Written by Mr. Mouseburger 8th Nov 2005
Death suggested by karl_eichholtz_13
Graves' plan has almost come to fruition as he sits aboard his Antonov awaiting the decimation of the demilitarised zone (aka the 38th parallel) between North and South Korea, via his solar weapon, Icarus. However, Graves did not count on Bond managing to get on board the plane too. This particular villain though seems to hold all of the aces, decked out as he is in an electric suit (for some curiously unexplained reason).
Bond inadvertently shoots a hole in one of the windows which causes the cabin to depressurise and several North Korean generals being blown out of the plane (a homage to Goldfinger no doubt). Bond and Graves seem to be the only people with the sense to cling on to something. So the scene is set for the final showdown.
Bond has the upper hand in the early exchanges, but this is quickly reversed once Graves manages to activate his electrical suit and shocks Bond in to submission. Graves goes to a locker and retrieves a couple of parachutes and, teasingly, he throws the spare out of the plane and straps on the remaining chute. Then, like every megalomaniac in the previous 19 instalments of the Bond franchise, Graves can't resist leaning close to Bond to gloat at his failure to save the world.
This is a schoolboy error, as Bond, sensing his opportunity, grabs the ripcord of Graves' chute and pulls it, forcing the chute to open. Graves is sucked out of the plane and is left clinging to the side desperately. Bond then calmly walks over to Graves and presses the button on his suit, which releases the electrical current, the surge of electricity forces Graves to release his grip and he gets sucked into the engines of the plane, to his death.
if Gustav Graves is dead does that mean world saved in Die Another Day?
to the previous entry: yes it does because on his electric suit it controlled the beam so when he is ripped apart so is the suit thus the beam stops.
This is a fair comment, i didn't explain that in the text mainly because i was focusing on the death of Graves. As Pryor says, Graves' suit controls Icarus, so with his death, the threat was eliminated.
I wonder how many films have the baddie falling/getting sucked into the engine of a plane? i can think of Major Grant from Die Hard 2. Can you think of any more?
Mouseburger
What about Crash, Drowning, and Resurrection for when he fell off the cliff in the pre-title sequence as Tan-gun Moon?
Or Not Quite Dead rather.
nah, we cant really add these categories to this particular death scene, as that happened at the beginning of the film, and it would be misleading.
What about "Own Weapon,"? like I said with Oddjob, although the weapon does not immediately cause his demise, the fight would have probably turned out differently had Bond not pressed the unnecessary "Suicide-Button".
And would "Machinery," work? as the jet engine was certainly not meant for said purpose.