James Bond isn’t shy about exercising his licence to kill, as evidenced by this montage of every single fatal blow 007 has ever delivered on-screen. Across his cinematic endeavours Bond’s lethality has ended the lives of 362 of his foes and like everything he does, he’s killed in style. From inventive efforts involving electricity and bathtubs to gratuitous explosions and plenty of gunfire, Bond’s far from a one-trick pony when it comes to ending somebody’s life.
Whilst you’ll have to set aside 40 mins to sit down and watch the whole reel, there are a number of notable efforts, including; Sean Connery tossing a man and then a table fan into a bathtub of water for kill number 17; number 22 being the electrocution of Oddjob in Goldfinger; Pierce Brosnan’s gung-ho gun-toting in GoldenEye to rack up 216 to 224 and of course Daniel Craig debuting with brutality for 319 in Casino Royale.
Among the 362 kills the breakdown works as:
Firearms – 120
Explosions – 84
Vehicular – 71
Gravity – 25
Knife – 13
Impalement – 11
Barehands – 9
Crushed – 8
Animal – 7
Shredded – 4
Drowning – 3
Electrocution – 3
Immolation – 2
Frozen – 1
Stranded – 1
Roger Moore is the most lethal bond so far with 121 kills, although the most death strewn film was GoldenEye with 47, whilst there have been 29 “killer” puns so far.
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