Sammy Wells

Sammy Wells
Character information
Title/rank	Major (formerly)
Died	20xx, The Dark Hedges, Ballymoney, Northern Ireland (?)
Hair	Grey, balding with moustache
Eyes	Blue
Dist. Features	Red Hand of Ulster tattoo on left bicep
Nationality	British
Occupation	Paramilitary leader, Former soldier
Affiliation	Ulster Volunteer Force, British Army (c. 1969-98)
Status	Unknown; presumed killed by IRA
Behind the scenes
Role	Main Villain
First seen	James Bond: M
Last seen	James Bond: M

Sammy Wells was a leader of the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). He served as a Major in the British Army during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The character was the main antagonist in Dynamite Entertainment's 2018 spin-off comic James Bond: M.

Biography

"To devil with peace! I want them in PIECES."

― Sammy Wells to M.

During the Troubles in Northern Ireland (c. 1969-98), Wells served as a Major in the British Army and was the commanding officer of the young "M". During a riot in Belfast, Major Wells ordered him to take down a suspected IRA informant using supposedly non-lethal plastic bullets. Unbeknownst to M, the round he was provided was intended to be lethal and the target was in fact one of Wells' own informants, who had become a liability. He had promised to provide for the girl's brother if she fed him intelligence; however, after her untimely death the young man fell into drug addiction and was subsequently beaten to death by Wells as an example to others. After leaving the military, Wells continued to blackmail the remorseful M.

Over thirty years later, Wells was now a leader of the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), operating out of a seedy Loyalist bar, The Mad Dog. Knowing M to now be head of the Secret Intelligence Service, Sammy attempted to blackmail him into obtaining the details of former inmates belonging to rival paramilitary organisation, the IRA. Ostensibly interested in enacting justice upon them, Wells actually intended to sell their details to the highest bidder. Later, he murdered one of his associates, Aaron Abernathy, after he secretly divulged details to M. Wells met with M at The Dark Hedges near Ballymoney to receive the details. Instead, M revealed that the girl was in fact alive; having been secretly saved by undercover MI6 agents and provided a new identity. M enacted poetic justice on Wells by finding the IRA informants as requested - and brought them to the rendezvous at Dark Hedges. M and the girl drove off, leaving the pleading man alone with his enemies. His fate is unknown, but it is implied that they killed him.