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Amazon Can Do Whatever It Wants With the Bond Side Characters


Take M, Q, Moneypenny, and all the villains — just leave James alone!

Broccoli’s protection over the franchise prevented dozens of spinoffs, video games, television shows, and other misguided ideas from coming to life. The best MI6 pals and corny villains can sometimes transcend their half-baked simplicity, but often they sink into bizarre obviousness, like No Time To Die ’s Lyutsifer Safin (pronounced “Lucifer Satan” in whatever accept Rami Malek was supposed to be doing). Just as you might strike gold when buying the “Amazon’s choice” for socks or an ice cube tray, it too might stumble upon something genius with an animated series about Blofeld’s cat.

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