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Oddjob ( often written as " Odd Job ") is a henchman to the villain Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film and novel, Goldfinger.
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* In one episode of the cartoon series Duck Dodgers, Daffy Duck throws a hat to save himself during a mission and later says that he had learned it from someone called " Odd Ball ", in which they cut to a scene where Oddjob angrily says, " Odd Ball ?!!
Oddjob is a comic book series published by Slave Labor Graphics and created by Ian and Ty Smith, featuring Moe, Investigator of the Odd.
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Tilly, a lesbian, hopes that one of the gang leaders, Pussy Galore ( leader of a gang of lesbian burglars ), will protect her, but she is killed by Oddjob.
* Oddjob ( voiced by Jan Rabson )-Much like Jaws and Nick Nack, this guy is mostly seen working for the other villains, especially Goldfinger.
Oddjob, who also appears in the James Bond animated series and in several video games, is one of the most popular characters in the Bond series.
A black belt at karate, Oddjob is also an expert with a bow and arrow, and with his metal, razor-edged throwable bowler hat.
He is killed when Bond uses a knife to shatter the window next to his seat on an aircraft, which depressurises the plane and blows Oddjob out of the window, a fate transferred to Auric Goldfinger in the film version.
In the beginning of the film, Oddjob is first seen only via silhouette against a wall as he knocks Bond unconscious at the Fontainebleau Hotel, after which he or Goldfinger kills Jill Masterton ( with whom Bond had spent the night ) through " skin suffocation " by painting her entire body with gold paint.
show " James Bond Jr .," it is suggested that Oddjob was merely knocked unconscious for the police to take him away.
In GoldenEye: Rogue Agent, Oddjob is a henchman of Goldfinger, and initially a companion of GoldenEye.
* In the 1965 Italian parody film Due Mafiosi Contro Goldginger, the equivalent of Oddjob is a huge black man called Moloch ( played by ex-wrestler Alejandro Barrera ) dressed in a black suit and bowler hat, who throws a deadly shoe to kill his opponents.
* In the film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Oddjob is parodied by a character called Random Task, who throws his shoe as a weapon.
* A " F. O. W. L " ( Darkwing Duck ) henchman Oddduck is a parody of Oddjob, ordered to kill Launchpad McQuack in " Double O Duck ".
* In the cartoon series Count Duckula, the villain called The Egg has a manservant called Oddbeak, who is a parrot made to resemble Oddjob, complete with bowler and suit.
He also shares a resemblance with Oddjob ( this is one of the many similarities Stormbreaker has with the James Bond saga ).
Fumoffu, an antagonist's henchman resembles Oddjob in one episode ; in that he wears a ( brown ) suit and bowler, is a martial arts expert, and uses his hat and an umbrella as primary weapons.
Along with his insidious schemes and plans, is a parrot with an Chinese stereotype complexion known as Oddbeak ( a play on the James Bond villain Oddjob ), who is very careful not to use words with the prefix " Egg ", as he knows that it will offend his master.
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In the Game Boy game James Bond 007, Oddjob appears multiple times as a henchman for the game's main villain, General Golgov.
On the other hand, nobody since the Grimm brothers could equal Fleming's gift for improvising such audaciously grotesque adversaries as Dr. No, Blofeld, Auric Goldfinger and his henchman, Oddjob.
However, Bond punctures the window of the airplane with a knife ( causing Goldfinger's henchman Oddjob to be sucked out and plunge to his death ), then tackles Goldfinger ; Bond strangles him in the ensuing struggle.
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Karate's name, besides being that of a martial art, is also a takeoff of Kato, The Green Hornet's sidekick, while his hulking size is inspired by the James Bond villain Oddjob.
Oddjob and Auric
Auric Goldfinger also appears ( alongside his assistant from the Goldfinger film, Oddjob ), revealing he has a teenage daughter named Goldie Finger with equally expensive tastes.
* In the 1964 movie Goldfinger, Auric Goldfinger's manservant Oddjob uses a razor-edged bowler hat as a weapon.
Notable characters included from previous James Bond films include Francisco Scaramanga and Nick Nack from The Man with the Golden Gun, May Day and Max Zorin from A View to a Kill, Jaws from The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, Elektra King and Renard from The World Is Not Enough, Auric Goldfinger and Oddjob from Goldfinger, and Baron Samedi from Live and Let Die.
Set in an alternate timeline of the James Bond universe, the player takes the role of an ex-MI6 agent who is recruited by Auric Goldfinger, a member of a powerful unnamed criminal organization, to assassinate his rival Dr. No. Several other characters from the Bond film series make appearances throughout the game, including Pussy Galore, Oddjob, and Xenia Onatopp as well as Francisco Scaramanga, playing a Q type character with the voice and likeness of Christopher Lee, who played the same character in 1974's The Man with the Golden Gun.
Oddjob and Goldfinger
* Goldfinger ( 1964 ): the character Random Task modelled on Oddjob ; the dialogue " do you expect them to pay?
Issued by MI6 with an Aston Martin DB Mark III, Bond trails Goldfinger as he takes his vintage Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost ( adapted with armour plating and armour-plated glass ) via air ferry to Switzerland, driven by Oddjob.
Bond manages to break a window, causing a depressurisation that sucks Oddjob out of the plane ; he then fights and strangles Goldfinger.
Benson also sees that Bond has developed something of a sense of humour in Goldfinger, verbally abusing Oddjob, to Bond's own amusement.
In addition to killing people who might cause trouble for Goldfinger, Oddjob functions as his personal guard, chauffeur, and manservant ( though not his golf caddy, as depicted in the film ).
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