History Characters / SpaceAdventureCobra

* TheAssimilator: He can fuse with any machine and changes their appearance to his own in some way. He even manages to force the gates to the ruby graveyard open with this ability.

* TheAssimilator: His can fuse with any machine and changes their appearance to his own in some way. He even manages to force the gates to the ruby graveyard open with this ability.

* ArcVillain: He is the main antagonist of the "Hell Crusaders" scenario. Goldman is, in fact, portrayed very much like a typical ''James Bond'' villain, with Cobra himself acting even more Bond-like than usual in turn during their interactions.

* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Goldman amicably tries to convince Cobra into joining forces with him and that fails he then straps Cobra to a sensory deprivation device for several hours, intending to reforge the pirate into a brainwashed minion.

* TheBusCameBack: She reappears in "Over The Rainbow", the unfinished last story Terasawa wrote before his death.

* PrecociousCrush: She's barely 15 and crushes hard on Cobra, who's much older than her ([[VagueAge likely in his 30s]], or ''55'' if you take his fake tombstone at face value). He understandably rejects her advances, but does give her a ShutUpKiss while asking her to stay out of trouble.

-> Voiced by: Creator/NachiNozawa (TV anime, [=OVAs=], Arcade game), Shigeru Matsuzaki (movie), Creator/YasuoYamada (PC Engine game), Creator/YusakuYara (Playstation game), Creator/NaoyaUchida (''Cobra the Animation'')

** In ''The Psychogun'', Cobra states he shouldn't kill women out of principle but will do so with no hesitation if threatened by them. Indeed, Cobra's first intentional kill after rediscovering his identity was a female assassin, as if to display from the get-go how ruthless he is. In the "Six Heroes" arc, Gavara chastises Cobra for not immediately shooting her in the back out of a supposed soft spot for women and tells him to not underestimate them, Cobra had already killed villainesses by the dozen, some even in needlessly cruel ways, and promptly tears a hole into her torso after sneaking on her again.

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Several of them are killed by losing faith in the treasure or doubting the mountain itself, which causes it to somehow instantly disappear beneath their feet and sends them plummeting to their doom. Geronimo survives because he was determined to prove that his late father had made it to the top before dying, while both Sebastian and Cobra were simply certain that Flight 702 had crashed on top of it -- Sebastian himself caused the crash, and Lady was sending Cobra a distress signal from it.

* HangingAround; Sebastian appears to commit suicide by hanging after Cobra accuses him of wanting the treasure like everyone else despite his talk of restoring his faith in God. It is later revealed that Sebastian is really a cyborg who staged his own death so he could sneak around to kill both Linda and Leo. Ironically, Cobra kills Sebastian by [[OffWithHisHead tearing his iron neck apart]] with the Psychogun, causing the rest of the body to fall down the mountain.

* SinisterMinister: Father Sebastian turns out to be the one who set a bomb on the treasure plane that crashed on Mt. Mayfly to begin with, which is how he's able to climb it to the top with no risk of it disappearing.

* EnemyToAllLivingThings: Created to eliminate all life in a targetted planet, but with barely any means to keep it from doing the same [[GoneHorribyRight everywhere else]] as well.

* CoolShip: The Turtle, a flying brick with a shape that evokes a turtle's shell.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Dominique is one for her twin sister Jane, as they both look identical (though in the movie version Dominique has [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue hair]] while Jane is still a blonde) and both are [[ActionGirl Action Girls]] who come to love Cobra, but in both versions Cobra meets Dominique long after Jane's death.

* OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Jane and Dominique are perfect twins, with the same hairstyle featuring long, flowing waist-length hair with a prominent bang and muttonchops, and they're both [[ActionGirl Action Girls]] skilled with a gun and decent in hand-to-hand combat. Catherine, on the other hand is an innocent, non-action civilian girl who had the misfortune of being captured and kept in the Cido Prison at the beginning of the story, and though her hairstyle differs depending on the version of the story, it is always different compared to that of her sisters, to the point she might not be considered an actual twin to them.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Dominique is one for her twin sister Jane, as they both look identical (though in the movie version Dominique has [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue hair]] while Jane is still a blonde) and both are [[ActionGirl Action Girls]], but in both versions Cobra meets Dominique long after Jane's death.

* VagueAge: Cobra is generally implied to be in his thirties during the original series, but every adaptation of the story has different dates on Cobra's fake tombstone that manke his supposed age anywhere from his twenties to his fifties.

* VagueAge:
** Every adaptation of the story has different dates on Cobra's fake tombstone, so he could be anywhere from his twenties to his fifties.

* PrecociousCrush: She's barely 15 and crushes hard on Cobra, who's much older than her ([[VagueAge anywhere from]] 29 to 55 years-old). He understandably rejects her advances, but does give her a ShutUpKiss while asking her to stay out of trouble.

* BloodKnight: Ursula lives to fight and promptly pledges her loyalty to Crystal Bowie by crushing the crystalized Rogol under her foot.

** The assault on the Black Sheep is a particularly effortless slaughter of Crystal Bowie's forces by Cobra and his team.

* WeCanRebuildHim: Ursula is brutally blown into a pile of debris and her legs are replaced by ArtificialLimbs. Then Cobra tears a hole into her torso with the Psychogun ''and'' the spaceship she's in is blown up, leading the Guild to turn her into an Armaroid cyborg like Lady. Both times she is so eager to go back into combat that she doesn't care about losing her entire body.

* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Zola is a living weapon who reduced her creator Dr. Yama to a head on a small robot dog body. She schemes to take over Dobson's body to support Crystal Bowie.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The "watchdogs" of the Rune Museum just happen to be robot dinosaurs.

* KilledOffForReal: Bowie was once an organic HornedHumanoid but got revived as a cyborg after being killed by Cobra. He is then twice defeated by impalement during the original manga and is left drifting on space, with it being noted that as long as he's got his head intact he can be repaired. Then in ''The Psychogun'', Cobra manages to outright explode Bowie into a million pieces, killing him off for good.

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the manga, Cobra uses the Turtle to toss the battle tank she's riding onto the top of a pyramid, causing it to tumble from high and killing her from the body trauma. The anime is similar, but Cobra instead tosses her giant form and after crashing she falls into an underground lake, drowning if she wasn't already dead from the impact on the pyramid. ''Cobra The Arcade'' then has the Ultimate Weapon be destroyed in direct combat, killing her in the explosion.

** Dominique's death scene is the series' ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' moment, but it is completely PlayedForHorror: she's killed offscreen and her tattooed back is skinned from shoulder to butt. Those grotesque remains are left on display for a distressed Cobra to find.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: After the failed assassination of Salamander, Doug gets easily assassinated by a hitwoman to show how dangerous the Guild still is. In the anime version, the other two are ''[[DeathByAdaptation also]]'' uncerimoniously rubbed out in a matter of seconds!

%% * BaldOfEvil: His golden bald dome only enhances his menacing aura.

* UnroboticReveal: The "Six Heroes" arc reveals Bowie was all along the horned warrior who chopped Cobra's left arm off. He was turned almost completely into a cyborg after Cobra managed to forced him to hit himself with his own axe.