Colonel Xenia Zaragevna Onatopp (Russian: Ксения Сергеевна Онатопп) was a former Soviet fighter-pilot and a ruthless assassin with sexual sociopathy employed by the Janus crime syndicate. The character first appeared as the secondary antagonist in EON Productions’ 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye, portrayed by Dutch actress Famke Janssen. Janssen would continue to provide her likeness for several video games, notably the 1997 Nintendo 64 game GoldenEye 007 and the 2004 spin-off GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (voiced by Jenya Lano).
Biography
Born in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, Xenia Zaragevna Onatopp was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force. After the collapse of the USSR, she joined the Janus crime syndicate, led by renegade MI6 agent Alec Trevelyan. Operating as a ruthless enforcer and assassin for the organization, her main characteristic is that she apparently can receive sexual satisfaction through killing. Her sadistic sexual proclivities, coupled with her overall lack of conscience and remorse for the deaths she causes, would seem to qualify her as a sociopath. She is proficient in martial arts, with a considerable degree of physical strength. She is a skillful aviator, able to commandeer a stolen EMP-hardened helicopter.
Stealing the Helicopter and GoldenEye
In 1995, James Bond got into a car chase with Onatopp in Monte Carlo. He later meets her at a casino, his suspicions raised by her taste for expensive vehicles (with fake number plates) and her suspicious relationship with Canadian Navy admiral Chuck Farrel. Suspecting her, he places her under surveillance and runs a background check on her via MI6. Later that evening, Onatopp lures the admiral onto the Janus-leased yacht, Manticore. As Onatopp crushes the admiral to death with her thighs during sex, her Janus accomplice Russian General Ourumov steals his credentials. The next day, the pair uses his credentials to board a military ship where the prototype Eurocopter Tiger helicopter is scheduled for a high-profile test flight. Onatopp murders the test pilots, and they assume their identities, stealing the helicopter. Onatopp (disguised as a Colonel and posing as Ourumov’s pilot/staff officer) and the General fly the helicopter to a military bunker in Severnaya, Siberia, where Ourumov – the Head of Space Disivion – requests the control disk for GoldenEye, an electromagnetic Soviet satellite weapon from the Cold War. Upon receiving the disk, a rifle-wielding Onatopp massacres the staff with sociopathic ecstasy, much to Ourumov’s disgust. Together they arm and program the GoldenEye to destroy the complex and escape with traitorous programmer Boris Grishenko.
Natalya Simonova, the lone survivor of the attack, contacts Grishenko and arranges to meet him in St. Petersburg, where Onatopp and Boris kidnap her. Assigned to investigate the events in Russia, 007 flies to St. Petersburg and arranges a meeting with the mysterious Janus via crime-boss Valentin Zukovsky. Onatopp attempts to surprise Bond as he exits the pool at the Grand Hotel Europe but is outmaneuvered and held at gunpoint. Onatopp tries to seduce him, but Bond shoves her off him. Losing his gun in the process, Onatopp attacks him, climbing on top of him and trying to constrict him with her thighs as she did with the admiral. However, Bond drops her into a vat of hot water and re-obtains his gun, forcing her to bring him to Janus. Onatopp drives Bond to an abandoned statue junkyard, claiming that Janus is waiting for him. After knocking her out, Bond exits her car and walks towards the Tiger helicopter he spots in the distance, meeting with Janus, who reveals himself as old colleague Trevelyan and attempts to kill him.
Later, Bond pursues a fleeing Ourumov who has taken Natalya aboard Janus’ converted missile train. 007 drives his tank on the rails, intending to derail the train, much to Onatopp’s glee. The train ends derailed, and Bond boards the wreckage – confronting its dazed passengers with a Kalashnikov rifle. A standoff ensues with an unarmed Onatopp and Trevelyan bargaining for their lives using Natalya, who is being held at gunpoint by Ourumov. After Bond states the girl means nothing to him, Trevelyan gestures to have her killed, fleeing from the carriage with Onatopp as 007 swings around to shoot the General. As Trevelyan and Onatopp escape by helicopter, he locks Bond in the train with Natalya, setting it to self-destruct. He fails to kill them, and Natalya manages to triangulate the location of Janus’ Cuban base of operations before the train explodes.
Death
Trevelyan and Onatopp depart Russia and head to Cuba, pursued by the British and American intelligence agencies. While searching for GoldenEye’s satellite dish, Bond and Natalya are shot down and crash land in the Cuban jungle. Onatopp rappels down from a helicopter and attacks Bond. Kicking the wounded spy around, Xenia violently grasps him between her thighs, informing him that, this time, the pleasure will be all hers (a running joke between the pair, starting with the casino scene). Despite Bond’s best attempts, he begins to succumb to her orgasmic embrace and is saved by a branch-wielding Natalya’s intervention. Blocking the attack, Onatopp grabs her by the face and instructs her to wait for her turn before headbutting her aside. The interruption gives Bond the opportunity he needs, and he reattaches her jump rope, using her rifle to kill the crew of her helicopter above. In the ensuing chaos, the henchwoman is violently thrown backward by the force of the chopper’s descent. She is caught between two curiously shaped branches, crushing her to death in an ironic manner. Bond and Natalya stare at her corpse, with Bond remarking, “She always did enjoy a good squeeze.”
