Cowboy Bebop Why [SPOILER] Shot Spike

Cowboy Bebop: Why [SPOILER] Shot Spike

In a shocking season finale twist, Julia shoots Spike Spiegel in the live-action Cowboy Bebop remake, but what motivated this change from the anime?

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Cowboy Bebop Why [SPOILER] Shot Spike

Warning! SPOILERS for Cowboy Bebop season 1 finale

Cowboy Bebop’s live-action remake makes a variety of large and small changes to the original anime, but perhaps the most shocking one was having Julia (Elena Satine) shoot Spike Spiegel (John Cho) during the season 1 finale. Each of Cowboy Bebop’s ensemble cast of bounty hunters is defined by their pasts, which, in Spike’s case, centers on a previous life as a mob enforcer and a doomed love for his best friend’s girlfriend. Having Julia betray and nearly kill Spike in the season 1 finale raises the questions of why she did this and what this might mean for the show’s next season.

Once a Red Dragon Syndicate enforcer, Spike (known as “Fearless” in the live-action remake) was the partner and friend of Vicious before he and the latter’s girlfriend (wife in the remake) began an affair that Vicious eventually discovered. Spike faked his death and restarted his life as a bounty hunter, though he always remembered Julia and remained in love with her. The original anime only lasted one season, which ended in Julia’s death and an ambiguous fate for Spike following Cowboy Bebop’s finale.

The Cowboy Bebop remake ends its first season with “Ballad of Fallen Angels,” which was only the fifth episode of the original anime. Here, Spike and Vicious battle in a church, ending with an injured Spike crashing through a stained-glass window, though surviving his fall. In the remake, the fight is quite similar to the anime iteration, only Julia is present for it, shooting Vicious and, in a twist, Spike, sending him through the window. This twist significantly changes Julia’s characterization, as she was motivated by a desire to supplant Vicious. It will also change Spike’s story, as the person who represented his will to live has betrayed him, rather than died.

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Cowboy Bebop Why [SPOILER] Shot Spike

Cowboy Bebop’s Spike and Julia wished to leave their life of crime together in the anime, but with Julia’s survival being known to Vicious and Spike being presumed dead, the two stayed apart until the anime’s two-part series finale. The remake recharacterized Julia as someone who wished to remain in the Red Dragon Syndicate and become its leader, blaming Spike for her embracing the life of a criminal. The twist was as confusing to Spike as it must have been for many viewers, and with Spike now an obstacle to Julia’s ambitions, the two have gone from lovers to enemies.

In the original anime, Spike’s abandonment of Julia and his former life left him a broken man. Throughout the original Cowboy Bebop anime, Spike shows little care for his well-being throughout his many dangerous missions, but his encounters with Vicious and reunion with Julia are among the few things to elicit strong emotional reactions from him. When Julia dies, Spike’s next action is to embark on a potentially impossible mission to kill Vicious, which Spike may or may not have survived.

With the Bebop crew going their separate ways, Vicious now the prisoner of Julia, and Spike having been betrayed by his lover, Cowboy Bebop will have to go in a drastically different direction from the original anime. Not only will Spike be coming to terms with this heartbreaking development and likely building back the crew, but he may also end up allying himself with Vicious against Julia. Having Julia shoot Spike Spiegel in the Cowboy Bebop remake is the catalyst for what will be a series of significant changes from the classic anime version.

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