Mari (Kikaider)

Mari is an android able to assume a fighting form called Bijinder and the deuteragonist of the second half of Kikaider 01.
She was portrayed by Sue Shiomi.
==Biography==
Mari was originally built by the SHADOW organization as part of a scheme by Zadam to lure Ichiro into a trap by using her to gain his trust. To make Ichiro like her, Mari was programmed to save children from SHADOW's androids, while being a remorseless assassin in her Bijinder form. After she befriended Ichiro, Zadam used the pain circuit he installed in her to torture her so Ichiro would be tempted to rescue her. Unbeknownst to Mari, Zadam and Big Shadow had implanted a miniature H-bomb inside her body that was set to detonate if the third button on her blouse was ever undone. However, before Ichiro could undo the third button, Mari got up and walked away to keep Ichiro from triggering the bomb.
As punishment for defying SHADOW, Big Shadow had Hakaider and Zadam beat her before sending her out to redeem herself by destroying Kikaider 01. However, Mari continued to feel conflicted about her mission to destroy Ichiro and later a partially-incomplete conscience circuit installed inside her by Ichiro. Upon learning of this, Big Shadow had his forces capture Bijinder and ordered the conscience circuit removed so she would return to being loyal to SHADOW, but Bijinder was able to break free and fight off SHADOW's forces before escaping.
In the final episode she joins Ichiro and Jiro in launching a final attack on SHADOW's base to save Dr. Komyoji and destroy the evil organization. While the two brothers battled Zadam, Mari fought and defeated Hakaider, only for him to be quickly revived by SHADOW's robot repairing machine. After the three androids combined their powers to destroy Zadam and Hakaider, the androids were sucked into the robot repairing machine and triggered the bomb Komyoji had placed inside it, causing it to explode and destroy SHADOW.
==Forms==
Tumblr lz7tuwxsoN1r9l7xlo1 r1 500.jpg|Mari
Bijinder live.jpg|Bijinder
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