History Anime / Golgo13

* TalkingToHimself: The elevator fight between Golgo and Snake in the English dub: both characters are voiced by Gregory Snegoff using remarkably different voices.

It was followed by a sequel in the OVA, ''Queen Bee''.

-->'''Rita:''' Everything's exactly the way you wanted it. Check the piece out. Go ahead. Please.\\
'''Golgo 13:''' ''[Duke examines the rifle]''\\
'''Rita:''' The trigger is an electronic push-button. I increased the bursts to 15 rounds per second. And the change in balance from the recoil is held below decimal. And check out the silencer kit.\\

* KnifeNut: Two assassins puts this trope on display in an early fight against Golgo 13 and later in a fight against Snake.

* BlandNameProduct: Averted with Parliament cigarettes, Marlboro, Ford and Esso in "The Professional".
* BrainyBrunette: Rita from ''The Professional''. She helps out in modifying Golgo's M16 rifle for his missions in addition to lending him a car.

* ContractOnTheHitman: This is basically the entire main plot of ''The Professional''. Industrialist Leonard Dawson uses every resource availible to him to kill Golgo due to him performing the assassination on his son. His daughter-in-law even lampshades this by asking why Dawson bothers going after Golgo at all when he is just a hitman, and he should be going for the man who put out the hit. [[spoiler: He can't because it was his son who put out the hit on ''himself'': he wanted to commit suicide but didn't have the nerve to do it. Dawson goes after Golgo 13 because he is the closest person Dawson has for someone to blame.]]
* CoolMask: Silver from ''The Professional'' wears a creepy featureless mask made of silver, to cover his horrifically burned face.
* DescriptionPorn: In ''The Professional'', Rita describes the modified M16 rifle to Golgo in detail:

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: The NonActionBigBad of ''The Professional'', Leonard Dawson, does this at the end. Overlaps with DrivenToSuicide. Golgo shoots him in the head before he hits the ground, though.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: In ''The Professional'', [[spoiler:Robert Dawson knew he could never live up to the high expectations his father had for him, so he decided to commit suicide by hitman.]]

* EliteMook: The three commando hit-squad that attacks Duke early on in The Professional, and gives him quite a bit of trouble. Later, Snake effortlessly mutilates and kills them.

* EvilCripple: Gold and Silver from ''The Professional'', due to the injuries they received at the hands of the guerilla soldiers in the Pacific. Gold is missing an arm and an eye, and Silver is missing a leg and is hideously burned. Both wear metal prosthetic limbs made out of gold and silver respectively, and Silver also wears a mask.
* EyeScream: Snake takes out one of the three commandos by putting out his eyes via a weapon that uses razor sharp wires. Also, near the end of ''The Professional'', after Duke finishes Gold off with his revolver, his artificial gold eye popped out afterwards.

* HighPressureBlood: In ''The Professional'', Snake uses the third commando's hook against him by sliding his back open with blood spraying out, as well as plucking out another commandos eyes with his razor wire with the same result. Also, when Duke investigates the phone in the safe, he shoots an old guy who also drew a gun, gets shot and blood sprays out of him causing him to die.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: In ''Golgo 13: The Professional'', he shoots a man in a building ''on the other side of'' a skyscraper from him.

* NotSoStoic: Their are some instances where Duke expresses hints of fear or panic. This is most realistically PlayedStraight in The Professional when Duke had been shot in the chest and needed time to recover. He was visibly on guard and told his information guy to "make damn sure" he wasn't followed. The informant was shocked that a "man with balls as big as his" was 'spooked". Considering the fact that the full weight of the US army, FBI, and CIA were after him, this made sense.

* RapeDiscretionShot: Used the first time Snake rapes Laura Dawson in ''The Professional''. A bit less discretion is used the second time.

* RichBitch: Cindy in ''The Professional.''

* SayMyName: In ''The Professional'', [[spoiler: Cindy says his name out loud as Duke found out who Dr. Z 'really' is before killing his target]]:

* StormingTheCastle: The climax of ''The Professional'' has Golgo 13 storm Dawson Tower, fighting off attack helicopters, Snake, and Gold and Silver in the process.

* TwistEnding: It's been revealed at the end of ''The Professional'' in voiceover, [[spoiler: that Leonard Dawson's son, Robert, requested Golgo 13 to plan the hit on himself. This was during Leonards's suicide and long fall from the Pertrolneum bulding.]]

* WhiteMaskOfDoom: Silver in ''The Professional'' who hides [[NightmareFace a horribly disfigured face underneath.]]
* TheWorfEffect: The elite commando squad that go after Golgo at the beginning of ''The Professional'' is skilled enough to defeat him. They are dispatched in seconds by the monstrous Snake, just to showcase his skill.
* WhoShotJFK: While it wasn't Golgo, ''The Professional'' makes it clear that it was engineered by the FBI as part of an "unusual request" by billionaire Leonard Dawson.

* EliteMook: The three commando hit-squad that attacks Duke early on in The Professional, and gives him quite a bit of trouble. Later, Snake [[BadassDecay effortlessly mutilates and kills them.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:He always finishes his contract.]]

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Gold and Silver are a duo of psychotic killers and the only survivors of a U.S. Army experiment where a group of expert hitmen were dropped on an island, unarmed, swarming with guerilla soldiers. Gold and Silver not only survived, but slaughtered every last soldier on the island.

* ConspicuousCG: Check out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJxPjUo5-cI this little number]] from ''The Professional''.
** Creator/OsamuDezaki, the director of ''The Professional'' was a huge fan of CGI. That's the first use of it in animation's history; Even beating out Creator/{{Pixar}}'s (which at the time was Lucasfilm's CGI unit called ''Graphics Group'') ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfAndreAndWallyB'' by a little more than a year.

** OsamuDezaki, the director of ''The Professional'' was a huge fan of CGI. That's the first use of it in animation's history; Even beating out Creator/{{Pixar}}'s (which at the time was Lucasfilm's CGI unit called ''Graphics Group'') ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfAndreAndWallyB'' by a little more than a year.

* NextSundayAD: [[spoiler:Robert Hardy's]] gravestone at the end of the movie reveals that it takes place during the 2000 US presidential election. The film itself came out in 1998.

* IndecisiveDeconstruction: Unlike most adaptations (or the original manga), they didn't even attempt to make Duke's actions somewhat justifiable. His contract on Leonard Dawson has the consequences one would expect, and the character himself is treated as something of a pathological case.

* AssholeVictim: Apart from Leonard Dawson and many of those who associate with him, the only two kills Golgo scores are contracts put out by people whose lives said targets had ruined: Mafia boss Dr. Z, and former Nazi Bernart Muller.

* HookersAndBlow: 's target in San Francisco, Bernart Muller, is an ex-nazi who is partying with hookers in a penthouse sealed in bulletproof glass.

** OsamuDezaki, the director of ''The Professional'' was a huge fan of CGI. That's the first use of it in animation's history; Even beating out Creator/{{Pixar}}'s (which at the time was Lucasfilm's CGI unit called ''Graphics Group'') ''[[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts The Adventures Of Andre And Wally B]]'' by a little more than a year.

** OsamuDezaki, the director of ''The Professional'' was a huge fan of CGI. That's the first use of it in animation's history; Even beating out {{Pixar}}'s (which at the time was Lucasfilm's CGI unit called ''Graphics Group'') ''[[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts The Adventures Of Andre And Wally B]]'' by a little more than a year.

* ContractOnTheHitman: This is basically the entire main plot of ''The Professional''. Industrialist Leonard Dawson uses every resource availible to him to kill Golgo due to him performing the assassination on his son. His daughter-in-law even Lampshades this by asking why Dawson bothers going after Golgo at all when he is just a hitman, and he should be going for the man who put out the hit. [[spoiler: He can't because his sonwho put out the hit on ''himself'': he wanted to commit suicide but didn't have the nerve to do it himslf. Dawson goes after Golgo 13 because he is the closest person Dawson has for someone to blame.]]

{{Tykebomb}}: Leonard Dawson gives his granddaughter a crash course in an attempt to ambush Duke.

* RapeAsDrama: Snake rapes [[spoiler: Laura Dawson]] as part of his payment from Leonard.

''Golgo 13: The Professional'', known as simply ''Golgo 13'' in Japan, is a Japanese animated film adaptation of the Franchise/Golgo13 franchise released on May 28, 1983 by Tokyo Movie Shinsha. It is the first animated film to be based on the manga and the third film overall. Merciless contract killer Duke Togo—codenamed "Golgo 13"—is hired to assassinate Robert Dawson, the son of oil baron Leonard Dawson and the heir of Dawson Enterprises, and succeeds.