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| Fiona Volpe | |
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| Character from the James Bond franchise | |
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| Affiliation | SPECTRE |
| Portrayed by | Luciana Paluzzi |
Fiona Volpe, played by Luciana Paluzzi, is a fictional character in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball.
In the film
A deadly assassin in SPECTRE's execution branch, she becomes NATO pilot Major Francois Derval’s mistress in the operation to steal the Vulcan and its precious cargo of two atomic bombs, which SPECTRE plans to use to blackmail the world.
She organises Derval’s murder and kills Count Lippe by destroying his car with the missile launcher on her BSA motorcycle, after his numerous attempts to kill Bond fail. Volpe is later seen pushing the motorcycle into a pond, presumably to hide evidence.
Bond meets Volpe while hitchhiking, and she startles Bond with her fast driving. They soon arrive at their hotel in Nassau. Fiona holds Paula Caplan captive, but Caplan commits suicide by taking cyanide before revealing anything. Meanwhile she waits for Bond in his bathtub, she seduces him and they have sex. While dressing for the Junkanoo, Volpe lets in Vargas and another one of Emilio Largo's henchmen to hold Bond captive. Bond manages to flee Volpe and hide in the Junkanoo, but they soon catch up at the Kiss Kiss Club. Volpe approaches Bond as he is dancing with another woman. Assuming Volpe is his wife (possibly due to her ring), the woman leaves, and the pair begin slow-dancing, while one of the other henchmen hides behind a curtain and aims a gun at Bond. Bond notices in time and spins Volpe into the path of the bullet, which pierces her spine and kills her. Leaving Volpe's corpse in a chair saying, "She's just dead", and the other henchmen disorganized by shock, Bond exits.
Death
Her death has been a source of debate by Bond film fans for years, due to the ambiguous nature in which her killing is filmed. To some, Bond intentionally uses her as a human shield to protect himself against a bullet, which would make her the first woman in the Bond film series to be killed by 007. This is parodied in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, in a scene in which Austin Powers uses Robin Swallows as a human shield (Robin is not immediately killed by the knives, bullets, machine gun shell or high fall from the window).
Other versions
In the remake Never Say Never Again, also starring Sean Connery, this character is modified into Fatima Blush.
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