

In Diamonds Are Forever, more than one cat appears owing to Blofeld's duplicates each having one of their own. The cat is absent from No Time to Die which is the first Bond film in which Blofeld is seen without his cat. Jan Werich with cat in You Only Live Twice It has a brief appearance in Spectre, where it jumps onto a captive James Bond's lap as the latter's adoptive older brother, Franz Oberhauser, reveals his change of identity. The cat is also seen in Never Say Never Again. It was initially a convention of the films not to show Blofeld's face, only a close-up of him stroking his cat (this is also the basis of the rationale for assuming the unidentified man killed by Bond in the opening sequence of For Your Eyes Only is Blofeld). Another was right before Blofeld's presumed death in For Your Eyes Only, where the cat is seen making a run for it when Bond reveals his survival and flies toward Blofeld. One scene was in You Only Live Twice when the base was discovered to be under attack by ninjas, where the cat is struggling to get out of Blofeld's arms (an unscripted reaction to the sudden explosions). Although implied to be loyal to its owner, there have been a few scenes that indicate that said loyalty was not absolute. The cat sits on Blofeld's lap in ThunderballĪlong with Blofeld, the cat made its debut in From Russia with Love and has appeared with the villain in every film appearance since (except for one). 2 Blofeld's cat and the Thunderball controversy.What's not explicitly spelled out is just how long he had been planning this. Later in the film, Blofeld confesses to Bond that, as in "Spectre," he was the author of this particular pain point, knowing Bond would eventually visit her tomb and that all he had to do was bide his time. When he gets to her grave, it's been booby-trapped and explodes in his face, setting his quest in motion and severing his trust with Madeleine, who he now believes must be Vesper 2.0 having lured him into this mess.

But for James, that means forgiving a dead woman he still loves. For Madeleine, that means telling James all the secrets she's never shared.
