Arsene Lupin III

**Arsene Lupin III**, also known as **Wolf**, **Hardyman** and **Edgar**, is the titular main protagonist from the *Lupin III* series.

## **Charactah Account**

Arsene Lupin III is the grandson of Arsène Lupin. He is the world's most wanted thief. Often in his adventures, he takes it upon himself and his gang to foil other criminals engaged in more serious crimes. He sometimes appears incompetent, but mostly as a charade to catch his opponents off guard. While he has been arrested and thrown in jail on several occasions, he has always managed to break out. His infatuation with Fujiko Mine is perhaps his biggest weakness, as it often lands him in undesirable situations.

Lupin is cocky, quite crude, and for the most part remorseless. He is very much the ladies' man, often using them for his own gains, and is not beyond forcing himself upon women who resist him. Mike Toole of Anime News Network referred to the character as a "rough, drunken, lecherous crook." This is in stark contrast to his better-known anime self, who although a skilled thief, occasionally comes off as a chivalrous goofball who enjoys helping those less fortunate than he. Furthermore, Lupin often takes it upon himself and his gang to stop criminals engaged in more violent crimes and leave them for Zenigata to arrest. In the anime, while he fancies himself a Casanova, his actual success with women is erratic, appearing to fluctuate with the writer.

Even though his gang's loyalty has been an issue, with Fujiko willing to betray and cohort Goemon promising to eventually kill him, Lupin will still drop everything to come to their aid in a helpless moment; further the team would rather face torture than to betray Lupin (or he betray them) to a third party. This rule of loyalty curiously extends as well to Inspector Zenigata, whom Lupin considers a respected friend and opposition. The Inspector reciprocates this regard and out of gratitude has vowed never to attempt to kill Lupin. Lupin's vendetta against the Tarantula Gang in In Memory of the Walther P-38 was partly settling of past betrayal and mostly vengeful payback for their shooting and nearly killing Zenigata.

## **Appearance**

### **Anime**

* Lupin III
* Lupin III (2015)
* Lupin III (2015) Specials
* Lupin III (2015): Italian Game
* Lupin III 3DCG
* Lupin the Third x Monkey Majik
* Lupin the Third: Fujiko Mine's Lie
* Lupin the Third: Goemon Ishikawa's Spray of Blood
* Lupin the Third: Is Lupin Still Burning?
* Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine
* Lupin III vs. Detective Conan
* Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie
* Lupin III: Alcatraz Connection
* Lupin III: An Angel's Tactics - Fragments of a Dream Are the Scent of Murder
* Lupin III: Blood Seal - Eternal Mermaid
* Lupin III: Da Capo of Love - Fujiko's Unlucky
* Lupin III: Dead or Alive
* Lupin III: Dragon of Doom
* Lupin III: Elusiveness of the Fog
* Lupin III: Episode 0 "First Contact"
* Lupin III: Farewell to Nostradamus
* Lupin III: From Russia With Love
* Lupin III: Goodbye Lady Liberty
* Lupin III: Goodbye Partner
* Lupin III: Green vs. Red
* Lupin III: Island of Assassins
* Lupin III: Jigen's Gravestone
* Lupin III: Master File
* Lupin III: Memories of the Flame - Tokyo Crisis
* Lupin III: Missed by a Dollar
* Lupin III: Napoleon's Dictionary
* Lupin III: Operation Return the Treasure
* Lupin III: Part II
* Lupin III: Part III
* Lupin III: Part 5
* Lupin III: Part 6
* Lupin III: Part 6 - The Times
* Lupin III: Pilot Film
* Lupin III: Pilot Film (1978)
* Lupin III: Princess of the Breeze - Hidden City in the Sky
* Lupin III: Prison of the Past
* Lupin III: Record of Observations of the East - Another Page
* Lupin III: Return of Pycal
* Lupin III: Seven Days Rhapsody
* Lupin III: Stolen Lupin
* Lupin III: Sweet Lost Night - Magic Lamp's Nightmare Premonition
* Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
* Lupin III: The First
* Lupin III: The Fuma Conspiracy
* Lupin III: The Hemingway Paper Mystery
* Lupin III: The Last Job
* Lupin III: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon
* Lupin III: The Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure
* Lupin III: The Secret of Mamo
* Lupin III: The Secret of Twilight Gemini
* Lupin III: Voyage to Danger

### **Manga**

* Lupin III
* Lupin III Jr.
* Lupin III M
* Lupin III S
* Lupin III vs. Detective Conan
* Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie
* Lupin III Y
* Lupin III: World's Most Wanted

### **Video Games**

* Cliff Hanger
* Lupin III
* Lupin III: Lost Treasure Under the Sea
* Lupin III: Lupin is dead, Zenigata is in Love
* Lupin III: The Inheritance of Columbus is Dyed by Blood
* Lupin III: The Shooting
* Lupin III: Treasure of the Sorcerer King

## **Trivia**

* His appearance was inspired by that of Jean-Paul Belmondo.
* He was never named "Arsène" in Japanese media. The only one partial exception is in Part 5 Episode 1where his name appears in his profile on Hito-log Beta as "Arsene". In the English dub of *In Memory of the Walther P38*, Zenigata says Lupin's full name when he's reading aloud a newspaper article on his shooting.
* Before the Arsène Lupin copyright expired, Lupin underwent a number of name changes outside of Japan:
	+ Most English dubs renamed him **"Wolf"** or **"Rupan"** with the exception of the Frontier dub of the movie *The Mystery of Mamo* who kept Lupin but renamed everyone else. If Lupin III was ever used, it had to be referenced as an alias on the packaging.
	+ In Germany, he was renamed to **Hardyman**. This did not affect Spain or Italy who kept his original name outside of one occasion.
	+ For the Italian dub of *Lupin the 3rd* Part 2 Lupin could not be linked to Arsène Lupin. His grandfather had different names (outside of Part 2 Episode 114), he was appointed as **Arsenico detto "Lupin"** and and Zenigata at one point called him "Arsenico e vecchi merletti": the latter is a reference to the Cary Grant film *Arsenic and Old Lace*, and both are a joke based on the similarity between the name "Arsenio" (which is how Arsène Lupin is named in Italian) and the word "arsenico" (arsenic).
	+ In France, he's called **Edgar de la Cambriole** (Literally “Edgar of Burglary”) as Arsène was still under copyright in France due to the longer copyright law. For the same reasons as above, he was also known as **Vidocq**, "Wolf", **"Lupan"** or "Rupan". *The Woman Called Fujiko Mine* was the first series in France to use the Lupin III name as the copyright lapsed in 2012. While the Lupin III name is used in France, the Edgar de la Cambriole name is also used for re-releases of older series or as an alias.
	+ Despite these changes in the 90s, the Spanish-language series and the TV specials were referred and marketed as *Cliffhanger* (to evade Copyright issues), despite the cast changing from Part 1 (Dubbed in Los Angeles California) and for the FilmZone TV Specials (Dubbed in Mexico).
	+ For a full list of alternate names given to Lupin, see Name variants; Lupin III#Renamed due to Copyight.
* In Latin America the name, along with the pronunciation has been the source of controversy. In Part 1 his name is pronounced as in most common media as "Lupan", though in the series he mostly referred by his first name "Aramis" (a re-adaptation of the name Arsene, instead of the more common translated, Arsenio). In the TV specials from Filmzone he is mostly reffered as "Lupin" in a similar manner to the Funimation dubs. where as in the CG film and most recent work, he is again referred as "Lupan" like the original. (*See Name variants:Lupin III#Pronunciation.)*
* According to *The Castle of Cagliostro Dictionary Book*, Lupin's birthday is on February 10. This is the only time when a date for his birthday was given.  Japanese fans however celebrate Lupin day on March 3 despite no significant reason outside of being 3/3.
* In the manga, he was nicknamed "三世" (*sansei*) by his father and Arsène Lupin.
* Lupin's English voice actor, Tony Oliver, also voices Robert Dawson from Golgo 13: The Professional in the 1992 Streamline Pictures dub. Robert sounds similar to Lupin when he speaks in his calm voice.
* Part 2 Episode 53 reveals that he likes soap operas. The beginning shows that up to this point he hadn't missed an episode of *Housewives Theater* in fifteen years.
* Lupin has a lot of cameo appearances in other media and has also been referenced quite a lot.
	+ A character much resembling Lupin can be seen making a cameo in the Ducktales 2017 episode, Astro B.O.Y.D, where what looks like a Ducktales-verse version of him, complete with his green jacket outfit, briefly appears in the streets of Tokyolk.
	+ He and Jigen have a cameo in Isao Takahata's *Panda Go Panda*. He's wearing a dark blue suit and sunglasses.
	+ For a full list of Lupin references, see Lupin in multimedia.
* His voice actor in the rebooted version of the pilot film was Taichiro Hirokawa, who would star alongside Yasuo Yamada and Toshio Furukawa in the Japanese dub of the 'Monty Python' franchise. Hirokawa and Yamada have also dubbed Jean-Paul Belmondo.
* Green vs. Red implies that at some point, he retired, took on the disguise of an old bookshop owner and passed his name and title onto a successor.