List of James Bond henchmen in The Spy Who Loved Me

A list of henchmen from the 1977 James BOND film and novel The Spy Who Loved Me from the List of James Bond henchmen.

Jaws

Jaws is a fictional assassin in the James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker (plus some later videogames). Jaws' nickname is due to his strong, stainless steel teeth that can bite through virtually anything; he uses them to kill victims by biting through their jugular.

The character was played by actor Richard Kiel. During filming, Kiel wore the metal teeth for only a few minutes at a time because they were [...] into his gums.

Appearances

Films

Jaws first appeared in the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me as a henchman to the villain, Karl Stromberg. He would later appear in the sequel Moonraker as a henchman to the villain Hugo Drax. However, in this second appearance, his character was changed from that of a ruthless and unstoppable [...] machine to more of a comedy figure. He eventually turns against Drax and helps Bond to defeat him, and also gains a girlfriend who never speaks (although she is seen whispering to Jaws in one scene).

In addition to having steel teeth, Jaws was also 7 feet, 2 inches (2.18 m) tall and extremely strong, which forced Bond to be especially inventive while fighting him. In combat, Bond found himself caught in an unbreakable death grip by Jaws, who was AbOUT to fatally bite him; Bond only escaped by using a broken electric lamp to send an electric shock through the assassin's teeth to stun him.

Jaws also has an uncanny ability to survive any misfortune seemingly unscathed and come back to challenge Bond again. In The Spy Who Loved Me, Jaws survives an Egyptian structure's collapse on top of him, being hit by a van, being thrown from a rapidly-moving train, sitting in the passenger seat of a car which drives off a cliff (landing in a hut below, to the owner's dismay, though the height of the cliff is not established), a battle underwater with a shark, and the destruction of Stromberg's lair.

Most notably, in Moonraker he survives falling several thousand feet after accidentally disabling his own parachute (granted, he falls through a circus tent and lands in the trapeze net), a crash through a building inside a runaway cable car, and going over Iguazu Falls. After each of these incidents, he always picks himself up, dusts off his jacket and nonchalantly walks away. After the destruction of Drax's space station, a throw-away line near the end is made that the American shuttle rescued him and his girlfriend.

Jaws only speaks once, in Moonraker, when he makes a toast to his girlfriend, "Well, here's to us".

Games

Jaws' principal videogame appearances are in the 1997 Nintendo 64 game GoldenEye 007 in a bonus mission in which he is a henchman to the deceased Hugo Drax who Bond needs to defeat, and a playable character in the multi-player mode, and the multi-platform 2004 game Everything or Nothing as a henchman to Nikolai Diavolo ("played" by Willem Dafoe). Both games use Richard Kiel's likeness. His likeness can also be found as the character Chuck Ferdon in the 2006 game Rugby by Electronic Arts.

In the game Everything Or Nothing, Jaws is electrocuted and is inside a tanker that is knocked over the side of a bridge. In another instance during a fight on a large lift in which Jaws is equipped with a flamethrower, Bond shoots the flamethrower backpack which ignites Jaws. Bond then climbs into the cockpit of a plane and ejects his seat as the lift plummets to the ground. When Bond later lands on the remains at the bottom, Jaws is nowhere to be found, so this concludes that he has escaped unharmed again.

Jaws is an unlockable multiplayer character in the game Nightfire. He is the tallest character in the game, and his punches can kill almost instantly. You can only see his teeth if you get close enough while fighting him, for the game is in first-person view.

Jaws appears briefly in the Sega Megadrive/Genesis game James Bond The Duel. He wanders briefly around a section toward the end of the first stage and defeats the player with one touch.

Films compared with novelisations

Most of the background information on Jaws comes from Christopher Wood's novelisation of the film The Spy Who Loved Me; published as James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me to differentiate from Ian Fleming's novel. In Wood's version, Jaws's real name is Zbigniew Krycsiwiki and he was born in Kraków, Poland. Krycsiwiki was arrested by the secret police for his part in the "1972 bread riots". Whilst he was imprisoned the police "beat him with hollow steel clubs encased in thick leather" until they thought he was dead, leaving his jaw broken beyond repair. Krycsiwiki later escaped and stowed aboard one of Stromberg's vessels. Eventually he was caught, but instead of turning him in, Stromberg hired a prestigious doctor to create an artificial jaw. After 14 operations Krycsiwiki's jaw was restored using steel components that created two rows of terrifying razor-sharp teeth, although Jaws was left mute.

Since none of the above is actually mentioned in either movie, this is not necessarily considered canonical, and Wood contradicts his own continuity when one compares his scripts and his novelisations. In the novelisation of The Spy Who Loved Me Wood specifically states that Jaws is a mute. However, though Jaws remains mute in Wood's James Bond and Moonraker novelisation, he actually does speak at the end of the film. While it is possible Jaws might have somehow regained his voice between the two adventures, there is nothing on screen or in literary form to suggest how this might have occurred.

In the book, Jaws remains attached to the magnet that Bond dips into the tank, as opposed to the film where Bond releases Jaws from the magnet into the water:

Now both hands were tearing at the magnet, and Jaws twisted furiously like a fish on the hook. As Bond watched in fascinated horror, a relentless triangle streaked up behind the stricken giant. A huge gray force launched itself through the wild water, and two rows of white teeth closed around the threshing flesh.

The initial script concluded with Jaws being killed by the shark, but after a rough test screening (where Lewis Gilbert's grandson was present), Jaws was so well liked that the scene was changed to have him survive.

Trivia

• Jaws is one of only four major Bond henchmen to have survived all his encounters with the secret agent (the others being Irma Bunt, Nick Nack and, allegedly Baron Samedi), and the only one to appear in two Bond movies in succession. In The Spy Who Loved Me, Jaws battled a shark and won, had an entire construction scaffold collapse on top of him, drove a car off a cliff into someone's roof, and fell off a moving train and survived. Furthermore, in Moonraker, Jaws survives a fall from an airplane without a parachute in the opening credits; later in the movie, he survives a high-speed crash of a tramway car in Rio de Janeiro and a fall from an Argentine-Brazilian waterfall (shot at Iguazu Falls). There is a throwaway line at the end of the movie about the American space shuttle rescuing a tall man and a short blonde woman in a fragment of space station, strongly implying that Jaws survived yet again. After every accident, a signature move by Jaws is to get up, dust himself off, and nonchantly walk away. In the videogame Everything or Nothing, Jaws is electrocuted several times, goes through another train accident, and loses control of an eighteen-wheeler and goes off a bridge. Near the end of the game, Bond sets him on fire in a falling elevator. Jaws does not appear again, but his body is not seen in the elevator wreckage, so whether he survived or not is unclear.

• The character was inspired by Fleming's description of a hoodlum named Horror in his novel The Spy Who Loved Me. When Horror speaks, he reveals steel-capped teeth.

• In the final credits sequence of the Inspector Gadget movie, Dr. Claw's assistant is shown attending a "Henchman's Anonymous" meetings. Richard Kiel is one of the participants (along with Oddjob and Nick Nack) and is billed in the credits as 'Famous Guy with Metal Teeth'.

• During the filming of The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, most of Jaws' scenes were filmed in 30-second shots, as that is how long he could keep the metal teeth in his mouth.

• When Jaws was to bite through an object a normal human can't bite through - for example, cable car wire - film makers had licorice. Still, it was hard for Richard to bite it because of how painful the metal teeth were.

• Jaws is one of the three strongest henchmen in all the James Bond series, the other two are Oddjob from Goldfinger and Gobinda from Octopussy.

References

Sandor

Sandor is a fictional character in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, played by actor Milton Reid. Sandor attempts to kill Bond in Egypt under the orders of Stromberg; he ambushes Bond in a bath after he was lured there by Felicca, a Stromberg agent, but misses his shot and kills her instead of Bond. Bond then pursues him over the rooftops and after a brief fistfight Sandor starts to fall over the edge of the building. Sandor grabs Bond by his tie at the last second to try and hold on. Bond demands information; right after Sandor divulges what he knows, Bond lets him fall to his death.

Log Cabin Girl

Log Cabin Girl is a fictional character in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, played by actress Sue Vanner. She appears in the intro to the film making love with Bond overnight in the cozy log cabin high in the mountains. However after he leaves it appears she is an enemy and contacts her cohorts to pursue Bond as he leaves on skis.

Felicca

Felicca is a fictional character in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, played by actress Olga Bisera. When Bond arrived in Cairo, Egypt to contact Aziz Frekkesh in regard to the microfilm of the submarine tracking system developed by Stromberg, he found the man missing. Instead, he found Felicca, who coyly said that Frekkesh will be "a little late". As Felicca distracts Bond, Sandor, hiding from a behind an overlooking window, poised to aim to shoot Bond. Felicca meets her demise when Sandor misses his mark and the bullet strikes her instead of Bond in a manner reminiscent of Thunderball (film).

Naomi

Naomi is a fictional character in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, played by actress Caroline Munro.

Biography

Naomi is Karl Stromberg's personal helicopter pilot/assistant. She is first seen in the film escorting Professor Beckman and Dr. Markovitz in to see Stromberg and then exits. She is then not seen again until much later in the film.

When we next see Naomi, she is escorting Bond and Amasova, who are posing as a marine biologist and his wife, on a boat to Atlantis to meet Stromberg. Bond flirts with Naomi, enraging Amasova. While Bond has his meeting with Stromberg, Naomi entertains Amasova, showing her around the base.

After Bond and Amasova leave their meeting with Mr. Stromberg, he is seen talking to someone about letting them get ashore and then kill them. Indeed while driving along Sardinia's coastal roads several attempts are made to kill Bond and Amasova. There is a failed attempt by the motorcycle assassin, followed by Jaws and his henchmen trying to machine gun them from another car. After Jaws' car runs off the road, a helicopter appears, chasing the car. As the helicopter comes from behind the cliff, it tries to gun down Bond's Lotus Esprit. It then flies alongside the car, and Bond is shocked to see Naomi piloting it. Bond nods at her, and Naomi responds with a sultry wink and opens fire again.

Naomi chases Bond all over the highways of Sardinia until he comes to a pier which he immediately drives off into the water. Naomi hovers overhead, believing she's won. Unbeknownst to her, however, the Lotus is a submersible, and so she can't see it when she's trying to look into the sea.

Bond then arms a surface-to-air missile and blows Naomi out of the sky. She was the first woman to ever be undeniably killed by James Bond. (There is debate over whether Bond actually kills the character of Fiona Volpe in Thunderball or whether it is accidental; the film leaves this ambiguous.)

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