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In General

The world of Killer Bean Forever has a number of characters, most of them absolute dicks in one way or another, and most likely to end up dead eventually.



The Bean Himself

    Killer Bean 

Jack AKA Killer Bean

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Voiced by: Vegas Trip (Killer Bean Forever), Jeff Lew (all of his other appearances)

The anti-heroic main protagonist of the Killer Bean franchise. He is introduced as a mysterious killer/potential vigilante bean seemingly on the hunt for local Mafia boss Cappuccino after massacring one of his hideouts. He's ultimately revealed to be one of the top agents (Shadow Beans) of a sinister organization of assassins, the Shadow Agency, with his true target being former Shadow Bean Operative Vagan, Cappuccino's right hand man. After learning the Awful Truth behind his mission and his own betrayal by the Agency, Killer Bean goes rogue and now hunts down the Agency.


  • The Ace: When confronting his intended target Vagan, he describes himself as being one of the Agency's best Shadow Beans. It's not an unfounded claim, although if Jet Bean and Vagan's reputation are any indication, you'd have to be one to be in the organization.
  • Attack! Attack! Attack!: A downplayed case, as while Killer Bean is capable of strategy and acrobatics to compliment his fighting style, it's very clear that he prefers to attack his opponents directly. This ends up being turned against him in his fight against Jet Bean, since the martial artist is simply a far better hand to hand fighter with greater maneuverability, and the ability to deflect bullets. It takes Killer Bean using a more complex strategy with bullet misdirection to win.
  • Berserk Button: Calling him reckless is the last thing you should do, specially if you are close and an easy target for this bean. He gets furious when the chief of the Shadow Agency calls him reckless and gives a hell of a Death Glare to Cromwell when he has the audacy to call him that way in the bar.
  • Blood Knight: He'll take any reason, no matter how petty, to spill blood (or should we say, the beans?). The Agency calls him out on this, as his bloodthirsty behavior leads to recklessness, which leads to unwanted attention.
    • The first few things he has to say when he opens into his Far Cry 5 playthrough is asking where the weapons are.
  • Curb Stomp Cushion: He gets subjected to one by Jet Bean, when the latter assaults him on the police station. They fight with their fists, and while Killer Bean gives a hell of a fight, he is still outclassed and defeated by Jet Bean, forcing him to use his guns and strategy to kill him.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: He kills Cappuccino's nephew and his friends for not turning down the music to their party in the middle of the night.
  • Fatal Flaw: His arrogance and recklessness, or more specifically his tendency to be extremely careless when he's handling a situation. This ends up frequently making things much harder for him during his mission:
    • Him choosing to slaughter all of Cappuccino's goons (and his nephew), while leaving his spent bullet casings with his name on it all over the place results in Cromwell becoming aware of him, Vagan to be aware that someone from the Shadow Agency is after him, and Cappuccino to give Vagan whatever resources he needs to take Killer Bean down.
    • After the above, he wakes up still irritable, and in his infinite lack of wisdom considers assassinating Cromwell with a sniper rifle from his bedroom window in broad daylight, despite there being at least one reporter and cameraman, as well as half a dozen cops and their police cruisers directly across from his apartment. If his contact hadn't interrupted at the moment he was about to pull the trigger, he probably would have made his mission even more difficult for no reason. His recklessness at this point is dangerously close to sheer stupidity from the utter lack of common sense on display.
    • He chooses to get into another shootout with Vagan, and then casually goes to a bar directly across the street where Cromwell finds him for interrogation. He also foolishly leaves the note regarding the Shadow Agency just lying on the floor, where Cromwell easily finds it, thus cluing him in to a bigger conspiracy beyond Cappuccino's mafia.
    • His dismissal of Vagan's warnings about the Shadow Agency intending to kill him off once Vagan is dead ends up catching him off guard afterwards, leaving him less than prepared for when Jet Bean comes to kill him, with only the latter's arrogance preventing him from being killed.
    • Even in the short-lived series this ends up blowing up in his face, as in his hastiness to get former Shadow Agency operative Kessler to work with him on finding the Shadow Agency's Headquarters, he accidentally ends up destroying one of two supercomputers that would have done so, forcing him to engage with the dangerous arms dealer Reximus in order to get the other one.
  • Genius Bruiser: Expert with any kind of weapon you give him and a skilled hand-to-hand fighter. He is also an expert driver and very cunning. It's zigzagged in that as competent as he is, he has frighteningly little sense of restraint or consideration for subtlety, frequently getting himself into bigger trouble just by virtue of refusing to stop and think about his actions for more than a few seconds.
  • Heel Realization: Downplayed. While he doesn't exactly weep over it, the look on his face after he kills Vagan and realizes he was betrayed by the Agency shows that, at the very least, he feels bad for being so reckless at that moment.
  • It's Personal: A large part of Killer Bean's motive for getting involved with the mission. Vagan, or Dark Bean as he used to be known during their Shadow Agency days, was his friend and idol, who he viewed as one of the best agents in their battle against the worst evils in the world. Vagan's betrayal stung Jack deeply, and he is determined to kill Vagan for it. He ultimately manages to do so, but not before Vagan manages to divulge the Awful Truth of why he left.
  • Jerkass: Rude, abrasive, refuses to work with Cromwell (Even when it would be pragmatic for him to do so) and generally mocks his enemies during his fights.
  • Marked Bullet: Deconstructed. Using a specialty gun and engraving his bullet casings sounds cool, up until it gives him an identifier to the police.
  • Meaningful Name: His real name is Jack, and if you assume "Bean" is his last name, that would make his name similar to Jack Bauer.
  • Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Killer Bean.
  • Noble Male, Roguish Male: The Rouguish Bean to Cromwell's Noble Bean, being an antiheroic killer who doesn't follow the law.
  • Nominal Hero: He joined the Agency to "get rid of the trash of the world". This doesn't stop him from attacking or making threats for somewhat petty reasons.
  • One-Man Army: It doesn't matter how much you throw at him, he'll kill it and look cool while doing it. When he attacks another of Cappuccino warehouse, a mook calls Vagan for help; He convinces the latter that it's Killer Bean attacking them remarking he is killing everybody there.
  • Pet the Dog: For all his sociopathic behavior, Killer Bean seemed to have been willing to let Cappuccino walk away from the standoff between him and Vagan unharmed, even if only because Vagan was KB's real target.
    • He also makes sure to pay for his and Cromwell's drinks and leaves a VERY generous tip as compensation for scaring the elderly bartender enough to make him bring a shotgun out of the back. (Though he does make a nuisance of himself afterwords by not flushing properly once he uses the bathroom)
  • Red Is Heroic: Or in this case, Red is Anti-Heroic.
  • Sociopathic Hero: Killer Bean isn't the kind of man... ahem, bean you would describe as kind, merciful or even empathetic. While he does have his own morals, he is absolutely ruthless while following them, and will kill anyone that gets in his way (Or those who don't but still manage to annoy him, as Cappucino's nephew found out), no matter if that bean is a gangster or a member of the police, and he will enjoy the fight that comes with killing them while at that.
  • Smug Super: Very arrogant and reckless, and never shows respect to anyone. Yet at the same time, a skilled and expert professional hitman who can decimate entire armies, even when one mook's got a tank, easily.

The Movie

The Bean Town Police Department

The law enforcers of Bean Town. They are generally very unpleasant with the exception of Cromwell, with a somewhat lenient interpretation of the law. The large majority of them except for Cromwell end up dead after facing the might of one of the Shadow Agency's top assassins, Jet Bean.
    In General 
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Cromwell and the Bean Town Police Department

  • Bigot with a Badge: One of the Bean cops ends up being extremely racist to a passerby. Unfortunately for him and all of his compatriots, that passerby was Jet Bean., who repays him with interest.
  • Bullying a Dragon: They do this twice. The first time was with Vagan, the right hand man of Cappuccino's mafia. The second time was with Jet Bean, to fatal results.
  • Jerkass: While none of them are explicitly shown as Dirty Cops, many of the Bean Town cops are shown to have a very lenient perception of the law, and are overall not the most pleasant of fellows except to higher ups like Cromwell:
    • The first officer we see is shown to be smugly pleased at the idea of not having to deal with a search warrant in order to search through Cappuccino's warehouse after the massacre.
    • When confronting Vagan at the beginning of the film, the police officer with Cromwell threatens to arrest him despite Vagan having not done anything illegal at that point.
    • As seen in Bigot with a Badge, one of them is explicitly racist, mocking a passerby with his racial appearance to his detriment, and later the entire police.
  • Killed Offscreen: They are absolutely brutalized by Jet Bean, with their corpses littering the entire street in front of their precinct as he fought his way to Killer Bean.
  • Sole Survivor: Detective Cromwell ends up being this after Jet Bean slaughters the entirety of the Bean Town Police Department, by virtue of having already left before the assassin arrived at the precinct.
    Detective Cromwell 

Detective Cromwell

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Voiced by: Bryan Session

The Deuteragonist of Killer Bean Forever. A competent detective working for the Bean Town Police Department, he finds himself tangled in an ever-increasingly complex conspiracy as he digs deeper into Killer Bean and Cappuccino's seeming connection.


  • All for Nothing: Cromwell's attempts to understand the broader conspiracy ultimately end up being this. While he's now aware of the existence of the Shadow Agency and Killer Bean, with the murder of his entire police department by Jet Bean and his number one source of information having skedaddled with an armored police van to go after the organization, Cromwell himself is left high and dry.
  • Anti-Hero: Cromwell is quite dead-set on sending Cappuccino to prison, trying to find dirt on him in any way he can, which is why he tries to meet with Killer Bean in the first place to get assistance.
  • Awesomeness by Analysis: His most prominent quality, and it serves him well for the most part:
    • At the beginning he's able to peg that the dance party massacre wasn't a gang war, by virtue of the lack of dead opposing beans to Cappuccino's goons.
    • He's able to guess from the evidence left behind at the dance party that Killer Bean's unique and flashy gear means that he's financially backed by someone(s) of high stature, and that he's either immensely arrogant or reckless. He also correctly suspects he knows where Killer Bean is likely to head next.
  • Badass Boast: When Killer Bean asks him if he brought backup when confronting him in the bar, he just shows off his gun while telling him that this is his backup.
  • Bullying a Dragon: When he meets Killer Bean at a bar, he attemps to intimidate him into killing Cappuccino for him, even calling him reckless. Killer Bean has but two chances of easily killing him and this is after he witnessed the mountain of corpses he left in Cappuccino's warehouse. To be fair, he has the good sense of not picking on him once Killer Bean gets the upper hand on him and he is smart enought to call the entire police force to face him at the end. Killer Bean would have killed him either way, but props for learning from his mistake.
  • Exact Words: He said he'd give Killer Bean a place to sleep. He never mentioned it'd be a jail cell.
  • Fedora of Asskicking: Has a nice brown one that never falls from his head, even when he is knocked to the ground by Killer Bean.
  • Glory Hound: Killer Bean implies this of him, after he finds about Vagan and Cappuccino's deaths, he asks him if he came to see if he did his "dirty work". It's arguable whether or not this is true, given that while he immediately asks after that about The Shadow Agency and the Shadow Beans, it could be he is doing that out of actual goodwill instead of personal glory/fame.
  • Hand Cannon: His weapon of choice. It's bigger than Killer Bean's handguns, which he lampshades when he talks to him.
  • Hardboiled Detective: Gives off this vibe.
  • Nice Guy: Calm, collected and reasonable, even when Killer Bean couldn't care less about him.
  • Noble Male, Roguish Male: The Noble Bean to the Roguish Killer Bean, being a law enforcer.
  • Only Sane Man: For a given value of "sane", but all of the other main characters in the movie are kinda... unstable. Killer Bean is a Sociopathic Hero, Cappuccino is a Bad Boss and Jet Bean has a case of Lack of Empathy and being a cold assassin. Cromwell just wants to arrest Cappuccino and rid Bean Town of Criminals, and apart from some (Unconfirmed) Glory Hound tendencies he is an overall tough, but competent and fair detective.
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: He's implied to be a very competent cop, considering himself and his gun to be sufficient "backup" on two occasions. Killer Bean proves himself much quicker on the draw, and after witnessing the massacre Killer Bean commits in the final warehouse battle, Cromwell has the sense not only to call for backup, but to invoke All of Them in the process. Ultimately Cromwell is so overshadowed by the Professional Killers that make up the rest of the cast that he doesn't get to do any fighting in the film, leaving it ambiguous if his confidence in the film's first half is justified.
  • The Watson: Cromwell ends up being this by virtue of not knowing anything about the Shadow Agency that Killer Bean works for, with his friend Harry having to fill him in on their sordid past and disappearance.

    Harry 
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No, Harry isn't the phone.
Voiced by: David Guilmette (Voice Only)

Cromwell's friend and forensics expert in the Bean Town Police Department.


  • Awesome by Analysis: Fitting for his job, he provides a lot of useful insight into the tire tracks left by Killer Bean's car that allows Cromwell to track him down, as well as how the gold bullets' properties would have made them untraceable under normal circumstances.
  • Mr. Exposition: He serves as this for diagnosing the evidence Killer Bean left behind at the hideout as well as providing Cromwell with more insight of the Shadow Agency and its history with the government before its seeming disbanding ten years ago.
  • Stunned Silence: His reaction after hearing the note's contents about the Shadow Beans still being in operation from Cromwell. His voice afterwards sounds to be in sheer disbelief.
  • The Voice: Much like the Agency on Killer Bean's side, we never see Harry in person, only hearing his voice.

Cappuccino's Syndicate

The opposing side to the Bean Town Police, run by the mafia boss Cappuccino. A dealer in weapons and drugs, Cappuccino has immense power and control, helped by his army of gangsters and mercenaries. Unfortunately for them, this isn't a regular Mafia film, and they're facing a professional killer and One-Man Army in Killer Bean...
    In General 
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Truly the best of Cappuccino's gang, who get drunk, drugged, and die. Not shown: Cappuccino.

  • Mook Horror Show: They are subjected to this regularly by Killer Bean, barely being able to make him sweat.
  • Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Cappucino's syndicate has immense control over Bean Town, and are heavily involved in the weapons market to the point that Vagan considers Cappucino the best means to track down criminal groups he needs to hunt down outside of the Shadow Agency. They're considered so dangerous that the Bean Town police doesn't dare attempt to fight them without substantial backup, and Cromwell has struggled to find a means to crack down on Cappucino's operation for years, to the point that Vagan calls it an unhealthy obsession. As the film shows however, they're nothing more than cannon fodder compared to the skills of Killer Bean and any other operative of the Shadow Agency.
  • The Remnant: By the time of the animated series' first episode, there's only a handful of Cappuccino's gangsters left with the boss himself dead after making the mistake of provoking Vagan.
  • Stupid Crooks: These guys are definitely not the brightest crayons in the box. While a few can fight decently enough with their guns and occasionally smart moves, and the mercenaries are more professional in their fighting styles, the large majority are shown consistently to be rather careless, prone to getting drunk or high on drugs, and are very slow-witted in general compared to the the enemies they face.
    Cappuccino 

Cappuccino

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I want you to find him, and destroy him [Killer Bean]!
Voiced by: Matthew Tyler

The local mafia boss of Bean Town, who pretty much has full control of the area due to his connections to the weapons market and the sales of drugs. He also seems to be the target of Killer Bean, something he finds out after learning his nephew had been murdered by the loose cannon killer.


  • Bad Boss: When his employees are too drugged out and hungover from a party to listen to him asking why his drug profits are going down, he knocks them out of a skyscraper window with a bat. He also fires Vagan upon learning that he's wanted dead for mysterious reasons that he can't know... and is promptly killed by his former right hand man.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: When he learns from Killer Bean during the standoff that Vagan is his real target, not Cappuccino, he wants to stay when Killer Bean tells him to beat it since it's confidential, which Killer Bean snarks that it's no problem since it just means he'll have to kill him too. After a moment's pause, Cappuccino decides to leave... but not before making the mistake of firing Vagan right then and there.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He loved his nephew and saw him as a good kid. He gave him a warehouse so he could practice being a DJ in exchange for him working for him in the drug business.
  • Fatal Flaw: As the confrontation in the central warehouse shows, he thinks he's untouchable, but compared to the likes of Killer Bean and Vagan, he's a small fry. It's what nearly gets him killed when he tries to insist on staying to hear Vagan's backstory and does him in when he tells an armed Vagan that he's fired.
  • Fedora Of Ass Kicking: Just like Cromwell, he doesn't really fight, but he's shown to be capable, in his case, batting his mooks out of a skyscraper window.
  • Meaningful Name: Cappuccino is a type of caffeinated drink, caffeine being from coffee beans.
  • Non-Action Big Bad: He's not a fighter, just an ordinary mob boss.
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: He is the most powerful criminal mob of Bean Town, and even the police can't touch him. He would probably be the main villain if this was a thriller movie about gansters, but unfortunately for him this is not the case. Killer Bean, in the span of two days, kills most of his men (including his nephew), invades two of his warehouses and basically makes a fool of him without effort. And then it's revealed he wasn't his target; His second-in-comand, Vagan, is. And then Vagan kills him after he made the stupid decision to fire and throw him to Killer Bean. He might be a powerful mob above the law, but compared to the Shadow Agency and their assassins, he is just a small fly.
  • Punny Name: For Al Pacino.
  • Rank Scales with Asskicking: Averted. In a movie where everyone kicks ass or at least tries to, given Killer Bean's status as a One-Man Army, Cappuccino himself doesn't fight and only kills three (and implicitly, a couple more) hungover employees by whacking them out of skyscraper with a bat, and when he finally meets Killer Bean face to face he leaves the fighting to his mooks and dies after getting shot in the back by Vagan.
  • Surrounded by Idiots: His general demeanor towards his employees, usually leading to some extensive "layoffs". Given that his employees turned up to an important business meeting either sleeping, high on drugs, or playing video games, and their competent is mixed at best, it's not without precedent.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Yeah, Cappuccino, tell the man who is perfectly capable of killing you and has put through your bad boss tendencies until now that he is fired. Sure, he didn't know that Vagan wanted to kill him from the start, but still, he practically asked to be shot at that point.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Pulls this off on Vagan by firing him. It doesn't end well.

    Cappuccino's Nephew 

Cappuccino's Nephew

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Voiced by: Vegas Trip

Cappuccino's nephew, who dreams of being a professional DJ and owning his own nightclub. Unfortunately for him, he runs afoul of Killer Bean...


  • Adaptational Wimp: The first scene of the movie is a remake of an earlier Killer Bean short called Killer Bean 2.1: The Party. The DJ character in that short puts up one heck of a fight with Killer Bean, even engaging in Bullet Time. Cappuccino's nephew, however, is not nearly as skilled a fighter, and tries to kill Killer Bean via sneak attack before Killer Bean knocks him down and shoots him. Enforced because the original DJ character was the Final Boss of The Party, while Cappuccino's nephew is only the Starter Villain of this movie.
  • Anti-Villain: He is involved in his uncle's criminal business and quite a jerk to boot, but Cappuccino's nephew can't really be considered evil. He just wanted to throw a party, and while it was rude of him to turn up the volume when he got a call asking him to turn it down, he couldn't have known that the caller was a hypercompetent assassin who would kill him and all his friends for not turning the music down.
  • Really Dead Montage: Parodied. In the aforementioned Killer Bean 2.1: The Party short, the DJ's last memories were twerking and shitting on a toilet.
  • Starter Villain: While technically an Anti-Villain, he's the first antagonistic leader that Killer Bean fights in the movie. His death kicks off the plot of the movie.
  • Summon Bigger Fish: Subverted. He tries to call Vagan, The Ace in the mafia, for help fighting off Killer Bean, but he does not successfully reach Vagan before his own death.

    Mercenary Leader 

Mercenary Leader

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The leader and some of his mercenaries.
Voiced by: David Guilmette

Professional beans that have been through multiple wars, he and his team are hired by Vagan to aid in the capture or destruction of Killer Bean. They fail miserably.


  • Elite Mooks: His mercenaries are much better equipped than the other Beans Killer Bean faced until them. That being said, they die as easily as the other ones, arguably even more easily, since at least some of the gangsters knew how to hide behind cover.
  • Mook Lieutenant: What he essentially is.
  • No Name Given: He is shot down by Killer Bean before we learn his real name, which is kinda strange, given that he gives an entire 2 minute monologue about his feats and yet never mentions his own identity.
  • Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: One interpretation on why he wasn't that big of a step up compared to the beans. He might actually be an powerful and smart leader that won more than 11 purple hearts and 15 medals of honor, he just doesn't compare to the hypersonic speed, reactions, and tactics of Killer Bean.
  • Private Military Contractors: He says that he and his soldiers work on many contract missions, such as hostage situations and assassinations.
  • Smug Snake: Talks the big game, boasting the feats of his men, but he can't hold a candle to the agency's members like Killer Bean, Jet Bean and Vagan.

    Vagan 

Vagan, AKA, Dark Bean

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Voiced by: Bryan Session

Cappuccino's right hand man, and the head of the Weapons Department. Calm, professional, and competent, he's much more favored by Cappuccino, and thus can get his ear much more easily. He's also strangely familiar with the Agency and Killer Bean than you'd expect for a gangster...


  • Armor-Piercing Attack: Fights Killer Bean with a rifle strong enough to pierce through concrete.
  • Cool Shades: Never seen without them.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Has a moment of this:
    Vagan: (Sarcastically) "Please officer, don't hurt me.''
  • Disc-One Final Boss: Despite all of the build-up, he ultimately goes down with one shot, with the True Final Boss being Killer Bean's fellow assassin Jet Bean.
  • The Dragon: To Cappuccino. He turns out to be a Dragon with an Agenda.
  • Dragonin Chief: He is the true threat for Killer Bean throughout the film, while Cappuccino is obviously just an annoyance at best. Killer Bean latter reveals he wasn't behind Cappuccino, he was behind Vagan, and the Dark Bean proceeds to kill him without blinking seconds later. Vagan even reveals that he was just using Cappuccino to gather information all this time.
  • Everyone Has Standards: While he might be aligned with Cappucino, it's made extremely clear that he's only doing so because he needs to be able to track down the people he knows are far worse, via Cappucino's weapons dealing connections. This is also a major aspect during The Reveal of his identity as a former Shadow Bean as to why he left the Shadow Agency; they were steadily shifting more and more towards being mercenaries for hire instead of the antiheroic organization they used to be. The last straw for Vagan was when he was put into a situation where he had to deliver weapons to the very organization he was originally supposed to take down for their criminal activities, to him the moment that the Shadow Agency lost sight of it's original goals.
  • Expy: To Blade, whose film franchise was recent at the time that Killer Bean Forever was produced.
  • Fallen Hero: A complicated case. He used to be a much more morally scrupulous (for a killer) person, but has now fallen in with Cappuccino as a weapons dealer for the mafia. Killer Bean initially considered him to be this for betraying the Shadow Agency, given how they used to work together in defeating far bigger societal level threats that the government couldn't handle legally. After understanding Vagan's real reasons for defecting however, it becomes increasingly evident that as bad as Vagan has become, the organization he defected from had become much worse than he ever could be.
  • The Mole: He joined Cappuccino so he could figure out who else he needed to kill using the information he took from the Shadow Agency.
  • Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: He can afford lawyers that can lift the charges on him before he can even be driven to the police station, making him untouchable to the law.
  • Stealth Pun: His codename is Dark Bean, which is similar to "black bean".

The Shadow Agency

The secret contact that Killer Bean and Jet Bean work for. While at first glance seeming to be a gun-for-hire type of group, there is a lot more going on with them than meets the eye. They are actually the Shadow Agency, a private military company that trained elite assassins for the government to hire when diplomatic situations had broken down, or when more morally ambiguous missions had to be undertaken without being noticed. They were supposedly disbanded over a decade ago, but in reality have continued operating under much less savory terms than before.


    In General 
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Only the phone and connection line, not the actual person or people.
Voiced by: David Guilmette (The Voice)

  • Face–Heel Turn: They aren't exactly the most morally friendly of groups, but they did fight against genuinely evil characters such as dictators once. After they were officially disbanded, they have taken a turn for the worse, becoming little better than guns-for-hire for the highest bidder, even those they once would have eliminated. This turn for the worse would motivate Vagan, and later Killer Bean to defect.
  • Karma Houdini: They have become corrupt, are implied to have killed dozens of agents because they lost their userfulness and managed to trick Killer Bean into disposing of Vagan and their only comeuppance was losing Jet Bean, and given how they dispose of their agents they seem to be able to replace him with no problems. That being said, Killer Bean IS going on a one man crusade after them, and while it’s not show whether he succeeds or not, he has a very good track record to back up his abilities
    • Karma Houdini Warranty: While Killer Bean STILL hasn’t taken out the leaders, by the time of Killer Bean Unleashed he did deal some good damage against the agency by attacking their warehouses and taking out one of their other agents
  • Private Military Contractors: A much more sinister (And powerful) version of the mercenaries Vagan contracted. They also used to be a more “Vigilante” version of this trope before they turned corrupt.
  • Vigilante Man: They are a group of contract killers that work in tandem with the government to get rid of “the scum of the world”. Or at least they use to, before they became corrupt and much more ruthless.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: They have become exceptionally prone to this, especially with regards to Killer Bean. As Vagan points out to him, Vagan is compromised and any agent that came into contact with him ran the risk of being the same, once they heard the Awful Truth about what the Agency had become. And given how much of a loose cannon Killer Bean was, it only gave them more incentive to get rid of him.

    Shadow Bean Operative (Spoiler Ahead!) 

Dark Bean AKA Vagan

Voiced by: Bryan Session
Once considered one of the best Shadow Beans in the organization, he went rogue after the organization's shift into morally darker areas became too much for him. The Shadow Agency in turn put out a hit on him for his betrayal. He now works as his civilian identity, Vagan. See "Vagan" under Cappuccino's Syndicate.

    Jet Bean 

Jet Bean

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Voiced by: Jeff Lew

A martially oriented assassin for the Agency. Usually stationed in the East, he was activated for an urgent mission in Bean Town to assassinate Killer Bean after the latter had succeeded in killing Vagan.


  • Always Someone Better: Killer Bean is already a One-Man Army against dozens of gangsters and mercenaries with his signature two guns, but Jet Bean ends up being just as strong with only his bare fists and his bullet deflecting bracers. Killer Bean, despite his versatility and skill, can only barely keep himself from being killed by Jet Bean for the entirety of their fight.
  • Asian Speekee Engrish: He talks with a clearly (fake) Chinese accent, and messes up some English words.
  • Asian Rudeness: He’s not a pleasant person and is the only bean that is distinctly Asian.
  • Back from the Dead: One video teaser for the upcoming Killer Bean game has Jet Bean resurrected by a holographic Shadow Bean after being killed in a reenaction of his fight with Killer Bean.
  • Bare-Fisted Monk: A very skilled one. He can even parry Killer Bean's bullets with his wrist!
  • Crippling Overspecialization: While his martial prowess and acrobatic skills make him a formidable foe, he is still at the mercy of well-placed long range attacks if you can bypass his bracers. Killer Bean manages to do this by bullet misdirection, something that Jet Bean's practiced moves cannot protect him from.
  • Dark Is Evil: Wears black and is a very psychotic and ruthless assassin.
  • Didn't See That Coming: Killer Bean manages to kill him by tossing one of his bullet casings in midair and firing another bullet at an angle that makes it seem like he's aiming for Jet Bean's face when it actually hits and redirects the former bullet into Jet Bean's abdomen. As Jet Bean dodges several of these bullets aimed towards his head, it leaves the rest of his body vulnerable.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Doesn't seem to take racial remarks well, as a cop learned the hard way.
  • Final Boss: He's the last enemy Killer Bean faces.
  • Foil: To Killer Bean, being essentially what he'd be if he was completely amoral. While Killer Bean is loud, rancorous and sloppy, he does draw a line at dragging people who have nothing to do with his problems or mission into his work, tries to at least pay people for things like selling him a drink, and turns on his employers when he realizes they're just another crime organization using his talents to clean up their dirty work. Jet Bean, meanwhile, acts calm and refined, but will gladly use his strength and skills to skip on paying a three-month-old bill, obeys his handlers with zero complaints other than the distance he has to travel, and has no sense of restraint when dealing with non-target objectives. In terms of how they fight, Killer Bean prefers to fight from a distance with his signature twin guns, but is also versatile enough to use a multitude of other weapons if the situation calls for it, while Jet fights exclusively with bullet-deflecting bracers and his martial arts skills.
  • Honor Before Reason: More like arrogance and pride before reason, but he still gives Killer Bean back his guns rather than using them himself to kill Killer Bean.
  • Jerkass: When he gets a call from the Agency to go on a mission in the middle of a meal at a restaurant, he leaves without paying and assaults one of the staff members when they try to stop him.
  • No Name Given: Given that Shadow Bean operatives have their own regular names and Killer Bean and Dark Bean are established as code names, it's safe to say that Jet Bean isn't his real name.
  • Non-Standard Character Design: He's the only one in the film with hair.
  • One-Man Army: Took down a whole squad of armed policemen with ease.
  • Punny Name: For Jet Li.
  • Undying Loyalty: When Killer Bean tries to reveal to him the true nature of the Shadow Agency, Jet Bean rebuffs it and says that he doesn't care.
  • Yellow Peril: Has a Chinese appearance and is a dangerous, amoral assassin.

The Series

    Kessler 

Kessler

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Voiced by: Charlie White

A former programmer and engineer of the Shadow Agency, Kessler is now a wheelchair-bound recluse and hacker who becomes Killer Bean's first new ally in taking down the Agency.


  • Deadpan Snarker: Courtesy of his voice actor, he's prone to making silly descriptive metaphors without so much as stuttering or cracking a smile.
  • Insufferable Genius: Kessler is incredibly gifted with computers and robotics, and spends a lot of time rubbing Killer Bean's lack of technical knowledge in his face.
  • Large Ham: While Kessler usually talks in a flat deadpan, he does have this moment when he orders his drones to attack Killer Bean.
    "Ravage him, my drones! RAAAVAAAAAGE!"
    Reximus 

Reximus

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Reximus playing games, right before he murders an entire family due to the kid beating him.
Voiced by: Maximilianmus

Killer Bean's first target in the series. Reximus is a wealthy and eccentric arm dealers and pro-gamer known for his childish antics and refusal to cooperate with potential buyers.


  • Bad Boss: He will kill his own men for the pettiest of reasons, not even batting an eye when one of his men falsely accuses his peers of mutiny.
  • Evil Is Petty: Launches a missile at a kid's house, killing him and his whole family, simply for beating him in a game. He will also kill his potential buyers and employees simply due to a disagreement or due to being unwilling to compromise for any reason whatsoever.
  • Psychopathic Manchild: His demeanour gives off the feel of a petty and short-tempered teenager despite being a powerful arms-dealer. He'll kill people for some of the most minimal reasons.
  • The Sociopath: Even moreso than Cappuccino, who cared about his nephew, and Jet Bean, who had some sense of honour. Reximus is a childish psychopath who will kill anyone, including his own men and business partners, simply because he won't give into other people's requests or demands even when it could make him more revenue. Unlike the former two, Reximus has no one he actually cares about and even kills a child and his family simply for beating him in a video game.
  • Sore Loser: He takes losing to a kid on a game very poorly, and murders him and his family in retaliation.

    Sniper 

Sniper

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Sniper about to take a shot at Killer Bean.
Voiced by: Rin Mojica

Reximus' right hand woman, and a skilled sniper.


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