[Karishma1234fff]

Honestly, I took up smoking Cigars because I saw all villains smoke Cigars. Call me stupid but then a lot of people do get influenced by the bad guys and buy the products for the reason it is being used by bad guys.

[seem_2211]

It's one of those things... if you follow Aston Martin at all (as a company) - they'd have died a long time ago if it weren't for James Bond propping them up.

[woofyman]

I thought it was hilarious on Mad Men when a character tried to asphyxiate himself in a Jaguar and it wouldn’t start.

[njarboe]

I never saw James Bond as the bad guy, but to each their own.

[flukus]

Well when you watch the movies through a modern lens, even the Brosnan era ones, he is "a bit rapey".

[harry8]

Goldfinger. Connery.

Bond rapes Pussy Galore and he's such a man that she falls for him and joins his side.

Actual rape.

[DeedsMoraine]

He's probably licensed for that, too.

[seem_2211]

Oh I meant my comment more in the 'power of marketing' sense, rather than saying he's a bad guy

[njarboe]

More exactly, I never saw Bond presented as the bad guy.