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{{quote|''"I started wailing the blues when the doctor whacked my bottom on the day I was born."''}}

 

An ex cop who was known as the "Black Dog" during his time as an officer because of his stubbornness and relentlessness in chasing down suspects. During his days as a cop Jet refused to go on the take or play the game until this finally got him ambushed by a syndicate, {{spoiler|and his own partner}}, resulting in a wound that cost him his arm and made him turn in his badge. Between having been walked out on by his lover Alissa sometime earlier and his wound, Jet decided it was time to move on and try his luck in other parts of the solar system, leading him to purchase the ''Bebop'', (and name it after his longtime love of jazz music) become a freelance bounty hunter and become partners with Spike.

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{{quote|''"Survival of the fittest is the law of nature. We deceive or we are deceived. Thus, we flourish or perish."''}}

 

The first person to join Spike and Jet on the ''Bebop'' (unless we're counting Ein), Faye is many things. For starters she's a con artist, selfish, impulsive, self-centered, rude and manipulative. She's also lonely, heartbroken, wounded, and desperately searching for her place in the universe. Spike and Jet would first encounter Faye when she was working as part of a smuggling operation at a casino, posing as a dealer. Her job was to make it look legit when her contact would slide her a very special poker chip, but unfortunately there was a mix up when she mistook Spike for her contact, and [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity quickly ensued]]. Sometime later in a different episode Faye would become a permanent part of the Bebop crew, despite much grumbling from both Spike and Jet.

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{{quote|''"Ed will introduce Ed. Full name - Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky the Fourth. ... Ed made up that name for Ed, isn't it cool?"''}}

 

''A.K.A. "Radical Edward," A.K.A {{spoiler|Françoise Appledelhi}}''

After this Ed's legendary computer skills would be at the disposal of the Bebop crew, and it would come in handy in several cases. Ed would also get her [[A Day in the Limelight|day in the limelight]] during the show's [[Mushroom Samba]] episode. This would continue until {{spoiler|Ed and Faye simultaneously begin closing in on chasing down their pasts, in Ed's case in part through Faye's encouragement that finding the place where you belong is the best thing a person can do. To that end Ed posts a fake bounty on her [[The Ditz|ditzy]] father who good-naturedly and absentmindedly abandoned her years before. (Well, maybe more like left her off with someone and half forgot that she ever existed). The two briefly reunite, but Ed hesitates at joining him, and good old dad starts running off again. Quite possibly realizing that the place where she belongs is neither with dad nor aboard the Bebop, Ed leaves both, wandering off into the sunset accompanied only by Ein.}}

 

* [[Bifauxnen]]

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]

* [[The Chick]]

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{{quote|''"I told you before, Spike. [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You|I'm the only one that can kill you and set you free.]]"''}}

 

A man dressed entirely in black, who seems to have little emotion and to care about nothing. A walking tide of destruction and death. A skilled and remorseless killer who will not hesitate to snuff out anyone who gets in his way. In short, Vicious is a bad motherfucker, and seriously bad news for anyone who happens to be within about a mile of him.

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{{quote|''"I was supposed to kill you. It was all set up. If I had, I would have been free."''}}

 

Relatively little is known about Julia, and since she has very little screen time (aside from flashbacks, she only appears in sections of 2 episodes), {{spoiler|and dies before the end of the second episode}} so the exact details on her history, personality and life are sketchy. From the scenes she's in we can see that she knows how to drive a car during a [[Chase Scene|Car Chase]], she can shoot a mook (albeit not nearly as smoothly as most of the main characters) and she's fairly smart: she gets how Vicious planted the transmitter on Gren immediately, for example. She's also quite loyal to Spike, when presented with the [[Sadistic Choice]] she chose to [[Take a Third Option]] and be hunted by Vicious rather than kill Spike.

* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: Faye seems ''very'' impressed by Julia's beauty...

* [[Florence Nightingale Effect]]: She nursed an injured Spike back to health, they fell in love, and then [[It Got Worse]].

* [[Hell-Bent for Leather]]

* {{spoiler|[[The Gwen Stacy]]: Julia's death prompts Spike to finally have a showdown with Vicious. It causes a whole lot more death, however, including Spike's. [[Shrug of God|Maybe]].}}

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}

* [[Love Redeems]]: It's thanks to her that Spike didn't end up as rotten as Vicious.

* [[New Old Flame]]

* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: More or less a [[Justified Trope]], seeing as {{spoiler|she doesn't turn up until the second-last episode, and is killed early in the finale}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Slow Motion Fall]]}}

=== Laughing Bull ===

{{quote|''"Do not fear death. Death is always at our side. When we show fear, it jumps at us faster than light, but if we do not show fear, it casts its eye upon us gently and then guides us into infinity..."''}}

 

A nomadic shaman on Mars, apparently of Native American descent. Spike and Jet (or "Swimming Bird" and "Running Rock") sometimes go to him for cryptic advice.

 

Those three old guys in the background, appearing not quite [[Once an Episode]].

 

=== "Bob" ===

 

Jet's "friend on the force," who (sometimes reluctantly) passes information or warnings to Jet.

 

=== Annie ===

Voiced by: Miyuki Ichijō (Japanese); Carol Stanzione (English)

 

 

* [[Death Glare]]: What her friends get if they call her "Anastasia". (We never see an acquaintance or enemy use her full name, so [[Berserk Button]] is conjecture for such cases.)

 

== Others ==

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{{quote|''"You said that you didn't need comrades, but I'm attached to that word... to the point of tears..."''}}

 

Subject of the two-part episode "Jupiter Jazz." Gren fought alongside Vicious on Titan, and considered him a close comrade. As one might expect, this was an unfortunate error in judgment on Gren's part. Spike and Faye encounter him on Jupiter's moon Callisto, where he plays saxophone in a bar called the Rester House.

* [[Stab the Scorpion]]: A flashback to Titan shows Vicious doing this one to Gren. Subverted in that, well, Vicious isn't someone you should trust regardless.

* {{spoiler|[[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]}}

* [[True Companions]]: A very important concept to Gren, as he explains to Faye.

 

 

* [[The Chessmaster]]: Both figuratively and literally.

 

=== Tongpu, aka Mad Pierrot ===

 

"Cowboy Andy" is the subject of the episode "Cowboy Funk". He's as good a fighter as Spike, as infamous a bounty hunter as Spike, and as difficult to get along with as Spike. Needless to say, they end up hating each other.

 

=== Vincent Volaju ===

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{{quote|''"No one can draw a line between sane and insane."''}}

 

The antagonist of the ''Cowboy Bebop'' movie (called ''Knockin' on Heaven's Door'' in the USA), he's apparently a terrorist hellbent on causing as much destruction as possible, and holds the highest bounty in recorded history on his head (300,000,000 wulongs). {{spoiler|As it turns out, he's the sole survivor of a series of experiments during the Titan War, and plans to release the nanomachines which transformed him into a [[Super Soldier]] across the world, killing all in Mars.}}

* [[Death Seeker]]

* [[Determinator]]

* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]

* {{spoiler|[[Go Out with a Smile]]}}