Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a male villain who features in James Bond.
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Biography
Ernst Stavro Blofeld was a male human born on 28 May 1908 in Gdingen, Imperial Germany where his father was Ernst George Blofeld who was Polish, and his mother Maria Stavro Michelopoulos was Greek. After World War I, Blofeld became a Polish national. As a young man, he was well-versed in the social science disciplines, but also in the natural science and technology disciplines. He first graduated from the University of Warsaw with a degree in Political History and Economics, and then from the Warsaw University of Technology with a degree in Engineering and Radionics. He was then hired by the Polish Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs and appointed to a sensitive communication position, which he used for buying and selling stocks at the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
Foreseeing World War II, Blofeld made copies of top-secret wires and sold them for cash to Nazi Germany. Before the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he destroyed all records of his existence, then moved first to Sweden, then to Turkey, where he worked for Turkish Radio and began to set up his own private intelligence organisation. During the war, he sold information to both sides. After the defeat of Erwin Rommel, he decided to back the Allied war effort, and was awarded numerous medals by the Allied powers after the war's end. Blofeld then moved temporarily to South America before founding SPECTRE.
was the chief of SPECTRE and arch-enemy of James Bond, Ernst Stavro Blofeld initially existed as a faceless entity to whom the SPECTRE agents reported. It wasn't until Bond's fourth run-in with the evil organization that he met Blofeld, and the villain's face was finally revealed. He killed Bond's wife, Tracy, during their second confrontation, and subsequently altered his appearance with plastic surgery and even used doubles. Although Bond thought he killed Blofeld during their third encounter, the villain survived, but was confined to a wheelchair. Using a remote control he tried to hijack the helicopter carrying Bond, but Bond regained control of the chopper and use the runner to pick Blofeld up by his wheelchair and drop the SPECTRE mastermind down a disused factory smokestack, disposing of the villain once and for all.
He went into hiding in Switzerland in the guise of the Comte Balthazar de Bleuville and Bond defeated his vindictive plans to destroy Britain's agricultural economy.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Ernst Stavro Blofeld was a physically massive and powerfully built man who stood around 6' 3" (1.90 m) and weighed 20 st (280 lbs, 127 kg) where over the years had become flabby with a huge belly. Within the ranks of SPECTRE, he was commonly referred to by his code name of Number 1. In Japan, he once came to operate under the alias of Dr. Guntram Shatterhand.
He was said to not smoke or drink with him never having been known to sleep with a member of either sex. Blofeld was also said to not to eat very much.
A meticulous planner of formidable intellect, he seems to be without conscience but not necessarily insane, and was motivated solely by financial gain.
Blofeld was seemingly a man of honor or at least wanted to pose as one.
It was noted that he had been involved with a French prostitute at one point who became pregnant with his daughter who was named Nena.
Powers and abilities
He was both the founder and leader of the Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion (SPECTRE) that was a global crime organization.
Notes
- Ernst Stavro Blofeld was created by Ian Fleming where he featured in the setting of the James Bond universe.
- Blofeld's date of birthdate was also the as his creator Ian Fleming's.
- The character was the inspiration for Doctor Evil, the chief villain in the Austin Powers films, as well as Doctor Nogood, the chief of FOWL.
In other media
Films
- In Spectre, Ernst Stavro Blofeld appeared in the setting of the 2015 live-action film that was part of the rebooted franchise where he was portrayed by actor Christoph Waltz. This version was born Franz Oberhauser the son of Hannes Oberhauser who became James Bond's legal guardian after the boy was orphaned at the age of 11 thus making Franz and Bond adoptive brothers. As a young man, he resented Bond for being his father's favorite, leading him to murder his father, stage his own death, and take on the alias of Ernst Stavro Blofeld derived from his mother's lineage. Over time, he assembled a global criminal organisation known as Spectre. Bond encounters Blofeld while investigating a worldwide terrorist network, later revealed to be Spectre. Bond discovers that Blofeld is trying to take control of Nine Eyes, a global surveillance program, with help from treasonous Joint Intelligence Service agent Max Denbigh and staging terrorist attacks in order to justify the program's existence.
Video games
Comic Books
Appearances
- Thunderball: (1961)
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