Top 5 Henchmen (and Henchwomen)
5. Xenia Onatopp - GoldenEye
Subtlety is hardly the name of the game when it comes to naming women in Bond films, and saucy minx Xenia's surname basically spells out how she kills her (male) victims: during sex, she wraps her legs round them and squeezes hard. Probably not the worst way to die.
4. Nick Nack - The Man With the Golden Gun
Basically the Mini Me of his time (but far less cute and twice as creepy), the brilliantly monikered Nick Nack may appear in one of the worst Bond films, but he's the part you remember most. Well, him and Scaramanga's third nipple.
3. Oddjob - Goldfinger
Goldfinger was basically the film that invented all of what became the Bond trademarks, not least the nasty bola-hat-throwing Korean known only as Oddjob. He first proves his skills by slicing the head off an antique stone statue. Now that's evil.
2. Red Grant - From Russia With Love
As he appeared in Bond's second ever screen adventure, Grant came before henchmen had to have a gimmick. We know he means business straight from the start, as he garrottes a fake Bond in the very first scene. Eventually he gives away his identity to the real Bond by committing that cardinal sin of ordering red wine with fish. No no no.
1. Jaws - The Spy Who Loved Me/Moonraker
Jaws was so popular that he is the only henchman who's ever been in two separate movies. OK, so what happens to him in Moonraker completely rapes the memory of the character, but he's a genuine threat in The Spy Who Loved Me and provides probably Bond's best physical adversary (certainly in the Roger Moore cycle).
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