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Jaws gets his name from having strong steel braces covering his teeth that could bite through virtually anything. During filming Kiel would only wear the steel teeth for a couple of minutes because they hurt so much. In addition to having steel braces, Jaws was also 7 feet, 2 inches tall and extremely strong. Furthermore, he has an uncanny ability to survive any misfortune seemingly completely unscathed and come back to challenge Bond again.

1 Tidbits

• In the The Spy Who Loved Me, Jaws battled a shark and won, drove a car off a cliff into someone's roof, and fell off a moving train and survived. Furthermore, in Moonraker Jaws survives a fall from an airplane without a parachute in the opening credits; later in the movie, he survives a high-speed crash of a tramway car down Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro and a fall from Iguassu Falls. After every accident, a signature move by Jaws is to get up, dust himself off, and walk away.

• Unlike most henchmen and villains, Jaws appeared in two movies and survived both.

• While Jaws was in two James Bond movies, he actually only had one short line of dialogue. In Moonraker, towards the end of the film, he turns to his girlfriend Dolly ( Blanche Ravalec) and says "Well, here's to us".

• Both Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker were adapted as novels by Christopher Wood, who also co-wrote the screenplays for both films. In his books, he provides additional details regarding Jaws, including the fact that he is Polish and that his real name is Zbigniew Krycsiwiki. Since neither fact is mentioned in either movie, this is not necessarily considered canonIn the context of fiction, the canon of a fictional universe comprises those novels, stories, films, etc. that are considered to be genuine, and those events, characters, settings, etc. that are considered to have inarguable existence within the fictional.

2 See Also

• The Spy Who Loved Me
• Moonraker
• List of James Bond villainsThroughout the James Bond series the villains have left their mark in cinema history. Right from the word go, Dr. No was a menacing character and set the tone for villains to come with his scheme of toppling the USAs space rockets. Bond Villains often had