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* HateSink: In comparison to all the other villains, who are either [[TragicVillain tragic]] or have [[EvilIsCool entertaining aspects]][[invoked]] about them, Lee is little more than a psychopathic teen who cares far more about his high scores and gleefully assists in the BigBad's plan for genocide against Mars for fun and infamy.


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* TheSociopath: Lee cares far more about his games than actual human lives, even being gleefully willing to participate in genocide for fun and infamy.
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* EvenTheRatsWontTouchIt: He shares Spike's distaste for Jet's cooking, and would prefer to be fed regular dog food.
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenjiUtsumi (JPN), Barry Stigler (ENG), Miguel Ángel Ghigliazza (SPN-LA), Ramón Rocabayera (SPN-EU)

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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenjiUtsumi (JPN), Barry Stigler (ENG), Miguel Ángel Ghigliazza Creator/MiguelAngelGhigliazza (SPN-LA), Ramón Rocabayera (SPN-EU)
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* OhCrap: One of the only times he becomes NotSoStoic that isn't directly being either in TranquilFury, indulging in violence or flipping out at Spike, is when he threw Spike out a church window in Episode 5 -- and realizes the latter just dropped a live grenade at his feet as an indirect TakingYouWithMe attempt. For all of his nihilism, Vicious hardly [[ThisIsGonnaSuck looks accepting]] of a potential death here.

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* FatalFlaw: Spike is incapable of letting go of his past. [[spoiler: When his past finally catches up to him at the end of the series, it results in him going on a suicide mission to prove to himself that his whole life, as he puts it, wasn't just a dream.]]
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In order for a character to count as The Chick, they have to be the only girl in a Five Man Band. Ed is female too, so Faye can't apply for this trope.


* TheChick: The feminine and most emotionally vulnerable member of the crew. While everyone else in the crew relies on their strength or brains, Faye is all about charm and people skills... Oh, and [[MoreDakka automatic weapons.]] [[ActionGirl Those too.]]
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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: He believes killing Spike is an honor reserved for imselfe alone.

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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: He believes killing Spike is an honor reserved for imselfe himself alone.
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* NotSoStoic: He appears cold and remote at all time... unless he's really letting his inner AxCrazy side out. Then you get a good luck at his crazy, sadistic side complete with SlasherSmile, and it may be the last thing you'll ever see.

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* NotSoStoic: He appears cold and remote at all time...times... unless he's really letting his inner AxCrazy side out. Then you get a good luck at his crazy, sadistic side complete with SlasherSmile, and it may be the last thing you'll ever see.



* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: He believes killing Spike is an honor reserved for he alone.

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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: He believes killing Spike is an honor reserved for he imselfe alone.
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* ManipulativeBastard: His speciality! Vicious happily uses Mao to rise in the Red Dragon until he deccides he's lost his edge and needs to be eliminated. Likewise he charms Gren into trusting him as his comrade while setting him up to take the faall for Vicious' own crimes.

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* ManipulativeBastard: His speciality! Vicious happily uses Mao to rise in the Red Dragon until he deccides he's lost his edge and needs to be eliminated. Likewise he charms Gren into trusting him as his comrade while setting him up to take the faall fall for Vicious' own crimes.

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Spine's hair is neither green nor an afro


* AfroAsskicker: A green fro and lethal moves.


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* UncertainDoom: The ending has [[spoiler:Spike, grievously wounded, collapsing in front of what remains of Vicious's gang]]. The director said that whether [[spoiler:he lives or dies]] is entirely up to the viewer.
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-->''Bob:''' They say that no one who has seen his face has lived to tell about it.

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-->''Bob:''' -->'''Bob:''' They say that no one who has seen his face has lived to tell about it.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: He says up front, in his first scene and in response to Faye's flirting, that "women aren't his style" and one could even take his feelings for Vicious as romantic. However, he does start to get a little seductive with Faye when he spends more time with her, and his avoidance of women as a rule may simply be as a result of embarrassment about his... abnormality, or his desire to keep a low-profile.

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* AmbiguouslyBi: He says up front, in his first scene and in response to Faye's flirting, that "women aren't his style" and one could even take certainly interpret his feelings for Vicious as romantic. having a romantic element. However, he does start to get a little seductive with Faye when he spends more time with her, and his avoidance of women as a rule may simply be as a result of embarrassment about his... abnormality, his body, or his desire to keep a low-profile.



* MrFanservice: An interesting case. He gets a ShowerScene where we see he has fully developed breasts (it's from the drugs he was forced to take). He also has quite the {{bishonen}}, effeminate appearane to him. If he weren't male, he'd practicaly be ''MsFanservice''!

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* MrFanservice: An interesting case. case, sharing a lot of qualities one would more expect of a MsFanservice. He gets a ShowerScene where we see he has fully developed breasts (it's from and a fairly feminine figure due the drugs he was forced to take). take. He also has quite the {{bishonen}}, effeminate appearane appearance to him. If he weren't male, he'd practicaly be ''MsFanservice''!



** On the flip side, Punch's actor, Alfredo, is a softspoken nice guy who takes in his mother [[spoiler: even after losing his job]].

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** On the flip side, Punch's while Punch is hardly a mean character, his actor, Alfredo, is a softspoken nice guy who takes in his mother [[spoiler: even after losing his job]].



* AbsurdPhobia: 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. This allows Spike to take advantage of this.
* {{Acrofatic}}: His body is almost perfectly circular, but he can perform some ridiculous acrobatics, and he's horribly fast. It's questionable how much of his bulk belongs to him and how much is the result of [[TrenchCoatWarfare the arsenal he keeps under his suit jacket.]] The images from before his Mad Pierrot days depict him as heavy-set, but not to ''that'' degree.

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* AbsurdPhobia: 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. This allows Spike to take up... creating an opening the bounty hunter wastes no time taking advantage of this.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: His body is almost perfectly circular, but he can perform some ridiculous acrobatics, and he's horribly fast. It's questionable Granted, it's unclear how much of his apparent bulk belongs to him is his actual body and how much is the result of just [[TrenchCoatWarfare 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.



* AxCrazy: He's a walking armory and is as insane as a man can possibly be.
* BeardOfEvil: He's got a wicked-looking grey beard; notably, flashbacks from before he was Mad Pierrot show him to have been clean-shaven.

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* AxCrazy: He's a walking armory armory, and is just about as insane as a man can possibly be.
* BeardOfEvil: He's In the present-day, he's got a wicked-looking grey beard; notably, flashbacks beard. Flashbacks from before he was Mad Pierrot show him to have been clean-shaven.clean-shaven with a buzzcut.



!!"Dr. Londes"

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!!"Dr. Londes"Londes" (real name [[spoiler:Rosny Spanggen]])
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* BadassBeard: He's got some nice facial hair.



* BadassBeard: Along with the BeardOfEvil image, Vincent's beard is magnificent.
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* MrFanservice: An interesting case. He gets a ShowerScene where we see he has fully developed breasts (it's from the drugs he was forced to take). He also has quite the {{bishonen}}, effeminate appearane to him. If he weren't male, he'd practicaly be ''MsFanservice''!
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* VillainousUnderdog: Of his own short side story involving his [[EvilVsEvil struggle against the Van]]. Compared to his smug bosses, Vicious is a skilled warrior constantly put down by the triumvirate until [[spoiler:he tricks them into a staged execution by which he can attack and kill them]].

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* AssholeVictim: Out of all the people Vicious betrayed, they're the least sympathetic. [[spoiler: And their violent deaths are well-deserved too, considering the {{Disproportionate Retribution}} listed below]].

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* AssholeVictim: Out of all the people Vicious betrayed, they're the least sympathetic. [[spoiler: And [[spoiler:And their violent deaths are well-deserved too, considering the {{Disproportionate Retribution}} listed below]].



* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: One of the Elders is killed in this manner when Vicious overthrows them.]]

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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: One [[spoiler:One of the Elders is killed in this manner when Vicious overthrows them.]]



* EyeScream: [[spoiler: The last Elder remaining at the end of the takeover gets his eyes slashed out by Vicious]].

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* EyeScream: [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The last Elder remaining at the end of the takeover gets his eyes slashed out by Vicious]].



* LackOfEmpathy: While lording their power over Vicious they muse when he claims he'd never betray his superiors that Mao's end was merely bad luck... then get back to reminding him how much more powerful they are than he without a hint of care for their deceased ''capo''.



* OlderThanTheyLook: Debatably- the creators estimated the triplets' age as around 120.

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* OlderThanTheyLook: Debatably- the Debatably--the creators estimated the triplets' age as around 120.


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* ResignationsNotAccepted: The Van hold the policy of executing any deserters, adding some FridgeBrilliance to why a softer man like Mao would want to reform the Red Dragon from within rather than leave their criminal organization.
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* ManipulativeBastard: His speciality! Vicious happily uses Mao to rise in the Red Dragon until he deccides he's lost his edge and needs to be eliminated. Likewise he charms Gren into trusting him as his comrade while setting him up to take the faall for Vicious' own crimes.
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* KillingInSelfDefense: Fought with a loan shark and the loan shark's goons when it looked as though the loan shark was about to ether kill or seriously beat Alisa and he. Then he managed to grab a gun from one of the goons and get a shot off at the loan shark, killing the guy.
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* InformedDeformity: According to Faye, Decker is bald. While he's noticeably thinning, he's far from what anyone would call bald.
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[[folder:Edward Tivrusky IV]]
!!"Radical Edward" Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV [[spoiler:(real name: Françoise Appledelhi)]]

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!!Edward "Radical Ed"
Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV [[spoiler:(real name: Françoise Appledelhi)]]
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!!General

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!!General!!The ''Bebop'' Crew



The ''Bebop''[='s=] crew is a RagtagBandOfMisfits that make a living as bounty hunters. Initially only a duo of Spike and Jet, Faye, Ed and Ein join over the course of the show.

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The ''Bebop''[='s=] crew is of the starship ''Bebop'', a RagtagBandOfMisfits that make a living as bounty hunters. Initially only a duo of Spike and Jet, Faye, Ed and Ein join over the course of the show.
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!The ''Bebop''
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!The Red Dragon
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Spike usually takes pain, up to and including multiple gunshot wounds, relatively in stride. In the movie, during his first fight with Vincent, the movie's BigBad, Vincent shoves his fingertips into Spike's chest and twists, breaking his ribs. All Spike can do after that is curl up and gasp for air, establishing Vincent as a serious and sadistic threat.
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Character sheet for ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' (the anime series and its 2001 {{interquel}} film, ''[[Anime/CowboyBebopKnockinOnHeavensDoor Knockin' on Heaven's Door]]'').

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Character sheet for ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' (the anime series and its 2001 {{interquel}} film, ''[[Anime/CowboyBebopKnockinOnHeavensDoor Knockin' on Heaven's Door]]''). If your looking for the characters from the 2021 live action version, [[Characters/CowboyBebop2021 go here]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Jet, Spike, Faye, Ed, and Ein.]]

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Works better in this folder because it's only the main characters.


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** Everyone in "Mushroom Samba". The latter has Ed ''biting down'' on the metal shelf inside the empty fridge. Meanwhile Faye ends up dealing with stomach pains worse than starving, after eating the ship's emergency rations... which had been expired ''for a year.''

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** Everyone in "Mushroom Samba". The latter has Ed ''biting down'' on the metal shelf inside the empty fridge. Meanwhile Faye ends up dealing with stomach pains worse than starving, after eating the ship's emergency rations... which had been expired ''for a year.''year''.
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* NotAfraidToDie: One of Spike's defining character traits is how blasé he is about the prospect of dying. He states several times that he's already dead and is just watching a bad dream until he's ready to "wake up" into death. Encountering [[MonsterClown Tongpu]] temporarily drives the cool away from him, but in all other instances (including in several episodes and TheMovie that took place chronologically later) Spike never seems afraid of death. [[spoiler:Depending on how you interpret the ending, the last minutes of the series may be the defining example.]]

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* NotAfraidToDie: One of Spike's defining character traits is how blasé he is about the prospect of dying. He states several times that he's already dead and is just watching a bad dream until he's ready to "wake up" into death.death (or alternatively into another, better reality. Spike does not seem to know which will actually happen). Encountering [[MonsterClown Tongpu]] temporarily drives the cool away from him, but in all other instances (including in several episodes and TheMovie that took place chronologically later) Spike never seems afraid of death. [[spoiler:Depending on how you interpret the ending, the last minutes of the series may be the defining example.]]
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No doubles, and also those tropes are not the same thing.


* PsychoSerum[=/=]SuperSerum: Bloody Eye works as both, giving 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, [[HourOfPower the effects have a time limit]].

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* PsychoSerum[=/=]SuperSerum: PsychoSerum: Bloody Eye works as both, giving 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, [[HourOfPower the effects have a time limit]].
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Spike's lost love. Relatively little is known about Julia, and since she has very little screen time (aside from flashbacks, she only appears in sections of two episodes), so the exact details on her history, personality and life are sketchy. From the scenes she's in we can see that she knows how to drive a car during a [[ChaseScene car chase]], she can shoot (though not as readily as the main cast) and she's smart: she knows how Vicious planted the transmitter on Gren immediately, for example. She's also loyal to Spike; when presented with the SadisticChoice, she chose to TakeAThirdOption and be hunted by Vicious rather than kill Spike.

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Spike's lost love. Relatively little is known about Julia, and since she has very little screen time (aside from flashbacks, she only appears in sections of two episodes), so the exact details on her history, personality and life are sketchy. From the scenes she's in we can see that she knows how to drive a car during a [[ChaseScene car chase]], she can shoot (though not as readily as the main cast) and she's smart: she knows how Vicious planted the transmitter on Gren immediately, for example. She's also loyal to Spike; when presented with the SadisticChoice, she chose to TakeAThirdOption and be hunted by Vicious rather than kill Spike.

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