Max Zorin
Max Zorin is a male film character who features in James Bond.
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Biography
Maximillian Zorin was a male human born in Dresden after the end of World War II during a time when his home as part of East Germany. He later came to move to France and became a leading French businessman where he operated in a microchip market.
Zorin forms a plan, dubbed Project Mainstrike to destroy the heavy American competition in Silicon Valley by triggering a massive earthquake in the San Andreas Fault at high tide, causing the valley to flood. Such a disaster would effectively wipe out all computer companies competing against Zorin in the world microchip market and leave him as the leading supplier of microchips with his own Zorin Microchip, as well as slaughtering millions residing in the valley. His plan was to use his vast resources to set off a super-earthquake in both the San Andreas Fault and Hayward Fault by flooding them both with water from San Andreas Lake and then breaking the geological lock that forbade both faults from moving simultaneously. To accomplish this, Zorin mined underneath the lakes and planned to blast through the lake beds in order to flood the fault, further exacerbating it by pumping water into them via a vast system of oil wells. Once the floodwaters came in, he would set off the explosives necessary to break the lock. Zorin's plan is foiled by James Bond and Zorin's former lover and henchman May Day, who joins Bond's side after Zorin attempts to kill her, having already killed most of his workers as well as May Day's friend Jenny Flex, and sacrifices her life to ensure that the bomb set by Zorin could not trigger the quake - she was killed in the explosion seconds after managing to push a trailer full of explosives out of the valley and into open air.
Bond and his partner Stacey Sutton both witnessed the explosion, which infuriated Zorin and made him even more determined to gain revenge on Bond. When leaving the valley in his airship with his right-hand man Scarpine and Mortner, he captures Stacey and makes away with her, only for Bond to grab hold of a mooring rope as the airship heads for the Golden Gate Bridge. Zorin attempts to kill Bond by flying him into the framework of the bridge, but Bond manages to hold on and bring the airship to a halt by mooring it to the framework. Stacey attacks Zorin and as Scarpine and Mortner try to stop her, the airship crashes into the side of the bridge, knocking Mortner unconscious. Zorin sends Scarpine to kill Bond, but Stacey smashes him round the back of the head with a fire extinguisher, knocking him out too. Stacey then escapes onto the bridge's support cable to join Bond, but is closely followed by Zorin who viciously attacks Bond with a fire axe. After a brief scuffle, Bond causes Zorin to lose his grip on the framework, which makes him fall into the sea below. breaking every bone in his body and avenging the deaths of May Day and everyone else he killed.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Outwardly, he was shown to be well spoken and extraordinarily intelligent.
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Max Zorin was created by Ian Fleming and featured in the setting of A View to a Kill.
- The character was portrayed by actor Christopher Walken.
In other media
Video games
- In James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing, Max Zorin was referenced in the setting of the 2004 video game. It was shown that he had an apprentice named Nikolai Diavolo who wanted to avenge his master and kill James Bond. Part of his plans involved using nanobots to infect the population of Russia as well as Lithuania and other former Soviet republics, brainwashing those citizens into demanding the return of the Soviet Union.
Appearances
- A View to a Kill:
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