Villains Beginning With 'G'
Gustav Graves AKA
Col. Tan-Sun Moon
Die Another Day film (2002)
Graves was born Tan-Sun Moon, son of General Moon. He starts out as a Colonel in the Korean People's Army. He studied at Oxford and Harvard and was intended to become a bridge between the West and North Korea. Instead, he became a radical and a weapons smuggler, exchanging state of the art hovercraft weapons (that he developed for use in the mine-infested DMZ) for conflict diamonds from Sierra Leone, intent on the invasion and conquest of South Korea. MI6 became aware of his activities, however, and dispatched three agents, including James Bond, to shut him down. The mission was a success, and Moon was believed to have died when his hovercraft fell off a cliff.
Moon survived, however, and fled to Cuba, where he underwent DNA replacement therapy to alter his appearance. He then reinvented himself as Gustav Graves, a British billionaire adventurer who worked in diamond mines in Argentina and later discovered a great mine of diamonds in Iceland - in reality the conflict diamonds he had been dealing with originally. He assumed a new personality modeled on James Bond: sophisticated, suave and, by Graves' own admission, arrogant. With his new wealth, he built the Icarus, a huge artificial satellite capable of harnessing solar energy and focusing it on any part of the world he wished.
Graves' official reasons for the construction of Icarus were ending weather inconvenience and poverty and helping the harvests. His real reasons were more sinister, however; he was still intent on conquest of South Korea, and was planning to use Icarus to create a pathway in the mined demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, then use Icarus to destroy any ballistic missiles or nuclear warheads launched against North Korea, so that the North Koreans could cross the DMZ and easily invade South Korea and the next step, Japan. Graves had the controls for Icarus built into a large metal suit with an additional electroshock weapon for self-defence.
Moon put his plan into action when he and the North Korean hard-liners staged a coup to take control of the country, placing his father under arrest. He took off in an Antonov An-124 with General Moon, and unbeknownst to him, James Bond, onboard to watch the scene. When General Moon tried to stop the plan, Graves murdered his own father. Bond then attempted to kill Graves, but his shot missed and broke a window in the plane, sending all other passengers except himself and Graves in the room flying out. The two fought until Bond used Graves' parachute and the electroshock function of his suit to forcibly eject him, and Graves was sucked into the blades of the Antonov's jet engine, killing him and destroying his suit, rendering the Icarus harmless.
His henchmen include; Zao and Miranda Frost.
SUMMARY
ARCH RIVAL : |
James Bond. |
STRENGTHS : |
A Colonel, well educated who became a radical and a weapons smuggler who is very wealthy. This guy has plenty of scope and he knows his adversaries well. Tan-Sun Moon also manages to hold Bond hostage for a good length of time and tortures him well. He is trained in weapons including sword fighting and is in control of one of the most dangerous weapon's in the world - The Icarus. |
WEAKNESSES : |
As a villain you should never bet your luck against James Bond however good you are - her will win always! |
WEAPONS : |
Guns, samurai sword, electro-shock suit and Icarus, the solar laser. |
QUOTE : |
"Armed and very dangerous!" |
EXTERNAL LINKS
Die Another Day film (2002) - IMDb
Die Another Day film (20021) - Wikipedia
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