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Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson (Halle Berry)[]
An NSA agent who joins Bond in Cuba.
- Action Girl / Faux Action Girl: Seems to switch scene to scene.
- In-Series Nickname
- Spy Catsuit
Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike)[]
MI 6 operative working on the Gustav Graves case. She was also an Olympic fencer.
- Bare Your Midriff
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Well the defrosting part is a subversion. She was faking it to get Bond's trust.
- Evil Blonde
- Hot Chick with a Sword
- Meaningful Name
- The Mole
- Pimped-Out Dress: Her ice blue dress, with tassels like icicles.
- Pretty in Mink: Has a fur scarf, a fur trimmed coat, and her white fur wrap Would be Fur and Loathing, except she wears a few furs before the reveal, and they seem to be fake anyway.
- Rule of Symbolism: Her name, and the style of her ice dress.
- Second Place Is for Losers: She got a silver medal for fencing, but was awarded gold after the previous winner OD'ed on steroids which was planted by Graves's people, thus effectively buying Miranda's loyalty. Thus this trope comes into play, in that she would turn on her country rather than accept second place.
Zao (Rick Yune)[]
Colonel Moon's right hand man.
- As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Zao isn't a Korean name.
- Bald of Evil: After the botched operation.
- Blue Eyes: Ditto.
- The Dragon
- Evil Albino
- Falling Chandelier of Doom: Dies when one falls on him.
- Magic Plastic Surgery: Was going through one before Bond intervened.
- Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Zao means "evil" in Serbo-Croatian.
- Red Right Hand: First, the diamonds encrusted on his face and secondly, his uncanny valley look after the botched gene alteration process.
Colonel Moon (Will Yun Lee)[]
First major villain of Die Another Day. Colonel Moon has an elaborate plot to usurp control of North Korea, then conquer South Korea and Japan.
- Cool Car: Colonel Moon collects them. They have the same gadgets as Bond.
- Captain Ersatz: Colonel Moon is based on Colonel Sun.
- Dirty Communists: Colonel Moon is one of the few in the series.
- Faking the Dead
- Majored in Western Hypocrisy: The Trope Namer.
- The Other Darrin: Subverted.
- Self-Made Orphan: Kills his father after he tries to stop him.
- Villainous Breakdown
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Wants his father's approval.
Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens)[]
Second major villain of Die Another Day, Gustav Graves is a billionaire diamond magnate who seems to be interested in alleviating world hunger with his new solar satellite. What is his connection to Col. Moon? The answer is... They're the same man.
- Alliterative Name
- Captain Ersatz: Graves is based on Fleming Nazi villain Hugo Drax.
- Evil Counterpart: Graves thinks he's up to Bond's level.
- Evil Redhead
- Kill Sat: Part of his Evil Plan.
- Magic Plastic Surgery
- Not So Different: Gustav Graves uses it as a taunt.
- Shock and Awe: Wears a protective electric suit in the climax of the movie which also doubles as (in his words) an ergonomical way to control the Icaros.
- Smug Snake: He is not nearly as clever as he thinks he is.
- Villain with Good Publicity