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Well when you watch the movies through a modern lens, even the Brosnan era ones, he is "a bit rapey".

Goldfinger. Connery.

Bond rapes Pussy Galore and he's such a man that she falls for him and joins his side.

Actual rape.

He's probably licensed for that, too.

Oh I meant my comment more in the 'power of marketing' sense, rather than saying he's a bad guy

More exactly, I never saw Bond presented as the bad guy.