This logo is at least seen printed on the walls of The Octopus black market and on Goblin grenades. The game features a recurring symbol that could be thought of as SPECTRE's logo: a simple, marine-blue octopus with semicircular eyes and blade-like tentacles. No's Crab Key, also returning from the films.Īlthough the video game mirrors much of the plot of the eponymous film, it uses an organization called OCTOPUS rather than SPECTRE to avoid copyright issues. It is depicted as being much more powerful than it was in any of the films or books, possessing a massive undersea black market known as The Octopus, resembling Karl Stromberg's lair from The Spy Who Loved Me, a large lair built into an extinct volcano akin to the films which is used as the main base of operations, and also the personal structures of its members such as Auric Goldfinger's Auric Enterprises and casino and Dr. Instead, it is referred to as a 'powerful criminal organization'. SPECTRE is shown, but never mentioned by name. Not considered part of the official Bond series, the film retells the story of Thunderball and reintroduces both SPECTRE and Blofeld. In 1983, MGM released Never Say Never Again, based on the same original source material as Thunderball.

Following Diamonds Are Forever, SPECTRE and Blofeld were retired from the EON Films series, except for a cameo by Blofeld (not identified by name, but accompanied by the character's trademark cat) in For Your Eyes Only. After being absent from Goldfinger, SPECTRE returns in Thunderball and subsequently is featured in the following films You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Diamonds Are Forever. The film adaptation of From Russia with Love also features the first on-screen appearance of Blofeld, although he is only identified by name in the closing credits of the film. In the films, SPECTRE usually replaced SMERSH as the main villainous faction, although there is a brief reference to SMERSH in the second EON Bond film From Russia with Love. This was changed from Fleming's novels, which had Dr. The organization is first mentioned in Dr. In the EON Productions James Bond series, which began in 1962 with Dr. The next Bond novelist, Raymond Benson, reintroduces Irma Bunt, Blofeld's assistant, in his short story 'Blast From the Past', which is a sequel to You Only Live Twice. Although Bond ultimately prevents SPECTRE from reforming, it continued, under the leadership of Tamil Rahani, to play a part in Role of Honor and Nobody Lives For Ever. Later, the John Gardner Bond novel For Special Services introduces a revived SPECTRE led by Blofeld's daughter, Nena Bismaquer.

In On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the second chapter of what is known as the 'Blofeld Trilogy', Blofeld has revived SPECTRE, and Blofeld's final appearance, sans SPECTRE, is in the final novel of the trilogy, You Only Live Twice. In the novel, SPECTRE, headed by Blofeld, attempts to conduct nuclear blackmail against NATO.Īpparently disbanded afterwards, SPECTRE is said to be active again in the next book, The Spy Who Loved Me, although the organization is not involved in the plot. In the original Bond novel series, SPECTRE's first and last appearance as a worldwide power is in the novel Thunderball, published in 1961.

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