Cowboy Bebop

Cowboy Bebop (Japanese: カウボーイビバップ, Hepburn: Kaubōi Bibappu) is a Japanese neo-noir space Western anime television series which aired on TV Tokyo and Wowow from 1998 to 1999. It was created and animated by Sunrise, led by a production team of director Shinichirō Watanabe, screenwriter Keiko Nobumoto, character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto, mechanical designer Kimitoshi Yamane, and composer Yoko Kanno, who are collectively billed as Hajime Yatate.

The series, which ran for twenty-six episodes (dubbed "sessions"), is set in the year 2071, and follows the lives of a traveling bounty-hunting crew aboard a spaceship, the Bebop. Although it incorporates a wide variety of genres, the series draws most heavily from science fiction, Western, and noir films. Its most prominent themes are existential boredom, loneliness, and the inability to escape one's past.

Victims[]

Before Cowboy Bebop[]

Wen's Father - Incinerated in the Astral Gate accident off-screen, body shown.
Wen's Mother - Incinerated in the Astral Gate accident off-screen, implied.
4,699,999,998 People - Incinerated in the Astral Gate accident off-screen, mentioned.
Faye's Father - Bludgeoned in a ship crash off-screen, mentioned in My Funny Valentine.
Faye's Mother - Bludgeoned in a ship crash off-screen, mentioned in My Funny Valentine.
Faye Valentine - Frozen with cryonics by doctors to cure her from her injuries from a ship crash.
15 Sea Rats - Beaten to death by Harrison and the Space Warriors under the orders of Twinkle Murdock, bodies shown in a photograph in Gateway Shuffle. Shared kills.
Ural Terpsichore - Died of an unknown cause, mentioned in Heavy Metal Queen.
Unnamed Member of the White Tiger Crime Syndicate - Poisoned by Mao Yenrai, implied in Ballad of Fallen Angels.
Three Unnamed Male Soldiers - Blown up in an explosion on Titan by an enemy soldier, shown in a flashback in Jupiter Jazz (Part 2).
Unnamed Man - Died of an unknown cause, skeleton shown in a flashback in Jupiter Jazz (Part 2).
Schon Masaki - Killed in the second Titan War, mentioned in Cowboy Bebop: The Movie.
Oliver Stops - Killed in the second Titan War, mentioned in Cowboy Bebop: The Movie.
Burton Spain - Killed in the second Titan War, mentioned in Cowboy Bebop: The Movie.
Bert Schrager - Killed in the second Titan War, mentioned in Cowboy Bebop: The Movie.
Nine People - Killed in the second Titan War, mentioned in Cowboy Bebop: The Movie.
Harvery Martin - Killed in the second Titan War, mentioned in Cowboy Bebop: The Movie.
David Paul Kersenbrock - Killed in the second Titan War, mentioned.
Scorpion - Bisected by Vicious with a sword to protect Gren, shown in a flashback in Jupiter Jazz (Part 2).
Five Fish - Died of unknown causes, bodies shown in My Funny Valentine.
Shaft's Older Brother - Poisoned after overdosing on mushrooms, mentioned in Mushroom Samba.
Unnamed Male ISSP Facility Guard - Lung torn out by Mad Pierrot off-screen, body shown in a flashback in Pierrot Le Fou.
Unnamed Male ISSP Facility Guard - Head crushed against a wall by Mad Pierrot off-screen, body shown in a flashback in Pierrot Le Fou.
Unnamed Male ISSP Facility Guard - Beaten to death after being thrown through a window by Mad Pierrot off-screen, body shown in a flashback in Pierrot Le Fou.
Unnamed Male ISSP Facility Guard - Decapitated by Mad Pierrot off-screen, body shown in a flashback in Pierrot Le Fou.
Unnamed Male ISSP Facility Guard - Crushed against a wall by Mad Pierrot off-screen, body shown in a flashback in Pierrot Le Fou.
Four Unnamed Male ISSP Facility Guards - Beaten to death by Mad Pierrot, bodies shown in a flashback in Pierrot Le Fou.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Shot in the chest by Spike Spiegel, shown in a flashback in The Real Folk Blues (Part 1).
472 People - Died of unknown causes, tombstones shown in Boogie Woogie Feng Shui.
Animal - Killed by a farmer and made into meat off-screen, body shown in Stray Dog Strut.

Asteroid Blues[]

Unnamed Male Bloody-Eye Dealer - Shot through the back of the head by a thug.
Unnamed Male Thug - Killed by Asimov Solensan off-screen, implied.
Unnamed Male Thug - Shot five times by another thug after Asimov Solensan used him as a meat shield.
Unnamed Male Thug - Shot in the head by Asimov Solensan with his own gun off-screen, blood shown.
Unnamed Male Thug - Shot in the head by Katerina Solensan.
Unnamed Male Thug - Fell to his death after Asimov Solensan knocked him out a window.
Two Unnamed Male Thugs - Crushed after Asimov Solensan started his ship and lifted their car on top of them.
Three Unnamed Male Thugs - Blown up after their ships were shot down by Spike Spiegel with his ship.
Asimov Solensan - Shot in the head by Katerina Solensan off-screen, body shown.
Katerina Solensan - Suffocated after being sent into space after the police shot her ship apart.
Cow - Killed by a farmer and made into beef off-screen, implied.

Stray Dog Strut[]

Beetle - Crushed by Abdul Hakim.

Honky Tonk Women[]

Unnamed Male Thug - Blown up after Faye Valentine reversed the polarity on one of the missiles that were fired at her back at him.
Gordon - Blown up after Faye Valentine reversed the polarity on one of the missiles that were fired at her back at him.
Unnamed Male Thug - Starved and dehydrated after being thrown into space in a space suit by Spike Spiegel off-screen, implied.

Gateway Shuffle[]

Morgan - Shot repeatedly by Harrison and the Space Warriors under the orders of Twinkle Murdock off-screen, implied. Shared kills.
Four Unnamed Women - Shot repeatedly by Harrison and the Space Warriors under the orders of Twinkle Murdock off-screen, implied. Shared kills.
Unnamed Male Pilot - Succumbed to his injuries after his ship was found destroyed from an unknown cause.
At Least 14 ISSP Officers - Blown up when they shot a decoy ship that was actually a massive bomb hidden by Twinkle Murdock.

Ballad of Fallen Angels[]

Carlos - Blown up by Vicious with a bomb.
Two Unnamed Male White Tiger Bodyguards - Blown up by Vicious with a bomb.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Killed by Vicious off-screen, blood shown.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Head smashed against a wall by Vicious off-screen, body shown.
Three Unnamed Male Members of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Killed by Vicious off-screen, bodies shown.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Succumbed to unknown injuries inflicted by Vicious.
Mao Yenrai - Throat slit by Vicious with a sword off-screen, blood shown.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Shot in the head by Spike Spiegel.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Shot four times by Spike Spiegel.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Shot in the chest by Spike Spiegel.
Two Unnamed Male Members of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Blown up by Spike Spiegel with a grenade.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Shot in the chest by Spike Spiegel.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Shot in the head by Spike Spiegel.

Sympathy for the Devil[]

"Giraffe" - Succumbed to his injuries after being shot by Wen.
Unnamed Male Taxi Driver - Shot in the head by Wen.
Wen - Died of old age after Spike Spiegel shot him in the head with a gem that would reverse the effects that made him immortal.

Heavy Metal Queen[]

Decker - Suffocated after he missed while trying to shoot a bomb at Victoria Terpsichore and blew up part of his ship off-screen, body shown.

Waltz for Venus[]

Two Unnamed Men - Crushed under a support beam after Faye Valentine shot it down onto them.
Bakri Chinva - Shot in the shoulder by Spike Spiegel.
Roco Bonnaro - Succumbed to his injuries after being shot in the back by either Piccaro Calvino or one of his men under his orders (either Carpi Paolo or Achebe Laman).

Jamming with Edward[]

None

Between Jamming with Edward and Ganymede Elegy[]

Law Rentzuo - Shot by Rhint Celonias to save Alisa off-screen, mentioned in Ganymede Elegy.

Ganymede Elegy[]

None

Between Ganymede Elegy and Toys in the Attic[]

Lizard - Died of an unknown cause, body shown in Toys in the Attic.
Scorpion - Died of an unknown cause, body shown in Toys in the Attic.

Toys in the Attic[]

Fridge Monster - Eaten alive by Edward.

Jupiter Jazz (Part 1)[]

Unnamed Male Member of the Blue Crow Crime Syndicate - Neck snapped by Spike Spiegel.
Unnamed Male Member of the Blue Crow Crime Syndicate - Crushed after he ran under a stack of metal to get away from Spike Spiegel and it collapsed on him.
Unnamed Male Member of the Blue Crow Crime Syndicate - Beaten to death when Spike Spiegel smashed his mask into his face and threw him into some wooden crates.
Unnamed Male Member of the Blue Crow Crime Syndicate - Neck snapped after being kicked across the face by Spike Spiegel.
Unnamed Male Member of the Blue Crow Crime Syndicate - Crushed under wooden planks after Gren knocked them down onto him.

Jupiter Jazz (Part 2)[]

Lin - Committed suicide by jumping in front of Gren's bullet to save Vicious.
Grencia Mars Elijah Guo "Gren" Eckener - Succumbed to his injuries after being bludgeoned when his ship was shot down by Vicious, causing him to crash.

Bohemian Rhapsody[]

Chessmaster Hex - Died of old age.

My Funny Valentine[]

None

Black Dog Serenade[]

At Least 10 Unnamed Men - Shot by Udai Taxim, bodies shown.
Unnamed Male Pilot - Shot in the back by Dig.
Unnamed Male Pilot - Shot in the back by Dig, body shown.
Dig - Stabbed in the throat by Udai Taxim.
Four Unnamed ISSP Officers - Blown up after their ship was shot by Tucan.
12 Unnamed Inmates - Blown up after their ship was shot by Tucan.
Eight Unnamed ISSP Officers - Blown up after their ships were shot by Tucan.
Three Unnamed Men - Killed by Udai Taxim, bodies shown.
Nero - Crushed after Jet Black lured a homing missile to hit a different ship instead, launching it at him.
Tucan - Accidentally suffocated himself when he opened the door to a destroyed section of a ship.
Elroy - Shot repeatedly by Fad, body shown.
Udai Taxim - Shot in the head by Fad.
Fad - Succumbed to his injuries after being shot by Jet Black.

Mushroom Samba[]

None

Speak Like a Child[]

None

Mish-Mash Blues[]

None

Wild Horses[]

None

Pierrot Le Fou[]

Unnamed Man - Shot in the head by Mad Pierrot with his cane.
Unnamed Man - Shot three times in the chest at the same time by Mad Pierrot with his cane.
Two Unnamed Men - Shot in the head by Mad Pierrot with his cane.
Three Unnamed Men - Killed by Mad Pierrot off-screen, mentioned.
Four Unnamed Men - Succumbed to heart attacks after seeing Mad Pierrot.
Unnamed Male ISSP Representative - Throat slit from the back of the neck by Mad Pierrot off-screen, body shown.
Unnamed Dog Robot - Shot twice by Spike Spiegel.
Unnamed Cat Robot - Shot repeatedly by Mad Pierrot, blowing it to bits.
Tongpu/Mad Pierrot - Crushed when a giant dog robot accidentally stepped on him after Spike Spiegel threw a knife in his leg, causing him to collapse in pain. Shared kill.

Boogie Woogie Feng Shui[]

Unnamed Male Member of the Blue Snake Crime Syndicate - Neck snapped by Jet Black.
Four Robot Ships - Exploded after being shot by Spike Spiegel with a plasma cannon.
Two Robot Ships - Exploded after being caught in the vortex created by Spike Spiegel.
Pao Pu-Zi - Suffocated when his ship ran out of oxygen.

Cowboy Funk[]

Four Unnamed Women - Blown up by Teddy Bomber.
Three Unnamed Men - Blown up by Teddy Bomber.
Four Unnamed Men - Blown up by Teddy Bomber.
Three Unnamed Women - Blown up by Teddy Bomber.
Four Unnamed Men - Blown up after being shot at by Spike Spiegel while he was trying to get Teddy Bomber.
Unnamed Boy - Blown up after being shot at by Spike Spiegel while he was trying to get Teddy Bomber.
Unnamed Man - Crushed after his stand was knocked down onto him by Teddy Bomber.

Between Cowboy Funk and Cowboy Bebop: The Movie[]

Seven Animals - Killed by a farmer off-screen, bodies shown in Cowboy Bebop: The Movie.

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie[]

Unnamed Male Robber - Succumbed to his injuries after being shot in the chest by Spike Spiegel.
72 People - Blown up in an explosion caused by Vincent Volaju off-screen, mentioned.
Unnamed Male ISSP Officer - Shot in the head by Vincent Volaju.
Lee Sampson - Succumbed to his injuries after being stabbed in the head and back with nano-bots released by Vincent Volaju.
Unnamed Man - Shot in the head by Vincent Volaju.
Vincent Volaju - Succumbed to his injuries after bring shot in the chest by Electra Ovirowa.

Between Cowboy Bebop: The Movie and Brain Scratch[]

100 Members of SCRATCH - Committed suicide as part of beliefs enforced by Rosny Spanngen/Londes, mentioned in Brain Scratch.
Three Bounty Hunters - Starved and dehydrated after being forced into deep sleeps by Rosny Spanngen/Londes, bodies shown in Brain Scratch.

Brain Scratch[]

None

Hard Luck Woman[]

None

The Real Folk Blues (Part 1)[]

Unnamed Male Bartender - Shot repeatedly in the chest by a thug under the orders of Wang, Ping, and Sou Long. Shared proxy kill.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Shot in the chest by Spike Spiegel.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Shot in the head and chest by Spike Spiegel.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Shot in the chest by Shin.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Crushed after Faye Valentine shot his tires and his car fell on top of him off-screen, implied.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Beaten to death after he fell out of his car when Faye Valentine shot its tires.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Crushed after Faye Valentine shot his tires and his car fell on top of him off-screen, implied.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Beaten to death after he fell out of his car when Faye Valentine shot its tires.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Accidentally shot by another member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate when Vicious deployed fog. Proxy kill.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Accidentally shot repeatedly by another member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate when Vicious deployed fog. Proxy kill.
Unnamed Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Blown up after their ship was shot by Faye Valentine.
Unspecified Member of the Van - Shot in the chest by Vicious.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Shot in the heart and head by Vicious.
Unspecified Member of the Van - Shot in the head by Vicious.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Shot in the heart and head by Vicious.
Unspecified Member of the Van - Throat slit by Vicious with a katana.

The Real Folk Blues (Part 2)[]

Anastasia “Annie” - Succumbed to her injuries after being shot by a member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate under the orders of Vicious. Proxy kill.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Shot in the shoulder by Spike Spiegel.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Shot in the chest by Spike Spiegel, causing him to fall down some stairs.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Shot in the heart by Julia.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Shot by Spike Spiegel.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Shot in the chest by Spike Spiegel.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Shot in the head by Spike Spiegel.
Julia - Succumbed to her injuries after being shot by a member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate under the orders of Vicious. Proxy kill.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Shot in the head by Spike Spiegel.
Two Unnamed Male Members of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Blown up by Spike Spiegel with C4.
Unnamed Male Member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate - Shot in the chest by Spike Spiegel.
Shin - Shot by a member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate under the orders of Vicious. Proxy kill.
Vicious - Shot in the chest by Spike Spiegel.
Spike Spiegel - Succumbed to his injuries after being slashed across the chest by Vicious. (Debatable)

Deaths[]

Total - 4,700,000,897
- 4,700,000,686 Victims of Unknown Gender
- 152 Male
- 17 Female
- 15 Sea Rats
- 8 Robots
- 8 Animals of Unknown Species
- 5 Fish
- 2 Scorpions
- 1 Cow
- 1 Beetle
- 1 Lizard
- 1 Fridge Monster
- 1 Hermaphrodite

Kill Counts[]

Rosny Spanngen/Londes - 103 (Comatose)
Vincent Volaju - 75 (Deceased)
"Twinkle" Maria Murdock - 34 (20 Shared) (Alive)
Spike Spiegel - 32 (1 Shared) (Fate Unknown)
Tucan - 24 (Deceased)
Vicious - 23 (Deceased)
Harrison - 20 (All Shared) (Alive)
Tongpu/Mad Pierrot - 18 (Deceased)
Teddy Bower/Teddy Bomber - 15 (Incarcerated)
Udai Taxim - 13 (Deceased)
Faye Valentine - 9 (Alive)
Asimov Solensan - 7 (Deceased)
Jet Black - 3 (Alive)
Katerina Solensan - 2 (Deceased)
Fad - 2 (Deceased)
Dig - 2 (Deceased)
Françoise Appledelhi/"Radical" Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivruski IV - 1 (Alive)
Grencia Mars Elijah Guo "Gren" Eckener - 2 (Deceased)
Julia - 1 (Deceased)
Electra Ovirowa - 1 (Alive)
Shin - 1 (Deceased)
Abdul Hakim - 1 (Incarcerated)
Piccaro Calvino - 1 (Incarcerated)
Rhint Celonias - 1 (Possibly Incarcerated)
Wang Long - 1 (All Shared) (Deceased)
Ping Long - 1 (All Shared) (Deceased)
Sou Long - 1 (All Shared) (Deceased)

Notes[]

In "Jupiter Jazz (Part 2)," Lin protecting Vicious by sacrificing himself parallels Laughing Bull's description of a fallen warrior. This is supported by Spike's mention that he has lost his soul by sacrificing his life for someone like Vicious.
- In the same episode, it seems implied that the Blue Crow gang leader kills himself by throwing himself into a garbage truck, but in reality, the script strangely says that he just hopped into the back of it.
In "Cowboy Funk," it is unknown if Teddy Bomber killed anyone with the bomb at the beginning of the episode.
The Van is composed of Wang, Ping, and Sou Long. However, it is unknown which member is which due to their identicality, so they are listed as unspecified members of the Van in "The Real Folk Blues (Part 1)."