Buonaparte Ignace Gallia, AKA Mr. Big

SMERSH operative and head of the Black Widow Voodoo Cult

Buonaparte Ignace Gallia is a French-Haitian SMERSH operative.

While a member of the US military in WWII, Gallia defects to the USSR where he receives training in Moscow before being sent back to the US and tasked with seeding corruption within American society. There he uses the public alias Mr. Big to set up a number of businesses including The Boneyard nightclub in Harlem, and Ouroborous Inc, a tropical fish and sea shells business in St Petersburg, Florida. In reality, his operations are a criminal front, laundering 17th century gold coins for SMERSH.

Mr. Big also heads up the Black Widow Voodoo Cult and has cultivated the belief that he is a voodoo master called Baron Samedi. He has the beautiful mind-reader Solitaire in his control, who he sees as the future mother of his children. A man of 6’5″ and twenty stone (mostly of made up of muscle), it is not surprising that he inspires fear in the hearts of all of his disciples.

DID YOU KNOW?

Ian Fleming gave the character the name Buonaparte Ignace Gallia, initials which form the acronym B.I.G., aka Mr. Big.