Elektra King
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Elektra King is a fictional character and villain from the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, played by Sophie Marceau.
Elektra is the daughter of Sir Robert King, whose mother's side of the family is of Azeri descent and fled the country immediately after the Soviet Union was established. She was kidnapped as a teenager by the terrorist Renard, and her father refused to pay the ransom on the advice of family friend (and James Bond's boss) M. Embittered, she became Renard's lover and participated in his scheme to bilk money from her family (going so far as to mutilate her ear so Renard could send it to her father as a warning) but pretended to have been traumatized by the kidnapping (Bond thought she suffered from Stockholm syndrome, but may have been blinded by his affection for her.)
Ten years later, she secretly collaborated with Renard to blow up her family's oil pipeline, becoming Bond's lover to throw off suspicion. When Renard publicly threatened to destroy the pipeline, however, she showed her true colors and kidnapped M, whom she blamed for her father's betrayal in not paying her ransom years earlier. The pipeline destruction, however, proved to be a diversion to further throw off suspicion to her real plan: contaminating the Bosporus with a nuclear meltdown, forcing oil traders to use her family's pipeline to transport the fossil fuel (the rest of the oil routes terminate in the Black Sea, meaning that tankers needed the Bosporus for transport). Her plan was minutes away from completion when Bond stormed her hideout and, after a tense confrontation, shot and killed her.
There is some debate as to whether Elektra, not Renard, should be considered the main villain in The World is Not Enough as it is clear many elements of the plot are orchestrated by her. If this is the case, Elektra is the first woman to be the main villain of a Bond film (since Rosa Klebb of From Russia with Love is clearly answering to someone else). Her main characteristics are that she is extremely manipulative and overwhelmingly arrogant, believing that her beauty and charm would always enable her to get her way. One example of her attitude was depicted in the sequence leading up to Bond killing her. While Bond was chasing her, she taunted him with "You couldn't shoot me... you'd miss me," believing Bond was too much in love with her (obviously once he figured it out he wasn't). The scene climaxed with Bond shooting her, saying "I never miss."
She is the third woman ever to be killed by Bond in the film franchise.
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