What would the female version of James Bond be like?

[Spooniest]

I agree with this idea

But she has to order her martini shaken, but not stirred.

[DMKA]

I'm all for some sort of spinoff where it's a female equivalent to James Bond. Making a female "James Bond" would just be silly though.

[krissy]

i dont see why not
some agree that the name and the designation 007 is passed on through people regularly
"007's don't have a long lifespan" i think something like that came up in the movies
fleming would probably spin in his grave or whatever but i mean

[BlackFire]

It sounds like a cool idea. But not as a spin-off to James Bond and not in the Bond universe.
A female spy heroine who is a badass and a really goid fighter.
Now who do we know of who is like that?

[Ayen]

It sounds like a cool idea. But not as a spin-off to James Bond and not in the Bond universe.
A female spy heroine who is a badass and a really goid fighter.
Now who do we know of who is like that?

Black Widow. Seriously don't know why this movie hasn't been made yet.

[BlackFire]

It sounds like a cool idea. But not as a spin-off to James Bond and not in the Bond universe.
A female spy heroine who is a badass and a really goid fighter.
Now who do we know of who is like that?

Black Widow. Seriously don't know why this movie hasn't been made yet.

The MCU is slacking. Of all the Marvel heroes in the MCU, Black Widow should really have her own film. But at this point only a little of her back story has been explained.

[Miriel]

Did none of you watch Alias? Sydney Bristow was the most badass spy around.

Also, not sure if y'all are aware but traditionally male names for girls is totally the trendy thing these days. Ryan Renolds and Blake Lively named their baby girl James. James as a middle name for girls was also pretty popular amongst a certain crowd last year. Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard named their girl Lincoln. I think Jessica Simpson named her daughter Maxwell. So yeah, there's gonna be a generation of girls with traditionally male names so a female "James Bond" isn't that much of a stretch.

[BlackFire]

Did none of you watch Alias? Sydney Bristow was the most badass spy around.

Also, not sure if y'all are aware but traditionally male names for girls is totally the trendy thing these days. Ryan Renolds and Blake Lively named their baby girl James. James as a middle name for girls was also pretty popular amongst a certain crowd last year. Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard named their girl Lincoln. I think Jessica Simpson named her daughter Maxwell. So yeah, there's gonna be a generation of girls with traditionally male names so a female "James Bond" isn't that much of a stretch.

Oh yea. I forgot about Alias. It has been a few years since I watched it. Seen all episodes.
Sydney is the perfect equivlent of a James Bond type character.

As for girls taking on male names more and more. There's bound to be confusion.
"My friend James is AWESOME!"
"What is so awesome about him?"
"Him? He is a she!"
"A She?!?!?"

See what I mean?

[Ayen]

I always forget that show existed until I see a cast member on something else.

[Leigh]

For no objective reason what so ever, the idea of this makes me face plant. Make a super cool spy character, with no relation to the 007 franchise and I'm all good for it. But simply making some artificial reconfiguration of a pre-existing movie-verse just reeks of Generation X and Y's inability to invent an idea from scratch, instead of bathing in the richness of an older and more creative generation of folks.

We got James Pond in the late eighties, that's enough.

[Ayen]

For no objective reason what so ever, the idea of this makes me face plant. Make a super cool spy character, with no relation to the 007 franchise and I'm all good for it. But simply making some artificial reconfiguration of a pre-existing movie-verse just reeks of Generation X and Y's inability to invent an idea from scratch, instead of bathing in the richness of an older and more creative generation of folks.

We got James Pond in the late eighties, that's enough.

You mean the same generation who gave us Supergirl, Batgirl, and a bunch of other female versions of popular characters to appeal to a female demographic instead of making a new superhero from scratch?

That generation?

[Leigh]

For no objective reason what so ever, the idea of this makes me face plant. Make a super cool spy character, with no relation to the 007 franchise and I'm all good for it. But simply making some artificial reconfiguration of a pre-existing movie-verse just reeks of Generation X and Y's inability to invent an idea from scratch, instead of bathing in the richness of an older and more creative generation of folks.

We got James Pond in the late eighties, that's enough.

You mean the same generation who gave us Supergirl, Batgirl, and a bunch of other female versions of popular characters to appeal to a female demographic instead of making a new superhero from scratch?

That generation?

At least they created the original vision in order to invent the bastardised derivatives. Making everything dark and brooding is the early 21st century equivalent of the 1980s ambition to have a Pepsi trademark in every frame of a motion picture.

Make a character that works. A female James Bond would just be cringeworthy, and belongs on fanfiction.net, where the rest of the internets bad ideas exist.

I'm not a fan of the baby boomers, but they invented the Web, so I exclude them from severe lambast...despite screwing up every other facet of life.

[Ayen]

For no objective reason what so ever, the idea of this makes me face plant. Make a super cool spy character, with no relation to the 007 franchise and I'm all good for it. But simply making some artificial reconfiguration of a pre-existing movie-verse just reeks of Generation X and Y's inability to invent an idea from scratch, instead of bathing in the richness of an older and more creative generation of folks.

We got James Pond in the late eighties, that's enough.

You mean the same generation who gave us Supergirl, Batgirl, and a bunch of other female versions of popular characters to appeal to a female demographic instead of making a new superhero from scratch?

That generation?

At least they created the original vision in order to invent the bastardised derivatives. Making everything dark and brooding is the early 21st century equivalent of the 1980s ambition to have a Pepsi trademark in every frame of a motion picture.

Make a character that works. A female James Bond would just be cringeworthy, and belongs on fanfiction.net, where the rest of the internets bad ideas exist.

I'm not a fan of the baby boomers, but they invented the Web, so I exclude them from severe lambast...despite screwing up every other facet of life.

Considering both Superman and Batman were created in the thirties before the Baby Boom period, no, they didn't.

[Leigh]

For no objective reason what so ever, the idea of this makes me face plant. Make a super cool spy character, with no relation to the 007 franchise and I'm all good for it. But simply making some artificial reconfiguration of a pre-existing movie-verse just reeks of Generation X and Y's inability to invent an idea from scratch, instead of bathing in the richness of an older and more creative generation of folks.

We got James Pond in the late eighties, that's enough.

You mean the same generation who gave us Supergirl, Batgirl, and a bunch of other female versions of popular characters to appeal to a female demographic instead of making a new superhero from scratch?

That generation?

At least they created the original vision in order to invent the bastardised derivatives. Making everything dark and brooding is the early 21st century equivalent of the 1980s ambition to have a Pepsi trademark in every frame of a motion picture.

Make a character that works. A female James Bond would just be cringeworthy, and belongs on fanfiction.net, where the rest of the internets bad ideas exist.

I'm not a fan of the baby boomers, but they invented the Web, so I exclude them from severe lambast...despite screwing up every other facet of life.

Considering both Superman and Batman were created in the thirties before the Baby Boom period, no, they didn't.

I wasn't relating to the baby boomers as being the hallmark of creative genius. I was referring to the earlier generations of Flemming, Tolkien, etc. It was more of a tongue in cheek dig at my parents mostly knackered cultural heritage, but at least they did one thing okay-ish...even though it may or may not allow a paedophille superhighway to grace the world.

[Richard]

I'm wondering what a female James Bond would look like.