I like that theory.

Or that Drax was picked up by an intergalactic ambulance ship and nursed back to health.

@@bindgagger Moonraker was petty out there but not to that extent!

@@jamesatkinsonja no no I'm pretty sure Drax being saved by intergalactic beings was Fleming's intension all along.

And Max Schreck speaks with no German accent and is too serious yeah I don't buy that

Baron Samedi is the name of a real deity (?) in voodoo, so I think the implication is that the film character is the **real** Baron Samedi.

I thought it was awesome too and creepy.

Diplomatic bags are sent between embassies and the home country (and vice versa) and usually contain documents and secret material. To inspect them is a violation of international law. I understood the order to send him in the diplomatic bag to involve dismemberment to get him to fit. Note:technically large duffel bags and even crates can be designated as diplomatic bags, but because Pushkin did not specify a larger container I understand his order to refer to the regular bag for documents.

Maybe - just maybe - the German version can clarify that, since General Pushkin's order at the end of "Living Daylights" in the German version translates to: "Send him with the next plane to Moscow - as diplomat's ashes." So: No, Koskov did not get away in my opinion. I always had the feeling that they would take him out in the back yard of Whitaker's house and just shoot him there.

Dismembered or not, Koskov died in all likelihood 🤔😑

It's ambigous at best. There is nothing explicitly stating his fate. If anything, after so many people witnessing his arrest in a foreign country, I always thought that it would've been the most logical to bring him arrested. I mean, 1989 Soviet Union wasn't equally openly homicidal as 1949 Soviet Union, no? In any case, I wouldn't call it ''getting away'', as his most likely fate is a life in prison. Irma Bunt, on the other hand...

@@AlirioAguero2 I agree - it is very ambiguous. I just took the "diplomatic bag" as meaning that Koskov is no longer a VIP, and will be treated to a journey in the hold - before getting whatever punishment is due back home. Otherwise why not just shoot him on the spot?

I get your reasoning, and that would certainly been a great way to play it (and perhaps how the screenplay intended) - but all I see on the actors face is anger and aggression, no fear or remorse.

I am sorry, but Sean Bean is only allowed to survivr Silent Hill the Movie One and Sharpe's Rifles.

@@DIEGhostfish He survived The Martian and Ronin

@@MoviesNGames007uk I totally forgot that they don't shoot him after he gets the Boat House question wrong.

@@MoviesNGames007ukand National Treasure

He totally did kill her, we hear a female scream along with the gunshots

@@b.chaline4394 I always thought that was Vesper screaming because she was startled by the gun shots after all we don't know what le chiffre's goons did to her before that

@@GrosvnerMcaffrey I'm pretty sure the scream was Le Chiffre's girl. She should have taken that one guys' advice "Get a new boyfriend."

@@shanewilliams9122 what makes you think that?

Valenka is implied to be killed, along with the rest, as there were multiple gunshots, and M stated that they killed La Chiffre and his people. However, if she had reappeared alive later on, it wouldn't have been an actual plot-hole, since we never see her die.

Definitely the best villain who ALMOST survived but didn't.

I'm still holding out for a Captain America-style thawing out for him in a future instalment.

I actually thought it was quite ridiculous how 006 moved even a little bit after he hit the ground from falling from way up in the sky. This one scene has me questioning how GoldenEye is revered so highly

@@randallrutherford1384 because everything else about it is close to perfect. A bit of unrealism in Trevelyan's death is incredibly minor.

@@crazypomp927 I agree. I love the movie. I just wonder why they chose to have him move at all instead of just laying there dead. After a fall from such the height that he fell from...... I wonder how any director would have made the decision or thought that it was normal for him not to be instantly dead lol.

I would have loved this. This is such good and big Karma.

Yeah, "Killed by a big drill" seems like a random death they pulled out of a hat.

Yeah!!!!!!

Hmm I dunno- that humiliation would have come only from the schadenfreude of his fellow exploitative media moguls. I'd find it hard to laugh along with people like that.

Yeah!!!!!

There're some really good theories in this thread.

You mean after MWTGG

I think that is an apparition as well.

Or was it????

You people take these things too seriously/literally. I don't think it was meant to be taken literally. Imo, it's just a meta/4th wall break wink to the audience to end the picture.

What’s the assumption that he was ever alive to begin with?

I wish I had but a tiny fraction of that guys energy!!

Yeah, poor bloke is just crying for help

You remind me of a younger version of myself. I watched and read everything Bond when I was your age. I even got my hands on verry old copies of the Ian Fleming books. It is great to know there are young fans out there. All the best.

@@DCDPM I think he meant he'd been a Bond fan for 12 years

I understand, I hope to see Mr Hinx come back in the next Bond movie (though I doubt that it will happen).

@@cosmedelustrac5842 He's definitely not [unless in a secret cameo like Judi Dench].

Hinx should have been in NTTD in the place of the bionic eyed henchman; he was good, but Dave Batista is better.

@@danjonmills I'm guessing Bautista wasn't free [he later did 'Knives Out 2' with Craig].

Ahhh! You’re quite right! He is another more significant one. Particularly as he’s a big part of Wai Lin’s motivations

He had been Chinese secret service from the start...first assignment spy on Dr. No which he miraculously survived...

More is made of him in Raymond Benson’s novelisation, where his role is expanded and he gets his comeuppance - he’s arrested in the Ho Chi Minh City CMGN building, trying to hide in a toilet.

Very good point. For a character with such a bearing on the plot it's amazing to think that he is barely present.

His plan is the one that makes sense, not carvers

How about Felix Leiter?

what i like is that they recast some roles but keep another even more than bond himself like moneypenny m and q, but if i remember well in the 80s was a russian general that was in moore bond and then appeared in daltons too

I think the line at the end is a reference to him being executed and sent home in a body bag that can't be inspected because it's "diplomatic" and protected.

From the Bond Wiki [which backs you up]: 'In the novel Live and Let Die, Baron Samedi is described as the voodoo spirit of darkness and death. Many people in Harlem and elsewhere believe the novel's main villain, Mr. Big, to be a manifestation of Samedi himself or perhaps his zombie'.

Even a line of dialogue noting she was first on Bond's hit list and was pushing up daisies would have been something!

Am I the only one who thinks that the opening scene of For Your Eyes Only would work perfectly if instead of Stravo it had been Irma? So, since Blofeld does not reappear, one would believe that he died in Diamonds Are Forever at the hands of Conery.

@@pekenoval8658 makes sense

@@pekenoval8658 It's a neat idea, but I think the issue with having Bond dispatching Irma Bunt in the opening of FYEO is watchers KNOWING who she is and her significance. Only strong Bond fans would know her character and if the producers had needed to be as similarly vague about her identity as they did Blofeld, due to Kevin McClory's then-control over Blofeld and SPECTRE IP, then I think it would have been some random older lady getting offed.

@@pekenoval8658 Irma Bunt could be in pre-titles sequence on ''Diamonds Are Forever'', in the role of one of the two Blofeld's men - the one who Bond kills with scalpel - played by Rachel Roberts

2:45 is where it's at, you are feeling veerrryy sleeepy haha.

Especially after his career best performance in Chernobyl I could easily have imagined EON going "Oh yeah, remember that Guy Haines character we did nothing with in QoS? Lets bring Paul Ritter back for the next film after NTTD!". It was sad seeing his state of health in the Friday Night Dinner special.

I never knew that was him til now

@@SergioMach7 Yeah it was tough to watch the interview in that special. He looked like he'd aged 10 years since series 6 [which was just a year previously]. Very sad...

@@davidbull7210 Neither did I. I was focusing on Bond taking pictures and the opera music.

I must say, I've quite enjoyed this BenCol fanfiction!!

@@calvindyson Glad to hear! Currently working on my Magnum Opus _Kutze’s Long Swim Home_ - detailing what happened to the nuclear physicist at the end of Thunderball, left behind in the ocean with nothing but a life-ring while Bond & Domino get flown away - with a cameo appearance in the post-credits scene where Kutze gets back to his University lecturing job and it’s revealed one of his students in his Nuclear Physics 101 class is a bright young woman called Christmas Jones. Hopefully I can sell the script to Amazon if they start making Bond Expanded Universe stuff.

Hell of a relationship breakdown 😆

Indeed! His fate is inconclusive if I remember correctly, no reason to think he died but they don't 100% confirm it in the game... I rather enjoyed your breakdown of how their relationship worked out!!! I'd buy it!!

A friend of mine joked that Jaws and Dolly retired to Blackpool to run a fish and chip shop as there conclusion!

@@calvindyson I liked the joke in your review that Dr Nadanova (Heidi Klum) was actually Dolly all along!

Sounds like the only plausible character arc for such a ridiculous plotline in Moonraker

I agree, the way Pushkin gives the order to his men and the look of terror on Koskov's face pretty much says that he is not going home alive.

Now that I think of it, if Spectre is indeed being taken out in NTTD as Calvin speculates that it will be, maybe there will be something about Guy Haines being present and killed.

Maybe, but not conclusive. Quantum was obviously supposed to be a stand-in for Spectre in the Craig universe before EON regained the rights to use Spectre only a few years ago. It is never clearly stated whether Quantum was just a smoke and mirrors name for Spectre, or was it an entirely different organization manipulated by them from the shadows. If the latter, Haines could have easily been the unknowing accomplice of Spectre through his own interests in Quantum. It's not elaborated detailed enough.

Quantum, thus Haines, was an arm (or tentacle) of Spectre, like Dominic Greene was.

@@danjonmills Good one, sir.

Thanks! And very much same here! 😁

Jaws was just doing his job. A professional from HENCHMEN-R-US.

Love changed him.

@@andrewklang809 In Kim Possible, there is a HENCHCO. What if that's where Drax hired Jaws? Somehow a shared universe of James Bond and Kim Possible is more plausible than the cursed codename theory.

Hinx is totally still alive. If the train was on a bridge or something, or if he'd fallen UNDER the train, then I'd disagree, but Hinx is totally alive.

​@@TheSmart-CasualGamer The intention is that he broke his neck when yanked out of the train, killing him. Of course if Bautista was free for the later parts of Spectre or NTTD it might have been ambiguous but given he wasn't [and the Craig films are now over] it's his demise.

A lot of the sacrificial lambs fall into that category for me as most mere just innocent pawns [Corrine in Moonraker for example or Vijay in Octopussy].

Decent idea, except the Kara thing wouldn't have really worked. She is more of a Stacy Sutton then a Natalya from Goldeneye.

@@DarthUmbra Little harsh but I get the point!

The ending for Thunderball is itself a callback from FRWL (Klebb is shot to death by Tatiana Romanova). The ending for TLD is fine as it is!

Though it would be similar to Thunderball, given Koskov betrayed her twice in the film-having Karla pose as the assassin [in a move that would have lead to her death if Bond hadn't gone against orders] and then double cross her in Afghanistan, it feels like a missed opportunity not to have Karla finish off Koskov or have her involved in his capture.

@@DarthUmbra We never saw Domino even hold a weapon before she gets Largo, and it fits. If they had Kara kill Koskov, I could definitely believe it

It really feels forced because the previous two films [directed by Guy Hamilton and at least partly written by Tom Mankiewicz] ended with the surviving hench people attacking Bond. Going through the same motions with Nick Nack is half hearted to say the least.

Tee hee was a great villain! Super charismatic, almost charming. You got the sense he actually liked and respected bond.

Whisper - always loved him, although I couldn't quite say why! :)

I would argue that now that they have full rights it is confirmed that it was him in the original canon. Then again, knowing it's freaking Blofeld he could've managed to survive that fall, as well.

@@PictureProductStudio LOL, also might have been a clone. Blofeld does also have an annoying habit of changing accents, appearances and growing hair.

John Glenn declared the pre-title sequence of For Your Eyes only as a mini sequel to OHMSS on the DVD commentary and it was Blofeld who died in that sequence.

Oh and the "I had a hat when I came in" line from Thunderball. A funny line to weasel out of an awkward moment for Bond, except, his hat really did go missing! And there's only Moneypenny working in the reception!

At a Villains Anonymous meeting! So I guess he's still on the side of good, just taking some adjustment.

Guy Haines - Likely arrested or at least relieved from his duty, as we don't see him among the Prime Minister's posey in Skyfall. General Koskov - Arrested. Either sentenced to a life in gulag, or (as some are suggesting), executed off-screen. But he doesn't get away with it either way. Irma Bunt - Yeah, she technically gets away with it, as she is never seen again. I wish if she had been a part of Diamonds are forever. Miss Taro - Arrested Nick Nack - Arrested Whisper - Arrested The Photographer - Gets away with it. Baron Samedi - I don't know what happens to him, actually. He might have faked his own death, might have been resurrected, might have been only a fourth wall nod to the audiences. I'm going with voodoo magic resurrection. If alive (or undead), I'm sure he'll continue to be a local problem, but very contained. Without Kananga, he doesn't have the resourced to go global. Jaws - Gets away with it, but finds love and stops being a threat. Although it's never actually said, I always assumed that he was somewhat mentally disabled, and heavily manipulated by his employers. Out of all these, I only assume that Irma Bunt might present an actual challenge later on.

Yeah!!!!

Irma Bunt could be in pre-titles sequence on ''Diamonds Are Forever'', in the role of one of the two Blofeld's men - the one who Bond kills with scalpel - played by Rachel Roberts.

My head canon for Bond involves four continuities; 1. The Connery Eon films or, if you jettison Thunderball, all the other Connery Eon films, plus NSNA later in his career. That way Bond being in Japan at the start of DAF, and Blofeld having plastic surgery to impersonate Henderson (to presumably have safe passage out of Japan) makes a (kind-of) sense. We know Spectre have, by this point in time, perfected voice-replication technology- so Blofeld having Henderson’s voice as well makes a kind-of in-universe sense. Especially when he retains Pleasance-Blofeld’s fashion sense (beige Nehru jacket, anyone?). 2. Lazenby and Moore as one Bond, played by two actors. By TSWLM it’s clear that Moore’s Bond has been married, and by the pre-titles of FYEO we get confirmation that these mentions relate to the OHMSS timeline, with Tracy’s headstone. Then “Blofeld” appears, with the same neck brace as in the final scene of OHMSS. Starting off with a different continuity also explains how Bond and Blofeld haven’t met before the events of OHMSS - at the start of the film Bond’s only stated as having been tracking Blofeld, with no specific mention of any previous face to face encounters. 3. Dalton and Brosnan. Again, one Bond, played by two actors. Place the pre-titles of Goldeneye before TLD (it’s even stated to take place in ‘86), and the timeline makes sense. Bond’s jaded attitude to the job in ‘87 in TLD could be put down to having supposedly seen Trevelyan killed the year before. After going rogue in LTK he’s eventually brought back into the fold, but had to undergo evaluations, as well as to try and impress the incoming new M. 4. The Craig era. The issue of M appearing in this and the previous continuity isn’t an issue for me. Many of the MI6 regulars, and Felix, have re-appereared/ been recast before. In the second (Moore/Lazenby) continuity it’s entirely possible for Irma Bunt to have either gone to ground completely, or been killed by Bond between OHMSS and LALD. Or maybe even, like the actress herself, just died of natural causes. Whatever happened, she didn’t survive long enough to plead with Bond for her life with the promise of a stainless steel delicatessen.

@@BungleBare I really like this! It makes some things make so much more sense

'Diplomatic Bag' does pop up quite a bit in spy fiction as in real life it's how mail is sent between foreign embassies and it's against the law for anyone outside the embassy to open it. Hence in these stories it's used to smuggle documents/objects out of the country the spy is operating in to there superiors.

He sadly passed away in April from a brain tumor at the too early age of 54. Skyfall actress Helen McCrory also passed away in April from Cancer at only 52-such a sad month.