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Recurring Characters

Laughing Bull

Voiced by: Takehiro Koyama (JPN), Michael Gregory (ENG), Maynardo Zavala (SPN-LA)

"Do not fear death. Death is always at your side. When you show fear, it will spring at you faster than light. If you do not show fear, it will only gently look over you...."

A nomadic shaman on Mars, apparently of Native American descent. Spike and Jet (or "Swimming Bird" and "Running Rock") sometimes go to him for cryptic advice. He is also often seen educating a young redheaded boy of the mythical wonders of the universe.

Cool Old Guy: He's pretty ancient, and has deep insights into the characters and their situations.
Don't Fear the Reaper: "Do not fear death."
Fortune Teller: In the first episode, he says that Spike/Swimming Bird is destined to meet a woman who will hunt him down and then he will die. He's kinda-sorta right.
Hidden Depths: In "Jupiter Jazz", it's revealed he has a young son.
Magical Native American: The "magical" part is debatable since this is a science fiction series, he still fits the archetype of the wise and mystic Native American who gives advice to others who lack his spirituality.
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Are his insights and predictions the result of magic or not? While it's not definitively shown to be magic, it's pretty hard to explain otherwise.
The Nicknamer: Don't the nicknames of "Swimming Bird" and "Running Rock" for Spike and Jet just feel right?

Gren Eckener

Grencia "Gren" Mars Elijah Guo Eckener

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Voiced by: Kenyū Horiuchi (JPN), David A. Thomas (ENG), Roberto Mendiola (SPN-LA)

"You said that you didn't need comrades, but I'm attached to that word... to the point of tears..."

He is the subject of the two-part episode "Jupiter Jazz." Gren fought alongside Vicious on Titan, and considered him a close comrade. As one might expect, this was an unfortunate error in judgment on Gren's part. Spike and Faye encounter him on Jupiter's moon Callisto, where he plays saxophone in a bar called the Rester House.

Agent Peacock: He looks mild, friendly and effeminate, but he was a soldier, and he is more than capable of defending himself and more, as Vicious would find out.
Blood from the Mouth: He coughs up blood when he dies.
Break the Cutie: Vicious broke him something fierce.
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie: Upon the brink of death, he asks to be returned to Titan - perhaps the last place he felt he belonged anywhere. Spike gives and keeps his word, towing Gren's ship with Gren's body inside and allowing both to burn up upon entry into Titan's atmosphere.
Combat Pragmatist: Pretty lethal with his saxophone case.
Dude Looks Like a Lady: He's got a pretty face, but he completely passes for a woman with his face covered thanks to the whole "drugs wrecked his hormones and made him grow breasts" thing.
The Dulcinea Effect: Goes out of his way to rescue Faye, even from a fight she was going to win.
Et Tu, Brute?: He and Vicious were comrades in the war on Titan and believed in him as a friend. Finding out Vicious testified against him when he was falsely charged with espionage, Gren "went a little crazy" to the point he was given an experimental drug to calm him down, a side effect of which caused his hormones to go out of whack. Gren arranged a drug deal with Vicious to get closure, since Julia had broken open the music box Vicious gifted Gren during the war and revealed the transmitter concealed inside, meaning Vicious framed Gren for his own treachery. Unfortunately, it ends in Gren's death.
Foreshadowing: His death hits at episode 13, halfway through the series, and is presented in a similar manner to Spike's fate with a music montage over a panning shot of the stars. Episode 26 has Spike facing an identical outcome with his supposed death after defeating Vicious, complete with a matching Laughing Bull scene, and the panning musical shot of the stars. Gren even kills Lin who died protecting Vicious, while Lin's brother Shin dies identically for Spike's sake.
A Good Way to Die: Invokes it when he says dying on the way to Titan is a good way to go.
Improbable Weapon User: That saxophone case is vicious.
Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Even Judy laments the fact that such a pretty guy has to go to prison.
Mr. Fanservice: An interesting case, sharing a lot of qualities one would more expect of a Ms. Fanservice. He gets a Shower Scene where we see he has fully developed breasts and a fairly feminine figure due the drugs he was forced to take. He also has quite the Bishōnen, effeminate appearance to him.
Overly Long Name: Grencia Mars Elijah Guo Eckener. Lampshaded by Judy on the Big Shot episode featuring him.
Precious Photo: His photo of him and Vicious. He cut it in half, then taped it back together and placed it next to photos of his family and friends.
Pretty Boy: And his pretty boy nature is even commented on In-Universe several times.
The Scapegoat: Vicious took advantage of Gren's friendship to frame him for espionage during the war on Titan, resulting in Gren being sent to prison.
Sexy Sax Man: Faye certainly thinks so.
Snow Means Death: He's been dead since he went to Callisto. He's simply waiting for his body to go the way of his soul, and when it does, it's in a drift of snow.
Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb: Does this to Vicious. Gren avoids it himself earlier when Vicious tries to hand him a suitcase containing a bomb.
Stab the Scorpion: A flashback to Titan shows Vicious doing this one to Gren. Subverted in that it was a ploy to gain Gren's trust.
Strong Family Resemblance: Judging from the collection of photos he had on his wall, he looks very much like his mother.
Too Good for This Sinful Earth: He's a Nice Guy through and through, who longs for deep, meaningful bonds with other people. Life... was not kind to him.
True Companions: A very important aspect of his character. He talks about his own longing for this trope, and his belief in it when he was a soldier... and then Vicious shattered his faith.
Truth in Television: Gynecomastia (men growing breasts) is an actual condition that can be caused by altering the body's hormone levels, and one way to alter them is indeed drugs.
Underestimating Badassery: Vicious severely underestimated him, and it nearly cost him his life.

Judy and Punch

Punch

Judy

Voiced by: Miki Nagasawa and Tsutomu Tareki (JPN), Lia Sargent and Paul St. Peter (ENG), Mónica Villaseñor and Enrique Mederos (SPN-LA), María Rosa Guillén and Ramón Rocabayera (SPN-EU)

"Hola, amigos! How y'all doing?"

The hosts of the TV show Big Shots, which gives information about criminals to bounty hunters.

Big "WHAT?!": Judy yells "What?!" when Big Shots is cancelled.
Character Catchphrase: Punch has a has a habit of exclaiming "Amigo!" (in the original Japanese) or "Shucks howdy!" (in the English dub).
Kent Brockman News: Their show often pops up to inform the viewer (and occasionally the Bebop crew) about the current episode's bounty. If they're listening.
Navel-Deep Neckline: Judy wears her vest open, exposing her cleavage and midriff.
Nice Character, Mean Actor:
- When the show is cancelled Judy drops all of her cowgirl, ditzy personality, and reveals her true nature by angrily lashing out at her partner.
- Averted with Punch, as his actor, Alfredo, is a soft-spoken and kind person who takes in his mother even after losing his job.
Obfuscating Stupidity: Judy appears to be little more than a ditzy blonde; in her last appearance on the show, she reveals that it was all an act.
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: This is done deliberately (even In-Universe) with Punch in the English dub. His accent meanders between Mexican, Texan, and who knows what else, and his real accent is none of the above. Judy's accent is fake too, but she has a much tighter grip on it until she finds out the show has been cancelled.
Shoo Out the Clowns: Much like Ed and Ein. Near the show's end, Big Shots is cancelled so the comical segment won't conflict with the permanently serious tone. Punch does have a last-second cameo just before the finale hits its stride, but it's so subdued in tone you may not realise it.
Show Within a Show: They are the hosts of the fictional show Big Shots.
Stripperific: Judy's not wearing a shirt or bra under her coat.

Bob

A cop who works in the ISSP of the Ganymede Police force. He is something of an informant for Jet of various cases. He is generally a good cop despite the corruption within the force.

Friend on the Force: He's been Jet's colleague during his time in the ISSP, and he still provides him information on bountyheads and major events happening in the Solar system.

The Three Old Men

Carlos, Antonio, and Jobim

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Voiced by: Jin Hirao (JPN; Antonio), Hiroshi Naka (JPN; Jobim), Toshihiko Nakajima (JPN; Carlos), Kevin Seymour (ENG; Antonio & Jobim), Steve Kramer (ENG; Carlos)

"This again?! Son of a bitch! Takin' my money like that, ya cheatin' dogs! Why the only reason you can even live here is 'cause of what I done! I busted my tail to dig that gate!"
"For criminy's sakes, you always say the same thing when you're losin'. We all dug that gate together and you know it!"
"That we did. We worked like there was no tomorrow."

Three old men who continuously show up in the background all across the system.

Ascended Extra: They end up flying some of the old planes that spread the nanobot vaccine in The Movie, being among the relatively few people old enough to know how.
Grumpy Old Man: Carlos, and Antonio when he's around Carlos. Jobim seems pretty easygoing.
Hero of Another Story: Carlos is always rambling about some adventure they had in the past.
Recurring Extra: Their sole purpose is to drift around the system providing Comic Relief. The Bebop crew never really notices them until the movie.
Shoo Out the Clowns: In episode 23, Jobim's body is among the Brain Scratch cult.
Theme Naming: They take their name from Brazilian jazz musician Antônio Carlos Jobim.

One-Shot Characters

Asimov Solensan

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Voiced by: Rintaro Nishi (JPN), Kirk Thornton (ENG), Marcos Patiño (SPN-LA)

Appeared in: "Asteroid Blues"

"Yeah, keep those eyes open!"

Asimov was a drug dealer and enforcer for his criminal syndicate until his syndicate produced or acquired an extremely pure and valuable batch of Bloody Eye, a Fantastic Drug that immensely boosts the strength, speed, reaction time, and adrenaline levels of a user to superhuman levels and beyond. Asimov, seeing a chance for a big break, stole the batch and has been trying sell it off since, with the intention of him and his wife Katrina being able to retire afterwards. His old syndicate has also been chasing him ever since, looking to take the Bloody Eye back and kill Asimov. Unfortunately for them and the police alike, Asimov is superhuman killing machine as long as he's using the Bloody Eye.

Animal Motifs: Laughing Bull likens him to a coyote. When he takes Bloody Eye, sometimes he looks downright rabid.
The Berserker: How he acts while on Bloody Eye.
Eye Scream: After fumbling with his eye-spray injector, he attempts to use a vial of Bloody Eye by crushing it while holding over his eye. He gets broken glass in his eye as a consequence.
Good Old Fisticuffs: While on Bloody Eye this is all he needs to be an inhuman terror. When he's coming down from it, however, he's a pretty ordinary fighter and Spike picks him to pieces due to Spike's superior training.
Hour of Power: While high on Bloody Eye, Asimov practically has superpowers. Once he starts coming down, however, he's definitely not superhuman, and the effects don't last long. The withdrawal symptoms look pretty nasty.
Jerkass: When Katerina is grazed by a bullet, he reprimands her for dropping some of the Bloody Eye. Judging by Katrina's shocked look, this is unlike him and may be pain, stress and/or the drug talking.
Latin Lover: Based on Antonio Banderas as he appeared in Desperado, but quickly subverted thanks to that first hit of Bloody Eye.
Outlaw Couple: He and Katerina are on the run from both the law and their old syndicate.
Psycho Serum: Bloody Eye gives him superhuman fighting abilities (he can dodge gunfire and kill with a single punch while high on it), but it's clearly taking a horrific toll on Asimov's body and mind. Furthermore, the effects have a time limit.
Shout-Out: He's named after the science fiction writer, Isaac Asimov. Spike's line about Solensan "trust[ing] [his] eyes too much" might be a reference to the author's outspoken atheism.
Sinister Shades: Wears them unless he's getting high, in part to disguise what the Bloody Eye is doing to his eyes.
Slasher Smile: Tends to wear these while using the Bloody Eye.
Starter Villain: The first bounty of the series, and small-time at best. The episode goes out of its way to contrast this against the body count racked up between him and his pursuers — life is fragile, and you don't have to be an important or powerful individual to cause plenty of harm.
Sympathy for the Devil: He inspires it in Spike, who first encounters him while he's in the middle of coming down from a high. Spike recognizes that the drug is wrecking Asimov's body and chooses not to confront him, instead telling Katrina that Asimov is sick and needs help.
Villainous Breakdown: At the end of the episode, the pressure of being beaten and chased by Spike, his old syndicate, the police, and the effects of the Bloody Eye all hit him at once. He really does seem more like an animal than a man in the end, and doesn't speak, only panting wildly, as he stares forward.

Katerina Solensan

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Voiced by: Yurika Hino (JPN), Katia Moraes (ENG), Laura Torres (SPN-LA)

Appeared in: "Asteroid Blues"

"I can't tell when you're joking and when you're not."

Asimov's wife and partner in crime, she hopes to escape their current life together after selling off their drugs and to retire to Mars, where she imagines they'll be happy. The events of the episode make her realize that it's never going to happen.

Action Girl: She participates in the episode's first shootout in the bar, and manages to kill at least one of their attackers.
Break the Cutie: What the events of the episode do to her.
Broken Pedestal: It’s implied that Asimov is becoming this as the episode goes on, as she starts realizing he is no longer who she fell in love with as he becomes more and more harsh and controlling with her. Subverted in that by the end she still loves him enough to Mercy Kill him before he has to see their dream fall apart.
Commonality Connection: Spike and Katerina seem to hit it off right away. He seems to give her a moment's normality, where she can let her guard down. Meanwhile, Spike knows what it means to try and leave syndicate life behind.
Cradle of Loneliness: Does this with Asimov's body after shooting him herself just before the police bullets hit.
Face Death with Dignity: Just before the police blockade opens fire on her, she shares a final look with Spike and tells him, "Adios, cowboy."
I Just Want to Be Free: She has little control over her life since she’s always on the run and has to follow Asimov’s instructions to the letter to survive in the harsh criminal underworld. She seems to think getting to Mars will mean freedom. At the end she finally exercises freedom, but only in the sense she got to control the circumstances of her death.
I Just Want to Be Normal: More than wealth, she just wants to get out from under the syndicate and start over on Mars.
Mercy Kill: The episode convinces her that they will never escape and Asimov's mind is too far gone from the drugs to recover, even if they do somehow miraculously survive charging the police blockade. So she kills Asimov painlessly and then waits for the inevitable for herself.
Pillow Pregnancy: She appears to be in the late stages of a pregnancy, but it turns out that she is carrying/hiding the Bloody Eye there.
Pregnant Badass: Subverted when it turns out to be a Pillow Pregnancy, of course, but she returns fire during the bar shootout, and kills one of the goons herself, and that's without any Bloody Eye.
Outlaw Couple: She and Asimov are on the run from both the law and their old syndicate.
Sacrificial Lamb: She's introduced in the first episode and given plenty of character development before being killed off.
Spicy Latina: Downplayed. She dresses the part, has the accent, and is the Salma Hayek to Asimov's Antonio Banderas, but the episode goes out of its way to get past the stereotype, showing her buying groceries and wishing for a normal life, not to mention looking like she's heavily pregnant for most of its runtime.
Women Are Wiser: She can see the extent of the effects of the Bloody Eye on Asimov better than he can, and unlike him she recognizes when they no longer have a chance at escaping capture, though it might have less to do with her being a woman and more to do with her not being a user of Bloody Eye. (After all, she's the one who has to actually look at Asimov).

Abdul Hakim

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Voiced by: Ryūzaburō Ōtomo (JPN), Joe Romersa (ENG)

Appeared in "Stray Dog Strut"

"I'll pay you when I'm rich."

A thief who nabs a certain corgi from a research lab... and spends the rest of the episode trying at first to keep ahold of it as the lab tries to recover it, and then after losing it, to get it back for himself and turn it over to his buyer.

Afro Asskicker: A big afro to go with the rest of his '70s-style fashion, and a character who can actually go blow for blow with Spike.
Ambiguously Brown: His race is given as "Negloid [sic]", but he was a dark-skinned blonde before his Magic Plastic Surgery.
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Assault, armed robbery, and... serial pet theft.
Bandage Mummy: Briefly. He unwraps the bandages from his Magic Plastic Surgery in a public washroom at the start of the episode.
Barrier-Busting Blow: Repeatedly smashes through doors, windows, fruit stands, and rickshaws.
Briefcase Full of Money: Subverted — the briefcase is full of dog instead. That dog (Ein) is still Hakim's big payday, or he would be, if Hakim could just manage to catch him again.
Butt-Monkey: Hakim is having a bad day. The episode includes him being made a fool of by everyone from the rando who snatches his briefcase to the dog inside said briefcase, getting dunked in a Martian canal and pinched by crabs, and having his ass handed to him by a bounty hunter half his size. And on top of that there's still his arrest and the injuries he likely suffered in the car accident just before his arrest.
Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Modeled on and named after NBA superstar Kareem Adul-Jabbar (played 1969-1989), as an homage to the fight between Bruce Lee and Jabbar in Game of Death.
Determinator: His episode is mostly one long Chase Scene, and Hakim never gives up and never seems to tire out, though the fact that he still can't catch a stubby-legged corgi in spite of this makes him more of comic relief villain by the end of the episode.
Disproportionate Retribution: When the drunk in the bar interrupts his drink, Hakim crushes the man's jaw and force-feeds him a dead cockroach washed down with a glass of lao chu.
Facepalm of Doom: He cups the the aforementioned drunk's jaw in one hand and lifts him off the ground, squeezing until the bones and tendons start to crack.
Giant Mook: He's massive and fairly tough, but all things being equal, a relatively minor bounty. His head nearly touches the ceiling, he has to duck just to get through door frames, and he towers over everyone, including the fairly lanky Spike.
Jerkass: He's an incredibly unpleasant individual. When a drunk bumps into him and causes him to spill some of his drink, he kills a cockroach, puts it in his drink and forces the man to drink it by crushing his jaw. He also asks two kids what time it is then, once they answer, shoves them both to the ground for no reason.
Laser-Guided Karma: During the freeway chase/tussle with the scientists, Hakim ends up going off-road and crashing straight into a police station. Hilariously lampshaded by Punch and Judy when they describe it as a "flashy way" to turn himself in.
Lean and Mean: Very tall but also quite gangly.
Lightning Bruiser: Fast on his feet for someone so large, and he holds his own against Spike. At first.
Magic Plastic Surgery: Apparently part of his standard M.O. Implied to have healed very quickly, it turns Hakim from a dark-skinned blonde to a Scary Black Man, seemingly in between robbing the lab and the orderlies catching up to him.
Master of Disguise: Insofar as he makes frequent use of future Magic Plastic Surgery technology. No longer much use now that the authorities have gotten wise to his M.O., however, and the scientists chasing him are able to quickly catch up to him despite his new look.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: His name, fighting style and current appearance are based on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. This makes his fight against Spike rather fitting.
One-Man Army: Three men with guns? Hakim knocks them all out in a single cutaway before they can even get off a shot.
"Open!" Says Me: Kicks a metal bathroom door straight off its hinges. Inverted in that he's on the inside of the stall and several armed men are demanding he come out.
Scary Black Man: Big and violent. Possibly subverted in that before his Magic Plastic Surgery he was a dark-skinned blonde.
Slasher Smile: Just before taking out three armed gunmen barehanded.
Writers Cannot Do Math: His mugshot says he's 6'2", but this doesn't line up with how tall he actually appears to be. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is 7'2", so that's presumably the number they intended.

Maria Murdock

"Twinkle" Maria Murdock

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Voiced by: Mari Arita (JPN), Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (ENG), Liza Willert (SPN-LA)

Appeared in: "Gateway Shuffle"

"I'll make monkeys of you all!"

The leader of the Space Warriors, a group of what used to be nature preservationists who became full on eco-terrorists once she took over. Her current pet cause is the Ganymede Sea Rat, an endangered species being marketed as a local delicacy, (despite the fact that, according to Ganymede native Jet, the sea rat tastes totally disgusting) but this may just be an excuse for her to act on a deep loathing of humanity.

Abusive Parents: Is a domineering or worse figure to her 'sons', who make up almost the entire roster of the Space Warriors besides her.
Animal Wrongs Group: Jet claims that her group was legitimate and did good work in the past, now it's a group of violent crazies who will do things like open up on a restaurant with machine guns if someone orders the sea rat there. Maria's all but stated to have been the cause.
Ax-Crazy: She takes singing glee while causing a massacre in a restaurant, and breaks into song when she attempts to wipe out the population of an entire planet with her virus. Plus besides Harrison, it's implied the other people turned into monkeys on her ship were either other members that failed her or people that got in her way — and she ejects them all into space for a decoy ploy without a second thought.
The Dreaded: Ganymede is terrified of what she'll do next, to the point where the government is giving in to her demands — or trying to, when she decides to stage a demonstration anyway.
Eco-Terrorist: She's turned the Space Warriors from a peaceful group of nature preservationists to a group of psychotic terrorists willing to protect a planet's ecosystem by unleashing a virus that will turn every human on Ganymede into monkeys.
Fate Worse than Death: She intends to subject the entire population of Ganymede to one of these, by releasing a virus that would turn everyone there into monkeys. If the terrified expressions on the monkey's faces are anything to go by, they're fully aware of their fate.
Fluffy the Terrible: The woman threatening to use biological weapons on an entire inhabited moon is nicknamed "Twinkle", and her followers call her "Mom".
Hoist by Her Own Petard: Gets exposed to the same virus she threatened to use on others.
Large Ham: Has an air of self-importance and a flair for the dramatic, particularly emphasized in English.
Misanthrope Supreme: Prefers animals and nature to humans, and will gladly wipe out people or use her virus to "return them to nature".
No Celebrities Were Harmed: Murdock is a thinly-veiled parody of Ingrid Newkirk, founder of PETA. Much like the Space Warriors, PETA was a fairly benign organization before becoming extreme in its advertising (though they don't shoot/bomb people for eating endangered fauna).
Oh, Crap!: When Spike is trying to open up the protective case for her virus, because he doesn't know what's inside, her expression is very distressed... and pretty hilarious to the audience.
- She later sports this expression again when she realizes that the virus vial Spike slipped into her pocket has slipped out due to the low gravity, and it's about to shatter.
Team Mom: The remaining Space Warriors follow her fanatically, to the point of addressing her as "mama".
Villainous Breakdown: Getting locked in Hyperspace was bad enough that she was practically broken into a sort of hazy state with her eyes facing in the wrong directions. And then the virus sample Spike slipped back into her pocket to screw with her flies out of her pocket towards the wall and promptly shatters open.
You Have Failed Me: Uses the virus on Harrison, one of her "sons", to punish him after an ISSP mole who infiltrated their organization was able to steal a sample of her virus.

Wen

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Voiced by: Yumi Touma (JPN), Mona Marshall (ENG)

Appeared in: "Sympathy for the Devil"

"... I know what I look like."

A young boy who travels the system playing the harmonica like an old pro, accompanied by his wheelchair-bound guardian. But who is this mysterious boy, and why are shadowy figures closing in on him?

Alas, Poor Villain: Despite his crimes, his death is played in a somber light due to his tragic backstory and how he spends his final moments saying he finally feels at ease, trying to connect with Spike by asking him if he understands.
Captivity Harmonica: Plays harmonica like a veteran bluesman five times his age. Which is about how old he is, chronologically. Having spent years trapped in a lab, he values his freedom and will kill to protect it.
Complete Immortality: His condition does more than slow down his aging, as it turns out. He can take a bullet to the head and walk away, at least until Spike manages to peg him with a shot loaded with the same crystal that put Wen in his current state in the first place.
Dark and Troubled Past: He's experienced quite a lot for a twelve-year-old. But not for an over 60 year old escaped lab subject and hardened killer who lived through the destruction of Earth and has been on the run for decades.
Face Death with Dignity: When he realizes he's dying, Wen takes it calmly, admitting he feels simultaneously heavy but also finally at ease, trying to even forge a kind of connection with his killer.
Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: But he didn't start out that way. He was just an ordinary kid once, but in the intervening fifty-odd years he's come to care about absolutely no one but himself, and will kill anyone if he thinks they might expose his secret.
The Gunslinger: Revealed to be a great shot with a pistol.
Never Grew Up: He's never going to look any older than he does now thanks to the Astral Gate Incident somehow seemingly freezing him in time.
Not Growing Up Sucks: Hates being stuck looking as young as he does. Aside from the obvious, he's physically much weaker than adults, which he compensates for by being a great shot with a handgun. Immortality is a nice perk, though, as long as he can keep anyone from tracking him down to try and study him again.
Older Than They Look: Even taking into account the art style, he looks considerably younger than twelve. Ed, for reference, is about thirteen. Wen stopped aging during the Astral Gate Disaster on Earth, which was 54 years ago.
Playing with Syringes: Like Ein, Mad Pierrot, and Vincent, he's spent a good portion of his life in a laboratory being subjected to experiments. He eventually escaped, taking Zebra hostage in the process, keeping him drugged and wheelchair-bound so that he could serve as a convenient "Guardian" for Wen.
Rapid Aging: When shot with the crystal that formed as part of the freak accident that caused Wen to become immortal, his body ages within seconds to a sixty year old and he dies soon after.
Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain: The only way to kill him is to shoot him through the head with a crystal that was present in the accident that made him immortal.
Shout-Out: His green suit, black shirt, and yellow tie are one of a few nods in the series to Lupin the Third.
Sympathy for the Devil: The episode he features in is even shares the name of the trope verbatim. Wen's dying moments have him admit he finally feels at ease and asks Spike if he understands. Once Wen dies, Spike replies with a dry, "Yeah, as if," but it's implied Spike understood exactly how Wen felt.
They Would Cut You Up: Captured and kept in a lab for several years whenever anyone found out about his condition. The reason why he abducts people and drugs them to serve as "guardians" is so that no one finds out about his secret.
Tragic Villain: He was a young boy whose parents died trying to shield him from the Astral Gate Accident, which left him as the only survivor. Through some freak chance the accident caused him to become immortal, but when his condition was discovered, he was experimented on. He lacks empathy, keeps men drugged and wheelchair bound to serve as "guardians" so nobody asks too many questions, and is willing to kill anyone to preserve his secret, but he's also a man stuck in a child's body who lost everyone he loved long ago and is constantly at risk of being found out and treated like a lab rat.
The Unreveal: The Bebop crew never really learn anything about exactly how Wen ended up in his current state. He tells them the events themselves, but that doesn't explain how the Gate Disaster or the resulting debris could have had that effect in the first place.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: A flashback shows him happily playing a harmonica his parents got him with great skill until the Astral Gate accident occurs moments later, killing his parents, who died trying to shield him with their bodies, and leaving Wen as an immortal whose circumstances would one day cause him to become a merciless killer.
Walking Spoiler: At the center of the plot in "Sympathy".
Would Hurt a Child: Turns out Spike would, shooting him with the crystal bullet that finally kills him and hitting him right between the eyes.

V.T.

V.T. Victoria Terpsichore

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Creator/y: Tomie Kataoka (JPN), Melodee Spevack (ENG)

Appeared in: "Heavy Metal Queen"

"Talk about the bottom of the food chain. Bounty hunters must be the lowest form of life there is."

A transport pilot, V.T. is a woman who hauls cargo and delivers goods through space. Tough, hard nosed, and slightly mysterious, (she routinely plays a game where she challenges others to guess what her initials stand for) she can handle herself as well as anyone. She also despises bounty hunters, which is too bad for Spike and company, since they will need her help to catch their latest target, a bomber called Decker.

Action Girl: Comes with being a transport pilot. She can throw a mean hook as shown with her brawl with bounty hunters harassing a waitress and she hunts for trouble makers along her route.
Badass Bystander: She's a single episode side character who first saves a waitress from a trio of slimy bounty hunters and then helps take down a dangerous Mad Bomber. (And she did pretty much all the work of taking down Decker.)
Boomerang Bigot: There's only one kind of person she really hates: bounty hunters. Her husband was the famous bounty hunter Ural Terpsichore, and as much as anything she hates the job for getting him killed.
V.T.: ...Human beings are just a price tag to them. They live by gambling on other people's lives.
Famed In-Story: Her husband was a legendary bounty hunter, to the point that people trying to pump themselves up and make themselves seem like a big deal claim to have an association with him, and Spike says "Everyone's heard of him" when he realizes who V.T.'s husband was.
Given Name Reveal: None of her fellow space truckers know her real name, and there's a running bet where anyone who can guess wins the pot, a very fat stack of Woolongs. Spike eventually puts it together — she's Victoria Terpsichore. He recognized her from a photo of her and her late husband, a famous bounty hunter named Ural Terpsichore.
The Lad-ette: She drinks, fights in bar brawls, does a job normally associated with men, and dresses in blue collar utilitarian clothes.
Lady Looks Like a Dude: V.T. could easily be mistaken for a man, especially with the way she dresses and acts.
Licked by the Dog: The fact that her cat Zeroes likes Spike convinces her to give him a lift when his ship is wrecked.
Only Known by Initials: As noted under Given Name Reveal, no one knows V.T.'s real name and there's a running bet to guess it, until Spike recognizes a photo of her with her late husband. Her trucker handle is "The Heavy Metal Queen".
Sixth Ranger: For the purposes of the episode, she might as well be another member of the Bebop crew, and a pretty valuable one at that.
Space Trucker: She hauls cargo from planet to planet and moon to moon.
Steel Eardrums: Not only can she still hear despite routinely listening to heavy metal at deafening volumes, but she can perfectly understand what Spike and Faye are saying when they're trying to scream over the music, despite the fact that they can't make out what each other is saying.
Unskilled, but Strong: As a counter to Spike's fancier martial arts, when she fights hand to hand she uses very simple and direct attacks, but she's big, strong, and her blows pack a wallop.

Decker

Voiced by: Michael Lindsay (ENG)

Appeared in: "Heavy Metal Queen"

The bounty of the episode "Heavy Metal Queen", he's a deceptively mild-looking smuggler of (and expert in the use of) high explosives.

Beware the Silly Ones: Yeah, he looks like a dweeb, but that doesn't mean you should underestimate him. Doing so might result in a bomb going off in your face.
Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: He looks very much like Woody Allen. Lampshaded by the name of the restaurant where Faye first finds him: Woody's.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Exposed to hard vacuum. Not a pleasant way to go.
Informed Deformity: According to Faye, Decker is bald. While he's noticeably thinning, he's far from what anyone would call bald.
Mad Bomber: He's awfully casual about using high-powered explosives, and has a custom device to launch them built into his cargo ship.
The Quiet One: He doesn't have any actual dialog in the episode, just a couple of noises, such as a surprised grunt or nervous squeak.
Too Dumb to Live: Thought it was a good idea to throw an explosive at V.T. in an enclosed tunnel, judging from the fact that he ends up getting sucked out his ship and killed, it's suffice to say it was not a good idea.

Roco Bonnaro

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Voiced by: Ryūsei Nakao (JPN), Tom Fahn (ENG)

Appeared in: Waltz for Venus

"Can you teach a guy like me to make all those cool moves?"

A petty criminal from Venus, Roco is on a plane when Spike and Faye prevent it from being hijacked. Awed by how effortlessly Spike defeated the armed hijackers with martial arts, Roco begs Spike to teach him afterwards. Meanwhile, Roco becomes a target for both bounty hunters and his own criminal organization because he's stolen a very valuable plant that helps keep Venus habitable, and rather than turning it over to his bosses, Roco wants to use it to try to treat his younger sister Stella.

Big Brother Instinct: He is naturally protective of his little sister Stella, and risks everything to look after her.
- He also seems to inspire this to a degree with Spike.
Broken Pedestal: Comes dangerously close to this status for Stella, as her anger and sadness at his death causes her to wonder if he ever really was as good a person as she had believed, or if she was deluding herself by thinking well of him. Fortunately Spike is there to reassure her.
Chekhov's Skill: Roco remembers the lesson Spike gave him and uses it to defend himself from a member of his gang. It's deconstructed, as while the technique protects Roco from that particular thug, he's still in the middle of a gun fight, and gets lethally shot for his troubles.
Cloud Cuckoolander: Just a bit. For example, when he tries to press Spike for martial arts lessons, Roco imitates martial arts by making weird faces and doing Funny Bruce Lee Noises which Spike certainly never made on the plane, or any other time. Spike is understandably a bit nonplussed by all this.
Fanboy: He pretty much instantly becomes one for Spike after seeing Spike in action.
Healthcare Motivation: The plant Roco stole can be used to cure Venus sickness, a reaction to the terraforming of Venus that can cause blindness, as happened to his sister Stella.
Not-So-Harmless Villain: Between his wiry build, sympathetic reasons for doing crime, immediate fanboying after Spike, and goofy attitude even as he gets pushed around by the other guys in the gang; it's easy to forget that Roco is in fact a crook. There's a quick scene at the airport where he pulls a knife on and threatens someone working there just to remind you that he does have his bad side and could potentially be more of a threat than it first appears.
Sympathetic Criminal: Roco joined a gang first and foremost to provide for his sister, then later to find a way to treat her Venus sickness.

MPU

D-135 Central Processing Unit, A.K.A. "MPU"

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Voiced by: Joji Nakata (JPN), Christopher Carroll (ENG)

"Here... Nobody here... Always... Alone."

The actual culprit of the mysterious lines drawn on Earth. Not aliens or a bored hacker, just a very advanced, very lonely CPU in charge of a network of laser-equipped satellites around Earth. "MPU" is a nickname given by Ed.

A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Downplayed. It's not malevolent at all. It was made as a spy satellite for the United States, but now, after being reactivated due to lack of orders, it just wants to reminisce about the Earth before the Disaster, and try to make it like it was, at least a little bit. It is, however, very defensive, and it will command its satellites to open fire if it detects ships approaching.
Artificial Intelligence: A military grade CPU with an artistic streak and a melancholic longing for the days before the Disaster.
Benevolent A.I.: It appears to have gained sentience, and with it a sense of nostalgia and melancholy for the days when the Earth's surface was habitable. It also has started to feel lonely, and it quickly befriends Ed. It genuinely seems to enjoy her company, too.
Crop Circles: A conspiracy theorist insists the lines it drew are "a message from beyond". Averted, since truth is, it is actually recreating the Nazca Lines in South America, which were destroyed in the Gateway Disaster and promptly forgotten by humanity.
Fun with Acronyms: "MPU" doesn't stand for anything. Ed just thought it sounded neater than "CPU".
Grew Beyond Their Programming: A military satellite armed with powerful lasers, that left to its own devices, attempted to redraw the erased and forgotten Nazca Lines simply because it missed watching them while wondering what they meant.
Inhumanable Alien Rights: An odd example where this works to the entity's favor: Namely, there's no laws in place to prosecute CPUs, so the bounty placed on it is cancelled, much to the frustration of the Bebop crew.
Lost Common Knowledge: A mild, sad example. Absolutely no-one seems to recognize the lines it drew as replicas of the ancient Nazca Lines, instead writing them off as vandalism, or alien signals. They've apparently been lost to history after being destroyed in the Gateway Disaster, the last vestiges of their existence being MPU's memories.
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Has developed enough emotion to feel melancholy and even befriends a human (Ed), who is later able to reason with it. However, a bounty placed on it becomes invalid once its brought to the police, since it's not actually human and thus can't be prosecuted in the traditional sense.

Alisa

Voiced by: Mika Doi (JPN), Debra Jean Rodgers (ENG)

Appeared in: "Ganymede Elegy"

"Time never stands still."

Jet's ex from his days as a cop on Ganymede, she left one day without any explanation, only leaving behind a broken timepiece. When Jet is near Ganymede to turn in a bounty the Bebop crew caught, an old friend on the local police force tells him where Alisa is and that she runs a small bar that's having trouble due to the bad economy. Jet decides to go see her in hopes of getting a few answers about the past.

I Just Want to Be Free: When she finally answers Jet about why she left, this is the reason she gives. She was tired of just being a small piece in Jet's life while he decided everything they would do and what course their life took. Even if her decisions were poor, she wanted to have a say in her life that she never would with Jet.
Irony: She hated feeling like Jet treated her like a child, looking after and doing everything for her. She turned around and got into a relationship with the younger Rhint, where it's implied that she sometimes has to do that for him.
Old Flame Fizzle: It's pretty clear that the sparks between Jet and Alisa are well and truly dead and they have no interest in getting back together. That doesn't mean they're completely over each other, of course:
Alisa: The way you talk about it, you seem to think that time really has stopped here. That’s a story from long ago, and I… I’ve forgotten about it.
Satellite Love Interest: Essentially what she feels Jet was (unintentionally) making her be during their relationship. Jet took care of every decision and choice to be made in his cautious, sensible, practical way, and mainly wanted Alisa to be the woman he could come home to and find refuge in after a tough day. She ultimately got tired of living life according to his rules and decisions and left.

Rhint Celonias

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Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi (JPN), Steve Staley (ENG)

Appeared in: "Ganymede Elegy"

"No, please! I don't want to go to jail!"

Alisa's current and younger boyfriend, it seems like he has a massive case of wrecked nerves... and maybe there are good reasons for that.

Action Survivor: He's about the last person you'd expect to be capable in a fight, but when a loan shark was threatening him and Alisa, he managed to wrestle a gun away from one goon and fight off the others long enough to kill the loan shark.
Anti-Villain: He's a regular guy who watched his lover get in over her head with a criminal, and found enough guts to fight back when it looked like those criminals were going to hurt or kill them.
Heroic BSoD: One scene shows him repeatedly failing to light a cigarette, and apparently not even noticing because he is having flashbacks to killing the loan shark the whole time.
Killing in Self-Defense: Fought with a loan shark and the loan shark's goons when it looked as though the loan shark was about to have kill Alisa and Rhint killed. One of the loan shark's goons had taken out a gun and was apparently about to shoot them, but Rhint managed to grab the gun and get a shot off at the loan shark, killing the guy.
Let Off by the Detective: Spike asks whether Jet is going to do this, but Jet comes down firmly against it. As Jet points out, if he doesn't bring Rhint in, tomorrow someone else will be looking for Rhint. (And that someone wouldn't care enough to try to do minimal damage to Rhint, or to prevent Alisa from becoming an accomplice under the law.)
Likes Older Women: It's pretty clear that there's a fairly significant age gap between Alisa and Rhint, (probably about a decade) but Rhint seems just fine with that.
Manchild: His design and behavior seem designed to evoke this.
Nervous Wreck: Recent events have shattered his nerves, made him paranoid, and are putting him on the edge of a breakdown.
Sympathetic Murderer: He killed a Loan Shark whose goons were menacing and possibly about to kill both him and Alisa. Jet points out that it's very likely he will be able to successfully plead self-defense.
Villainous Breakdown: Not that he's actually a villain, but he's the bounty of the episode and when he looks to be caught all he can do is break into tears and plead pathetically.

Chessmaster Hex

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Voiced by: Takeshi Watabe (JPN), Michael McCarty (ENG), Jesús Colín (SPN-LA)

Appeared in: "Bohemian Rhapsody"

"This guy is either an idiot or a genius! I like this fellow!"

Hex was a talented programmer that was widely considered to be a genius due to his long-standing hold of the Champion Seat of the CosmoNet Chess tournament series. At the age of 30 he joined the Hyperspace Gate Project and, ultimately, played a key role in the development of the central control system used in all gates. However, Hex soon began to have doubts about the functionality of the control system—believing it to have defects. Upon discovering that these defects were intentionally added by the Gate Corporation to ensure further revenue, Hex developed a plan to be executed 50 years in the future that would allow criminals to hijack the Astral Gate toll booths.

Anti-Villain: His chess game against Ed is played with genuine enjoyment and not a hint of any hostility. When confronted by Spike and Faye, he only smiles and politely greets them. He doesn't seem to have a mean bone in his entire body, at least in his old age. It's further revealed he was fired by his company for voicing legitimate concerns about the safety of his invention, he planned to spite them with a heist that would occur fifty years down the line. What he did not foresee was that he would become too old and too senile to actually take pleasure in the culmination of his plot.
Big Sleep: Upon finally winning his last chess game and celebrating his victory with a laugh, he leans back in his chair, slowly closes his eyes, and drifts off forever.
The Chessmaster: If his name wasn't enough of a tipoff, his 50-year plan proves his status.
The Cracker: Using proxies, he is able to pull off a high profile corporate heist on the people who wronged him. It's a shame he was too senile to actually appreciate what he had done.
Didn't Think This Through: Despite carefully and masterfully planning almost every aspect of the heist that would take place fifty years in the future, he apparently failed to take into account one crucial detail: That fifty years is a long time, and being a criminal mastermind doesn't make you immune to senility. Jet says as much during the end of the episode.
"Hex was furious. He wanted revenge so he used the design defects against the Gate Corporation by giving wannabe criminals the information they would need to hijack the Astral Gate toll booths. He set up the sting to kick in fifty years later when the gate was pre-scheduled for its first automatic tech upgrade. It was all planned out. He even arranged for his operatives to carry chess pieces to let you know he had finally gotten back at you. But fifty years is a long time; Hex got old, then he got senile. He completely forgot about the traps that he himself had set."
Died Laughing: Manages to get one last chess game in with Edward. He wins, so he laughs. And then he passes away.
Non-Action Guy: Doesn't even try to stop the crew from arresting him, since he is so far gone into senility that all he cares about is his chess game. He dies of old age when the game ends.
Only Known by Their Nickname: His given name is never mentioned.
Worthy Opponent: Seems to regard Ed as this, at least when it comes to chess. In his own words:
"Lovely! This is either an idiot, or a genius!"

Whitney Matsumoto

Whitney Hagas Matsumoto

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Voiced By: Akio Ōtsuka (JPN), Steve Kramer (ENG)

Appeared In: "My Funny Valentine"

"A prince has to protect Sleeping Beauty. That's the way it works."

Faye's lost love, the lawyer who took her in when she first woke up from cryogenic hibernation.

Affably Evil: He's a conman who manipulates women, including Faye in the past, but his pleasant demeanor doesn't appear to be an affect, as he keeps it up even after Faye turns him in for the bounty.
Big Ol' Eyebrows: Faye's name for him is "that guy with the thick eyebrows."
Broken Pedestal: He was Faye's first love who helped her navigate the world after she woke up from cryogenic hibernation as an amnesiac, only to die at the hands of her debt collectors. Then Faye finds out it was all a con for Whitney to fake his own death while simultaneously unloading his own debt onto hers.
The Charmer: Perhaps his greatest asset is his way with women. It's basically his only skill, since he's otherwise one of the cheapest bounties the Bebop crew ever hunts.
Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: His design was based on George Clooney.
Con Man: Well, Faye had to learn it somewhere, right? Although she doesn't find out Whitney is a con artist — much like her, except not nearly as skilled — until the end of the episode.
Consummate Liar: Practically every word that comes out of his mouth is another lie designed to manipulate Faye, whether in her backstory to foist his debts onto her or in the present day.
Cool Uncle: His is Dr. Bacchus, also his accomplice in the con.
Crusading Lawyer: He was technically only supposed to explain Faye's financial situation to her, but ends up falling in love with her and promising to help her find a way out of her situation. It's a lie — the original con was for Whitney and his uncle to swindle the person they woke up from cryosleep into taking on Whitney's debts, and they didn't change that plan when the person they woke up turned out to be a young woman instead of an old one.
Fairytale Motif: Faye is Sleeping Beauty, which just so happens to make him Prince Charming.
Faking the Dead: It turns out the car wreck that supposedly killed him was just a means of faking his death so that he could use the opportunity to scam Faye into taking on his own debts.
Formerly Fit: When he's first seen he's very thin, but he's put on a hundred pounds since faking his death. He claims it's a fat implant, but it could just as easily be another lie.
Graceful Loser: Surprisingly enough, once Faye puts him behind bars, Whitney takes it graciously.
Intentional Weight Gain: Whitney had fat surgically inserted into his body in order to fool bounty hunters still looking for him using his old face from his "Wanted!" Poster.
The Lost Lenore: This for Faye. He died in a car wreck while trying to help her flee from her crushing debts upon waking. Actually he was on the run from his debtors, and he faked his death so that he could fob off his debts on Faye. Admittedly, they were relatively minor debts compared to the actual debt Faye genuinely had racked up while in cryosleep, but still, the trauma of the event are implied to be a large part of the reason Faye went on the run in the first place, driving her to crime.
Love at First Sight: He fell in love with Sleeping Beauty. When in prison he says it was the only thing he told Faye that wasn't a lie. Then blushes and backpedals, claiming it's just another lie!
Magic Plastic Surgery: Changed his appearance drastically after faking his death. So he claims, anyway — he's put on about a hundred pounds since Faye last saw him.
Oh, Crap!: Twice over. Once when he's reunited with Faye after his "death" and again when his uncle Bacchus abandons him to the cops rather than risk being caught as well.
Put on a Prison Bus: He's one of the few bounties the crew manages to put behind bars and be rewarded for doing so.

Udai Taxim

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Voiced by: Kosei Hirota (JPN), Barry Stigler (ENG)

Appeared in: "Black Dog Serenade"

"Cheers — to the ship that charmed the devil."

Taxim is an assassin who worked for the Europa Syndicate before being caught and sent to jail. When Jet attempted to bust Udai, the assassin led Jet into a trap, Jet was shot, lost his arm, and left the police shortly afterward. In the present, a malfunction on a prisoner transport ship sets Udai and other prisoners free, allowing them to fight the guards and seize control of the ship. After hearing the news, Jet's old partner Fad encourages Jet to team up together and try to bring Udai in.

Arch-Enemy: He and Jet Black hate each other due to Jet being the one who got him arrested and Udai and Fad being responsible for blowing off Jet's arm and Jet's subsequent disillusionment and retirement from the police force. Although Jet initially tries to deny that It's Personal with Udai, he finds himself unable to walk away and decides to join Fad for one last confrontation with his enemy.
Atop a Mountain of Corpses: How the audience first sees him in the episode, standing among an entire corridor full of dead guards.
Boom, Headshot!: Usually took down his victims with knives, but he's capable of some precision shooting as well. He tries to kill Jet with a headshot after beating up Jet and wrestling the bigger man to the ground, and Jet is only saved because he manages to block the bullet with his mechanical arm. Fad finishes him off with one of these to the side of the head.
Born in the Wrong Century: Described by Jet Black as "old-fashioned" and "the kind of guy who doesn't really belong in this day and age", which is rich coming from Jet, but also certifies Udai as Jet's natural, personal enemy.
Disc-One Final Boss: By all appearances the episode is setting the stage for a final, climactic showdown between Jet and Udai, then Udai is shot in the back just after revealing that it was Jet's old partner Fad who fired the shot that cost Jet his arm. This leaves Jet in a final confrontation with a new enemy instead.
The Dreaded: When the prisoners realize who he is after seeing him in action, at least a few of them look like they need a change of underwear.
Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears reading glasses and is an efficient and utterly ruthless killer. Before going to prison, he wore a very tight ponytail, which gave something of the same tidy, precise effect.
Hate Sink: Is one of the very few characters in Cowboy Bebop with no redeeming qualities, there's nothing likable about this guy considering what he did to Jet and the amount of people he succeeds at killing. Even Tongpu was pitiful enough in death to be somewhat sympathetic, and unlike Vicious, Taxim doesn't even have Evil Is Cool going for him.
High-Pressure Blood: Downplayed, but the greater realism just makes the nastiness of the character that much worse. We see him precisely nick a man's throat, just enough that a fine mist of arterial spray causes the man to instantly bleed out and collapse.
It's Personal: The reason why Jet goes after Udai.
Knight of Cerebus: He's perhaps the only Villain of the Week that is taken 100% seriously, and the only villain besides Vicious who is treated without any comedy or levity at all, while also having no redeeming qualities to his name. His episode also largely lacks Edward and Ein.
Lean and Mean: He has a very slim frame, and is a mob assassin.
Muscles Are Meaningless: He's gaunt and wiry, but he manages to fend off the taller, bulkier Jet in close quarters combat, and that's despite the latter's cybernetic arm.
Nothing Up My Sleeve: Much like Navajas from Desperado, those little knives just seem to appear in the palm of his hands as needed.
Professional Killer: Was a mob assassin before being caught and sentenced to life.
Scary Black Man: Downplayed. He's scary and he's black, but he's got a fairly lightly build and wears glasses. The other escaped prisoners badly underestimate him before they realize exactly who he is.
Villainous Cheekbones: He certainly has the high prominent cheekbones associated with bad guys.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness:
- When one of the other prisoners first kills a valuable hostage and then threatens the other prisoners with a gun, Udai decides that the man is too big a liability to keep around. So he steps up and cuts the guy's throat.
- He expects the Europa syndicate he used to work for to be as loyal to him as he was to them. They're not, and state bluntly that they won't give him any help in escaping police pursuit. On top of that, Fad, a Dirty Cop on the payroll of The Syndicate, was already hunting Udai down with the intent of killing him.

Fad

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Voiced by: Masashi Hirose (JPN), Doug Lee (ENG)

Appeared in: "Black Dog Serenade"

"Hey, when did you buy me that cup of coffee? It's way past the statute of limitations."

Jet's old partner from the days when Jet was an ISSP cop. They worked together for years, until an attempt to bust Udai Taxim, an assassin for the Europa Syndicate, went wrong and Jet was ambushed and got his arm blown off. Fad suddenly contacts Jet after years of being out of touch to tell Jet that a prison ship transporting Udai and other inmates has been hijacked by the prisoners and proposes that the two of them go out recapture Udai and company. However, unknown to Jet, Fad has been on the syndicate payroll for years, and his motives aren't as simple as he pretends...

Actually Pretty Funny: He's amused when Jet makes quips at his expense.
The Atoner: He feels genuinely guilty for shooting Jet, and wants to experience some of that old idealism he used to share with Jet.
Cigarette of Anxiety: In true buddy cop fashion, Fad picked the wrong day to quit smoking. The last thing he asks for, after committing Suicide by Cop, is one last cigarette.
Cool Old Guy: Played with. Fad trades lighthearted banter with Jet, and unlike Jet, who as he keeps reminding us is only 36, Fad is nearing retirement and has the grey hair and wrinkles to prove it. Then we learn that he's a Dirty Cop and was part of the ambush that blew Jet's arm off seems to turn him into a subversion. After that the audience learns that Fad is sorry for his past wrongs and he comes back to this.
Death Seeker: When he goes to confront Udai and Jet for the last time, he loads his revolver with just one bullet, which guarantees that Jet will kill him if and when the two old partners come to blows.
Dirty Cop: Fad lost his idealism young and came to believe that crime syndicates always wind up buying the men who are dangerous to them, or killing them. Fad chose the former even before Jet left the force.
The Gunslinger: Jet half mockingly compares him to one because of his preference for revolvers and occasional habit of Gun Twirling.
Knight in Sour Armor: Part of what he and Jet bonded over as cops, but Fad's armor cracked long ago, and he hasn't been a good cop in years.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: Bears a striking resemblance to Harvey Keitel in Bad Lieutenant.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When trying to bust Udai in Jet's flashback, Fad abruptly suggested that he and Jet split up despite the fact that Fad appears to usually be the more cautious of the two who suggests sticking together while Jet is the one to charge headlong into a situation. Jet's expression in the Flash Back shows that he thinks this is unusual, and it may be part of why Jet is quick to believe Udai's revelation that Fad was part of the ambush.
One Last Smoke: Mortally wounded after baiting Jet into killing him in self-defense, Fad asks Jet for a cigarette. Given that Fad had recently quit, he's amused by the irony of dying this way and jokes that it looks like he couldn't quit smoking after all.
Regretful Traitor: Fad betrayed his partner Jet in the very incident that led to Jet leaving the ISSP, but came to deeply regret it over the years. When Jet finds out and confronts him, Fad more or less commits Suicide by Cop, with Jet as the "cop" in question.
The Reveal: Fad is dirty, and not only was he part of setting up Jet, but he actually fired the sniper bullet that cost Jet his arm.
Revenge: What Fad offers to help Jet get against Taxim. Jet needs a little time to think it over before agreeing.
Revolvers Are Just Better: Fad still prefers to use one, despite the fact that, as Jet points out, in the current day the gun is practically an antique. It also lets Fad load his gun roulette-style, as detailed under Death Seeker.
Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: He espouses these sentiments to Jet, however, the guilt of betraying his values and the people he cares about has gotten to him over the years, turning him into The Atoner.
That One Case: Udai Taxim, the assassin who was the last criminal Jet took down on the very case that cost Jet his arm, is on the loose, and Fad asks for Jet's help in catching him, one last time... and as a chance at revenge. Fad, who's dirty, has been ordered to kill Taxim for the Europa Syndicate. It's not entirely clear if he asked Jet along because he was already feeling guilty for betraying him, or because he was worried Taxim might let something slip. In the end, however, Fad kills Taxim himself moments after the latter reveals his part in Jet's near-fatal wounding — and then baits Jet into shooting him, pointing a revolver with an empty chamber at his old partner.

Domino Walker

Voiced by: Tesshō Genda (JPN), Stuart K. Robinson (ENG)

Appeared in: "Mushroom Samba"

"You crazy, kid! I'm gettin' outta here!"

A mushroom-smuggling bounty head who Ed (almost) catches on Io.

Acrofatic: Surprisingly light on his feet for a guy his size, he manages to climb aboard a slow-moving train and run across the top, which isn't as easy as it looks even if you're in better shape than Domino appears to be.
The Bad Guy Wins: Sort of. He gets away in the end, but only after Ed and Ein catch up with him. He convinces them to accept a bag of mushrooms instead of turning him in for the bounty... Except it's a bag of ordinary mushrooms, and not actually worth anything. It doesn't seem to occur to Ed that she could have taken him and the mushrooms.
Beard of Evil: A goatee. Hard to say how evil he is, but he's the villain of the week.
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: He doesn't remember selling mushrooms to the Shaft brothers, one of whom had a bad reaction and died of a twisted gut, laughing himself to death. Which, in fairness, no one could have predicted, but having this reaction doesn't exactly help Domino's case. Either way, the surviving Shaft brother still wants him dead.
Cool Shades: Kind of. He wears a pair of tinted aviators with reddish-purple lenses.
Dreadlock Rasta: His look, and he seems pretty chill in general (at least before Ed catches up with him).
Fat Bastard: Pretty tubby and a wanted criminal. He manages to trick Ed into accepting a bag of ordinary shiitake mushrooms in exchange for letting him go, saying they're worth a fortune.
Fashion-Victim Villain: Dreadlocks, cowboy hat, purple aviators, a tasseled leather vest, full-body rastafarian pajamas, sandals, and a big gut.
Harmless Villain: Relatively. He's apparently unarmed and doesn't deliberately hurt anybody onscreen. If he genuinely just grows and sells 'shrooms, Spike and Faye have done worse, and Ed has caused extensive property damage in her short career as a bounty hunter.
Knockout Gas: Ed ambushes him on his ship with "stinky gas", with... mixed results.
Mushroom Samba: Straight out of the Trope Namer. Sells psychedelic mushrooms, which Ed tests on the rest of Bebop, taking them out of action for most of the episode.
Non-Action Guy: He's unarmed and spends the whole episode running away from a teenage girl and her attack corgi, as well as a bounty hunter and a man who wants revenge for his brother's death. The latter are both armed with heavy artillery. Domino still manages to get away in the end.
Only Sane Man: Becomes this as Ed takes over the episode and Coffee and Shaft go to increasingly desperate lengths to catch him.
Prospector: Not his job, but wearing a pair of longjohns in one of the show's most overtly Western-themed locations can't be an accident.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Exit, pursued by a dog and child:
Ed: Get back here, you stinky cowpoke!
The Stoic: You get the impression, based on his reaction to Shaft lugging his brother's coffin up to him in the middle of the street, that this is his default persona, but then Shaft pulls out a rocket launcher, and you can tell Domino is just completely weirded out by Ed.
Waistcoat of Style: Um, style, right... It's a tasseled leather vest.

Doohan

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Voiced by: Takeshi Aono (JPN), Simon Prescott (ENG)

Appeared in: "Wild Horses"

"Do you want to use the machine, or do you want the machine to use you?"

A crusty old aerospace mechanic working out of Earth. He was the original owner of Spike's Swordfish II.

Ace Pilot: A flying veteran, now working as a mechanic. He can fly anything, even a 90-year-old NASA space shuttle.
Big Damn Heroes: Spike's engines are out and the orbital mechanics mean that Jet can't pick him up for hours, so Doohan and Miles fly up to save him in the Columbia before he burns up on reentry.
Break Out the Museum Piece: When Spike and Doohan's beloved Swordfish are in danger of burning to a crisp on the Earth's atmosphere, he breaks out the space shuttle Columbia, a true relic compared to the Bebop's universe usual futuristic spaceships.
Chekhov's Gun: Doohan's spending his golden years rebuilding an "ancient old relic" in his hangar bay. Miles and Spike both think it's a waste of time. It turns out it's the space shuttle Columbia, and it proves vital in rescuing Spike at the end of the episode.
Spike: What a hobby.
Einstein Hair: Scruffy grey hair and an eccentric old starship mechanic.
Grumpy Old Man: Snarky and grouchy as a foil to Miles' youthful optimism.
Like an Old Married Couple: Him and his apprentice Miles bicker like one.
The Mentor: A minor one to Spike. He gave him the Swordfish, and lectures him on how to fly it.
Mr. Fixit: He can apparently fix any kind of vehicle, from Spike's ship to a yard full of Cool Planes from the previous century to a Sherman tank and the space shuttle Columbia.
Must Have Caffeine: Doohan, Miles, and Spike drink coffee from tiny little espresso mugs as they're working on the Swordfish.
Shout-Out: His name is a reference to James Doohan, Star Trek: The Original Series' Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, chief engineer of the Enterprise.
So Proud of You: Of Spike and Miles, grinning when the latter refuses to stay behind during their Big Damn Heroes moment.
Doohan: Spike... I know you can do it, boy. I didn't give you the Swordfish for nothing, you know!

Miles

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Voiced by: Yoku Shioya (JPN), Jonathan Fahn (ENG)

Appeared in: "Wild Horses"

"And I thought I was afraid to fly!"

Doohan's assistant, and a huge baseball fan.

The Apprentice: In training to replace Doohan, despite all the old man's grousing. The easygoing Miles takes it in stride — and the old man does let the occasional hint of pride slip through.
Big Damn Heroes: When Doohan breaks out the old space shuttle to save Spike, Miles is the one towing it out behind the back of an M4 Sherman tank, then acting as copilot on the ride up.
Miles: Blue Sox fans never leave the game early!
Black and Nerdy: A black Genki Guy techie.
Break Out the Museum Piece: Using the aforementioned tank as a tow truck.
Game of Nerds: He loves baseball, getting really into a radio game to the point where he kicks the tape deck of his truck to pieces after a lousy play. He's a Blue Sox fan, wearing their jersey and hat.
Genki Guy: Chipper and upbeat as a foil to Doohan's irascible old hermit act.
Motor Mouth: Spike's clearly in no mood for his chirpy banter after being stranded in the desert for hours, but Miles doesn't let that get him down.
Miles: I know how you feel, man! I can't begin to tell you how many times I've tried to quit being a Blue Sox fan over the years... I tell you, it's like I'm falling in love with the wrong woman over and over!
No Smoking: Played for Laughs, as one of the few characters in the series who doesn't smoke. He has a whole cluster of signs, in multiple languages, saying as much in his cab. Spike's not happy.
Teen Genius: He doesn't have nearly as much to learn about spaceship engineering as most eighteen-year-olds. Though he does freak out at the end when he thinks he might die a virgin.
You Talk Too Much!: Inverted — he asks Spike if anyone's ever told him he doesn't talk much. Spike asks if anyone's ever told him this.

Mad Pierrot

Tongpu, The Mad Pierrot

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Voiced by: Banjo Ginga (JPN), Kevin Seymour (ENG), Herman López (SPN-LA)

Appeared in: "Pierrot Le Fou"

"Hello, gentlemen. I journeyed here in order to take your lives."

The Mad Pierrot is a ruthless Serial Killer who chases down Spike and duels with him in an abandoned amusement park. What he is exactly is only implied, as Spike interrupts the answer and says he doesn't want to know. This just makes the character even more unsettling.

Absurd Phobia: Ailurophobia, specifically. He absolutely hates cats, since one of them was present during his torturous conditioning. He'll drop absolutely everything to kill a cat if he sees one, firing wildly and cowering like a child.
- Plus, the cat that was in the labs where he was experimented on had heterochromia. So when he notices that Spike has 2 different colored eyes, he freezes up... creating an opening the bounty hunter wastes no time taking advantage of.
Acrofatic: His body is almost perfectly circular, but he can perform some ridiculous acrobatics, and he's horribly fast. Granted, it's unclear how much of his apparent bulk is his actual body and how much is just the arsenal he keeps under his suit jacket. The images from before his Mad Pierrot days do depict him as heavy-set, but not to that degree.
Alas, Poor Villain: He's a remorseless mass murderer, but it's hard not to feel sorry for him when, after he's been hurt for the first time, his mind regresses to a child's, and he starts crying for his mother until he's crushed by the theme park's parade. Even Spike seems too disturbed to take advantage of the opportunity he created using the knife The saddest thing is, it's not even his fault he is the way he is.
Ax-Crazy: He's a walking armory, and just about as insane as a man can possibly be.
Beard of Evil: In the present-day, he's got a wicked-looking grey beard. Flashbacks from before he was Mad Pierrot show him to have been clean-shaven with a buzzcut.
Black Cloak: He wears a black opera cape over his ensemble and is fond of the occasional dramatic Cape Swish.
Bloodbath Villain Origin: Murdered the entire staff of the facility where he was experimented on. Of this we see nothing — just the aftermath. But it's obvious he left no one else alive.
Bottomless Magazines: And a seemingly unlimited number of guns underneath that cape and coat.
Code Name: His codename on the project was Tongpu. It's not clear what his real name was, if he even had one.
Curb-Stomp Battle: It's pure luck that Spike survives the fight with him, both times.
Deflector Shields: He's surrounded by a personal force field that deflects bullets and explosions the mechanics of which aren't entirely clear. It makes him essentially invincible as anything that isn't stopped by it he's fast or tough enough to dodge or block it... so long as he's not distracted.
Dramatic Irony: He's afraid of cats, but the giant parade robot that crushes him is a massive, Goofy-esque dog.
Evil Laugh: He laughs maniacally almost constantly while brutally murdering his targets.
Expy: He's a composite character of four different Batman villains:
- Visually, as an obese villain in a black tux and top-hat, he's a dead-ringer for The Penguin.
- His backstory as a test subject for unethical scientific experiments intended to make him a Super-Soldier only for him to escape and go rogue bring to mind Bane.
- His clownish aesthetic, Slasher Smile, constant cackling, and commandeering an Amusement Park of Doom all bring to mind The Joker.
- And finally, his outfit and gun usage also look like a chubby version of the obscure villain Tally Man. (Who himself looks like a combination of Penguin and Joker.)
Foil: To Wen. Both are tragic villains who can take a lot of stuff thrown at them, but while Wen is an adult with the body of a child, Tongpu is a child with the body of an adult.. While Wen tries to keep a low-profile, and only targets people to keep up his mask, Tongpu lacks any form of subtlety and is a Serial Killer. While both have tragic deaths, Wen accepts his with some form peace, Tongpu breaks down crying before getting killed unceremoniously. Furthermore, while Wen gained his abilities through a horrific accident, Tongpu gained his through deliberate human experimentation.
Fat Bastard: He's almost as wide as he is tall, and he's an insane Serial Killer.
Faux Affably Evil: He introduces himself to Spike with an elegant bow, a tip of the hat and a calm "Hello, boy." Then, he starts shooting at him and kicking him in the face. Also, this happens right after he just massacred some people.
First Time Feeling: When Spike finally wounds him, it's almost certainly his first time feeling pain since the experiment that transformed him into a walking weapon and simultaneously destroyed his mind. The combination of his mental regression and his inability to deal with the new sensation of pain is his undoing.
Freudian Excuse: The brief glimpse we get of the experiments he went through reveals that these were not pleasant at all. Basically, the pain of the experiments broke his mind, and made his mind regress to that of a child. To quote Jet, 'There is nothing as both pure and cruel as a child.'
Giggling Villain: When he's not laughing out loud. He actually barely speaks during the episode.
Gone Horribly Wrong: It's not completely clear what his purpose was supposed to be, but it probably wasn't murdering every single person who had anything to do with his experiment. (Along with everyone else he encountered that saw his face.)
Gratuitous English: In the Japanese version, most of his brief lines are in English.
He Knows Too Much: Will relentlessly hunt down and kill anyone who sees his face.
Bob: They say that no one who has seen his face has lived to tell about it.
Hoist by His Own Petard: The knife he threw at Spike in the episode's beginning, Spike keeps and throws back, and isn't blocked by the shield (it's unclear if the shield can't block it or if it wasn't up due to Tongpu's Freak Out). The pain Tongpu has no protection against causes him to break down weeping and be crushed by one of the park's robots.
Immune to Bullets: It seems his body has some sort of Energy Shield that protects him from gunfire. A thrown knife when he's freaking out? That's another story.
Implacable Man: The episode makes very clear that luck was the main factor in Spike being able to evade and defeat him.
Inelegant Blubbering: He cries like an infant after Spike manages to throw a knife into his leg: screaming, drooling, and flailing his limbs. It's not dignified.
I Want My Mommy!: He spends his last moments before being crushed by the parade robot crying for his mother.
Large Ham: Such big teeth you have, Pierrot — the better to chew the scenery with.
Laughing Mad: He's constantly laughing insanely.
Last Words: "Mama!"
Let's Dance:
Tongpu: Leeet's partyyyy!
Lightning Bruiser: Even more so than Spike. In addition to being much stronger and faster than him (or anyone), Tongpu has some sort of energy shield that makes him No-Sell virtually anything, including explosions. It is later downplayed however, as Spike, using a thrown knife, manages to slip through the shield and land a single attack on Tongpu, who then drops to the ground and starts crying that "it hurts".
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: How exactly Tongpu manages all of his clearly superhuman exploits is never elaborated upon, and whatever "explanation" is given only raises more questions. Possibilities seem to include psychic powers, experimental technology, and simply being insanely (pun intended) badass.
Monster Clown: Very clearly channels the spirit of one, what with the ridiculous proportions, clown-based moniker, pasty complexion, white neck ruff, constant smiling and laughter, appearance in an Amusement Park of Doom, and murder-y murder.
More Dakka: He stores rocket launchers in his coat.
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Does a guy named "Mad Pierrot" sound like someone you can trust not to kill you the moment he sees you?
Nigh-Invulnerability: He can be knocked around, but not injured. Deconstructed, as pain is so alien to him he has a total childlike breakdown when he finally experiences it.
No-Sell: His energy shield makes him shrug off virtually everything, including bullets and explosions. However, it does have some weaknesses, as shown when he gets stabbed by a thrown knife from Spike.
Ominous Opera Cape: His Black Cloak is actually one of these.
Phlebotinum Rebel: He underwent secret biological enhancements aimed at turning him into a super-soldier, but the process drove him insane. He made a bloody escape from a secure facility and became an almost-unstoppable assassin with the mind of a child.
Playing with Syringes: He's the result of torture, mental conditioning, and a regimen of drugs. They made him a nearly unstoppable killer, but regressed his mental state to that of a child.
Practically Joker: As a Composite Character of three different Batman villains, he has the Joker's mannerisms and personality down, being an Ax-Crazy Monster Clown with constant cackling and a Slasher Smile, and having a climactic showdown with Spike at an Amusement Park of Doom.
Pre Ass Kicking One Liner
Mad Pierrot: Hello, gentlemen... I journeyed here to take your lives.
Psychopathic Manchild: The experiments done to him had the side effect of making his mind regress to that of a child. A nigh-unstoppable child superhumanly gifted at killing things, so insanely difficult to so much as injure that he has no mental defence against pain. But it's hard to blame him, given the fact that the ISSP preformed horrific experiments on him to turn him into a weapon and pretty much destroyed him.
Jet: There is nothing as both pure and cruel as a child...
Raised in a Lab: He was created and born in a laboratory and grew up there. He was given super powers, including Flight and being Immune to Bullets, and trained to be an unstoppable assassin.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Has tiny, sharp pupils which shine a vivid red under the light, making him look all the more deranged. Possibly a sign that his abilities have some connection to Bloody Eye, but like everything else about the character, it's left unsaid in the end.
Sanity Has Advantages: Let's put it this way: if he hadn't been completely insane and wasn't saddled with an extremely convenient trigger, Spike would have had absolutely no chance of living through even his first encounter.
Sharp-Dressed Man: Parodied. He wears a tux, tails, and top hat, but he also has a huge clownish ruff and his body is a near-perfect sphere.
Shout-Out:
- Pierrot, the original Sad Clown, is a Stock Character from the Commedia dell'Arte.
- The character's entire Session is one for Batman: The Animated Series so naturally he's a combination of several classic Batman villains: He has the body shape and similar dress of the Penguin, the backstory (of being a prisoner subjected to painful experimentation resulting in his Super-Strength) of Bane, and the vicious psychopathy of the Joker. In their first fight, he opens his jacket to Spike to show the kind arsenal he packs and his coat creates an unmistakable bat silhouette. The final confrontation even takes place in an amusement park, one of Joker's favorite places to slug it out with ol' Batsy.
- "Mad Pierrot" and "Tong Poo" are songs by the influential Japanese electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra.
- Pierrot le Fou is one of the films of French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, whose gangster films, including the dystopian sci-fi noir Alphaville, were an acknowledged influence on Cowboy Bebop.
Slasher Smile: So wide and deranged you can hear his teeth grinding.
Sword Cane: It's actually a gun with a seemingly Bottomless Magazine, but he fences with it as if it's a sword.
Tragic Villain: Everything about Pierrot is horrifying, including his origin and his unceremonious death. In fact, some may see his death as a Mercy Kill.
The Unreveal: Jet is about to relay what he's found out about the Pierrot project and possibly his one weakness, but by that point he's already dead and Spike doesn't want to hear it. We know he was part of some sort of experiment that basically made him into a superhuman and that's it. The details of his project, the extent of his abilities, and how his forcefield works, are all left unsaid.
Villainous Breakdown: An epic one. When Spike finally manages to get past his defenses and injure him, his mind regresses as far as possible and he's reduced to an infant sobbing for his mother.
Tongpu: It hurts! Mommy! Mommy, it hurts! Mama! Hurts! It hurts me! It hurts! Mommy! Mama!
Walking Armory: He has a ridiculous number of weapons hidden in his coat.
Weaksauce Weakness: He's afraid of cats because one sat watching in the room where he was subjected to painful experimentation. Any sight of a cat causes him terrifying flashbacks and he'll stop pursuit of his victim to fire at the animal until it's gone. In his first battle with Spike, a cat distracts him enough for Spike to make his getaway. Said cat in the experiments also had heterochromia, like Spike — a split second's light allowing a glimpse of Spike's eyes is enough to make Tongpu pause for a crucial second.

Cowboy Andy

Andy Von De Oniyate

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Voiced by: Masashi Ebara (JPN), Daran Norris (ENG), Enrique Cervantes (SPN-LA), Tasio Alonso (SPN-SP)

Appeared in: "Cowboy Funk"

"See you, Space Cowboy!"

A famous bounty hunter and gunslinger considered to be Spike's rival. He and Spike butt heads while both try to catch a serial bomber known as the Teddy Bomber, but the two end up fighting each other instead, repeatedly allowing the fugitive to escape.

The Ace: Scenery-chewing, completely-off-his-rocker, the only person in the whole series to have a personal leitmotif that plays whenever he appears (and breaks the fourth wall, considering all the other characters hear it too), and is able to stand up to Spike in a fistfight.
Beware the Silly Ones: Despite being one of the silliest characters in the series, Spike couldn't beat him.
Blood Knight: While he doesn't act like it, Andy chose a very dangerous and potentially unprofitable job simply because he likes the action.
Brick Joke: After giving up the cowboy gimmick, Andy decides to become a samurai instead.
The Cameo: Can be briefly seen in a crowd shot during the movie, dressed as a samurai. This shows the film takes place after this episode.
Cool Horse: His horse Onyx is capable of running down a fleeing bounty, as well as surviving two explosions and avoiding bullets from a fighter jet. She can also operate an elevator on her own and apparently plays a mean game of chess.
Cowboy: His entire persona is based around being one, including his ship. Subverted in the ending where he decides to become a samurai.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Comes across as a wannabe and a bit of a Cloud Cuckoolander, but according to Teddy Bomber, his reputation as a bounty hunter makes him feared among criminals and he was able to hold his own against Spike in hand to hand combat.
Destructive Saviour: He's as bad as Spike.
The Dreaded: The bounty heads of Sol system fear him as much as they do Spike. Presumably because the two share an, ah, 'enthusiastic' style of capture.
Fauxreigner: The creators describe Americans as being nearly extinct in-universe, so it's unlikely he's what he appears to be. Despite his Japanese surname though, he still uses a little Gratuitous English in his samurai garb.
Foil: To Spike, again. He barely interacts with the rest of the cast, including the actual villain.
Genius Ditz: He's a skilled enough cowboy to reach levels of The Dreaded to criminals and manages to figure out the Teddy Bomber's next targets by skill and reading case files... Only to confuse the actual man with Spike. Twice.
Good Old Fisticuffs: His stance suggests some boxing knowledge, but otherwise he's not a hand-to-hand combatant. Spike still fails to subdue him and only 'wins' by accident.
Graceful Loser: After Spike nearly knocks him off of a building by accident, Andy declares Spike the true cowboy, giving him his hat and riding off into the sunset. To become a samurai.
Gratuitous English: In the Japanese dub.
The Gunslinger: All part of his cowboy motif.
Identical Stranger: To further convey their similarities — Andy is essentially a blonde, lighter-skinned version of Spike. His body language, expressions, and voice are all so different that this can actually be hard to notice until you see them almost nose-to-nose with each other.
Invulnerable Horses: To absurd levels, his horse can survive explosions and gunfire with little effort.
Leitmotif: "Go Go Cactus Man". Because Andy also whistles it, even the people in the show are aware of it and respond appropriately. Also becomes a kind of Image Song on one soundtrack CD, where his voice actor adds in-character vocals to the track.
Lord Error-Prone: A mild example, since despite his lack of common sense it's clear he isn't out of his depth even when dealing with terrorists and rival bounty hunters.
Mirror Character: He's essentially Spike minus the tragic parts of his life. Faye and Jet lampshade it repeatedly. The usually cool Spike loudly protests.
Narcissist:
Andy: [to Faye] Let's have a toast to me, and my reflection in your lovely eyes.
Privileged Rival: Andy comes from a very wealthy family, and only hunts for the thrill and prestige.
Recognition Failure: Somehow mistakes Spike for the Teddy Bomber. Twice. While the Teddy Bomber is right next to him, as well as actually knowing what the Teddy Bomber looks like.
Revolvers Are Just Better: He wields a pair of them, as befitting a cowboy.
Riding into the Sunset: Manages to do this on top of a skyscraper. Don't ask us how he got down.
The Rival: To Spike.
Rivals Team Up: Averted; even with the Teddy Bomber around, he and Spike spend the entire episode fighting each other instead.
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: He's essentially Spike's id incarnate, and not really a bad guy.
Spanner in the Works: Spike would have caught the Teddy Bomber in the first five minutes if Andy hadn't been around. And that's not the last time he ends up messing things up for Spike either.
Unknown Rival: Spike is his. Andy can't even remember him until their final encounter.

Teddy Bomber

Ted Bower, the Teddy Bomber

Voiced by: Takaya Hashi (JPN), Tom Wyner (ENG)

Appeared in: "Cowboy Funk"

"Why won't you listen to me?!"

A political terrorist who blows up skyscrapers with explosive teddy bears.

Affably Evil: While he blows up several buildings and causes much property damage, he seems to go out out his way to make sure there aren't any civilian casulties. He surprisingly holds an amount of respect for both Spike and Andy, and even gets along well with the officer arresting him.
Ignored Enemy: Spike and Andy soon begin ignoring him completely in favor of fighting each other. This gets on his nerves.
Mad Bomber: Blows up gigantic skyscrapers with bomb-rigged teddy bears.
Motive Rant: He'd really love to give one, but Spike and Andy keep talking over him. He finally manages to get most of it out on the ride to jail at the end, before being interrupted again by Samurai Andy:
Teddy Bomber: I only wanted to send out a warning... against the needless waste created by capitalism without philosophy, the needless colonization of planets, and the needless circulation of slanted media, and needlessly tall buildings that symbolize all of this! You see, by destroying these monoliths, I intended to remind the world that the pioneering spirit is truly what is — [...] ...but then, it was all needless too, wasn't it...? [prison guard pats him on the shoulder as "Cactus Man" plays]
No Celebrities Were Harmed: He's a fairly obvious reference to Theodore Kaczynski, without the body count.
Non-Action Big Bad: He has no physical fighting skills whatsoever.
Running Gag: "Why do you want to blow up buildings, anyway?" "You really wanna know? Okay, listen..." Cue interruption by Andy. Or in one case, he sends his Motive Rant in as a letter to "Big Shots", but the episode has to close before Judy can read it.
Steven Ulysses Perhero: His real name is Ted Bower, and his alias is the Teddy Bomber. By the end of the episode, the characters just refer to him as Teddy Bomber as if that's his first and last name.
Technical Pacifist: His bombs (miraculously) don't kill anyone, by design. Oh, they cause trillions of Woolongs in property damage and easily could kill hundreds of people if anything went wrong, but they don't.
Terrorists Without a Cause: Played with. He has an agenda, but he keeps being interrupted before he can explain it.
Villainous Breakdown: He has a mild example in the ending, when he's trying to explain his life philosophy to a prison guard and gets interrupted by Andy once again, causing him to remark that his attempts at protesting were All for Nothing and breaking down chuckling.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Despite blowing up buildings, he has a zero body count until Spike and Andy push him. Spike notes that not killing is a point of pride for him, and his final attempt at a Motive Rant reveals he did it because his targets (big buildings) represented the wastefulness of humanity in just expanding outwards in the Solar System and spending time and resources terraforming planets and building stations instead of using what we have to the fullest.
Worthy Opponent: Tries to eulogize Spike and Andy when he believes he's killed them. He never gets much farther than 'tries' before Faye and Jet catch him.

"Dr. Londes"

"Dr. Londes" (real name Rosny Spanggen)

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Voiced by: Chikao Ohtsuka (JPN), Robert Axelrod (ENG)

Appeared in: "Brain Scratch"

"Television has created a people who believe instantly in dramatic fantasies who can be controlled by tiny dots of light."

The elusive Dr. Londes is the leader of a cult that believes that the physical body is the root of all evil, and once the spirit ascends beyond its shell, it finds peace. Said cult, called Scratch, is causing people to take their lives, so the police have put a huge bounty on his head. He was a scientist who started searching for a way to transmit what he considered the soul into data to upload to the internet, but disappeared over half a century ago.

Alas, Poor Villain: It turns out that Scratch is just a lonely kid trapped in a vegetative state, lashing out at a world that deprived him of a life, a physical body. In a way, he can be compared to MPU, and like almost everyone else on the show, a cautionary tale about the dangers of becoming disconnected from other people, from humanity as a whole.
And I Must Scream: Already a partial case, considering that his mind is active but his physical body is paralyzed. He could access the internet with his mind, but that was it. Turns into a full case at the end when Ed shuts off his connection to the internet, leaving him fully trapped inside his own mind. The blow is softened by the fact he also has the hypnotic program he used on everyone else, so he might at least find happiness that way.
Brain Uploading: In life, Dr. Londes was a huge proponent of this. Now, fifty years later, he claims to have succeeded, and wants to offer the same immortality to others. No such technology actually exists, and Scratch is using the cult to exact a petty revenge on others, leaving them in the same paralyzed state he himself is in.
Dark Lord on Life Support: Londes is revealed to be a teenaged hacker on life support who used his connection to the internet to become digitized and create a virtual persona.
Digitized Hacker: One who is able to fabricate an identity and start a far-reaching Cult designed to trick his followers into committing suicide.
Given Name Reveal: Jet, Ed, and Ein's investigations turn up his real name: 14-year-old Rosny Spanggen (sic; Ronny in the subtitles, Rony in the credits).
A God Am I: He pontificates to Spike that humans reach out to god figures out of their own fears and uncertainty about life, and thus he has stepped up to be that god figure they can turn to and worship.
It's All About Me: His belief system is a total sham. Londes is merely a selfish, angry man who only wants to feel important by inflicting on others the same helplessness his physical body is in.
The Man Behind the Curtain: The mysterious and sinister Dr. Londes is just an internet persona created by a paralyzed and semi-comatose teenaged boy in a hospital.
Man in the Machine: Scratch is a vegetative teenage hacker who uses his life-support machines to contact the outside world.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: He is clearly based on Marshall Applewhite, the leader of the infamous Heaven's Gate cult.
Psychopathic Manchild: As Jet soon discovers, Londes is far more immature and petty than his appearance suggests, which makes sense as he actually is an angry teenager throwing a deadly tantrum over his physical limitations.
The Reveal: The elderly cult leader Dr. Londes isn't what he seems. That much is obvious. In actuality, "Londes" is a teenage hacker whose body was paralyzed by some kind of backlash that occurred while he was jacked into the internet, but whose mind has reached out across cyberspace through the technology being used to keep him alive. The real Londes is dead, or possibly never even existed — the young hacker is merely using his identity as a sockpuppet. He hates that he has lost use of his physical body, and wants others to join him in the same state. Ed permanently cuts off his access to the internet, leaving his mind trapped inside his body.
Straw Nihilist: Londes shows shades of this during his confrontation with Spike.
Unskilled, but Strong: He has no combat expertise as he doesn't have a physical body. His mind however is linked to a vast network of powerful computers through which he operates, and the paralysis field his screens induce is strong enough to take out any bounty hunter who finds his lair. He's totally blindsided when Ed pulls the plug on his connection from his body's hospital room.
Villainous Breakdown: When Spike gives him a Shut Up, Hannibal!, and then when Ed shuts off his connection to the internet.
Would Hurt a Child: The Brain Scratch Cult supposedly ascends through headgear resembling virtual reality helmets, which are also sold at toy stores. In reality the process only leaves the subject in a dead or vegetative state, and Londes doesn't give a shit that these things are being distributed to children.

Siniz Appledelhi

Siniz Hesap Lütfen Appledelhi

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Voiced by: Kenji Utsumi (JPN), Barry Stigler (ENG), Miguel Ángel Ghigliazza (SPN-LA), Ramón Rocabayera (SPN-EU)

Appeared in: "Hard Luck Woman"

"Since the gate accident, chaos rules the Earth! Now how d'you think you can regain peaceful peace and non-chaos of the cosmic sense...? ...Only through maps!"

A bounty head who spends his time on Earth charting the terrain, despite meteors constantly bombarding it. He's also very absent-minded, showing that the apple doesn't far from the tree...

Always Someone Better: Beats Spike hand to hand and makes it look trivial.
Badass Bookworm: A kooky geologist who beats both Spike and Jet.
Beware the Nice Ones: He's normally a pretty affable guy, but don't get on his bad side. Spike ended up learning that the hard way.
Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Constantly chasing meteorites and their landing on Earth to map out all the changes in a neverending goal, and completely unable to remember his assistant's name. Also able to fight Spike one-on-one and trounce him, as well as completely forget where he left Ed, on top of accidentally abandoning Ed two minutes after their reunion due to another meteorite.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Spike can barely even hit him, and the kicks he does land don't even seem to faze him. Also: he knocks out Jet for over a minute by throwing an egg at him.
Impossible Task: Absolutely determined to chart accurate, updated maps of the Earth... A harrowing task that has him and his assistant rushing non-stop throughout the planet, because the terrain is constantly altered by rock showers.
Improbable Weapon User: Manages to disarm both Spike and Jet... with eggs. He throws one egg straight into the barrel of Spike's gun. Jet takes an egg direct to the face and gets knocked out for the rest of the fight.
Muscles Are Meaningful: Siniz is a big man. He is a full seven inches taller than Spike and is much bulkier. As you might expect he is much stronger than Spike.
Nonchalant Dodge: He manages to dodge nearly every punch and kick Spike throws while barely even moving.
No-Sell: Spike manages to land a sweeping kick on Siniz's leg. It doesn't even make him flinch.
Overly Long Name: Siniz Hesap Lütfen Appledelhi. It's Turkish.
- Meaningful Name: When translated the name means "You're crazy, check please." The "Siniz" part of the name is supposed to be pronounced as "Sinnis" rather than "she-knees".
Parental Abandonment: Though not intentionally. He left Ed at an orphanage when she was five, but ended up forgetting where he'd left her for a whopping seven years. When they finally reunited, another meteor strike left him racing off to its landing so he could update his work, but he ended up accidentally forgetting about Ed. Again.
Strong and Skilled: He is an imposing mountain of a man who is a far better fighter than Spike.
Use Your Head: Delivers a headbutt that sends Spike sprawling head over heels across the ground several feet away. Twice.

Movie Characters

Vincent Volaju

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Voiced by: Tsutomu Isobe (JPN), Daran Norris (ENG), Gerardo Reyero (SPN-LA), Salvador Aldeguer (SPN-EU)

"No one can draw a line between sane and insane."

The main antagonist of the Cowboy Bebop movie, Knockin' on Heaven's Door, he's apparently a terrorist hellbent on causing as much destruction as possible, and holds the highest bounty in recorded history on his head (300,000,000 woolongs).

Amnesiac Lover: Among the things he's forgotten is his relationship with Electra, but he recalls her just before he dies.
Ax-Crazy: It's fairly apparent from the get-go that all is not well in this guy's head.
Bad Boss: Count the underlings that get out of working for him alive! Hint: none of them do.
Badass Longcoat: It's simultaneously sinister and badass.
Beard of Evil: The picture of him from when he was a soldier, presumably before he went nuts, shows him clean-shaven, and he definitely looks much less sinister.
Big Bad: Of the movie.
Blood Knight: Even if he can, he won't avoid a fight.
Combat Pragmatist: He's incredibly strong and fast, and won't hesitate to abuse either in a fight. At one point, he lies still enough to fool Spike into coming close to check he's alive, then uses the closed distance to jam his fingers between Spike's ribs and start tearing Spike apart.
Composite Character: He has Vicious's nihilism and status as an Evil Counterpart to Spike and Tongpu's origin and Super-Soldier nature. He's basically Spike's two most dangerous enemies rolled into one.
Creepy Monotone: Part of what distinguishes Vincent as disturbing and threatening is his monotone voice.
Death Seeker: He wants to escape the "purgatory" that he believes he's been trapped in since he was on Titan. Unfortunately, he believes doing so requires killing everyone on the planet.
Determinator: Vincent's motivation matches Spike's own, and he will stop at nothing to achieve his goal of "escaping the dream."
Empowered Badass Normal: Vincent was a soldier during the titan war before being injected with the counter-nanomachines. Now, he's strong enough to beat down Spike in a fight.
Evil Counterpart: To Spike. Vincent takes Spike's "Is life a dream, and am I really alive?" philosophy in a spectacularly violent direction. Note how with his wild hair, tall but skinny frame, and the general cut of his clothing, his silhouette is remarkably like that of Spike when Spike's in his longcoat. However, Vincent's color-scheme is totally black.
Evil Sounds Deep: Vincent's low baritone, combined with the lack of emotion in his voice, only enhances his ethereal qualities.
Foreshadowing: As is typical for the series, it's so oblique it's hard to guess until after viewing the film, but his behaviour towards Faye holds a clue towards his past and what defeats him. She's an attractive, strong-willed, combat-trained woman with short dark hair and green eyes, and after being given his blood she has the counter to the nanomachine plague within her body. She also wears a red jacket. Who else fits that description? On some level, he recalls Electra, even if he's not aware of it. She is the key to defeating him.
Genius Bruiser: While being a dangerous terrorist and Lightning Bruiser who can beat down Spike in a fight, Vincent shows a very philosophical side. Typically, pondering on the nature of purgatory versus reality and how memories shape our identities.
Go Out with a Smile: He remembers Electra, the woman he loved, in his final moments, after she Mercy Kills him. She is the only thing to him that was always real, and in finally remembering her, he is able to pierce through the madness and thus die at peace, fully himself for the first time in years.
Healing Factor: He can come back from an obscene amount of bodily damage due to the nanomachines inside him.
Leitmotif: "Is it Real?"
Lightning Bruiser: Even moreso than Spike. In their last battle, Spike throws strike after strike at him, and Vincent hardly flinches. When Vincent hits back, Spike can barely stay on his feet.
Made of Iron: He barely feels anything and regenerates so quickly as to appear to take no damage at all from anything Spike can throw at him.
Manipulative Bastard: He easily conned his underlings into serving their purposes and disposes of them, very swiftly.
Mercy Kill: Why Electra kills him — the experiments have essentially destroyed his mind, and he will never "wake up" unless he dies.
Mr. Imagination: A particularly dark version. He believes the world around him is nothing but a dream, and sees himself surrounded by a flickering afterglow in the shape of butterflies. Since nothing is real, nothing he does matters, including killing himself and thousands of people on Mars just to test the limits of the dreamworld, to see if he can wake himself up.
Nanomachines: His Healing Factor is provided by the nanomachine experiments he underwent as part of the Martian Army's attempts to create a Super-Soldier for the war on Titan.
Omnicidal Maniac: He is going to find the door so he can escape from his "purgatory". Anyone and everyone who dies as he accomplishes this task is either a figment of his imagination or simply leaving ahead of him.
Playing with Syringes: Like certain other individuals on Titan, he was used in medical experimentation. In his case, he became a Super-Soldier.
Psychotic Smirk: His default expression is a dead-eyed, faintly amused smile as he hands out brutal beatdowns and cold-bloodedly murders his own henchmen.
Sinister Switchblade: He uses one to cut Faye's top and murder one of his henchman after he'd outlived his usefulness.
Slasher Smile: He has a big sadistic smile on his face just before he murders everyone on the train.
Soft-Spoken Sadist: He speaks very softly, but is a very dangerous terrorist.
Sole Survivor: He's the sole survivor of a series of experiments during the Titan War.
Straw Nihilist: "I have no fear of death. It just means dreaming in silence. A dream that lasts for eternity."
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Vicious.
Tragic Villain: His backstory is REALLY tragic, unlike Vicious'.
Trauma-Induced Amnesia: It's ambiguous whether it was a result of the trauma he suffered or deliberately induced during the experiments, but he can't remember ever being anything other than what he is now. Which might have something to do with his conviction that he's only dreaming.
Warrior Poet: Vincent has a surprisingly philosophical approach to his grand scheme, particularly with the nature of being condemned to a world you can’t escape.
We Can Rule Together: He offers this chance to Faye. She refused vehemently.
Wicked Witch: During Halloween Day (Which is when the attack that will wipe out the Mars population will take place), he styles himself as this, what with his trenchcoat visually mimicking a witch's outfit, a witch hat, and a haggard appearance, and he seems to have some of its mannerisms and traits, such as the nanomachines being (in the context of the setting) forbidden powers, using abandoned buildings as hidouts, and luring his followers.
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He plans to release the nanomachines which transformed him into a Super-Soldier across the world, which would kill everyone on Mars who lacks immunity (that is to say 99.999%).
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: His standard method of dealing with his subordinates.
"Come on, Vincent, I did everything you said!"
"Did you say your prayers?"

Electra Ovilo

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Voiced by: Ai Kobayashi (JPN), Jennifer Hale (ENG), Cony Madera (SPN-LA), Ana Jiménez (SPN-EU)

"Let's go... together."

A corporate soldier who has some unknown past connections with Vincent.

Action Girl: She an experienced and capable soldier.
Deadpan Snarker: To a degree:
Spike: Love the toreador thing. Black pants, red jacket. Nice look.
Electra: The jumpsuit does nothing for you.
Spike: Aw... I guess not...
Dude Magnet: Many male characters, including Spike and one of her coworkers, express attraction to her.
Has a Type: Was in love with Vincent and seems to like Spike to a degree, so it's safe to say she likes tall, leanly-muscled, dark-haired guys with fighting skills and a tortured past.
Love Hurts: Your lover has become a homicidally insane, nihilistic mass-murderer and completely forgotten you. Also, the discovery of your relationship put you in mortal peril. What could hurt more than that? Putting him down yourself, only for him to recover his memories of you as he dies. She does at least get a degree of resolution.
Love Martyr: To Vincent. Almost played literally when she wants herself and Vincent to die together, but Vincent falters at the last moment and allows her to kill him.
Male Gaze: Right before and during her brief fight with Spike, the camera takes more than one lingering shot of her rather shapely ass. There is also at least one Between My Legs shot during said fight.
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Knowing that her body contains the neutralising agent for Vincent's deadly synthetic plague, she risks her life to help out covertly after being warned by her superiors in the plainest terms what would happen if they caught her concealing anything. And when she is exposed and marked for death, she not only escapes to carry off the plan, she goes to confront Vincent personally.
Ship Tease: Spike flirts with her during their first encounter, and they bond over their respective pasts later on, though like most of Spike's relationships with women, nothing ever materializes.
Star-Crossed Lovers: She and Vincent have this relationship, and it got much worse when he became an Amnesiac Lover.

Lee Sampson

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Voiced by: Yuji Ueda (JPN), Dave Wittenberg (ENG)

"Press my... reset button."

A teenaged hacker who's become involved with Vincent's scheme to spread nanomachines into the atmoshpere of Mars.

Ax-Crazy: He's happily partaking in genocide against the population of Mars for the fun of it.
Black and Nerdy: A dark-skinned teen who's an incredibly capable hacker.
The Cracker: He's able to hack almost everything and spread viruses through major networks, taking over them with his taunting messages.
Evil Counterpart: To Ed, as a teenaged hacker with an erratic behavior who's not above mischief. The difference is that Sampson has no problem with people dying as a result of the plan he's involved in, while Ed is mostly performing childish pranks on others.
Fan of the Past: He's a noted fan of early-20th century video games, noting that there's something special about 2D graphics.
For the Evulz: His MO basically boils down to wanting to be a "real terrorist" cuz video games were starting to get boring for him.
Lack of Empathy: His response to Vincent shooting a man was to casually laugh it off. He has so little regard for human life that he's more disappointed that he didn't get as high of a score in his video games than humans dying.
Laughably Evil: He does have a few moments of Black Comedy.
Misanthrope Supreme: It's pretty clear from his comments and personality that he has absolutely no regard towards humanity as a whole, caring far more about his high scores in his video games.
Playful Hacker: Deconstructed, Lee has all the traits one would apply to one of these, such as hacking systems for thrills. Yet, he's more than willing to use his skills to aid in a full scale genocide of Mars for that exact reason.
Teens Are Monsters: He's said to be a teen, and he's already amassed a large bounty, showing no concern for the damage he causes.
The Sociopath: Lee cares far more about his games than actual human lives, even being gleefully willing to participate in genocide for fun and infamy.
Villains Out Shopping: Spends most of his time playing video games when he's not plotting a genocide with Vincent.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Vincent shoots a capsule with nanomachines after Sampson released the computer virus, infecting him and causing his death.

Spinoff Characters

The Scorpion

The Scorpion is a character from the Alternate Continuity Spin-Off manga, Cowboy Bebop: Shooting Star. As a child, he was so gifted that he attracted the attention of the Dragon Head Syndicate (the manga's equivalent to the show's "Red Dragon" Syndicate). He was promptly abducted, partially-brainwashed, and turned into one of their commanders. He routinely crosses paths with the Bebop crew and is Shooting Star's only recurring named villain.

Canon Foreigner: Scorpion is pretty obviously Vicious's stand-in since the latter is absent from this continuity. Unless Vicious was the "someone" below...
Child Prodigy: He was gifted enough to be taken under the Syndicate's wing despite being a young child.
The Dragon: To someone within the syndicate who wanted to personally kill Spike; presumably, this "someone" was meant to be Vicious, but since Shooting Star takes place in an Alternate Continuity, it could have just as easily been someone else from the show or even a brand new character. The series was cancelled before their identity could be revealed.
Faux Affably Evil: Although he can be legitimately friendly and hospitable, he can also be extremely petty and passive-aggressive if he feels like it.
The Heavy: By virtue of the Big Bad never showing up before cancellation.
The Plot Reaper: His death was probably to make way for the "Someone" in the syndicate to enter the story, but instead the series was cancelled before that "Someone" could show up. Ironically, this means that Scorpion was the only recurring plot line that actually got resolved before Shooting Star was cancelled.

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