Alec Trevelyan

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Alec Trevelyan
Gender	Male
Role	Villain
Affiliation	MI6/Janus
Current status	Deceased
Portrayed by	Sean Bean

Alec Trevelyan (006) is the primary villain in the James Bond film GoldenEye, portrayed by actor Sean Bean. The likeness of Bean as Alec Trevelyan was also used for the 1997 video game, GoldenEye 007.

1 Film Biography
2 Character information
3 Scheme
4 Motive
5 The end
6 Betrayal
- 6.1 Henchmen

[edit] Film Biography

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Character information

Once an agent working for Her Majesty's secret service, agent 006, Trevelyan betrayed MI6 on a mission in Soviet Russia while working with James Bond, who considered Trevelyan his best friend. During the mission to blow up the Arkhangelsk chemical weapons facility, Trevelyan was caught by the base's commander, Colonel Arkady Ourumov, and apparently shot point blank in the head. Presuming Trevelyan dead, Bond continued the mission, blew up the facility with mines (set to three minutes instead of six) and escaped in a supply plane.

Nine years later, Bond, while pursuing the thieves of a stolen helicopter, is told by Valentin Zukovsky that the head of a crime syndicate known as Janus (previously under suspicion for the stolen helicopter) is a Lienz Cossack. Later, Bond discovers that the head of Janus is none other than Trevelyan himself, and that not only was his execution staged, but he now employs Ourumov, who has risen to the rank of General. Trevelyan is also physically scarred from burns suffered when Bond blew up the weapons facility, as Bond had changed the timer on the bomb from six minutes to three after Trevelyan's apparent death.

[edit] Scheme

His scheme involved stealing the GoldenEye disk, keys and access codes and destroying the Severnaya complex using the electromagnetic pulse of the nuclear explosion of GoldenEye's nuclear warhead satellite Petya, thus erasing any evidence. His henchmen (Ourumov and Xenia Onatopp) escaped Severnaya under the protection of the stolen Tiger helicopter which was impervious to the electromagnetic pulse. GoldenEye's nuclear warhead satellite Mischa would then be used to aid Trevelyan in stealing hundreds of millions of pounds via computer from the Bank of England in London, and erasing all evidence of the transaction. Mischa would destroy the city, crippling the British economy and government, triggering a catastrophic currency crisis, and causing global stock market and economic chaos. Trevelyan, having obtained the only valuable currency of pounds sterling, could have economic supremacy over the British and the world in an era of terrorism for decades.

[edit] Motive

Trevelyan's motive for the betrayal was, in part, personal. His parents were Lienz Cossacks who had collaborated with the Nazis but attempted to defect to the British at the end of WWII. The British instead sent them back to the USSR. Trevelyan's parents had survived "the British betrayal and Stalin's execution squads," but his father, ashamed that he had survived, killed his wife and then himself. Trevelyan was then taken in by MI6 at the age of six and went to work for the government that betrayed his parents.

[edit] The end

Bond stopped this scheme with the help of former Severnaya technician Natalya Simonova and CIA agent Jack Wade. Trevelyan met his demise when Bond dropped him from the bottom of a satellite antenna. He survived the initial fall, only to be crushed by the flaming debris of the antenna, destroyed by Bond.

[edit] Betrayal

Trevelyan's betrayal of MI6 and Bond continues a tradition of often prescribing personal motivations for Bond on his missions. As Bond holds Trevelyan by the foot on top of the dish, Trevelyan quips: "For England, James?" to which Bond replies: "No, for me" before releasing him.