Characters who appear in Golgo 13 stories 101-200.
Hans Jurgens, AKA "AX-3"
A hitman who goes by the codename "AX-3" and who is sent by the Russians to destroy a secret CIA biological weapons program in the South Pacific. Unknown to him or his clients, that weapons facility also happens to be Golgo's next target. Arriving mere hours before Golgo does, he proceeds to everything Golgo would have planned to do from infillitrating the program's front operations to tracking down the island they've set up in. Eventually, he and Golgo agree to team up to destroy the base. After they're done with the mission, AX-3 gets new orders from his superiors - get Golgo.
- All There in the Manual: His real name, Hans Jurgens, is revealed in the episode's novelization. It's also revealed that he was a member of the Stasi during the Cold War, racking up 19 kills (mostly fellow Germans) before being transferred to the KGB. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunifcation, he went freelance and works for the highest bidder.
- Alternate Company Equivalent: Does most of his jobs for the Eastern Bloc, wheras Golgo tends to operate on an international level.
- Bilingual Bonus: In the Viz release, when he receives his orders to kill Golgo, his handler's dialogue is rendered in transliterated Russian. This is averted in the original Japanese version, anime (both in the subbed and dubbed), and the French release by Glenat Comics.
- Contemplate Our Navels: When the job's over, he openly acknowledges the dangers of the job with Golgo, and has no illusions about the inevitability regarding his possible fate, though he does tend to romanticize it a bit.
- Counting Bullets: Knows Golgo's down to one last round before the final showdown.
- Crazy-Prepared: Did EVERYTHING Golgo was planning to do in order to accomplish the job. What's more he did it all before Golgo showed up.
- Defeating the Undefeatable: Probably came closer than anyone else ever has when it came to taking out Golgo 13. How close? The fact that Golgo managed to kill him because of a knife that just happened to by lying around. If it hadn't been around, the series might have ended a lot sooner than it did.
- Stuff Blowing Up: How he destroys the weapons project's front cover. Later on he and Golgo use grenades to destroy the project labs.
- Failed Future Forecast: Granted, his above backstory probably doesn't apply a lot in the original story, as the anime adaptation took place long after the end of the Cold War.
- Quick Draw: When he and Golgo both understand that only one of them's leaving the island alive. After waiting the better part of the day, at high tide, Golgo makes his move... for a knife on a Japanese soilder's skeleton instead of his gun, as AX assumed. Golgo's knife finds itself buried in his neck for good measure.
- Worthy Opponent: He not only out-thought Golgo, it's hinted that he could possibly even outshoot him. Too bad Golgo was trying to get to a knife.
- Xanatos Speed Chess: Throughly outplayed Golgo in this regard, until right before the very end.
Robert Dawson
The son of legendary oil tycoon Leonard Dawson and heir to Dawson Concern. He is killed right at the start of the 1983 movie by Golgo 13, which sends his grieving father into a vengeful rage and kicks off the main plot.
- Boom, Headshot!: Golgo 13 kills him with a single bullet to the forehead.
- Driven to Suicide: He's the one that hired Golgo 13 to perform the hit on him in the first place. Apparently, he felt that he just couldn't live up to his father's grand expectations and decided to take the easy way out rather than try to run Dawson Oil after succeeding his world famous parent.
- Inadequate Inheritor: He believes himself to be this to the extent that he considers suicide via the world's most famous assassin to be a preferable alternative to attempting to run his father's company.
- Small Role, Big Impact: His assassination by Golgo 13 drives most of the plot in the original story and movie forward when his billionaire father swears to avenge him at all costs.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His decision to kill himself via Golgo 13 at the beginning of the movie causes all sorts of problems for his family after his father goes off the deep end from grief and despair and tries to kill Golgo 13 to avenge him. He even came close to getting the entire US economy shut down and is indirectly responsible for countless lost/ruined lives.'
Leonard Dawson
The founder and CEO of Dawson Concern, a multi-billion dollar corporation with power and influence to rival that of the US government. After his son Robert is assassinated by Golgo 13 he dedicates his life to finding and killing the legendary professional who murdered his boy by any means necessary, even if he has to "blow up a few cities" to do it.
- Big Bad: The main antagonist of "The Professional" and the man who sets the whole plot in motion after the death of his son.
- Boom, Headshot!: In the end of the movie, Golgo finishes him off with a single shot to the head much like he had done with his son.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive:
- He uses his status as a billionaire oil tycoon to control most of the US government including the Pentagon, the CIA and the FBI. If any of his lackeys refuse his demands he only needs to threaten to shut down the entire nation's economy before they fall back in line.
- Significantly toned down in the manga, but it seems he has enough power to ferret out Golgo's associates and to have the NYPD in his pocket as part of the plan to kill the legendary hitman.
- Defiant to the End:
- One interpretation of his decision to jump off his office building is that he intends to die on his own terms rather than face death at the assassin who managed to defeat all Leonard's attempts to kill him and had him at gunpoint. Unfortunately, Golgo 13 proved to be that good with a shot even using just a revolver and firing from his office at the top of the tower, putting a bullet right through his skull just before he hit the ground.
- Averted in the manga. When he finds out the truth behind Robert's death, he simply calls Golgo out to end his misery and gets what he wants.
- Driven to Suicide: In both versions. In the manga, he simply calls Golgo out to snipe him after he finds out the truth behind Robert's death and gets what he wants; in the film he opts to fling himself off his office window. Golgo still nails him with a headshot, just to be sure.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He dearly loved his son Robert and was grooming him to take over Dawson Oil as his heir. When Golgo 13 kills Robert on the day of his promotion Leonard immediately swears revenge on the assassin and uses every resource at his disposal to try and kill him.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He is disgusted and appalled by Snake and his desire to rape Robert's widow, calling him scum. Unfortunately, Leonard needs every advantage he can get to avenge his son's murder and ultimately relents on giving the depraved killer what he wants.
- Faux Affably Evil: He can pretend to be friendly and reasonable when he needs to, but is ultimately shown to be ruthless to the core in achieving his goals and doesn't hesitate to make whatever sacrifice is required to get what he desires. He gets called out on this behavior near the end of the film by Robert's widow.Laura: You almost seem like a different man since Robert was killed... no, maybe this is the real you. So cold that you can even freeze your own heart to get what you want.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: He was apparently a poor immigrant shoeshine boy when he first set out to make a name for himself in his youth. Decades later he's the billionaire CEO of a powerful oil company with most of the US government under his command and the ability to shut down the entire united states economy if he wanted to.
- Graceful Loser: After spending most of the movie furiously raging and demanding Golgo's head on a platter he finally accepts his imminent death when his last few assassins are killed and calls off the remainder of his men. Subverted in the manga, where he remains bitter until the very end.
- Misplaced Retribution: It's briefly brought up near the end of the film that it's odd how Leonard only wants to kill Golgo 13 himself, rather than whoever ordered the hit on his son in the first place. He merely replies that he can't reveal the reason for this yet and the question goes unanswered. Until the end, at least, where a note from Robert is read aloud as Dawson falls to his death, showing that Robert himself hired Golgo 13 to murder him since he felt he couldn't live up to the esteemed reputation of his father.
- Motive Rant: After being failed by Young, Garvin, and Jefferson for the second time, he details to them how he worked hard to get to where he is for 53 years and how Golgo 13 put everything he accomplished in jeopardy, and threatens them with death if they fail him one more time.Leonard: I will not tolerate it a third time. Do you understand me, that the next time you fail is when you all die!?
- Papa Wolf: The murder of his son sends him into a violent vengeful spiral where he tries to kill Golgo 13 at any and all costs.
- Red Baron: "The Emperor". A fitting nickname for a man who could shut down the entire economy of the U.S. if he felt like it.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: When his government contacts get squeamish about the extremes he's going to, Dawson tells them that if they don't comply, he'll shut down his corporation, and the ripples that would cause would trigger a national recession within days. They fold.
- Who Shot JFK?: Garvin hints Dawson was responsible for setting this up.
Tony Walters
A rich businessman who married a domestic terrorist and wants to drive her away from her old organization before the police caught her. He hires Golgo 13 to graze his wife with a bullet so she would be scared and cease funding her terrorist group. Unfortunately, things go horribly awry.
- May–December Romance: He is substantially older than his wife.
- Scare 'Em Straight: An unusual example in that the target is an adult. Tony wants his wife Eleanor to be frightened out of her support for the Weathermen Underground.
Chief Bill Tarrant
A chief of police who knows Tony Walters. When he learns of how Tony's wife Eleanor is connected to terrorists, and how Tony is considering hiring Golgo 13 to address the matter, he decides to step in himself.
- Corrupt Cop: He's a police chief who assassinates a terrorist rather than arrest her because he doesn't want the terrorist's husband to get into trouble.'
Spartacus
A veteran of several African conflicts who later became an internationally-renowned assassin of Golgo's caliber. Millionare duo Gabriel Rossmacdonald and Ingmar Petensen hire him to "protect" them from Golgo, but in actuality, they're setting both up for a man-to-man duel for their personal pleasure - and taping it on snuff film. After a quick duel at the Roman Colisseum, Spartacus is hit by the last of Golgo's shots, but lives long enough to learn the truth of the duel via Golgo. Incensed, Spartacus manages to hire Golgo for a hit on the two with his dying breath. Considered by Golgo fans in Japan to be Golgo's greatest rival, as evidenced by them voting him #1 when poll to decide to position was announced.
- Adaptational Nationality: He fought in The Congo Wars in the manga, in the anime novelizations, he fought in the Sierra Leone Civil War.
- Ascended Extra: One of the rare examples in the Golgo 13 franchise, as he's joined Golgo in the anime and in Top Secret Episode.
- Counting Bullets: Made Golgo miss his first six shots and forced him to reload. It was the last two of the spare shots that nailed Spartacus.
- Crazy-Prepared: He has his Swiss bank account sewn into his suit. This proves crucial when he decides to hire Golgo to kill the men who hired him.
- Crying Wolf: How his clients hire him, they trick him into thinking Golgo's after the two, so they get him as a bodyguard.
- Godzilla Threshold: Does not bullshit around when he finds out he is contracted to kill Golgo 13, and instantly orders a higher fee from his clients.
- Gullible Lemmings: Never knew the real nature of his contract until it was too late.
- Hitman with a Heart: The episode's novelization reveals that he donates much of his fees to help rebuild Sierra Leone following the civil war.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: We never learn his real name.
- Meaningful Name: He shares a name with the legendary gladiator who led a slave revolt against Rome, and died in the Colisseum.
- Scary Black Man: Fits this to a T. He's a head taller than Golgo, and just as imposing.
- Snuff Film: Why Macdonald and Pettensen hire Spartacus and sic him on Golgo. Spartacus isn't pleased when he finds the truth.
- Worthy Opponent:
- Golgo certainly thinks so - and with good reason. Spartacus made Golgo use all of his ammo, forcing him to use his back-up bullet - which he usually reserves in order to finish someone off. It was this one bullet that killed Spartacus, and had Golgo not had it on hand, he very well could have ended up dead.
- A racist merc he fought against agrees, thinking him the only black soldier who put up a good fight during the war they served in.
- Quick Draw: How he decides to approach fighting Golgo.
Barnaby, AKA "The Cheerful Sniper"
A freewheeling playboy assassin, hired by Grumman Aircraft to sabotage a McDonnell-Douglas fighter that's on trials for the Ethopian Air Force with their own. While he is good with a gun, he's quite arrogant and a loose, freewheeling playboy. This cavalier attitude is what causes him to fail the job.
- Friendly Enemy: Makes no open threats to Golgo during the run up to the hit, and doesn't try to sabotage the latter's attempts at preparation. Likewise, it wasn't in Golgo's contract to kill him, so he just lets him off with some advice regarding how to make the shot. Barnaby doesn't take it too seriously.
- Honor Before Reason: Out of professional pride, he challenges Golgo to a duel after he outsnipes him. Needless to say, only one person walks out of the forest they duel in, and it's not him.
- It's All About Me: He seems to love the attention he gets from being a top-class hitman.
- Rags to Riches: Was a poor Virginian farmer before he entered the murder-for-hire buisiness.
- Really Gets Around: Matches Golgo in this regard, and is far more flamboyant with it.
- Take That!: He's a freewheeling hedonistic playboy despite being an assassin. Golgo proves again why those sort of antics realistically don't get anyone anywhere in a job as cold as being a hitman.
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Real Song Theme Tune: Dean Martin's Everyone Loves Somebody
. - Skilled, but Naive: Does not take Golgo's advice to use a different scope for his gun and fails despite using the same weapon Golgo has. He misses the shot.
General Daniel J. Ferguson
A military general whose responsibilities include a satellite that controls nuclear missiles. When a freak accident causes the satellite to go out of control, Golgo 13 is brought in to address the situation. Ferguson vehemently objects to a criminal being brought in to solve the situation, and when he's overruled, he attempts to deal with Golgo himself.
- Killed Offscreen: It's implied that Golgo is going to kill him, but we don't see it.
- The Mutiny: After President Ford orders that Ferguson not get involved in the satellite situation, Ferguson goes to the military base anyways, then has Golgo's spacesuit sabotaged in the hope that Golgo will die in space.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: He calls Golgo 13 a 'Jap' and makes it clear that he dislikes Golgo for his race as well as his criminal nature.
Sergio Moretti
A priest whose adoptive father was murdered by mafiosi working for the Valentino brothers. Moretti desires revenge on the brothers and wants to hire Golgo 13, but his lack of resources lead him to make several risky decisions along the way.
- Badass Preacher: Moretti only manages to steal enough money to pay Golgo for one assassination, but there are two people he wants dead. So what does he do? He has Golgo kill the first guy, then hides in the coffin and personally shoots the second guy during the burial ceremony.
- The Cameo: In The Professional. Given the Adaptation Distillation, it's he who gives the contract to kill Dr. Z and not the US government as per the manga.
- Death by Cameo: Instead of becoming an active accomplice in the plot, he opts to kill himself in the film after Golgo accepts the contract, knowing that Golgo will get the job done.
- Rank Up: He's a priest in the manga, but a bishop in the movie.
- Sinister Minister: Barely averted. He's not above condoning and committing murder (as well as robbery), but it's clear he takes little, if no pleasure in doing so.
- Suicide Mission: He knows he won't survive his quest for revenge, and he even writes Golgo a note before getting into the coffin in which he says he knows that he's doomed.
Vittore and Tommaso Valentino
Two mafia bosses and brothers who lost a gang war in America and retreated to a Sicilian island to regroup. Part of their plans involved instituting gambling on the island, and when a local bishop objected, their goons murdered the bishop. Unfortunately for them, the bishop's adopted son decided to get Golgo 13 involved.
- Crazy-Prepared: They have their goons (and some policemen they bribe) secure all the ways onto the island and search every visitor to make sure nobody was armed. Unfortunately for them, they are up against Golgo, who is able to have a gun built from a fountain pipe that is already on the island as well as some small parts that he has flown in via doves.
- The Mafia: The Valentino brothers are both mafia bosses.
Angelo Torri
An Italian detective who was blamed when Golgo assassinated a diplomat. He stumbles upon Golgo during one of the assassin's later missions and tries to bring him down.
- Distressed Dude: After Golgo tricks the mafia goons into thinking that Torri is an assassin, the mafia has him tortured until they can confirm his police credentials.
- Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Torri mentions that he was originally assigned to quietly bring Moretti into custody after he stole the money for Golgo's fee.
- Out-Gambitted: At the end of the story, he's waiting to find where Golgo will fire on the second Valento brother during the funeral for the first brother who was killed. Unfortunately, he wasn't expecting Moretti to perform the second assassination himself, or that Golgo was already prepared to exfiltrate from the island once the deed was done.
- Smug Snake: Upon finding Golgo, he takes the seat next to him on Golgo's airplane, tells Golgo who he is and why he hates him, and then declares he'll have Golgo arrested. Golgo, thus knowing that Torri is after him, arranges for the mafia to seize Torri as a potential assassin and drag him away while Golgo gets on with his business.
Ed Miglione
A detective whose fiancé is killed in a car accident by a powerful gangster. With no way of getting justice via the law, Miglione decides to spread the rumor that he's hired Golgo 13 to kill the gangster.
- Cowboy Cop: He tortures a chop shop owner for information, which is how he learns Andreou was driving the car that hit his fiancé.
- Paranoia Gambit: He seeks to inflict this on Andreou by arranging for Andreou to 'learn' that he's hired Golgo 13. It works spectacularly well.
- Revenge: He wants revenge on Andreou for killing his fiancé.
George Andreau
A powerful gangster who runs over a woman that, unknown to him, was engaged to a police detective. He is confident he'll get away with it, but then one of his sources tells him the detective hired the infamous Golgo 13 to kill him.
- Bald of Evil: He's bald, and he runs over a woman without showing a hint of remorse.
- Get into Jail Free: He eventually pleads guilty to his various crimes so that he can be incarcerated and thus hopefully safe from Golgo 13.
Henry Bernard, AKA Thomas Waltham
One of Golgo's two clients/targets in "Behind the President", he serves as an advisor for presidential candidate Ted Kennedy. He hires Golgo to kill his opposite number for Jimmy Carter, Marcus Gabon. Coincidentally, Gabon also hired Golgo to kill Bernard as well.
Bernard appears again in Queen Bee, albeit under his pseudonym, Thomas Waltham. There he serves as Rob Hardy's running mate and potential VP. He's quick to keep Robert on the straight and narrow with the election getting so close but it seems like Thomas doesn't really have the presidential hopeful's best interests at heart...
- Big Bad: He is the true villain of "Queen Bee", not the title character as it first appears.
- Boom, Headshot!: Just when it looked like he might get away clean with his misdeeds Golgo 13 puts an end to the vile son of a bitch with a well-deserved headshot during the end credits.
- Faux Affably Evil: The guy puts up the facade of being a caring and helpful friend who only wants to make sure his partner stays on the right path. In reality, he's a cruel manipulative snake of a man who doesn't give a damn about Robert or his family.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Pretends to be Robert's best friend and loyal adviser while manipulating him in the hopes of winning the upcoming presidential election and doesn't hesitate to rape a young Joanna before separating her from her father for good.
- Evil Chancellor: He spends most of Queen Bee pretending to be Robert's loyal lackey while controlling his every move in the hopes of becoming the vice president. Eventually, he is revealed to be the true Big Bad of the movie who was behind everything that happened.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Raped an 11-year old Joanna Hardy.
- Villain with Good Publicity: Even after Robert calls him out on his crimes in in front of the whole world and commits suicide he manages to spin it so that Robert appears to have snapped under the pressure of his campaign and he comes off as the grieving friend. Luckily, Golgo manages to track him down shortly afterwards and kills him alongside his cronies.
Alina Dovator, AKA "Anna"
A beautiful special agent for the KGB who is put on an assignment to protect Golgo's current target, an important KGB asset named Kuprin, from being assassinated by the titular hitman. Unexpectedly, she actually manages to successfully protect Kuprin from not just one, but two shots fired by Golgo when he finally decides to make his move! As it turns out she has a few special skills of her own thanks to experiments done on her at the Lytkarino State Clinic and she may just prove to be one of Golgo's toughest rivals yet.
- All Amazons Want Hercules: Despite having an intense dislike for men in general it's implied that she's started to fall for Golgo by the end of her story.
- Defeating the Undefeatable: She actually wins her first round against Golgo due to her telepathy and successfully counters both of his initial shots.
- Does Not Like Men: Her powers have left her with a deep disgust and hatred of men since she can hear all the extremely perverted thoughts they have about her.
- The Empath: She is able to sense Golgo whenever he concentrates on a target and uses this ability to predict and negate his attacks. He ultimately beats her when he fires a grenade at the boat she's on, bypassing her ability with an attack she can't avoid.
