"Jaws" (real name Zbigniew Krycsiwiki). In prison the police beat him until thought dead leaving his jaw broken. He escaped aboard one of Stromberg's vessels, was caught and Karl hired a doctor to create an artificial jaw. After 14 operations it was restored using steel although he was left mute.

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Spockodile

Moderator | G Section

To clarify for the confused, this is from Christopher Wood’s novelization of the film.

overtired27

Moderator | Salt corrosion 🧂

Did he explain Jaws getting his voice back in the Moonraker novelization? I’ve not read either.

And how about Dolly’s magical disappearing braces…?

mobilisinmobili1987

The novelization is set in the continuity of the books, so it’s actually quite different by design from the films.

ChriSkeleton333

I give up my Dolly had braces belief at this point but it is a very interesting thing that happened to a lot of us

WhiskeyDJones

For real, I thought that was the whole reason they liked each other

androzanimajor76

I thought it might have been. Not read either in years!

Ksenobiolog

Funny thing is, the character is supposed to be Polish, and 'Zbigniew' is indeed a regular polish name, but 'Krycsiwiki' looks polish on a first glance, but it's a total gibberish made from random letters.
(source: I'm Polish)

Sneaky_Bond

Moderator | Works better alone.

Yeah, I recently read the novelization and had a hard time with Jaws' surname. I know how "Zbigniew" is pronounced from being familiar with Zbigniew Brzezinski. But I couldn't find any sensible flow in "Krycsiwiki." "Krih-SIV-iki" was my best shot.

Ksenobiolog

That's because it's non-pronounceable in Polish. Some of those combinations of letters just do not exist in Polish.

LegalAbbreviations90

Whats the roughest pronunciation you could give it?

Ellie_Llewellyn

https://www.howtopronounce.com/zbigniew

LegalAbbreviations90

Ze-big-nev, i c

Klayman55

Witwicki and Krzyżanowski were the closest surnames I could find.

Odie3056184u

Krzywicki is a quite common surname

Maximum-Resource-572

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I also like him backing up Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore

Captain_Vlad

In my head it's the same guy.

Maximum-Resource-572

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Same ,scary intimidating without metal Teeth

Captain_Vlad

MI6 got him some real teeth and a house for him and Dolly, so long as he stayed mostly out of trouble.

Someone should deepfake Roger Moore standing with him at the tournament.

quaddo3

Mute? He's talking in Moonraker. He must've learned how to talk again in-between the films then, I guess.

da_choppa

A wizard did it

quaddo3

I didn't know Lucy Lawless was on reddit....

No, just Xena

I see....

“Here’s to us”

when he wrote the novelisation, moonraker had not released yet.

quaddo3

Yeah, I realize that, but it doesn't explain how he can be talking in Moonraker though.

In TSWLM he doesn't say a word (not even when he drops a big rock on his own foot). So my comment was mostly a dig at Moonraker (for not keeping continuity) more than anything.... but I like him talking so.... it's a tough one to call.

*edit: grammar

sonicbobcat

You’re trying to connect two separate things. The novelizations have their own continuity.

quaddo3

So, are you saying that he doesn't talk in the novelization of Moonraker?

Yamatoman9

One of the most classic Bond villains. I never knew he had a name.

I just watched the behind the scenes documentary on Moonraker and the director said they received so much fan mail about Jaws after TSWLM they chose to bring him back and that he was very popular with kids who wanted him to be a good guy so they gave him a reason to turn good.

bz_leapair

They even recovered him and Dolly safely from the satellite if I remember correctly. So he could've come back a third time.

clarkyk85

Technically he did in the video game Everything or Nothing. Dolly must have dumped him or hit hard time cause he is back to being a villain.

lostpasts

In the original novel, where he's just a mafia hood, he's called Sol "Horror" Horowitz.

Ray_Spring12

I can see him being brought back in a reboot.

nbdelboy

pretty sure hinx was intended to be a reference to jaws. mixed up a bit to fit the craig continuity

CosmicOutfield

That’s what I thought. They treated his character like a modern day reboot of Jaws.

Competitive_Sport286

"Well, here's to us"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gelXkdMLme8

Answer-Outrageous

So how did Jaws get aboard that airplane at the beginning of Moonraker?

funwithdesign

Imagine trying to pronounce that name with a metal jaw.

Coffee_achiever_guy

Didnt know he was thaaaaaat Polish, haha

Complex_Resort_3044

Am I mistaken in thinking Silva from Skyfall was Craig’s Jaws? And I guess rami malek would be Dr. NO?

spilledmilkbro

"He was left mute"

Jaws after saying "Here's to us" in Moonraker: 😳

Electric_Buffalo_844

Are these books good? Ive never heard of this author before but a quick amaZon search shows moonraker and spy who loved me novels

Certain-Sock-7680

Hot take - “James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me, the film novelization by Christopher Wood is the best non-Fleming Bond novel ever written.

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