Gustav Graves
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| Gustav Graves / Col. Tan-Sun Moon | |
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| Gender | Male |
| Affiliation | self employed |
| Relatives | Father: General Moon (Deceased) |
| Portrayed by | Toby Stephens (as Gustav Graves) Will Yun Lee (as Tan-Sun Moon) |
Sir Gustav Graves (formerly known as Colonel Tan-Sun Moon) is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film Die Another Day, played by Toby Stephens.
[edit] Biography
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 North Korea. Instead, he became a radical and a weapons smuggler, exchanging state of the art hovercraft weapons (that he developed for use in the mine-infested DMZ) 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 British billionaire adventurer who worked in diamond mines in Argentina and later discovered a great mine of diamonds in Iceland — in reality the mine was just a laundering front for conflict diamonds which he had been dealing with originally. He assumed a new personality modeled on James Bond: sophisticated, suave 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 launched 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-defense.
Moon put his plan into action when he and the North Korean hard-liners staged a coup to take control of the country, placing his father under arrest. He took off in an Antonov An-124 with General Moon, and unbeknowst to him, James Bond, onboard to watch the scene. When General Moon tried to stop the plan, Graves murdered 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".
[edit] Henchmen
[edit] See also
- Colonel Sun (novel) - The name Colonel Tan-Sun Moon is an homage to the first official James Bond novel written after Ian Fleming's death.
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