History Characters / CowboyBebop

Character sheet for ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' (the anime series and its 2001 {{interquel}} film, ''[[Anime/CowboyBebopKnockinOnHeavensDoor Knockin' on Heaven's Door]]''). If you're looking for the characters from the 2021 live action version, [[Characters/CowboyBebop2021 go here]].

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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]].

* [[Characters/CowboyBebopBebopCrew The]] ''[[Characters/CowboyBebopCrew Bebop]]'' [[Characters/CowboyBebopBebopCrew Crew]]

* [[Characters/CowboyBebopBebopCrew The]] ''[[Characters/CowboyBebop Bebop]]'' [[Characters/CowboyBebopBebopCrew Crew]]

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!The ''Bebop'' Crew
[[folder:In General]]
!!The ''Bebop'' Crew
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[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Jet, Spike, Faye, Ed, and Ein.]]
The crew 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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* AntiHeroTeam: Their primary motivation is money, though oftentimes their positive traits shine through and they perform altruistic acts over a monetary reward.
* BadassCrew: [[TheHero Spike]], [[CoolOldGuy Jet]] and [[MsFanservice Faye]] can all gun down criminals like there's no tomorrow and Ed has the capabilities to [[BadassBookworm hack a damn ship]] and fly it around like a remote control toy.
* BountyHunter: The whole crew. It is their job.
* {{Foil}}: Pretty much the entire crew are foils to each other multiple times over, in terms of personality, outlook, character arc, and ultimately in how their individual stories resolve. Ein is the major exception, as he's a dog.
* GrowlingGut: Heard often when the crew of the Bebop is starving -- which [[PerpetualPoverty comes up a lot]].
** Spike in "Toys In The Attic".
** Faye in "My Funny Valentine".
** 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''.
* PerpetualPoverty: Either circumstances conspire to prevent capture of the bounty or there's so much collateral damage that, after all is said and done, they break even. It would be easier to name the episodes in which the crew ''does'' have money in which they don't. Hence the title of Yoko Kanno's slow acoustic guitar theme ''Forever Broke,'' played when the crew of the Bebop find themselves deep in the red and, more often than not, [[GrowlingGut starving.]]
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits:
-->'''Jet:''' Just wandering around with some weirdos...
* ThemeNaming: The residents of the Bebop's names tend to denote their importance to the story by how many letters they have in them.
** Spike, the main character, whose past receives the most focus, has 5 letters.
** Faye, who has a lot of character development and the second most backstory of the cast, has 4.
** Jet, whose episodes are often conclusions to stories that have already resolved, and often stays on the ship during bounties, has 3. And his birthday is on December 3rd.
** Ed, who only really has one episode about her history and is mostly the team's hacker/comedy relief, has 2.
** Ein, who is [[TeamPet an admittedly very smart dog]], has a name that means "One" in German.
* ThreePlusTwo: Ed and Ein are still members of the crew.
* TrueCompanions: Faye describes the crew to be this close as early as episode 5. It probably isn't really the case until episode 13.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Spike, Jet and Faye form the core trio of the Bebop's crew. They are the ones who receive the most attention.
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[[folder:Spike Spiegel]]
!!Spike Spiegel
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KoichiYamadera (JPN), Creator/SteveBlum (ENG), Genaro Vásquez (SPN-LA), Creator/YamilAtala (SPN-LA, movie), Joan Pera (SPN-EU), Alejandro García (SPN-EU, movie)
->''"Whatever happens, happens."''

Spike is a slightly lazy, big eating, easy-going sort who has used his skills honed from years as an assassin, gangster, and martial artist to become a bounty hunter. He's the type that always takes life easy except for when the adrenaline kicks in while taking down a bounty. And he certainly doesn't take anything personally or all that seriously... in fact, about the only thing that can spark an emotional reaction from him are the names Julia and Vicious. In truth, Spike has endured so much heartache over the years that there's practically nothing left for him to care about but living from one pay-day to the next. Even a look into his eyes betrays his mellow exterior and reveals something deeply wrong under the surface.
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Much of the story is a series of slow revelations about Spike's past, why he has the skills that he does, who Julia and Vicious are, why Spike has a ruthless enemy that will stop at nothing to kill him, and whether, in the end, he can truly leave that life behind.
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* AcePilot: No one can pilot the ''Swordfish II'' better than Spike.
* AesopAmnesia: In the movie. [[spoiler:Spike's increasing regret over bystanders and bounty heads is undone at the start of the film, which is said to take place late in the series. This seems to have been done so they could fit in some character development. This is possibly justified, in that one of the common interpretations of the movie is that it's a dream Spike is having. As such it would make sense that it would compress all his character development from the series into the movie.]]
* AlliterativeName: '''Spi'''ke '''Spi'''egel.
* AmazonChaser: In TheMovie, he says so while flirting with/fighting Electra.
--> '''Spike:''' I love the kind of woman that can kick my ass.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: Spike has a surname that is quite common among Jewish people, a stereotypically (in the US, anyway) Jewish haircut, and carries an Israeli-made Jericho 941 pistol. When asked about it, the series' creators once said he wasn't Jewish and his hair was modeled after the actor [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusaku_Matsuda Yusaku]] [[https://media0dk-a.akamaihd.net/71/90/bdb7ae4a4f44688a635e58d441603f87.jpg Matsuda]], and they just picked "Spiegel" as his name because they thought it sounded cool. On the other hand, when asked directly whether Spike was meant to be of Jewish descent in another interview, the series creator said it's entirely ''possible'' he could be Jewish. And while some people cite a manga where Spike is referred to as "Asian" as proof he can't be Jewish (for some reason), the two are not mutually exclusive.
* AnimalMotifs: Cats. He's a laidback, deceptively mellow person who's much faster and more of a huntsman than he lets on. He triggers Tongpu due to his resemblance to the cat in the lab he escaped from, and he tells Jet the story of a tiger-striped cat to help summarize his life.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Seriously, can the name "''Spike Spiegel''" get any more awesome? The series' creators deliberately chose this name for Spike simply because they thought it sounded cool.
* BadassBaritone: He speaks with a deep voice as a result of being voiced by Creator/KoichiYamadera in Japanese and Creator/SteveBlum in English.
* BadassInANiceSuit: One of the best examples in anime is his iconic blue suit.
* BadassNormal: He's without a doubt the biggest badass in a series full of people with military training, police training, genetic enhancements from experiments or accidents. He has none of these; he's just a man with a gun, experience, martial arts skill, and a hell of a lot of willpower and endurance. And a cybernetic eye, but it seems only to act like a regular eye.
* BadassLongcoat: There seems to be something special about Spike's longcoat as well. He was seen wearing it often during his Syndicate days, but only dons it to fight Vicious after he leaves. It seems like his way of acknowledging he's fighting a war.
* BerserkButton:
** Make sure you ''never'' confuse him with his ArchEnemy, Vicious. If you call him by that name, he'll flip out and open a can of whoopass on you ''and'' your entire gang.
** Don't insult Julia. The leader of a gang of thugs from Callisto makes these two mistakes... and pays dearly for it.
** Don't make him drop his egg. [[HideousHangoverCure He needs that egg]].
* BigEater: He has a large appetite but unfortunately he and Jet can't afford it.
* BloodKnight:
** Nothing makes his face light up more than a decent fight.
** He doesn't like "small fry" bounties like drug dealers and petty thieves, and only goes after big ones.
* BountyHunter: He's very good at the "hunter" half though he [[RunningGag rarely receives any bounty money]].
* BrilliantButLazy: Despite being a lazy, big-eating "lunkhead", Spike has been able to outwit the entire Syndicate, nearly beat Jet in shogi, stay a step ahead of all of his bounties, and think his way out of every situation. The hard part is finding a reason for him to give a damn.
* BrokenAce: He's very skilled, and he's usually calm and confident -- until his DarkAndTroubledPast comes up.
* BruceLeeClone: Spike is a big fan of Mr. Lee, practicing Jeet Kune Do and his philosophy.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: At first glance, he seems lazy and dense, but rest assured -- this man is one of the biggest badasses around and was formerly feared enforcer for the Red Dragon crime syndicate. Word of God states this was intentional, to make him seem more badass when he kicked into gear.
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:He leaves the ''Bebop'' one final time (much to Faye's dismay) to confront his past and Vicious, all the while knowing that he will likely not come back.]]
* ByronicHero: Despite being our hero, his actions for most of the show cause a lot of collateral damage and bystander injury. Not to mention he's not the nicest or most caring guy. However, in the inside, he's a broken man who longs for the woman he fell in love with and wants to leave his chaotic life and troubled past behind.
* CharacterDevelopment:
** [[spoiler:Cares more and more about innocent bystanders and collateral casualties as the series goes on. The biggest catalysts were Rocco and Gren.]]
** [[spoiler:Redoes the entire development, condensed and accelerated, in TheMovie, where he goes from perfectly willing to let an elderly hostage die to suicide-rushing Vincent in a last ditch effort to save Mars from the nano plague.]]
* ChickMagnet: Spike has a knack for bringing out affection and a softer side of women he comes across such as Faye, Julia, Katrina, Muriel, Stella, and Electra. He rarely [[CluelessChickMagnet notices]] or [[CelibateHero responds]] to their interest, however.
* ChildHater: Spike [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial claims]] he does not like kids (or pets, or women with attitude) in the second episode. Guess who ends up living on the same ship as him? This is {{Lampshaded}} after Faye, Ein, and Ed join the crew. Somewhat subverted, though, since he does end up warming up to all three as the series goes on.
* CombatPragmatist: Like any self-respecting Jeet Kune Do practitioner, Spike follows the philosophy of 'whatever works'.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: In the past Spike was a top assassin for the [[TheSyndicate Red Dragon Syndicate]], a criminal organization. An unstoppable killer, Spike was practically a OneManArmy, and was only more dangerous when paired with his [[BashBrothers equally dangerous partner]], Vicious. Then something happened. Spike met Vicious' girlfriend, Julia, and Spike and Julia fell in love. (Indeed, one shot that shows Spike's reaction to seeing her hints it might even have been LoveAtFirstSight, at least on his end). [[spoiler:Although the details from this time are sketchy, it appears that Vicious soon found out. Around the same time, Spike had also decided to leave the organization, and it's unclear which of these Vicious perceived as the greater betrayal. He gave Julia a deadly order: kill Spike, or be killed herself before she could run.]] Somehow, Spike [[FakingTheDead faked his death]] well enough that ''almost'' everyone believed he was dead, but Julia didn't leave with him. Instead Spike simply disappeared, and began a life of drifting until meeting Jet and forming their partnership.
* DeadpanSnarker: Often speaks in dry and tired wit.
* DeathGlare: If you're [[ArchEnemy Vicious]] or someone who has ''really'' gotten on his bad side (especially if you [[BerserkButton mistake him for Vicious]]), the sheer and utter hatred that may fill Spike's eyes indicate that you're probably a dead man. It says something that [[spoiler: besides during Shin's [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice]] and his post-victory before the collapse, the final battle has Spike in a perpetual state of death glare due to [[DespairEventHorizon Julia dying]].]]
* DeathSeeker: He's really too eager to charge into absurdly dangerous situations. [[spoiler:After Julia's death, he immediately decides to storm the Red Dragon fortress in order to kill Vicious, accepting without regret that [[SuicideMission he would not come back.]]]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Spike:''' I'm not going there to die. I'm going to find out if I'm really alive.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: In the final episode, after [[spoiler: Julia is killed by the Syndicate,]] it's very subtle but his eyes are weary, more narrow than usual and have noticeable shadowing. [[spoiler: It resembles someone who's cried a lot or is in depression, [[TranquilFury and the expressions]] he makes during the entire Syndicate raid are like ''nothing'' in the series besides the last time he had to deal with Vicious as he marches off to his presumed death.]]
* DestructiveSavior: Every time he tries to bring in a bounty, buildings are destroyed. In the first episode, Jet angrily says that the reason they don't have enough money for food is because the bounties he collects are always drained paying for all the damage he causes.
* {{Determinator}}: He doesn't give up on bounties or his score with Vicious, no matter how long it takes or how many armed men stand in his way or how badly injured he becomes.
* DyingDream: Spike holds this opinion on life, at times vacillating on whether he's truly alive at all or if he died during his last job for the Red Dragon. [[spoiler:It takes Julia getting killed in front of him to 'awaken' from that attitude.]]
* ElectronicEye: One of his eyes is artificial and a slightly different color.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the first episode, Spike seems to be completely unfocused and easily overwhelmed by the bounty at the gas station, until he is revealed to have picked his pocket and stolen his vial of "Bloody Eye" combat enhancer. In the climactic fight, Spike [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass easily takes down Asimov]] (who has previously been shown to dodge bullets and take down squads of gun-toting goons while under the influence of Bloody Eye) while wearing a serape in a [[ShoutOut reconstruction]] of one of Creator/BruceLee's most famous scenes.
* {{Expy}}: Of Elliot Gould as a fellow laid-back, laconic law-for-hire Phillip Marlowe in Robert Altman's [[https://aarkangel.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/5429231.jpg adaptation]] of ''[[https://michaelgloversmith.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/longgoodbye.jpg The Long Goodbye]]''.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: In "Wild Horses", he is told that his deactivated ship has been caught in Earth's gravitational pull and will burn up in the atmosphere in about five minutes. His only reaction is to fire up a cigarette and tell Jet where he kept the booze that he wants Jet to inherit.
* 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.]]
* FourElementEnsemble: Not that it's quite on the level of a superpower, but Spike's associated element is water. As he says himself:
-->'''Spike:''' Water can take any form. It drifts without effort one moment, then pounds down in a torrent the very next.
* GlassEye: Spike's right eye is an [[spoiler: artificial replacement]], and is of a lighter shade of brown.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Assuming he did die of his injuries in the final episode, he's finally at peace with himself, having broken with his past, avenging Julia and proving to himself he was different from Vicious. Of course, he [[UncertainDoom might not actually be dead]].]]
* HeartbrokenBadass: He lost Julia. [[spoiler:Even more so after he loses her once more, this time for good.]]
* HeManWomanHater: Probably intentionally, Spike occasionally makes some memorably rude comments about women, since he doesn't want to get involved with one after [[TheLostLenore what happened with Julia.]]
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Eventually, Spike's past catches up with him big time. Vicious does confirm that Spike is alive, and it turns into a full on hunt as Vicious tries to take over the Red Dragon Syndicate. Spike and Julia reconcile and plan on running away, but before they can, she dies in a shootout with Vicious' men. After saying goodbye to Jet and Faye, Spike decides to go StormingTheCastle and cuts a swath through The Syndicate to get to Vicious. The two wound each other, with Vicious dying right away, while Spike lives long enough to see the dawn, walk back downstairs, and whisper "Bang," to the stunned members of the Syndicate before collapsing. ...''[[ShrugOfGod If]]'' that was indeed his death.]]
* HeroesLoveDogs: Played with. Spike says he hates animals (and kids), but part of how you can tell he's not really a bad guy is that the worst he ever does is a little offhand snark to Jet. They don't exactly bond, but Spike risks his life, and loses the bounty on Hakim, to save Ein from falling in "Stray Dog Strut". Plus they seem to get along in the non-canon previews, which helps.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: He really does care, even if he's reluctant to admit it.
* HiddenDepths: Underneath the "cool guy" exterior is a past of heartbreak and regret.
* HideousHangoverCure: He drinks prairie oysters -- a raw egg yolk with hot sauce and pepper and a little HairOfTheDog.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Spike tells Faye that there is no point living in the past [[spoiler:after she finds that there is nothing left of her past from 70 years ago. Then he goes off to probably die in a suicide mission for revenge because he cannot let go of his past. Faye bitterly brings this up as he prepares to leave.]]
* ILetGwenStacyDie: [[spoiler:He loses Julia for good in the finale. After this, Spike gives up on everything and goes to settle things with Vicious once and for all.]]
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Is remarkably proficient at shooting people right between the eyes.
* IndyPloy: Thinking on his feet is definitely one of Spike's strong suits. Just look at his plan in "Heavy Metal Queen," which involved him [[spoiler:going into space without a suit]].
* InHarmsWay: Nothing excites him more than danger and fighting.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Why he left Julia.
* IWillFindYou: Spike's major quest throughout the anime is to reunite with Julia again.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He may talk a lot about being a bounty hunter only in it for the money, but anytime he has to choose between catching a bounty and saving lives, you can bet your bottom woolong that he'd rather save that life and end up with empty pockets.
* JigsawPuzzlePlot: His past is told in such a fashion; snatches of conversation, flashbacks, etc.
* LightningBruiser: Spike, the best fighter in the ''Bebop'' crew, is this compared to his crew members and most of the enemies he encounters. Despite [[MightyGlacier Jet's larger build]] and [[FragileSpeedster Faye's leaner figure]], Spike is the strongest, fastest and toughest person in the crew. Throughout the series, Spike demonstrates his [[BruceLeeClone Jeet Kune Do skills ]] as well as being able to [[OneManArmy take on whole groups of armed men]] all the while [[MadeOfIron enduring staggering amounts of pain]].
* LooksLikeCesare: Rail-thin, pale, and with a head of MessyHair. All he's missing are the CreepyShadowedUndereyes.
* LoveableRogue: Anti-hero bounty hunter (not a criminal) who makes a surprising amount of friends.
* LoveRedeems: If not for Julia, he would have likely ended up just like Vicious.
* MadeOfIron: During one episode he is; shot, stabbed, sliced, thrown through a stained glass window and falls at least four stories down to a paved street. He lives.
* MellowFellow: Generally speaking, Spike can be very laid back when things aren't going down.
* MrFanservice: Tall, muscular, and certainly easy on the eyes. He's had a ShirtlessScene or two.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Despite his tall and lean frame, Spike is able to effortlessly take on groups of similarly sized or slighter larger attackers. Somewhat subverted in that there are cases where an opponents combination of sheer size difference/skill leave him in a draw or scrambling to get the upper hand.
* NobleBigotWithABadge: While a bounty hunter rather than police, Spike sometimes mutters misogynistic comments under his breath or just loud enough for Faye to hear.
* 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 (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.]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: On several occasions in both the series and the movie, he acts clueless, clumsy, distracted or sleepy and is underestimated long enough that he kicks someone's ass hard, or picks their pockets. It is not clear how much of this is an act (and how much it is him just being relaxed even in dangerous situations), but his efficiency indicates that this at least partially a deliberate trick.
* OneManArmy: Episodes 5, 11 and 26 show him going up against large numbers of armed men and coming out victorious.
* 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.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Some occasionally asinine woman-bashing comes out of his mouth. Possibly an intentional attempt to keep up with his tough guy persona, plus to keep any woman from trying to be romantically involved with him and vice-versa given how badly romance went for him before.
* ProdigalHero: While he has left his past life of crime, his attachments to Julia and Vicious force him to become the savior of the Red Dragon Syndicate.
* RebelliousSpirit: He likes to play by his own rules.
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Jet and Vicious' blue; it's an odd case, because he's less prone to shouting and visible shows of emotion, but he's more reckless.
* RetiredMonster: A former Triad hitman, Spike never shows much regret for his former life or attempts to face up to any parts of it until events outside his control force his hand. This is another point in which he's contrasted with Jet.
* RunningGag: Several times he pulls out a cigarette (or already has one lit), only to be told or see a sign that says "No smoking". Depending on the episode, he either ignores it or spits the cigarette out, irritated.
* SmokingIsCool: Probably the most famous example in anime. He's even the current trope image.
* StarCrossedLovers: With Julia; the Red Dragon Syndicate is what separated them.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial:
-->'''Spike:''' I'm not a criminal. Oh, that makes me seem even more like a criminal, [[ThatCameOutWrong doesn't it?]]
* TiredOfRunning: [[spoiler:After Julia dies, Spike does this and assaults the Red Dragon directly to end his feud with Vicious.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: A subtle example. Seems to have a preference for lobster. When he tries to order the most expensive thing on a fancy restaurant's menu, he pointedly chooses "lobster miso stew" over the more trendy "Ganymede sea rat." He mocks Twinkle Murdock by telling her that her 25 million bounty is gonna buy a lot of lobster stew. Then there's the entire episode kickstarted by Spike apparently [[spoiler:hiding a Ganymede rock lobster in the fridge aboard the Bebop]].
* TragicHero: A man with a tragic past who [[spoiler:may or may not have died coming to terms with that past after losing his true love.]]
* TranquilFury: His overall reaction when [[spoiler:storming Red Dragon Crime Syndicate base, because of Julia's death]]. He moves slowly and says nothing, but he has killing intent written in every line of his body.
* 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.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Faye. Although it appears one-sided on her part, WordOfGod once stated "Spike may have feelings for Faye, he's just not one to outwardly express them."
* UnscrupulousHero: Spike's the type of guy who'll help someone in need every now and then even if there's nothing in it for him. He's also not particularly ruthless in his quests to capture his bounty, perfectly willing to capture a bounty head alive, though he does [[DestructiveSavior cause serious property damage]] whenever he goes after them. That said, as a former assassin and a current bounty hunter, he's still a former bad guy ([[CharacterDevelopment who ultimately turned good]], but [[AntiHero is still kinda morally grey]]) and he has a darker side that comes out when Vicious is around. Spike has occasionally shown moments of apathy and outright disregard for other people, caring only for his mission or reward. "Ballad of Fallen Angels" shows Spike unhesitatingly shooting the head of the man who had Faye at gunpoint, as if he cared more about killing him than rescuing Faye. It's entirely possible he saved her only because she happened to be conveniently located. While these tendencies are implied to be grandstanding and/or denial on his part, it can always be convincingly argued that he really ''doesn't'' care...
-->'''Spike:''' Well, that's a real shame, but we're not cops and we're not from some charity organization. Sorry, lady, but we don't protect or serve. This is strictly business.
* WeaponOfChoice: A Jericho 941 pistol, with [[GunsAkimbo two]] whenever shit hits the fan.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: He and Vicious used to be BashBrothers.
* YoungerThanHeLooks: Spike is 27 at the time of the series, in reference to the many musicians who have [[spoiler: died young at that age from drugs, fights, or suicide]], but appears to resemble a handsome man in his mid or late thirties. In part this is due to the stock age-related anime trope of every main character above their teens being a twenty-something prodigy, but in part this can also be justified by his rough and world-weary lifestyle.
** One of the (many) criticisms of the upcoming Netflix show is that they blatantly ignored this fact about Spike when casting the 40-something John Cho.
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[[folder:Jet Black]]
!!Jet Black
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/UnshoIshizuka (JPN), Creator/TaitenKusunoki (JPN, live-action series dub), Creator/BeauBillingslea (ENG), Alfonso Ramírez (SPN-LA), Francesc Belda (SPN-SP), Juan Fernández (SPN-SP, movie)
->''"It’s just like Charlie said in my dream: if you want to receive, you have to give."''

The owner of the ''Bebop'' and perhaps the group's nominal leader, Jet Black is an ex-cop turn bounty hunter and by far the most old-fashioned, level-headed, and responsible member of the Bebop crew. He tends to come off as gruff (and his height, muscular appearance and beard only add to the impression), but he's a softie underneath with a surprising number of cultured hobbies. (Including raising bonsai trees, listening to jazz/blues music, cooking, and reading classic literature.)
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The heart and conscience of the crew, Jet has a tendency to do the right thing in all circumstances, even at cost to his own happiness. He can be old-fashioned and controlling, a fact that caused his lover Alisa to leave him during his days as a cop and which sometimes makes him less than popular with the rest of the Bebop crew. A retiring sort of person for good reason, Jet carries a few battle scars, most notably a robotic arm resulting from a brutal confrontation that cost him the original.
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* AngerBornOfWorry: Often -- it's one of the things that make him TeamDad. He's usually TheStoic, but does a lot of yelling at Spike, Faye, and Ed, mostly since he doesn't think they can take care of themselves. Given that they'd probably all starve to death without him at the helm, he's got a point.
* AntiHero: [[KnightInSourArmour Type 2]]. He has a temper and a cynical streak, but he's a good guy, and more heroic than the others.
* ArtificialLimbs: His left arm is robotic.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Jet Black is a good name for a bounty hunter.
* BadassBoast:
-->'''Jet:''' I'm [[RedBaron the Black Dog]], and when I bite [[{{Determinator}} I don't let go]].
* BaldHeadOfToughness: His hairless scalp acts as a good signifier of how he's the toughest and roughest member of the crew.
* TheBigGuy: He's the biggest and he has a robotic arm.
* BornInTheWrongCentury: Part of what makes him seem [[YoungerThanHeLooks older than he actually is]]. And what's more, it's implied that the kind of old-fashioned morality he wants to believe in never really existed in the first place.
* BountyHunter: He'll go after anybody, big or small, to pay the bills.
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: A musclebound cyborg, but also a cultured, sensitive bonsai enthusiast who has a soft spot for kids and animals.
* TheCaptain: As he likes to remind the rest of the crew, he ''is'' the ship's captain, and thus the one in charge. Spike and Faye don't care.
* CombatPragmatist: Not a martial arts practitioner like Spike, but he's still able to go toe-to-toe with some pretty nasty characters using his own [[GoodOldFisticuffs brutal brand of pugilism]]; headbutts, bear bottles, sucker punches... anything's fair game in his book.
* CoolOldGuy: There is no doubt that he is the nicest guy in the series.
* CulturedBadass: Loves classic literature, tending bonsai, jazz and the blues. Is also the ship's cook, although how cultured that makes him might be contested by the rest of the crew. Hard to say, though, thanks to the general lack of ingredients on ''Bebop''.
-->'''Jet:''' Damn, that blues-harp sounds sweet. I knew it would.\\
'''Spike:''' Heh... I thought you like jazz.\\
'''Jet:''' Don't be dense. I started wailing the blues when the doctor whacked my bottom on the day I was born.\\
'''Spike:''' A baby hipster, very cool.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: An ex-cop who was known as the "Black Dog" during his time as an officer because of his stubbornness and relentlessness in chasing down suspects. During his days as a cop Jet refused to go on the take or play the game until this finally got him ambushed by a syndicate, [[spoiler:and his own partner]], resulting in a wound that cost him his arm and made him turn in his badge. Between his wound and his lover Elisa walking out on him some time earlier, Jet decided it was time to move on and try his luck in other parts of the solar system, leading him to purchase the ''Bebop'' (and name it after his longtime love of jazz music), becoming a freelance bounty hunter and forming a partnership with Spike.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite being an intimidating, musclebound, angular, hairy, bald, cybernetically enhanced ex-cop whose name is [[AwesomeMcCoolName Jet Black]], he's a genuinely heroic, selfless sort who only left the force because he was ''too'' incorruptible for the increasingly murky world of future law enforcement. For reference, lovable goofball Spike is a former yakuza enforcer, and despite her sunny choice of wardrobe Faye was, and is, a con artist and thief.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Ganymede Elegy", "Black Dog Serenade", and "Boogie-Woogie Feng Shui" all explore different aspects of his past.
* DeadpanSnarker: Not as much as Spike or Faye, but he gets a few one-liners in.
* {{Determinator}}: To say Jet is relentless would be an understatement, when you're his target he will ''not'' stop until he catches you. He even says as much himself -- see the quote at the top of this entry.
* DoNotGoGentle: One of the major bones of contention between him and Spike is the latter's fatalism, unusual in TheHero: Spike often speaks of the things he "must" do, the way in which his life feels like a dream, out of his control. Every time it happens, we see the normally [[TheStoic stoic]] Jet go off on a tirade, trying to talk Spike away from the ledge.
-->'''Jet:''' A man injures his leg during a hunt. He's in the middle of the savanna. No means to treat the wound. The leg rots and death approaches. Last minute, he's picked up by an airplane. He looks down and sees a land of pure white below him, glistening in the light. It's the summit of a snow-capped mountain. The mountain is Kilimanjaro. As he gazes down, he feels the life flowing out of him and then, he thinks, "That's where I was headed."\\
'''Spike:''' ..And?\\
'''Jet:''' I hate stories like that. Men only think of their past right before their death, as if they were searching frantically for proof that they were alive.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Despite his musclebound frame, Jet is a thinker and an observer. When the two goons show up in the shot-up bar in the first episode, Jet hides behind the counter and gets the drop on them -- then threatens one of them with a broken bottle while squeezing him with his metal arm, showing that he's not afraid to get his hands dirty or fall back on his intimidating appearance, either.
* {{Foil}}: He looks brutal and dangerous, but he's actually a teddy bear and ByTheBookCop under the surface. It's actually the seemingly goofy, lazy, lunkheaded Spike [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass you'd really have to]] [[BloodKnight watch out for]] in a fight.
* FourElementEnsemble: As with Spike, it's not on the level of an actual superpower, but he's associated with earth. He gardens (which involves working with soil) and [[MagicalNativeAmerican Laughing Bull]] refers to him as "Running Rock"
* GeniusBruiser: Badass and the wisest member of the ''Bebop'' crew.
* GentleGiant: To some extent. As big and gruff as he looks, he's mostly a NiceGuy underneath.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Jet has a large vertical scar running above his right eye.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Played entirely straight. It might have started out just as a way of getting under Spike's skin, but Jet comes to realize he was happy having a dog to take care of.
* HiddenDepths: Explored in "Ganymede Elegy" where he reflects on his past as a cop.
* HonorBeforeReason: He manages to make this a {{Reconstruction}}. He has a strong moral code, but it has cost him, mainly his career as a police detective (since he refused to become a DirtyCop for the syndicate and was betrayed by his partner). It also drew a wedge between him and his lover (she grew to resent how he always seem to know better and thus, felt she had no real freedom since all she had to do was listen to him.) Despite this, he remains through and true on his path. On the other hand, his devotion to his code has spared him from worse fates. His partner regrets betraying Jet because he's a good man and the syndicates are slowly dying out anyway (by the end of the series, the biggest one of Mars is pretty much gone.) Additionally, his ex-lover and her new beau end up in trouble that Jet manages to help them get out of (namely, that by catching the man, he is able to dictate the terms, such as the fact that his crime of murder was self-defense, instead of leaving him and possibly her at the hands of a less scrupulous bounty hunter.) In the long run, being a good man has its advantages.
* IronicName: "Jet Black" is more of a knight in shining armor at heart, despite appearances and the strange turns his life has taken. He's also comes across as more of a dork than his hulking appearance first suggests.
* KeepingTheHandicap: In "Black Dog Serenade", Faye asks him why he doesn't get an organic arm replacement since, in the future of the series, organs can be cultivated and easily replace missing limbs. However Jet opts for the artificial one, largely as a reminder of the day he lost his real arm via a trap the mob [[spoiler: and his partner, Fad, [[DirtyCop who was on their dime]],]] lured him into and not to get too careless as he did in the past.
* KnightInSourArmor: More of the second type. Cynicism born of experience, not by nature. He was a disillusioned cop who decided to turn neutral. Played with in that believes this is ''more'' honest than remaining with the police, which should tell you something about the state of law enforcement in 2071.
* TheLastDJ: Jet's refusal to turn DirtyCop or ease up on the syndicates running Ganymede ended with him being ambushed and nearly killed. [[spoiler:At the hands of his own partner, who ''was'' dirty, no less.]]
* TheLeader: The authority figure on the ship, the one who chooses their missions and decides where the ship is going, though this tends to make him MissionControl and a put-upon TeamDad more it does TheHero.
* MayDecemberRomance: Spike and Faye say he has a crush on Meifa, the daughter of an old colleague of his from when he was a cop. He insists it's a BigBrotherInstinct thing -- she thinks of him as more of a CoolUncle at most.
* MechanicalMuscles: His prosthetic arm, and [[http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/34300000/Jet-Black-cowboy-bebop-34356293-642-482.jpg the joints in particular]] look like more muscular than mechanical.
* MightyGlacier: He's big and strong and tough but slower than his crewmates.
* MrFixit: Jet is the only one who bothers to do any maintenance on the ships.
* MyGreatestFailure: The incident that cost him his left arm. [[spoiler:He failed to realize his partner was in league with the Syndicate and walked right into a trap.]]
* NewOldFlame: Elisa. She and Jet were a couple pre-series, back before Jet moved to Mars.
* NiceGuy: Easily the friendliest, most approachable, and heroic of the Bebop gang.
* NotSoStoic: Mostly AngerBornOfWorry and being completely at sea when it it comes to women and kids.
* OddFriendship: He and Spike have completely opposite temperaments -- not to mention Jet being a former cop, while Spike used to be a hitman and enforcer for the notorious Red Dragon Syndicate.
* TheOneThatGotAway: Elisa, his old flame from when he still lived on Ganymede. She walked out on him without a word, and he's been hung up on her for years. [[spoiler:In "Ganymede Elegy", it turns out his code of honor -- his responsibility, his need to do the right thing -- made her feel like she never had the freedom to make her own mistakes. Knowing this, he's able to let her go, to wait for her new flame Rhint.]] We never see any of the woman in his life other than her.
* OnlySaneMan: The most levelheaded and responsible member of the crew.
* OurProductSucks: Contributes a lot of SelfDeprecatingHumor in the episode previews.
* PapaWolf: It doesn't matter which member of the crew it is; he will chase after them and make sure they're safe if they leave or go missing. As the one adult on the Bebop who comes from a relatively stable past, he's incredibly protective of Spike and Faye, who didn't.
* ParentalSubstitute: As the TeamDad, he takes this role towards Ed most of the time. He was also this for Meifa (though he insists it's BigBrotherInstinct).
* PunnyName: First name Jet, last name Black.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Calls out Spike and Faye on their reckless behavior and wonders why he bothers with them, but lets them back in every time.
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Spike's red; it's an odd case in that despite his louder personality he's more levelheaded and cautious than Spike.
* RedBaron: "The Black Dog".
* TheReliableOne: He's the one that keeps the Bebop running and its crew fed.
* RenaissanceMan: An ex-detective who knows mechanics, cooking, cultivates bonsai trees, is a decent Shogi player, is knowledgeable about hacking and cyberwarfare (although nowhere as good as Ed or Ein), apparently knows something about geology, and is a fan of both several music genres and classic literature (both eastern and western). He's also not a bad starship pilot on top of it.
* RuggedScar: Has a scar over his eye and a piece of metal bolted to his face below it.
* ScarsAreForever: He suffered a massive laceration across his right eye that was so deep, he needed a metal brace implanted to keep part of his face from distending.
* SelfDeprecatingHumor: Jet, when he's talking to friends his own age. He's more TheComicallySerious when he's around the misbehaving children of ''Bebop''[='=]s crew.
* SoreLoser: In the movie, he's playing shogi with Spike and spends an extremely long time between moves planning ahead. Spike, by contrast, has no apparent strategy and moves instantly and unpredictably. Without admitting that he doesn't know what to do about the move Spike just made, he starts bitching about Spike's lack of planning until Ein steps in to save him.
* StealthyColossus: Would you believe that in a sting operation involving a convenience store shakedown, he's the guy crawling through the vents to get the drop on the distracted perps?
* TheStoic: He's a calm, controlled ZenSurvivor in a fight, and a gentlemanly GentleGiant out of one. He's also, whether he likes it or not, a warm, fatherly sort of figure who's easily tripped up by women. His protective instincts also lend themselves to him doing a lot of yelling.
* TheStoner: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]]. During ''Cowboy Funk,'' Jet is shown disguised as a hippy wearing a marijuana t-shirt. On top of that, he often has a dazed look in his eyes when he’s shown smoking.
* StraightMan: Comedy results from his frustration with Spike, Faye and Ed's antics.
* StrawMisogynist: Not really, but he's pretty old-fashioned about everything, and that includes women. Women other than Faye, that is.
* TeamChef: Not a terribly good one (given the ingredients he's forced to work with- he obviously knows how to cook but when all you've got is a basket of shitaki mushrooms or bell peppers, there's only so much you can do), but he's still the Bebop's cook because Spike, Faye and Ed ''definitely'' can't.
* TeamDad: Most obvious in his interactions with Ed, where he often takes on a distinctly more parental tone than his usual gruff demeanour. The story he tells her at the beginning of "Speak Like a Child" is the most obvious example, but it crops up in more subtle ways throughout the show.
* TokenGoodTeammate: A former cop who despite all he's seen and experienced still believes in concepts like justice and the crewmate most likely to PetTheDog when dealing with others, unlike Spike and Faye who most of the time are at best [[NominalHero nominal heroes]].
* YouKeepTellingYourselfThat: Jet wants to believe in honor and justice despite being disappointed time and time again. He's aware of this, but if anything it drives him to hold himself to his principles, if no one else.
-->'''Jet:''' Betrayal may come easily to women, but men live by ironclad codes of honor.\\
'''Faye:''' You really believe that?\\
'''Jet:''' I'm trying to, real hard.
* YoungerThanHeLooks: He's only 36, but has the appearance (and demeanor, and hairline) of someone well into his forties. This is acknowledged in more than one episode.
* ZenSurvivor: Especially when the fighting breaks out -- Jet is cool, focused, and cautious in all the ways Spike is not. Fairly literally, in fact: his whole life basically fell apart after he lost the arm, but he's still practicing bonsai, listening to jazz, taking life one day at a time.
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[[folder:Faye Valentine]]
!!Faye Valentine
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Music/MegumiHayashibara (JPN), Creator/WendeeLee (ENG), Creator/ElsaCovian (SPN-LA), Creator/CarmenAmbros (SPN-SP), Yolanda Quesada (SPN-SP, movie)
->''"Some promises are meant to be broken. In fact, '''most''' of them are!"''

The first person to join Spike and Jet on the ''Bebop'', unless we're counting Ein. Spike and Jet first encountered Faye when she was working as part of a smuggling operation at a casino, posing as a dealer. Her job was to make it look legit when her contact would slide her a very special poker chip, but unfortunately there was a mix up when she mistook Spike for her contact, and [[HilarityEnsues hilarity quickly ensued]]. Sometime later in the following episode Faye became a permanent part of the Bebop crew, despite much grumbling from both Spike and Jet.
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Faye always approaches the world from an angle: she believes the world and other people are out to hurt, use and exploit you, so it's best if you do it to them first. Anything can be an advantage, and everything must be made so, including cunning, trickery, abusing the trust of others, her sexy good looks, and when all else fails, a ship loaded with machine guns and missiles. Despite her preference for deception, in a straight-up fight Faye is quite competent, being a capable pilot, markswoman, and even her punch packs a wallop despite her slim frame. Her background is mysterious, and when pressed for answers about it she simply throws out one story after another, each more improbable than the last, and one wonders if she even knows what she's saying. When not taking down bounties, she tends to waste all her money gambling in an effort to get rich quick and pay off her enormous debts, as mysterious in origin as anything else about her. However, it's easy to see that Faye has led a sad life and been reduced to broken pieces that she's desperately trying to hold together.
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* AcePilot: Probably second only to Spike, and even then she's managed to get the better of him on occasion.
* ActionGirl: She's introduced in a gunfight and demonstrates cool under fire throughout the series -- at least when things are going according to plan. While she's an AcePilot and sharpshooter no matter what, she tends to get a little hysterical in the face of the unexpected -- interestingly, this is especially the case when she's forced to act in the interest of others, such as when they're trying to save Ganymede from an incoming missile attack, the similar situation with Vincent's bombs in the movie, and when she's trying to save [[spoiler:Whitney from the cops, over his protests.]]
* AmnesiacHero: Turns out she has a touch of amnesia about her history prior to [[spoiler:waking up after being frozen for decades]]. She's trying to find out who she is and where she came from. [[spoiler:She eventually regains her memory and goes to find her home, only to find that there's nothing left of it.]]
* BathingBeauty: She loves [[ShowerScene showering]] and [[BathtubScene soaking in a bath]]. Many episodes feature Faye in - or just coming out of - the tub, or her SexySilhouette showering behind a curtain. When she first pushes her way onto the Bebop crew, the first thing she does is hit the shower. Spike tiredly walks in after her moments later with the intent of telling her she isn't welcome - only for us to hear her [[CantBatheWithoutAWeapon opening fire on him]] for [[ShowerOfAwkward the intrusion]].
* BareYourMidriff: Her usual outfit, as part of her deliberate sex appeal.
* BeMyValentine: Her name hints at her troubled past which included betrayal and heartbreak. [[spoiler:However, it isn't her real name. The doctor responsible for waking her from cryosleep named her after his favorite song, "My Funny Valentine." Except that this too turns out to be a lie, as she eventually regains enough of her memories to return to her home on Earth and encounters a childhood friend who's now an old woman that barely remembers her.]]
* BigEater: She demolished the contents of Spike and Jet's fridge in "Gateway Shuffle". This also happens in "My Funny Valentine" when she wakes up from being in stasis for [[spoiler:over fifty years]].
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:A FishOutOfTemporalWater ...who's scammed and heartbroken immediately after waking up.]] Her DarkAndTroubledPast all but wiped out her faith in humanity.
* TheBusCameBack: ''Very'' quickly. She stays on Earth at the end of Session 24, effectively leaving the crew [[spoiler:at the same time as Ed and Ein]], but she returns and rejoins the crew over the course of the final two episodes.
* ByronicHeroine: For beginners, she's a con artist, selfish, impulsive, self-centered, rude and manipulative. She's also lonely, heartbroken, wounded, and desperately searching for her place in the universe.
* CardSharp: Uses the alias "Poker Alice" -- which is a lie, the real Poker Alice would be about 200 years old -- but she's skilled at dealing, and cheating, with cards.
* CharacterDevelopment: Wait for it... [[spoiler:While the main recurring theme of the show is coming to terms with the past, Faye comes the furthest and changes the most by the end of the series, although it probably takes the longest for those changes to become noticeable. She's spent years on the run from a past she doesn't even remember, and it takes seeing her past self speaking to her to begin to reclaim her humanity.]]
* ConMan: She makes ends meet by tricking them out of other people. [[spoiler:Like what happened to her when she woke up in the current time period.]]
* CoolBigSis: Edward sees her as her best buddy next to Ein. Although it takes a while, Faye eventually warms up to her.
* CryingWolf: She lies, cheats, and steals constantly, so Spike and Jet are prepared to always believe the worst of her. Spike won't even put it past her to lie about her past even if she thought the only person she was telling is Ein.
* CryoSickness: [[spoiler: She was killed by explosive decompression during the Gate Disaster, and frozen until medicine caught up with it.]] She's thawed-out amnesiac, with only her [[spoiler: creditor's]] word for it that she's named "Faye Valentine" at all.
* DamselInDistress: She gets captured and tied up more than once.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She pours on the sugar when she wants something, but it's a transparent act for a calculating career con. [[spoiler:Fitting, since she's also a HumanPopsicle. It's a defense mechanism, however, and she gradually begins to realize she actually has found a group of people she can trust. Too little too late, however, given how the series eventually ends.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Unsurprisingly, given her inability to trust anyone. [[spoiler:Eventually it turns out that Faye was actually born in the 20th century. In her late teens she barely survived an accident (that by all appearances took the lives of her parents) and was cryogenically frozen until being revived more than 50 years later. After waking up with no memories or knowledge of who, where and when she was, she was tricked into assuming the massive debts (which, she admits, were little more than a drop in the bucket compared to her own ''truly'' massive health-care bill) of her supposed savior, a con man she had begun to fall for.]]
* ADayInTheLimelight: Introduced in "Honky Tonk Women". "My Funny Valentine", "Speak Like a Child", and "Hard Luck Woman" explore her backstory.
* DeadpanSnarker: She can go toe-to-toe with ''Spike'' in this department.
* DidNotGetTheGuy: [[spoiler: Her UnresolvedSexualTension with Spike stays that way; the last shot of Faye is her on the verge of tears as Spike flies off.]]
* DistractedByTheSexy: Her outfit is deliberately chosen to invoke this, to aid in her con artistry.
* DudeMagnet: And she knows it. She draws tons of male attention nearly wherever she goes. This is ironic considering her past or that it doesn't help her with Spike.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Flaunts her body in front of an old shopkeeper shortly before a small army of gangsters drive up on the place, then pulls out a submachine gun and shoots the shop and car to pieces... which ''looks'' flashy and intimidating, but doesn't actually get her out of the mess she's in.
* EyeTwitch: "Wild Horses" and "Pierrot le Fou", in the wake of her [[NegatedMomentOfAwesome Negated Moments of Awesome]], and in "Hard Luck Woman", when she learns Ed led her to the orphanage just to get some good food.
* TheFace: Faye is the traditional TheChick variety; she plays up her feminine charm and is certainly more social than the others.
* FeetFirstIntroduction: In her trademark white boots.
* FemmeFatale: Has a few moments. Her initial relations with Jet and Spike were rough because of it.
* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: A betamax cassette, of all things, ends up having a significant impact on Faye's entire sense of self [[spoiler:since it's a recording of herself she put in a time capsule back in high school which has been floating around the solar system for decades.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Teenage Faye:''']] ''[on recording]'' In your time, I'm no longer here. But I am here today, and I'll always be cheering for you right here. Cheering for you, [[spoiler:my only self.]]
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Eventually comes into play [[spoiler:when her backstory is revealed. She was frozen for 54 years and woke up in the main narrative. She fails to properly identify several basic appliances just after being unfrozen. Later, she regains the memories of her past life and tries to go back home. After more than half a century. Yeah, it doesn't go well.]]
* FormFittingWardrobe: She accentuates her voluptuous figure with a skin-tight top, short shorts, and ZettaiRyouiki.
* FragileSpeedster: Leaner and faster than the others but also more fragile.
* {{Gainaxing}}: A triumphant example, and entirely conscious on her part. Wouldn't expect anything else from MsFanservice.
* HadToBeSharp: She tends to act this way, what with her massive debts and life of crime. [[spoiler:Not without reason, given that she was thrown into a future she didn't understand, watched the only person she knew die in front of her, and left alone in insurmountable debt with no memories or close ties. It takes most of the series for her to be able to start trusting others again.]]
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: A tough-talking compulsive gambler.
* HeadTurningBeauty: She often turns heads in a new area.
* HeartbrokenBadass: His name was Whitney. [[spoiler:She fell in love with the lawyer who explained her situation to her when she woke up from cryosleep... who saddled her with his own debts after dying in a car wreck... except, as it later turns out, he wasn't a lawyer, and he wasn't dead. He was a con artist who faked his death and only woke her up to trick her into assuming his own massive debt. Although, as Faye herself eventually realizes, his debts were nothing compared to the debt she already possessed from her decades in suspended animation.]] She eventually becomes [[CharacterDevelopment philosophical about it.]]
* HeroesLoveDogs: Conspicuously averted. How you know Faye's not a very nice person: she can't be guilted into feeding Ein, even when she's eating a can of his (dog) food right in front of him. [[spoiler:How you know she's not all bad: [[EvilDetectingDog Ein still kind of likes her anyway]].]]
* HeroicBSOD: When she sees [[spoiler:her old home in Singapore has been razed down to the foundations]], all she can do is lie down in the middle of the rubble and stare up at the sky with tears in her eyes.
* HeyYouHaymaker: The [[SecondPersonAttack first-person shot]] of Faye throwing the punch that knocks out Teddy Bomber is one of the most iconic shots of the entire series, almost guaranteed to show up in any trailer or syndication ad at some point.
* HiddenDepths: She has a surprisingly tragic past. [[spoiler:The plucky schoolgirl who sends a video time capsule to her future self is basically unrecognizable to the Faye of the present, but seeing that recording is what allows her to finally start opening up again after years of walling herself off. Too bad it's [[BittersweetEnding just in time]] for Ed and Ein to leave the ship, followed shortly by Spike going off to his almost-certain death against Vicious.]]
* HumanPopsicle: Fitting, because she's also a DefrostingIceQueen. [[spoiler:She spent decades frozen after being involved in an accident aboard what appears to have been a commercial space shuttle.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: Frequently, as part of being an [[ItsAllAboutMe every-woman-for-herself]] career con artist.
** When she says she ''needs'' greater creature comforts because she's used to the finer things in life:
--->'''Faye: ''' We girls are different. We have to be pampered because we're delicate and refined. ''[wolfs down an entire can of dog food in seconds]''
** She claims to be a tough, independent woman, but when she thinks she's dying [[spoiler:after being bitten by the monster in "Toys In The Attic"]], or any other time when she's lost the upper hand and can't lie, shoot, sneak, run, or shoot her way out, she resorts to InelegantBlubbering.
--->'''Faye:''' [[BlatantLies I haven't committed any crimes...]] Well, at least no really bad ones... ''[sobbing]'' I'm still young and full of life! ''[throws herself on the floor]'' Life is so unfair! Poor me!
* InHarmsWay: Natch. At one point, she gleefully prepares to fight against a pack of would-be rapists by asking for some time to put her gloves on. A brawl's no reason to ruin a perfectly good manicure. Granted, she was drunk at the time, but still.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: When Faye is serious, she's a great shot who can disarm a whole room of men in a few seconds.
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: When Faye finally recovers her memories upon seeing the neighborhood she grew up in, the audience finds that Faye's family was actually considerably wealthy, as evident by the gated walls that enclosed a massive now-empty lot that used to be her home. The Gate Accident literally took ''everything'' away from her, and learning that she ''used'' to be rich after all her efforts to deal with a massive financial debt that she will never truly be able to pay off is only rubbing salt into the wound]].
* ItsAllAboutMe: In the episode ''Toys In The Attic'', Faye's internal monologue regards a SocialDarwinist philosophy of deceive or get deceived and those foolish enough to get suckered have it coming. But the second she's attacked by the mysterious creature, Faye breaks down in self pity crying how unfair it is and that she hadn't done anything to deserve it.
* IWorkAlone: Or so she wants to think; she's actually desperate for companionship.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Beneath the scheming and bitterness there's a pretty NiceGirl.
* MaleGaze: Whenever she is onscreen, pretty much, with [[ShesGotLegs extra emphasis on her long legs]].
* {{Mukokuseki}}: While the entire cast fits this (seriously, claim Spike is Jewish in a fan forum and stand back), Faye is the most prominent. Early on as part of a con she claims to be Roma, an ethnic group from Europe and the Middle East. Later on, however, it's revealed that she's actually from Singapore and most likely ethnically Chinese.
* MoreDakka: Her ship, the ''Red Tail'', is easily the most heavily armed, especially for its size, outfitted with [[MacrossMissileMassacre homing missiles]] and ''[[GatlingGood dual miniguns]]''. In her introduction, she empties a submachine gun at the gangsters chasing her, tearing a herbal remedy shop to pieces in the process.
* MsFanservice: Had a sunbathing episode along with being {{Stripperific}}. Notably, she does this intentionally and InUniverse, since it helps her take people off their guard.
* MultipleChoicePast: At first. One of Faye's early lies about herself is that she's UsefulNotes/{{Roma|ni}}. The place she thinks might be her home is apparently Singapore, given the Merlion statue.
* NavelDeepNeckline: She has her moments when she wears outfits with plunging necklines that reach her midriff.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:When she finally remembers her childhood home while taking a shower, she emerges in a daze and is almost speechless. When Spike bumps into her, she is barely able to string a sentence together and quickly bolts instead of making one of her typical snarky or rude comments.]] Spike himself almost instantly realizes that something is up.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Technically true, as she has been cryogenically frozen for at least 50 years and still looks 23.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Faye Valentine isn't her real name. [[spoiler:Or is it? The crooked doctor who awakened her claims to have given her a false name, but he may have just been a jerk. It seems possible "Faye", at least, may be her real name since two 50 year old packages addressed to her are delivered to the Bebop (COD, no less) and a elderly woman who claims to be a high school classmate addresses her as Faye.]]
* PetTheDog: Faye, who is presented as far less heroic than Jet and Spike, has a tendency to do this later on in the series.
* PimpedOutDress: She wears one to the masquerade ball in "Cowboy Funk" which also features [[ImpossiblyLowNeckline ridiculous amounts of cleavage]].
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler: She pleads this to Spike in the GrandFinale before he flies off to get his revenge on Vicious. [[DidNotGetTheGuy It doesn't work.]]]]
* PluckyGirl: Decidedly not Faye [[spoiler:in the present, but back in high school, the sweet girl Faye used to be made a cheer to her future self on camera, complete with pompoms.]]
* PragmaticHero: She lies, schemes and manipulates, but is a good person deep down.
* PrettyFreeloaders: Subverted. Jet gives her a bill. Then double subverted because she doesn't pay it.
* QuestForIdentity: She wants to learn about her real identity and past.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: She has pale skin and dark purple hair, although [[HairColorDissonance it's probably meant to be black]]. She's also not adverse to using her good looks to lower men's guards down before she shows what she can do.
%% * RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Ed's red.
* RoguishRomani: She uses her beauty to aid in her con artistry. Her false claim of Romani descent invokes the seductive and dishonest Romani stereotypes.
* SciFiBobHaircut: Her hairstyle. It's also purple, for some reason.
* ShaggyDogStory: Her overall character arc is one really. Over the course of the show, she is trying to learn more about her history that she cannot remember, at one point even receiving a tape [[spoiler:that she recorded as a teenager]]. At the end, [[spoiler:she finds her hometown on earth, but only one of her friends is apparently still alive, and she's a very old lady, and Faye's house has been completely demolished, leaving nothing left for her on earth.]] And THEN [[spoiler:Ed and Ein leave the crew and Spike goes off to his (possible) death, leaving Faye with basically no one save for Jet, whom she doesn't really connect with, after deciding she has to live for the present. To rub salt in the wound, Spike told her there was nothing to be gained in the past even though he cannot let go of his own.]]
* SheCleansUpNicely: Faye is already very beautiful and the MsFanservice in the series, but in "Cowboy Funk", she wears a PimpedOutDress with a lot of cleavage shown.
* ShesGotLegs: Our introduction to her involves [[MaleGaze a slow pan over them]].
* ShipTease: With Spike, who she has feelings for. WordOfGod teasing the subject helps.
* SmallGirlBigGun: Her ship, ''Red Tail'', is the most heavily armed of the three, and she's been known to point the onboard cannons at ''people's heads''.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Likes to pretend she's this, which of course flies in the face of her gambling habit.
-->'''Faye:''' ''[narrating]'' Survival of the fittest is the law of nature. We deceive, or we ''are'' deceived. Thus, we flourish or perish.
* StockPhrases: Faye often resorts to speaking in clichés, [[spoiler:since her lost memory means she has a very weak sense of her own personality, and most of the memories she does have are bad ones.]]
** Her narration in the PostEpisodeTrailer previewing her introductory episode, "Honky Tonk Women", for example:
--->'''Faye:''' Show no mercy, for when it comes to high rollers, that's the way the game is played. The bell tolls even for the great ones, for they too must fall one day. Money makes the world go round, but before you know it, you can be buried under a mountain of debt.
** Contrast with her voiceover for "My Funny Valentine", accompanied by Spike and Jet's hilariously unbelieving reactions. Sad but funny: the story she tells in the next episode [[CryingWolf turns out to be the unvarnished truth]]... but only because she thought the only one she was telling was Ein.
--->'''Faye:''' ''[emphatically]'' Love is to believe in everything! Love is the heart that gives to all! Love is the heart that accepts everything! Whitney, you love me that much...\\
'''Jet:''' ''[scoffing]'' You really can't trust the previews on this one.
** Her final narration is [[spoiler:her repeating a series of tautologies ("The past is the past, the future is the future, the present is the present, I am who I am...") as a kind of SurvivalMantra,]] because in the next (and final) episode, [[spoiler:Spike goes off to what is likely to be his death, [[HeroicBSOD leaving Faye alone]], or so she thinks, all over again.]]
* {{Stripperific}}: Hotpants, a cleavage heavy top, StockingFiller, and a shawl; that's it.
* TooCleverByHalf: Faye might be one hell of a smooth talker and is good at thinking on her feet, but her tendency to overestimate her own competence and act before she thinks often gets her into situations where she finds herself in way over her head.
* {{Tsundere}}: Great at charming men she doesn't actually care about. Usually a jerk to anyone who tries to get close to her, but she starts to care about Spike in spite of herself as early as "Ballad of Fallen Angels".
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Spike, probably because [[ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou he's never shown much interest in her charms.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: In "Speak Like a Child", everyone (including Faye) watches, dumbfounded, at [[spoiler:the video message left by her bubbly, innocent, slightly awkward younger self.]]
* VagueAge: She's [[spoiler:actually only ''[[OlderThanTheyLook twenty-three]]'' (biologically, that is -- chronologically, she was born [[FishOutOfTemporalWater over seventy years ago]])]]. With her jaded, been there, done that attitude and (occasional) sophistication she comes across as [[YoungerThanTheyLook at least thirty]]. Jet errs on the older side, and gets a high heel jammed into his foot for his trouble.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Just how does Faye conceal a full-sized handgun in that skimpy outfit?
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: She does eventually find her old home, [[spoiler:but it's been in ruins for decades, razed down to the foundations. She also encounters one of her childhood friends, now an old woman, who still vaguely remembers her from before her accident.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Radical Ed]]
!!Edward "Radical Ed" Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV [[spoiler:(real name: Françoise Appledelhi)]]
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Aoi Tada (JPN), Creator/MelissaFahn (ENG), Creator/IsabelMartinon (SPN-LA), Diana de Guzmán (SPN-SP), Inma Gallego (SPN-SP, movie)

->''"Ed will introduce Ed. Full name -- Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky the 4th... Ed made up that name for Ed, isn't it cooool?"''

Oh Ed, Ed, Ed... where to even start with Ed? Ed is probably the system's foremost hacker, and is not shy about using her talents to cause mischief. Those who meet her in person would be justified to think she's a monkey in human form because she's insanely wacky and ceaselessly energetic. All that prowess comes from a rambunctious goofball who shows up to the party in aviator goggles, a very loose-fitting tank top, and violet compression shorts. Ed prefers to run around in bare feet, mostly just for fun, but also because her toes are just as dexterous at a keyboard as her fingers and she can make good use of all twenty digits to outpace just about any other hackers she might bump into.
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A 13-year-old demented genius, Ed was living alone on Earth and occasionally being hunted by the police when she first encountered the Bebop crew. The crew was chasing a bounty in a case where someone was believed to have hacked into an old KillSat and started using it to carve designs into the planet. Naturally, Ed was the prime suspect, but since Ed was aware of the Bebop crew and was a fan of theirs (oddly enough, since the crew manages to blow every bounty and live in PerpetualPoverty because of it), she let them in on a secret: the real perpetrator was the satellite itself, whose program had a degree of awareness, a fact that Ed had recently discovered. In return for this information and helping them deal with the rogue satellite, Ed only asked to become a member of the Bebop crew, a proposition Faye agreed to without telling anyone and later tried to back out on. Unfortunately for Faye, hacking the Bebop's computer, controlling it by remote, and getting it to land where she wants is not exactly a difficult task for Ed.
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After this Ed's legendary computer skills would be at the disposal of the Bebop crew, and it would come in handy in several cases. Ed would also get her [[ADayInTheLimelight day in the limelight]] during the show's MushroomSamba episode.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Given her father's name, it's implied she might be Turkish.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: In [[https://in.ign.com/cowboy-bebop-1/115922/feature/the-many-inspirations-of-cowboy-bebop-director-shinichiro-watanabe an interview with IGN]], Shinichiro Watanabe said he sometimes wonders if Ed isn't human and thinks she might be from outer space.
* BarefootLoon: A '''really''' quirky teenage genius PlayfulHacker girl with a prominent aversion to shoes. The only time she puts on socks, she quickly loses balance and falls.
* BareYourMidriff: Her short white tube-top stops well above her belly button.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Never underestimate her, no matter ''how'' flighty she may seem.
* BigEater: Oh boy, she can eat ANYTHING without getting fat.
* BlushSticker: She has this permanently.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: A truly odd child with spectacular hacking skills.
* ButNowIMustGo: Leaves the ''Bebop'' [[spoiler:for good in "Hard Luck Woman", ostensibly to catch up with her father, but who really knows with Ed. Ein goes with her.]]
* CaptainCrash: Manages to crash the ''Bebop'' and at at least one other ship by remote control -- but without much more than superficial damage in the ''Bebop''[='s=], as a subversion. She also manages to have the ship crash precisely where she wants it, to within inches of herself [[spoiler:and her father.]]
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In her introductory episode, she is noticeably much more talkative and intelligible than in the rest of the series, as well as ''definitely'' more proactive. In contrast, most of her time in the Bebop is spent not doing anything useful unless explicitly asked and only communicating through brief non-sequiturs. This doesn't change even in [[spoiler:her last episode.]]
* CheerfulChild: Perpetually upbeat in contrast to the jaded adults on the ship.
* ChildProdigy: She can outhack people literally twice her age, and is implied to have been at it for at least few years.
%%* ChildrenAreInnocent
* CloudCuckoolander: She pretends to be a dog, says random things, and carves massive smiley faces on land masses using orbital lasers.
* {{Cloudcuckoolanguage}}: Has very weird speech patterns, and refers to herself in the third person.
* ConfusionFu: Half the time, people are just too baffled by her to even fight back:
-->'''Ed:''' Alright, hit-and-run driver! This is a bust! ''[raises two water pistols]'' [[VisibleOdor Stinky gas!]]
* CuteClumsyGirl: She's not the most graceful lady and she's especially a klutz when she puts on socks.
* TheCutie: Quirky tendencies aside, she is an ''adorable'' girl with a sweet heart.
* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Bright red hair and AmbiguouslyBrown are an interesting combination.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Has three: her introductory episode, "Jamming With Edward", "Mushroom Samba", and "Hard Luck Woman, where she [[spoiler: leaves the crew with Ein.]]
* DependingOnTheArtist: Becomes TheNoseless in most non-profile shots in the [[Creator/NakamuraProductions Nakamura Pro-animated]] episodes. The other animators seem to have no clear idea about her nose either, as it changes shape [[OffModel between episodes]] otherwise.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: More like ''can't'' wear shoes. Even wearing socks for more than five seconds trips her up. She was introduced with no shoes, hopped on the ''Bebop'' with no shoes, and [[spoiler:left the Bebop]] with no shoes. The only reason she ''ever'' tried footwear was because it was insisted that she needed some outside in the scalding desert out of common sense, and even gifted a pair of shoes and socks, which she promptly rejected before even getting as far as putting the shoes on. She went out into the desert barefoot anyway without a care in the world, and it didn't phase her one bit. For all we know between flashbacks and present day, Ed's gone barefoot her entire life.
* DrugsAreBad: Ed learns [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle a valuable lesson]], after [[MushroomSamba dosing the rest of the crew]].
-->'''Ed:''' Bad mushrooms?
* DubNameChange: Zig-zagged. The Spanish dub of the series addresses her as both "Eddo" (like the Japanese pronunciation) and "Ed", though seemingly as if the former was her real nickname and the latter an affectionate shortened form given by her crewmates.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Gives a delightfully eccentric introduction to herself in the preview from the previous episode. In her introductory episode proper, she manages to hack a police shuttle, piloting it by remote control... before crashing it through an abandoned building.
* FeetFirstIntroduction: To help point out that she's barefoot on arrival.
* FieryRedhead: Averted. The closest she gets to 'fiery' is 'perky'.
* TheFool: Ed is insanely lucky and acts like nothing dangerous or fatal will ever happen to her. She has yet to be proven wrong.
* FreeRangeChildren: About as free-range as you can get. She spent time with other stray children in an orphanage, but that's as fixed as her abode's ever been. And it wasn't that fixed.
* GenderBlenderName: Edward is a man's name, but she's a girl. This is of probably of her own choosing, as seen in OnlyKnownByTheirNickname.
* GenderMisdirection: Thanks to choosing the name Edward, although she probably didn't really do it on purpose.
* GenderReveal: Faye is heard when she discovers Ed is a girl at the end of her introductory episode, but we don't get to see how or why she found it out.
* GeniusDitz: You'd never guess this crazy little girl is an expert hacker.
* GenkiGirl: ''Nothing'' (from the few things that ever get close enough to do some damage) gets her down. The girl has ''so'' much high energy.
* AGirlAndHerX: A girl and her unusually clever dog.
* GivenNameReveal: She says she made that name up, you know. [[spoiler:Her real name, revealed by her father in "Hard Luck Woman", is Françoise Appeldelhi.]]
* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: She uses them to surf the web.
* {{Hackette}}: When asked about her, everyone had a different idea on who she was, from a Hindu guru to a drag queen alien.
* HandyFeet: She can type with her toes. Hell, she even claps her feet a few times.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Instantly becomes [=BFFs=] with TeamPet Ein.
* JourneyToFindOneself: [[spoiler:Ed and Faye simultaneously begin closing in on chasing down their pasts, in Ed's case partly through Faye's encouragement that finding the place where you belong is the best thing a person can do. To that end Ed posts a fake bounty on her [[TheDitz ditzy]] father, but he abandons her once again. Ed then leaves the Bebop, wandering off into the sunset accompanied only by Ein to find him again.]]
* LadyLooksLikeADude: To the point that when she finally dresses like a girl, she looks like she's crossdressing. Even her ''father'' has trouble remembering her gender.
* LoonWithAHeartOfGold: Sure, it's buried underneath numerous layers of comical craziness, but deep down Ed is a very sweet and caring girl.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Not as noticeable as other examples, but while most characters in the show have realistic hair colors and facial features, Ed has a [[MessyHair wild]] head of fiery red hair, permanent BlushStickers, big, expressive anime eyes, and is sometimes drawn without a nose, DependingOnTheArtist, and it's likely she's designed this way to accentuate her oddness compared to everyone else. Even the green shading in Spike's hair and the blue in Faye's are dark enough to appear black (or in Spike's case, more of a grayish black) in some scenes, and might even be that color InUniverse.
* NoSocialSkills: [[spoiler:Most of Ed's childhood was spent either alone or at the orphanage where she sometimes stayed.]] As a result, she is socially awkward and sometimes comes across as feral.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Ed finally drops her cutesy act trying to convince Ein not to follow when she leaves.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV is her screen name. [[spoiler:Her real name is Françoise Appledehli.]]
* OverlyLongName: Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her father [[BumblingDad good-naturedly and absentmindedly]] abandoned her years before. (Well, maybe more like left her with someone and half-forgot that she ever existed). The two briefly reunite, but Ed hesitates at joining him, and good old dad starts running off again.
* PlayfulHacker: Hacking satellites to carve smiley faces or crash someone's ship.
%%* PluckyGirl: %%This is more about the class president, leader of the yearbook committee type. The trope for Ed is GenkiGirl.
* TheQuietOne: After CharacterizationMarchesOn, she alternates between this and TheUnintelligible, speaking very little and only doing so through nonsensical short sentences.
%%* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Faye's blue.
* TheReliableOne: Yes, ''really''. When you look at her actions throughout the show, she never abandons the Bebop unless she is assigned to do something [[spoiler:until she leaves for good]]. She is always using her skills to help the crew and never wants more than a souvenir for her efforts. She will even help them without being asked; for instance when Spike first told the crew about Andy, everyone laughed at him except for Ed who looked him up to prove he was real. And in the movie, after Faye loses sight of a bounty, she searches through the entire city to find him (and does).
* RhymesOnADime: Cheerful chanting is one of her many forms of communication.
* RidingIntoTheSunset: It is a western, of sorts, after all. Ed gets her chance to pull this off along with Ein at the end of "Hard Luck Woman", [[spoiler:when they leave the Bebop together [[ButNowIMustGo after Ed decides it's time for her to move along]].]]
* SamusIsAGirl: Not just a girl but a thirteen-year-old ChildProdigy.
* ShesAManInJapan: The Spanish dub of the movie managed to mistake her for a boy (or at least she's called by male pronouns) despite Ed herself saying outright she's a girl in a scene. Apparently the translators thought it was just one of "his" shenanigans.
* ShooOutTheClowns: She [[spoiler:departs the crew with Ein in tow]] just in time for the tragic finale.
* ShroudedInMyth: Based on the word on the street, Jet can be forgiven for gathering the following in his investigations:
-->'''Jet:''' ''[sarcastically]'' Radical Edward's profile: he's a seven-foot-tall ex-basketball pro [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Hindu guru drag queen alien]].
* SigilSpam: Her symbol; a [[CheshireCatGrin cheeky smiley face]] with BlushStickers just like her, which she has on her hacking equipment and in her programs, and which she also sends as a playful taunt to anyone who falls victim to her hacks.
* SillyWalk: One for every occasion. Skipping, waving her arms, doing handstands, crawling on all fours, holding onto her ankles and rolling continuously, just ''try'' and find a shot of her walking quote-unquote "normally."
* SomeCallMeTim: Her full name (which she made up) is extremely long, so she tells people to simply call her Ed.
* SquishyWizard: Subverted. Ed is not a physical fighter, but she is far from being unathletic either, as she routinely does handwalks and other relatively complex acrobatics.
* TheSmartGirl: Secondary to the Data Dog.
* TagalongKid: Serves as one on the ''Bebop''. Seriously, this was her condition for helping the crew in her debut episode; Faye had to promise to let her tagalong on their future adventures.
* ThirdPersonPerson: She refers to herself in third person.
* TokenGoodTeammate: She's easily the least gruff and lethal member of the Bebop, considering she's never gone bounty hunting like her teammates.
* TomboyishName: This, along with her androgynous appearance, makes it hard to guess her gender.
* VerbalTic: Repeating words twice, such as "Faye-Faye", among others.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ein]]
!!Ein
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!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/KoichiYamadera
->''"I hate kids and pets. They’re all a royal pain in the butt!"''
-->'''-- Spike'''

Encountered in the second episode, Ein is a genetically engineered "data dog". Initially Ein was just supposed to be bait to catch the episode's bounty, but eventually, much to Spike's chagrin, Jet and Spike wound up keeping the corgi around the ship after the hunt didn't quite work out. Exactly what a data dog ''is'' goes unexplained, but Ein certainly has greater than normal intelligence for a dog. It's hinted that Ein has a full understanding of the human languages and world around him, and may in fact be the smartest member of the crew. Ein becomes closest to Ed, and they become the go-to comedic duo of the series.
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* AnimalCompanion: Mostly to Ed.
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:Leaves the Bebop with Ed an episode before the finale, in "Hard Luck Woman".]]
* DubNameChange: For some incomprehensible reason, the Spanish dub of the anime (though not the one of the movie) changed his name to Strut, just like his introductory episode's title.
* EvenTheRatsWontTouchIt: He shares Spike's distaste for Jet's cooking, and would prefer to be fed regular dog food.
* EvilDetectingDog: Frequently, such as sniffing out the presence of the monster in "Toy in the Attic".
** He also ''growls'' at the SCRATCH assimilation software in ''Brain Scratch'', and even bites Jet, hard enough to draw blood, to snap him out of the trance.
* FunWithSubtitles: In "Mushroom Samba," Ein talks to ''[[AnimalTalk a cow]]''.
* HeroicDog: He saves the crew a few times and has considerable intelligence for what appears to be a simple dog.
* IntellectualAnimal: It's never explained just how intelligent he is, but he's definitely smarter than the average dog, and probably smarter than everyone else on the ''Bebop''. He hacks Scratch when ''Ed'' couldn't.
* MeaningfulName: A twofer! Ein means "One" in German, which may be an indicator of his experiment number. It is also a diminutive of ''[[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein Einstein]]'', which certainly applies to his intelligence.
* NotNowKiddo: The crew of the ''Bebop'' could probably spare themselves a lot of trouble if they paid more attention to the dog. In their defense, they have little clue on what Ein is regarding being a "data dog" and even less of an idea of what that entails.
* RidingIntoTheSunset: Along with Ed at the end of "Hard Luck Woman", [[spoiler:when Ed leaves without so much as a goodbye, Ein is the only one who realizes at the time that she's leaving for good, and manages to persuade her to take him along just in time to ShooOutTheClowns ahead of "The Real Folk Blues".]]
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: An adorable Welsh Corgi.
* TheSmartGuy: Ed tried to use the Bebop's computer to hack into the Brain Dream and failed. Ein managed to do it in mere moments after [[IntellectualAnimal putting the interactive helmet on his head]].
* SuperIntelligence: Once given a computer interface he's able to use, Ein's is able to vastly exceed even Ed's hacking abilities, suggesting intelligence, or at least computing skills, far beyond what any human is capable of.
* TeamPet: A dog sort of adopted by the crew. He mostly serves as a vehicle for {{Animal Reaction Shot}}s, though he does get one notable chance to help the team out near the end of the series.
* WetwareCPU: He was stated to be genetically engineered to be a "data dog", which seems to be some sort of biological supercomputer. He is shown to be much more intelligent than the average dog and even the most intelligent member of the Bebop. Further supporting this is how after hours of trying, Ed was unable to hack the SCRATCH software despite her vast intelligence. Ein hacked into it within ''moments'' of having the helmet on him.
[[/folder]]

!The Red Dragon Syndicate
[[folder:In General]]
!!The Red Dragon Syndicate
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The Mars-based crime syndicate to which Spike was once a part of. Spike faked his death to escape the group, knowing that if they ever discovered that he was still alive, he'd be a target for them to hunt down. And for Vicious, the most dangerous man in the Syndicate, it would be much, much, more personal.

* AxCrazy: Even without taking [[BigBad Vicious]] into account, the Red Dragon wipes out anyone that dares threaten them or stand in their way in the blink of an eye, and have both full military weaponry and entire squadrons of fighter ships just to pursue those who cross them in Mars space. They even tried to kill every single person Vicious has ever associated with when he attempted to overthrow them, both out of tradition and spite. Even people like Mao and Shin firmly believe that the faction have been JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope, and firmly place all the blame on Vicious causing this to spread.
** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed big time]] since this aspect becomes the main aspect doing them in as they go at each other's throats and Vicious beginning his takeover. By the end of the series, Vicious' actions and the reactions toward that have decimiated the crime syndicate's leadership and pretty much leaves it doomed by series' end.
* TheDreaded: They have made quite a reputation, even without Vicious's influence. Bob of the ISSP tells Jet how they are bad news.
-->'''Bob:''' Just run, Jet, the police can't stop these guys; leave Mars and do it fast.
* FantasticDrug: The Red Eye drug they deal is a stimulant taken through the user's eyes, and can temporarily speed up one's reaction time to the point that users can dodge bullets.
* SpacePirates: Although they try to model themselves on comparatively ancient Earth-based groups like the Triads and Yakuza, the rank-and-file travel through space to keep the criminal enterprises going. Their trafficking in Red Eye effectively makes them the sci-fi equivalent of rum runners.
* TigerVersusDragon: One rival of the Red Dragon is the White Tiger syndicate. Mao tries to broker peace between the groups, only for Vicious to butt in, kill him, and blow up a ship with a high-ranking member of the White Tiger on board.
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: ...InSpace. Implied to have semi-legitimized themselves on Mars in the manner of Al Capone in 1930s Chicago. Spike and Vicious were both raised as loyal killers for this organization.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Vicious]]
!!Vicious
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NorioWakamoto (JPN), Creator/SkipStellrecht (ENG), Marcos Patiño (SPN-LA), Tasio Alonso (SPN-EU)
->''"I told you before, Spike, that [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou I'm the only one who can kill you.]]"''

A skilled and remorseless assassin working for the Red Dragon Syndicate who dresses entirely in black, seems to have little emotion and to care about nothing, and who will not hesitate to kill ''anyone'' who gets in his way. In short, Vicious is seriously bad news for anyone who happens to be within a mile of him.
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As with everything else from Spike's past, not much is ultimately known about Vicious. He and Spike were partners, and top hitmen for the Red Dragon Syndicate, and at this time Vicious was already involved with Julia. Spike and Julia met, and eventually fell in love. A few scenes seen in the closing credits of the episodes hint that Spike and Julia carried out an affair in secret for some time before Vicious found out. Where a normal man might have been upset, Vicious calmly set Spike up to be killed in an ambush, and, as a backup, instructed Julia to kill Spike if he survived to try to run away with her, or be killed herself. Julia never went to the meeting however, and Spike faked his own death, leaving Vicious to stew and continue to plot both vengeance and a ruthless climb to the top of the Red Dragons.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Vicious seeks power above all else. He is willing to commit atrocities for the Red Dragon syndicate, including killing the man who mentored him, just so he can get close enough to [[spoiler:kill the leaders and take over]].
* AnimalMotifs:
** Vicious' pet bird is a cormorant, a bird that is known to have a short temper and leave acidic droppings. Is it really surprising that [[AxCrazy someone like Vicious]] would want to keep something like that as a pet?
** The Elders openly compare Vicious to a [[SnakesAreSinister snake]], often done to remind him of his place in the organization. He seems to take the comparison to heart, and twists it back around.
--->'''Vicious:''' Don't forget. A serpent's venom poisons slowly after the bite.
* ArchEnemy: To Spike.
* AxCrazy: Don't let his subdued demeanor fool you. He's every bit as bloodthirsty and megalomaniacal as someone who'd kill his way to the top of an organised crime outfit would have to be.
* BadassBaritone: Has a noticeably deep voice in both dubs, and is a very efficient fighter.
* BadassInANiceSuit: He wears a dark one. Along with the brutal assassinations he carries out, it lends him the aura of an ominous mob enforcer. Shows the badass trait by being one of the few characters in the show able to go toe-to-toe with Spike, and he does so with a katana while the latter is armed with guns, no less.
* BadassLongcoat: Used to conceal his katana and emphasizes his prowess while he cuts down foes. Accordingly, he is the most dangerous opponent Spike faces and [[spoiler:taking him down may have even cost Spike his life]].
* BadBoss: He has little regard for the lives of his fellow members and will do anything to get power, much to the detriment of the syndicate itself.
* BatmanGambit: Lures out Faye knowing her personality to in turn force Spike to face him, knowing his enemy won't be able to leave her to die.
* BigBad: Although he only appears in a total of five episodes, he's heavily involved in Spike's past, which affects the main character greatly and [[spoiler:facing him is the subject of the final arc.]]
* BloodKnight: While he wasn't always AxCrazy, he was always a killer.
* BrokenPedestal: Everyone who was ever close to Vicious eventually winds up learning painfully what a bastard he really is. Of particular note is Gren, who considered Vicious his comrade in war. Vicious betrayed him and had him branded as a spy just because he could.
* TheChessmaster: Effortlessly takes control [[spoiler:of the Red Dragon Syndicate by tricking the elders into attending his execution, where he breaks free and kills them all.]]
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: There's almost no comrade that Vicious hasn't backstabbed. There's almost no comrade who hasn't tried to get back at him for it. The number of those comrades who survive their attempts at revenge is tragically small.
* CloseRangeCombatant: Fights up close with a katana.
* ColdHam: Vicious rarely raises his voice, but it doesn't stop him from chewing the scenery.
* CombatPragmatist: When they do directly clash, Vicious ''never'' takes Spike on in a straight-up fight. Instead, he packs the area full of his mooks, or sends someone in his place he knows Spike would not kill. The one time Vicious fights Spike truly one-on-one is only after Spike has already been wounded. Given that he's Spike's former best friend and knows how dangerous he is, it's a case of being a NoNonsenseNemesis.
* CrazyPrepared: Vicious does not scamp on laying the groundwork for his plans. In his first episode he kills and frames Mao, knowing through extensive research that Spike travels with Faye, who will be unable to resist the large bounty, letting Vicious capture the latter and use her as bait to force out Spike.
* CreepyMonotone: Vicious almost seems drained of emotion. His icy tone gives a haunting quality to all his lines promising to kill Spike.
* DarkIsEvil: Dresses in black and definitely lives up to his name.
* DodgeTheBullet: Has this ability.
* DragonInChief: Vicious is the forefront of the Red Dragon Syndicate, being their most ruthlessly efficient enforcer and keeping them at the top of the criminal food chain, despite not technically ruling them. Of course, in addition to being competent, Vicious is very ambitious and [[spoiler:hatches a successful plan to kill them and take control himself.]]
* TheDreaded:
** Probably best personified when he's brought before the Syndicate leaders. When Vicious is being restrained and makes the "get your hands off me" motion, all the armed guards look like they're about to crap their pants.
** In ''Ballad of Fallen Angels'', Faye demands to know who he is when brought before him, only to go wide eyed and get very scared when Vicious reveals his identity. The fear of Vicious sticks with her so much that in ''Jupiter Jazz'' she freaks out just from ''hearing his voice on a phone.''
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: It's left ambiguous much like many details surrounding him, but there is a reasonable possibility that he ''used'' to care about Spike and Julia, as he's shown genuinely and happily smiling with them in one piece of official art (something he never did in the anime proper), and it's vaguely suggested that their affair behind his back hurt him on some level. However, by the time we first see him in the anime, that possible care is long gone, and the only positive feeling he has left for Spike [[WorthyOpponent is some respect.]]
* EvilCounterpart:
** A more subtly done counterpart to Spike than Vincent. He and Spike had the same background and loved the same woman, and he has Spike's general indifference and cynicism respectively twisted into outright sociopathy and nihilism.
** He's also one to Jet. Both are Spike's partners in crime[[note]] crime-''fighting'' in Jet's case [[/note]] who are [[GoodOldWays far more traditional and nostalgic than he is]], but where Jet [[GoodIsOldFashioned enjoys old-school morality]] and calls Spike out on his fatalism and other attitudes he sees as problematic, Vicious [[JustAGangster wants to go back to the old days when the Syndicate was ruthless and killed everyone instead of making peace with rival gangs]] and is disappointed Spike is no longer as bloodthirsty as he used to be.
* EvilFormerFriend: He and Spike were once close in the Syndicate, seen smiling on missions together and are implied to have been raised side by side.
* EvilPlan: Settle his score with Spike and take over the Red Dragon Syndicate.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Along with his voice being a BadassBaritone, it heightens him as a vicious, cold-hearted murderer.
* FallenAngel: Invokes the imagery of fallen angels when he encounters Spike for the first time since Spike faked his death and fled the Syndicate.
-->'''Vicious''': When angels are forced out of heaven, they become devils. You agree, wouldn't you, Spike?
* FantasticDrug: Possibly. In one flashback scene a Red Eye injector seems to be on Vicious' nightstand, and {{Fanon}} believes that Vicious may be a regular user. It's one explanation for how he can survive taking on gunmen while using a sword as his primary weapon.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Whenever he talks with Spike he'll launch into more dialogue than is typical of him, waxing his nihilistic philosophy and mockingly drawing out the time with his ArchEnemy.
* HeroesPreferSwords: Inverted. His preference for swords [[GunsVsSwords sets up a contrast]] between him and the gunslinging [[TheHero Spike]].
* HonorBeforeReason: [[spoiler:Strangely enough, displayed in the final battle. Both Spike and Vicious lose their preferred weapons during their fight, but wind up with each other's weapon. (So Spike has Vicious's sword and Vicious has Spike's gun.) Rather than use each other's weapons, the two immediately form an unspoken agreement to exchange the weapons. This is rather unusual for Vicious as in every other scenario he is portrayed as an amoral and ruthless pragmatist.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: He wants to take down the Van for no longer being able to fight themselves, but he himself doesn't do as much hands-on fighting as he used to and often lets his men do the dirty work. He also hates Spike in part for betraying him over Julia, but Vicious backstabs people left and right, even advising Lin to ditch the HonorBeforeReason routine and take up that sort of behavior.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Think he cares about his pet bird deep down? Afraid not. He willingly sacrifices the poor thing to further his own goals.
* JustAGangster: Vicious has no use for the efforts of Mao to make peace with other Syndicates or the attempts of the elders at PragmaticVillainy. He just wants to cut loose in a frenzy of killing and fighting their gangland rivals.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: [[GoodOldWays Even in the future]] and while Vicious himself isn't very hands on unless he's luring out Spike, he fight superbly with it, dodging his opponents bullets and fighting him to close combat each time.
* KickTheDog: Comes along with his ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, such as how he doesn't even care when his loyal men give their lives to save him. He also willingly sacrificed his pet bird.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:His betrayal and eventual murder of the Syndicate Leaders. After they attempted to have Spike and Julia killed like he did once his first attempted coup failed, it's hard to feel too sorry when Vicious and his men murder all three of them]].
* KnightOfCerebus: Whenever Vicious makes an appearance, he brings the foremost conflict of the series in with him and his episodes are often the most personal and character-driven for the protagonists. [[PluckyComicRelief Edward]] [[ShooOutTheClowns seems to be largely absent from his episodes]].
* LackOfEmpathy: He cares of nothing but himself. When Lin sacrifices his life to save him, Vicious just criticizes the guy ''post-mortem''.
* LeanAndMean: 6'2, thin and arguably the most sadistic and ruthless character in the entire series.
* {{Lust}}: The lust for power variant, which subsumes him and controls all the horrible attacks he plans and carries out.
* 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 fall for Vicious' own crimes.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Vicious is an evil man and ruthless killer but always dresses in a suave suit.
* MeaningfulName: Vicious is... ''vicious'' on the battlefield.
* MutualKill: [[spoiler:Depending on whether you believed [[TheHeroDies Spike died]] or not. Spike was already somewhat injured, but their final attacks traded off at the same time, killing Vicious by one final gunshot and cutting open Spike's torso directly enough that he collapsed shortly thereafter.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: It gives an insight on to the inner workings of his mind.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: In this exchange with Spike:
-->'''Vicious:''' You should see yourself. Do you have any idea what you look like right at this moment, Spike?\\
'''Spike:''' What?\\
'''Vicious:''' A ravenous beast. The same blood runs through both of us. The blood of a beast who wanders, hunting for the blood of others.\\
'''Spike:''' [[ShutUpHannibal I've bled all that kind of blood away.]]\\
'''Vicious:''' Then [[SuddenlyShouting WHY ARE YOU]] [[EvilCannotComprehendGood STILL ALIVE?!]]
* NotSoStoic: He appears cold and remote at all 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.
* ObviouslyEvil: The dude's name is ''Vicious''. He's a blank-eyed monotone mob-enforcer psycho named ''VICIOUS''.
* 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.
** He also briefly loses his composure when he realizes that the music box he had given to [[spoiler:Gren]] was placed back on his ship, as a bomb that goes off once the song finishes. Vicious repeatedly jostles his failing controls from the damage in frustration but is picked up by his forces before he can crash or get attacked further.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His past is mysterious and lacking personal information, so Vicious is all we know him by.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: He believes killing Spike is an honor reserved for himself alone.
* PerpetualFrowner: While he used to genuinely smile before Julia betrayed him, he hasn't smiled like that in ages. Which only makes it spookier when he turns around and does a SlasherSmile.
* PetTheDog:
** Subverted when Vicious does use a (literal) StabTheScorpion situation to gain a character's trust only to later betray him. Only the other hand, even though [[spoiler:it just turns out to be his spy transmitter]], when Vicious is playing that sad song on the music box and says that the name of the song is Julia, one has to wonder just how much she meant to him.
** Another noteworthy subversion; notice how he always has that weird-looking bird on his shoulder? It's his pet, so he must have some level of affection for it, right? ''WRONG!'' In the penultimate episode, he ''blows the poor thing up'' just for a distraction.
* PirateParrot: The bird on his shoulder (a cormorant rather than a parrot), which fits with his {{Space Pirate|s}} image. As the story goes on, the little FeatheredFiend seems to be [[MoralityPet the only thing Vicious still actually cares about]] right up until he ''[[SubvertedTrope blows the poor creature to smithereens]]''.
* PsychoKnifeNut: Preference for katanas aside, Vicious throws a knife into Spike's shoulder in their final match. He also uses a combat knife to literally StabTheScorpion and thus gain Gren's trust. While he's perfectly capable of handling guns, his use of blades in his later years reflects his more openly AxCrazy behavior.
* PuttingOnTheReich: His suit and coat are decidedly military in look, possibly a carryover from his time as a soldier in the war on Titan.
%%* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Spike's red. (One of two)
* RivalTurnedEvil: A bit of an ambiguous case since he probably always toed the line, but it's hinted that discovering that Spike and Julia carried an affair behind his back pushed him off the edge. In flashbacks before this event, he actually looked ''[[TrueCompanions happy]]''.
* {{Sadist}}: He's refined enough to hide it quite well but Vicious' underlying blood thirst can clearly be seen at times, particularly when he [[spoiler:informs Julia she'll be the one to kill Spike on his orders while wearing a wicked grin]].
* SlasherSmile: Rarely smiles at all, but there's a thin, grim smile on his face in the moments when he comes the closest to killing Spike.
* TheSocialDarwinist: His justification as to why he should lead the syndicate is that he is the best at killing. Because the Elders are too old to fight their battles personally, they are therefore unfit to lead.
* TheSociopath: Vicious is a cold, ruthless, bloodthirsty, and ambitious man who prefers solitude. He's ChronicBackstabbingDisorder incarnate, ungrateful to everyone, even if that person ''gave their life to save his ass''. He's also willing to sacrifice anyone to further his own goals, whether it be his men, mentor, or even his loyal pet. The only thing he seems to know really care about is power, revenge, and himself.
* TheStarscream: Vicious makes no secret of the fact that he looks down upon the Elders, calling them weak and [[spoiler:ruthlessly slaughters them when he decides it's his turn to take over the Red Dragon.]]
* TheStoic: Vicious is a man of few words and little emotion, the only time it really slips is when he's close to achieving a goal, which, more often than not, involves killing people.
* StrawNihilist: Sees the world as fundamentally meaningless, violent, and selfish -- behaviors he epitomizes. Trying to convince him of anything else seems like a surefire way to put yourself in his crosshairs.
-->'''Vicious:''' There is nothing to believe in... There is no ''need'' to believe.
* SuperReflexes: Implied to be a result of the [[FantasticDrug Bloody Eye]] use.
* TerseTalker: Speaks very little, and is more likely to act, violently, than to say anything at all. Even his longest speeches tend to be made up of more meaningful silence than words.
* TrueCompanions: He had assumed Spike and Julia were his. When he found out he was wrong, [[RivalTurnedEvil something inside him broke]].
%%* WaistcoatOfStyle
* TheUnfettered: All Vicious wants is to control the Red Dragons and kill Spike. Everything else can burn and he happily ignores the sacrifices of loyal minions and even [[spoiler:blows up his own pet]], to see his ambitions through.
* UngratefulBastard: He's simply indifferent to any good thing a person does for him. In fairness, Spike and Julia betrayed him first, and Vicious [[EvilMentor was surprisingly upfront]] with Lin that Lin would have to betray him.
* TheUsurper: Seizes control of Red Dragon after eliminating its leaders to become its ruler in time for Spike to seek him out for their final face off after [[spoiler:Julia is killed]].
* 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]].
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Has the white hair and is a cold and ruthless killer.
* WickedCultured: Vicious is shown to be pretty philosophical in Session 5, where he gives Spike a lecture on how when angels fall from grace they become devils. Obviously a reference to Spike's decision to leave the syndicate.
* WorthyOpponent: How he views Spike [[WeUsedToBeFriends in the present.]]
* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler:His takeover of the Syndicate. If his first assassination attempt succeeds, awesome. If not, he has turned some of the men that the Elders think are loyal and will assign to execute him, and they can try again.]]
* {{Yakuza}}: Very much the archetypal Nihilist Yakuza to Spike's Noble Yakuza, serving to undercut, quite literally, any attempt Spike makes to climb out of his old life.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Even if he is a psychopath with little regard for human life, the absolutely ''massive'' amount of warfare and violence he has experienced first-hand has nonetheless taken its toll on him, most likely due to its sheer quantity than anything else. Julia's affair with his blood brother Spike probably didn't help his stress levels either.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Julia]]
!!Julia
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Gara Takashima (JPN), Creator/MaryElizabethMcGlynn (ENG), Dulce Guerrero (SPN-LA), María Rosa Guillén (SPN-EU)
->''"I was supposed to kill you. It was all set up. If I had, I would have been free."''

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), 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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* ActOfTrueLove: [[spoiler:When she's reunited with Spike, she wants nothing more than to leave everything behind and disappear with him forever. When Annie is murdered, she realizes Spike can't truly move on until he's seen her death avenged. She stands right by his side and says she'll be with him until the end. No matter where it takes them.]]
* BadassLongcoat: Part of an all-black neo-noir ensemble she wears in the present. Complete with a pair of [[CyberPunk cyberpunk]]-appropriate [[CoolShades badass shades]]. Fluttering in the wind as she [[spoiler:races through the streets. Evading hitmen. Dodging bullets.]] The entire outfit is really an embodiment of present-day Julia. Totally symbolic of her role as a woman of danger and mystery while giving her an air of mystique (see ''Significant Wardrobe Shift'' below for more details) as she [[spoiler:spends most of the series fading in and out of the shadows.]]
* CoolCar: An old-fashioned red Cadillac convertible.
* DamselOutOfDistress: She's very low-profile compared to the various major characters, but she's hardly ever portrayed as being helpless. While nothing whatsoever suggests she could hold her own against the likes of Vicious or Spike, [[spoiler:she's been on the run from the entire Syndicate for the past 3 years ''completely alone''.]] When she was confronted by [[spoiler:Vicious at gunpoint after he discovered her plans to run away with Spike during a flashback]], she is completely unafraid (at least for her ''own'' well-being). The [[spoiler:lawless zone on Callisto is described as a place no woman can survive alone. Faye is threatened with rape and murder almost moments after arriving. We soon find out that Julia spent ''an entire month'' hiding out there - and she was able to slip in and out with almost no one even noticing.]] When we finally see her on-screen in the present, [[spoiler:she's racing through the streets with hitmen shooting at her without breaking a sweat.]] She's also very comfortable and adept when handling a gun - effortlessly [[spoiler:covering Spike and gunning down a Syndicate hitman as the two make their escape.]] The series never actually goes into Julia's background, but it's not outside the realm of possibility that she might have also led a [[RetiredMonster troubled life]] in the past same as [[spoiler:Spike.]]
* DevotedToYou: The one object of love and devotion to Spike. Seeing her again is the only hope he has to live on.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:She dies in Spike's arms.]]
* DisturbedDoves: [[spoiler:When she dies.]]
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: She nursed an injured Spike back to health, they fell in love, and then bad stuff happened.
* FreudianTrio: It's been speculated that back in the day Spike, Julia and Vicious formed a power trio as the Id, Ego, and Super Ego respectively. Shots in the closing sequence support this.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She shows a kind and nurturing side in doing things like nursing Spike back to health when she found him, and while there are a few minor characters who are blonde, she's probably the only one with truly golden hair, both elaborately colored and detailed to draw attention to it.
* HellBentForLeather: Several scenes show her wearing leather pants and outfits.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Rather than confronting Vicious, she tried to urge Spike to leave everything behind and find somewhere to live a normal life where Vicious and the Red Dragons couldn't get to them.
* ILetGwenStacyDie: [[spoiler:On the other end of the trope. She's the one person Spike is truly connected with and treasures, and when she dies in front of him, it leaves him nothing.]]
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:When she dies, so dies the last real hope Spike had for his life.]]
%%* TheKirk
* KnightOfCerebus: A non-villainous example, but the mere utterance of her name tends to invoke Red Dragon Syndicate episodes and the real KnightOfCerebus, Vicious, where the story's tone drastically dives into darker territory, while her genuine reappearance kicks off the final plot arc. [[spoiler:And her death foreshadows its conclusion.]]
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: The possibility he might see her again is the one thing that keeps Spike going. [[spoiler:Once he loses her forever, Spike has nothing left to live for but revenge.]]
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:To Spike after she dies in the finale. Her death prompts Spike to go settle things with Vicious once and for all.]]
* PresentAbsence: She only appears in person in two episodes, not counting flashbacks, but her presence is felt throughout the series in relation to Spike and Vicious' story.
* RuleOfSymbolism: Julia seems to be more of an ideal than a person, and is almost never described in concrete terms. Mostly only ever referred to as "a real woman", "one hell of a woman", etc.
* SignificantWardrobeShift: Her present day all-black ensemble - complete with a genre-appropriate longcoat (see ''Badass Longcoat'' above) - compared to her flashback appearances. Like [[spoiler:Vicious and Spike]], she never used to wear one. Also, [[spoiler:we only see each member of the trio (see ''Freudian Trio'' above) put one on on-screen when things were/are about to get dangerous. For Vicious, this includes every present-day scene we see him featured in. For Spike, this is whenever he knows he is/was about to go to war with the Syndicate. For Julia, this is only when she's finally reunited with Spike in the present.]]
* SlowMotionFall: [[spoiler:After being shot.]]
* StarCrossedLovers: With Spike.
%%* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth
* WalkingSpoiler: Notice how many of her entries have spoiler tags?
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Appears in person for one full episode and is then killed off almost immediately after in the next episode.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Van]]
!!The Van (Wang Long, Sou Long, and Ping Long)
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Takashi Taguchi, Hiroshi Naka, Shinpachi Tsuji (JPN), Paul Carr, Creator/MikeReynolds, Doug Stone (ENG)

A trio of elders who rule the syndicate as the highest authority within the Red Dragon. They dress in the manner of Imperial China, complete with a soothsayer and other such touches of the Imperial Court. They find Vicious useful, but are also wary of him and his ambitions.
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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]].
* BigBadWannabe: Get reduced to this by the end of "[[Recap/CowboyBebopSession25TheRealFolkBluesPart1 The Real Folk Blues Part I]]" when they forego their chance to kill Vicious in an attempt to draw out his suffering. While hunting down the people he knew while he's imprisoned, Vicious is able to act out his real scheme, ending the episode by overthrowing and killing the trio.
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:One of the Elders is killed in this manner when Vicious overthrows them.]]
* BondVillainStupidity: A villain-vs-villain example. They capture Vicious alive after his coup attempt, then decide that he needs to be taught a lesson and have him hung on a wall in a locked room for several days rather than just killing him outright. Unsurprisingly, this bites them in the ass.
* BreakTheHaughty: When they foil Vicious' assassination attempt against them, they declare that his spirit must be broken before he is killed, and go to hunt down everyone known to be an associate of Vicious. Apparently nobody told them [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder what]] [[TheSociopath Vicious]] [[ItsAllAboutMe is]] [[StrawNihilist like]], or how completely meaningless such a gesture is to him.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Kill the person who tried to mount a coup against you? Sure. Wipe out his entire faction? Pretty extreme, but not entirely unreasonable if you want to be certain that any threat of further insurrection is neutralized. Kill everyone who has ever been associated with them, including ex-friends who have been enemies with the would be coup leader for ''years?'' Okay, now we're right in crazy-pants territory.
* EvilIsPetty: When Vicious needs to come to them for permission to make a deal for some Red Eye with Gren, two of them take distinct pleasure in rubbing his face in the fact that he couldn't act without their approval.
* EvilOldFolks: Being old and putting on airs of grandeur doesn't diminish their nastiness at all.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:The last Elder remaining at the end of the takeover gets his eyes slashed out by Vicious]].
* GoodOldWays: They like to dress and carry on as if they were in Imperial China, not the 21st century.
* GreaterScopeVillain: They're the head of an organized crime ring with powerful ties to assassination and illegal drugs, but they never lift a finger themselves, with even [[BigBad Vicious]] just being one of their subordinates. This gets [[spoiler:subverted when Vicious shows he's far more dangerous than they could ever be, despite the difference in ranks, by killing them and taking over.]]
* 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''.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: They claim that their soothsayer gave them the warning to dodge Vicious' assassination attempt. If so, apparently the soothsayer didn't foresee Vicious' ''real'' plan.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Debatably--the creators estimated the triplets' age as around 120.
* ProperlyParanoid: They're aware of how untrustworthy Vicious is, and are ready to dodge attempts by him to usurp them. Unfortunately for them, Vicious' influence went much further than they thought and included at least some of the men they thought loyal to them.
* 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.
* SmugSnake: Ironically considering they like to remind Vicious he's a snake who can never overcome them, they absolutely adore lording their power over him and even ignore ''his'' advice to just kill them, quickly resulting in their deaths.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: ''Vicious himself'' asks them after his coup attempt fails and they decide to "break" him rather than just executing him on the spot.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mao Yenrai]]
!!Mao Yenrai
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Kazuaki Ito (JPN), Dana Craig (ENG)

A captain within the Red Dragon, shown as AFatherToHisMen. Seems to see Spike as a [[ProdigalHero Prodigal Son]] and implied to have once viewed him as a potential heir. Slain [[IncrediblyLamePun viciously]] in an attempt by Vicious to both prevent Mao from making peace with another crime syndicate and to lure Spike out of hiding and back to Mars.
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* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Vicious mockingly brings Mao's body to an opera performance and sits the body in Mao's booth, which not only advertises that Vicious killed Mao, (and that this will be the fate of anyone who opposes Vicious' faction within the Red Dragon) but serves as a lure to try to bring Spike out of hiding.
* TheDon: His role in his one scene.
* AFatherToHisMen: Implied to be something of this, in line with the "[[NobleDemon noble Yakuza]]" archetype or romanticized old school gangsters like [[Film/TheGodfather Vito Corleone]].
* HonorAmongThieves: Reminds Vicious that he's violating the rules of the game by killing his former mentor and boss.
-->"If Spike were here, you would never have done this."
* MinorMajorCharacter: It's clear that Mao was a figure of considerable power in the Red Dragon, and as the onetime mentor and superior to both Spike and Vicious, he played a considerable role in the lives of both men. His only scene before he is killed off is the ColdOpen of episode 5.
* ParentalSubstitute: A rather dubious one given his profession, but implied to be this to both Spike and Vicious.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Annie]]
!!Anastasia "Annie"
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Miyuki Ichijou (JPN), Carol Stanzione (ENG)

An old friend of both Mao and Spike. She and her late husband were members of the syndicate at one time.
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* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: After her appearance in episode five, she's next seen in the finale where it turns out Vicious' goons got to her. She dies while talking to Spike.]]
* DoNotCallMePaul: She snaps at Spike when he calls her Anastasia.
* FasterThanTheyLook: She's a heavyset woman who looks to be at least in her mid 40s, more likely her 50s, and thus doesn't look like someone who would be able to move quickly. It turns out that she's fast enough to chase down and catch adolescent delinquents who try to steal from her store.
* StoutStrength: Annie is large woman who can easily wrestle with and hold onto a pair of adolescent thieves who frantically try to escape her grasp.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lin]]
!!Lin
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HikaruMidorikawa (JPN), Creator/DerekStephenPrince (ENG)

An enforcer for the Red Dragons who is assigned by the Elders to protect Vicious during the deal with Gren in "Jupiter Jazz". Due to his BlindObedience, he takes that assignment very seriously.
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* BarredFromTheAfterlife: Spike claims this will be his fate due to dying in the service of Vicious.
* BlindObedience: To the elders of the Red Dragon. Whatever they tell him to do, he will do, without question.
* TheDragon: For Vicious in the "Jupiter Jazz" two-parter. The Van assign him to accompany Vicious for the deal with Gren.
* EvilCounterpart: To his brother Shin. Although not actually evil, his unquestioning loyalty protects and enables Vicious, a deeply evil man. His brother has the same upbringing and experience, but chooses to make his own moral choices and when to disobey orders.
* HeroicSacrifice: Subverted into a SenselessSacrifice. His dutiful sacrifice protects ''the bad guy'', who is completely unmoved by his selfless act, and will later kill the same elders that Lin was loyal to and laid down his life for.
* HonorAmongThieves: He and his brother are the most honorable members of Red Dragon who appear in the show.
* HonorBeforeReason: Unfortunately, Lin is honorable to a fault. His honor causes his own death and allows Vicious to survive and carry out further atrocities.
* SiblingYinYang: Lin is all about BlindObedience toward the Syndicate Elders and HonorBeforeReason. Shin, by contrast, decides to do the right thing instead of simply following orders, first by warning Julia of the coming [[ThePurge purge]] by the Syndicate Elders, and later he chooses to help Spike fight against Vicious. Lin and Shin also die in reflection of each other, each TakingTheBullet for one of two ArchEnemies.
* TakingTheBullet: Throws himself in the path of a bullet meant for Vicious and dies as a result.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: It's implied he was once friends, and probably a subordinate or apprentice to Spike. Spike is absolutely dismayed to see him working for Vicious.
* YouWouldntShootMe: He puts himself in between Spike and Vicious. Spike hesitates and can't bring himself to kill Lin, while Lin calmly shoots Spike with a tranquilizer gun.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shin]]
!!Shin
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobuyukiHiyama (JPN), Bo Williams (ENG), Emmanuel Rivas (SPN-LA)

Lin's brother. A former colleague of Spike and Vicious, and a member of Red Dragon as of the story's end. Teams up with Spike against Vicious after Vicious succeeds in overthrowing the Elders.
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* BackToBackBadasses: His iconic scene fighting alongside Spike right before Spike's final battle.
* BadassLongcoat: Dons one in the final shootout.
* HeroicSacrifice: In a reverse of his brother, he dies to save Spike of his own free will, rather than to follow someone else's orders. Furthermore, while Lin's sacrifice did no good besides allowing Vicious to kill more people, Shin's sacrifice allows Spike to end Vicious' reign of terror.
* HonorAmongThieves: He and his brother are the most honorable members of the Red Dragon that appear in the show.
* LastStand: He and Spike team up to make a last stand against [[TheUsurper Vicious]].
* SiblingYinYang: While Lin acts on BlindObedience to the Syndicate's Elders, Shin makes his own moral choices and sacrifices himself in entirely inverted circumstances to those surrounding his brother.
* TokenGoodTeammate: After the assassination of Mao, (and with it the murder of most men loyal to Mao) ThePurge by the Syndicate Elders in response to Vicious' coup, and then [[TheUsurper Vicious succeeding in overthrowing the Elders]] after all, Shin is one of the few decent members of the Red Dragon left.
[[/folder]]

!Recurring Characters
[[folder:Laughing Bull]]
!!Laughing Bull
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!!!'''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.
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* CoolOldGuy: He's pretty ancient, and has deep insights into the characters and their situations.
* DontFearTheReaper: "Do not fear death."
* FortuneTeller: 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. [[spoiler: He's kinda-sorta right.]]
* HiddenDepths: In "Jupiter Jazz", it's revealed he has a young son.
* MagicalNativeAmerican: 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.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: 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.
* TheNicknamer: Don't the nicknames of "Swimming Bird" and "Running Rock" for Spike and Jet just feel ''right''?
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gren Eckener]]
!!Grencia "Gren" Mars Elijah Guo Eckener
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenyuHoriuchi (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.
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* AgentPeacock: 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.
* 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 certainly interpret his feelings for Vicious as 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 body, or his desire to keep a low-profile.
* {{Bishonen}}: And his pretty boy nature is even commented on InUniverse several times.
* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler:He coughs up blood when he dies]].
* BreakTheCutie: Vicious broke him something ''fierce''.
* BuryMeNotOnTheLonePrairie: [[spoiler: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.]]
* CombatPragmatist: Pretty lethal with [[SenselessViolins his saxophone case]].
* DudeLooksLikeALady: He's got a pretty face, but he completely passes for a woman with his face covered [[spoiler: thanks to the whole "drugs wrecked his hormones and made him grow breasts" thing]].
* TheDulcineaEffect: Goes out of his way to rescue Faye, even from a fight she was going to win.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: His [[spoiler:death]] hits at episode 13, halfway through the series, [[spoiler:and is presented in a particularly spiritual matter by Laughing Bull's tradition that affects Spike personally as a major casualty of the Syndicate plotline, with a music montage over a panning shot of the stars. Episode 26 has Spike facing an identical outcome with his [[UncertainDoom 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 [[TakingTheBullet died protecting Vicious]], while Lin's brother Shin [[HeroicSacrifice dies identically for Spike's sake.]]]]
* AGoodWayToDie: [[spoiler:Invokes it when he says dying on the way to Titan is a good way to go.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: That saxophone case is vicious.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Even Judy laments the fact that such a pretty guy has to go to prison.
* MrFanservice: An interesting 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 and a fairly feminine figure due the drugs he was forced to take. He also has quite the {{bishonen}}, effeminate appearance to him.
* OverlyLongName: Grencia Mars Elijah Guo Eckener. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Judy on the ''Big Shot'' episode featuring him.
* PreciousPhoto: 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.
* TheScapegoat: [[spoiler:Vicious took advantage of Gren's friendship to frame him for espionage during the war on Titan, resulting in Gren being sent to prison.]]
* SexySaxMan: Faye certainly thinks so.
* SnowMeansDeath: [[spoiler: 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]].
* SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb: Does this to Vicious. Gren avoids it himself earlier when Vicious tries to hand him a suitcase containing a bomb.
* StabTheScorpion: A flashback to Titan shows Vicious doing this one to Gren. Subverted in that, well, Vicious isn't someone you should trust regardless.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Judging from the collection of photos he had on his wall, he looks very much like his mother.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: He's a NiceGuy through and through, who longs for deep, meaningful bonds with other people. Life... was not kind to him.
* TrueCompanions: 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.
* TruthInTelevision: 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.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Vicious severely underestimated him, and it nearly cost him his life.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Judy and Punch]]
!!Judy and Punch
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[[caption-width-right:180:Punch]]
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[[caption-width-right:180:Judy]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Miki Nagasawa and Tsutomu Tareki (JPN), Lia Sargent and Creator/PaulStPeter (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.
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* BigWhat: Judy yells "What?!" when [[spoiler:''Big Shots'' is cancelled.]]
* {{Catchphrase}}: Punch has a has a habit of exclaiming "Amigo!" (in the original Japanese) or "Shucks howdy!" (in the English dub).
* KentBrockmanNews: Their show often pops up to [[MrExposition inform the viewer]] (and occasionally the ''Bebop'' crew) about the current episode's bounty. If they're listening.
%%* MsFanservice: Judy, InUniverse.
* NavelDeepNeckline: Judy wears her vest open, exposing her cleavage and midriff.
* NiceCharacterMeanActor:
** When [[spoiler:the show is cancelled]] Judy drops all of her cowgirl, ditzy personality, and reveals her true nature by angrily lashing at her partner.
** On the flip side, 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]].
* ObfuscatingStupidity: 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.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: This is done deliberately (even InUniverse) with Punch in the English dub. His accent meanders between Mexican, Texan, and who knows what else, [[spoiler: and his real accent is none of the above]]. Judy's accent is fake too, but she has a much tighter grip on it [[spoiler:until she finds out the show has been cancelled.]]
* ShooOutTheClowns: Much like [[spoiler:Ed and Ein]]. Near the show's end, [[spoiler:Big Shots is cancelled]] so the comical segment won't conflict with the permanently serious tone. [[spoiler: 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.]]
* ShowWithinAShow: They are the hosts of the fictional show ''Big Shots''.
* {{Stripperific}}: Judy's not wearing a shirt [[VaporWear or bra]] under her coat.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bob]]
!!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.
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* FriendOnTheForce: 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.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Three Old Men]]
!!Carlos, Antonio, and Jobim
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!!!'''Voiced by''': Unknown (JPN); 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.
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* AscendedExtra: They end up [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece flying some of the old planes]] that spread the nanobot vaccine in TheMovie, being among the relatively few people old enough to know how.
* GrumpyOldMan: Carlos, and Antonio when he's around Carlos. Jobim seems pretty easygoing.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Carlos is always rambling about some adventure they had in the past.
* RecurringExtra: Their sole purpose is to drift around the system providing ComicRelief. The ''Bebop'' crew never really notices them until the movie.
* ShooOutTheClowns: In episode 23, [[spoiler:Jobim's body is among the Brain Scratch cult]].
* ThemeNaming: They take their name from Brazilian jazz musician Music/AntonioCarlosJobim.
[[/folder]]

!One-Shot Characters
[[folder:Asimov Solensan]]
!!Asimov Solensan
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RintarouNishi (JPN), Creator/KirkThornton (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 FantasticDrug 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.
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* AnimalMotifs: Laughing Bull likens him to a coyote. When he takes Bloody Eye, sometimes he looks downright ''rabid''.
* TheBerserker: How he acts while on Bloody Eye.
* EyeScream: 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.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: 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.
* HourOfPower: 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.
* LatinLover: Based on Creator/AntonioBanderas as he appeared in ''Film/{{Desperado}}'', but quickly subverted thanks to that first hit of [[PsychoSerum Bloody Eye]].
* OutlawCouple: He and Katerina are on the run from both the law and their old syndicate.
* PsychoSerum: 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, [[HourOfPower the effects have a time limit]].
* ShoutOut: 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.
* SinisterShades: Wears them unless he's getting high, in part to disguise [[RedEyesTakeWarning what the Bloody Eye is doing to his eyes]].
* SlasherSmile: Tends to wear these while using the Bloody Eye.
* StarterVillain: 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 important or powerful to cause plenty of harm.
* SympathyForTheDevil: 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.
* VillainousBreakdown: 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 pant, as he stares forward.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Katerina Solensan]]
!!Katerina Solensan
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YurikaHino (JPN), Creator/KatiaMoraes (ENG), Creator/LauraTorres (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.
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* ActionGirl: She participates in the episode's first shootout in the bar, and manages to kill at least one of their attackers.
* BreakTheCutie: What the events of the episode do to her.
* BrokenPedestal: 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 MercyKill him before he has to see their dream fall apart:
* CommonalityConnection: 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.
* CradleOfLoneliness: Does this with Asimov's body after [[MercyKill shooting him herself just before the police bullets hit]].
* IJustWantToBeFree: 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.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: More than wealth, she just wants to get out from under the syndicate and start over on Mars.
* MercyKill: 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.
* PillowPregnancy: She appears to be in the late stages of a pregnancy, but it turns out that she is carrying/hiding the Bloody Eye there.
* PregnantBadass: Subverted when it turns out to be a PillowPregnancy, of course, but she returns fire during the bar shootout, and kills one of the goons herself, and that's without any Bloody Eye.
* OutlawCouple: She and Asimov are on the run from both the law and their old syndicate.
* SacrificialLamb: She's introduced in the first episode and given plenty of character development before being killed off.
* SpicyLatina: Downplayed. She dresses the part, has the accent, and is the Creator/SalmaHayek to Asimov's Creator/AntonioBanderas, 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.
* WomenAreWiser: 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).
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Abdul Hakim]]
!!Abdul Hakim
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!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/RyuzaburoOtomo (JPN), Creator/JoeRomersa (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 to steal it back.
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* AfroAsskicker: 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.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: His race is given as "[[ValuesDissonance Negloid]] [[[{{Engrish}} sic]]]", but he was a DarkSkinnedBlonde before his MagicPlasticSurgery.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Assault, armed robbery, and... serial pet theft.
* BadassBaritone: Has a deep, intimidating voice.
* BandageMummy: Briefly. He unwraps the bandages from his MagicPlasticSurgery in a public washroom at the start of the episode.
* BarrierBustingBlow: Repeatedly smashes through doors, windows, [[FruitCart fruit stands]], and rickshaws.
* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: 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.
* ButtMonkey: 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.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Modeled on and named after NBA superstar [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar Kareem Adul-Jabbar]] (played 1969-1989), as an homage to the fight between Bruce Lee and Jabbar in ''Film/GameOfDeath''.
* DarkSkinnedBlonde: His mugshot shows he used to be this, but he's since undergone MagicPlasticSurgery and is now a ScaryBlackMan.
* {{Determinator}}: His episode is mostly one long ChaseScene, 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.
* DisproportionateRetribution: When the drunk in the bar interrupts his drink, Hakim [[FacePalmOfDoom crushes the man's jaw]] and force-feeds him a dead cockroach washed down with a glass of lao chu.
* FacePalmOfDoom: 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.
* GiantMook: 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.
* LaserGuidedKarma: During the freeway chase/tussle with the scientists, Hakim ends up going off-road and crashing straight into a police station. Hilariously [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Punch and Judy when they describe it as a "flashy way" to turn himself in.
* LeanAndMean: Huge but gangly.
* LightningBruiser: Fast on his feet for someone so large, and he holds his own against Spike. At first.
* MagicPlasticSurgery: Apparently part of his standard M.O. Implied to have healed very quickly, it turns Hakim from a DarkSkinnedBlonde to a ScaryBlackMan, seemingly in between robbing the lab and the orderlies catching up to him.
* MasterOfDisguise: Insofar as he makes frequent use of future MagicPlasticSurgery 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.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His name, fighting style and current appearance are based on Creator/KareemAbdulJabbar. This makes his fight against [[BruceLeeClone Spike]] rather fitting.
* OneManArmy: Three men with guns? Hakim knocks them all out in a single cutaway before they can even get off a single shot.
* OpenSaysMe: 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.
* ScaryBlackMan: Big and violent. Possibly subverted in that before his MagicPlasticSurgery he was a DarkSkinnedBlonde.
* SlasherSmile: Just before taking out three armed gunmen barehanded.
* WritersCannotDoMath: His mugshot says he's 6'2", but this doesn't line up with [[GiantMook how tall he actually appears to be]]. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is 7'2", so that's presumably the number they intended.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Maria Murdock]]
!!"Twinkle" Maria Murdock
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MariArita (JPN), Creator/MaryElizabethMcGlynn (ENG), Creator/LizaWillert (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 animal protectors and 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.
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* AbusiveParents: Is a domineering or worse figure to her 'sons', who make up almost the entire roster of the Space Warriors besides her.
* AnimalWrongsGroup: 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.
* AxCrazy: 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.
* TheDreaded: 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.
* FluffyTheTerrible: The woman threatening to use biological weapons on an entire inhabited moon is nicknamed "Twinkle", and her followers call her "Mom".
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: Gets exposed to the same virus she threatened to use on others.
* LargeHam: Has an air of self-importance and a flair for the dramatic, particularly emphasised in English.
* MisanthropeSupreme: Prefers animals and nature to humans, and will gladly wipe out people or use her virus to "return them to nature".
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Murdock is a thinly-veiled parody of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_Newkirk Ingrid Newkirk]], founder of PETA. Much like the [[AnimalWrongsGroup 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).
* OhCrap: 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.
* TeamMom: The remaining Space Warriors follow her fanatically, to the point of addressing her as "mama".
* VillainousBreakdown: [[AndIMustScream 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 [[OhCrap flies out of her pocket towards the wall]] and promptly [[LaserGuidedKarma shatters open.]]
* YouHaveFailedMe: Uses the virus on one of her 'sons' to punish him after an ISSP mole who infiltrated their organization was able to steal a sample of her virus.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Wen]]
!!Wen
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wen.jpg]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YumiTouma (JPN), Creator/MonaMarshall (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?
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* CaptivityHarmonica: Plays harmonica like a veteran bluesman five times his age. [[spoiler: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.]]
* CompleteImmortality: His condition does more than slow down his aging, as it turns out. [[spoiler: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.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He's experienced quite a lot for a twelve-year-old. [[spoiler:But not a 62-year-old escaped lab subject and hardened killer who lived through the destruction of Earth and has been on the run for decades.]]
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: But he didn't start out that way. [[spoiler: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.]]
* TheGunslinger: Revealed to be a great shot with a pistol.
* NeverGrewUp: He's never going to look any older than he does now [[spoiler:thanks to the Astral Gate Incident somehow seemingly freezing him in time.]]
* NotGrowingUpSucks: Hates being stuck looking as young as he does. [[spoiler: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 [[TheyWouldCutYouUp to try and study him]] again.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: Even taking into account the art style, he looks considerably younger than twelve. Ed, for reference, is about thirteen. [[spoiler:Wen stopped aging during the Astral Gate Disaster on Earth, which was 54 years ago.]]
* PlayingWithSyringes: Like Ein, Mad Pierrot, and Vincent, he's spent a good portion of his life in a laboratory being subjected to experiments. [[spoiler:He eventually escaped, taking Zebra hostage in the process, keeping him drugged and wheelchair-bound so that he could serve as a Guardian for Wen.]]
* RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain: [[spoiler: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.]]
* ShoutOut: His green suit, black shirt, and yellow tie are one of a few nods in the series to ''Anime/LupinTheThird''.
* TheyWouldCutYouUp: Captured and kept in a lab for several years.
* TheUnreveal: The ''Bebop'' crew never really learn anything about exactly how Wen ended up in his current state. [[spoiler: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.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: At the center of the plot in "Sympathy".
* WouldHurtAChild: Turns out [[spoiler:Spike would, shooting him with the crystal bullet that [[RapidAging finally kills him]] and hitting him right between the eyes.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:V.T.]]
!!V.T. [[spoiler:Victoria Terpsichore]]
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!!!'''Creator/y:''' Creator/TomieKataoka (JPN), Creator/MelodeeSpevack (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.
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* ActionGirl: 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.
* BadassBystander: 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 MadBomber. (And she did pretty much all the work of taking down Decker.)
* BoomerangBigot: There's only one kind of person she really hates: bounty hunters. [[spoiler: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.
* FamedInStory: Her husband was a legendary [[spoiler: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.
* GivenNameReveal: 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. [[spoiler: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.]]
* TheLadette: She drinks, fights in bar brawls, does a job normally associated with men, and dresses in blue collar utilitarian clothes.
* LadyLooksLikeADude: V.T. could easily be mistaken for a man, especially with the way she dresses and acts.
* LickedByTheDog: The fact that her cat Zeroes likes Spike convinces her to give him a lift when his ship is wrecked.
* OnlyKnownByInitials: As noted under GivenNameReveal, no one knows V.T.'s real name and there's a running bet to guess it, [[spoiler:until Spike recognizes a photo of her with her late husband.]] Her trucker handle is "[[TitleDrop The Heavy Metal Queen]]".
* SixthRanger: For the purposes of the episode, she might as well be another member of the Bebop crew, and a pretty valuable one at that.
* SpaceTrucker: She hauls cargo from planet to planet and moon to moon.
* SteelEardrums: 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.
* UnskilledButStrong: 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.
* WidowWoman: During her first encounter with Spike the way she speaks about her husband hints that she's a widow. Confirmed towards the end of the episode.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Decker]]
!!Decker
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MichaelLindsay (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.
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: 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.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: He looks very much like Woody Allen. Lampshaded by the name of the restaurant where Faye first finds him: Woody's.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Exposed to hard vacuum. Not a pleasant way to go.
* ForWantOfANail: After wrecking Faye's ship and Spike's ship being damaged by the bounty hunters he fought in the diner, Decker had a chance to get away clean. All he had to do is keep a low profile and not be noticed. Instead he crashed into Otto (one of V.T.'s friends) while cutting ahead of the line to leave the area and drove off. This gets Otto to talk about him and his truck, which in turn causes V.T. to take notice of him, chase him, and tell the Bebop crew about his location.
* InformedDeformity: According to Faye, Decker is bald. While he's noticeably thinning, he's far from what anyone would call bald.
* MadBomber: He's awfully casual about using high-powered explosives, and has a custom device to launch them built into his cargo ship.
* TheQuietOne: He doesn't have any actual dialog in the episode, just a couple of noises, such as a surprised grunt or nervous squeak.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Roco Bonnaro]]
!!Roco Bonnaro
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyuseiNakao (JPN), Creator/TomFahn (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.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: He is naturally protective of his little sister Stella, and risks everything to look after her.
* BrokenPedestal: 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.
* ChekhovsSkill: Roco remembers the lesson Spike gave him and uses it to defend himself from a member of his gang.
* CloudCuckoolander: 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 FunnyBruceLeeNoises 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.
* HealthcareMotivation: 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.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: 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.
* SympatheticCriminal: Roco joined a gang first and foremost to provide for his sister, then later to find a way to treat her Venus sickness.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:MPU]]
!!D-135 Central Processing Unit, A.K.A. "MPU"
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JojiNakata (JPN)
->''"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.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: 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.
* ArtificialIntelligence: A military grade CPU with an artistic streak and a melancholic longing for the days before the Disaster.
* BenevolentAI: 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.
* CropCircles: 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.
* FunWithAcronyms: "MPU" doesn't stand for anything. Ed just thought it sounded neater than "CPU".
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: 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''.
* InhumanableAlienRights: An odd example where this works to the entity's favor: Namely, there's no laws in place to prosecute ''CPU''s, so the bounty placed on it is cancelled, much to the frustration of the Bebop crew.
* LostCommonKnowledge: 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.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: 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.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Alisa]]
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MikaDoi (JPN), Creator/DebraJeanRodgers (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.
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* IJustWantToBeFree: 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 Rhint where she has to do that for him.
* OldFlameFizzle: It's pretty clear that the sparks between Jet and Alisa are [[DeadSparks 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… [[BlatantLies I’ve forgotten about it.]]
* SatelliteLoveInterest: 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.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rhint Celonias]]
!!Rhint Celonias
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KappeiYamaguchi (JPN), Creator/SteveStaley (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.
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* ActionSurvivor: 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.
* AntiVillain: 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.
* 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.
* LetOffByTheDetective: 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.)
* {{Manchild}}: His design and behavior seem designed to evoke this.
* NervousWreck: Recent events have shattered his nerves, made him paranoid, and are putting him on the edge of a breakdown.
* SympatheticMurderer: He killed a LoanShark 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.
* VillainousBreakdown: 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.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Chessmaster Hex]]
!!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.
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* AntiVillain: 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. [[spoiler: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.]]
* BigSleep: [[spoiler: 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.]]
* TheChessmaster: If his name wasn't enough of a tipoff, his 50-year plan proves his status.
* TheCracker: Using proxies, he is able to pull off a high profile corporate heist on the people who wronged him. [[spoiler:It's a shame he was too senile to actually appreciate what he had done.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: 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: [[spoiler: 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. [[spoiler: 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.]]"
* DiedLaughing: [[spoiler:Manages to get one last chess game in with Edward. He wins, so he laughs. And then he passes away.]]
* NonActionGuy: [[spoiler: 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.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His given name is never mentioned.
* WorthyOpponent: 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!"
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Whitney Matsumoto]]
!!Whitney Hagas Matsumoto
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!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/AkioOhtsuka (JPN), Creator/SteveKramer (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.
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* BigOlEyebrows: Faye's name for him is "that guy with the thick eyebrows."
* TheCharmer: Perhaps his greatest asset is his way with women. [[spoiler:It's basically his ''only'' skill, since he's otherwise one of the cheapest bounties the Bebop crew ever hunts.]]
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: His design was based on Creator/GeorgeClooney.
* ConMan: Well, Faye had to learn it somewhere, right? [[spoiler: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.]]
* CoolUncle: His is [[spoiler:Dr. Bacchus, also his accomplice in the con.]]
* CrusadingLawyer: 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. [[spoiler: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.]]
* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Possibly grey rather than blonde, but he has bronzed skin and light-colored hair.
* FairytaleMotif: Faye is Sleeping Beauty, which just so happens to make him Prince Charming.
* TheLostLenore: This for Faye. He died in a car wreck while trying to help her flee from her [[EvilDebtCollector crushing debts]] upon waking. [[spoiler:Actually he was on the run from ''his'' debtors, and he [[FakingTheDead 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.
* LoveAtFirstSight: He fell in love with Sleeping Beauty. [[spoiler:No, it's just another lie!]]
* MagicPlasticSurgery: Changed his appearance drastically after [[spoiler:faking his death. So he claims, anyway -- he's [[FatBastard put on about a hundred pounds]] since Faye last saw him.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Udai Taxim]]
!!Udai Taxim
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KoseiHirota (JPN), Creator/BarryStigler (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.
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* ArchEnemy: He and Jet Black hate each other due to Jet being the one who got him arrested and Udai [[spoiler: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 ItsPersonal with Udai, he finds himself unable to walk away and decides to join Fad for one last confrontation with his enemy.
* AtopAMountainOfCorpses: [[EstablishingCharacterMoment How the audience first sees him in the episode]], standing among an entire corridor full of dead guards.
* BoomHeadshot: 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. [[spoiler:Fad finishes him off with one of these to the side of the head.]]
* BornInTheWrongCentury: 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.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: 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 [[spoiler: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.
* TheDreaded: 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.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: 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.
* HateSink: 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 [[AlasPoorVillain was pitiful enough in death]] to be somewhat sympathetic, and unlike [[BigBad Vicious]], Taxim doesn't even have EvilIsCool going for him.
* HighPressureBlood: 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.
* ItsPersonal: The reason why Jet goes after Udai.
* KnightOfCerebus: He's perhaps the only VillainOfTheWeek 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 [[ShooOutTheClowns Edward and Ein]].
* LeanAndMean: He has a very slim frame, and is a mob assassin.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: 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.
* NothingUpMySleeve: Much like Navajas from ''Film/{{Desperado}}'', those little knives just seem to appear in the palm of his hands as needed.
* ProfessionalKiller: Was a mob assassin before being caught and sentenced to life.
* ScaryBlackMan: 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.
* VillainousCheekbones: He certainly has the high prominent cheekbones associated with bad guys.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:
** 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. [[spoiler:On top of that, Fad, a CorruptCop on the payroll of TheSyndicate, was already hunting Udai down with the intent of killing him.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fad]]
!!Fad
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MasashiHirose (JPN), Creator/DougLee (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...
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: He's amused when Jet makes quips at his expense.
* TheAtoner: He feels genuinely guilty for [[spoiler:shooting Jet]], and wants to experience some of that old idealism he used to share with Jet.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: In true [[BuddyCopShow buddy cop]] fashion, Fad picked the wrong day to quit smoking. [[spoiler:The last thing he asks for, after committing SuicideByCop, is one last cigarette.]]
* CoolOldGuy: 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. [[spoiler:Then we learn that he's a DirtyCop 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.]]
* DeathSeeker: When he goes to confront Udai [[spoiler:and Jet]] for the last time, he loads his revolver with just one bullet, which guarantees that [[spoiler:Jet will kill him if and when the two old partners come to blows.]]
* DirtyCop: 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 [[spoiler:even before Jet left the force.]]
* TheGunslinger: Jet half mockingly compares him to one because of his preference for revolvers and occasional habit of GunTwirling.
* KnightInSourArmor: 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.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Bears a striking resemblance to Harvey Keitel in ''Film/BadLieutenant''.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When trying to bust Udai in Jet's flashback, [[LetsSplitUpGang 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 FlashBack shows that he thinks this is unusual, and [[spoiler:it may be part of why Jet is quick to believe Udai's revelation that Fad was part of the ambush.]]
* OneLastSmoke: Mortally wounded after [[spoiler: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.
* RegretfulTraitor: Fad betrayed [[spoiler:his partner Jet in the very incident that led to Jet leaving the ISSP]], but came to deeply regret it over the years. [[spoiler:When Jet finds out and confronts him, Fad more or less commits SuicideByCop, with Jet as the "cop" in question.]]
* TheReveal: Fad is dirty, and [[spoiler: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.
* RevolversAreJustBetter: Fad still prefers to use one, despite the fact that, as Jet points out, in the current day the gun is practically an antique. [[spoiler:It also lets Fad load his gun roulette-style, as detailed under DeathSeeker.]]
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: He espouses these sentiments to Jet, [[DeconstructedTrope however, the guilt of betraying his values and the people he cares about has gotten to him over the years]], turning him into TheAtoner.
* ThatOneCase: 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. [[spoiler: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.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Domino Walker]]
!!Domino Walker
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TesshoGenda (JPN), Unknown (ENG)
->'''Appeared in:''' "Mushroom Samba"
->''"You crazy, kid! I'm gettin' outta here!"''

A mushroom-smuggling bounty head who Ed (almost) catches on Io.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: Surprisingly light on his feet for a guy his size, he manages to climb aboard a slow-moving train and [[TraintopBattle run across the top]], which isn't as easy as it looks even if you're in better shape than Domino appears to be.
* TheBadGuyWins: Sort of. He gets away in the end, but only after [[spoiler: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.]]
* BeardOfEvil: A goatee. Hard to say how evil he is, but he's the villain of the week.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: He doesn't remember selling mushrooms to the Shaft brothers, one of whom had a bad reaction and died of a twisted gut, [[DiedLaughing 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.
* CoolShades: Kind of. He wears a pair of tinted aviators with reddish-purple lenses.
* DreadlockRasta: His look, and he seems pretty chill in general (at least before Ed catches up with him).
* FatBastard: Pretty tubby and a wanted criminal. [[spoiler: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.]]
* FashionVictimVillain: Dreadlocks, cowboy hat, purple aviators, a tasseled leather vest, full-body rastafarian pajamas, sandals, and a big gut.
* HarmlessVillain: 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.
* KnockoutGas: Ed ambushes him on his ship with "stinky gas", with... [[BackwardsFiringGun mixed results]].
* MushroomSamba: Straight out of the TropeNamer. Sells psychedelic mushrooms, which Ed tests on the rest of ''Bebop'', taking them out of action for most of the episode.
* NonActionGuy: 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.
* OnlySaneMan: 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.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Exit, pursued by a dog and child:
-->'''Ed:''' Get back here, you stinky cowpoke!
* TheStoic: 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 ''[[MoreDakka rocket launcher]]'', and you can tell Domino is just completely weirded out by Ed.
* WaistcoatOfStyle: [[FashionVictimVillain Um, style, right]]... It's a tasseled leather vest.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Doohan]]
!!Doohan
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakeshiAono (JPN), Creator/SimonPrescott (ENG)
->''"Do you want to use the machine, or do you want the machine to use you?"''

->'''Appeared in:''' "Wild Horses"

A crusty old aerospace mechanic working out of Earth. He was the original owner of Spike's ''Swordfish II''.
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* AcePilot: A flying veteran, now working as a mechanic. He can fly anything, even [[spoiler:a ''90-year-old NASA space shuttle''.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Spike's engines are out and the orbital mechanics mean that Jet can't pick him up for hours, so Doohan and Miles [[spoiler:fly up to save him in the ''Columbia'' before he burns up on {{reentry|Scare}}.]]
* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: When Spike and Doohan's beloved Swordfish are in danger of burning to a crisp on the Earth's atmosphere, he breaks out [[spoiler:the [[UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} space shuttle]] ''[[UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} Columbia]]'']], a true relic compared to the ''Bebop's'' universe usual futuristic spaceships.
* ChekhovsGun: 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. [[spoiler: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.
* EinsteinHair: Scruffy grey hair and an eccentric old starship mechanic.
* GrumpyOldMan: Snarky and grouchy as a {{foil}} to Miles' youthful optimism.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Him and his apprentice Miles bicker like one.
* TheMentor: A minor one to Spike. He gave him the Swordfish, and lectures him on how to fly it.
* MrFixit: He can apparently fix any kind of vehicle, from Spike's ship to a yard full of {{Cool Plane}}s from the previous century to [[spoiler:a Sherman tank and the space shuttle ''Columbia''.]]
* MustHaveCaffeine: Doohan, Miles, and Spike drink coffee from tiny little espresso mugs as they're working on the ''Swordfish''.
* ShoutOut: His name is a reference to Creator/JamesDoohan, ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''' Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, chief engineer of the ''Enterprise''.
* SoProudOfYou: Of Spike and Miles, grinning when the latter refuses to stay behind during their BigDamnHeroes moment.
-->'''Doohan:''' Spike... I know you can do it, boy. I didn't give you the ''Swordfish'' for nothing, you know!
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Miles]]
!!Miles
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YokuShioya (JPN), Creator/JonathanFahn (ENG)
->'''Appeared in:''' "Wild Horses"
->''"And I thought I was '''afraid''' to fly!"''

Doohan's assistant, and a huge baseball fan.
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* TheApprentice: 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.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:When Doohan [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece 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!
* BlackAndNerdy: A black GenkiGuy techie.
* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: [[spoiler:Using the aforementioned tank as a tow truck.]]
* GameOfNerds: He loves baseball, getting really ''into'' a radio game to the point where he [[ShootTheTelevision kicks the tape deck of his truck to pieces]] after a lousy play. He's a [[FictionalCounterpart Blue Sox]] fan, wearing their jersey and hat.
* GenkiGuy: Chipper and upbeat as a {{foil}} to Doohan's irascible old hermit act.
* MotorMouth: 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!
* NoSmoking: PlayedForLaughs, as [[EverybodySmokes 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.
* TeenGenius: 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.
* YouTalkTooMuch: Inverted -- he asks Spike if anyone's ever told him he doesn't talk much. Spike asks if anyone's ever told him this.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mad Pierrot]]
!!Tongpu, The Mad Pierrot
[[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Pierrot_le_fou.JPG]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BanjoGinga (JPN), Kevin Seymour (ENG), Herman López (SPN-LA)
->'''Appeared in:''' "Pierrot Le Fou"
->''"Hello, gentlemen."''

The Mad Pierrot is a ruthless SerialKiller 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.
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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... 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 [[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.
* AlasPoorVillain: He's a remorseless mass murderer, but it's hard not to feel sorry for him. Even Spike seems too disturbed to take advantage of the opportunity he created using the knife.
** The really sad thing is, it's not really his fault he is the way he is.
* AxCrazy: He's a walking armory, and just about as insane as a man can possibly be.
* BeardOfEvil: 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.
* BlackCloak: He wears a black [[OminousOperaCape opera cape]] over his ensemble and is fond of the occasional dramatic CapeSwish.
* BloodbathVillainOrigin: 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.
* BottomlessMagazines: And a seemingly unlimited number of guns underneath that cape and coat.
* CodeName: His codename on the project was Tongpu. It's not clear what his real name was, if he even had one.
* CurbStompBattle: It's pure luck that Spike survives the fight with him, both times.
* DeflectorShields: 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.
* DramaticIrony: He's afraid of cats, but the giant parade robot that crushes him is a massive, WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}-esque dog.
* EvilLaugh: He laughs maniacally almost constantly while brutally murdering his targets.
* {{Expy}}: He's a {{composite character}} of ''three'' different ComicBook/{{Batman}} villains:
** Visually, as [[FatBastard an obese villain]] in [[SharpDressedMan a black tux]] and top-hat, he's a dead-ringer for ComicBook/ThePenguin.
** His backstory as a test subject for [[PlayingWithSyringes unethical scientific experiments]] intended to make him a SuperSoldier [[PhlebotinumRebel only for him to escape and go rogue]] bring to mind ComicBook/{{Bane}}.
** His [[MonsterClown clownish aesthetic]], SlasherSmile, [[LaughingMad constant cackling]], and commandeering an AmusementParkOfDoom all bring to mind ComicBook/TheJoker.
* FatBastard: He's almost as wide as he is tall, and he's an insane SerialKiller.
* FirstTimeFeeling: 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.
* FreudianExcuse: 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 [[PureIsNotGood pure]] and [[KidsAreCruel cruel]] as a child.'
* GigglingVillain: When he's not laughing out loud. He actually barely speaks during the episode.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: 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.)
* GratuitousEnglish: In the Japanese version, most of his brief lines are in English.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: 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.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: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 FreakOut). The pain Tongpu has no protection against causes him to break down weeping and be crushed by one of the park's robots]].
* ImmuneToBullets: It seems his body has some sort of EnergyShield that protects him from gunfire. [[spoiler: A thrown knife when he's freaking out? That's another story]].
* ImplacableMan: The episode makes very clear that luck was the main factor in Spike being able to evade and defeat him.
* InelegantBlubbering: 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.
* IWantMyMommy: He spends his last moments before being crushed by the parade robot crying for his mother.
* LargeHam: Such big teeth you have, Pierrot -- the better to chew the scenery with.
* LaughingMad: He's constantly laughing insanely.
* LastWords: "Mama!"
* LetsDance:
-->'''Tongpu:''' Lleeet's partyyyy!
* LightningBruiser: 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 NoSell virtually anything, including explosions. It is later {{downplayed|trope}} however, [[spoiler: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"]].
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: 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.
* MonsterClown: Very clearly channels the spirit of one, what with the ridiculous proportions, clown-based moniker, pasty complexion, white neck ruff, [[SlasherSmile constant smiling]] and [[LaughingMad laughter]], appearance in an AmusementParkOfDoom, and murder-y murder.
* MoreDakka: He stores ''rocket launchers'' in his coat.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Does a guy named "Mad Pierrot" sound like someone you can trust not to kill you the moment he sees you?
* NighInvulnerability: He can be knocked around, but not injured. [[spoiler:In fact, pain is so alien to him he has a total childlike breakdown when he finally experiences it.]]
* NoSell: His energy shield makes him shrug off virtually everything, including bullets and explosions. However, [[spoiler:it does have some weaknesses, as shown when he gets stabbed by a thrown knife from Spike]].
* OminousOperaCape: His BlackCloak is actually one of these.
* PhlebotinumRebel: 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.
* PlayingWithSyringes: 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.
* PracticallyJoker: As a CompositeCharacter of three different ''Batman'' villains, he has the Joker's mannerisms and personality down, being an AxCrazy MonsterClown with [[LaughingMad constant cackling]] and a SlasherSmile, and having a climactic showdown with Spike at an AmusementParkOfDoom.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner
-->'''Mad Pierrot:''' Hello, gentlemen... I journeyed here to take your lives.
* PsychopathicManchild: 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 [[PureIsNotGood pure]] and [[KidsAreCruel cruel]] as a child...
* RaisedInALab: He was created and born in a laboratory and grew up there. He was given super powers, including {{Flight}} and being ImmuneToBullets, and trained to be an unstoppable assassin.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: 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, [[TheUnreveal it's left unsaid in the end]].
* SanityHasAdvantages: 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.
* SharpDressedMan: 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.
* ShoutOut:
** Pierrot, the original SadClown, is a StockCharacter from the CommediaDellArte.
** The character's entire Session is one for ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' 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 SuperStrength) of Bane, and the vicious psychopathy of [[ComicBook/TheJoker 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 [[AmusementParkOfDoom 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 Music/YellowMagicOrchestra.
** ''Film/PierrotLeFou'' is one of the films of UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave director Creator/JeanLucGodard, whose gangster films, including the dystopian sci-fi noir ''Film/{{Alphaville}}'', were an acknowledged influence on ''Cowboy Bebop''.
* SlasherSmile: So wide and deranged you can ''hear his teeth grinding''.
* SwordCane: It's actually a gun with a seemingly [[BottomlessMagazines Bottomless Magazine]], but he fences with it as if it's a sword.
* TragicVillain: Everything about Pierrot is horrifying, including his origin and his unceremonious death. In fact, some may see his death as a MercyKill.
* TheUnreveal: 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.
* VillainousBreakdown: 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!''
* WalkingArmory: He has a ''ridiculous'' number of weapons hidden in his coat.
* WeaksauceWeakness: [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes 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. [[spoiler: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]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cowboy Andy]]
!!Andy Von De Oniyate
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MasashiEbara (JPN), Creator/DaranNorris (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.
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* TheAce: [[ChewingTheScenery Scenery-chewing]], [[CloudCuckooLander completely-off-his-rocker]], the only person in the whole series to have a personal [[{{Leitmotif}} leitmotif]] that plays whenever he appears (and breaks the fourth wall, considering all the other characters hear it too), and [[GoodOldFisticuffs is able to stand up to Spike in a fistfight]].
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Despite being one of the silliest characters in the series, Spike couldn't beat him.
* BloodKnight: While he doesn't act like it, Andy chose a very dangerous and potentially unprofitable job simply because he likes the action.
* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:After giving up the cowboy gimmick, Andy decides to become a samurai instead.]]
* TheCameo: Can be briefly seen in a crowd shot during the movie, [[spoiler: dressed as a samurai]]. This shows the film takes place after this episode.
* CoolHorse: 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. [[spoiler:Subverted in the ending where [[EverythingsBetterWithSamurai he decides to become a samurai]].]]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Comes across as a wannabe and a bit of a CloudCuckoolander, 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.
* DestructiveSaviour: He's as bad as Spike.
* TheDreaded: The bounty heads of Sol system fear him as much as they do Spike. Presumably because the two share an, ah, [[DestructiveSaviour '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 GratuitousEnglish in his samurai garb.
* {{Foil}}: To Spike, again. He barely interacts with the rest of the cast, including the actual villain.
* GeniusDitz: He's a skilled enough cowboy to reach levels of TheDreaded 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''.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: 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.
* GracefulLoser: 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. [[spoiler:To become a samurai.]]
* GratuitousEnglish: In the Japanese dub.
* TheGunslinger: All part of his cowboy motif.
* IdenticalStranger: To further convey their similarities -- Andy is essentially [[PaletteSwap 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.
* InvulnerableHorses: To absurd levels, his horse can survive explosions and gunfire with little effort.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Go Go Cactus Man". Because Andy also whistles it, [[SourceMusic even the people in the show are aware of it]] and [[OhCrap respond appropriately]]. Also becomes a kind of ImageSong on one soundtrack CD, where his voice actor adds in-character vocals to the track.
* LordErrorProne: 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.
* MirrorCharacter: He's essentially Spike minus the tragic parts of his life. Faye and Jet [[NotSoDifferentRemark 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.
* PrivilegedRival: Andy comes from a very wealthy family, and only hunts for the thrill and prestige.
* RecognitionFailure: 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.
* RevolversAreJustBetter: He wields a pair of them, as befitting a cowboy.
* RidingIntoTheSunset: Manages to do this ''on top of a skyscraper''. Don't ask us how he got down.
* TheRival: To Spike.
* RivalsTeamUp: Averted; even with the Teddy Bomber around, he and Spike spend the entire episode fighting each other instead.
* SitcomArchNemesis: He's essentially Spike's ''id'' incarnate, and not really a bad guy.
* SpannerInTheWorks: 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.
* UnknownRival: Spike is his. Andy can't even remember him until their final encounter.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Teddy Bomber]]
!!Ted Bower, the Teddy Bomber
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakayaHashi (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.
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* AffablyEvil: 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.
* BadassBaritone: He actually has quite a deep, resonant voice, which of course makes his [[VillainousBreakdown childish tantrum-throwing]] all the funnier.
* IgnoredEnemy: Spike and Andy soon begin ignoring him completely in favor of fighting each other. This gets on his nerves.
* MadBomber: Blows up gigantic skyscrapers with bomb-rigged teddy bears.
* MotiveRant: 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 [[spoiler:Samurai]] Andy:
-->'''Teddy Bomber:''' I only wanted to send out a warning... against the needless waste created by capitalism without philosophy, the [[InsistentTerminology needless]] colonization of planets, and the [[RuleOfThree needless]] circulation of slanted media, and [[InsaneTrollLogic 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, [[HeelRealization it was all needless too]], wasn't it...? ''[prison guard pats him on the shoulder as "Cactus Man" plays]''
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's a fairly obvious reference to Theodore Kaczynski, without the body count.
* NonActionBigBad: He has no physical fighting skills whatsoever.
* RunningGag: "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 MotiveRant in as a letter to "Big Shots", but the episode has to close before Judy can read it.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: 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 [[FullNameBasis Teddy Bomber]] as if that's his first and last name.
* TechnicalPacifist: 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.
* TerroristsWithoutACause: Played with. He ''has'' an agenda, but he keeps being interrupted before he can explain it.
* VillainousBreakdown: 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 AllForNothing and breaking down chuckling.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: 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 MotiveRant 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.
* WorthyOpponent: 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.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:"Dr. Londes"]]
!!"Dr. Londes" (real name [[spoiler:Rosny Spanggen]])
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChikaoOhtsuka (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.
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* AlasPoorVillain: It turns out that [[spoiler: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.]]
* AndIMustScream: Already a partial case, considering [[spoiler: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.]]
* BrainUploading: 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. [[spoiler: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.]]
* GivenNameReveal: Jet, Ed, and Ein's investigations turn up his real name: [[spoiler:14-year-old Rosny Spanggen (sic; Ronny in the subtitles, Rony in the credits).]]
* AGodAmI: 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.
* ItsAllAboutMe: 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 [[spoiler:his physical body is in.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He is clearly based on Marshall Applewhite, the leader of the infamous Heaven's Gate cult.
* PsychopathicManchild: As Jet soon discovers, Londes is far more immature and petty than his appearance suggests. [[spoiler:Which makes sense as he actually is an angry teenager throwing a deadly tantrum over his physical limitations.]]
* TheReveal: The elderly cult leader Dr. Londes isn't what he seems. That much is obvious. [[spoiler: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.]]
* UnskilledButStrong: 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. [[spoiler:He's totally blindsided when Ed pulls the plug on his connection from his body's hospital room.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: When Spike gives him a ShutUpHannibal, and then when Ed [[spoiler: shuts off his connection to the internet.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: 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.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Siniz Appledelhi]]
!!Siniz Hesap Lütfen Appledelhi
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenjiUtsumi (JPN), Barry Stigler (ENG), Creator/MiguelAngelGhigliazza (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...
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Beats Spike hand to hand and makes it look trivial.
* BadassBookworm: A kooky geologist who beats both Spike and Jet.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's normally a pretty affable guy, but don't get on his bad side. Spike ended up learning that the hard way.
* CloudCuckooLander: 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 [[spoiler: completely forget where he left Ed, on top of accidentally abandoning Ed [[ShaggyDogStory two minutes after their reunion]] due to another meteorite.]]
* CurbStompBattle: 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 ''[[ImprobableWeaponUser an egg]]'' at him.
* ImpossibleTask: 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.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: 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 [[CurbStompBattle the fight]].
* NonchalantDodge: He manages to dodge nearly every punch and kick Spike throws while barely even moving.
* NoSell: Any blows Spike managed to deliver to him -- which were hardly any -- didn't even make him flinch.
* OverlyLongName: Siniz Hesap Lütfen Appledelhi. It's Turkish.
** MeaningfulName: When translated the name means "You're crazy, check please." This is also coupled with NoPronunciationGuide as the "Siniz" part of the name is supposed to be pronounced as "Sinnis" rather than "she-knees".
* ParentalAbandonment: Though not intentionally. [[spoiler: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. [[ShaggyDogStory Again]].]]
* UseYourHead: Delivers a headbutt that sends Spike sprawling head over heels across the ground several feet away. Twice.
[[/folder]]

![[Anime/CowboyBebopKnockinOnHeavensDoor Movie]] Characters
[[folder:Vincent Volaju]]
!!Vincent Volaju
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Tsutomu Isobe (JPN), Creator/DaranNorris (ENG), Creator/GerardoReyero (SPN-LA), Salvador Aldeguer (SPN-EU)
->''"No one can draw a line between sane and insane."''

The main antagonist of the ''Cowboy Bebop'' movie, ''[[Anime/CowboyBebopKnockinOnHeavensDoor 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).
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* AmnesiacLover: [[spoiler:Among the things he's forgotten is his relationship with Electra, but he recalls her just before he dies.]]
* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler:He tries something with Faye, but only gets a far as cutting open her shirt before one of his lackeys comes by demanding money.]]
* AxCrazy: It's fairly apparent from the get-go that all is not well in this guy's head.
* BadBoss: Count the underlings that get out of working for him alive! Hint: none of them do.
* BadassLongcoat: It's simultaneously sinister and badass.
* BeardOfEvil: The picture of him [[spoiler:from when he was a soldier]], presumably before he went nuts, shows him clean-shaven, and he definitely looks much less sinister.
* BigBad: Of the movie.
* BloodKnight: Even if he can, he won't avoid a fight.
* CombatPragmatist: 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.
* CompositeCharacter: He has Vicious's [[StrawNihilist nihilism]] and status as an EvilCounterpart to Spike and Tongpu's [[PlayingWithSyringes origin]] and SuperSoldier nature. He's basically Spike's two most dangerous enemies rolled into one.
%%* CreepyMonotone
* DeathSeeker: He wants to escape the "purgatory" that he believes he's been trapped in [[spoiler:since he was on Titan]]. Unfortunately, he believes doing so requires killing everyone on the planet.
%%* {{Determinator}}
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: 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.
* EvilCounterpart: 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.
* EvilSoundsDeep: 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. [[spoiler: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.]]
* GeniusBruiser: While being a dangerous terrorist and LightningBruiser 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.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:He remembers Electra, the woman he loved, in his final moments, after she {{Mercy Kill}}s 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 [[DyingAsYourself die at peace, fully himself for the first time in years]].]]
* HealingFactor: He can come back from an ''obscene'' amount of bodily damage due to the nanomachines inside him.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V3j4leyLjs&feature=related "Is it Real?"]]
* LightningBruiser: 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.
* MadeOfIron: He barely feels anything and regenerates so quickly as to appear to take no damage at all from anything Spike can throw at him.
* ManipulativeBastard: He easily conned his underlings into serving their purposes and disposes of them, very swiftly.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Why Electra kills him -- the experiments have essentially destroyed his mind, and he will never "wake up" unless he dies.]]
* MrImagination: 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 HealingFactor is provided by the nanomachine experiments he underwent as part of the Martian Army's attempts to create a SuperSoldier for the war on Titan.
* OmnicidalManiac: 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.
* PlayingWithSyringes: Like certain other individuals [[spoiler:on Titan]], he was used in medical experimentation. [[spoiler:In his case, he became a SuperSoldier.]]
* PsychoticSmirk: His default expression is a dead-eyed, faintly amused smile as he hands out brutal beatdowns and cold-bloodedly murders his own henchmen.
* SinisterSwitchblade: He uses one to cut Faye's top and murder one of his henchman after he'd outlived his usefulness.
* SoftSpokenSadist: He speaks very softly, but is a very dangerous terrorist.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:He's the sole survivor of a series of experiments during the Titan War.]]
* StrawNihilist: "I have no fear of death. It just means dreaming in silence. A dream that lasts for eternity."
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Vicious.
* TragicVillain: His backstory is REALLY tragic, unlike Vicious'.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: It's ambiguous whether it was a result of the trauma he suffered or deliberately induced [[spoiler: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.
* WarriorPoet: Vincent has a surprisingly philosophical approach to his grand scheme, particularly with the nature of being condemned to a world you can’t escape.
* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:He offers this chance to Faye. She refused vehemently.]]
* WickedWitch: During Halloween Day [[spoiler:(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.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:He plans to release the nanomachines which transformed him into a SuperSoldier across the world, which would kill everyone on Mars who lacks immunity (that is to say 99.999%).]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: His standard method of dealing with his subordinates.
-->"Come on, Vincent, I did everything you said!"
-->"Did you say your prayers?"
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Electra Ovilo]]
!!Electra Ovilo
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AiKobayashi (JPN), Creator/JenniferHale (ENG), Cony Madera (SPN-LA), Ana Jiménez (SPN-EU)
->''"Let's go... together."''

A corporate soldier who has some unknown past connections with Vincent.
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* ActionGirl: She an experienced and capable soldier.
%%* {{Bifauxnen}}
* DeadpanSnarker: To a degree:
-->'''Spike:''' Love the toreador thing. Black pants, red jacket. Nice look.
-->'''Electra:''' The jumpsuit does nothing for you.
-->'''Spike:''' Aw... [[SnarkToSnarkCombat I guess not...]]
* DudeMagnet: Many male characters, including Spike and one of her coworkers, express attraction to her.
* HasAType: Was in love with [[spoiler: 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.
* LoveHurts: [[spoiler: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.
* LoveMartyr: [[spoiler: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.]]
* MaleGaze: 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 BetweenMyLegs shot during said fight.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Knowing that [[spoiler: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.
* ShipTease: 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.
* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler:She and Vincent have this relationship, and it got much worse when he became an AmnesiacLover.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lee Sampson]]
!!Lee Sampson
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YujiUeda (JPN), Creator/DaveWittenberg (ENG)
->''"Press my... reset button."''

A teenaged hacker who's become involved with Vincent's scheme to spread nanomachines into the atmoshpere of Mars.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: He's mostly interested in video games and barely shows fear at Faye pointing her gun at him, simply ranting that she's ruined his high score. He also treats everything like a game, not realizing the full consequences of Vincent's plan coming to fruition.
* BlackAndNerdy: A dark-skinned teen who's an incredibly capable hacker.
* TheCracker: He's able to hack almost everything and spread viruses through major networks, taking over them with his taunting messages.
* EvilCounterpart: 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.
* FanOfThePast: He's a noted fan of early-20th century video games, noting that there's something special about 2D graphics.
* 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.
* TeensAreMonsters: He's said to be a teen, and he's already amassed a large bounty, showing no concern for the damage he causes.
* TheSociopath: Lee cares far more about his games than actual human lives, even being gleefully willing to participate in genocide for fun and infamy.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Vincent shoots a capsule with nanomachines after Sampson released the computer virus, infecting him and causing his death.]]
[[/folder]]

!Spinoff Characters
[[folder:The Scorpion]]
!!The Scorpion

The Scorpion is a character from the AlternateContinuity SpinOff 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.
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* CanonForeigner: Scorpion is pretty obviously Vicious's stand-in since the latter is absent from this continuity. [[spoiler:Unless Vicious was the "someone" below...]]
* ChildProdigy: He was gifted enough to be taken under the Syndicate's wing despite being a young child.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler: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 AlternateContinuity, 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.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Although he can be legitimately friendly and hospitable, he can also be extremely petty and passive-aggressive if he feels like it.
* TheHeavy: [[spoiler:By virtue of the BigBad never showing up before cancellation.]]
* ThePlotReaper: [[spoiler: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.]]
%%* SlasherSmile
%%* WickedCultured
[[/folder]]

* EvilFormerFriend: He and Spike.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Whenever he talks with Spike. Otherwise, he's curt and stoic.

* KatanasAreJustBetter: [[GoodOldWays Even in the future.]]

* {{Lust}}: The lust for power variant.

%%* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Spike's red. (One of two.)

* TheUnfettered: All Vicious wants is to control the Red Dragons and kill Spike. Everything else can burn.
* UngratefulBastard: He's simply indifferent to any good thing a person does for him. In fairness, Spike and Julia betrayed him first, and Vicious [[EvilMentor was suprisingly upfront]] with Lin that Lin would have to betray him.
* TheUsurper: Seizes control of Red Dragon after eliminating its leaders.

* ArchEnemy: He and Jet Black hate each other due to Jet being the one who got him arrested and Udai [[spoiler:and Fad]] being the one who gave him his robotic arm and took him out of the police force. To put it simply, [[ItsPersonal Jet has a vendetta]] against Udai.

* BornInTheWrongCentury: 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 him, but also certifies Udai as Jet's natural, personal enemy.
* CardCarryingVillain: He refers to himself as "the devil" at the very start of the episode after breaking out and slaughtering a group of guards. [[TheDreaded That tells you all you need to know about him]].

* DisproportionateRetribution: He kills a man simply for arguing with him.

* KnightOfCerebus: He's perhaps the only VillainOfTheWeek that is taken 100% seriously, and the only villain besides Vicious who is treated without any comedy or levity at all, (even Tongpu as terrifying as he was, wasn't treated as seriously and the terror he inspired in the audience was slightly undermined by his FreudianExcuse and the pathetic nature of his death), while also having no redeeming qualities to his name. His episode also largely lacks [[ShooOutTheClowns Edward and Ein]].

* NothingUpMySleeve: Like [[Film/{{Desperado}} Navajas]], those little knives just seem to appear in the palm of his hands as needed.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: 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. [[spoiler:On top of that, Fad, a CorruptCop on the payroll of TheSyndicate, was already hunting Udai down with the intent of killing him.]]

* KnifeNut: They're his weapon of choice, and he's good enough with them to take out gun wielding opponents. He uses [[ShoutOut the same little cross-shaped throwing knives]] as [[Creator/DannyTrejo Navajas]] in ''Film/{{Desperado}}''.

* PirateParrot: The bird on his shoulder (a cormorant rather than a parrot), which fits with his SpacePirate image. As the story goes on, the little FeatheredFiend seems to be [[MoralityPet the only thing Vicious still actually cares about]] right up until he ''[[SubvertedTrope blows the poor creature to smithereens]]''.

* AbsoluteCleavage: She has her moments when she wears revealing outfits.

* BathingBeauty: She loves showering and soaking in a bath. Many episodes feature Faye in - or just coming out of - the tub. When she first pushes her way onto the Bebop crew, the first thing she does is hit the shower. Spike tiredly walks in after her moments later with the intent of telling her she isn't welcome - only for us to hear her [[CantBatheWithoutAWeapon opening fire on him]] for [[ShowerOfAwkward the intrusion]].

* CryoSickness: [[spoiler: She was killed by explosive decompression during the Gate Disaster, and frozen until meducine caught up with it.]] She's thawed out amnesiac, with only her [[spoiler: creditor's]] word for it that she's named "Faye Valentine" at all.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Not as noticeable as other examples, but while most characters in the show have realistic hair colors and facial features, Ed has a [[MessyHair wild]] head of fiery red hair, permanent BlushStickers, big, expressive anime eyes, and is sometimes drawn without a nose, DependingOnTheArtist, and it's likely she's designed this way to accentuate her oddness compared to everyone else. Even the green shading in Spike's hair and the blue in Faye's are dark enough to appear black (or in Spike's case, more of a grayish black) in some scenes, and might even be that color in-universe.

* ShroudedInMyth: Based on the the word on the street, Jet can be forgiven for gathering the following in his investigations:

* AbsoluteCleavage: Judy's vest.

* MsFanservice: Judy, InUniverse.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Rintarou Nishi (JPN), Creator/KirkThornton (ENG), Marcos Patiño (SPN-LA)

* HourOfPower: While high on Bloody Eye, Asimov practically has super powers. Once he starts coming down, however, he's definitely not superhuman, and the effects don't last long. The withdrawal symptoms look pretty nasty.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yurika Hino (JPN), Katia Moraes (ENG), Creator/LauraTorres (SPN-LA)

!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/RyuzaburoOtomo (JPN), Joe Romersa (ENG)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Mari Arita (JPN), Creator/MaryElizabethMcGlynn (ENG), Liza Willert (SPN-LA)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Tomie Kataoka (JPN), Melodee Spevack (ENG)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Michael Lindsay (ENG)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyuseiNakao (JPN), Tom Fahn (ENG)

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

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

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

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakeshiAono (JPN), Simon Prescott (ENG)

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

* GratuitousEnglish: In the Japanese version, most of his brief lines are in English.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Shucks howdy!"

* AmbiguousDisorder: Her proficiency with one subject (hacking), inability to socialise correctly, idiosyncratic movements and visible discomfort with specific types of clothing, habit of repeating words she or others have said and general disconnect from discussions or events around her are all possible symptoms of autism.

* EvilCounterpart: To Spike. Vincent takes Spike's "Is life a dream, and am I really alive?" philosophy in a spectacularly violent fashion. 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.

** In ''Ballad of Fallen Angels'', Faye demands to know who he is when brought before him, only to go wide eyed and get very scared when Vicious reveals his identity. The fear of Vicious sticks with her so much that in''Jupiter Jazz'' she freaks out just from ''hearing his voice on a phone.''

* EvilCounterpart: To Spike. Vincent takes Spike's "Is life a dream, and am I really alive?" philosophy and takes it {{up to eleven}} in a spectacularly violent fashion. 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.

** In ''Jupiter Jazz'', Faye freaks out just from ''hearing his voice on a phone.''

* FallenAngel: Invokes this when he reunites with Spike.

* FantasticDrug: Possibly. In one flashback scene a Red Eye injector seems to be on Vicious' nightstand, and {{Fanon}} believes that Vicious may be a regular user. It's one explanation for how he can survive gun fights while using a sword as his primary weapon.

* HonorBeforeReason: [[spoiler:Strangely enough, displayed in the final battle. Both combatants lose their weapons to each other during their fight and then proceed to slide each other's weapons back to the other for a QuickDraw duel, which ultimately kills him. This is rather unusual for Vicious as in every other scenario he is portrayed as a ruthless pragmatist.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: He wants to take down the Van for no longer being able to fight themselves, but he himself doesn't do as much hands-on fighting as he used to and often lets his men do the dirty work. He also hates Spike in part for betraying him over Julia, but ends up backstabbing many more people later, even advising Lin to take up that sort of behavior.

** Visually, as [[FatBastard an obese villain]] in [[SharpDressedMan a black tux]] and [[NiceHat top-hat]], he's a dead-ringer for ComicBook/ThePenguin.

* NiceHat: Sort of? It's a plain white cowboy hat.

* TheDreaded: Probably best personified when he's brought before the Syndicate leaders. When Vicious is being restrained and makes the "get your hands off me" motion, all the armed guards look like they're about to crap their pants.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: It's left ambiguous much like many details surrounding him, but there is a reasonable possibility that he ''used'' to care about Spike and Julia, as he's shown genuinely and happily smiling with them in one piece of official art (something he never did in the anime proper), and it's vaguely suggested that their affair behind his back hurt him on some level. However, by the time we first see him in the anime, that possible care is long gone, and the only positive feeling he has left for Spike is some respect.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Whenever he talks with Spike.

* TrueCompanions: He had always presumed Spike and Julia were his. When he found he was wrong, [[RivalTurnedEvil something inside him broke]].

* GlassCannon: The most likely explanation for his combat pragmatism. While Spike can survive beatings and injuries that would have killed any normal man, [[spoiler: Vicious goes down with one gunshot to the gut.]]