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Is this our first glimpse of 009? A rogue Double-O agent is the villain in IO Interactive’s 007 First Light.

In the image, we see an individual wearing a golden mask resembling Caesar with a laurel crown. Laurel crowns symbolized great victories and triumphs in Ancient Rome. Perhaps this villain has an obsession with Greek and Roman mythology.

The mask may also conceal a disfigurement. Grotesque and foreign villains are a staple of Bond stories (both the original novels and the films).

As a rogue Double-O, 009 will likely embody the shadow archetype—or, as I like to call it in a Bond story, a “Shadow Bond.”

The Shadow Bond is a figure who serves as a dark reflection of Bond. Examples include Red Grant, Scaramanga, Alec Trevelyan (006), and Silva—all Shadow Bonds. Let’s take a brief look at them:

Red Grant is the chief executioner of SMERSH and, in the film version, an assassin for SPECTRE. In the novel, he is asexual with a lust for killing and was a serial killer. He attempts to control his urges through drinking, and these impulses intensify during a full moon. The Soviets exploit this by allowing Grant to execute prisoners in the nearest jail. In the film, Grant shadows Bond throughout the story. In both the book and film, Bond faces off with Grant on the Orient Express, where Bond kills him.

The book and film versions of Scaramanga differ but still fulfill the archetype. In the novel, Scaramanga is an unrefined thug and an assassin for the KGB with a high sexual appetite. Bond first meets him at a brothel. Scaramanga is also described as homosexual in his dossier, which M reads. He is cruel to animals, shooting a crow, which Bond disapproves of. Bond and Scaramanga face off in a swamp, where Bond kills him. In the film, Scaramanga is more refined, an assassin for hire (a million per hit), and obsessed with Bond, even creating a likeness of him for his funhouse. Scaramanga views himself and Bond as equals and challenges him to a duel. Bond wins by killing Scaramanga while posing as his own likeness.

Alec Trevelyan, former Agent 006 and close friend of James Bond, is the son of Lienz Cossacks who survived Soviet execution but was orphaned when his parents died in a murder-suicide. He has the same SIS training and physical fitness as Bond—a mirror image. Trevelyan bears a facial scar inadvertently caused by Bond. He fakes his death and starts a Russian crime syndicate named Janus (after the two-headed Roman god). Seeking revenge for Britain’s repatriation of his people to the Soviet Union, he plans to use the GoldenEye satellite targeting London with an electromagnetic pulse. Bond confronts Trevelyan at the satellite control center in Cuba and kills him.

Silva, a former MI6 operative stationed at Station H in Hong Kong, worked under M (before she became M) as section chief. Born Tiago Rodrigues, Silva was caught hacking the Chinese without authorization. With the British handover of Hong Kong looming and the Chinese closing in, M trades him for six captured agents and a peaceful transition. Driven by an Oedipal complex, Silva seeks revenge against M. He has a physical deformity caused by hydrogen cyanide, concealed with a prosthesis. He displays perverse sexuality, having met his mistress when she was an underage prostitute and threatening Bond with potential rape. In his quest for revenge, he is eventually killed by Bond in a chapel near Bond’s ancestral home, Skyfall.

What traits will 009 take from these Shadow Bonds? In this game’s story, Bond must earn his Double-O status (007) by confronting this shadow.

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A quick screencap redraw/color practice from "From Russia with love"!

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Red Grant, From Russia with Love

(played by Robert Shaw)

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Red Grant and Tatiana Romanova, From Russia with Love

(played by Robert Shaw and Daniela Bianchi, respectively)

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Train cabin fight scene - From Russia with Love

For the Train fight scene between James Bond and the villain Red Grant, the choreography was worked out between director Terence Young (who had been a boxer) and stunt arranger Peter Perkins. “Everything went well, apart from Sean’s usual games” remembers Daniela Bianchi. “He tickled me to make me laugh, when instead I was suppose to be half dead on account of the drugs the villain Grant had given me.”

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