Xenia Onatopp
character in James Bond film GoldenEye
Xenia Zaragevna Onatopp (Russian: Ксения Сергеевна Онатопп, romanized: 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 to get sexual satisfaction, working for the renegade MI6 agent Alec Trevelyan.
Onatopp has appeared in a number of 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. She enjoys playing baccarat and smoking cigars.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, she joins the crime syndicate Janus, led by traitorous MI6 agent Alec Trevelyan. James Bond first encounters Onatopp when he gets into a car chase with her. He then meets her at a casino and places her under surveillance.
Onatopp lures a Canadian admiral, Chuck Farrell, onto a yacht moored off Monte Carlo and kills him during a sex honey trapping, by crushing his ribs with her thighs, achieving orgasm in the process. Meanwhile, Trevelyan's henchman General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov steals the dead admiral's NATO ID and uniform, granting him and Onatopp access to a prototype EMP-hardened Eurocopter Tiger aboard a French warship anchored off Monte Carlo.
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