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Spike Spiegel
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DATE OF BIRTH
June 26th, 2044
ESTIMATED AGE
27
HEIGHT
6'1" (185 cm)
HAIR COLOUR
Dark Green [1]
EYE COLOUR
Right- Light brown
Left- Brown
PLANET OF ORIGIN
Mars
KNOWN ALIASES
Swimming Bird
SPACESHIP
Swordfish II
WEAPON OF CHOICE
Jericho 941
BLOOD TYPE
O
SESSIONS
1-26
STATUS
Unknown
VOICE ACTOR
Kōichi Yamadera (Japanese)
Steve Blum (English)
ACTOR
John Cho (Netflix Series)
LESS
“
The Real Folk Blues (Part 2)
SPIKE SPIEGEL
Spike Spiegel (スパイク・スピーゲル , Supaiku
Supīgeru?) is a former member of the Red Dragon
Crime Syndicate, who left by faking his death after
falling in love with a woman called Julia.
He then became a bounty hunter and the partner
of Jet Black, the captain of the Bebop. Spike and
Jet pursued criminals across the populated
planets and moons of the solar system. 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.
Appearance
Personality
Abilities
Biography
Fate
Memorable Quotes
Asteroid Blues
Spike Spiegel: "Jet, you said bell peppers and
beef."
Jet Black: [distracted] "His name's Asimov
Solensen. Are you listening to me?"
Spike Spiegel: "There's no beef in here. So
you wouldn't really call it bell peppers and beef
now, would you?"
Jet Black: "Yes, I would."
Spike Spiegel: [yelling] "Well, it's not!"
Jet Black: [yelling] "It is when you're broke,
alright!"
[Spike visits Laughing Bull]
Laughing Bull: "Swimming bird will meet a
woman. The bird will be hunted by this woman.
And then death."
Spike: "One more time."
Laughing Bull: "What's that?"
Spike: "I was killed once before by a woman."
Gateway Shu!e
[Teaser for Ballad of Fallen Angels]
Spike Spiegel: "The music box is broken, or is
it? It starts to play, and a haunting tune fills the
air. I wake suddenly from my dream. There is
no music box! And yet there it is. A tiny one
nestled in my hand. And I awaken from my
dream again. As if I were peeling an onion. It’s
a dream no matter how far I go. I can never
reach reality. Trapped in an endless nightmare."
Ballad for Fallen Angels
Spike Spiegel: "I'm just watching a bad dream
I never wake up from."
Jamming with Edward
Spike Spiegel: "Jet, do you know that there
are three things that I particularly hate?"
Jet Black: [defeated] "Really?"
Spike Spiegel: "Kids. Animals. And women
with attitude."
Jet Black: [defeated] "Oh..."
Spike Spiegel: "So tell me Jet... [yelling] why
do we have all three of them neatly gathered in
our ship?!"
Jupiter Jazz (Part 1)
Spike Spiegel: "I’m gonna go look for my
woman. You can go look for that other woman."
Jupiter Jazz (Part 2)
Julia: "Your left eye and right eye are di!erent
colors..."
Spike Spiegel: "My left eye sees the past..."
Julia: "Then what about your right eye...?"
[scene fades to black]
Spike Spiegel: "Hey, come on. Hey! Gren tell
me where Julia is. I gotta find her."
Gren: "Julia is gone. How did you know her?"
Spike Spiegel: "What happened? I gotta
know."
[Gren shakes his head.]
Gren: "I get it now, you're the one. You're
Spike. Julia was always talking about you. Your
eyes are di!erent colors. I remember her
saying that. Said you get a strange feeling if
you keep looking straight into his eyes."
Spike Spiegel: "Where’d you meet 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.
Strange lilting tune. And then she would smile.
Oh, what a smile. So sad. So beautiful."
Mushroom Samba
Frog: "Hey, mister. [pause] This here is the
stairway to heaven. You know that, don't cha?"
Spike Spiegel: "...Obnoxious little
frog. [continues walking up]"
Wild Horses
Spike Spiegel: "Whatever happens, happens."
Cowboy Bebop The Movie: Knockin' on
Heaven's Door
Elektra Ovirowa: "The more you know, the
shorter your life will be."
Spike Spiegel: "I love the kind of woman that
can kick my ass."
Spike Spiegel: "Years ago, back when I was
much younger, I was afraid of nothing. I had
not the slightest fear of death. I was ready to
die anytime. But then I met a special woman.
She made me want to go on living. For the first
time, I was afraid of death. A feeling I’d never
had before."
Elektra Ovirowa: "Where is she now?"
Spike Spiegel: "She went away."
The Real Folk Blues (Part 1)
Spike Spiegel: "When this is over, I'm leaving
the syndicate."
Julia: "They’ll kill you. You know how they
work."
Spike Spiegel: "Let them say I'm dead. I'll be
waiting at the graveyard. By the graves, not in
one."
Julia: "Spike, I can't come with you."
Spike Spiegel: "Yes, you can. We'll leave here.
We'll get out of this."
Julia: "And go where? And do what?"
Spike Spiegel: "Live. Be free. It'll be like
watching a dream..."
Jet Black: "Men only think about the past
right before their death. As if they were
searching frantically for proof that they were
alive. Turn back. You told me when we first
met… that you were a man who had already
died once. Just forget the past, okay?"
Spike Spiegel: "There was a woman. For the
first time in my life, I saw a woman that was
truly alive. That’s what I believed. She was a
piece of me I had lost. She is my other half that
I had longed for."
The Real Folk Blues (Part 2)
Julia: "It was raining that day as well."
Spike Spiegel: "And so you didn't come
because of the rain?"
Julia: "I was supposed to kill you. It was all set
up. If I had, I would have been free."
Spike Spiegel: "So why didn't you? You chose
to be hunted. Why?"
Julia: "Why did you love me?"
[Aboard the Bebop]
Spike Spiegel: "They say hunger is the best
spice."
Spike Spiegel: "There once was a tiger striped
cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived and
lived a million lives, and he was owned by
various people who he didn't really care for.
The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the
cat became a stray cat, which meant he was
free. 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 age. The tiger striped cat cried
a million times, and then he died too. Except
this time, he didn't come back to life."
[Faye points her gun at Spike's head]
Spike Spiegel: Look at my eyes, Faye. One of
them is a fake because I lost it in an accident.
Since then, I've been seeing the past in one
eye and the present in the other. So, I thought I
could only see patches of reality, never the
whole picture.
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 up from. Before I
knew it, the dream was all over.
Faye Valentine: My memory… finally came
back…but… nothing good came of it. There was
no place for me to return to; this was the only
place I could go. And now, you're leaving, just
like that! Why do you have to go? Where are
you going? What are you going to do, just
throw your life away like it was nothing?!
Spike Spiegel: "I'm not going there to die. I'm
going to find out if I'm really alive."
[Spike and Vicious in a stando! where Spike has
Vicious's katana and Vicious has Spike's gun.]
Spike Spiegel: "Julia passed away. Let's end it
all."
Vicious: "If that's your wish."
[Spike looking up at the sky and seeing Julia with
his right eye.]
Julia: "It's all a dream."
Spike Spiegel: "Yeah. Just a bad dream."
[An injured Spike walks down the syndicate stairs
the next day and comes across the remaining
syndicate goons.]
Spike Spiegel: "Bang." [smiles while holding
his hand like a gun before falling to the
ground]
Background
Creation
During the first work by Shinichiro
Watanabe on Cowboy Bebop, the first image that
came to him was of Spike. Prior to that, Watanabe
had the character of Spike in mind for a long time
beforehand. From that point on, Watanabe tried to
build a story around him, trying to make him cool.
Spike's artificial eye was included as Watanabe
wanted his characters to have flaws. He was
originally going to give Spike an eye patch, but the
producers vetoed it.
The producers of Cowboy Bebop have been
quoted as saying they chose the name Spike
Spiegel because "it sounded cool." At Otakon in
July 1999, the director said he chose the name
because he liked how it sounded.[6] It is stated in
the special features accompanying Cowboy Bebop
The Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door that Spike's
appearance is modeled after the late Japanese
actor Yusaku Matsuda who played the role as
Shunsaku Kudō in Tantei Monogatari.[7]
Trivia
His past and background is similar to Eric
Draven in The Crow (portrayed by Brandon
Lee, son of Bruce, in the 1994 film) as both
were thought to be dead. Both were in love
with a beautiful woman with whom they were
supposed to be together, and both set out to
avenge their loved ones. They also both
fought their rivals in an abandoned church
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’s hair color is 'dark green'.
Shinichirō Watanabe thought of Spike as a
yakuza and originally wanted to do an episode
about his background along with a mob
story.[8]
Score composer Yoko Kanno said that "Spike is
portrayed as a typical old-style Japanese
man, where the man says, 'Don't complain,
don't say anything, just follow me. And watch
me do things.' And it's a very old-fashioned
aesthetic of how a man should be. In Japan,
all of the girls are big fans of him."[8]
Image Gallery
Spike seen in his pink coat in
Session 12, Jupiter Jazz: Part 1.
Spike relaxes in Session 19, Wild
Horses.
Spike meets Miles in Session 19.
"... Bang."
Spike in Honky Tonk Women,
Session 3.
Spike getting into a fistfight
with thugs at a casino in
Session 3, Honky Tonk Women.
Spike and Ein in Session 18,
Speak Like A Child.
Spike in the opening credits.
O!cial artwork of Spike.
Spike in Session 1, Asteroid
Blues.
Spike with a plate of bell
peppers and beef - minus the
beef.
Spike in disguise as a buyer in
Session 1.
Spike in Session 11
Spike in Session 26
Spike in Cowboy Bebop: the
Movie
Spike and Vicious in the Red
Dragon crime syndicate (from
Cowboy Bebop The After…
artbook)
Spike's concept art from
Cowboy Bebop The After
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References
1. ↑ EX:clusive Focus Panel: Kawamoto Toshihiro
2. ↑ 7 Things You Still Don't Know About 'Cowboy
Bebop'
3. ↑ Cowboy Bebop Anime Guide 2. p. 79
4. ↑ Cowboy Bebop Characters via Web Archive
5. ↑ Jupiter Jazz (Part 1)
6. ↑ Otakon 1999 - Q&A panel with Shinichirou
Watanabe
7. ↑ Cowboy Bebop: The Movie DVD Extra: Spike
- A Complex Soul
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Wizard Anime Invasion #5 - Winter
2003: Murder, Mars and All That Jazz. Cowboy
Bebop is Hitting the Big Screen, and "Cool" Will
Never be the Same.
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