Spike Spiegel
Spike Spiegel's story (my theory)
Spike was an orphan and grew up on the streets of Mars. He was part of some street gang and learnt how to steal. He became a remarkable thief and escape artist....until one day. His job was to steal some goods from a woman's store....Annie's store.
He gets caught by Annie and strangely,she felt compassion for him...he had indeed such character. So Annie presented him to the Red Dragon,a chinese mafia syndicate. Mao,a high ranking officer in the Red Dragon was Annie's best friend and trained Spike into the man we know. Gun firing,hand-to-hand combat,etc...as the Red Syndicate was indeed Chinese...he was trained into martial arts and taught by the ways of Jeet Kun Do...written by Bruce Lee. Jeet kun do is a more a philosophy then actual martial arts.
Spike eventually meets Vicious....an ex-mercenary who did some missions for the Syndicate in the Titan Wars. They become a team and do all kind of missions....they have the same look in their eyes,beasts which are after blood. They have no mercy,nor compassion for the other syndicates or mafias...and kill at will. Years have passed,Spike and Vicious are high elite soldiers within the Red Dragon. Spike even surpasses Vicious and is the favorite to become the next leader. Lin,an red dragon soldier became Spike's subordinate...so he grew in power. The question why Spike and not Vicious....it's because Spike was loved by everyone,he has "that thing'...a sparkle. While vicious is just "a mercenary"....it tells a lot about somebody.
Even before knowing Spike, Vicious and Julia were "lovers". Julia was a remarkable woman,gorgious and deadly. Eventually Spike was seeing Julia behind Vicious back.
One night,Spike was sent on a mission. Yes indeed...the famous cathedrale scene. At the end he was thrown out of the cathedrale's window and one of his eyes were scratched by the glass. It was then when he walking on the streets half death and falling in front of Julia's home. He was taken cared by Julia and was operated. They replaced the damaged eye with a high-tech cyber eye. "An eye which sees the past".....don't take this literally,it's not an eye which sees the past ( a mistake made by many),it's a price he paid in the past...a memento from the past.
Some months passed,Vicious knew Spike was sleeping with Julia...but he didn't care. he only warned Spike because "she's a dangerous woman". Spike didn't care and wanted out of the syndicate,because he's finally found his hart and "all of the beasts blood has washed away from is body"....he's at peace.
Spike tells Julia to accompany him and leave to a better place. They planned to leave after Spike's last mission....Vicious knew of this and approached Julia. His words were clear "Kill him or you'll both be killed". After the last mission spike went to the meeting place where he should normally encounter Julia.....but she never came. That's when Spike "died"...he's heart was crushed.
He then left the syndicate with the rumour he died.....he meets up with Jet and Bebop's adventures starts....
Vicious and Spike were meant to face eachother,
At the end Julia dies,Vicious dies...but what about Spike? Bull...the old Navaho warrior predict Spike's fate by these words :"You shall meet a woman...and then death". Is the woman death? or Spike?? The answer is both...he speaks of "death" not "to die".
Rest in Peace Cowboy....
your story seems to be partcially right in my oppinion, but one thing i did notice that you said that was wrong was that his eye is a fishs' eye (u can see that in 1 of the episodes).........also i know that spike is dead at the end of cowboy bebop, but theut the only thing that bothers me is that in the cowboy bebop movie there is a scene with old man bull (after the trolly seen with vincent). right when there flashing a bunch of scenes then there is a part when jet is saying something like u servived and he was already dead? in some ways if you think about it really hard it makes sense in the movie (but also it doesnt). so i was wondering if anyone else thinks that the creators just put that in there for the fans to see that spike actually lives at the end of bebop or if it is for the movie? im probably really wrong, but it was just a thought (probably more of a hope actually.........i love spike so much) but it makes more sense and i realize that to actually give the series all of its credit and to make the story complete spike has to die. 🙁 o well thats just my view/ thought. lol 🙂
Wel soundtrack,what do you mean about the "fishy" eye? I meant he had a cyber eye but not one which sees the past...people take this too literally..anyways
About Spike dying,it makes a lot of sense if he did died. Everytime he lost from Vicious....the time went he ran from the syndicate,he lost Julia. When he returned Mao was killed and eventually Annie. THEN Spike was awake again....he knew...when you dig into your own past,you'll find pretty memories...and nightmarres. The lose of Julia did it for him,it was then when he knew forreal....that he was "awake". Man i'm blabbering again....yeah i just love cowboy bebop 🙂.
Even if he is physically alive...the lose of your soulmate can never be healed. Rest in peace Spike
i agree 🙂 and i know hes dead and why/how/reasons its just that the 1 part in the movie always bothers me (never mind its probably just another one of those dream sequences). o and about the fish eye.....
in one of the episodes....????......i think....."sympathy for the devil".....1 of the ones were spike dreams and you see some pics/memories of his past.... they are operating on spikes' eye and then they show a clip of spikes eye then you see a fish swimming around in a tank, with an eye almost exactly like spikes eye (this leads me to believeit is spikes "past eye"😉. 🙂
Trivia Cowboy Bebop
The fight on the bridge between Spike and Abdul Hakim in Episode 2, "Stray Dog Strut," is a homage to the fight scene in Game of Death (1978) between Lee, Bruce and Kareem Abdul-Jabar. All of Spike's fights feature the use Bruce Lee's "Jeet Kune Do" style of fighting.
Episode 11 (Toys in the Attic) contains many references to the movie Aliens (1986). Among them are: the hand-held tracker equipment, the computer's voice, and the dramatized arming scene and the manner in which the creature is disposed of.
The capsule in which Faye was cryogenically preserved has the code NCC-1701-B written on it, an reference to Star Trek and the ship Enterprise.
Episode titles referring to song titles or types of music. Song/Album Titles: - Session #2: Stray Dog Strut = "Stray Cat Strut" by the Stray Cats - Session #3: Honky Tonk Women = "Honky Tonk Women" by the Rolling Stones - Session #6: Sympathy for the Devil = "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones - Session #9: Jamming with Edward = Album Title: Rolling Stones -Jamming with Edward (1972) - Session #11: Toys in the Attic = "Toys in the Attic" by Aerosmith - Session #14: Bohemian Rhapsody = "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen - Session #15: My Funny Valentine = "My Funny Valentine" by Frank Sinatra - Session #18: Speak like a Child = "Speak like a Child" by Herbie Hancock - Session #19: Wild Horses = "Wild Horses" by the Rolling Stones - Session #24: Hard Luck Woman = "Hard Luck Woman" by KISS Music: - Session #1: Asteroid Blues = The Blues - Session #4: Gateway Shuffle = Shuffle - Session #5: Ballad of Fallen Angels = Ballad - Session #7: Heavy Metal Queen = Heavy Metal - Session #8: Waltz for Venus: Waltz - Session #10: Ganymede Elegy: Elegy - Session #12 & #13: Jupiter Jazz Pt.1 & 2 = Jazz - Session #16: Black Dog Serenade = Serenade - Session #22: Cowboy Funk = Funk - Session #25 & 26: The Real Folk Blues Pt.1 & 2: Blues
Ed's real name is Francoise Appledelhi. In Session 24 "Hard Luck Woman" her father Mr. Appledelhi calls her Francoise.
In Session #7: Heavy Metal Queen, Faye and Spike's bounty for the episode is a man named Decker. This name could be a reference to Blade Runner (1982), in which the man character, Deckard, is eventually chased by a woman (Pris) and a man (Batty).
In Session 19: Wild Horses, the man who owned and fixes Swordfish II, Spike's spaceship, is named Doohan. This is a reference to James Doohan, who played "Scotty" on the original "Star Trek" (1966) TV series.
In Session #5: Ballad of Fallen Angels, two children try to steal pornography from Annie's shop. The character design for the black child was originally going to be used for Ed, until the director chose the white female one instead.
In Session 15: My Funny Valentine, you can briefly see Lupin III's yellow car pass by.
The phrase "three years ago" is used quite often. It was three years ago that Spike and Jet got together, it was three years ago that Faye was taken out of cryofreeze, and it was three years ago that Ed wandered away from the orphanage.
The city of Faye's memories is recognizably Singapore.
Ed's father is called Appledelhi Siniz Hesap Lütfen. In Turkish "Afedersiniz" (which reads exactly like Appledelhi Siniz) means "Excuse me" The rest of the name is correctly spelled and means exactly: "Excuse me! Check please!" There are other references to Turkey and scenes where they use Turkish. The colony in Venus looks like the Istanbul of 1950s. There is a shop displayed on screen for a long time. Its name is Aile Pazari. Which means "Family Market" in Turkish.
In Episode 19, "Wild Horses", the crew is hunting a trio of pirates named George, Harman, and Ruth. George Herman Ruth is the real name of Babe Ruth, the legendary baseball player.
Spike's pistol (the one he almost always carries) is an Israeli Jericho 941.
In Session #10, Ganymede Elegy, the bounty head that is turned in at the beginning of the episode is named Baker Ponchirello, after the two motorcycle officers in CHiPs.
o yea i read about those things on a website i went by once. heres some more stuff:
-quotes/things that jet say:"only hands can wash hands, if u want to recieve, u have to give." the poet goethe didnt say that. its latin for: "manus manum lavat." (i may have messed this theroy up?)
-spiegel i sgerman for mirror.
-quote by spike about how hes not sure whether or not hes really alive (how hes) "watching a dream he never wakes up from." (an old chinese proverb that had a man dream of being a butterfly who wakes up to wonder that he could be a butterfly dreaming of being a human).
-why cb movie was call "cb: the movie" and not original idea "cb: knockin on heavens door" (for usa only)- fear of being sued persuaded them to change it, which is weird b/c half their titles for the show are "real songs."? ie what yassin as listed up there. (ie "knockin on heavens door" is a bob dylan song.....i like the song alot b/c every word to that song describes spike 🙂 ).
-ein was named after albert einstein
-charlie parker- famous jazz player
Hmmmm everbody knows the anime show Lupin 3 (the 3rd) right? the main character has the same coolness of Spike and they actually look alike. He's a thief who goes after precious treasures to steal and Spike collects bounties....like it says in mine signature...before Cowboy Bebop there was Lupin. Anyways,i'm gonna check a lot of episodes,cause it looks like fun🙂.