Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT It has become a staple of the James Bond franchise that the villains have special powers and abilities in order to make them a greater threat to 007. While James Bond is always going up against bulky henchmen and evil geniuses, every few movies or so he runs into a villain with something he's never seen before.
8 Baron Samedi - Cult Magic Roger Moore's first outing as 007, Live and Let Die, is a unique entry in the series. Inspired by the Blaxploitation movement of the time, the film focuses on Bond going up against a drug empire that uses "voodoo" magic to stop anyone who gets in their way. Baron Samedi is the Voodoo priest at the center of this organization. He uses his occult magic to perform sacrifices and curses.
5 Max Zorin - Super Intelligence By the time A View to a Kill was released in 1985, Roger Moore was arguably too old to play Bond and it wasn't believable for him to fight henchmen with superhuman abilities. The 57-year-old no longer looked like he could take on men with robotic arms. The filmmaker's solution to this was Max Zorin, a byproduct of Nazi experimentation that lead to hyper-intelligence.