Casino Royale is the deadliest James Bond movie for the Bond Girls, with not one of the three who are introduced surviving the film. Directed by Martin Campbell, 2006's Casino Royale saw Daniel Craig debut as 007 in an origin story based upon the first Bond novel written by Ian Fleming. Further, Casino Royale was a total reboot of the James Bond movie canon; Craig's 007 exists in a separate universe from the original Bonds played by Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, and Pierce Brosnan.
Despite being a clean slate, many of James Bond's classic tropes were reintroduced in Casino Royale, including the Bond Girls. Arguably the most popular staple of the franchise, the Bond Girls are usually 007's sexy companions and they have been portrayed by some of the loveliest women of each era, like Ursula Andress (the original Bond Girl), Diana Rigg, Barbara Bach, Famke Janssen, Denise Richards, Halle Berry, Olga Kurylenko, and Léa Seydoux. Bond Girls have ranged from damsels in distress to fellow agents who partner up with Bond, and some have even tried to kill the secret agent (to no avail). While James Bond always wins in the end, he doesn't always save the Bond Girls' lives and a great many have died (usually violently) throughout the course of the existing 25 movies. But usually, at least one Bond Girl survives each film - until Casino Royale came along.
Casino Royale has the dubious distinction of killing every Bond Girl introduced in the film. All three met brutal deaths at the hands of the movie's villains, the secret organization called Quantum. First and foremost is Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), who becomes James Bond's true love. Vesper was the liaison officer for Her Majesty's Treasury, overseeing $15-million that would fund Bond's participation in a high-stakes poker game against the villainous Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen). But Vesper was also a double agent being blackmailed by Quantum; despite her and James falling in love with each other, Lynd was forced to double-cross 007 and was subsequently murdered by the enemy agents. Vesper's death was, frankly, overkill; despite Bond's efforts, the Quantum hitmen locked her in a cage elevator inside a building collapsing from explosions. Vesper didn't allow James to rescue her, and she drowned in the flood.
The first Bond Girl to die in Casino Royale was Solange Dimitrios (Caterina Murino), the wife of Alex Dimitrios (Simon Abkarian), an associate of Le Chiffre and Quantum. In Nassau, Bahamas, Bond seduced Solange to pump her for information about her husband's plans (and because of his preference for married women). Solange unwittingly informed 007 that Alex was en route to Miami to commit a terrorist act, which Bond foiled. When 007 returned to Nassau, he found Solange had been tortured, murdered, and left wrapped in a hammock on the beach as a message from Quantum.
Finally, Le Chiffre's own mistress Valenka (Ivana Milicevic) also perished when she was assassinated by Quantum's Mr. White (Jesper Christensen). Like Solange, Valenka's death happens off-camera; in the moments prior to White murdering Le Chiffre, we hear her shout a warning before a gunshot kills her. In addition, Valenka is brutalized earlier in the film. Ugandan criminals whose money Le Chiffre swindled attacked them both in their Hotel Splendid suite. The Ugandans even threatened to cut Valenka's arm off with a sword. Still, Valenka later poisoned Bond's martini, which sent him into cardiac arrest, and she aided and abetted all of Le Chiffre's many crimes, so Valenka arguably earned her fate.
Perhaps the lone justification for Casino Royale's Bond Girl bloodlust is that none of them were innocent and they were all in league with Quantum in various ways. Ultimately, Casino Royale's callous treatment of its Bond Girls is echoed by 007's cold words to M (Judi Dench) about Vesper after she died, "The job is done and the b*tch is dead." Bond Girl lovers can at least take solace that Craig's movies would later deliver the exact opposite of Casino Royale's body count because, in 2015's Spectre, no Bond Girls died.
