| Novel | Villain | Objective | Outcome | Fate |
| Casino Royale | Le Chiffre | Pay off his embarrassing debts to his SMERSH masters by winning the money at Casino Royale's baccarat table. | James Bond beats Le Chiffre at baccarat. | Shot in the head by a SMERSH hitman. |
| Live and Let Die | Mr. Big | Smuggle and sell ancient gold coins to finance SMERSH operations. | Bond kills Mr Big. | Eaten by sharks and barracuda after he falls into the water when Bond blows up his boat. |
| Moonraker | Sir Hugo Drax | Destroy London with a nuclear missile, the eponymous Moonraker. | Before the Moonraker is launched, Bond and Gala Brand escape. Gala gives Bond the proper coordinates to reprogram the gyros and send the Moonraker into the sea. | Drax and his men escape to the North Sea in a Soviet submarine, but are killed in the explosion of the Moonraker when it lands in their vicinity. |
| Diamonds Are Forever | Jack Spang | Smuggle a large cache of diamonds worth millions of dollars from Africa to America to fund organisation. | Smuggling operation is dismantled when all operatives are assassinated. | Killed when Bond shoots down his helicopter. |
| Diamonds Are Forever | Seraffimo Spang | Smuggle a large cache of diamonds worth millions of dollars from Africa to America to fund organisation. | Smuggling operation is dismantled when all operatives are assassinated. | Bond shoots him while he is driving a train, causing it to derail and crash. |
| From Russia, with Love | Rosa Klebb | Kill Bond in a humiliating sex scandal, kill MI6 cryptanalysts with a boobytrapped cipher machine. | Bond kills SMERSH assassin Grant and foils the booby trap plot, but is nearly killed by Klebb with a poisoned shoe blade. | Captured by the Deuxième Bureau and later dies. |
| From Russia, with Love | Donovan "Red" Grant | Kill Bond in a humiliating sex scandal, kill MI6 cryptanalysts with a boobytrapped cipher machine. | Bond kills SMERSH assassin Grant and foils the booby trap plot, but is nearly killed by Klebb with a poisoned shoe blade. | Killed by Bond |
| Dr. No | Dr. Julius No | Disrupt U.S.-guided missile tests. | Dr. No is killed and the project is dismantled. | Buried under a pile of guano by Bond. |
| Goldfinger | Auric Goldfinger | Steal the U.S. gold supply from Fort Knox to finance SMERSH. | U.S. authorities are alerted by Bond. | Strangled by Bond with his bare hands in a fit of rage after hijacking an aeroplane. |
| "From a View to a Kill" | GRU agents | Kill dispatch-riders of SHAPE to steal information from the British Secret Service. | The riders are killed but the information is recovered by Bond. | Shot by Bond and Mary Ann Russell. |
| "For Your Eyes Only" | Colonel von Hammerstein | Acquire the Havelock estate in Jamaica to use as a headquarters for a drug running operation. | Obtains the estate, but both are later killed. | Killed by Judy Havelock with an arrow. |
| "For Your Eyes Only" | Hector Gonzales | Acquire the Havelock estate in Jamaica to use as a headquarters for a drug running operation. | Obtains the estate, but both are later killed. | Shot by Bond in firefight. |
| "Risico" | Aristotle Kristatos | Smuggle drugs, aid Soviet missile development, and trick Bond into killing rival. | Bond discovers the truth. | Shot by Bond while driving his car, and the car rolls off into the fog. |
| "The Hildebrand Rarity" | Milton Krest | Catch the Hildebrand Rarity by any means necessary. | Succeeds, but dies. | Chokes to death on the rare fish, possibly murdered by either his battered wife Liz Krest or a guest on his yacht he offended earlier that night. Bond throws the body overboard. |
| Thunderball | Emilio Largo | Blackmail the western world with two stolen atomic bombs. | Bond discovers the location of the bombs. | Shot in the neck with a speargun by his mistress, Domino Vitali. |
| Thunderball | Ernst Stavro Blofeld | Blackmail the western world with two stolen atomic bombs. | Bond discovers the location of the bombs. | Survives. |
| The Spy Who Loved Me | Mr. Sanguinetti | Have his motel burnt down, and have Vivienne Michel assassinated to claim the property and life insurances. | His assassins fail to kill Vivienne and set the place on fire. | Arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol. |
| The Spy Who Loved Me | Sol "Horror" Horowitz and "Sluggsy" Morant | Assassinate Vivienne Michel under orders of Mr. Sanguinetti and torch the motel owned by Sanguinetti. | They fail to kill Vivienne and are killed themselves. | Both are shot to death by Bond. |
| On Her Majesty's Secret Service | Ernst Stavro Blofeld | Develop a deadly virus to destroy British livestock and cereals. | The virus and their headquarters are destroyed by Bond and Marc-Ange Draco's Union Corse. | Survives. |
| You Only Live Twice | Ernst Stavro Blofeld | He creates a "garden of death" and entices depressed Japanese to suicide. He charges for the suicides to refinance SPECTRE. | His lair is destroyed and his henchmen are killed by Bond. | Strangled by Bond with his bare hands in a fit of rage. |
| The Man with the Golden Gun | Francisco "Pistols" Scaramanga | Expand his international crime organisation into the Caribbean and organise smuggling operations to finance. | Kills one associate himself; another is shot by Felix Leiter; the others die in a bridge explosion. | Shot through the heart by Bond. |
| "Octopussy" | Major Dexter Smythe | Live off looted Nazi gold. | Discovered by Bond, he is faced with the choice between prosecution and suicide. | Accidentally stung by a scorpionfish, then partially eaten by an octopus. |
| "The Property of a Lady" | Maria Freudenstein and her Soviet contact | Receive secret payment for double agent services. | Succeeds. | Survives, but her contact is deported. |
| "The Living Daylights" | Trigger, KGB assassin. | Assassinate defector. | Her gun is shot out of her hand before she can kill the defector. | Wounded by Bond, she survives and escapes. |
| "007 in New York" | KGB double-agent | Blackmail MI6 using a female employee. | Employee is tipped off by Bond. | Arrested by the CIA. |
| Novel | Villain | Objective | Outcome | Fate |
| Licence Renewed | Dr. Anton Murik | Hold nuclear power plants hostage in exchange for $50 billion to build a safe reactor. | Bond gives the abort order to the henchmen. | Shot by Bond with Gyrojet pistol. |
| For Special Services | SPECTRE – Nena Bismaquer | Use Bond to take control of NORAD. | Nena's husband, Markus Bismaquer, breaks her hypnotic spell on Bond before the plan succeeds. | Crushed by her own pythons. |
| Icebreaker | Count Konrad von Glöda
| Bring back Nazism by wiping out Communists. | Bond defeats him with the aid of Paula Vacker, a Supo agent and Brad Tirpitz, a member of the CIA. | Shot by Bond. |
| Role of Honour | Jay Autem Holy | Disarm U.S. and Soviet nuclear weaponry through a computerised scheme to create world peace. | Bond's "defection" to SPECTRE is actually a ruse, and he ruins them. | Shot and killed by Rahani. |
| Role of Honour | Tamil Rahani | Disarm the U.S. nuclear weaponry to give the USSR an advantage in the Cold War. | Bond's "defection" to SPECTRE is actually a ruse, and he ruins them. | Escapes, but injures himself in his parachute landing, contracting cancer in his spinal cord and left terminally ill, with a short time left, between days and four months. |
| Nobody Lives for Ever | Tamil Rahani | Put a large bounty on Bond's head to have him assassinated following his terminal spinal cord diagnosis. | Bond kills him. | Blown up by bed bomb, courtesy of Bond. |
| No Deals, Mr. Bond | General Konstantin Nikolaevich Chernov
| Kill all participants in a defunct espionage operation. | Bond saves them. | Arrested. |
| Scorpius | Vladimir Scorpius
| Carry out assassinations with a cult of suicide bombers, ultimately kill the U.S. president and British prime minister. | The cult is raided and disbanded, and the president and prime minister are saved. | Bitten by cottonmouths. |
| Win, Lose or Die | BAST–Bassam Baradj | Capture aircraft carrier with US, UK, and USSR leaders on board and hold them for ransom. | Bond overtakes the ship. | Shot by Bond's ally Beatrice Maria da Ricci. |
| Licence to Kill | Franz Sanchez | Smuggle drugs. | Bond destroys the factory. | Set on fire by Bond. |
| Brokenclaw | "Brokenclaw" Lee Fu-Chu | Sell secret plans for underwater defence system to Red China, and crash the world stock market with a computerised scheme. | Chinese agents captured and impersonated by Bond and ally Sue Chi-Ho, and their base is blown up. | Shot by Bond with bow and arrow. |
| The Man from Barbarossa | General Yevgeny Yuskovich | Supply Iraq with nuclear weapons. | Battleship with nuclear weapons destroyed. | Dies when his ship is blown up. |
| Death is Forever | Wolfgang Weisen | Assassinate all members of British-American CABAL, and destabilise Western Europe by blowing up train containing several world leaders. | Train remotely stopped before it can reach its destination. | Electrocuted on train railing. |
| Never Send Flowers | David Dragonpol | Assassinate Princess Diana and her sons at Euro Disney. | The royal family is prevented from arriving at Euro Disney. | Blown up by his own bomb. |
| SeaFire | Sir Maxwell Tarn | Start oil spill fire during demonstration with U-boat. | Bond destroys the submarine. | Burns to death when Bond shoots him with a flare. |
| GoldenEye | Alec Trevelyan | Ruin London's economy. | His base is destroyed. | Crushed by falling debris. |
| COLD | General Brutus Clay | Replace government with Puritan society. | Bond discovers his plan and notifies his superiors to bomb the base. | Bond shoots him off a boat and he drowns in the water. |