Two matter have always been coherent withJames Bond villain : They either want to get richer or destroy the humans . Even though their motivations incline to be quite similar , each of them tends to have a unlike and often ridiculous agency of go about thing . For some , it pretend full sense , but for others , it ’s totally unworkable .

Most of the plans are commonly thwarted by Bond before thing get too serious . And more often than not , agent 007 always verify to vote down them too so that they do n’t come up with another half-baked idea .   Here ’s an analysis of the villains that had practical ideas and those whose thinking was flawed .

MAKES SENSE: Goldfinger Wants A Gold Monopoly

Auric Goldfinger love everything gold , so it was understandable for him to want to be the only gold supplier in the world . InSean Connery ’s highest - rated Bond film , the baddie ’s plan was to blow up   the Bullion Depository in Fort Knox which contained all of America ’s gold reserves .

This would   ray the gold there , wee-wee it worthless . The time value of his own Au would thus increase , making him the richest human on the planet . Since gold was very crucial to saving in the ' 60s , Auric Goldfinger would also terminate up having plenty of power and influence over governments . Though a bit dated today , Goldfinger ’s plan was really smart for the time .

MAKES NO SENSE: Stomberg’s Ocean City

The Spy Who Loved Mehadits fair share of romancebut the movie was more about Industrialist Karl Stromberg ’s mega plan to construct a city under the sea . How would he do it ? First , he would slip submarines from both the US and the USSR . He would make them fire missile at each other , causing a global incident that would lead to a nuclear state of war .   Consequently , the warfare that would obliterate most of Earth ’s population .

Stromberg would then fabricate a city under the ocean where he would stay there with a few survivors as their rule . The plan would never work because nuclear radiation would move the H2O too , make his urban center uninhabitable .

MAKES SENSE: Silva’s Plot To Kill M

To date , Raoul Silvais the only Bond villain who really succeeded . He wanted to bolt down M and he superintend to do so . Silva is a former MI6 agentive role who had gone rogue after concluding that the delegacy had regale him unfairly . In his mind , M was responsible for his woes .

Silva know there was only one person who could stop him , so he leaked a list of MI6 agents to make Bond go after him . After getting intentionally capture and scat on pool cue , he recognize where exactly Bond would take M to protect her . He ambushed Bond at the manor house and even though he died during the final battle , Silva still managed to kill M.

MAKES NO SENSE: Col. Moon Tries To Unite North & South Korea With A Space Laser

InDie Another Day ,   Colonel Tan - Sun Moon destine to use an orbital mirror satellite to fire a laser through the Korean Demilitarized Zone . This would allow North Korean soldiers to invade the south and unify the two nations by force . Thing is ,   it would n’t be that easy .

The two nations have different international allies , hence a state of war between the two Koreas would go to a major global conflict . South Korea is quite powerful on its own , so it would n’t have been that easy for North Korean troops to just come in and take over the country without face any major resistance – with or without Col . Moon ’s flying laser .

MAKES SENSE: Blofeld Controls Global Surveillance With The Nine Eyes Committee

There have been many version of Bond ’s Graeco-Roman baddie , Ernst Stavro Blofeld , over the years . Even though the older versions were far more interesting than the forward-looking variation played by Christoph Waltz ( who ’s motivated by serious pa issues),the latter ’s villainous strategy made the most sense .

InSpectre , Blofeld conspired with corrupt governance functionary to give his organization memory access to a global surveillance initiative be intimate as the Nine Eyes Committee . This would enable S.P.E.C.T.R.E to supervise almost every major sphere on the orb , effectively letting this vague criminal go-ahead rule the humans from the shadows .

MAKES NO SENSE: Trevelyan Robs & Destroys the Bank Of England

InGoldenEye , Sean Bean continued his bar of dying in every moviehe was in . Notably , he diestwicein the first Bond film of the Brosnan Era .   As the villain Trevelyan , his design was to steal millions from the Bank Of England . After that , he would use an electromagnetic pulsation to form a atomic weapon system that would demolish the same bank , hence cripple the UK ’s saving .

There ’s only one problem : Once the UK ’s economy is lame , the money he   stole would be totally despicable . Even if he interchange the currency in another country after a clean lam , the note value of the John Cash would be so low . So , why do it ?

MAKES SENSE: Mr. Big’s Free Heroin

asunder from his nonsensical death that involved him explodingafter Bond forced him to assimilate a toxic condensation , Mr. Big ’s plan actually made sense . InLive And Let Die , Dr , Kananga / Mr. Big was a drug overlord as well as the rule of the Caribbean island named San Monique .

His plan was to provide his superior diacetylmorphine for free in the United States , thus driving out competitor . Once people were addict to Big ’s heroin , he would put a powerful damage tag on it once again with no competition . That seems like something that could work ,

MAKESE NO SENSE: Hugo Drax’s Space Colony

Moonrakeris widely consider   a bad version becausethe novel was right smart more entertaining . Part of the intellect   for this is that the movie ’s scoundrel had a architectural plan that was n’t plausible at all . Basically , billionaire industrialist Hugo Drax built space station where he was residing with some chosen people .

His plan was to use a toxin made from a rare orchid to wipe out   humanity from space so that he ( and his chosen ones ) could repay and repopulate the dry land . But did Drax just think that all the brawny country in the mankind , with their superior artillery and technology , would just sit and admit that to materialize ?

MAKESE SENSE: Elliot Carver’s Hostile Media Expansion

InTomorrow Never Dies , British media tycoon Elliot Carver was frustrated because the current Chinese governance would n’t give him broadcast rights . He thus   attempts to use   a US armed services Global Positioning System encoder to cause a state of war between China and the UK . During the war , he ’d be capable to instal a unexampled Chinese authorities that back his business .   Carver also believe that the leave war would be proficient for ratings .

As outlandish as this may sound , the creepy affair is   such a design really work in the past . look the potential drop for sales and content in a conflict between America and the weakening Spanish conglomerate , culture medium tycoonWilliam Randolph Hearst pushed the US into the Spanish - American War of 1898by using propaganda in his newspaper publisher , theNew York Journal . The gambit worked and readership of his publishing skyrocketed .

MAKES NO SENSE: Max Zoring Wants To Destroy Silicon Valley

Max Zorin was an entertaining baddie inA View To Kill , as   kill both his enemies and henchmen without even nictitate . But his plan was n’t that plausible . longsighted story light , he desire to trigger an temblor that would destruct Silicon Valley and its microchip industry . Ideally , this   would enable him to monopolize the settle industry .

Except , silicon chip are n’t really fabricate in Silicon Valley . They are made in countries with cheap labor such as China . Also , Silicon Valley is n’t the only place in America ( or the world , for that matter ) with tech companies . Even if   the Valley got destroyed , technical school companies in other areas would still go forward occupy in the microchip manufacture . In fact , they might even see a boom in business now that the flagship urban center is blend in . Nice thought , Max .

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