Editing Xenia Onatopp

{{short description|Character in James Bond film Golden Eye}}
{{use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}
{{family name hatnote|Zaragevna| Onatopp|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{Infobox character
 | name        = Xenia Onatopp
 | image       = Xenia Onatopp.jpg
 | caption     = [[Famke Janssen]] as Xenia Onatopp
 | portrayer   = [[Famke Janssen]] (1995)
 | voice = [[Jenya Lano]] (''[[GoldenEye: Rogue Agent]]'')<br>[[Kate Magowan]] (''[[GoldenEye 007 (2010 video game)|GoldenEye 007]]'')
 | series      = [[James Bond]]
 | first       = ''[[GoldenEye]]'' (1995)
 | last        = <!-- Last appearance to date -->
 | creator     =
 | gender      = Female
 | affiliation = ex-[[Soviet Air Force]]<br />Janus
 | lbl21       = Classification
 | data21      = [[Bond girl]] / [[List of James Bond villains|Henchwoman]]
}}
'''Xenia Zaragevna Onatopp''' ({{langx|ru|Ксения Сергеевна Онатопп|Kseniya Sergeevna Onatopp}}) is a fictional character and [[Bond girl]] in the [[James Bond]] film ''[[GoldenEye]]'', played by actress [[Famke Janssen]].  She is a fighter pilot and assassin who crushes her enemies with her thighs [[Sadism disorder|to get sexual satisfaction]], working for the renegade [[MI6]] agent [[Alec Trevelyan]] ([[Sean Bean]]).

Onatopp has appeared in a number of [[James Bond in video games|James Bond video games]] as a playable multiplayer character.

==In the film==
Xenia Onatopp, born in the [[Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic]], is a former officer and fighter pilot in the [[Soviet Air Force]]. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, she joins the crime syndicate Janus, led by traitorous [[Secret Intelligence Service|MI6]] agent [[Alec Trevelyan]] ([[Sean Bean]]). [[James Bond]] ([[Pierce Brosnan]]) first encounters Onatopp when he gets into a car chase with her. He then meets her at [[Monte Carlo Casino|a casino]] and places her under surveillance.

Onatopp lures a [[Royal Canadian Navy|Canadian]] [[admiral]], Chuck Farrell ([[Billy J. Mitchell]]), onto a yacht moored off [[Monte Carlo]] and kills him during [[sexual intercourse|sex]] ([[honey trapping]]) by crushing his [[rib cage|ribs]] with her thighs, achieving [[orgasm]] in the process. Meanwhile, Trevelyan's henchman General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov ([[Gottfried John]]) steals the dead admiral's [[NATO]] ID, granting him and Onatopp access to a prototype EMP-hardened [[Eurocopter Tiger]] aboard a French warship anchored off Monte Carlo.

Onatopp then hijacks the helicopter by killing the two pilots Captain Bernard Jaubert ([[Wayne Michaels]]) and Lieutenant François Brouse ([[Simon Crane]]). Later, she and Ourumov use the hijacked Tiger in an attack on the Severnaya satellite control center in central [[Siberia]], where they steal the controller for the GoldenEye satellite weapon. During the attack, she kills all the military personnel and civilian technicians present and is visibly aroused by the killing. She then appears as Bond's link to the Janus group. In a meeting arranged by Bond's dealings with Valentin Zukovsky ([[Robbie Coltrane]]), a Russian arms dealer and former [[KGB]] agent, Onatopp arrives to meet Bond as he swims in a [[Turkish Bath]]. The two indulge in aggressive foreplay where Onatopp attempts to crush Bond between her thighs, he finally draws his [[Walther PPK]] on her and demands to be taken to Janus.

In Onatopp's final encounter with Bond in [[Cuba]], she ambushes him and Severnaya programmer [[Natalya Simonova]] ([[Izabella Scorupco]]) by rappeling from a helicopter and again attempts to crush him between her legs.  Bond uses her assault rifle to damage the helicopter, entangling her rope, which pulls her off him, crushing her to death against a tree trunk.

==In video games==
Onatopp's first appearance in a video game was in the 1997 video game adaptation of ''GoldenEye'', ''[[GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)|GoldenEye 007]]'' for the [[Nintendo 64]]. She is with Trevelyan on the train stage of the game. If the player quickly shoots her after eliminating Ourumov, she will yell to Trevelyan that she is wounded and to wait up for her; this buys the player more time to escape from the train. She later reappears in the jungle stage. Similar to the film, she is killed in the jungles of Cuba in a firefight with Bond. Killing Onatopp is the only way for the player to [[dual-wield]] two different guns in the game without a complex series of button presses; she uses an RC-[[FN P90|P90]] and a [[Milkor MGL|grenade launcher]] at the same time.

In the James Bond game ''[[Nightfire]]'', Onatopp also appears as a multiplayer character. She can be unlocked by a cheat on the [[Cheat code|cheats menu]] as Janus, the organization she works for in the movie.

She appeared in the spinoff Bond game ''[[GoldenEye: Rogue Agent]]'' where she works for [[Julius No|Dr. Julius No]] ([[Carlos Alazraqui]]) and is Agent GoldenEye's alluring opponent. She is commander of No's army, which has taken over the [[Hoover Dam]]. She is killed after being thrown off of the Hoover Dam while fighting GoldenEye. In the game, her likeness was based on [[Famke Janssen]] but was voiced by actress [[Jenya Lano]].

She appears in the [[GoldenEye 007 (2010 video game)|''GoldenEye'' remake]] as a former Russian general who served under Ouromov (Laurentiu Possa) during the Russian invasion of [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]. Her plot arc is significantly changed for the remake. She appears in the Nightclub level disguised as a waitress where [[James Bond (reboot series character)|James Bond]] ([[Daniel Craig]]) first meets her. She assassinates Valentin Zukovsky ([[Alec Newman]]) after he gives vital information about Janus ([[Elliot Cowan]]) to Bond. Bond is then framed for the murder of Zukovsky. She betrays and assassinates Ouromov in the train level in which she appears. During her final confrontation with Bond, she is lowered down to him from a helicopter and proceeds to engage in hand-to-hand combat with him. She is defeated when Bond launches a missile at her helicopter while she is strangling him, the helicopter crashing into a nearby gorge and dragging her down with it. She is voiced by and modeled after [[Kate Magowan]].

==Analysis==
Anna Katherine Amacker and Donna Ashley Moore suggest that Onatopp is a "direct throwback to the earlier style of Bond girl, complete with an innuendo-laden name and a blatant sexuality."<ref>{{Cite book | first1 = Anna Katherine | last1 = Amacker | first2 = Donna Ashley| last2 = Moore| chapter = "The Bitch is Dead": Anti-feminist Rhetoric in Casino Royale | title = James Bond in World and Popular Culture: The Films are Not Enough| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=pq0wBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA150|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|location=Newcastle Upon Tyne, England | page = 151 | date = 2012 | isbn = 9781443843843 | access-date = 25 July 2015}}</ref> Robert A. Saunders suggests that she "personifies the [[hypersexualized]] archetype of the [[post-Soviet]] [[Women in Russia|Russian woman]]."<ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Saunders | first1 = Robert A. |chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rimpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA53| chapter = Brand Interrupted: The Impact of Alternative Narrators on Nation Branding in the Former Second World|title = Branding Post-Communist Nations: Marketizing National Identities in the "New" Europe|publisher=[[Routledge]]|location=Abingdon, England | date = 2011 | access-date = 25 July 2015|isbn=978-0415882750| page = 53 }}</ref>

Helena Bassil-Morosow suggests that Onatopp is "visually [[Code (semiotics)|coded]] as a stereotypical [[dominatrix]]: dark hair, bright red lipstick, smoky eyeshadow and sharply defined eyebrows,"<ref name=Bassil>{{cite book |last1=Bassil-Morosow |first1=Helena |title=From Blofeld to Moneypenny: Gender in James Bond |date=2020 |publisher=[[Emerald Group Publishing]] |page=99 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ft7WDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA99 |access-date=10 November 2022 |chapter=The Soviet Woman in Bond Films|isbn=9781838671655 }}</ref> while Monica Germanà suggests that "Xenia's glamour encapsulates the sadistic quality of her excessive appetite".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Germanà |first1=Monica |title=Bond Girls: Body, Fashion and Gender |date=2019 |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]] |page=170 |isbn=9781350124714 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d7ijDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA170 |access-date=11 November 2022}}</ref>

Bassil-Morosow goes on to note that Onatopp "also sees violence as a broadly defined sexual act in which she gets to dominate and ultimately decide people's fates," and argues that she "poses a threat to Bond's status as a dominant male as she consistently outdoes him in all his favourite activities: driving, killing, risk-taking and having sex with multiple partners." In this way, she "has to be eventually killed by him because not only is she ruthless and unstoppable but also metaphorically as a punishment for refusing to admire him." Bassil-Morosow concludes that "Onatopp's character, masculinised, independent, domineering and sexually liberated, can be read as a bitter parody of feminism."<ref name=Bassil />

==Reception==
Xenia Onatopp has appeared in several lists of the top 10 [[Bond girl]]s, including by ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''.<ref>{{Cite magazine|first=Joshua|last=Rich|url=https://ew.com/gallery/bond-girls-best-and-worst/|title=The 10 Best Bond Girls|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|publisher=[[Time, Inc.]]|location=New York City|date=March 30, 2007|access-date=April 4, 2011|archive-date=7 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107025527/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20431259_1557446_6,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Yahoo! Movies]] had her name included in the list of the best Bond girl names, even while calling it a "slightly-too-obvious pun."<ref>[http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-editors/james-bond-50-best-bond-girl-names-152850798.html James Bond at 50: the best Bond Girl names | Movie Editor's Blog - Yahoo! Movies UK]</ref> In 2015, ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'' suggested that "in the stolid Brosnan years, former Soviet fighter pilot Onatopp was a breath of fresh air."<ref>{{Cite news |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/jamesbond/11635519/best-james-bond-characters.html| title = Five Bond characters who should make a comeback | newspaper = [[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London, England | date = 28 May 2015 | access-date = 25 July 2015}}</ref> Paul Simpson argues that with Onatopp, the [[femme fatale]] made a "welcome reappearance" after the role had previously fallen out of fashion.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Simpson |first1=Paul |title=Bond vs. Bond: The Many Faces of 007 |date=2020 |publisher=[[Race Point Publishing]] |page=179 |isbn=9781631066962 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZOHIDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA179 |access-date=14 June 2021}}</ref>

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