| “ | My name is Lyutsifer Safin. Your husband killed my family. | „ |
| ~ Safin's introduction to Mrs. White. |
| “ | I am a man willing to kill the person you love most... | „ |
| ~ Safin to Swann, planning to murder her daughter. |
Dr. Lyutsifer Safin (Russian: Люцифер Сафин) is the main antagonist of the twenty-fifth James Bond film No Time to Die.
He is a sinister and elusive bioterrorist motivated to take down Spectre for the deaths of his family on the orders of Ernst Stavro Blofeld. He acquires Project Heracles, a programmable bioweapon made by MI6 which Safin reverse-engineers and mass produces into a virus that toxifies the DNA with nanobots, which he intends to globally release and kill millions with to start a new world order.
He was portrayed by Rami Malek.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- In the beginning of the film, he broke into Mr. White's house in Norway, only to find his ex-wife and daughter Madeleine, ending up murdering the former after failing to find White.
- After saving Madeleine, he developed a twisted and lustful obsession towards her.
- He conspired with Valdo Obruchev, the head scientist who created the Heracles bioweapon, to get his hands on it, and instructed the latter to go along with being kidnapped by Spectre agents so that he could later reprogram the nanobots into killing the members of Spectre at a party in Cuba before having Logan Ash pick him up.
- He intimidated Madeleine into injecting herself with the bioweapon and killing Ernst Stavro Blofeld with it by threatening to kill the person he loved most if she didn't (this is later implied to be Mathilde).
- Even after succeeding in his revenge on Spectre (including Blofeld, who was accidentally killed by Bond), Safin did not stop rampaging against the world. Instead, he planned to mass-produce Heracles to wipe out millions around the world and become a god of the new world.
- Before being killed by Bond, Safin severely injures him and infects him with a vial of Heracles that's coded to Madeleine and Mathilde's DNA, making sure that even if he escaped the base, he would never be able to go back to his life with Swann. This forced a depressed Bond to sacrifice himself into a missile explosion that destroys Safin's base, making Safin standing out as the sole villain in the entire 007 franchise to have ever succeeded in killing Bond.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He's genuinely tragic as he was horrifically scarred by Mr. White when Ernst Stavro Blofeld had him kill the rest of his family by poisoning them with the chemical weapons his parents helped develop. It's shown he's still motivated by their deaths as he spends the much of the movie murdering people connected to the terrorist organization that's responsible for their deaths, and him trying to take over the world is in part due to him wanting people not to suffer like he did.
- He does truly care about his family as their deaths were part of his motivation to destroy Spectre and Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
- He has a bit of an honorable side, as he saved Madelaine from drowning despite his initial attempt to kill her as he came to believe she can't be held accountable for her father's sins. He also offered her daughter protection and let the girl leave unharmed when it was made clear she wanted to.
Trivia[]
- Lyutsifer Safin, along with Karl Stromberg from the original series, are the only James Bond villains to be considered Near Pure Evil, and Safin is also the only James Bond Near Pure Evil from the Daniel Craig era.
External Links[]
- Lyutsifer Safin on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki
- Lyutsifer Safin on the Villains Wiki
- Lyutsifer Safin on the James Bond Wiki
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