| “ | Franz Oberhauser died twenty years ago, James, in an avalanche alongside his father. The man you're talking to now, the man inside your head, is Ernst Stavro Blofeld. | „ |
| ~ Blofeld admitting to have killed his father to James and Madeleine, revealing his true name in the process. |
| “ | You came across me so many times and yet you never saw me. Le Chiffre, Greene, Silva... A nice pattern developed: You interfered in my world, and I destroyed yours. Or did you think it was coincidence that all the women in your life ended up dead? Vesper Lynd, for example. She was the big one. [to Madeline] Has he told you about her? [to Bond] And then, of course, your beloved M, gone forever. Me! It was all me, James. It's always been me - the author of all your pain! | „ |
| ~ Blofeld after revealing that he orchestrated all of Bond’s tragedies. |
| “ | Welcome, James. It’s been a long time. But, finally, here we are. What took you so long? Cuckoo! | „ |
| ~ Blofeld taunting Bond at a SPECTRE meeting. |
Franz Oberhauser, better known as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, is the main antagonist of the rebooted James Bond film series.
He is the founder and leader of the criminal organization Spectre, as well as James Bond foster brother and arch-nemesis — manipulating behind the scenes of many of Bond's past run-ins, including Mr. White, Le Chiffre, Dominic Greene, and Raoul Silva, along with being indirectly responsible for the deaths of Vesper Lynd and M, two of the most important women in Bond's life, as well as for the death of Lyutsifer Safin's family.
He was portrayed by Christoph Waltz, who also portrays Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
In General[]
- Ultimately, Blofeld was responsible for every villain in the rebooted film continuity (Mr. White, Le Chiffre, Dominic Greene and Raoul Silva were his agents while Lyutsifer Safin turned evil because Mr. White killed his family under Blofeld's orders), as well as being posthumously successful in murdering James Bond, making the reboot film series version of James Bond the only incarnation so far of the iconic spy to have ever been killed off.
Background[]
- He murdered his own father and made his death look like an avalanche caused by it.
- He faked his death and changed his identity to Ernst Stavro Blofeld. After that, he founded and led Spectre, a deadly criminal organization that finances and facilitates terrorism around the globe, topples governments, prolongs civil wars, and hordes natural resources.
- Also, to ensure that Spectre's existence would never be discovered, he founded a terrorist organization called Quantum to serve as Spectre's subsidiary.
- He had Lyutsifer Safin's entire family murdered by holding a banquet in their honor and poisoning them, just so he could take full control of their resources. Despite surviving, Safin himself was still left scared and in a lot of pain as a result, and this incident ended up being the catalyst for him becoming the twisted and dangerous terrorist leader he grew up to be, to the point he became almost as bad as Blofeld himself.
From Casino Royale to Skyfall[]
- He orchestrated a series of terrorist attacks through his agents Le Chiffre, Dominic Greene and Raoul Silva, resulting in the deaths of several of Bond's allies: Vesper Lynd, Strawberry Fields, Rene Mathis, Severine, and M.
- While he does order Mr. White to kill Le Chiffre for the latter's failure to pay back the money he lost to Bond in a poker game, he doesn't do it to save Bond but rather because he saw Le Chiffre as unworthy.
- While he does have Greene killed, he doesn't do it to give Greene his just desserts or save him from a painful death, but because he leaked information about Quantum to Bond.
- While the final fates of Guy Haines, Gregor Karakov, and Moishe Soref were never revealed, the fact that they never returned and were never mentioned as if they didn't even exist implies that Blofeld also had them killed to cover his tracks.
- Years after the plans of Greene and General Medrano were foiled, he began to feed Spectre's accounts by promoting human trafficking, in which he sold hundreds of thousands of women and children into sex slavery. This was so horrific that Mr. White tried to leave the organization because he felt it was going too far, to which Blofeld responded by poisoning White with thallium, driving White to commit suicide after Bond promised him he would keep his daughter Madeleine Swann safe.
Spectre[]
- He attempts to have Bond assassinated multiple times via Mr. Hinx.
- He and Max Denbigh ordered and funded the creation of the Nine Eyes Program as a means of gaining control over every single major worldwide intelligence and surveillance system, which will allow Spectre to anticipate and counteract investigations into their operations.
- He reveals footage of Mr. White's suicide to cause emotional suffering to both James and Madeleine.
- He tortures Bond using a surgical drill to penetrate his head, suggesting it will render him unable to recognize anybody.
- While he was shown with a pet cat during this time, he didn't show any concern or anger for his pet's death at the explosion of his facility, showing he only kept it as an accessory.
- He attempted to have both James and Madeleine killed in the destroyed MI6 headquarters rigged with explosives, holding Swann captive in the building and forcing Bond to search for her.
- While Bond was searching for Swann, he learned that Blofeld had kept photos of M (both Olivia Mansfield and Garrety Mallory), Vesper, Le Chiffre, and Silva to haunt him. Yet, there were no photos of Greene and Mr. White, as if they weren't associated with Bond or even existed, proving Blofeld does not tolerate traitors in his ranks.
No Time to Die[]
- After he was arrested, he secretly staged an assassination attempt on Bond and Swann, including bombing Vesper Lynd's grave. He also framed Swann for it by making it look like she betrayed Bond. This caused a fallout between both Bond and Swann, severing their relationship and preventing Bond finding out about his illegitimate daughter Mathilde for 5 years.
- He staged an attempt to have Bond murdered with the use of nanobots by setting a trap in his last meeting with all the remaining members of Spectre while still in custody. However, Valdo Obruchev reprogrammed the nanobots under Lyutsifer Safin's orders to kill all the Spectre members instead, something that both Bond and Blofeld didn't expect. However, Blofeld showed no concern over the losses of his remaining members or the dismantling of Spectre.
- In his holding cell, rather than give Bond any helpful information (though it's unclear if he even figured out Safin was behind the end of Spectre), all he told him was that Madeleine had the answers he was looking for, and he even told him this primarily because he took delight in the irony of the situation since he knew they were estranged from one another. He also happily confessed to arranging the assassination attempt and framing Madeleine for it, which caused them to become estranged in the first place, all so he could still find a way to give him an empty world as petty payback for his father paying a little more attention to him when they were kids, provoking an angry Bond to attack him. However, Bond was unknowingly infected with nanobots by Safin, resulting in Blofeld getting killed by the nanobots.
- While it was a brutal death, he definitely deserved it for the amount of suffering he inflicted on James, Safin and many others.
Trivia[]
- If James Bond 007: Blood Stone is a canonical game, then it's very likely that he's the one who was behind Nicole Hunter (who tortures a few influential scientists to get information for him) and Stefan Pomerov (who tried to create bioweapons, what potentially may be used to kill many people). If this was confirmed true, it would've made him even worse.
- In the first draft of the screenplay of Spectre, Ernst Stavro Blofeld and Franz Oberhauser were supposed to be separate characters, with Denbigh being revealed to be the former and the latter serving as the secondary antagonist, but it was changed to the way as seen in the film for unknown reasons (possibly to avoid backlash). Had this idea made to the final cut, Oberhauser would probably still be considered Pure Evil, as he would likely do the same ill deeds he did in the film, but it would prevent this version of Blofeld being Pure Evil, as he would do the same deeds that Denbigh did in the finished film, making him fail the continuity's Heinous Standards.
- Ernst Stavro Blofeld is, alongside Le Chiffre, Dominic Greene and General Medrano one of the four villains from the reboot film series to be considered Pure Evil. He is also the only Pure Evil villain of said series to appear in more than one film.
- This is also, alongside the original film series counterpart and NSNA counterpart, one of three incarnations of Ernst Stavro Blofeld to be Pure Evil.
- He shares some similarities with Prince Kaalmar from Ninjago as they both killed their fathers due to them feeling like they favored their adopted sibling over them. The only difference is that Blofeld did this out of envy while Kalmaar did this just to usurp the throne.
External Links[]
- Ernst Stavro Blofeld on the Villains Wiki
- Ernst Stavro Blofeld on the James Bond Wiki
- Ernst Stavro Blofeld on Wikipedia
- Ernst Stavro Blofeld on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
[]
 Pure Evils
| ||
|
SPECTRE Spectre Others | ||