Is Elon Musk the Real-Life Hugo Drax?

The Supervillian from Moonraker Shares Many Similarities With Musk

Hugo Drax versus Elon Musk

After rewatching Moonraker, a 1979 movie from the James Bond canon, it is apparent that Elon Musk and the supervillain Hugo Drax have a great deal in common. Is life imitating art? Is Elon Musk a supervillain hiding in plain sight? Let’s take a look at the evidence.

1. Drax and Musk are both fantastically wealthy, space-obsessed industrialists with their own fleet of spacecraft. (This may be the most damning evidence of all)
2. Both men lived in California but built lairs in other places. Drax in the jungles of Brazil and Musk in the wastelands of Texas.
3. Drax liquidates employees that displease him, while Musk terminates employees for not working in the office.
4. Musk and Drax both favor futuristic uniforms, clothing, and hats.
5. Drax and Musk adorn themselves with attractive women while operating in the “bro sphere.”
6. Musk is trying to single-handedly create the world in his image by fathering as many children as possible. (Current score: 10) He is also eyeing Mars as his private Eden. Drax has similar aspirations but with a different methodology. He aims to depopulate Earth with poison from space, then repopulate it with handpicked, genetically approved employees.
7. Both men employ a “continental” affection when speaking.
8. Musk and Drax gravitate to unconventional names for their minions, girlfriends, and children. (Jaws, Chang, Grimes, X)
9. Both men have wildly inappropriate relationships with government officials, the rich, and the famous.
10. Like all supervillains, Drax and Musk have an overly inflated sense of self and their place in history. They also possess an unbending faith in their own “rightness” even when they are entirely wrong.
11. One has already died in space, and the other has a good chance of doing the same.

The similarities between the two men are striking. It behooves NASA to ensure there isn’t a private space station hidden on the moon’s dark side. I also suggest the US Geological Survey recheck the world’s dormant volcanoes for evidence of recent construction. While none of this evidence is decisive, a little caution is justified.