| “ | So do you lose as gracefully as you win? | „ |
| ~ Maximillian Largo to James Bond. |
Maximillian Largo is the main antagonist of the unnoficial 1983 James Bond film Never Say Never Again, based on Ian Fleming's 1961 novel Thunderball and marking Sean Connery's last time playing the titular role.
He is a Romanian billionaire and secret SPECTRE operative, famous for creating the Domination video game and his many philantrophic contributions to charities. After SPECTRE steals two nuclear warheads, Largo is assigned by Ernst Stavro Blofeld to carry out their launches, putting him at odds with James Bond. He is based on Emilio Largo from Thunderball and its film adaptation
He was portrayed by Klaus Maria Brandauer.
History[]
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What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Joins SPECTRE and assists them, specifically their leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in whatever nefarious schemes they orchestrate, likely in an effectively way given how he rises up to become Blofeld's "Number One".
- Creates the warlike Domination video game, a casino-style game that grants the winner money but shocks players with electricity through the controls whenever they lose, even though the shocks are so intense that could possibly kill someone.
- Accepts the assignment from Blofeld to prepare the two nuclear warheads SPECTRE stole from the American Air Force to launch them against Washington, DC, if the NATO refuses to pay the 25% of the annual oil purchases from their countries in a week.
- To get the warheads for starters, Blofeld had to brainwash and then kill the drug-addicted American soldier Jack Petachi with the assistance of Largo's right-hand woman Fatima Blush, whom was likely given the assignment due to her connections with Largo. What's worse is that Largo permitted all of this despite Jack being the brother of Domino Petachi, Largo's mistress, horrifying her once she learns the truth.
- Proves himself to be an awful lover for Domino, spying on her during her dance classes aboard his yacht through a one-way mirror and threatening to slit her throat when she jokes about what could happen if she decided to leave him.
- Orders Blush to blow up the hotel room where James Bond is staying at Bahamas, with the attempt only failing thanks to Bond leaving for romantic intercourse with a woman who had rescued him hours prior.
- Invites Bond during a party to play Domination out of jealously due to him interacting with Domino, enjoying how the controls electrocute him and nearly killing him with the intense shocks.
- Orders Blush to kill Bond's French contact Nicole after Bond tells Domino of her brother's death, resulting in Blush drowning Nicole at their base and leaving her body for Bond to encounter.
- Takes Bond and Domino to his secret base in Palmyra, North Africa to harshly punish them for seeing them kiss in his yacht: for Bond, Largo chains him in a dungeon full of skeletons and hungry birds so he can be devoured by them while telling him what SPECTRE's warheads are gonna do and for Domino, Largo leaves her tied up to a pole at the mercy of a sex slaver who attempts to sell her to several Arabian sex slavers.
- Brings the one remaining nuclear warhead to the Tears of Allah caverns in the Ethiopian coast to launch it.
- Leaves all his men behind to be killed by Bond, Felix Leiter and their fellow agents.
- Engages Bond in an underwater fight, nearly killing him as Bond tried to defuse the warhead.
- Although he is mentioned to be a philantrophist and that his charities benefit children in needs, he likely just finances them to look good in front of people as otherwise he has no trouble in targeting countries in ways that would definitely kill children.
Trivia[]
- Maximillian Largo is the Never Say Never Again counterpart of Emilio Largo from Thunderball, who fittingly, is likewise Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- Maximillian Largo on the Villains Wiki
- Maximillian Largo on the James Bond Wiki
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