This subsection of fans argue was never intended to be anything other than a white man. The writers of No Time to Die , they say, are attempting to rewrite what Ian Fleming imagined in his books. In the first Bond book, 's Casino Royale , Fleming describes what it means for Britain's iconic super spy to hold the distinction of "you've had to kill some chap in cold blood in the course of some job. Here's the basic description of what double 0 status means, according to the James Bond fan wiki : "00 agents are elite special operatives of MI6 who have a discretionary 'license to kill' in the field in order to complete their mission.
In Fleming's books, there are only five double 0 agents: , , , , and Two of them are named: is Bond, of course, and, in Moonraker , there's mention of agent as a guy named Bill. In You Only Live Twice , Bond is briefly moved to another branch where he's given the designation , but eventually returns as This switch implies that no one replaces Bond as during his time away, although Fleming doesn't make this clear.
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By Lauren Coates Published Feb 23, Share Share Tweet Email 0. Key Release Dates. Seuss Movie Adaptation. One of Bond's best friends, he betrayed MI6 and Her Majesty's Government by faking his death and then, years later, in aiding the theft of the secret Soviet satellite system, GoldenEye.
He also begrudged Bond's not allowing him time to escape unscathed from the Soviet chemical weapons factory they were to destroy in the mission shown in the teaser of GoldenEye. Portrayed by Sean Bean.
Another active is mentioned in the comic VARGR , and at one point in his career, he used the pseudonym "Mr. In Anthony Horowitz 's James Bond continuation novel Forever and a Day , the preceding James Bond was shot three times and killed on assignment in the South of France in the year His body was discovered in the waters of Marseille.
This man was the first to hold the title, and was in the first batch of 00 Agents. He was a personal friend of James Bond before his death. James Bond. Until , James Bond was the only agent known to have had the code number During the timeframe of the You Only Live Twice novel, Bond was transferred into another branch and given the number , suggesting there was no active during that time frame.
Bond was subsequently reinstated as in the following book, The Man with the Golden Gun. In the John Gardner novels, is the last remaining active agent, the section itself having been dissolved by the s; Raymond Benson later contradicted this in his novels. Bond was initially offered the title of , but out of respect to his personal friend the previous , he asked for his number instead.
Major character in No Time to Die. After Bond has retired, she got the code number Later she gave back the code number to Bond and helped to find Safin and destroy his lab.
In the novel Goldfinger , Bond thinks to himself that would likely avenge Bond by killing Goldfinger. As Bond thinks this, he ruminates that is "a good man, more careful than Bond. An apparent is seated immediately to the right of James Bond during the "00 Section" briefing in the film, Thunderball. In the films, agent is mentioned briefly when M threatens to replace Bond on an assignment, e.
Goldfinger and The Living Daylights [3]. The James Bond role playing game released in the s suggests is a woman. Soon thereafter, all contact was lost with M makes a decision to send James Bond to investigate his whereabouts. A subsequent was employed by M following a request for help from Sir Robert King following the kidnapping of his daughter. The result of the mission was that Renard remained alive, but with 's bullet lodged in his skull.
In addition, Thunderball features a meeting in the MI6 conference room attended by every Double 0 agent in Europe. There are nine chairs, of which Bond sits in the seventh from the right.
This appears to imply that there are nine Double 0 agents at this point although I'm not sure how this fits in with Moneypenny's Europe reference. We don't get a clear view of most of the other people sat in the chairs, but we see that one is bearded perhaps since he is sat to the left of Bond and another is apparently a woman but it is not obvious which one. A group of people are briefed, including Bond.
Raymond Benson's novelisation mentions that this is a group of Double 0 agents, although this is not confirmed on screen. It is interesting to note that The Living Daylights takes the record for the most interest in Double 0 agents apart from the Thunderball scene mentioned above with three agents appearing including Bond and another mentioned.
Open Daily All Rights Reserved. E veryone knows that Commander James Bond has the designation and is a member of the elite Double 0 section. This gives him a "licence to kill", although it has never been made clear precisely what these means, especially since in the novels it is made clear that Bond had to kill twice in order to become a Double 0 agent.
However, whatever it means, the Double 0 agents exist and Bond is not the only one of them. Bond is the most senior of the three. The others are named as Bill who is resting in Berlin and who has been missing in Singapore for two months.
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