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NOTE: This article is about the version of Blofeld introduced in the unofficial film Never Say Never Again. For the mainstream version, see Ernst Stavro Blofeld (007). For the version introduced in Spectre (2015), see Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Reboot Series)
| “ | I am Supreme Commander of SPECTRE, the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion. Yesterday morning, the American Air Force launched two cruise missiles from Swadley Air Base in Great Britain. Through the ingenuity of SPECTRE, the dummy warheads they carried were replaced with live, nuclear warheads. Your weapons of destruction are now safely in our possession and will be moved to two secret targets. Please note the serial numbers of the missiles; they will confirm the truth. Your weapons of deterrence did not deter us from our objective! A terrible catastrophe now confronts you. However, it can be avoided by paying a tribute to our organization, amounting to twenty-five percent of your respective countries' annual oil purchases. We have accomplished two of the functions that the name SPECTRE embodies: terror and extortion. If our demands are not met within seven days, we shall ruthlessly apply the third: revenge! | „ |
| ~ Blofeld's demands to all members of NATO. |
Ernst Stavro Blofeld is the overarching antagonist of the unofficial 1983 James Bond film Never Say Never Again, based on Ian Fleming's 1961 novel Thunderball and marking Sean Connery's last time playing the titular role.
He is the enigmatic leader of SPECTRE, a terrorist organization that aims at world domination. Sometime after James Bond enters into forced retirement, Blofeld comes up with the theft of two nuclear warheads from the American Armed Forces, threatening the NATO to give him and his cohorts an unbelievable ransom or otherwise face death or destruction, counting with Maximillian Largo's assistance to do so.
He was portrayed by the late Max von Sydow, who also played Joubert in Three Days of the Condor, Ming the Merciless in the 1980 Flash Gordon film, Brewmeister Smith in Strange Brew, Vigo in Ghostbusters II, Leland Gaunt in Needful Things, Lamar Burgess in Minority Report and Varden Reynard in Rush Hour 3.
History[]
Ernst Stavro Blofeld is the leader of SPECTRE, an international criminal organization known for orchestrating wars in the Middle East and Central Asia for profit. Wishing to expand his operations further, he assigns Maximillian Largo as the head of an operation to steal nuclear warheads from NATO in order to hold the world to ransom. To this end, Largo and Blofeld gain control of a U.S. Air Force pilot named Jack Petachi by having his rehab nurse Fatima Blush get him hooked on heroin before having him undergo retinal surgery to make his right eye match the retinal pattern of the U.S. President.
Petachi is then sent to RAF Station Swadley, an American airbase in the United Kingdom, where he uses his new retinal pattern to gain access to two cruise missiles and swaps out their dummy warheads with real warheads before SPECTRE steal the missiles. Blofeld and Largo then have Blush kill him to tie up loose ends and hide the nuclear warheads at the Tears of Allah in Ethiopia.
With the warheads safely in his possession, Blofeld appears in a video broadcast to all NATO leaders with his face concealed to demand that every NATO member state pay SPECTRE 25% of their annual oil revenue under threat of nuclear annihilation. After the broadcast, he and his fellow SPECTRE board members celebrate their impending victory with champagne, confident that Largo will be able to stop anyone from finding the warheads in time.
However, MI6 agent James Bond manages to locate and recover the warheads at the Tears of Allah, with Largo being killed in the ensuing skirmish, foiling Blofeld's plan. Blofeld is never directly faced by Bond and presumably moves on to his next plan.
Trivia[]
- This is the only version of Ernst Stavro Blofeld who never gets to face James Bond personally.
