History Characters / Golgo13Recurring

** Regard for Human Life: Golgo, for all his cold professionalism, does not treat life as cheap. He respects innocent persons' right to live. However, along with his intended target, it is those who are [[NothingPersonal "in the business" or "also playing the game", so to speak]], who must be prepared for the possibility of death at his hands, if necessary (also see his Berserk Buttons).

* CorruptCharacterCopy: He is essentially Franchise/JamesBond, if he was a villain (or VillainProtagonist, in this case).

* AffablyEvil: He's fairly civil and polite for a hired killer so long as you don't press one of his {{Berserk Button}}s or try to screw him over.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Duke Togo is an amoral, cold and ruthless professional assassin... and that's it. He shows no ill will towards any of his targets or clients ([[ContractOnTheHitman unless THEY make an issue of it]]), and he's just as willing to do jobs for altruistic and well-intentioned clients as much as the scum of the earth, as long as the check clears. He is [[ConsummateProfessional the ultimate professional in an ugly profession]]. As such, it's not hard at all to root for him, considering the vast majority of people he's hired to kill are [[CompleteMonster absolute garbage the human race is better off not having numbering among them]][[invoked]]. Even when killing someone who clearly doesn't deserve it, it's the ''client'' who's the true monster here, not Golgo. It also helps that LaserGuidedKarma is VERY MUCH at play in the ''Golgo 13'' universe, and Golgo's most unscrupulous clients more often than not end up getting their just desserts, usually at Golgo's hands.

[[folder: The Big Four]]

[[folder: O'Malley]]

[[folder: Hoover]]

[[folder: Kinski]]

[[folder: Moshe Dayan]]

[[folder: The family in general]]

[[folder: Fanette Gobert]]

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Duke Togo is an amoral, cold and ruthless professional assassin... and that's it. He shows no ill will towards any of his targets or clients ([[ContractOnTheHitman unless THEY make an issue of it]]), and he's just as willing to do jobs for altruistic and well-intentioned clients as much as the scum of the earth, as long as the check clears. He is [[ConsummateProfessional the ultimate professional in an ugly profession]]. As such, it's not hard at all to root for him, considering the vast majority of people he's hired to kill are [[CompleteMonster absolute garbage the human race is better off not having numbering among them]]. Even when killing someone who clearly doesn't deserve it, it's the ''client'' who's the true monster here, not Golgo. It also helps that LaserGuidedKarma is VERY MUCH at play in the ''Golgo 13'' universe, and Golgo's most unscrupulous clients more often than not end up getting their just desserts, usually at Golgo's hands.

*** In a later story, he runs into a young punk that's part of the story's henchmen-of-the-week set. Instead of killing him, Golgo opts to get the punk into an accident during a car chase that breaks his arm. By the end of the story, he is the only mook left alive after Golgo finishes the job.

* TheSociopath: High functioning, borderline, and [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] in Duke's case. He's as cold as ice and there pretty much nothing he wouldn't do for the sake of a job. For him it's about cold logic and feelings rarely if ever are a factor in his decision making. That said, he doesn't enjoy the criminal or immoral acts he perpetrates but sees them as necessary to get jobs done. In casual life, he never seems to do anything illegal or harmful, can be social, and will even do things like give to charities [[EnforcedTrope (albeit to add to his cover)]]. While he has done really messed up stuff he only sees it as work like a normal person going in to punch a clock everyday. Duke never intentionally harms innocents. Aside from his targets, the only ones who are even likely to find out how deadly he is are those who are either "in the buisness" or "playing the game". And if you know who he is, then you are likely "in the game".

* Screw the rules, I have connections!: Zigzagged. Half the time whenever Golgo is arrested by the authorities the various government agencies who owe him favors bail him out. The other half is that he is simply let go due to the evidence against him being extremely circumstantial.

Characters who appear in more than one of Golgo 13's many adventures. For Golgo 13 himself, see [[Characters/Golgo13RecurringGolgo13 Golgo 13]].

!Golgo 13's Contacts
[[folder:Dave [=McCartney=]]]
!!Dave [=McCartney=]
-> '''Manga Appearances:''' "At Pin-Hole!" (Story #37, Anime Episode 1), "The Orbital Hit" (Story #137) "Grain War" (Story #190), "Sharpshoot in the G String" (Story #257, Anime Episode 7), "The Death of Mr. and Mrs. Crown" (Story #319)", One Minute Past Midnight" (Story #430), "Night of the Murder Play" (Story #481, Anime Episode 33), "Azhdahaka's Feathers" (Story #489), "End of the Feast" (Story #496), ''Gunsmith Dave''
-> '''Anime-only Appearances:''' "The Masterpiece Assault Rifle" (Episode 3), "Touchdown" (Episode 12), "Florida Chase" (Episode 25), "Angry Waves" (Episode 35), "Arms of the Angel, Arms of the Devil" (Episode 50)
-> '''Played by:''' Mitsuo Senda (JP), Creator/ChrisAyres (EN)

A recurring arms dealer and master gunsmith who assists Golgo in many of his jobs by providing special equipment or modifications need to complete them.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Duke is more reliant on him in the anime, and their relationship in the manga almost always ends up with Dave becoming exasperated. Dave is also far more chipper in the former and always takes on Golgo's jobs with gusto.
* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: If Duke is James Bond, Dave is undoubtedly his [[GadgeteerGenius Q]].
* ArmsDealer: His primary business is running an underground gun shop for high profile clients like Golgo. He even makes and modifies much of his own merchandise which earns him a lot of extra cash on the side when a customer needs something extremely specific for a job.
* AccentAdaptation: The Viz translation appears to give him a Scots accent (or at least he admits to being of Scottish roots in "One Minute Past Midnight"), but the 2009 anime dub gives him a standard American one.
* EnsembleDarkHorse: To the point he's the star of his own spinoff manga!
* FriendInTheBlackMarket: He's Golgo's main source for guns, goodies and gadgets outside the movies and although he charges some pretty steep fees for his work he always delivers the goods on time.
* GadgeteerGenius: He regularly crafts, modifies and customizes the gear he sells to Golgo, often while under a strict time limit and for a very high price.
* UltimateBlacksmith: Or gunsmith in this case. Nobody else can match his precision and skill in the time Golgo needs his guns to be ready and he commonly does days worth of work in mere hours.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Variation; in "Quiet Meadow", he meets Golgo again when the latter is on assignment. Mandy didn't push his investigation into the hitman's origins any further, so Golgo had enough justification to leave him be. Alternatively, Golgo probably isn't Kensaku Azuma at all, so maybe he let him go on those grounds.

* TheUnfought: Variation; Golgo and Mandy never meet until he retires. Mandy does catch a brief glimpse of Golgo in Dallas during "Statistically Explained Sniping", but they never talk.

->'''Appears in:''' Operation Big Safe" (Story #1), "Via Beirut, "Melancholy Summer" (Story #13, Anime Episode #20), "Under the Dark Streetlight", (Story #31), "Her Majesty's Melancholy", "Jet Stream", "Eurocrat Special", "Sub Rosa", "Sir Hume's Last Request",
->'''Mentioned in:''' "English Rose" (Story #369)

!Recurring Clients
[[folder: The Big Four]]

[[folder:Dwight Greenhill]]

[[folder:Goichi Todo]]

[[folder:Rosen Zamek]]

!The Rockford Family
[[folder: The family in general]]
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[[folder:David Rockford]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lawrence Rockford]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Gunsmith]]

The head of [=MI6=] and a member of the Big Four. Golgo's first recorded client (who then tried to kill him) uncharacteristically continued to hire Golgo on behalf of the British government on multiple occasions.

[[folder: Moshe Dayabn]]

->'''Appears in :''' "Kensaku Azuma, the Japanese" (Story #59), "Statistically Explained Sniping" (Story #85), "Queen of Crime" (Story #147), "The Last Will of Mao Zedong" (Story #168), "Quiet Meadow" (Story #484), "Trembling Shugenja" (Story #532)

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Variation; in "Quiet Meadow", he meets Golgo again when the latter is on assignment. In any case, Mandy didn't push his investigation further, so Golgo had enough justification to leave him be. Alternatively, Golgo probably isn't Kensaku Azuma at all, so he had no business getting involved.

%%Needed: entries for the other Big 4 members (O'Malley, J. Edgar Hoover, and Kinisky) and the Big 4 in general.
%%Needed: An entry for Moshe Dayan, who gives Golgo multiple jobs

The head of [=MI6=] and a member of the Big 4. Golgo's first recorded client (who then tried to kill him) uncharacteristically continued to hire Golgo on behalf of the British government on multiple occasions.

!Recurring Reporters

[[folder:Mandy Washington]]
->'''Appears in :''' "Kensaku Azuma, the Japanese" (Story #59), "Statistically Explained Sniping" (Story #85), "Queen of Crime" (Story #147), "The Last Will of Mao Zedong" (Story #168), "Quiet Meadow" (Story #484), "Trembling Shugenja" (Story #532)

A former IntrepidReporter who specialized in true crime books. In the story "Kensaku Asuma, the Japanese", he tries to find Golgo's origins, but backs off the case when his friend, Oyama is murdered. At first he thinks it's Golgo who did the job, but it turned out to be TheDragon of a member of the Japanese elite who he angered with his books. He retires afterwards and turns down later requests to help in investigating Golgo's origins later in the series.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Variation; in "Quiet Meadow", he meets Golgo again when the latter is on assignment. In any case, Mandy didn't push his investigation further, so Golgo had enough justification to leave him be. Alternatively, Golgo probably isn't Kensaku Azuma at all, so he had no business getting involved.
* IntrepidReporter: Was one before his retirement.
* RefusalOfTheCall: He outright says "no" when he's asked to help in later investigations into Golgo's origins.
* ScareEmStraight: His experiences in his debut story plus his other near encounters with Golgo convince him to retire from the reporter business.
* TheUnfought: Variation; Golgo and Mandy never meet until he retires. Mandy does catch a brief glimpse of Golgo in Dallas during "Statistically Explained Sniping", but they never talk.
* WhoShotJFK: He believes Golgo did it, but can't prove it.

!The Rockford Family
[[folder: The family in general]]

[[folder:David Rockford]]

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->'''Appears in:''' "Melancholy Summer" (Story #13, Anime Episode #20), "Under the Dark Streetlight", "Sub Rosa", "Sir Hume's Last Request", "English Rose" (Story #369)

The head of [=MI6=] and a member of the Big 4. A long-time acquaintance of Golgo who hires him on multiple occasions. In one notable incident he conspires with a publisher to have Princess Diana's boyfriend assassinated; the publisher's paparazzi are to track the boyfriend down, and then the minister will have him killed. He thus hires Golgo 13 to take care of the job. However, when things go awry, the minister realizes the publisher may not have been entirely forthright with him.

* AtLeastIAdmitIt: When Margate points out that the minister encouraged him to slander Princess Diana in his tabloid, the minister says that he at least knew the stories he was supporting were lies and that Diana was a better person than she was being depicted as, whereas Margate never knew or cared about Diana's real qualities.

* XanatosChessGambit: How he roots out a mole during one of his adventures with Golgo 13: he gives all four main suspects a letter addressed to the mole. The one who takes at at him, obviously the guilty one, will be shot by Golgo.

* TheUnfought: Variation; Golgo and he never meet until he retires.

The head of [=MI6=]. A long-time acquaintance of Golgo who hires him on multiple occasions. In one notable incident he conspires with a publisher to have Princess Diana's boyfriend assassinated; the publisher's paparazzi are to track the boyfriend down, and then the minister will have him killed. He thus hires Golgo 13 to take care of the job. However, when things go awry, the minister realizes the publisher may not have been entirely forthright with him.

Characters who appear in more than one of Golgo 13's many adventures.