Saddest "Bond Girl" death?

Vesper. That one actually hit hard. The way Bond just watches her drown... Daniel Craig sold that scene so well.

Tracy Bond ( On Her Majesty’s Secret Service) who was murdered in cold blood just after her and Bond got married.

Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo (AKA Mrs Bond)- just married and shot with a bullet meant for him

It kinda brought a tear to my eye when Vanessa Kensington turned out to be a robot, and tried to kill Austin on their Honeymoon. Really set the tone of the movie.

That poor girl in Moonraker who gets run down by Hugo Drax's dogs. The movie was ridiculous but that scene is haunting.

I remember being particularily shaken by Strawberry Fields from quantum of solace being drowned in oil

Felix Leiter’s wife who got killed on her wedding day in “License To Kill”.

Surprised no one said Lindsey (Keri Russell) who dies right in front of a helpless Tom Cruise in MI3.

If we're counting female characters from spy films in general, I've got to go with Ilsa Faust from the Mission Impossible films. She was cool and mysterious with as much of a hidden caring side as a someone in her line of work could afford, and without a doubt the single most badass supporting character in the entire series, to the point where she was the only one out of all of Ethan's allies who could reliably match him for sheer badass-ness. And considering how he had to end his previous relationship with Juia because he was putting her in danger, Ilsa being an unparalleled badass makes her the very rare sort of individual whom Ethan *could* have a relationship with. Hell, in Fallout, Luthor and Julia herself all but give her their seal of approval, with the former in particular flat-out telling Ilsa that she and Julia are the only two woman Ethan's ever had serious feelings for. Over the better part of her appearance in the series, she was constantly built up as the woman whom Ethan could spend the rest of his life with, running around the world and getting into fights and jumping off buildings together until they got too old for that shit. *Aaaaaaaaand then they killed her off in Dead Reckoning.* I get that Rebecca Ferguson herself requested that they kill off Ilsa so that she wouldn't have scheduling conflicts with her role in Dune - that movie's a f****** generational film, and I wouldn't want to miss out on being involved either. I'M STILL F****** MAD ABOUT THE CHARACTER, THOUGH. Do you know the last time we got a female character in a Tom Cruise action flick who actually UPSTAGED TOM CRUISE? The answer is Emily Blunt as Rita Vrataski in Edge of Tomorrow, and that shit was a f****** MASTERPIECE! Rebecca Ferguson did that shit THREE TIMES, and then they KILLED HER OFF IN THE THIRD F****** MOVIE. How the hell do you make HAYLEY F****** ATWELL feel like a DOWNGRADE? I'M STILL MAD.

When Vanessa was revealed to be a Fembot

Maybe not the saddest, but in Bourne Supremacy (2004) I vividly remember rewinding the DVD after *that* scene. One of the few times I’ve just been shocked.

It has to be Vesper. She’s one of the few Bond girls to have been a character, and a good one at that.

Strawberry Fields in Quantum of Solace. What an absolutely horrific way to go

Probably not depicted as sad, but the idea is sad. Severine from Skyfall. Had to look up her name. All of this is from subtext, but her whole life, she was forced into sexual slavery and was exploited by a criminal organization probably since she was a child. She gets wrapped up with Bond, but when she gets shot in the head by Silva in the contest, she’s just “a waste of good scotch”

Severine in Skyfall is an overlooked one. Her life is one of the most tragic of any character in the Bond films; she was a child sex worker in Macau until Silva helped her get out, only to soon learn that she was practically a slave to an even bigger monster than what she'd been subjected to before. She lived every day in fear of him until Bond came along and said he'd help her. Given that he'd just killed Patrice she knew he could, and in her desperation she trusted him, only to be caught, tortured, and murdered by Silva in a twisted game of William Tell. Every time she thought she'd found someone she could trust, she was let down in the cruelest way possible and you can't help but feel bad for her because of it.

Aki from You Only Live Twice, she’s accidentally poisoned during the assassination attempt on James and then they just swap her out with Kissy Suzuki and it’s like nothing ever happened 🤷‍♂️

Probably Vesper. Older Bond just kinda shrugs it off or sighs and goes for payback. And I think Wick's dog is Daisy?

John Wick's puppy's name was Daisy. It's kind of a big point in the backstory with his wife. The necklace she had was a daisy and the cards she sent him had daisies on them. They become a visual representation of the good in him and also a symbol of his loss. They might be action movies, but they can get deep sometimes...

Grace jones on the rail car!

That girl from Austin powers that was used as a human shield. FOUR TIMES!

M in Skyfall. 

The girl who was painted gold

Strawberry Fields, she wasn’t a field agent 

Gotta be Vesper

Gianna D'Antonio in John Wick 2.

Tracy... "It's all right. It's quite all right, really. She's having a rest. We'll be going on soon. There's no hurry, you see. We have all the time in the world." 😭 She was BEAUTIFUL, too... My favourite Bond Girl.

Vesper for me by a mile. Whoever is in 2nd, is a distant second for me.

Terri Hatcher in Tomorrow Never Dies(can’t remember the character name). Can only imagine how horrific the torture was

Elektra Bond just murdered her in cold blood

Goldfinger

Delphine (Atomic Blonde)

Some recency bias here. Going with Jill Masterson (played by Shirley Eaton) who was killed by being painted completely gold in of course Goldfinger.

Rika van den Haas in Lethal Weapon 2. I was devastated when she was killed. Patsy Kensit was beautiful in that movie.

Bill Haydon - tinker taylor soldier spy.

The one that was chased and killed by dogs in Moonraker. That was shocking.

Tracy Bond played by Diana Rigg , killed by Blofeld right after their wedding on their way to their honeymoon.

Vesper for sure. Eva was exceptional in the role in every way and is also my favourite Bond girl. C***** Royale is just amazing.

María always gets me.

Thought I'd mention Marisa Velez, the research cop in both F/X and F/X 2... she helped NYPD detective Leo McCarthy crack the case in the first movie and was killed by a drive by shooting in the second.

To this list of sad tragic ends, I would add Aki in You Only Live Twice, who dies after accidentally consuming poison meant for Bond, simply because he rolled over in bed and the string down which the poison dripped ended up over her lips.

Really weird OP since it's "Bond Girl Deaths" but only includes one Bond Girl and the last spot is "other" Definitely Tracy and Vesper, plus Fields and Countess Lisl from For Your Eyes Only

gotta go with Vesper, her death hit different and really shaped Bond's character in the long run. the way it all went down was just brutal.

Casey Janine Fitzpatrick, killed at the altar by Dieter Von Cunth To this day I have no idea why he killed her

Teresa in On Her Majesty's Secret Service..

May Day deserves to be on the list.

The only right answer is Vesper.

Corinne attacked by dogs in Moonraker

Vesper. It had an emotional punch, and in any tie break scenarios, Eva Green wins.

Tracy Bond from "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" is my #1.

Tracy.

>Dog (forgot its name)

I mean it sort of fits but not really, but emma stone’s Gwen Stacey Death in the amazing spiderman 2. That shits sad AF.

Definitely not the John Wick dog. **Nothing** about the dog works at all for me. 4/10 film that somehow managed to get 8/10 sequels. And similarly with the Mission Impossible films. Aside from the first one they're just so incredibly forgettable. I've seen all of them (except the last one) and I could probably watch them all right now and be surprised by every single development. Except for the Henry Cavill bathroom fight. There no there there, the film series. Empty calories. Marie in The Bourne Supremacy is definitely a good shout. But I do feel like it's a bit like the John Wick dog where the concept of her death is more meaningful than the actual execution of it. But that's because her death is filtered through the shaky cam of the escape. It's too frenetic to be sad. So.. I would have said Vesper in C***** Royale *anyway*. That film is just such a contrast to all the others. Instantly unforgettable. Instantly comprehensible. And they earn every single moment in it. Even the fact it's not Bond that gets revenge. And the result is when Vesper dies you're seeing a character who you really got to sit with whose relationship to the "Bond" (in this case, literally Bond) is given room to not just breathe but blossom. But she dies and she dies badly... and the hero's reaction is "the b**** is dead". For a film which wallows in everything (in the best possible way) to end with the character insisting it doesn't matter and spending as little time on that as possible is an extremely tidy bit of contrast. (And, yes, the next film is basically wallowing in Vesper's death. The refusal to deal with it in C***** Royale is the point, not that there's nothing to deal with.) I'm sure there's one from another movie that I'm thinking of. Strawberry Fields in Quantum of Solace just dies so pointlessly I'd actually put it over all the non-Vesper examples you mentioned but it's something like that with a more significant character that I'm thinking of. Hmm... nope. Can't think of it. Hell, for all I know I'm trying to think of how Julia died. As I said: completely forgettable movie. I feel like it was a "don't do it, it won't work and it doesn't need doing" \*she does it and gets killed\* situation.