Doctor Julius No
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Dr. Julius No is a fictional character in the James Bond film and novel Dr. No. He was the very first James Bond villain in the film series. Dr. No was played by Joseph Wiseman.
Film biography
Dr. No is a brilliant scientist, a self-described "unwanted child of a German missionary, and a Chinese girl of a good family." He later "became treasurer of the most powerful criminal society in China," in this case, the Tongs. He then "escaped to America with $10,000,000" of Tong gold bullion. He specialized in atomic energy, which cost him both of his hands, which were replaced with crude bionic ones that were made out of either iron or steel. Dr. No's metal hands apparently had great strength (he could crush a stone figurine into powder), but were seriously lacking in manual dexterity. He also has an implied Napoleon complex.He offered his skills and expertise to the Americans, but was rejected. To get revenge, No joined the villainous organization S.P.E.C.T.R.E., and relocated to his island in Crab Key, Jamaica.
Dr. No, in an effort to cause trouble for the Americans, used his secret underground island base as a headquarters from which he would sabotage U.S. missiles by disabling their guidance systems and destroying them. Dr. No accomplished this with a powerful radio transmission, powered by an atomic energy reactor within his base.
No was killed after a hand-to-hand fight with Bond on a descending platform in the heart of No's nuclear reactor. Bond managed to knock No down and escape the lift before it plunged into the reactor's cooling vat. No, on the other hand, was unable to grip the framework of the lift due to his crude metal hands, and thus sank into the boiling, radioactive water to his death.
Henchmen
- Miss Taro
- Professor Dent
- The Three Blind Mice
Novel biography
Although the film and novel are similar in plot, the backgrounds for Julius No are almost entirely different. Born in Peking, he was the son of a German Methodist missionary and a Chinese girl, but was raised by his Aunt. When older, he went to Shanghai, where he became involved with the Tongs, a Chinese crime syndicate. Later he was smuggled to the United States and settled in New York City, where he became a clerk and eventually Treasurer for a Tong in America, called the "Hip-Sings."In the late 1920s, a mob war broke out in New York, forcing the police to crack down on them. No stole a million dollars in gold from the Tong and disappeared. But the Tongs tracked him down and tortured him to find the location of the gold. When No did not tell them, the Tongs cut off his hands, shot him through the heart and left him for dead. No, who had a condition called dextrocardia in which his heart was on the right side of the body, survived, however.
No spent a long time in hospital, then enrolled in medical school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is unclear if he completed his studies, but he adopted the title of Doctor and changed his name (his birth name is unknown) to Julius No, symbolic of his rejection of his father, whose given name was Julius. Using his million dollars, No purchased the island of Crab Key, off the coast of Jamaica, where he re-started a defunct guano business.
No, with aid from the Soviets, sabotaged nearby American missile tests by jamming their signals and making them land and explode on a different target than that planned. This forced the Americans to spend time and money redesigning their missiles. He also recovered missiles from the ocean and turned them over the Russians.
Bond did not actually learn of No's devious plot until after infiltrating Crab Key with Quarrel, where he was captured. With the help of Honeychile Rider, who also trespassed to find exclusive shells, Bond killed Dr. No by burying him under a heap of guano whilst operating a crane.
Henchmen
- Miss Taro
Other appearances
Dr. No made several appearances in the James Bond Junior cartoon, his Asian heritage stereotyped to extreme levels. His skin, however, was rendered bright green - perhaps a callback to his seeming death by radioactivity, but also not an uncommon treatment for Asian villains to receive in animation at the time; the verdant fate was shared by Ming the Merciless in Defenders of the Earth and the Mandarin in Iron Man.Dr. Julius No also appeared in the video game , despite his death in the book and film, alongside fellow Bond enemies Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Auric Goldfinger, Francisco Scaramanga, and Xenia Onatopp. In the game, Xenia Onatopp works for Dr. No and he seems to possess a considerable army of well-equipped henchmen, as well as numerous tanks and helicopter gunships. He was electrocuted by his own reactor in a fight with the rogue 00 agent, "Goldeneye". In the game, he was voiced by Carlos Alazraqui.
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