Erik Klebb

Erik Klebb was a enforcer for Cerberus and the alleged son of Rosa Klebb. A secondary antagonist in the unfinished 1993 James Bond comic series A Silent Armageddon.

Biography[]

Released story[]

After Troy Baines reveals the existence of Omega to the Cerberus organization, the group agrees to help. Erik Klebb is amongst the Cerberus killers that goes to the school that Professor Garrard and his protégé Terri Li are at and begin shooting up the place. They kill Professor Garrard and soon afterwards, spot Terri Li escaping in her wheel-chair.

Erik goes after her, shooting towards her and hitting her wheelchair, causing her fly to the river. Believing he killed her, Erik goes to check Terri's wheel-chair to check if she has any of Prof. Garrard's research on her. He finds a CD for Wagner music, which he doesn't believe to be relevant for their goal and tosses it away -- unaware that it did contain Terri's and Garrard's research on Omega. Subsequently, Erik and co. blow up the school.

Subsequently, they go to Troy Baines' apartment, having trashed his place and beaten up Eddie Byle, the hacker who found Omega for Baines. Eddie tells that Cerberus thugs know of Omega and Erik goes to Troy, believing he knows where Omega is. Because Troy doesn't know, they end up killing him and taking Eddie with them.

Afterwards, Erik is accompanying a high-ranking Cerberus member André Lefleur to the Cerberus complex within Kowloon walled city. Lefluer reprimands Erik for doing a bad job.

After Bond and Jessica Penrose (a spy for Cerberus) bring Terri Li to the Babel Center to try find Omega, Erik and other Cerberus thugs arrive on a van. They eliminate the lobby security with suppressed firearms and board the elevator, using Babel Center's identification tags to get in. After the Omega causes a system breakdown at Babel Center, a Cerberus MD 500D helicopter opens fire on the floor that Bond, Jessica and Terri are at. After the copter as ceased fire, Erik and his men get out the elevator and kill surviving scientists.

Jessica grabs hold of Terri and orders Erik to follow her. He refuses and instead wants to battle James Bond.

Unreleased story[]

It is not detailed how the fight between Bond and Erik goes, just that Bond gets wounded trying to fend of Cerberus henchmen. Bond gets Terri back and the two escape Cerberus clutches.

Much later, Cerberus relocate Bond and Terri in Berlin, where Erik confronts Bond, telling that he wants revenge for his mother, Rosa Klebb. Bond escapes thanks to a mercenary he has hired his eventual planned attack on Cerberus.

Bond, Terri and his mercenaries reach Kowloon and the Cerberus complex within the walled city. Bond and co. fight off Cerberus soldiers, with Erik possibly amongst them. Bond and Terri cause the Orpheus supercomputer at the complex to explode, which engulfs the entire place. Erik dies in the blast due to Jessica Penrose sacrificing herself in order to amend herself for her betrayal towards Bond and Terri.

Behind the scenes[]

According to interviews conducted by Mark Edlitz with writer Simon Jowett, as recounted in Edlitz's book "The Lost Adventures of James Bond", apparently the creation of Erik Klebb was a "uneducated mistake", as while Jowett is somewhat familiar with Bond media, he was ignorant of the context involved with making the character Rosa Klebb's son.

Indeed, the character Rosa Klebb is usually depicted as a lesbian, with it outright stated so in the original From Russia with Love novel by Ian Fleming. Unless Rosa Klebb was forcefully impregnated or Erik is adopted, it is unlikely that Erik was intentionally conceived by her with any kind of a man.

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References[]

• Edlitz, Mark (2020). "The Lost Adventures of James Bond". ISBN: 978-1735461618