Alec Trevelyan
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James Bond character | |
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Alec Trevelyan | |
Gender | Male |
Role | Villain |
Affiliation | MI6/Janus |
Current status | Deceased |
Portrayed by | Sean Bean |
Alec Trevelyan is a fictional character in the James Bond film GoldenEye, portrayed by actor Sean Bean. The likeness of Bean as Alec Trevelyan was also used for the 1997 video game, GoldenEye 007.
[edit] Film Biography
Once an agent working for Her Majesty's secret service, agent 006, Trevelyan betrayed MI6 on a mission in Soviet Russia while working with James Bond, agent 007. During the mission to blow up the Arkhangelsk chemical weapons facility, Trevelyan was caught by the base's commander, Colonel Arkady Ourumov, and shot point blank in the head. Presuming Trevelyan dead, Bond continued the mission and escaped in a supply plane.
Nine years later, Bond, while pursuing the thieves of a stolen helicopter, is told by Valentin Zukovsky that the head of a crime syndicate known as Janus (previously under suspicion for the stolen helicopter) is a Lienz Cossack. Later, Bond discovers that Janus is none other than Trevelyan himself, and that not only was his execution staged, but he now employs Ourumov, who has risen to the rank of General. Trevelyan's family was part of the Lienz Cossacks who had collaborated with the Nazis but attempted to defect to the British at the war's end. The British instead sent them back to the USSR. Trevelyan's parents had survived "the British betrayal and Stalin's execution squads." Trevelyan's father, ashamed that he had survived, killed his wife and then himself. Trevelyan was then taken in by MI6 at the age of six and went to work for the government that betrayed his parents.
His scheme involved stealing the GoldenEye disk, keys and access codes and destroying the Severnaya complex using the electromagnetic pulse of the nuclear explosion of GoldenEye's nuclear warhead satellite Petya, thus erasing any evidence. His henchmen (Ourumov and Xenia Onatopp) escaped Severnaya under the protection of the stolen Tiger helicopter that was impervious to an electromagnetic pulse. GoldenEye's nuclear warhead satellite Mischa would then be used to aid Trevelyan in stealing completely via computer from the Bank of England in London, and erasing all evidence of the transaction when Mischa destroys the city, destroying the British economy and government and triggering a catastrophic currency crisis in the New York Stock Exchange and the world economy. Trevelyan, having obtained the only valuable currency of pounds sterling, could have economic supremacy over the British and the world in an era of terrorism for decades.
Bond stopped this scheme with the help of former Severnaya technician Natalya Simonova and CIA agent Jack Wade. Trevelyan met his demise when Bond dropped him from the bottom of a satellite antenna. He survived the initial fall (barely), only to be crushed by the flaming debris of the antenna, destroyed by Bond.
Trevelyan's betrayal of MI6 and Bond continue a tradition of often prescribing personal motivations for Bond on his missions. As Bond holds Trevelyan by the foot on top of the dish, Trevelyan quips: "For England, James?" to which Bond replies: "No, for me" before releasing him.
[edit] Henchmen
Preceded by: Franz Sanchez |
Bond Villain 1995 |
Succeeded by: Elliot Carver |
Bond girls:
Honey Ryder • Sylvia Trench • Tatiana Romanova • Jill Masterson • Pussy Galore • Dominique Derval • Patricia Fearing • Aki • Kissy Suzuki • Tracy di Vecenzo • Ruby Bartlett • Tiffany Case • Plenty O'Toole • Solitaire • Mary Goodnight • Andrea Anders • Anya Amasova • Dr. Holly Goodhead • Corinne Dufour • Melina Havelock • Bibi Dahl • Countess Lisl von Schlaf • Octopussy • Magda • Stacey Sutton • Pola Ivanova • Kara Milovy • Pam Bouvier • Lupe Lamora • Natalya Simonova • Paris Carver • Wai Lin • Dr. Molly • Dr. Christmas Jones • Jinx • Vesper Lynd • Solange
Villains:
Dr. No • Rosa Klebb • Auric Goldfinger • Emilio Largo • Ernst Stavro Blofeld • Dr Kananga/Mr Big • Francisco Scaramanga • Karl Stromberg • Sir Hugo Drax • Aristotle Kristatos • Kamal Khan • General Orlov • Max Zorin • Brad Whitaker • General Koskov • Franz Sanchez • Alec Trevelyan • Elliot Carver • Renard • Elektra King • Gustav Graves • Le Chiffre • Mr. White
Officials:
Felix Leiter • M • Miss Moneypenny • Q • General Gogol • Fredrick Gray • Other 00' Agents • Bill Tanner • Charles Robinson
Henchmen by film:
Dr. No • From Russia with Love • Goldfinger • Thunderball • You Only Live Twice • On Her Majesty's Secret Service • Diamonds are Forever • Live and Let Die • The Man with the Golden Gun • The Spy Who Loved Me • Moonraker • For Your Eyes Only • Octopussy • A View to a Kill • The Living Daylights • Licence to Kill • GoldenEye • Tomorrow Never Dies • The World is Not Enough • Die Another Day • Casino Royale
Allies by film:
Dr. No • From Russia with Love • Goldfinger • Thunderball • You Only Live Twice • On Her Majesty's Secret Service • Diamonds Are Forever • Live and Let Die • The Man with the Golden Gun • The Spy Who Loved Me • Moonraker • For Your Eyes Only • Octopussy • A View to a Kill • The Living Daylights • Licence to Kill • GoldenEye • Tomorrow Never Dies • The World Is Not Enough • Die Another Day • Casino Royale