Seeing as how Casino Royale � the 21st James Bond feature � opens this coming Friday, IGN Movies decided to celebrate the occasion with a weeklong series of features spotlighting the 007 franchise.
Today, we're focusing on the Top 10 deaths in the Bond series. These will include 007's most famous kills, as well as the deaths of characters that affected Bond personally. For obvious reasons, BEWARE OF SPOILERS ...
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10. The Lotus Esprit in For Your Eyes Only
Bond's famous submersible sportscar debuted in The Spy Who Loved Me and reappeared in For Your Eyes Only. Q's idea of an anti-theft device was a self-destruct feature that was triggered when some goons tried to break the driver's window.
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9. Boris Grishenko in GoldenEye
This obnoxious Russian computer whiz (played by future X-Man Alan Cumming) gets his chilly comeuppance for aiding the villainous 006 (Sean Bean) when he is frozen solid by liquid nitrogen. "I am invincible" � not!
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8. Professor Dent in Dr. No
This cold-blooded execution from the very first Bond film captures Sean Connery's 007 at his ruthless, sardonic best. Dr. No's henchman Professor Dent fails to kill 007 by putting a tarantula in his bed and later sending the "Three Blind Mice" to run him off the road. So Dent decides to do the job himself by ambushing Bond, but 007 outwits him; Bond, cigarette in mouth, wryly shoots him dead even after Dent had run out of bullets.
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7. Elektra King in The World is Not Enough
One of Pierce Brosnan's best Bond moments came near the end of this film when he mercilessly shoots his villainous former lover Elektra King (Sophie Marceau). "I never miss," Bond says after capping her in the head. 007 is a true ladykiller.
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6. Red Grant in From Russia With Love
Robert Shaw played formidable SPECTRE agent Red Grant in Sean Connery's second Bond film. His famous brawl with 007 in Bond's passenger car onboard the Orient Express � a precursor to the sort of hardcore hand-to-hand combat later seen in the Jason Bourne films � ends with Bond strangling Grant with his own garrotte.
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