also,

2100-421: Is about 35 years old and has light brown eyes. His hair is reddish in a crew-cut with long sideburns. The profile (read by M) also delves into his background and psyche . Among other things, the profile claims that Scaramanga might be a latent homosexual , since he cannot whistle—based on the popular (but unfounded) theory that a man who cannot whistle has homosexual tendencies. In the feature film The Man with

2184-484: Is also Fleming's birthdate) in Gdingen , Imperial Germany (now Gdynia , Poland ); his father Ernst George Blofeld was Polish, and his mother Maria Stavro Michelopoulos was Greek, hence his Greek middle name Stavro. After World War I , Blofeld became a Polish national. As a young man, he was well-versed in the social science disciplines, but also in the natural science and technology disciplines. He first graduated from

2268-483: Is an anonymous, bald, villain who uses a wheelchair and is trying to kill Bond once again. Due to the then-ongoing legal dispute between Kevin McClory and Eon Productions / United Artists over the Thunderball copyrights, Blofeld remained unnamed. The only clues to his identity are the trademark white cat, similar clothes to his previous onscreen appearances, the dialogue indicating he and Bond have met before, and

2352-485: Is carried out by his second-in-command Emilio Largo . Blofeld is described physically as a massive man, weighing roughly 20 st (280 lbs, 127 kg), who had previously been a champion amateur weightlifter in his youth before becoming obese in middle age; he has black crew-cut hair, black eyes (similar to those of Benito Mussolini ), heavy eyelashes, a thin mouth, and long pointed hands and feet. He has violet-scented breath from chewing flavored cachous (breath mints),

2436-465: Is dead, finished, he expects Bond to engage in "a little plain, solid work." Of course, the man Bond killed turns out to be a duplicate. Bond would meet Blofeld again, along with another decoy, later in the film before eliminating the second decoy, and crashing Blofeld's bathosub into the control room of an exploding oil rig, his fate left ambiguous. In a sixth appearance – in the pre-credit sequence of For Your Eyes Only  – he

2520-426: Is head of the global criminal organisation SPECTRE and is commonly referred to by the codename Number 1 within this organisation. The character was originally written by Fleming as a physically massive and powerfully built man, standing around 6' 3" (1.90 m) and weighing 20 st (280 lbs, 127 kg), who had become flabby with a huge belly. The most recurring antagonist in the franchise, Blofeld appears or

2604-541: Is heard in three novels: Thunderball , On Her Majesty's Secret Service ; and You Only Live Twice ; as well as eight films from Eon Productions : From Russia with Love (1963), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), possibly For Your Eyes Only (1981; the pre-title sequence of which shows an unnamed character resembling Blofeld fall to his death), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021). The latter two films are set in

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2688-653: Is hiding in Switzerland in the guise of the Comte Balthazar de Bleuville and Bond defeats his vindictive plans to destroy Britain's agricultural economy (implied to be carried out on behalf of the Soviet Union ). In the final sequence of the novel, Blofeld gets revenge by murdering Bond's new wife, Tracy . In You Only Live Twice , published in 1964, Blofeld returns and Bond finds him hiding in Japan under

2772-536: Is in the beginning of the next novel, The Man with the Golden Gun , published in 1965. Blofeld's depiction in film influenced with great effect the depiction of supervillains and (together with that of Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather ) that of Mafia bosses both in films and printed media, as, since his first appearance on the big screen in 1963, he established some "standards" imitated for decades, such as mysterious identities, being portrayed stroking

2856-551: Is made by a custom gunsmith in Macau , who provides for its delivery to Scaramanga's lover, Andrea Anders, at a casino in Hong Kong. Francisco Scaramanga was a British national born in a travelling circus. His father was the ringmaster , a former Cuban national and his mother was the snake charmer . By age 10, Francisco was part of the circus as a trick-shot pistol marksman. At age 15, he became an international assassin-for-hire. He

2940-595: Is not named because of the then-ongoing copyright controversy that also prevented the open usage of the character in the Moore era films. Blofeld is a playable multiplayer character in the 2010 video game GoldenEye 007 for the Wii , with the likeness of Charles Gray. Blofeld is one of the main characters in the 2012 Craig-era video game 007 Legends , featured in the mission based on On Her Majesty's Secret Service (set between Quantum of Solace and Skyfall ), in which

3024-482: Is not seen, and only his lower body is visible as he strokes his trademark white cat. Originally, On Her Majesty's Secret Service was to include the twist that Blofeld was Auric Goldfinger 's twin brother, and would be portrayed by Gert Fröbe . However, this plotline was scrapped when it was delayed in favor of You Only Live Twice . Czech actor Jan Werich was originally cast by producer Harry Saltzman to play Blofeld in You Only Live Twice . Upon his arrival at

3108-420: Is now tall and thin, having reduced his weight to 12 stone (170 lb; 76 kg); sports long silver hair, a syphilitic infection on his nose, and no earlobes; and he wears dark green tinted contact lenses to hide his distinctive eyes. Perhaps less calculating than previously, he is notably saddled with the exploitable weakness of snobbery about his assumed nobility, indicating that he is losing his sanity. He

3192-578: Is the best villain of the Roger Moore James Bond films. A gene linked to the cause of supernumerary nipples in animals is named the "Scaramanga gene". Ernst Stavro Blofeld Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional villain in the James Bond series of novels and films, created by Ian Fleming . A criminal mastermind with aspirations of world domination , he is the archenemy of British MI6 agent James Bond . Blofeld

3276-679: Is the feline that turns out to be the criminal mastermind. In The Penguins of Madagascar , the recurring villain Dr. Blowhole is a parody and homage to Blofeld. The rendition for Lex Luthor in Superman: The Animated Series , and to a certain extent, various entries of the DC Animated Universe, were derived in part from Telly Savalas' portrayal of Blofeld in On Her Majesty's Secret Service . The character The Grand Master (and pet rabbit General Flopsy) from

3360-428: Is using his six-bullet .380 Walther PPK pistol while Scaramanga uses the golden gun, Scaramanga states that "[He] only need[s] one"—Bond's superior number of bullets being offset by Scaramanga's advantages of fighting on his own ground. After taking Bond's fellow MI6 agent Mary Goodnight hostage, Scaramanga lures Bond to his private island, where he reveals his plan and challenges Bond to a duel in his funhouse, after

3444-475: The Austin Powers film series with the character of Dr. Evil and his cat Mr. Bigglesworth, or in the cartoons Inspector Gadget , with the character of Dr. Claw and his pet M.A.D. Cat, and Danger Mouse , with the character of Baron Silas Greenback. Ian Fleming includes information about Blofeld's background in his novel Thunderball . According to the novel, Blofeld was born on 28 May 1908 (which

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3528-600: The CBBC series M.I. High (2007–2014) are heavily based on characteristics popularised in Blofeld. In the fourth episode of the first season of Monty Python's Flying Circus in 1969, Eric Idle played Arthur Lemming, secret agent for the British Dental Association , who found himself up against the forces of The Big Cheese ( Graham Chapman ), a diabolical dentist who appeared out of a secret panel in

3612-661: The Cuban Revolution . By the time Bond finally encounters him in The Man with the Golden Gun , Scaramanga works as a freelance assassin, often working for Castro's secret police , in addition to being engaged in other criminal enterprises such as drug-running into the United States in partnership with the KGB . MI6 has evaluated Scaramanga as one of the finest shots in the world, and M authorizes Bond to assassinate

3696-691: The Nehru jacket or on the Mao suit , a feature which is used in spoofs like the Austin Powers series, though in his early two appearances on film he wears a black business suit . By November 2013, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the McClory estate had formally settled the issue with Danjaq and MGM and acquired the full copyright to the characters and concepts of Blofeld and SPECTRE. Blofeld consequently reappeared in Spectre , played by Christoph Waltz , and with

3780-471: The Pinewood set, both producer Albert R. Broccoli and director Lewis Gilbert felt that he was a bad choice, resembling a "poor, benevolent Santa Claus ." Nonetheless, in an attempt to make the casting work, Gilbert continued filming. After five days, both Gilbert and Broccoli determined that Werich was not menacing enough, and recast Donald Pleasence in the role – the official excuse being that Werich

3864-507: The Sahara , where he gloats about being indirectly responsible for several tragedies in Bond's life, including the deaths of his lover Vesper Lynd ( Eva Green ) and the previous M ( Judi Dench ). He then tortures his former foster brother by strapping him to a mechanical chair with surgical drills programmed to penetrate different areas of Bond's brain. At the last second, however, Bond destroys

3948-878: The University of Warsaw with a degree in Political History and Economics, and then from the Warsaw University of Technology with a degree in Engineering and Radionics . He was then hired by the Polish Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs and appointed to a sensitive communication position, which he used for buying and selling stocks at the Warsaw Stock Exchange . Foreseeing World War II , Blofeld made copies of top-secret wires and sold them for cash to Nazi Germany . Before

4032-399: The energy crisis . Gibson is assassinated and his invention, the solex agitator, is stolen from the crime scene by Nick Nack. The solex agitator is a critical component of Gibson's solar energy device. However, instead of turning the device over to Hai-Fat, Scaramanga instead kills Hai-Fat with his golden gun and takes the device for himself. With it in his possession, it allows for him to sell

4116-526: The parodies Dr. Claw (and his pet cat, M.A.D. Cat) from the Inspector Gadget animated series (1983–1986), Team Rocket leader Giovanni and his Persian from the Pokémon television series , and Dr. Evil (and his cat Mr. Bigglesworth ) from the Austin Powers film series (1997–2002). The 1999 The Powerpuff Girls episode "Cat Man Do" also features a supervillain with a cat, though it

4200-435: The 2005 video game TimeSplitters: Future Perfect , Khallos, is heavily based upon Blofeld, being presented as an evil genius with a white cat. One section of the game even allows the player to remotely control the cat. Cigarette case A cigarette case (sometimes called a cigarette tin ) is a sturdy container used to store small numbers of cigarettes and prevent them from being crushed. A typical cigarette case

4284-464: The 2021 Bond film No Time to Die . He has been held in solitary confinement at Belmarsh prison for five years since his capture, but has been covertly running Spectre while feigning insanity. Blofeld has operatives steal the "Heracles" bioweapon and lure Bond to a meeting of high-ranking Spectre agents in the hopes of infecting and killing him. However, Blofeld's plan is sabotaged by bioterrorist Lyutsifer Safin ( Rami Malek ), whose entire family

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4368-627: The German invasion of Poland in 1939, he destroyed all records of his existence, then moved first to Sweden, then to Turkey, where he worked for Turkish Radio and began to set up his own private intelligence organisation. During the war, he sold information to both sides. After the defeat of Erwin Rommel , he decided to back the Allied war effort, and was awarded numerous medals by the Allied powers after

4452-566: The Golden Gun , Scaramanga is a high-priced assassin , supposedly the best in the world, charging US$ 1 million per kill. He is best known for being "the man with the golden gun", for using only bullets made of gold in a custom 4.2 mm cartridge with a disassemblable golden handgun made of a gold cigarette case , gold cigarette lighter , gold fountain pen and gold cufflink as the gun's trigger. All of Scaramanga's assassination contracts are arranged through his henchman Nick Nack, which allows Scaramanga to be anonymous. His specialized ammunition

4536-567: The Golden Gun also exist, such as the Golden PP7 and the Silver PP7. The Golden Gun also appears in the video game Quantum of Solace . In Quantum of Solace the Golden Gun appears to be based on the design on the gun from the novel (a gold-plated revolver), rather than the design used in the film. It is likely to be based on a Smith & Wesson Model 686 in the game. Perfect Dark , made by GoldenEye developer Rareware , also featured

4620-529: The Golden Gun was presumably also lost. The Golden Gun ranked sixth in a 2008 20th Century Fox poll of the most popular film weapons, which surveyed approximately two thousand film fans. In October 2008, the Golden Gun was stolen from the company Elstree Props which is based in Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire . At the time, the prop was estimated to be worth £80,000. Francisco Scaramanga

4704-750: The Purple Gang of Detroit (also featured in the novel Goldfinger ), in which he killed Ramon, earning $ 100,000. He spent some time travelling the Caribbean as a representative of Las Vegas interests in real estate and plantation dealing, later switching to Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic and Fulgencio Batista of Cuba where he settled in 1959, in Havana . While remaining a Batista supporter, he started an undercover work for Fidel Castro 's party, becoming an "enforcer" for DSS after

4788-441: The United States of the 1920s–1930s stored 50 cigarettes. Because of this, they were sometimes referred to by the nickname "flat fifties". Cigarette cases are fashionable accessories within smoking culture . As such, they may be made of precious metals, adorned with artistic engravings , monograms , and jewels. Peter Carl Fabergé , while most famous for his Fabergé eggs , also manufactured exquisite cases of gold and gems for

4872-462: The accusation. Bond strangles him to death in a fit of rage at the end of the novel (something that he had done only once before, to Auric Goldfinger ). In both On Her Majesty's Secret Service and You Only Live Twice , Blofeld is aided in his schemes by Irma Bunt, who is clearly his lover in the latter, and posing as Shatterhand's wife. Bond incapacitates her in their Japanese castle base before it blows up, killing her. The final mention of Blofeld

4956-416: The alias Dr. Guntram Shatterhand. He has once again changed his appearance. He has put on some muscle and has a gold-capped tooth, a fully healed nose, and a drooping grey mustache. Bond describes Blofeld on their confrontation as being "a big man, perhaps six foot three (190 cm), and powerfully built." It is indicated that Blofeld has by now gone completely insane, as he all but admits himself when Bond levels

5040-453: The alias of "Ernst Stavro Blofeld", derived from his mother's maiden name. Over time, he assembled a global criminal organisation known as Spectre. Additionally, it is revealed that the villains of the previous Craig films – Le Chiffre ( Mads Mikkelsen ), Mr. White ( Jesper Christensen ), Dominic Greene ( Mathieu Amalric ), and Raoul Silva ( Javier Bardem ) – were all really working for Spectre. Bond encounters Blofeld while investigating

5124-458: The chair with an exploding watch given to him by Q ( Ben Whishaw ); the explosion destroys Blofeld's right eye and leaves him with a vertical scar running down the wounded socket. Nevertheless, Blofeld manages to escape. Bond ultimately foils Blofeld's plans and has the opportunity to kill him, but decides to spare his life, and Gareth Mallory ( Ralph Fiennes ), the current M, takes Blofeld into custody. Blofeld, again portrayed by Waltz, appears in

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5208-504: The character is an amalgamation of the first three actors appearing in the official film series. Throughout the game, he is voiced by Glenn Wrage. Legends , released prior to Blofeld's appearance in Spectre , portrays a feud with 007 that is not related to the film, thus rendering the video game non-canonical to the cinematic timeline. Some of Blofeld's characteristics have become supervillain tropes in popular fiction and media, including

5292-482: The circus elephants , which he stated was his only real friend. When the elephant went on a rampage during the circus visit to Trieste , Scaramanga witnessed a policeman kill it. The enraged boy, who was 16 at the time, retaliated by shooting the policeman through the eye. He then made his way to the United States from Naples , where he found employment as an enforcer for the Spangled Mob, an outfit that plays

5376-446: The compactness of a cigarette case, being just small enough to conveniently fit in a pocket, they can also be used to store or conceal other small items. A cigarette box , much like a cigar humidor , is a larger case or tin, often stored on desktops or coffee tables . Made of wood, metal, glass, or ceramic, a cigarette box holds a larger number of cigarettes for use by the homeowner and guests. Typical cigarette tins of this type in

5460-419: The crime lord Hai-Fat—though Scaramanga is already at Hai-Fat's estate, and Hai-Fat quickly guesses who Bond really is. Later in the film, Scaramanga reveals to Bond that as a boy living in the travelling circus, he shot and killed an abusive animal trainer for killing an elephant that he had befriended—and discovered that he "enjoyed killing people". Scaramanga also demonstrates his marksmanship to Bond by using

5544-402: The death. Nick Nack hires assassins to kill Scaramanga as a challenge to keep him sharp; moreover Nick Nack will also inherit Scaramanga's entire fortune should one of the assassins succeed. Scaramanga is well aware of and approves of Nick Nack's efforts, and wishes him better luck next time when his hired guns fail. In addition, Scaramanga also has a private junk , which Bond later steals to exit

5628-443: The device to the highest criminal bidder or use it to power his personal solar energy cannon. Scaramanga also desires to test his skills against Bond, whom he regards as his only worthy rival. Besides the profit and/or power the solex agitator can give him, Scaramanga's scheme in acquiring the device is also intended to lure Bond to Scaramanga's private island so that the two of them can engage in one final, decisive duel. Although Bond

5712-437: The exploding island. Scaramanga also uses some of his wealth to finance research and development of technologies that rival those developed by MI6's Q Branch . Such technologies include a car that transforms into an aircraft and a solar-powered laser cannon. Scaramanga was hired by Hai-Fat to assassinate a British scientist named Gibson, thought to be in possession of solar energy information and technology crucial to solving

5796-530: The fact that the scene begins with Bond paying his respects at Tracy's grave, often considered by the producers as a means of providing an "immediate continuity link" in the event of a new actor taking the part of Bond, as was almost the case before Roger Moore signed on again as Bond). Blofeld's appearance changes according to the personifying actor and the production. He has a full head of black hair in From Russia With Love and Thunderball ;

5880-708: The family of the Tsar , some of which (e.g., those owned by Danielle Steel ) are reportedly worth up to $ 25,000. At the opening of each of his new Broadway productions, Cole Porter 's wife, Linda , presented him with a cigarette case from Cartier. Each was more beautiful than the last, in gold, silver or leather, many studded with gems and generally styled to relate to that show's theme. Cigarette cases are also collectible items. Common "silver cigarette cases" are most often chrome-plated , although there are silver-plated or polished aluminum cases in addition to genuine sterling ones. The United States Census Bureau , for

5964-442: The fatal shots at Tracy, minutes after she had married Bond. During the opening sequence of Diamonds Are Forever , Bond searches relentlessly for Blofeld and finds him overseeing the transformation of a henchman into a decoy duplicate, using plastic surgery . Bond drowns the decoy in a mud bath and kills Blofeld by shoving him into a volcanic pool, saying "Welcome to Hell, Blofeld." After the credits, M tells Bond that now that Blofeld

6048-417: The game's standard weapon(s) are usually available (such as a golden Walther PPK, P99 , and a golden rocket launcher). In GoldenEye , the Golden Gun appears in a special mission. In the mission, the Golden Gun is stolen by Baron Samedi, and Bond needs to defeat Samedi and recover the Golden Gun. Although Samedi is not killed (referencing Live and Let Die ), Bond escapes with the Golden Gun. Other variants of

6132-489: The gunman — if he can. Bond catches up with Scaramanga in Jamaica , where Bond pretends to be a freelance security officer named Mark Hazard. and Scaramanga hires him to guard an upcoming meeting of gangsters. During the meeting, a Dutch-born KGB officer named Hendricks reveals Bond's identity, resulting in a shootout between Scaramanga and Bond. Bond wounds him, but before Bond can kill Scaramanaga, Scaramanga shoots Bond with

6216-478: The island and protection through assassinations ('favours') for the Chinese. Despite his assertion that "science was never [his] strong point," the island utilizes many aspects of modern technology, including its own self-sufficient solar power plant. In addition to the power plant, Scaramanga's home also includes a section which is something between a labyrinth and a funhouse , where Scaramanga and his foes duel to

6300-506: The main antagonist in the Agent of SPECTRE arc, which ran between March and July 2021. As in the original Ian Fleming novels, he is the son of a Polish father and a Greek mother; his mother belonged to a family of Greek ship-owners, with Blofeld inheriting a private fleet from her, which he manages to build up into a global shipping empire. His base of operations is the (fictional) Greek island of Meraki . Behind his veneer of respectability as

6384-413: The multiplayer-only fan remake GoldenEye: Source features the weapon as well. Due to its popularity it was also added into subsequent James Bond games 007: The World is Not Enough , 007: Agent Under Fire , 007: Nightfire , 007: Everything or Nothing , GoldenEye: Rogue Agent , 007: From Russia With Love , 007: Quantum of Solace , GoldenEye 007 and 007 Legends . In The World

6468-621: The name Blofeld was inspired by the English cricket commentator Henry Blofeld 's father, Thomas Blofeld, with whom Fleming went to school. Henry Blofeld offered on the BBC Radio 4 series Just a Minute that "Ian took my father's name as the name of the baddie." Blofeld has three appearances in Ian Fleming's novels. He first appears in a minor role as the leader of SPECTRE in the 1961 novel Thunderball . The plot that he formulates

6552-509: The purposes of industry statistics, includes manufacturing or adorning of cigarette cases in the category NAICS 339914 "Costume jewelry and novelty manufacturing". Cigarette cases used to be popular with soldiers, and many World War I and World War II veterans (e.g., James Doohan ) stated that cigarette cases saved their lives by stopping bullets. In 2003 the European Union witnessed a surge in cigarette case sales, attributable to

6636-407: The solar power plant which causes the destruction of the island. This is the death toll caused by Scaramanga in the film. In addition, Scaramanga is revealed to have been behind the murder of Bill Fairbanks, MI6 Agent 002, in 1969. In Ian Fleming's novel, the Golden Gun was a long-barrelled, gold-plated, single-action Colt Peacemaker .45 calibre revolver that fired silver-jacketed bullets with

6720-408: The wall with a stuffed rabbit called Flopsy on his knee. The character of Shakal, a villain from the 1980 Indian action film Shaan portrayed by Kulbhushan Kharbanda , was modelled after Blofeld in appearance and Kharbanda was especially cast in the role for his bald look. In 1987, an edition of Saturday Night Live presented a skit called "Bullets Aren't Cheap", featuring Steve Martin as

6804-473: The war's end. Blofeld then moved temporarily to South America before founding SPECTRE . In the John Gardner novel For Special Services , Blofeld is depicted as having had a daughter, Nena, with a French prostitute. Although Fleming himself never confirmed it, it is generally thought that the character of Blofeld was based on real-life Greek arms dealer Basil Zaharoff . It is commonly believed that

6888-443: Was ill. In the third, fourth, and fifth appearances – You Only Live Twice , On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Diamonds Are Forever  – he is the primary antagonist, meeting Bond face-to-face. In the film version of On Her Majesty's Secret Service , he is not Tracy Bond 's ( Diana Rigg ) actual killer—rather, he plots to have Tracy killed. He drives the car from which Irma Bunt ( Ilse Steppat ) fires

6972-727: Was murdered by Mr. White on orders from Blofeld. Safin has the bioweapon altered by corrupt MI6 scientist Valdo Obruchev ( David Dencik ) so that it wipes out all the Spectre agents instead of Bond. Safin then coerces Swann to infect Blofeld with a strain of Heracles targeting his DNA . While attending Bond's interrogation of Blofeld, Swann unknowingly passes the bioweapon onto him before abandoning Safin's plan. Blofeld reveals he manipulated Bond into believing Swann had betrayed him five years earlier, resulting in Bond ending their relationship. Enraged, Bond chokes Blofeld, unwittingly infecting him and killing him within seconds. This incarnation wears

7056-765: Was recruited some years later by the KGB while living in Ipanema , in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ; and trained in Eastern Europe where for many years he was basically just another "overworked and underpaid assassin" for the KGB. He quit the KGB in the late 1950s, becoming an independent hitman-for hire. No photographs of him exist, but he has an unusual anatomy: a third nipple . This information later comes in handy to Bond, who uses Scaramanga's anonymity and only known physical feature to get into contact with Scaramanga's current employer,

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