However, the greatest usage of such a technology, and the prospect that MI6 has been working with genetic toys for some time now, has to be Q’s “smart blood,” which was introduced in Spectre. Ever since Casino Royale injected a smart tracker into James Bond, keeping tabs on his whereabouts through better chemistry has been trotted out time and again. Whether it’s coincidental or by design, the usage of tracking devices on Bond has been a recurring device throughout most of the films. ![]() (Image credit: Danjaq, LLC and MGM) How Project Heracles May Have Shown Up In James Bond's PastĬrazily enough, a running thread through Daniel Craig’s run as James Bond may have provided a piece of foreshadowing that signaled this very threat. Sadly, it’s also what forced him to sacrifice himself, thanks to his infection with a final, twisted Heracles variant that would have killed Madeleine and Mathilde upon contact. What was once a genetic sniper rifle has now become a potential weapon of mass destruction for any crackpot with a grudge which is why James Bond ordered the destruction of Safin’s poison garden. We see this through the deaths of a family that were related to a fallen SPECTRE lieutenan after the events of the Cuban showdown in No Time To Die.īut also, Valdo Obruchev himself threatens Nomi (Lashana Lynch) with his ability to now target very specific ethnicities. This variant of Project Heracles can wipe out entire family lines, ethnic groups and any genetic traits the person wielding it wants to target. ![]() Only instead of a handful of “angels of death,” Safin plans to use a modified version of Project Heracles to tidy up the world. What happens when you team a racist, disgruntled scientist with a megalomaniac who's a dark version of James Bond? You get a terror plot that sounds a little bit like the classic ploy Blofeld tried to carry out in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. (Image credit: DANJAQ, LLC AND MGM) Safin’s Variant Of Project Heracles It’s a personal form of revenge in its original conception, but thanks to the combined imagination of Lyutsifer Safin and Valdo Obruchev, it becomes the largest threat in the Daniel Craig era of James Bond. We saw this in action with the death of Blofeld, as Madeleine’s bespoke fragrance of death in No Time To Die went from her to Bond, and from Bond to Blofeld upon our hero trying to choke out his adopted brother. One touch will transfer those replicating nanobots to another person until they hit their intended target. The downsides to this tech are even greater, as Q (Ben Whishaw) himself proclaimed with the rather funny quip of, “Nanobots aren’t just for Christmas.” Project Heracles is permanently a part of any exposed subject’s bloodstream. However, once Valdo Obruchev switched the target sample with everyone on SPECTRE's roster, the results were less than ideal for the imprisoned maniac. Project Heracles harmless to whomever isn’t identified by the DNA profile used when sequencing the weapon, which was what Blofeld intended when trying to kill James Bond at his surprise birthday party. Using a DNA sample from the target intended, Heracles uses a swarm of microscopic nanobots to take out only the person that sample is sequenced to. In its original design, No Time To Die’s Project Heracles is a deadly simple weapon. (Image credit: Danjaq, LLC and MGM) How Project Heracles Was Intended To Work What’s worse is that thanks to the disgruntled Obruchev’s work, the destructive capability of this clandestine project was scaled to a much higher yield. Five years after the events of Spectre, and Commander Bond’s retirement from active service, Project Heracles was stolen. But somewhere along the line, James Bond thought the project was shut down, or at least he felt that it should have been. Its development thrived thanks to the assistance from Valdo Obruchev after his defection. Through the use of cutting edge technology, Project Heracles was supposed to be an efficient killer. The intent, as M himself put it, was to provide “a clean accurate shot, every time.” ![]() Its existence was kept “off the books” in order to make sure it didn’t get into the wrong hands. Under the watchful eye of current “M” Gareth Mallory (Ralph Fiennes), Project Heracles was developed over the last decade. How did such a weapon of mass genocide come to be? As in quite a few cases in world history, No Time To Die’s secret weapon was developed by the people we’re supposed to trust with our lives. (Image credit: Danjaq, LLC and MGM) The Origins Of Project Heracles
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