3. Alec Trevelyan

The Film: GoldenEye

The Actor: Sean Bean

The Basics: Scarred, vengeful mirror of Bond himself

GoldenEye remains one of the biggest miracles in the entire Bond series because it proved the character could escape the confines of the Cold War. However, Pierce Brosnan's first film as 007 was wise to leave some noticeable scars from the decades-long conflict on nearly every character. Chief among them is Alec Trevelyan, the former Agent 006, a villain whose origin story is directly tied to him being a casualty of the lengthy shadow war that Bond survived. Left for dead by 007 at the end of a disastrous mission, 006 re-emerges, hideously scarred and embittered and ready to wreck the systems that let him down. If that means taking his former partner down along the way, all the better. Sean Bean makes Trevelyan the rare Bond mastermind who is both a physical and psychological threat. He's haunted, angry, and not afraid to get his hands dirty. His skills as a soldier mark him as a Mirror Universe version of Bond himself. You can imagine a timeline where 007 was left behind with a bullet in his face and 006 would race to stop him from using a powerful satellite to instigate armageddon. Like the best Bond villains, he knows just how to cut to the bone, telling our favorite spy: "I might as well ask you if all those vodka martinis ever silence the screams of all the men you've killed. Or if you find forgiveness in the arms of all those willing women for all the dead ones you failed to protect." And in true Sean Bean style, he dies by plummeting 100 feet onto hard concrete. Then a gigantic antenna array falls on him.