Pharaoh Fearo was a Egyptian felon and member of the criminal organization, S.C.U.M.. The character first appeared in episode 4 ("Shifting Sands") of the 1991 spin-off animated television series, James Bond Jr. and was subsequently adapted for John Vincent's accompanying novelisation, Sandblast!
Biography[]
Pharaoh Fearo was an Egyptian criminal with pretensions of royalty. Believing his family to descend from the ancient Pharaohs, he was attired in ancient Egyptian ceremonial clothes, with a nemes crown and a false beard. His subordinates were similarly clothed and adorned with his symbol, the black scarab. Operating from an underground warship named the Subterranean, Fearo planned to reclaim his supposed inheritance: the treasures of Pharaoh Hiphurrah and the rich oil fields of the Sinai Peninsula; draining the crude oil and allowing S.C.U.M. to dominate the world's economy.
His plans began to unravel when James Bond Jr. and Egyptology student, Cleo Daway, stumbled upon his activities whilst investigating Hiphurrah's burial site. The pair were taken captive aboard the Subterranean, where they were entertained by the Pharaoh. Fearo tunnelled under the Red Sea and attempted to extract the crude oil; whilst simultaneously trying to rid himself of Bond and Cleo by trapping them in a section of the flooding pipeline. They escaped by eroding the metal with acid, inadvertently flooding the vessel with oil and forcing it to surface. While Fearo and his men cleaned out the oil, Bond escaped and quickly returned with a helpful local sheikh. Bond boarded the craft before it could submerge and, in a bid to shoot him, the villain missed and ruptured a nearby pipe; spraying and incapacitating himself with crude oil. He was subsequently taken into custody.
Trivia[]
- According to the James Bond Jr. show bible written by producers Michael G. Wilson, Andy Heyward and Robby London, Fearo was originally intended to have a pet cat named "Jinx".[1]
- Writer Doug Molitor created Pharaoh Fearo as "a kind of Captain Nemo who is obsessed with ancient Egypt".[2]
References[]
- ↑ Edlitz, Mark (13th September 2020). "James Bond Jr. Writer’s Guide", The Lost Adventures of James Bond: Timothy Dalton’s Third and Fourth Bond Films, James Bond Jr., and Other Unmade or Forgotten 007 Projects (in En-US). Bowker. ISBN 9781735461618.
- ↑ Edlitz, Mark (13th September 2020). "Writing James Bond Jr. – Part Two", The Lost Adventures of James Bond: Timothy Dalton’s Third and Fourth Bond Films, James Bond Jr., and Other Unmade or Forgotten 007 Projects (in En-US). Bowker. ISBN 9781735461618.