Characters who appear in Golgo 13 stories 1-100.
A former SS captain living under a false name. He has the dubious honor of being the target in Golgo's first outing. In the manga, he has a hoard of counterfeit British money, which he plans to use in order to destabilize the British economy. The money is hidden in a time-locked safe in his mansion. Golgo kills him by damaging his mansion, drilling a hole in his safe, and then hiding in said safe until Muller opens it, before locking himself up again and escaping the way he came in. In the movie, he hides in a bulletproof penthouse in San Francisco. Golgo 13 is hired to assassinate him by a former concentration camp survivor and does so by making a borderline impossible shot through the windows of an obstructing building.
- Boom, Headshot!: In the movie, How he meets his well-deserved end via Golgo sniping clean through the windows of another building to reach him.
- Death by Cameo: In The Professional.
- Out with a Bang: He gets shot right through the head while engaging in an orgy with several women at the top of his penthouse.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: He was a former SS captain after all.
- Villainous Valour: Despite having attempted to kill Golgo, he does allow her to blow up Muller's safe with a remote explosive he installed.
Ixion
A blind assassin with a guide dog named Centaurus and "godly" draw speed. The first real example of a rival within the Golgo 13 story, he and Golgo are competing over the destruction of an international gold-smuggling syndicate that's cutting into the Swiss banking community. One half of the partnership, Oleg Constatin, hires him to kill his partner, but double-crosses the blind gunman by paying him in fake bills. As a matter of professionalism, he kills Oleg for having betrayed him.
- Achilles' Heel: His hearing. Golgo uses this to his advantage by throwing his M16 to the side, which distracts Ixion's hearing long enough to make a kill shot.
- Berserk Button: DO NOT call him a "deformity". He may be blind, but he's also one of the world's best assassins. His client found it out the hard way and ended up with a bullet in his head.
- Cruel to Be Kind: Golgo kills Centaurus after he kills Ixion, so they can be joined in death.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: In later stories, Golgo almost always gets his man, and very rarely lets anyone steal his kills. Ixion did just that, twice, just before Golgo could.
- Meaningful Name: Ixion, in Greek mythology, was the first murderer in history. He was also the father of Centaurus, the father of the centaurs. His dog is named after the latter figure.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Blind he may be, but he certainly is quite handsome.
- Underestimating Badassery: He's blind, but quick on the trigger. And has a guard dog.
- Quick Draw: His main gimmick, aside from his blindness.
Angela Kruger
A woman who is indebted to the mob boss Nicholas Melangy.
- Femme Fatale: She tries to be this to Golgo, first making a clumsy attempt to kill him which he sees through and dismisses, then claiming that Nicholas forced her to do it, begging him from protection, and sleeping with him before trying to poison him. However, he sees through her ruse.
Dave Kruger, AKA "Golden Boy"
An Olympic-level sharpshooter who is also the protege to mob boss Nicholas Melangy. A student and prize sharpshooter for Johnson College. When Golgo kills his sister (after Melangy tries to use her as bait for the assassin), Melangy convinces him to duel with Golgo on the university grounds.
- Bond Villain Stupidity: He snuck up on Golgo and by all rights had him dead... but he decided to challenge him to a duel instead of shooting him in the back.
- Chick Magnet: The co-eds at his university fawn over him and his shooting skills.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Looks out for his sister, and is likewise none too pleased when Golgo sends her corpse back to Melangy in a travelling bag.
- For Want Of A Nail: Had he not decided to sneak up on Golgo and challenge him to a battle to satisfy his honor, he could have ended the man's career by a simple headshot just as he snuck behind him.
- Honor Before Reason: He snuck up on Golgo and was in the perfect position to kill him... but opted to warn him instead and challenge him to a duel.
- Skilled, but Naive: Is a master of the Quick Draw, but has zero experience as a sniper. This is something Golgo uses to his advantage very early on.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Fits this to a T, crowned his pompadour.
- Tranquil Fury: Does not fly into a rage when he finds out the world's best hitman murdered his sister, but is suitably willing to take him on if it meant avenging her.
- Quick Draw: He actually beats Golgo on the draw, but hits him in the shoulder. This allows Golgo to nail him in he head with his M16.
Nicholas Melangy
A mob boss who tries to take out Golgo 13.
- The Mafia: He is a mafia boss.
Vincent Kessler, AKA "Shadow"
A former Canadian Marine and Olympic sharpshooter, he becomes the point man for a gang of hijackers who take over the oiler SS Dexy for ransom.
- All There in the Manual: His real name is revealed in the original manga, but it isn't mentioned in the anime adaptation.
- Dwindling Party: Is the last of the hijackers Golgo kills.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He certainly has a fair amount of affection for his girlfriend, who sadly gets thrown overboard before the hijacking.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Ironically, in a series where Cold Sniper types like Golgo frequently run around and find success, he's got a short fuse and still manages to have the ice-cold nerves necessary for a sniper to succeed.
- The Heavy: As the hijacking gang's point man, it's up t him to snipe anyone who tries to gets into spitting distance of the ship.
- Run for the Border: The gang plans to get into international waters long before the US Coast Guard can get onboard and defuse the crisis.
- Say My Name: Just before he dies, he asks Golgo who the hell he is. Surprisingly, Duke answers him just as he slumps dead.
- Secret Test of Character: Golgo tests his shooting skills by taking his boat into firing range in the middle of a hurricane. Had Golgo not installed bulletproof glass on the boat, he might very well have ended up with a bullet in the head, because the shot was dead-on.
"Cassowary," AKA "Hilda"
A lesbian assassin hired by the mafia to kill Golgo. She couldn't have chosen a better (or in Golgo's case, worse) time to go up against him because Golgo's down from a case of Guillian-Barre syndrome
, and as such, is unable to use a gun or any weapon to defend himself with. Named for the flightless bird with a reputation as the world's most dangerous. She has a brief cameo in Assignment Kowloon as an assassin who kills Golgo's first target, then tries to ambush Golgo when he's bed with the target's wife right after.
- Butch Lesbian / Lipstick Lesbian: Wanders the scale between both. She wears feminine dresses and wears her hair long, but doesn't have makeup or lisptick, and in her relationship with her partner, it's clear she's the tachi.
- Combat Pragmatist: Tries to use Golgo's recent case of Guillian-Barre syndrome to her advantage in order to kill him. She very nearly succeeds.
- Compensating for Something: Her lesbianism and job as an assassin are hinted a cover for a fear of men - something Golgo finds out and uses against her to turn the tables.
- Death by Cameo: Only appears in two scenes during Assignment Kowloon.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Has a female partner who's on first-name terms with her.
- Full-Frontal Assault: How Golgo beats her. The sight of his manhood sends her into a panic, allowing him to kill her.
- Gayngster: Hired by the Mafia to kill Golgo and openly lesbian.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: All we get from her partner is her being called "Hilda", and even then it might very well be an alias.
- Lesbian Jock: She is lesbian hitwoman after all.
- Meaningful Name: Highly distrustful of men, extremely vicious during the attack, when provoked.
- The Cameo: Has one in Assignment Kowloon, as a rival assassin wh kills off Golgo's first target. She tries to kill Golgo while he's romancing said target's widow, but she ended up getting hit with a lethal case of Assassin Outclassin'.
"The Persian"
A retired hitman who became a gun salesman after losing his arm. He decides to sabotage one of Golgo's jobs. It doesn't go well for him.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Golgo aims a gun at him, the Persian literally licks Golgo's shoes and offers to perform oral sex on him in exchange for his life. It doesn't work.
- An Arm and a Leg: He lost his arm and then gave up being a hitman.
- Death Seeker: After Golgo shoots him, he expresses relief that Golgo didn't listen to his pleas to spare his life.
- Evil Is Petty: It's implied that the main reason he botched Golgo's job was due to a combination of envy and resentment at the younger man successfully maintaining his status and reputation as a professional assassin while the Persian was forced to quit the game after the loss of his arm.
- Game-Breaking Injury: It's heavily implied that he had to retire after his risky and reckless lifestyle finally caught up with him.The Persian: Yes! Yes! I was once like you! Once much like you Mr. Togo! I shot the British for the Germans, and the Germans for the British! I worked for the Arabs, and I worked for the Jews! Until one day chance caught up with me, and I lost my arm!
- Gonk: He's drawn in a disgusting manner, especially his teeth, which are crooked, jagged, and drawn much larger than those of other characters.
- No Name Given: He's only identified as 'the Persian.'
- Retired Monster: He's definately got a pretty high bodycount if his claims about his past are true.
- That One Case: The job he sabotaged? That is the first recorded failed job on Golgo's record.
- Troll: Why did he sabotage Golgo? Just because he felt like it. He had no political, personal, or monetary motive.
Yigal Elem
An Israeli military planner. The United Arab Republic hires Golgo to shoot him, but when Golgo tries, things go wrong.
- That One Case: He is the only person Golgo 13 tries to assassinate who actually survives.
- The Unfought: Golgo plans to kill him, but then his gun misfires, so Golgo abandons the job and spends the rest of the mission trying to figure out how the misfire occurred. Golgo does track down and get revenge on the guy who sabotaged him, but he never goes back to shoot Elem.
Kirk Rolland, AKA The Colonel
A rich and repugnant man who has the entire town of Florewood, Mississippi under his control. After a local Vietnam veteran named Abel Barnett returns home from the war, Rolland (who goes by "the Colonel" even though he never served in the military) harasses the boy to the point of suicide for petty and cruel reasons. Unfortunately for Rolland, Barnett had a friend named Sammy Brown who had served in the military with him, spent five years in the same Viet Cong POW camp as him, and was willing to hire Golgo 13 to avenge him.
- Churchgoing Villain: In this case it's used to highlight the Colonel's complete and utter hypocrisy. One minute he's complaining about the police chief calling him in to the station "on the Lord's day," and the next he's paying off a dirty cop to murder the man who warned him about Golgo 13 coming to assassinate him.
- Dirty Coward: The man insults and bullies a Vietnam veteran and goes out of his way to be a racist jerk, but when he finds out a professional assassin is coming after him, he pulls out all the stops to protect himself.
- Evil Is Petty: The reason he bullied and tormented Abel to the point of suicide? The poor boy dared to mention the name of his hometown in a 'Peace Petition' he signed after having been captured by the Viet Cong, which the Colonel felt was an embarrassment to the town and therefore him.
- I Own This Town: He has the entire town of Florewood in his back pocket. He even has the entire police force on his payroll and is able to order them to set up search parties and blockades all just to protect himself.
- Karmic Death: After driving Barnett to suicide and having multiple people murdered for no other reason than his own racism, Rolland is finally gunned down by Golgo 13.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Good lord. The man and his cronies drop racial slurs and insults like other people might use punctuation.
- Ungrateful Bastard: When Zachary Poole, the black stool pigeon who warns him about Golgo asks for a reward he takes out a few bills, puts them on the table and then...Poole: Three... three hundred? Well, thank you!Rolland: It's not for you. One is for the officer who will throw you down the stairs... the other two are for your burial detail.Chief Sturgis: ...yes sir.
- Would Hit a Girl: When he finds out that the woman Sturgis brought in knows where Golgo is he doesn't hesitate to order him to use violence to get her to reveal his location, making it perfectly clear that he'll do the job himself if need be.Rolland:Well, then you go and get it out of her now, then! Or if you don't want you job, shall I do it? By god, you better not be too lazy to swing a club into a stomach!Sturgis: Yes, sir.
Chief Lester Sturgis
The chief of police in Florewood, Mississippi. He is just as racist as Kirk Rolland, and when he hears about Golgo 13's plans, he immediately orders his police force to do everything in their power to gun Golgo down.
- Dirty Cop: He functions more as Rolland's personal enforcer than as a lawman, and when his police officers kill a random Japanese guy they thought was Golgo, Sturgis helps to cover it up by planting a gun on the man's body.
- The Dragon: He's Colonel Rolland's right hand man and main enforcer.
- Karmic Death: Even though Golgo wasn't paid to kill him and he wasn't a threat to Golgo by the end of the story, Golgo still shoots him. Given Sturgis's constant racism and his willingness to kill completely innocent people, though, few would shed any tears at his death.
- Would Hit a Girl: He immediately agrees to Rolland's suggestion of using force to get a black woman he recently arrested to reveal Golgo's location. Luckily, Golgo was a lot closer than he ever anticipated and stops him before he can get the chance.
Sandrine Salvi
A member of the Union Corse, which is a Corsican gang. Salvi claims to be the only one who knows the real identify of the mysterious "Dr. Z," a figure who creates new types of drugs which the gang sells. When Golgo is hired to kill Dr. Z, he gets himself picked to be her bodyguard and seduces her before discovering that she herself is Dr. Z... and also that she's completely deranged.
- Adaptation Name Change: She becomes Cindy in The Professional.
- Mercy Kill: Golgo's execution of her after her complete mental breakdown comes off as this.
