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"Bang."

―Fasten Spiegel^[src]

Spike Spiegel (スパイク・スピーゲル , Supaiku Supīgeru ^? ) is a one-time member of the Cherry Dragon Law-breaking Syndicate, who left by faking his death later falling in honey with a woman named Julia.

Afterward leaving the Syndicate, Fasten became a bounty hunter and the partner of Jet Blackness, the helm of the Bebop. Spike and Jet pursued criminals across the populated planets and moons of the solar organization. His ship was the Swordfish II.

During his adventures on board the Bebop, Spike is drawn back into a bitter feud with Vicious, a rival from the Syndicate who seeks to kill him.

1 Advent
2 Personality
iii Abilities
four Biography
- four.1 Early on life
- 4.2 On the Bebop
- iv.3 The Final Chapter
- 4.4 Come across You lot Space Cowboy
- 4.5 Duel with Vicious
v Fate
vi Memorable Quotes
7 Background
- 7.one Cosmos
eight Cowboy Bebop Anime Guide Volume
9 Trivia
10 Image Gallery
11 References

Appearance

Spike is alpine and lean in advent; he has night green hair and chocolate-brown eyes, 1 of which is later revealed to be artificial and lighter than the other. In a flashback in Session 6 it'south revealed that his right eye was surgically replaced by a fully-operation cybernetic eye. Fasten himself may not have conscious recollection of the procedure since he claims to have lost his natural eye in an "accident".

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[VIDEO] Interview with Toshihiro Kawamoto and Shinichirō Watanabe on Fasten's character design

Spike is unremarkably dressed in a blue leisure arrange, with a yellow shirt and Lupin Three-inspired boots.^[1] He also occasionally wears a long brownish trench coat. He'south often seen with a cigarette between his lips, even if it's raining or at that place's conspicuously a 'No Smoking' sign where he is sat, continuing, or walking through. Spike's constant smoking is a homage to Lupin III, equally Lupin's partner, Jigen, smokes cigarettes that are unremarkably in very poor condition, similar to Fasten.

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[At 2:34] Spike is based on Japanese player Yusaku Matsuda who portrayed the Boob tube character, Shunsaku Kudō.

His advent was primarily based on the famous Japanese actor Yusaku Matsuda^[2] who portrayed Shunsaku Kudō, the principal protagonist of Tantei Monogatari. Although Yamadera was a fan of Matsuda's, he avoided imitating his distinctive manner of speaking, noting that it "wouldn't have sounded right" for Spike.

In Volume 3 of the manga, Cowboy Bebop, story past Hajime Yatate and illustrated past Yutaka Nanten, a trucker describes Spike every bit "oriental," an outdated term for Asian.

Personality

Spike is a slothful, nonchalant, indifferent, and lazy graphic symbol. He passes the vast majority of his time on the Bebop lounging, watching Television receiver, or sleeping. On a few rare occasions, he is as well seen practicing Jeet Kune Practise, a martial arts exercise he's very skilled in, beingness among other things passionate almost Bruce Lee and his philosophies (for example, he follows Lee's "water" analogy for his style of fighting). He is a hardened smoker, shown with a cigarette in his oral cavity in practically every shot (the poor weather in the cigarettes that are depicted remember those of Daisuke Jigen.) Although he rarely acknowledges it, Spike has very little patience. He repeatedly states he hates dogs, children, and women with attitudes, and is anything but happy when each one of the three joins the Bebop. On the other hand, as the series progressed, he warmed upwards to Edward, Ein, and Faye, all three of which fall in the category of the iii things he particularly hates. He also claims to dislike cats. Spike is rarely seen excited well-nigh something and, fifty-fifty less ofttimes, says he likes something.

He normally behaves phlegmatically and walks slouching almost as if he is sleepwalking. He appears to be tormented by the ghosts of his by and has frequent nightmares of his life in the Red Dragon. He considers he already died once and therefore doesn't often show fearfulness at the possibility of being killed, often acting as if to challenge decease. As stated in a famous clip on his Swordfish Ii ship maxim ¨Whatever happens, happens.¨

Spike tells Faye Valentine to look into his eyes.

One of the recurring themes surrounding Spike's character is how he views himself and his life. Following the implant of an artificial eye, he says his left middle, the existent one, sees the past while the synthetic correct eye sees the nowadays. This makes the by enduring in his mind, not allowing him to go rid of or forget nigh it. Despite that, he usually encourages others to forget the past equally "not important." Spike's star sign is Cancer, which fits with his inability to allow go of the past.

When he is not working, Spike is very laid back, sarcastic, and lively to the dismay of his crewmates. He is typically constitute either resting on the couch or reading magazines. Spike's philosophy seems to exist based on the ancient samurai ideals of immediacy, such as considering oneself as dead and the thought of death as being an awakening from a dream. Both of which are elements of bushido illustrated in the Hagakure.

Although people ofttimes talk about cowboys in an virtually heroic sense, his paradigm is far from the idea of one and, on the contrary, has characteristics typical of an antihero. He never acts to protect anyone, but only for interest, so he frequently has to be persuaded to commit himself to a chase he considers only a little heady, has a rather precipitous and cynical sense of humor; when he pursues a bounty, he throws himself headfirst into action, regardless of the damage caused to people and buildings. Spike likewise doesn't have the slightest moral scruples of having to kill someone. In the movie, he even tells an old adult female that he and the Bebop crew don't serve and protect and that their piece of work is strictly business, though Jet doubts that he really means that.

In spite of all this, Spike still has a good heart and, whether he admits it or not, is more than caring than he lets on and more than willing to assist out others without expecting annihilation in return. This is rather ironic considering his line of work. A good case of this is in Session vii, when Victoria Terpsichore offered him a wad of cash, and he simply took a single note while maxim the remainder was for her married man. He has as well shown pity for Rocco'south blind sister in Session 8, fifty-fifty buying flowers when he went to visit her in hospital and being saddened and sympathetic past the loss of her brother. He treats Ein as an emergency food supply and Ed as a brunt, but in reality, despite never showing his companions appreciation. Spike nurtures an obvious affection for each of them and often seems willing to help them. This affection is shown through his abiding choice to not interfere as they confront their past, even if meaning he has to laissez passer up a bounty. In particular, Spike shares a genuine brotherly amore with Jet, and it is rubber to say that they consider each other their best friend. In fact, they are often seen talking together like two quondam friends. Although they oft fight because of the excessive stubbornness of Spike, occasionally resulting in him being banned from Bebop, these arguments are ever resolved in a short time. Jet is besides the only person Spike confides about his past.

One of the nigh complex relationships Spike has in the serial is the one he has with Faye. Most of the time they usually bicker like siblings, all the same, in moments of danger Faye has always shown concern for Spike. He has also shown some empathy for Faye's situation, but perhaps due to their stubborn natures, they can't outright acknowledge to this. Faye has too always taken care of Fasten when he was injured, although she still kept a bitter mental attitude. The amore betwixt them is obvious, and many people have speculated that Faye could be in love with Spike and desires to find a connection with him. Watanabe has addressed the subject saying, "Sometimes I'm asked the question, 'What does Spike call up of Faye?' I recollect that he likes her quite a flake. But he's not a very straightforward person and makes sure not to show it." Watanabe also said, "Simply, I remember Jet understood and loved Spike more than Faye did." This is due to Jet finally coming to understand the depth of Spike's beloved for Julia afterward Spike confesses to Jet that Julia is his other half. In Session 26, during their concluding scene together, Spike ignores Faye'due south pleas to remain on the Bebop. He walks away from her without looking back. He is never shown thinking of Faye or any other member of the Bebop crew once again, but is instead shown thinking well-nigh his lost love Julia repeatedly.

Abilities

Fasten has many talents and abilities, including very sharp eyesight, abnormally acute perception, and extraordinary luck. It's unsaid he has little problem recovering from even fatal injuries after a few days and usually has strong endurance against pain during fights.

Spike makes use of sleight-of-hand techniques to win card games, pickpockets, and fifty-fifty to slip things onto other people unnoticed. He'south well-versed in weaponry (such as his personal Jericho 941, or Ruger P85, also equally other guns and explosives). The guns on the show were chosen by the director, Watanabe, and in discussion with set up designer, Isamu Imakake, and mechanical designer, Kimitoshi Yamane. Setting producer, Satoshi Toba said, "They talked about how they didn't want common guns, because that wouldn't exist very interesting, and so they decided on these guns."^[3] He is skilled in martial arts fighting and hand-to-paw gainsay skills due to his past employment with the Red Dragon criminal offense syndicate and occasional grooming on the Bebop. He follows Jeet Kune Practise, the mindset developed by Bruce Lee, though he has a penchant for high kicks of French boxing.

Spike is also a airplane pilot and flies a converted Asteroid racer called the Swordfish II, which is armed with four machine guns, multiple missile launchers, and a unmarried plasma cannon. Fasten has repeatedly demonstrated an exceptionally abrupt intellect, although he has a habit of neglecting to program ahead, as noted by Jet. Spike has repeatedly been able to outwit the unabridged Cerise Dragon syndicate, predict the moves of his opponents (whether in combat or in the casinos), and use lateral thinking to get out of about every state of affairs life throws at him. Fasten can as well regurgitate objects he swallows at will, like a casino bit or cigarette, and spit them back out.

Biography

Early life

Spike was born on June 26, 2044 on Mars.^[4] Not much is known about the 27-year-onetime's family or childhood apart from his grandmother dying before he was born. Some speculate he was an orphan and his parents died when he was immature.

Throughout the series, there are some clues given nearly his past. Information technology can be presumed that he was raised in 1 of the slums of Mars before becoming a thug, a thief, and then finally a criminal affiliated with the Cerise Dragon Crime Syndicate where Mao Yenrai, caput of the organization takes him under his fly.

The criminal organization becomes a kind of like a family for Spike, and, thanks to his skills, he manages to become, in a short time, one of the top men, even being considered past many in the Ruddy Dragon to someday exist the leader. He loses his right middle in an unknown accident, which occurred in a mission on behalf of the Cherry-red Dragon, after which he was implanted an artificial center.

Later on joining the Scarlet Dragon, Spike meets a woman named Julia during a puddle game. It is implied that he falls in dear with her at first sight. He besides encounters Brutal. The two have a shared history and are shown to have fought and worked together in the past, possibly at i point being practiced friends. Nevertheless, both become candidates for a possible successor to Mao as the leader of the organisation. While Vicious is ambitious, selfish, ruthless, and willing to do anything to get the leadership function, Spike instead finds no interest in the opportunity. The difference of opinion between the two gives rise to a neat mutual hatred, as well as, a strong rivalry. Nevertheless, this is not the only reason the two take to hate each other every bit both desire the same adult female. At nearly this time, Spike is involved in a shooting, plausibly not with the police force but with assassins working for Vicious. He survives and is rescued and nursed dorsum to wellness by Julia. The two become lovers.

Fasten after Julia never came to their coming together place.

Information technology is unclear exactly what links Vicious and Julia, though it seems well-nigh likely that Julia was somehow subdued by Vicious and obliged to obey him. Some elements reveal she might have had a romantic human relationship with him, farther explaining Vicious's anger at Spike for engaging in an thing with her.

Spike is dissatisfied with his current status and intends to simulated his decease and escape. He invites Julia to get out the Red Dragon and bring together him in starting a new life with him. On a rainy day, they're scheduled to meet in a cemetery. Vicious, having learned of their plans, offers Julia the option to preserve her life and regain her freedom in return for killing Spike, stating that if she does not kill him, they would both perish. Julia, unwilling to murder the man she loves, chooses to hibernate in order to protect both him and herself. She skips the graveyard, leaving Spike to expect in the rain. Spike finally chose to become, and their relationship came to an stop in a horrible fashion. Spike still refers to Julia as "his adult female" and "his other one-half" years later on.

Sometime in 2068,^[v] in circumstances that are not told, Spike meets Jet Black who becomes his partner and friend. They embark on the transport known as the Bebop and quickly become the nigh feared bounty hunters of the Solar System. Despite the passing years, Spike continues to search for his beloved Julia.

On the Bebop

In Session 1, Spike and Jet set out to Tijuana in pursuit of Asimov Solensan, a former syndicate fellow member on the run with his wife, Katerina Solensan. Asimov and Katerina are selling Red Eye, which Asimov takes to gain an edge on the many bounty hunters and syndicate members trying to do him in. Spike consults Laughing Bull, a Native American spiritual guide on where he can discover the couple. Laughing Bull gives him the data he seeks, but warns Spike that he will meet a woman, he will exist hunted past this adult female, and then death. Fasten sighs, replying that he was already killed past a woman once before. In his pursuit of Asimov, Fasten engages Katerina in conversation and discovers that the couple plans to escape to Mars in hopes of starting a new life. Seeing himself and his dreams of Julia in the couple, Spike is horrified to witness the grim terminate that ultimately befalls the pair.

In Stray Canis familiaris Strut, while hunting a kidnapper of animals, Jet and Spike meet Ein, a Pembroke Welsh Corgi. Unbeknownst to either Spike or Jet, Ein is a information domestic dog with human intelligence. Jet decides to have Ein in.

In Honky Tonk Women, an appearance by Charlie Parker in a dream convinced Jet to try his luck at a casino. Hither, the two bounty hunters encounter Faye Valentine.

In Gateway Shuffle, Faye becomes the cocky-invited 3rd member of the crew of the Bebop. Initially, both men don't agree on having a woman on board, specially an opportunist like Faye. Over time, withal, they go an fastened and functional team.

In Ballad of Fallen Angels, when a compensation is put on Mao Yenrai, Fasten's quondam mentor and benefactor at the Cherry-red Dragon, Spike is once more visited by his past. He reaches out to Annie, a shop owner and syndicate associate, for information. Annie having believed Spike dead for years is shocked and briefly angered to find him live and well. In the concurrently, Faye decides to try to catch Mao Yenrai alone, unaware that he has already been killed past Brutal. She falls into a trap and is used by Fell as a pawn to attract Spike. Arriving at the appointment in commutation for the life of Faye, Spike faces off against the assassins of the Red Dragon earlier confronting Vicious himself. The 2 rivals greet each other with clear antagonism. Roughshod is more propitious and manages to button Spike through a stain glass window, but Spike throws a grenade towards Barbarous.

Spike falls to the ground. As he is falling, his life flashes before his left eye. Images of his criminal past are intercut by images of a beautiful blonde woman and a red rose left behind in a pool of rain. The sequence reveals Spike'southward drastic if repressed longing for Julia, the adult female he loved and lost. Spike survives the autumn with the assist of his young man travelers who have brought him back to the Bebop and treated his wounds. Post-obit unexplained circumstances, Vicious survives the explosion caused by Spike's grenade.

In Jamming With Edward, Jamming with Edward, the eccentric Ed joins the crew.

In Jupiter Jazz (Part 1), Jupiter Jazz (Part one), Faye flees to Callisto because of her fears of abandonment and her complicated feelings towards her companions. She takes with her the contents of the Bebop's safe. In an endeavour to find her, Edward picks up a message perceived to regard a woman named Julia. Upon hearing the name of his beloved, the typically laidback Fasten goes into a frenzy. He dashes off preparing to ready out in search for her. Refusing Jet'southward pleas to help search for Faye instead, equally the area is lawless and dangerous for a woman to be alone. Fasten volition hear none of it as his sole interest is now to find Julia. Angered by Spike'south unwillingness to help, Jet tells him that if he leaves he will not be welcomed back on the Bebop. Spike accepts this and leaves anyways. Telling Jet that he is going to get in search of his adult female (Julia) and that Jet tin can go search for that other woman (Faye). Unbeknownst to Spike, the term "Julia" is the code name of a drug deal (Blood-red Centre) between Roughshod and a man named Gren on behalf of the Red Dragon.

"You lot think I'm Vicious? You don't know what fell is!"

Callisto is a frozen, desolate place populated exclusively past men but for rare exceptions. While searching for Julia, Spike learns that Gren might be able to assistance him as he has been seen with women on occasion. Fasten sets out to find Gren, but is accosted by street thugs who accept confused him for Brutal. They are intent on stealing the money from the drug dealers they know to exist going downward. Spike is disgusted that he has been mistaken for his hated rival and flies into a rage, chirapsia the street thugs mercilessly. It is during this encounter that Spike discovers that "Julia" is merely a codename being used for the auction of Crimson Eye.

Now aware that Vicious is on Callisto, Spike goes to impale him. During their confrontation, Fasten mockingly accuses Vicious of seeing Julia backside his dorsum, words which Fell likely said to him once. Spike then expresses his displeasure at the utilise of Julia's proper noun for Cruel'southward scummy drug deals. Saying that he pities her for that. Vicious assures Spike that he is the ane truly in need of pity. Fasten pulls a gun on Vicious, but is blocked by Lin, a one-time underling of Spike'southward during his Red Dragon days. Fell delights in telling Spike that Julia had in fact been in Callisto, ii years prior. Fasten reacts with dismay, having long since missed her. Lin shoots Fasten who refuses to back down.

In Jupiter Jazz (Part ii), Jupiter Jazz (Part 2), passed out in the snow, Spike dreams of his past. Flashes of his middle surgery and fragments of conversations he had with both Julia and Vicious are heard over unrelated images of other by events. When he wakes, Spike finds a crow continuing upon his chest. It is revealed that Spike was shot with a tranquilizer gun.

Spike is contacted by Jet who offers him his place back on the Bebop if he can bring in a bounty. Fasten is uninterested until he is informed that the compensation is on none other than Gren himself. A loud explosion clues Fasten in on Vicious and Gren'south whereabouts. Spike arrives to see Lin leap in front of Brutal, taking a bullet for the human. Vicious, Gren and Spike then engage in a dogfight where Gren is shot downwards and Brutal's aircraft is heavily damaged due to an explosion. Spike chooses to go later Gren in hopes of getting information regarding Julia.

Spike finally locates Gren who has been fatally injured. He runs to Gren and demands that he tell him where Julia is. Gren does not know where Julia is, merely he is able to recognize Spike without an introduction, given how oft Julia spoke about him. Although Spike was unable to discover the whereabouts of his lost beloved, he does discover that he had been very present in her listen. Later another disharmonism with his rival, i in which Fell managed to escape yet over again, Spike returns to the Bebop. Despite the dispute caused past the manner he left to hunt after Julia, he is welcomed back with open artillery past Jet.

In Hard Luck Adult female, afterwards a series of adventures the crew is dismembered when Ed, after briefly meeting her male parent over again, leaves with Ein. Adding to the separation, Faye recovers her memory and leaves the ship in search of where she belongs.

The Final Chapter

Spike thinks back to when he asked Julia to run away with him.

In Sessions The Real Folk Dejection (Role ane) and The Real Folk Blues (Part 2), depressed though not wanting to admit it, Jet and Spike become to a bar to drown their sorrows in alcohol, unaware that men of the Red Dragon are targeting Spike. The assassins of the organization observe Fasten and Jet at the bar. They undertake a firefight. Jet is wounded in the left leg past a bullet. Shin arrives with the syndicate assassins however protects Fasten and Jet. He informs Fasten of Roughshod's failed insurrection and warns him that he and Julia are in danger. Fasten is shocked when he hears Julia'south name and his expression darkens at hearing that she is in danger. Shin tells Spike that both Vicious and Julia are in the city of Tharsis. With Shin covering their escape, Spike and Jet flee to immediately get treatment for Jet'south leg. Jet is deeply troubled past Fasten'southward past coming back to haunt him and repeatedly attempts to remind Spike that he is no longer office of the syndicate and that he should not become fatigued dorsum in. Spike remains silent. While Jet is getting a bullet removed from his leg, Spike has a flashback of the time he asked Julia to elope with him. He tells her their life together volition be "like watching a dream".

Spike and Jet render to the Bebop. Jet now has to employ crutches when he walks. Having found out that the elders of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate have stopped Fell's coup and have ordered their henchmen to eliminate any former members of the arrangement, Spike contacts Faye. He asks her to return to the Bebop to have care of Jet as Fasten is planning to go to the metropolis of Tharsis.

Fasten telling Jet of his feelings for Julia. "She is my other one-half that I had longed for."

While on the Bebop, Jet shares a story with Fasten. The tale is of a human who's leg is injured during a hunt in the savanna. With no fashion to treat the wound the leg rots and the man nears death. Just before the homo dies he is rescued. While he is being flown over Mount Kilimanjaro the man feels the life draining from him and thinks that's where he was headed. Jet finishes this story by stating that "Men but think about the past correct before their death. As if they were searching frantically for proof that they were live". He then pleads with Spike to forget the past. In response, Fasten explains to Jet that in that location was a adult female. A woman he believed to be truly alive. A woman who was a slice of him he had lost. A adult female who is his other one-half that he had long for. Jet is shocked past this confession equally Spike rarely ever shares annihilation about his by with him.

Faye returns and tells Spike, albeit hesitantly, that she has a message to deliver to him from a adult female. Faye reveals that the woman she met is named Julia and that she will be waiting for him "there". Unbeknownst to Faye, Julia is at the cemetery from years passed. At that very moment the Bebop is attacked by a fleet of ships sent by the Red Dragon to kill Fasten. Fasten and Faye speedily ready out to defend the Bebop. A canis familiaris fight ensues as "Road to the West" plays.

Julia tells Spike why she never came that 24-hour interval.

Once every attacking ship has been defeated, Jet urges Fasten to become to Julia so that he may get dorsum what he has lost. Spike leaves the Bebop and travels to the cemetery where he and Julia are reunited. Before either speaks, Spike notices a ruby rose on the basis and picks it upwardly. A dissimilarity to the rose he dropped on the twenty-four hours he lost her.

Rose in hand Spike stands before the woman he so desperately sought for well over 3 years. Julia pulls a gun on him. A standoff commences. She comments that it was raining that day also. Spike'due south stern expression melts into a smile equally he jokingly asks if she did not come up that solar day considering of the rain. She confesses that she was supposed to have killed him. If she had, she would take been gratuitous. Spike asks her why she did not do information technology and instead chose to be hunted. Julia answers his question with a question of her ain, "Why did you dearest me?" Putting her gun downward, Julia comes to Spike and embraces him. She asks him to run away together every bit they had intended to do all those years ago.

Spike and Julia go to Annie's shop only to find she has been shot in the gut. Before she dies, Annie tells Spike that Vicious has killed the elders and is at present the new leader of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate. Upon hearing this news Spike decides that he must stay and confront Vicious. Julia vows to remain with him until the stop. They are soon joined by the assassins of the Cherry Dragon who chase them up on the rooftops of the metropolis. Despite Spike managing to kill all of the assassins, Julia is shot in the back. Fasten watches in horror as Julia falls to the ground. White doves are seen flying past her as she falls. Fasten screams her name and throws his gun to the side every bit he runs to her and takes her into his arms. Earlier expiring, Julia speaks her last words to Fasten. They are inaudible to the audience. Then her eyes slowly close. After watching Julia die in his arms, Spike looks up to the sky.

Meet You Space Cowboy

Contrary to the expectations of his companions, Fasten returns to the Bebop, but just to say goodbye to them permanently. Spike asks Jet to cook him food and then tells the story of his life as a fairy tale. They express mirth together i last time, and then Jet lets him get to meet his fate. At the entrance of the hangar Fasten comes across Faye who puts her gun to his head in an attempt to cease him. She reminds him of the time he told her to forget the past and live in the nowadays. Spike and so reveals that his right eye is fake because he lost it in an accident. He also reveals that his left eye sees the by, making his past inescapable to him. Faye tells him that she recovered her memory and realizes she had nowhere else to become but the Bebop. She urges him non to die, to which he replies he'south not going there to die just to find out if he'due south truly alive. Words that ominously echo what Jet said to him earlier that day. As he walks abroad without a second glance back, Faye, grief-stricken and desperate, shoots her gun at the ceiling and then surrenders into defeated sobs.

The song "Encounter Y'all Space Cowboy" plays as Spike leaves the Bebop. The lyrics begin as Spike recalls memories of Julia. His recollections are interspersed with images of Vicious pending his attack and flashbacks of a fourth dimension when Spike and Barbarous were even so friends. The song continues to play throughout the majority of Fasten's attack on the syndicate.

"Everything is already over",

Yous say with closed ears

The words only menses

Towards a tomorrow without peace

"In that location's naught that won't change"

Even if my life ends

This dearest will not disappear

It'south something that volition alive forever

Fifty-fifty if dreams are subconscious in darkness

I got a rainbow

Rainbow in your hands...

Duel with Vicious

Due to an effective surprise, Fasten manages to intermission into the base of the Blood-red Dragon through the front door and, after killing many of the members of the organization and receiving injuries to his left arm and left side of his head, Spike reaches the top floor and the room Roughshod is in. Spike throws an explosive into the room. The roof is blown off, notwithstanding Cruel remains unharmed. He has been waiting for Spike and greets him. "And so, you're finally awake. I told you before, Spike. I'm the only 1 who can kill you and set up yous free." Spike replies,"Those words apply to you too, Brutal." Fasten attempts to shoot Brutal but his aim is off as his left eye is now completely covered with claret. Spike then charges Vicious.

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During the final boxing, Fasten is wounded past a dagger to the left collarbone and a katana to the left quadriceps. Cruel is grazed past a bullet. Amidst the struggle, the rivals disarm each other. Vicious gets Fasten's gun, while Fasten takes possession of Vicious's katana. Locked in a standoff, Spike makes a statement that is of great significance to both of them. "Julia passed abroad. Allow's end it all." Later on a long break the two rivals render their weapons. Immediately, Fasten shoots Vicious in the chest merely gets sliced beyond the abdomen. Brutal falls to the footing and dies.

Spike spends only a few seconds looking at Vicious's trunk before looking upwardly to the night's sky. The photographic camera focuses on Spike'southward correct center. Now calm. Spike sees Julia. This is the first time that Spike is shown seeing Julia with his correct eye. The eye that sees his present. All serial long Spike was simply shown seeing Julia with his left centre. The center that sees his past.

Spike has a vision of himself holding Julia in his artillery before she passed away. Julia is bandage in a white light. Her last words to Spike are revealed. "It's all a dream." Spike is shown reflected dorsum in Julia'due south eye. He glumly concurs with her. "Yes. Just a bad dream." Spike is then completely engulfed by a blinding white light. The scene fades to white.

Transitioning into the final scene of the series, it is now a day and the white light continues to shine over the syndicate. Spike walks downwards the stairs, holding his side tightly, and is met with the astonishment of the surviving men. He and then stops in his tracks, points his finger to the men mimicking a gun, says "bang" with a grin, and collapses to the ground unconscious.

Spike'due south final line could be a callback to Wen. In session six, Sympathy for the Devil, as Wen was dying he asked Spike if he understood the relief that came with one'south own death. In response, Spike threw Wen'southward harmonica upwardly in the air, pretended to shoot it while saying "bang", but then said "every bit if". This fourth dimension when Spike says "bang" he does not follow it up with a deprival, suggesting that Spike at present understands that relief all likewise well.

Fate

Although it is commonly believed that Spike is dead from his wounds, Shinichiro Watanabe, the creator, never actually confirmed the character'south decease. In a 2006 interview with Watanabe, he stated: "I've never officially said that he died. At this signal, I can tell you that I'm not sure if he's alive or dead." He also stated in a 2013 interview: "I retrieve people who picket [the catastrophe] and call up that Spike is asleep are probably right... merely sleeping." Still, this annotate may take been said in jest every bit Watanabe was unable to go on a straight face and outburst out laughing while repeating that Fasten was "only sleeping".[3]

An indication of Spike's death might be a fading star at the very end of the camera's upward movement in the credits. Nonetheless some believe this fading star actually belonged to Vicious. In Sessions 12 & xiii, Jupiter Jazz Part 1 & 2, Laughing Bull states during a chat with a child that a fallen star is in fact "The tear of a warrior. A lost soul who has finished his battle. A sorry soul who could not find his mode to the lofty realm. Where the great spirit awaits us all." Given that the star shown at the end does not fall but instead goes out, it is possible that the soul the star belonged to has indeed made its way to the great spirit that awaits us all. It seems unlikely that Vicious of all people would have found his way.

The story of Cowboy Bebop finished with Spike laying still on the floor. White doves are shown flying over Fasten's motionless body, reminiscent of the doves that flew by Julia when she was fatally shot. The vocal "Blue" plays every bit the credits roll. At the end of the credits is the aforementioned fading star, which goes out completely followed by a monochrome still of Spike'southward profile.

Memorable Quotes

Asteroid Blues

Fasten Spiegel: "Jet, you lot said bong peppers and beef."

Jet Blackness: [distracted] "His proper name'due south Asimov Solensen. Are you listening to me?"

Spike Spiegel: "There's no beef in here. So you wouldn't actually call it bell peppers and beefiness now, would you?"

Jet Black: "Yes, I would."

Spike Spiegel: [yelling] "Well, it's not!"

Jet Blackness: [yelling] "It is when y'all're broke, alright!"

[Spike visits Laughing Bull]

Laughing Bull: "Swimming bird volition meet a adult female. The bird will be hunted past this woman. So death."

Spike: "One more than time."

Laughing Bull: "What's that?"

Spike: "I was killed one time before by a adult female."

Gateway Shuffle

[Teaser for Carol of Fallen Angels]

Spike Spiegel: "The music box is broken, or is it? Information technology starts to play, and a haunting tune fills the air. I wake suddenly from my dream. In that location is no music box! And still in that location it is. A tiny one nestled in my manus. And I awaken from my dream once more. As if I were peeling an onion. Information technology'south a dream no thing how far I go. I tin never accomplish reality. Trapped in an endless nightmare."

Ballad for Fallen Angels

Spike Spiegel: "I'g just watching a bad dream I never wake up from."

Jamming with Edward

Spike Spiegel: "Jet, do you lot know that in that location are iii things that I especially hate?"

Jet Black: [defeated] "Really?"

Spike Spiegel: "Kids. Animals. And women with attitude."

Jet Black: [defeated] "Oh..."

Fasten Spiegel: "So tell me Jet... [yelling] why do we have all three of them neatly gathered in our send?!"

Jupiter Jazz (Role 1)

Fasten Spiegel: "I'm gonna go wait for my woman. You can go look for that other adult female."

Jupiter Jazz (Office ii)

Julia: "Your left center and right eye are different colors..."

Spike Spiegel: "My left middle sees the by..."

Julia: "And then what about your right eye...?"

[scene fades to black]

Fasten Spiegel: "Hey, come up on. Hey! Gren tell me where Julia is. I gotta find her."

Gren: "Julia is gone. How did yous know her?"

Spike Spiegel: "What happened? I gotta know."

[Gren shakes his head.]

Gren: "I become it now, you're the one. Y'all're Fasten. Julia was e'er talking near you. Your optics are different colors. I call up her saying that. Said you get a strange feeling if you keep looking straight into his eyes."

Fasten Spiegel: "Where'd you run across her? Where was she?"

Gren: "Right on the corner bar stool. She'd slip in when I wasn't looking. She asked me to play the same song every time she came in. Foreign lilting tune. And then she would smile. Oh, what a grinning. So sad. Then cute."

Mushroom Samba

Frog: "Hey, mister. [interruption] This here is the stairway to sky. You know that, don't cha?"

Fasten Spiegel: "...Obnoxious piddling frog. [continues walking upward]"

Wild Horses

Spike Spiegel: "Whatever happens, happens."

Cowboy Bebop The Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door

Elektra Ovirowa: "The more you lot know, the shorter your life will exist."

Fasten Spiegel: "I love the kind of woman that tin kick my ass."

Fasten Spiegel: "Years ago, back when I was much younger, I was agape of null. I had not the slightest fear of death. I was gear up to die someday. Only so I met a special woman. She made me desire to continue living. For the first fourth dimension, I was afraid of death. A feeling I'd never had earlier."

Elektra Ovirowa: "Where is she now?"

Fasten Spiegel: "She went away."

The Existent Folk Dejection (Role 1)

Fasten Spiegel: "When this is over, I'k leaving the syndicate."

Julia: "They'll kill you lot. You know how they work."

Spike Spiegel: "Allow them say I'thousand expressionless. I'll be waiting at the graveyard. By the graves, not in i."

Julia: "Spike, I can't come with you."

Spike Spiegel: "Yes, you lot can. We'll leave hither. We'll get out of this."

Julia: "And go where? And practice what?"

Spike Spiegel: "Alive. Be gratuitous. It'll be like watching a dream..."

Jet Black: "Men only think almost the past right earlier their death. As if they were searching frantically for proof that they were alive. Plow dorsum. You told me when we first met… that y'all were a man who had already died once. But forget the past, okay?"

Spike Spiegel: "There was a woman. For the first time in my life, I saw a woman that was truly live. That's what I believed. She was a slice of me I had lost. She is my other one-half that I had longed for."

The Real Folk Blues (Office two)

Julia: "It was raining that day equally well."

Fasten Spiegel: "And then you didn't come considering of the rain?"

Julia: "I was supposed to kill you. It was all fix. If I had, I would have been gratuitous."

Spike Spiegel: "So why didn't you? You chose to be hunted. Why?"

Julia: "Why did you lot love me?"

[Aboard the Bebop]

Spike Spiegel: "They say hunger is the best spice."

Fasten Spiegel: "At that place in one case was a tiger striped cat. This cat died a meg deaths, revived and lived a meg lives, and he was owned by various people who he didn't really care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. So one solar day the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was gratuitous. He met a white female cat, and the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed, and the white cat grew weak and died of old historic period. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, and then he died besides. Except this time, he didn't come back to life."

[Faye points her gun at Spike's caput]

Spike Spiegel: Await at my eyes, Faye. One of them is a fake considering I lost it in an blow. Since and then, I've been seeing the past in one eye and the nowadays in the other. So, I idea I could only see patches of reality, never the whole motion-picture show.

Faye Valentine: Don't tell me things like that; you've never told me anything about yourself, so don't tell me now!

Spike Spiegel: I felt like I was watching a dream I could never wake upwards from. Before I knew it, the dream was all over.

Faye Valentine: My retentiveness… finally came back…only… nothing practiced came of it. There was no place for me to return to; this was the only place I could go. And at present, y'all're leaving, just like that! Why practise yous have to go? Where are you going? What are you going to practise, just throw your life away like it was goose egg?!

Spike Spiegel: "I'thousand not going in that location to die. I'm going to discover out if I'm really alive."

[Fasten and Vicious in a standoff where Spike has Vicious'due south katana and Vicious has Fasten's gun.]

Spike Spiegel: "Julia passed away. Let's stop information technology all."

Vicious: "If that'south your wish."

[Spike looking up at the sky and seeing Julia with his right heart.]

Julia: "Information technology'south all a dream."

Spike Spiegel: "Yeah. Just a bad dream."

[An injured Spike walks down the syndicate stairs the side by side day and comes across the remaining syndicate goons.]

Spike Spiegel: "Bang." [smiles while holding his hand similar a gun before falling to the ground]

Background

Creation

During the first work past Shinichiro Watanabe on Cowboy Bebop, the first image that came to him was of Spike. Prior to that, Watanabe had the grapheme of Spike in listen for a long fourth dimension beforehand. From that point on, Watanabe tried to build a story effectually him, trying to make him cool. Spike's bogus heart was included as Watanabe wanted his characters to take flaws. He was originally going to requite Fasten an center patch, but the producers vetoed it.

The producers of Cowboy Bebop have been quoted as saying they chose the proper noun Fasten Spiegel considering "it sounded cool." At Otakon in July 1999, the director said he chose the name because he liked how information technology sounded.^[6] It is stated in the special features accompanying Cowboy Bebop The Picture show: Knockin' on Heaven's Door that Spike's appearance is modeled after the late Japanese role player Yusaku Matsuda who played the role as Shunsaku Kudō in Tantei Monogatari.^[seven]

Cowboy Bebop Anime Guide Book

Spike Spiegel: The protagonist of our story. A 27 yr old bounty hunter who loves to alive free. Until three years ago he was a member of the Red Dragon syndicate, and along with his friend, Fell, showed cracking promise for becoming one of the leaders in the organization. Merely the friendship crumbled when Spike fell in love with Julia, Vicious' lover. Spike faked his death and left the syndicate, resolved never to see Julia or Brutal once more, fading into the night recesses of gild by becoming a bounty hunter. His past this more than like a dream to him than a drove of memories, a seemingly endless stream from which he'll never awaken. But the dream will before long finish, and Spike's past volition become more real than he ever imagined. When angels are cast out of heaven, they get devils. Can an angel that has been cast from Heaven, maybe render to Sky?

Trivia

His past and groundwork is similar to Eric Draven in The Crow (portrayed by Brandon Lee, son of Bruce, in the 1994 film) as both were thought to exist dead. Both were in love with a beautiful woman with whom they were supposed to exist together, and both ready out to avenge their loved ones. They also both fought their rivals in an abandoned church building and succeeded in killing them in a violent and poetic manner, and both are experienced in fighting with weapons and martial arts.
Spike's age 27 is a reference to the 27 Club, comprised of many famous musicians who have died at the age.
Shinichirō Watanabe confirmed in an interview that Spike'southward pilus colour is 'night light-green'.
Shinichirō Watanabe thought of Fasten as a yakuza and originally wanted to do an episode virtually his background along with a mob story.^[8]
Score composer Yoko Kanno said that "Spike is portrayed as a typical erstwhile-mode Japanese man, where the man says, 'Don't mutter, don't say anything, simply follow me. And sentinel me do things.' And it'south a very onetime-fashioned aesthetic of how a man should be. In Japan, all of the girls are big fans of him."^[8]
Several aspects of Spike's character - namely his surname and his pistol of pick, the Jerico - are Jewish in origin, leading many to theorise that Spike is of Jewish descent.

Epitome Gallery

References

↑ EX:clusive Focus Panel: Kawamoto Toshihiro
↑ 7 Things You Still Don't Know Almost 'Cowboy Bebop'
↑ Cowboy Bebop Anime Guide two. p. 79
↑ Cowboy Bebop Characters via Web Archive
↑ Jupiter Jazz (Role one)
↑ Otakon 1999 - Q&A panel with Shinichirou Watanabe
↑ Cowboy Bebop: The Picture show DVD Extra: Spike - A Complex Soul
↑ ^viii.0 ^viii.i Wizard Anime Invasion #5 - Winter 2003: Murder, Mars and All That Jazz. Cowboy Bebop is Hitting the Big Screen, and "Cool" Volition Never be the Same.

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