Welcome Back To James Bond Fun With Polls Week!

Today, we are going to choose the best Bond villains. Now, as with the Bond Girls poll from yesterday, we have distinguish what makes a Bond villain.

The Bond villain should be the mastermind and head antagonist of the film. The henchmen, as such, do not qualify. Yes, that means that awesome henchmen like Oddjob

and Jaws

and Baron Samedi

or even the gay duo from Diamonds Are Forever

do not count. I’m sorry, but those are the rules. I also realize that Blofeld appears in more than one film as the antagonist. We will evaluate the performance in each film separately. For example, Blofeld in Spectre or On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is a different Blofeld than in Thunderball or From Russia With Love.

In the cases where Blofeld’s deputies are the main antagonist, that Deputy shall be deemed the villain for that film. Make sense?

Before we get started, I want to report yesterday’s results. You were able to vote for up to five Bond Girls. The top vote-getter was: Eva Green for her role as Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale. The top five were as follows:

• Casino Royale – Vesper Lynd – Eva Green – 15 votes
• Goldeneye – Xenia Onatopp – Famke Janssen – 12 votes
• Goldfinger – Pussy Galore – Honor Blackman – 10 votes
• From Russia With Love – Tatiana Romanova – Daniela Bianchi – 9 votes
• On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – Tracy Di Vicenzo – Diana Rigg – 9 votes

There will be no Goldfinger sweep of the week.

As before, you will get a chance to vote for five films. The top vote-getter wins.

Without further ado, here are your candidates, in chronological order:

Yes, Blofeld is the mastermind behind the plot and there are two deputies (the Chessmaster and Rosa Klebb) involved, but Red Grant is the one that James Bond fights throughout the film. He is the villain here.

As noted, Oddjob was great, but James Bond took on Goldfinger directly. Goldfinger is the villain.

Here is another situation where it’s a Spectre plot and thus Blofeld is behind it all, but James Bond spends the entire movie fighting Largo and his henchmen.

This is the first movie in which James Bond battles Blofeld directly. Blofeld has a larger role in this film and should be considered the villain. Also, Donald Pleasence gave a great performance.

Two in a row for the Blofeld character, but this time Telly Savalas made the role his own. Who loves you, baby?

Make that three in a row for Blofeld, but again with a different actor. I have to say that I probably would rank Charles Gray’s performance as the best Blofeld. Plus, the whole thing about double Blofelds gave the character a chance to feature in another film.

It’s funny how Never Say Never Again is an exact remake of Thunderball, but, for legal reasons, they had to make small changes…

Yes, this film had multiple baddies, but Alec was a former 00 and was James’ friend. That alone earns top billing as the villain.

Technically, Waltz’ Blofeld was behind all of the Daniel Craig Bond films’ plots, but we didn’t find this out until Spectre. Hence, that’s the only one where he is actually the villain.

The poll is below and will be open until midnight Pacific time.

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