Sir Hugo Drax

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Moonraker film (1979)
created by author Ian Fleming (1955)

In the novel, Sir Hugo Drax is a famous English World War II hero and post-war millionaire. He has red hair and half of his face is badly scarred from a German attack during the War. The same incident left him with amnesia. He made a fortune trading metals in Tangier, and Drax was able to start up his company, "Drax Metals Ltd", which specializes and has a monopoly in the production of a metal called columbite. Drax also backed the 'Moonraker' missile project being built to defend the UK against Cold War enemies. The metal, columbite, gives the missile's engine an extra protection so it can burn hotter fuels which will expand its range of fire.

Sir Hugo Drax is not who he seems though; he was actually born - Graf Hugo von der Drache. Because his mother was English he was educated in England until he was 12. Later he moved to Berlin and later Leipzig, where he finished his education. He graduated and joined the Nazi party and entered World War II as a soldier in the 150th Panzer Brigade, before becoming a Werwolf commando, operating behind Allied lines. During a mission, he dressed as a British soldier so that he could sabotage and destroy a farmhouse that was holding a mixed liaison group of American and British servicemen, but something went wrong and he was caught in the explosion and nearly killed. He was rescued by the British and nursed back to health under the guise that he was a "missing soldier" by the name of Hugo Drax.

Because Drax was a Nazi and had an insurmountable hatred for England, he started the 'Moonraker' missile project under the pretense that he would test fire the missile into the North Sea. Instead, however, he set his target for London and armed the missile with an atomic bomb he received through support by the Soviets.

James Bond, with the help of female Special agent Gala Brand, sabotaged Drax's 'Moonraker' missile launch and changed the coordinates back to the North Sea, where after the missile was launched Drax and his men had escaped so they could watch as London was destroyed. Instead, the Russian submarine Drax was on was blown entirely out of the water by the blast of the nuclear warhead.

His henchmen included; Willy Krebs - Drax's friend and later loyal servant, Krebs was the youngest Wehrwolf in Drax's unit and a specialist in torture and Dr. Walter - A German rocket scientist in Soviet employ, sent to aid Drax with the missile project and to deliver the atomic bomb.

In the Film Hugo Drax is a French billionaire living in California in a château that was imported from France. He owns Drax Industries, which constructs space shuttles.

Drax sought to destroy the entire human race except for a small group of carefully selected humans, both male and female, that would leave Earth on six shuttles and have sanctuary on a space station in orbit. Using chemical weapons created by Drax's scientists, derived from the toxin of a rare South American plant, the Black Orchid, at an installation in Italy, he would wipe out all humanity. The biological agents were to be dispersed around the earth from a series of 50 strategically placed globes, each containing enough toxin to kill 100 million people. After a period of time, when the chemical agents had become harmless, Drax and his master race would return to Earth to reinhabit the planet. These humans would supposedly live in harmony with one another under his command.

Bond obtained a sample of the chemical agent at the location in Italy, and analysis of it led him to a remote part of Brazil where he found Drax's shuttle-launch facility in an ancient civilization's shrine.

Bond and his companion, CIA agent Dr. Holly Goodhead, commandeer one of Drax's space shuttles and blast off to his orbiting space station. There with the help of Goodhead, Jaws, and a group of American space soldiers launched on a military-owned shuttle, Drax runs for the airlock and when he sees Bond run after him, he tries to barricade himself in but ends up running away. When Bond gets in, Drax backs to an airlock door and gets a space gun. Bond slowly puts his hand up with the poison dart wrist watch. Drax is mortally wounded by the dart, escorted into an airlock by a polite Bond and ejected into space.

His henchmen here include Jaws and Chang.

SUMMARY

ARCH RIVAL :	James Bond.
STRENGTHS :	Drax is extremely wealthy - a billionaire and has extensive knowledge in the feild of nucleor weapons and poisons.
WEAKNESSES :	Hugo is no fighter, he lets his hench-men do his dirty work.
WEAPONS :	Guns, including futuristic laser guns.
QUOTE :	"Look after Mr Bond, see that some harm comes to him."