Karl Stromberg Karl Stromberg Karl Sigmund Stromberg is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1977 James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me". Stromberg was portrayed by Curt Jurgens. The character Stromberg was created specifically for the film by writer Christopher Wood. Ian Fleming's novel "The Spy Who Loved Me" was not told from Bond's perspective, but, rather, a Bond girl that is in love with him. The entire plot of the film has actually nothing to do at all with the plot of the novel. This was at Fleming's request; when he sold the rights to his novel
Motifs in the James Bond film series took delight in embarrassing interviewers by repeatedly mentioning her character's name. Other double entendre names included Holly Goodhead from "Moonraker", Mary Goodnight and Chew Mee from "The Man with the Golden Gun", Honey Ryder from "Dr. No", Plenty O'Toole from "Diamonds Are Forever", Xenia Onatopp from "GoldenEye", and Christmas Jones from "The World Is Not Enough". One of the elements used throughout the Bond series is humour, particularly 'one-liners', delivered by Bond, either when killing an enemy, or at the end of the film when with a woman. The humour was present in the first film in the series, "Dr.