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Anthony Volpe's avatar

Part of the charm is watching Bond, with an almost feline precision, do things most of us can't do including the casual sadism and yes, chasing after beautiful women because that is the world he inhabits (and one that is returning). That was the big problem with No Time to Die. Domesticity doesn't suit Bond. I personally don't need to see him be a good person or "better male" to save the world again

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Frank Canzolino's avatar

A wife would be a liability to Bond as a spy. She’d be the target all the time and interfere with his work.

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John B's avatar

Bond did marry (in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service), and to a character played by Dame Diana Rigg no less, but she was promptly killed at the end of the movie.

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Dheep''s avatar

Unfortunately if he was married ,nowadays he would probably be one of those sitcom guys I been seeing my whole life - an amusing Doofus Chump whom everyone in the family ,right down to the Family Dog shows him how Lame he is.

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Frank Canzolino's avatar

… and she’s dead, Jim… er, John…

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Mark Calahan's avatar

Haven’t prior wife/wives and subsequent fiancés died? He’s poison! but he’s pursues his job and his vengeance at the same time, that is his golden ticket pass for his violence.

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Robin T's avatar

I think you hit the nail on the head here.

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