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#Alex rider scorpia series#

Ironically she would have survived if she knew that the SAS soldiers were actually trying to warn her, not detain her.

Death by Looking Up: Killed by the hot air balloon she was using as a platform for her attack.

Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Really wants to get even with John Rider and MI6 for outwitting her and she thinks she can do this through killing Alex.

It doesn't change the fact that she's a terrorist planning to mass-murder children. Rothman has no disfigurements, and her descriptions paint her as being quite good-looking.

Beauty Is Bad: Unlike most other villains, Mrs.

The failure of their plan in Scorpia Rising results in the organization being dismantled.

Villain Decay: In-Universe example SCORPIA's credibility is seriously affected when a fourteen-year-old boy destroys two of their operations and (indirectly) kills two of their executives within a few months.Uriah Gambit: In Scorpia Rising, Zeljan Kurst has Levi Kroll killed and false evidence placed on his cadaver in order to lure MI6 - and Alex - into a trap.The Syndicate: SCORPIA is basically the series's version of SPECTRE.

This means that there are four members of the original board who appear in at least three of the books without even being identified by name. Out of Focus: In Scorpia Rising, six new members are added to SCORPIA's executive board, replacing the ones who have been killed three of the new members are the Big Bads of the next two books.In Scorpia, Julia Rothman claims to Alex that they are even occasionally hired by the intelligence services for dirtier jobs. Only in It for the Money: They are essentially an elite terrorist-for-hire outfit that works for anyone who has large sums of money.Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: There's a SCORPIA member named Dr.It's very possible that they're behind some of the other villain's actions if not all of them. Man Behind the Man: SCORPIA's admitted to being behind Herod Sayle's plan in Book 1 by selling him the virus strain he implanted in the Stormbreakers.Make It Look Like an Accident: The plot of Snakehead, where SCORPIA have to destroy a conference aiming to wipe out poverty but avoid the organisers looking like martyrs.Greater-Scope Villain: Zeljan Kurst, leader of Scorpia.Gaining the Will to Kill: SCORPIA runs an assassination school, so naturally, this is part of the curriculum.The narration remarks at one point that whoever came up with the name had probably been watching a little too much James Bond. Fun with Acronyms: SCORPIA: Sabotage, CORruPtion, Intelligence, Assassination.Even Evil Has Standards: Sanity wise: SCORPIA condemned Damian Cray as a madman.Dramatic Irony: In Scorpia Rising, the reader is aware pretty much from the start that Alex's mission is a trap to deliver him to Scorpia.

In later books they recruit new co-leaders from Ireland, Italy, and Iraq. Cosmopolitan Council: At the beginning of SCORPIA, the leaders of the eponymous criminal organization are a woman from Wales (their sole female member), an Englishman with a Chinese mother, a Yugoslavian, a man of mixed African and Japanese ancestry, a Frenchman, an elderly German, a one-eyed Israeli man, an Australian man with many names, and a Chinese Torture Technician.Conspicuously Public Assassination: SCORPIA's plot in Scorpia Rising.Again, the details are thankfully spared. It's later mentioned that he does several more "experiments" with Julius.He tortures a French spy the author manages to spare the readers the details, though.Unless you want to read about that stuff. Played straight in Scorpia Rising with Razim, who wants to create a measurable unit of pain and slowly kills people with various horrific instruments, like knives, syringes and many more, to measure the pain that they feel. Cold-Blooded Torture: An obvious instrument they use.He also refuses to tell Alex what he is planning. Bond Villain Stupidity: Averted in Scorpia Rising, as Razim needs Alex alive and without any physical marks on him.

#Alex rider scorpia series#

Big Bad: Featuring in five of the eleven novels note Scorpia, Snakehead, Scorpia Rising, Russian Roulette and Never Say Die (as well as later being revealed to be responsible for the events of Stormbreaker) and responsible for most of the series' backstory, with their disbanding at the end of Scorpia Rising meant to be one of the big indications the series was now over, SCORPIA are effectively the Big Bad of the entire series.

Anyway, we've got to be called something, and I suppose SCORPIA has a nice ring to it." Julia Rothman: "They could have added kidnapping, blackmail, terrorism, drug trafficking and vice, but that wouldn't make a word.