Characters who appear in Golgo 13 stories 301-present.
Giuseppe Massino, AKA "Joe"
A mafiosi who became enraged when his friend and fellow mobster Fabrizio "Fab" Ferri is killed. He demands vengeance, but the Ferri family's precarious position complicates matters.
- Suicide Attack: He opens fire on Senator Singer in full view of Singer's security and makes no effort to escape when they shoot at him. He's even warned by the guy who sells him a gun that he won't be able to protect himself, but he says it doesn't matter.
Fabrizio Ferri, AKA "Fab"
Giuseppe's friend and the son of Don Ferri. He tries to bring in new business to help his father's position, but things go awry.
- Dying Alone: He is killed by himself in a Turkish poppy field, entirely across the world from his friends and family.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: He wants to do something big which will save his father and their mafia family.
Vicente Ferri
The don of a troubled mafia family which is being pressed by the authorities, picked off by Sicilian gangs who no longer want to pay tributes to their American counterparts, and is about to be written off by other members of the mafia commission. When one of his underlings goes rogue and threatens to start a war that cannot be won, Ferri turns to Golgo 13 to set things right.- The Chessmaster: Ferri knew that Singer was going to keep coming after his family until they were all destroyed, but he also knew that if Fabrizio assassinated Singer, the resulting backlash would also destroy them. He thus tasked both Fabrizio and Golgo 13 with shooting Singer, and he included the additional stipulation that Golgo 13 needed to make it look like Singer had been killed by his own bodyguards. That way Fabrizio would die in the shootout without anyone blaming the Ferri family.
David Singer
A United States senator who is secretly colluding with mafia families to make a fortune in the drug trade.
- Corrupt Politician: He's a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee who publicly proclaims that he wants to end the mafia... but he's secretly working with some mafia families, and the only people he busts are mafiosi from other families who are in his way.
Dr. Augustus James Belmeyer
A brilliant analyst who has a knack for finding crucial details in satellite images. He hires Golgo 13 for a job while secretly intending to film the assassination with a spy satellite, thus enabling him to blackmail the assassin. When Golgo 13 discovers the plan, though, Belmeyer finds the tables have turned.
- A God Am I: He comes to believe that his skill with the spy satellite, which he considers to be the 'Eye of God,' makes him like a God himself. When he tries to put Golgo (whom he considers to be a 'Hand of God') under his control, though, things fall apart.
- Get into Jail Free: His final gambit is to try to get himself arrested in the hopes that Golgo won't be able to kill him while he's deep within some prison.
- Moe Greene Special: His ultimate fate.
- The Peeping Tom: He does this using a camera from his apartment.
Nelson Mandela
The President of South Africa. He hires Golgo 13 to deal with an insurgency that threatens to destroy his government
- Laser-Guided Karma: He gave Golgo advise that helped him escape from a hellish prison. Many years later, after performing the job Mandela had hired him for, Golgo also killed a traitorous minister in Mandela's government whom Mandela hadn't had the heart to order assassinated. Mandela acknowledged that Golgo had helped him immensely by doing so.
Joseph Radebe
The Minister of Defense in South Africa. Unbeknownst to Mandela, he is secretly supporting Van Der Merwe's insurrection.
- Category Traitor: A black member of the South African government who helps a racist insurgency try to overthrow that government.
- Despair Event Horizon: His papers reveal that, despite his years of work with Mandela, he eventually concluded that a desegregated society couldn't work and would eventually collapse. He thus supported Van Der Merwe's insurrection in the hopes that he could at least guide and reduce the chaos of the nation's 'inevitable' collapse.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: Golgo stages his death so it looks like he had a heart attack.
Nicolaas Van Der Merwe
A member of the South African military who wants to bring back apartheid.
- Horrible Judge of Character: He decides to let Golgo join his insurrection after hearing how Golgo beat up some guards and a bunch of people in a bar fight. This proves to be a huge mistake, as Golgo systematically kills his people, destroys his equipment, and obliterates his movement.
Van Der Merwe's Troops
Members of Van Der Merwe's army. They include Krige, Van Der Merwe's second in command and intelligence officer; Meyer, a foot soldier; Wieland, a grenadier; Steyn; a colonel who leads a reconnaissance force to track down Golgo, and Verster, a helicopter pilot. A Zulu team under Mthembu also attempts to join them.
- Ace Pilot: Verster is skilled enough to dodge his helicopter around in the sky and prevent Golgo from shooting him directly. Unfortunately, Verster's helicopter is so big that Golgo can still shoot its rotor and crash it.
- Assassin Outclassin': Wieland tries to shoot Golgo with a rocket-propelled grenade, but Golgo simply shoots the grenade as Wieland fires it, and the explosion wipes out Steyn's remaining team.
- The Horseshoe Effect: Mthembu leads an army of extremist Zulus to join Van Der Merwe's army of extremist Afrikaners. The two groups may be racist and mistrust each other, but they hate the 'unified' South African government even more.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Presumably all of them, but Meyer is particularly racist and homophobic.
- State Security: Krige developed many intelligence contacts during his work with state security.
Tenjou Iba
A lieutenant in the Japanese Self-Defense Forces who can trace his ancestry back to the ancient kings of Okinawa. Frustrated with how both Japan and America have exploited Okinawa for their own ends, he leads his fellow soldiers in an attempted revolution to seize control of the island and make it independent. When Golgo 13 interferes with his coup, though, he seeks to battle Golgo personally.- Ace Pilot: He dominates his opponents during an air training exercise.
- Boom, Headshot!: How Golgo kills him after he stabs himself.
- Rebel Leader: He leads a military coup to try to free Okinawa from exploitation.
- Seppuku: After his coup fails and Golgo defeats him, he stabs himself with his own sword. Golgo 13 serves as his second.
Hirotomi Matsugata
A powerful industrialist who supports Tenjou Iba's efforts to make Okinawa an independent state. Unknown to Iba, though, Matsugata has no real empathy for the people of Okinawa and simply wants to rule the island like a king.
- Boom, Headshot!: How Golgo kills him.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: An important business leader who funds a military coup just to make himself even richer and more powerful.
- Private Military Contractors: He plans to replace Iba and his forces with these, since he thinks they'll be loyal to him personally instead of to the island or its people.
Tony Togo
An electric tool salesman who is mistaken for Golgo by some gangsters that were trying to hire the famous assassin. Though Golgo 13 is known to kill any impersonators, he not only spared Tony's life, but even shot his target. It's implied that Golgo may have deliberately allowed for Tony's actions in order to set up the assassination.
- Consummate Professional: He is this, but only for his actual job as a salesman. When he's dragooned into being an assassin, he begins trying to find a way out of it, but has difficulty evading his clients.
Vladimir Zagipnotiziro-Vavshemusya, AKA "The Bear"
A drug dealer who encroaches on the territory of Jimmy "The Pickaxe" Grackle. Grackle tries to hire Golgo 13 to kill Zagipnotiziro-Vavshemusya, but problems arise when Grackle's men accidentally pick up a random tool salesman named Tony Togo and send him to perform the assassination instead.
- Bald of Evil: He's an evil drug dealer who lost his hair at Chernobyl and so wears wigs made from the hair of his enemies.
- Crazy-Prepared: Zagipnotiziro-Vavshemusya not only hires a skilled gunman to defend him, but when he makes his drug deals, he takes over an entire floor of a parking garage and locks down the elevator to make sure nobody else can access that floor until he's done. He also positions trucks to block any possible lines of sight towards him from the surrounding area. Unfortunately for him, Golgo is still able to find a way around his precautions.
- Overly Long Name: His last name is absurdly long.
- Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: Grackle asks that Tony kill Zagipnotiziro-Vavshemusya with his own handgun, and has one of his men give that gun to Tony. Subverted when Golgo then kills Zagipnotiziro-Vavshemusya with an assault rifle, but Grackle's man thinks that Tony made the shot with the specified handgun, so Tony doesn't get in trouble.
Izumi Murai
A fanatical weapons designer who eventually kills his mentor and uses their work to build a 'supergun' for Saddam Hussein. The gun is capable of destroying Washington DC, so the American government hires Golgo 13 to deal with the situation.- The Fundamentalist: His zeal for weapons design is said to border on the fanatical. All he cares about is making and using newer and stronger weapons; he sees that goal as an end in and of itself.
- Hoist by Their Own Petard: He is killed when he fires the supergun, not knowing Golgo had already damaged it. The damage causes the shot to misfire and blow up the entire installation.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed / Expy: It's possible he was inspired by Dr. Gerard Bull
, the Canadian gun theoretician and arms dealer who masterminded Saddam Hussein's infamous real-life supergun, Project Babylon. Bull was also obsessed with creating a supergun, though his desire was for it to shoot satellites into space. However, he too was assassinated under mysterious circumstances just before the Gulf War broke out. - Self-Made Orphan: His mentor, Valko, thought of him as a son. When Valko balked at actually using the supergun they'd designed, though, Murai murders him and takes the plans.
- Superweapon: The core advantage of his gun. The American advisors discuss that the gun can barely be aimed and can't be moved, but if it fires, no power in existence can stop its shell from destroying whatever it was aiming at.
- Thanatos Gambit: Unlike Hussein, Murai knows that his gun won't be able to bring down America by himself, and he fully expects America to retaliate, destroy the supergun complex, and kill him along with anyone else. He doesn't care as long as he can prove his supergun works and go down in history as its designer. Golgo, however, destroys the gun before it can fire.
Ahmad Al-Farid
The boyfriend of Princess Diana. His father is a fabulously wealthy individual whom is buying up British institutions, and Ahmad is his chief acquisitions man. The Al-Farid's family increasing dominance of British affairs rubs some people the wrong way, and Golgo is eventually brought in to kill Ahmad.- Expy: Of Dodi Fayed, Princess Diana's boyfriend in Real Life.
- Fiction 500: Ahmad is absurdly wealthy thanks to his father's money.
Margate
The owner of a publishing company which produces the "Orb," a trashy tabloid, and the "Chronicle," a respected paper. He enters into a conspiracy with the minister in charge of MI6 to kill Princess Diana's boyfriend to stop him from using his vast wealth to gain too much influence over the United Kingdom. Margate, however, also disdains Diana herself due to her negative comments about the British Empire, and so he enters into a second conspiracy and gets an MI6 agent to try to wipe out not just Diana's boyfriend but also Diana herself. When the minister discovers this, Margate winds up targeted by Golgo 13.
- Greed: The minister says he thinks Margate got involved in the conspiracies because he was worried Diana's boyfriend would buy out his media empire and thus jeopardize Margate's fortune.
MI6 Agent
An agent for MI6 who is suborned by a conspiracy to kill Princess Diana.
- Smug Snake: When he learns Golgo 13 is following him, he thinks Golgo was asked to be his backup while he assassinates Diana and her entourage, and he even says that he's getting an ego boost from believing Golgo 13 is his backup. Golgo shoots him dead moments later.
Henry Ward Mitchell
A traitorous CIA agent who sold out a dozen American spies to the Soviets. After being exposed, he shot his wife to death and tried to flee the country, but was arrested and sentenced to death for that murder. After exhausting his appeals, he blackmailed the agency by threatening that if he died, files proving the CIA had engaged in vast misconduct would be released. The CIA thus began working on securing him a pardon, causing the brother of one of the spies Mitchell exposed to hire Golgo 13 in order to ensure the execution went on as planned.
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Awesome Ego: Yuri notes that the reason Mitchell took so long to blackmail the CIA was that he'd figured he was so smart he could get out of prison his own way and then sell the files to the highest bidder. Only once he ran out of legal options did he try to trade the files back to the CIA in exchange for his life. - Last-Minute Reprieve: Mitchell's plan is to have the CIA blackmail the governor into commuting his sentence down to life in prison at the very last minute, and then eventually getting it commuted down from there until he's free and clear. Golgo derails the plan by shooting the governor before the commutation actually happens, resulting in Mitchell getting executed as planned.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed / Expy: Is a dead ringer both in name and deed for Aldrich Ames, the top CIA mole for the KGB.
- Not So Stoic: He spends most of the story acting incredibly calm even as his execution approaches, to the point where the prison guards who talk to him are amazed by his blasé attitude. Once he realizes he's not getting pardoned, though, he begins to panic and scream for mercy.
- Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Everybody despises Mitchell for his horrible crimes.
