Tequila

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| **Tequila** | |
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| **Profile** | |
| Japanese name: | テキーラ   (Tekīra) |
| English name: | Tequila |
| Age: | unknown |
| Gender: | Male |
| Occupation: | [Black Organization](/wiki/Black_Organization "Black Organization") member |
| Status: | Dead |
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| First appearance: | Manga: File 114   Anime: Episode 54 |
| Appearances: | Chapters: (/wiki/Tequila_Appearances "Tequila Appearances") Episodes: (/wiki/Tequila_Appearances "Tequila Appearances") Movies: (/wiki/Tequila_Appearances "Tequila Appearances") |
| **Actors** | |
| Japanese voice: | [Kosei Hirota](/wiki/index.php?title=Kosei_Hirota&action=edit&redlink=1 "Kosei Hirota (page does not exist)") |
| English voice: | [Andrew T. Chandler](/wiki/Andrew_T._Chandler "Andrew T. Chandler") |
**Tequila** (テキーラ ,*Tekīra*[?](/wiki/Help:Japanese "Help:Japanese")) is a [Black Organization](/wiki/Black_Organization "Black Organization") member who was killed by a bombing by accident. He works in the external division on computer software related development related tasks, presumably by recruiting, dealing with, and making exchanges with programmers.[](#cite_note-CD237-1)
## Contents
* [1 Background](#Background)
* [2 Personality](#Personality)
* [3 Plot overview](#Plot_overview)
+ [3.1 Game Convention Case (Manga: 114-116, Anime: 54)](#Game_Convention_Case_.28Manga:_114-116.2C_Anime:_54.29)
+ [3.2 On the trail of the Silent Witness (Manga: 377-378, Anime: 307-308)](#On_the_trail_of_the_Silent_Witness_.28Manga:_377-378.2C_Anime:_307-308.29)
+ [3.3 Meeting with Vodka (Manga: 380, Anime: 309)](#Meeting_with_Vodka_.28Manga:_380.2C_Anime:_309.29)
* [4 Non-Canon Plot Overview](#Non-Canon_Plot_Overview)
+ [4.1 Movie 26](#Movie_26)
* [5 Relationships analysis](#Relationships_analysis)
+ [5.1 Gin](#Gin)
+ [5.2 Vodka](#Vodka)
+ [5.3 Vermouth](#Vermouth)
* [6 Different looks](#Different_looks)
* [7 Trivia](#Trivia)
* [8 See also](#See_also)
* [9 References](#References)
## Background[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Tequila&action=edit&section=1 "Edit section: Background")]
Tequila as he leaves Itakura's office after being rejected, saying: "I don't need you anymore!"[](#cite_note-2)
Tequila was heard speaking in a Kansai dialect (Boston or New York accent in the [Funimation](/wiki/Funimation "Funimation") dub) by [Conan](/wiki/Conan_Edogawa "Conan Edogawa"). He is described by Conan as being very tall. Nothing much is known about him as he dies a few pages after he is introduced into the manga. Two years ago before Conan's encounter with Gin and Vodka, Tequila was negotiating with a famous computer system programmer [Suguru Itakura](/wiki/Suguru_Itakura "Suguru Itakura") and asked him if he could develop some software program that would be useful for the syndicate. Itakura described him in diary as someone who he won't want to meet ever again in his life. Ryusuke Soma, a game company executive described him as a suspicious large tall man with a big mustache. On the day of his death, he had a deal with a Mantendo game developer, Hideaki Nakajima. The deal was that Nakajima sold the organization a list of the world's top computer developers. The exchange happened that after both Tequila and Nakajima had check in their briefcases at a convention, they switch numbers and keys and afterwards claim their 'new' briefcases. However prior to the switch, a third party named Hironobu Takeshita, who had a grudge against Nakajima, put a bomb in his own briefcase and swapped keys and number secretly behind Nakajima's back to kill him with the bomb, so Tequila ended up the bomb instead and went to toilet to check the briefcase's contents and died.
## Personality[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Tequila&action=edit&section=2 "Edit section: Personality")]
Being large in size, he usually intimidates people, which helps with his transactions. When he had his fateful encounter with Conan, he bumped into Conan and Hideaki Nakajima, knocking them to the floor. He didn't even apologize, and continued on his way. Also, when Conan pretended he dropped a 10 yen coin that had fallen beneath Tequila's shoe and really tried to stick a transmitter and bug on the sole of his shoe, Conan was hit hard by Tequila for annoying him. This shows Tequila has an impatient personality and isn't afraid to hit young children.
## Plot overview[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Tequila&action=edit&section=3 "Edit section: Plot overview")]
### Game Convention Case (Manga: [114-116](/wiki/Volume_12#Game_Convention_Case "Volume 12"), Anime: (/wiki/Game_Company_Murder_Case "Game Company Murder Case"))[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Tequila&action=edit&section=4 "Edit section: Game Convention Case (Manga: 114-116, Anime: 54)")]
This is Tequila's introduction, and he's the first codenamed Black Organization agent featured in the show since Gin and Vodka in the 1st episode. Tequila had some dealings with the video game company Mantendo, and had requested a list of the top computer programmers in the world. The briefcase he has gets mixed up, and he is mistakenly killed when the briefcase he opens detonates a bomb, which was meant for someone else. Tequila speaks with Vodka over the phone in this episode, and argues a bit with him. Conan, upon realizing Tequila's codename and overhearing the conversation with Vodka, attempts to place the microphone from his glasses as well as the wireless transmitter to continue eavesdropping on his phone conversation and uses his Criminal Tracking Glasses to try and find Tequila's meeting place with Gin and Vodka, though Tequila is killed before the meeting takes place.
### On the trail of the Silent Witness (Manga: [377-378](/wiki/Volume_37#Footsteps_of_Darkness "Volume 37"), Anime: [307-308](/wiki/On_the_Trail_of_a_Silent_Witness "On the Trail of a Silent Witness"))[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Tequila&action=edit&section=5 "Edit section: On the trail of the Silent Witness (Manga: 377-378, Anime: 307-308)")]
Associates of famed software programmer Suguru Itakura come to the Mouri Detective Agency and explain to Kogoro that Itakura has been missing for a few days, and that they're concerned that someone may have harmed Itakura, and mention that a few years prior, a tall man in a black suit with a mustache and Kansai dialect had visited Itakura requesting the completion of a computer program that Itakura had abandoned. They also mention that this man along with Itakura attended a Mantendo convention. Conan realizes that the man they described is Tequila, and Kogoro soon realizes that too, and briefly mentions the events of The Game Company Murder Case, explaining to the men that the person they described couldn't be responsible, as Tequila was killed in a bombing at a video game company in a case Kogoro solved a while back.
There is a flashback of Tequila at Itakura's office, and he appears in background shots a few times during the episode.
### Meeting with Vodka (Manga: (/wiki/Volume_37#Meeting_with_Vodka "Volume 37"), Anime: (/wiki/Contact_with_the_Black_Organization "Contact with the Black Organization"))[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Tequila&action=edit&section=6 "Edit section: Meeting with Vodka (Manga: 380, Anime: 309)")]
Just like in the 2 previous episodes, Tequila appears in some background sequences, along with Gin, and Vodka, but only during the first part of the 3 episodes.
## Non-Canon Plot Overview[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Tequila&action=edit&section=7 "Edit section: Non-Canon Plot Overview")]
### Movie 26[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Tequila&action=edit&section=8 "Edit section: Movie 26")]
* Tequila (after a 20 year absence) is mentioned during the cold opening for this film while Conan reflects on the fact that the male codename agents of the Black Organization are named after types of hard liquor AKA distilled spirits, in an attempt to deduce the identity of a new agent known as [Pinga](/wiki/Pinga "Pinga"). Tequila has no lines and only appears briefly as a background character during Conan's brainstorm along with other male agents, both past and present, such as Gin, Vodka, [Pisco](/wiki/Pisco "Pisco"), [Korn](/wiki/Korn "Korn"), [Irish](/wiki/Irish "Irish"), [Bourbon](/wiki/Bourbon "Bourbon") and [Rum](/wiki/Rum "Rum").
## Relationships analysis[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Tequila&action=edit&section=9 "Edit section: Relationships analysis")]
### Gin[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Tequila&action=edit&section=10 "Edit section: Gin")]
Although Tequila is a subordinate of [Gin](/wiki/Gin "Gin")'s, he doesn't use honorifics like Vodka does[](#cite_note-3) to refer to Gin, giving the impression Tequila and Gin appear equally ranked.[](#cite_note-CD239-4)
### Vodka[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Tequila&action=edit&section=11 "Edit section: Vodka")]
Tequila and [Vodka](/wiki/Vodka "Vodka") are approximately equally ranked and both are Gin's subordinates.[](#cite_note-CD239-4)
### Vermouth[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Tequila&action=edit&section=12 "Edit section: Vermouth")]
Though not shown interacting together, it can be assumed that [Vermouth](/wiki/Vermouth "Vermouth") likely did meet with Tequila in a coordinated effort to try and intimidate Suguru Itakura into completing the computer program for the Organization.
## Different looks[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Tequila&action=edit&section=13 "Edit section: Different looks")]
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Movie 26
## Trivia[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Tequila&action=edit&section=14 "Edit section: Trivia")]
* He is one of the only codename agents, along with Gin, Vodka, and [Sherry](/wiki/Shiho_Miyano "Shiho Miyano"), to appear in the Funimation English dub.
* He is the first Black Organization member to be killed in the anime.
+ He is also the first person to be killed by mistake in the series, as the briefcase bomb that killed him was actually meant for someone else entirely unrelated to him or the organization.
* Despite him being one of the earliest Black Organization agents to appear in the series, after his debut in [Episode 54](/wiki/Game_Company_Murder_Case "Game Company Murder Case"), he wouldn't appear again until "On the Trail of the Silent Witness" case, which directly tied into the "[Contact with the Black Organization](/wiki/Contact_with_the_Black_Organization "Contact with the Black Organization")" case, which aired in 2003, over 6 years after Tequila's introduction. His debut episode was the season 2 finale, and despite it being a big deal about the Organization appearing, the very next episode makes absolutely no mention of the Black Organization or Conan's encounter with Tequila. He has one of, if not the longest gap between appearances of any Detective Conan character, as following the "Contact with the Black Organization" case, Tequila wouldn't be mentioned or appear again for 20 years until 2023 in movie 26, "[The Black Iron Submarine](/wiki/Movie_26 "Movie 26")."
* The [Magic Kaito Organization](/wiki/Magic_Kaito_Organization "Magic Kaito Organization") member [Snake](/wiki/Snake "Snake") bears some resemblance to Tequila.