Tea and bad guys

[Xavier]

I just saw a movie with a really bad guy with the right profile and all and it seemed to drink only coffee.

Why is that? Isn’t there any bad guy that could drink tea?

[liberteas]

Only the good guys drink tea.  Maybe it’s the coffee that makes them bad.  LOL

[bram]

* Tea is more subtle. No one recognizes a bad tea person. A tea drinking bad guy is a mastermind. A coffee bad guy is just a bad guy. Image of the stereotype bad guy: drinking wiskey, coffee, smoking, etc.

[peter]

A tea drinking bad guy is a mastermind

Yes, exactly. Any villain that drinks tea is a superior villain compared to all others. Coffee-drinking baddies are just thugs. Tea-drinking baddies are evil.

Take a look at this guy – Hugo Drax – the James Bond villain from Moonraker. 

Tea + Villain = Super Villain!

[bram]

*I had that picture in my mind, but could not place it. 🙂

[Xavier]

I had forgotten about that one.

What tea did he drink?

[Xavier]

I only could find the time as it was supposed to be an English afternoon tea, i.e. a 5 o’clock one.

[Robert Godden]

Many Bond villains drink tea. 

Fleming was a coffee drinker and hated tea. There’s a passage in Live and Let Die where Bond blames tea for the downfall of the British Empire. 

A few months ago I was in the house of a neighbour that Fleming despised – the architect Goldfinger, the inspiration for  another of his teadrinking baddies . 

There’s something terrifying about a bad guy with a dainty china cup. It implies a level of control.

[Jackie]

I don’t think it’s so much about bad guys drinking tea. It’s more about their nationality. Bad guys are very often English, when they’re not German. So the master villain (easily distinguishable by his British accent) drinks a cuppa because that is what all English do. The bad ones and the good ones. 

[Xavier]

But I read somewhere that James Bond drank tea in one novel (I think it was Jasmin tea).

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