6 Great Action Heroes (Who Should Be Convicted of Murder)

[CaptainLewis]

James Bond from Casino Royale

For years, people who wanted to see 007 in action had to put up with plots that hinged on ridiculous things like invisible cars, laser beam satellites, and Madonna still being considered a sex symbol. This installment expunged the implausibility that plagued previous Bond films, establishing Bond as a grounded, conflicted character who just so happens to be hired by the government to play a friendly game of cards with terrorist masterminds instead of, you know, killing them.

So What's the Problem?

Bond has never been the most inconspicuous spy, but we don't think that he's ever wantonly killed innocent bystanders before. During the opening chase scene, the villain that Bond chases carefully flips and pivots to avoid civilians, while Bond rams into them, knocking one off of a tall girder, presumably to his death. (This also results in a huge explosion. Why? Because it's a Bond movie, that's why.)

The terrorist takes refuge in a foreign embassy, so Bond is forced by international law to allow him to temporarily escape and attempt to negotiate his transfer into British custody.

Nah, we're just kidding. Bond storms in, fires on a group of foreign soldiers, and kills the guy he was ordered to capture alive. He then shoots one of the stray gas canisters that the embassy just happened to have lying around, sparking an explosion two feet away from some poor soldiers.

All of this innocent loss of life makes even less sense when you realize it's all so that the British government doesn't have to worry about bailing Bond out of a foreign jail, like they effortlessly do later on in the film. Interestingly enough, Bond's superiors seem more concerned about him killing a suspected terrorist than about nearly starting World War III.

Website: http://www.cracked.com/article_16377_6- ... er_p2.html

[Dr. No]

Some interesting points. Some have tired to argue that Bond has always been that way, which juts isn't true. CR was a violent departure where the innocent bystanders seem to be targeted not by the bad guy trying to get away but byJames Bond, better put by Craig's spy.

[Kristatos]

That was one of the problems I had with CR as well. The article could also have mentioned Bond crashing into a bus at Miami airport.

[MichaelZWilliamson]

I've mercifully forgotten QoS, but didn't he cause a few civilian mashups in that one, too?

[Mazer Rackham]

I've mercifully forgotten QoS, but didn't he cause a few civilian mashups in that one, too?

Yes. The audience was targeted

I am getting hazy on the finer points of QoS (aka Quark): the opening car chase was a public danger, but the bulk of the personal property destruction took place primarily in desolate places. Exploding hotels, yelling fire in crowed opera houses, Spinning DC3s, flipping motorcycles, and boat chases with unconscious girls to be dumped off at the next port like a rapist using a date rape drug (The Van der Sloot Regatta ?)

What else have I ignored?