List of James Bond henchmen in Goldfinger
A list of henchmen from the 1964 James BOND film and novel Goldfinger from the List of James Bond henchmen.
Oddjob
Oddjob is a henchman to the villain Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film and novel, Goldfinger. In the film he was played by the Japanese American actor Harold Sakata.
Oddjob is clearly far superior in strength and unarmed combat skills to Bond in both film and novel, and therefore is finally killed by electrocution which is a BLEND of pure good luck and personal cunning on Bond's part.
The character of Oddjob, from his unusual appearance, manners, strength and method of [...], forms the archetype for many henchmen of the Bond film series, including Tee Hee, Jaws, Nick Nack, Chang, and Gobinda.
Novel
Oddjob, so named by Goldfinger, is Korean-born, and, much like in the film, is extremely strong, proven in one sequence where he breaks the railing of a staircase with his hand and the mantel of a fireplace with his foot. An expert at karate, Oddjob is also expert with a bow and arrow, and with his metal bowler hat. He is a ruthless killer, but also acts as Goldfinger's personal guard, driver, and manservant (though not his golf caddy). He has a taste for cats as food, apparently acquired in Korea when food was in short supply (Bond frames Goldfinger's yellow cat for destruction of surveillance film, and as punishment, sees the cat given to Oddjob for dinner). He is killed when Bond uses a knife to shatter the window next to his seat on an airplane, which depressurises the plane and sucks Oddjob out of the window, a fate transferred to Auric Goldfinger in the film version.
Film
Oddjob acts as Goldfinger's personal chauffeur, bodyguard and golf caddy in the film. He is extremely strong and durable, demonstrating his strength in a number of scenes including one where he crushes a golf ball with one hand and other in which he is struck with a gold brick in the chest, scarcely flinching, but never mentioned to be a karate expert. He wears what appears to be a bowler lined with a metal razor disk in the rim, using it as a lethal flying disc of sorts (this is a bowler hat in the novel, and as such, would have had a round top). Physically, Oddjob is practically invincible to Bond's hand-to-hand combat tactics, even when Bond uses a wooden object as a club. The only time Oddjob shows anything resembling fear or wariness in the film is when Bond attempts to use his own hat against him. Bond misses him with the throw, causing his hat to get stuck between the metal bars in the Fort Knox vault. Oddjob is then outmaneuvered when, as he reaches to retrieve his hat, Bond uses a severed live electrical cable to electrify the bars, causing a lethal current to run from the bars through the metal hat to Oddjob, [...] him.
Other appearances
- Oddjob has appeared in the James Bond video games Goldeneye 007 and 007: Nightfire as a playable character for use in multiplayer modes.
- In GoldenEye: Rogue Agent, Oddjob is a henchman of Goldfinger, and initially an companion of GoldenEye. He is killed when GoldenEye tosses him over a rail into a pit inside of Hoover Dam after he betrays and attacks GoldenEye for unknown reasons.
- Oddjob appears in the animated series James Bond Jr. with a top hat, sunglasses and hip-hop style clothes.
Inspired characters
- In the film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Oddjob is parodied by a character called Random Task, who throws his shoe as a weapon.
- Another parody is in the game Fur Fighters, where a hat-throwing bear called Oddfelt appears in the last level.
- Leonardo Leonardo's publicist Plug is a parody of Oddjob in Clerks: The Animated Series.
- Oddjob's trademark hat-throwing technique can also be seen in Toy Story 2, in which Mr.Potato-Head throws his own bowler hat to prevent two doors from closing.
- In the Mortal Kombat video game series, a recurring character named Kung Lao has a similar blade-rimmed hat that can be thrown at opponents.
- In the video game Alone in the Dark 2, an undead pirate nicknamed Black Hat has a blade-rimmed hat that he can throw at the protagonist Edward Carnby.
- Spider-Man has fought in a one-page Hostess advertisement a supervillain called "Demolition Derby" who throws his derby hat that bounces and cuts Spider-Man's webbing 3.
- Daredevil once fought a supervillain called Torpedo, who threw a [...] hat just like Oddjob. Daredevil remarked that he didn't expect Torpedo to pull an "oddjob" on him.
- Also in one episode of the Warner Bros. cartoon show Duck Dodgers, Daffy Duck throws a hat to save himself during a mission and later says that he had learned it from someone called "Odd Ball", in which they cut to a scene where Oddjob angrily says "Odd Ball?!!" something that may prove that who Daffy meant is not a parody but the same Oddjob as in the movie/novel.
- Oddduck - a "F.O.W.L" (Darkwing Duck) henchman is parody of Oddjob.
- In the show Count Duckula, the villain called The Egg has a manservant called Oddbeak, who is a parrot made to resemble Oddjob, complete with bowler and suit.
- In the Stormbreaker film, the guard in Sayle Tower throws his hat away as he prepares to kill Alex. He also shares a resemblance with Oddjob(this is one of the many similarities Stormbreaker has with the James Bond saga)
- In The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! episode "On Her Majesty's Sewer Service", a parody of the James Bond series, the character Mouser gains an appearance similar to Oddjob, even throwing his bowler derby hat as a weapon in one scene; instead of [...] people though, the bowler derby was shown to simply bludgeon them.
- The arcade video game Sly Spy, itself a homage to the James Bond mythos, features a bowler-throwing character as a boss in one of the levels.
- In the movie Inspector Gadget, Oddjob is seen in the Minions Anonymus meeting, along with Jaws.
- In the Disney cartoon show Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episode "Double 'O Dale" (Itself a parody of James Bond) there is a sidekick to a spy movie Dale's watching. He's called Oddshoe, an obvious parody of Oddjob. However this is only so by name, the sidekick is here a good guy and does not sport a hat or suit, but a Japanese traditional martial arts white robe with a black belt. And he is also small.
[...] Galore
[...] Galore is a fictional character from the James Bond film and novel Goldfinger. In the film she is played by Honor Blackman.
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The five pilots who make up [...] Galore's Flying Circus pilots are initially under orders by [...] Galore, who is under orders by Goldfinger, to spray Delta 9 nerve gas on the soldiers guarding Fort Knox. After falling for James Bond, however, [...] Galore has the gas exchanged for a non-lethal gas, and informs the Fort Knox soldiers of Golfinger's plot. The pilots spray the gas over Fort Knox and the soldiers play dead, allowing Goldfinger's men to proceed past the Fort's defenses. The soldiers then surround Goldfinger's men, trapping them in the fort.
Kisch
Kisch is one of Goldfinger's henchmen who first appears at his ranch. When Goldfinger decides to kill all of the American gangsters participating in Operation Grand-Slam, Kisch is the one who releases the poisonous gas into the room where all of the gangsters are. Later, as Operation Grand-Slam actually commences, Kisch, disguised as an American soldier, becomes trapped inside the gold vault at Fort Knox with James Bond, Oddjob and the nuclear bomb. Not loyal enough to Goldfinger to die for Operation Grand-Slam, Kisch attempts to save them by disarming the bomb, but is stopped by Oddjob who subsequently kills him. After Oddjob himself is killed by Bond, Bond retrieves the key to the bomb from Kisch's body and is able to disarm the weapon.
Mr. Ling
Mr. Ling, played by Burt Kwouk, is Goldfinger's apparent technical liaison. He is witnessed overseeing the operation of the industrial laser that nearly bisects Bond, and later, during the raid on Fort Knox, is seen supervising the priming of the atomic device intended to irradiate the gold reserves therein. After the American troops retaliate against Goldfinger's raid on Fort Knox, Goldfinger, disguised as an American army officer shoots and kills Ling in front of American soldiers in order to conceal his identity and make his escape.
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