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Does it use ‘Bond villain’ rather than implicitly mention Sean Bean in order to avoid spoiling the demise of a character in a movie from almost three decades ago?

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Or they just assume most people aren’t familiar with the characters from every random Bond movie?

It's Alec Trevelyan.

I played the N64 game so much as a kid I can probably name almost all of the characters in Goldeneye.

Fair assumption, although Goldeneye is easily one of the best Bond movies, if not the best. Personally I remember more about that movie than I do about the whole rest of the franchise combined.

Goldeneye is among the best, but for my money I think Timothy Dalton gave us the best Bond performances we're likely to ever get. Brosnan did it well, but Timothy Dalton just oozed cool killer vibes.

I remembered it was a villain, I didn't remember it was played by Sean Bean so, more effective headline for me personally. I'm not sure why you honed in on that though.

Isn't the modern consensus that Sean Bean being cast to play a character carries that information implicitly?

It's not a spoiler. If Sean Bean is in a movie or TV show, he will die.

He didn't die in the _The Martian_ or _Ronin_, but he was fired from his job in both movies.

Not remembering Sharpe... Now that's not soldiering

They spoiled most of the movie in the trailer, back in 1995.

My friend still to this day says he would have preferred to go in blind, not knowing who the bad guy was. It would have been an epic reveal.

I don't intentionally watch movie trailers for this very reason.

Oi! Spoilers!

- guy walking into aftermarket auto parts store

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