| “ | Caesar had his legions, Napoleon had his armies, I have my divisions. TV, news, magazines. And by midnight I'll have reached and influenced more people than anyone in the history of this planet, save God Himself. And the best He ever managed was the Sermon on the Mount. | „ |
| ~ Carver bragging about his evil plans to James Bond and Wai Lin. |
| “ | The missile's fully programmed, it can't be stopped. In a matter of minutes, my plan will succeed. And thanks largely to your efforts, the British Navy will destroy the evidence, and I'll be out of here in a Carver News helicopter covering the event. It's going to be a fantastic show! | „ |
| ~ Carver's final monologue before Bond kills him via sea-drill. |
Elliot Carver is the main antagonist in the 1997 action film Tomorrow Never Dies, the eighteenth installment of the official James Bond franchise, and the second installment to feature Pierce Brosnan as James Bond.
He was the ruthless media mogul and CEO of Carver Media Group Network, who planned to broadcast his playground by orchestrating numerous disasters and incidents to fulfill his news stories. Carver requested for a broadcasting deal with China, which they then revoked, that later made him attempt to provoke a world war just so China's new government could grant his broadcasting rights.
He was portrayed by Jonathan Pryce, who also played Mr. Dark in Something Wicked This Way Comes and a disguised Zartan in the G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- As the head of the Carver Media Group Network, he is responsible for creating worldwide chaos just to enrich himself, some instances of which are very serious and/or involve the deaths of many innocent people, such as floods in Pakistan, riots in Paris, and a plane crash in California.
- It is shown that even his coworkers dislike him.
- He planned to release software that was full of bugs so that people would be forced to require upgrades for years; and to blackmail the US President by threatening to release a tape of him with a cheerleader in a motel room in order to force him sign a bill to lower the cable rates and then release the tape anyway.
- He is rumored to have ran mad-cow disease stories about Sir Angus Black, the great British beef baron, simply because he lost £10,000 in poker and refused to pay up. He is also rumored to have taken a 100,000,000 bribe from the French to keep their stories running for a year. He then tried to play them all off as a laugh.
- He attempted to provoke a war between the United Kingdom and China in order to destroy the Chinese government via missile, allowing him to make a deal with the new government to obtain exclusive broadcasting rights in China.
- He kicked off tensions between the UK and China by sinking a British frigate called HMS Devonshire with a sea-drill manned by his crew to obtain the nuclear missiles stashed inside. He then ordered Richard Stamper and the other crew to ruthlessly gun down the survivors and film the entire situation, to later falsely incriminate the incident on China.
- He attempted to rise to omniscient power in order to gain a worldwide leadership more powerful than tyranny.
- He had his own wife Paris killed by Dr. Kaufman after he found out she was helping Bond, which means his hatred for James Bond was stronger than any love he could feel for anyone, and as he originally sent her to Bond to confront him of his abrupt live announcement shutdown.
- He's also implied to be a strict, controlling and abusive to Paris.
- He threatened to have Bond and Wai Lin brutally tortured by Stamper via chakra torture.
- He fatally shot his genius Henry Gupta when he "outlives his contract", meaning he is no longer of use after his manual button fixation to nuclear missile launching towards Beijing, and showing pragmatism to his associates once they fulfilled his deeds.
- While he has some comedic moments, his crimes are still taken very seriously.
- His unique crime to instigating a world war, accounting to attempted massive kill counts, all for a single petty reason to boost his media empire and after being denied them is what made him pass the 007 Heinous Standards enough to stand out. For many other PE's of the original James Bond franchise who similarly had massive attempted kill counts (notably Max Zorin, who attempted to massacre millions via an earthquake and flood over Silicon Valley; and Hugo Drax of attempting to suffocate humanity for his own natural selection) but out of standard reasoning compared to Carver's.
Trivia[]
- He is, alongside Xenia Onatopp, one of the two James Bond villains from the Pierce Brosnan era to be Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- Elliot Carver on the Villains Wiki
- Elliot Carver on the James Bond Wiki
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