Villains Beginning With 'K'
Karl Stromberg
The Spy Who Loved Me
film (1977)
A successful self-employed businessman, the webbed-fingered Karl Stromberg is head of his own shipping firm. Stromberg's passion is the ocean where he lives in his palace named Atlantis, a tarantula-shaped underwater city that could submerge so as not to be seen or detected. Located off the coast of Sardinia, Italy, Atlantis has everything to support life above and below water indefinitely.
Stromberg also owns a second headquarters, a huge tanker, named Liparus, used when away Atlantis. Aboard the tanker he has a small army of soldiers clad in orange jumpsuits.
Although Stromberg has a love for the ocean and its various species, he despises the human race and is diabolical with no interest in benefiting the world. He has a congenital condition in which his hands were webbed like those of aquatic birds or mammals. His personal mission to start the world over with a new underwater civilization. After contracting two scientists to create technology to track nuclear submarines, Stromberg uses this technology to capture a Soviet nuclear submarine and a British submarine. By tracking the subs, Stromberg's tanker, the Liparus, was to sneak up on the subs and capture them inside the tanker. His plan calls for the firing of nuclear missiles from these subs at Moscow and New York City, thus starting a nuclear war, which would wipe out every human being on Earth. Among Stromberg's many minions were an assistant who betrayed him by selling the plans for the submarine tracking system, and a professor and a doctor who were to help him operate the tracking system. He killed the assistant by feeding her to sharks, and killed the professor and the doctor by blowing up their helicopter.
Stromberg's scheme is foiled after Bond is taken aboard the Liparus as a prisoner from a recently captured American submarine. With Bond's help, the crews from the submarines manage to escape escape and take over. With the tanker under their control, Bond is able to order the stolen submarines, which were crewed by Stromberg's men, to fire their warheads at each other. However, Stromberg had abducted Bond's partner, the Russian agent Anya Amasova, and escaped to his city-ship, Atlantis just before hand.
Bond pursues Stromberg, and after two failed attempts by Stromberg to kill him, Bond exercises his licence to kill by shooting Stromberg dead. Atlantis is later torpedoed and sunk which gave Stromberg a burial at sea.
Stromberg's henchmen include; Jaws, Naomi and Sandor
SUMMARY
ARCH RIVAL : |
James Bond. |
STRENGTHS : |
Successful, self-employed and a successfully businessman - Stromberg was extremely wealthy, and had some pretty big ideas about world domination. |
WEAKNESSES : |
Stromberg is fat and slow compared to James Bond and underestimates Bond's abilities against him. With his webbed hands Stromberg would be easily identifiable.. |
WEAPONS : |
Small hand gun and a an explosive harpoon that runs in a tube underneath the length of his dinner table. |
QUOTE : |
"Observe, Mr. Bond, The instruments of Armageddon!" |
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