Gustav Graves

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James Bond character

Gustav Graves also known as Col. Tan-Sun Moon
Gender	Male
Role	Villain
Affiliation	North Korea Self-employed
Current status	Deceased
Portrayed by	Toby Stephens (as Graves) Will Yun Lee (as Moon)

Sir Gustav Graves KBE is a fictional character in the James Bond film Die Another Day, played by Toby Stephens.

[edit] Biography

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Graves was born Tan-Sun Moon, son of General Moon. When first seen, he is a Colonel in the Korean People's Army. He studied at Oxford and Harvard and was intended to become a bridge between the West and the East. Instead, he became a weapons smuggler, exchanging weapons for conflict diamonds from Sierra Leone, intent on the invasion and conquest of South Korea. MI6 became aware of his activities, however, and dispatched three agents, including James Bond, to shut him down. The mission was a success, and Moon was believed to have died when his hovercraft fell off a cliff.

Moon survived, however, and fled to Cuba, where he underwent DNA replacement therapy to alter his appearance. He then reinvented himself as Gustav Graves, a billionaire adventurer who worked in diamond mines in Argentina and later discovered a great mine of diamonds in Iceland — in reality the conflict diamonds he had been dealing with originally. He assumed a new personality modeled on James Bond: sophisticated, sarcastic and, by Graves' own admission, arrogant. With his new wealth, he built the Icarus, a huge artificial satellite capable of harnessing solar energy and focusing it on any part of the world he wished.

Graves' official reasons for the construction of Icarus were ending weather inconvenience and poverty and helping the harvests. His real reasons were more sinister, however; he was still intent on conquest of South Korea, and was planning to use Icarus to create a pathway in the mined demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, then use Icarus to destroy any ballistic missiles or nuclear warheads lauched against North Korea, so that the North Koreans could cross the DMZ and easily invade South Korea and the next step, Japan. Graves had the controls for Icarus built into a large metal suit with an additional electroshock weapon for self-defence.

When Graves put his plan into action, he took off in an Antonov An-124 with his father, and unbeknownst to him, James Bond, onboard to watch the scene. When General Moon tried to stop the plan, Graves killed his own father. Bond then attempted to kill Graves, but his shot missed and broke a window in the plane, sending all other passengers except himself and Graves in the room flying out. The two fought until Bond used Graves' parachute and the electroshock function of his suit to forcibly eject him, and Graves was sucked into the blades of the Antonov's jet engine, killing him and destroying his suit, rendering the Icarus harmless.

Last words: "Time to face destiny", to which Bond retorted: "Time to face gravity".