List of Never Say Never Again characters

This is a list of James Bond characters from the 1983 film Never Say Never Again.

Characters, appearing in a non-EON film, who have their own articles

• James Bond – Sean Connery
• Domino Petachi – Kim Basinger
• M – Edward Fox
• Algernon (Q) – Alec McCowen
• Miss Moneypenny
• Felix Leiter – Bernie Casey
• Ernst Stavro Blofeld – Max von Sydow

Fatima Blush

Fatima Blush
Character from the James Bond franchise
Affiliation	SPECTRE
Portrayed by	Barbara Carrera

Fatima Blush, a character roughly equivalent to that of Fiona Volpe in Thunderball, is a seductive but deadly SPECTRE agent who ends up making love to James Bond. She is played by Nicaraguan-American actress Barbara Carrera.

According to Robert Sellers book The Battle for Bond, Ian Fleming came up with the name of Fatima Blush in a memo dated June 15, 1959. Fleming intended Fatima Blush to be a double agent sent to Nassau by M. Fleming wrote "Her appearance in tight-fitting black rubber suiting will make the audiences swoon".

Fatima Blush is SPECTRE Number 12, who has been assigned by Maximillian Largo (Number 1) to take "the most tender loving care" of Captain Jack Petachi, who is being groomed as part of their extortion plot. She disguises herself as a nurse at the Shrublands health clinic to train Jack — via heroin addiction — for his betrayal of the United States Air Force. An officer, he is to break in to the base computer system and make nuclear warheads available for SPECTRE to steal. After he completes this task (with the help of an eye surgically altered to match that of the US President for an ID scan), Blush murders him by throwing her pet snake into his car, causing it to crash; to cause more mayhem, she then blows it up (after she's rescued the snake).

A characteristic of Blush is that she seeks to dominate and control all the men in her life. She particularly wants control over James Bond. Not long after their first meeting, she has sex with Bond. She then tries to kill him while scuba diving by placing a transmitter on him that attracts sharks. She also detonates a bomb in Bond's room; Bond only survives because he has decided to go to the room of another woman he was seducing. During their final encounter, she forces Bond at gunpoint ("Spread your legs...guess where you get the first one...") to write a note affirming that she was the greatest lover he had ever had; she is actually shown to be genuinely upset when Bond implies she was anything less, to the point of practically begging Bond to acknowledge her sexual prowess. The demand is prompted when Bond remarks that Fatima has a "hatred of men".

Bond's attempts to distract Blush with talk of another candidate for "best ever', and then by remarking about how he is forbidden to give out 'endorsements', he then kills her by firing a miniature delayed-action rocket grenade into her abdomen from his gadget pen; in comic relief it seems as if it has malfunctioned until Blush literally explodes in a ball of fire — leaving behind nothing but burnt high-heels. Blush has the distinction of being the first woman to be unambiguously killed face-to-face by James Bond in any Bond film. The death of Blush's counterpart, Fiona Volpe, in the original Thunderball is ambiguous as to whether Bond is directly responsible for her being shot; while the killing of 007's first definite female 'victim', Caroline Munro's murderous helicopter pilot Naomi in The Spy Who Loved Me, is done remotely. Bond is not directly responsible for the death of a woman for another sixteen years, when he shoots and kills Elektra King in 1999's The World Is Not Enough.

Maximillian Largo

Maximillian Largo
Character from the James Bond franchise
Affiliation	SPECTRE
Portrayed by	Klaus Maria Brandauer

Maximillian Largo is the main antagonist. In the 1961 novel and 1965 film the character was named Emilio Largo. Maximillian Largo, in Never Say Never Again, was played by Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer.

Biography

Maximillian Largo is a millionaire and philanthropist, who secretly works for the evil organization SPECTRE. Largo is "No. 1" and head of its extortion operations, under the organization's leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, former "No. 1". It is mentioned that he was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1945.

Largo's two main headquarters are his yacht The Flying Saucer, which is the original translation of the name in the Thunderball novel, and a Moorish castle Palmyra (no relation to the Syrian city) located on the north coast of Africa.

He plans to take control of a nuclear weapon he intended to use to destroy the Middle East's underground oil reserves.

In the film's climax, he engages Bond in an undersea cave fight, in which he is crushed between the missile and the cave wall, and is finally killed by his mistress Domino, who shoots him in the side with a harpoon gun.

Scheme

Largo's scheme in Never Say Never Again, is based on the same basic plot as Thunderball. It involved the theft of two nuclear warheads from radio-intercepted test cruise missiles surreptitiously armed with real warheads, launched from United States Air Force base in the UK during a joint NATO exercise. The missiles are ditched into the sea to be recovered and are then used to hold the world hostage by threatening to detonate the devices somewhere in the world — possibly under the White House—unless they paid the ransom of £100 million. Largo intends the threat to be a cover for his real plot to destroy the world's oil reserves in the Middle East. The basic nuclear ransom scheme has been used countless times since Thunderball and Never Say Never Again, and is even a joke in the Austin Powers series.

Henchmen

• Fatima Blush
• Lippe
• Dr. Kovacs

Nigel Small-Fawcett

A bumbling British embassy official working in the Bahamas who clumsily greets Bond in Nassau. Played by British comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later go on to star in the Bond spoof Johnny English.

See also

• Thunderball—1961 novel
• Thunderball—1965 film
• Never Say Never Again
• Fiona Volpe
• Emilio Largo
• List of James Bond villains