Vicious (Cowboy Bebop)

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## Evil-doer

### Alias

Vicious
Venomous Snake

### Allies

Spike Spiegel
Gren
Julia
Lin
Shin (all formerly)
Red Dragon Crime Syndicate

### Occupation

Assassin (formerly)
Leader of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate

### Resources

Manipulation mastery
Tactical expertise
High intelligence
Swordsmanship
Quick reflexes
Master planner
Gunmanship
Charisma

### Hobby

Killing those who oppose him.
Trafficking drugs.

### Goals

Become a leader of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate (succeeded).
Turn Spike back to the dark side or kill him (possibly succeeded).

### Moral Event Horizon

Framing Gren, which would lead to him being experimented on.
Ordering the deaths of Spike and Julia.

### Crimes

Psychological abuse
Conspiracy
Drug trafficking
Animal cruelty
Hate crimes
Incrimination
Mass murder
Public endangerment
Kidnapping
Usurpation
Terrorism
Child abuse
Mutilation
Treason
Assault
Vandalism
Torture

### Type of Villain

Power-Hungry Crime Lord

**Vicious** is the main antagonist of the anime series *Cowboy Bebop.* He is the leader of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate in Tharsis, and is often referred to or depicted as a venomous snake. He has a long, very complicated history with Spike Spiegel, with the two once being friends but, after an incident involving a woman named Julia, later becoming bitter enemies.

He was voiced by Norio Wakamoto in Japanese and Skip Stellrecht in English.

## What Makes Him Pure Evil?

### In General

* Vicious is a cold, remorseless and ruthless psychopath who will do anything to achieve his own goals, killing others who stood in his way and even outright using people for his own needs, not caring a single bit if he ruins one's life. His kills can also be incredibly brutal, such as slicing through one of The Van members eyes and having one of his men slit Mao's throat. The Van even acknowledges that Vicious's heart is colder than any planet or a snake that is about to strike.
* There are some implications throughout the series he is a sadist, such as when he is shown smiling evilly during his first confrontation with Spike before throwing him out the window of the cathedral. It is also implied that Vicious wants the syndicate to be more brutal.
* Any care he seems to have for others at first either turns out to be false or subverted. While he did seem to be upset when he learned Julia and Spike were having an affair, he makes it clear to Julia that if she doesn't kill Spike, he will do it himself and then kill her. This makes any love he had for Julia highly questionable, not to mention he would later end up being indirectly responsible for her death. It is also worth noting that though he seemed to be fine with Gren at first, saving him from a scorpion and fighting by his side in the Titan War, it is made pretty clear he just needed somebody to frame and didn't seem to express any guilt for destroying his life. Gren even states Vicious doesn't see the point in having comrades.
* Despite the fact Lin sacrificed himself for him, Vicious doesn't show any honor for him, believing he was just protecting the order.
* Even before his betrayal, his loyalty to The Van wasn't genuine at all, scoffing at their ideals and viewing them as just corpses.
* Despite the series's high standard, Vicious still manages to stand out for his personal villainy against Spike and Gren, and for his resources being more limited than several others, not to mention he didn't have enough time to become worse even after he gained more resources.

### Crimes

* He's aided The Van in their many illegal activities, working as an assassin for them in the past and killing presumably dozens of people, and also aiding their Red Eye sales.
* When he learns that Spike is having an affair with his lover, Julia, he gives Julia one of two options; either she kills Spike herself or he will kill them both.
* After the Titan War, he frames his friend Gren for espionage, leading to him being imprisoned and experimented on. This would cause Gren to grow breasts and leave his life ultimately ruined, considering he would have a bounty on his head after breaking out of prison.
* When his mentor, Mao Yenrai signs a truce with a rival syndicate, Vicious sabotages their ship and blows it to bits, killing everyone on board.
* He and his men enter Mao's office and slaughters all of his bodyguards, not sparing a single one of them.
* When Mao tries to explain his actions to Vicious and how the Syndicate's current route may cause its downfall to him, Vicious has him killed anyway, suggesting Vicious wants to continue the Syndicate's bloody actions.
* After murdering his mentor, he then places his mentor's dead body in an Opera Theater in order to lure out Spike. However, after he found out that Spike didn't come to the opera and it was one of his companions, Faye Valentine, he decides to kidnap her to lure Spike, threatening to have her killed if Spike didn't show up.
* He tries to have Spike killed after he shows up at the cathedral. Though he fails, he does leave him injured.
* He viciously attacks Spike and throws him out the window of the cathedral, trying to kill his former friend.
* After Lin shoots Spike on Callisto with a tranquilizer gun, he and Vicious leave him there to die in the freezing weather.
* He tries to shoot Spike's ship down when he begins chasing him after Lin's death.
* He shoots down Gren's ship, which causes him to crash, eventually leading to his own death.
* Before he could be executed, he would take control of the Red Dragon Syndicate, slaughtering The Van's henchmen and killing the members of The Van brutally, slicing the last remaining member's eyes.
* After taking over the syndicate, he orders the deaths of Spike and Julia and has his men go search for them. When they found Anastasia and began questioning her, they would fatally injure her. His men would later end up shooting Julia dead, making him indirectly responsible for the death of the woman he once "loved". Her death caused Spike to believe he had lost everything, as Julia was the last fragment of his life.
* Though left ambiguous, it is heavily implied he may have possibly killed Spike in their final confrontation, as after brutally attacking Spike and slicing him, Spike seemingly begins to succumb to his wounds and falls on the stairs. Even if Spike did ultimately defeat his archenemy, Vicious may have actually succeeded in killing the main protagonist of the entire series.